Re: Invitation for testers of "frozen" distribution

1996-11-21 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Michael Nonweiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > No, 'fraid not. [no fix for > 2GB fdisk problem yet] Actually, the boot-floppies package I uploaded this morning has a fix for the fdisk problem with disks over 2GB. I'll call for testers of the boot disk once I upload that. I just hacked generate_libr

Re: Invitation for testers of "frozen" distribution

1996-11-21 Thread Michael Nonweiler
On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: > Is the 2GB partition install problem solved yet? No, 'fraid not. This problem only exists on the install disks though - you can manipulate 2GB partitions fine once you've installed the base system. Hopefully this will be fixed before 1.2 - it's on ou

Re: Invitation for testers of "frozen" distribution

1996-11-21 Thread Bruce Perens
I put in a fix for the 2GB partition problem, but I haven't tested the boot disk. This morning I built a kernel without initrd, and wasted some time on that. I have a kernel with initrd building now (so that the root and boot disks are merged into one floppy) and will test it later. Bruce

Re: Invitation for testers of "frozen" distribution

1996-11-21 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 20 Nov 1996 20:38:48 +1100 Lawrence Chim ([EMAIL PROTECTED] t.edu.au) wrote: > Is the 2GB partition install problem solved yet? Not yet as this is part of the boot floppies which haven't been updated yet. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: Invitation for testers of "frozen" distribution

1996-11-20 Thread Guy Maor
Vatiainen Heikki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There are still known problems (see the bug list on our FTP site), so > > Where exactly is this bug list? I checked ftp.debian.org but did not find it. Oops. Bruce meant the web site. http://www.debian.org/ Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAI

Re: Invitation for testers of "frozen" distribution

1996-11-20 Thread Vatiainen Heikki
I hope the boot floppies for a cold install will be uploaded soon. I was just about to install Debian tonight, but I guess I'll have to wait a little. I finally got my new computer last friday and have a nice big partition reserved for Debian. Are there any special testing requests for those wh

Re: Invitation for testers of "frozen" distribution

1996-11-20 Thread Lawrence Chim
Is the 2GB partition install problem solved yet? > > Our various FTP sites carry three distributions these days: > > stable: Debian 1.1 > frozen: Debian 1.2 pre-release > unstable: Debian 1.3 development > > It's time for those of you who would like to help test Debian 1.2 to

Invitation for testers of "frozen" distribution

1996-11-20 Thread Bruce Perens
Our various FTP sites carry three distributions these days: stable: Debian 1.1 frozen: Debian 1.2 pre-release unstable: Debian 1.3 development It's time for those of you who would like to help test Debian 1.2 to install packages from "frozen". We haven't yet uploaded the b