Re: Some thouths about installing Debian on Ultra.
Dariusz Puchalak <scorpius@stud.pwr.wroc.pl> writes:
> 1. Cannot initiallizing swap from instaler program "Unable to find
> swap-space signature", but doing it manually later (after
> installing) works.
Yeah, fixed in CVS I think.
> 2. How to do an nfs install, should be written a little more clearly.
Could you point me to section titles that you found confusing?
> 3. Modules - What it is FC4? and why installing of any modules fail?
> [in installing program]
I dunno -- module and boot-floppies don't get along as well as they should.
> 4. One funny thing - Time zone on Sparc - If you use msdos before ..
> :))))
Oh boy.
> 5. And one thing which almost give me an heart attack. Silo installs
> without asking where. I came from intel word so I just imagined
> lossing Solaris which was on 1st hard disk, and linux on second. But
> fortunaly it works OK. :)))
Oh... Yeah, better silo instructions would be great.
I can't maintian the Install Manual for every architecture. Are the
any volunteers to work on the Install Manual for sparc?
> OK, now some questions:
> - Did someone upgrade to potato?
I run potato.
> - What's the status with perl 5.005?It stops me from setting things
> up (There is 5.005, but it's a little to old to some packages, for
> which it's a little too old for.....)
I don't know -- I haven't tried to download the newest perl-5.005.
Probably it's messed. Have you filed a bug?
> When there will be new installation program, let me know, I would like
> to test it :)))
Excellent. We'll announce on this list when we have one. You might
also join debian-test@lists.debian.org mail list.
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