Re: NEWS for debian-boot

1999-01-17 Thread Eric Delaunay
Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > We're preparing for the 2.1.5 release of the boot-floppies package, > which will re-introduce the tecra kernels for x86 (aw!). Also, the > package pre-selections mechanism has been made > cross-architecture-aware, and we have patched in m68k fixes. > > There is still muc

Re: sparc frozen

1999-01-17 Thread Eric Delaunay
James Troup wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for the delay, but it's finally been done. The following > packages have been removed from slink because the version in sid was > from potato. Please recompile them with the slink source and hax0r > the .changes file to say `frozen' only and upload them. > >

SILO bootable cdrom troubles (second run)

1999-01-17 Thread Eric Delaunay
Hello, I'm still having troubles to making SILO bootable cdrom. My first attempt was using mkisofs, intelsilo & cdrecord on my PC box. I tried silo 0.8.1 then silo 0.8.5 with no success at all. SILO refused to load the initial ramdisk from my written CD. I got "Internal error while loading phy

cdrecord package is broken

1999-01-17 Thread Eric Delaunay
The cdrecord 1.6final-0.2 package for sparc is broken. cdrecord gives me the following error: # cdrecord dev=6,0 -toc Cdrecord release 1.6 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '6,0' scsibus: 0 target: 6 lun: 0 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 2 Response Format: 2 Capa

Re: NEWS for debian-boot

1999-01-17 Thread Michael Schmitz
> If we're going to release for all the arches (I've already been told by > Joel Klecker that powerpc is not being frozen this time) then I need help > (and preferably patches) to make install/boot CDs on > > m68k/atari > m68k/mac > alpha > > i386 is covered and I have numerous success reports fo

Re: NEWS for debian-boot

1999-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On 17 Jan 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: >We're preparing for the 2.1.5 release of the boot-floppies package, >which will re-introduce the tecra kernels for x86 (aw!). Also, the >package pre-selections mechanism has been made >cross-architecture-aware, and we have patched in m68k fixes. Ok, good. Th

Re: NEWS for debian-boot

1999-01-17 Thread Adam Di Carlo
On 17 Jan 1999 13:17:46 -0500, Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > There is still much work to be done on the Install Manual, so there > will be at least one release after 2.1.6 before freeze That's a typo, was supposed to be 'at least one release after 2.1.5 before slink release'. -- .

NEWS for debian-boot

1999-01-17 Thread Adam Di Carlo
We're preparing for the 2.1.5 release of the boot-floppies package, which will re-introduce the tecra kernels for x86 (aw!). Also, the package pre-selections mechanism has been made cross-architecture-aware, and we have patched in m68k fixes. There is still much work to be done on the Install Ma

sparc frozen

1999-01-17 Thread James Troup
Hi, Sorry for the delay, but it's finally been done. The following packages have been removed from slink because the version in sid was from potato. Please recompile them with the slink source and hax0r the .changes file to say `frozen' only and upload them. apache, apache-common, f2c, libgdb