Re: Progress with Alpha bootdisks!

[Stephen R Marenka]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 06:22:46PM +0200, Thimo Neubauer wrote:

> Jul 28 15:56:40 (none) user.err dbootstrap[38]: This is disk 1 of 2 in
> the drv14generic series of 24-Jul-2001 13:09 CEST. Wrong disk. This is
> from series drv14generic. You need disk 1 of series the driver series.
> 

Your driver disk isn't recognized by dbootstrap.

utilities/dbootstrap/extract_kernel.c

char *driver_filenames[] = { "drv12", "drv14", "drv14compact",
"drv14idepci", 
"drv14ide", "drv14reiserfs", "drv14pmac", "drv14chrp",
"drv14prep", 
"drv14apus", "drv14-sun4cdm", "drv14-sun4u", "drv14-sun4dm-pci",
NULL };

You probably need to add drv14generic to the above list.

Stephen

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Re: Your site listed

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Re: [debian-installer] Full CDROM install

[Dan Helfman]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 05:02:17PM -0700, David Kimdon wrote:
> Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 01:12:57AM +0200 wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > i have to provide a simpler install for a specialized distribution that I
> > work on. And I'm using Debian. I'd like to use this opportunity to
> > contribute to debian-installer.
> 
> sounds great.
> 
> > It would also need libdetect0-udeb but I'm worried by the actual
> > description of it:
> > | This library package contains only the symbols needed to detect the
> > | hardware that the debian-installer is interested in: ethernet cards.
> > Is it really not usable to detect CDROM and SCSI cards ? Would it
> > take much to change that ?
> > [ ccing Dan Helfman about this ]
> 
> I helped with the patch for libdetect0-udeb and it would be very easy to
> add (or remove) symbols (there is a variable in ./debian/rules) .  I think
> libdetect0-udeb isn't the way to go, howver and sent a patch to the BTS
> (#85638) to make a -pic library so we can do library reduction on
> libdetect.

David, I've finally gotten around to applying your -pic library patch
and stomping a few other bugs.. Just uploaded libdetect 0.9.72-6.
Raphael, you may want to use this for your project.

> -David

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Progress with Alpha bootdisks!

[Thimo Neubauer]

Hi,

Today I got a Alpha-root-disk of proper size by doing the following: I
created a very dummy libm (8k in size, just one arbitrary symbol in
it!) and included it on the root-filesystem. By doing this, the size
went from 1.7M to 1416337 bytes! Hooray! To my biggest surprise all
newt-programs on the bootdisk (dbootstrap and nano-tiny) work without
the dynamic linker choking on missing symbols, so libm is really
pretty useless on the root-disk. 

Basically this shows that we have to modify mklibs.sh in a way that it
first checks all programs for missing symbols, creates libs with those
and then in a second pass (and maybe third pass in bad cases) adds all
symbols which are yet undefined in the libs. I haven't got time for
this because I have to work for my diploma thesis :(

When testing the install, I encountered a somewhat funny error:

Jul 28 15:56:40 (none) user.err dbootstrap[38]: This is disk 1 of 2 in
the drv14generic series of 24-Jul-2001 13:09 CEST. Wrong disk. This is
from series drv14generic. You need disk 1 of series the driver series.

What is going wrong? The stuff before installing the driver-disks went
all fine!

CU
Thimo

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Re: [debian-installer] Full CDROM install

[David Kimdon]

Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:42:45PM +0200 wrote:
> Le Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 05:02:17PM -0700, David Kimdon écrivait:
> > > Is it really not usable to detect CDROM and SCSI cards ? Would it
> > > take much to change that ?
> > > [ ccing Dan Helfman about this ]
> > 
> > I helped with the patch for libdetect0-udeb and it would be very easy to
> > add (or remove) symbols (there is a variable in ./debian/rules) .  I think
> > libdetect0-udeb isn't the way to go, howver and sent a patch to the BTS
> > (#85638) to make a -pic library so we can do library reduction on
> > libdetect.
> 
> BTW, where can I learn more about this library reduction stuff ? I don't
> know much about it. Any pointer to a good doc ?

I don't know of a good doc.  I've looked at and played with mklibs.sh
with small test programs to see what is going on.  That is just a
reference to an implementation, admittedly, but it is an ok place to start
depending on how comfortable you are with shell scripts and low-level
binutils type stuff.

-David


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Re: [debian-installer] Full CDROM install

[Raphael Hertzog]

Le Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 05:02:17PM -0700, David Kimdon écrivait:
> > Is it really not usable to detect CDROM and SCSI cards ? Would it
> > take much to change that ?
> > [ ccing Dan Helfman about this ]
> 
> I helped with the patch for libdetect0-udeb and it would be very easy to
> add (or remove) symbols (there is a variable in ./debian/rules) .  I think
> libdetect0-udeb isn't the way to go, howver and sent a patch to the BTS
> (#85638) to make a -pic library so we can do library reduction on
> libdetect.

BTW, where can I learn more about this library reduction stuff ? I don't
know much about it. Any pointer to a good doc ?

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Bug#106874: Acknowledgement (boot-floppies: 3.0.8(sparc) doesn't install nameserver to installed system)

[Ryan Murray]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 01:18:04AM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:

It seems this was caused by the dhcp problem already reported on dhcp-client,
rather than not copying over the resolv.conf... (it being started by the
init script, and the interface is static...)

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