cvs commit to boot-floppies by falk

2001-08-08 Thread falk
Repository: boot-floppies who:falk time: Wed Aug 8 16:43:45 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Rename misleading write_milo to write_aboot. * Remove unused "milo on rescue disk" cruft. Files: changed:rescue.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

cvs commit to boot-floppies by falk

2001-08-08 Thread falk
Repository: boot-floppies who:falk time: Wed Aug 8 16:40:56 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Use ldmilo.exe instead of linload.exe for Ruffian. * More verbose "srmboot missing" message. * Size of image is 1440k; too many problems with 720k to be worth the space savings.

Alpha bootdisk status

2001-08-08 Thread Falk Hueffner
nice if a kernel would fit together with a milo on a disk, but it doesn't. We also don't have those kernel images in the archive anymore. * net boot stuff. I'll disable it until I get around to understanding it. Well, I hope I can get a bit of feedback about this plan, espec

Re: Library reduction on Alpha (was: Re: Alpha: aboot rescue disk)

2001-08-07 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Christopher C. Chimelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7 Aug 2001, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > > Yes, it acually doesn't seem to make any difference. With mklibs.sh: > > What exactly does this script do to libc (or really, what isn't it > doing

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by falk

2001-08-07 Thread falk
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:falk time: Tue Aug 7 17:25:07 PDT 2001 Log Message: Document noteworthy changes. Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies by falk

2001-08-07 Thread falk
Repository: boot-floppies who:falk time: Tue Aug 7 11:18:05 PDT 2001 Log Message: Don't copy sys_map and kernel config to rescue floppy on Alpha since aboot doesn't fit otherwise. Also fix a misleading comment. Files: changed:rescue.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

cvs commit to boot-floppies by falk

2001-08-07 Thread falk
Repository: boot-floppies who:falk time: Tue Aug 7 11:12:28 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Better loopback check. * Use mklibs.py by default on Alpha, since otherwise the root floppy gets too big. We already build-depend on python-dev, so no additional dependencies are needed

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk by falk

2001-08-07 Thread falk
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk who:falk time: Tue Aug 7 11:08:47 PDT 2001 Log Message: Clean up debug messages. Accept -v. Check return code of executed commands. Ignore hardlinks to already considered programs (busyboxen). Ignore scripts. Files: changed

Library reduction on Alpha (was: Re: Alpha: aboot rescue disk)

2001-08-07 Thread Falk Hueffner
.sh to use mklibs.py for Alpha for now. Falk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk by falk

2001-08-07 Thread falk
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk who:falk time: Tue Aug 7 07:21:46 PDT 2001 Log Message: Make the dynamic linker executable. Files: changed:mklibs.py -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: libm on root-filesystem?

2001-08-05 Thread Falk Hueffner
o be made executable IIRC, but I'm too tired now and will go to bed. Falk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Alpha: aboot rescue disk

2001-08-05 Thread Falk Hueffner
t fits so nicely? There's already a special case for some arch's not to add it, can I just include Alpha? Falk P. S. the mklibs.sh libm trick didn't seem to work so everybody building boot disks for Alpha should try mklibs.py, which is in CVS now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk by falk

2001-08-05 Thread falk
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk who:falk time: Sun Aug 5 20:08:21 PDT 2001 Log Message: New library reducing script. Differen algorithm that is likelier not to add unneeded symbols. To test, change the call to $scripts/mklibs.sh in rootdisk.sh to $scripts/mklibs.py

cvs commit to boot-floppies by falk

2001-08-05 Thread falk
Repository: boot-floppies who:falk time: Sun Aug 5 19:37:24 PDT 2001 Log Message: Argh. rootdisk.sh exits on error, so ignore failing insmod. Sorry. Files: changed:rootdisk.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

cvs commit to boot-floppies by falk

2001-08-05 Thread falk
Repository: boot-floppies who:falk time: Sun Aug 5 19:28:51 PDT 2001 Log Message: insmod loop. At least for me, it didn't work automatically, and can't do any harm. Files: changed:rootdisk.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: New bootdisks / first install report / help needed

2001-08-05 Thread Falk Hueffner
rs since the milo only takes about 400k, so we waste about 15MB mirror space, but I'd actually prefer it, makes things easier for the installer, no problems with finding a mkfatfs, getting file names right etc. I wanted to hack that part anyway, OK if I give it a try? Falk --

Re: Build problem for Alpha bootdisks

2001-08-02 Thread Falk Hueffner
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:31:20AM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > method is wasteful because it downloads all dependencies. So I suggest > > this as a workaround till we can get apt-get to ignore dependencies > > *complete

Re: Build problem for Alpha bootdisks

2001-08-01 Thread Falk Hueffner
... local PACKAGE="$(apt-cache show $i | awk '/^Filename:/ {print $2; exit}')" debug "downloading " $MIRROR/$PACKAGE (cd $archive/cache/archives && wget -q "$MIRROR/$PACKAGE") done } It would be nice if somebody could try th

Re: Build problem for Alpha bootdisks

2001-07-30 Thread Falk Hueffner
Thimo Neubauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 03:45:37AM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > Do I have to add sysvinit to the package list, or what's the problem? > > The problem was already being discussed starting at > http://lists.debian.org/d

Build problem for Alpha bootdisks

2001-07-29 Thread Falk Hueffner
.sh abort make[1]: *** [root.bin] Error 255 make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/src/boot-floppies' make: *** [build] Error 2 Do I have to add sysvinit to the package list, or what's the problem? I also wonder if we shouldn't use the milos from http://www.suse.de/~stepan/, which are actively being maintained by the SuSe folks. If nobody objects, I could try it. Falk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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