Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > I would like to package 'laptop' or somthing similar. Install this package > and > you get a group of depends/suggests/recommends. I have mentioned this in the > past. Never got anywhere. > > In the same vein, working on the boot floppies it should not be hard to add > 'laptop' to the list of initial setups. I can begin work on this as well. >
Don't forget to address the issue of the "tecra" kernals (z not bz images) for those of us with a Toshiba laptop (mine is a Satellite Pro 490CDT). Incidentally, the documentation describing the need for the z-image for the types of laptops referred to some kernel patch which would allow the standard (bz-image) kernels to work, but gave no references. If there is such a patch, then it should certainly be included in the package somehow. By the way, this might be a good moment to mention that the "tecra" images on the Debian 2.1 (slink) installation CDs are incompletely organised, in my experience. At one point the installation creates a ram disk with a directory containing resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin. These feels have to be the tecra version for successful installations, but in my case they were not, even though I started from CD#2, which is supposed to be set up for tecra installations. I had to manually suspend the installation procedure, copy the files from /cdrom/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/2.1.9-1999-03-03 on CD#1 (*not* CD#2) and rename them by hand, and only then could installation proceed properly. I thought CD#2 was supposed to be set up as a boot installation disk for tecra-type machines without requiring this sort of manual intervention. Drew Parsons
