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Re: boot-floppies 2.2.2 pre-build inst report



Please send this type of stuff to Debian-boot, not just to me.

"James Rodgers" <jrrodgers@hti.com> writes:

>      Attempted installation on two systems with IDE drives and had the
> following problems.
> 
>      1.   Rescue disk identified version as V 2.2.1.9.1

That's not a problem.  That's just a 2.2.2 pre-release version number.

>      2.   I selected to load the base system from /dev/fd0 and when the
> message appeared to place the Rescue Floppy in the first floppy drive
> the following message appeared in bottom third of screen:
> "umount: Invalid argument/Linux System Installation".

Known problem.

>      3. I selected to continue and after loading the rescue and three
> driver floppies, the following message
> appeared:
> "There was a problem installing the drivers from /target/drivers.tgz"

Already fixed --- was a problem in drivers' install.sh.

>      Also attempted installation with home PC which contains an AMD 233
> mhz processor with an Adaptec 2940uw SCSI and SCSI only disks.
> 
>       When booting the rescue floppies, the following messages appear:
>      1. Adaptec AHA-294x Ultra SCSI host adapter found at PCI 15/0
>      2. Failed detection of WS-7000 SCSI Card
>      3. IBM MCA SCSI: No Microchannel bus support present -> aborting
>      4. EATA 0: address 0x6c10 in use, skipping probe
>      5. EATA 0: address 0x6c88 in use, skipping probe
>      6. DC390: 0 adapters found
>      7. mdgaraid: v 1.04 [August 16, 1999]
>      8. aec671x-detect::
>           SYSTEM HUNG AT THIS POINT.

Oh shit -- not this again....  Forwarding this to the Herbert Xu.
Herbert, we're using 2.2.12 rather than 2.2.13 right now because of
reported probelms which you already know about in 2.2.13.

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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