Re: debian-installer - devfs

2002-09-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Bastian Blank | debian-installer is using kernel 2.4 by default. why it doesn't use | devfs to safe some initrd space? it does. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' :

Re: debian-installer - devfs

2002-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > mingetty allocated the first terminal, no problem. any second and > subsequent totaly failed. agetty was able to allocate two or more > terminals. Yes, that is bug #81275. 2-year-old patch included in that bug report. Paul, could you take a look at that since it seem

Re: Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 For Intel x86 - Chapter 6 - Partitioningfor Debian

2002-09-27 Thread Markus Schabel
Myrealbox wrote: > Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 For Intel x86 - Chapter 6 - > Partitioning for Debian > > "Based on limitations in how ext2 works, avoid any single partition > greater than 6GB or so. " > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-partitioning.en.html > > I'm really confus

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Kernel configuration

2002-09-27 Thread Benoit Peccatte
Hello, I'm trying the debian-installer from the cvs version. Unfortunately, it can't detect my AMD PCnet ethernet card. So I tried to make my own udeb for this driver but after booting, modprobe doesn't wan't to recognize the file as a module. Maybe a mistake with compilation. Well, the questio

Re: making custom boot floppies for IBM Serveraid

2002-09-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Imre Oolberg [Thu, Sep 26 2002, 08:11:27PM]: > guess but now i encountered the following problem. I need to install it > onto a IBM machine which has ServerRaid controller. Since i couldnt find > suitable set of boot floppies or information how to use custom kernel with Huch? See the

Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 For Intel x86 - Chapter 6 - Partitioningfor Debian

2002-09-27 Thread Myrealbox
Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 For Intel x86 - Chapter 6 - Partitioning for Debian "Based on limitations in how ext2 works, avoid any single partition greater than 6GB or so. " http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-partitioning.en.html I'm really confused about this. I've been runnin

Re: debian-installer - devfs

2002-09-27 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:27:17AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > > > mingetty allocated the first terminal, no problem. any second and > > subsequent totaly failed. > > do you have devfsd installed and/or yes > use /dev/ttyX instead of /dev/console/X? i made n

Re: debian-installer - devfs

2002-09-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:27:17AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > i had just the opposite experience: > > mingetty allocated the first terminal, no problem. any second and > subsequent totaly failed. do you have devfsd installed and/or use /dev/ttyX instead of /dev/console/X? bastian --

Re: debian-installer - devfs

2002-09-27 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:18:46AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > there are a couple of applications that i am aware of that do not get > > along with devfs very well. (wmppp and mingetty being two of them). > > mingetty works fine with devfs, while getty wont. othe

Re: debian-installer - devfs

2002-09-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:18:46AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > there are a couple of applications that i am aware of that do not get > along with devfs very well. (wmppp and mingetty being two of them). mingetty works fine with devfs, while getty wont. other software can be fixed. basti

Re: debian-installer - devfs

2002-09-27 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Bastian Blank wrote: > > devfs is marked as stable within 2.4.x, also there are problems with > not devfs-capable drivers (i don't find any the since several months). there are a couple of applications that i am aware of that do not get along with devfs very well. (wmppp and mingetty being two o

Re: debian-installer - devfs

2002-09-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 06:54:01PM +0200, Romuald DELAVERGNE wrote: > Perhaps devfs is not really integrated in the 2.4 which is a transition > for this new filesystem. devfs is marked as stable within 2.4.x, also there are problems with not devfs-capable drivers (i don't find any the since seve

Re: debian-installer - devfs

2002-09-27 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
Le 2002.09.27 18:38, Bastian Blank a écrit : > hi folks > > debian-installer is using kernel 2.4 by default. why it doesn't use > devfs to safe some initrd space? > Device files consumes only inodes but not really much disk space. But you are right, devfs should be better. Perhaps devfs is not

debian-installer - devfs

2002-09-27 Thread Bastian Blank
hi folks debian-installer is using kernel 2.4 by default. why it doesn't use devfs to safe some initrd space? bastian -- Earth -- mother of the most beautiful women in the universe. -- Apollo, "Who Mourns for Adonais?" stardate 3468.1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

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Re: Install on 1024x768 LCD

2002-09-27 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 06:49:00PM +0800, J Michael Gilks wrote: > I am trying to install Debian Woody from disk onto a laptop with a 1024x768 > LCD screen. > The text appears to be defaulting to a 800x600 screen. > This means that instructions and menus are often displayed below the bottom > of

cvs commit to base-config by jordi

2002-09-27 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: base-config who:jordi time: Fri Sep 27 06:51:21 MDT 2002 Log Message: Catalan template updates. Files: changed:apt-setup.templates.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to base-config/debian by jordi

2002-09-27 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: base-config/debian who:jordi time: Fri Sep 27 06:46:00 MDT 2002 Log Message: Updated Catalan templates. Files: changed:changelog templates.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel version 2.4.18-generic on a dec alpha xl 266

2002-09-27 Thread Hannes Wenzel
Quoting Joachim Köstler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Kernel panic: cannot mount root fs. > > The scsi-controller seems to be have been identified correctly, the > correct module ncr53c8xx seems to have been loaded. > > I couldn't find any solution on the net. Is there anybody on > lists.debian.

Install on 1024x768 LCD

2002-09-27 Thread J Michael Gilks
I am trying to install Debian Woody from disk onto a laptop with a 1024x768 LCD screen. The text appears to be defaulting to a 800x600 screen. This means that instructions and menus are often displayed below the bottom of the screen. For instance, while partitioning the partition list is display

woody bf2.4 install on laptop

2002-09-27 Thread k.clair
Hello, Sorry for any duplicate messages due to cross-posting. I'm trying to install woody on a laptop using the bf2.4 1.44 disk images, and I'm getting some error messages trying to activate the network using a pcmcia card: (from var/log/messages) : Starting 'cardmgr' : starting, version is 3.

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

2002-09-27 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po who:mquinson time: Fri Sep 27 02:17:51 MDT 2002 Log Message: Fix some problems reported in #161998. But it does not close the bug, since the last problem reported in this bug isn't related to translation, IMHO Files: changed:f

Bug#161998: boot-floppies: wrong fr translations

2002-09-27 Thread Martin Quinson
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 11:24:12AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > Package: boot-floppies > Version: Debian 3.0r0 > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I noticed a couple of translation errors in the french l10n, one of > which is WILL make user understand the contrary of realit