Follow up report

2002-04-20 Thread Dale Scheetz
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Re: Some problems and questions...

2002-04-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 15 Apr 2002, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As to the Neighbour Table Overflow error, I've seen it since Potato on several 486 and Pentium machines, both SCSI and IDE. Ok, we've changed the klogctl for 3.0.23 (3.0r1) boot-floppies -- it should suppress

Re: Some problems and questions...

2002-04-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
are not... -- ...Adam Di Carlo..[EMAIL PROTECTED]...URL:http://www.onshored.com/ Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_- _- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656

Re: Bochs can be helpful for bootdisk testing

2002-04-12 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Robert Millan wrote: On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 10:53:44AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: Robert, are you aware of any roadblocks to completing a simple installation? I haven't seen any yet... Just install as you would on real hardware, it can take a few days indeed

Re: Bochs can be helpful for bootdisk testing

2002-04-12 Thread Dale Scheetz
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Re: Bochs can be helpful for bootdisk testing

2002-04-12 Thread Dale Scheetz
installation? I haven't seen any yet... Waiting is, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_- _- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 _- _- Flexible Software

Bug#135594: CD install is a tangled mess

2002-03-18 Thread Dale Scheetz
remarkable. Thanks again for your great contribution. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_- _- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 _- _- Flexible

Bug#135504: CD isn't unmounted after Kernel/Drivers install

2002-03-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
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CD install of Woody

2002-02-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
. Waiting is, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_- _- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 _- _- Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road

Bug#135504: CD isn't unmounted after Kernel/Drivers install

2002-02-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
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Bug#135594: CD install is a tangled mess

2002-02-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
. If there is anything I can trap or otherwise investigate, feel free to ask ... nicely please. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_- _- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850

Re: Still no base tarball

2001-08-23 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: [Geez, 3 lists?] Dale Scheetz wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: nobody has yet provided a convincing argument for putting the tarball on the CDs. Of the machines that I get a chance to install Debian on [cut

Re: Still no base tarball

2001-08-23 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 08:35:17AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: I would think that would be obvious. It saves about 5 hours of download lets not exaggerate, 1 to 1.5 hours max. I downloaded the tarball from people several days ago and it took just

Re: Still no base tarball

2001-08-22 Thread Dale Scheetz
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Re: Still no base tarball

2001-08-21 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 05:17:21PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 07:39:41PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: However, even for these cases, we should provide basedebs.tgz and split

Re: Still no base tarball

2001-08-20 Thread Dale Scheetz
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Re: Still no base tarball

2001-08-18 Thread Dale Scheetz
that will not work without the tarball, so that _is_ extra work, and I'm not really advocating it... Thanks for your time, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_- _- aka Dale Scheetz

Path to base tarball.

2001-08-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
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Re: Still no base tarball

2001-08-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:30:58AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: http://people.debian.org/~sfrost/basedebs_3.0_alpha.tar http://people.debian.org/~sfrost/basedebs_3.0_i386.tar http

Re: Still no base tarball

2001-08-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 09:56:07AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: http://people.debian.org/~sfrost/basedebs_3.0_alpha.tar http://people.debian.org/~sfrost/basedebs_3.0_i386.tar

Re: Still no base tarball

2001-08-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:45:15AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:32:11AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: Anthony, Adam tells me that you are the responsible party for the base

Re: Still no base tarball

2001-08-15 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:32:11AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: Anthony, Adam tells me that you are the responsible party for the base tarball. Where do we find this beast? Hrm. I don't really have the b/width to make these available. They're

Re: Still no base tarball

2001-08-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
scratch without it. So, where do we find this neccessary item? Thanks, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_- _- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769

Re: successful installation with 2.3.5 boot-floppies

2001-06-13 Thread Dale Scheetz
base freezes, and we let the testers choose which distro (stable, testing, unstable) they want to install. With regards to telling the testers what to do, I feel that's the responsibility of the testing coordinator (is Dale Scheetz the coordinator?). If there is no testing coordinator

Re: Testing woody boot/install process

2001-02-26 Thread Dale Scheetz
lare a new hardware problem on my machine. Any ideas what I can do about this, other than bying a real ATAPI drive? So far the install is looking pretty good. Thanks, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of "The Debian Linux User's Guide" _-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone

Re: Testing woody boot/install process

2001-02-21 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 17 Feb 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ah! I think I understand. I was using the compact image, because it was the only one I could get to download from your web page. (I tried the more obvious, like the 1.44 images, and never got a complete image

Re: Testing woody boot/install process

2001-02-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 15 Feb 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been using an evaluation copy of vmware to capture screen shots for the GFDL release of my book, and I though I should share some of my findings. 1. During the kernel boot a large number of error

Testing woody boot/install process

2001-02-15 Thread Dale Scheetz
s. We _do_ want to be able to do such an install on vmware, don't we? Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of "The Debian Linux User's Guide" _-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mai

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
for the install process? I'm obviously a bit confused, can you clarify this? Thanks, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of "The Debian Linux User's Guide" _-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road

Re: Failing to be of help with boot floppies

2000-09-20 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote: Dale Scheetz wrote: of what was happening and why it was unnecessary, and got replies like: "It doesn't do that any more." When you select these steps, the first screen presented is the "media selection" screen. Here I choo

Failing to be of help with boot floppies

2000-09-19 Thread Dale Scheetz
. At this rate we are loosing ground and I see no hope of fixing anything. More than a bit frustrated, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of "The Debian Linux User's Guide" _-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000

Re: bad press at www.linuxworld.com

2000-09-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
nce is a design of deminishing returns on invested efforts. KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) should apply at every opportunity. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of "The Debian Linux User's Guide" _-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 Flexib