Re: the next step

2000-09-29 Thread Hartmut Koptein
I feel that the design discussions have reached the point where we'll be more productive if we're talking about actual code. There are still many Please create a picture of the layout/concept/modules. An picture says more then 1000 Thanks, Hartmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#72479: Data Access Exception

2000-09-29 Thread Alan Bain
Well, it certainly seems like this is an obscure SPARC hardware problem and you seem to have fixed it. Do you mind if I close this bug? We don't really maintain any information on all the minutae of how to configure hardware for use with Linux -- there are SPARC/Linux HOWTOs and stuff

Re: raid support in install cds

2000-09-29 Thread Robert Varga
On 29 Sep 2000, Adam Di Carlo wrote: We do support some hardware raid devices. For the software raid root support you mention, that reuqires some pretty serious changes and cannot happen in potato updates. This is an issue for the woody installer. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL

Bug#72479: Data Access Exception

2000-09-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Alan Bain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do think something should go in the installation manual for the SPARC version about suggesting that the lowest memory block be contiguous. I've checked version 2.2.17 of the install instructions and there is no mention of the problem, which I've

Bug#72672: problem installing to hdg w/ ultra66

2000-09-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Dmitry Belenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ADC I assume youre using the udma66 set of boot-floppies. Is that so? No, i'm entering kernel params, so kernel recognises everything perfectly. As I've said, I can mount my hdg (hdg2 to be precise) from another console. And it works. So, I thing

Re: mdash in boot-floppies/documentation

2000-09-29 Thread Michael Sobolev
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 05:20:11PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: In HTML, there is no portable way to represent an em-dash - except by using a plain old "-". You mean two of them, do you not? :) -- Misha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: mdash in boot-floppies/documentation

2000-09-29 Thread Michael Sobolev
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 04:22:01PM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: I'll look into this. The HTML translation map in debiandoc-sgml maps mdash to mdash which according to the HTML/XHTML book of O'Reilly doesn't exist. Probably we need to use #151; but conformance is not guaranteed. I'll

PCI autodetection

2000-09-29 Thread Will Lowe
Last night I put together some code from pciutils and Redhat's anaconda and came up with a little program that asks the kernel about installed PCI hardware and modprobes the needed drivers, using a little table. I don't know if it's useful or not for the next incarnation of boot-floppies, but

debian accessibility

2000-09-29 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Torsten Landschoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do we have a blind volunteer who can help with testing the new installer? I think we should add support for blind people while we are at redesigning the installer... I forwarded this note to the blinux (blind Linux) list, and got three volunteers.

Re: Fried Potato

2000-09-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Akin O. Fernandez" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings boot team, I'm having some problems installing. I am trying to install to my primary IDE using: CDROM Debian 2.2r0 official Arch: i386 model: home built, intel motherboard memory 128megs CRROM: Hitachi, ATAPI 24x Network Card

Re: 2.2.17 now building for upload to potato

2000-09-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
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?

Re: raid support in install cds

2000-09-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Robert Varga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - is there an easy way to create an installer cd with a kernel containing the 0.90 raid patches and the necessary files from raidtools2 included? Not easy, no. It should be possible ifyou get the boot-floppies package and muck with the source. - is

Re: debian accessibility

2000-09-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Cool. Please encourage them to file bugs. I'm not sure how well dbootstrap works on teletype or whatever devices (god I'm clueless) the blind use. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".