#include <hallo.h> Glenn McGrath wrote on Sun Feb 17, 2002 um 12:53:55AM:
> The only hitch i encountered was the mbr, after i installed i changed > the bios boot drive, then when it tried booting i got "L 01 01 01...." > with 01 constantly repeating... i vagually remember seeing a warning > about doing such a thing. What is your first IDE device, how it is connected? My assumption: it is not /dev/hda but another one, and the real device is mapped by your bios to ide0. For such situation, there is a workaround in the current CVS tree. > I did a net install, i made the boot, root and 4 driver disks but > happily discovered the 8139too driver built into kernel, so i only > need 2 disks, retrieved everything via the network. Hm. This advantage should be documented somewhere. > I deliberately typed in the wrong url to start the downloads, i got > the "Malformed release file" that has caused problems in the past, i > re-did it wiht the correct url and had no problems. Also my experience. The problem is solved, IMHO. > It would be nice if a more local defualt mirror was provided... there > is a low severity bug requesting it, ill have a look at making a > netselect busybox applet, a bit late to adding new features to bf, but > it would make a handy addition to busybox anyway i think. I think, the change is minimalistic. Assuming that the language names allways have 2 chars, this quick hack may work. If someone has some spare time, please test and commit: Index: net-fetch.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/net-fetch.c,v retrieving revision 1.53 diff -u -r1.53 net-fetch.c --- net-fetch.c 2002/02/08 05:56:11 1.53 +++ net-fetch.c 2002/02/16 15:20:59 @@ -347,6 +347,11 @@ // http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-$arch/current/ nf_state.method = strdup("http"); nf_state.server.hostname = strdup("http.us.debian.org"); +#ifdef USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER + /* ugly... this will work as long as the LANG name has two chars. Preffer "us " + * when "en". */ + sprintf(nf_state.server.hostname, "http.%s.debian.org", strcmp(lang->locale, "en")==0 ? "us" : lang->locale ); +#endif nf_state.server.port = 80; nf_state.proxy.hostname = strdup("none"); nf_state.proxy.port = 8080; Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]