Re: (low priority) udeb naming

2003-11-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ Please preserve CC's while the lists are down and feel free to add > more. ] > > On IRC we were discussing why there is the requirement that udebs have > names different from debs in the archive. I looked back at my mail > archives from when this was set

Bug#222081: display errors on 16/10 screens

2003-11-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Rivaud Julien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Comments/Problems: > Worked fine, except one very upsetting thing : during installation > (especially cfdisk) screen is considered to have a 4/3 ratio, and > because the system enlarges the screen to fit on my 16/10 laptop > screen, some of the bottom li

Bug#221932: Sarge debian-installer defaults to Dvorak keyboard settings

2003-11-25 Thread Lance Levsen
I can confirm this with the daily's from yesterday. (20Nov03) I checked it twice and US/English defaulted to DVORK keyboards. Never got my system back until later so I had planned a bug-report after work. Cheers, lance -- Lance Levsen, Linux Systems Catprint Computing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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2003-11-25 Thread Ken
Domino vobiscum Nucleo predictus dispella conductus. Motorolus interruptus. Veni, vidi, Velcro (the Latin translation) On Tue 18 Nov 2003 06:03, Dalene Van Der Merwe wrote: > Please translate this in greek for me. > > Good morning love, > > Please spend some time with me this afternoon becaus

Re: cd local build instructions?

2003-11-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Konstantinos Margaritis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 25 November 2003 15:50, you wrote: > > > You have to build all the udebs manually and put them into > > build/localudebs. Even if you tell the build script to compile the > > udebs (debug versions will do that) it will download the

(low priority) udeb naming

2003-11-25 Thread Joey Hess
[ Please preserve CC's while the lists are down and feel free to add more. ] On IRC we were discussing why there is the requirement that udebs have names different from debs in the archive. I looked back at my mail archives from when this was set up, and could find only one good reason: On 13 Dec

Re: Localizing New Debian Installer to Arabic

2003-11-25 Thread Anmar Oueja
Hello Alastair: Hope the bidi implementation is coming along. I have sent you some sample files for testing. Could you please give me a deadline or a guideline when do you see you need the entire po files collection translated. I have to arrange my time and the translators time to work on this

Bug#222081: display errors on 16/10 screens

2003-11-25 Thread Rivaud Julien
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: sarge-i386-netinst, 9 Nov 2003 (I think) uname -a: Unknown (no time to check) Date: 11 Nov 2003 - during day Method: Netinst didn't work ; CD-inst used. Machine: HP Compaq nx7000 Processor: Centrino 1.4GHz Memory: 768 MO Root

Bug#222051: installation-reports: Successful net install of Sarge

2003-11-25 Thread Jens Peter Secher
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/beta-1/sarge-i386-businesscard.iso uname -a: Linux localhost 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux Date: Tue Nov 18 01:40:17 CET 2003 Method: Net

Re: Localizing New Debian Installer to Arabic

2003-11-25 Thread Anmar Oueja
Hello Alastair: I did some simple work for the sake of testing. I added the necessary lines to languagelist.l10n and languagelist files. (please find them attached) I also did the main menue .po file titled (ar.po) hope this helps Please let me know the moment you want to test the installer,

Re: Localizing New Debian Installer to Arabic

2003-11-25 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 23:06, Anmar Oueja wrote: > Great.. I will get some strings done for ya tonight :) > > > BTW, there are lots of po files for a whole bunch of archtectures. Do > you know which ones I should start with especially for you to test with ? > > How do you want me to submit t

Re: Installation-reports

2003-11-25 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 02:58, Joey Hess wrote: > That narrows it down to either the end of hw-detect (starting pcmcia?) > or whatever comes just after. Try booting with DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 (but not > with DEBCONF_PRIORITY), and switch over to the 4th virtual console > (alt-f4) right before it's going t

Re: Finnish translation of d-i

2003-11-25 Thread Harri Järvi
Hi, I've been translating the boot-floppies/dbootstrap to Finnish. I'm very busy at the moment, so I won't be able to help much with d-i translation even though I would be very interested to. Anyway, please write down my email address and contact me later if you would like me to review your trans

Re: fakeroot fails to handle device files

2003-11-25 Thread Clint Adams
> fakeroot (as of today's unstable) fails to handle device files > correctly, at least on my mips box. This means the d-i images > have _regular_ files in /dev: Er, it _does_ handle them correctly. % fakeroot sh -c 'mknod /tmp/fives c 5 5 ; ls -l /tmp/fives';ls -l /tmp/fives crw-r--r--1 root

Re: cd local build instructions?

2003-11-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Konstantinos Margaritis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi, > can anyone point me to a readme/howto/other to locally build > a cd directly from the cvs d-i module? > I tried to build the cd using the instructions in the build/ directory > but it tried to download the udeb packages instead of buil

cd local build instructions?

2003-11-25 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
hi, can anyone point me to a readme/howto/other to locally build a cd directly from the cvs d-i module? I tried to build the cd using the instructions in the build/ directory but it tried to download the udeb packages instead of building them from scratch from my tree. I'd like to do some testi

Installation reporting on HP Proliant ML350 with Smartarray

2003-11-25 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Some problems in installation: * d-i does not recognize ethernet (tg3) and controller (cciss for 641 series) I loaded by hand modules and proceeded. I could send pci ids in a couple of days. * kernel installation failed The problem is that the root /dev/cciss/disc/disc0/pa