Ah, so there IS a problem related to the ne module. I noticed this with the 2.2.9 boot-floppies in March, but hesitated to file a bug (I did send a comment to this list) because I couldn't figure out if it was potato or me that had the problem. Thanks for clearing that up.
Bob On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 03:19:00PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > Hi, > > I installed potato as of yesterday onto a hard disk my father had > brought to me. (He later took the disk back and intends to use the new > installation in his own system.) The short story: everything went OK > except for the ne bug (63855), which I was able to work around. > > The hard disk was /dev/hdb, my present system (running current > woody) is /dev/hda. I had downloaded base and drivers tarballs into > /dev/hda5/debian, and made the boot & root disks. > > The dbootstrap run went OK, except for the fact that the NE driver could > not be loaded (bug already known). I installed kernel from the floppy > and drivers from a mounted directory (I did not remember which partition > had them, so I repeatedly tried mounting partitions to see which one > it was). I made a boot floppy but decided not to use it. Naturally, > I did not install lilo. > > The middle-way boot was my workaround for the NE bug: I booted using > my current system's lilo and kernel (which has NE built in), but set > root to the new system. There were many error messages about modules > (which was to be expected) and I ignored them. The rest of the install > went OK and was quite eventless. > > I noted that the installation process was greatly improved, and I liked > the new looks. Good work, boot-floppies team! > > The test system is a 267 MHz Celeron with 128 MB of memory. The current > system disk is a ~13GB Seagate and the target disk is a ~4GB Seagate, > both IDE. Network adapter is a D-link DE-220PCT, a NE-compatible ISA > card. Network is a 10baseT ethernet with static IP's. The system has > a floppy disk drive and a GUS MAX. > > -- > %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% > > I'm moving IRL on May 2, 2000. > New contact information on the home page > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY (RN2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
