Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000
Can someone tell me the difference between sarge and sid? I thought the current debian was woody. -andy On Jul 15, 2004, at 8:45 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:13:41PM -0400, Michael Galloway wrote: Hi Andrew! there is a build out from yesterday: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/alpha/ 20040714/ But built against the sarge tree, not the sid tree.
Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000
Thanks for the tips, I'll try the build from 6/15 then. On Jul 14, 2004, at 6:30 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: You may also want to wait until tomorrow's daily, as it turns out the sid_d-i dailies for alpha have been off-line for the better part of a month and I'm not sure of the status of the last build. The builds should be happening daily as of tomorrow, however. - Andrew Diller - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000
I don't see anything new at: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/ will the build happen today, as in before 2400 EST? -andy On Jul 14, 2004, at 6:30 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: You may also want to wait until tomorrow's daily, as it turns out the sid_d-i dailies for alpha have been off-line for the better part of a month and I'm not sure of the status of the last build. The builds should be happening daily as of tomorrow, however. - Andrew Diller - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
making room for aboot on sarge inst
Ok, the install fails due to no room being make at the beginning of the disk for aboot. --- Now, manually partitioning seems to be almost impossible, unless I'm overcomplicating it. Note: I have many years of Tru64 4.x and 5.x and linux manually partitioning of disklabels, I know the bsd and bios differences etc. etc. Also disklabel=partition table This XP100 has a compaq scsi disk, so it's using a bsd disklabel. I don't know if ide drives on these use a dos type bios partition table Sarge can automatically chop it up or manually chop it up. Specifying a manual edit only allows you to set the Size, not the starting and ending blocks-- so how do I know where sarge is leaving the empty space-- at the beginning (good) or end (bad)? So let it manually create a multi-user partition table, install everything, then break at the aboot install. I jumped into a 2nd tty and did: (this was also wacky, never seen this type of disk addressing) # fdisk /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc and then manually left 500 empty blocks at the start of the 'a' partition. I wrote out the new partition and quit. Then I reboot to be on the safe side. Now, when sarge starts again, it will NOT see that partition table/disklabel I can go into a 2nd tty and verify that it still does exist! No matter what choice I want to make in Sarge, it want's to start by wiping all the partiton off the drive and installing its own. So what are people doing to get aboot installed? This seems nuts. -andy On Jul 14, 2004, at 5:15 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 05:07:49PM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote: I used the one at: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/current/ but I'll try again and leave some space at the top of the disk for aboot. What does it need, a few megs? Less than 1MB. A single sector should be sufficient. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Andrew Diller - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
newest debian-installer on XP1000
hello: I downloaded burned and installed the newest (2004-06-08 posted on alphalinux.org) debian installer on my xp1000. Everything is smooth, i chose an automatic, multi-user partition map on a single 9gig scsi disk. I changed the / partition to ext2 for the aboot and continued. however, the aboot installation refused to install on the / partition, telling me it was not ex2. Anyone else encountering this? How can get aboot to install on /? - Andrew Diller - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000
I used the one at: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/current/ but I'll try again and leave some space at the top of the disk for aboot. What does it need, a few megs? -andy On Jul 14, 2004, at 4:08 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: What is the URL of the ISO image you downloaded? The images that will give the best results for alpha are currently the sid_d-i images, located at http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/alpha/current/. - Andrew Diller - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000
OK I try with one meg free. I actually have 2 xp1000s, one I'll use for a more stable machine with beta4, the other I can test the dailies and see what's up. So far Sarge looks nice. It's been a few years since I played with Debian, mostly it was on my Ipaq. I am thinking of using this alpha with Sarge and migrating over from an athalon RHEL 3.1 server. I'm getting sick of RH. -andy On Jul 14, 2004, at 5:15 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 05:07:49PM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote: I used the one at: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/current/ but I'll try again and leave some space at the top of the disk for aboot. What does it need, a few megs? Less than 1MB. A single sector should be sufficient. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Andrew Diller - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
