Re: Alpha Milo/rescue/root floppies on LX164

2001-08-15 Thread doc
On 16 Aug 2001, Falk Hueffner wrote: > Hmm, could you please file a bug report against tasksel about this? Certainly. I'll have to find where to file it... > > > The installer will not write linload.exe and milo to the 5M FAT16 > > partition (/dev/hda1). This may be due to my own incompetence,

Re: pcmcia modules for powerpc not available

2001-08-15 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:19:43AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It's not in unstable or testing. Eek. How'd that happen?? > > I would guess pcmcic-cs was forced from unstable into testing, causing > the older pcmcia-modules dpeneding on the

Re: Harddrive Install Problem

2001-08-15 Thread Chris Tillman
> The method I want to use is to install from my current Windows Partition. I > have the proper drivers.tgz, base2_2.tgz, loadlin.exe and root.bin on the > root directory of the Windows Partition and have my Debian Partition already > set aside. > > When I get to the point of installing drivers.tg

3.0.10 iMac install successful

2001-08-15 Thread Chris Tillman
Just a few items probably in the nitpick category: In the tzconfig dialog, the current hardware time is reported like Tue Aug 14 21:01:21 2001 Maybe it could be reversed to Tue 2001 Aug 14 21:01:21 or some such. It just made me scratch my head momentarily. In tasksel, 1) there is (no descri

Re: Alpha Milo/rescue/root floppies on LX164

2001-08-15 Thread Falk Hueffner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With ArcBIOS v5.70: > The LX164 MILO disk works great. The install is almost flawless, with > two exceptions: > tasksel exits with an error stating that all task definitions are > duplicated. This condition is present also in the woody & sid versions > of tasksel o

Alpha Milo/rescue/root floppies on LX164

2001-08-15 Thread doc
Hi. I've seen mention of several partial installs on LX164 boards, but none going the whole route. Both the following were done with the images at http://people.debian.org/~falk/disks-alpha I made the rescue & root floppies, and retrieved the rest during install. Machine specs at bottom. Wit

Re: BSE 0.2 -- ext3 patch for 3.0.9 ready

2001-08-15 Thread Herbert Xu
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I choosed udma100-ext3 as the name for the BF variant. I created a > kernel-image-2.2.19-udma100-ext3 with updated EIDE drivers (Hedrick's > patch) and ext3 support. Waiting for OK from Herbert Xu to upload it. > When it is done, I will post the working p

Re: Harddrive Install Problem

2001-08-15 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:36:45PM +, DOUGLAS CRAIG wrote: > Hi, I want to install GNU/Debian on my laptop which has no CDROM available > and I have encountered a problem with the install. > > The method I want to use is to install from my current Windows Partition. I > have the proper driv

10.3 Replacing the Rescue Floppy Kernel ppc

2001-08-15 Thread Stephen R Marenka
This is for powermac. I really can't speak to any of the other ppc versions. 10.3 Replacing the Rescue Floppy Kernel for PowerMac Comment on kernel list. Minix file support is not required and I don't think msdos is either. ext2 certainly is? Is hfs? I'd guess not, but it's probably a recommen

9.3 Replacing the Rescue Floppy Kernel i386

2001-08-15 Thread Stephen R Marenka
I had the opportunity to install from a floppy using a custom kernel and I wanted to update the documentation to reflect my experience. Before I mess with SGML, I thought I'd run this by the gurus here and see what ya'll thought. This one is for i386. 9.3 Replacing the Rescue Floppy Kernel

Re: Still no base tarball

2001-08-15 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:45:15AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:32:11AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > Anthony, Adam tells me that you are the responsible party for the base > > > tarball. Where do we find this beast? > > H

Re: Still no base tarball

2001-08-15 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:32:11AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > Anthony, Adam tells me that you are the responsible party for the base > > tarball. Where do we find this beast? > > Hrm. I don't really have the b/width to make these available. They're

Harddrive Install Problem

2001-08-15 Thread DOUGLAS CRAIG
Hi, I want to install GNU/Debian on my laptop which has no CDROM available and I have encountered a problem with the install. The method I want to use is to install from my current Windows Partition. I have the proper drivers.tgz, base2_2.tgz, loadlin.exe and root.bin on the root directory of

Re: BSE 0.2 -- ext3 patch for 3.0.9 ready

2001-08-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Adam Di Carlo wrote on Mon Aug 13, 2001 um 09:01:56PM: > > Okay, I will split the whole thing in small patches and send them > > separated. > > Yes, please do. I'd be happy to integrate the ext3 stuff. I'm not > going to apply the parted stuff quite yet -- I wanna see if we can go >