Re: Debian PReP boot-floppies.

2002-07-10 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 11:32:54AM +0200, Stephan Marguet wrote: > Hello, > > Luckily I have found a useful web site helping for this very > problem, in case there are any others experiencing similar: > > http://people.debian.org/~bottoms/Debian-VME-PPC.html > > (configuring /

Re: Fwd: SCSI-disk

2002-07-10 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 01:04:10PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > - Forwarded message from "A.T.J. van den Broek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:39:53 +0200 > From: "A.T.J. van den Broek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: Leica MicroSystems Lithography > X-Mailer: Op

Re: Graphical installer

2002-07-10 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Chris Tillman] > You know, the official installer is really not that bad! That depends on your point of view. For new Linux users, it is really, _really_, bad. For more experienced Linux users, it is very flexible and powerful, but not easy, convenient and fast. I want a Debian installer for

RE: promise controller

2002-07-10 Thread Ed Street
Hello, My version of woody is a bit dated. I sure hope some changes has been made to the startup scripts from what I have. Ed => The question is - which version of boot-floppies did you use? Versions => prior to 3.0.22 did support ATARAID, but the installer ignored the => files. Only the newer

RE: promise controller

2002-07-10 Thread Ed Street
Hello, Well with any ataraid that uses /dev/ataraid the controller is /dev/ataraid/dN where N is a number. The partitions are /dev/ataraid/dNpX where X is also a number. I.e. first channel first partition is d0p1 Ed => -Original Message- => From: David Murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Processed: reassign 147196 mklibs and close 147196

2002-07-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 147196 mklibs Bug#147196: boot-floppies: mklibs.py cross compiling Bug reassigned from package `boot-floppies' to `mklibs'. > close 147196 Bug#147196: boot-floppies: mklibs.py cross compiling Bug closed, send any further explanations to Basti

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Re: problems with mklibs.sh

2002-07-10 Thread Nehal Mistry
Hi, just to let you know, i downloaded the python version, and it worked perfectly, no more errors, and it worked fine in slackware, i did not need to install debian. btw, if you're wondering i needed to make smaller libs because i am making a bootdisk, older versions were fine without li

Re: promise controller

2002-07-10 Thread David Murphy
So to get woody to install I'm going to have to patch the kernel? Is this a general concensus or has somebody actually manged to get this to work with just the bf2.4 boot-floppies? Would creating the boot-floppies myself using 3.0.22 or higher help? (i.e. prior versions had support but installer

Re: promise controller

2002-07-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include David Murphy wrote on Wed Jul 10, 2002 um 04:48:01PM: > ok, here's the config file. > > thanks for your help. Thx. Clear case, the kernel does not list any ataraid partitions. Whatever the reason is - when Slackware's kernel does work, they must have patched it. Gruss/Regards, Eduard.

Re: promise controller

2002-07-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include David Murphy wrote on Wed Jul 10, 2002 um 04:50:05PM: > How did you name the hardrive when you used fdisk? I've tried using fdisk on > /dev/ataraid/hd0 and also /dev/hda .. /hdd etc without luck. Hm, did you look in that directory first? Or in the kernel-docs? d0 is equivalent to "hda o

Re: promise controller

2002-07-10 Thread David Murphy
How did you name the hardrive when you used fdisk? I've tried using fdisk on /dev/ataraid/hd0 and also /dev/hda .. /hdd etc without luck. Rgds, David - Original Message - From: "Ed Street" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'David Murphy'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Eduard Bloch'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C

RE: promise controller

2002-07-10 Thread Ed Street
Hello, I had this exact same problem under woody with a hardware promise card. My solution was to switch to the alt console (alt-f2) and manually partition the disk and create the filesystem. Once this is done and you rerun the install scripts it will see the partition correctly. Ed => -Or

Re: promise controller

2002-07-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include David Murphy wrote on Wed Jul 10, 2002 um 12:00:48PM: > which logs should i send? The ones that you can create with the Installer, "Problem report" step. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Wenn ich einem Schwein eine RedHat-CD um den Hals binde und es trete kann man sagen, dass KDE & Co. auch

Re: promise controller

2002-07-10 Thread David Murphy
which logs should i send? - Original Message - From: "Eduard Bloch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:48 AM Subject: Re: promise controller > #include > David Murphy wrote on Wed Jul 10, 2002 um 10:40:2

Re: Running translated install system from harddisk?

2002-07-10 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 01:39, Peter Karlsson wrote: > Is it just me, or is it impossible to activate the translation when > running an install directly from the harddisk? (i386, boot-floppies > "current" of ten minutes ago) It shouldn't make any real difference where you run from. You might need

Re: promise controller

2002-07-10 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include David Murphy wrote on Wed Jul 10, 2002 um 10:40:27AM: > It' a Promise PDC20267 onboard ide raid (on a Tyan 200) and is setup as RAID > 1 with 2 x 40Gb IDE HDs. > > The installer fails as it cannot find the harddrive(s) when trying to > partition / initialise, so the installation process

Re: promise controller

2002-07-10 Thread David Murphy
It' a Promise PDC20267 onboard ide raid (on a Tyan 200) and is setup as RAID 1 with 2 x 40Gb IDE HDs. The installer fails as it cannot find the harddrive(s) when trying to partition / initialise, so the installation process cannot proceed. As far as I am aware the slackware 8.1 kernel is a stand

Re: Debian PReP boot-floppies.

2002-07-10 Thread Stephan Marguet
Hello, Luckily I have found a useful web site helping for this very problem, in case there are any others experiencing similar: http://people.debian.org/~bottoms/Debian-VME-PPC.html (configuring /etc/inittab and /etc/network should be added to steps) But it reli

SCSI-disk

2002-07-10 Thread A.T.J. van den Broek
Hello, my name is Ton van den Broek, software engineer at Leica Microsystems Lithography in Best, the Netherlands. Right now we are using OS-9 as operating system, but since we are losing our faith in it we are considering moving to Linux. We are using an MVME2604 Power PC board, and it looks