Carr, Chris wrote: > Great, apart from the fact that the bootfloppy.img file is *still* not > included in the ISOs. It's not even kept in the same place as the > daily ISO builds. Until you provide them together, it won't be unusual > for people to be using the wrong version (I was using the 4 Jan ISO > with the 9 Nov boot floppy!). Is there some deliberately policy of not > including it?? Releases such as beta 2 will include links to both the boot images and the CDs. I was hoping to clean up the images on the CD in time for beta2, but ran out of time; I do hope to resolve it afterwards, though I may do so by removing the floppy images from the cdrom, since they are available direcrly on the debian ftp site. > That all sounds excellent. What have you done about swapping - > anything? I had to do it without any swapping in the end, because if I > turned on a swap partition, even on a different disk, the "configure > and mount partitions" step fell over as it tried to turn on a swap > partition that was already in use. You might like to separate "turn on > swap space" from "configure and mount install partitions" in order to > avoid this. At the very least you could make the swapon code > intelligent enough to avoid crashing out if a swap partition is > already successfully in use as swap space. (Actually you need to do > this whether you separate the two steps or not.) No, I have done nothing about swapping, but enabling it at the partition mount stage is sufficient for 32 mb installs. -- see shy jo
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