(I didn't see that the mail I responded to was Cc:'ed to the list.) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 00:01:24 -0700 (PDT) From: William Ono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "aaron .'. culich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Request proof-reading: installing Debian over LinuxPPC
On 14 Jun 1999, aaron .'. culich wrote: > (except the BootX-hd.jpg image is broken). That's odd, I just checked my Apache error.log and didn't find an error. I think it must have been due to overload .. my web server normally takes something on the order of three hits a day, so I keep the number of processes loaded very low. Now, though, in the space of ten minutes I saw 24 requests. Whew! > 1) a note about setting up X (i.e. copying and tweaking > /usr/doc/xserver-common/examples/XF86Config.eg to /etc/X11/XF86Config) Yes, that's a good idea, but it's also something I haven't managed to do on my own system. :> (The FBDev server aborts with Signal 11 immediately after rejecting two of three modelines.) > 2) installing Debian without having to pre-install LinuxPPC I looked into doing this, but I found that the LinuxPPC initrd comes with very, very little software. I couldn't find tar, I found that rm was a symlink to /bin/install2, and I saw a whole bunch of other neat hacks to minimize the installer :> > If you think #2 would be useful to some people, I'd be glad to write > up the full procedure for you to include. I would love to include this on the page. Thanks for your response! -- William Ono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP key: 0x93BA6AFD fingerprint = E3 64 C5 43 3E B3 2D A6 C6 D7 E3 45 90 24 78 DE = fingerprint PGP-encrypted mail welcome! "640k ought to be enough for everybody."
