On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:01:09PM +0100, Ionut Georgescu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for some time ago (3 weeks) I built some debian 3.0 floppies with the
> 2.4.9 SGI kernel (the one in testing). The boot images can be found
> under:
> http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/users/george/woody_xfs/
>
> - bf-common contains the 2.88M images for CD's and the
> drivers.tgz file
> - bf-images-1.44 contains the 1.44M images
>
> They contain full IDE support, 3c59x and NFS for net installs, XFS,
> SoftRAID, ReiserFS, xfsprogs, raidtools2 und reiserprogs. SCSI didn't
> fit in anymore and building an initrd image for it did not interest me
> at the time(the floppies where ment for the IDE box at home).
>
>
> There is one problem: there was a bug at the time of building
> these floppies and psmisc would not be installed, thus breaking the
> dependencies. The fix is to edit with nano-tiny
> /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/woody after boot but before installing the
> base system and add psmisc in the 'required' line at the top of the
> file. Sorry for the inconvenient but I didn't had the time to check
> whether this was fixed, nor to automatise it.
this bug does not exist in current debootstrap, you should rebuild
your boot-floppies.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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