Bug#43058: marked as done (bootdisk: root.bin gzipped on CDs.)
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From: Patrik Rak <patrik@ein.cz>
Subject: bootdisk: root.bin gzipped on CDs.
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:02:25 +0200
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Hi!
I tried to install debian on my friend's IBM ThinkPad notebook.
We had the standard Debian CDs and after problems with boot floppies
(described in another bug report), we decided to use the "boot from DOS harddisk"
method.
I copied the necessary files from the install directory to dos partition,
booted into MS-DOS and run loadlin appropriately. After loading,
the kernel halted with the error message that it can't mount the specified
root partition.
The problem was that the root.bin as supplied in the directory was gzipped
but the loadlin did not decompress it automatically. While we were able to
find out and ungzip it manually, I think it would be enormous problem for casual
user who expects the "ready to go" installation procedure.
I am not sure if this is already fixed but I thought you might like to look
at it and at least note it in the docs before the potato release.
Patrik
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux eagle 2.2.10 #2 Fri Jul 9 12:06:17 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
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Subject: bugs closed in boot-floppies 2.2.2 (unstable)
From: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
Date: 20 Dec 1999 20:52:36 -0500
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These bugs were closed in boot-floppies 2.2.2, now in unstable.
--
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
boot-floppies (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
* this version of boot-floppies is not yet feature complete for potato.
We still need a lot of help in making dbootstrap better. Other things
which are still dreadfully wrong:
- task package selection not yet integrated
- xviddetect/anXious not yet integrated
- apt configurator not yet integrated
- unified i18n/l10n language/charset not yet fully implemented
- perl-base still has lots of problems
- modconf still has tons of problems
Please volunteer on debian-boot@lists.debian.org or notify/pester/NMU
the appropriate packages
* busybox: update to 0.39 from Erik Andersen <andersee@debian.org>;
enable lots of new commands in busybox, which saves space on root.bin;
new commands: syslogd, logger, ping, tail
* overall aesthetics, cleanup, and maintainability fixes; fix numerous
problems relating to compatability with the new busybox
* base: add fbset, move all arches to libpopt0 and libnewt; remove
bloat pkgs such as libstdc++2.9 and perl-5.005; new pcmcia
(closes: Bug#52692)
* rescue: add sed (from 'sed' package); add lazybox 'free'; remove
fgrep; stop having vi pose as ae, but instead it emit a message; fix
bad errors in rescue/modules install.sh scripts (closes: Bug#49517);
update f*.txt messages for i386, boot arguments documentation in
particular expanded and updated; fix "restart dbootstrap" by looping
in /etc/init.d/rcS
* dbootstrap: added hostname sanity check to netconfig.c (closes:
Bug#37045); use syslog for logging of all cmd output, which stops
stuff from getting scribbled on the screen (closes: Bug#32581);
preliminary support for install base via http
* root: re-enable library reduction on alpha; provide usr/bin/eject from
eject package on m68k (closes: Bug#52304)
* documentation: fix to work with new debiandoc-sgml (currently at
1.1.36); top-level README for developers mentions you need a head to
build (closes: Bug#49524); new base size is (at least) 45MB (maybe more)
* new top level command, 'make mirror' to make a mirror of the
packages needed to build base; 'make check' improved
* top-level Makefile: 'make check' now includes $(local_dir) in its
attempts to populate updates/, checks zlib-bin in i386 check deps; use
zlib-bin's miniunzip rather than the non-free unzip
* control: depend on libi18n-langtags-perl, flex; remove depends on
slice and suggests on unzip
* remove dpkg-multicd, gettext, perl-5.005, libstdc++2.9, libdb2 from
base (closes: Bug#48872)
* rethink file naming:
.../disks-<arch>/[subarch/][alt-kernel/]disks-<size>/
Common files should appear on the top-most level at which they are
common. This is a deeper directory structure but it will enable us to
have consistency across architectures and be easier for users to
understand. For i386 1440k rescue disk, this is now
'disks-1.44/rescue.bin', which has the benefit of being ok for a FAT
filesystem (closes: Bug#43057) -- NOTE: this new system introduces
file naming issues for file searching in dbootstrap which are not yet
implemented on all platforms -- YMMV
* add top-level release/README file describing the new file layout, etc.
* i386: support for dac960 controller on root disk and base disks;
switch to 2.2.13 kernel (closes: Bug#52106)
* i18n: portuguese keyboard support added (closes: Bug#49976);
pt.po fixed (closes: Bug#47633); Hungarian (hu) translation added;
Esperanto (eo) updated
* i18n: groundwork for conherent/consistent i18n/l10n handling, see
utilities/language-chooser for info (this is not yet part of the
built boot-floppies)
* more bug closing of things fixed with kernel 2.2.x
(closes: Bug#43058, Bug#25274)
-- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:48:49 -0600
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