Re: Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-14 07:28]: > 1) just run the installation until base install fails to start the "fails to install", sorry. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* John Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-14 14:20]: > More replying to myself I'm afraid. I've got stuck trying to do > step 2. > > The instructions for interrupting redboot say to use: > > arping -f 192.168.1.100 && telnet 192.168.1.100 9000 > > Unfortunately the current version of arping (2.0

Re: Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* John Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-14 07:06]: > How does one actually tell the installer to switch into expert mode? > There didn't seem to be an option with the el installer - although > of course it did it once partman had failed. You're not asked by default what mode you want to do, so

Re: Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* John Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-14 08:45]: > Presumably it is theoretically possible to just pull those into > memory and set them running - or have I missed something? Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Sorry for not being clear. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UN

Re: Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-14 Thread John Winters
John Winters wrote: Martin Michlmayr wrote: * John Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-13 16:43]: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/armel/images/daily/iop32x/netboot/n2100.bin disc OK, but then partman exits part way through starting up. It gets as far as 58% in its startup progress bar a

Re: Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-14 Thread John Winters
John Winters wrote: [snip] Thank you for your very complete replies. I believe what I need to do now is: 1) Unpack the Thecus firmware (done that) 2) Interrupt redboot with telnet 3) Suck a couple of files over with tftp 4) Boot into the Thecus firmware 5) Do an upgrade again, but this time wi

Re: Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-13 Thread John Winters
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * John Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-13 16:43]: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/armel/images/daily/iop32x/netboot/n2100.bin disc OK, but then partman exits part way through starting up. It gets as far as 58% in its startup progress bar and just exits. [snip]

Re: Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* John Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-13 16:43]: >> http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/armel/images/daily/iop32x/netboot/n2100.bin > disc OK, but then partman exits part way through starting up. It gets as > far as 58% in its startup progress bar and just exits. I assume you used the URL

Re: Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* John Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-13 14:13]: > As I understand it, you select expert mode (or set the message > priority to low) and then give the name of the right kernel to > install at the relevant point, but I can't find documented anywhere > what the name of the right kernel is. Can

Re: Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-13 Thread John Winters
Colin Tuckley wrote: John Winters wrote: I've just sourced an Evesham re-badged Thecus 2100 and would like to upgrade it to a full Debian installation. I've previously done the same with an NSLU2, but am interested in the potential extra speed of the Thecus. I did this recently using the new

Re: Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-13 Thread Colin Tuckley
John Winters wrote: > I've just sourced an Evesham re-badged Thecus 2100 and would like to > upgrade it to a full Debian installation. I've previously done the same > with an NSLU2, but am interested in the potential extra speed of the > Thecus. I did this recently using the new ARM EABI/arml por

Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-13 Thread John Winters
I've just sourced an Evesham re-badged Thecus 2100 and would like to upgrade it to a full Debian installation. I've previously done the same with an NSLU2, but am interested in the potential extra speed of the Thecus. Reading the lists it appears that the Debian installer is currently broken