Re: Fresh Debian on UMSDOS?
I have been working with a small kernel patch that allows the kernel to
use the loop device to mount the root file system contained as an image in
a file. You simply copy; rootfs, vmlinuz, loadlin.exe, and linux.bat to
/linux on your C: drive; cd /linux and run the batch job. This is a
read/write root file system in ext2 file format. It is my intention to
provide enough of a system to build a custom kernel (about 60 meg), so
that if the delivery kernel doesn't suit your machine, you can build one
that does, if you can find 60 meg of free space on a dos machine. The
beauty of this approach over umsdos is that you can install the rootfs
file on any partition, not just a dos one, so you can use it to upgrade
another distribution as well as install a new Debian one.
I hope to have the kinks out by the 1.3 release and intend to provide it
on my gold CDs.
On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Scott Barker wrote:
> Brian K Servis said:
> > So the question is how can he install a fresh Debian to his DOS/VFAT
> > internal using UMSDOS?
>
> I can't provide any easy answers to your specific question, but I would like
> to say that your friend should use ext2 filesystems on his SCSI disk. Tell him
> to absolutely not, under any circumstances, use UMSDOS on SCSI disks. There is
> currently a bug somewhere between UMSDOS and SCSI disks which causes kernel
> stack overflow, and can cause severe filesystem corruption. Up to kernel
> 2.0.29, I still haven't seen a fix.
>
> --
> Scott Barker
> Linux Consultant
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>
> [ I try to reply to all e-mail within 3 days. If you don't ]
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>
> "What do they call a comedian who doesn't get any laughs? A philosopher."
> - Phil Proctor
>
>
Dwarf
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Hi there all :)
I posted a few weeks ago for info on scanners. I haven't recieved
any replies on this matter so i'll ask again. Is there any support for
the use of scanners with Debian? If so where is it? The only thing i
have seen is the hpscanpbm package but this is for the "Hewlett-Packard
ScanJet series scanners" only.
Last month i purchased a ScanTak scanner that uses the TWIAN
drivers. It seems to be a great scanner for a low price (selling for
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selling quite will.
Any info/help in this matter would be greatly appreciated as I
hate rebooting to use windows to do any scanning.
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These people keep sending unsuscribe notices, but they are replying to do
it. I figured if the unsuscribes are being done by hand, nobody is going
to notice them. Just thought I would make their desires a little clearer.
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There had been several people mentioning they'd make a package from it. Who
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Reason: I do need a central faxserver here, and might contribute some work
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And until shadow moves to the main distribution - we need that before the
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On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Christoph wrote:
> I satisfied dpkgs hunger for a database with
>
> >/var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> dpkg --clear-avail
>
Way cool! This means that /var/lib/dpkg/info is not necessary for new
installations? You just have to be willing to clean up the trash after the
installation.
Also, I assume that when you finally install dpkg that it builds and
populates the alternatives, info, methods, parts, and updates directories?
I can see where a script to copy all libraries into /usr/local, re-run
ldconfig and then replace the links to point to the /usr/local copies and
delete the original library copies. Then when the installation is complete
for the new Debian system, just kill all the old links and wipe
/usr/local. Does this sound right?
How did you transition the init portion of the system?
Thanks,
Dwarf
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