Tagedy of the commons.
Bloody vigilante's are as bad as the spammers.
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- Should ntpdate be included as part of the base install?
pool.ntp.org
is rather reliable, and it helps to have one's clock in a sane state
so that tar does not complain about timestamps being in the future,
and
I just fixed this a different way in busybox's cvs, by not preserving
hard links to directories.
But, perhaps your patch should be applied as well, to prevent
unintentional hard linsk from being being created.
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Hi, ive applied you patch upstream.
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Barry Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the status on this bug? I tried to install again on
02/22 and
still got the failure at perl-base, even using the 02/21 daily. I
don't understand how people are still able to test the installer if
Ive just fixed busybox wget upstream so that it ignores the proxy
variable if its set to 0
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Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To my knowledge, the behaviour change was reverted in tar-1.13.92-5,
so it does not seem necessary to change busybox tar:
tar (1.13.92-5) unstable; urgency=low
* patch from Paul Eggert to revert bogus behavior
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 02:00:32 -0800
Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATABILITY is enabled, the type is
displayed correctly and the directory is extracted correctly.
This patch needs to be applied to the busybox-cvs package, a new package
will be uploaded that
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:37:42 +0100
Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
tar produces oldgnu archives in gnu mode.
From the tar Changelog i see you have to use --format=ustar to create
normal tar archives.
I dunno what the GNU tar maintainers are smoking.
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Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
tar produces oldgnu archives in gnu mode.
From the tar Changelog i see you have to use --format=ustar to create
normal tar archives
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:51:59 -0500
George Kumengi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Everything works fine until I get a Base system installation error
debootstrap program exited with an error (return value 1)
Virtual Console 3 says:
tar: Unrecognised file type
The error means busybox doesnt know if
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 13:43:29 -0500
4. low memory support
d-i barely supports installations on systems with 32 mb of memory.
It's unlilkely to ever support lesser systems unless someone steps
up to work on it. We have some ideas, that should work, but no
time.
What are the
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:54:46 -0500
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Glenn McGrath wrote:
Is the only reason we need a writable filesystem so that the install
reoprt can be stored there ? Is that a permanent feature ?
There are dozens of places where the installer writes to its
The ash bug which occured when alt-1 was pressed has been fixed in
upstream cvs in shell/cmdedit.c rev 1.86
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Woops, looks like i introduced that bug... ive commited your patch to
busybox's cvs.
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A fix for this bug has been applied to upstreams cvs.
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This bug has been fixed in upstreams cvs.
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Im pretty sure this got fixed ages ago, there is no currently no problem
with the serial console on arm.
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On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 18:33:56 +0100
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why do you ask for the debconf priority at the beginning? I think it
should just be high by default and people who want something lower
can pass DEBCONF_PRIORITY. I guess/hope this is currently only
asked for
On 19 Nov 2003 01:51:51 +0100
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The reason i havent applied it is because i dont have a raid setup
handy to test it, i only tested it on a few loop files.
Someone was going to test it, but i never heard
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:13:44 +1100
Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
pipe-progress is the only non-busybox binary in bootfloppy-initrd,
pipe-progress is very simple and could easily assimilated by busybox.
Having only one binary in the first initrd would open the possibility
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 23:39:02 -0500
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I noticed that while the cdrom install pulls in dhcp-client-udeb and
uses it for dhcp, the floppy net install does not have a dhcp client
listed, so it falls back to using udhcp, from busybox-cvs-udeb.
This does not seem
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:37:45 -0500
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Glenn McGrath wrote:
uClibc can be a shared library, but i didnt consider that in this
comparison.
Any reason why not?
It would still be bigger than busybox compiled statically against uclibc.
I just attempted
NSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: beta1
Date: 12-11-03
Method: net install from floppies, no proxied.
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked:[O]
Configure network HW: [E]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [E]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard
Im sure there are a lot of users who want things to work automatically,
but not everyone does, and it makes problems more difficult to fix.
Unless the 2nd question asks the level of questioning the only way the
user effecting the installation, is from the console (i wasnt sure of
what the command
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:43:57 +0100
Sebastian Ley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In fact it is easier: At the boot prompt enter:
linux DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium (or low if you wish)
Ok, didnt know that, perhaps some help menus at the boot prompt would be usefull, like
the
old boot floppies had.
pipe-progress is the only non-busybox binary in bootfloppy-initrd,
pipe-progress is very simple and could easily assimilated by busybox.
Having only one binary in the first initrd would open the possibility of
compiling it statically, this would eliminate the requirment for
ld-linux.so.2 which is
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:28:36 -0400
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fraser Campbell wrote:
Loading the second floppy, some dots or a spinning cursor would be useful here
just to show meaningful progress.
I agree, though it will take some shell magic, since all I have is POSIX
shell,
I have found two races conditions in the run() function of busybox's
init implementation (static pid_t run(const struct init_action *a)).
Ive applied your patch as is to cvs.
Glenn
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coreutils/id.c (among others) uses a function called my_getgrnam from
libbb.a, which in turn calls getgrnam() which it expects to find in
libpwdgrp.a. However, since GNU ld only searches .a files coming
_later_ on the
Hmm in my busybox chroot (upstream cvs) this works
# ls /dev/*/disc0/disc
/dev/discs/disc0/disc
However in the busybox-0.60.99.cvs20030819 package it doesnt work, must
be a configuration option, or the problem must have been fixed between
the 19th and 22nd.
I will look into it.
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Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
but if i call the chroot /chroot/path /bin/busybox in
the dchroot, i get the same error.
If you are using the busybox ash shell in your chroot you should do
'chroot /chroot/path /bin/busybox ash'
or
'chroot /chroot/path
On 02 Aug 2003 08:18:47 +0100
Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I've just submitted another FTBFS bug against busybox-cvs for the
Alpha; this is blocking d-i building on alpha, and I'd guess ia64.
Now, looking at the sources, I can submit a patch easily enough;
but whats
On 12 Jun 2003 12:52:47 +0200
Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Gaudenz Steinlin]
1. mkfs.ext2 and mkfs.ext3 are files of size 0 instead of links
to mke2fs. Deleting these files and creating links made partconf
work
Bug #196508. Probably a bug in busybox tar.
I
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:56:11 +0200
Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi folks
because we suffered some problems with our shell i made a rewrite of
debootstrap in c.
Nice, it might cut down the shell commands that are needed.
It might be convenient to merge it into busybox.
Glenn
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 01:00:35PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
Package: kernel-image-2.4.20-1-i386
Version: 2.4.20-7
Severity: wishlist
It would be useful to the debian-installer if romfs was built into
the kernel rather than being a module.
This would allow the debian installer
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 18:03:19 -0500
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A pre-release (source code only) of Discover 1.5-2 is available:
Why version 1.5, i see 2.0.1 is the latest version ?
Glenn
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Martin Sjögren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another approach we're thinking about is regular dpkg support for
directory exclusion during package unpack, for things like
documentation and localization files. Of course, that's more an
issue for debian-dpkg... :)
Extracted from the unstable Release file
Architectures: alpha arm hppa hurd-i386 i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel
powerpc s390 sh sparc
Components: main contrib non-free
main/binary-alpha/Packages
main/source/Sources
main/debian-installer/binary-alpha/Packages
In this context, what is
On 21 Feb 2003 16:30:02 +0100
Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
optimally, what I'd like
is getting anna to support gpg and verify the full integrity of the
install. One would then only have to trust the integrity of the
initial boot media; a compromised mirror would be detected
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:35:04 +1100
Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The code is small, but as it needs libgcrypt (which needs opencdk and
zlib) it makes it a 350kB binary, 171kB gzip'ed, which is pretty big
for our purposes.
To be more specific, compiling statically against libopencdk
The comparisons to cramfs does favour squashfs for lowmem installs.
My only reservation is the fact that its not in the official kernel, but
it sounds like you intend to stick it out and maintain it outside the
offical tree, so that shouldnt be too much of a problem.
Glenn
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Drew Scott Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would squashfs work? I doubt this is an optimal compression, but it
might be better than alternatives. Currently the best free solution
might be based on PPMd which has been packaged into Debian.
Im not
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:27:59 -0600 (CST)
Drew Scott Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It looks stable enough now, but I wonder why it hasn't been included
in the Linux kernel (even 2.5?). I also have to question the value of
zlib compression vs other types of compression, but then I suppose
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:51:12 -0700
Erik Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The kernel compresses itself using gzip, so upx isn't likely to
be useful there. It would be much more useful when used on the
rest of userspace. Though I suspect you would get better results
by simply switching the
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:31:21 +0100
Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
# upx tmp/vmlinuz
Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
UPX 1.24 Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer Laszlo Molnar Nov
I commited changes to build/Makefile to allow the filsystem on the
initrd to be specified, it defaults to ext2 so it currently doesnt make
any difference.
748 net-initrd.ext2.gz
736 net-initrd.romfs.gz
So romfs saves us 12kB on the filesystem overheads of the initrd.
It requires romfs be
Booting the net flavour.
cat /proc/mounts shows
/dev/root.old is mounted on /initrd
devfs is mounted twice on /dev
I think one of the devfs mount must be from the ext2 ramdisk prior to
moving it to tmpfs, even though the path doesnt say so.
I cant unmount dev it reports Device or resource
I had a play on merulo.debian.org and sorted it out, the fix has been
commited to busybox cvs, will upload a new package in the next day or
so.
Glenn
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I googled this URL, looks like busybox has had this problem has happened
before.
http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2001-March/002578.html
We could set set some default values to handle this, or we could prompt
for values if we know we are on a serial console.
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Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Glenn McGrath
| We can save some space in the rootfs by using busybox from cvs
|
| busybox-0.60.4 130856
| busybox-cvs 123628
|
| busybox-0.60.4 + dash + dhclient + insmod 271160
| busybox-cvs
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 09:13:48 +1100
Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hmm, busybox-unstable.deb with the same feature as 0.60.5-2 appears to
have increased in size by 20kB, maybe i translated the config
incorrectly, ill look into that.
Ignore this, i was including the changelogs etc
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 18:11:07 -0800
Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There isn't enough space on the net image, however. Substituting
pump-udeb or udhcpc-udeb for dhcp-client-udeb frees up enough space.
Any other suggestions?
Switch to busybox ash, and busybox insmod as well, that will
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 18:11:15 +1100
Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Switch to busybox ash, and busybox insmod as well, that will save some
more space.
Erik tells me busybox insmod doesnt work on all supported platforms so
thats not a good idea.
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Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
no tabs. spaces. four spaces.
opening braces on opening line
closing braces unindented to the correct level
I use a tab but set tab to 4 spaces :)
If you make an .indent.pro you can update you style.
You might get
We can save some space in the rootfs by using busybox from cvs
busybox-0.60.4 130856
busybox-cvs 123628
busybox-0.60.4 + dash + dhclient + insmod 271160
busybox-cvs with busybox ash, udhcpc and insmod also compiled in 201804
I think busybox ash, udhcpc and insmod should be good
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:41:08 +0200
Joakim Kolsjö [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
O well... i guess i have to edit all To: and Cc: to get it right,
can't seem to find any setting in sylpheed that would fix this, i know
that it's possible to change this on server level(SeLinux has changed
this on
I made a Config option to support only the -x option in dpkg-deb, the
overheads of dpkg-deb -x are less than the overheads of ar, so now maybe
the debian installer will use dpkg-deb to unpack debs instead of the piped
shell command, better to use dpgk-deb to unpack just incase udebs start
using
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:28:12 +0900
Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's going to go on the rootfs? Presumably something like:
libc6, busybox-udeb, ash-udeb
udpkg, cdebconf, anna
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:36:33 +1000
Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whether there's any point to all that's another matter. You're only
buying yourself a smaller rootfs, and you're only doing it by giving
yourself less ways of accessing the first set of udebs you want to
install. If
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:45:35 -0400
Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:06:44AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Hello everybody,
release is coming soon ... and we need a bit of feedback about
a new feature we plan to use on CD1 of Debian woody for i386.
Ive put together a busybox netselect applet, it adds just over 4kB to a standard
busybox build, its at http://people.debian.org/~bug1/busybox/netselect.diff
It should be able to be used with the netselect-apt shell script to locate a close
debian mirror, but i havent tested it yet.
I think it
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 23:53:44 +1300 (NZDT)
Philip Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why not use fping to check the reply speed of all the mirrors, and
choose the fastest as the suggested mirror?
In my case the closest mirror is probably San Francisco, a mere 10,000 km
(6,000 miles) away.
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
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 16:23:40 +0100
Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
#include hallo.h
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
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 16:50:41 -0500
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It looks like Sharp's Xarious(sp?) PDA (the one with the neat
integrated keyboard) uses busybox dpkg and debian packages. It looks
like the deb package format is perhaps winning in the PDA field between
this and the use of
On 05 Jan 2002 18:12:51 -0500
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got some problems in that I no longer have an i386 build machine
at home that works. The crappy laptop I was using for building doesn't
seem to exist on the network anymore. I have a machine at work I can
use but I
* packages.h: typedef package_t
-struct package_t {
+typedef struct package_t {
char *package;
char *filename;
char *md5sum;
int installer_menu_item;
struct package_t *next;
-};
+} package_t;
Actually i think its best to do
typedef struct
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 18:29:30 -0700
Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have made a package for a requested package : nparted (bug
#12047)I am not advocate so I don't know exactly what to do.
Do I send a mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the url of package
? That would be a
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 12:12:25 +1100
Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I gave it a quick try and got the error invalidate: busy buffer
scrolling of the screeen, it makes it unusable for me.
I assume its a problem upstream, im using devfs which may be the
problem.
Actually it works
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 16:42:50 -0800
David Kimdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Any seconds on this one?
I definetly think tmpfs should be used isntead of ramfs.
tmpfs works better with swap.
Glenn
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Mike Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I'm reading net-fetch.c correctly, its call to 'wget' doesn't use
passive
ftp. This will fail for people behind many firewalls.
Shouldn't it use --passive-ftp by default? AFAIK, turning it on
should
(virtually)
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 19:27:59 -0700
Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 04:19:06PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
FYI, I have i18n powerpc boot-floppies also building if anyone wants
to test that..
I fired those up that you put there, and got the flashing screen
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 01:48:16 -0700
Erik Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good work tracking this down. I'll work up a fix
and upload a new version ASAP.
I was thinking the same thing, looking at the code i found saved some
space savings seperate to this stat issue, i checked it into
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 03:09:28 -0700
Erik Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed Nov 21, 2001 at 08:17:21PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 01:48:16 -0700
Erik Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good work tracking this down. I'll work up a fix
and upload a new
Lets all remember that we are all on the same team.
To work efficiently as a team we have to be able to trust each other to
perform our own tasks.
If one thinks there own house is in perfect order then by all means help
someone else with their workload, if you cant help them dont get in
their
On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 14:06:27 +1000
Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 09:52:07PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Glenn McGrath wrote:
To work efficiently as a team we have to be able to trust each
other to
perform our own tasks.
How can we
On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 16:22:12 +1000
Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You might want to ask yourself why you're getting involved in this one
rather than looking at the bug report and trying to fix the package.
Because im trying to make people see that constant infighting isnt
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 19:32:16 -0500
John Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apt now behaves like wget when installing woody using the rieserfs
3.0.15
bootfloppies. This means that it no longer works with my one-way
satellite
connection. Prior to the releease of 3.0.14 bootfloppies this was not
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:54:11 +0200
KORN Andras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 01:24:08AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
It turns out that even if you compile with devfs, there are places
where
the old style device names are still used (/proc/partitions i think
was
what
On 21 Oct 2001 11:45:47 +0200
Falk Hueffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(3) in the post-boot configuration, why are MD5 passwords
defaulted to
No ie not enabled ?
compatibility with crufty old unixes i suppose. if you were to make
the box into
A friend is installing 2.0.15, trying to install woody gives an error
Malformed release file in url, tried ftp.au.debian.org and the default
mirror, gave the same error.
Installing unstable got past this error.
Glenn
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Stefan Nobis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:50:42PM -0700, Rob Bos wrote:
- /dev is 3k bigger
How practical would it be to compile devfs and include devfsd in
the
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 18:32:21 +1000
Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A friend is installing 2.0.15, trying to install woody gives an error
Malformed release file in url, tried ftp.au.debian.org and the
default
mirror, gave the same error.
Installing unstable got past this error
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 00:25:37 -0800
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:32:07PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
On Wed Oct 17, 2001 at 02:55:11PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
but as i have stated, even if you fix busybox to be smarter you still
have a giant stack
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:06:30 -0400
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Between this spring and now, busybox-udeb has grown in size by some 52k.
Since the d-i system is too big to fit on a floppy right now, we badly
need to trim this back.
There is some duplication of code with tar in the
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 00:45:38 -0400
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
107548: /sbin/dhclient
18472: /sbin/udhcpc
As much as i like dhclient, it is big.
udhcp client is packaged as udhcpc its homepagepage is at
http://opensource.lineo.com/udhcp/
Failing to obtain an IP is a
On 17 Oct 2001 20:10:29 -0400
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to keep running parallel to b-f and debian-cd versions as they
emerge so that the Hurd and Linux versions can be merged when the time
comes.
Since you guys aren't planning on releasing with Woody, might I
Hi
I successfully installed using the standard flavour of 3.0.14 on a k6-2,
its looking good.
I partitioned with cfdisk, installed the kernel modules then did a network
install.
A couple of minor points.
1. Just after the kernel boots screens of text flashed by, which i assume
case the
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:48:13 -0600
Erik Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, since we have to mount the target fs, we already have to pay most
of the
price for ext2 anyways (the size of mkfs.ext2 and the size of the kernel
ext2
code). So switching to minixfs isn't going to save us all
On Sun, 2 Sep 2001 00:04:22 -0800
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The root disk is currently too bloated, on pmac and chrp its already
too large to fit on a 1.44MB floppy.
looking at busybox there is plenty of bloat that can be removed, i was
able to bring /bin/busybox (current
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 06:37:20 +1000
Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If we use busybox dpkg-deb instead of ar and tar it will reduce busybox
by
about 6.5kB (by my calculations),
My caclulations were wrong, it will only save 3.5kB, still i think its
better to use dpkg-deb as it should
Motavista GPL'ed their library optimiser, looks like it doesnt the
equivalent of mklibs.sh, i dont know how the results compare though.
http://libraryopt.sourceforge.net/
Glenn
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On 23 Aug 2001 21:25:52 -0400
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I installed the kernel and modules from floppy, things looked to be
going
ok, then i tried to configure the modules, it looked like it was
trying to
insert modules from the wrong
There are a few known bugs noted at the top of the file, so treat this
with caution, but it should be starting to be useable.
Its a drop in replacement to the existing dpkg.c in busybox cvs.
http://people.debian.org/~bug1/busybox_patches/dpkg.c.0712a.bb
If anyone is into hashtables and
Vladimir N. Oleynik wrote:
Erik Andersen wrote:
On Tue Jul 03, 2001 at 02:17:06PM -0400, David Douthitt wrote:
I've followed the discussion (somewhat) on different shells. I'm
wondering what the difference is, and in particular, is ash going to
absorbed into busybox or what?
What are the
I installed testing yesterday.
tasksel was a problem, but thats been discussed i think.
The *major* problem i had was upgrading to pre-built 2.4.5 kernel post
install, when i first installed 2.4.5 i was told to edit
/etc/kernel-img.conf (that didnt exist yet) and add a line Do_initrd =
Yes
Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:32:39PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
I installed testing yesterday.
tasksel was a problem, but thats been discussed i think.
The *major* problem i had was upgrading to pre-built 2.4.5 kernel post
install, when i first installed 2.4.5 i was told
David Whedon wrote:
The nice things i see about this is that the messages have a chance of being
maintained if put into busybox cvs. The problem is that they are separated from
the people who actually want the messages to exist (Debian), though not too far,
since busybox is pretty Debian
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