Re: Install From Floppy and CD-ROM

2001-09-21 Thread David Kimdon 

Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 08:50:05PM -0400 wrote:
> I am using a CD-ROM which I have just bought and  which is labeled Debian 
> 2.2rev3 i386, which I believe is "potato".  I created the boot disks using 
yup, that's potato.

> I am prompted to configure the keyboard, then to set up a swap partition, 
> then a linux partition.
> When I am prompted for the installation medium, I only get:
> /dev/fd0
> /dev/fd1
> harddisk
> mounted

It looks like for some reason the kernel didn't detect your cdrom.  What
sort of cdrom is it? (ide?).  Do you see any messages at boot related to a
cdrom (either watch the boot sequence or use 'dmseg' from a shell).

> 
> Am I using the wrong floppies?  Thanks, again, for your help.
It sounds to me like you are doing it right.

-David


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Re: Install From Floppy and CD-ROM

2001-09-21 Thread Dmagaud 

I am using a CD-ROM which I have just bought and  which is labeled Debian 
2.2rev3 i386, which I believe is "potato".  I created the boot disks using 
"rawrite2.exe" on a friend's DOS machine.  Here is the sequence of events
Upon booting the machine from floppy, I get the "boot:" prompt.  I enter 
"floppy" and Linux starts  to boot.  I am then prompted for the root disk, 
which I also created using rawrite2.exe.  It gets loaded.
I am prompted to configure the keyboard, then to set up a swap partition, 
then a linux partition.
When I am prompted for the installation medium, I only get:
/dev/fd0
/dev/fd1
harddisk
mounted

Am I using the wrong floppies?  Thanks, again, for your help.

  -Daniel Magaud  

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<< > I am attempting to install Debian on a fairly old machine (Intel 486) 
which
> can't be set up to boot from the CD.  I have created the rescue and root
> floppy disks and am able to boot using them.  However, the installation
> does not give me the possibility of installing the system from the CD (only
> from floppies, a hard disk or a mounted filesystem.
>

Is this potato boot-floppies? In the current boot-floppies, the cdrom is at
the top of the list after selecting Install Kernel and Modules.

>  1. Is it possible to install the way I intended (boot from floppy, install
> from CD-ROM)?  If so, am I not able to because of the age of my machine or
> some configuration problem?
>
>  2. What would you suggest I do?  I do not have any DOS diskettes and the
> machine's hard drive has no OS on it.
>

Shoudl be able to use the CD as you intend. If you're using potato, try
woody instead.

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Re: debootstrap stalls

2001-09-21 Thread Ethan Benson 

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 02:30:58PM -0600, Hugo Graumann wrote:
> * On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:28:06PM -0800, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:06:59PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > > > At this rate debootstrap might get the base system loaded by next year
> > > > if I am patient enough :)
> > > >
> > > 
> > > I was trying to access http.us.debian.org last night with apt-get. I was
> > > having a great deal of difficulty getting and keeping a connection, I
> > > suspect maybe it was getting DOS attacks from the latest worm.
> > 
> > http.us.debian.org has sucked long before this worm came along.  use
> > http://ftp.kernel.org instead its better, though i still have problems
> > with it resetting the connection (but only on slow connects such as
> > 56K)  to work around that use ftp instead, ftp://ftp.kernel.org
> > 
> > -- 
> > Ethan Benson
> > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
> 
> Thanks, your tip worked. When I tried ftp://ftp.kernel.org
> the installer came back and said it did not recognize ftp:// protocol.

lame debootstrap limitation that will be fixed shortly.

> However, http://ftp.kernel.org worked well. The system rebooted
> into base and finished the installation. Success :)
> 
> Cheers, Hugo Graumann
>  
> 
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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by blade

2001-09-21 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master 

Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap
who:blade
time:   Fri Sep 21 14:59:35 PDT 2001


Log Message:

fixed ext3 journaling detection, thanks to Richard Hirst.


Files:

changed:partition_config.c


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by rhirst

2001-09-21 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master 

Repository: boot-floppies/debian
who:rhirst
time:   Fri Sep 21 13:55:37 PDT 2001


Log Message:

hppa: add warning about 2GB limit for /boot to PALO limitations screen


Files:

changed:changelog


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by rhirst

2001-09-21 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master 

Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap
who:rhirst
time:   Fri Sep 21 13:55:37 PDT 2001


Log Message:

hppa: add warning about 2GB limit for /boot to PALO limitations screen


Files:

changed:partition_config.c


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Re: debootstrap stalls

2001-09-21 Thread Hugo Graumann 

* On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:28:06PM -0800, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:06:59PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > > At this rate debootstrap might get the base system loaded by next year
> > > if I am patient enough :)
> > >
> > 
> > I was trying to access http.us.debian.org last night with apt-get. I was
> > having a great deal of difficulty getting and keeping a connection, I
> > suspect maybe it was getting DOS attacks from the latest worm.
> 
> http.us.debian.org has sucked long before this worm came along.  use
> http://ftp.kernel.org instead its better, though i still have problems
> with it resetting the connection (but only on slow connects such as
> 56K)  to work around that use ftp instead, ftp://ftp.kernel.org
> 
> -- 
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

Thanks, your tip worked. When I tried ftp://ftp.kernel.org
the installer came back and said it did not recognize ftp:// protocol.
However, http://ftp.kernel.org worked well. The system rebooted
into base and finished the installation. Success :)

Cheers, Hugo Graumann
 


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Re: ext2/ext3 partition_config.c bug?

2001-09-21 Thread Eduard Bloch 

#include 
Richard Hirst wrote on Fri Sep 21, 2001 um 07:20:43PM:
> Hi,
> Noticed this at about line 516 of b-f/utilities/dbootstrap/partition_config.c:
> 
>   *e2fsmagic & 0x0004; /* EXT3_FEATURE_COMPAT_HAS_JOURNAL = 0x0004 */
> 
> No idea what it is supposed to say, so I havn't fixed it.

That is a way to detect the journal. The EXT3_FEATURE_COMPAT_HAS_JOURNAL
flag is a bit in the ext2's superblock which can be extracted from a
32-bit word at position 1116. I tested the code on paer.d.o and on i386
machine, the detection seemed to work fine.

Gruss/Regards,
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ext2/ext3 partition_config.c bug?

2001-09-21 Thread Richard Hirst 

Hi,
Noticed this at about line 516 of b-f/utilities/dbootstrap/partition_config.c:

  *e2fsmagic & 0x0004; /* EXT3_FEATURE_COMPAT_HAS_JOURNAL = 0x0004 */

No idea what it is supposed to say, so I havn't fixed it.

Richard


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cvs commit to boot-floppies by gt

2001-09-21 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master 

Repository: boot-floppies
who:gt
time:   Fri Sep 21 10:30:01 PDT 2001


Log Message:

modules for loop device added for s390.


Files:

changed:rootdisk.sh


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by gt

2001-09-21 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master 

Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap
who:gt
time:   Fri Sep 21 10:29:09 PDT 2001


Log Message:

vmlinuz location for s390 changed.


Files:

changed:bootconfig.c


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Compact 3.0.14 + PCMCIA

2001-09-21 Thread Robb Kidd 

[I messed up and sent this first to debian-testing.]
On a rickety Digital Hinote II with a 3Com Etherlink III (3C589C) PCMCIA 
NIC ...
The initial install with the rescue+root+drivers-1+http went very well 
except that after the first reboot, the system did not automatically 
bring up the NIC to continue system installation. Popping over to 
another virtual console and giving it an /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart 
brought the NIC back up with the correct config fed to install previous 
to reboot and I was able to resume the system install.



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Re: debootstrap stalls

2001-09-21 Thread David Kimdon 

> http.us.debian.org has sucked long before this worm came along.  use
> http://ftp.kernel.org instead its better, though i still have problems
> with it resetting the connection (but only on slow connects such as
> 56K)  to work around that use ftp instead, ftp://ftp.kernel.org

Should we change the default mirror?

-David


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by gt

2001-09-21 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master 

Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap
who:gt
time:   Fri Sep 21 06:15:31 PDT 2001


Log Message:

fixes not-initialized variable for s390.


Files:

changed:bootconfig.c


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by gt

2001-09-21 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master 

Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap
who:gt
time:   Fri Sep 21 05:19:40 PDT 2001


Log Message:

some modconf sections excluded for s390.


Files:

changed:baseconfig.c


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by gt

2001-09-21 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master 

Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap
who:gt
time:   Fri Sep 21 05:18:38 PDT 2001


Log Message:

s390 zipl code rework.


Files:

changed:bootconfig.c


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by gt

2001-09-21 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master 

Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap
who:gt
time:   Fri Sep 21 05:17:53 PDT 2001


Log Message:

keyboard setting and reboot for s390 disabled.


Files:

changed:main_menu.c


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk by gt

2001-09-21 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master 

Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk
who:gt
time:   Fri Sep 21 05:13:34 PDT 2001


Log Message:

enable IBM partition for s390 cpu.


Files:

changed:config.h


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cvs commit to boot-floppies by gt

2001-09-21 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master 

Repository: boot-floppies
who:gt
time:   Fri Sep 21 05:02:45 PDT 2001


Log Message:

Don't compress s390 kernel.


Files:

changed:rescue.sh


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk by gt

2001-09-21 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master 

Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk
who:gt
time:   Fri Sep 21 00:34:25 PDT 2001


Log Message:

pam modules added again. I know that not all are needed but the previous version
of this file didn't work at all.


Files:

changed:SMALL_BASE_LIST_s390


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