Please fix an inconsistency on how the hostname is configured in d-i

2004-04-02 Thread Walter Tautz
I just tried the March 31, i386 iso 120 Mb image and noticed that upon initial boot that the hostname configuration portion of the network configuration allows hostnames to have a dot in it -- perfectly OK, please leave it WHEREAS once the system reboots and one goes hostname configuration of the

Re: release status update (grub notes)

2004-03-09 Thread Walter Tautz
- lowmem package must enter archive - Check archive for udebs that need to be built on various arches; make sure everything is up-to-date. Also, make sure that eg, appropriate kernel debs have entered the archive on each architecture. one thing I noticed with a recent daily build

Bug#217270: the latest build March 3, works

2004-03-04 Thread Walter Tautz
just to let you know folks the Serial ATA drive is detected it also loaded the e100 driver and I was able to connect. Great work... it would be nice however to have the grub installer be able to detect windows partitions and automatically add them as boot options if so desired. I believe this

Bug#217270: debian-installer fails on P4P800-VM Asus (serial ATA)

2003-12-28 Thread Walter Tautz
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Walter Tautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-10-23 12:14]: 1. It did NOT detect the ethernet: Intel 82562EZ Lan PHY supports 10/100 Can you please post the output of lspci and lspci -n. Which module do you normally use for thie card? Alas

Re: d-i CVS has moved

2003-12-16 Thread Walter Tautz
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Joey Hess wrote: I've moved d-i CVS to alioth. The project page is here: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/d-i/, and includes links for anonymous and developer CVS access. I have also updated the d-i README file with this information. of course this make the link

Re: d-i CVS has moved

2003-12-16 Thread Walter Tautz
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Joey Hess wrote: Walter Tautz wrote: of course this make the link referring to INSTALLATION HOWTO at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ non-existent. How about editing this page to let people know that things have been moved? Including the location

debian-installer fails on P4P800-VM Asus (serial ATA) (Oct 8 image netinst)

2003-10-22 Thread Walter Tautz
Got the netinst at http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/ Oct 8: specifically it did not detect the ethernet: Intel 82562EZ Lan PHY supports 10/100 nor that Storage 2xSerial ATA hardrives Perhaps we should be using the daily build? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: trying to install but can't recognize the disk....

2003-03-21 Thread Walter Tautz
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Walter Tautz wrote: so the installer talks about the system came preinstalled with redhat 8.0 and I do have a copy of the kernel-config file for the running kernel so if I knew how to build a different install

trying to install but can't recognize the disk....

2003-03-20 Thread Walter Tautz
so the installer talks about the system came preinstalled with redhat 8.0 and I do have a copy of the kernel-config file for the running kernel so if I knew how to build a different install disk... it would seem to require LSI Logicblah and listed below where does one acquire these

Re: can't load root.bin floppy, missing floppy controller (idepci,bf2.4 and compact)

2002-08-01 Thread Walter Tautz
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Walter Tautz wrote: specifically this is on a IDE based PC the rescue.bin (for flavors bf2.4 and idepci) results in the message unknown IDE controller on PCI has 00 device f9, VID=8086, DID=244b also mentioned is the fact that non floppy controller is seen

Re: Possible changed to initial README files in boot-floppies

2001-04-23 Thread Walter Tautz
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, David Whedon wrote: Hi Walter, Can you resend this as a diff against the current version, it makes it easier to evaluate changes. OK, I'll do it when I can get a little time away from work. I guess I should put these directly in the README.txt.m4 file...sorry.

cvs problems using cvs co -r woody boot-floppies

2001-02-27 Thread Walter Tautz
Keep getting the exact error (when running cvs co -r woody boot-floppies) snip ... cvs server: Updating boot-floppies/special cvs server: Updating boot-floppies/special/tecra cvs server: Updating boot-floppies/special/v30 cvs server: Updating boot-floppies/utilities U

boot-floppies: how do I go about making my own version (newbie)

2000-11-08 Thread Walter Tautz
Hello, I am interested in creating my own boot-floppies Primarily so i can change some of the text messages and change some of the menu options. Ideally I would like to create a single boot floppie that would be expressly used to do network install. In particular I would like to have a kernel