Your message dated 25 Nov 2001 20:24:00 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line [alpha] bugs in documentation has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -------------------------------------- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 4 Apr 2000 23:36:03 +0000 Received: (qmail 15799 invoked from network); 4 Apr 2000 23:36:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO davinci.tron.priv.at) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 4 Apr 2000 23:36:02 -0000 Received: by davinci.tron.priv.at (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4C246A7A1; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 01:36:48 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 01:36:48 +0200 From: Othmar Pasteka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: documentation bugs in alpha install docs Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.10 Severity: normal Hi, i read through the installation manual and found some glitches or things which should be improved. i already mailed it to the b-f mailinglist, adam told me to file a bug, so here it is: the boot floppies i used were 2.2.10 and used the documentation which was accompanied with these b-fs. <quote> what i missed in the install docs for installing debian on an alpha is the description of BSD disklabels. what is it for, what's the theory and such things that one can imagine what he/she has to configure. i couldn't have partitioned the harddisk without knowing bsd disklabels from *BSD ... also a little example would be nice in the docs how this should look like at the end. furthermore i am/was quite confused about the aboot stuff what the story behind this was. should i leave some megs for it or not? should they be within an partiton or should the first partition start right after the non-partitioned space for aboot ... some one else answered me the question but well i couln't have figured this out on my own. and there is also a bug in the pdf versions of th einstall guide. in point 5.2 is a listing of the various subarchs and the i mages which should be in there, so, alpha has many subarchs and the list is pretty long but the long list doesn't get break up at the end of the text, i.e. is just one long line. another thing which puzzled me was that under the subarch dir resc14440.bin etc. should be (if i read the docs) but actually, the most i can find is just milo.bin, so what's the magic behind this? </quote> Note: forget the system information below. so long Othmar -- System Information Debian Release: 2.2 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux davinci 2.2.14 #4 Tue Apr 4 00:40:42 CEST 2000 i586 --------------------------------------- Received: (at 61802-done) by bugs.debian.org; 25 Nov 2001 19:24:18 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Nov 25 13:24:18 2001 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com (mailout01.sul.t-online.de) [194.25.134.80] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 1684t0-0000Vy-00; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 13:24:18 -0600 Received: from fwd06.sul.t-online.de by mailout01.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 1684sz-0002ME-01; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:24:17 +0100 Received: from localhost (520013318687-0001@[217.230.22.237]) by fmrl06.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 1684sk-0TR3b6C; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:24:02 +0100 Received: from falk by localhost with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 1684sj-0004D1-00 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:24:01 +0100 X-Face: >Q)4Pn.JVfRz{G(G_eIkykbZGG\)2mk8:5a"{^Mk07iC#F.t2L7h<Sa|7Zr1_L8[nbiq:8F %o\(7>|]{*cFg$GEPDdun~+UTjG(^4z<_Ksw%L-\w0xDmUR~<zsnGH]&sK=M\Y=;U4XZ"z)[CX6I6d _p To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [alpha] bugs in documentation From: Falk Hueffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 25 Nov 2001 20:24:00 +0100 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lines: 8 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.5 (anise) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: Falk Hueffner <falk@borkum> X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think this has been made sufficiently clear in the woody installation manual: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-alpha/current/doc/ch-partitioning.en.html If not, please complain :) Falk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]