Re: Alpha Boot Floppies: new version

2001-08-27 Thread Richard Hirst
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 03:25:05AM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Selecting previously deselected package libc6.1. (Reading database ... 216 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libc6.1 (from ../libc6.1_2.2.3-8_alpha.deb) ... Setting up libc6.1

Re: Alpha Boot Floppies: new version

2001-08-14 Thread Doug Larrick
I have used the boot floppy images from ftp://134.2.15.134/boot-floppies/disks-alpha/ to attempt an install from scratch on a Bret (AlphaStation 500/500). The good news? bootp/tftp boot works great! In SRM, you need to select bootp via console variable ('set ewa0_protocol bootp' or

Re: Alpha Boot Floppies: new version

2001-08-14 Thread Falk Hueffner
Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The good news? bootp/tftp boot works great! In SRM, you need to select bootp via console variable ('set ewa0_protocol bootp' or something like that) rather than via a flag to the boot command ('boot -proto bootp ewa0' does not work, failing with Block

Re: Alpha Boot Floppies: new version

2001-08-14 Thread Doug Larrick
Quoting Falk Hueffner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That's really good news. I couldn't get bootp to work, so I couldn't test it. There were some suspicious hacks in the previous version... Bootp is a lot easier to get going using a dhcp server rather than a bootp server. Much better log messages.

Re: Alpha Boot Floppies: new version

2001-08-14 Thread Falk Hueffner
Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Falk Hueffner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That's really good news. I couldn't get bootp to work, so I couldn't test it. There were some suspicious hacks in the previous version... Bootp is a lot easier to get going using a dhcp server rather

Re: Alpha Boot Floppies: new version

2001-08-14 Thread doug
Anthony Towns just posted a method on debian-boot [of making a basedebs.tgz file] OK, I gave this a try, same result; let me type in the end of console 4 (anything really odd is probably a typo): dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-depencency problem ! (Reading database... 77 files and directories

Re: Alpha Boot Floppies: new version

2001-08-14 Thread Falk Hueffner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anthony Towns just posted a method on debian-boot [of making a basedebs.tgz file] OK, I gave this a try, same result; let me type in the end of console 4 (anything really odd is probably a typo): dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-depencency problem ! (Reading

Re: Alpha Boot Floppies: new version

2001-08-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Falk Hueffner wrote: We could also need a tester for nautilus, since I have no idea about the current state. I have a nautilus to test on, but not much time; will try to test by end-of-week, after 3.0.10 is built. Zeen, -- -Adam P. GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8

Alpha Boot Floppies: new version

2001-08-09 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, I've built new boot floppies from the current boot-floppies CVS and put them on ftp://134.2.15.134/boot-floppies/disks-alpha/. I think they are now in a state to be added to ftp.debian.org at the next boot-floppies release. I've used MILO 2.2-17 this time, since 2.2-18 was reported to be