Bug#405250: marked as done (SPARC32 floppy install - issues switching between floppies)

2011-01-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#405177: marked as done (install-report: no reboot after FLOPPY install)

2010-09-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#357704: marked as done (Floppy install does not configure boot dir and grub correctly)

2010-09-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#303812: marked as done (sarge floppy install report)

2010-09-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#272310: marked as done (Floppy install on Oldworld PowerMac G3 tower)

2010-09-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#270599: marked as done (Floppy install on Oldworld PowerMac)

2010-09-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#380585: marked as done (d-i: floppy install fails for USB keyboards)

2010-09-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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RFR: documentation about floppy install (Was: Re: floppy install)

2010-08-05 Thread Holger Wansing
Hello all, Philip Hands wrote: > James, if you try that, perhaps you could write-up any issues you bump > into, so that we could still offer a floppy install method, even if we > no longer try to cram the latest installer onto a floppy. I'm thinking of an addition to the d-i manu

Re: floppy install - unable to find root filesystem, ide_generic not loaded

2010-07-24 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Holger Wansing wrote: > Philip Hands wrote: > > Do you happen to know the name of the module that was providing ide > > support before the kernel upgrade was? > > Don't know, but I will start the whole floppy installation again, then I > will see. I have installed the system from scatch. A

Re: floppy install - unable to find root filesystem, ide_generic not loaded

2010-07-23 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Philip Hands wrote: > Do you happen to know the name of the module that was providing ide > support before the kernel upgrade was? Don't know, but I will start the whole floppy installation again, then I will see. > saying that it's no longer directly supported, but you can do it by > follo

Re: floppy install - unable to find root filesystem, ide_generic not loaded

2010-07-22 Thread Philip Hands
g.en.html#boot-hangs but I get the impression that your problem is not helped by these suggestions, so perhaps you should write a subsection that would have helped, and submit it as a bug report against the manual -- see: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-about.en.h

Re: floppy install - unable to find root filesystem, ide_generic not loaded

2010-07-22 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Philip Hands wrote: > It seems like the initramfs hasn't picked up on the fact that that > module is needed. This should be fixable by doing: > > echo ide_generic >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules > update-initramfs > > You may find that once booted with the module loaded, update-initram

Re: floppy install - unable to find root filesystem, ide_generic not loaded

2010-07-22 Thread Philip Hands
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:28:50 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: ... > Doing "modprobe ide_generic" makes the harddisk available, and > closing the shell with exit let's the system boot continue fine. > > Can anyone tell me, why this happens? > Should I file a bugreport? Against which package? Hi, It

Re: floppy install - unable to find root filesystem, ide_generic not loaded

2010-07-17 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Philip Hands wrote:. > > BTW, is there any reason why not install Etch from floppy instead of > > Sarge? > > No, none -- I thought I'd checked that. Actually, I think what actually > happened is that I found the sarge link first, checked for etch, found > it and then must have pasted the wr

Re: floppy install

2010-07-12 Thread Philip Hands
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:09:14 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi, ... > BTW, is there any reason why not install Etch from floppy instead of > Sarge? No, none -- I thought I'd checked that. Actually, I think what actually happened is that I found the sarge link first, checked for etch, found it a

Re: floppy install

2010-07-11 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Philip Hands wrote: > One could of course install Sarge, using images from here: > > > http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/current/images/floppy/ > > and then edit /etc/apt/source.list and apt-get update ; apt-get > dist-upgrade. > > A minimal Sarge install

Re: floppy install

2010-07-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Holger, On Donnerstag, 8. Juli 2010, Holger Wansing wrote: > I could perhaps use one of the force options in dpkg, or something like > that, but I wanted to ask for the "correct debian way" for such situations, > as this all would maybe lead to a "semi-official floppy installation > howto". Th

Re: floppy install

2010-07-08 Thread Holger Wansing
Hello, Philip Hands wrote: > Is it worth mentioning this for future people hunting for floppy > installs? > > James, if you try that, perhaps you could write-up any issues you bump > into, so that we could still offer a floppy install method, even if we > no longer try

Re: floppy install

2010-07-08 Thread Philip Hands
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 22:12:59 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: ... > So, the upgrade stops with the error message (only wrote from mind) > "debianutils: trying to overwrite add-shell, which is already in > package passwd". Does upgrading passwd first, with something like: apt-get install passwd g

Re: floppy install

2010-07-01 Thread Philip Hands
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:32:15 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting James (ja...@onyx.nurealm.net): > > > So, where are these floppy install images? Or do they exist? Or is the > > documentation just wrong? > > > There are no more floppy install disks as t

Re: floppy install

2010-06-25 Thread Holger Wansing
Hello, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > -You can download a couple of image files the size of a floppy disk > -or another removable media of similar small size, write them to the media, > +You can download a couple of image files the size of a > +removable media of similar small size, write the

Re: floppy install

2010-06-25 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 25.06.2010 06:32, schrieb Christian PERRIER: > There are no more floppy install disks as things no longer fit on them > for quite a while now. Sorry for this. > > Documentation that still points them should be updated. I just applied the following: -Tiny CDs, floppy disks

Re: floppy install

2010-06-24 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting James (ja...@onyx.nurealm.net): > So, where are these floppy install images? Or do they exist? Or is the > documentation just wrong? There are no more floppy install disks as things no longer fit on them for quite a while now. Sorry for this. Documentation that still point

floppy install

2010-06-24 Thread James
debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/ and reading the manifest http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/MANIFEST there seems to, in fact, be no such thing as a "floppy disk" size set of vmlinuz and initrd.img. So, wh

Processed: installation report: #480935: floppy install 20080227 not working - REASSIGN

2008-05-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 480935 syslinux Bug#480935: installationreport: floppy install 20080227 not working Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `syslinux'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assista

Bug#480935: installationreport: floppy install 20080227 not working

2008-05-12 Thread Holger Wansing
stall base system:[ ] Clock/timezone setup: [ ] User/password setup:[ ] Install tasks: [ ] Install boot loader:[ ] Overall install:[ ] Comments/Problems: Tried the floppy install on three different machines, with similar results: booting from "boot" fl

Bug#441446: Swap partition problem with low memory "expert" floppy install

2007-10-02 Thread Chris Bell
On Tue 02 Oct, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 09:05:36PM +, Chris Bell wrote: > >I then attempted to install a second system on hdb plus hdc, with swap > > plus a single RAID 1 partition on each disc. I tried several times with > > similar parameters, and each time the swap

Bug#441446: Swap partition problem with low memory "expert" floppy install

2007-10-02 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 09:05:36PM +, Chris Bell wrote: >I then attempted to install a second system on hdb plus hdc, with swap > plus a single RAID 1 partition on each disc. I tried several times with > similar parameters, and each time the swap partition on every one of the > three discs

Bug#299564: marked as done (Floppy install needs ide-drivers disk to allow early swap mount on lowmem installs)

2007-09-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:39:13 -0500 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Shipping Clerk - flexible time work-at-home opening has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the ca

Re: USB-floppy install problem

2007-06-11 Thread peter green
peter green wrote: Greg Flynn wrote: Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 11 June 2007 02:51, Greg Flynn wrote: I'm trying to install debian 4.0r0 via the floppy images. The laptop is a Averatec 3200 series laptop with AMD Athlon XP-m 2000+, 256MB RAM, a dead DVD-ROM/CD-RW (will not work at all), V

Re: USB-floppy install problem

2007-06-11 Thread Greg Flynn
Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 11 June 2007 02:51, Greg Flynn wrote: I'm trying to install debian 4.0r0 via the floppy images. The laptop is a Averatec 3200 series laptop with AMD Athlon XP-m 2000+, 256MB RAM, a dead DVD-ROM/CD-RW (will not work at all), Via chipset(not sure exactly which) and V

Re: USB-floppy install problem

2007-06-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 11 June 2007 02:51, Greg Flynn wrote: > I'm trying to install debian 4.0r0 via the floppy images. The laptop > is a Averatec 3200 series laptop with AMD Athlon XP-m 2000+, 256MB RAM, > a dead DVD-ROM/CD-RW (will not work at all), Via chipset(not sure > exactly which) and Via-rhine II eth

USB-floppy install problem

2007-06-10 Thread Greg Flynn
I'm trying to install debian 4.0r0 via the floppy images. The laptop is a Averatec 3200 series laptop with AMD Athlon XP-m 2000+, 256MB RAM, a dead DVD-ROM/CD-RW (will not work at all), Via chipset(not sure exactly which) and Via-rhine II ethernet. The floppy drive i'm trying to install from

Processed: Re: Bug#405250: SPARC32 floppy install - issues switching between floppies

2007-01-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 405250 rootskel-bootfloppy Bug#405250: SPARC32 floppy install - issues switching between floppies Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `rootskel-bootfloppy'. > End of message, stopping processing here. Plea

Bug#405250: SPARC32 floppy install - issues switching between floppies

2007-01-01 Thread Dan Oglesby
base system:[ ] Clock/timezone setup: [ ] User/password setup:[ ] Install tasks: [ ] Install boot loader:[ ] Overall install:[ ] Comments/Problems: There are some oddities when performing a floppy install of the "testing" version of Debian: After booting

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2007-01-01 Thread Dan Oglesby
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Thursday 21 December 2006 03:03, Dan Oglesby wrote: > Could you file one new installation report for the issue that you need > to press enter 4 times to get the root floppy loaded so we can keep > track of that? I think that is now the only issue remaining.

Processed: retitle 405177 to install-report: no reboot after FLOPPY install

2007-01-01 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 405177 install-report: no reboot after FLOPPY install Bug#405177: Changed Bug title. > End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debia

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-30 Thread Dan Oglesby
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Sorry for delay. I had to concentrate on other work for a bit. Not a problem at all. I know how that goes. :-) On Thursday 21 December 2006 03:03, Dan Oglesby wrote: > Could you file one new installation report for the issue that you need > to press e

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
Hi, Sorry for delay. I had to concentrate on other work for a bit. On Thursday 21 December 2006 03:03, Dan Oglesby wrote: > Could you file one new installation report for the issue that you need > to press enter 4 times to get the root floppy loaded so we can keep > track of that? I think that is

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-20 Thread Dan Oglesby
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 20 December 2006 05:18, Dan Oglesby wrote: > Just completed a flawless install of Debian off of the 2006-12-19 > floppy images on the SS20 system. All hardware detected automatically, > no errors during the install, and the system rebooted to a lo

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-20 Thread Dan Oglesby
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 20 December 2006 05:18, Dan Oglesby wrote: > Just completed a flawless install of Debian off of the 2006-12-19 > floppy images on the SS20 system. All hardware detected automatically, > no errors during the install, and the system rebooted to a lo

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-19 Thread Dan Oglesby
Dan Oglesby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 12 December 2006 05:32, Dan Oglesby wrote: All of my hardware in the SS5-70 is detected automatically by the 2006-12-16 floppy images. The older floppies would not automatically detect the onboard ethernet

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-18 Thread Dan Oglesby
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 12 December 2006 05:32, Dan Oglesby wrote: > Both boots I had to manually tell it to load the lance module for my > onboard NIC. I can't find a lance module, so I guess you mean sunlance. Sorry, I meant sunlance. What exactly do you mean by "bot

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-18 Thread Dan Oglesby
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 17 December 2006 06:03, Dan Oglesby wrote: > The installation went perfect, all hardware detected (network, SCSI > controller, and hard drive), drive partitioned just fine. After > rebooting, it looks like the SCSI controller module is missing from t

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 05:32, Dan Oglesby wrote: > Both boots I had to manually tell it to load the lance module for my > onboard NIC. I can't find a lance module, so I guess you mean sunlance. What exactly do you mean by "both boots"? Does the NIC get detected automatically by the installer

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 17 December 2006 06:03, Dan Oglesby wrote: > The installation went perfect, all hardware detected (network, SCSI > controller, and hard drive), drive partitioned just fine. After > rebooting, it looks like the SCSI controller module is missing from the > initial ramdisk again. System bo

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-16 Thread Dan Oglesby
I just did an install tonight using the floppies created on 2006-12-16 on a SparcStation 5, 70Mhz system w/80MB of RAM, a 4.3GB SCSI drive, and a CG6 framebuffer. The installation went perfect, all hardware detected (network, SCSI controller, and hard drive), drive partitioned just fine. After

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-16 Thread Dan Oglesby
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Could you provide the output of 'lspci -nn' and 'prtconf' (from the sparc-utils package) for your box? Just to make sure I wasn't incorrect in my assumptions that lspci wouldn't work, I installed the pciutils package and ran the utility as you asked. It re

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-16 Thread Dan Oglesby
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Both boots I had to manually tell it to load the lance module for my > onboard NIC. Could you provide the output of 'lspci -nn' and 'prtconf' (from the sparc-utils package) for your box? lspci doesn't exist on the system (no PCI slots anyway). prtconf retu

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 05:32, Dan Oglesby wrote: > I first tried to boot my SS20 that contained a CG6 framebuffer and a > Sun Wide-SCSI + 100Mbit NIC SBUS card, but it froze the system hard > while loading the esp module. So, I pulled the SBUS board with the > SCSI and NIC, and tried again.

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-11 Thread Dan Oglesby
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> It appears to work after pressing the Enter key on the number pad, then > pressing the Enter key on the keyboard. I was able to duplicate this > on the serial console as well. I get a ^M when I'm on the serial > console after pressing the number pad Enter ke

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-11 Thread Dan Oglesby
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (Please always reply to the bug report rather than individual persons.) It looks like the message I replied to was not CC'd to the mailing list. I'll make sure to CC the list from now on. On Monday 11 December 2006 21:14, you wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > >

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-11 Thread Frans Pop
(Please always reply to the bug report rather than individual persons.) On Monday 11 December 2006 21:14, you wrote: > Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just tried today's testing boot floppies along with a CG6 > > framebuffer, Sun monitor, and Sun Type5 keyboard. It still looks > > like i

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 08 December 2006 05:21, Dan Oglesby wrote: > Just tried today's testing boot floppies along with a CG6 framebuffer, > Sun monitor, and Sun Type5 keyboard. It still looks like it needs more > than one ENTER key press at the root disk prompt, but it did continue > the boot process. So the

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-07 Thread Dan Oglesby
Just tried today's testing boot floppies along with a CG6 framebuffer, Sun monitor, and Sun Type5 keyboard. It still looks like it needs more than one ENTER key press at the root disk prompt, but it did continue the boot process. --Dan Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 03 December

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-03 Thread Dan Oglesby
I just tried to boot from floppy again, and this time used the ENTER key on the numeric key pad. It appears to work using that ENTER key. Still did not work using the ENTER key on the qwerty area of the keyboard. --Dan Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 03 December 2006 07:01, Dan

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-03 Thread Dan Oglesby
Serial console at 9600,8,n,1. Connected to a Linux machine with minicom in vt102 emulation mode. When I hit ENTER, the console drops down a line, so it's getting the command (no other issues using the console so far either). --Dan Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 03 December 20

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 03 December 2006 07:01, Dan Oglesby wrote: > Comments/Problems: After booting from the boot.img on floppy, the > system prompted for the root.img floppy to be inserted into the floppy > drive. After manually ejecting the boot.img floppy and inserting the > root.img floppy, the system wo

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-02 Thread Dan Oglesby
Package: installation-reports Boot method: floppy Image version: http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/images/daily/sparc32/floppy/2.6/ Date: 2006-12-02 23:30 Machine: Sun SparcStation 5 Processor: microSPARC II 70Mhz Memory: 80 MB Partitions: none Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn: non

Bug#394079: marked as done (installation-reports: x86 floppy install failed, cpio missing)

2006-11-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:17:27 -0800 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#394079: fixed in rootskel 1.42 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your

Processed (with 4 errors): Bug#394079: installation-reports: x86 floppy install failed, cpio missing: REOPEN

2006-11-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reopen 394079 Bug#394079: installation-reports: x86 floppy install failed, cpio missing Bug reopened, originator not changed. > This problem was fixed at ~ 20061026, but now it is there Unknown command or malformed arguments to command. &

Bug#394079: installation-reports: x86 floppy install: ONE COMMENT

2006-10-20 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, I forgot to mention: I had the cd-driver image written to a damaged disk. When trying to load it, I got the message, that the load failed, the next screen told about that one installation step failed, and then the system hung up. The screen repeatly changed between the normal screen and comp

Bug#394079: installation-reports: x86 floppy install: UPDATE - SUCCESS

2006-10-20 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, only for completeness: I tried the images from 19.10.2006 and indeed it works. First I did a try without a cd or dvd and thus loading the additional installer modules from the mirror - success. Then I tried with a netinst cd and without network - successfull, too. Well done. Sorry for

Bug#394079: marked as done (installation-reports: x86 floppy install failed, cpio missing)

2006-10-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:22:28 -0400 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#394079: installation-reports: x86 floppy install failed, cpio missing has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been

Bug#394079: installation-reports: x86 floppy install failed, cpio missing

2006-10-20 Thread sferriol
Holger Wansing a écrit : Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Hi, hi I just activated my good old floppy drive and did a test with the images from 17.10.06: inserting the boot disk works fine, I was prompted to give root disk; then this: Loading ../init: 194: cpio not

Bug#394079: installation-reports: x86 floppy install failed, cpio missing

2006-10-19 Thread Holger Wansing
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Hi, I just activated my good old floppy drive and did a test with the images from 17.10.06: inserting the boot disk works fine, I was prompted to give root disk; then this: Loading ../init: 194: cpio not found failed to extract i

Re: How to "recognize" that the install is a floppy install?

2006-09-01 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I do think we should take care to only use this rarely. Making lots of > paths that are determined by boot type will make testing harder, and > help hide bugs. Yeah, I understand. Here the point is not really making a real branch but just display a specia

Re: How to "recognize" that the install is a floppy install?

2006-09-01 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: > Would anyone else have an idea ? > > Indeed, if not already existing, such a mechanism for D-I to always > "know" which type of install it is running could have other uses We could add this to the /etc/lsb-release file in the installer. Just tack on a field, like X_

How to "recognize" that the install is a floppy install?

2006-08-31 Thread Christian Perrier
. The only remazining problem is for localechooser to "recognize" that it is running a floppy install. Sven did suggest to "set some variable for floppy installs et build time" but indeed I don't know how to do this. Would anyone else have an idea ? Indeed, if not already e

Bug#357704: Floppy install does not configure boot dir and grub correctly

2006-03-19 Thread Christian Perrier
> step 16 said that it had detected a list of OS's on my computer. but the > list showed only one entry, 'Debian GNU/Linux (testing/unstable), which > could refer to my existing hda3 'testing' OS or my newly installed hda4 > 'testing' OS. the entry in the list shows no device info, so i cannot > te

Bug#357704: Floppy install does not configure boot dir and grub correctly

2006-03-19 Thread Anthony Merhi
Hi Christian, thanks for your email reply. i have some more detailed info for you, based on a third installation attempt following your advice. i re-ran the same installation on the same box and diskettes as before, and took careful notes at step 16, the 'install grub boot loader' step. step

Bug#357704: Floppy install does not configure boot dir and grub correctly

2006-03-19 Thread Christian Perrier
(second try as the stupid RBL and so-called "ant-spam system" used by your ISP blocked my first answerplease use a real ISP) Quoting Anthony Merhi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: installation-reports > > -> > -> If you don't mind, please don't put my e-mail address on the web. > -> The Deb

Bug#357704: Floppy install does not configure boot dir and grub correctly

2006-03-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Anthony Merhi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: installation-reports > > -> > -> If you don't mind, please don't put my e-mail address on the web. > -> The Debian BTS has a web interface. So I'm afraid that reporting this bug already exposes your mail address. I'm alays puzzled by people

Bug#357704: Floppy install does not configure boot dir and grub correctly

2006-03-18 Thread Anthony Merhi
Package: installation-reports -> -> If you don't mind, please don't put my e-mail address on the web. -> Boot method: Floppy. 4 x 1.44 mb Image version: 17-Mar-2006 from http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/access. Date: 18-Mar-2006, around 6:00 EST Machine: Spare pa

Re: Floppy install: weird Arabic glyph

2006-02-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Mohammed Adnène Trojette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006, Davide Viti wrote: > > While writing some instructions about doing a floppy install using > > qemu on the wiki [1] I noticed a weird glyph in the Arabic string. > > I grabbed a screenshot [2] wh

Re: Floppy install: weird Arabic glyph

2006-02-16 Thread Mohammed Adnène Trojette
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006, Davide Viti wrote: > While writing some instructions about doing a floppy install using > qemu on the wiki [1] I noticed a weird glyph in the Arabic string. > I grabbed a screenshot [2] which shows the problem (compare floppy > vs. netboot) > Not sure if it&#x

Floppy install: weird Arabic glyph

2006-02-16 Thread Davide Viti
While writing some instructions about doing a floppy install using qemu on the wiki [1] I noticed a weird glyph in the Arabic string. I grabbed a screenshot [2] which shows the problem (compare floppy vs. netboot) Not sure if it's a known problem. regards, Davide [1] http://wiki.debia

Bug#291453: Installation report, Sarge/d-i rc2, 20050120, floppy install, x86

2005-01-20 Thread Klas Adolfsson
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: d-i rc2 floppies (root.img + boot.img + net-drivers.img) uname -a: Linux pitr 2.4.27-2-586-tsc #1 Thu Dec 30 18:06:49 JST 2004 i586 GNU/Linux Date: 20050119-20 Method: Floppy boot and network installation Machine: Fuijutsu desktop PC Process

Bug#280519: marked as done (Boot-floppy install fails to see net driver disk in USB floppy drive)

2004-11-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
pf.fc.hp.com (Postfix, from userid 20291) id 03F861BBD9; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:21:41 -0700 (MST) From: Rob Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: HP CVL To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Boot-floppy install fails to see net driver disk in USB floppy drive Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:21:41 -0700 U

Bug#280519: Boot-floppy install fails to see net driver disk in USB floppy drive

2004-11-15 Thread Joey Hess
I've found the problem, and a fix has been uploaded. It should show up in the floppy images built tomorrow. I'll try to do some usb floppy testing of my own, though it's a real pain to do with real floppies. -- see shy jo

Bug#280519: Boot-floppy install fails to see net driver disk in USB floppy drive

2004-11-14 Thread Rob Sims
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 07:36:23PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Hmm, it's supposed to prompt for a device to mount in this case. If you > can boot d-i with DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 and reproduce that and get a copy of > /var/log/syslog that would help debug this. Failing that > /var/log/debian-installer/syslog

Bug#280519: Boot-floppy install fails to see net driver disk in USB floppy drive

2004-11-09 Thread Joey Hess
Rob Sims wrote: > I used the i386 floppy images to install to a Sony PCG-C1X which has no > CD-ROM or floppy disk controller. Booting was done via a USB floppy > drive. Boot followed by root disks (in expert mode) worked until I was > prompted for a driver disk. The system failed to see the n

Bug#280519: Boot-floppy install fails to see net driver disk in USB floppy drive

2004-11-09 Thread Rob Sims
Package: debian-installer Version: pre-rc2 I used the i386 floppy images to install to a Sony PCG-C1X which has no CD-ROM or floppy disk controller. Booting was done via a USB floppy drive. Boot followed by root disks (in expert mode) worked until I was prompted for a driver disk. The system

Bug#272310: Floppy install on Oldworld PowerMac G3 tower

2004-09-19 Thread Joey Hess
Rick Thomas wrote: > I tried the PowerMac install floppy set from the 18th Most images built on the 18th are broken in the way you describe, I'd suggest trying a different build. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#272310: Floppy install on Oldworld PowerMac G3 tower

2004-09-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports I tried the PowerMac install floppy set from the 18th Index of /~luther/d-i/images/2004-09-18/powerpc/floppy-2.4 NameLast modified Size Description ___

Bug#270599: Floppy install on Oldworld PowerMac

2004-09-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 05:15:34PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > I tried again with the latest floppies: > > Index of /~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy-2.4 > > NameLast modified Size Description > ---

Bug#270599: Floppy install on Oldworld PowerMac

2004-09-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Friday, September 10, 2004, at 05:04 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: The "ofonlyboot" has not changed. It reads and inverts the colors of the tuxmac, but never switches to text-mode screen from the inverted color tuxmac. The boot floppy reads and switches to the text screen then asks for the root fl

Re: Bug#270599: Floppy install on Oldworld PowerMac

2004-09-12 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (Please don't CC the BTS on subjects like this that don't really have anything to do with the bug itself.) Hello Russel, On Saturday 11 September 2004 13:11, Russell Hires wrote: > I've offered my services before in writing up some docs (or simply >

Bug#270599: Floppy install on Oldworld PowerMac

2004-09-12 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > Ignoring this message will mean your installation is always going to fail as > the installer won't recognize your disk. Nope.. This is a bad interaction between the new warning message in anna and sven's new powerpc root-2 floppy hack. Now anna will complain if any one floppy f

Re: Floppy install on Oldworld PowerMac

2004-09-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thursday, September 9, 2004, at 01:23 PM, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:45:29PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Ummm... The contents of http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy-2.4/ haven't changed in the last few days. Is the build process stalled some

Bug#270599: Floppy install on Oldworld PowerMac

2004-09-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Saturday, September 11, 2004, at 07:11 AM, Russell Hires wrote: P.S. When are you finally going to start work on the manual? All joking aside... That is an important task! But I kinda figured it was less important than getting the software working at all on oldworld hardware, since I seem to

Bug#270599: Floppy install on Oldworld PowerMac

2004-09-11 Thread Russell Hires
> > > > P.S. When are you finally going to start work on the manual? > > All joking aside... That is an important task! But I kinda figured it > was less important than getting the software working at all on oldworld > hardware, since I seem to be the only one on the list who has oldworld > pma

Bug#270599: Floppy install on Oldworld PowerMac

2004-09-10 Thread Rick_Thomas
On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 17:57, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 10 September 2004 23:04, Rick Thomas wrote: > > When it asked, I chose the > > uchicago mirror as usual, and it loaded the installer-components > > list (I think -- I didn't get the exact words) after which it > > *again* complained about no

Bug#270599: Floppy install on Oldworld PowerMac

2004-09-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 10 September 2004 23:04, Rick Thomas wrote: > When it asked, I chose the > uchicago mirror as usual, and it loaded the installer-components > list (I think -- I didn't get the exact words) after which it > *again* complained about not finding any kernel modules! I told it > to continue a

Bug#270599: Floppy install on Oldworld PowerMac

2004-09-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thursday, September 9, 2004, at 12:45 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 09:18 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 05:18 AM, Sven Luther wrote: Please try again with todays floppies, and if it doesn't fix the problem, we need to investigate what dr

Bug#270599: Floppy install on Oldworld PowerMac

2004-09-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:45:29PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 09:18 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > >On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 05:18 AM, Sven Luther wrote: > > > >> > >>Please try again with todays floppies, > >>and if it doesn't fix the problem, we

Bug#270599: Floppy install on Oldworld PowerMac

2004-09-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 09:18 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 05:18 AM, Sven Luther wrote: Please try again with todays floppies, and if it doesn't fix the problem, we need to investigate what driver is missing or something. I'll try the new floppies tonight.

Bug#270599: Floppy install on Oldworld PowerMac

2004-09-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 05:18 AM, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:17:55AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: Package: installation-reports powerpc boot-floppy 20040906 OldWorld PowerMac ... Then I tried the "boot" floppy. It gave me the tuxmac and made reading noises. Aft

Bug#270599: Floppy install on Oldworld PowerMac

2004-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:17:55AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: > Package: installation-reports > > powerpc boot-floppy 20040906 OldWorld PowerMac Thanks for testing this. > Note 1: > > The "ofonlyboot" floppy booted and gave me the "tuxmac" icon in the > middle of the screen. After the

Bug#270599: Floppy install on Oldworld PowerMac

2004-09-08 Thread Rick_Thomas
Package: installation-reports powerpc boot-floppy 20040906 OldWorld PowerMac INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: I got the floppy disk images from: Index of /~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy-2.4 NameLast modified Size Description

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