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

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 C

Re: sarge3 kernel build & r3

dann frazier wrote: > I saw some questions on irc about the sarge3 kernel build & r3... > > 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

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 the

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

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 va

Re: timeline for next kernel update round

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

Re: kbd-chooser for DECstation machines

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] wi

Re: Dropping 386 support

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

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 Ko

Re: Dropping 386 support

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

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 pr

__MIPSEL__ instead of __mipsel__

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: kbd-chooser for DECstation machines

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 o

Re: Dropping 386 support

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

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

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 th

Re: kbd-chooser for DECstation machines

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 dis

kbd-chooser for DECstation machines

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: A

State of graphical installer

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 installe

Re: RE/FW: Please stop sending me emails

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

Invitation to the Oldenburg Linux Developers Meeting #9

Moin! Invitation to the Oldenburg Linux Developers Meeting #9 --- Executive summary: URL: http://meeting.ffis.de/Oldenburg2004/ What: Oldenburg Linux Developers Meeting #9 Who: Every developer interested in Linux on non-i386

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

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > The Oldenburg meeting takes place 22th to 26th of September this year. I've finally updated the web page: . > I suggest we do this similar to last year. Andreas Schuldei accepted > to take care of recites and other paperwork, an

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

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: New d-i devcamp?

h to make me try to make it happen. I'm 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

Re: raff down

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 st

Re: raff down

Kenton Brede 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 didn't > already. raff won't come back. Please remove the host from

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

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 work

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

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

Re: travel to oldenburg, and the event itself

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 P

Re: travel to oldenburg, and the event itself

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.

Invitation to the 8th Oldenburg Linux Developers Meeting

[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

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

Re: de/install broken

Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * 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.

Re: "Registered senders"

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

Re: Screenshots from the woody installation

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 requ

Screenshots from the woody installation

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 when

Re: Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1

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/>.

Problem with nfsroot

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 b

Re: translation of debian-installer messages

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, b

Woody installation problems

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' $relde

Re: re woddy install instruction suggestion

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

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 i18

Fixed in NMU of boot-floppies 3.0.14

- 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 S

build failure on ia32

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: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

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

Re: [BusyBox] BusyBox 0.52 wget broken

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

Re: [BusyBox] BusyBox 0.52 wget broken

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 versi

Re: Bootdisks for Dell PowerEdge 2500 and 2550

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 dire

Re: mips bootfloppies/root.tar.gz

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 S

Re: mips bootfloppies/root.tar.gz

t can not determine > > the rootfs. Any 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

Re: mips bootfloppies/root.tar.gz

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 sugges

Re: no alpha boot-floppies

Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Nobody is working on Alpha boot floppies for Woody at the moment. > This is a bad situation. Unless alpha porters start working on > getting things going for their architecture, won't that mean we don't > have boot-floppies and Alpha will not be able to participate in th

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

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 "un

Re: boot-floppies help

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

Re: CVS broken?

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

Re: new potato boot-floppies

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 tim

Re: new potato boot-floppies

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 > > > ia3

Re: Padding drivers disks

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_i

Re: Boot floppies 2.2.23

Jonathan McDowell wrote: > > Unless you're volunteering? > > I'm currently working on them. Or at least trying to build them (and I > appear to have got Atari, Amiga, Mac & vme6000 done). It's a slow > process however. Wow! Great! Regards, Joey -- GNU GPL: "The source will be with

Re: new potato boot-floppies

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 fro

Padding drivers disks

Hi, it occurred to me that there is a problem with padding of our drivers disk images. The uploaded drivers images are not zero-padded: auric!joey(pts/23):/org/ftp-master.debian.org/ftp/dists/proposed-updates> l disks-i386/2.2.22-2001-04-09/images-1.44/driv* -rw-rw-r--1 troupdebadmin

Status of boot-floppies

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 code

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

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?

[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. Regard

Re: id -d invocation

Edward Betts wrote: > Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oy. What provides ID on the root system? busybox I assume. We just > > need to slap a big heavy bug on busybox (or whatever package provides > > 'id' on the root filesystem) and move on. > > I am confused, what is `id -d' meant

Re: Woody installer for PARISC

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

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

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 fi

i18n boot-floppies

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 o

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

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 correc

Bug#78924: modconf 0.2.31 fixes this

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 n

Bug#71875: modconf 0.2.31 fixes this

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 n

Bug#63804: modconf 0.2.31 fixes this

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 n

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

[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

Bug#70588: libdetect/modconf

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. &

Bug#71875: modconf doesn't honor locale properly

Hi, I've worked on this bug and gave LC_MESSAGES a precedence against LANG. I cannot use locales(1) unless busybox supports it. Anyway, I've placed a prelimnary package at: http://master.debian.org/~joey/NMU/modconf_0.2.30.0.2_all.deb Regards, Joey -- Whenever you meet yourself you'

Bug#70588: libdetect/modconf

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 me

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

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 [E

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

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 repl

"bug" with whiptail

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 always

Re: preparing boot-floppies 2.2.17

[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 te

Re: add_modules_from_floppy() in configure_drivers()

Martin Schulze wrote: > Michael Sobolev wrote: > > > > > Btw. for the main path it should be ok to just hit [enter], which in turn > > > > > means you'd have to switch the meaning of yes/no in your question. > > > > Hmm.. Yes. Would it

Re: add_modules_from_floppy() in configure_drivers()

Michael Sobolev wrote: > > > > Btw. for the main path it should be ok to just hit [enter], which in turn > > > > means you'd have to switch the meaning of yes/no in your question. > > > Hmm.. Yes. Would it be feasible to implement an additional argument to > > > yesNoBox (and twoButtonBox) that s

Re: add_modules_from_floppy() in configure_drivers()

Michael Sobolev wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:27:26AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Guillaume Morin wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I've heard that some people were pissed after the addition of > > > add_modules_from_floppy

Re: add_modules_from_floppy() in configure_drivers()

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 "n

Bug#31449: Debian Bug report logs - #31449

Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 09:45:44AM +0200, Martin Schulze 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, w

New experimental boot floppies (pre 2.2.17) available for testing

to documentation/ dir * Daniel 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_CAN

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

> 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:

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

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. (A

Bug#69153: powerpc stuff

retitle 69153 [powerpc] include partition name in initialize and activate partitions dialogs thanks This is only possible on systems where partitions also have names, like powerpc boxes. Needs to be done by powerpc folks. Regards, Joey -- Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time

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

> 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

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

> 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 > shou

Bug#31449: Debian Bug report logs - #31449

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#31449: Debian Bug report logs - #31449

Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [Adam wrote] > > > I already had my system installed on the disk (which was mounted as > > > /target), and it was running 2.0.35 rather than 2.0.36, thus > > > the messages. Of cours

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

> 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 (

Bug#31449: Debian Bug report logs - #31449

> 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 e

Language Chooser

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? I'

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

> 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 > C

Bug#29146: request to integrate Dbrfix10.zip

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 UNSUB

Re: Installing into DOS partition

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

Re: install prog -> problem on ide raid system : PART 2

Oliver Kowalke wrote: > Dear all, > > I forgot to say that I want to install Debian 2.2 on a raid 0 array. So - > installing Debian on a drive on motherboard ide controler and then move it > to the ide controler will not work. Maybe should I compile a new kernel with > a driver for my ide raid c

Bug#69786: Documentation - important

Martin Schulze wrote: > Package: boot-floppies > Version: current (pre 2.2.17) > > The following issues need to be documented. I'm writing this bug report > only because it should not be forgotten... > > 1. The meaning of the "<...>"-button in the

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