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[debian-knoppix] knx-hdinstall 0.351



Hi Fabian and Klaus,

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 23:08:41 +0100, Fabian Franz wrote:

> > version 2002-12-10). Is there any reason why it always starts in
> > text-dialog mode? That is OK, since dialog apparently supports
> > mouseclicks in this version, even when in text mode. Maybe
> > we should just keep it that way. :-)

It also uses Xdialog when available. I just tested this.
Maybe DISPLAY wasn't set?

> lol ... Always installed in textmode in last versions ...

I also do, but for some strange reason some lusers find it easier to
click a button instead of pressing the return / cursor keys.

> > - The hdparm setting for DMA is not executed anywhere. This is a Debian
> >   bug, but kind of sad because most harddisks are really slow without
> >   DMA.
> 
> Ah, nice to mention ...

I think Debian has good reasons for not activating DMA by default.
Especially in older machines there are often buggy IDE chipsets which
may cause errors or even filesystem corruption when DMA is active.
My P166MMX with VIA *bleurrrghhh* chipset and Western Digital HD has
this problem.

> > - The root partition which was formatted as ext3 during install, is
> >   mounted as ext2. I know we talked about this, I have no idea how to
> >   fix it cirrently, except for Fabians idea with pivot_root.

This is no bug of pivot_root. The initrd= entry in /etc/lilo.conf is
missing. Problem is, the genliloconf tool is not flexible enough. There
is no way to pass a initrd= or vga= LILO parameter at the command line.
So ALL that requires an initial ramdisk is not functional in 0.35,
including ext3, reiserfs and SCSI.

As a quick solution, I commented out the genliloconf call from
knx-hdinstall. Instead, lilo.conf is generated like before in the older
versions of the script. The new version is at:

http://www.itm.tu-clausthal.de/~perle/knx/knx-hdinstall-0.351.tgz
http://www.itm.tu-clausthal.de/~perle/knx/changes.txt

bye,
  Chris
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