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Re: installing TO a zip disk



ferret@phonewave.net writes:

> Oh, and you will want to booth the idepci kernel AND fdisk and mount the
> device manually.

Why is this?  I thought dbootstrap supported these devices?  Can't
they be partitioned from dbootstrap?

> On Thu, 25 May 2000, Benjamin Redelings wrote:
> > 	I tried to install debian to a zip disk.  However, dbootstrap only
> > allows me to install to /dev/hda, which is not what I want to do.  Is
> > this just a restriction, or is there some problem that must be solved
> > when booting to a ZIP disk? (I'm using the 2.2.15 disks in ~joeyh/bf/)

Maybe try the ones from http://auric.debian.org/~aph/bf/2.2.15/ ?

> > 	Incidentally, I tried replacing the 2.2.15-pre20 kernel image with a
> > 2.3.99-pre9 image.  It booted OK, but after it found the compressed root
> > image on the second disk, it complained that it was out of memory.  It
> > couldn't have been... I ahve 256 Mb RAM.  This could be a kernel problem
> > of course...

We don't support 2.3.x.

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



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