Re: sparc and alpha boot-floppies

2002-02-14 Thread Wilmer van der Gaast 
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 3.0.19
Severity: important

Okay, this is going to be the bug report then.

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Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED]@14 Feb 2002 00:08:03 -0500:
  I tried 3.0.19 on my x86 last week, but it sucked. There was no way
  to install from network. Even worse, without fooling the Linux
  kernel (hdc=none hdd=none) it insisted on an install from CD, didn't
  even offer me to install from another partition. Haven't been able
  to test more..
  
This is about all I can say. It happened with the compact 1.44 sets and
the normal 1.44 sets.

After initializing the swap partition and mounting an existing ext2
partition as root I choose for the next step, intall kernel+modules. It
immediately prompts me which one (of the two) CD-ROM drives I'd like to
use. I get the same screen when installing a base system.

Then I retried, but with the hdc=none, hdd=none flags to make the
installer believe there are no CD drives. Worked just a bit, now it
allowed me to install from an existing partition, fd0 or fd1 (IIRC). But
still no FTP/HTTP.

  I don't see any open bug reports on boot-floppies about this.  Could you
  submit a detailed bug report, please?  It won't be fixed if we don't
  know about it.
  
Of course, I've been submitting one bug report a day lately, but I
forgot about boot-floppies (and I should go fix some bugs myself as well
:-/)

Anyway, if necessary I can try to reproduce this bug with more debugging
information. Just tell me what to do.


Greetings,

Wilmer van der Gaast.

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sparc and alpha boot-floppies

2002-02-13 Thread Anthony Towns 
Hrm,

] woody/main/disks-sparc/3.0.16-2001-10-27
] woody/main/disks-alpha/3.0.17-2001-11-20

The current version is 3.0.19 from 2002-02-07. Need I say more?

If so, Please get the latest boot-floppies built and uploaded pronto.

For reference, mipsel is also significantly out of date, but I at least
know someone's doing something about it. hppa and ia64 are a version
out of date too.

HTH, HAND, TIA.

Cheers,
aj

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Re: sparc and alpha boot-floppies

2002-02-13 Thread Colin Walters 
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 04:00, Wilmer van der Gaast wrote:
 Please keep 3.0.18 around, I'd say. ;-)
 
 I tried 3.0.19 on my x86 last week, but it sucked. There was no way to
 install from network. Even worse, without fooling the Linux kernel (hdc=none
 hdd=none) it insisted on an install from CD, didn't even offer me to install
 from another partition. Haven't been able to test more..

I don't see any open bug reports on boot-floppies about this.  Could you
submit a detailed bug report, please?  It won't be fixed if we don't
know about it.

FWIW, I did a full network install on powerpc yesterday with 3.0.19 and
it worked fine.