Re: PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-19 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:48:24PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > > > I don't want to do something on my own, and do want to work with others. The > > only problem is that I have some deadlines at work, and that I try to both > > develop for a general purpose (d-i), and to address more peculiar and

Re: PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-19 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:14:50AM +1000, Glenn wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:00:41 +0200 > "Thierry Laronde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm trying to write a "general purpose" script to build a general database > > from the Linux kernel sources. But there will be some particular problems

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-07-19 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Thu Jul 19 21:37:51 PDT 2001 Log Message: start 3.0.9 Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-07-19 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Thu Jul 19 21:24:52 PDT 2001 Log Message: reburn the date, this is for the money! 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

2001-07-19 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Thu Jul 19 21:22:55 PDT 2001 Log Message: grub support is out, the Debian package is too far from being ready-to-go and mature Files: changed:todo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: woddy from disk install problem

2001-07-19 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:01:44PM -0400, Robert Schweikert wrote: > Chris Tillman wrote: > > Does this mean my recently (2 weeks ago) downloaded packages are no longer > working with the disks from /debian/dists/woody/main ? Do I have to get the > new packages from the pool directory? Which is m

Re: woddy from disk install problem

2001-07-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:15:45PM -0400, Robert Schweikert wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Note that unless you are interested in helping to debug the installation > > process, > > I'll be happy to help. Is there a procedure I should follow and if so where is it > documented? Basically, you

Re: woddy from disk install problem

2001-07-19 Thread David Whedon
Hi Robert, > After correcting my fat fingering and downloading the "Release" and "Release.gpg" > file from the ftp site I now get the message > > "Malformed release file /target/usr/woody/Release" > wierd > > Note that unless you are interested in helping to debug the installation > > process

Re: di: apt-spy instead of choose mirror ?

2001-07-19 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:22:08PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:32:18PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:42:27PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > > > > It should be based on AS numbers IMHO. > > > > What are AS numbers? > > Autonomous

Re: woddy from disk install problem

2001-07-19 Thread Robert Schweikert
"Christian T. Steigies" wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:58:10PM -0400, Robert Schweikert wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have an install problem with woddy and would appreciate help to get it > > fixed. > Have you ever installed a debian system before? No. > If not, I'd suggest you use the stable

Re: di: apt-spy instead of choose mirror ?

2001-07-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:32:18PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:42:27PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > > It should be based on AS numbers IMHO. > > What are AS numbers? Autonomous System numbers, which are assigned to organizations for routing purposes. They ca

Re: woddy from disk install problem

2001-07-19 Thread Robert Schweikert
Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:58:10PM -0400, Robert Schweikert wrote: > > > and this is where things go wrong. When I try to let the installer find > > the release directory it is not found. When I point the installer to > > /target the release packages are not found. When I

Re: woddy from disk install problem

2001-07-19 Thread Robert Schweikert
Chris Tillman wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have an install problem with woddy and would appreciate help to get it > > fixed. > > > > Background: > > > > I hav a system with 2 hard drives, one scsi (sda1-4) and one ide > > (hda1-4). My currently running Linux system runs of the scsi drive and I > > am

Re: New Install (easydeb)

2001-07-19 Thread Robert Browne
Hi, Glenn scribbled out these words: > > > I would like to see what you have done > > How are you autodetect hardware, scanning /proc or using libdetect or kudzu ? > > Maybe you should consider working on the debian-installer :) Use /proc or dmesg. Using parted in the partition module would

Re: di: apt-spy instead of choose mirror ?

2001-07-19 Thread idalton
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:42:27PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:27:58PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:22:30AM +1000, Glenn wrote: > > > Maybe for the next debian installer we could use possibly customised > > > apt-spy to automatically sele

Re: PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-19 Thread David Whedon
> supplementary resources via the device --- network fs). The trick is in fact > to try to have the smallest bootstrapping procedure and there seems to be > already a large part of the work done. > The last time I checked for libdetect it was such a huge beast and decided > to find another way to

Re: ResierFS in boot-floppies (was: Debian "reiserfsprogs" and installation)

2001-07-19 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:53:18PM -0600, Ed Boraas wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, are we planning to ship 2.2.19 on woody's floppies, > or (already-reiserfs-enabled) 2.4.x? i386 will be 2.2.19 -john -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: ResierFS in boot-floppies (was: Debian "reiserfsprogs" and installation)

2001-07-19 Thread Ed Boraas
> i have a reiserfs kernel sitting in incoming, waiting on the ftp-masters > to okay it. > > i have that kernel in an apt-get'able archive at > deb http://people.debian.org/~jaqque woody main contrib non-free > > or you can use > wget http://people.debian.org/~jaqque/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/k

Make-Pseudo image problem

2001-07-19 Thread Rich Skrydlak
Tried to download a new ISO from several US sites. using binary-i386-1.list from http://www.uk.debian.org/debian-cd/cd-images Make-pseudo-image fails with the following WIN98SE message First a DOS window message "cannot find /tmp please create". I have /tmp directories in the D: root and D:\

Re: di: apt-spy instead of choose mirror ?

2001-07-19 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:27:58PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:22:30AM +1000, Glenn wrote: > > Maybe for the next debian installer we could use possibly customised > > apt-spy to automatically select the mirror. > > > > The only problem with apt-spy that i see is

Re: [BusyBox] BusyBox 0.52 wget broken

2001-07-19 Thread Erik Andersen
On Thu Jul 19, 2001 at 11:49:19AM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote: > Howdy, > > As noted by Per Wigren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, BusyBox 0.52 contains a > broken wget. This will prevent debootstrap's http method from > working. It has since been fixed in CVS, but a new version of the > boot-floppies should

Re: di: apt-spy instead of choose mirror ?

2001-07-19 Thread idalton
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:22:30AM +1000, Glenn wrote: > Maybe for the next debian installer we could use possibly customised > apt-spy to automatically select the mirror. > > The only problem with apt-spy that i see is that it takes ages if you run > the whole thing, but it can be given options

di: apt-spy instead of choose mirror ?

2001-07-19 Thread Glenn
Maybe for the next debian installer we could use possibly customised apt-spy to automatically select the mirror. The only problem with apt-spy that i see is that it takes ages if you run the whole thing, but it can be given options to only try 5 or 25 sites. Or if we are going to have different

BusyBox 0.52 wget broken

2001-07-19 Thread Matt Kraai
Howdy, As noted by Per Wigren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, BusyBox 0.52 contains a broken wget. This will prevent debootstrap's http method from working. It has since been fixed in CVS, but a new version of the boot-floppies should not be built until a new version containing this fix is uploaded. Matt

cvs commit to boot-floppies by rhirst

2001-07-19 Thread rhirst
Repository: boot-floppies who:rhirst time: Thu Jul 19 10:45:58 PDT 2001 Log Message: Tidy up better in release.sh:do_arch_hppa() Files: changed:release.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by rhirst

2001-07-19 Thread rhirst
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:rhirst time: Thu Jul 19 10:45:55 PDT 2001 Log Message: Tidy up better in release.sh:do_arch_hppa() Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: ResierFS in boot-floppies (was: Debian "reiserfsprogs" and installation)

2001-07-19 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:10:17AM -0600, Ed Boraas wrote: > What are our plans for boot-floppies, wrt supporting a ReiserFS root > partition? At the very least, would it be feasible to include mkreiserfs on > the boot set? I know that there's some code in boot-floppies to ask about > formatting u

Re: PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-19 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 08:13:19AM +1000, Glenn wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:30:41 +0200 > "Thierry Laronde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Just a summary of the principles I plan to use for, at least, my own stuff > > and that can be of some use for others too. > > > > The

Re: PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-19 Thread Glenn
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:00:41 +0200 "Thierry Laronde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to write a "general purpose" script to build a general database > from the Linux kernel sources. But there will be some particular problems > (exemple: when the *_pci_tbl is put in a file "main.c" and tha

Re: Modules install

2001-07-19 Thread David Kimdon
HI Russell, The modules should be on your filesystem already. To install more you can 1 - use 'modconf' 2 - edit /etc/modules -David Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:16:28AM -0400 wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I'm not sure if this is a boot related question, but here goes: I've got this > 486 I just did

Re: PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-19 Thread David Kimdon
> [First we need to be able to reach _one_ supplementary source of data : > Network in this case, but this can be local disks too] > - GRUB as a bootloader Neat idea, using grub to choose modules. > > - > > These informations are spread (in the Linux kernel sourc

Re: Building floppies on unstable

2001-07-19 Thread H.Heinold
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:07:08PM +0200, Jigal Weinberg wrote: > > Hi, > > > I am trying to build boot floppies. > > I have read te docs included in the package, > installed all the requiered packages and did the make check. > > But I keep ending up with the same error: > > I: determining s

Re: Modules install

2001-07-19 Thread Russell Hires
> The modules should be on your filesystem already. To install more you can > 1 - use 'modconf' Cool! modconf is great, but how can I select all the modules en masse? The reason I want to do this is because doing each module one at a time is really time consuming. Actually, I don't have the fi

Re: PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-19 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:21:36AM -0700, David Kimdon wrote: > > [First we need to be able to reach _one_ supplementary source of data : > > Network in this case, but this can be local disks too] > > - GRUB as a bootloader > > Neat idea, using grub to choose modules. As Glenn stressed, the

Re: PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-19 Thread David Kimdon
> > Also David did kdetect, which (if i remember ocrrectly) uses both libpci and libisa >(if thats the right name) to handle isa cards too, even though pci has been standard >there are still lots of 10Mbit isa network cards still around, so ISA is something we >have to consider as well. > s/

Re: PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-19 Thread Glenn
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:30:41 +0200 "Thierry Laronde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Just a summary of the principles I plan to use for, at least, my own stuff > and that can be of some use for others too. > > The following will focus on the Linux kernel, but since the installation can

ResierFS in boot-floppies (was: Debian "reiserfsprogs" and installation)

2001-07-19 Thread Ed Boraas
What are our plans for boot-floppies, wrt supporting a ReiserFS root partition? At the very least, would it be feasible to include mkreiserfs on the boot set? I know that there's some code in boot-floppies to ask about formatting using ReiserFS, but I'm not sure if it's enabled. Curious, Ed Boraa

Re: Processed: reassign

2001-07-19 Thread David Kimdon
Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:12:17PM +1000 wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:48:44PM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > > > reassign 104115 kernel-image-2.2.19-idepci > > Bug#104115: 3.0.7-2001-07-04: vga16 penguin is miscolored for some rea

Building floppies on unstable

2001-07-19 Thread Jigal Weinberg
Hi, I am trying to build boot floppies. I have read te docs included in the package, installed all the requiered packages and did the make check. But I keep ending up with the same error: I: determining set of required libraries E: no libraries identified dynamically, bailing out Is your loc

cvs commit to tasksel/tasks by joeyh

2001-07-19 Thread joeyh
Repository: tasksel/tasks who:joeyh time: Thu Jul 19 05:37:10 PDT 2001 Log Message: Oh well, I guess a white russian fan is better then no Russian at all. Added koi8r-misc font package to task. Files: changed:russian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

PCI hardware detection [RFC]

2001-07-19 Thread Thierry Laronde
Hello, Just a summary of the principles I plan to use for, at least, my own stuff and that can be of some use for others too. The following will focus on the Linux kernel, but since the installation can be independant from the OS installed, the use of a Linux kernel for other system installation

Modules install

2001-07-19 Thread Russell Hires
Hey everyone, I'm not sure if this is a boot related question, but here goes: I've got this 486 I just did an install on, but now I want to go back and install all the modules from the "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules" step. I didn't do it the first time because it's sl...

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

2001-07-19 Thread jaqque
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:jaqque time: Thu Jul 19 01:56:42 PDT 2001 Log Message: added verbage weighing relative merits of ext2 vs reiserfs added reiserfs detection code when mounting a filesystem Files: changed:partition_config.c -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: cvs commit to tasksel/tasks by joeyh

2001-07-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 03:21:56PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Repository: tasksel/tasks > who:joeyh > time: Wed Jul 18 15:21:56 PDT 2001 > > > Log Message: > > Seems that xfonts-bolkhov-koi8r has split into -75dpi and -misc. I took the > former. Any Russians want to test th