Bug#149420: install doc clarification
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 3.0.23
i'm not a subscriber of this list (i read it via the web and
via usenet gateway) but wished to pass these noticed things along...
sorry, also be gentle with me, i didn't want to send this as
three different bugs. :)
p.s. thank you to everyone who's done the work to get to this
point. my woody system does boot and i had to go via an unusual
route since i didn't have cd's and only had a few floppy disks to
write to (not the roughly thirty i would have had to do to get
the base system installed). it's not quite configured yet, but
i was greatly happy just to get it to where i could boot and get
the base system via pppoe.
1. in the document:
http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-create-floppy
the following section states:
---quote---
4.3.2 Writing Disk Images From DOS, Windows, or OS/2
If you have access to an i386 machine, you can use one of the following programs to copy images to floppies.
[...snip...]
NTRawrite is an attempt to create a contemporary version of Rawrite/Rawrite3 that is consistently compatible with WinNT, Win2K and Win95/98. It is a self-explanatory GUI application; you select the disk drive to write to, browse to the disk image you want to place there and hit the Write button.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntrawrite/
---endquote---
anyways, this last bit could mislead someone to thinking that
NTRawrite could be used on a Win95/98 system, but after downloading
and looking at it the stuff says WinNT/2000 and nothing about
Win98/95. attempts to use in on Win98 didn't work. (using the
other programs mentioned worked just fine so i ended up using
those eventually and all is fine now)
2. when going to report this bug using the section:
http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/ch-administrivia.en.html
---quote---
12.2 Contributing to This Document
If you have problems or suggestions regarding this document, you should probably submit them as a bug report against the package boot-floppies. See the bug or reportbug package or read the online documentation of the Debian Bug Tracking System. [...]
---endquote---
note that the package name is boot-floppies, but on the actual:
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/pseudo-packages
page the package name is boot-floppy (so if the above doesn't
work i did try, but selected the name with the more recent use).
3. while trying to find the version of the pseudo-package to
put in the second line above i had to go look in some rather
odd places (and a search on the packages didn't find what
sounded like the right version either -- eventually i tracked
it down via the list that i subscribe to (boot) and i hope
it's the right one (the images i used were downloaded 5/27/02
so i think they're the current ones). well anyways it would
have been helpful to have those pseudo-packages and the versions
listed in the package lists that i searched (only one showed
in "stable" and it was a further along version) or to have the
various versions available show up in
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/pseudo-packages
or something that would be easily found.
ant (much thanks again (and hoping this msg actually works))
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