Re: bug ins installation disks utilities?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: |Did you see any error messages on the floppy I/O? No. It seems to work without a problem at all times. There are no messages from the floppy drive even when the installation fails - the base diskettes allways finish being read and fail only when they are gzip'ed. Thanks, --Amos --Amos Shapira| Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England. ISRAEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Anonymous
Re: bug ins installation disks utilities?
Amos, This sounds like a probelm that I'm trying to track down! Here are some key questions: 1) Is your floppy boot disk connected to the floppy controller on the 1542? 2) What is the ROM release of the 1542? (It should appear as the system starts up). 3) What brand and revision is your system BIOS? -and- 4) Does the problem go away if you turn off the internal and/or external cache? Turning off the cache seems to be the way to get around this problem. To do this, you need to go into the BIOS setup. The settings might be internal and external cache, or level 1 and level 2 cache, or something like that. *PLEASE* let me know the answers to these questions. I've got the same problem. I've worked around it but I really want to *solve* it! Thanks! Chris -)- On Sep 11, 7:50pm, Amos Shapira wrote: Subject: bug ins installation disks utilities? : Hello, : : I was trying to test the boot process of Debian 1.1.8, which kept : failing in the stage of unpacking the bases diskettes. : : The system is: : : 80486 DX2/66 : 16Mb memory : AHA1542CF ISA scsi controller : PCI motherboard -- Christopher R. Hertel -)- University of Minnesota [EMAIL PROTECTED] Networking and Telecommunications Services
Re: bug ins installation disks utilities?
Did you see any error messages on the floppy I/O? I've seen the floppy driver fail in several cases. I have a Pentium 120 laptop here in which the floppy works when cold, not when warm. Windows 95 runs that floppy just fine. The fix is probably to tune the floppy timing parameters automaticaly in the driver when there is an I/O failure. Not that I have time to implement that. Thanks Bruce
Re: bug ins installation disks utilities?
Subject: Re: bug ins installation disks utilities? Amos, This sounds like a probelm that I'm trying to track down! Here are some key questions: 1) Is your floppy boot disk connected to the floppy controller on the 1542? No, the floppy is connected to the on-board IDE controller - a 82078 chip (according to dmesg). 2) What is the ROM release of the 1542? (It should appear as the system starts up). It's a 1542CF with BIOS v2.02 3) What brand and revision is your system BIOS? AMI BIOS version 1.00.02.AY0 -and- 4) Does the problem go away if you turn off the internal and/or external cache? No. But when we turned off the turbo (in addition to turning off the caching) it DID go away. Turning off the cache seems to be the way to get around this problem. To do this, you need to go into the BIOS setup. The settings might be internal and external cache, or level 1 and level 2 cache, or something like that. *PLEASE* let me know the answers to these questions. I've got the same problem. I've worked around it but I really want to *solve* it! Hope the above helps. ME and my friend (Yigal, who actually did all the work) are at your service for more experimentation and info. (but we are entering a holidays period, so we'll have a little less time at work than usual). Thanks! Thanks to you. --Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] And... == Rosenberg Yigal. System Administrator. Tel: +(972)-3 5319367 Fax: +(972)-3 5313311 ==
bug ins installation disks utilities?
Hello, I was trying to test the boot process of Debian 1.1.8, which kept failing in the stage of unpacking the bases diskettes. The system is: 80486 DX2/66 16Mb memory AHA1542CF ISA scsi controller PCI motherboard Disks: IDE - Western Digital 600Mb SCSI - a very old, very slow HP SCSI-1 disk some other devices are connected, but they are not relevant (info will be provided on demand, of course). I was testting the installation on the SCSI disk. What I experienced was that I was constantly getting a message saying: gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data -- format violated Error in archive format. When at the stage of unpacking the floppies (i.e. after they were copied to the hard disk). I md5sum'ed and compared the diskettes against the files which were copied to them, they compared fine. Under multi-user (I allready have Debian 1.1.x running), I ran floppy_merge from the boot-floppies package. It read the diskettes without complaining (as it does during installation), and created a file which passed gzip -tv and star fine. Then I tried to boot from the boot diskettes and install the base diskettes on the IDE drive. This WORKED. So I suspected that maybe the kernel in the boot disk can't handle the SCSI disk well (I never got any errors from the SCSI), so still with dinstall running on the first vc, I switched to vc2 and manually ran floppy_merge, gzip and star on the troublesome SCSI disk. This WORKED TOO. The only explenation I can think of (which isn't very robust, I admit) is that maybe star finds the pipe from gzip to be empty sometimes, and quits instead of waiting for gzip to fill the pipe. This might also explain the fact that the point of complaint wasn't exactly the same all the time. Thanks for any input about this. Cheers, --Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED]
