Re: Woody rescue disk for Libretto L50/70/100/110

2003-08-14 Thread Arjen Verweij
I don't think installing woody by upgrading from potato is the recommended approach if you are doing a fresh install anyway. It is just intended for potato users that want to upgrade and alledgedly a road paved with (minor) inconveniencies. On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > On Thu, Aug

Re: Woody rescue disk for Libretto L50/70/100/110

2003-08-14 Thread Terry Mathews
> Install Potato on the machine, then upgrade it to Woody. Upgrading > Debian is easy, read info from Woody Release Notes. Not to be argumentative, but isn't this incredibly wasteful considering the only change necessary to the base rescue disk is the addition of one (small) driver... I'd do it m

Re: Woody rescue disk for Libretto L50/70/100/110

2003-08-14 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:43:14PM -0400, Terry Mathews wrote: > I've got one of these cursed Libretto L70s which can't boot a normal Linux install > set without a special floppy driver due to the floppy being accessible by BIOS calls > only. > > The driver can be found here http://libxg.free.fr

Re: Woody rescue disk for Libretto L50/70/100/110

2003-08-12 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:43:14PM -0400, Terry Mathews wrote: > I've got one of these cursed Libretto L70s which can't boot a normal Linux install > set without a special floppy driver due to the floppy being accessible by BIOS calls > only. > > The driver can be found here http://libxg.free.fr

Re: Woody rescue disk for Libretto L50/70/100/110

2003-08-10 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:19:45AM -0400, Terry Mathews wrote: > > Install Potato on the machine, then upgrade it to Woody. Upgrading > > Debian is easy, read info from Woody Release Notes. > > > Not to be argumentative, but isn't this incredibly wasteful considering the > only change necessary t

Re: Woody rescue disk for Libretto L50/70/100/110

2003-08-10 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:19:45AM -0400, Terry Mathews wrote: > > Install Potato on the machine, then upgrade it to Woody. Upgrading > > Debian is easy, read info from Woody Release Notes. > > > Not to be argumentative, but isn't this incredibly wasteful considering the > only change necessary t

Re: Woody rescue disk for Libretto L50/70/100/110

2003-08-08 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:43:14PM -0400, Terry Mathews wrote: > I've got one of these cursed Libretto L70s which can't boot a normal Linux > install set without a special floppy driver due to the floppy being > accessible by BIOS calls only. > > The driver can be found here http://libxg.free.fr

Re: Woody rescue disk for Libretto L50/70/100/110

2003-08-08 Thread Arjen Verweij
I don't think installing woody by upgrading from potato is the recommended approach if you are doing a fresh install anyway. It is just intended for potato users that want to upgrade and alledgedly a road paved with (minor) inconveniencies. On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > On Thu, Aug

Re: Woody rescue disk for Libretto L50/70/100/110

2003-08-08 Thread Terry Mathews
> Install Potato on the machine, then upgrade it to Woody. Upgrading > Debian is easy, read info from Woody Release Notes. Not to be argumentative, but isn't this incredibly wasteful considering the only change necessary to the base rescue disk is the addition of one (small) driver... I'd do it m

Re: Woody rescue disk for Libretto L50/70/100/110

2003-08-08 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:43:14PM -0400, Terry Mathews wrote: > I've got one of these cursed Libretto L70s which can't boot a normal Linux > install set without a special floppy driver due to the floppy being > accessible by BIOS calls only. > > The driver can be found here http://libxg.free.fr

Woody rescue disk for Libretto L50/70/100/110

2003-08-07 Thread Terry Mathews
I've got one of these cursed Libretto L70s which can't boot a normal Linux install set without a special floppy driver due to the floppy being accessible by BIOS calls only.   The driver can be found here http://libxg.free.fr/floppy/floppy.htm   Can someone cook me up a Woody i386 rescue disk

Woody rescue disk for Libretto L50/70/100/110

2003-08-07 Thread Terry Mathews
I've got one of these cursed Libretto L70s which can't boot a normal Linux install set without a special floppy driver due to the floppy being accessible by BIOS calls only.   The driver can be found here http://libxg.free.fr/floppy/floppy.htm   Can someone cook me up a Woody i386 rescue disk