Re: /boot nonexistant on sun4cdm install disk set

2000-08-15 Thread William Cordis
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 06:28:08PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 06:08:02PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Try the newer 3 August versions, I think. > > > > If that fails, please submit a bug against boot-floppies. > > No, there should be no /boot in the root.bin. The /boo

Re: /boot nonexistant on sun4cdm install disk set

2000-08-15 Thread Ben Collins
> 1. DHCP doesn't work correctly, all the information is recieved, the > interface goes up, the route's are correct, but no DNS. No matter what > I do. I checked /etc/resolv.conf, nothing there. The information is in > /tmp/resolv.conf but even if I manually set up the device afterward it doe

Re: DHCP and /boot

2000-08-15 Thread William Cordis
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:04:28AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > 1. DHCP doesn't work correctly, all the information is recieved, the > > interface goes up, the route's are correct, but no DNS. No matter what > > I do. I checked /etc/resolv.conf, nothing there. The information is in > > /tmp/

Re: Potato now stable

2000-08-15 Thread Branden Robinson
[Please followup to -devel, since I do not yet subscribe to -boot] On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:06:10AM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > I personally would like having hardware detection stuff in woody. This is something Progeny is attempting to accomplish for our version of Debian later this year.

Re: /boot nonexistant on sun4cdm install disk set

2000-08-15 Thread Steve Bowman
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 09:52:37AM -0400, William Cordis wrote: [snip] > > My original partition scheme was this. > > 1 ext2 /boot > 2 swap LinuxSwap > 3 ext2 / > > I changed it to this: > > 1 Boot ??? > 2 swap LinuxSwap > 3 Sun Whole Disk > 4 ext2 /boot > 5 ext2 /

Bug#67771: modconf or not?

2000-08-15 Thread Martin Schulze
reopen 67771 thanks Martin Schulze wrote: > The bug was fixed by reinstalling whiptail... Sorry, tausq is right. The bug is persitant. After a brandnew installation I was not able to run modconf after I rebooted the system. Randolph Chung wrote: > please try running modconf as > bash

Bug#69197: base: Inadequate backup instructions and tools

2000-08-15 Thread era eriksson
Package: base Version: 2815 Severity: wishlist This should probably be severity: 2 or something like that but due to the nature of this report, I think "wishlist" is the most appropriate. I have a slightly old installation and if this has been fixed in newer releases of Debian, I&

Bug#67771: modconf or not?

2000-08-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Holy cow. Or some other explicitive. So, uh, modconf is utterly broken on potato boot floppies? i386 only? Does the new whiptail fix it? (If so, I'm going to go ahead an burn 2.2.17 very soon) -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: DHCP and /boot

2000-08-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
William Cordis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:04:28AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > 1. DHCP doesn't work correctly, all the information is recieved, the > > > interface goes up, the route's are correct, but no DNS. No matter what > > > I do. I checked /etc/resolv.c

Re: DHCP and /boot

2000-08-15 Thread Ben Collins
> > Hrm.. Ok. I somehow got the wrong message and thought I needed to keep > > the kernel below some cylinder number. I'll try that. Thanks. > > Ah, no, that is i386 BIOS hackery only. Actually some older sparc PROM's cannot handle this either (1024 cyl. limit). But I've never come up against