Re: Boot floppies with XFS

2003-07-03 Thread Eamon Roque
Hallo, Ghe Rivero schrieb: Hi! I'm looking for some boot floppies that i found a lot of time ago that allows you to install debian with XFS (SGi file system) anybody knows where are they?¿ Ghe Rivero http://people.debian.org/~blade/XFS-Install/ HTH Eamon Roque. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Boot floppies with XFS

2003-07-03 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Ghe Rivero [Thu, Jul 03 2003, 01:58:02PM]: > Hi! > I'm looking for some boot floppies that i found a lot of time ago that > allows you to install debian with XFS (SGi file system) anybody knows > where are they?¿ people.debian.org/~blade/XFS-Install -- Aber wofuer kann ich dann

Re: Boot floppies with XFS

2003-07-03 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 03 July 2003 03:58 am, Ghe Rivero wrote: > Hi! > I'm looking for some boot floppies that i found a lot of time ago that > allows you to install debian with XFS (SGi file system) anybody knows > where are they?¿ > > Ghe Rivero F

Re: boot-floppies package

2003-06-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 04:50:58PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Carel, > > Now I'm really getting worried, and trying to recall were I picked up > the suggestion to create a grub floppy (it wasn't my own idea). I was > from Linux Journal, but I can't seem to pin down the issue. I'm not sure I und

Re: boot-floppies package

2003-06-02 Thread Haines Brown
Carel, Now I'm really getting worried, and trying to recall were I picked up the suggestion to create a grub floppy (it wasn't my own idea). I was from Linux Journal, but I can't seem to pin down the issue. I also find a reference to doing so in the clone-HOWTO, section 5.3. Also http://www.mathe

Re: boot-floppies package

2003-06-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 11:14:20AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: ... > > I seriously doubt this is sane:) > > According to the grub.info (node: Images): > > > > While Stage 2 cannot generally be embedded in a fixed area as the > > size is so large, Stage 1.5 can be installed into the area r

Re: boot-floppies package

2003-06-02 Thread Haines Brown
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 06:06:08AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > ... > > If you do have a running system, then simply have root visit grub's > > working directory and copy the two stage files over to an unmounted > > floppy: > > > > # dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 > > # dd if=

Re: boot-floppies package

2003-06-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 06:06:08AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: ... > If you do have a running system, then simply have root visit grub's > working directory and copy the two stage files over to an unmounted > floppy: > > # dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 > # dd if=stage2 of=/dev/f

Re: boot-floppies package

2003-06-01 Thread Haines Brown
Floris, I have also found it advantageous to create a grub boot floppy. You can then select among kernels or fiddle with the bootloader configuration actually in the course of a boot. If you do have a running system, then simply have root visit grub's working directory and copy the two stage file

Re: boot-floppies package

2003-06-01 Thread Charles Roberts
Floris Bruynooghe wrote: Why can't I find the boot-floppies package anymore? Or is there an other way to make custom Debian boot-floppies. In the installation manual for Woody however they are still mentoined under the section `Chapter 10 - Technical Information on the Boot Floppies'. (I could f

Re: boot-floppies broken?

2002-05-01 Thread Joey Hess
Nic Ferrier wrote: > I have a mostly stable/testing system. > > I wanted to install the boot-floppies package but it doesn't seem to > work. > > When I use the testing version I get this: > > # apt-get -t testing install boot-floppies > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dep

Re: boot-floppies broken?

2002-04-30 Thread David Smead
These are something you should just download using ftp and then write to a floppy. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On 30 Apr 2002, Nic Ferrier wrote: > I have a mostly stable/testing system. > > I wanted to install the boot-floppies package but it doesn't seem to > work. >

Re: boot-floppies package

2001-04-28 Thread ktb
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:28:09AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know if I should be posting this here or in debian-devel > > I wanted to install the boot floppies package so I can create > my own install scripts > > apt-get install boot-floppies told me it needed to install

Re: boot-floppies -> unattended install

2000-12-06 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, debian-devel readers: please follow-up to debian-boot debian-boot readers: sorry for the in media res cross-post but I think this is the more appropriate forum (I'm sure you'll correct me if I'm wrong :) these are all very useful tools (FAI et al.), but not quite what I'm looking for... I d

RE: boot-floppies: how do I go about making my own version

2000-11-09 Thread Kenrick, Chris
Title: RE: boot-floppies: how do I go about making my own version (snipped a whole lot of stuff) >Perhaps others can throw in their bit from here. There is actually a HOWTO on this very subject which should be a good start .. The Linux bootdisk howto, last updated Sept 2000. Also wo

Re: boot-floppies: how do I go about making my own version

2000-11-09 Thread USM Bish
Its over a day, and there are not takers for your query .. Offering an incomplete suggestion to keep this thread alive. I am attaching my boot-floppy making script below. Its just a barebone script, merely booting into your existing system. Does NOT have the additional features that you are

Re: boot floppies

2000-06-23 Thread John Carline
Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi debs > > I've been booting this system with a boot floppy for some time now. Say > I wanted to create new boot disks for any potato machine, how would I > most easily do this? If you've compiled you own kernel, the easiest way to go to the directory you compiled from. In

Re: boot floppies -- thanks!!

1999-01-26 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
Ossama Othman wrote: > > I wanted to thank Robert Woodcock and everyone who helped me (sorry, I > don't recall their names :( ) for helping me figure out how to boot my > Dell PowerEdge Server 6300. I am now the proud user (not owner, I wish! > :) of a Quad-CPU Xeon Dell system with a gig (960MB

Re: boot floppies (july 21 1998) error ?

1998-10-08 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, G. Kapetanios wrote: > I am wondering whether the boot floppies in curent are ok. > the rescue disk and drivers isk is working fine but when the base system > gets installed and after all the floppies have been read (so no floppy > eliability issue) the installation exits with

Re: boot-floppies

1998-07-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Robert Rati wrote: > I installed the package boot-floppies so I would be able to create the > boot floppies to have as backup. I cannot find the scripts that this > package installed though. Does anyone know where they are? And, as a > related question, does anyone know how

Re: boot-floppies

1998-07-26 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Robert Rati wrote: : [...] : And, as a related question, does anyone know how to tell what debian : packages install which files after they've been installed (via dslect or : something like that) and the .deb file has been deleted? `dpkg -L ` will give you a list of files

Re: boot-floppies package for hamm?

1998-01-24 Thread Norbert Veber
On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 10:43:11PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > > I am really hurting for a set too. Is it safe to force the libc5-pic and > ncurses3.0-pic? hmm there is a libc6-pic and ncurses 3.4-pic, but as I have no idea what those are for, the answer to yer question is: I don't know :)

Re: boot-floppies package for hamm?

1998-01-24 Thread Norbert Veber
On Sat, Jan 24, 1998 at 01:30:18AM -0500, Steve Hsieh wrote: > > Can someone tell me if there is a boot-floppies package for hamm yet? The > current one depends on libc5-pic and ncurses3.0-pic -- neither of which > exist in hamm. not yet -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wo