Bug#356939: Security fix for shadow in sarge (#356939)

2006-07-09 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Perrier wrote: As a consequence, I hereby ask the security team to DROP the processing of the 4.0.3-31sarge6 version you have. As you wish, packages deleted. Regards, Joey -- Testing? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up, it is perfect. Please always Cc

Re: sarge3 kernel build r3

2006-06-06 Thread Martin Schulze
dann frazier wrote: I saw some questions on irc about the sarge3 kernel build r3... zobel it's just, i actualy wanted to release sarge r3 with sarge2 kernels. now i get told sarge3-kernels are already prepared, which disapoints me a bit, as noone told the stable release team

Re: [D-I] Preparing for update in stable

2006-04-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Andreas Barth wrote: The main problem is going to be testing the new images as it will not be possible to run an installation and download kernel udebs from s-p-u and other udebs from stable. The question is however: should we try to keep the old udebs in stable also? Are they not

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Sven Luther wrote: I have seen Frans claim various times about patches and changes i was proposing that it will never be applied anyway because i proposed it, and he didn't thrust me. Do you really thing that in the light of this me sending in patches just to have them rote in the BTS is

Re: timeline for next kernel update round

2006-03-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Hi Moritz, On Wednesday, 15 Mar 2006, you wrote: Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 15 March 2006 00:15, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: The update is built and tested, it'll appear soon. It contains three ABI changing security fixes, so the ABI will be bumped. I

Re: kbd-chooser for DECstation machines

2004-10-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Joey Hess wrote: Martin Schulze wrote: Committed. Please add an entry to the changelog for this. Done. Regards, Joey -- Everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything about it! -- Mark Twain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Dropping 386 support

2004-10-05 Thread Martin Schulze
peter green wrote: what about changing the 486 emulation kernel patch so that it completely disables itself on non 386 processors Did you read the patch? I thougth that was already the case from how it is invoked. this way it would only have security issues on pure 386 which wouldn't be

Re: kbd-chooser for DECstation machines

2004-10-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Schulze wrote: On the other hand, looking at the code, I just came to the conclusion that it doesn't work indeed, which is why AT keybards can be selected at all. Thanks for the hint. So __mipsel__ should be changed to __MIPSEL__ (first patch) diff -u -p orig/kbd-chooser-1.02

__MIPSEL__ instead of __mipsel__

2004-10-04 Thread Martin Schulze
FYI When writing code you want to have executed only on the Debian mipsel architecture, please make sure to use the __MIPSEL__ macro/define and not __mipsel__. The latter doesn't exist. There is __mips__ available as well, but it's the CPU architecture and is shared among big and little entian

Re: Can I translate to Finnish only the Howto appendix of the installation manual?

2004-10-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Tapio Lehtonen wrote: I'm thinking about translating the Installation Howto appendix in the installation manual to Finnish. But it seems like it is built as part of the whole manual. Can I translate just this one file and finnish translation can be used in the Debian web page and perhaps

Re: Dropping 386 support

2004-10-04 Thread Martin Schulze
peter green wrote: calling stuff i386 when it will not run natively on a 386 seems like asking for confustion to me True, but we're way to close to a release to fix *that*. And I'm not sure that we could easily fix binary-i386 at all.. why and when was this instruction emulation needed in

Re: [Indlinux-group] Re: State of graphical installer

2004-10-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Guntupalli Karunakar wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:43:27 +0200 Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anybody interested in reviving it and working on a graphical installation method? As answered quickly on IRC, Joey Hess mentioned in his Oldenburg report that Konstantinos and

Re: Dropping 386 support

2004-10-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Andres Salomon wrote: Hi, The kernel team is considering dropping 386 support (the 80386 processor, not the i386 arch) from Debian. Currently, in order to support 386, we include a 486 emulation patch (the patch can be viewed from here:

Re: Dropping 386 support

2004-10-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Andres Salomon wrote: Hi, The kernel team is considering dropping 386 support (the 80386 processor, not the i386 arch) from Debian. Currently, in order to support 386, we include a 486 emulation patch (the patch can be viewed from here:

Re: kbd-chooser for DECstation machines

2004-10-01 Thread Martin Schulze
Moin! Thiemo Seufer wrote: Martin Schulze wrote: [snip] We could simply declare no preferred keyboard for the mipsel architecture (beware, there's __mips__ for both mips and mipsel, and __MIPSEL__ for only mipsel). This would require the dialog to be displayed, though, for the user

Re: kbd-chooser for DECstation machines

2004-09-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Schulze wrote: One problem remains. During the installation a medium priority question (console-tools/archs) is displayed which lists all possible keyboard types for mipsel (AT, LK, USB) but has the default set to AT. The problem is that this question is only displayed when the user

kbd-chooser for DECstation machines

2004-09-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Since the time is not on our side I'll better forward this mail so others can jump in as well. Regards, Joey - Forwarded message from Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 20:57:25 +0200 From: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL

State of graphical installer

2004-09-28 Thread Martin Schulze
State of graphical installer Does anybody know the current state of the graphical installer? Using debconf for d-i was said to have the benefit of hooking different frontends to it and the gtk/gnome frontend is one of them. Michael Cardenas also provided the first version of a graphical

Re: RE/FW: Please stop sending me emails

2004-08-28 Thread Martin Schulze
peter green wrote: can someone please remove this guy from the list before his bloody autoresponders drive us all crazy He's removed from all lists and his mail address has been blocked from sending to any list. A mail to listmaster@ or some listmasters personally should have been faster.

Re: d-i devcamp 22th to 26th of September in Oldenburg?

2004-08-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: PS: Joey, is there a wiki for the event for travel arangements? Not yet, but I guess we can use wiki.debian.net or linuxwiki.org for this. Start a page and I'll add a link to the menu on the web pages. Regards, Joey -- Life is too short to run proprietary

Re: d-i devcamp 22th to 26th of September in Oldenburg?

2004-08-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: The Oldenburg meeting takes place 22th to 26th of September this year. I've finally updated the web page: http://meeting.ffis.de/Oldenburg2004/. I suggest we do this similar to last year. Andreas Schuldei accepted to take care of recites and other paperwork, and I

Re: New d-i devcamp?

2004-07-27 Thread Martin Schulze
not sure if it will be co-located with the Oldenburg meeting (which is 22th to 26th of September this yeay), or some other place and place, but we'll see. Andreas Schuldei is trying to reach Martin Schulze to check the plans for this years Oldenburg meeting and if the d-i developers are welcome

Re: raff down

2004-03-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Josip Rodin wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 11:19:46AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: I'm trying to do a 3.0 HTTP install and the process goes fine until the installer tries to access raff.debian.org (which appears to be down) and the install stops. Just thought I'd let you know, if you

Re: CVS committ access for Thiemo Seufer (was: cvs commit to debian-installer/build/debian by goswin)

2003-11-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Joey Hess wrote: Martin Schulze wrote: Karsten Merker wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:10:53PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: Btw, I have over a dozen of patches of varying importance here. With them I have working mips support for the demo target and at least half-working

Re: CVS committ access for Thiemo Seufer (was: cvs commit to debian-installer/build/debian by goswin)

2003-11-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Karsten Merker wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:10:53PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: Btw, I have over a dozen of patches of varying importance here. With them I have working mips support for the demo target and at least half-working support for the netboot target (tested until base

Re: travel to oldenburg, and the event itself

2003-09-25 Thread Martin Schulze
You should probably copy such mails to me so I don't miss them. Geert Stappers wrote: So far the reminder. I miss the fact that the d-i people are guest on a Linux porters party, but I think we will mix well with the beyond Intel people. Well, formalia... However, you are quite right. I

Re: travel to oldenburg, and the event itself

2003-09-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Sebastian Ley wrote: About the network infrastructure: May I run a DHCP server on the network? The DHCPD should tell which image to transfer by tftp. As Joey mentioned earlier, we have to build the LAN ourselves. I intend to bring two 24 Port switches (10 Mbit/s) and one 8 Port switch

Invitation to the 8th Oldenburg Linux Developers Meeting

2003-09-10 Thread Martin Schulze
[Resent as single mail since the Debian spamfilter prevented its distribution due to a crosspost on five lists. --Joey] Hello everybody, as always, it has taken quite some time to get the required confirmation from our University that we can hold the Oldenburg Linux Developers Meeting again.

Re: de/install broken

2003-06-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h * Josip Rodin [Sun, Jun 15 2003, 08:53:10PM]: debiandoc2text -l de -O install.de.sgml install.de.txt nsgmls:de/hardware.sgml:184:8:E: document type does not allow element EXAMPLE here; assuming missing P start-tag make[3]: *** [install.de.txt]

Re: de/install broken

2003-06-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Eduard Bloch wrote: We know and someone is already working on it. In the meantime, take de from the list in documentation/Makefile.docs. Why didn't you do it?! It doesn't take a wizard to figure out you're breaking other languages' builds. Because I was not aware of the fact(?)

Re: Registered senders

2003-06-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Scott Moore] I'm sorry, but because I have been receiving more than 100 junk-mail messages an hour, I no longer accept e-mail from unregistered senders. To send me a message, please follow the path that best describes your needs: Please remove Scott More

Re: Screenshots from the woody installation

2003-01-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Thorsten Sauter wrote: On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 09:49:20PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Do we have any screenshots from the woody installation? If not, could somebody prepare some and send them to me (or a link and I'll wget them). This is a forwarded request from Personal Computer World

Screenshots from the woody installation

2003-01-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Do we have any screenshots from the woody installation? If not, could somebody prepare some and send them to me (or a link and I'll wget them). This is a forwarded request from Personal Computer World, a UK-based PC magazine (www.pcw.co.uk). Regards, Joey -- Life is a lot easier

Re: Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1

2002-11-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:28:51PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 = An up-to-date version is at http://master.debian.org/~joey/3.0r1/. I am preparing the first revision

Problem with nfsroot

2002-10-08 Thread Martin Schulze
A friend of mine tried to install woody with nfsroot recently, i.e. on a sparc with no local hard disk used, but through an nfs exported directory. This was not possible, probably due to this bug: http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2002/debian-cd-200205/msg00154.html In short: debootstrap fails

Re: translation of debian-installer messages

2002-09-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Ognyan Kulev wrote: I'm not Debian developer, but I would like to translate the messages during installation of sarge to bulgarian language. Can you tell me when these message will become stable so that I can start translating? Thanks for your kind offer. It may be a little bit early, but

Woody installation problems

2002-01-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Moin! Somebody else already mentioned the Malformed release file bug. I'm not sure what the cause of this is. A potential fix included an rm Release, maybe not the best solution. However, a couple of lines before this snippet is found: TMPCOMPONENTS=$(sed -n 's/Components: *//p' $reldest)

Re: re woddy install instruction suggestion

2001-12-21 Thread Martin Schulze
justin cunningham wrote: Hi, I suggest someone go through the install walk-through after making changes since many of the links fail. I understand this document changes frequently so maybe look at the procedure as 'best practice' when uploading the new content. Thanks, Justin PS: the

Re: more on LC

2001-11-18 Thread Martin Schulze
Adam Di Carlo wrote: Philip Blundell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem with the Choose The Language menu spilling over to the right of the screen turns out to be a newt bug; I filed #119354. Looks like we should be getting close to a point where it is safe to switch i18n on by

Fixed in NMU of boot-floppies 3.0.14

2001-09-30 Thread Martin Schulze
- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 15:50:41 -0400 Source: boot-floppies Binary: boot-floppies install-doc Architecture: source mipsel all Version: 3.0.14 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Install System Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Martin Schulze [EMAIL

build failure on ia32

2001-09-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Is this an error we will ignore today? I: making detached root disk root1200.bin from root.bin 1200+0 records in 1200+0 records out 1200+0 records in 1200+0 records out E: root.bin is larger than root1200.bin (1366439 1228800) E: ./rescue.sh abort make[1]: *** [resc1200.bin] Error 255 make[1]:

Re: [BusyBox] BusyBox 0.52 wget broken

2001-07-24 Thread Martin Schulze
Erik Andersen wrote: On Mon Jul 23, 2001 at 10:13:23PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Erik Andersen wrote: On Thu Jul 19, 2001 at 11:49:19AM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote: Howdy, As noted by Per Wigren [EMAIL PROTECTED], BusyBox 0.52 contains a broken wget. This will prevent

Re: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

2001-07-24 Thread Martin Schulze
Thimo Neubauer wrote: Hi, I'm trying to build the Alpha-bootdisks, because up to now I haven't heard of anyone doing this and I want the release to happen ;-) Anyway, I'm getting an error when rootdisk.sh tries to download the needed packages. After setting the debug-variable I found an

Re: Bootdisks for Dell PowerEdge 2500 and 2550

2001-07-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Ingemar Fällman wrote: Hi When creating the bootdisk for woody can you guys include support for AACRAID used by the Dell PowerEdge 2500 and 2550? The kernelpatch kan be found at http://domsch.com/linux Please talk to the kernel guys to include this driver into the Linux kernel directly.

Re: [BusyBox] BusyBox 0.52 wget broken

2001-07-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Erik Andersen wrote: On Thu Jul 19, 2001 at 11:49:19AM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote: Howdy, As noted by Per Wigren [EMAIL PROTECTED], BusyBox 0.52 contains a broken wget. This will prevent debootstrap's http method from working. It has since been fixed in CVS, but a new version of the

Re: mips bootfloppies/root.tar.gz

2001-07-22 Thread Martin Schulze
suggestions? I know have too look a little bit in busybox and look too what the nfsroot.sh really does. Martin Schulze wrote: Check utilities/dbootstrap/block_device.c. dbootstrap is trying to determine the device that contains the root-fs is but fails. block_device() is looking for an entry

Re: mips bootfloppies/root.tar.gz

2001-07-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Schulze wrote: If you like, you can try this patch: As Woglinde noted, it didn't work and spits out a strange error message. Here's a fix, it now compiles, tried (but only on ia32 atm) --- block_device.c.old Sun Jul 22 14:32:14 2001 +++ block_device.c Sun Jul 22 14:30:38 2001

Re: mips bootfloppies/root.tar.gz

2001-07-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Moin! H.Heinold wrote: yesterday I built the root.bin for mips and made an root.tat.gz wie the nfsroot.sh. Then set up nfs-server unpacked the root.tar.gz booted the kernel Hwith the rootnfs. The installer starts, but then busybox claims that it can not determine the rootfs. Any

Re: should burn new potato b-f for ARM?

2001-05-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Adam Di Carlo wrote: Should I do a source upload of 2.2.24 boot-floppies for the ARM stuff? Targetting which distribution? Regards, Joey -- Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: boot-floppies help

2001-04-17 Thread Martin Schulze
James D Strandboge wrote: I was reading on debianplanet that the release of woody is being held up because the boot-floppies package is not going along as quickly as hoped. What exactly needs to be done? Perhaps I can help. I have been using linux for approx 4 years and debian the last 1

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Andrew Sharp wrote: For people who care about powerpc stuff While the changelog below mentions powerpc, these are of course only ia32 floppies. Having no patience, I have taken the liberty to build a boot floppy for oldworld apple powermacs that solves the dreaded no response from

Re: Padding drivers disks

2001-04-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Schulze wrote: Hi, it occurred to me that there is a problem with padding of our drivers disk images. Hmm, this is going to annoy me... I just investigated our incoming directory: auric!joey(pts/23):/org/ftp.debian.org/incoming tar tvfz bf-images-1.44_2.2.23_i386.tar.gz|grep dr

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Ethan Benson wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 03:04:59PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Andrew Sharp wrote: For people who care about powerpc stuff While the changelog below mentions powerpc, these are of course only ia32 floppies. Having no patience, I have taken the liberty

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: his image is just the old 2.2.16 boot floppy since the potato r2 boot floppies are broken. drow is trying to fix that in the r3 boot floppies. ARGS. Is he "trying to fix this" or did he "actually fix this"? Drow, it would be a good time to appear

Re: CVS broken?

2001-04-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Jonathan McDowell wrote: I'm attempting to pull the boot-floppies CVS tree and I'm getting problems: U boot-floppies/utilities/bf-utf/slang-1.4.0-ege5.diff cvs [server aborted]: out of memory; can not allocate 26 bytes cvs [server aborted]: out of memory; can not

Status of boot-floppies

2001-04-14 Thread Martin Schulze
What's the status of powerpc boot floppies now? I've seen that BenC has uploaded a set for sparc, so we have ia32 and sparc right now. m68k and arm won't appear soon, nobody cares about alpha, so only powerpc is missing at the moment. Regards, Joey -- Beware of bugs in the above

Re: modconf_0.2.32_all.deb OK Re: modconf doesn't support 2.4.2 kernel?

2001-04-09 Thread Martin Schulze
Marvin Stodolsky wrote: Just checked. While Stable modconf_0.2.26_all.deb was only displaying the pcmcia section under 2.4.3, upgrade to Testing modconf_0.2.32_all.deb cured the problem. If you are running 2.4.x on stable please check out: http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html

Re: modconf doesn't support 2.4.2 kernel?

2001-04-08 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have read that Modconf doesn't support 2.4.(0,1) kernels. As far as I experienced, it doesn't work with the 2.4.2 neither. Which version did you use? I thought I've fixed modconf. Use the one from unstable in case you should use any other version. Regards,

Re: Woody installer for PARISC

2001-04-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Adam Di Carlo wrote: There are a few more changes I needed to make to get a working installer for PARISC, unfortunately some of them are because of limitations in the current PARISC distribution (kernel.sh was modified to not require a kernel .deb since we currently don't have one and the

Re: still not out of the woods with idepci / compact kernels

2001-04-02 Thread Martin Schulze
David Whedon wrote: The below problem is fixed. The only problem now is an aesthetic one. The compact and idepci kernels attempt to draw a framebuffer penguin logo at boot. The 2.2.19pre17 version has a messed up color map for me (I tried the 2.2.17-idepci kernel and the color map was fine,

Re: packages from potato-proposed-updates used in 2.2.21 bf

2001-03-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Adam Di Carlo wrote: Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please use libc 2.1.3-18 instead, it fixes an interesting ldd bug. Um, I don't see this built for i386 yet. It's there now. Regards, Joey -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not

i18n boot-floppies

2001-03-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Sorry folks, but I'm lost now. Was the discussion about LANG/LANGUAGE and updated i18n about potato or woody boot-floppies? Regards, Joey -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth Please always Cc to me when replying to me

Bug#71875: modconf 0.2.31 fixes this

2001-02-22 Thread Martin Schulze
This bug has been fixed with the upload of modconf 0.2.31 to master. If you need to optain the fixed package before it has been installed in the archive, please fetch the files from http://incoming.debian.org/ . modconf (0.2.31) unstable; urgency=medium . * Rewrote some module finding and

Bug#70588: libdetect/modconf

2001-02-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Stelian Pop wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:21:05AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Hi, thanks for providing a patch, but... it won't work out of the box because modconf is part of the boot floppies. This needs further investigation. IIRC, the boot floppies use modconf. When

Bug#74913: modconf does not find modules for 2.4.0 kernels

2001-02-20 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 11:38:32PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Hi, I've worked on modconf recently. Could you give it a try? http://master.debian.org/~joey/NMU/modconf_0.2.30.0.1_all.deb (it's no NMU but a MU, but well...) This looks alright, except

Bug#74913: modconf does not find modules for 2.4.0 kernels

2001-02-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, I've worked on modconf recently. Could you give it a try? http://master.debian.org/~joey/NMU/modconf_0.2.30.0.1_all.deb (it's no NMU but a MU, but well...) Regards, Joey -- Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time loop or in front of a mirror. Please always Cc to me when

Bug#78924: modconf: Doesn't support 2.4 module naming.

2001-02-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Please try http://master.debian.org/~joey/NMU/modconf_0.2.30.0.1_all.deb Bugreports welcome Regards, Joey -- Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time loop or in front of a mirror. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Bug#70588: libdetect/modconf

2001-02-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, thanks for providing a patch, but... it won't work out of the box because modconf is part of the boot floppies. This needs further investigation. Regards, Joey -- Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time loop or in front of a mirror. Please always Cc to me when replying to

bug with whiptail

2000-12-08 Thread Martin Schulze
While installing a new system I noticed that the way whiptail is highliting buttons is not quite intuitive. At the moment only red/blue shows that you've selected "yes" or "no", that is confusing especially if the default is "yes" for some questions and "no" for some others, while "yes" is

Re: preparing boot-floppies 2.2.17

2000-10-05 Thread Martin Schulze
[Oh why did I find this mail in =postponed? Why oh why?] Adam Di Carlo wrote: Joey said he's check/pester translators about PO changes. Since Adam is about to release the new generation of boot-floppies it's about time to ask the translators to get the translation in sync with the original

Re: add_modules_from_floppy() in configure_drivers()

2000-08-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Guillaume Morin wrote: Hi all, I've heard that some people were pissed after the addition of add_modules_from_floppy in configure_drivers(). I can understand that. My point is that new step is interesting for an installation system and that it does not harm the user to answer "no" to

Bug#31449: Debian Bug report logs - #31449

2000-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Adam Di Carlo wrote: Looks good, although one of the messages was in English. I'm satisfied it's enough to close the bug for. Sure they're in english, which other language do you expect? Will commit the code later then. Regards, Joey -- Whenever you meet yourself you're in a

Bug#67888: netwinder/arm port shouldn't ask about maintaining 2.0 compatability

2000-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A Severity: wishlist The debian installer for potato worked just fine on the netwinder, one I convinced it to tftp boot the provided netwinder-rescue image. One hitch though -- the question about maintaining 2.0 compatability for the ext2 fs should be

Bug#69151: provide advice about partitions to create and their sizes

2000-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.16-2000-07-20 Severity: wishlist Once you've chosen a disk to partition, you are unceremoniously dumped into pdisk, without any instructions as to how the program works or what you should do. It would be nice if there were some information about

Bug#69161: boot-floppies: installer fails to create bootable system on ``oldworld'' PowerMacs

2000-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
C.M. Connelly wrote: Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.16-2000-07-20 Severity: important The dialog ``Make Linux bootable directly from the hard disk'' apparently involves installing Quik. A dialog appears with lots of text, but disappears before you can focus on it. (All I

Bug#69959: 1.2M root.bin is just nulls

2000-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.16 Severity: important It's only null's, just confirmed. I guess it never gets written, only the file gets padded with zeroes before. Correct. Let's see. the $rootimage is empty, bad... Hmm, it's not empty for 1440, funny... Hmm, I found the problem:

New experimental boot floppies (pre 2.2.17) available for testing

2000-08-27 Thread Martin Schulze
Jacobowitz: - some powerpc-specific boot stuff fixed - update PowerPC kernel version * Martin Schulze: - Added little documentation to some routines - dbootstrap.h: Added prototype of get_kver() - getFloppies() and affected routines return DLG_CANCEL (aka 10) when Cancel

Bug#29146: request to integrate Dbrfix10.zip

2000-08-26 Thread Martin Schulze
James, which program did the faulty repartitioning? Regards, Joey -- This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot. Oldenburger LinuxTag 2000 http://oldenburger.linuxtage.de/ Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. -- To

Bug#29277: Constructing sentences in dinstall makes translation to Finnish hard

2000-08-26 Thread Martin Schulze
From: Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#29277: Constructing sentences in dinstall makes translation to Finnish hard Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type:

Language Chooser

2000-08-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi folks, who is in charge of the language chooser? The head of choose_lang.c says that it's haggie but he says, it's somebody else. Next question: Why isn't that thing enabled? Next question: How is it supposed to work? Next question: What kind of work needs to be done to get it working?

Bug#31449: Debian Bug report logs - #31449

2000-08-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.1.4 Severity: wishlist If you, from withing dbootstrap, mount as root a partition (without formatting, of course) which already has a system installed on it, dbootstrap fails to detect this condition and take reasonable action. On my machine, it emitted

Bug#57609: boot-floppies: Putting fr-latin0 keyboard map in the boot floppies?

2000-08-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Not very important bug. This is more a wish... As far a I have properly verified, the fr-latin0 keyboard map (which is part of the kbd package) is not proposed by the installation process. As this meyboard map is becoming the de facto standard for users of french keyboard layouts (it

Re: Installing into DOS partition

2000-08-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Moin! Maisenbacher Matthias (K3/EMW4) * wrote: First try: umsdos You'll need to supply more information. What is failing with umsdos.o? Don't remember anymore. Its working now. Don't ask why :-( This way I can't work on its support... Tell me more about umsdos, which commands are

Re: Choose debian archive box confusing

2000-08-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Adam Di Carlo wrote: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've fixed Bug#67082 and wonder if I may commit the code. I've decided to really fix it and get back the old behaviour instead of just editing the message text (which would affect all translators to fix their text as well

Bug#64371: Smart Array RAID Compaq do not see at boot

2000-08-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Package: boot-floppy Version: 2.2.15 Severity: critical I'm trying to install Potato on a Proliant 400 with a Smart Array RAID 211 card. At boot, the Potato CD do not see the card. The server is equiped with 3 disks using RAID 5. No disk on the motherboard SCSI port. The RAID card

Re: Why crash ? :)

2000-08-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Benjamin Constant wrote: Hi, I'm trying to make my own boot-floppies with my own (debian based) graphical text menu but when i try to execute main_menu_test, i simply get a segmentation fault... : ) Use the CVS version, that works, just tested it 10secs ago. Regards, Joey --

Re: Installing into DOS partition

2000-08-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Maisenbacher Matthias (K3/EMW4) * wrote: Hi, I was already asking this in debian-user, but nobody semmed to care. Now: I tried to install potato into a DOS partition. First try: umsdos I copied umsdos.o into /tmp ann loaded it into the kernel, but mount (in the boot flavour)

Bug#64823: incorrect LILO automatic placement on i386

2000-08-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.13-2000-05-04 Severity: critical Hello, I have a disk ``factory clean'' with no MBR. No primary partition on the disk, only logical. / = /dev/hda6 I plan to install LILO on the MBR. The install procedure will not let me do that, It give me only

Bug#66326: Debian Bug report logs - #66326 (images-1.44/rescue.bin)

2000-08-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Schulze wrote: Martin Schulze wrote: Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.15 When installing from harddisk, rescue.bin is looked for in the images-1.44 directory. If it is not found in this directory the installation does not proceed. Normally all the installation

Re: Translated floppies?

2000-08-20 Thread Martin Schulze
peter karlsson wrote: Martin Schulze: Take a look into `find -name Makefile` and check for LANG and LINGUA. Well, as I said, I'm unable to compile it myself. Alternatively, look out for LANGUAGE_CHOOSER. I don't know why that isn't compiled in by default, maybe it's not tested

Re: Translated floppies?

2000-08-20 Thread Martin Schulze
peter karlsson wrote: Alternatively, look out for LANGUAGE_CHOOSER. I don't know why that isn't compiled in by default, maybe it's not tested doesn't work. If there is no offering of translated boot floppies available for donwload, it doesn't make much sense to actually translate them,

Bug#66326: Debian Bug report logs - #66326 (images-1.44/rescue.bin)

2000-08-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.15 When installing from harddisk, rescue.bin is looked for in the images-1.44 directory. If it is not found in this directory the installation does not proceed. Normally all the installation files are placed in one directory. Rescue.bin should be

Re: Choose debian archive box confusing

2000-08-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Schulze wrote: I wonder if I shall commit the code or not. Waiting for confirmation. I reworked it slightly, but the correct version is at: The patch is attached below and copied to this location as well: http://www.infodrom.ffis.de/Infodrom/patches/boot-floppies/patch-2.2.16

Bug#66326: Debian Bug report logs - #66326 (images-1.44/rescue.bin)

2000-08-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Schulze wrote: Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.15 When installing from harddisk, rescue.bin is looked for in the images-1.44 directory. If it is not found in this directory the installation does not proceed. Normally all the installation files are placed in one

Compiling _test targets

2000-08-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Whoever wrote that part of the Makefile, would it be possible to add some sort of dependencies to the _test targets? It sucks quite deep to always recompile every single .c file in the utilities/dbootstrap directory if you changed one line in a single .c file and need to check the _test target

Re: [redferni@logica.com: Re: Release Notes!!!]

2000-08-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Josip Rodin wrote: (Updates to release notes will be allowed in the next point release, I hope) That reminds me of the requirement of a general '2.2 Release Remarks' maintained on the web, concerning *all* packages' problems, like this one (at least until it's written down in the official

Re: bf rewrite?

2000-08-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Joey Hess wrote: Part of the reason behind the rewrite is what you've just discussed -- very few people are able to understand the current code-base and work on it effectively. A big goal of the rewrite is to get as many new people working on it as possible, and make the new system modular

Bug#67082: Choose debian archive box confusing

2000-08-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Schulze wrote: Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Ben Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.15 When installing the base system from NFS, I first get asked

Re: New release of boot-floppies

2000-08-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Adam Di Carlo wrote: If we don't provide the devices, we should create them online, that would be a feasable solution for me. Or alternatively we have to remove the drivers that make use of them... Well, the stupid raid drivers that need all those controller-specific devices is what is

Bug#67624: potato] mkfs.ext2 does not work on file

2000-08-14 Thread Martin Schulze
First of all, I can reproduce this bug... Wow! Jan Korycan wrote: Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.16 When I try to make ext2 filesystem on a file mkfs.ext2 prints: mkfs.ext2: error in loading shared libraries: /lib/libext2fs.so.2: symbol __divdi3, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in

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