booting from floppy
I have a problem to install my Debian/GNU Linux on my system. I have a 486DX100 PC, with CD-ROM and 32MB RAM, HD 850MB. I created an image for my 1.44 floppy using: rawrite2 -f rescue.bin -d a Everything was fine then i booted my PC and while it was booting I got the message: VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER. When I pressed Enter i got another messages saying: Floppy0: perpendicular mode not supported by this FDC Floppy0: perpendicular mode not supported by this FDC Floppy0: perpendicular mode not supported by this FDC Floppy0: perpendicular mode not supported by this FDC end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 2 I tried different floppies, different images (from different directories) and always the same message appeares.
Re: Language chooser - patch
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 07:32:03PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: The only grotty thing about it, really, is that it required us to have bf-utf8 in the same parent dir as the boot-floppies area is, which is pretty much the best we can do in a bad situation, IMHO. That sounds good. One could check if bf-utf is available in parent directory and disable LANG_CHOOSER if it is not. -- Misha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Language chooser
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:40:44AM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: Now there's the problem with fonts. The smallest I could find is font.bgf. IIRC Takesoshi Sano said this one is mostly OK (as for what characters it contains). But it's too big to fit on a floppy. One option seems to be font reduction, but the program 'reduce-font' doesn't seem to work for me: # ./reduce-font font.bgf ../allpos.utf reduce-font: mbrtowc.c:87: __mbrtowc: Assertion _mbsinit (data.statep)' failed. Aborted Hmm... To begin with, you should use .bdf font. Then LC_CTYPE should have a correct value, and the last, libutf8_plug.so should be ld-preloaded. If it does not work, let me know. In this case, I'd need the font you are trying to use. :) allpos.utf is a file which i got by catening all 'po' files in UTF - is it suitable for 'text'? It's not sufficient. You should also have a look at utf versions of release_notes that come to boot disk! - Misha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#74346: MB-CPU trouble
I put back the old trsuty Cyrix 6x86 166+ in the machine and everything runs like a charm. Therefore I'm sure this is a MB-CPU problem and nothing to do with Debian. I should mention that with the MII 300 the machine would be quite cranky with an old RH 6.0 installation, and only boot WinNT with the internal CPU cache disabled. Ignasi. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Processed: The traditional lost-bugs sweep
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 67794 boot-floppies Bug number 67794 not found. reassign 68438 kernel Bug number 68438 not found. reassign 68497 boot-floppies Bug#68497: potato sparc /etc/silo.conf irregularity Bug reassigned from package `boot-floppies' to `boot-floppies'. reassign 68547 kernel Bug number 68547 not found. reassign 68716 boot-floppies Bug number 68716 not found. reassign 68759 dnscvsutil Bug number 68759 not found. reassign 59833 reiserfsprogs Bug#59833: reiserfs-utils: Missing hardlinks: reiserfsck-fsck.reiserfs and mkfs.reiserfs-mkreiserfs Bug reassigned from package `reiserfs-utils' to `reiserfsprogs'. reassign 59834 reiserfsprogs Bug#59834: reiserfs-utils: Description field has wrong description. Bug reassigned from package `reiserfs-utils' to `reiserfsprogs'. reassign 65050 net-acct Bug#65050: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: nacctd patch] Bug reassigned from package `nacctd' to `net-acct'. -- Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: traceroute root exploit
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: No, I don't think so. In 2.2r1 it will be installed that way, however. Thanks for reminding me. I have base-config doing this, but haven't backported to potato yet. I'm at ALS now, but this is at the top of my priority list for whenever I can find the time. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Font reduction problems
With: LC_CTYPE=eo.UTF-8 LD_PRELOAD=/home/porridge/debian/boot/boot-floppies/utilities/bogl/libutf8_plug.so the following happens: $ ./reduce-font ../../../bf-utf/unifont.bdf ../all.utf reduced_unifont.bdf -1: bytes: 6 Used chars: 128 (0 processed) $ ./reduce-font ../../../bf-utf/ucs.bdf ../all.utf reduced_ucs.bdf -1: bytes: 6 Used chars: 128 (0 processed) Segmentation fault $ ./reduce-font merged.bdf ../all.utf reduced_merged.bdf -1: bytes: 6 Used chars: 128 (0 processed) Segmentation fault unifont.bdf and ucs.bdf are from bf-utf merged.bdf was merged from 9x18.bdf 18x18ja.bdf, which in turn probably come from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download (README.BOGL-bterm) Misha, which font do _you_ use? 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]
Debian Floppies/ReiserFS
Hi, While not officially a developer, I have prepared a VERY limited set off ReiserFS'd boot floppies. They are a mixed blessing - much manual intervention is required to make use of them, but I HAVE successfully installed machines with them. Would anyone be interested in the beasts? -- ---MAV Linguists Do It Cunningly Marc A. Volovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Font reduction problems
Well, I've been using unifont.bdf as it comes in bf-utf. How do you create you all.utf file? -- Misha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Font reduction problems
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 02:38:15AM +0400, Michael Sobolev wrote: Well, I've been using unifont.bdf as it comes in bf-utf. I checked the program with ucs.bdf font, but unfortunately, it comes with symbolic names for characters (what is not supported by this simple program). unifont.bdf uses U+ notation only, so it should work. How do you create you all.utf file? And the answer to this question is really important as error code -1 means `An invalid multibyte sequence encountered'. I'd guess that the file all.utf is not in utf-8... -- Misha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Font reduction problems
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 02:45:27AM +0400, Michael Sobolev wrote: How do you create you all.utf file? And the answer to this question is really important as error code -1 means `An invalid multibyte sequence encountered'. I'd guess that the file all.utf is not in utf-8... I knew i've forgotten something :-\ $ cd utilities/dbootstrap/po $ make all-utf $ for x in utf/??.trm;do make `echo $x|sed -e 's/trm/po/'`;done $ cat utf/*.po ../../po.utf $ cd ../../../scripts/rootdisk/messages edited Makefile so that RN_TARGET_DIR=. $ for x in ??;do make ./release_notes.$x;done $ cat release_notes.?? ../../../utilities/rn.utf $ cd ../../../utilities $ cat rn.utf po.utf all.utf So either something in the build process of the above files is wrong, or I don't know enough things about UTF-8 :-( Note, that the last command might have beed cat po.utf rn.utf all.utf, so at the beginning there was either Czech release_notes or Czech po file. 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]
