On 8/4/04 12:07 PM, "Martin Michlmayr" wrote: Top Post
Martin Thanks! I found an old PC laying around that I can use to reformat here, I have 2 15 gig drives also laying around which I will try. Will let you know what happens, unfortunately we need to devote time to the business end here until the weekend...will do re-installs then...Thanks Again. > * David Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-02 07:58]: >> We are using a Mac OS X Panther 10.3.4 as our desktop machine to >> reformat the hard drives, since we don't have any available PC type >> machines to use. I do remember reading somewhere that you had to do >> something different if the drives had BSD partitions, and since OS X >> is based on a BSD system could it be when we format to drives they >> are in the wrong format? > > This is possible indeed. You'll probably have to format the disk with > DOS labels otherwise d-i might get confused. > >> Also we tried 15 gig drives, the Raq2 will go from Net Booting to the >> selection of NFS, and start to pull down the files from a mirror. >> When we place a 40 gig drive it never leaves Net Booting. Is there a limit >> on the hard drive? Or could it relate to the above issue/statement? > > I have heard onother report that the firmware would not boot with a 40 > gig disk while a 30 gig disk worked just fine. It's possible that you > have a version of the firmware which doesn't like disks bigger than 32 > gig. > >> When we are able to get a download, though we have had mirrors not >> respond and we keep hitting retry or will select a different mirror. >> Do some mirrors not carry the same versions as other mirrors? > > They should all carry the same files. Using ftp.debian.org or the > oregonstate mirror should work. > >> Which version should we really be downloading? Stable - Testing or Unstable? > > Testing. -- David Thurman The Web Presence Group http://www.the-presence.com Web Development/E-Commerce/CMS/Hosting/Dedicated Servers 800-399-6441/309-679-0774
