Bug#65991: boot-floppies: module params STILL not passed correctly; can't install ne or adlib_card

2000-06-20 Thread J.A. Bezemer
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.15-2000-06-07 Severity: critical The modutils stuff in dbootstrap ("Configure device drivers") still does not pass options to the modprobe call. I can't install `ne' or `adlib_card' from the "GUI". Especially `adlib_card' is nice because it explicitly says it

Release Notes (Re: Stuff to do before release)

2000-08-11 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Anthony Towns wrote: Also, if there are any changes (bug fixes, updated docs, etc) to the release notes, they'll need to be uploaded by the same time. Josip (who's been doing this up 'til now) is away, so someone else will have to handle this. Adam? Anne? I've spent

Re: preparing boot-floppies 2.2.17

2000-09-11 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On 11 Sep 2000, Adam Di Carlo wrote: I would like to have people hold off on any "worrysome" hacking or any commits to CVS which could possibly detriment stability or require a lot of testing. I've just found one annoying bug that's definately worth fixing (if it isn't already). Found it on

Re: Which task package installs gpm?

2000-09-19 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, David Starner wrote: On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 01:50:05PM -0400, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: Personally, I cannot imagine a system without emacs, but enough people favor the other "one true editor" that it is unreasonable to load up a newby's disk with emacs without

Re: Which task package installs gpm?

2000-09-21 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 03:05:05PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Tasksel does support autoselecting required, important, and standard packages via the -r, -i, and -s switches. Currently, though, it is only called with -ri, not -ris. [...] I

Re: SoundBlaster cdrom problems

2000-09-30 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On 29 Sep 2000, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Neil Shadrach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is ok - from floppies, but I'm having trouble with the cd. I can mount it, wander the directories and even copy many of the files to the hard disk. However attempts to copy some files fail with i/o errors (

Re: CVS

2000-11-08 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 10:38:36PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: cvs.debian.org has moved back to klecker. Everyone using ssh will have to reset their ssh keys, etc. In a little bit we are going to flipflop and stop using pserver for people

Re: regarding potato images

2001-01-06 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Jim Westveer wrote: On 02-Jan-2001 Adam Di Carlo wrote: Jim Westveer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 01-Jan-2001 Adam Di Carlo wrote: Um, I thought it went like this for i386: CD#1: vanilla kernel CD#2: compact CD#3: idepci Yes, I agree. The

Re: regarding potato images

2001-01-11 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On 7 Jan 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: It would help if someone could inform me of what kernels are on what CDs for other arches, if there are any, on other arches. According to debian-cd/tools/boot/potato/boot-*: Alpha: only CD 1 is bootable, with something that seems like a multi-boot thing

Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

2001-05-30 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:46:13AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Here's a provisional list of packages which are standard or higher and should not be: fingerd not very secure for baseline ftpd not very secure for baseline

Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

2001-05-31 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote: J.A. Bezemer wrote: What about making a few task-* packages standard and have tasksel pre-select them by default? (I.e. start with [X] instead of [ ]) That's not a bad idea. Another thing: will it still be _easy_ to install a small system

Re: Systems with no floppy

2001-05-30 Thread J.A. Bezemer
I suspect that booting off a Zip disk is more like booting off a floppy than booting off a CD, which means that this probably is a debian-boot issue; forwarding it there. Regards, Anne Bezemer On Thu, 24 May 2001, Joe Krahn wrote: Your CD-image page promotes installing via a floppy

Our stable release

2009-07-29 Thread J.A. Bezemer
Hi all, We haven't had a properly installable stable release for a full month now, #536312. Applies to both CD/DVD and network installs. I don't see much activity to resolve this. Are we so busy with squeeze and sid, that we don't care about lenny any more? Best regards, Anne Bezemer P.S.

Re: [stable, D-I] Kernel selection broken for some architectures

2007-03-12 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Frans Pop wrote: Unfortunately we seem to have missed a change that was needed because of the ABI change in 3.1r3. We have not noticed this until now because the old kernels were still included in the archive and on CD images. With 3.1r5 the old images were removed

Re: Raising minimum CPU requirement for i386 kernel

2009-05-25 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Sun, 24 May 2009, Bastian Blank wrote: Hi folks I would like to raise the minimum CPU requirement for the shipped Linux kernels in the i386 port to i686 (with cmov). [..] Popcon gives us some rough numbers to think about: linux-image-2.6-68649518 linux-image-2.6-486

Weekly-build multi-arch DVD useful?

2010-10-30 Thread J.A. Bezemer
Hi all, Next week, Debian will have a booth at a smallish technical FOSS conference (http://www.t-dose.org/). I'll try to burn some DVDs to hand out. But I'd prefer to burn some squeeze preview rather than the lenny stuff we already handed out last year. So the question is: is the current

Re: 1st Problem: Design Loopback code to Boot Debian Live 9.11.0 DVD with Legacy Grub2

2019-09-23 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, Susmita/Rajib wrote: [..] Want to design a loopback code to boot the Debian 9.11.0 Live CD image with first the legacy grub2, and then alter the HCL laptop menu-list with the latest Grub. Written a code, by mounting the Debian Live ISO, reading the necessary files and