On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:02:55PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> On Mar 08 2004, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
[...]
> > I also have:
> >
> > # cat /proc/sys/vm/bdflush
> > 30 500 0 0 60 60 60 20 0
> >
> > This will stop the disk from spinning up every tim
On Mar 08 2004, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 04:07:07PM +0100, Pau Rul·lan Ferragut wrote:
> >Really? I thougth ext2 was better because it doesn't write
> > continuesly, so there is a battery saved.
>
> This used to be true: the standard commit interval for ext3 is 5
>
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 04:07:07PM +0100, Pau Rul·lan Ferragut wrote:
> Derrik Pates wrote:
>
> >
> >>P.S. Are there any good reasons for choosing ext2 filesystems over
> >>ext3, or vice versa?
> >
> >
> >Go with ext3. If the system crashes, or whatever, you don't have to
> >sit and wait while f
Hi all.
As the person who started this thread it's about time I responded! First of all, though it hardly matters, my machine is a G4 desktop, not a laptop. I have overcome my partitioning problems and have seemingly successfully employed the Debian Installer twice now.
The first time I did it
On Feb 22, 2004, at 5:26 PM, Seb Tennant wrote:
[...]
Did you burn your .iso image in OS X? If so, how did you do
it so that it would boot from your computer?
Yes I did burn my .iso image to disk in OS X. I used Roxio's Toast
Titanium. I'm not sure why, but Toast often works where Disk
On Feb 23, 2004, at 1:45 AM, Derrik Pates wrote:
sebyte wrote:
I have partitioned my hard drive, (using Apple's Disk Utility), as
follows:
As was mentioned in another reply, you shouldn't try to do the
partitioning through Apple's Disk Utility. IMHO, it's terrible, not to
mention it wastes
Derrik Pates wrote:
P.S. Are there any good reasons for choosing ext2 filesystems over
ext3, or vice versa?
Go with ext3. If the system crashes, or whatever, you don't have to
sit and wait while fsck runs on the filesystem.
Really? I thougth ext2 was better because it doesn't write
c
s. keeling wrote:
This is ridiculous advice and I wish people like you would stop
offering it. Multiple partitions make the system far more robust and
usable in many ways, from backing it up through system stability.
This is just as true for a laptop as it is for servers.
The single partition w
02-23 08:54:
> From: "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Installing Debian using debian-sarge-netinst.iso (powerpc)
> To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> X-Original-To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Reply-To: de
Incoming from s. keeling:
> Incoming from Derrik Pates:
> > sebyte wrote:
> > >I have partitioned my hard drive, (using Apple's Disk Utility), as follows:
> >
> > [snip]
> > And since you're installing on a laptop, why are you splitting your main
> > filesystem into partitions? Especially "/boot,
Incoming from Derrik Pates:
> sebyte wrote:
> >I have partitioned my hard drive, (using Apple's Disk Utility), as follows:
>
> [snip]
> And since you're installing on a laptop, why are you splitting your main
> filesystem into partitions? Especially "/boot, /tmp, /var, /usr, /home,
> etc." all o
sebyte wrote:
I have partitioned my hard drive, (using Apple's Disk Utility), as follows:
As was mentioned in another reply, you shouldn't try to do the
partitioning through Apple's Disk Utility. IMHO, it's terrible, not to
mention it wastes big chunks of space between partitions for no
disc
I kept getting the "Apple_Bootstrap" error when I was installing. It
turned out that using a different version of the installation files fixed
the problem.
I now think I know what I was doing wrong. Using Disk Utility to create the partitions for the Debian filesystem is a mistake. I haven't
hdiutil burn cdiimage.iso
On Feb 22, 2004, at 2:05 PM, Brad Lathem wrote:
I kept getting the "Apple_Bootstrap" error when I was installing. It
turned out that using a different version of the installation files
fixed
the problem. Of course, I was doing the installation without any
physical
I kept getting the "Apple_Bootstrap" error when I was installing. It
turned out that using a different version of the installation files fixed
the problem. Of course, I was doing the installation without any physical
media. I would like to have installed off of a CD-Rom, but couldn't get
it to b
Hi all.
First of all, apologies if this is not the correct mailing list for a newbie-ish question. (I have done some reading! ). As debian-sarge-netinst.iso is under development and I am trying to use it to install Debian on a PowerPC, (Apple G4), I thought debian-powerpc and debian-boot were p
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