Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-03-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:00:43AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Hi > > As some of you are already aware, there's a problem wrt m68k in that > there's no decent 2.4 kernel for m68k yet. As such, creating an m68k > debian-installer image that actually works is a bit problematic right > now, since

Re: dynamic MMap ran out of room.. no apt.conf file?

2003-02-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:12:05AM +, Adam Robson wrote: > While trying to download using apt-get or dselect or tasksel, i get the > error message > > E: dynamic MMap ran out of room > > I've read the solution is to change the /etc/apt/apt.conf file with > APT::Cache-Limit 1000 or some

Re: Bug#178021: marked as done (boot-floppies: please, add raid support)

2003-01-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:48:15AM -0600, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: [ snip ] > BTW, I made a plugin (extension) disk that you can use to create RAID0 > while installing Debian. It still requires chroot'ing to the target > system (during the installation) and compiling a custom kernel, but

Re: Root-on-LVM-on-RAID HOWTO

2003-01-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:51:58PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 02:16:56PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > o Perhaps this was just me, but the default debian install starts both > > LVM and RAID at S25 in /etc/rcS.d . If you aren't using raid >

Re: Root-on-LVM-on-RAID HOWTO

2003-01-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:02:20PM +0100, Massimiliano Ferrero wrote: > Hello, > > I've written a doc on how to install a Debian with root file system over > LVM and RAID. > > If it's of any interest it can be found at this URL: > http://www.midhgard.it/docs/index_en.html > > Any suggestion/cri

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:44:19AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Junichi Uekawa > > | > Let's first have a working installer on at least a few arches before > | > walking down that road. However, it is a problem which I was notified > | > of a few days ago: d-i relies heavily on devfs and, w

Re: Hard disk support in v2.2.7

2002-11-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 04:34:34PM -0500, Carlos Ross wrote: > Hello, > > I have an 8.6Gb hard disk and my BIOS suports large disks, but my > version of Debian can only see 2Gb. I have installed Windows 2000 > by itself and it is able to use the entire 8.6Gb disk space; I then installed > QNX 6.1

Bug#69793: IBM PC Server 320 (MCA/PCI Pentium) cannot boot

2000-08-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 04:45:37PM +0300, era eriksson wrote: [ snip ] > Package: boot-floppies > Version: (potato > > architecture: i386 > model:IBM PC Server 320 > memory: 48MB Configured how? > scsi: AIC-7870 > cd-rom: ... it just says IBM CDRM0103 or something li