Bug#69372: cfdisk bugged and wiped partition

2000-08-18 Thread Thue
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; Severity: critical Using cfdisk to remove the adjacent partitions hda5 and hda7 and create a new partition, all the partition names were reordered. This is ok I guess, except that it insisted on having 2 hda6'es! I tried exiting cfdisk and entering again, but

Boot of 2000/98/Debian system?

2000-08-18 Thread Conrad Delbert Seaman
I'm having trouble getting lilo to boot the system I have, there seems to bea gap in the doc's. My system looks as follows. 1 20 gig disk 50% Disk C: (first partition) Windows2000(NT5)/Windows98 (this boots using the NT loader) 50% Partition 2: Linux Prime, Linux Swap, Linux Prime I know

Re: Boot of 2000/98/Debian system?

2000-08-18 Thread Conrad Delbert Seaman
I'm having trouble getting lilo to boot the system I have, there seems to bea gap in the doc's. My system looks as follows. 1 20 gig disk 50% Disk C: (first partition) Windows2000(NT5)/Windows98 (this boots using the NT loader) 50% Partition 2: Linux Prime, Linux

Automatic installation of a Debian system

2000-08-18 Thread Romain Guilleret
Hi, Sorry if this question has already been asked. I couldn't find anything. I'm looking for a tool for installing automatically a Debian system from scratch, using a local mirror and a boot floppy, a la Kickstart: - Partition the disk - Install a Debian base system end

Re: Automatic installation of a Debian system

2000-08-18 Thread Samuel Hocevar
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000, Romain Guilleret wrote: I'm looking for a tool for installing automatically a Debian system from scratch, using a local mirror and a boot floppy, a la Kickstart: - Partition the disk - Install a Debian base system end configure it (links, timezone ) - Install chosen

Re: [redferni@logica.com: Re: Release Notes!!!]

2000-08-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 10:49:19PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: From: Ian Redfern [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Release Notes!!! One thing that I don't remember seeing in the release notes is a mention that, after upgrading from slink, it is necessary to

Re: Bugs against release notes?

2000-08-18 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Package: boot-floppies is the right place to file a bug. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc reduction

2000-08-18 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is here somebody around who groks library reduction? I'm not getting anywhere with it, lacking some background information and seem to be blind all over. Hmm. I guess you mebbe should look at the CVS changelog for the file and email the people who

Re: How on earth do I load modules from the floppy disks?

2000-08-18 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Pedro I. Sanchez" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "configured modules; modconf returned 32512" I'm stuck at this point. Can anyone help me here? Hmmm. Try booting with 'debug' turned on and look at the logs. You can also try going to tty2 and trying the modprobe commands manually there on the

Re: potato release notes missing

2000-08-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 04:27:14PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: I disagree, it's useful, having directories without index.html is bad. I deny it is actually useful. All of its information is more completely and clearly stated at http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/index.*.html. That

Modules not find in lib errors in 1.44 root.bin file

2000-08-18 Thread tadashi . yoshida
Tried on the ver 2.2, 1.44 diskette set, and encountered the following errors: 1) a use of the root.bin disk reports "modules not find in the /lib" errors could installed isp16 netwrk3, but not lp 2) an installation, kind of, halt when tried to initialize swap drives. I will try to test more

Re: Default kernel config.

2000-08-18 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 04:18:15PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: If so, I'm not sure this is doable. I've CC'd the kernel maintainer; but please provide a URL for where you got the patch. I know about the patch already. Apparently it's not particularly stable at the moment, especially on