Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2001-02-25
Severity: wishlist
So this idea has been popping up now and again on #Debian the past few
days, and I wanted to make sure it was written down somewhere.
In short: Create a bootable CD image containing the installer and "base
floppies", so
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 10:27:14PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> > - eliminate lilo configuration
>
> Replace it with what?
> Is there a release of GRUB that works with Reiser FS?
> LILO is more filesystem-independent, which is both its curse and its virtue.
yes there is. the GRUB in woody
Arthur Korn wrote:
>
> Glenn McGrath schrieb:
> > 2) I want to leave the core udeb packages on the boot medium rather and
> > extract them as a step in the linuxrc rather than extract them into the
> > intird at build time, which i think makes it a lot more flexible.
>
> Hmm, so you are not goin
hi,
i have some problems with the new cciss driver for the compaq
smartarry 5300 raid-controller.
i compiled a new (2.2.18) kernel, and copied it on the
rescue floppy. the kernel detects my controller but
the debian installer still says it cannot detect my hard drive.
when i escape to a shell, i
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On Sat Feb 24, 2001 at 10:27:14PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> > - use busybox.deb from woody, remove utilities/busybox altogether
> > Erik Andersee promised to help
>
> It's Erik Andersen. I can do this if he is busy with other stuff. I created
> the original busybox, although it is much b
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 11:36:00AM +0100, Andreas Fuchs wrote:
> On 2001-02-24, Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> - eliminate lilo configuration ?
> >> - go with grub ?
> > Does GRUB work with Reiser FS yet? LILO should, because of its design.
>
> ,[ /usr/share/doc/grub/changelog.D
Glenn McGrath schrieb:
> 2) I want to leave the core udeb packages on the boot medium rather and
> extract them as a step in the linuxrc rather than extract them into the
> intird at build time, which i think makes it a lot more flexible.
Hmm, so you are not going to make library reduction, or on
As co-maintaainer of the Linmodem-Howto, probably I can best help on
drivers for winmodems, which are increasingly prevalent in new PCs and
laptops. The drivers alone are in the 200-500 kB range. Support for the
Lucent, HaM, and IBM mwave chipsets comes as compiler kits which
additionally need ~
Andreas Fuchs wrote:
>
>
> So, at least in sid, it does. The bigger problem would be raid support,
> and non-x86 architectures, AFAIK. Also, Grub is a space hog, see the
> list archives for further info on that (there was a discussion on this
> topic a couple of days ago).
>
Its about 79KB
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On 2001-02-24, Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> - eliminate lilo configuration ?
>> - go with grub ?
> Does GRUB work with Reiser FS yet? LILO should, because of its design.
,[ /usr/share/doc/grub/changelog.Debian.gz ]
| grub (0.5.95) unstable; urgency=low
|
| * ReiserFS support
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