On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 04:51:23PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
>
> That's a shame, because it'll leave a lot of people that can't use network
> or CDROM to install from out in the cold.
i agree
> Sure, but the 'install base system from a single tarball, have yourself a
> functional system' was
> The 'need to rebuild' thing was more of a makefile bug than anything else
> (split boot-floppies in multiple packages, one for base, one for the
> ramdisks, yadda yadda) and be done with a debian/rules base ...
I agree with this. What's wrong with rsync? I would think that since
it's so useful
> > connect to the net, I can't, because I have DSL connection that uses
> > PPPoE. This is where the base tarball would have helped me out a lot.
>
> i don't know what can be done about that hideous thing known as
> pppoe. but the base tarball is dead and will likely never return.
That's a sham
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 11:04:19AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote:
> This is good to know. The thing I'm most afraid of is really doing some
> damage with the whole booting procedure on the NewWorld machines. I'll
> cross that bridge when I come to it.
if you use ybin or the Make System Bootable comm
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 09:06:42AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote:
>> Okay,
>>
>> No success just yet. I was able to boot using the kernel and booted into
>> the ramdisk (named root.bin), but the kernel panicked. (I'm a holdout
>> for BootX, BTW. I still like it, and I'm still dual booting, as I s
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 09:06:42AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote:
> Okay,
>
> No success just yet. I was able to boot using the kernel and booted into
> the ramdisk (named root.bin), but the kernel panicked. (I'm a holdout
> for BootX, BTW. I still like it, and I'm still dual booting, as I share
> my
Okay,
No success just yet. I was able to boot using the kernel and booted into
the ramdisk (named root.bin), but the kernel panicked. (I'm a holdout
for BootX, BTW. I still like it, and I'm still dual booting, as I share
my computer with the computer illiterate :-) The error message is:
Exception
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