On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 07:32:18PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
64823 incorrect LILO automatic placement on i386
ISTR some discussions about why we don't allow what the bug submitter
wanted, because it doesn't work in certain configurations or something.
Mark, are you still around? Maybe
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:29:14PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
zhaoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone have this problem for kernel 2.4.1? When I compiled in
cramfs, initrd cannot work. Kernel message screen just say:
wrong magic == spit out by cramfs(?) which shouldn't be there in
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:49:37PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
But why are you compiling cramfs in if you're using ext2 initrd images?
The images I make can't handle ext2 images anyway since ext2 isn't compiled
in.
Well, I took it from the kernel-source changelog and the description
in the
Hi,
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 05:52:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
without the floppy. It all went fine until it got to "Verifying DMI pool
data", (normally it would then start win me), but then instead of giving me
the choice of Linux/windows it just prints 01 01 01 01 01 01
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 03:30:56PM +1000, Robert Butler wrote:
Problem is I can't press that Continue button, so have never gotten past
this screen. No response to any keyboard or mouse commands from this screen,
including Ctrl-alt-delete: I have to reboot via the reset button. Of course
it
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 02:55:11PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
thank you for completly missing the point.
Ok, no need to be rude. I see I went down the wrong track. I'm sorry.
i am not talking about libfdisk, i am talking about busybox.
its mount -t auto design is fundementally flawed, it
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 04:36:14PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote:
BTW, I tend to agree with David about not changing the dbootstrap code
at this stage. I have been adding a 'manual' option to mount_partition
Damn, sorry, hit 'y' (send) when I meant 'q' 'y' (postpone).
I meant to say
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 04:02:19AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:59:40PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
Problems should be reported upstream where apropriate, not to assign blame,
but so the upstream author knows about it and can fix it for all users of that
piece
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:11:30AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
We strip modules as much as is possible. I have never heard of stripping
the kernel itself.
Stripping all symbols is highly likely to break the kernel. However, GCC
generates a .ident field in object files, which seems to be
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 12:54:23PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:46:32PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Removed stuff:
/bin/touch
/usr/bin/head
/usr/bin/sort
/usr/bin/wc
...are all used by debootstrap.
Substitute FILE for touch FILE.
Substitute
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:20:18PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 06:34:12PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote:
Substitute FILE for touch FILE.
that should already be done in the last patch or two that were NMUed,
Cool.
but i could have missed one.
debootstrap-0.1.15.5
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:03:12AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
but parsing some basically informative verbosity output from a utility
is a damned fragile kludge of a way to do something, what if the
format of this output changes in the future?
Agree with the sentiment, but changing the output
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:41:25AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
BTW: does ls --block-size=1 -s look broken to you?
busybox ls doesn't know what that is.
Sorry, meant fileutils' ls. Bug?
the ls you have available on boot-floppies is busybox, not fileutils.
Forget boot-floppies!
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 04:23:05AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
Umm. What possible good would it do to parse dd output? Check the
return code. or stat the output file if you are paranoid.
It was a way to determine file size in the absence of wc. But if you've
enabled wc in b-f busybox,
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 06:20:13PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
I did indeed re-enable wc. But seriously though, if you know
the file's name, couldn't you just stat(2)? Something like:
struct stat statbuf;
...
stat(filename, statbuf);
filesize = statbuf.st_size;
Fine
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 07:41:10AM +0200, Gerhard Tonn wrote:
It works fine on s390, but where do I get the latest debootstrap from?
Look in http://incoming.debian.org/ .
Regards,
Mark.
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Dear list,
If a filesystem is manually mounted on /target using the shell on tty2,
dbootstrap will detect it and suggest installing the kernel, but never
copies the network settings or creates the dbootstrap_settings file on
the target root.
This makes installing root on a MD, LVM, NBD or loop
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 05:25:24PM -0700, David Kimdon wrote:
Or is there any way to build boot-floppies using 2.4.X kernels?
In principle we should be able to do that. I've considered
re-openning the 2.4/2.2 question myself, but I fear. We need to get
woody out, no new features.
ISTR the
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 06:55:19PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
The mouse can be used by both in Linux console (gpm) and X window.
Preferred configuration / signal flow shall be as follows.
mouse = /dev/psaux = gpm = /dev/gpmdata - /dev/mouse = X
This made sense when the psaux driver
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:12:58AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
I presume you mean the target root? It's already mounted by the time
the driver disks are installed. Of course, you can also download to a
Ramdisk.
Yes, this driver should go into the kernel. But the source may be Coda
The
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 04:02:23PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
And how do you download without having the NIC driver? As said before,
we have 2.4MB in NIC drivers. With the kernel a bit too much for one floppy.
Aggghh! Why do you ignore what was written earlier?
I wrote:
are compiled
Hi Erik,
I'm still preparing some documentation, but here's the rough procedure.
I'm sending a copy to debian-boot in case this is useful to anyone else.
Check the boot-floppies software out of the Debian CVS archive. See
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:39:19AM +0100, Erik Tews wrote:
I am currently a little bit experimentating with installing debian
directly into lvm. Theory is not so difficult, and it works with a lot
of handwork during the installation-process. One of the main problems is
I made some private
Dear list,
partition_config::mount_partition() uses mode 01777 when creating /tmp
as a mount-point, but doesn't for /target/var/tmp. A fix is:
Index: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/partition_config.c
===
RCS file:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 04:20:36AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 12:02:18PM +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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what good will this do? the permissions of the mount point
directory are irrelevant as they will be replaced by
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 03:06:38PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
your missing the point:
what good will this do? the permissions of the mount point
directory are irrelevant as they will be replaced by the
permissions of the root directory of the mounted filesystem.
this patch
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:51:55PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 01:41:52PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote:
If I didn't have important reason to get the system up quickly, I'd just
work away in single-user mode. If /var/tmp is only writeable by root,
some critical
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:44:53PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote:
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:51:55PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
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i have yet to see any proof of this.
I don't believe you ever will see it.
I wish to apologise to Ethan and the list for my petulant and unfair remark
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 02:05:39PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote:
Kindly review the change and let me know what you think.
I've done three full installs with the change and observed no additional
problems. Ok to commit it?
Thanks,
Mark.
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:12:17PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
I'm not moving to 2.4 for i386 boot-floppies, the kernels are too big,
and it's too late to do that anyhow.
I'll take that as a positive sign that release is soon!
Mark van Walraven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
2.4.10-ac11 patched
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 03:32:51PM -0500, Mark Horn wrote:
1) Is this the correct forum to identify this kind of problem? If not, can
you kindly direct me where I should go?
Seems logical to me.
2) Did I do something wrong during initial setup that prevented creating
a functioning
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