Bug#852779: installation-reports: Mostly successful install amd64 stretch RC1

2017-01-27 Thread Chris Tillman
Google tells me bug 849124 covers the reportbug issues, and installing gir1.2-vte-2.91 did fix the issue. I reckon that is important enough, though, that Stretch should not be released until that fix makes its way into the release candidate. On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 10:18 PM, Chris Tillman wrote

Bug#852779: installation-reports: Mostly successful install amd64 stretch RC1

2017-01-27 Thread Chris Tillman
face 2 gtk2 A graphical (GTK+) user interface. Select interface: 2 Will reportbug often have direct Internet access? (You should answer yes to this question unless you know what you are doing and plan to check whether duplicate reports have been filed via some other channel.) [Y|n|q|?]? y What real

Bug#762316: To avoid installer lock-up, iso-scan should always ask if more than one iso image is found

2014-09-20 Thread Chris Tillman
Package: iso-scan Version: 1.53 Severity: important Tags: d-i Dear Debian Install System Team, I found a bug using iso-scan in the installer image downloaded from http://ftp.citylink.co.nz/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/initrd.gz dated 2 Aug 2014. The bug is

Bug#760712: WEP vs WPA2

2014-09-11 Thread Chris Tillman
With this installation I was using WPA2-Personal at the access point. I see the log messages look similar as in bug #741622, deauthenticating immediately after connect. For a later install on the same computer, also to USB target, I used WEP in the installer to connect to the access point (install

Bug#760712: Further info

2014-09-07 Thread Chris Tillman
Here is the picture of the Win 8 WLAN properties which I claimed to have attached originally. -- Chris Tillman Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Bug#760712: Further info

2014-09-07 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Chris Tillman wrote: > Here is the picture of the Win 8 WLAN properties which I claimed to > have attached originally. > > -- > Chris Tillman > Developer -- Chris Tillman Developer wlan0-in-windows-conf.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document

Bug#760014: win32-loader "This program doesn't support" dialog box hidden by browser window

2014-08-30 Thread Chris Tillman
tance. -- Chris Tillman Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cao299fsqg6tnfv4wutndkmnccjyas3vhlikeh2xeo7evbvu...@mail.gmail.com

Bug#640789: Crash on folder name with spaces

2014-08-13 Thread Chris Tillman
Hi Cyril, Thanks for your attention. I think that was my patch. (Chris Tillman). The only line the patch is affecting is the one with find $dir, adding the quotes to make it find "$dir". The rest of it certainly does look strange, but anyway it works if you just add the quotes. May

Bug#712675: Potential duplicate bug

2014-05-02 Thread Chris Tillman
The error shown Jul 10 04:51:52 main-menu[213]: WARNING **: Configuring 'iso-scan' failed with error code 1 Jul 10 04:51:52 main-menu[213]: WARNING **: Menu item 'iso-scan' failed. is the same symptom shown in iso-scan bug 640789, caused by an unquoted $dir variable in a find command within iso-

Bug#628991: Potential bug duplicate

2014-05-02 Thread Chris Tillman
Also see bug 640789, which could be a duplicate.

Bug#737170: Potentially duplicate bug

2014-05-02 Thread Chris Tillman
ir variable in a find command within iso-scan.postinst. OP, did the volume you were trying to query have any paths with spaces in it? That would cause this error. -- Chris Tillman Developer

Bug#640789: Same patch applies for more bugs

2014-03-16 Thread Chris Tillman
. How can this bug still exist? -- Chris Tillman

Bug#628991: Repeated, some more info, patch

2014-02-10 Thread Chris Tillman
" -o -name "*.ISO" 2>/dev/null) + isolist=$(find "$dir" $opt -name "*.iso" -o -name "*.ISO" 2>/dev/null) -- Chris Tillman Developer

Bug#571958: hfsplus supported

2014-02-10 Thread Chris Tillman
b 9 19:02:42 iso-scan: Debian ISO ./Applications/debian-7.3.0-powerpc-netinst.iso usable Feb 9 19:02:42 main-menu[251]: WARNING **: Configuring 'iso-scan' failed with error code 1 -- Chris Tillman Developer

Bug#247949: main-menu: eject command not available in installer shell

2004-05-07 Thread Chris Tillman
e: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Bug#240109: Additional confirmation and info

2004-05-07 Thread Chris Tillman
e that anything was wrong until yaboot installation barfed with 'Failed to mount /proc'. The underlying problem was yabootconfig being unable to find a bootable kernel in /boot. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance)

Bug#240182: After executing a shell, installer tries to resume automatic operation

2004-03-25 Thread Chris Tillman
le: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#240109: Further info

2004-03-25 Thread Chris Tillman
able? It should have thrown its cookies instead. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#240109: install: Installer puts wrong kernel in boot partition [powerpc-newworld]

2004-03-25 Thread Chris Tillman
rchitecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.4.20-powerpc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: netcfg debconf templates - please review

2003-12-12 Thread Chris Tillman
aker there are probably some mistakes. > > Thanks > > Gaudenz -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 1.44 meg boot disk problem

2003-12-08 Thread Chris Tillman
he 18 one has 18 of 20 (checked with a binary editor). Here are the md5sums I get from the downloaded files: a56b386132512c7e8bdd334d2af2f593 /home/toff/base-17.bin c2d1e669d65a7a4a4b20fbcd5eae4894 /home/toff/base-18.bin -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris T

Re: FWD: Can't Get Past "Install the Base System"

2003-12-05 Thread Chris Tillman
ation program couldn't find any directory containing a file > basedebs.tar or dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Release." The last time I saw this, the user had booted from some CD other than CD #1 and still had that CD in the drive. The base files are on CD #1, so be sure that's the o

Re: Modconf and 2.6 kernel

2003-11-28 Thread Chris Tillman
think it's being actively maintained, there was no response to the previous post IIRC. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#222381: installation-reports: Installation Report

2003-11-28 Thread Chris Tillman
ed. I was saved by doing a chroot to the target and apt-getting > ftp. It was very ugly, but it worked. wget is in the installer. It would be nice if, when the user types ftp, the response could be 'Try wget'. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris

Re: boot-floppies ; new release for 3.0r2 ?

2003-11-19 Thread Chris Tillman
;s been built some time ago, but I think not. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with Sarge netinst and Yaboot

2003-11-18 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:07:44PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:20:53PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, I've just bought a PowerBook G4 12". > > > > I have downloaded the Beta1 of Sarge NetInst for PowerPC (November 9th) >

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/main-menu/debian by toff

2003-11-18 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:40:01PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:07:48PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > +- Added ${VERSION} so the version will show in the main menu title >

Re: Problems with Sarge netinst and Yaboot

2003-11-18 Thread Chris Tillman
TED]:0,yaboot.conf: Unknown or > corrupt filesystem > Can't open config file > Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.10 > Enter "help" to get some basic usage information > boot: > Please wait, loading kernel... > :0,/vmlinux: Unable to open file, Invalid device -- Debian

Re: Fwd: Install Report from a Linux newbie - some comments

2003-11-17 Thread Chris Tillman
on yourself for what you were doing), and fill it in. BTW, I've started working on a really basic linux-newbie help file. I'd appreciate any feedback you have; if you'd like I can email it. I have it posted at http://members.cox.net/toff1/ (Download the 'aclue' link in bin

Re: Realtek RTL8139

2003-11-17 Thread Chris Tillman
stem By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/main-menu/debian by toff

2003-11-17 Thread Chris Tillman
version in there. I guess we should set a DI_VERSION variable at the top level build? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#221266: 'images-1.44/rescue.bin bug

2003-11-17 Thread Chris Tillman
7;s been working great. Are you inserting CD #2, not CD #1? CD #2 is only used for _booting_ the vanilla flavor; the kernels are all there on CD #1 though in the right folder structure. > Also, I can't find any 'drivers.tgz' file on the iso image. This is > another file t

Bug#220917: Sparc section 11.2.3.1.1 Rescue floppy images and 11.2.3.1.3 TFTP boot images refer to non existant urls

2003-11-17 Thread Chris Tillman
urrent/sun4cdm/tftpboot.img > > ../current/sparc64/tftpboot.img should be ../current/sun3u/tftpboot.img > > -- > Regards Vincent Thanks. I applied this in CVS. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at co

Re: Debconf templates polishing status

2003-11-17 Thread Chris Tillman
onf ; NONE ; Already OK;; > retriever/choose-mirror ; NONE ; Already OK?;; > tools/bugreporter-udeb ; NONE ; Already OK;; > > base-config;220836;;; > shadow;221151 > > -- > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "uns

Bug#220949: install: Installer overwrites user data without warning

2003-11-15 Thread Chris Tillman
step at a time as it did in boot-floppies. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: powerpc Kernel: Linux iMacBlue.cox.net 2.4.22-powerpc #1 Sat Sep 27 04:08:08 CEST 2003 ppc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the Pe

Re: powerpc 2.4.22-3 kernel packages ready.

2003-11-15 Thread Chris Tillman
ytes. After it was finished, I re-checked with dpkg -s and it was _still_ not installed. What's going on here? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-14 Thread Chris Tillman
you make changes here, except for that the answer would be to always run it after a change. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install manual language codes

2003-11-12 Thread Chris Tillman
ponds, make it the way you think it should be. We don't have a Makefile yet, so there's nothing standing in your way. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Tillman
r; without it blind users cannot install. > Does brltty break on i386, m68k or alpha too? Don't know. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Second stage console problem

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Tillman
t of base-config > and into the plain old linux console though. :-/ ... so that's next ... -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#220030: prebaseconfig: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Tillman
; > -- System Information: > Debian Release: testing/unstable > Architecture: i386 > Kernel: Linux mykerinos 2.4.22 #2 Mon Sep 29 15:12:10 CEST 2003 i686 > Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8) > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#220180: cdrom-detect: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Tillman
ch' associated with distributions. Usually each is just termed a 'distribution' which seems right to me; each distribution stands by itself. So, I would remove 'branch' and 'branches', otherwise OK. > Template: debian-installer/cdrom-detect/title > Type:

Re: Flavors

2003-11-10 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:59:51PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Chris Tillman wrote: > > In the old installation manual, there were four (no, 5) flavors of > > kernels for i386. In the current kernel module, only one kernel > > version is listed. Can we dump all the instruc

Flavors

2003-11-09 Thread Chris Tillman
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Bug#219633: netcfg: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-07 Thread Chris Tillman
cfg/confirm_static > Type: boolean > Default: true > -_Description: Is this configuration correct? > +_Description: Are these informations correct? > + Currently configured network parameters: > + . >interface = ${interface} >hostname = ${hostname} &

Bug#219471: lvmcfg: Debconf templates rewrite

2003-11-07 Thread Chris Tillman
) were found in your system. All > physical volumes may already be in use. You may also need to load > some required kernel modules or re-partition the hard drives. > -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at

Re: "Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 For Intel x86" - Xwindows config?

2003-11-07 Thread Chris Tillman
it, search at xfree86.org, and post on a list there, or on debian-user. This list is actually for development of the installer, and X configuration is beyond its scope. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at co

Bug#219472: iso-scan: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-06 Thread Chris Tillman
n installer ISO image was not found. The ISO > + image you downloaded is maybe corrupted. > + . > + Please do a network install instead, or reboot and fix the ISO image. ... image you downloaded may be corrupted. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chr

Bug#219469: ddetect: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-06 Thread Chris Tillman
le is not listed. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#219189: cdrom-checker: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-04 Thread Chris Tillman
stem Information: > Debian Release: testing/unstable > Architecture: i386 > Kernel: Linux mykerinos 2.4.22 #2 Mon Sep 29 15:12:10 CEST 2003 i686 > Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8) -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#218992: base-installer: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-03 Thread Chris Tillman
om the APT sources. Please choose > + one of them in order to make to system bootable from the hard drive. > > Consistency with the Style Guide document. Maybe better english is possible? ... make the system bootable ... -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the P

Bug#218690: Processed: reopen

2003-11-02 Thread Chris Tillman
I saw it had been merged with 218689, a better solution; but I had just closed the merged bug. So I reopened it. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: [WOODY] Need sugestion for Floppy-Install

2003-11-02 Thread Chris Tillman
to the secondary IDE? Much faster than reading 114 floppies, one at a time. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#218597: should display a notice when changing the debconf priority level

2003-11-02 Thread Chris Tillman
uld display a note before jumping to a higher > priority. I couldn't agree more. This would definitely help to avoid the panicky the 'Captain! She's out of control!' feeling. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people insta

Bug#218689: partitioner: Unable to start mac-fdisk

2003-11-02 Thread Chris Tillman
2.4.22-powerpc #1 Sat Sep 27 04:08:08 CEST 2003 ppc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Bug#218690: partitioner: Unable to start mac-fdisk

2003-11-02 Thread Chris Tillman
People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge netinst with PCMCIA ethernet fails to install modules

2003-10-30 Thread Chris Tillman
same > problem, or is that a different beast? I was thinking of trying a woody > netinst and then a dist-upgrade. But if that's known to have issues > then I'll just bite the bullet and download the full ISOs with jigdo. AFAIK pcmcia works in woody. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operatin

Re: [ppc] netinstall image from gluck report

2003-10-30 Thread Chris Tillman
RITY=normal -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: custom task with bf

2003-10-29 Thread Chris Tillman
local dir(without bf) works from this cd > can anyone help? debootstrap compares the MD5 signature. Did you generate a new MD5sums file also? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-29 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:17:34AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:41:18PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:42:22AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > Am Fre, den 24.10.2003 schrieb Chris Tillman um 08:15: > > > >

Re: Bug#217503: Evil autopartkit should _NEVER_ _NEVER_ try to overwrite an unknown partition table

2003-10-28 Thread Chris Tillman
together. I'm also attempting to understand the myriad of targets and images that will be available, we'll have to explain to users how to choose the one they need. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at co

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-28 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:42:22AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Am Fre, den 24.10.2003 schrieb Chris Tillman um 08:15: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:14:29PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > Aha! I got a working kernel. I guess I know more than I think I do :) &

Bug#217775: choose-mirror: Debconf templates polishing

2003-10-27 Thread Chris Tillman
Would it be OK to incorporate small corrections like this when applying the patch? In general I think what you're doing is great and will make the installer much more user friendly. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a peopl

Bug#217775: choose-mirror: Debconf templates polishing

2003-10-27 Thread Chris Tillman
file download protocol. If unsure, select "http"; it is less > prone to problems involving firewalls. I second these. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test

2003-10-25 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:41:13PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:53:56AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > The reduced kernel does not seem to boot on the 9500. It > > produces the small penguin icon and loads from the floppy, > > then blanks the screen

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test

2003-10-24 Thread Chris Tillman
The reduced kernel does not seem to boot on the 9500. It produces the small penguin icon and loads from the floppy, then blanks the screen and stops. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To

Re: Second round of powerpc subarch investigation : boot-loaders.

2003-10-24 Thread Chris Tillman
It should ask for a root disk, at which point you'll just have to reboot for now. We'll need help testing the debian-installer very soon! Thanks for your contributions. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HOWTO install Debian from another distribution?

2003-10-24 Thread Chris Tillman
de to pick individual packages. If you have dpkg running, but it's not registered, yo can use dpkg --install dpkg The same logic works with apt-get --reinstall install apt-get -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-23 Thread Chris Tillman
753,7 +1753,7 @@ # # CONFIG_CRC32 is not set CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y -CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=m +CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y # # Kernel hacking -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: new build/debian directory

2003-10-23 Thread Chris Tillman
I suppose the change I just checked in will > fix it though. I got a similar error in the same place, I assume after the update. For me, dpkg was complaining about udebs/*.deb (--unpack) instead of extraudebs. Shortly after that, the build stops when it can't find ./tmp/bootfloppy/tree/b

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-23 Thread Chris Tillman
l. > > Could you have a look at this this evening. I'll see, not too likely to succeed I'm afraid. Any ideas what options might get me around the ramdisk prompt where it doesn't accept the Enter key? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-23 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:44:38AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > Sven Luther schrieb: > > >On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:01:25PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > >>On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:14:21AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> >

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-23 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:03:46AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:01:25PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:14:21AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-23 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 07:54:37AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:14:21AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: &g

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:14:21AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > However, it didn't get much farther when I tried a kernel that did > > have drivers ... it read the partitions OK, but failed soon

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Tillman
pose this is just because quik doesn't load the ram up ahead of time? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [new-powermac] boot on hd but install does not recognize hd!

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Tillman
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Re: problems with debian

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Tillman
the point of system installation. One thing, though: to reconfigure X, the command is dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Section 3.7.5.1 of Install Manual

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Tillman
NOT "proc". Once I did this the kernel installed and everything was good. > > Thanks for the document though, other than this hiccup everything worked first time. Thanks, I added the tip. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a

Re: first nearly successful USB media install

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:40:14AM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote: > ons 2003-10-22 klockan 05.42 skrev Chris Tillman: > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:56:39PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > > > In cfdisk, I told it to change my 128 mb swap partition to ext2, and > >

Re: first nearly successful USB media install

2003-10-21 Thread Chris Tillman
rtition, not the partition type. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PowerPC CHRP network install

2003-10-21 Thread Chris Tillman
should work in > theory. zImage.initrd or zImage plus a separate initrd (if this is > possible on your arch) over bootp/dhcp/tftp/whatsoever works. We definitely need testing in this area. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance)

Re: [ppc] unable to install on new powerbook14"

2003-10-21 Thread Chris Tillman
d the newer version of yaboot is available at penguinppc.org. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IBM 43P-150 installation

2003-10-21 Thread Chris Tillman
rnel to get it to work: > > CONFIG_NFS_V3=y > > CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y > > Mmm, making the kernel bigger, not smaller :(( BTW, the quik patch that Ben sent to the list takes away our quik size worries. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Till

Re: Proposal for low-mem cdrom install and minimum kernel versions thereof

2003-10-21 Thread Chris Tillman
ow the current installer does. There are a lot of older machines out there that we're leaving behind if we require 32MB. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Second round of powerpc subarch investigation : boot-loaders.

2003-10-19 Thread Chris Tillman
ibly even many of them, > one of them being specialized for miboot and its 1.3Mo kernel size > requirement, and build the kernel udebs from that. This is the solution that prep used in boot-floppies. It was problematic to be building kernels within the installer build. I don't have an

Re: busybox vs busybox-cvs?

2003-10-17 Thread Chris Tillman
the list. Why am I writing this? Because I've heard enough from Bastian to know that he knows very little English, and for that reason if no other, I think it's not fair to browbeat him on the list. Just stick to what's wrong with the code, not what's wrong with the coder.

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:33:36PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > Goswin von Brederlow schrieb: > > >Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > >> > &g

Re: Install report

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Tillman
ented, but it's subsidiary to debootstrap itself so I couldn't figure it out. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:59:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > I tested d-i using BootX. > > Greate. Your destined to test disk boots f

Re: Install report

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Tillman
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Bug#216045: partconf: No column headings for partition selection table

2003-10-15 Thread Chris Tillman
Sat Oct 4 08:20:43 CEST 2003 ppc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Bug#216046: partconf: Partition changes above partition 9 applied incorrectly

2003-10-15 Thread Chris Tillman
Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: powerpc Kernel: Linux ip68-107-137-100.tc.ph.cox.net 2.4.22-powerpc #1 Sat Oct 4 08:20:43 CEST 2003 ppc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox do

Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-15 Thread Chris Tillman
ebian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge netinst on Pismo

2003-10-15 Thread Chris Tillman
what happened afterwards because of > the flashing lcd. I guess the key press had no effect. Sounds like it's segfaulting and restarting? You might be able to stop the flashing using Ctrl-S or Ctrl-C and then switch to console 2 or 3? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Install notes

2003-10-14 Thread Chris Tillman
probably there should be nothing depending on automatic partitioning. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Proposed patch: ppcdetect -> archdetect

2003-10-14 Thread Chris Tillman
+++ tools/base-installer/debian/changelog 14 Oct 2003 14:24:54 - @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ * Alastair McKinstry - Add versioned depends on libdebconfclient-dev, to get working debconf_ macros. + * Chris Tillman +- change ppcdetect to archdetect and corresponding CASEs

Re: apache: call for english review

2003-10-13 Thread Chris Tillman
an/templates http://cvs.debian.org/debian-installer/tools/sparc/silo-installer/debian/silo-installer.templates http://cvs.debian.org/debian-installer/utils/debian/di-utils-shell.templates http://cvs.debian.org/debian-installer/utils/debian/di-utils-choosesystem.templates -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating Syste

Re: anna's hard-coded priority list of retreivers

2003-10-13 Thread Chris Tillman
er to go there, that would be better. Execute a Shell should not be dependent on anything, though. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [RFC] hard drive / usb storage installs

2003-10-11 Thread Chris Tillman
changes in > the partitioner and formating modules. Well, if the iso is dd'd to the partition, it is read-only and has no space available. Not sure if that's the way you want to do it though. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people i

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