Re: [i386] introducing a kernel 2.4 installation flavor

2002-01-29 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hallo everyone! > > machine today. But there was a severe obstacle which prevented me from > > ending (or actually starting) the installation: After telling the > > installer that I have no network devices, he told me I better had one, > > since I wanted to install a diskless machine. > > Okay.

Re: [i386] introducing a kernel 2.4 installation flavor

2002-01-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
Moin Wolfram! Wolfram Quester schrieb am Sunday, den 27. January 2002: > machine today. But there was a severe obstacle which prevented me from > ending (or actually starting) the installation: After telling the > installer that I have no network devices, he told me I better had one, > since I wa

Re: [i386] introducing a kernel 2.4 installation flavor

2002-01-27 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi, I downloaded the cd-images for woody and wanted to install it on my machine today. But there was a severe obstacle which prevented me from ending (or actually starting) the installation: After telling the installer that I have no network devices, he told me I better had one, since I wanted to

Re: [i386] introducing a kernel 2.4 installation flavor

2002-01-23 Thread Michael Wardle
Hi. [heard about this thread in the Debian weekly news] I recently tried to install woody via http on my recently-purchased Athlon system only to discover that boot-floppies used Linux 2.2, which does not support my ethernet card out-of-the-box (my card is a Netgear FA311TX PCI, which is supp

Re: [i386] introducing a kernel 2.4 installation flavor

2002-01-17 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 08:22:23PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > It does support Ext2/Ext3/Reiser., except of the XFS because of a) > missing availability in the main kernel and b) space. The bf2.4 kernel > is hard on the limit of the 1.44meg floppy. If you add something, you > would have to drop

Re: [i386] introducing a kernel 2.4 installation flavor

2002-01-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:46:10PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Yes. After commiting, these will be build: vanilla, safe, idepci, > compact, bf2.4. Sounds pretty good to me, then. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I don't speak for anyone save my

Re: [i386] introducing a kernel 2.4 installation flavor

2002-01-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:46:10PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Anthony Towns wrote on Thu Jan 17, 2002 um 12:59:01AM: > > do anything can't, or is it any easier to use? If not, > > can it be dumped for ? > > If you ask me, I do not see any need for the idepci flavor. Its > descript

Re: [i386] introducing a kernel 2.4 installation flavor

2002-01-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Anthony Towns wrote on Thu Jan 17, 2002 um 12:59:01AM: > > - see above. Someone may say, 2.4.x is less stable. > > Then they can use one of the 2.2.x boot-floppy flavours that we'd still > be building, can't they? I prepared needed modifications to build our current 2.2.x flavors (e

Re: [i386] introducing a kernel 2.4 installation flavor

2002-01-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 01:02:12AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Contras: > - see above. Someone may say, 2.4.x is less stable. Then they can use one of the 2.2.x boot-floppy flavours that we'd still be building, can't they? > * "bf2.4" with kernel-image-2.4.17-bf2.4. This package is created b

Re: [i386] introducing a kernel 2.4 installation flavor

2002-01-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include John H. Robinson, IV wrote on Tue Jan 15, 2002 um 10:56:58AM: > provided we can meet the following criteria, i have no objections to the > use of 2.4.x, and dropping of 2.2.x: > > 1) (mandatory) we are still able to use ext3/resierfs/xfs(if available) >as the root partition. this w

Re: [i386] introducing a kernel 2.4 installation flavor

2002-01-15 Thread Jérôme Marant
"John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) (mandatory) we are still able to use ext3/resierfs/xfs(if available) >as the root partition. this would either mean building the install >kernel with ext3/resierfs/xfs(if available) statictly in the kernel >(unlikely) or include

Re: [i386] introducing a kernel 2.4 installation flavor

2002-01-15 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 01:02:12AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Hello Adam, hello everyone. > > As promised on IRC, I have worked on a useable solution for using the > 2.4 kernels in our current boot floppies and I think I have one. provided we can meet the following criteria, i have no objecti

Re: [i386] introducing a kernel 2.4 installation flavor

2002-01-15 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
> So what do you think? IMHO most users will agree. Yes. That is simply great! There are already a lot of computers where 2.2 is really difficult to install. Bye, Giuseppe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [i386] introducing a kernel 2.4 installation flavor

2002-01-14 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 19:02, Eduard Bloch wrote: > So what do you think? IMHO most users will agree. I think it is a very, very good idea! You didn't mention my favorite thing about 2.4, which is iptables. Almost a must for installing a firewall. If there is a way we could make it into a boot