Re: Always use UTF-8 when running base-config?

2003-09-28 Thread Martin =?unknown-8bit?q?Sj=F6gren?=
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 05:31:13PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > I applied Alan Cox's patches to bogl-0.1.12 and found that > bogl-bterm-udeb's bterm scrolled much faster. I have forwarded the > patches to Daniel Jacobowitz. Anyone else who wants them, let me know. Any progress on this? Dan

Re: new installer

2003-09-27 Thread Martin =?unknown-8bit?q?Sj=F6gren?=
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 10:56:14PM +, simon raven wrote: > keep the functionality that is found in the current installer. is that > so hard? i'm not aware of exactly what you have done to remove the > functionality of booting both old and newworlds, but you must've left > something out of d-i t

Re: new installer

2003-09-27 Thread Martin =?unknown-8bit?q?Sj=F6gren?=
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 12:25:38PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > devfs is obsolete, its use should be removed from debian-installer. > in all cases where i found lazy abuse of devfs as some sort of > hardware database you could use a discover call instead. > > once devfs abuse is removed i didn't s

Re: rename "floppy" image to "rootfloppy"

2003-09-27 Thread Martin =?unknown-8bit?q?Sj=F6gren?=
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 04:19:52PM +0200, Joey Hess wrote: > I'm finding this is confusing terminology; you boot from the bootfloppy, > so the other one should probably be the rootfloppy. I'm considering > renameing this in build/, but I am unsure about other arches, daily > builds, and what else t

Re: Installer report

2003-09-26 Thread Martin =?unknown-8bit?q?Sj=F6gren?=
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 08:03:32AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > This isn't really an issue, since when d-i is finished, we can run with > > priority high, which won't display the main menu. For now, we want to keep > > it at medium for debugging reasons. > > How will a language be chosen then?

Re: Installer report

2003-09-26 Thread Martin =?unknown-8bit?q?Sj=F6gren?=
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:35:50AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > I chose the language, which was fine, but I agree (and I think there > > may already be a bug) that the Choose language should be a separate > > dialog, ala boot-floppies, so people that don't read English have a > > chance. If I

Re: Libc-udeb problems during install

2003-07-16 Thread Martin =?unknown-8bit?q?Sj=F6gren?=
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:47:06AM +0200, Lodewijk Antonides wrote: > >Where did you get it? Is it an > >official or inofficial CD? Last I looked, there were plenty of inofficial > >CDs that contained broken versions of debian-installer. > ftp://ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de/pub/linux/distributions/debian/debi

Re: Libc-udeb problems during install

2003-07-16 Thread Martin =?unknown-8bit?q?Sj=F6gren?=
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:09:04AM +0200, Lodewijk Antonides wrote: > Don't know if this is the right list because I dont have a patch but just a > problem when I try to install SID. I get the setup menu, it also finds the > kernel-modules but then I get the error "Failed to retreive installer > m

Bug#201191: partconf: mkfs should indicate progress

2003-07-15 Thread Martin =?unknown-8bit?q?Sj=F6gren?=
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 08:53:30AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Sebastian Ley] > > I know that will be difficult, but as Tollef stated we need a progress > > indicator for mkfs. If nothing happens when formatting a large partition > > the lowbrow user might believe d-i crashed or something.