Re: Booting to floppy

2001-02-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:35:50PM -0800, Tovar wrote: > > just my crazy suggestion, if you can't get the keyboard to work right > > for the rootdisk prompt, what about changing it to wait 10 or 15 > > seconds for a rootdisk insertion and

Bug#88080: Documentation: Invoking the BIOS Set-Up Menu

2001-02-28 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.16 Documentation: Invoking the BIOS Set-Up Menu Hello: I refer to "Installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 For Intel x86", version 2.2.16 dated 5 July 2000, section 3.3.1, "Invoking the BIOS Set-Up Menu". This section has information on how to enter different BIOS

cvs commit to boot-floppies by dwhedon

2001-02-28 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies who:dwhedon time: Wed Feb 28 22:18:37 PST 2001 Log Message: cdrom debootstrap theoretically works Files: changed:Tag: woody todo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How I can test the new Debian installation?

2001-02-28 Thread David Whedon
I messed this up the first time I checked it out too. I suggest the following patch to /etc/viewcvs.conf on klecker. Should this sort of thing be a bug against ftp.debian.org?, sent to debian-admin?, other? David --- viewcvs.conf.orig Wed Feb 28 21:56:08 2001 +++ viewcvs.confWed Feb

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-02-28 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:21:18PM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 02:48:40PM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > Um, yeah, that must be what I meant. Actually, what I meant is > > > this: the docs constantly talk about booting the rescue floppy for

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-02-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 07:18:14PM -0500, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > Why can't we just use a Disk Tools floppy or something to run that > m68k booting app? (The Debian version of BootX, I forgot the name.) That's > what I'm planning to do anyway, within a few days...taking the minimal > Syste

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-02-28 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:35:50PM -0800, Tovar wrote: > just my crazy suggestion, if you can't get the keyboard to work right > for the rootdisk prompt, what about changing it to wait 10 or 15 > seconds for a rootdisk insertion and then continuing? would that be > difficult/messy

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-02-28 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
A slight correction to my message: I meant "BootX-like Debian-tool for m68k/Mac"...BootX itself is for powermacs. *sigh* I'm so very sleepy... On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > Why can't we just use a Disk Tools floppy or something to run that > m68k booting app? (The Debian v

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-02-28 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
Why can't we just use a Disk Tools floppy or something to run that m68k booting app? (The Debian version of BootX, I forgot the name.) That's what I'm planning to do anyway, within a few days...taking the minimal System/Finder from the Net Install floppy (the README that comes with it spefically t

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-02-28 Thread Geert Stappers
At 13:45 +0100 2/27/01, Marco d'Itri wrote: >On Feb 27, Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >There are two floppy images in the powerpc dist that might be > >mentioned. One is called rescue.bin, the other boot-floppy-hfs.img, > >and hence a newbie might easily think that the former is the

Re: Bug#83608: another update...

2001-02-28 Thread Joey Hess
Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > + dpkg-gencontrol -p$$udeb -Pdebian/$$udeb -fdebian/files.fake; \ > > + dpkg-distaddfile $${udeb}_$(version)_$(arch).udeb \ > > + debian-installer $(priority); \ > > Why are we using dpkg-distaddfile here? This looks like a workaro

Re: Bug#83608: another update...

2001-02-28 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Joey Hess wrote: > Here's a better patch, fixes it trying to install man pages into > /usr/share/man .. I didn't use this patch but basically redid it from scratch. I found some problems in the patch that you might want to check for in other patches: > +version :=$(shell

Re: How I can test the new Debian installation?

2001-02-28 Thread Jesus Climent
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:32:06AM +0100, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > > What cvs module? debian-installer? > Jejeje... tu por aki Read the attachment. J: -- Jesus Climent | Helsinki, Finland - Contact information available in: http://www.simauria.upv.es/~d