> On Tue, 15 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > So, first let me ask all of those on this list who are ready and able to > > > test boot floppy installs of the base system, please check in with me by > > > private e-mail so I can get a head count. > > > > I've got a P-90 with a dead disk that I'm planning on testing the new > > boot floppies on later this afternoon. (After replacing the disk of course > .) > > Cool!
Not so cool. This is the install from hell. I can't seem to get this machine's network card to suck down the base system. I can execute a shell, telnet to remote systems, even off my local wire, but wget is acting funny. It gets 512 bytes, stalls, and just hangs there. After a minute it sucks down a whole bunch more data all at once and then quits with error. Of course, you can't see any of this because the scripts call wget with -q, but I was able to observe the same behavior from the command line. The whole time the network remains active and I can still telnet to other machines just fine. I tried swapping the network card (isa Intel Ether Express) for an old NE2000 I had lying around but it had the same problem. There were a couple of other annoying things. The editor installed is called "nano-tiny" but when you execute a shell or type "vi" you get messages instructing you to run either "ae" or "nano", neither of which work. The scripts and shells seem to run with a username of 0. I don't mean uid 0, I mean username 0, which confuses the id command and causes spurrious error messages to occur on screen with unknown user 0. The machine also doesn't seem to remember loading device drivers. After you load the kernel and device drivers onto disk, you can insert modules, but if for some reason you need to reboot (to swap a net card, say) and you mount your previously initialized partitions the second time around, you still need to go through the four driver floppies and the rescue floppy in order to be able to configure modules again even though all the modules are there in /target/lib/modules. It would be nice if the module configuration section would look for modules in /target/lib if they're not in /lib. I don't have any more time to work on this today, but I'll give it another try tomorrow. Eric
