partitioning, dual booting(?)
I'm not all that new to the Linux thing, but I want to install Debian 2.1 onto a 2.1 gig hard drive and be able to keep my other OS (sadly, Win98) until I can burn all my stuff to disc and convert my other HDD (8.6GB) to ext2. In any case, I'd just like to know how I can partition it correctly ... I want to be able to use LILO through DOS to boot to Linux off the hard drive, because on the box I've had for about a year now boots off a floppy, which takes an unnecessarily inordinate amount of time. Should I make a 16MB partition specifically for /boot (some guy on another list said that would work), another partition for root (what's appropriate size here, as a partition of a 2GB HDD if I want to use the system for coding/development?), and the rest for /usr and all the other stuff? How do you (plural) suggest I go about doing this? Also, can I specify where I want all the parts of the file system to rest on the drive? I can't remember from my last installation (did a plain old vanilla stripped-server profile for my boss). What will allow me to drop to DOS and go through lilo? I've checked the FAQ, and I suppose what I'm looking for is something more in-depth ... I thank you all for your time, Michael Phillips (I'm having troubles with it not recognizing my Rockwell HCF 56K, too, but that's a whole other email! :o)
quick question
Okay, I was confusing LILO and loadlin (I knew what I was talking about, but didn't use the right name). I believe I know now what to do, but I still don't know about one thing: should I toggle the "bootable" flag on for the root partition on the HDD, or leave it off, if I intend to boot into DOS first, then Linux? Thanks for your time, Michael Phillips
Re: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg
I had similar issues with hanging on boot about a month ago with powerpc and I believe that it ended up being a corrupted boot ram image. Would drop into a limited shell when it tried to switch to mounting the root file systems and visually "hang". Sounds somewhat similar, but I cant tell from your description if its exactly the issue. In my case I wasn't able to switch to any other console, but I could type around int he initramfs shell still after the boot "hang". The mdadm driver (not used for booting on my machine) was corrupting the initram regeneration. Removing and supressing the reinstalltion of the mdadm script part of initramfs regeneration allowed a clean initramfs to be built which booted fine. Might be one of these bugs or another similar http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678262 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=675452 My system did not boot even though the root filesystem was not on an raid volume. This really may not be your issue, but the symptoms go in the same direction, so I though I would bring it up. Best, Ryan On Thu 16 Aug 2012 12:27:21 AM CEST, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Aug 15, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote: > >>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Rick Thomas >>> wrote: >>> On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote: okay, I understand now; although, there is a slight problem with doing that, I have no other linux machines handy with disk drives. Is there a way of doing that from the mac terminal? >>> >>> >>> If you just put the CD in the CD drive with MacOS-X running, it >>> should mount it. >>> >>> In the terminal window type "df" it will show (among other things) a >>> volume mounted on /Volumes/Debian... >>> >>> Type "cat /Volumes/Debian*/.disk/info" (without the quotes) >>> >>> Report what you see. >>> >>> Rick >> >> Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.5 "Squeeze"- Official powerpc NETINST Binary - 1 >> 20120512-20:49 > > OK. That says you are using the official "stable/Squeeze" netinst > iso, available from > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/6.0.5/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-6.0.5-powerpc-netinst.iso > > > This is the current version that has (presumably) been used by lots of > folks since it was released last May. So it's unlikely that the > problem is in the ISO itself. > > Have you checked that the CD is bit-for-bit the same as the iso? > > I haven't personally tried this, but there is a "help" topic in the > MacOS-X disk utility called "Verifying files are copied correctly from > a disk image" that seems to tell you how to use checksums to tell if a > CD was burned properly. > > Rick > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/502cc7f7.9000...@castyour.net
hdparm problem
Hi, For some reason Hdparm stopped working in two of my Debian machines (one kernel 2.2.19-ide, another kernel 2.2.19pre17-idepci ). Testing (hdparm -t/T) works fine but any parameter i try to change, (e.g., hdparm -c 1 /dev/hda1) fails (eg., HDIO_SET_32BIT failed: Invalid argument). But these were working fine some time ago. Any suggestions? help? cheers, Guilherme _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
mouseman wheel on X
Hi all, i'like some help to make the mouseman wheel work on netscape (if it does!?). running potato 2.2.19pre17-ide; XF 3.3.6, enlightenment 16.2, netscape 4.77 i managed ok (Zaxis on XFconfig) to make the wheel work (eg. w/ xterm) but nothing w/ netscape. later included definitions in .Xdefaults (as indicated in http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ ) and nothing... so any help? where can i get more info/help about this definitions in .Xdefaults? or maybe you could suggest me another forum to look for it? Cheers, Guilherme _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
