Did somebody find an easy way to install Debian on 4 MB? We
want use a cluster of 10 old PCs that way. After boot/root
ths swap space has to be partitioned by hand and activated by
the 2nd VC, and other problems follow, for the ramdisk steels
too much of the valuable memory. (No, these old boxe
Would somebody please announce the most appropriate, foolproof CD-set
for a frozen Debian 1.2, when it is available?
And by the way, sorry that ...
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Hi,
trying to install with special boot disk image-2.0.5-5 the
Installation of Operating System Kernel failed with:
"Error in archive format".
It is the very same floppy from which the first steps went through.
/dev/sda1 is set up as root fs, rex is copied to /dev/sda3 and
/dev/sda2 is a ha
: Hi,
:
: trying to install with special boot disk image-2.0.5-5 the
: Installation of Operating System Kernel failed with:
: "Error in archive format".
: It is the very same floppy from which the first steps went through.
ok, just cycled through kernels special_boot-[0-6].bin from
debi
After marking everything I want and installing all these packages
there were too many errors to proceed at the configuration tasks. The
main problem seems to be a missing cpp, in spite of that package
having been marked. So the question arises, in which order the
packages should be installed --
This is just a hint about my nowadays low intensity Turbo LED :-)
monitoring the SCSI bus. I find it a great help in determining the
bottle neck of my system. SCSI with tape wasn't nice, but now...
I'm happy.
Greetings, Andreas
--
Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009
There is an endless loop with dselect:
starting from scratch;
mark: new required
mark: new important
find: at is important (was: remove)
at depends on bsdutils
libc5-dev (was: install)
libc5-dev depends on libc5 (= 5.4.7-7)
libc5-dev i
Several remarks.
1) Don't give an entry
vga=[any number other than normal]
in /etc/lilo.conf and launch lilo with that. It will
completely confuse dselect, and nobody is aware of this :-(
I got much trouble until guessing a screen of 100x40 to
cause confusion.
2) Ins
Was: "Remarks, installing rex from scratch"
: 1) Don't give an entry
: vga=[any number other than normal]
: in /etc/lilo.conf and launch lilo with that. It will
: completely confuse dselect, and nobody is aware of this :-(
Video modes are ok, forget about v
Just got a reply from Christian Linhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
that he is too busy at the moment to do any useful for the
debian project. Here is my warning about tgif with respect to
debian 1.2:
: Thanks for maintaining the tgif package for debian. The tgif
: version 3.0p5-1 has at least the f
: home PC. Now, with Debian there seems to be no information whatsoever on
: how to choose the packages after you install the 4 or 5 base set
: floppy disks. I know that if you use other methods like dpkg-ftp (I don't
We considered too the floppy emulsion (it's not a solution). But who
should m
When editing many resource files and regarding debian packages files
I thought, these lines could be of some help for someone. It is a
hint and a call for using the emacs outline mode, which is great in
folding any files in pieces of information of the desired level. All
sort of files that allo
low is added my complete ~/.emacs startup file:
-- snip -- snip -- snip --
;*_* file description, comment
; this is my ~/.emacs startup file, prepared to handle
; the GREAT emacs outline mode
; Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: +49 (0202) 439 - 3009
; Dr.-Ing. Andreas
I spent many hours with the problem, that tgif breaks for it doesn't
find its courier font in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi. It is a
simple solution: the font path isn't set correctly. I don't know if I
had replaced a file where the font path is set with
xset fp=
but think, someone pleas
Now, that I am nearly finished with switching to Debian and
going to switch other 15 boxes as well there is one annoying
thing left:
-> The preview produced by gs 3.33 (4/10/1995) is
-> unreadable, compared with that by gs 2.61
-> (5/28/1993), due to missing horizontal lines in
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