Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > Yay! With the new boot disks I was finally able to install Debian on my > headless Netra. The installation was really smooth. The only flaw I > noticed was at the stage "Install OS Kernel and Modules." After picking > floppy as the installation type, I was prompted to insert the rescue disk > but the root disk which was in there before was not ejected. Happily I > had a portable peripheral ejection device (aka paperclip :-) handy and was > able to continue. All in all a very minor blemish on an extremely > user-friendly piece of work.
Yes, I know of this problem. To automatically eject the rootdisk, I need to detect if the system is booted off floppy disk or not. Is there a way to do this ? > Here's a "gotcha" you might want to add to the installation docs. After > everything was finished and the system rebooted, solaris cam up again > instead of Linux even though I had selected "Boot from hard disk." This > is because the PROM was set to boot from partion 3. The problem was > easily solved by logging into solaris as root, doing a halt, and then at > the PROM prompt. > > setenv boot-device disk1:h1 > nvramrc Ok I will document it into the next release. Regards. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]