Re: installing woody on Indy R5000-ip22
Hi Brian,
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:34:40PM -0800, Brian wrote:
> Why is the bootp() section of installing so different for everyone? Could we somehow make this more clear in the docs--I spent 5 hours playing with that and then finished the install in 3 more hours, (which was mostly due to processor speed).
Actually just "bootp():" should simply work as stated in the boot floppies
documentation.
>
> Also, maybe a little more explanation as to why swap space should be added after the first Linux partition and how to gauge how much 100 cylinders in MB, approximately. Now, I have 28 MB for my swap partition instead of 256-512 MB. Oh, well. Still it is all pretty cool.
Yes, it would be very nice to have these things in the documentation.
What about sending a patch? You can fetch boot-floppies including
documentation from cvs.debian.org. Please send patches against
boot-floppies documentation also to debian-boot@lists.debian.org.
-- Guido
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