In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John H. Robinson, IV" writes:
>there is an etc/messages.trm. i did do a make clean before building.
>
>this was the reiserfs flavour, over serial.
Right, yeah, I think I see the problem.
Can you try this patch to dbootstrap and see if it helps?
p.
Index: main.c
===================================================================
RCS file:
/org/cvs.debian.org/cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/main.c,v
retrieving revision 1.129
diff -u -r1.129 main.c
--- main.c 2001/11/27 23:24:24 1.129
+++ main.c 2001/12/01 11:13:08
@@ -737,6 +737,32 @@
do {
lang = boxChooseLanguageVariant (langs);
} while (lang == NULL);
+ snprintf (msgcat, PATH_MAX, "/etc/messages.%s", lang->msgcat);
+ msgcat[PATH_MAX - 1] = '\0';
+ DEBUGMSG ("loading message catalog %s", msgcat);
+
+ if (LOAD_TRMFILE (msgcat) == 0) /* Failed to load localized strings?
+*/
+ {
+ if (LOAD_TRMFILE (TRMBACKUP) == 0) /* Failed to load English strings as
+well? */
+ {
+ problemBoxEn ("An error occured while loading application messages.",
+"Problem");
+
+ reboot (RB_AUTOBOOT);
+
+ /* when not root and debugging */
+ boxFinished();
+ exit(1);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ char message[255];
+
+ snprintf (message, sizeof (message), "An error occured while loading
+localized application messages from '%s'. English messages will be used instead.",
+msgcat);
+ message[254] = '\0'; /* Just in case */
+
+ problemBoxEn (message, "Problem");
+ }
+ }
} else {
/* Try to force the language to English */
while (langs->name != NULL && strcmp(langs->name, "English"))
@@ -746,35 +772,24 @@
reboot (RB_AUTOBOOT);
}
lang = langs->list->items[0].p;
- }
-
- snprintf (msgcat, PATH_MAX, "/etc/messages.%s", lang->msgcat);
- msgcat[PATH_MAX - 1] = '\0';
-
- DEBUGMSG ("loading message catalog %s", msgcat);
-
- if (LOAD_TRMFILE (msgcat) == 0) /* Failed to load localized strings?
*/
- {
- if (LOAD_TRMFILE (TRMBACKUP) == 0) /* Failed to load English strings as
well? */
- {
- problemBoxEn ("An error occured while loading application messages.",
"Problem");
-
- reboot (RB_AUTOBOOT);
-
- /* when not root and debugging */
- boxFinished();
- exit(1);
- }
- else
- {
- char message[255];
- snprintf (message, sizeof (message), "An error occured while loading
localized application messages from '%s'. English messages will be used instead.",
msgcat);
- message[254] = '\0'; /* Just in case */
-
- problemBoxEn (message, "Problem");
- }
+ snprintf (msgcat, PATH_MAX, "/etc/messages.%s", lang->msgcat);
+ msgcat[PATH_MAX - 1] = '\0';
+ DEBUGMSG ("loading message catalog %s", msgcat);
+
+ /* The English messages might be /etc/messages.en, or
+ /etc/messages.trm in a single locale system */
+ if (LOAD_TRMFILE (msgcat) == 0
+ && LOAD_TRMFILE ("/etc/messages.trm") == 0)
+ {
+ problemBoxEn ("An error occurred while loading application messages",
+"Problem");
+ reboot(RB_AUTOBOOT);
+ /* when not root and debugging */
+ boxFinished();
+ exit(1);
+ }
}
+
free (msgcat);
}
#else
@@ -863,6 +878,37 @@
"For more information, refer to http://www.armlinux.org/strongarm.html\n";),
_("Warning"));
#endif
+
+ /* See how much memory is fitted. If it's less than the
+ recommended amount, say so. */
+ {
+ char *smem = NULL;
+ int status;
+ struct Arg args[] = {
+ { "MemTotal", 0, &smem },
+ { NULL, 0, NULL }
+ };
+ status = parsefile("/proc/meminfo", args, 2, 1);
+ if (status == 0 && smem != NULL) {
+ unsigned long mem = atol(smem), min_mem;
+ mem /= 1024;
+ /* This information comes from documentation/default.ent */
+#if defined __i386__
+ min_mem = 12;
+#elif defined __arm__ || defined __s390__ || defined __alpha__ || defined __mips__
+ min_mem = 16;
+#else
+ min_mem = 5;
+#endif
+ if (mem < min_mem) {
+ snprintf(prtbuf, PRTBUFSIZE - 1, _(
+"Your computer seems to have only %dMB of RAM. For this\n"
+"version of Debian, a minimum of %dMB is recommended.\n"),
+ mem, min_mem);
+ wideMessageBox(prtbuf, _("Warning: Low Memory"));
+ }
+ }
+ }
is_root_a_floppy ();
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