cvs commit to boot-floppies by eb

2001-05-30 Thread eb
Repository: boot-floppies who:eb time: Thu May 31 00:13:56 PDT 2001 Log Message: fix typo in yabootconfig stuff Files: changed:todo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Left-Alt vs Command/Apple

2001-05-30 Thread Chris Tillman
Attached are patches to docs within boot-floppies/documentation/ and boot-floppies/documentation/en to introduce a left-alt entity. On my iMac, the option key is also labeled 'alt', but the key meant by Left-Alt in the docs is actually the Command/Apple key. I also added a note about Shift-Page-

Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:41:39PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Christian T. Steigies: > > > >> Maybe you can try the "experimental" boot-floppies (I thought I had uploaded > >> them long ago?). Link is on my potato page, but this should work: > >> auric.debian.org/~cts/bf > > > > The installe

Re: powermac boot-floppy patches

2001-05-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:39:27PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > This is pretty much what I did. Hopefully I'm calling yabootconfig > correctly. i have cvs access now, so i can commit any fixups needed. > > Stephen Marenka mentioned having some preliminary patches already, we > > should

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:aph time: Wed May 30 23:54:42 PDT 2001 Log Message: fix tag error Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#99285: would be nice to produce a -pic version of the libraries

2001-05-30 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:44:40PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > After surveying other packages that have reduced libraries as well as looking > into mklibs.sh itself I made a patch for libdetect to make a pic lib. I don't > produce anything other than the *_pic.a and mklibs.sh is happy. > > http

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Wed May 30 22:49:57 PDT 2001 Log Message: recent changes Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-30 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:41:39PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Christian T. Steigies: > > > >> Maybe you can try the "experimental" boot-floppies (I thought I had uploaded > >> them long ago?). Link is on my potato page, but this should work: > >> auric.debian.org/~cts/bf > > > > The installe

cvs commit to boot-floppies/make by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/make who:aph time: Wed May 30 22:21:14 PDT 2001 Log Message: fix rootdisk rules Files: changed:i386.rules -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-30 Thread peter karlsson
Chris Tillman: > By any chance, could this be the problem where the swap partition must be > *named* swap? That's true for PowerPC partitions. Well, the partitions are tagged with "LNX\0" and "SWP\0", as they should. The amiga-fdisk program did that for me. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolve

cvs commit to boot-floppies/make by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/make who:aph time: Wed May 30 21:08:12 PDT 2001 Log Message: oops, messed up the generic_rootdisk_nowildcard variable Files: changed:root -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by ericvb

2001-05-30 Thread ericvb
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:ericvb time: Wed May 30 20:37:22 PDT 2001 Log Message: ofpath patch application from Ethan Benson; it's possible this should go against Potato as well Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by ericvb

2001-05-30 Thread ericvb
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:ericvb time: Wed May 30 20:35:36 PDT 2001 Log Message: updated. Files: changed:TODO -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Wed May 30 20:24:54 PDT 2001 Log Message: add dosfstools for powerpc, alpha, m68k; sync build-depends and depends Files: changed:control -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:aph time: Wed May 30 20:10:37 PDT 2001 Log Message: the last commit on this file remove the #ifdef DO_EJECT around the eject_floppy function, and that breaks building on i386 Files: changed:main_menu.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/en by aph

2001-05-30 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:11:02PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/en > who:aph > time: Wed May 30 18:11:02 PDT 2001 > > > Log Message: > > branch merge for changes in 2.2.24 and 2.2.25 Potato boot-floppies; > ARM porters in particular may

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by ericvb

2001-05-30 Thread ericvb
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:ericvb time: Wed May 30 19:30:45 PDT 2001 Log Message: I missed something in previous version, hehe. Files: changed:Tag: potato TODO -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by ericvb

2001-05-30 Thread ericvb
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:ericvb time: Wed May 30 19:27:27 PDT 2001 Log Message: reminder. Files: added: Tag: potato TODO -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by ericvb

2001-05-30 Thread ericvb
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:ericvb time: Wed May 30 19:22:24 PDT 2001 Log Message: Updated against canonical english file. Files: changed:Tag: potato inst-methods.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Processed: Fixed in NMU of boot-floppies 2.3.4

2001-05-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tag 98439 + fixed Bug#98439: dhcp support broken Tags added: fixed > tag 98629 + fixed Bug#98629: Selecting.../Unpacking... text messes up serial console Tags added: fixed > quit Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. D

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/en by ericvb

2001-05-30 Thread ericvb
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/en who:ericvb time: Wed May 30 18:56:48 PDT 2001 Log Message: unclosed tag. Files: changed:Tag: potato inst-methods.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Bug#99285: would be nice to produce a -pic version of the libraries

2001-05-30 Thread David Whedon
Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:13:56AM +0200 wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:55:55PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Would it be possible to create a new package, say, e2fslibs-pic and > > comerr-pic ? We use these libraries in the rootdisk of the boot > > floppies, and we are unable to reduce libex

Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-30 Thread Chris Tillman
> Christian T. Steigies: > >> Maybe you can try the "experimental" boot-floppies (I thought I had uploaded >> them long ago?). Link is on my potato page, but this should work: >> auric.debian.org/~cts/bf > > The installer says the same things "There are no Linux swap partitions" > and "There are

Re: powermac boot-floppy patches

2001-05-30 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:57:00PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 07:21:54PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > or it can just run the wrapper /usr/sbin/yabootconfig -q -t > > > =2E.. without bothering with the environment variable it doesn't really > > > matter what way we do

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by stephen.r.marenka

2001-05-30 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:stephen.r.marenka time: Wed May 30 18:26:51 PDT 2001 Log Message: PowerMac partition checking, yaboot, and quik updates Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by stephen.r.marenka

2001-05-30 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:stephen.r.marenka time: Wed May 30 18:26:08 PDT 2001 Log Message: PowerMac partition checking, yaboot, and quik updates Files: changed:bootconfig.c partition_config.c main_menu.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/en by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/en who:aph time: Wed May 30 18:12:51 PDT 2001 Log Message: ofpath patch application from Ethan Benson; it's possible this should go against Potato as well Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:aph time: Wed May 30 18:11:11 PDT 2001 Log Message: branch merge for changes in 2.2.24 and 2.2.25 Potato boot-floppies; ARM porters in particular may wish to review what I did and possibly back it out; French merge rolled back F

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rescue/messages/de by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rescue/messages/de who:aph time: Wed May 30 18:11:07 PDT 2001 Log Message: branch merge for changes in 2.2.24 and 2.2.25 Potato boot-floppies; ARM porters in particular may wish to review what I did and possibly back it out; French merge rolled ba

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/en by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/en who:aph time: Wed May 30 18:11:02 PDT 2001 Log Message: branch merge for changes in 2.2.24 and 2.2.25 Potato boot-floppies; ARM porters in particular may wish to review what I did and possibly back it out; French merge rolled back Files

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:aph time: Wed May 30 18:10:57 PDT 2001 Log Message: branch merge for changes in 2.2.24 and 2.2.25 Potato boot-floppies; ARM porters in particular may wish to review what I did and possibly back it out; French merge rolled back Files:

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Wed May 30 18:10:51 PDT 2001 Log Message: branch merge for changes in 2.2.24 and 2.2.25 Potato boot-floppies; ARM porters in particular may wish to review what I did and possibly back it out; French merge rolled back Files: changed

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Wed May 30 18:10:46 PDT 2001 Log Message: branch merge for changes in 2.2.24 and 2.2.25 Potato boot-floppies; ARM porters in particular may wish to review what I did and possibly back it out; French merge rolled back Files: changed:Ma

boot-floppies_2.3.4_i386.changes INSTALLED

2001-05-30 Thread Debian Installer
Installing: boot-floppies_2.3.4.dsc to pool/main/b/boot-floppies/boot-floppies_2.3.4.dsc boot-floppies_2.3.4.tar.gz to pool/main/b/boot-floppies/boot-floppies_2.3.4.tar.gz bf-images-1.20_2.3.4_i386.tar.gz byhand boot-floppies_2.3.4_all.deb to pool/main/b/boot-floppies/boot-floppies_2.3.4_al

Fixed in NMU of boot-floppies 2.3.4

2001-05-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
tag 98439 + fixed tag 98629 + fixed quit This message was generated automatically in response to a non-maintainer upload. The .changes file follows. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 23:07:00 -0400 Source: boot-floppies Binary: boot-floppies Architecture: s

Noooooo! [was: Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by aph]

2001-05-30 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:48:45PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > remove the LC cruft, why not use USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER Because LC is turned on for flavours that support it _if_ USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER is on. Please revert that (and related) changes. Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Bug#99285: would be nice to produce a -pic version of the libraries

2001-05-30 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:55:55PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Would it be possible to create a new package, say, e2fslibs-pic and > comerr-pic ? We use these libraries in the rootdisk of the boot > floppies, and we are unable to reduce libext2fs.so, libe2p.so, and > libcom_err.so since there a

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Wed May 30 17:44:35 PDT 2001 Log Message: rationalize the release rule, although arches with generic rootdisks still need some special handling (maybe we can fix that later); tested and works on sparc Files: changed:Makefile -- To

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Wed May 30 17:43:48 PDT 2001 Log Message: remove kernel image cruft which I don't think was working anyhow; i386 doesn't need to pass the kernel anymore; generic rootdisk handling for sparc Files: changed:release.sh -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: powermac boot-floppy patches

2001-05-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 07:21:54PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > or it can just run the wrapper /usr/sbin/yabootconfig -q -t > > =2E.. without bothering with the environment variable it doesn't really > > matter what way we do it, whichever you think makes most sense. i > > think the wrapper sh

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rescue/messages/C by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rescue/messages/C who:aph time: Wed May 30 16:54:41 PDT 2001 Log Message: remove kernel image cruft which I don't think was working anyhow Files: changed:debian.txt debian.txt.sparc debian.txt.vme -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

cvs commit to boot-floppies/make by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/make who:aph time: Wed May 30 16:43:08 PDT 2001 Log Message: move some alpha settings to alpha.vars, and remove some unusued and crufty stuff which was using pathcmd... Files: changed:alpha.vars vars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/make by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/make who:aph time: Wed May 30 16:42:30 PDT 2001 Log Message: possibly fix alpha invokation of kernel.sh, but it's still rather perverted and there don't seem to be any developers working on it Files: changed:alpha.rules -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: powermac boot-floppy patches

2001-05-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:57:39PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > this will all build fine even with the current yaboot in unstable > > > (1.2.1-1.1.1-1) but for the future `Make system bootable' and > > > ybinwrapper to work we must have yaboot (>=3D

Re: Systems with no floppy

2001-05-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:39:37PM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > > I suspect that booting off a Zip disk is more like booting off a floppy than > booting off a CD, which means that this probably is a debian-boot issue; > forwarding it there. using the same method as the bootable CDROMs will make

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Wed May 30 15:53:16 PDT 2001 Log Message: my recent changes Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Wed May 30 15:53:00 PDT 2001 Log Message: fix usage message (args outta sync) Files: changed:tftpboot.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/make by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/make who:aph time: Wed May 30 15:52:29 PDT 2001 Log Message: move some i386 and alpha cruft into it's proper crufty place; rework the generic rootdisk handling quite a bit (seems to work on sparc now, at least) -- set generic_rootdisk and generic_rootdisk

cvs commit to boot-floppies/make by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/make who:aph time: Wed May 30 15:49:12 PDT 2001 Log Message: remove the LC cruft, why not use USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER; add some utilities/dbootstrap/po Files: changed:utils -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:aph time: Wed May 30 15:48:45 PDT 2001 Log Message: remove the LC cruft, why not use USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER Files: changed:Makefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Locale for boot-floppies

2001-05-30 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Probably we should create a new minimal locale which is just like C, > except that it uses UTF-8. Maybe we can call it "C.UTF-8". > > I'm not an export on locales, but I'll try to have a look at it and > see if I can make something work. I tried blend

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Wed May 30 14:10:59 PDT 2001 Log Message: rewrite include_module yet again, again, better errors, and looks for the modules file either based on revext or on system args; remove some lowmem junk Files: changed:rootdisk.sh -- To UNS

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Wed May 30 14:09:25 PDT 2001 Log Message: just a comment change Files: changed:kernel.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by ericvb

2001-05-30 Thread ericvb
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:ericvb time: Wed May 30 13:08:55 PDT 2001 Log Message: Partially updated to canonical version. Files: changed:Tag: potato inst-methods.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by ericvb

2001-05-30 Thread ericvb
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:ericvb time: Wed May 30 12:09:45 PDT 2001 Log Message: Added etherconf ref. Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by ericvb

2001-05-30 Thread ericvb
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:ericvb time: Wed May 30 12:05:21 PDT 2001 Log Message: Updated to current canonical file. Files: changed:Tag: potato dbootstrap.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-30 Thread peter karlsson
Christian T. Steigies: > Maybe you can try the "experimental" boot-floppies (I thought I had uploaded > them long ago?). Link is on my potato page, but this should work: > auric.debian.org/~cts/bf The installer says the same things "There are no Linux swap partitions" and "There are no Linux nat

would be nice to produce a -pic version of the libraries

2001-05-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.19-4 Severity: wishlist Would it be possible to create a new package, say, e2fslibs-pic and comerr-pic ? We use these libraries in the rootdisk of the boot floppies, and we are unable to reduce libext2fs.so, libe2p.so, and libcom_err.so since there are no PIC archi

Bug#99185: boot-floppies: Does not recognize Amiga partitions

2001-05-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adam Di Carlo: > > > Sure, just install the boot-floppies package, that includes source to > > the latest boot-floppies for Potato, 2.2.25. > > Well, I can't install the package since I haven't been able to install > Debian yet, since the installer w

Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe you can try the "experimental" boot-floppies (I thought I had uploaded > them long ago?). Link is on my potato page, but this should work: > auric.debian.org/~cts/bf What changes, if any, would there be in that version? -- .Adam D

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by joy

2001-05-30 Thread joy
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:joy time: Wed May 30 10:39:08 PDT 2001 Log Message: moved bits of 'conclusion hints' to front, where they will be more useful; changed the email to debian-doc since bortz hasn't done anything about this in years, added "and others" to th

Re: installation problem

2001-05-30 Thread Karl Hammar
[to Erich] http://www.msi-technology.de/download/bios/63xx/K7T%20Pro-Turbo%20v2.7.zip is available. If you have problems downloading it, I have put it up as ftp://kalle.csb.ki.se/pub/tmp/K7T_Pro-Turbo_v2.7.zip I.e. without spaces (there seem to be some problems with netscape and

Re: MacOS floppy creation

2001-05-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:40:21AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > > So this particular issue is unchanged in d-i vs b-f. And, again, it's > > a debian-cd issue if I'm not mistaken. > > no its a bootloader issue, quik doesn't work on CDs, and miboot

Re: powermac boot-floppy patches

2001-05-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here are several patches to fix some things up on powerpc/powermac: All applied now. > this will all build fine even with the current yaboot in unstable > (1.2.1-1.1.1-1) but for the future `Make system bootable' and > ybinwrapper to work we must have

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by ericvb

2001-05-30 Thread ericvb
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:ericvb time: Wed May 30 09:52:57 PDT 2001 Log Message: updated Files: changed:TODO -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by joy

2001-05-30 Thread joy
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:joy time: Wed May 30 09:52:48 PDT 2001 Log Message: various fixes, replaced old boot-floppies example with xmms (no, not because it's my package, but because it has lots of dependencies and is popular among users :) Files: changed:

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by ericvb

2001-05-30 Thread ericvb
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:ericvb time: Wed May 30 09:51:31 PDT 2001 Log Message: Updated against canonical current version. Files: changed:post-install.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Bug#98075: Update inst-methods.sgml, add suntar, hfs; update setlang sections

2001-05-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:55:46PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Attached is the latest editing based on discussions on debian-boot (Ref. > > MacOS Floppy Creation) Applied to potato version. > looks good, one minor nit, HFS+ was not introduced unti

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/en by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/en who:aph time: Wed May 30 09:50:00 PDT 2001 Log Message: minor correction and clarification about HFS+ from Ethan Benson Files: changed:Tag: potato inst-methods.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Wed May 30 09:47:19 PDT 2001 Log Message: more documentation updates from Chris Tillman; reburn date on 2.2.25 Files: changed:Tag: potato changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/en by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/en who:aph time: Wed May 30 09:46:39 PDT 2001 Log Message: more documentation updates from Chris Tillman Files: changed:Tag: potato inst-methods.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:aph time: Wed May 30 09:46:36 PDT 2001 Log Message: more documentation updates from Chris Tillman Files: changed:Tag: potato urls.ent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by ericvb

2001-05-30 Thread ericvb
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:ericvb time: Wed May 30 09:27:54 PDT 2001 Log Message: Corrected tag. Files: changed:dselect-beginner.fr.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#99229: spurious warning during install

2001-05-30 Thread David Whedon
I filed some bugs to make these go away, see : http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0105/msg00832.html The lilo thing isstill unresolved I have to test my theory that we don't really need it. Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:59:40AM +0100 wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:25:37PM +1000, Anthony Towns w

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by joy

2001-05-30 Thread joy
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:joy time: Wed May 30 08:44:23 PDT 2001 Log Message: corrected several wrong/odd things Files: changed:dselect-beginner.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: [Karl Hammar ] Re: installation problem

2001-05-30 Thread Erich Mueller
On 30 May 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Please! Retain the CC to the debian-boot list. Sorry. > > Erich Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > But it does not solve the problem at hand. The bios only offers USB chip > > enable or disable and usb keyboard and usb mouse enable disable > > f

Re: boot-floppy short-term status

2001-05-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > Please do check unstable for your arch has the newest tasksel, > > > base-config, and busybox -- you may have to port it for your arch. > > > > For powerpc, busy-box is at 1.0.51-5 which is pretty close, so someone > > is keeping it up. The other two are the same as i38

Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-30 Thread peter karlsson
Christian T. Steigies: > But are you sure bf 2.2.19 uses the 2.2.10 kernel and not 2.2.17? These are the files taken directly from my nearest Debian mirror. I downloaded the amigainstall.tgz and base2_2.tgz files, re-packed the first tgz to an lha on my i386 box, transferred the files to the Ami

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk who:aph time: Wed May 30 07:51:38 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Ethan Benson - todo: update status regarding PowerMac booting plans - bootprep.sh: use /bin/bash as we should be - remove hfsutils and yaboot/ybin/mkofboot from the P

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Wed May 30 07:51:32 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Ethan Benson - todo: update status regarding PowerMac booting plans - bootprep.sh: use /bin/bash as we should be - remove hfsutils and yaboot/ybin/mkofboot from the PowerPC roo

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Wed May 30 07:51:24 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Ethan Benson - todo: update status regarding PowerMac booting plans - bootprep.sh: use /bin/bash as we should be - remove hfsutils and yaboot/ybin/mkofboot from the PowerPC root disk;

Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-30 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:48:40AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > fdisk -l /dev/hda: > > > > ===[ cut ]=== > > Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 17471 sectors, 18613 cylinders, RDB: 3 > > Logical Cylinders from 1 to 22364, 143122432 bytes/Cylinder > > > >Device Boot Mount Begin End S

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Wed May 30 07:38:02 PDT 2001 Log Message: recent changes by me Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Wed May 30 07:37:25 PDT 2001 Log Message: slight rewording to pkg failed msg Files: changed:common.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Karl Hammar ] Re: installation problem

2001-05-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Please! Retain the CC to the debian-boot list. Erich Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But it does not solve the problem at hand. The bios only offers USB chip > enable or disable and usb keyboard and usb mouse enable disable > functionality. I did not see any legacy keyboard mentioned any

Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

2001-05-30 Thread Joey Hess
J.A. Bezemer wrote: > > It might be useful to be able to get these sorts of things back using a > > 'unix-servers' task or similar. Implemented now btw. > What about making a few task-* packages standard and have tasksel pre-select > them by default? (I.e. start with [X] instead of [ ]) That's

Re: Systems with no floppy

2001-05-30 Thread J.A. Bezemer
I suspect that booting off a Zip disk is more like booting off a floppy than booting off a CD, which means that this probably is a debian-boot issue; forwarding it there. Regards, Anne Bezemer On Thu, 24 May 2001, Joe Krahn wrote: > Your CD-image page promotes installing via > a floppy inste

Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

2001-05-30 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:46:13AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Here's a provisional list of packages which are standard or higher and > > should not be: > > fingerd not very secure for baseline > > ftpd not very secure for baseli

Re: Locale for boot-floppies

2001-05-30 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Now that we decided to use glibc's UTF-8 support in > boot-floppies, we need a locale definition to use on the root > disk. > > C.UTF-8 doesn't exist in /etc/locale.gen. en_IN.UTF-8 which > I chose semi-randomly for my own builds is 480 kb, which is > _way_

Re: Bug#99229: spurious warning during install

2001-05-30 Thread Richard Hirst
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:25:37PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:06:57AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > During normal installation, debootstrap throws up a warning: > > Creating empty ld.so.conf > > This will stop the install and ask the user to continue. > > Hrm. Is

Re: powermac boot-floppy patches

2001-05-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:44:19AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > Here are several patches to fix some things up on powerpc/powermac: > > todo.diff - bootloader setup corrections, and update re yabootconfig er small fix to todo.diff, new diff attached. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~e

powermac boot-floppy patches

2001-05-30 Thread Ethan Benson
Here are several patches to fix some things up on powerpc/powermac: todo.diff - bootloader setup corrections, and update re yabootconfig bootprep.sh - #!/bin/sh -> #!/bin/bash prevents build failure when /bin/sh is ash EXTRACT_LIST_powerpc_pmac.diff - remove hfsutils SMALL_BASE_LIST_powerpc_pmac

Re: Bug#98075: Update inst-methods.sgml, add suntar, hfs; update setlang sections

2001-05-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:55:46PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > Attached is the latest editing based on discussions on debian-boot (Ref. > MacOS Floppy Creation) looks good, one minor nit, HFS+ was not introduced until MacOS 8.1, not 8.0. i don't know whether its worth noting that all NewWorld