Subject: Base system installation

From: "Ricardas Cepas" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 14:41:24 +0300 (LDT)

Hello,

        I'm new to Unix and just installing Debian Linux base
system (07-14-96). At first all goes well, except that I have
to use fdisk instead of cfdisk because of lack of memory, but
at the end of kernel installation I get the message like this :
 Unresolved symbols in module lib/mod/2.0.6/fs/nfs.o
 Unresolved symbols in module lib/mod/2.0.6/net/de4x5.o
 Unresolved symbols in module lib/mod/current/fs/nfs.o
 Unresolved symbols in module lib/mod/current/net/de4x5.o
Determining module dependencies
 Unresolved symbols in module lib/mod/2.0.6/fs/nfs.o
 Unresolved symbols in module lib/mod/2.0.6/net/de4x5.o
 Unresolved symbols in module lib/mod/current/fs/nfs.o
 Unresolved symbols in module lib/mod/current/net/de4x5.o

        After that program pretends that all is O.K. Sometimes
just before that message system remains still for at least 20 min.
until I switch to second console, then reading from floppy resumes.
I have tried turn off caches, but that changes nothing. I have
also written floppies back to files and checked md5sum's.
May I consider this installation successful ?
        My system: VLB MB 486-GVT, CPU i486SX-25, RAM 4MB, IDE HDD
330MB with GoldStar Prime 2C MKIII ISA I/O card.
        BIOS: AMI V1.02 X0-0100-001121-00101111-021993-VIA

                Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
                                                Yours,
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                                      Ricardas Cepas

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From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 96 08:54 PDT

From: "Jason K. Keimig" <[email-masked]>
> On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > The "unresolved symbols" messages are harmless (unless you want to use
> > nfs or the de4x5, in which case you end up rebuilding the kernel).
> 
>  The problem here is if you _need_ nfs for mounting disks with the buzz/
> hierarchy for installing the rest of the distribution (like gcc and the
> kernel source)..

Yes. I went to build a new disk set, but I am a bit short on time :-) . If
somebody else wants to build a disk set, that would be fine.

	Thanks

	Bruce