Bug#369793: installation-reports: net-retriever unable to fetch hw-detect-full
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 09:18 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 01:13:18PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: Package: installation-reports Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Boot method: USB stick Image version: stable (Sarge) Date: June, 1st 2006 - 12AM GMT snip/ I'm trying to install Debian stable on a i386 box. Medium used is a USB stick. Boot is OK. System hangs when downloading installer components at retrieving hw-detect-full with the message: The installer failed to download a file from the mirror Network connection is OK. I tried with +10 mirrors, same problem everywhere. Where all mirrors tried at the same day? Could you retry today? I'm asking because suspect the file was missing on the mirror(s) and I asume that the mirrors are okay now. Yes, indeed. It works fine now. -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#369793: installation-reports: net-retriever unable to fetch hw-detect-full
Package: installation-reports Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Boot method: USB stick Image version: stable (Sarge) Date: June, 1st 2006 - 12AM GMT Machine: i386 workstation Processor: AMD Sempron Memory: 512MB Root Device: not detected Partitions: no disk detected Initial boot worked:[O] ¿Funcionó el arranque inicial? Configure network HW: [O] ¿Se configuró el hardware de red? Config network: [O] ¿Se configuró la red? Detect CD: [O] ¿Se detectó la unidad de CD? Load installer modules: [E] ¿Se cargaron los módulos del instalador? Detect hard drives: [E] ¿Se detectaron los discos duros? Partition hard drives: [ ] ¿Se particionó el disco duro? Create file systems:[ ] ¿Se crearon los sistemas de ficheros? Mount partitions: [ ] ¿Se montaron las particiones? Install base system:[ ] ¿Se instaló el sistema base? Install boot loader:[ ] ¿Se instaló el gestor de arranque? Reboot: [ ] ¿Reinició correctamente? I'm trying to install Debian stable on a i386 box. Medium used is a USB stick. Boot is OK. System hangs when downloading installer components at retrieving hw-detect-full with the message: The installer failed to download a file from the mirror Network connection is OK. I tried with +10 mirrors, same problem everywhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#266595: installation-reports: [i386] [rc1] [netinst] reboot fails on SATA root partition
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the image uname -a: The result of running uname -a on a shell prompt Date: Date and time of the install Method: How did you install? What did you boot off? If network install, from where? Proxied? Machine: i386 Processor: p4 2,8GHZ Memory: 512MB Root Device: SATA Root Size/partition table: Feel free to paste the full partition table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where. Output of lspci: Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [E] Create file systems:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[O] Install boot loader:[O] Reboot: [E] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: I installed rc1 using the businesscard iso. Booted expert26. You guys made an impressive work but there are still some problems: - Most important, my root device is a SATA disk. Although the installer correctly loads the module and partition the disk, when rebooting after base installed, the boot sequence crashes, because it is unable to find a root partition. I guess this is because the sata_promise kernel module isn't compiled in the kernel but rather as a loadable module and thus the kernel needs to mount / to load the module and to load the module it needs to mount / first. The same chicken/egg problem that happens with loadable scsi modules. Do you have any fix for this ? Wouldn't it be better to have SATA support compiled in the kernel ? How can I get my system to boot now ? Now the less important stuff: - I was unable to choose Belgian keyboard, the installer says that such a layout isn't available - At the partition stage, I was unable to do the 'Manual Partitioning' clicking on that menu kept dropping me back at the previous menu. I tried partitioning from the console at Alt-F2 but never found out the device files. After digging around for a bit, I realized the devices files are now in /dev/ide. This is confusing and would probably need a help message: when booting the 2.4 installer image, my hard disk is at /dev/hde and when booting a 2.6 it is at /dev/ide/bus0/... -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ignored: LC_ALL set to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#142421: boot-floppies: bf2.4 flavor fails at uncompressing linux.bin
Package: boot-floppies Version: 20020411 Severity: important I downloaded all bf2.4 files from www.debian.org: rescue.bin root.bin linux.bin install.bat basedebs.tar and placed them in the correct directories (Note that it is nowhere explained where to place install.bat) of a FAT partition of a Windows 98 installed system. I rebooted Windows in DOS mode, cd'd to where install.bat was and launched it. System hangs saying: Uncompressing Linux... invalid compressed format (err=1) -- System halted -- System Information Debian Release: none yet -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Funny console colors
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 09:42:50PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: I did a new install on a PowerBase 150 this afternoon. When the installer disk booted, the letters were bright red rather than white. Then the installer system had a light orange/orange background instead of black/blue. It was all readable, though, just odd. Finally when I got everything installed (went very smoothly btw), and rebooted, the tty1 was still in bright red/black. The really interesting part is that tty2 is dark red, tty3 is green, tty4 is apparently black/black, tty5 dark blue, and tty6 seems to be dark green on a lighter black background. Any clue how this is happening and how to fix it? All this sounds really cool ! Why do you want to fix it ? People use to complain Debian install is rather ugly and now we come with flashy colors ! waow ! -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: cvs access problem (Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:17:26PM +0200)
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:49:21AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Eric Van Buggenhaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cvs login: authorization failed: server cvs.debian.org rejected access to /cvs/debian-boot for user ericvb This is the problem here. Can anyone fix this ? Or am I doing it wrong somewhere ?? You are using a pserver account rather than ext/ssh ? On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:50:02AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Oh, I should have continued, pserver is illegal for folks who have shell accounts on klecker. I thought I fixed it but no, I didn't. Sorry for changing again, but it definitely doesn't work, even using ext:ssh [eric@femto:~/boot-floppies/documentation/fr]$ export CVS_RSH=ssh [eric@femto:~/boot-floppies/documentation/fr]$ export CVSROOT=:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/debian-boot [eric@femto:~/boot-floppies/documentation/fr]$ cvs ci -m Sync'ed with canonical version post-install.sgml cvs [server aborted]: commit requires write access to the repository [eric@femto:~/boot-floppies/documentation/fr]$ What is this all about ? What's the problem ?? On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:36:34PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: I agree with Chris. Eric, I doubt there will be another boot-floppies Potato release (unless the ARM folks insist on it, and I doubt that) and in any case, we should be working on the upcoming release rather than the old and crufty one. -- ...Adam Di Carlo..[EMAIL PROTECTED]...URL:http://www.onshored.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
next potato release ?
Hi, I'd like to know if efforts should still be spent updating French documentation of potato. Our French team is quite reduced, and it'd be nice to know whether there'll be another release of potato or not. I don't care about the dates, just want to know if it'll happen. If that's not the case, they we can safely concentrate on Woody. Thanks. -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Who does the french translation of bf and di ? (me?)
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 12:03:12PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: Hello, I would like to contact the french translator(s) of bf and di to see if they need my help. I used to maitain the French translation of the documentation of the boot-floppies for the last year. We currently have 2 branches, one for potato and one for woody. Obviously any help is always welcome ;) I guess you have write access to cvs/boot-floppies right ? -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Error loggin in anonimously boot-floppies CVS repository
Althoug I followed the instructions mentioned at http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/README-CVS?rev=1.9content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup I get this error [eric@curitiba:~/tmp]$ export CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/debian-boot [eric@curitiba:~/tmp]$ cvs login Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/cvs/debian-boot CVS password: cvs login: failed to open /home/eric/.cvspass for reading: No such file or directory cvs [login aborted]: fatal error: exiting [eric@curitiba:~/tmp]$ I can check-out though -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT Real Programers don't use Pascal \_|_/ Andago \/ \/ Av. Santa Engracia, 54 a n d a g o |--E-28010 Madrid - tfno:+34(91)2041100 /\___/\ http://www.andago.com / | \ Innovando en Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ask.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 03:00:57PM -0400, Javier Bermudez wrote: How can i join to debian dev. group ? Please have a look at http://www.debian.org/devel/join -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: request: add keymap (sg-latin1)
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:03:26PM +0200, sen wrote: hi is it possible to have sg-latin1 keymap (that's for Swiss German Keyboards) in the installation? You could easily hack one by yourself and send the code to Debian so everyone'd helped. Regards, -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Harddrive Install Problem
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:36:45PM +, DOUGLAS CRAIG wrote: Hi, I want to install GNU/Debian on my laptop which has no CDROM available and I have encountered a problem with the install. The method I want to use is to install from my current Windows Partition. I have the proper drivers.tgz, base2_2.tgz, loadlin.exe and root.bin on the root directory of the Windows Partition and have my Debian Partition already set aside. When I get to the point of installing drivers.tgz the installer tries to look for the file 'images-1.44/drivers.tgz' and it cannot find it. Yes, I have encoutered this problem a few times while trying to install using this method. Can't remember right now how I solved the problem, but if you have a look at the script that you launch for installing the system (install.sh ?) note where it expects the files to be and correct the script to point to where your files actually *are* (or move your files ;). A bug should be filed. Lots of people have had this problem. -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:50:54AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm looking for a game that might have been included in one of your linux os's the name of the game is mirror magic..if you can help me let me know nick Indeed this game is available in Debian. The package is called mirrormagic. http://packages.debian.org/stable/games/mirrormagic.html -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Weird error in debhelper parsing changelog
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:06:21PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: Hi! I'm getting a weird error from debhelper; it says that it cannot parse the changelog: ===[ cut ]=== dh_gencontrol parsechangelog/debian: error: badly formatted trailer line, at changelog line 6 dpkg-gencontrol: error: syntax error in parsed version of changelog at line 0: empty file dh_gencontrol: command returned error code make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 ===[ cut ]=== The weird thing with it is that dpkg-parsechangelog does not give any errors: ===[ cut ]=== $ dpkg-parsechangelog ; echo $? Source: turqstat Version: 2.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: peter karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:45:00 +0200 Changes: turqstat (2.1) unstable; urgency=low . ^^^ You sure about that period ? * Cleaned up Debianization slightly. * Made it possible to select date ranges for input. * Added character re-encoding for most single-byte character sets used in Fidonet and Usenet today. 0 ===[ cut ]=== And the latest portion of the changelog looks right to me: ===[ cut ]=== turqstat (2.1) unstable; urgency=low * Cleaned up Debianization slightly. * Made it possible to select date ranges for input. * Added character re-encoding for most single-byte character sets used in Fidonet and Usenet today. -- peter karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:45:00 +0200 ===[ cut ]=== It complains about line 6, which is part of the comment. This is really weird, does anyone have any ideas? -- \\// 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] -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installation impasse
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:24:46PM -0700, Andrew T. Young wrote: I'm trying to migrate from a Slackware system with kernel version 1.2.9 to the current Debian stable release. I downloaded the boot, root, and 11 base floppies for the compact version, and all went OK until I got to the part (after re-booting from the boot floppy) about installing and configuring the rest of the system, which requires access to the Net. My connection is a PPP link, and it runs through a funny modem that uses port 2f0 and IRQ 2. On the 1.2.9 system, this is simply configured by setserial in rc.serial. But this does not work on the Debian system, which reports No such device although I made the /dev/ttyS14 entry with mknod. It appears that the serial-port code now lives in a module; but where do I find it? Most modules are available and installable during the boot-floppies installation process (it's an option in the main menu, look for it). It also appears that many other people have had similar problems (mostly while trying to install Winmodems) -- a search for debian and ttyS14 turns up hundreds of pages of similar complaints, but no solution. This is not explained in either the Serial-HOWTO or the Modem-HOWTO. What modem are you using ? is it a Lucent or similar ? If you had it running with Slackware/1.2.9 there's no reason it shouldn't work with Debian/2.2.19+ It would be helpful if the installation program provided the means of setting up this special port for those of us who need it. It would also be helpful if the instructions on how to do this were included in one of the HOWTO documents. Furthermore, it would be nice if the necessary module (which I suspect is generic_serial.o) were readily available from the Debian ftp site. Apparently serial.o -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (sans sujet)
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 09:25:49AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: comment installer le system linux sur mon pc depuis le net Si tu parles anglais, jette un oeil à http://cdimage.debian.org -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some feedback on installation attempts...
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:49:14PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:41:27AM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: He's coming from RedHat... was very disappointed to hear of this driver disk issue... (he claims you can do anything with RH installer, with just 2 disks... yea, right...) So I pointed him to the idepci flavour, hahahahaha sorry After the install asked him whether he wants woody or sid, it died trying to mount proc. (brings him back to the sid/woody screen) So he it wasn't /proc but /target/proc and this is fixed in 3.0.7 Next, he says it tried to run ldconfig, which didn't exist. So he simply commented that out too. yeah im sure that will help /sarcasm From what I understood, he got debootstrap running and downloading packages. At some point it ran (I quote) ar -p | zcat | tar -xv some file, then it was segfaulting and dying... because he destroyed debootstrap. After heated conversation and pointless ramblings, the compact flavour (potato) worked for him. (Followed by him again saying Debian should just copy RH's installer... hrmph.) send him back to redhat, we don't need trolls like that wasting our time. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA :) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.2r3 install: Make boot floppy failed
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 01:28:03PM -0700, bri r wrote: Hi all, This is my first exposure to Debian, although I have used Red Hat for about a year. I got Debian 2.2r3 Espy through CheapBytes.com and the install goes fine until I try Make Boot Floppy screen. Then it formats the disk and gives the error message Make Boot Floppy Failed... I tried many floppies with the write-protect off. I tried redoing the whole process again after verifying my floppy drive still works. Any suggestions? I haven't found anything on the web or mailing list archives about this. You can skip this test and go on with the installation anyway. You could then make a boot floppy when your system is installed. -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 11:03:05AM +0200, khuider mecheri wrote: bonjour je suis un jeune amateur qui s'interese a LINUX et je voudrais savoir si ce OS est gratuit si oui où le telecharge. Oui, Debian est gratuit et libre. Tu peux trouver plein d'informations à partir de la page www.debian.org je vous re merci beaucoup De rien :) -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: laoding drivers (floppy-boot)
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:40:22PM +0200, Juerg Oehler wrote: hi, i was having a look at debian distribution after working with suse and hat. first i loaded the installation guide down and studyed the hole thing. ^^ I guess you meant 'holy', didn't you ? i did so by putting driver-1.bin in and got the message, the floppy is not mountable. please tell me, which floppy was ment? Please be sure your floppy was correctly written, maybe try with another diskette. -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installer online help
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:42:51AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: On Sun Jun 10, 2001 at 08:38:50PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: That is a good point. The suggestion of dynmically using the busybox help probably doesn't treat transloations very well, unless busybox wants translated help. I'm willing to accept patches to properly internationalize busybox. But I expect that is going to be a lot of effort with very little visible benefit. Very little visible benefit ? Are you stating that all new Debian users speak fluent English ? -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: latest potato boot-floppy fails
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:29:40PM -0700, bri r wrote: I used the idepci version of the latest boot-floppy for potato. The install.bat script under DOS is pretty easy--thank-you. However, it failed at the same spot I had a problem before, (search for Make boot floppy failed). It gives the same error messages and behavior. Is there another way? I can't boot directly from hard drive and Tom's rtbt is the difficult to use except for fdisk, (at least for a novice, like me). A possibility is : Boot with Tom's rtbt, then #mount /mnt /dev/hda2 #chroot /mnt #lilo This should rewrite the MBR. Not sure whether I correctly understood your problem, though. -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: demolinux debian
Could you submit your problem in English ? On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 12:32:20AM -0300, sebatião depaula santos wrote: Tenho a versão demo linux N 4, mais estou com poblemas, o CD da o boot , pelo CD-ROOM , mais quando chega no grafico trava, a tela fica toda preta, algumas vezes consegui, que tudo funciona se bem. Já tentei todas as soluções descritas na revista nada da certo o que voçê recomenda. Minha placa de video e uma Pine com SIS Chipset, 16M, modelo SIS 305 16M agp. -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: working on branch and trunk
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:25:41PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Eric Van Buggenhaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Glad to know that. Until now, I used to update both potato and woody versions against canonical english files. Should I thus drop woody for now ? If you're working on changes to sync to potato, then work in the potato branch. If you're working on changes to sync the docs to woody, then work on the HEAD. Is there a difference between HEAD and MAIN ? I think until now (before you made woody trunk [ahahaha]) I've always worked on MAIN. -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 06:30:30PM +0200, Tutor75 wrote: Bonjour je tente d'installer une debian 2.2 sur une Sparc Ultra 5 suite à un probleme avec le systeme actuel (Solaris 5.7) je suit donc votre documentation mais je rencontre un probleme avec le fichier rescue : http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-sparc/current/images-1.44/root.bin En effet le fichier fait 1.40 Mo, une diskette, formatté en Fat (je ne peux pas la formater autrement, seul ma machine windows fonctionne) peux contenir 1.38 Mo donc probleme. On ne peut malheureusement pas copier le fichier root.bin simplement sur une disquette à l'aide de la commande 'copy' par exemple. root.bin représente une image 'brute' de disquette (l'équivalent des fichiers .iso pour les CD-ROM de données). Le programme 'rawrite' inclus sur les disques d'installation Debian permet de générer les disquettes à partir des fichiers image type 'root.bin' Merci de votre intérêt pour Debian. -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: working on branch and trunk
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:28:54AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Eric Van Buggenhaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do you mean 'French merge rolled back' ? I could not merge changes in 2.2.23 and 2.2.24 from potato onto the woody version. They conflicted. I dunno. In general, if you are fixing something for Potato, it's best not to fix it again in woody, since the branch merge would roll those changes in. Glad to know that. Until now, I used to update both potato and woody versions against canonical english files. Should I thus drop woody for now ? Apparently, I got files correctly marked as belonging to potato branch but they aren't tagged. Is it right ? Um, no, I didn't say that. Sorry, what i meant was : Is it normal the files I commit don't wear tags ? Also, what mark of fertilizer do you usually use ? Eh? I don't have any garden... :) Neither do I, that's why I feel a bit lost. -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Left-Alt vs Command/Apple
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:10:56AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: Attached are patches to docs within boot-floppies/documentation/ and Attached to the message I received was nothing. -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: El arranque en powerpc
Hola Dani, Por suerte hablo español pero no hay mucha gente en esa lista que lo entiende. Unfortunadamente, no te puedo contestar. Seria mucho mejor que reenvies el mensaje en ingles, que es el idioma de la list. On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 06:05:24PM -0400, Daniel wrote: Hice todo lo que me pedia el manual, para la instalacion de debian salte el paso de hacer los floppies de arranque y en su lugar utilice yaboot version 0.6 y escribi un shell bootee y abri open firmware, escribi setenv boot-device hd://bootscript y luego mac-boot le di enter o return e inicio el sistema con yaboot todo iba bien hasta salio el promt pero se paro con un mensaje que decia; VFS: cannot open root device 00:de Kernel panic: VFS:unable to mount root fs on 00:de Rebooting in 180 seconds mi e-mail es [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trouble with /sbin/termwrap
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:52:25PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: konstantin cherkasoff wrote: Why dbootstrap's dialog are without frames? Only colors and black shadows. This would be a bug in the new slang with wide character support. It seems all slang programs have this problem at the console. Another thing is more serious - after reboot on tty1 I saw /bin/sh: /sbin/termwrap: No such file or directory /bin/sh: exec: /sbin/termwrap: cannot execute: No such file or directory ... INIT: Id 1 respawninig too fast: disabled for 5 minutes What is /sbin/termwrap and where is it? Sigh, something needs to be done about this. Does anyone at all: a) know what termwrap does b) know where the code to it went c) want to package it up, and maintain the package [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted an ITP 1 week ago. We've got 2 threads on the same list about the same stuff going in 2 different directions ... -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: default language setting on a fresh system
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:45:57PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:41:03AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Well the form I want it in is the correct form. ll is not a valid
language code setting, ll_LL is.
Ok -- are you saying dbootstrap *must* set it in the xx_YY form?
But I had been thinking that the
boot-floppies were possibly setting this in /etc/environment
No we do not. Taking language selection and forcing that to be global
would in fact be incorrect behavior, according to i18n experts.
If anything, it could be set in /etc/skel/.bashrc or something.
The problem is that for bash by default,
login shells source _only_ .bash_profile, and
interactive _non-login_ shells source _only_ .bashrc
So there's no easy way to set LANG for both console and {x,g}dm
logins.
What keeps you from sourcing .bashrc from .bash_profile ? That's what I use
here :
$grep bashrc ~/.bash_profile
# include .bashrc if it exists
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
source ~/.bashrc
$
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Re: [RFC] managing dependencies with levels
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:36:17PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:20:25PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: Ok, im starting to see its advantages now. (i think) Are all the the different dependency types (pre-depends, depends, conflicts, replaces, provides) represented in the one tree ? In this system, if I'm not mistaken, there are no pre-depends. If a package pre-depends on another, that means that is level is higher so the package it predepends on will be automatically installed before. Conflicts and replaces have not the same function as the dependencies. The tree is built with the dependencies. The other fields are handled using this tree, but are not mirrored in it. I can see how it would work with just dependencies, if package C depends on package B and pre-depends on package A package A and package B have no dependencies Would package A and B both be at level 1 and package C be at level 2, if so how do you represent that B needs to be pre-installed rather than just installed ? Since level 1 is installed before level 2, B which is level 1 will be installed automatically before C (which is level 2). There is no more distinction needed. What happens if thereafter, you want to install a level-2 package D which depends on a level-1 package E ? Should all the level-2 packages be removed before E is installed and then re-installed along with D ? -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France http://www.cri74.org PingOO, serveur de com sur distribution GNU/Linux: http://www.pingoo.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: woody idepci bootdisks broken? (dpkg-script after ftp?)
Woody hasn't been released yet. There's no final installer for it (scroll thru the debian-boot mailing for details). Best thing you can do is yes, install potato and 'apt-get upgrade' to woody. On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:14:24PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi ! soon after i succesfully installed potato 2.2r2 via ftp and the idepci flopyps, (WORKED GREAT!!) i tried the same for woody. problem was that after it downloaded a lot of .deb files, only a few of them seemed to become installed. after installation i had to choose to make the box bootable. either way (mbr/bootdisk) failed due tu a missing lilo executable in /target. so the 'lilo' script died with: if not -x /usr/bin/lilo exit(problem). (or like that) so i guess someone updated the (lilo + other) packages (names), but not the deflate (dbpk) script to install them by the new name. (the lilo-package even had a percent character in its name...) noone other seems to have this problem (many seems to install woody with the potato set anyway) (carefully searched news+web using google) what can i do? i understand that it is testing, but a lot of people use woody, so after all they had to install it somehow. please help. 'dpkg lilo*deb' failed due to a 'apt-database not found' or so. - i completely dosformated the hdds before mke2fs / + /boot with installer. - i checked for badblocks + last of /boot 1024. swap 20MB as first part. - i downloaded the woody idepci 1.4 disks twice on new floppys (11.apr ones) - i tried on 2 boxes (with eepro card) 486dx2-66 8/250mb p133 50/2000MB - i underclocked the p133 to 100, and set the ram-speed to lowest. - i tried aproximately 5 times for each box. (with/without proxy) - i used http://http.us... and http://ftp.de. (seemed to work both so far) - i tried ne2000 and wd networking-cards additionaly. (dont ask why :-( ) -once i've seen a crazy error on console 3 : debain-cd not found! directly after download of the deb-files. dunno why. (was FTP!) (needed restart to escape) -unplugged the cd-drive then. so plain: i'm stuck. please help. next i will try is installing potato on both boxes, and 'bunk' them up. (need for iptables) thanx. please email me too if possible as i'm a user and dont subscribed to every debian-devel-list. thanx. kleistereimer. ps: minor oddity: installer requests the rescue floppy twice. (should/could be cached(??)) + netcard-moduleloader asks 'are you sure' + next dialog has a cancel-button. if you go a lot of times throught this procedure, you wont like it. (dont laught here!) -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Winmodem test disk
Hi, I recently bought a Tecra 8100 which includes a Lucent linmodem. Lucent released a binary-only driver for this modem by the time of kernel 2.2.12. Unfortunately with later version of the kernel, it didn't work. Yesterday I found the reason why and patched the 2.2.18 kernel source tree. I don't know if this info is still useful. If you are interested, I can send te patch. Eric. On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 05:20:14PM +, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: Developers, This is a request for some startup assistance. You can read the horror stories a few of us are trying to deal with at: Linmodem-HOWTO http://walbran.org/sean/linux/linmodem-howto-all.html or the archives: http://linmodems.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi/1 Basically most of the new laptops/desktops are coming with cheapie WinModems whose chipsets are hard to identify, and then probably do not have Linux support. It would be very useful to have a Debian style Rescue Disk just to run tests on such modem hardware. Thus Linux folk might be able to determine whether their IntendedNewBoxPC/Laptop has a chance of supporting Dialup under Linux. The following capabilites would be desirable: a) Minimal software to support mimicom, ppp and if space permits wvdail functionality. b) A menu supporting successive trials of candidate modem drivers which could be on a floppy disk, WinSwish or Linux partition c) fdisk -l (list) capability, but all other fdisk action Blocked so that Newbies couldn't be destructive. d) Menu callup of a succession of informative text files. This is not Deep work for someone experienced,and I could eventually work it out myself. But the Help would get out to the NewBies much faster with some help from you Install Disk experts. Once a first ModemTester Disk is made, I'll be able to do updates myself. Incidentally this laptop is currently serving for testing experimental drivers for the Lucent Winmodem being improved by Mark Spieth (Redhat installation) in Australia: koala:/home/marv# uname -r 2.4.0-test12 koala:/home/marv# lsmod Module Size Used by ppp_generic12928 1 (autoclean) ltmodem 364960 1 isa-pnp27888 0 [ltmodem] Your help would be appreciated. MarvS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eric.ath.cx Please don't send proprietary format documents, I can't (and don't want to) open them. Appreciated are open-source formats like .txt or .rtf. Dvi, ps or tex files are welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: translating boot-floppies to Dutch
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 04:48:52PM +0100, Ivo Timmermans wrote: Hi, I would like to start on translating the boot floppies to Dutch. I asked around, and a few people are interested in helping. Is the potato boot floppy set a good place to start, or will the set for woody be so much different that it will be outdated very quickly? I'm dealing with the french translation of boot-floppies. I think woody won't come out too early so it looks like a cool place to start. Plus you gonna learn *lots* of interesting stuff ! Cheers, Eric Ivo -- Pooky, you sure know how to spoil a good bad mood! -- Garfield -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eric.ath.cx Please don't send proprietary format documents, I can't (and don't want to) open them. Appreciated are open-source formats like .txt or .rtf. Dvi, ps or tex files are welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [debian-installer] anyone interested in an irc meeting?
Count me in On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:55:36AM +0100, Andrea Glorioso wrote: Randolph Chung [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering if anyone is interested in arranging a time to hold a debian-installer design brainstorming session or such on irc (#debian-boot on irc.debian.org). If we do something like Dec12 midnight UTC will people find this useful? As a lurker (and a prospective maintainer) who is quite interested in bf and the debian installer, I think that would be great. I've got no particular problems with the specific date, as long as it's told on the mailing list with a little advance (so that I can set up a logger if I'm not available). Best regards, -- Andrea Glorioso sama(at)aglorioso(dot)com Padua, Italy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eric.ath.cx Please don't send proprietary format documents, I can't (and don't want to) open them. Appreciated are open-source formats like .txt or .rtf. Dvi, ps or tex files are welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: partitioning problem
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 08:47:29AM -0800, Tim Veazey wrote: I'm installing debian on a PC platform (old Pentium 166). During installation, I partitioned four spaces. NameFlags...Part Type...FS Type.Size(MB) --- hda1BootPrimary.Linux ext2..100 hda2Primary.Linux...200 hda3Primary.Linux swap..64 hda4Primary.Linux...1645 I want to mount / on hda1, /home on hda2, and /usr on hda4. However, during the installation step "Mount a Previously-Initialized Partition" I can only mount root '/'. For any other directory, it tells me "Mount failed: No such file or directory". Do the mount points exist on / ? Now, if I just proceed past this, I can get the core OS installed ok, but the only filesystem I have is root (reported by fs). I also tried adding some entries to /etc/fstab and rebooting, but that didn't work. Under /dev I see a LOT of hda devices (hda1, ..., hda13, etc). How should I proceed from here? Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Tim Veazey -Linux Newbie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Eric Van Buggenhaut - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please don't send proprietary format documents, I can't open them. Use instead open-source formats like .txt or .rtf. Dvi, ps or tex files are welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot detect hard disk (hda)
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 09:27:16AM +0100, Bee Leong Yeap wrote: Package: Debian Version: 2.2 rev 0 Hi, Sorry. I think I may have sent two other emails with no contents. Still getting to grips with this hotmail. Anyway, I tried installing Linux using debian: binary_i386_1_nonus.iso version 2.2 rev 0 "potato" on my computer(Architechture i386), which has a Asus A7V motherboard, IBM 40GV hard drive connected to the Primary ATA100 channel, Teac CD540E 40x CDROM drive connected to the Secondary IDE channel, 128 MB RAM PC133, network card: RJ45 10 Mbps Ethernet card and NO SCSI adapters. After copying the binary files to the CDROM (3 altogether for binary_i386_1_nonus.iso, binary_i386_2.iso and binary_i38r_3.iso) I booted the computer from the CDROM. It starts fine but later reports : hda: no response (status=0xa1), resetting drive and finally it reaches the welcome menu. I can configure the keyboard but cannot do anything else since it has not detected my hard disk. How can I make it detect my hard disk? Is your hard disk detected by the BIOS ? If so, check whether the HD is detected by the kernel : open a new terminal (Alt-F2) and do a 'dmesg |more' in the messages, see if your HD appears. Thanks for your help and time. Best regards, Bee Leong _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eric.ath.cx Please don't send proprietary format documents, I can't (and don't want to) open them. Appreciated are open-source formats like .txt or .rtf. Dvi, ps or tex files are welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Doc check script (was: index.html.m4)
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 11:46:55PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 12:35:39AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: Hi, I'm writing this because I'd like someone to explain this change: === RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/documentation/index.en.html.m4,v -dnl Please don't translate this file, for now. m4 may not be used in the future +dnl $Id: index.en.html.m4,v 1.10 2000/09/22 19:47:00 polish Exp $ The CVS log entry for this commit is rather useless: "added : $". This was supposed to be "added: $Id$", but apparently bash expanded something :-\ This (and a few other changes to other files) was needed for the doc-check script that I will commit in a minute. Can you tell us where the script is ? 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] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eric.ath.cx Please don't send proprietary format documents, I can't (and don't want to) open them. Appreciated are open-source formats like .txt or .rtf. Dvi, ps or tex files are welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.2.17 now building for upload to potato
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 01:23:36PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Van Buggenhaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 12:05:46AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: No, no one has integrated that into the build process -- I guess it was up to me (sigh) but I haven't had time. Any volunteers? What does it exactly involve ? Read in the mail list archive, talk about i18n and LANG_CHOOSER. hack in the code. Are the files in cvs repository ? Mostly. OK, they just hired me in Spain, so I'll be busy moving for the next days. I'll have a look as soon as I can. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eric.ath.cx Please don't send proprietary format documents, I can't (and don't want to) open them. Appreciated are open-source formats like .txt or .rtf. Dvi, ps or tex files are welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.2.17 i386 boot-floppies uploading
There are still some errors in French doc' but my access to cvs.d.o is rejected these last days, so I'm powerless. About translation of release-notes in French, helas, I'm afraid it won't be immediately since I'm moving abroad. On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 01:33:33PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Sorry for the serious cross-post but no one seems to be reading debian-release right now, and I want this to propogate widely. Boot-floppies 2.2.17, a major bugfix point release for Potato, is being uploaded to samosa now. I shall put it up on auric.debian.org/~aph/ this evening. I don't read debian-devel or debian-testing, so please either CC debian-boot or file bugs against boot-floppies. Changelog is below -- aside from the numerous bug fixes, significant in this release is update packages from potato-proposed-updates, much better i18n documentation, and means to make i18n'd rescue disks. This release does *not* include the new 2.2.17 kernels because a full set (that is, idepci and compact) were not yet available. Sorry, but nothing I can do. We fixed the af_packet error so 'pump' works again. I've run thru complete installation on i386 laptop with pcmcia and it works fine. Many thanks to all the hackers (esp Martin Schulze, closing 21 BTS entries and numerous unfiled bugs), translators, and interested users who file bug reports. On my todo next is i18n integration of the root disk with dbootstrap messages (at least on i386) and of course, documentation updates. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ boot-floppies (2.2.17) stable; urgency=low * Adam Di Carlo: - release-notes: fix typo (closes: Bug#68630) - fix bugs preventing some l10n'd documentation from building - temporarily disable Russian documentation, unless you have woody debiandoc-sgml - config: re-organize a bit - fix .cvsignore file (closes: Bug#68911) - fix URLs in documentation based on link checking - documentation improvements (closes: Bug#67900); change the wording of the "in progress" warning in Chapter 1 (closes: Bug#69620); correct workaround for volume manager, patch from Jim Crumley (closes: Bug#69141); fix documentation on how mkofboot is invoked; rework the 'dbootstrap' chapter, removing plenty of slink'isms; fix some make-kpkg bugs (closes: Bug#71080) - dbootstrap: fix a condition where /target/lib/modules was being made a link to itself (closes: Bug#68021); run 'depmod -a' after manipulating the /lib/modules symlink after extracting the kernel and modules which fixes a problem with PCMCIA - fix a minor libfdisk Makefile / depends problem * Guillaume Morin: - more dbootstrap i18n - dbootstrap floppy module pre-load support * Vincent Renardias: French updates (thank to Eric VanBuggenhaut) * Jiøí Ma¹ík [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Czech updates * Gleydson Mazioli da Silva: Portuguese updates * novdv: Russian translations * Yoshizumi Endo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Japanese updates * Risko Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hungarian updates * Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Polish updates * Peter Karlsson: Swedish updates * Vilem Vychodil: Czech update * Tapio Lehtonen: Finnish translation thanks to Markku Verkkoniemi * Enrique Zanardi: Spanish updates * Michael Bramer: German updates * C.M. Connelly: English documentation corrections and improvements * Josip Rodin: - release notes updates: APT::Force-LoopBreak, kernel 2.2.x upgrade issues; remove sis6326 note; add info about i810; fixed X upgrade pointer; notes about CD sets; notes about ssh - some documentation and doc build fixes; move documenation build rules to documentation/ dir - fix index.LANG.html broken links (closes: Bug#67898) * Daniel Jacobowitz: - some powerpc-specific boot stuff fixed - update PowerPC kernel version * Martin Schulze: - Added little documentation to some routines - dbootstrap.h: Added prototype of get_kver() - getFloppies() and affected routines return DLG_CANCEL (aka 10) when Cancel is pressed, no need to spit an error message (closes: Bug#68900) - boxes.h: DLG_CANCEL is now 10 instead of 1, in order to avoid problems with 'return 1' stuff - Added calls to get_kver() to every _test target. Thanks tausq for the quick investigation - basedisk.sh: Added workarounds for missing device files and added others to MAKEDEV call - rootdisk.sh: Added optcd sjcd to list of i386 devices, still missing: gscd, cm206cd and proper support for mcdx (partially fixes: Bug#68665) - rootdisk.sh: Added ida.1 creation (closes: Bug#68517) - rootdisk.sh: Added -O none to mke2fs call to gain 2.0 compatibility (closes: Bug#68659) - basedisk.sh: Added /dev/sg* to list of created devices in the base system (closes:
Re: unable to commit
On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 02:25:04PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to commit to the debian-boot tree, base-config module, and I get: Cannot open /tmp/#cvs.lastdir.16690, stopped at /usr/lib/cvs/contrib/commit_prep line 76, ENTRIES chunk 2. cvs server: Pre-commit check failed I've always hated commit_prep and log_accum and here they bite us again. Can anyone else commit? As I mentioned before, I can't commit either to cvs.d.o/debian-boot/documentation. I can, but I guess that's it. I've disabled this crap for now. I don't care about cvs-email enough to fix it --- if someone else wants to, feel free, but please fix it right. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eric.ath.cx Please don't send proprietary format documents, I can't (and don't want to) open them. Appreciated are open-source formats like .txt or .rtf. Dvi, ps or tex files are welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.2.17 now building for upload to potato
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 12:05:46AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: peter karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Di Carlo: I'm now building for release boot-floppies 2.2.17. Does this include the translated boot floppies? No, no one has integrated that into the build process -- I guess it was up to me (sigh) but I haven't had time. Any volunteers? What does it exactly involve ? Are the files in cvs repository ? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eric.ath.cx Please don't send proprietary format documents, I can't (and don't want to) open them. Appreciated are open-source formats like .txt or .rtf. Dvi, ps or tex files are welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs access
I wasn't able to commit a file : yocto:~/boot-floppies/documentation/fr$ cvs -d $CVSROOT ci -m "added Sébastien Kalt" administrivia.sgml Cannot open /tmp/#cvs.lastdir.200, stopped at /usr/lib/cvs/contrib/commit_prep line 76, ENTRIES chunk 1. cvs server: Pre-commit check failed cvs [server aborted]: correct above errors first! What should I do ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eric.ath.cx Please don't send proprietary format documents, I can't (and don't want to) open them. Appreciated are open-source formats like .txt or .rtf. Dvi, ps or tex files are welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mdash in boot-floppies/documentation
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 05:07:48PM +0400, Michael Sobolev wrote: On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 02:44:12AM +0200, Van Buggenhaut wrote: According to Section 24 of HTML 4.01 specification, mdash is a valid entity. :) I'm using Netscpae 4.75 with Potato and mdash isn't resolved when i read HTML pages As I already said, Netscape is known to not support all those entities. That's very bad. :-( Yes. This brings us back to what I mention at the beggining of this thread. Shoudn't the concerned file be adapted then ? -- Misha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eric.ath.cx Please don't send proprietary format documents, I can't (and don't want to) open them. Appreciated are open-source formats like .txt or .rtf. Dvi, ps or tex files are welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wasted disk space
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 06:54:34PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 05:35:48PM +0200, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
I found that of my 2GB root filesystem more than 10% is wasted because it has
been formatted by the potato installer with a 4K block size instead of 1K.
Actually on my system all partitions are 1k:
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 101075 86295 9561 90% /
/dev/sda5 987251747829188416 80% /usr
/dev/sda6 987251922089 14156 98% /var
/dev/sda7 1771824 1657510 22744 99% /home
calista:/home/ecki# for i in /dev/sda1 /dev/sda5 /dev/sda6 /dev/sda7; do
bash lets you do great stuff : for i in /dev/sda{1,5,6,7} is faster
echo "$i une2fs -l $i | grep Block\ size" ; done
/dev/sda1 Block size: 1024
/dev/sda5 Block size: 1024
/dev/sda6 Block size: 1024
/dev/sda7 Block size: 1024
This is because I dont have so big partitions as u have and mke2fs is
guessing that smaller blocks are better.
Greetings
Bernd
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mdash in boot-floppies/documentation
I've been trying to keep french boot-floppies doc updated for the last months. There's an apparently new variable introduced in recent versions of canonical files, it's mdash; I'm desperately trying to find out what it refers to. Has the french translation of it been included. Can anyone help ? Also where are the lists of the other "variables" and their related local translations ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eric.ath.cx Please don't send proprietary format documents, I can't (and don't want to) open them. Appreciated are open-source formats like .txt or .rtf. Dvi, ps or tex files are welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mdash in boot-floppies/documentation
On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 04:54:50PM +0100, Martin Keegan wrote: On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Van Buggenhaut wrote: I just checked the web pages and apparently (on my Nestcape, at least) mdash; isn't converted at all, which is quite ugly ! Well it should depend entirely on your DTD ... What do you mean ? The pages I refer to are generated from cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/documentation. Mk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eric.ath.cx Please don't send proprietary format documents, I can't (and don't want to) open them. Appreciated are open-source formats like .txt or .rtf. Dvi, ps or tex files are welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bad press at www.linuxworld.com
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 04:41:56PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 02:43:25PM +0200, Van Buggenhaut wrote: - Identify themselves as the debian rescue floppy which is certianly confusing if you don't read documentation. ^^^ Imagine my sympathy. This is someone passing himself off as a reviewer, but he can't be bothered to read the docs? One thing not so clear is the location of rescue disks and the documents for a person new to debian. I agree with this. Location of rescue disks is really hard to guess. The potato CDs have the Installation Manual in a (more or less) intuitive locations: doc/install/index.html install/doc/index.html The top-level README.html file also links to the Manual in a straightforward manner. We're not talking about the manual but about rescue.bin, root.bin, etc ... -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eric.ath.cx Please don't send proprietary format documents, I can't (and don't want to) open them. Appreciated are open-source formats like .txt or .rtf. Dvi, ps or tex files are welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi, I just upgraded french transl. of install.sgml. Shouldn't link on line 72 point to url-upgrading; instead of url-release-notes; ? Here's a proposed patch for canonical file. Eric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eric.ath.cx Please don't send proprietary format documents, I can't (and don't want to) open them. Appreciated are open-source formats like .txt or .rtf. Dvi, ps or tex files are welcome. --- install.sgmlMon Aug 7 20:51:37 2000 +++ install.sgml.prop Thu Sep 14 17:30:20 2000 @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ ![ %not-arm [ The procedures in this document are emnot/em to be used for users upgrading existing systems; if you are upgrading, see the -url id="url-release-notes;" name="Release Notes for Debian release;". +url id="url-upgrading;" name="Upgrade Instructions for Debian release;". ]] ]] /abstract
