Hi Scott, Thaks a lot for your report. I'm not sure if the current stable will see another bootfloppies update but incorporating this in the new debian installer would really help a lot. On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:02:18AM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > It would be helpful if the installation manual mentioned in the > 'modconf' section that 'hal2' (which uses 'soundconf') is the > module providing sound support on the SGI Indy. You probably > also want to add users to the 'audio' group. We could completely skip this step by proper autoconfiguration. A start for this is: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=135169 but it never got applied. > The information I needed (which the manual did not explain) were: > a) partitions start at 1, despite the special 'volume header' > partitions at 9 and 11, and user partitions 'overlap' with > 9 and 11 in a way that's best shown by example above. > b) It's not enough that the swap partition be named 'swap', it > must also have type 82. [I was misled here by installing > Debian/PowerPC immediately prior.] > c) It doesn't matter that the 'Bootfile' parameter doesn't match the > name of the boot kernel. Would you consider submitting this for the debian-installer manual? > I forget if the manual includes sufficient information on dvhtool, but > a sample invocation can't hurt if it's currently missing: > indy# dvhtool -d /dev/sdb --unix-to-vh /boot/vmlinux-2.4.22-r4k-ip22 linux The installer should handle this. debian-installer will use arcboot which simplifies this considerably. Cheers, -- Guido
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