Re: Debian installer not recognizing high-numbered HD?

2001-03-25 Thread I-Gene Leong
On 24 Mar 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.21 I-Gene Leong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 22 Mar 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: I-Gene Leong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hdg: secondary 20G UDMA33 drive (which is where I want to put Debian) Now, booting

Re: TFTP booting on SPARCstation IPX

2001-03-25 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On 21 Mar 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Actually I have two IPXs with 48Mb RAM and 16Mb RAM, ROM Rev 2.4 and ROM Rev. 2.3 respectively. They both act in exactly the same manner when I boot them from my other Sun computer, a SPARCstation IPX using the command 'boot net'. They will

Re: Bug#90204: installation process unclear when network card notfound

2001-03-25 Thread TeknoDragon
On 24 Mar 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Sure, but at that point, they're in an unsupported zone. Its actually very rare (in fact, I've never heard of any cases) where NIC devices aren't supported by one of the stock kernels. Anyhow, they can read about replacing the kernel in that section. If

cvs commit to base-config/debian by joeyh

2001-03-25 Thread joeyh
Repository: base-config/debian who:joeyh time: Sun Mar 25 13:40:50 PST 2001 Log Message: * Added Galician translation of debconf templates (but not the apt-setup debconf templates) from [EMAIL PROTECTED], Closes: #91310 Files: changed:changelog added:

lack of support for NICs during installation

2001-03-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
TeknoDragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you mean "stock kernel" as in the one compiled for installations (plus allmodules), then you should hear about this: there are 4 such kernels for i386 -- the significant ones are the vanilla ones, the 'idepci', and the 'compact' kernels. These cards

Re: Debian installer not recognizing high-numbered HD?

2001-03-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
I-Gene Leong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, that's correct. I got ahold of the source to boot-floppies (didn't know the package name initially) so I'll see if I can spot anything. Great. You will want to look in utilities/libfdisk I bet. If feel motivated to work from CVS, that sometimes

Re: Can't load device driver modules from floppy

2001-03-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Brian Ledbetter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm trying to install debian 2.2r2 on my machine and I'm unable to load device driver modules when I click on configure Device Driver Modules. I get an error saying "Cannot mount the floppy. Stop." "No modules were found in

Re: new kernel images uploaded

2001-03-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Whedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I built a release of boot-floppies 2.2.22 for i386. Current cvs will build fine as long as you grab a copy of all 4 2.2.19pre17 debs. Where will we build the release for 2.2.r3? But lacks the pcmcia-modules still, so I backed that out, unfortunately.

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by dwhedon

2001-03-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Whedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Good new is we have somewhat working woody boot-floppies (on i386 now at least). I booted off resc1440.bin, root.bin. I had to manually insmod my ethernet module (see note below). dbootstrap now supports debootstrap. Some kinks need to be worked

cvs commit to debian-installer/build by joeyh

2001-03-25 Thread joeyh
Repository: debian-installer/build who:joeyh time: Sun Mar 25 15:02:33 PST 2001 Log Message: let's use the 2.4.2 kernel now (aaah, so easy :-) Files: changed:Makefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#90204: installation process unclear when network card not found

2001-03-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark W. Eichin) writes: Umm, actually, that's exactly what happened to me (after USB turned out to not be a problem): 2.2 uses the 2.2.17 kernel which doesn't support (or even identify as ethernet) the 3COM MiniPCI ether+uselessmodem card on the daewoo motherboard.

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Re: lack of support for NICs during installation

2001-03-25 Thread TeknoDragon
On 25 Mar 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: TeknoDragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: there are 4 such kernels for i386 -- the significant ones are the vanilla ones, the 'idepci', and the 'compact' kernels. I assume that the modules on the official CD are rather complete, is that not accurate? I did

Re: Bug#90204: installation process unclear when network card notfound

2001-03-25 Thread TeknoDragon
On 25 Mar 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: There is no such tool to ask the network configuration questions aside from dbootstrap (the program that runs during install), and that is end of life, and that is not available after install is done. Might I suggest etherconf. It has a few bugs (I guess

cvs commit to debian-installer/build/debian by joeyh

2001-03-25 Thread joeyh
Repository: debian-installer/build/debian who:joeyh time: Sun Mar 25 19:52:31 PST 2001 Log Message: heh Files: changed:control -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to debian-installer/build by joeyh

2001-03-25 Thread joeyh
Repository: debian-installer/build who:joeyh time: Sun Mar 25 20:05:23 PST 2001 Log Message: It seems to roughly work to use number of files and dirs in tree * 2 as the fuzz factor, rather than manually specifying one. Since we don't need any space on the initrd anymore (with

cvs commit to debian-installer/build by joeyh

2001-03-25 Thread joeyh
Repository: debian-installer/build who:joeyh time: Sun Mar 25 20:28:34 PST 2001 Log Message: revamped the stats Files: changed:Makefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to debian-installer/rootskel/src/etc/init.d by joeyh

2001-03-25 Thread joeyh
Repository: debian-installer/rootskel/src/etc/init.d who:joeyh time: Sun Mar 25 20:39:39 PST 2001 Log Message: * Added a new linuxrc, which sets up a ramfs filesystem, copys the installer into it, pivot_roots so its the new root, ensures proc and dev are mounted, and

cvs commit to debian-installer/rootskel/debian by joeyh

2001-03-25 Thread joeyh
Repository: debian-installer/rootskel/debian who:joeyh time: Sun Mar 25 20:39:39 PST 2001 Log Message: * Added a new linuxrc, which sets up a ramfs filesystem, copys the installer into it, pivot_roots so its the new root, ensures proc and dev are mounted, and runs

cvs commit to debian-installer/rootskel/src by joeyh

2001-03-25 Thread joeyh
Repository: debian-installer/rootskel/src who:joeyh time: Sun Mar 25 20:39:39 PST 2001 Log Message: * Added a new linuxrc, which sets up a ramfs filesystem, copys the installer into it, pivot_roots so its the new root, ensures proc and dev are mounted, and runs

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/rootskel/src/etc/init.d by joeyh

2001-03-25 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Added a new linuxrc, which sets up a ramfs filesystem, copys the installer into it, pivot_roots so its the new root, ensures proc and dev are mounted, and runs busybox init. * Made rcS clean up by unmounting the initrd, and freeramdisking it

cvs commit to debian-installer/kernel-image-di by joeyh

2001-03-25 Thread joeyh
Repository: debian-installer/kernel-image-di who:joeyh time: Sun Mar 25 20:44:53 PST 2001 Log Message: * Rebuilt with kernel-source-2.4.2 2.4.2-3, to get initrd freeing fix, and initrd on cramfs support. * Also turned on tmpfs, for playing with as a better ramfs than