Package: boot-floppies Severity: important Version: N/A, woody ----- Forwarded message from Bo Lorentsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
From: Bo Lorentsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: woody boot-floppies To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-BlackMail: 213.237.34.140, netgroup.dk, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 213.237.34.140 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 08:47:09(CET) on November 26, 2001 X-UIDL: 1006760708.64020.limousin.fr.clara.net Resent-Bcc: Hi ... I just tried the new boot floppies on two different mashines, and they just just worked fine (using the ATA100-ext3 disks). But the first machine gave me some trobles, as I installed in a HPT366 mashine (BP6). The system found and installed everything just fine, but lilo gave me some trouble as the config file was wrongly generated. The HPT366 drive was correctly detected as the device /dev/hde, but lilo.conf was set to : "boot=/dev/hda". This ofcause result in an error, but telling me that lilo could not access more than 1024 cylenders, which is wrong (as this limit have been removed from lilo, as far as I known), and because the real error was that "/dev/hda" did not exist. I fixes this usign nano-tiny, and manual lilo, and all worked out great. I think this will generate the exact same error in a pure SCSI mashine. Hope this will help making the boot diskes even more usefull. Do you know if anyone have thougth about making a more user friendly version of the boot disks (or boot CDROM)? They are quite nice in the hand of a teknical person (I personlly find them easy to use, but I'm a developer), but an end user will run away screaming :-), and that a petty, as Debian is a quite nice system when first installed. /BL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- End forwarded message ----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
