Re: Squeeze can't fit on 512MiB

2010-10-27 Thread Florian Weimer
* Samuel Thibault: - Base+Standard grew from 397MiB to 491MiB (we install libdb4.{5,6,7,8} !?, I suspect that this is caused primarily by API and ABI incompatibility, and in part by the lack of response to bug reports from upstream. Everybody who uses Berkeley DB extensively has once been

Bug#589978: Debian 5.05 (lenny)

2010-07-23 Thread Florian Weimer
seem to work.) -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

squeeze installer: no keyboard after first kernel boot

2010-04-26 Thread Florian Weimer
I've got the second system on which the squeeze installer does not work. This time it's a system with a Asus P6X58D-E board. The kernel appears to boot normally, but the USB keyboard is not recognized, key presses have no effect. Have you got any suggestions how to debug this and turn it into a

Re: squeeze installer: no keyboard after first kernel boot

2010-04-26 Thread Florian Weimer
* Frans Pop: On Monday 26 April 2010, Florian Weimer wrote: I've got the second system on which the squeeze installer does not work. This time it's a system with a Asus P6X58D-E board. The kernel appears to boot normally, but the USB keyboard is not recognized, key presses have no effect

Bug#475774: Please include a version.txt in the boot.img.gz image

2008-04-20 Thread Florian Weimer
* Geert Stappers: Additional information follows... I don't understand the point of your messages. The idea was to have something that can be viewed on a non-Debian system which is used to prepare the image. On a Debian system, I can use something like zcat | strings | grep '2\.6\.' to find

Bug#475774: Please include a version.txt in the boot.img.gz image

2008-04-12 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Without that file, it's a bit difficult to tell all those images apart. I guess a similar file could be added to the .isos (if it's not already there, I haven't checked). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Debian Installer etch beta 3 released

2006-08-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Frans Pop: Installation CDs, other media, detailed errata and everything else you'll need are available from our web site: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer This web page does not mention which version is Beta 3. Which one is it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Debian Installer etch beta 3 released

2006-08-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Florian Weimer: This web page does not mention which version is Beta 3. Which one is it? Please disregard that message. Sorry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dropping the amd64-generic flavour

2006-06-26 Thread Florian Weimer
* Francesco Pietra: What about k8-smp? Do we still need non-SMP kernels in the age of hyperthreading, multi-core CPUs, and preemption? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dropping the amd64-generic flavour

2006-06-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* Frederik Schueler: -generic is odd and too long. I am considering to change the naming scheme completely, and call the flavours 2.6.x-y-amd64 and 2.6.x-y-em64t respectively. Newer GCCs produce AMD64 code which is supposed to be closed to optimal to what GCC can produce on EM64T. Does it

Re: Dropping the amd64-generic flavour

2006-06-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Goswin von Brederlow: I would suggest keeping the name amd64-generic. It is easier for users to see that -generic fits all than -k8. It's also easier to reintroduce split packages if necessary. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: note on 2.4 is deprecated

2006-04-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Joey Hess: - Debian's userland has *always* supported at least the previous major kernel version, and most often the previous two, or sometimes I think, three major kernel versions. This isn't a real argument, IMHO, because upstream no longer releases major kernel versions. OTOH,

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a Province of China?

2004-04-06 Thread Florian Weimer
Miles Bader wrote: I'm not sure what this has to do with the original question, but the simplified chinese characters used in the PRC can look _very_ different from the traditional forms used in Taiwan (anyway, it's not accurate to say the difference is `close to bold-versus-normal'). It's