Re: Installation Question

2009-12-14 Thread Stephen Powell
Frans Pop wrote: Hm. Except that for Lenny (stable) we haven't had any new CD builds since it was fixed. That will only happen at the next stable point release (which is overdue). The weekly built CD for Squeeze [1] should work though and should be usable to install Lenny too. You'll need

Minidisk support (was: Installation Question)

2009-12-14 Thread Frans Pop
(No need to CC me; I read the list; see the Debian mailing list policy.) Hello Stephen, A few misconceptions in your mail. Let me try to correct them and offer some advise on who to proceed. But first of all: please don't hijack an existing thread for an unrelated issue; next time, please

Re: Minidisk support (was: Installation Question)

2009-12-14 Thread Stephen Powell
First of all, thank you very much for your lengthy reply. I am honored that you took the time to explain so many things. However, I believe that you have some misconceptions as well. (No need to CC me; I read the list; see the Debian mailing list policy.) Here is the exact wording from the

Re: Minidisk support (was: Installation Question)

2009-12-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 14 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: I *did* ask the kernel team. Yes, and I gave several reasons that could explain why they may not have replied. P.S. I never meant to imply that anything you did was wrong. I was just trying to explain why it was not

Re: Minidisk support (was: Installation Question)

2009-12-14 Thread Adam Thornton
On Dec 14, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: Well, it's definitely a bug. But whether or not it affects a significant number of users is another story. This bug has been around since day 1 of the driver. And I'm apparently the first one to find it. So claiming that it affects a