Re: Language chooser
Marcin, I just got an idea! :) You are trying to use graphical interface, are you not? And not just bterm program? -- Misha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Language chooser
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:23:44PM +0400, Michael Sobolev wrote: Marcin, I just got an idea! :) You are trying to use graphical interface, are you not? And not just bterm program? Um.. I don't think so... I compiled dbootstrap with LANGUAGE_CHOOSER=true, as well as bterm and after setting these all variables ran ../bogl/bterm -f ../bogl/font.bgf ./dbootstrap Is there a graphical interface somewhere? Marcin -- ++ The reason we come up with new versions |Marcin Owsiany | is not to fix bugs. It's the stupidest |[EMAIL PROTECTED]| reason to buy a new version ++ I ever heard.- Bill Gates -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Language chooser
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 02:01:12PM +0400, Michael Sobolev wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 11:18:19AM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: Um.. I don't think so... I compiled dbootstrap with LANGUAGE_CHOOSER=true, as well as bterm and after setting these all variables ran ../bogl/bterm -f ../bogl/font.bgf ./dbootstrap This seems to be correct. Let me check when I am back to home (in about 8 hours). :) Last note (before leaving to home :). What files have you tried to browse? Have you converted them into UTF-8? (Wild guess, but who knows? :) -- Misha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFC: ITP(?) busybox and mklibs.sh as seperate packages
On Wed Oct 11, 2000 at 08:13:37AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Please give me your advice if packaging busybox and mklibs.sh as seperate packages is a good idea or not. Thanks! This comes to my mind because: 1) Seems boot-floppies won't like to come into woody (c.f. Adam) 2) Packages like mkinitrd-cd depends on boot-floppies solely for these two utilities. If it's a good idea ;-) I'd like to package 'em but I will need some further help! ;-) I'm currently in NM queue, I suppose. ;-) The main BusyBox source tree currently lives outside of the boot floppies. BusyBox has been packaged and is ready for inclusion into woody; however, woody is not yet ready for it. Woody needs a new Debian archive section for "installer" packages which do not need to be fully compilant with policy. The busybox package was rejected when I uploaded it since it does not comply with policy (it makes little sense to include docs and manapages for a package that is only used for the installer). Joey Hess is trying to get the new "installer" section into the archive, at which time a number of new installer packages will be uploaded... -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons-- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Language chooser
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 08:25:27PM +0400, Michael Sobolev wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 02:01:12PM +0400, Michael Sobolev wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 11:18:19AM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: Um.. I don't think so... I compiled dbootstrap with LANGUAGE_CHOOSER=true, as well as bterm and after setting these all variables ran ../bogl/bterm -f ../bogl/font.bgf ./dbootstrap This seems to be correct. Let me check when I am back to home (in about 8 hours). :) Last note (before leaving to home :). What files have you tried to browse? Have you converted them into UTF-8? (Wild guess, but who knows? :) Well, I tried to run the stuff on my computer and It Works (tm). :( So what I did. According to README.BOGL-bterm, I downloaded and compiled libutf8 plug. Then compiled bterm. My commands are: $ export LD_PRELOAD=`pwd`/libutf8/libutf8_plug.so $ ./bterm -f ucs.bgf -l en_US.UTF-8 /bin/bash Then, in bterm, I executed $ less f where f is a concatenation of release notes (old versions) in all available languages. English, French, and Russian seems to be OK. Japanese looks unusual, but it's full of those nice symbols. :) Could you please execute $ locale after you start bterm. And, another try, what fonts do you use? From bf-utf? -- Misha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Language chooser
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 08:25:27PM +0400, Michael Sobolev wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 02:01:12PM +0400, Michael Sobolev wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 11:18:19AM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: Um.. I don't think so... I compiled dbootstrap with LANGUAGE_CHOOSER=true, as well as bterm and after setting these all variables ran ../bogl/bterm -f ../bogl/font.bgf ./dbootstrap This seems to be correct. Let me check when I am back to home (in about 8 hours). :) Last note (before leaving to home :). What files have you tried to browse? Have you converted them into UTF-8? (Wild guess, but who knows? :) Hmm.. I cat-ed some files like 'UTF-8-demo.txt' which was I guess in libutf8 directory... They looked OK with the font i'm using. Actually I don't know where did this font come from exactly. Anyway, if it displays Polish chars i enter in bterm from the keyboard as well as runes and greek, it is probably OK. But if the dbootstrap's messages are not automatically converted to UTF8 during build of the .trm files when LANGUAGE_CHOOSER==true, then that's probably the problem. I'll check that in a second. regards Marcin -- ++ The reason we come up with new versions |Marcin Owsiany | is not to fix bugs. It's the stupidest |[EMAIL PROTECTED]| reason to buy a new version ++ I ever heard.- Bill Gates -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
potato vanillla boot-floppies packange cant make boot floppy on HP Omnibook 6000
Two problems to mention: Firstly:- 2.2.16 boot-floppies and vanilla rescue/root image from latest potato disk image (reported as Linux 2.2.17 from Kernel-image- 2.2.17-2.2.17pre6-1) cannot make a boot floppy. I've tracked the problem down to utilities/dbootstrap/bootconfig.c where the superformat command is issued. For some reason this fails following a brief access to the disk drive. Issuing the command from the console (Alt-F2) works fine. Results are the same whether or not the floppy is connected internally or via parallel port. Secondly:- I was forced into this because lilo doesnt seem to be able to make a boot record for an extended partition (cylinder1023) in my environment even though I thought lba32 is supported on the official release. Neither Mandrake 7.1 or RedHat 7.0 suffer from this, both of which install OK albeit with manual tweaks to lilo.conf afterwards. Not sure whether these are known bugs (although cant find much on the mailing or bug lists) or HP specific problems. Currently I dont have a workaround to get a system up and running. I'm reluctant to put lilo on the MBR and I unfortunately have to have Win2000 occupying the rest of my hard disk for my employers benefit! -- Dave Williams @ Home -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Language chooser
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 11:05:57PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: Last note (before leaving to home :). What files have you tried to browse? Have you converted them into UTF-8? (Wild guess, but who knows? :) Hmm.. I cat-ed some files like 'UTF-8-demo.txt' which was I guess in libutf8 directory... They looked OK with the font i'm using. Actually I don't know where did this font come from exactly. Anyway, if it displays Polish chars i enter in bterm from the keyboard as well as runes and greek, it is probably OK. Aha. I've got a question for you. :) Does you keyboard layout generate UTF-8 sequences? If so, it's OK. If not, then you are trying to do something in a wrong way. But if the dbootstrap's messages are not automatically converted to UTF8 during build of the .trm files when LANGUAGE_CHOOSER==true, then that's probably the problem. I'll check that in a second. There is a special target (all-utf) that allows to create UTF-8 versions of messages... -- Misha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Language chooser
OK, let's clear up some things (I need more sleep :-P ): 1) in bterm, I don't see the Polish chars I'm typing directly from keyboard, but that is OK, isn't it? (I've got an ordinary US keyboard) 2) I can see all the characers properly in dbootstrap under bterm now that I use the trm files from utilities/dbootstrap/po/utf The only thing to get right is the display, namely dbootstrap doesn't fit on my screen, and some dialogs are ugly. I think this is because of the font I'm using. Which font do you use? Then I'll try making the necassary changes to the version in CVS (should I create a branch?) regards Marcin -- ++ The reason we come up with new versions |Marcin Owsiany | is not to fix bugs. It's the stupidest |[EMAIL PROTECTED]| reason to buy a new version ++ I ever heard.- Bill Gates -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
