Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:50:38 -0400 (EDT), Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: Why don't you just tell us exactly what you are trying to do? I have tried a few things and things seem smooth till I cannot `svn co svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/trunk`. With svn+ssh, I was asked for a password, which I have absolutely no idea. Without +ssh, svn just hung there. I do not know what happened. That's not what I mean. Are you trying to install Debian? Is that the end goal? If so, what's wrong with the standard Debian installer? Why do you think you need to customize it? I've been installing and using Debian for ten years, and I have never needed to create a custom version of the Debian installer. What exactly are you trying to do and why do you think that you need a customized version of the Debian installer to do it? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/457438870.257587.1285379587911.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com Normally, I use general d-i, too. But this time, I'd like to try out reiser4 as root fs. I do have other options, like building a new system within an existing debian installation which supports reiser4. But just out of curiosity, I think why learning about how to initialize an system and custom the d-i tool the same time. I'd have to say, the documents for this task is pretty rare besides the few on wiki.debian.org. But glad to say I am on my way, just without a guide. -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinl67j13e_qg79u98vl1sysxjzkq=pcestkf...@mail.gmail.com
Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 03:14:07 -0400 (EDT), Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: There are a number of different installation methods available. They are described in the installation instructions. Use the one that suits you best. What I usually do is take the netboot mini.iso image and burn it to a CD-R. Then I boot from the CD. But there are other alternatives. For example, you can make a bootable USB stick, commonly called a thumb drive, and boot from it. There are other installation methods that allow the installer to be started from a pre-existing Unix or Linux system, or from a Windows system. Years ago, you could also create a bootable floppy disk and boot from a floppy. But that installation method is no longer supported. Etch is the last release that supported boot floppy installation. In short, there's no substitute for reading the directions. Customing d-i is so hard. Many things confused me on the documents. Cannot I just start with debootstrap? My reply to another one of your posts applies here also: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2010/09/msg02353.html Why don't you just tell us exactly what you are trying to do? And please stop top posting! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/116040563.118670.1284991531213.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com Sorry for that. Anyway, I have tried a few things and things seem smooth till I cannot `svn co svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/trunk`. With svn+ssh, I was asked for a password, which I have absolutely no idea. Without +ssh, svn just hung there. I do not know what happened. -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktin_n2mnwussltxk0uv7fafdpohff4xgvrtvb...@mail.gmail.com
Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?
Magicloud Magiclouds writes: Anyway, I have tried a few things and things seem smooth till I cannot `svn co svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/trunk`. With svn+ssh, I was asked for a password, which I have absolutely no idea. Without +ssh, svn just hung there. I do not know what happened. svn+ssh access is for developers. For normal users, you should use svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/trunk as stated in http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/svn . -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877hibfrv0@eps142.cdf.udc.es
Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:50:38 -0400 (EDT), Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: Why don't you just tell us exactly what you are trying to do? I have tried a few things and things seem smooth till I cannot `svn co svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/trunk`. With svn+ssh, I was asked for a password, which I have absolutely no idea. Without +ssh, svn just hung there. I do not know what happened. That's not what I mean. Are you trying to install Debian? Is that the end goal? If so, what's wrong with the standard Debian installer? Why do you think you need to customize it? I've been installing and using Debian for ten years, and I have never needed to create a custom version of the Debian installer. What exactly are you trying to do and why do you think that you need a customized version of the Debian installer to do it? -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/457438870.257587.1285379587911.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 03:14:07 -0400 (EDT), Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: There are a number of different installation methods available. They are described in the installation instructions. Use the one that suits you best. What I usually do is take the netboot mini.iso image and burn it to a CD-R. Then I boot from the CD. But there are other alternatives. For example, you can make a bootable USB stick, commonly called a thumb drive, and boot from it. There are other installation methods that allow the installer to be started from a pre-existing Unix or Linux system, or from a Windows system. Years ago, you could also create a bootable floppy disk and boot from a floppy. But that installation method is no longer supported. Etch is the last release that supported boot floppy installation. In short, there's no substitute for reading the directions. Customing d-i is so hard. Many things confused me on the documents. Cannot I just start with debootstrap? My reply to another one of your posts applies here also: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2010/09/msg02353.html Why don't you just tell us exactly what you are trying to do? And please stop top posting! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/116040563.118670.1284991531213.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?
Customing d-i is so hard. Many things confused me on the documents. Cannot I just start with debootstrap? On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:31:21 -0400 (EDT), Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:38:14 -0400 (EDT), Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual or http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/installmanual I am not quite sure. Is this the document for debian-installer? Yes, it is. How if I do not want to use a special install disk? Or you mean I have to make an install disk myself? There are a number of different installation methods available. They are described in the installation instructions. Use the one that suits you best. What I usually do is take the netboot mini.iso image and burn it to a CD-R. Then I boot from the CD. But there are other alternatives. For example, you can make a bootable USB stick, commonly called a thumb drive, and boot from it. There are other installation methods that allow the installer to be started from a pre-existing Unix or Linux system, or from a Windows system. Years ago, you could also create a bootable floppy disk and boot from a floppy. But that installation method is no longer supported. Etch is the last release that supported boot floppy installation. In short, there's no substitute for reading the directions. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1437876200.28788.1284214573556.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikrobtjwz_szcumcf6lqqn7moeupr5agmrjf...@mail.gmail.com
Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?
I am not quite sure. Is this the document for debian-installer? How if I do not want to use a special install disk? Or you mean I have to make an install disk myself? On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:38:14 -0400 (EDT), Magic clouds wrote: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual or http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/installmanual -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktim9xumvqvbk+1gx19y_fgxxrxwnjj7hm-nfa...@mail.gmail.com
Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:31:21 -0400 (EDT), Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:38:14 -0400 (EDT), Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual or http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/installmanual I am not quite sure. Is this the document for debian-installer? Yes, it is. How if I do not want to use a special install disk? Or you mean I have to make an install disk myself? There are a number of different installation methods available. They are described in the installation instructions. Use the one that suits you best. What I usually do is take the netboot mini.iso image and burn it to a CD-R. Then I boot from the CD. But there are other alternatives. For example, you can make a bootable USB stick, commonly called a thumb drive, and boot from it. There are other installation methods that allow the installer to be started from a pre-existing Unix or Linux system, or from a Windows system. Years ago, you could also create a bootable floppy disk and boot from a floppy. But that installation method is no longer supported. Etch is the last release that supported boot floppy installation. In short, there's no substitute for reading the directions. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1437876200.28788.1284214573556.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?
Hi, I mean from a non-Debian linux environment and an empty disk, and internet. I'd like to try out reiser4 for root. I have compiled 2.6.35.4 with reiser4 into .deb, and a disk with reiser4 filesystem. Thanks. -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktin_qnsmefn40on6ct_vpmqkv8qh9mbndyxd0...@mail.gmail.com
Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:38:14 -0400 (EDT), Magic clouds wrote: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual or http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/installmanual -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/736024678.4370.1284124473926.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
