Re: Report: installed hamm from Cheapbytes CD
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You're lucky, it doesn't boot here in my desktop system with Award BIOS. > > > I assumed it wasn't bootable when it didn't work. The Debian 1.3 > > > disks I have from LSL from the original Debian images boot just fine. > > > > It didn't boot at first, but then I changed the boot sequence from > > "floppy-CD-hard drive" to "cd-hard drive" and it did. Maybe that will > > work for you too? > > I did change the sequence here, without luck. I will try a couple > of other machines but they both have Award BIOS too. The new "beta 3" aka 09, juli 1998 binary-i386 does boot on my Award Bios (though very slow). phil changed the layout of the cd in such a way that the bootimage comes first. No luck with source (which hangs) and the usual "Failure..." message with contrib. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 [Usually] everthing works only as good, as it is expected to. --- Stephen Chu -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Report: installed hamm from Cheapbytes CD
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 10:47:16PM -0700, Gonzalo Diethelm wrote: > On Wednesday, July 15, 1998 6:47 PM, Hamish Moffatt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 11:04:47AM -0700, Gonzalo Diethelm wrote: > > > This is a brief report after installing Debian hamm > > > from the Cheapbytes CD on my Dell Latitude CPi laptop. > > > > > > The CD boots OK, and everything works as before. The only > > > > You're lucky, it doesn't boot here in my desktop system with Award BIOS. > > I assumed it wasn't bootable when it didn't work. The Debian 1.3 > > disks I have from LSL from the original Debian images boot just fine. > > It didn't boot at first, but then I changed the boot sequence from > "floppy-CD-hard drive" to "cd-hard drive" and it did. Maybe that will > work for you too? I did change the sequence here, without luck. I will try a couple of other machines but they both have Award BIOS too. > Any comments regarding my other questions? I didn't install hamm from scratch from the CD, only upgraded. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: Report: installed hamm from Cheapbytes CD
On Wednesday, July 15, 1998 6:47 PM, Hamish Moffatt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 11:04:47AM -0700, Gonzalo Diethelm wrote: > > This is a brief report after installing Debian hamm > > from the Cheapbytes CD on my Dell Latitude CPi laptop. > > > > The CD boots OK, and everything works as before. The only > > You're lucky, it doesn't boot here in my desktop system with Award BIOS. > I assumed it wasn't bootable when it didn't work. The Debian 1.3 > disks I have from LSL from the original Debian images boot just fine. It didn't boot at first, but then I changed the boot sequence from "floppy-CD-hard drive" to "cd-hard drive" and it did. Maybe that will work for you too? > Hamish Any comments regarding my other questions? Gonzalo -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Report: installed hamm from Cheapbytes CD
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 11:04:47AM -0700, Gonzalo Diethelm wrote: > This is a brief report after installing Debian hamm > from the Cheapbytes CD on my Dell Latitude CPi laptop. > > The CD boots OK, and everything works as before. The only You're lucky, it doesn't boot here in my desktop system with Award BIOS. I assumed it wasn't bootable when it didn't work. The Debian 1.3 disks I have from LSL from the original Debian images boot just fine. The CD is a bit munged in that it doesn't have the dists hierarchy so it takes a little mucking around with apt. I put the disk in a machine with a fast CD-ROM drive and upgraded an older machine from bo over HTTP. That went okay, if slowly (DX2-66 with 16mb RAM and klunky hard drive.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Report: installed hamm from Cheapbytes CD
Hello, This is a brief report after installing Debian hamm from the Cheapbytes CD on my Dell Latitude CPi laptop. The CD boots OK, and everything works as before. The only thing that was a nuisance was in the section where you select what file systems, network drivers, etc. to install. There were several options in these menus that had no description next to them (so I didn't install any of those). After installing the base system (including PCMCIA support), the machine boots ok, with the following error messages: * Unable to load NLS charset cp437 * Unable to load NLS charset ISO8859-1 * 3c589_cs: Request IRQ: resource in use. This one is related to my network card, a 3com 3C589D PC (PCMCIA) card. Under WinNT, where it works, it is reported as using the following resources: IRQ10, memory 300-30F. Perhaps there is something else in Debian that already uses that IRQ? If so, what can be done? * Also, I seem to remember the two serial ports were reported as using the same IRQ. Could this be a problem? If so, how do you go about changing that? After booting, one small problem I had is that I got a bunch of errors for the execution of /sbin/getty, and then a message saying: INIT: Id "S1" respawning too fast... and S1 was deactivated for 5 minutes. I commented out the only S1 entry in /etc/inittab, and that went away. The getty invocation seemed incorrect to me (sorry, don't have it handy). So, everything is mostly OK, except for those NLS charsets, and the network card; anyone has any suggestions regarding these? If possible, please answer via e-mail as well as to the list, to which I am not subscribed. Thanks a lot, and great job! Gonzalo Diethelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
