Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-17 Thread Michael Galloway
Moin Helge! no, thats the other interesting part, master and clone will boot systemA, where the cloneing took place, neither will boot systemB or C or ... as near as i can tell all 20 are identical, there were part of one of the earlier supercomputing efforts at the lab, all the same nodes. i w

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-17 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:54:28PM -0400, Michael Galloway wrote: > i normally boot 0 > > the interesting part is the clone disk boots fine on the original system, but > not on either of the other systems. Same SCSI adapter? Does your clone boot if you use the *original* master disk? Gree

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Joerg Hoh
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 02:40:00PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:15:24PM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote: > > > Is the patch for this problem available as a diff, so I can patch the > > kernel myself? > > kernel-image packages have previously been posted to the mailing list, >

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:15:24PM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 01:08:28PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 03:55:25PM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote: > > > I tried the netinst-Version from 15th of Juli. The problem with the broken > > > cia_core seems still to

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Joerg Hoh
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 01:08:28PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 03:55:25PM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote: > > > I tried the netinst-Version from 15th of Juli. The problem with the broken > > cia_core seems still to exist; > > Correct, no kernel-image package has been uploaded w

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 03:55:25PM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:44:53PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:07:48PM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote: > > > I don't see anything new at: > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/ > > >

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 08:40:00AM -0400, Michael Galloway wrote: > Hi Steve! > ok, so what is the real functional difference? That depends on what's being staged at any particular moment. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer > On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > > sarge is

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:43:01AM -0400, Rob Dupcak wrote: > Do the daily builds have Tulip driver support? (Or will they?) Daily builds have included the tulip driver for as long as there have been daily builds on alpha. > Or asked another way... > Is there an easy way of telling if a specific

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Michael Galloway
Moin Helge! maybe typos in there, the system is on serial console so i copied from my notes ... i normally boot 0 the interesting part is the clone disk boots fine on the original system, but not on either of the other systems. -- michael Helge Kreutzmann schrieb am Freitag, den 16. Juli 2004:

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Michael, On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:18:53PM -0400, Michael Galloway wrote: > Moin Helge! > > i get the normalish looking: > > 0:2/vmlinuz ro initrd=/initrd.imb root=/dev/sda2 > 1:2/vmlinuz.old initrd=/initrd.img > 2:3/vmlinuz.net.gz ro root=/dev/sda2 > 3:3/vmlinuz ro root=/ev/sda2 > 8:- ro

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 10:59:23AM -0400, Michael Galloway wrote: > SystemA: good install of sarge onto /dev/sda, sda is 128M free space, 16G > ext2 mounted on / , 2GB swap. to clone the disk i'm doing: > > init 1, swapoff -a, mount -n -o remount,ro / > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1024k >

RE: [debian terminology] newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Cernese, Dan
, 2004 1:43 AM > To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000 > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:25:19AM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote: > > Can someone tell me the difference between sarge and sid? I > thought the > > current debian was

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Michael Galloway
ok, i'm getting myself very confused and maybe some one can give me a sanity check. i have a number of ES40's i'm putting sarge onto. i have it installed and working fairly well. now i'm trying to clone the disk image for the rest of the ES40's, this is what i'm trying: SystemA: good install o

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Joerg Hoh
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:44:53PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:07:48PM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote: > > I don't see anything new at: > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/ > > > will the build happen today, as in before 2400 EST? > > Yes; an

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 08:40:00AM -0400, Michael Galloway wrote: > Hi Steve! > > ok, so what is the real functional difference? Stable (Woody at the moment): A bit dated, but very well tested and security support available. Testing (Sarge at the moment): Automatica

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Michael Galloway
Hi Steve! ok, so what is the real functional difference? -- michael On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Steve Langasek wrote: > > sarge is the upcoming stable release. > > sid is the staging ground for everything that will go into the stable > release being developed at any given moment. >

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:25:19AM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote: > Can someone tell me the difference between sarge and sid? I thought the > current debian was woody. sarge is the upcoming stable release. sid is the staging ground for everything that will go into the stable release being develope

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-15 Thread Andrew Diller
Can someone tell me the difference between sarge and sid? I thought the current debian was woody. -andy On Jul 15, 2004, at 8:45 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:13:41PM -0400, Michael Galloway wrote: Hi Andrew! there is a build out from yesterday: http://cdimage.debian.org

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:13:41PM -0400, Michael Galloway wrote: > Hi Andrew! > there is a build out from yesterday: > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/alpha/20040714/ But built against the sarge tree, not the sid tree. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer > On Thu,

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:07:48PM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote: > I don't see anything new at: > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/ > will the build happen today, as in before 2400 EST? Yes; and it's there now. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer > On Jul 14, 2004,

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-15 Thread Michael Galloway
Hi Andrew! there is a build out from yesterday: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/alpha/20040714/ -- me On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Andrew Diller wrote: > I don't see anything new at: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/ > > will the build happen toda

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-15 Thread Andrew Diller
I don't see anything new at: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/ will the build happen today, as in before 2400 EST? -andy On Jul 14, 2004, at 6:30 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: You may also want to wait until tomorrow's daily, as it turns out the sid_d-i dailies for alpha have b

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-15 Thread Rob Dupcak
Hi, Do the daily builds have Tulip driver support? (Or will they?) Or asked another way... Is there an easy way of telling if a specific daily build has a particular feature? (Aside from trying to install it yet again?) Thanks, Rob Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 05:36:49PM -0400,

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:39:28AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 05:07:49PM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote: > >>I used the one at: > >>http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/current/ > >>but I'll try again and leave some space at

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-15 Thread Andrew Diller
Thanks for the tips, I'll try the build from 6/15 then. On Jul 14, 2004, at 6:30 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: You may also want to wait until tomorrow's daily, as it turns out the sid_d-i dailies for alpha have been off-line for the better part of a month and I'm not sure of the status of the last bui

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-15 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 05:07:49PM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote: I used the one at: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/current/ but I'll try again and leave some space at the top of the disk for aboot. What does it need, a few megs? Less than 1MB. A s

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 05:36:49PM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote: > OK I try with one meg free. I actually have 2 xp1000s, one I'll use for > a more stable machine with beta4, the other I can test the dailies and > see what's up. Please note that there is no substantial difference between beta4 and

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-14 Thread Andrew Diller
OK I try with one meg free. I actually have 2 xp1000s, one I'll use for a more stable machine with beta4, the other I can test the dailies and see what's up. So far Sarge looks nice. It's been a few years since I played with Debian, mostly it was on my Ipaq. I am thinking of using this alpha w

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 05:07:49PM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote: > I used the one at: > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/current/ > but I'll try again and leave some space at the top of the disk for > aboot. What does it need, a few megs? Less than 1MB. A single sector s

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-14 Thread Andrew Diller
I used the one at: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/current/ but I'll try again and leave some space at the top of the disk for aboot. What does it need, a few megs? -andy On Jul 14, 2004, at 4:08 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: What is the URL of the ISO image you downloaded?

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-14 Thread Michael Galloway
Hi Andrew! i've better success on my ES40's with the 20040713 build: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/alpha/ still somewhat problematic, it installs e100 instead of eepro100, but it may work ok for you ... -- michael On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Andrew Diller wrote: > hello: I

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 03:44:04PM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote: > hello: I downloaded burned and installed the newest (2004-06-08 posted > on alphalinux.org) debian installer on my xp1000. > Everything is smooth, i chose an automatic, multi-user partition map on > a single 9gig scsi disk. I chan

newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-14 Thread Andrew Diller
hello: I downloaded burned and installed the newest (2004-06-08 posted on alphalinux.org) debian installer on my xp1000. Everything is smooth, i chose an automatic, multi-user partition map on a single 9gig scsi disk. I changed the / partition to ext2 for the aboot and continued. however, the