version of lifimage
Richard:
Sorry for the delay in replying.
The version of "lifimage" was from
"http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-hppa/current/";,
dated October 17, 2001. The "3.0.15-2001-10-18/" directory had the
same date, and I imagined that it was the same image as it had the
same size and date.
I'll try rebooting with the "burned" CD, and I've installed "rbootd"
on another machine to try a network install, pointing it at the
"lifimage" image.
Dean
----- Forwarded message from Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com> -----
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:47:16 +0100
> From: Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>
> To: Dean Allen Provins <provinsd@telusplanet.net>
> Cc: Debian HP PARISC mail list <debian-hppa@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: floppies at Debian site OK?
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> In-Reply-To: <[🔎] 20011021084546.A28375@ve6cta.cuug.ab.ca>; from provinsd@telusplanet.net on Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 08:45:46AM -0600
>
> > Hello:
> >
> > I've still got install troubles.
> >
> > On Friday morning, I arranged to have burned the lifimage from debian.org,
>
> Most people netboot the lifimage, not 'burn' it.
>
> > in the "woody" section. I tried booting/installing with it, but it hung
> > when the menu item for "partitioning discs" appeared. I presume that this
> > is some sort of menu software bug. For the record, I had a valid IP and
>
> Unikely to be a menu s/w bug, the installer works elsewhere.
>
> > ether connection ready to complete the install process on the HP 715/75.
> >
> > Later, I noticed that the same site had what appeared to be boot floppies
> > to start up the boot/install process. Have any readers tried them
> > with success?
>
> Floppies are not supported on palinux yet. The 'boot-floppies' source
> is poorly named, it is used to produce floppies, network bootable images,
> etc. You did the right thing by booting the lifimage.
>
> Can you tell us what version of lifimage you got? Either give us the
> directory you downloaded it from (something like 3.0.15-2001-10-18),
> or note the version from the initial installer screen. If you lifimage
> is older than 3.0.15, you should try again with the latest, as it uses
> a new scsi driver, which might help.
>
> Richard
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