Re: install -- netboot vs netinst vs businesscard Debian installer CDs

2010-01-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 1, 2010, at 8:44 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On 2010-01-01 at 13:51:59 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: Here's a datapoint... Today I did the same for the PowerPC version of the netboot/mini.iso (13 MB) and used it to install squeeze on my testing PowerMac G4. Worked a treat. And what's really

Re: install -- Debian install CD: "netboot" vs "netinst" vs "businesscard"

2010-01-01 Thread Rick Thomas
[This discussion started over on debian-user. I've CC'ed debian-boot incase there's anybody there who has wisdom on the subject.] On Dec 31, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: Hmm. I'm certain that I didn't set up a netboot server. I booted from what is ap

Re: Bootable USB images (Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb)

2010-01-01 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Aurelien Jarno writes: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 03:12:37PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 09:39:11PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:37:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:48:10PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >

Re: Bootable USB images

2010-01-01 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Ferenc Wagner dixit: >In case it's not widely known, let me quote isolinux.doc: > >Starting in version 3.72, ISOLINUX supports a "hybrid mode" which can >be booted from either CD-ROM or from a device which BIOS considers a >hard disk or ZIP disk, e.g. a USB key or similar. That’s one of the metho

Bug#563130: installation-reports 5.0.3 failure

2010-01-01 Thread Ferenc Wagner
steven writes: > Took a working Debian 4.0 system and did a fresh install of Debian > 5.0.3 via netinstall cd. Attempted to install to PERC3 raid PCI > device, this worked on Debian 4.0 but wont detect on 5.0.3. attempted > to install the megaraid_mbox module manually, no success. Is this the