Re: Potato install successful
Ah, so there IS a problem related to the ne module. I noticed this
with the 2.2.9 boot-floppies in March, but hesitated to file a bug (I
did send a comment to this list) because I couldn't figure out if it
was potato or me that had the problem. Thanks for clearing that up.
Bob
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 03:19:00PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed potato as of yesterday onto a hard disk my father had
> brought to me. (He later took the disk back and intends to use the new
> installation in his own system.) The short story: everything went OK
> except for the ne bug (63855), which I was able to work around.
>
> The hard disk was /dev/hdb, my present system (running current
> woody) is /dev/hda. I had downloaded base and drivers tarballs into
> /dev/hda5/debian, and made the boot & root disks.
>
> The dbootstrap run went OK, except for the fact that the NE driver could
> not be loaded (bug already known). I installed kernel from the floppy
> and drivers from a mounted directory (I did not remember which partition
> had them, so I repeatedly tried mounting partitions to see which one
> it was). I made a boot floppy but decided not to use it. Naturally,
> I did not install lilo.
>
> The middle-way boot was my workaround for the NE bug: I booted using
> my current system's lilo and kernel (which has NE built in), but set
> root to the new system. There were many error messages about modules
> (which was to be expected) and I ignored them. The rest of the install
> went OK and was quite eventless.
>
> I noted that the installation process was greatly improved, and I liked
> the new looks. Good work, boot-floppies team!
>
> The test system is a 267 MHz Celeron with 128 MB of memory. The current
> system disk is a ~13GB Seagate and the target disk is a ~4GB Seagate,
> both IDE. Network adapter is a D-link DE-220PCT, a NE-compatible ISA
> card. Network is a 10baseT ethernet with static IP's. The system has
> a floppy disk drive and a GUS MAX.
>
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>
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> New contact information on the home page
>
>
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