Bug#288408: installation-reports: Boot Loader Failure and Success and Failure (LILO BAD, GRUB fails reboot)

2005-01-03 Thread Greg Folkert
Package: installation-reports Severity: important -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers experimental APT policy: (990, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) INSTALL REPORT

Re: Debian on Alpha

2004-12-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 13:49 -0800, edison chalabi wrote: > Hey guys, > > I consider myself rather a beginner to the Linux > world, but I was able to install > "sarge-i386-netinst.iso" on my alpha 433 workstation > without any issues... > > Keep up the great work!!! > Edison HUH? DOO TELL! -

Bug#282652: installation report

2004-11-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 19:46 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 11:06:47AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > Tried to do the Multi-User thing and aboot just would not install. This > > is the guided one-partition thing. I have a gaggle of disk for this > &g

Bug#282652: installation report

2004-11-23 Thread Greg Folkert
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Alpha 20041118 for Sarge uname -a: Linux undead 2.6.8-1-generic #1 Mon Oct 11 06:38:27 CEST 2004 alpha GNU/Linux Date: 20041119 thru 20041122 Method: I used a tftp/bootp server with boot.img from the, http://ftp.us.debian.org/

Bug#267321: Debian installer and /etc/hosts

2004-08-23 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 21:51 +0800, John Summerfield wrote: [...] > Then it's the user's task to configure the system appropriately. I run a > webserver. I can configure it to listen to any IP address I choose, > including 127.0.0.1. I don't need any bogus network interfaces, IP > addresses or ho

Re: di and woody

2004-08-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 23:38, John Summerfield wrote: > A few minutes ago Ibooted d-i off my week-old network boot setup and > tried to install Woody. > > It coukln't find the needed netinstall image from the local official mirror. Hmmm, I didn't think the new d-i was aimed at Woody. -- greg, [E

Re: lvm and raid?

2004-08-03 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 18:02, Joey Hess wrote: > Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > I don't think it ever offered it. IMHO it's a bug in parted for not > > offering the right flags, but maybe partman should just work around > > it. It would certainly be good to provide support for lvm on raid > > since m

Re: Introduction

2004-08-03 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 22:43, John Summerfield wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > >Personally, I use: CTRL+L to reply to list. > > > > > > > Thunderbird lacks that option. So did Evo. I added the CTRL+L to do the reply to list. I really thought T-Bird had a fu

Re: Introduction

2004-08-02 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 22:08, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 04:12, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Google for "Reply-To considered harmful". > > Nevertheless: Smoking is considered harmful, Fat is harmful too, > Cholesterol is harmful. But, what if the community prefer those > h

Re: Pointing users to d-i images on the main page

2004-06-23 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 08:10, Christian Perrier wrote: > I'm currently feeling that the way we currently point > users to the various builds on the d-i main page > (http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer) is not optimal. > > > Basically, we have 3 sections here: > > -beta4 > -tc1 > -daily b

D-I Sparc32 Floppy fails to boot on SPARCstation 10

2004-06-22 Thread Greg Folkert
I have a SPARCstation 10 UP with 64MB memory. I have tried: http://june.voxel.net/~joshk/d-i/images/2004-06-23/sparc32/floppy/ and http://june.voxel.net/~joshk/d-i/images/2004-06-01/sparc32/floppy/ and http://june.voxel.net/~joshk/d-i/images/2004-05-14/sparc32/floppy/ Those images, all come up w

Bug#247819: installer message

2004-06-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 10:09, Alessandro Foresi wrote: > Taken from a recent (Jun 2004) installer snapshot: > > "Debian does not currently support using software RAID for the root > filesystem of /boot partition. A system installed in this way will > not boot." > > Nice fix :-) I ran into this

Re: Google

2004-06-02 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 13:16, GJL wrote: > Why is your web page coming up on my computer when the location bar says > Google.com?? Which web-page? We only have one central one: http://www.debian.org It would be good if you read a bit about what and who we are. Mainly you have not patched your sy

Re: no support for anything but ext2?

2004-02-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 20:00, Joey Hess wrote: > Vaclav Dvorak wrote: > > I downloaded this ISO image, dated 21/02/2004, with jigdo: > > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/cd/jigdo-area/i386/sarge-i386-1.jigdo > [...] > > We support ext3, reiserfs, and ext2, with xfs coming in the next few >

Re: Remove my name from display!

2004-01-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 06:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I request you to remove my name from public "mockering-list" of yours > immediately. > It has been on display for several years by now, and should be enough > to satisfy > your sick sense of humour. I give you 14 days to remove my name from >

Re: Hardware for d-i folks

2004-01-22 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 11:15, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote: > * Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-09 13:22]: > > FWIW, I had previously offered an out-of-service alpha to Mako, > > which I guess hasn't had any takers yet. :) The box was taken out > > (I think we only co

Re: It's very relevant replying my email

2003-11-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 14:48, camuflag wrote: > Honourable Sir, > My name is Ziad Fazah. Indeed, I have been using many versions of Linux > since a long time, such as:Redhat,slackware,suse, but recently, after > having installed over and over Debian 3.0, I found out that I couldn't > hook up with

Re: Re Debian 3.0 for Intel {Scanned}

2003-11-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 09:18, Rob Russell wrote: > I have recently purchased a NetFinity 5600 with ServerRaid 4L and > ServerRaid2 SCSI cards installed. > I have not been able to get Debian to install on this machine. > I have tried "Compact" "BF24" "Linux" and "Vanilla" > Consistant error " No Har

Re: Realtek RTL8139

2003-11-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 22:19, Ed Heaney wrote: > I am stooped in setting up linux on a new disk, by a command line > request for a Realtek RTL8139 module. I am worn out from searching > Google. I am using a Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 "Woody" system disk. Could be the 8139too driver works. Both the

There it is! Where? There it is! Oh! There!

2003-10-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 13:15, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:59:33PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Okay, in Joey's summary of Oldenberg he hints @ Milo Source being > > unavailable. > > > > I have versions 0.13 thru 0.27 (dated between Jan 199

Milo

2003-10-01 Thread Greg Folkert
Okay, in Joey's summary of Oldenberg he hints @ Milo Source being unavailable. I have versions 0.13 thru 0.27 (dated between Jan 1995 and Aug 1996) Is this the stuff that is needed? or are we talking about the stuff that used to be available @ genie.ucd.ie ? (University College, Dublin, Ireland)