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Re: installing woody bf24 on vmware 2.0.4 and local apic problems



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* Brian J. Murrell [Fri, Aug 23 2002, 02:52:24AM]:
> I am trying to install Woody onto a VMware workstation, 2.0.4 and

2.0.4 is a bit old, isn't?

> So a couple of questions:
> 
> 1. Is there any way to work around this problem with the bf24 kernel
>    distributed on Woody?

Wrong question. It should be: ... around broken hardware emulated by
non-free crap ...

> 2. Is there any way to use an alternate kernel not on the CD?

Read the boot screens.

> 3. Is there a "boot" kernel available that does not have local apic
>    support in it (I don't yet have a Debian system installed to build
>    one myself)?
> 
> Using the 2.2 idepci kernel is not an option because I need lvm
> support as I intend to put all of my filesystems, including root on
> LVM.

Huch? Loading bf2.4 kernel won't bring you LVM w/o additional tricks
(manual hacking). There is a simple method for installing Debian on a
temporal partition, with any kernel.

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
-- 
'Und dann mu� man den Computer herunterladen, sonst st�rzt er ab.'
                                                 (Harald Schmidt)

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