Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)

1996-12-13 Thread Shaya Potter
On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: 1. ftp is still missing from the base install set. This makes it difficult to install a custom compiled kernel. Actually impossible if you don't have your kernel available on an nfs mount or

Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)

1996-12-12 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] ftp is still missing from the base install set. Might not get fixed in 1.2, I'm out of space. MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a machine to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master boot record. Can you figure out

Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)

1996-12-12 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a machine to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master boot record. Can you figure out why? What BIOS do you have? (Brand and bios date) I think this may end up being the

Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)

1996-12-12 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a machine to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master boot record. Can you figure out why? no, the only thing remaining for me to try is to NOT use the Maximise option in

Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)

1996-12-12 Thread Shaya Potter
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: this fixes most of the problems i had with the 1996-12-7 set. I'm still having a few problems with the new disks: 1. ftp is still missing from the base install set. This makes it difficult to install a custom compiled kernel. Actually

Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)

1996-12-12 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a machine to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master boot record. Can you figure out why? What BIOS do you have?

Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)

1996-12-12 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: 1. ftp is still missing from the base install set. This makes it difficult to install a custom compiled kernel. Actually impossible if you don't have your kernel available on an nfs mount or floppy disk. Don't know what you mean.

Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)

1996-12-12 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: i've had the dubious pleasure of running into the same problem on a variety of machines (mainly because the hardware supplier seems completely unable to provide the same motherboards in each new batch of machines). 486 motherboards are starting to be

how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)

1996-12-11 Thread Craig Sanders
I'd submit the following as a bug report, but i don't know what package/version to assign it to. IMO that should be documented on the installation disks, a notice saying if you find any bugs then send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following details:. On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens