On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 06:00:39PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> When I booted from the floppy, the first thing I saw was:
>
> This disk uses the Linux kernel 2.2.19.
>
> I wondered why the floopies didn't ship with 2.4, but I fear 2.2.19
> has been decided upon.
because 2.4 is not stable.
2.2.19 has been decided on.
> Later, I got several
>
> modprobe: Can't open depencides file /lib/modules/2.2.19/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
>
> messages. Not nice.
need more info, cannot reproduce.
> Then I generated a root partition. I think the output of mke2fs
> should not be shown. It's very ugly to have a blue screen, then a
> black screen, then a blue screen again. But I don't know how hard a
> wrapper for mke2fs would be, so some output could be shown, but not
> all.
very difficult. and i think the mke2fs output is useful.
> Note that I didn't have a Debian CD, but another CD in my drive when I
> booted. When it looked for {rescue,boot}.bin on my CD-ROM, it didn't
> tell me that my CD-ROM did not contain Debian, only that those .bin
> files were not found. Is there no way to find out if a CD-ROM is a
> Debian CD? Anyway, when I inserted the right CD (i.e. Debian), it
> worked.
its perfectly allowable for someone to burn a CD with just the
rescue.bin and drivers.tgz file tossed in, i have done this before
many times. one should not be forced to build a Real CD just for
drivers install when doing the rest over http. if the rescue.bin file
is not found that is a pretty good indication you have the wrong CD in
the drive IMO :P
> Then I was able to choose which modules to install... I thought it
> would be nice to see a short description of each module. I think
> there is a tool to show such a short decription. If not, perhaps the
> description could be taken from the configure file of the Linux
> kernel.
the descriptions are from the kernel, if you want better descriptions
go fix the kernel, or volunteer to write custom ones for the hundreds
of modules the kernel has.
> Then... it told me that "debootstrap exited with an error (return
> value 2). I switched to console 4, and there is said
>
> /usr/sbin/debootstrap: arithmetic expression: syntax error: "bootstrap: "
interesting.. ill try and find this.
> I don't think this is caused by my out-dated woody CD-ROM, but I am
> not sure. What is it?
possibly but it looks like a bug anyway. unfortunatly posix shells are
notorious for giving out less then helpful errors. you did not at
least get a line number?
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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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