Re: Debian and 16 CPUs

2004-05-14 Thread Christian Leber
not really matter. Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est." (Aurelius Augustinus) Translation: <http://gnuhh.org/work/fsf-europe/augustinus.html> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Small and bootable

2004-02-24 Thread Christian Leber
next month or some other stupid thing like this. (I have seen solaris installations with 30 MB / paritions, where you can't install patches because of this...) But it's usefull to have /home or /var on a different disk or at least partition. Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim r

The order NICs are detected

2004-01-17 Thread Christian Leber
Hello, I just installed with http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/20040117/sarge-i386-businesscard.iso while booting from CD my e100 was detected as eth0 and the e1000 as eth1, I configured the eth0, when I rebooted the box the e1000 was detected as eth0. Christian Leber

Re: [WOODY] Need sugestion for Floppy-Install

2003-11-02 Thread Christian Leber
s are really cool, they are 100 MB in size and do about 100 kb/s when connected to parallel port... ok, this was nice in 1995 Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est." (Aurelius Augustinus) Tr

Re: Minimal memory installation

2003-09-29 Thread Christian Leber
er computer with more ram for installation or rebuild boot-floppies without all the languages and put a minimal kernel (2.2) on the boot disk. I'm relativly sure that this is doable, but running apt with 8 MB will take ages for anything! Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae d

Re: squashfs compressed file system

2003-02-07 Thread Christian Leber
1.4, i was not able to find the newer version) only the part to compress the kernel with bzip2, but it crashs after decompressing. damn, the savings are nice Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est

Re: bf24 fails almost instantly

2002-10-03 Thread Christian Leber
compiled kernel? Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est." (Aurelius Augustinus) Translation: <http://gnuhh.org/work/fsf-europe/augustinus.html> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Installing Debian from floppies...

2002-08-13 Thread Christian Leber
ot.bin >root.img; mount -o loop root.img /floppy) Regards, Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est." (Aurelius Augustinus) Translation: <http://gnuhh.org/work/fsf-europe/augustinus.h

Re: Bochs can be helpful for bootdisk testing

2002-04-13 Thread Christian Leber
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 05:05:57PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Absolutely; UML has been able to be used for installation testing for quite > some time now. Even more if initrd would be compiled in. Regards, Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum hab

Re: 2.4 kernel as default boot kernel on CD #1 ??

2002-04-07 Thread Christian Leber
possible to test MEMDISK on that machine? sure, but > According to this: > > http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php > > MEMDISK is ... a workaround for BIOSes where ISOLINUX image > support doesn't work. therefore isolinux would have to start first and i

Re: 2.4 kernel as default boot kernel on CD #1 ??

2002-04-07 Thread Christian Leber
ge, but it > > fails on 2 newer systems. > Fails in the meaning of booting the first image without proposing a menu > or completely fails to boot ? Sorry, I was not accurate. It works without proposing a menu, but I will test today on another system and 2 notebooks. Regards Christian Le

Re: 2.4 kernel as default boot kernel on CD #1 ??

2002-04-07 Thread Christian Leber
The same with gentoo, they have even managed to fit a 2.4 kernel on their first and only CD. But I have at least one Computer (i386, from end of 1996) where isolinux fails. MULTIBOOT seems to work everywhere at least with the first image, but it fails on 2 newer systems. Regards Christian Leber

Re: Unidentified subject!

2002-04-03 Thread Christian Leber
Enter] $ cvs checkout -AP boot-floppies $ cvs logout A todo list is inside the source tree or you could read the mailing list archiv. Regards Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est." (Aur

Small patch (makes root.bin about 3900 byte smaller)

2002-03-06 Thread Christian Leber
p -9>devices.tar.gz ; rm _devices.tar.gz) > thank you very much Regards, Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est." (Aurelius Augustinus) Translation: <http://gnuhh.org/work/fsf-europe

Re: Reducing the size of the root disk with the help of bz2

2002-03-05 Thread Christian Leber
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 03:57:00PM +0100, Christian Leber wrote: > igor1:/home/ijuz/new/boot-floppies# ls -l rootbf2.4.bin > -rw-r--r--1 root root 1432140 Mar 5 14:56 rootbf2.4.bin Ok, this makes no seens without numbers to compare: CVS from a few minutes ago without ths

Re: Out of space - drop one language

2002-03-03 Thread Christian Leber
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 06:34:07PM +0100, Christian Leber wrote: Hello, > > Yes, it is already compressed twice. Nothing or not much to get here. > > core:~# zcat devices.tar.gz |gzip|gzip -9|wc -c > 27559 > core:~# zcat devices.tar.gz |gzip -9|gzip -9|wc -c > 24104 &

Re: Out of space - drop one language

2002-03-03 Thread Christian Leber
newer makedev). > > line 358: > > "tar zcf $devtarball dev" -> "tar c dev|gzip -9>$devtarball" > Err, no $devtarball is used for build only. The tarball on the rootfs > comes from debootstrap. Ok, but it is the same (line 69 in the debootstrap Makefile). C

Re: Out of space - drop one language

2002-03-03 Thread Christian Leber
line 358: "tar zcf $devtarball dev" -> "tar c dev|gzip -9>$devtarball" BTW: is it possible to build boot-floppies without root? (a long time ago compiling boot-floppies killed my filesystem and my spare computer is really to slow) Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res,

Re: 132990 not WSOD, maybe fixed

2002-02-28 Thread Christian Leber
k 7 minutes on this system The installation of the base packages took about 40 minutes, this is a bit long, but it works. The boot-floppies are getting better and better. Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo haben

Re: non-recognition of hard drive(s) in AMD Athlon w/KT7A-RAID mb running RAID 0 (striping) w/2 Quantum Fireball 30 G hard drives on IDE 3 & 4 controllers

2002-02-20 Thread Christian Leber
e linux kernel, but i don't think that the performance gain will be big at all (without special applications). Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est." (Aurelius Augustinus) Tran