Re: errors in install.txt for Debian 2.0
On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 09:37:53PM -0400, James G. MacKinnon wrote:
> I have just been reading the file install.txt in preparation for
> installing Debian 2.0 on a new machine. I have noticed a few errors, which
> I thought I should report.
>
> 1. There are numerous places where references to other parts of the
> document are missing. Only ``'' appears. For example, lines 34 to 36 say
>
> If your computer is connected to the Internet via PPP or an equivalent
> dialup connection, please see ``'' below for information on setting up
> PPP under Debian.
>
> Line 348 says "See ``'' below for details" and so on. I suspect that a
> program that converts from html or something else to text is making a
> mistake.
Yes, it's sgml2txt doing weird things with the cross-references. Igor has
suggested me to use sdc for boot-floppies_2.0.9.
> 2. Line 859 says
>
> dd if=resc1440.bin of=dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync ; sync
>
> Note the missing /. It should be /dev/fd0. This could cause some confusion
> to a new user.
Fixed in boot-floppies_2.0.9.
> 3. In several places, beginning on line 792, there are references to 6
> base floppies (7 for the 1.2 MB versions). However, the disks-i386
> directory only contains 5 (6 for the 1.2 MB versions). I don't think there
> are any files missing, because disk number 5 contains a bit less than the
> others. I think this is just an error in install.txt.
Right. Fixed in boot-floppies_2.0.9.
> Finally, and this is off topic (sorry), does it still take forever to copy
> the contents of the base floppies from RAM to the hard disk? Several
> months ago, I attempted unsuccessfully to install a much earlier version
> of hamm on an old 486/33. This step, which took only a minute or so when
> installing Debian 1.3, took a very long time, so long that I thought the
> machine had crashed. I hope this was a bug that has been fixed.
AFAIK, it works fine now.
Thanks,
--
Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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