Re: Things we need from sid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 01 February 2002 23:52, Herbert Xu wrote: > J?rgen Hermanrud Fjeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running some new quite expensive servers. Dual processor, 1GB RAM, > > and not to forget a few ultra-fast-wide-narrow,bla.bla scsi-3 disks. And > > oh, it's the Mylex AcceleRAID adapter, and oh I can't install with a 2.2 > > kernel, since there are no DAC960 drivers in any of the boot disks! > > Bullshit. The compact flavour has the DAC960 driver. And I didn't get it to work 12 months ago, but I see now that the reiserfs flavour has both reiserfs and DAC960 driver, so I'll try it today. I might have done something wrong, but none of the boot disks I used then with 2.2 seemed to recognize the RAID adapter, but the 2.4.X kernel did. Sorry for the bullshit, it was derived from experience, not checking today. - -- Sincerely Jørgen Hermanrud Fjeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjxb+LIACgkQCx+ABR2dqkJdSwCeMXSUkpbiLfhrSYDqQTU266X7 tzoAnisxd5QdTbMXgrTL0G2iHgWZ+CG9 =nCzl -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Things we need from sid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 01 February 2002 23:52, Herbert Xu wrote: > J?rgen Hermanrud Fjeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running some new quite expensive servers. Dual processor, 1GB RAM, > > and not to forget a few ultra-fast-wide-narrow,bla.bla scsi-3 disks. And > > oh, it's the Mylex AcceleRAID adapter, and oh I can't install with a 2.2 > > kernel, since there are no DAC960 drivers in any of the boot disks! > > Bullshit. The compact flavour has the DAC960 driver. Thank you, for the information How do I install the system with reiserfs? - -- Sincerely Jørgen Hermanrud Fjeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjxb9OsACgkQCx+ABR2dqkKWowCfdoYBQ1OSCgvtbk6EIJdmTzwn jDEAmwSBC5TyfX3e4vE5KSKu+zSroQYy =K523 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Things we need from sid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 January 2002 09:59, Herbert Xu wrote: > Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would be happy to do so if someone can show me why we really need 2.4 > boot floppies on i386. So far, the only reasons I've seen are: > > 1. Support for new hardware. > > Without initrd, you can include only so many hardware drivers. And for all > of the important drivers that I can think of (such as NetGear FA311TX, > AICRAID, Promise Ultra IDE etc.), the support is already in at least one of > the latest 2.2 images anyway. I'm running some new quite expensive servers. Dual processor, 1GB RAM, and not to forget a few ultra-fast-wide-narrow,bla.bla scsi-3 disks. And oh, it's the Mylex AcceleRAID adapter, and oh I can't install with a 2.2 kernel, since there are no DAC960 drivers in any of the boot disks! Thus I have downloaded and build my own custom kernel, given boot-floppies and debootstrap a good look, and build my own installation CD for these machines. Because I really want to run Debian. So far so good. But I installed Mandrake 8.0 on the first server I got. I needed something running fast, and didn't have time to do this work then. 8 MONTHS later, having had the time, I have reinnstalled with Debian and my own handmade CD. If you would include an optional boot/installation cd with kernel 2.4, using initrd to support DAC960 and USB, I will sing with joy! I would rather help someone have a viable alternative boot/installation disk with 2.4, than do such things alone. And I'm looking forward to telling other people who know windows 2000 server, that installing debian isn't that hard. They just need to make diskettes, buy a book about basic Linux, and off they go! Right now I give them CD's with Mandrake 8.1, as I didn't have time to make many flavoured kernels, or set up 2.4 with every module, and an initrd to load them at boot. I really look forward to having the possibility of using kernel 2.4 while installing from some pre-debian-made diskettes/cdrom. - -- Sincerely Jørgen Hermanrud Fjeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjxbCLoACgkQCx+ABR2dqkKbDwCghs917UHqlndKuBbtrdmYvESZ +zsAn1TA3VPoTJg7YAYsye+J/HcanH5P =icmA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.4.x boot floppies
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 14 November 2001 14:05, Ethan Benson wrote: > if you don't like that you have two options: > 2: make your own custom set of boot-floppies. That is surely what I will do, and have done already. It bites me a little bit that we don't ship with 2.4.x boot disks, so if I make boot-floppies with 2.4.x, could I upload them to somewhere so that others could have an easy time installing on their MylexRAID equipped machines? Not having read the proper documents, I'll start with the "How to become a debian developer". Do anybody else have plans to make such disks? I would really like to see Debian used, also for high end machines with the i386 architecture. Sometime back I installed Mandrake on a server. I didn't know debian yet, I needed the machine up and go fast, and Mandrake was the first to support 2.4.x and reiserfs. I haven't converted the machine to debian until recently! After I figured out how to make the boot-floppies with the 2.4.13 kernel of my special configuration. If making and uploading boot-floppies and bootable iso images with 2.4.x in some flavours could remedy this situation for other sysadms wanting to install Deban, but having the possibility to, without investing much time in boot floppies, that would be worth my time. - -- Sincerely Jørgen Hermanrud Fjeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjvycD8ACgkQCx+ABR2dqkIs2wCeJkJ36/gQ9OGtcNelKgC67LIV 2U8AoIGM+BBib5Qm2R92oz0O1XcN361U =9fTi -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.4.x boot floppies, was: Vulnerable SSH versions
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Although it might sound stupid, my question is: Will there ever come a time when making 1220 boot floppies with 2.4.x kernel will be doable? If I assume that it's the kernel size that makes it difficult, then it doesn't matter wether we use boot-floppies or debian-installer. This leads me to believe we can't ship with 2.4 kernel until we drop debian support for 1220 floppies. Is this correct? If not, how can we ever hope to ship with 2.4.x kernels? How many debian users have the need for 1220 boot floppies? And when I can create my own special boot floppy with 2.4.13 kernel, because I have a new computer with HW RAID, does this mean we prioritize those with older machines and 1220 floppies, higher than we prioritize those who have expensive advanced new hardware? And isn't the need for supporting this new hardware more imminent than the need for supporting 1220 floppies? I'm cross posting this to the boot list, as it is where the discussion should take place. Thank you for your time, even though I might have misunderstood something here. Jørgen On Tuesday 13 November 2001 15:51, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 01:09:46PM +0100, Jørgen Hermanrud Fjeld wrote: > > And will the next generation bootstrap system make it any easier to > > switch? If not, what is crucial for the switch to happen? > > debian-installer is not anywhere near ready for prime-time and won't > be used for woody, development is concentrated on boot-floppies > otherwise we will never have any kind of working install system. > > besides the size problem the decision is not up to -boot, i386 woody > will ship with 2.2.19 or 2.2.20, that is not going to change. (aph > the boot-floppies maintainer has spoken on this already). Thank you for your answers, I'm searching the boot archives for more information. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjvyTVAACgkQCx+ABR2dqkIN/gCfW7FMEfkfp8tsLnTarotU40b/ mgYAniCTu1Rw10AmvgBXxB2vKuFDaIkv =l8pO -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
