Debian bug report logs - #1373 bootdisk: BIOS32 message may confuse newbies Package: (bootdisk) ; Reported by: Brian_Johnson@hmc.edu; 45 days old . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bug reassigned from package `bootdisk' to `(bootdisk)'. Request was from imurdock@debian.org (Ian Murdock) to debian-bugs-request@pixar.com . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From osiris.ac.hmc.edu!bjohnson Sat Sep 16 22:36:44 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0suCPE-000FyGC; Sat, 16 Sep 95 22:36 PDT Received: from Osiris.AC.HMC.Edu by pixar.com with SMTP id AA05690 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Sat, 16 Sep 1995 22:36:28 -0700 Received: (from bjohnson@localhost) by osiris.ac.hmc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA08899 for debian-bugs@pixar.com; Sat, 16 Sep 1995 22:36:39 -0700 From: Brian Johnson Message-Id: <199509170536.WAA08899@osiris.ac.hmc.edu> Subject: bootdisk: BIOS32 message may confuse newbies To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 22:36:39 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: Brian_Johnson@hmc.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 337 Package: bootdisk Version: Sept 16 The September 16 pre-release boot disk displays the following message on non-PCI systems: No BIOS32 extensions present. This release still depends on it. Sorry. This message may confuse people who do not realize that it is only relevant to PCI machines. -- Brian Johnson - Brian_Johnson@hmc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Brian_Johnson@hmc.edu : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1373 ; Package bootdisk . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov