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Gontran wrote: |
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> Hi Achim, devers, |
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> I'm willing to sort through any docs you care to write and correct for |
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> English grammar and whatnot, I stand to learn something about the project that |
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> way. |
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Fine, thank you. I send you my docs at the end of the week. |
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> On another note ... |
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> Bled the ISO last night, hoping to boot the kernel on VIA board with Cyrix MII |
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> (via chipset: VT82C598MVP), grub popped up nicely (yea!), selected top option, |
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> got some proper looking boot messages then all kind of scrolling hex numbers |
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> and total lock. |
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> I understand that there's some issues with some via sets ... have a 486 with |
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> 32 Mb I'll try next, I'd give it a shot now, but it won't boot off the cdrom |
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> and I find myself without a working 3.5 floppy drive for bootdisk making. |
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> Any insights? |
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I send the whole last weekend on a rescue disk system and want to update |
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and rework |
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the whole boot concept on the next weekend. |
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In theory the latest iso should work on any >=i486 system, but it |
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doesn't. |
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I have tested it on a K62/VIA board here with success. |
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Yesterday I tried to boot the rescue system on a Compaq armada laptop |
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had it hangs after |
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loading the rescue disk. :-/ |
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I'm planning to boot the bootimage directly from the cd, becuase mkisofs |
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now allows the use of images other that fd for booting. If it works I |
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can add alot of different kernels to the image and there is no more need |
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to scan for the cdrom device and mount the iso image loopback. |
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This solution should work for you too. |
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Does your 486 cdrom allow boot off the cdrom? |
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achim~ |
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> Gontran |
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> * Achim Gottinger (AGottinger@××××××××.de) wrote: |
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> > pbg1854@×××××××××××××××.edu wrote: |
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> > > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 08:55:04PM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote: |
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> > > > Devs, |
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> > > > Some doc improvements to http://www.gentoo.org: |
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> > > > The development guide has been converted to the new XML guide format. |
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> > > > Also, we now have Pete's excellent new development HOWTO on the site. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Both are works in progress. Much thanks to Pete and Thomas for their |
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> > > > hard work! |
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> > > Oh, and speaking of which, I've been quite busy recently (classes, |
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> > > work, my band, etc...), |
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> > It seemms everyone has this problem at the moment. :-) |
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> > which is why I have not added much to the |
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> > > HOWTO recently. I'm going to try to put some more info into it this |
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> > > week, and so if anyone has any suggestions for improvements/additions |
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> > > etc. please let me know, I'll add them. |
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> > Pete, I'll do the FHS part of the howto and additionally I want to add a |
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> > chapter that |
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> > describes the USE concept. I'm not a native english spear, so I can |
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> > eighter write the |
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> > whole chapers and you correct them, or I can give you a short list of |
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> > points and you |
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> > write the chapters. Tell me what you think about that please. |
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> > bye achim~ |
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> > > |
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> > > Pete |
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> > > |
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> > > _______________________________________________ |
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> -- |
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> Gontran |
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