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* Achim Gottinger (AGottinger@××××××××.de) wrote: |
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> Gontran wrote: |
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> > Hi Achim, devers, |
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> > |
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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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> |
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> Fine, thank you. I send you my docs at the end of the week. |
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> > |
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> > On another note ... |
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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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> |
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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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Unfortunately, no. But there is another machine around here with a floppy |
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that works, come to think of it. I'll make the floppies there and give it |
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another try on the cyrix. |
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Gontran |
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> achim~ |
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> > |
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> > Gontran |
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> > |
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> > * Achim Gottinger (AGottinger@××××××××.de) wrote: |
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> > > pbg1854@×××××××××××××××.edu wrote: |
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> > > > |
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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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> > > > > |
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> > > > > Some doc improvements to http://www.gentoo.org: |
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> > > > > |
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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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> > > > > |
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> > > > |
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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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> > > |
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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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> > > |
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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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> > > |
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> > > bye achim~ |
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> > > |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Pete |
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> > > > |
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> > Gontran |
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