Re: Floppy boot for powerpc: add video=ofonly?

2002-02-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 06:41:02PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 00:22, Chris Tillman wrote: > Actually, I think the debian-safe option in the current b-f has the same > problem. We'll have to add some hackery to check whether video=ofonly > was given, and output that to the

Re: Testing boot-floppies on iMac

2002-02-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 07:25:59PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:12:26AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > > On Sam, 2002-02-16 at 21:27, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > Also, how can I help to test future PowerPC boot-floppies? Is there > > > some way to network-boot this

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2002-02-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 134279 boot-floppies Bug#134279: ifupdown: new install, no loopback! Bug reassigned from package `ifupdown' to `boot-floppies'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administ

Re: Testing boot-floppies on iMac

2002-02-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 15:27, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Yesterday, I got an iMac (NewWorld) to play with at work, and decided to > install woody on it. It has no floppy drive, so the only bootable woody > installation media that I could find were ISO images at: > > http://people.debian.org/~ieure/n

Re: Testing boot-floppies on iMac

2002-02-16 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:12:26AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Sam, 2002-02-16 at 21:27, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > initialization. I had a Device section specifying Driver "ati", but > > until I added the BusID parameter, it said that it couldn't find a > > matching device section for the c

Re: Testing boot-floppies on iMac

2002-02-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sam, 2002-02-16 at 21:27, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > After all packages were installed, I set about trying to get X working, and > (after using the debconf prompts to get an initial configuration) co-workers > and I fiddled with it for some time before discovering that we had to > specify the P

Re: Floppy boot for powerpc: add video=ofonly?

2002-02-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 00:22, Chris Tillman wrote: > Many oldworld powerpc computers need the video=ofonly boot argument in > order to use the installer. The hfs-boot-floppy image we currently > provide does not supply this argument. > > I used a binary editor (beav) to add video=ofonly into the

Bug#134045: b-f needs to be updated to compile with slang1a-utf8

2002-02-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Junichi Uekawa wrote on Sun Feb 17, 2002 um 06:59:06AM: > > The only way I see is to fetch one of them, extract localy and modify > > the patchs from Makefiles. Any better idea? > > Did we really need the two versions ? > My impression was that we used -utf packages in both > packages,

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

2002-02-16 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:blade time: Sat Feb 16 14:54:25 PST 2002 Log Message: ftp.XX.debian.org chooser Files: changed:net-fetch.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by blade

2002-02-16 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:blade time: Sat Feb 16 14:54:25 PST 2002 Log Message: ftp.XX.debian.org chooser Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2002-02-16 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:blade time: Sat Feb 16 14:48:39 PST 2002 Log Message: Removed my code. It was broken and useless. Calling the write_common_network() instead (test successfully). Files: changed:netconfig.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

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

2002-02-16 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:blade time: Sat Feb 16 14:07:50 PST 2002 Log Message: fixed a small logical error from my today's modification Files: changed:netconfig.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Bug#134045: b-f needs to be updated to compile with slang1a-utf8

2002-02-16 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > > With the introduction of slang1a-utf8, > > boot-floppies needs to be modified to compile/run with the new slang. > > Okay, nice work, but how should we be able to compile both, utf8 and > non-utf8 versions of dbootstrap now? The -dev p

Re: /etc/messages.trm

2002-02-16 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 21:41, Mark Zimmerman wrote: > I compiled dbootstrap with debug turned on, copied it onto my > partially installed system, and ran it. The immediate problem was: > > An error occurred while loading application messages from > /etc/messages.trm > > I looked, and there is no

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by merker

2002-02-16 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:merker time: Sat Feb 16 13:57:22 PST 2002 Log Message: added cleanup function for mipsel in release.sh to make sure no unneeded files appear in the .changes file Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

cvs commit to boot-floppies by merker

2002-02-16 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies who:merker time: Sat Feb 16 13:57:22 PST 2002 Log Message: added cleanup function for mipsel in release.sh to make sure no unneeded files appear in the .changes file Files: changed:release.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/etc/messages.trm

2002-02-16 Thread Mark Zimmerman
I compiled dbootstrap with debug turned on, copied it onto my partially installed system, and ran it. The immediate problem was: An error occurred while loading application messages from /etc/messages.trm I looked, and there is no /etc/messages.trm; apparently the boot floppies I used didn't hav

Bug#134045: b-f needs to be updated to compile with slang1a-utf8

2002-02-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Junichi Uekawa wrote on Fri Feb 15, 2002 um 04:51:45PM: > With the introduction of slang1a-utf8, > boot-floppies needs to be modified to compile/run with the new slang. Okay, nice work, but how should we be able to compile both, utf8 and non-utf8 versions of dbootstrap now? The -dev p

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2002-02-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tags 127971 + pending Bug#127971: boot-floppies: Missing loopback device and localhost in /etc/hosts Bug#134224: boot-floopies: "auto lo" line missing in interfaces Tags added: pending > tags 134224 + pending Bug#134224: boot-floopies: "auto lo" line

Bug#128330: new boot floppies

2002-02-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
You may have noticed that we have new boot floppies with kernel 2.4. Please retry with the 3.0.19 release and report the results. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- [/me] Gibt es in Java keine Text-Konstanten für den Präprozessor? [Alex] Glaube nicht. Aber du kannst es ja durch andere Variablen emulieren

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

2002-02-16 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:blade time: Sat Feb 16 12:43:49 PST 2002 Log Message: creating minimalistic interface file even w/o full network configuration. Needed with current ifup. Files: changed:netconfig.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by blade

2002-02-16 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:blade time: Sat Feb 16 12:43:49 PST 2002 Log Message: creating minimalistic interface file even w/o full network configuration. Needed with current ifup. Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Testing boot-floppies on iMac

2002-02-16 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Yesterday, I got an iMac (NewWorld) to play with at work, and decided to install woody on it. It has no floppy drive, so the only bootable woody installation media that I could find were ISO images at: http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/ which I burned onto CD-R. Unfortunately, at the tim

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Processing of boot-floppies_3.0.19_mipsel.changes

2002-02-16 Thread Archive Administrator
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Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-16 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 18:39, Eduard Bloch wrote: > + sprintf(nf_state.server.hostname, "http.%s.debian.org", >mirror_country_map[i+1]); > + goto hostname_set; pb@kc:~$ host http.de.debian.org http.de.debian.org does not exist, try again pb@kc:~$ I guess you need to use ftp

Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Philip Blundell wrote on Sat Feb 16, 2002 um 05:40:44PM: > see). Even if you use "ftp.CC.debian.org", not all countries have a > mirror so you would need some way of checking if the server exists or > not. And, finally, lang->locale is a full locale name like > "en_GB.ISO-8859-1", not

Re: dbootstrap source

2002-02-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:17:30AM -0700, Mark Zimmerman wrote: > Greetings: > > Sorry for pummeling the list with so many stupid questions, but I have > looked in all of the places that are obvious (to me) and I can't find > the source code for dbootstrap. I would like to build it myself in > su

Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-16 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 15:23, Eduard Bloch wrote: > +#ifdef USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER > + /* ugly... this will work as long as the LANG name has two chars. Preffer "us > " > + * when "en". */ > + sprintf(nf_state.server.hostname, "http.%s.debian.org", strcmp(lang->locale, > "en")==0 ? "us" : lang->

Re: dbootstrap source

2002-02-16 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 16:17, Mark Zimmerman wrote: > Sorry for pummeling the list with so many stupid questions, but I have > looked in all of the places that are obvious (to me) and I can't find > the source code for dbootstrap. I would like to build it myself in > such a way as to allow it to ge

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by toff

2002-02-16 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:toff time: Sat Feb 16 08:35:14 PST 2002 Log Message: add video=ofonly to hfs-boot-floppy image Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/powerpc-specials/miBoot by toff

2002-02-16 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/powerpc-specials/miBoot who:toff time: Sat Feb 16 08:32:08 PST 2002 Log Message: add video=ofonly to hfs-boot-floppy image Files: changed:System.bin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

dbootstrap source

2002-02-16 Thread Mark Zimmerman
Greetings: Sorry for pummeling the list with so many stupid questions, but I have looked in all of the places that are obvious (to me) and I can't find the source code for dbootstrap. I would like to build it myself in such a way as to allow it to generate a proper core file (much more useful to

Bug#132990: this is two different bugs

2002-02-16 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:49:51PM -0800, David Kimdon wrote: > There appear to be two different bugs here. > > 1. white screen of death, at boot right as the installer is trying to > start it keeps segfaulting. This happens on some machine and not on > others, with some disks and not others. >

Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-16 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 16:23:40 +0100 "Eduard Bloch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #include > Glenn McGrath wrote on Sun Feb 17, 2002 um 12:53:55AM: > > > The only hitch i encountered was the mbr, after i installed i changed > > the bios boot drive, then when it tried booting i got "L 01 01 01"

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po by dancer

2002-02-16 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po who:dancer time: Sat Feb 16 07:53:47 PST 2002 Log Message: update dbootstrap ja.po Files: changed:ja.po -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by dancer

2002-02-16 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:dancer time: Sat Feb 16 07:53:47 PST 2002 Log Message: update dbootstrap ja.po Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mount question 2.4 rescue.bin

2002-02-16 Thread Nancy Davis
> There is no nfs support in the kernel itself. You have to install the > modules and load nfs first. I will try to include NFS support in > the next kernel-image release. Okay. Thanks for the clarification. I see now there is a set of driver-{1-4}.bin in: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists

Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Glenn McGrath wrote on Sun Feb 17, 2002 um 12:53:55AM: > The only hitch i encountered was the mbr, after i installed i changed > the bios boot drive, then when it tried booting i got "L 01 01 01" > with 01 constantly repeating... i vagually remember seeing a warning > about doing su

Re: mount question 2.4 rescue.bin

2002-02-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Nancy Davis wrote on Thu Feb 14, 2002 um 01:48:34PM: > failed: No such device > > The mount command I'm using is > > mount -t nfs ourhost:/some/path /instmnt There is no nfs support in the kernel itself. You have to install the modules and load nfs first. I will try to include NFS sup

3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-16 Thread Glenn McGrath
I just installed the 2.4 kernel boot-floppies, went pretty well. The only hitch i encountered was the mbr, after i installed i changed the bios boot drive, then when it tried booting i got "L 01 01 01" with 01 constantly repeating... i vagually remember seeing a warning about doing such a t

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs by jfs

2002-02-16 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Debian Boot CVS Master <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs > who:jfs > time: Fri Feb 15 03:38:52 PST 2002 > Log Message: > Added Spanish to the translations to be included Hmm... would it fit in? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#134233: no support for cciss devices

2002-02-16 Thread Dirk Lipinski
Package: boot-floppies Version: 3.0.19 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch This patch adds support for cciss devices (on Compaq Proliant servers). See also at patch in bugreport #132864. This patch must be applied and debootstrap must be rebuild. --- boot-floppies-3.0.19.orig/utilities/dbootstrap/

Processed: reassign 134224 to boot-floppies

2002-02-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 134224 boot-floppies Bug#134224: boot-floopies: "auto lo" line missing in interfaces Bug reassigned from package `boot-floopies' to `boot-floppies'. > End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debia

Bug#134216: Woody install needs basedebs.tgz, not basedebs.tar .

2002-02-16 Thread Andreas Krüger
Package: boot-floppies Version: 3.0.19-2002-02-07 Tags: woody This is a plain vanilla i386-type system. Being an old Debian hat, I have a somewhat chaotic system. Mostly potato, quite a bit woody, but some is still "slink" and I might even have some "hamm" remainders lurking in dark corners. So

Bug#132990: this is two different bugs

2002-02-16 Thread David Kimdon
There appear to be two different bugs here. 1. white screen of death, at boot right as the installer is trying to start it keeps segfaulting. This happens on some machine and not on others, with some disks and not others. 2. dbootstrap segfaults during the base system install. It isn't clear t