Re: Severe limitation with flavor "bf2.4" !

2002-05-17 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:40:25AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:51:04AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Why didn't you put it as a module ? It's really confusing ... since > > other Debian kernels have it as a module. > > I'd submit that installing things as modules

Re: Severe limitation with flavor "bf2.4" !

2002-05-17 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:40:25AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:51:04AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Why didn't you put it as a module ? It's really confusing ... since > > other Debian kernels have it as a module. > > I'd submit that installing things as modules

Re: Severe limitation with flavor "bf2.4" !

2002-05-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Raphael Hertzog wrote on Fri May 17, 2002 um 01:45:31PM: > We really shouldn't mix the kernel we use for CD based install > and floppy based install... It's too late for such ideas, sorry. > when we boot on a CD, we have access to all the modules and we don't > need to integrate it i

Re: Severe limitation with flavor "bf2.4" !

2002-05-17 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:51:04AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Why didn't you put it as a module ? It's really confusing ... since > other Debian kernels have it as a module. I'd submit that installing things as modules with our system is *far* more confusing. Users seldom know what cryptic m

Re: Severe limitation with flavor "bf2.4" !

2002-05-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:35:36AM +0200, Eduard Bloch écrivait: > Since I favorite the idea of a real network-based installation. > Currently, there are drivers for very common PCI ethernet cards builtin, > so you can theoreticaly install with 2 floppies from the network. And > with an additional

Re: Severe limitation with flavor "bf2.4" !

2002-05-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:46:35AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog écrivait: > Of course, now that bf 3.0.23 has been tagged and uploaded, it's too > late for woody ... and we'll release as is. But please update everything > so that 3.0r1 will be ok. In fact, it's too important to "release as is". I sugge

Re: Severe limitation with flavor "bf2.4" !

2002-05-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Raphael Hertzog wrote on Fri May 17, 2002 um 10:42:25AM: > > late for woody ... and we'll release as is. But please update everything > > so that 3.0r1 will be ok. > > In fact, it's too important to "release as is". I suggest that we do yet > another bf upload but i386 only ... > > E

Re: Severe limitation with flavor "bf2.4" !

2002-05-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Raphael Hertzog wrote on Fri May 17, 2002 um 10:51:04AM: > Why didn't you put it as a module ? It's really confusing ... since > other Debian kernels have it as a module. Since I favorite the idea of a real network-based installation. Currently, there are drivers for very common PCI et

Re: Severe limitation with flavor "bf2.4" !

2002-05-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:29:26AM +0200, Eduard Bloch écrivait: > > Unfortunately this flavor doesn't have the ne2k-pci module ! Such network > > Oh Raphael, I expected you to look first before believing everything... Oh sorry ... I checked with dpkg -c on the package. :-) Why didn't you put i

Re: Severe limitation with flavor "bf2.4" !

2002-05-17 Thread Chris Lawrence
On May 17, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Raphael Hertzog wrote on Fri May 17, 2002 um 09:46:35AM: > > Hi, > > > > I was discussing with someone who wanted to install Debian with the > > netinst CD prepared by Chris Lawrence. Like most of the people who are > > given the choice, he decided to

Re: Severe limitation with flavor "bf2.4" !

2002-05-17 Thread J M Cerqueira Esteves
* Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-05-17 09:46 +]: > Hi, > > I was discussing with someone who wanted to install Debian with the > netinst CD prepared by Chris Lawrence. Like most of the people who are > given the choice, he decided to use the "bf2.4" flavor ... > > Unfortunately th

Re: Severe limitation with flavor "bf2.4" !

2002-05-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Raphael Hertzog wrote on Fri May 17, 2002 um 09:46:35AM: > Hi, > > I was discussing with someone who wanted to install Debian with the > netinst CD prepared by Chris Lawrence. Like most of the people who are > given the choice, he decided to use the "bf2.4" flavor ... > > Unfortunately

Severe limitation with flavor "bf2.4" !

2002-05-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, I was discussing with someone who wanted to install Debian with the netinst CD prepared by Chris Lawrence. Like most of the people who are given the choice, he decided to use the "bf2.4" flavor ... Unfortunately this flavor doesn't have the ne2k-pci module ! Such network cards are so common