on. To my surprise, it's listed under security features.
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John wrote:
I'm running Windows Virtual Server on Windows Server 2003 on and HP
DC5950, Athlon 4550B CPU running in IA32. It's not clear to me whether
it has hardware virtualisation, I thought all recent AMD CPUs do, but
virtual PC (which got removed when I installed Server 2003) said not.
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
On 23 2004 11:44, Christian Perrier wrote:
2) use the names 'Republic Macedonia' and 'Greek Macedonia'.
I like that one, but, as Steve Langasek said, in the namespace of
autonomous territories, there is no collision at all.
Well, in my opinion,
Haines Brown wrote:
I'm running debian sarge and trying to make a grub boot floppy for a
new cross-installation of sarge from my old disk (sda, sarge,
kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4) to a new scsi disk added to the scsi bus (sdc,
sarge, kernel 2.6.7-1). The sdc1 root partition is flagged as
boot. I'm using
.
John Summerfield wrote:
I've just submitted two kernel bug reports that have the potential to be
release-critical:
2.6.7 kernel can't detect my (new) ATA drive on my Pentium III system.
See #270198
2.4.26-1-686 drives the ATA drive very slowly as it doesn't allow me to
turn DMA on. See #270199
Joey Hess wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
A great number of folk CC me without regard for what they know about me.
It stands.
And you don't even set a proper Mail-Followup-To.
Settle down Joey. AFAIK my MUA doesn't offer the facility. It does allow
me to make a choice that reduces
I've just submitted two kernel bug reports that have the potential to be
release-critical:
2.6.7 kernel can't detect my (new) ATA drive on my Pentium III system.
See #270198
2.4.26-1-686 drives the ATA drive very slowly as it doesn't allow me to
turn DMA on. See #270199
I've not tried d-i on
I'm playing with one of my toys: I have a Laptop drive, and I'm booting
all the installers I can lay my hands on to see what can't find it.
d-i does (I think it's the April beta), but calling it SCSI is going
to cause confusion, esp with any new to Linux.
I like the fact you give some info
The author of the program has asked me to offer his apologies. Full
details attached (unless there's an attachment stripper in effect).
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Sven Luther wrote:
It's a self-built kernel, but without modification.
I neglected to include a modules listing in the bug report. Here are
those myst likely to be involved:
ide_generic 1472 0
sis551316776 1
hpt366 22788 2
ide_disk
Sven Luther wrote:
It's a self-built kernel, but without modification.
I neglected to include a modules listing in the bug report. Here are
those myst likely to be involved:
ide_generic 1472 0
sis551316776 1
hpt366 22788 2
ide_disk
Sven Luther wrote:
It's a self-built kernel, but without modification.
I neglected to include a modules listing in the bug report. Here are
those myst likely to be involved:
ide_generic 1472 0
sis551316776 1
hpt366 22788 2
ide_disk
Frederik Schueler wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 12:00:07PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
We have tons of reports for broken CDs in the BTS, and I noticed that
unlike the commercial distibution vendors we don't have
CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK set ibn our install kernels. I'd rather play
safe
John Summerfield wrote:
Sven Luther wrote:
fwiw I noticed something very like this between 2.2 and 2.4 when 2.4
was new: 2.2 was faster on my Pentium system. I think it was a
earlier version of the same chipset.
Here are results on 2.6.7-1-k7:
/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 108 MB
Michael Stone wrote:
Package: debian-installer
When booting from an rc1 cd on i386 the installer loads usbcore and
usbkbd, but not uhci_hcd. This makes it hard to install using a usb
keyboard. I'd suggest trying to load uhci_hcd, ohci_hcd, and ehci_hcd
during the startup phase.
Mike Stone
Does
Martin Schulze wrote:
peter green wrote:
can someone please remove this guy from the list before his bloody
autoresponders drive us all crazy
He's removed from all lists and his mail address has been blocked
from sending to any list. A mail to listmaster@ or some listmasters
personally
Steve Langasek wrote:
We depend on the experts (the kernel team) for the information we need
in order to make good decisions -- or better, to help *you* make good
decisions.
Based on this thread and other discussions, I understand that the
current 2.4.26 packages are unsuitable for release because
kowari:~# hdparm -t /dev/hd{a,g}{,}
/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 152 MB in 3.02 seconds = 50.33 MB/sec
/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 152 MB in 3.02 seconds = 50.33 MB/sec
/dev/hdg:
Timing buffered disk reads: 120 MB in 3.02 seconds = 39.74 MB/sec
/dev/hdg: Timing
Frank Carmickle wrote:
I apologize. But I did remove myself twice from this list in the last few
days. Then I removed the whitelist entry for this list. I thought that I
was unsubscribed when I removed the entry but no such luck. Someone
should look in to this problem. Neither the web form or
peter green wrote:
it may have been caused by admin action on his side
during the height of the problem i sent a rather strongly worded email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] about the issue and it may be that they have taken action to
disable his broken mail system
I also send mail to abuse@ several
Sven Luther wrote:
All here who have 2.4 and 2.6 kernels on ppc should try disk speed tests
with hdparm: I found my new Athlon (well the mobo's new, CPU's not) is
30% faster with the 2.4 kernel.
Have you reported a bug report on this ? And with which 2.6 kernel was it ?
I haven't. I
Sven Luther wrote:
fwiw I noticed something very like this between 2.2 and 2.4 when 2.4 was
new: 2.2 was faster on my Pentium system. I think it was a earlier
version of the same chipset.
Here are results on 2.6.7-1-k7:
/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 108 MB in 3.02 seconds = 35.78
Paul Hampson wrote:
Package: choose-mirror
Version: N/A; reported 2004-08-26
Severity: normal
Using choose-mirror in a daily netinst tarball downloaded 2004-08-24,
a problem arose trying use to a web-proxy that authenticates against
a windows domain, requiring the following syntax:
Paul Harper wrote:
I agree with this. I found the partitioning to be a
bit confusing. Fortunately I did not have a Windoze
partition to wory about and I had backed up my /home.
In contrast, I installed SuSE the other day, intending to trash my
Windows98. However, the installer explicitly
mark david mcCreary wrote:
Thanks to everyone who has worked on the new Sarge installer.
I may be the last person in the USA that uses monochrome monitors, but
perhaps it is of value to people in other parts of the world.
I could install Woody with a monochrome monitor, but not Sarge.
VGA? (I
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[John Summerfield]
A few minutes ago Ibooted d-i off my week-old network boot setup and
tried to install Woody.
It coukln't find the needed netinstall image from the local official
mirror.
I'm not too surprised. Woody installs are only tested with CDs, as
far
Joey Hess wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
I set out to find whether the new manual provides that kind of
information, or pointer to where it may be found. In the course of my
search I have discovered:
a) http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.arm/apas03.html contains links
to
a.1 The Multi
Some of these may apply to otherr arches too. eg kernel version.
Floppies on ?
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.s390/ch05s03.html#unreliable-floppies
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.s390/ch05s02.html#installer-argsThe
value of the parameter is the path to the device to load the
Joey Hess wrote:
Joey Hess wrote:
http://dragon/~joey/blog/entry/d-i_retrospective-2004-08-07-19-46
I guess anyone not on my home network would prefer this url:
http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/d-i_retrospective-2004-08-07-19-46
A partcular concern I have is the reason for so many
Andrew Pollock wrote:
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 03:01:45PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey folks,
Just some opinion about the sarge install process. I installed a july daily
build(I can't remember the exact one, but i think it was 25) on my computer
that has just the very common hardware(i386
Joey Hess wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
I set out to find whether the new manual provides that kind of
information, or pointer to where it may be found. In the course of my
search I have discovered:
a) http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.arm/apas03.html contains links
to
a.1 The Multi
Andrew Pollock wrote:
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 11:56:00PM +0100, peter green wrote:
It would probably be interesting and useful for the X packaging
team to see
a diff between the config that was generated from configuring X and the
config you ultimately had to use to get X working. In my
A few minutes ago Ibooted d-i off my week-old network boot setup and
tried to install Woody.
It coukln't find the needed netinstall image from the local official mirror.
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Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Peter Green]
or just default to lilo altogether
unless there is some other major advantage to grub ofc
There are major advantages with grub. It understand several file
systems (no need to update the boot block if the kernel or initrd is
updated), and it
Ryan Underwood wrote:
- Is is possible to include memtest86 on the install CD as a boot option?
One of the first things I do when installing a new machine is to check
that everything is sane. In this case, Linux crashed when booting the
first time. When I made a memtest floppy, I found that
Glenn McGrath wrote:
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 00:07:16 -0500
Ryan Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Should ntpdate be included as part of the base install?
pool.ntp.org
is rather reliable, and it helps to have one's clock in a sane state
so that tar does not complain about timestamps being in
Greg Folkert wrote:
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 22:43, John Summerfield wrote:
Greg Folkert wrote:
Personally, I use: CTRL+L to reply to list.
Thunderbird lacks that option.
So did Evo. I added the CTRL+L to do the reply to list.
I really thought T-Bird had a function for it.
/me
I thought this:
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0-1720438319-1091437058=:65424
fails Debian list guidelines.
checks
Not quite, it's HTML that's banned.
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/
I note too that English is mandated and that implies 8-bit character sets.
Do others think
Osamu Aoki wrote:
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:21:05AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
Osamu Aoki wrote:
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 09:04:50PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
By spreading data over multiple partitions with great gobs of free space
between small (after install) amounts
Greg Folkert wrote:
Personally, I use: CTRL+L to reply to list.
Thunderbird lacks that option.
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Personally, I use: CTRL+L to reply to list.
Thunderbird lacks that option.
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Matthew A. Nicholson wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
Greg Folkert wrote:
Personally, I use: CTRL+L to reply to list.
Thunderbird lacks that option.
Use the reply all in thunder bird just like I just did. (Ctrl-Shift-R)
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Steve Langasek wrote:
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:08:37AM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote:
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 04:12, Colin Watson wrote:
Google for Reply-To considered harmful.
Nevertheless: Smoking is considered harmful, Fat is harmful too,
Cholesterol is harmful. But,
I have just installed another system, and took the time to try to
familiarise myself with the partitioning tool.
I was running a 2.6 kernel, and the install kernel's date is Jul 29 06:24.
The install target was a Pentium II, 350 Mhz, 64 Mb RAM and 3.2 Gbytes
of disk.
It seemed to me that the
Osamu Aoki wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 09:04:50PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
I have just installed another system, and took the time to try to
familiarise myself with the partitioning tool.
I was running a 2.6 kernel, and the install kernel's date is Jul 29 06:24.
The install
John wrote:
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
I'm doing a network install via modem.
I've discovered d-i downloading, amongst others, jfs and lvm udebs.
I won't be using either, so this is simply wasted time.
I suggest that downloading and installing optional udebs be deferred
until it's
John Summerfield wrote:
The 2.6 kernel from Jul 2 (I think from Sid) doesn't detect my IDE
drive. According to the log, the IDE modules are missing.
2.4 of the same date does detect it.
I don't have logs to offer, and I'm about to look for newer vmlinuz
and initrd.gz.
The problem does
I'm network-installing on an HP Vecra by modem.
Since this is my first (successful so far) install using the Jul 29 Sid
version, it needed to pull stuff through my modem instead of of my
Squid cache.
During most of the time to download the kernel, the progress meter was
stuck on 87%.
If I'd
Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 05:30:24PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
I'm network-installing on an HP Vecra by modem.
Since this is my first (successful so far) install using the Jul 29 Sid
version, it needed to pull stuff through my modem instead of of my
Squid cache.
During
There may be more, not these stand out:
On the boot commandine I specified vga=6
This should be incorporated into the grup config.
For the stage 1 install, I specified a proxy. This should be carried
forward into the apt config.
atm I'm wondering how to get stuff into it. apt-get says Connect 113
Colin Watson wrote:
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 01:46:37PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
atm I'm downloading bits of the 2.4 kernel; the above was with 2.6. I
note its downloading lots of kernel modules. I booted off a LAN, why not
justput those modules in the initial ram disk?
AFAIK boot image
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
[I'm not on debian-boot; please respect the Reply-To]
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 13:44:48 +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
What really has to happen for this is an upload of debootstrap which
doesn't install it. I'd very like to see such an upload. I'd also like
to see
My effort at answering questions by inserting them into the environment
failed.
However, I've discovered env2debconf.
With this small change:
sed floppy/sbin/env2debconf~ floppy/sbin/env2debconf \
-e 's/set -e/set -ex/' \
-e '/for/ s=\set\=set;cat /etc/env 2/dev/null='
I can put a
The 2.6 kernel from Jul 2 (I think from Sid) doesn't detect my IDE
drive. According to the log, the IDE modules are missing.
2.4 of the same date does detect it.
I don't have logs to offer, and I'm about to look for newer vmlinuz and
initrd.gz.
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Joey Hess wrote:
This is also by design, and is because security updates are used by
default.
well it didn't put any security updates line in my sources.list
That's because there is currently no security update source for testing.
When used to install an eventual stable sarge, it will
peter green wrote:
im in england i selected english
the language selection list makes no mention of American English or british
english it just says english
I just ran the installer here. The _first_ screen gives a choice of
Australian English, UK English, US English and English for the rest.
Steve Langasek wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:51:25AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
It's kind of dumb to show the Bootable flag for certain partition
types (like swap), I think it would be better to not show it when it
makes no difference, so as not to confuse the user unnecesarily
Joshua Kwan wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:33:48 -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote:
I know we are really really close to release time, but I'm worried about
partman usability. We talked about some of these issues during debconf4,
but I've seen that partman is still the same.
The problem is
Rick Thomas wrote:
Controllers that don't believe in disks larger than 137 GB(decimal)
report any disk larger than that as being exactly 137 GB in size.
This is probably why cfdisk et al are telling you that your partitions
go beyond the end of the disk -- as far as they know, the disk ends
Colin Watson wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:40:52PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
Could choose-mirror be changed so that if certain environment variables
are set then it uses values from those rather than prompt for them?
II suggest that the proxy information be specified thus:
http_proxy
Xavier Leoncini wrote:
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Sorry to bother I was wondering if it is possible to use the CD net install
with the beta 4 as a rescue disk
I had to make a dual boot with some windows and cannot get debian to boot
back.
I needed a rescue CD the other day
Anton Zinoviev wrote:
Hi!
In general Partman suffers from two things.
First - it is very slow. I'd say it was designed to be slow because
when I started thinking about it I didn't expect that it will become as
slow as it is now. Moreover adding additional components to it make it
even slower...
Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote:
Anton Zinoviev schrieb:
3. See how this problem is solved by SuSE - YaST supports both text and
graphical installs, both have very nice look and as far as I know there
is almost no duplicate code (due to text+graphics).
Not everything is good, that looks pretty.
Colin Watson wrote:
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 06:26:20AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
Colin Watson wrote:
Since d-i uses debconf, most questions are pre-answerable like this.
Where are the Qs and As documented?
Unfortunately I suspect the answer right now might be the source
Gleydson Mazioli da Silva wrote:
You can enable the support (even for motherboards without S.M.A.R.T) support with the
flag -e on the command line. If I'm not wrong, this is the default behaviour of it startup
script.
(IMHO, the addition of smartmontools in the default debian installation is a
Clive Menzies wrote:
On (16/07/04 15:11), Kenshi Muto wrote:
To: John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:11:35 +0900
Subject: Re: ssh
At 16 Jul 04 05:00:22 GMT,
John Summerfield wrote:
Is there any good reason
Frans Pop wrote:
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On Friday 16 July 2004 07:00, John Summerfield wrote:
Is there any good reason ssh is _not_ installed?
There is a ssh-client component for d-i in the making
that will allow you to use ssh while the installation
is running (e.g
Joey Hess wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
What do you want users to actually test? I'd have thought a
three-month-old beta a little long in the tooth for testing.
I think the web site is perfectly clear on this, so I'll just quote it.
If you just need an installation that works, we
Could choose-mirror be changed so that if certain environment variables
are set then it uses values from those rather than prompt for them?
II suggest that the proxy information be specified thus:
http_proxy=http://example.com:3128/
The reason I suggest http_proxy over any others is that it's
Colin Watson wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:40:52PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
Could choose-mirror be changed so that if certain environment variables
are set then it uses values from those rather than prompt for them?
II suggest that the proxy information be specified thus:
http_proxy
Joey Hess wrote:
Geert Stappers wrote:
Currently is the most recent News entry dated 30 april 2004
and no signs of TC1. ( my apology for typing previous RC1 )
I have no clue why Test Candidate 1 doesn't has
a entry in webwml/english/devel/debian-installer/News/2004
Because it wasn't a
Frans Pop wrote:
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On Thursday 15 July 2004 09:14, John wrote:
I'm trying to install to a disk with existing (ext3) parititions.
I chose to use the existing partitions, to reformat them as ext3.
The format failed as the partitions have existing
Osamu Aoki wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:14:47PM +0800, John wrote:
...
On a side note, can we have symlinks in /dev for those who like the
disks to appear in the traditional place and to munge them with more
user-friendly tools such as fdisk?
I know the feelings :)
But situation
Anton Zinoviev wrote:
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 12:23:10PM -0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
reassign 250865 partman
retitle 250865 warn if not partition is bootable
severity 250865 minor
thanks
partman should also set the bootable flag automatically if there's
none already.
Only on i386 I
Frans Pop wrote:
On Friday 16 July 2004 00:26, John Summerfield wrote:
Where are the Qs and As documented?
http://wiki.debian.net/DebianInstallerFAQ
I don't see there any of the debconf Qs and As to which I was referring.
Such as what the Q is that asks about mirrors and how
I just installed Sarge off the local mirror.
Is there any point in installing ipchains?
If you think it valuable for use with 2.4 kernels, how about with 2.6?
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Is there any good reason ssh is _not_ installed?
I did the absolute minimum install because I didn't like the choices
offered.
I found myself without any way of getting into the box from outside, or
connecting to remote sites (in my case, the other side of the desk).
I have (in development) a
After my minimal install, I find some ports open to the public. I don't
think they should be open by default to anyone.
They're all in the inetd package, any my preference is to have all inet
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I've fallen in love with smartmontools. I think it should be on every
Linux box that has disk drives.
For those unfamiliar with it, it monitors the health of disk drives
(SCSI and ATA, SATA support coming), and can warn of impending failure
in time to get your data off the failing drive.
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Brian Sutherland wrote:
Hello all,
I have to do a project requiring an auto-installation and auto
configuration of many machines. I have looked at fai and
autoinstall but am looking for other possibilities as well. Can
d-i do this? or would i be better off taking some pieces of it
and using them
John Smith wrote:
On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 01:04, Joey Hess wrote:
John Smith wrote:
just started using the debian-installer, got my first few
systems installed with sarge through PXE and net-boot.
Wanted to find out more about the inner workings and
modify the first boot of the
Andrew Pollock wrote:
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 01:00:32PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
I'd like to make a few minor changes for my own use - specify my local
mirror, maybe partition layout and such.
I started out by unpacking the initrd to see what's in it, and was
pretty happy to see
Colin Watson wrote:
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:01:36PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
Andrew Pollock wrote:
What you need to do is checkout a copy of the d-i subversion repository.
See http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/svn
Well I don't have subversion, but I saw
I'd like to make a few minor changes for my own use - specify my local
mirror, maybe partition layout and such.
I started out by unpacking the initrd to see what's in it, and was
pretty happy to see debian-installer is a shell script: there's almost
no limit to the magic one can do there on a
the impression that the
d-i information is spread across web pages all over the place, and
that it is hard for new users to find all the relevant information.
Sounds an excellent idea to me, especially if you want strangers testing
d-i.
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a network might use etherboot,
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sometimes wrt my
local (Woody) mirror which I've constructed from ISO images. However,
there don't seem to be any adverse consequences, so I've ignored it.
Should I report this as a bug, if so, against what?
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installed LILO in both MBR and partitions, sometimes on the same system.
It works well, and I expect GRUB to do so too. I think if a superfloppy formt
disk doesn't boot, a bug report is in order.
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#include hallo.h
* John Summerfield [Fri, Feb 21 2003, 02:10:57PM]:
to be a lot of interest, but not too much concrete input. Maybe
one of the issues is there are so many ways to get it to work?
If I were to write it (assuming I knew enough
with Woody and do
this? Automatically is the only way I want to install Debian.
I've become quite adept at installing Red Hat Linux using kickstart, and
I've written my own (crude) Debian installer, so I've had time to
develop thoughts on what ought to happen.
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of memory to use) effects the compression
ratio.
Thats a pretty improvement over bz2.
Wouldn't it be more meaningful to compress an initrd file?
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filename /tftpboot.ser;
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) support the command above.
Do you think it's possible to reinclude/support the command?
The second looks like standard shell behaviour when nothing matches the wildcard. If
there should be a match, then your shell has the problem, not the find command.
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in anna and the other time select it.
Does the target for the symlink exist? Its lack also causes that symptom.
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On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Chris Tillman wrote:
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:58:23AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
The documentation for using bootroms (such as PXE) is incomplete. See the (ia386)
install guide:
4.5.5 Move TFTP Images Into Place which links to 11.2.3, and contains the text
for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Cannot open root device nfs or 00:ff
Please append a correct root= boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:ff
Oh, to be clear, I'm using a kernel from
/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/bf2.4
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