Bug#108103: boot-floppies: No tftp images are provided for the i386 architecture
David Kimdon writes: Hello Matthew and Jonathan, I created pre-release i386 tftpboot images[1]. Can you test them? Can you also document how to use them? http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/tftpboot.img http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/tftpboot-ide.img http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/tftpboot-idepci.img http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/tftpboot-compact.img I'm afraid that the machine we were using has since been installed into it's server-cupboard (three miles away) and hence isn't really suitable for testing. I'll look and see if we've got any other netboot capable i386es around, but I don't think we do. Thanks, Jonathan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by blade
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:blade time: Wed Sep 12 05:46:52 PDT 2001 Log Message: dialog proposing to create reiserfs v2 when kernel 2.4 detected Files: changed:partition_config.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by blade
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:blade time: Wed Sep 12 05:55:32 PDT 2001 Log Message: dialog proposing to create reiserfs v2 when kernel 2.4 detected Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by blade
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:blade time: Wed Sep 12 05:52:25 PDT 2001 Log Message: rfs-v2 question, cosmetic change Files: changed:partition_config.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies by sgybas
Repository: boot-floppies who:sgybas time: Wed Sep 12 09:13:17 PDT 2001 Log Message: Use kernel 2.4.7 on S/390 Files: changed:config -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies by sgybas
Repository: boot-floppies who:sgybas time: Wed Sep 12 09:14:12 PDT 2001 Log Message: Added Gerhard Tonn as S/390 maintainer Files: changed:Maintainers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by sgybas
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:sgybas time: Wed Sep 12 09:16:22 PDT 2001 Log Message: Document my changes Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation under Hercules?
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 02:24:47PM +0200, Stefan Gybas wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 09:32:15PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: illegal operation: 0001 Very strange, but this looks like a bug in Hercules to me. I agree that the bug is probably in Hercules. I had hoped that someone else here might have investigated the problem further. I can no longer reproduce the problem reliably; sometimes, the format will complete successfully for a 600-cylinder volume, sometimes not. I am also continuing to track down the update-alternatives problem that I and others have experienced under Hercules. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200
Anyhow, even if you don't want to actually re-install or whatever, you can at least boot with the 3.0.x install system and get far enough (without initializing or anything) just to check to see if it can find your partitions. Should be non-destructive. I can't get it to work. My severely limited AmigaOS skills won't get me to get the StartInstall script startable (I thought protect StartInstall rwe would do the trick), but anyway, if I run the command listed in the file (the amiboot-5.6 thing), I get error messages: kan ej finna objektet (that's: cannot find object) CD failed: returncode 20 I downloaded the amigainstall.tar.gz file and untarred it on a directory on my WB disk. Do I need to do more? My old install guide for potato only lists that file and base2_2.tgz, but that one is obviously not needed for woody. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/peter/reklampost.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[fw: Bug#112090: [PROPOSAL]: support reduced footprint debs at build time]
Hi, This is a change I have proposed to policy that I hope will improve the way we handle special .deb, like those that we need for boot-floppies and debian-installer, see below. Comments welcome, David - Forwarded message from David Kimdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: David Kimdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug#112090: [PROPOSAL]: support reduced footprint debs at build time To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:04:09 -0700 Resent-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-CC: Debian Policy List [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Debian-PR-Message: report 112090 X-Debian-PR-Package: debian-policy X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.5.0 Severity: wishlist Hi, The purpose of this change is to give Debian a more elegant way of handling reduced footprint debs. Rather than including special-purpose binaries in the archive (the status quo), I suggest we support hooks in source packages that produce size optimized versions. If this change is applied then the following hacks can be fixed: - remove the e2fsprogs-bf, amiga-fdisk-bf and the proposed reiserfsprogs-bf packages from the archive. Instead the boot-floppies build system would build these packages from source. (Note that it may be too late to actually do this to woody boot-floppies. We could save some space by building optimized versions of every package that we use on boot-floppies, maybe this makes sense.) - remove udeb's from the archive. The debian-installer build system will instead build the packages from source. Last but not least, we will be able to support embedded versions of many other packages that aren't used by either install system. This will make it easier to use Debian on embedded systems. Debian is, after all, the 'Universal Operating System'. David --- policy.sgml.origSun Sep 9 23:13:31 2001 +++ policy.sgml Wed Sep 12 08:46:58 2001 @@ -1904,6 +1904,16 @@ /p p + A reduced footprint, limited feature and/or non-policy + compliant version of a package may be useful to the install + system, an embedded system, or another application where + storage space is at a premium. A source package may provide + such a version of itself, selectable at build time by the + presence of the string ttembedded/tt in the environment + variable ttDEB_BUILD_OPTIONS/tt. + /p + + p The required and optional targets are as follows: taglist tagttbuild/tt/tag -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - End forwarded message - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/bogl by porridge
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/bogl who:porridge time: Wed Sep 12 16:52:16 PDT 2001 Log Message: making LC work again Files: changed:Makefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies by porridge
Repository: boot-floppies who:porridge time: Wed Sep 12 16:52:15 PDT 2001 Log Message: making LC work again Files: changed:rootdisk.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[i18n] LC works again (well, kind of)
Hi!
Finally I managed to get dbootstrap to run in a bterm and
properly display all fonts.
However the right-hand-side edges of the boxes are not
displayed. Also some messages seem to have linebreaks in wrong
places (e.g. jp translation) - this might be either broken
translations or dbootstrap's/newt's fault. It would be nice if
someone with knowledge of dbootstrap/newt/whatever internals
could look into it (and hopefully invent a fix! :-).
An i386 2.88MB image I produced is available at
http://people.debian.org/~porridge/resc2880compact.bin
For those, who would like to make their own image, here's the
recipe (I know that some of the steps are unacceptable for
regular use. They will be solved (hopefully) if we know that LC
really works OK):
1. cvs update -dPR
2. patch LC.diff (attached to this post)
3. remove slang from your archive directory
4. put slang1_1.4.4-2_$arch.deb to your archive directory
5. put libnewt-utf8-0_0.50.17-6_$arch.deb to your archive directory
6. set offline_mode to true (in config)
7. install libnewt-utf8-0, libnewt-utf8-pic, libnewt-dev
8. remove libnewt-pic
9. downgrade to slang{,-dev,-pic}_1.4.4-2
10. make utils resc2880compact.bin
good luck!
Marcin
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Index: config
===
RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/config,v
retrieving revision 1.94
diff -u -r1.94 config
--- config 2001/09/12 16:13:17 1.94
+++ config 2001/09/12 23:57:39
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
# whether to use the language chooser in dbootstrap for kernel flavours that
# support it, `true' or `false'
-export USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER := false
+export USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER := true
ifeq ($(USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER),true)
ifneq ($(LINGUA),C)
Index: scripts/rootdisk/EXTRACT_LIST_all
===
RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/EXTRACT_LIST_all,v
retrieving revision 1.35
diff -u -r1.35 EXTRACT_LIST_all
--- scripts/rootdisk/EXTRACT_LIST_all 2001/07/05 13:15:24 1.35
+++ scripts/rootdisk/EXTRACT_LIST_all 2001/09/12 23:57:44
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
dhcp-client
debootstrap
e2fsprogs-bf
-libnewt0
+libnewt-utf8-0
libpopt0
makedev
modutils
Index: utilities/Makefile
===
RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/utilities/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.38
diff -u -r1.38 Makefile
--- utilities/Makefile 2001/09/11 07:39:24 1.38
+++ utilities/Makefile 2001/09/12 23:57:45
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
LDFLAGS:= -s
arch := $(shell dpkg --print-architecture)
-SUBDIRS:= libfdisk dbootstrap writemaps
+#SUBDIRS := libfdisk dbootstrap writemaps
+SUBDIRS := libfdisk writemaps
ifeq ($(USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER),true)
# bogl enabled
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