Wayne Topa wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: debian installation woes
> Date: Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:59:08AM -0800
>
> In reply to:aphro
>
> Quoting aphro([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary..
> >
> > nate
Subject: Re: debian installation woes
Date: Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:59:08AM -0800
In reply to:aphro
Quoting aphro([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary..
>
> nate
OH?? Gee, I wonder why my potato dist is working so well
on h
Nick Phillips wrote:
>
> >
> > you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary..
> >
>
> IIRC, LILO should be able to boot from any partition, although it gets
> a bit more complicated if the interesting bits aren't near enough to the
> front of the disk...
You *can* boot linux from a logic
--- Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm probably just going to re-download the whole
> thing
> > and try again.
>
> Ewww - I would try to find a copy of Debian 2.1 (or
> 2.0) at a local
> 'Borders' bookstore - much more convenient.
Believe me, I would if I could.
Unfortunately I live
>
> you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary..
>
IIRC, LILO should be able to boot from any partition, although it gets
a bit more complicated if the interesting bits aren't near enough to the
front of the disk...
I couldn't tell from the bits of previous posts I could see exactly how
you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary..
nate
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uot;Re: debian
> installation woes"
>
> > 3: swap 127 megs (no swap may exceed 128mb, but
> you
> > can have more than one. Rummor has it that swap
>
> This 128M limit is no longer true in 2.2.x kernels.
> From the Changes
> file in the kernel s
*- On 2 Nov, Kenneth Scharf wrote about "Re: debian installation woes"
> 3: swap 127 megs (no swap may exceed 128mb, but you
> can have more than one. Rummor has it that swap
This 128M limit is no longer true in 2.2.x kernels. From the Changes
file in the kernel source doc
>1: w95 (1 gig)
>2: extended (the rest of it)
> 5: linux (1gig)
> 6: vfat storage partition (2 gigs)
> 7: vfat storage partition (the rest of it)
> 8: linux swap (150 megs)
There MAY be a problem with the boot sector crossing a
1024 cyl bound, not sure if scsi has this problem.
Just to b
On 2/11/99 Mock Ko wrote:
1: w95 (1 gig)
2: extended (the rest of it)
^
5: linux (1gig)
6: vfat storage partition (2 gigs)
7: vfat storage partition (the rest of it)
8: linux swap (150 megs)
I've gotten it to install and reboot off the mbr now
(I was usin
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
[...]
> Other hardware:
> - realtek 8029 PCI ethernet card (the installer can't
> find the module to install this card in the installer)
This uses the pci-ne2k module.
> - SB16
> - Riva TNT2 AGP
>
> I've gotten it to install and reboot
Whoops! I knew I forgot something =)
I'm running a celeron 300A system, 128MB ram, adaptec
2940UW, Seagate 9gig (scsi) partitioned as follows:
1: w95 (1 gig)
2: extended (the rest of it)
5: linux (1gig)
6: vfat storage partition (2 gigs)
7: vfat storage partition (the rest of it)
8: l
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Mock Ko wrote:
> I did the installation for debian, but it failed
> miserably.
>
> It did the initial install, but it crashed every time
> I rebooted, so I booted from the boot disk I created.
Hi,
I think that we need to know at least something about your hardware
specificat
I did the installation for debian, but it failed
miserably.
It did the initial install, but it crashed every time
I rebooted, so I booted from the boot disk I created.
Once I did that (it took about 15 minutes to read the
kernel from the floppy), it went to the main installer
thing.
I selected th
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