cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by barbier
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:barbier time: Fri Apr 19 00:03:29 PDT 2002 Log Message: Sync EN: 1.5 - 1.10 [Pierre Machard] Files: changed:kernel.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation screen proposal (was Please test this woody cd image)
Hello, When booting the Woody CD you are presented to the information screen giving general information and ways to get help, etc _before_ choosing which kernel to boot. After choosing kernel and booting, however, you immediately get to the 'Choose language', 'Choose Language Variant' and 'Release Notes' screens without any means to back out, correct mistakes etc. Finally after the first four screens you enter the 'Installation Main Menu'. I have the following proposal of an additional installation screen, as follows: = After the initial screen, and _before_ entering the language choice present another screen, telling the user what is happening next, eg: Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux 3.0/Woody. You have chosen to boot kernel xx, eg bf42. The steps to follow next in the installation procedure are: 1) Choose Language 2) Choose Language Variant 3) Read Release notes 4) Enter Installation Main Menu When you enter the Main menu, several choices will be presented, and a default path for install will also be given. From there you will have the choice to back out of the installation if needed. If you feel unsure, need to get more information, make adjustments etc before proceeding you now have the choice to back out by removing the installation CD and press RESET or CONTROL-ALT-DEL now. This is also the way to go if you want to restart the installation using another kernel. For those of who are interested in the boot log you can do so by ... (enter text here) In my opinion this would help especially new Debian users to feel more comfortable with what is going to happen during the install. (I know that a graphical installer is in the works, but not until woody+1) Best wishes, Svante Signell Below follows unanswered question in an earlier posting. srs writes: Addtional boxes boot-tested with woody-isolinux: Boxdisksidepci bf24 Comapaq Presario 5640/5670 IDE OK OK Dell Dimension XPS 733rIDE OK OK Dual Celeron MSI6120 SCSI+IDE OK OK Em2 QDI Brilliant SCSI OK OK (compact tested OK too) Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop IDE OK OK A few comments about the installer program: 1. Is it possible to generate a boot log, and to be able to view it while installing? 2. It would be nice to be able to back out, or doing a reboot _before_ having to go as long as to the keyboard setup phase. You maybe changed your mind before coming that far: What am I doing?, I don't have all info available!, whats happening next?, I want to quit the install!, etc. 3. When coming to the part of the install where you have several choices, the reboot, restart and prevoius step options should be higher up in the menu. This enables you to see a way out of the install procedure, if needed. Eagerly waiting for the woody release, Svante Signell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
modconf fails if using bf24
Hallo booters! I chose the bf24 option of the isolinux cd-image using F3. base-config worked well. But when I wanted to run modconf, it complained, that the directory /lib/modules/2.2...ide-pci (or similar) was not found. Is this a known bug? Hannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: modconf fails if using bf24
Moin Johannes! Johannes Ranke schrieb am Friday, den 19. April 2002: I chose the bf24 option of the isolinux cd-image using F3. base-config worked well. But when I wanted to run modconf, it complained, that the directory /lib/modules/2.2...ide-pci (or similar) was not found. Is this a known bug? Where did you get this image, and how old is it? There was a problem with first releases where the wrong root image was loaded. Please contact debian-cd people for further questions. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- * Das Verhalten von Gates hatte mir bewiesen, dass ich auf ihn und seine beiden Gefaehrten nicht rechnen durfte. Karl May, Winnetou Bd. 3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#143404: update
#include hallo.h Vincent McIntyre wrote on Fri Apr 19, 2002 um 09:58:33AM: RedHat7.2 boot floppy (boot.img from std cdrom) fails in the same way Loading vmlinuz... ... boot: ramdisk0 (also tried linux ramdisk0) Loading linux.bin... Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue. Please try another floppy disk (even more then one), or boot from DOS via loadlin if you still have the option to boot DOS on this machine. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Es gibt drei Arten der Lüge: die gewöhnliche Lüge, die mathematische Lüge und die Statistik. -- Frei nach George Bernard Shaw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian CD1 Woody
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 20:12:13PM -0500, Ron Stordahl wrote: I tried an install from the mini CD. It did not give me the option to specify an http proxy server, at least I didn't notice it. As a result when it apt went to get things, it worked fine as long as the access was ftp, but when it went to http://non-us.debian.org http://non-us.debian.org it failed. I was unable at that point to find a way to reconfigure to include the http proxy server that the system is behind. FTP was not proxied, thus that part worked. apt-setup, which is provided by base-config, should prompt for a proxy if one is not already set. Would you please file a bug report against it? Matt msg19181/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian CD1 Woody
I would file a bug report if I knew where to file it, and against what (what product desciption) to file it. If you would be kind enough to enlighten me I will do so. Ron Stordahl - Original Message - From: Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:42 AM Subject: Re: Debian CD1 Woody On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 20:12:13PM -0500, Ron Stordahl wrote: I tried an install from the mini CD. It did not give me the option to specify an http proxy server, at least I didn't notice it. As a result when it apt went to get things, it worked fine as long as the access was ftp, but when it went to http://non-us.debian.org http://non-us.debian.org it failed. I was unable at that point to find a way to reconfigure to include the http proxy server that the system is behind. FTP was not proxied, thus that part worked. apt-setup, which is provided by base-config, should prompt for a proxy if one is not already set. Would you please file a bug report against it? Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian CD1 Woody
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:15:58AM -0500, Ron Stordahl wrote: I would file a bug report if I knew where to file it, and against what (what product desciption) to file it. Please follow the bug reporting instructions[1], and file it against base-config. Thanks for helping to improve Debian. Matt 1. http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting msg19183/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 3.0.23 for mips/i386 Was: boot-floppies manual
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 05:57:10PM -0700, David Kimdon wrote: are not displayed and in some occasions the screen gets garbled completely which requires some experience on how to continue (Either by knowing ctrl-l works or by knowing how many steps with cursor keys to do to continue) Can you be more specific? Has a bug been filed? Ok - More specific - When trying to select the modules in the chooser when you need to scroll every second line get completely trashed as it seems the border on the right is a char to much and wraps the line. This leads to the output beeing completely unreadable. Even ctrl-l does not redraw the screen - It stays the broken way it is. You need to scroll a bit down and up to let the row under the cursor to be redrawn. Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5201-669912 Nine nineth on september the 9th Welcome to the new billenium msg19184/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#143596: Fwd: Installation screen proposal
Package: boot-floppies Version: 3.0.22 Severity: wishlist - Forwarded message from Svante Signell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:08:13 +0200 From: Svante Signell [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: VM 7.03 under Emacs 21.2.1 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Installation screen proposal (was Please test this woody cd image) Hello, When booting the Woody CD you are presented to the information screen giving general information and ways to get help, etc _before_ choosing which kernel to boot. After choosing kernel and booting, however, you immediately get to the 'Choose language', 'Choose Language Variant' and 'Release Notes' screens without any means to back out, correct mistakes etc. Finally after the first four screens you enter the 'Installation Main Menu'. I have the following proposal of an additional installation screen, as follows: = After the initial screen, and _before_ entering the language choice present another screen, telling the user what is happening next, eg: Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux 3.0/Woody. You have chosen to boot kernel xx, eg bf42. The steps to follow next in the installation procedure are: 1) Choose Language 2) Choose Language Variant 3) Read Release notes 4) Enter Installation Main Menu When you enter the Main menu, several choices will be presented, and a default path for install will also be given. From there you will have the choice to back out of the installation if needed. If you feel unsure, need to get more information, make adjustments etc before proceeding you now have the choice to back out by removing the installation CD and press RESET or CONTROL-ALT-DEL now. This is also the way to go if you want to restart the installation using another kernel. For those of who are interested in the boot log you can do so by ... (enter text here) In my opinion this would help especially new Debian users to feel more comfortable with what is going to happen during the install. (I know that a graphical installer is in the works, but not until woody+1) Best wishes, Svante Signell Below follows unanswered question in an earlier posting. srs writes: Addtional boxes boot-tested with woody-isolinux: Boxdisksidepci bf24 Comapaq Presario 5640/5670 IDE OK OK Dell Dimension XPS 733rIDE OK OK Dual Celeron MSI6120 SCSI+IDE OK OK Em2 QDI Brilliant SCSI OK OK (compact tested OK too) Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop IDE OK OK A few comments about the installer program: 1. Is it possible to generate a boot log, and to be able to view it while installing? 2. It would be nice to be able to back out, or doing a reboot _before_ having to go as long as to the keyboard setup phase. You maybe changed your mind before coming that far: What am I doing?, I don't have all info available!, whats happening next?, I want to quit the install!, etc. 3. When coming to the part of the install where you have several choices, the reboot, restart and prevoius step options should be higher up in the menu. This enables you to see a way out of the install procedure, if needed. Eagerly waiting for the woody release, Svante Signell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - End forwarded message - -- *--v- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 v--* | http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual | | debian-imac (potato): http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net | |Chris Tillman[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | ** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 3.0.23 for mips/i386 Was: boot-floppies manual
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 01:36, Florian Lohoff wrote: BTW: Do we get 3.0.23 for mips with the linux.bi fix in - Otherwise we'll have to live with the errata written down somewhere for at least a year (or 2 until the next major release) ? This is incorrect, you would only have to wait until 3.0r1 for a fix. There are almost certain to be boot-floppies updates in point releases. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/da by claush
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/da who:claush time: Fri Apr 19 10:46:13 PDT 2002 Log Message: Danish update Files: changed:boot-new.sgml inst-methods.sgml partitioning.sgml post-install.sgml preparing.sgml rescue-boot.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by claush
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:claush time: Fri Apr 19 10:46:13 PDT 2002 Log Message: Danish update Files: changed:release-notes.da.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies by cklin
Repository: boot-floppies who:cklin time: Fri Apr 19 10:49:58 PDT 2002 Log Message: Introducing traditional Chinese (zh_TW) support into dbootstrap. Files: changed:config -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#143620: boot-floppies: sgmltools-lite missing from Build-Depends
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-20 Severity: normal Tags: patch I was trying to build from the CVS source tonight and somehow the build (through make release command) failed. Investigation showed that the build process makes use of the sgmltools-lite package, which is missing from the Build-Depends declaration. Technically no patch is supplied with the report, but the fix is extremely trivial: add sgmltools-lite to Build-Depends. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux oink 2.4.10 #1 SMP ¶g¤» 3¤ë 16 16:06:43 CST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5 -- Chuan-kai Lin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Testing woody on a IBM RS6000 B50
Hi! First of all, sorry for the crosspost, but I think that the message belongs to all the three lists. I'm trying to see if woody will work on one of this machines, they are powerpc based, the one I have access to has a serial console, cdrom and floppy. I read the Boot Floppies documentation where it says that the B50 is a prep machine, so I put the prep rescue.bin on a floppy into the floppy drive and a woody powerpc cd on the cdrom and made a couple of boot tries which went more or less like this: me: 0 boot floppy system: ok me: 0 boot cdrom system: unrecognized Client Program formatstate not valid system: ok Then I tried with a potato cdrom and got this: me: 0 boot cdrom system: PReP-BOOT : Unable to load PReP image. system: ok Well, I've been talking for a while with hollis on #debianppc and he has told me that the B50 is not prep but chrp. If anyone can confirm this the doc should be changed to signify this. On the doc it is also said that the chrp is untested and I think that if this is really chrp then we should try to test it now that I can ;-) Also it says: Generally, all you will need is a high-density (1440 kilobytes) 3.5 inch floppy drive. For CHRP floppy support is currently broken. I was gonna test chrp floppies on monday, can anybody confirm if they are supposed to boot the machine or not? I'd also like to know if the CDs are supposed to boot on CHRP systems or not :-? And I would welcome any tips like parameters for booting this machines or anything that you can give me, I'm new to this architecture, so I know nothing about it. Thanks in advance! Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester - http://manty.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
screenshots from BFs?
Hello How can I make screenshots from the BF-system? Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debsupport.de PGP: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux Traue nie einer Computerzeitschrift mit schoenen Frauen auf dem Cover. (Besim Karadeniz in de.comm.internet.misc) msg19192/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Testing woody on a IBM RS6000 B50
Santiago, The B50/43P-150 systems are CHRP machines. Usually, any system with Open Firmware is a CHRP machine. The older PCI based systems without OF are PREP, and the even older Microchannel based systems are RS6K. The only exception that I am aware of is the 43P-140. It does not have OF and is from an architecture standpoint supposedly a mixture of PREP and CHRP. I expect you will find that the CHRP rescue image will not work either. That is what I found last time I tried. Unlike PREP, the image is not dd'ed on to the floppy. The boot image is just copied to a dos formatted floppy. I found that the boot image on the Debian ftp site was to big for the floppy. To boot from floppy: 0 boot floppy:,\image_file_name SuSE 7.3 can be booted from CD; however, I do not know exactly how it is accomplished. PS: As I have posted before, I know how to compile a kernel but I have limited knowledge of how to build a RAM disk and bootable CDs. While I am spending a fair amount of time trying to figure this out by reading various FAQs and HOWTOs, if somebody already has images that they want tested I would be glad to do so. I have access to pretty much all the various RS/6000 and pSeries systems available. PSS: If someone has technical questions pertaining to RS/6000 and pSeries systems you can send them my way as well. I will forward them to the internal Linux group. Rolf -- Rolf Brudeseth [EMAIL PROTECTED] pSeries System Engineering Integration, IBM Enterprise Systems Group Austin, TX, Phone: 512-838-6558 Santiago Garcia Mantinan [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/19/2002 01:10:14 PM To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Testing woody on a IBM RS6000 B50 Hi! First of all, sorry for the crosspost, but I think that the message belongs to all the three lists. I'm trying to see if woody will work on one of this machines, they are powerpc based, the one I have access to has a serial console, cdrom and floppy. I read the Boot Floppies documentation where it says that the B50 is a prep machine, so I put the prep rescue.bin on a floppy into the floppy drive and a woody powerpc cd on the cdrom and made a couple of boot tries which went more or less like this: me: 0 boot floppy system: ok me: 0 boot cdrom system:unrecognized Client Program formatstate not valid system: ok Then I tried with a potato cdrom and got this: me: 0 boot cdrom system:PReP-BOOT : Unable to load PReP image. system: ok Well, I've been talking for a while with hollis on #debianppc and he has told me that the B50 is not prep but chrp. If anyone can confirm this the doc should be changed to signify this. On the doc it is also said that the chrp is untested and I think that if this is really chrp then we should try to test it now that I can ;-) Also it says: Generally, all you will need is a high-density (1440 kilobytes) 3.5 inch floppy drive. For CHRP floppy support is currently broken. I was gonna test chrp floppies on monday, can anybody confirm if they are supposed to boot the machine or not? I'd also like to know if the CDs are supposed to boot on CHRP systems or not :-? And I would welcome any tips like parameters for booting this machines or anything that you can give me, I'm new to this architecture, so I know nothing about it. Thanks in advance! Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester - http://manty.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: screenshots from BFs?
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 07:42:33PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: Hello How can I make screenshots from the BF-system? I used Bochs before, so that or Plex86 might be usable. Or you could try to chroot run the installer on a running system, maybe in an xterm. - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I saw a VW Beatle the other day. The vanity Plates said FEATURE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by treacy
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:treacy time: Fri Apr 19 14:36:37 PDT 2002 Log Message: www.alphalinux.org - www.linuxalpha.org Files: changed:urls.ent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by barbier
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:barbier time: Fri Apr 19 16:39:36 PDT 2002 Log Message: Major update: 1.41 - 1.98 [Patrice Karatchentzeff] Files: changed:rescue-boot.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by barbier
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:barbier time: Fri Apr 19 16:40:18 PDT 2002 Log Message: Fix MBR translation Files: changed:preparing.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install
Greetings- I just installed Woody and ran into one major glitch that forced me start over, where the screen read- Please choose the path inside the CD ROM where the Debian Archive resides. /instmnt _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ This situation was not mentioned in the Installation Manual, and I eventually sort of stumbled on the path by going over the READMEs again. (/dists/woody/main/disks-i386) The string instmnt was not mentioned in the Installation Manual anywhere, and served to deepen my perplexity. Otherwise, the Install was perfect, and I was very impressed with the job the Developers did. Thank you one and all. I will pass the good deed on someday. I'm a real Newbie now, and having a great time. Debian GNU/Linux is the penguin's sqawk Bruce+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by barbier
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:barbier time: Fri Apr 19 17:13:28 PDT 2002 Log Message: Two paragraphs were merged. Files: changed:rescue-boot.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:dwhedon time: Fri Apr 19 22:15:26 PDT 2002 Log Message: we think #105621 is closed as well Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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