Re: the next step
I feel that the design discussions have reached the point where we'll be more productive if we're talking about actual code. There are still many Please create a picture of the layout/concept/modules. An picture says more then 1000 Thanks, Hartmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#72479: Data Access Exception
Well, it certainly seems like this is an obscure SPARC hardware problem and you seem to have fixed it. Do you mind if I close this bug? We don't really maintain any information on all the minutae of how to configure hardware for use with Linux -- there are SPARC/Linux HOWTOs and stuff for that... I don't mind at all (the bug being closed). I'd spent two days fighting with the problem before filing a bug report. As usual I only solved the problem after filing the bug report. I do think something should go in the installation manual for the SPARC version about suggesting that the lowest memory block be contiguous. I've checked version 2.2.17 of the install instructions and there is no mention of the problem, which I've confirmed exists on quite a few Suns. I'm happy to write a suitable couple of paragraphs (possibly to go in section 3.3.4 Bad Memory Modules). However I'm not sure to whom I should send this. Alan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: raid support in install cds
On 29 Sep 2000, Adam Di Carlo wrote: We do support some hardware raid devices. For the software raid root support you mention, that reuqires some pretty serious changes and cannot happen in potato updates. This is an issue for the woody installer. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ Is it possible to carry out the changes I mentioned manually, without needing to change the installer source, namely: - is there an easy way to create an installer cd with a kernel containing the 0.90 raid patches and the necessary files from raidtools2 included? - is there a way to replace the kernel which is going to be installed by the installer (to one containing raid0.90 patches and raid1 compiled into the kernel)? - is there a way to manually carry out everything the installer does when I mount a filesystem in the menu? If this is possible then could you please tell me how to do it, or give me an url at which I can find information regarding how to do it? All it is needed to install debian directly onto root-raid with manual help is this, since creating the raid arrays can be carried out manually, and fstab and lilo.conf can be modified manually as well. Regards, Robert Varga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#72479: Data Access Exception
Alan Bain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do think something should go in the installation manual for the SPARC version about suggesting that the lowest memory block be contiguous. I've checked version 2.2.17 of the install instructions and there is no mention of the problem, which I've confirmed exists on quite a few Suns. I'm happy to write a suitable couple of paragraphs (possibly to go in section 3.3.4 Bad Memory Modules). However I'm not sure to whom I should send this. Just send the text to be added to the bug report -- I'll catch it and include it. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#72672: problem installing to hdg w/ ultra66
Dmitry Belenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ADC I assume youre using the udma66 set of boot-floppies. Is that so? No, i'm entering kernel params, so kernel recognises everything perfectly. As I've said, I can mount my hdg (hdg2 to be precise) from another console. And it works. So, I thing this is installer bug. What kernel parameters are you using? Can you try the udma66 set w/o kernel params? ADC When you see the kernel messages at the start, does the kernel ADC recognize hdg? You can type dmesg in tty2 to see those messages. Yes kernel recognises hdg OK. I'd like to remind you, that /boot and swap are on hde3 and hde4 respectively. So, maybe installer thinks that if there's something with partition type 83 on nde then it's sufficient. Sadly to say, but I've discovered this bug only in debian. RH 6.2, SuSE 6.4 and Slackware 7.1 are working OK. :0( Yeah, well, this sounds like a real bug in boot-floppies (dbootstrap in particular). -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mdash in boot-floppies/documentation
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 05:20:11PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: In HTML, there is no portable way to represent an em-dash - except by using a plain old "-". You mean two of them, do you not? :) -- Misha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mdash in boot-floppies/documentation
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 04:22:01PM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: I'll look into this. The HTML translation map in debiandoc-sgml maps mdash to mdash which according to the HTML/XHTML book of O'Reilly doesn't exist. Probably we need to use #151; but conformance is not guaranteed. I'll check the whole table and let you know what's up. According to Section 24 of HTML 4.01 specification, mdash is a valid entity. :) -- Misha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PCI autodetection
Last night I put together some code from pciutils and Redhat's anaconda and came up with a little program that asks the kernel about installed PCI hardware and modprobes the needed drivers, using a little table. I don't know if it's useful or not for the next incarnation of boot-floppies, but you can grab the code from http://openrock.net/~lowe/pcidetect/pcidetect-1.0.tar.gz Will -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian accessibility
Torsten Landschoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do we have a blind volunteer who can help with testing the new installer? I think we should add support for blind people while we are at redesigning the installer... I forwarded this note to the blinux (blind Linux) list, and got three volunteers. In a separate message, I have suggested they subscribe to debian-boot. - Jim Van Zandt From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 19:44:01 +0200 (CEST) X-Sender: anders@deathstar Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I AM ABLE FOR TESTING. Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello James! I can be your volunter of testing the debian installation or blind paiple. I to reinstall my debian so that would be a good trie for me. /Anders. X-Authentication-Warning: neil.ai: neil owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:23:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Neil Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "James R. Van Zandt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: accessibility of Debian installation disks In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi Jim, I might possibly be able to help do a bit of testing, provided it's not that intensive (i.e. that versions don't come along too often). Can't commit to being very timely though... One point in this message I thought worth resopnding too which you might want to pass on to the list: On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, James R. Van Zandt wrote: This touches on the second way a blind person could install Debian - prerecord some configuration info then auto-install. Red Hat's kickstart works this way - no need to go through one installation manually before auto-installations can start. Please keep this scenario in mind while designing the new installer. Two new goals? [snip] - - Document all installer variables so you can even install the first system without user interaction There's another great reason for implementing this feature: standardization. The only reason, so I was told, that the sysadmins here at U. of Toronto's Dept. of Comp. Sci. opted for RedHat is that they could use it's KickStart procedure to make sure that all their machines were configured identically--thus saving on administration and allowing for more file sharing on their NFS'd network. Cheers, Neil From: "Saqib Shaikh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:29:58 +0100 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: debian accessibility CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Priority: normal dear torstan i am a blind computer science student in the uk. i heard your request for a blind individual to help make debian more accessible. i am by all means prepared to do this. what must i do? please let me know. regards, saqib shaikh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fried Potato
"Akin O. Fernandez" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings boot team, I'm having some problems installing. I am trying to install to my primary IDE using: CDROM Debian 2.2r0 official Arch: i386 model: home built, intel motherboard memory 128megs CRROM: Hitachi, ATAPI 24x Network Card Dlink DFE-50rtx PCMCIA: none Soundcard Soundblaster AWE32 Display card Mattrox G2 I can boot the CD to the install menu, I start the install, and then the machine hangs at: *begin clip megaraid: V107 (Dec 22 1999) aec671x_detect: _ *end clip* Which install set (vanilla, idepci, compact, udma66) are you using? You should probably be using idepci. At what step does the hang happen? Insert modules? If so, you might wanna try removing the sound card. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.2.17 now building for upload to potato
peter karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Di Carlo: I'm now building for release boot-floppies 2.2.17. Does this include the translated boot floppies? No, no one has integrated that into the build process -- I guess it was up to me (sigh) but I haven't had time. Any volunteers? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: raid support in install cds
Robert Varga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - is there an easy way to create an installer cd with a kernel containing the 0.90 raid patches and the necessary files from raidtools2 included? Not easy, no. It should be possible ifyou get the boot-floppies package and muck with the source. - is there a way to replace the kernel which is going to be installed by the installer (to one containing raid0.90 patches and raid1 compiled into the kernel)? Sure, see the install manual for a sketchy discussion of this. Better yet, replace the kernel-image and pcmcia modules packages in 'local' or 'Incoming' areas. - is there a way to manually carry out everything the installer does when I mount a filesystem in the menu? Eh? If this is possible then could you please tell me how to do it, or give me an url at which I can find information regarding how to do it? Use the source. No easy way, unfortunately, yet. Someone here may have patches; I don't. All it is needed to install debian directly onto root-raid with manual help is this, since creating the raid arrays can be carried out manually, and fstab and lilo.conf can be modified manually as well. Then why not just install normally to a non-raid root, and then install the raid tools from that base system and go from there? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian accessibility
Cool. Please encourage them to file bugs. I'm not sure how well dbootstrap works on teletype or whatever devices (god I'm clueless) the blind use. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
