Wayne Topa wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: debian installation woes
> Date: Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:59:08AM -0800
>
> In reply to:aphro
>
> Quoting aphro([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary..
> >
> > nate
Subject: Re: debian installation woes
Date: Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:59:08AM -0800
In reply to:aphro
Quoting aphro([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary..
>
> nate
OH?? Gee, I wonder why my potato dist is working so well
on h
Nick Phillips wrote:
>
> >
> > you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary..
> >
>
> IIRC, LILO should be able to boot from any partition, although it gets
> a bit more complicated if the interesting bits aren't near enough to the
> front of the disk...
You *can* boot linux from a logic
--- Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm probably just going to re-download the whole
> thing
> > and try again.
>
> Ewww - I would try to find a copy of Debian 2.1 (or
> 2.0) at a local
> 'Borders' bookstore - much more convenient.
Believe me, I would if I could.
Unfortunately I live
>
> you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary..
>
IIRC, LILO should be able to boot from any partition, although it gets
a bit more complicated if the interesting bits aren't near enough to the
front of the disk...
I couldn't tell from the bits of previous posts I could see exactly how
you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary..
nate
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I thought that might be the case. However anyone
installing debian 2.1 would still be using the 2.0
kernel and have the 128mb limit. Anyway few people
would need that much swap anyway.
--- Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> *- On 2 Nov, Kenneth Scharf wrote about &q
*- On 2 Nov, Kenneth Scharf wrote about "Re: debian installation woes"
> 3: swap 127 megs (no swap may exceed 128mb, but you
> can have more than one. Rummor has it that swap
This 128M limit is no longer true in 2.2.x kernels. From the Changes
file in the kernel source doc
>1: w95 (1 gig)
>2: extended (the rest of it)
> 5: linux (1gig)
> 6: vfat storage partition (2 gigs)
> 7: vfat storage partition (the rest of it)
> 8: linux swap (150 megs)
There MAY be a problem with the boot sector crossing a
1024 cyl bound, not sure if scsi has this problem.
Just to b
On 2/11/99 Mock Ko wrote:
1: w95 (1 gig)
2: extended (the rest of it)
^
5: linux (1gig)
6: vfat storage partition (2 gigs)
7: vfat storage partition (the rest of it)
8: linux swap (150 megs)
I've gotten it to install and reboot off the mbr now
(I was usin
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
[...]
> Other hardware:
> - realtek 8029 PCI ethernet card (the installer can't
> find the module to install this card in the installer)
This uses the pci-ne2k module.
> - SB16
> - Riva TNT2 AGP
>
> I've gotten it to install and reboot
Whoops! I knew I forgot something =)
I'm running a celeron 300A system, 128MB ram, adaptec
2940UW, Seagate 9gig (scsi) partitioned as follows:
1: w95 (1 gig)
2: extended (the rest of it)
5: linux (1gig)
6: vfat storage partition (2 gigs)
7: vfat storage partition (the rest of it)
8: l
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Mock Ko wrote:
> I did the installation for debian, but it failed
> miserably.
>
> It did the initial install, but it crashed every time
> I rebooted, so I booted from the boot disk I created.
Hi,
I think that we need to know at least something about your hardware
specificat
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