Re: Install report, finally

1997-04-16 Thread David Wright
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Alexander Koch wrote:

> [...]

> 3. On the boot discs there were only /dev/sdb1 to /dev/sdb8, both 9 and 10
> were missing. Well, it's not difficult to have 10 partitions if you a) only
> use two primary, one to be an extended partition with the rest being logical
> ones and b) if you're lucky and have a 4g hd. I had to mknod them and seem
> to have forgotten to do it on /target/dev/, too, what was further annoying.

I reported this problem on 27 Jan when I got stuck trying to install from 
Debian 1.2. (This was on sda, but sdb was the same.) Strangely, Debian 1.1
had 16 partitions which is why I didn't get hit before.

I don't think 1.2 had any ram disk devices either, so I couldn't rdev the
root device on my custom boot/root disk at home (1.2) but only at work
(originally 1.1). Looking at 1.3 of 4 Apr, it seems to have one ok 
(/dev/ramdisk0).

So please, more SCSI partitions. Disks are getting bigger, and some of us
need to run multiple OSes. And please don't say "you should have more
disks, not partitions"; that's a decision made by our purchasing dept,
not me.
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Re: Install report, finally

1997-04-14 Thread Martin Schulze
On Apr 14, Alexander Koch wrote

> 6. File dependencies, some need tcl 42, some only tcl40 but not tcl42 ...

Could you check this out for every individual package and file a bugreport
against it?

> 11. I have a CDROM on which is non-free and non-us so there IS pgp in,
> though I was not getting offered to install it the first time I choose
> access through CD though it's shown that there IS non-free and non-us ...

AFAIK dselect is only looking in stable/unstable, non-free, contrib and
local to find its packages.  non-us or what it is called on your cdrom
isn't stated.  (but it's a good idea to put it under local on my cdroms)

> -> Is anyone living in Munich, Germany, willing to help me out? So far
> I'm not able (IMO) to work it all out myself, since this is my first debian
> installation...

You could try to reach me and other debian supporter via Efnet IRC
on #LinuxGER or a bunch of maintainers on Undernet IRC on #Debian.

Efnet: irc.fu-berlin.de irc.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Undernet: de.undernet.org us.undernet.org

Regards,

Joey

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