Re: debian installer on sheevaplug; partitioning usb flash drive problem and workaround

2009-12-30 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Frank Horowitz [2009-12-29 20:38]: > Problem number one: when trying to use "screen" from a Mac OSX > laptop to drive the installer, even though it works perfectly well > for displaying the U-Boot stuff, and the initial booting messages, > once the installation process gets into the curses based

Re: debian installer on sheevaplug; partitioning usb flash drive problem and workaround

2009-12-29 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
Frank, I have a couple of cards I can try. I decided to go with debian on the plug. The notes about ext4 on Ubuntu told be the more supported direction might be debian. I will try your tips on using Linux to prepart/mkfs the sd card. Might be that what caused the 1st problem. --steve That said, I

debian installer on sheevaplug; partitioning usb flash drive problem and workaround

2009-12-29 Thread Frank Horowitz
Hi All, First of all, thanks to Martin for the instructions on getting this going at (as well as the work behind the instructions, obviously)! This is just a quick note to say that I ran into a few issues when following those dire