Re: Multi-boot CDs

2002-01-13 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan

> In a rash moment I offered to make the H3 Hurd CD1 multi-boot.
> Unfortunately I cannot get multi-boot to work.  I do not know if it is my
> machine or me.

Umm, my experience is that some modern machines support it (I have a via
based PIII with weird award bios that does) and some others don't (at work we
have a PIII with a weird bios, not award that doesn't). On the machines that
doesn't work all I get is the standard stuff booting, so no problem with
them.

Also, I'd like to note that the Smart Boot Manager
(http://btmgr.sourceforge.net) does support booting from a lot of devices,
among them, IDE CDs even though the BIOS does not support this, and the
btmgr code to do this does support multiboot CDs perfectly.

So if your computer does not allow you to boot from CD or doesn't allow
multiboot, you can always install the Smart Boot Manager and have it
multiboot whatever you want ;-)

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Re: Multi-boot CDs

2002-01-13 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan

On Jan 13 2002, Philip Charles talking about Smart Boot Manager wrote:
> This looks as though the debian-cd team could use this.  Unfortunately I
> could not find it in the Debian archive.

Well, the thing is that Smart Boot Manager (http://btmgr.sourceforge.net)
is a really good tool, but its utility for the distro may be limited, but
maybe it would be a good idea to include it.

Let me explain its status and afterwards what it could do for us...

Some time ago when I met Smart Boot Manager I wanted to package it, but then
I found bmconf in Debian, wich was an installer for Smart Boot Manager made
by Risko and that was in Debian. By that time Risko had the idea to
integrade bmconf on SBM and have it substitute the traditional installer of
SBM, but it seems that this didn't ever find its way, as Risko has packaged
SMB (package sbm) for Debian with its traditional installer.

The difference between SMB installer and bmconf is that bmconf lets you tune
all SBM options when installing it, while with SBM installer you must tune
them on boot up through the menus. The problem with bmconfis that it uses
SBM version 3.6-3 and not 3.7.1 wich is the latest.

SBM development seems a bit stopped at this time, last stuff that was
pointed a long time ago was to add linux loading features, but that was
never finished.

What SBM can do for us?

Well, it provides an ATAPI driver that supports booting from ATAPI cdroms on
any system, even though the BIOS doesn't allow you to do it. Also it
supports MultiBoot images, so it can be used on machines that allow booting
from CD but don't allow this feature.

It has both linux and DOS installers so it can be installed from a linux or
from DOS, it can be installed on both hard drives and floppy disks, so it
could, for example, be included on our CDs on its DOS form and people could
install it on a floppy and boot from the cd by booting with this floppy, as
simple as that, no need to make the rescue and root floppies or anything.

Well, guess that is all I can think of right now.

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woody cd install problem : "trans.tbl was not preloaded"

2002-01-13 Thread FPS France



Hi all, 
 
i've got real problem in installing the woody 
debian : 
on an IBM ThinkPad T23 (2647 BJG but u don't care) 

 
I had a solution : 
booting from floppy the "idepci" flavor but when 
trying to install the "Base system", 
dbootstrap prompts me for a "basedebs.tgz" file 
(!). I was unable to find it on any woody CD1 image that I made. 
In trying to use the "base2_2.tgz" file (comming 
from the potatoo version and renaming it to "basedebs.tgz") I also got an error 
asking me for a .. [o god , i can't remeber the name of this file.. um 
  ] o yes, the install prog was replying an error message 
:
"trans.tbl was not preloaded"  anyidea of the 
way I could get out of all of that ? 
 
Fanku very in advance. CU 
 


cvs commit to debian-cd/debian by hertzog

2002-01-13 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master

Repository: debian-cd/debian
who:hertzog
time:   Sun Jan 13 10:05:57 PST 2002
Log Message:
  * Fix some cpp related problem.
  

Files:
changed:changelog


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cvs commit to debian-cd by hertzog

2002-01-13 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master

Repository: debian-cd
who:hertzog
time:   Sun Jan 13 10:05:57 PST 2002
Log Message:
  * Fix some cpp related problem.
  

Files:
changed:Makefile


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Re: Minimal bootable i386 CD image for 2.2r5

2002-01-13 Thread Martin Schulze

Richard Atterer wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:55:31PM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote:
> > see http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/ 
> > 
> > A very, very good debian live cd with 1.5 GB data...
> 
> I was going to post the same! :) Yes, it's very good, although I'd
> only call it "Debian-based". Maybe I should add an entry to the CD FAQ
> about it.

Please do!  Especially since it's a perfect rescue and demo system.
And it absolutely rock if you visit your parents who may have a
computer but no proper operating system... (and who don't want you
to play with their hard disk etc.)

Regards,

Joey

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Re: Multi-boot CDs

2002-01-13 Thread Mendel L Chan

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:

> SBM development seems a bit stopped at this time, last stuff that was
> pointed a long time ago was to add linux loading features, but that was
> never finished.

You're right. :) SBM does be a bit stopped.

James Su - the author of SBM - has worked out a new window
interface for SBM with new features. I got the demo from him months
ago. But he has been working on GB18030 for X Window during the last
months. Now he's focusing on other things. If someone would like to
help him on SBM, I think James Su will be happy. :)

If debian-cd team asks for other features, I think James Su would
like to take them.

Now I'm working some docs of SBM. Any suggestions?

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