reiserfs bug in woody 2.4 boot floppys

2002-05-02 Thread Jon Westgate
Hi, I think I've found a bug in the woody bf2.4 disks. for some reason partitions formated reiserfs using this disk are auto detected by the kernel as vfat :( I think this may have something to do with the previous format of the disk (which was vfat win98 in this case). Anyway after spending a

Re: Boot Floppys

2002-04-17 Thread David Kimdon
Hi, debian-boot only deals with problems getting a basic Debian system up, that doesn't include X. I'm forwarding this to debian-user where there are more knowledgable people for this type of problem. -David Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 01:39:39PM -0400 wrote: > Gentlemen/Ladies, > > Have in the past

Re: Debian 2.2 installer boot floppys

2000-11-17 Thread Chris Howells
paolo massei wrote: Hmm, problem solved thanks. I finally found some decent floppies (I must have tried about two sets before), and made images of root.bin and rescue.bin. I then booted, and waited past the messages "VM: do_try_to_free_ages failed for modprobe... (and kswapd), and eventual

Re: Debian 2.2 installer boot floppys

2000-11-17 Thread Chris Howells
paolo massei wrote: >> to edit the file, even if I specify >> >> mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > > ^^ > > Perhaps here is the error: try with > > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > ^^ Thanks. 'msdos' turned out, *surprisingly* to be the correct option. It still hasn't helped me g

Re: Debian 2.2 installer boot floppys

2000-11-17 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, Chris Howells spoke on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:55:25AM +: > I have just obtained the full three CD-ROM Debian CD-ROM set. I wish to > try it out on my old computer first, which does not have a CD-ROM drive > capable of booting. > > Therefore I must make a boot fl

Re: Debian 2.2 installer boot floppys

2000-11-16 Thread paolo massei
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:55:25AM +, Chris Howells wrote: ...snip > I asked on #debian about this, and was told that I needed to edit the > file syslinux.cfg on one of the floppies, yet I am unsure how to do this > (or why even -- all I want to do is start the installer from the > CD-ROM?). T

Debian 2.2 installer boot floppys

2000-11-15 Thread Chris Howells
I have just obtained the full three CD-ROM Debian CD-ROM set. I wish to try it out on my old computer first, which does not have a CD-ROM drive capable of booting. Therefore I must make a boot floppy. I used rawrite to create a floppy from the image install/rescue.bin, which boots the machine up