15 Oct
2004
15 Oct
'04
5:32 a.m.
|--==> Alejandro Lopez writes:
AL> -My PC won't boot from CD-ROM. By browsing the directory structure, I kind
AL> of guessed I had at least a couple of choices for DOS: booting from a
AL> rawrite2'd floppy or run loadlin. Fair enough, there's a vmlinuz file
there
AL> as well as several .bin floppy images. But: loadlin is not included in the
AL> CD image, not it is rawrite2. Not a big deal for me as I had several other
AL> distros handy but not elegant either. In the same directory where these
AL> images reside, there's a little text file which lists loadlin and rawrite2:
AL> should read "loadlin", reads "lodlin" (in case anyone would
like report this
AL> for future versions).
Please try the final 1.2.0, all the tools you mention are there.
AL> -I was not able to select English language with a Spanish keyboard layout
AL> (I'm Spanish). You are supposed to select both in one go, the 2 different
AL> options in the menu (that you can see if you select back somewhere in the
AL> middle of the process) seem to be related and didn't work as such distinct
AL> options for me.
This is related with the new Debian installer mechanism, AFAIR if you
press the back button you'll be prompted language and keyboard in
different screens. I'll try to address the problem for the next 1.2.1
AL> -At one point, I went back and selected Spanish (for everything, that is),
AL> next step was repartitioning my hard disk which is inherently a dangerous
AL> operation. The translation of the partitioning software to Spanish was so
AL> poor (wrong actually) that I was scared to repartition in Spanish. Went back
AL> to English so I could understand what the software would do with my hard
AL> disk but now my keyboard layout doesn't match. I'm planning installing to
a
AL> different machine I imported from Germany, so I'll have the same layout
AL> problem (I'd rather not choose German language to repartition my disk in
AL> order to have the keyboard properly installed).
Translations for the Debian installer are still in progress. Please
please please send any suggestion to debian-boot(a)lists.debian.org,
such contribution is very appreciated.
cheers,
free