RE: Package download

2004-08-11 Thread Sean Branam
Awesome... didn't look deep enough into the documentation. And I even have cygwin installed. Sweet. Thanks. By the way, this is one of the best communications I have ever had with a SF project. I'll certainly continue the communication. Sean -Original Message- From: Patrick J. LoPresti

RE: [Unattended] OS Location

2004-08-11 Thread Sean Branam
Yeah. When the script asks what I wanted to do with the existing harddrive, I selected "Do nothing" This caused the error in the MS setup exe. When I selected "Use whole drive" or something to that effect, it worked just fine. Sean -Original Message- From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[E

Re: [Unattended] OS Location

2004-08-11 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
"Sean Branam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Got some sort of a swap file error from the MS install app, but I'll > run it again just to see if ti was my own mistake. For the record (and Email archive), I assume you sorted this out? - Pat ---

Re: Package download

2004-08-11 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Niels de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The file prepare in the \install directory is a > bash-script to download everything you need. You'll need a unix or > linux workstation (or a cygwin installation on windows) to run it. > If you don't have experience with /unix/linux/cygwin and are hav

Re: linuxboot build

2004-08-11 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Wim Vandersmissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've build the linuxboot iso in a small sarge chroot. > I was wondering, isn't it easier when we have one "uniform" build > environment so that anyone who builds the disk starts out the same ? I admit that would be cool. > My zipped chroot of debi

RE: Package download

2004-08-11 Thread Niels de Groot
Hi Sean, The file prepare in the \install directory is a bash-script to download everything you need. You'll need a unix or linux workstation (or a cygwin installation on windows) to run it. If you don't have experience with /unix/linux/cygwin and are having problems, feel free to ask more help

linuxboot build

2004-08-11 Thread Wim Vandersmissen
I've build the linuxboot iso in a small sarge chroot. I was wondering, isn't it easier when we have one "uniform" build environment so that anyone who builds the disk starts out the same ? My zipped chroot of debian sarge is about 70mb, maybe we could start from that ? Small bug while building

Re: minor problem with find-boot-device

2004-08-11 Thread Steffen Kaiser
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Hello Pat, I've captured some data from /sys/firmware/edd with linuxboot CD of unattended-4.4.zip hda_* -> PATA as boot device (1x NTFS, 1x FAT32 partitions) sda_* -> first SATA drive as boot device (no partition) sdb_* -> second SATA drive as boot d

Re: unattend-4.4 linuxboot CD make problem

2004-08-11 Thread Steffen Kaiser
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: make: *** No rule to make target `../bootdisk/empty-boot.img.gz', needed by `stage1/var/lib/dosemu/drives/dosboot.img'. Stop. This was caused by a bad symlink in the parent directory :-( I hadn't expected that make is accessing the parent dir. The