Hi, I just installed Debian on my 486 and thought I'd try to do it without disks. I got as far as the point were it wanted to install the kernel, but couldn't go any further. Is there any reason why there is no drivers.tgz and perhaps kernel.tgz?
For those who are interested I have got it down to a two disk install. What you do is download linux, root.bin, base1_2.tgz and get loadlin.exe (loadling package is where I got it from). Then you put the 3 files on a dos partion and run: loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin <options> Linux will load and run just like if the rescue disk was booted (cept faster ;>) Then alt-f2 and run mkdir jnk mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /jnk <-- sda1 is your dos partition The install will find the base1_2.tgz file by itself and everything will go very smoothly till it wants to install the kernel, you need the rescue floppy (Arrg) and then the drivers floppy (Arrg some more). The only things the Debian people could do to improve this is to put loadlin.exe on the ftp server and to modify the install so you don't need the two disks.. I was also thinking that with a iso9660 fs driver in the kernel a CDROM install could be done with either 1 disk or none! Even if no cd driver was in the kernel, by copying the files above from the cd to the dos partion an install could still be accomplished. Thoughts? Jason Received: (qmail 3744 invoked for bounce); 2 Mar 1997 05:27:05 -0000 Date: 2 Mar 1997 05:27:05 -0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at master.debian.org. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 132.229.8.6 failed after I sent the message. Remote host said: 500 Command unrecognized --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: (qmail 17008 invoked by uid 805); 2 Mar 1997 01:33:43 -0000 MBOX-Line: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Mar 1 17:33:43 1997 Received: (qmail 16985 invoked by uid 802); 2 Mar 1997 01:33:41 -0000 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 16980 invoked from network); 2 Mar 1997 01:33:40 -0000 Received: from semo.tio.net ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 2 Mar 1997 01:33:40 -0000 Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by semo.tio.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA07775; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 17:26:11 -0800 Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 17:26:11 -0800 (PST) From: trio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Scott Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Debian-User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Mail list problems?? In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Loop: jdassen@ On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Scott Stanley wrote: > Every time I post to the debian user mail list I am getting 5-10 error > messages saying the mail could not be delivered. Although, I do get a > copy of the mail sent back to me from the list. I am wondering if this > is related to the problems with the mail list, or if I am the only one > getting these errors.... Here's my "me too" because i wanted to verify that the same thing happened to me this morning. I realize it will happen again as i respond to this, but i think someone should notice and fix this. Thank you for pointing it out and thank you to whoever it is that fixes these things. ... universero trio... [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tio.net/~trio Learn and use The International Language Esperanto!