Op 04-12-2006 om 16:19 schreef Rainer Dorsch:
For the poor owners of laptops with usbfloppies and without bootable cdrom,
the pxe-on-a-disk method will help a lot to get etch installed. Can that be
documented in the installation manual for etch?
It surely can. The only thing it takes is
The solution to the devmapper issue was simple:
modprobe dm-mod
(that might have helped even with the sarge install discs).
For the poor owners of laptops with usbfloppies and without bootable cdrom,
the pxe-on-a-disk method will help a lot to get etch installed. Can that be
documented in
Hi Geert,
booting into the etch installer works very well this way. Thus I have the
laptop now up with a
topsi:~# uname -a
Linux topsi 2.6.17-2-486 #1 Wed Sep 13 15:56:30 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
topsi:~#
kernel from the debian installer for etch. The laptop has etch installed, but
grub/lilo
Op 02-12-2006 om 18:36 schreef Rainer Dorsch:
Hmmgood point, but I would be surprised, if booting from an usb stick
would work. It explicitly says in the BIOS floppy, there is no usb stick
option. I would be surprised, if an usb stick and a floppy image look
identical for the laptop
Doug,
I run
silverboxy:/home/rd# dd if=grub-0.97-i486-pc.ext2fs of=/dev/fd0 bs=512
conv=sync ; sync
2880+0 records in
2880+0 records out
1474560 bytes transferred in 96.615515 seconds (15262 bytes/sec)
silverboxy:/home/rd#
but the floppy did *not* boot. Is that one in etch broken, or did I do
On Friday 01 December 2006 23:05, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
I just tried to boot a vaio laptop (z505je) with the etch boot
floppies. While it worked well with sarge floppies, I get with the RC1
boot floppy (the same with the latest daily build):
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44 M
floppy0: no floppy
Am Samstag, 2. Dezember 2006 10:40 schrieben Sie:
On Friday 01 December 2006 23:05, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
I just tried to boot a vaio laptop (z505je) with the etch boot
floppies. While it worked well with sarge floppies, I get with the RC1
boot floppy (the same with the latest daily build):
(No need to CC me. I read the list!)
On Saturday 02 December 2006 13:03, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
Is it easy enough to create my own boot/root floppies and throw away
stuff which I don't need for example (e.g. CD-ROM support)?
Not really as your problem is the boot floppy and that already does not
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 01:03:15PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
Am Samstag, 2. Dezember 2006 10:40 schrieben Sie:
On Friday 01 December 2006 23:05, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
I just tried to boot a vaio laptop (z505je) with the etch boot
floppies. While it worked well with sarge floppies, I get
Am Samstag, 2. Dezember 2006 15:47 schrieb Douglas Tutty:
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 01:03:15PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
Am Samstag, 2. Dezember 2006 10:40 schrieben Sie:
On Friday 01 December 2006 23:05, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
I just tried to boot a vaio laptop (z505je) with the etch boot
On Saturday 02 December 2006 18:36, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
Just wondering, if there is a way to work around this. Somehow people
doing an update from sarge to etch must see the same issue. How does it
work there?
Can you free up enough space on your harddisk using the Sarge installer
for say a
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 18:36:13 +0100 Rainer Dorsch wrote:
Hmmgood point, but I would be surprised, if booting from an usb stick
would work. It explicitly says in the BIOS floppy, there is no usb stick
option. I would be surprised, if an usb stick and a floppy image look
identical for the
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:36:13PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
Am Samstag, 2. Dezember 2006 15:47 schrieb Douglas Tutty:
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 01:03:15PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
Am Samstag, 2. Dezember 2006 10:40 schrieben Sie:
On Friday 01 December 2006 23:05, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
Am Samstag, 2. Dezember 2006 22:24 schrieb Douglas Tutty:
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:36:13PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
Am Samstag, 2. Dezember 2006 15:47 schrieb Douglas Tutty:
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 01:03:15PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
Am Samstag, 2. Dezember 2006 10:40 schrieben
Am Samstag, 2. Dezember 2006 20:40 schrieb Holger Wansing:
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 18:36:13 +0100 Rainer Dorsch wrote:
Hmmgood point, but I would be surprised, if booting from an usb stick
would work. It explicitly says in the BIOS floppy, there is no usb stick
option. I would be surprised,
Am Samstag, 2. Dezember 2006 19:09 schrieb Frans Pop:
On Saturday 02 December 2006 18:36, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
Just wondering, if there is a way to work around this. Somehow people
doing an update from sarge to etch must see the same issue. How does it
work there?
Can you free up enough
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 12:40:48AM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
Can it boot a grub-disk floppy?
Can you burn a CD? Or, on that nice hdd, make a 256 MB (or 1 GB if its
a large disk) partition. Put the hd-media and the netinst.iso there
following the long-way instructions for the
Hello,
I just tried to boot a vaio laptop (z505je) with the etch boot floppies. While
it worked well with sarge floppies, I get with the RC1 boot floppy (the same
with the latest daily build):
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44 M
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Cannot load floppy module
Giving
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