default route
Something else I noticed. During install, if you configure the network and then, say, reformat your Linux partition, the installer remembers the network information (gets it from ifconfig, I presume), and fills in the values automatically for you when it asks you to configure the network again. But it doesn't remember the default route. It resets the default route back to its original default. --Adam -- Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PLIP install (was Re: Still no base tarball)
I'm curious. Does PLIP work in the woody boot-floppies? Well, last time I tried it needed to make some steps by hand. Are there things we could do to make installation via PLIP network easier? Yes, if it has not been corrected still, make a plip device configurable under the normal installation proccess. Setting up a plip interface differs a bit on a normal network interface because it is a point to point interface, thus with a /32 netmask. Last time I tried to set up one with the installation setup it couldn't handle it well. If I have time, remember, and nobody else does it before I do it, I'll try to look at the status of this again with current release of the BF. Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester - http://manty.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Still no base tarball
On Thursday, 23 Aug 2001, Dale Scheetz wrote: I downloaded the tarball from people several days ago and it took just at 4 1/2 hours. While I have a 56K modem, my country phone lines will only support about 22k of traffic. I didn't make this up. ... plus, we don't all have 56K modems. I still was using a 28.8 until the advent of cable modem, and my cable provider's monstrous incompetence means that I do find myself using it now and then. I'm not tied to the tarball. Floppies solve the problem just as well. Basicly either could be used.[1] Which takes up the least space? Floppy images, please! It's much more obvious what to do with them. -- David Damerell [EMAIL PROTECTED] flcl? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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cvs commit to boot-floppies by cts
Repository: boot-floppies who:cts time: Fri Aug 24 06:52:26 PDT 2001 Log Message: m68k: amigainstall.tgz is built in bf-archive-install.sh (was undone again in 1.111, by mistake I hope) Files: changed:release.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph
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cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph
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cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:dwhedon time: Fri Aug 24 09:09:09 PDT 2001 Log Message: - add clearer instructions for driver-# floppies from Bernie Boudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] closes: #106201 Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bug#109455: dhcp non-functional 3.0.11
On 23 Aug 2001 23:55:02 -0400, Daniel Bungert wrote: No, not yet. Either dhclient or b-f reported success when I didn't have an IP yet - that's bad. I will take a look at it this weekend. That is true. In fact, I suspect that a lot of folks using the DHCP/network install option just might be cable and DSL installers... perhaps a note like this would be useful: --- DHCP failed to get an address from the server. If you are on a cable or DSL connection, try power-cycling the cable or DSL modem to clear out its cache. --- Obviously, we cannot prepare for every contingency. I just think this one would be a common enough, non-obvious solution to warrant a brief message. Cheers, -s -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#109455: dhcp non-functional 3.0.11
On 24 Aug 2001 11:01:01 -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: That is true. In fact, I suspect that a lot of folks using the DHCP/network install option just might be cable and DSL installers... perhaps a note like this would be useful: No, that's too hard to do, and it's more likely that our silly test will fail than anything else. I really think this is a dhcp-client bug ? Or did any people really identify that it's something about the root disk which causes this? I'm not familiar enough with either codebase to say whether dhclient returns an error or not or that b-f incorrectly detects success when dhclient actually reported failure. I'm a Perl guy. As far as difficulty of implementing the message, I just figured you'd wrap the error with the help text instead of just returning Operation failed which is definitely unhelpful. :-) I wouldn't worry about testing for the condition. Flow: fork(dhclient) dhclient returns failure (doesn't matter what the failure is) printf(Suggestion helptext yadda. ERROR %s,ERRTEXT) printf(Would you like to manually configure?) $0.02, -s -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#109925: bf-3.0.12/i386 keymap fr-latin0 broken
Package: boot-floppies Version: 3.0..12 Severity: normal Arch : i386/idepci Hi, The support for the fr-latin0 keymap is broken in bf-3.0.12 (idepci). From a discussion on d-devel-french, it seems to be broken as far as potato-r0 !!! The error I got : error loading the keymap i386/azerty/fr-latin0.kmap. And the corresponding lines in /var/log/installer.log : Aug 22 15:48:31 (none) syslog.info syslogd started: BusyBox v0.60.0 (2001.08.02-21:16+) Aug 22 15:48:48 (none) user.info dbootstrap[38]: loadkmap: This is not a valid binary keymap. Aug 22 15:48:48 (none) user.err dbootstrap[38]: Error loading the keymap i386/azerty/fr-latin0.kmap from /etc/keymaps.tgz Aug 22 15:51:34 (none) user.info dbootstrap[38]: loadkmap: This is not a valid binary keymap. Aug 22 15:51:34 (none) user.err dbootstrap[38]: Error loading the keymap i386/azerty/fr-latin0.kmap from /etc/keymaps.tgz Aug 22 15:51:57 (none) user.info dbootstrap[38]: running cfdisk to partition /dev/hda ... There is certainly a pb of error code handling too. Instead of returning to the keymap menu, I was ask to chose my partition scheme after the error. Fab -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#109826: base floppy images on the Debian CD
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:34:37AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Of course I can ... but do you really think someone is going to install the base system with 16 floppies ? I don't think so. I thought the whole point of the base system tarball was for people who wanted to setup rapidly a nfsroot. Splitting it is pointless for them. for the bazillionth time now, basedebs.tgz is NOT NOT NOT a root filesystem. its a tarball of a bunch of .deb files. as for installing via floppies, some people still seem to want to do it that way. BTW, the complete disks-i386/current directory is always automatically included on CD1 so I have no modifications to do to close this bug. we will have to put basedebs.tgz somewhere else then to prevent it from going on the CDs then. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature
Re: Bug#109826: base floppy images on the Debian CD
#include hallo.h Ethan Benson wrote on Fri Aug 24, 2001 um 04:49:19AM: for the bazillionth time now, basedebs.tgz is NOT NOT NOT a root filesystem. its a tarball of a bunch of .deb files. Exactly. What is the reason for having basedebs.tgz? We cannot have the tarball INSTEAD of the deb files (or can we?) Who needs basedebs.tgz? We could put DOS versions of tar and gzip on the CD plus a BATch file, so people can make their own basedebs.tgz if they want. Puting the same data in different forms is wastage of disc space. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- ...mit VIM kein Problem! :wq PGP signature
Re: Bug#109826: base floppy images on the Debian CD
Le Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 07:03:56PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo écrivait: I think split floppy images of base make the most sense. It seems that we all agree on this point. Split floppy 1.44k images of base would cover the case where someone wants to install on a machine that has only floppy and no CD and no network access. Debian-CD folks, assume we can set aside a well-known location in the woody distribution archive for base images, built using debootstrap and splitting into 1.44k sized chunks, would you be willing to add this to CD#1 ? I think we expect that to be around 24MB in total space consumed. Of course I can ... but do you really think someone is going to install the base system with 16 floppies ? I don't think so. I thought the whole point of the base system tarball was for people who wanted to setup rapidly a nfsroot. Splitting it is pointless for them. BTW, the complete disks-i386/current directory is always automatically included on CD1 so I have no modifications to do to close this bug. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Le bouche à oreille du Net : http://www.beetell.com Naviguer sans se fatiguer à chercher : http://www.deenoo.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#109826: base floppy images on the Debian CD
Hoping that this will not add any more heat to this thread. At present the Hurd CD installation requires the installation of a tarball. While Marcus Brinkmann is working on Hurd udeb's these are probably some time away. What I would be looking for is a way to install a tarball within the Debian installer which would not require any significant hacking. I also have good reason to suspect that consultants and the like produce specialised tarballs for customised installations. These people would need tools to produce such tarballs. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Dunedin, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rescue/messages/gl by jtarrio
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rescue/messages/gl who:jtarrio time: Fri Aug 24 19:12:20 PDT 2001 Log Message: Converted the Galician debian.txt file to the IBMPC charset Files: changed:debian.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fail to boot on harddrive with a Performa 6400
Hi everybody, Could someone help me for the following problem, please? I am a system administrator in a University and I tried to install Debian PPC (potato and woody) on some Performa 6400... the installation went relatively well with the potato boot floppies, but I have been unable to make it boot from the harddrive. I would like to use quik and not BootX since I don't want to let MacOS available on them. I have tried any possible configuration or trick from a lot of documentation sources: http://penguinppc.org/usr/quik http://penguinppc.org/usr/quik/quirks.shtml http://lppcfom.sourceforge.net/ etc... (the Open Firmware on Performa 6400 is 2.0) I have the same OF version on my PowerBase clone, FWIW Some people reported success making it boot (but maybe not with quik). I saw that I should change load-base to 10, keep input-device and output-device to ttya, I removed the modem to see if it would change something, I upgraded to woody to have a newer version of quik... For Debian, I haven't seen any docs recommending a load-base change, in fact I think I recall that was not recommended. As far as input-device and output-device, the NetBSD page offers: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html Open Firmware output-device defaults to ttya, but ttya is the internal modem (if installed). Thus, if you have an internal modem, use Boot Variables to set console to ttyb. I believe it would not make a difference whether the modem was actually there or not. The above advice is in regards to being able to see the Open Firmware command line. It also mentions: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html NetBSD may not boot if screen/kbd are used (use ttya or ttyb for your console) That would mean hooking up another computer to a serial port to be able to see the OF command line. But, quik would prevent you from having to do any of that if it was working on your machine. Which version of quik and boot-floppies are you using? I think Ethan did some work last month on it, though I can't locate it in CVS to check. - mac-fdisk /dev/hda #type namelength base( size ) system /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/hda2 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 64 @ 64 ( 32.0k) Driver 4.3 /dev/hda3Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 64 @ 128 ( 32.0k) Unknown /dev/hda4 Apple_Patches Patch Partition512 @ 192 (256.0k) Unknown /dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap26 @ 704 (127.0M) Linux swap /dev/hda6 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 / 3073760 @ 260704 ( 1.5G) Linux native Since you've evicted MacOS, you can also get rid of the driver and patch partitions. But that wouldn't cause this problem I don't think. - of variables - nvsetenv load-base 0x10 nvsetenv boot-device ata/ATA-Disk@0:0 nvsetenv boot-file ata/ATA-Disk@0:6/boot/vmlinux-2.2.19 root=/dev/hda6 Maybe try nvsetenv (no parameters)? This will show all the nvram settings. Then see what they are after quik runs? If you have another untouched machine, maybe boot the installer there just to see what the virgin settings are like? ** | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org| | : :' : | debian-imac:http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net | | `. `'` | . oo Chris Tillman| | `-| ( -) [EMAIL PROTECTED]| *--* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fail to boot on harddrive with a Performa 6400
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 04:27:24PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: But, quik would prevent you from having to do any of that if it was working on your machine. Which version of quik and boot-floppies are you using? I think Ethan did some work last month on it, though I can't locate it in CVS to check. all boot-floppies are doing right now is setting boot-device and installing the quik bootblock, nothing more. that will not be enough on most machines (and thus they will be rendered unbootable), but should work some of the time on 7200, 7300 and 7600s. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature
cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rescue/messages/de by blade
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rescue/messages/de who:blade time: Fri Aug 24 13:12:42 PDT 2001 Log Message: reformated first paragraph to fit on 80x25, replaced ctrl-alt-del with german names Files: changed:debian.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fi by tvainika
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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po by blade
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