Re: It boots!
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 10:58:05PM -0700, Jim Pick wrote:
>
> Howdy all,
>
> No more chroot for me, I figured out how to get Debian to boot. :-)
Right on!!!
> First off, I got San's new Nettrom and installed it. Instructions on
> how to do this are on his web page. It's really slick - I had no
> problems getting it to boot of an alternate partition.
>
> Some of the base packages need to be fixed/built:
>
> util-linux, mingetty - needs the patch David Welton talked about
Agetty is really easy.. I'll upload it tommorow. It was just in the
one place that I found the error. I'll put it in my public_html dir,
as I don't have time to futz with making all the Debian tools work.
> I'm really liking my machine now. Being able to boot directly into
> Debian makes all the difference in the world - you know, it's like
> that warm, fuzzy feeling you get when you come home after a long trip.
> :-)
Yeah.. this is great:-) Did you have to boot it with NFS or that
stuff? This should be wonderful to have running pure Debian:->
Thanks,
--
David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw
Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org
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