Re: Reducing redundancy

2000-12-15 Thread Adam Brown
Yes I can put some effort into this assuming I have the blessing of the Debian community. You might have to explain the due process with regard to making changes. As I said, I'm looking to start a course here in Melbourne and I've allocated resources to do quite a bit of writing notes, I'd rathe

Re: Reducing redundancy

2000-12-15 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 03:57:31PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > As an example of the existing redundancy in the installation > > > documentation, from the documentation page I could potentially arrive at > > > three different installation guides: > > > > > > http://www.debian.org/releases/st

kernel loader vs boot manager

2000-12-15 Thread Gergely Risko
Hello! I think it will be good to have different package for kernel loader installing, and for boot manager installing. Because they are not the same. We can use lilo, install-mbr, grub, sbm as boot manager, and lilo and grub as kernel loader. What I'm really intrested in is to make an udeb for

Re: Install Problem

2000-12-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Shawn Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I cannot get my rescue diskette to work correctly, I have wrote the > rescue.bin file with rawrite2.exe according to the directions in the > online instruction manual (rawrite2 -f rescue.bin -d a).  I have > tried several times with several formatted d

Re: test boot-floppies (2.2.21) for m68k available

2000-12-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > TEST boot-floppies, built from fridays CVS are available at > http://auric.debian.org/~cts/bf/ > I used 2.2.17 kernel-images (thats why they should be tested!) and included > also Penguin17 (18 is still there). > Will feed those change

Re: Boot problem

2000-12-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Grzegorz Bieszczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to install Debian 2.2 r0. While the first boot to start > installation system hangs after the line: > md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 > > I was able to install on this computer Redhat 7 and Mandrake 7.2, so the > problem se

Re: Debian 2.2: download stops during "apt-get update"

2000-12-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Kelm) writes: > I originally sent this to debian-user, but got no response. Perhaps this is > the more appropriate list. Well, no, not really, but I'll give it a shot. > I am in the process of trying to upgrade my computers to 2.2. My > workstation was running 2.0 and

Re: Trying to install from CD

2000-12-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Mh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To whom it may concern- > > I have downloaded the iso images for Debian 2.2r2, and burned cd's for > disks 1 and 2. While trying to boot and install from disk 1 my machine > always locks up with the last line being displayed- > > sym53c416.c:Version 1.0.0 > >

Re: Reducing redundancy

2000-12-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 11:23:35AM +1100, Adam Brown wrote: > > As an example of the existing redundancy in the installation > > documentation, from the documentation page I could potentially arrive at > > three different installation guides: > > > > htt

Re: Reducing redundancy

2000-12-15 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 11:23:35AM +1100, Adam Brown wrote: > As an example of the existing redundancy in the installation > documentation, from the documentation page I could potentially arrive at > three different installation guides: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install > htt