Bug#306476: quick question about Bug#306476

2006-03-16 Thread Randall Wayth
bol above it. Cheers, Randall. Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 16 March 2006 03:07, Randall Wayth wrote: OK, I grabbed the latest (March 14th) etch network installer from the link location below. I ran the installer with debconf/priority=medium as requested. The CDROM detection worked, as did

Bug#306476: quick question about Bug#306476

2006-03-15 Thread Randall Wayth
rote: On Monday 27 February 2006 04:21, Randall Wayth wrote: To get to this point, I had also tried the latest etch cd installer which uses a 2.6 kernel. This installer failed at other points (I had to modprobe esp and it couldn't mount the disk after partitioning, and something else too...

Bug#306476: quick question about Bug#306476

2006-02-26 Thread Randall Wayth
Hi Jim and Frans, Thanks very much for the follow-up and suggestions. For the sake of creating a useful record I'll let you know what happened here. I ended up getting this working using the standard sarge minimal-cd net installer, which was the thing that failed in the first place. To get it

Bug#306476: quick question about Bug#306476

2006-02-23 Thread Randall Wayth
Hi Frans, Thanks for this info. I actually tried the latest etch cd yesterday but it failed also (to mount the CD) even though it seems to explicity handle SCSI cdrom devices. (At least one gets that impression from the messages that come up that it does.) So I wonder now exactly what the pro

Bug#306476: quick question about Bug#306476

2006-02-22 Thread Randall Wayth
r me, so another solution is very much preferable... One of the replies to this bug mentions using a 2.6 kernel. Is that via netboot only, or can I get a cdrom version? Thanks, Randall. -- | Randall Wayth | Astrophysics Group. University Of Melbourne, 3010. Australia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Bug#306510: kernel-source-2.6.8: pcxx.o module fails to compile

2005-04-27 Thread Randall Wayth
Hi Maks, the config is attached. I just went back to check a "default" kernel config and these extra serial driver options are not turned on. So I must have turned it on by mistake. Nevertheless it is still a bug, I suppose. Just not one that many people will care about. Cheers, Randall. maximi

Bug#306510: kernel-source-2.6.8: pcxx.o module fails to compile

2005-04-26 Thread Randall Wayth
Package: kernel-source-2.6.8 Version: 2.6.8-15 Severity: normal Compiling the kernel fails when it gets to the pcxx.c module. A section of the compiler output follows. The compilation continues OK if this module is removed from the config. The pcxx module is selected to be included by default.