Re: woody boot floppies woes

2001-05-16 Thread sharkey
> For right now, I think the best thing to do if you want to run > woody is install the potato release, (just the basics) and then > do a apt-get dist-upgrade after changing you're > /etc/apt/sources.list. Yeah, that's what I am doing now, but point of using the woody install disks was because D

Re: woody boot floppies woes

2001-05-16 Thread sharkey
> I assume you are suing current cvs? No, I'm using the disks marked as current (April 11). I assumed these were the ones that Dale was asking us to test. If not, is there a HOWTO on how to make boot floppies from your CVS server? If there's to be a large scale testing of these disks by the te

woody boot floppies woes

2001-05-16 Thread sharkey
Uhm, has *anyone* succeeded to install a machine using the woody boot floppies? So far, I've just met with utter failure. Every time I try to install the base system over the network the machine prints "trying to get package" messages for a whole bunch of packages, and then returns me to the me

Re: boot-floppies 2.2.25 with i386 2.2.19 upgrade

2001-05-14 Thread sharkey
> LSI Logic Symbios pci scsi bios. > > I think that is what you are looking for. Not really, no. I wanted a chip number. www.tekram.com, flip, flip, flip. It's a Symbos 53C1010, which appears to be more or less compatible with the 53C8xx chips used in the earlier tekram cards. At least,

Re: boot-floppies 2.2.25 with i386 2.2.19 upgrade

2001-05-14 Thread sharkey
> That is not right. Please understand, I cannot see the hard drives > because the scsi controler is not being loaded on boot. That means that > Configure Device Driver Modules will not work. I have no drives at this > time. What chip is on that card? The DC390W/U/F use Symbios 53c8xx chips w

Re: boot-floppies 2.2.25 with i386 2.2.19 upgrade

2001-05-14 Thread sharkey
I haven't tried the latest disks yet, but... > I have a problem. I need to reconize the tekram scsi controler card Which Tekram scsi controller? (There's more than one incompatible kind.) > I just tried your boot disks > and I still cannot see the drives. Which module did you insert? What