Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: downloaded on 20040723 (image dated 22-Jul-2004)
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/
uname -a:
Date: 200407>
Method: floppy boot planing to network install
Machine: vmware workstation 3.2.0
Processor: amd mobile athlon
i was installing this in vmware using the daily snapshot floppies
after getting round the low memory bug i mentioned a day or so ago (now
apparently fixed) by giving the virtual machine more ram i progressed with
the install without too many problems however i noticed the following
1: in the afte
i would use the full woody cd1 and deal with netwokring after install
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 25 July 2004 01:24
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cannot install any debian - no kernels support USB net cards?
I'm not sure if this is a bug
1. the module wasn't compiled into the default installed kernel
2. when I tried to add it - either as module or compiled in - the
option was simply absent from the kernel config.
what kernel source were you buiding from?
i suggest you use the 2.4.26 source direct from kernel.org to build yoursel
> > 5: there was no mention of secuirty updates (is this because
> the secuirty
> > updated for sarge aren't aranged yet?)
>
> This is also by design, and is because security updates are used by
> default.
well it didn't put any security updates line in my sources.list
>
> > 6: the timezone selec
> -Original Message-
> From: Christian Perrier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 25 July 2004 22:31
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: my first impressions of your installer
>
>
> Quoting peter green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > im in england i
the
woody install kernels should only be used for
installation
at
least in the case of the bf24 one they no longer get security updates (there is
at least local root exploit in the bf24 kernel unforutunately the fix for
this caused module breakage which is why bf24 was not
updated)
eit
i would leave the code old in the old repostry so the old history is
preserved
maybe add a notice there about the move though
> -Original Message-
> From: Frank Lichtenheld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Frank
> Lichtenheld
> Sent: 01 August 2004 23:19
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subje
can we
keep messages to this list in english please
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or just default to lilo altogether
unless there is some other major advantage to grub ofc
> -Original Message-
> From: Goswin von Brederlow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 04 August 2004 22:18
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Boot problems with grub and 4GB+
>
>
> Hi,
>
> grub still
imho content negotiation should only be used for initial pages
and there should be an easy way to choose language manually if content
negotiation gets it wrong
> -Original Message-
> From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 05 August 2004 18:21
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PRO
> It would probably be interesting and useful for the X packaging
> team to see
> a diff between the config that was generated from configuring X and the
> config you ultimately had to use to get X working. In my experience,
> provided you give the X configuration the right input, it does a
> reaso
Message-
> From: Andrew Pollock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 09 August 2004 03:31
> To: peter green
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Opinion about sarge install
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 11:56:00PM +0100, peter green wrote:
> > > It
unlike with redhat the installer is not generally used for upgrading
just edit /etc/apt/sources.list then run apt-get update && apt-get
dist-upgrade
> -Original Message-
> From: GEOFF BAGLEY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 11 August 2004 11:50
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: LILO ver
note upgrading with apt-get won't change your kernel
if you wan't to use a new kernel then you should either install a
kernel-image package explicitly or compile your own kernel from source
> I wish to use the new installer in order to make configuration of my
> various Ethernet NICs
> (on three
of whether the sender was on the list or not
> -Original Message-
> From: Geoff Bagley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 11 August 2004 13:41
> To: peter green
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LILO versus GRUB
>
>
> Many thanks Peter. By the way, I am ge
afaict the installer currently uses the first of theesee possibilities
(stable/testing/unstable) in sources.list
this means that when there is another release users will get automatically
updated from one stable release to the next
possiblly when they are really not expecting it
it would seem mor
the trouble with debootstrap is that unless you have a very recent version
of the package list (or are installing stable) it tends to get broken by
dependency problems
cdebootstrap works muc better (though unfortunately woody doesn't have it
and there doesn't seem to be a backport either)
another
i dunno what effect running cdebootstrap on your existing screwup will have
but i would strongly advise starting again
> -Original Message-
> From: Haines Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 23 August 2004 01:32
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: debootstrap's basic package list
>
cobd0 alias="hda"-->empty 1500 meg image
cobd1 --> initrd from boot.img (decompressed)
ram 64 megs (allocated to colinux host machine has 480)
tap adaptor with windows bridgeing
root=/dev/cobd1 init=/sbin/debian-installer-boot
debian installer started fine though some non english chars in the lan
; [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sven
> Luther
> Sent: 25 August 2004 09:13
> To: peter green
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [coLinux-devel] Re: debian (sarge rc1) installer and colinux
> (snapshot 20040710)
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 07:40:17PM
can someone please remove this guy from the list before his bloody
autoresponders drive us all crazy
> -Original Message-
> From: Frank Carmickle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 27 August 2004 21:39
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Please stop sending me emails
>
>
> THIS IS AN
> -Original Message-
> From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 27 August 2004 22:59
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] 2.4.27 as default 2.4 kernel for sarge
>
>
> Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > Quoting Joey Hess:
> > > 15. Get
Karsten Merker wrote:
Browse online:
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/base-installer.git/tree/debian/templates-arch
Adding -arm@ and -boot@ for possible comments/insight.
I suppose the reason for MODULES=dep being the default on arm*
might be that some armel systems boot their kernel
Why are they creating 32-bit virtual machines?
At least with virtualbox 32-bit VMs can run on any host. 64-bit VMs require
VT-x which is all too often disabled in the BIOS.
On 19/01/19 04:27, Wookey wrote:
Arm64 (arm in general in fact) has a rather fundamental problem with
D-I, which is that both serial and display are sensible default
devices for the installer to run on. Which is 'correct' depends very
much on the hardware and the circumstances. You may be install
I have noticed that there seem to be issues with shim and shim-signed,
the former has a complaint from the gcc maintainers about being built
with an old version of gcc, the latter depends on an old version of shim.
Are their plans to fix this for bullseye? are their difficulties getting
new versi
Adding debian-x to CC.
On 01/01/2021 16:52, Karl-Heinz Künzel wrote:
For a crosscheck I installed 'debian-10.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso'
Xfce. System working!
sources.list buster -> bullseye, update, upgrade, dist-upgrade, reboot
and after grub system crashes 'black screen'.
Restart again, now w
28 August 2004 01:39
> To: peter green
> Cc: Frank Carmickle; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: RE/FW: Please stop sending me emails
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 09:48:14PM +0100, peter green wrote:
> > can someone please remove this guy from the list
sounds like it didn't pick up the default gateway
what if anything does the route command output after the network is brought
up
> -Original Message-
> From: Tim Douglas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 28 August 2004 01:27
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Bug#268484: Installation repo
may i ask why [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't go straight to the
listmasters?
> -Original Message-
> From: Martin Schulze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 28 August 2004 08:08
> To: Peter Green
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: RE/FW: Please
it may have been caused by admin action on his side
during the height of the problem i sent a rather strongly worded email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] about the issue and it may be that they have taken action to
disable his broken mail system
> -Original Message-
> From: John Summerfield [mailto
debain installer seems unable to load net drivers from the second floppy
drive
is this a bug and if so where should it be reported
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sounds like it
the boot floppy was still in the first floppy drive at the time
> -Original Message-
> From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 18 September 2004 01:24
> To: peter green
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: is this a bug
>
>
> pe
for various reasons i want to be able to use debian installer to install on
a block device that is not a partition
is there any way to bypass partman and set up the mappings between
mountpoints and block devices manually?
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> Subject: Re: bypassing partman
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 02:19:10AM +0100, peter green wrote:
> > for various reasons i want to be able to use debian installer
> to install on
> > a block device that is not a partition
> >
> > is there any
> One way to cheat is to configure some partition sheme by partman and
> then to change it manualy acording to your needs. Then the system
> will know that partman is configured and will not restart it.
this assumes that your system has block devices that patman recognises at
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On 13/09/15 21:02, Peter Michael Green wrote:
Unfortunately on reboot the system hung, attempting to boot with quiet removed
from the kernel
command line showd the last userland boot message as "Starting LSB: Prepare
console". Trying to
boot in recovery mode also hung showing ata related messag
Busybox has been failing to build in raspbian with what appear to be text
formatting differences.
http://buildd.raspbian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=busybox&arch=armhf&ver=1%3A1.22.0-4&stamp=1393285422
FAIL: expand with unicode characher 0x394
--- expected
+++ actual
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Δ 12345ΔΔΔ
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Why would you NOT use uImage?
Why would you add an unnessacery conversion step if you have a
bootloader capable of loading regular kernel images directly?
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My original post to this bug report may have confused the issue I had
with the main kernel to the issue I had with the backports kernel. When
I came back to the system at a later date the monitor was turning off
when booting with a the jessie kernel while the storage problem was
happening with
On 22/03/15 13:36, Holger Wansing wrote:
Hi,
is there a reason why the year for copyright declaration should not be
converted into an entity?
Would ease the repeating changing.
Patch attached, works for both xml and po based translations.
Correct me if I'm wrong here but shouldn't the copyr
Package: debian-installer-netboot-images
Severity: serious
The RC policy states "Packages must be buildable within the same
release.". In this context I interpret "buildable" as buildable from
actual sourcecode (not just package together) and "the same release" as
the collection of stuff that
Release team: theres a question for you at the end of the mail.
On 20/04/15 00:49, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
peter green (2015-04-20):
Package: debian-installer-netboot-images
Severity: serious
The RC policy states "Packages must be buildable within the same release.".
In this
Reopen 782976
Thanks.
On 24/04/15 22:49, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 02:17:25AM +0100, peter green wrote:
Release team: can you clarify whether you intend to actually remove kfreebsd
from the jessie suite of the official archive before/during the jessie
release
I am wondering if it is a good idea to remove lilo entirely. At the
moment, lilo has been pulled from testing, and the code is in a shape
Can either version of grub handle all the cases that lilo can? for
example can either of them handle the situation where root is on lvm and
there is no
Joey Hess wrote:
Works, with a gotcha. disk-detect doesn't care what kind of disk it
finds, so if you have a USB stick with drivers plugged in while it's
running, and no other disk is found, it will happily use the USB stick
as the target disk.
IMO there should be an option in the list of pos
Mark Thommyppillai wrote:
Is there anything else I could try?
You could solder on a serial port so you can watch the boot process and
see where it fails.
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I have successfully loaded an earlier build of lenny on the same hardware.
Checking Google, I found a long discussion of the problem at:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/949548
This suggests that the lenny beta 2 kernel may not work with my processor.
Is this something th
i've tried to reproduce this bug but failed
btw in the process of trying this i discovered that busybox --install
doesn't seem to work either i had to manually copy busybox and make a
symlink for this test.
debian:~/busyboxinstall# cp /bin/busybox .
debian:~/busyboxinstall# ln -s gunzip busyb
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD boot with nothing extra typed at boot prompt
Image version: Etch RC1 full CD 1
Date:
Machine: maxdata PC
Processor: celeron D (at least according to the label on the front)
Memory: 256MB
Partitions:
Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn:
it should have said and windows still booted fine afterwards.
it has recently been announced that there will be seperate CDs for
kde/gnome/xfce with different desktop tasks and package selections.
but what is the plan for other means of installation
(buisnesscard/netinst/floppies/netboot)? will there be 3 seperate desktop tasks
listed? will there be one d
>
> This was possible in export installs and this is still possible in
> expert installs. The behaviour has not changed with regard to that matter.
>
i'm pretty sure i've never intentionally booted d-i in expert mode, and when i
did a sarge install i'm pretty sure i managed to skip creating a n
> Not sure what was wrong here, but it does not seem like something we can
> fix in the installer.
well ntfsfix cleared up the journal and made it work so it would presumablly be
possible to do that, i dunno how safe ntfsfix is though.
btw why do you ask for installation reports even on sucess
wouldn't it be more sensible to combine the protocol, hostname, port (if such a
question exists) and directory questions into a single request for a mirror
url?
> For experienced users, yes. For newbies, definitely not (IMNSHO). For
> them, the only really variable part they understand is the hostname, the
> rest is goobleycook.
> Feel free to try to convince me otherwise.
imho there are only two classes of people who are likely to be using the manual
> In particular, it kept waiting at the fd0 lines, so what I think
> is that it
> had troubles with that. This notebook does NOT have a floppy drive, so I
> guess that the long wait is related to fd0 timing out.
is this by any chance one of those laptops where the bios thinks there is a
floppy
> My ATI Rage was also not configured after install -- gdm fails and X
> reports no devices. Missing input and video drivers. ATI device is
> configured as "agp". The desktop package doesn't seems to install the
> correct driver or detect it I guess. Easy fix -- I added the video and
> inp
> The initial debootstrap doesn't have download speed reported, but then,
> it's only a few dozen megabytes download.
thats a pretty long wait for a dialup, isdn bri or very low end "broadband"
user.
> However, when booting after the installation, the NPE driver seems to
> assume control of the interface name eth0, which causes something to
> rename the interface of the USB to ethernet adapter to eth1_rename.
it sounds to me like the built in nic is getting detected first before the USB
to et
package: debian-installer
currently to use guided partitioning on a system with no unpartitioned free
space the user must go into manual partitioning, resize the existing partition
and then go back out of manual partitioning and select guided using the largest
free space, this is somewhat unint
> The install did not find the CDROM drives.
As a workarround you might like to try installing using the boot, root,
net-drivers 1 and net-drivers 2 floppies.
> The problem with adding a development task has always been, and
> continues to be, that people do not use the same tools for development,
> and that there are no good defaults beyond basic C-style development
> tools.
mind you a similar thing applies to say the file server task, there are at
l
> Partman (guided partitioning) will still ask the user to select
> which disk to
> partition, even if there's only one disk.
personally i think its better that it asks
consider the situation where a user has two drives but the one they want to use
for debian is not detected.
then they select t
package:debian-installer
severity:wishlist
conffile prompts should not happen during installation (unless of course the
admin uses a vt to edit files manually), but sometimes they do due to bugs in
packages or other issues.
just freezing with the conffile prompt on another vt and worse no way
> -Original Message-
> From: Wojciech Zareba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 08 February 2007 16:28
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Bug#410218: etch RC1 release installation
>
>
> Package: installation-reports
>
> Boot method: CD netinst default install
> Image version:
> http://
> -Original Message-
> From: Frans Pop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 08 February 2007 18:00
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Bug#410218: etch RC1 release installation
>
>
> On Thursday 08 February 2007 18:21, peter green wrote:
> I think this is worth putting in because it's useful both when a key
> expires and you still need to use old installation media, and when
> installing from an unofficial, unsigned mirror, like the one the armel
> port is using.
>
> I haven't tested the code yet, but I will before I commit, if p
> That is obviously a problem, but so is d-i booting unexpectedly.
D-I doesn't touch anything until told to does it?
i don't really see how unexpectedly ending up at the first screen of the
installer is any worse than unexpectedly ending up at the syslinux boot prompt,
either way you just remov
> -Original Message-
> From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 20 February 2007 08:36
> To: Robert Millan; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Bug#411552: please set a timeout in syslinux screen
>
>
> Here are some scenarios to consider:
>
> * Suppose that I'm blind. I put in the CD
> Unfortunately, adding good DNS via network-admin doesn't archieve the same
> effect, because dhclient will overwrite /etc/resolv.conf whenever
> it's run
the most obvious question would be why doesn't network-admin know this and do
something about it?
>,
> which is going to be quite often if y
oops forgot to send this to the list
> The problem does not relate to d-i per se. What's happening is that luks
> creates its header in the first bytes of the partition (so generally at
> bytes 0 - 300 or so).
>
> ext3 any some other file systems create their header at an offset of 2
> blocks
> >this sounds like a bug in mke2fs to me, it is not cleaning up
> the sectors
> >before its header and as a result the partition gets misrecognised.
>
> I think it's there because some arches and some partitioning schemes
> actually have real data in the first sector which can't be overwritten
> I want to install the distribution debian for ia64 and when i
> restart de the PC with the "bootable" installation CD inside it
> does not work, the pc read from CD but the installation doesn't
> start. What can i do?. With the distribution for i386 it works perfectly.
The core 2 duo is not a
> Looking for the signatures seem superflous,
I was suggesting that because of the metion previously in the discussion that
some systems apprently didn't like it being zero'd out, only nuking known
problem partition signatures would be much less likely to cause other issues
than nuking anything
reopen 412982
reassign 412982 gnome
thanks
> The Gnome date/time applet asks for the root password. The user
> password doesn't work.
this sounds like a gnome bug then, it really should be able to handle the case
with the root account disabled but sudo availible.
> It could also be that there really is an issue with the display of VFAT
> filenames if UTF-8 is used, but that would not be my first guess.
> Anyway, I doubt this would be an installer issue as there is no real way
> for the installer to determine the correct settings.
VFAT stores filenames in
> > Be fscking intelligent and *leave* a download for everyone to
> pick it up,
> > before you replace it.
> > Leave older versions in separate directories and just change
> the link to it.
>
> Be fscking intelligent and try this:
>
> wget
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily
> AFAICT this option is relevant not only for vfat, but also for ntfs and
> iso9660, but _not_ for fat16.
afaict it is not relavent for partitions mounted as dos (no long filenames) but
it *is* relavent for fat12 and fat16 partitions mounted as vfat and using long
filenames.
> > This is a problem though, using symlinks for the downloads like this
> > rather than just updating the links essentially means that any user who
> > doesn't pay carefull attention to how things are done and has a long
> > download containing resumes (e.g. a user who has a slow and unstable
> >
> Updating the links on a daily basis synchronised with CD builds is
> unfortunately not possible given the design of the Debian website.
would it be possible soloution to make the links on the debian-installer page
point to a page hosted on the cdimage server (and therefore able to updated by
th
> This has certainly appened, *but* I have only see it happen with
> downloads
> of Sarge images as amd64 are not mentioned on the sarge pages (because it
> was not a release arch). To the best of my recollection, I have never yet
> seen this happen with Etch images.
me neither but from the po
> > > I urge you to reconsider severity of this problem. There's
> another situation
> > > that makes it much worse:
> > The correct solution is to make d-i use labels in fstab and to find the
> > root file system. udev has not much to do with this.
>
> Which will enable a whole lot of other br
> -Original Message-
> From: Marco d'Itri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 07 March 2007 11:05
> To: Robert Millan [ackstorm]
> Cc: Mike Hommey; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-release@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug
>
>
> On Mar 07, "Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <[E
> > by-uuid contains my two ext3 partitions but not my swap
> partition, it also seems like it may be vulnerable to becoming confused.
>
> Only if the admin is a moron and keeps around multiple file systems
> cloned with dd.
are you calling it moronic to make a backup of a partition by dding to t
> I don't know how invasive those changes might be. AFAIK Ubuntu already
> does it (Colin?) and wouldn't be too hard to pick the changes from
> them but we would also need RM and Frans approval :(
ubuntu already does what? there are four possible soloutions proposed aren't
there (labels in fstab
> I don't believe this should be changed for etch at this point in
> the release
> process, and that's speaking as someone who's run into this problem myself
> with SCSI device renumbering -- it's awkward and annoying to have to
> manually fiddle your boot config because a USB device is no longer
> UUIDs certainly have their disadvantages (verbosity being the main one),
> but they're a hell of a lot better than labels for automatic use like
> this. UUIDs are suitable for automatic generation while labels should
> only be set by the sysadmin. The fiasco with Red Hat's installer setting
> la
> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Hore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 09 March 2007 01:40
> To: Frans Pop
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Bug#413788: Daily Etch build fails to install on iMac G5 -
> Ethernet not detected
>
>
> Hi again Frans,
>
> > On Thursday 08 March 2007 02:30
> I've added module-assistant to "forcd1". build-essential was already
> included.
are the kernel headers for the standard debian kernels on CD1 as well? module
assistant isn't going to be much use without those.
> I am still not sure my failure was not due to a misconfigured
> network/router but the D-Link DI-524 used usually works fine for me.
can you check if the default gateway is set and if there is something sane in
resolv.conf within the installer environment?
failing that try starting the install
> Personally I also feel that all possible solutions effectively make
> /etc/fstab unreadable and unmaintainable. Maybe Debian should
> lead the way
> to make /etc/fstab a generated file (like e.g. modules.conf used to be).
what is so bad about /dev/disk/by-path/pci-:00:07.1-ide-0:0-part1 ?
> That it's not a persistent means of identifying a filesystem.
for most users fstab has always identified by rough position (e.g. hda=ide
primary master), changing to a system based on partition IDs would mean a lot
of relearning for admins (e.g. its no longer ok to backup a partition by ddin
> There is no mention of updating /etc/modules. Without a network driver,
> or something else equally critical, you may find your remote dedicated
> box happily running while noone can ssh into it.
afaict nowadays /etc/modules isn't really nessacery anymore and can even cause
upgrade problems. I
> > PS: Is there a way to fix memory hardware issues ?
if you can get the system working well enough to install and compile stuff (say
by pulling out some of the memory) you can build a custom kernel with the
badram patches. Then put the bad memory back in, run a memory test and use the
address
> http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
"A network install or netinst CD is a single CD which enables you to install
the entire operating system. This single CD contains just the minimal amount of
software to start the installation and fetch the remaining packages over the
Internet."
This is clea
sarge release seems to be delayed indefinately by some issue with the
testing-secuirty autobuilders
noone seems to be reavealing just what is wrong with them though?!
a little offtopic i know but does anyone know what is holding them up?
> -Original Message-
> From: Kenshi Muto [mailto:[
i had a similar problem once when installing sarge on vmware
the vmware system crashed very dirtily during base config (this was nothing
to do with debian it was an external usb hard drive on the windows side that
decided to hang it has done this several times usring other things)
anyway after vm
calling stuff i386 when it will not run natively on a 386 seems like asking
for confustion to me
why and when was this instruction emulation needed in the first place (that
is why and when was the userland changed to need it)
> -Original Message-
> From: Adeodato Simó [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE
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