Package: syslinux Version: 2:4.01+dfsg-2 Severity: minor [This bug is filed against -2, although the change has been introduced in -3.]
Hi, wrong instructions about how to create floppy disk images have been added to syslinux.README.Debian in the -3 revision of the syslinux package. First, if the code is supposed to be shell code, then there must not be two dollar signs to variable calls. The first step in paragraph 2 results in the following error messages: $ for SIZE in 720 1200 1440 1743; do dd if=/dev/zero of=img$${SIZE}k bs=1k count=$$SIZE; done dd: invalid number `26518SIZE' dd: invalid number `26518SIZE' dd: invalid number `26518SIZE' dd: invalid number `26518SIZE' with 26518 being the PID of my current shell. Reducing to one dollar sign fixes this issue. The formatting in the second step also does not work. If the second dollar sign is removed from the DRIVE variable, mformat spits out the following error messages: $ for DRIVE in a: b: c: d:; do MTOOLSRC=/usr/share/syslinux/examples/mtoolsrc mformat $DRIVE; done mformat: Can't open /dev/fd0: No such device or address mformat: Can't open /dev/fd1: No such file or directory mformat: Drive 'C:' not supported mformat: Drive 'D:' not supported This happens because mformat has no idea what is meant with a:, b:, c: and d: and the config file that is supposed to tell it is missing! Needless to tell that as a consequence of this the third step is also failing. - Fabian -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (501, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages syslinux depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii syslinux-common 2:4.01+dfsg-2 collection of boot loaders (common syslinux recommends no packages. Versions of packages syslinux suggests: ii dosfstools 3.0.9-1 utilities for making and checking ii mtools 4.0.12-1 Tools for manipulating MSDOS files -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org