Hi folks, could you give the new preview boot floppies a try? The changelog is impressive, we have fixed *a lot* of bugs. Aph and myself have tested the resulting disk images a couple of times, but it's always better to have a wider range of testing.
I'm uploading the following files to http://va.debian.org/~joey/bf/ Please fetch them and give them a try. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:17 base14-1.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:17 base14-10.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1154048 Aug 27 13:17 base14-11.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:17 base14-2.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:17 base14-3.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:17 base14-4.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:17 base14-5.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:17 base14-6.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:17 base14-7.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:17 base14-8.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:17 base14-9.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15893127 Aug 27 13:17 base2_2.tgz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4206286 Aug 27 13:07 drivers.tgz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:07 drv14-1.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:07 drv14-2.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1259520 Aug 27 13:07 drv14-3.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 12:38 resc1440.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 12:38 root1440.bin (originally I was thinking about copying the release subdir but ETA for one file was >1h) Please report problems to me || debian-boot immediately To give you an idea what is fixed in this version, here are the relevant changelog entries. (I've backed out the documentation stuff) boot-floppies (2.2.17) stable unstable; urgency=low * TESTING PRE-RELEASE VERSION * Adam Di Carlo: - release-notes: fix typo (closes: Bug#68630) - fix bugs preventing some l10n'd documentation from building - temporarily disable Russian documentation, unless you have woody debiandoc-sgml - dbootstrap: fix a condition where /target/lib/modules was being made a link to itself (closes: Bug#68021); run 'depmod -a' after manipulating the /lib/modules symlink after extracting the kernel and modules which fixes a problem with PCMCIA * Guillaume Morin: - more dbootstrap i18n - dbootstrap floppy module pre-load support * Josip Rodin: - some documentation and doc build fixes; move documenation build rules to documentation/ dir * Daniel Jacobowitz: - some powerpc-specific boot stuff fixed - update PowerPC kernel version * Martin Schulze: - Added little documentation to some routines - dbootstrap.h: Added prototype of get_kver() - getFloppies() and affected routines return DLG_CANCEL (aka 10) when Cancel is pressed, no need to spit an error message (closes: Bug#68900) - boxes.h: DLG_CANCEL is now 10 instead of 1, in order to avoid problems with 'return 1' stuff - Added calls to get_kver() to every _test target. Thanks tausq for the quick investigation - basedisk.sh: Added workarounds for missing device files and added others to MAKEDEV call - rootdisk.sh: Added optcd sjcd to list of i386 devices, still missing: gscd, cm206cd and proper support for mcdx (partially fixes: Bug#68665) - rootdisk.sh: Added ida.1 creation (closes: Bug#68517) - rootdisk.sh: Added -O none to mke2fs call to gain 2.0 compatibility (closes: Bug#68659) - basedisk.sh: Added /dev/sg* to list of created devices in the base system (closes: Bug#67378) - Corrected error messages when rescue.bin wasn't found (but is there..), added " + drivers.tgz" (closes: Bug#66326, Bug#64349) - Added padding code to pad the last drivers disk with zeroes (closes: Bug#66030) - Corrected behavior when user has to type in the path relative to /instmnt, he won't be able to leave that dir anymore and don't has to type in /instmnt anymore (closes: Bug#67082, Bug#61693) - Filling /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep properly so the tools won't spread warnings all over the freshly started console (closes: No bug report yet?) - Added more sanity checks to floppy install, inserting base disks when the drivers are requested will result in an error (partially close: Bug#64428) - Choosing an archive dir that is a link indeed will not result in 'not found' messages anymore, a '/' will be appended automatically (closes: Bug#61373) - When selecting a directory that does not exist, an error box is opened (closes: Bug#57733) - Added a call to eject() after writing the boot floppy on powerpc failed (closes: Bug#69158) - Added support for kernel boot parameters (lilo, syslinux, m68k, aboot) (closes: Bug#11000, Bug#25848) - Moved Preload of essential modules around in the main install cycle - Moved nfs:server mount into a condition (if network isup) - German update - Added support for new french keyboard layout fr-latin0 (closes: Bug#57609) - Added sanity checks before installing the base system and configuring the device driver modules (closes: Bug#31449) - Added a conditional message warning Netwinder people about ignoring ext2 2.0 compatibility (close: Bug#67888) - Corrected rescue.sh to create usable 1200 root floppies (closes: Bug#69959, Bug#69970) * Akira YOSHIYAMA: - add 'termwrap' script to the base system; this is invoked by init and allows us to set i18n env var settings for base-config and other chores -- Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 27 Aug 2000 12:05:11 +0200 Regards, Joey -- Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time loop or in front of a mirror. 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