Re: critical problems in 2.3.5 prevent release

2001-06-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:03:00PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: FYI, is there a URL for such patches? Even if it requires MacOS to run? you simply run apple's `SystemDisk' control panel and then quit. it installs a large number of nvramrc patches on most oldworld machines. there is a link

Re: FW: critical problems in 2.3.5 prevent release

2001-06-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:47:41PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/SystemDisk-tutorial/of105patch.html There's a link there for a floppy-image Mac OS that might be just the ticket for you. OK heres some random thoughts... some oldworld machines can have

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by dwhedon

2001-06-13 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:dwhedon time: Wed Jun 13 00:19:49 PDT 2001 Log Message: - take 3rd party modules question out of the mainline, now user needs to specifically choose it. This question confused people. Files: changed:changelog -- To

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

2001-06-13 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:dwhedon time: Wed Jun 13 00:19:49 PDT 2001 Log Message: - take 3rd party modules question out of the mainline, now user needs to specifically choose it. This question confused people. Files: changed:baseconfig.c

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-06-13 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: Oui, Debian est gratuit et libre. Tu peux trouver plein d'informations à partir de la page www.debian.org Pas toujours gratuit: des fois on peut l'acheter sur CD-ROM, avec ou sans manuel papier, et cela n'est pas gratuit. On peut certes le

Re: Root disk problems for i18n floppies

2001-06-13 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:38:06PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: David Whedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One option is to make an optional i18n floppy and have a menu option: 'Load Multiple Languages'. Then we mount the dist that contains the additional messages and whatever else we need

Re: PATCH: hppa support in boot-floppies

2001-06-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:26:36AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Is hppa releasing with Woody? Do you need an upload of 2.3.6 which contains these changes so you guys can upload hppa boot-floppies? Is there any official developers building this (who can upload)? Last I heard, this was an

cvs boot-floppies, bad-block scan action inverted

2001-06-13 Thread Richard Hirst
+--+ Scan for Bad Blocks? +---+ | | | The system can scan the entire partition for un-readable| | disk blocks and will mark any such bad blocks it finds so |

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

2001-06-13 Thread kraai
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:kraai time: Wed Jun 13 06:46:35 PDT 2001 Log Message: Do the right thing according to the `Run a bad block scan' question (noted by Richard Hirst). Files: changed:partition_config.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: cvs boot-floppies, bad-block scan action inverted

2001-06-13 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:18:56PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: +--+ Scan for Bad Blocks? +---+ | | | The system can scan the entire partition for un-readable| |

Re: PATCH: hppa support in boot-floppies

2001-06-13 Thread Richard Hirst
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:29:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:26:36AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Is hppa releasing with Woody? Do you need an upload of 2.3.6 which contains these changes so you guys can upload hppa boot-floppies? Is there any official

Re: Misc problems with b-f 2.3.6 install, hppa

2001-06-13 Thread Richard Hirst
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:56:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Richard Hirst wrote: At the end of an install, base-config 1.04, it offers to remove some pkgs; console-*, because I'm on serial console, I guess, and also base-config itself. Is that expected? console-* yes, base-config no.

Re: problem with latest boot-floppies

2001-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The man postinst does appear to be hanging around. Furthermore, I ran it again on the installed system under strace and it appeared to open /proc/meminfo about 2000 times. I'll go ahead and file a bug against man-db.

[FYI] small user-friendly shells

2001-06-13 Thread Thierry Laronde
Hello, After finishing some fixes to include history support in `ash' via libedit, and in order to have, both a small OS for recovery and installation, and something usable for interactive session, I tried to have a look in order to see if the completion could be added... And I found that pdksh

Re: install manual todo

2001-06-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm up for getting started ... sounds like a good plan to me. Any inputs are welcome! I'd be happy to review work that you've done, of course... -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onshored.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#96906: Debian installer 96906 is a real bug after all

2001-06-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Dan Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lilo_1%3a21.7.1-4_i386.deb exists as it should in /var/cache/apt/archives after the base system install. The file appears to be valid (I unpacked it with ar, tar and gzip.) I am pretty sure the problem is simply that lilo isn't being installed. Let

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

2001-06-13 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/cs who:aph time: Wed Jun 13 10:14:22 PDT 2001 Log Message: configure base is gone, fix doc validity problems Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml tech-info.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Misc problems with b-f 2.3.6 install, hppa

2001-06-13 Thread Joey Hess
Richard Hirst wrote: So, it would seem serial console installs remove base-config and graphical ones don't... Here is the code that gets run only on serial console systems: elif [ $SERIALCONSOLE ]; then ( echo console-data purge

Re: PATCH: hppa support in boot-floppies

2001-06-13 Thread Richard Hirst
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:26:36AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: For this very clean patch, you deserve the dubious honor of debian-boot CVS write perms. Use my PGP key from the debian keyring to send me a username and password and I can set you up with an account if you want one. Thanks,

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

2001-06-13 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk who:aph time: Wed Jun 13 10:59:52 PDT 2001 Log Message: empty file needed for hppa Files: added: SMALL_REMOVE_LIST_hppa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: laoding drivers (floppy-boot)

2001-06-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Whedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is very confusing... We shoudl remove this question entirely and replace it with an alternative selection the user could run *before* running configure drivers, just like configure pcmcia is an alternative there can do, looks like

cvs commit to base-config/lib by joeyh

2001-06-13 Thread joeyh
Repository: base-config/lib who:joeyh time: Wed Jun 13 11:57:08 PDT 2001 Log Message: unimportant comment updates Files: changed:03console-tools 10passwd 30apt-setup 99inittab -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Root disk problems for i18n floppies

2001-06-13 Thread David Whedon
Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:50:51PM +0200 wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:38:06PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: David Whedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One option is to make an optional i18n floppy and have a menu option: 'Load Multiple Languages'. Then we mount the dist that contains the

Re: [OT] extracting boot image from 'el torito' image

2001-06-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Brent Verner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 13 Jun 2001 at 01:01 (-0400), Adam Di Carlo wrote: | Brent Verner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Hi, |Sorry for the noise, but I figured this is the best list for the | question. | |How can I extract the boot image from a bootable ISO

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

2001-06-13 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/de who:aph time: Wed Jun 13 12:10:49 PDT 2001 Log Message: more chopping out of references to configure base or base floppies Files: changed:schrittweise.sgml tech-info.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

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

2001-06-13 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/en who:aph time: Wed Jun 13 12:10:50 PDT 2001 Log Message: more chopping out of references to configure base or base floppies Files: changed:tech-info.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

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

2001-06-13 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/es who:aph time: Wed Jun 13 12:10:52 PDT 2001 Log Message: more chopping out of references to configure base or base floppies Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml tech-info.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: debootstrap and dselect tutorial

2001-06-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Whedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's the play by play. You asked me if I could help with something here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0106/msg00176.html I think a decision started to be made here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0106/msg00164.html And then it

Re: problem building b-f, need help

2001-06-13 Thread Ron Farrer
Adam Di Carlo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: That's not even close to being correct. Whatever.. This is what it says: ++ '[' -f '/archive/debian/download/cache/archives/dosfstools-[a-zA-Z0-9]*.deb' ']' The download stuff works fine for me and lots of people on this list. I'm trying to make it

Re: problem building b-f, need help

2001-06-13 Thread David Whedon
Anyway the problem is still there, it fails to find the packages I've already downloaded. I've tried putting them in /archive/debian/local, /archive/debian/Incoming, and /archive/debian/download/cache/archives. Any ideas? I've been putting packages in boot-floppies/updates/ nad it find

boot-floppies cvs missing build-depends

2001-06-13 Thread Filip Van Raemdonck
Hi, I've finally gotten around to start testing bf. (I already checked out cvs a couple of months ago, but other things kept popping up taking my time) I'm working off a partial local mirror, I had made sure everything in build-depends en in the binary package depends was available, started

Re: boot-floppies cvs missing build-depends - NOT

2001-06-13 Thread Filip Van Raemdonck
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:30:09PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote: Could someone add this to the build depends. Doh. I just realized this isn't related to the building of boot-floppies package. Regards, Filip -- The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by aph

2001-06-13 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:aph time: Wed Jun 13 15:16:29 PDT 2001 Log Message: more chopping out of references to configure base or base floppies Files: changed:po2sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

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

2001-06-13 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fi who:aph time: Wed Jun 13 15:16:30 PDT 2001 Log Message: more chopping out of references to configure base or base floppies Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml tech-info.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

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

2001-06-13 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:aph time: Wed Jun 13 15:16:31 PDT 2001 Log Message: more chopping out of references to configure base or base floppies Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml tech-info.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

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

2001-06-13 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/hr who:aph time: Wed Jun 13 15:16:32 PDT 2001 Log Message: more chopping out of references to configure base or base floppies Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml tech-info.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

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

2001-06-13 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/pl who:aph time: Wed Jun 13 15:16:34 PDT 2001 Log Message: more chopping out of references to configure base or base floppies Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml tech-info.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

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

2001-06-13 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/pt who:aph time: Wed Jun 13 15:16:35 PDT 2001 Log Message: more chopping out of references to configure base or base floppies Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml tech-info.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

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

2001-06-13 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/sk who:aph time: Wed Jun 13 15:16:36 PDT 2001 Log Message: more chopping out of references to configure base or base floppies Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml tech-info.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

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

2001-06-13 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/ja who:aph time: Wed Jun 13 15:16:33 PDT 2001 Log Message: more chopping out of references to configure base or base floppies Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml tech-info.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: laoding drivers (floppy-boot)

2001-06-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:44:29PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: 'Edit Kernel Boot ...' will still come up as alternate to 'Configure the Hostname' and 'Configure the Network' sometimes. Edit Kernel Boot... should be an alternative tot he Make system bootable, IMHO. hrm, how will that

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

2001-06-13 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/ru who:aph time: Wed Jun 13 16:16:33 PDT 2001 Log Message: more chopping out of references to configure base or base floppies Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml tech-info.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by aph

2001-06-13 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:aph time: Wed Jun 13 17:31:23 PDT 2001 Log Message: Galician has no docs, so don't try to install them Files: changed:Makefile.docs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: critical problems in 2.3.5 prevent release

2001-06-13 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:47:41PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/SystemDisk-tutorial/of105patch.html There's a link there for a floppy-image Mac OS that might be just the ticket for you. OK heres some random thoughts... some oldworld machines can have

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-06-13 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Wed Jun 13 18:26:08 PDT 2001 Log Message: more work on getting doc-web going; this time, we have to set arch-title for ia64 (as well as a default for lame arches that don't have one) and total number of packages and such Files:

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by aph

2001-06-13 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:aph time: Wed Jun 13 18:26:09 PDT 2001 Log Message: more work on getting doc-web going; this time, we have to set arch-title for ia64 (as well as a default for lame arches that don't have one) and total number of packages and such

Ftp

2001-06-13 Thread l0k0
Eu gostaria de puxar a instalação so debian pela internet mas parece que o indereço FTP onde tinha a instalalação não está funcionando, não está sendo viável para mim no momento comprar os cd's... Por favor, se der responda a este mail: [EMAIL

LG IBM 1,890,000(6 IDC )

2001-06-13 Thread netlock
Title: Untitled Document

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by aph

2001-06-13 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:aph time: Wed Jun 13 19:08:00 PDT 2001 Log Message: more defaults for entities not set Files: changed:defaults.ent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: laoding drivers (floppy-boot)

2001-06-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:44:29PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: 'Edit Kernel Boot ...' will still come up as alternate to 'Configure the Hostname' and 'Configure the Network' sometimes. Edit Kernel Boot... should be an alternative tot he Make

Bug#100749: cdrom entry in /etc/fstab points to non-existant /dev/cdrom

2001-06-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Thue [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; reported 2001-06-13 Severity: important Tags: potato (hoping this is the correct package) Yup. Title says it all actually. The problem is somewhat easily located and fixed by hand, but I really think the cdrom

Re: Ftp

2001-06-13 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Wed, 13 Jun 2001 22:51:42 -0300 (Hora padrão leste da Am. Sul) l0k0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Eu gostaria de puxar a instalação so debian pela internet mas parece que o indereço FTP onde tinha a instalalação não está funcionando, não está sendo viável para mim no momento comprar os

Bug#100749: cdrom entry in /etc/fstab points to non-existant /dev/cdrom

2001-06-13 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:15:08PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Thue [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; reported 2001-06-13 Severity: important Tags: potato (hoping this is the correct package) Yup. Title says it all actually. The problem is

Re: problem building b-f, need help

2001-06-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Whedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyway the problem is still there, it fails to find the packages I've already downloaded. I've tried putting them in /archive/debian/local, /archive/debian/Incoming, and /archive/debian/download/cache/archives. Any ideas? In config, set

Re: Root disk problems for i18n floppies

2001-06-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Whedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Too bad, but there isn't a good way around it. Has any thought gone into making root.fr.bin, that is, a bunch of different root disks, or am I going crazy? In principle they would be easy to make, unfortunately it would increase the size of b-f binary

Bug#100749: cdrom entry in /etc/fstab points to non-existant /dev/cdrom

2001-06-13 Thread Thue
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; reported 2001-06-13 Severity: important Tags: potato (hoping this is the correct package) Title says it all actually. The problem is somewhat easily located and fixed by hand, but I really think the cdrom should work out of the box, hence the bug severity...

Re: successful installation with 2.3.5 boot-floppies

2001-06-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:37:21PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Anthony, I sense some impatience and/or hostility here. What is it we can do to make you more happy? (For reference, most of the hostility is primarily due to non-Debian related computer problems; the best thing you can do is

Re: successful installation with 2.3.5 boot-floppies

2001-06-13 Thread Dale Scheetz
Before everyone gets too bent out of shape, let me re-assure you all that the debian-testing group is here to help, and now that we have releases to work on, I am confident that the team will begin testing. I've been pretty busy trying to find a job (finding work is always harder than doing

Re: boot-floppies 2.2.25 with i386 2.2.19 upgrade

2001-06-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Richard Hirst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:59:22PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: It's a Symbos 53C1010, which appears to be more or less compatible with the 53C8xx chips used in the earlier tekram cards. At least, there're references to them in the 2.4 series

Re: successful installation with 2.3.5 boot-floppies

2001-06-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Erik Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue Jun 12, 2001 at 08:37:21PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: they're allowed to have special instructions that you have to carry out very precisely (Switch to VC 2, type this confusing sed command... Before rebooting, switch to VC 2, and

Re: boot-floppies 2.2.25 with i386 2.2.19 upgrade

2001-06-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 14 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LSI Logic Symbios pci scsi bios. I think that is what you are looking for. Not really, no. I wanted a chip number. www.tekram.com, flip, flip, flip. It's a Symbos 53C1010, which