experiences: installing new testing system from network

2001-08-02 Thread Brian May
Hello, Today, I installed Debian on a friends computer (so, sorry, but I can't test any solutions). this went mostly to plan, however several minor problems: - selecting "configure device drivers" (or what ever) did nothing, so I had to configure the network driver for the Intel Etherexpress 10

cvs commit to boot-floppies by kraai

2001-08-02 Thread kraai
Repository: boot-floppies who:kraai time: Thu Aug 2 10:56:04 PDT 2001 Log Message: Note BusyBox and ash bug dependencies. Files: changed:todo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Success bootstrapping mips

2001-08-02 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 10:08:25AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > - configuring the network manually freezes the installer since it looses >it's nfs mounted root-fs(but bootp works). Shouldnt the installer work from ramdisk ? > - the "Execute a shell step" does not work with serial >co

Re: Build problem for Alpha bootdisks

2001-08-02 Thread Falk Hueffner
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:31:20AM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > method is wasteful because it downloads all dependencies. So I suggest > > this as a workaround till we can get apt-get to ignore dependencies > > *completely*, slightly modified from Eth

Re: Build problem for Alpha bootdisks

2001-08-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:31:20AM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote: > method is wasteful because it downloads all dependencies. So I suggest > this as a workaround till we can get apt-get to ignore dependencies > *completely*, slightly modified from Ethan's suggestion: > > ## > ## Download a package l

Re: [debian-installer] Full CDROM install

2001-08-02 Thread Neal H Walfield
> The libraries stuff was one of the less documented part of compilation. > There is one bool though : > > Linkers and Loaders > by John Levine, Morgan Kaufman > > It seems to cover the subject [I will have one this week, so I'll be able in > the near future to say if this is worth or not

Success bootstrapping mips

2001-08-02 Thread Guido Guenther
With the patches posted to debian-boot recently and the patch from #103813 to stop dhcp-client from segfaulting I was able to completely bootstrap a R4000 Indigo2 (big endian) by installing from nfs-root. This includes configuring the network via bootp, copying over the kernel and modules from re