to potato.
For anyone who may wish to have more information on the HPT366 issues,
here is a link you might find useful:
http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b6506063/hpt366/
I have not looked into the potato boot disks yet, but if they decide
to go for HPT366 support, in addition to the patched kernels
The kernel in the latest base2_0.tgz seems to have a couple of small
problems.
Firstly, the PCMCIA modules can't find a number of symbols
on start-up (no big deal to me but important to others).
Secondly, and more importantly, support for the nfs file-system has
been removed. This makes using
I don't see the 2.0.7 boot disks for an i386 system on
master.debian.org yet. Could someone please remind me where to get
them from Enrique's computer? I don't seem to have that message any
more.
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On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 12:26:58PM -0500, Douglas Bates wrote:
I don't see the 2.0.7 boot disks for an i386 system on
master.debian.org yet. Could someone please remind me where to get
them from Enrique's computer? I don't seem to have that message any
more.
I'm uploading them to master
On 23 Jun 1998, Douglas Bates wrote:
I don't see the 2.0.7 boot disks for an i386 system on
master.debian.org yet. Could someone please remind me where to get
them from Enrique's computer? I don't seem to have that message any
more.
I believe it is in:
ftp://molec2.dfis.ull.es/pub/debian
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 03:01:53PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
On 23 Jun 1998, Douglas Bates wrote:
I don't see the 2.0.7 boot disks for an i386 system on
master.debian.org yet. Could someone please remind me where to get
them from Enrique's computer? I don't seem to have
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote:
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
The sensitivity to good disks is, as I understand it, caused by poor
BIOS floppy drivers and is independent of the Linux kernel, let alone
which
Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
May I suggest that you forward your message upstream to either the kernel
people or those who do the drivers. It is downright embarrasing to have
our favourite OS not be able to read a floppy reliably.
Actually, my points were that almost all of
Ok, I have had enough.. I would like to do something!
After hearing for the nth time that someone's computer wont work with
debian but will with redhat and slackware, I would like to try my hand
at making some boot disks. I read the BootDisk HOWTO in the past, and
I think I get the basic idea
disks. I read the BootDisk HOWTO in the past, and
I think I get the basic idea, but what I'd really like to know is
exactly how people have been doing this for the Debian boot disks -
ie, what sort of device, size, etc.. Basically whatever specs are
available about our disks.
In my
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 05:32:54PM -0700, David Welton wrote:
In any case, I'm just stressed out.. I'm frustrated that it doesnt
work, and I couldnt help a friend install debian, and I'd like to do
something about it, other than just whining.
For one particular install I did, Debian was the
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 10:28:45AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my experience, debian's bootdisk problems are inherent to the
entire disk method of installation. The way it is constructed (in hamm),
it needs 9 brand-new disks, with no blemish. If even one disk has a few
bad blocks
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
The sensitivity to good disks is, as I understand it, caused by poor
BIOS floppy drivers and is independent of the Linux kernel, let alone
which distribution you are running.
Actually, as I understood it, the problem was poor linux floppy
drivers.
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 05:32:54PM -0700, David Welton wrote:
Ok, I have had enough.. I would like to do something!
[...]
In any case, I'm just stressed out.. I'm frustrated that it doesnt
work, and I couldnt help a friend install debian, and I'd like to do
something about it, other than just
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 10:28:45AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my experience, debian's bootdisk problems are inherent to the
entire disk method of installation. The way it is constructed (in hamm),
it needs 9 brand-new disks, with no blemish. If even one disk has a few
bad
from floppies close to
100 times. I have rarely seen a base image disk fail, but have seen
quite a few boot disks fail, and many rescue disks fail.
I am convinced that the failures are truly random, and are not,
in most cases, caused by the disks themselves. In one experiment,
during the bo
Hello!
I recently crashed the root partition of a hamm station. Fixing it, I
installed several packages, also kernel-image package.
The system was not able to boot anymore. Trying to come into the system, I
tried Debian 1.3 boot disks and some newer disks (20-2, 20-3?). All disks
hang after
Thanks to all those that pointed me to Incoming. Having looked on
llug.sep.bnl.gov and also ftp.de.debian.org - all I can find are some
.in.base* files, all of which are 0 bytes long. Does this mean that
Guy / someone else has already moved these to hamm/hamm/disks-i386 and
that the mirrors
On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Andrew M.A.Cater [Andy wrote:
Thanks to all those that pointed me to Incoming. Having looked on
llug.sep.bnl.gov and also ftp.de.debian.org - all I can find are some
.in.base* files, all of which are 0 bytes long. Does this mean that
Guy / someone else has already
I need some kind of disk to boot up some older 386's
IBM ps1,everex where would I go to get this together?
Are they all different or is there some kind of universal protocal?
Thanx G Morton
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if you have reasons to use 2.0.29, that's ok. but add a disk with
2.0.30 ! there are people like with buslogic scsi adapters, and that
adapter is not included in 2.0.29. not everyone has a second linux
system at hand, where he can download kernel-image-2.0.30 and modify the
bootdisk.
I'm putting together a couple of debian systems tonight, and I've
a couple problems
(1) floppy installation forces you to re-install all floppies if
there's any problems (e.g. checksum). So far, I've had one bad
base disk 2, two bad base disk 3s, and a bad disk 4. That means
that, for example,
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