We're trying to pull together 2.2.17 boot-floppies release. It fixes a lot of problems relative to the 2.2.16 boot-floppies -- see changelog snippet below.
This is the Martin Schultz release -- kudos to him to all his hard work chugging thru the bugs. I know a lot of people have moved on from release worries, but it's still very valuable to the Debian effort to be sucking in new users, and a big hurdle to that has always been the installation system. So please give it a try, file bugs, etc. Thanks. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/> 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 - config: re-organize a bit - fix .cvsignore file (closes: Bug#68911) - fix URLs in documentation based on link checking - documentation improvements (closes: Bug#67900); change the wording of the "in progress" warning in Chapter 1 (closes: Bug#69620); correct workaround for volume manager, patch from Jim Crumley (closes: Bug#69141); fix documentation on how mkofboot is invoked; rework the 'dbootstrap' chapter, removing plenty of slink'isms; fix some make-kpkg bugs (closes: Bug#71080) - 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 - fix a minor libfdisk Makefile / depends problem * Guillaume Morin: - more dbootstrap i18n - dbootstrap floppy module pre-load support * Vincent Renardias: French updates (thank to Eric VanBuggenhaut) * Jiøí Ma¹ík <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Czech updates * Gleydson Mazioli da Silva: Portuguese updates * novdv: Russian translations * Yoshizumi Endo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Japanese updates * Risko Gergely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hungarian updates * Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Polish updates * Peter Karlsson: Swedish updates * Vilem Vychodil: Czech update * Tapio Lehtonen: Finnish translation thanks to Markku Verkkoniemi * Enrique Zanardi: Spanish updates * Michael Bramer: German updates * C.M. Connelly: English documentation corrections and improvements * Josip Rodin: - release notes updates: APT::Force-LoopBreak, kernel 2.2.x upgrade issues; remove sis6326 note; add info about i810; fixed X upgrade pointer; notes about CD sets; notes about ssh - some documentation and doc build fixes; move documenation build rules to documentation/ dir - fix index.LANG.html broken links (closes: Bug#67898) * 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 * Othmar Pasteka: - Substitution of Linux with GNU/Linux when appropriate (i.e. when a GNU/Linux distribution is meant) * Risko Gergely: A big Hungarian update * Peter Naulls: add support for ARM Linux partition support -- Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 11 Sep 2000 04:57:51 -0400 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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