Re: RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-24 Thread Whan Park
How do you do. I was having problem with my hard disk and i was surffing around and found this site http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2004/05/msg00180.htmlasking you question on partitioning his hard disk. I couldnt find any who can help me so I am seeking for your help. I

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-24 Thread Marc Schlensog
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 09:53, Whan Park wrote: I have new 80gb hard disk from Ebay, After i put it in my comp my bios did found it. However when i tried partition it through FDISK i could not create the disk. OK... I also tried with third party programs such as partition magic and partion

Re: testing vs stable (was Re: broadcom drivers debian (was RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning))

2004-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
: broadcom drivers debian (was RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning)) On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 08:37:46PM -0400, Dan M. MacNeil wrote: http://www.nl.debian.org/security/faq#testing Q: How is security handled for testing and unstable? A: The short answer is: it's not. Testing

Re: testing vs stable (was Re: broadcom drivers debian (was RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning))

2004-06-08 Thread Dan M. MacNeil
I stutter: It is my subjective experience that the security team is actually pretty good about updating testing. For example the postgresql update applied to both testing stable. Steve Langaek (post modern programer) writes: This would be very subjective indeed, because the security

Re: testing vs stable (was Re: broadcom drivers debian (was RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning))

2004-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:35:56AM -0400, Dan M. MacNeil wrote: I stutter: It is my subjective experience that the security team is actually pretty good about updating testing. For example the postgresql update applied to both testing stable. Steve Langaek (post modern programer)

RE: broadcom drivers debian (was RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning)

2004-06-07 Thread Speakman, John H./Epidemiology-Biostatistics
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 3:39 PM To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Cc: Helge Kreutzmann; Jim and Kelly Younkin Subject: Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning Importance: Low On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 06

Re: broadcom drivers debian (was RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning)

2004-06-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 12:39:04AM -0400, Speakman, John H./Epidemiology-Biostatistics wrote: Actually, my own e-mail piqued my interest enough to go and try it on a dl140. The sarge installer is sweet and detects the Broadcom. But (maybe this is my ignorance about Debian) this is work;

RE: broadcom drivers debian (was RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning)

2004-06-07 Thread Speakman, John H./Epidemiology-Biostatistics
@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: broadcom drivers debian (was RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning) On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 12:39:04AM -0400, Speakman, John H./Epidemiology-Biostatistics wrote: Actually, my own e-mail piqued my interest enough to go and try it on a dl140. The sarge installer

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-07 Thread Cernese, Dan
After creating a useful BSD disklabel and partition scheme, the d-i doesn't allow you do choose mount points outside of partman! It claims there's no root filesystem and puts you back into parman which can't see the partitions to select mount points for them!? Erm. This is quite

testing vs stable (was Re: broadcom drivers debian (was RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning))

2004-06-07 Thread Dan M. MacNeil
x The largest difference between stable and testing is that Debian provides security updates for stable, and for testing you're on your http://www.nl.debian.org/security/faq#testing Q: How is security handled for testing and unstable? A: The short answer is: it's not. Testing and unstable

Re: testing vs stable (was Re: broadcom drivers debian (was RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning))

2004-06-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 08:37:46PM -0400, Dan M. MacNeil wrote: http://www.nl.debian.org/security/faq#testing Q: How is security handled for testing and unstable? A: The short answer is: it's not. Testing and unstable are rapidly moving targets and the security team does not have the

RE: testing vs stable (was Re: broadcom drivers debian (was RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning))

2004-06-07 Thread Speakman, John H./Epidemiology-Biostatistics
news soon. Best John -Original Message- From: Steve Langasek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 9:51 PM To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: testing vs stable (was Re: broadcom drivers debian (was RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning)) On Mon, Jun 07

Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-06 Thread madragoran
Your whole problem is the DAC960 module not loading. And even if it did, the devices on the dac are not /dev/sda, etc but rather they are /dev/rd/c0d0, etc. I tried the sarge installer just for fun awhile back and had no luck with my dac960 raid arrays - I don't remember for sure, but i don't

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-06 Thread Speakman, John H./Epidemiology-Biostatistics
- From: Jim and Kelly Younkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 7:36 PM To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning Is there anything more I can do to get the necessary information for someone to be able to diagnosis the problem

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-06 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Speakman, John H./Epidemiology-Biostatistics wrote: I do think if you have to have Linux it should be Debian. For someone who has had so much trouble with both Intel and Alpha, why Debian? -- Jiann-Ming Su Yeah, Lois, that'll be about as much fun as a lecture on

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-06 Thread Speakman, John H./Epidemiology-Biostatistics
1:42 PM To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Speakman, John H./Epidemiology-Biostatistics wrote: I do think if you have to have Linux it should be Debian. For someone who has had so much trouble with both Intel and Alpha

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-06 Thread Jim and Kelly Younkin
: RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning Importance: Low Not to sound like a wet blanket, but if you have to have Linux I say give it up already and buy an Intel box, the more standard the better. But expect to have problems there too, especially with the Broadcom NICs that every new Intel box

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-06 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Jim and Kelly Younkin wrote: My point is that I have a purpose for which to use my Linux server and I need to get on with that purpose. Been faffing around with this since May 21st, and I need to move on. Thanks for sharing your experience with RedHat, I will probably

broadcom drivers debian (was RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning)

2004-06-06 Thread Dan M. MacNeil
To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning Is there anything more I can do to get the necessary information for someone to be able to diagnosis the problem and suggest a solution? Should I try RedHat, or another flavor of Linux that supports Alpha

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-05 Thread Jim and Kelly Younkin
do not know *how* to run fdisk. Jim -Original Message- From: Jiann-Ming Su [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 11:15 PM To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning On Mon, 31 May 2004, Jim and Kelly Younkin wrote: I

Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-05 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 12:10:33PM -0400, Jim and Kelly Younkin wrote: I am ashamed to admit, but I *still* don't get how I am supposed to run FDISK so I can get to an FDISK prompt. There is nothing to be ashamed of! ~# fdisk /dev/sda /bin/sh: ~fdisk: not found I don't know the PATH

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-05 Thread Jim and Kelly Younkin
- From: Helge Kreutzmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 12:37 PM To: Jim and Kelly Younkin Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning Importance: Low Hello, On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 12:10:33PM -0400, Jim and Kelly Younkin wrote: I

Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 06:36:34PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello, On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 12:10:33PM -0400, Jim and Kelly Younkin wrote: I am ashamed to admit, but I *still* don't get how I am supposed to run FDISK so I can get to an FDISK prompt. There is nothing to be ashamed of!

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-05 Thread Jim and Kelly Younkin
: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning Importance: Low On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 06:36:34PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello, On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 12:10:33PM -0400, Jim and Kelly Younkin wrote: I am ashamed to admit, but I *still* don't get how I am supposed to run FDISK so I can get

Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 09:48:41AM -0400, Cernese, Dan wrote: I'm in the middle of dealing with this same issue, I cannot figure out how to partition my IDE drive in a DS20L (that has no floppy; only a CD and an IDE drive). Using SRM... I started with sarge/testing's netboot installer (both

Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-05 Thread Steve Langasek
] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 9:48 AM To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning I'm in the middle of dealing with this same issue, I cannot figure out how to partition my IDE drive in a DS20L (that has no floppy; only a CD and an IDE drive

Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-05 Thread Steve Langasek
- From: Steve Langasek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 3:39 PM To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Cc: Helge Kreutzmann; Jim and Kelly Younkin Subject: Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning Importance: Low On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 06:36:34PM +0200, Helge

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-05 Thread Jim and Kelly Younkin
postmodern programmer -Original Message- From: Steve Langasek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 3:39 PM To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Cc: Helge Kreutzmann; Jim and Kelly Younkin Subject: Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning Importance: Low On Sat

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-05 Thread Jim and Kelly Younkin
postmodern programmer -Original Message- From: Steve Langasek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 3:39 PM To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Cc: Helge Kreutzmann; Jim and Kelly Younkin Subject: Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning Importance: Low On Sat

Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-05 Thread Steve Langasek
-alpha@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning Importance: Low On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 07:35:44PM -0400, Jim and Kelly Younkin wrote: Is there anything more I can do to get the necessary information for someone to be able to diagnosis the problem and suggest

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-05 Thread Jim and Kelly Younkin
that as well... # modprobe -v DAC960 modprobe: failed to load module DAC960 -Original Message- From: Steve Langasek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 9:06 PM To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning Importance: Low On Sat, Jun 05

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-05 Thread Jim and Kelly Younkin
that as well... # modprobe -v DAC960 modprobe: failed to load module DAC960 -Original Message- From: Steve Langasek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 9:06 PM To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning Importance: Low On Sat, Jun 05

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-05 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Jim and Kelly Younkin wrote: Should I try RedHat, or another flavor of Linux that supports Alpha? What are you going to be using this system for? The only thing RH7.2 doesn't have over debian is the ability to install and upgrade with apt. Otherwise, I'm sure RH7.2

Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-04 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On Mon, 31 May 2004, Jim and Kelly Younkin wrote: I believe I know how I want to partition my system but I do not know how to proceed. The docs I read indicate that because I am booting from SRM I must use FDISK, but I do not know how to find or run this program. The Debian Installer does

Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-02 Thread Cameron Patrick
Jiann-Ming Su wrote: | I thought Debian's installer used cfdisk. For more info in partitioning | with fdisk: | | http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/partition-5.html If by Debian's installer you mean boot floppies on i386 then that's true. It's never been used on alpha -- boot-floppies used

Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-02 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 03:23:58PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: Jiann-Ming Su wrote: | I thought Debian's installer used cfdisk. For more info in partitioning | with fdisk: | | http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/partition-5.html If by Debian's installer you mean boot floppies on

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-02 Thread Cernese, Dan
? -Original Message- From: Cameron Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 3:24 AM To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning Jiann-Ming Su wrote: | I thought Debian's installer used cfdisk. For more info

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-02 Thread Cernese, Dan
: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 12:28 AM To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning I assume you are using Beta 4... take a look at the errata: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata Your best bet is probably to install a minimal Woody

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-02 Thread Cernese, Dan
, 2004 9:48 AM To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning I'm in the middle of dealing with this same issue, I cannot figure out how to partition my IDE drive in a DS20L (that has no floppy; only a CD and an IDE drive). Using SRM... I started

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-02 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Cernese, Dan wrote: Aah, I tried this route. Unfortunately, the woody e100 driver is so unstable as to hit continualy transmit timeouts which prevent a useful upgrade. Maybe I'll stick a tulip card in just to do the upgrade. Is your card not compatible with the

Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-01 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
I assume you are using Beta 4... take a look at the errata: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata Your best bet is probably to install a minimal Woody and do an apt-get dist-upgrade. You'd probably want to make your /etc/apt/preferences look like: Package: * Pin: release

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-01 Thread Jim and Kelly Younkin
- From: Jiann-Ming Su [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 12:12 AM To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning I assume you are using Beta 4... take a look at the errata: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata Your best

Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 11:12:21PM -0500, Jiann-Ming Su wrote: I assume you are using Beta 4... take a look at the errata: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata Your best bet is probably to install a minimal Woody and do an apt-get dist-upgrade. Er, questionable, unless you

Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 04:45:43PM -0400, Jim and Kelly Younkin wrote: When I boot from the CD to install Sarge it automatically loads the Debian Installer. It prompts for language, and then begins. Problem #1: [?] Detect Network Hardware - Error while running 'modprobe -v DAC960'

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-01 Thread Jim and Kelly Younkin
trying that first. Jim -Original Message- From: Steve Langasek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:02 AM To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning Importance: Low On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 11:12:21PM -0500, Jiann-Ming Su wrote

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-01 Thread Jim and Kelly Younkin
they are starting or scheduling processes. HTH..thanks! Jim -Original Message- From: Steve Langasek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:09 AM To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning Importance: Low On Mon, May 31, 2004

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-01 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Jim and Kelly Younkin wrote: The only driver I have that I see a problem with in the errata is the QLogicISP. Not sure this is even a problem, since it does successfully use the CD-ROM drive. If someone could just explain how to partition my drives within the

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-05-31 Thread Jim and Kelly Younkin
running FDISK, but I do not know how to run the FDISK program from within the Debian Installer. Jim -Original Message- From: Conny Enström [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 6:55 PM To: Jim and Kelly Younkin Subject: Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-05-31 Thread Jim and Kelly Younkin
?  Is there a better way to set up these partitions? Jim -Original Message- From: Conny Enström [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 6:55 PM To: Jim and Kelly Younkin Subject: Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning - Original Message - From