Re: installing debian problem

1998-03-11 Thread shaul
> what is a image file? The meaning of an image file depends on the context. In the context of installing debian it means a file that is a bit by bit copy of another file. This is needed bacuase OSs tend to add headers and other signs for varuios files. For example, DOS will add the ^Z character

Re: installing debian problem

1998-03-10 Thread David Stern
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 23:10:10 +0800, kaiwei wrote: > what is a image file? It's an "image" of a disk (each track is copied, even if empty). To use it, you'll need the utility "rawrite.exe", which can be found in the /dosutils directory. Read the README file which accompanies it for more info.

installing debian problem

1998-03-10 Thread kaiwei
what is a image file? in the inital boot medium, i use loadlin to boot install from a dos system. i used the command:- loadlin linux root=dev/ram initrd=root.bin but i got a error message of:- not a image file please enter name of kernel image file followed by optional commmand line parametersf for

Re: Installing Debian Problem: can't see parallel port CD

1997-07-03 Thread Adrian Phillips
> "Mark" == Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Check out the Linux parallel port page : http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html (It depends on your CDROM) Adrian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: Installing Debian Problem: can't see parallel port CD

1997-07-03 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: >On 2 Jul 1997, Christian Leutloff wrote: >> that wont help because *linux* don't support the parallel port scsi >> CD-ROM 8-( >But it didn't put them in the category of "SCSI hosts that will NEVER >work". Doesn't this su

Re: Installing Debian Problem: can't see parallel port CD

1997-07-03 Thread Mark Phillips
On 2 Jul 1997, Christian Leutloff wrote: > that wont help because *linux* don't support the parallel port scsi > CD-ROM 8-( > > That's my problem too. It's possible to start linux form dos from the > CD, but afterwards you can't access the CD-ROM. The SCSI-HOWWO > mentioned that there will never

Re: Installing Debian Problem: can't see parallel port CD

1997-07-03 Thread Christian Leutloff
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A friend of mine wants to install Debian on his laptop. He recently > ordered the CDs and tried to install it using a CD drive attached to > his parallel port. He tells me that unfortunately linux didn't > re

Installing Debian Problem: can't see parallel port CD

1997-06-30 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, A friend of mine wants to install Debian on his laptop. He recently ordered the CDs and tried to install it using a CD drive attached to his parallel port. He tells me that unfortunately linux didn't recognise the parallel port, or atleast, couldn't access his CD through it. Any ideas? I'