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Test report, boot floppies 2.2.3



  Test report:
WERY BAD: dbootstrap wiped out ALL partitions and changed the disk geometry
          (look at the end of this mail for a fdisk -l transcript)

minor: see below under "Minor stuff"

GOOD: the major perl headaches I have seen before seems to be gone

/Karl

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Karl Hammar            Aspö Data            karl@kalle.csb.ki.se
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S-742 94 Östhammar                          Unix for the small company
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  Major headache:
"Make Linux Bootable Directly From Hard Disk" from dbootstrap wiped out ALL
partitions and the disk got the new geometry 8748/64/32 instead of
the 1115/255/63 as it was the moment before

  Workaround, either:

A, Use a empty disk and accept dbootstraps (?) view of the geometry from
   the beginning, which causes this:
	1, the Tekram card complains about the geometry (why does it do that)
	2, leaves Dos/Win out in the cold, not much disk space left for them

B, Skip the "Make Linux Bootable Directly From Hard Disk" step
   Start a shell
   cd /target/etc
   ae lilo.conf
   lilo   # nice I could run lilo, very good, saved my day
   and reboot

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  Minor stuff:

  After reboot I removed pcmcia
  went directly to dselect, no tasks things this time
  (Alt-F2, ae /etc/apt/sources.list, ch. to deb ftp://...)
  did Configure (procps and lilo was unconfigured)
  did Install (got new packages) and got theese minor errors:

  Missing files somewhere along the line:
/usr/lib/mime/packages/mime-support-compat
/etc/mailcap

  Theese errors showed up:
Setting up lynx (2.8.2-4) ...
Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at
 /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm line 305

Setting up modutils (2.3.9-2) ...
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.12/net/sis900.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/eicon.o

  Hmm, that ldap thing, what is the correct choises for a standalone box?

  And why is sym53c8xx compiled whith max 10MHz, a little disappointing when
you have got lvd, which is capable of 40MHz/80MB/s:

# dmesg
...
sym53c895-1-<0,*>: FAST-5 WIDE SCSI 10.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 31)
  Vendor: IBM       Model: DMVS09V           Rev: 0100
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
...

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  Here is the hardware I used this time:
AMD Athlon 500
128MB SDRAM
Tekram DC390U2W scsi lvd/wide
HD IBM DMVS09V, fresh, empty disk
Tekram DC310	scsi se/narrow
CD Plextor PX-40TS
MB Asus K7M
FD Sony
Matrox G400 16MB
Case Enlight 7237OXZ
Lots of fans and extras
(Kind of noisy, working on a quieter model)

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Using boot floppies 2.2.3, and I have a mirror from ftp.lh.umu.se
(updated 2000-01-05) on my regular machine.

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  Here is how to reproduce the problem:
1, boot with a dos or win98 install floppy, make C: 1700MB, inst. win98
   (or just setting c/h/s from within linux fdisk)
2, boot with (boot floppies 2.2.3) resque
3, I did all steps up to and including the "Configure the Network" stuff.
4, The first fdisk command was run (in tty2, Alt-F2)
5, I did the "Make Linux Bootable Directly From Hard Disk"
6, Next choise to show up was "Partition a Hard Disk" since
   'There are no "Linux swap" partitions present...'
7, I run the second fdisk

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  Second virtual screen contents (hand copied):
# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1115 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot   Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        1      217  1743021    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/sda2          218      229    96390   83  Linux
/dev/sda3          230      265   289170   82  Linux swap
/dev/sda4          266     1115  6827625    5  Extended
/dev/sda5          266      301   289138+   b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/sda6          302      544  1951866    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/sda7          545      605   489951    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/sda8          606      623   144553+  83  Linux
/dev/sda9          624      830  1662696   83  Linux
/dev/sda10         831     1115  2289231   83  Linux
# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 8748 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot   Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
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