Bug#130893: boot-floppies: new boot disk made at end of installation takes forever to load

2002-01-25 Thread Andrew T . Young
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A Severity: wishlist At the end of the installation process, a new "custom boot floppy" is made that mounts the newly-installed root filesystem. This disk is first formatted (apparently by superformat) with interleave 1. Unfortunately, if you try to boot from t

Bug#105451: correction

2001-07-30 Thread Andrew T. Young
I seem to have been looking at the wrong kernel-config file; on double-checking, I find that the "compact" flavor has only SERIAL and SERIAL_CONSOLE, but *not* SERIAL_NONSTANDARD -- which sounds like what I need. I'll try installing the "vanilla" flavor, and see if that solves the problem.

installation impasse

2001-07-14 Thread Andrew T. Young
a few multi-megabyte kernel packages, but not otherwise available. And, without having the installation finished, I'm not sure I could extract the module from a *.deb package anyway. Without getting the modem running, I can't proceed with the installation. Any suggestions? -- Andrew