Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Andrew Diller
Can someone tell me the difference between sarge and sid? I thought the current debian was woody. -andy On Jul 15, 2004, at 8:45 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:13:41PM -0400, Michael Galloway wrote: Hi Andrew! there is a build out from yesterday:

Re: jack-audio-connection-kit build needed

2004-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 07:23:56PM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: In order to complete the final bits of the GNOME 2.6 transition, we need to get jack-audio-connection-kit compiled on alpha. The latest version hasn't been tried by the buildd yet in the last two weeks. Can it be scheduled to do

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:25:19AM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote: Can someone tell me the difference between sarge and sid? I thought the current debian was woody. sarge is the upcoming stable release. sid is the staging ground for everything that will go into the stable release being developed

Re: aboot and serial console

2004-07-16 Thread Cameron Patrick
J. Dub wrote: When calling interactive boot by boot dka0 -fl i I get the choice menu only on primary console! Any ideas? If you don't care about having the graphical console, you could try set console serial in SRM. Otherwise, I don't know. Cameron. signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Michael Galloway
Hi Steve! ok, so what is the real functional difference? -- michael On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Steve Langasek wrote: sarge is the upcoming stable release. sid is the staging ground for everything that will go into the stable release being developed at any given moment.

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 08:40:00AM -0400, Michael Galloway wrote: Hi Steve! ok, so what is the real functional difference? Stable (Woody at the moment): A bit dated, but very well tested and security support available. Testing (Sarge at the moment):

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Joerg Hoh
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:44:53PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:07:48PM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote: I don't see anything new at: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/ will the build happen today, as in before 2400 EST? Yes; and it's

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Michael Galloway
ok, i'm getting myself very confused and maybe some one can give me a sanity check. i have a number of ES40's i'm putting sarge onto. i have it installed and working fairly well. now i'm trying to clone the disk image for the rest of the ES40's, this is what i'm trying: SystemA: good install

cloneing boot disks

2004-07-16 Thread Michael Galloway
sorry, just wanted to resend this with a correct subject line :-| ok, i'm getting myself very confused and maybe some one can give me a sanity check. i have a number of ES40's i'm putting sarge onto. i have it installed and working fairly well. now i'm trying to clone the disk image for the

RE: [debian terminology] newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Cernese, Dan
well, let's say it another way, woody=stable sarge=testing sid=unstable the contents of each move towards stability... and woody is so ancient and sarge is approaching stability. -Original Message- From: Steve Langasek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 1:43 AM

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 10:59:23AM -0400, Michael Galloway wrote: SystemA: good install of sarge onto /dev/sda, sda is 128M free space, 16G ext2 mounted on / , 2GB swap. to clone the disk i'm doing: init 1, swapoff -a, mount -n -o remount,ro / dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1024k

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Michael, On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:18:53PM -0400, Michael Galloway wrote: Moin Helge! i get the normalish looking: 0:2/vmlinuz ro initrd=/initrd.imb root=/dev/sda2 1:2/vmlinuz.old initrd=/initrd.img 2:3/vmlinuz.net.gz ro root=/dev/sda2 3:3/vmlinuz ro root=/ev/sda2 8:- ro

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Michael Galloway
Moin Helge! maybe typos in there, the system is on serial console so i copied from my notes ... i normally boot 0 the interesting part is the clone disk boots fine on the original system, but not on either of the other systems. -- michael Helge Kreutzmann schrieb am Freitag, den 16. Juli

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:43:01AM -0400, Rob Dupcak wrote: Do the daily builds have Tulip driver support? (Or will they?) Daily builds have included the tulip driver for as long as there have been daily builds on alpha. Or asked another way... Is there an easy way of telling if a specific

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 08:40:00AM -0400, Michael Galloway wrote: Hi Steve! ok, so what is the real functional difference? That depends on what's being staged at any particular moment. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Steve Langasek wrote: sarge is the

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 03:55:25PM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:44:53PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:07:48PM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote: I don't see anything new at: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/ will the

Re: making room for aboot on sarge inst

2004-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:46:15PM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote: Now, manually partitioning seems to be almost impossible, unless I'm overcomplicating it. Note: I have many years of Tru64 4.x and 5.x and linux manually partitioning of disklabels, I know the bsd and bios differences etc.

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Joerg Hoh
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 01:08:28PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 03:55:25PM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote: I tried the netinst-Version from 15th of Juli. The problem with the broken cia_core seems still to exist; Correct, no kernel-image package has been uploaded which

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:15:24PM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 01:08:28PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 03:55:25PM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote: I tried the netinst-Version from 15th of Juli. The problem with the broken cia_core seems still to exist;

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-16 Thread Joerg Hoh
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 02:40:00PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:15:24PM +0200, Joerg Hoh wrote: Is the patch for this problem available as a diff, so I can patch the kernel myself? kernel-image packages have previously been posted to the mailing list, but this