cvs commit to boot-floppies by dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies who:dwhedon time: Wed Apr 18 00:52:34 PDT 2001 Log Message: add note about gunzip and zcat Files: changed:todo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
woody bf gunzip bugs
I just submitted a bug against busybox. gunzip and/or zcat are broken. This breaks debootstrap, so we still haven't been able to complete an install. David http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=nobug=94331 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: woody bf gunzip bugs
David Whedon wrote: I just submitted a bug against busybox. gunzip and/or zcat are broken. This breaks debootstrap, so we still haven't been able to complete an install. David http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=nobug=94331 I recently made some big changes to gunzip, looks like i didnt test it well enough. I will look into it now, i doubt #3 is anything serious, as ive been using it a lot with dpkg, dpkg-deb, probably some error messages or something are getting mixed up in the output stream. Glenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem with debian-installer
Hello, When I'm using debian-installer bootdisk (compiled by myself), it seems like wget or something else doesn't work. - I configure the network - Choose : 1. Finish setting up the Debian installer - Choose : 1. http protocol - Then United-State --- debian.tod.net (which seemed to work with a net-1440.img file I downloaded before) - Then, the following error messages are printed : Usage : zcat FILE ar : not found corrupted status flag !!! I tried to include ar in busybox, but wget (or something else) still didn't work. I also tried to use the zcat from my system still didn't work Does this problem come from busybox ? If not, where does it come from ? How do I solve it ??? In advance, thank you :-] PS : I'd like to know if Debian-Installer project is moving fast, and when (if you know) it is supposed to be finished . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fasttrak100 drivers (ft.o) and 2.2r2
Hi, trouble installing the fasttrak100 + 2.2r2 howshould one install the fasttrak100 if using the driver module (ft.o) anyone want to help out i got files needed, plz contact me via email. Johan Manning Echoo Industries ABKungsgatan 42411 15 Göteborg tel: +46-31-339 46 71fax: +46-31-794 49 49 www: http://www.echoo.netemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: woody bf gunzip bugs
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:05:35PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
I recently made some big changes to gunzip, looks like i didnt test it
well enough.
*gag*
I will look into it now, i doubt #3 is anything serious, as ive been
using it a lot with dpkg, dpkg-deb, probably some error messages or
something are getting mixed up in the output stream.
There are at least two bugs: one is that fseek() doesn't work on
unseekable file handles, like stdin and stdout; the other (that you're
fortunately avoiding) is that the order of evaluation in C of the oeprands
of arithmetic operators like "+" is undefined. That is, code like:
int chars_printed = printf("foo") + printf("bar");
will usually equal 6, but you could get "foobar" printed, "barfoo"
printed, or even conceivably something completely different.
A rough patch which seems to get it working again is:
/* Ignore time stamp(4), extra flags(1), OS type(1) */
- fseek(in_file, 6, SEEK_CUR);
+ { int i = 0; while (i 6) { fgetc(in_file); i++; } }
+ /* fseek(in_file, 6, SEEK_CUR); -- you can't seek on stdin */
if ((flags extra_field) != 0) {
- fseek(in_file, (size_t) fgetc(in_file) + ((size_t)fgetc(in_file)
8), SEEK_CUR);
+ int i;
+ i = fgetc(in_file);
+ i += fgetc(in_file) 8;
+ while (i-- 0) fgetc(in_file);
+ /* fseek(in_file, (size_t) fgetc(in_file) + ((size_t)fgetc(in_fi
le) 8), SEEK_CUR);
+* -- you can't seek on stdin, and the order of function calls
+* in the above isn't guaranteed */
}
Dicking around with gzip code is just asking for obscure bugs to bite in
you in the bum, though...
Cheers,
aj
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Re: woody bf gunzip bugs
I just submitted a bug against busybox. gunzip and/or zcat are broken. This breaks debootstrap, so we still haven't been able to complete an install. I submitted a patch for kernel.sh which may address this. Is your gzip problem the same as the one I addressed? If so, maybe we should change the debootstrap scripts so they aren't dependent on gzip default behavior, but instead tell gzip what to do explicitly. Here is what I submitted: FIX: I simply added the '--no-name' flag to gzip and the scripts works fine. and then another individual said it would be better to use the '--stdout' flag. James Strandboge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: woody bf gunzip bugs
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:07:03AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:05:35PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
I recently made some big changes to gunzip, looks like i didnt test it
well enough.
*gag*
I will look into it now, i doubt #3 is anything serious, as ive been
using it a lot with dpkg, dpkg-deb, probably some error messages or
something are getting mixed up in the output stream.
There are at least two bugs: one is that fseek() doesn't work on
unseekable file handles, like stdin and stdout; the other (that you're
fortunately avoiding) is that the order of evaluation in C of the oeprands
of arithmetic operators like "+" is undefined. That is, code like:
int chars_printed = printf("foo") + printf("bar");
will usually equal 6, but you could get "foobar" printed, "barfoo"
printed, or even conceivably something completely different.
A rough patch which seems to get it working again is:
/* Ignore time stamp(4), extra flags(1), OS type(1) */
- fseek(in_file, 6, SEEK_CUR);
+ { int i = 0; while (i 6) { fgetc(in_file); i++; } }
+ /* fseek(in_file, 6, SEEK_CUR); -- you can't seek on stdin */
if ((flags extra_field) != 0) {
- fseek(in_file, (size_t) fgetc(in_file) + ((size_t)fgetc(in_file)
8), SEEK_CUR);
+ int i;
+ i = fgetc(in_file);
+ i += fgetc(in_file) 8;
+ while (i-- 0) fgetc(in_file);
+ /* fseek(in_file, (size_t) fgetc(in_file) + ((size_t)fgetc(in_fi
le) 8), SEEK_CUR);
+* -- you can't seek on stdin, and the order of function calls
+* in the above isn't guaranteed */
}
Dicking around with gzip code is just asking for obscure bugs to bite in
you in the bum, though...
I've committed a variation on this to CVS. I'll go bug Erik to
make a new release...
Matt
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Re: [patch] kernel.sh
James D Strandboge wrote: Santiago Vila wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, James D Strandboge wrote: [...] FIX: I simply added the '--no-name' flag to gzip and the scripts works fine. Hmm, is this not what --stdout is for? That should work too, Well, I just tested it, and though '--stdout' should work, it does not. However '-no-name' does work as expected. Perhaps this is a gzip problem, but explicitly telling gzip to use '--no-name' works. James Strandboge [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: woody bf gunzip bugs
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:28:23AM -0400, James D Strandboge wrote: I just submitted a bug against busybox. gunzip and/or zcat are broken. This breaks debootstrap, so we still haven't been able to complete an install. I submitted a patch for kernel.sh which may address this. Is your gzip problem the same as the one I addressed? If so, maybe we should change the debootstrap scripts so they aren't dependent on gzip default behavior, but instead tell gzip what to do explicitly. This is unrelated. BusyBox is used on the boot-floppies, not for building them. Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with debian-installer
Glenn McGrath wrote: Romain BEAUGRAND wrote: Does this problem come from busybox ? If not, where does it come from ? How do I solve it ??? Yes, it was due to some changes i made to gunzip between busybox 0.50 and and 0.51. If you use busybox 0.50 it should be ok. Ive just checked the changes into CVS, not sure how long they will take to filter through though. Glenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've tried debian installer using BusyBox 0.50 Right, It now is doing something for sure, downloading files etc ... But it still finishs with error messages : Unexpected end of file ar : command not found I'm sure ar has been compiled in BusyBox and the symlink has been created. so, if anybody knows something about it :-) Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reiser and raid
Hi, I've managed to get a set of boot disks ready with everything needed to do reiserfs and raid, both with 2.2.19 and a few patches and with 2.4.x, however I have a few slight problems 1: editing the raidtab file, along with mkraid and mkreiserfs have to be done from the command line, this is due to me not knowing enough to be able to hack through dbootstrap and make it do what I want (any volunteers? I can give exact commands that need to be performed and what needs asked) 2: when I compile a 2.4.x kernel and just put it on the rescue disk, and run the rdev script, / gets mounted readonly on booting (odd, fixed with a mount -o remount,rw) 3: busybox refuses to compile due to a load of nfs errors (maybe due to me building on a box with 2.4.x?) 4: putting a 2.4.x kernel on a set of dists (made with the boot-floppies package) works fine, except for modules, but I doubt this is really a debian boot issue, as the directory structure for modules changed, I'll try this out with a newer modutils and stuff sometime shortly. 5: definately not a debian-boot issue, using root as a raid with reiserfs requires a seperate /boot, but that's because lilo doesn't like raids that aren't level 1, and I don't know grub enough to try to get it working if anyone can help me out with issues 1 to 3, please let me know, if so, I can start helping people make the required changes to reiserfs and raid from boot floppies, the work I've done is at http://bazza.com/debian/reiserhack, the disks available there are really quite hacked, and you'll have to recompile a 2.4.x kernel to make them work if your hardware isn't the same as mine, or you need additional support. I'll also write some documentation for my 2.2.19 disk set and make them available, although 2.2 reiserfs patches only support up to 3.5 formats, not the newer one, which is preferable. Thanks In Advance for any help -- -Barry Hughes Who wants to remember that escape-x-alt-control-left shift-b puts you into super-edit-debug-compile mode? (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands, especially Emacs.) http://bazza.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reiser and raid
barry wrote: 3: busybox refuses to compile due to a load of nfs errors (maybe due to me building on a box with 2.4.x?) if anyone can help me out with issues 1 to 3, please let me know, Im not sure why nfs would fail, you could try the CVS version, you could also change the Config.h line that says #define BB_FEATURE_NFSMOUNT to //#define BB_FEATURE_NFSMOUNT and busybox will bypass NFS support Glenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with debian-installer
Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 06:23:38PM +0200 wrote: Glenn McGrath wrote: Romain BEAUGRAND wrote: Does this problem come from busybox ? If not, where does it come from ? How do I solve it ??? Yes, it was due to some changes i made to gunzip between busybox 0.50 and and 0.51. If you use busybox 0.50 it should be ok. Ive just checked the changes into CVS, not sure how long they will take to filter through though. Glenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've tried debian installer using BusyBox 0.50 Right, It now is doing something for sure, downloading files etc ... But it still finishs with error messages : Unexpected end of file ar : command not found I'm sure ar has been compiled in BusyBox and the symlink has been created. so, if anybody knows something about it :-) I don't believe anyone has actually installed a system with debian-installer yet, so you are in uncharted territory. It could be something really simple, or not. Many of us are working on woody boot-floppies at the moment. I for one am looking forward to finishing up woody bf and turning my efforts towards debian-installer. Good luck :-) David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reiser and raid
Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:24:07PM +0100 wrote: Hi, I've managed to get a set of boot disks ready with everything needed to do reiserfs and raid, both with 2.2.19 and a few patches and with 2.4.x, however I have a few slight problems 1: editing the raidtab file, along with mkraid and mkreiserfs have to be done from the command line, this is due to me not knowing enough to be able to hack through dbootstrap and make it do what I want (any volunteers? I can give exact commands that need to be performed and what needs asked) I can probably help with this one, send info my way. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reiser and raid
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:01:06AM -0700, David Whedon mumbled: Oops, to add to the list (in section 1) need to generate the fstab file correctly (actually, the only part that doesn't act quite right is the filesystem) Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:24:07PM +0100 wrote: Hi, I've managed to get a set of boot disks ready with everything needed to do reiserfs and raid, both with 2.2.19 and a few patches and with 2.4.x, however I have a few slight problems 1: editing the raidtab file, along with mkraid and mkreiserfs have to be done from the command line, this is due to me not knowing enough to be able to hack through dbootstrap and make it do what I want (any volunteers? I can give exact commands that need to be performed and what needs asked) I can probably help with this one, send info my way. David -- -Barry Hughes "World domination. Fast" (By Linus Torvalds) http://bazza.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian-installer questions
Are you aware that debian-installer is not going to be used for woody? Most of us are working on boot-floppies now to make them ready for the woody release. I do hope to have debian-installer at least functional for brave people to install woody, but it will take more work. I don't mean to discourage you from working on debian-installer, please work on it, just want to make sure we are on the same page. Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:53:22PM +0200 wrote: I have just begun to test debian-installer and I have severals questions: 1) Why do I need to put modutils-basic_2.4.1-2_i386.udeb in build/localudebs/ ( http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/debian-installer ) modutils-basic.udeb is in directory udebs/ (downloaded during make) because: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=83608repeatmerged=yes hasn't been closed yet. 2) Even if debian-installer downloads libraries (.udeb) at the begining of the compilation, it doesn't use them and uses system's librairies instead (with mklibs.sh)! Why? I had to install libdetect and pics librairies (only found linc6-pic and libslang-pic) on my system. 3) Line 235 in Makefile: I have modified the line: rm $(TREE)/lib/$$lib.*; \ by if [ -e $(TREE)/lib/$$lib.* ]; then \ rm $(TREE)/lib/$$lib.*; \ fi \ because after mklibs I receive this error message: rm: cannot remove `./tmp/tree/lib/libdebconf.*': No such file or directory not sure about that one, mklibs.sh is voodo. 4) You refere to UPX in Makefile but if I uncomment UPX and set the path, it doesn't work. Anyway, UPX isn't used in Makefile. that's experimental, can potentially make things a lot smaller, but the upx license is potentially non-free. 5) Ok, except these problems, when I use the floppy: - network card detection OK - manual network configuration OK - DHCP doesn't work Here is the error message: dhclient eth0 installer[59]:expr:not found installer[59]:expr:not found installer[59]:expr:not found installer[59]:[:2:unexpected operator installer[59]:[:2:unexpected operator modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-17 installer[59]:socket: Address family not supported by protocol installer[59]: Make sure to set CONFIG_PACKET=y and CONFIG_FILTER=y in your kernel configuration! installer[59]: exiting I thought we had fixed this. I thought we added expr to busybox, guess not. We also added both those configs to the d-i kernel, I thought. - Finishing setting up the debian installer doesn't work no one has written a debootstrap module for debian-installer yet. Only http seems working I had zcat and ar problems so I have changed busybox version to 0.50 and replaced the busybox zcat by the zcat from my system. see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=94331repeatmerged=yes as well as recent (today) messages on debian-boot. The problem come from wget. Any servers seems working. For example, with http.us.debian.org, I receive HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden error messages. I've gotten that from http.us.debian.org, there is a note in : http://cvs.debian.org/~checkout~/boot-floppies/todo?rev=1.82content-type=text/plain Looks like both boot-floppies and debian-installer have the same problem. Someone needs to catch this on a sniffer and solve the problem. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk by jaqque
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk who:jaqque time: Wed Apr 18 11:20:25 PDT 2001 Log Message: Added support for ReiserFS. Requires a -resierfs kernel flavour. Files: changed:fdisk.c fdisk.h -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by jaqque
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:jaqque time: Wed Apr 18 11:20:25 PDT 2001 Log Message: Added support for ReiserFS. Requires a -resierfs kernel flavour. Files: changed:baseconfig.c extract_kernel.c partition_config.c added: notail.c notail.h -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot floppies 2.2.23
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 12:31:23PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Jonathan McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I recall, building on m68k in particular needs a lot of files external to CVS for some reason. Poor ghetto port that it is. The bootstra.tpp file is the only one I've actually come across so far. If you look at: potato/main/disks-m68k/current/source/m68k-support.tar.gz you see the other files which were used in the last bf build for m68k. Perhaps a mention of it in the readme might be a good idea. Why, that leads me to the question, why do we do things this way? We shouldn't... shouldn't the file should be packaged separately and used from whereever the package provides it. Where does the file come from? From the slink CD... there are a few other binaries, the quickinstall guides, and the amiga icons and booter in amiga-kit.tgz. I never wanted to put the binaries and icons into CVS, but if you want to, just feed them in. They will probably not change much in the near future, neither do the install guides, unless somebody picks it up? Christian -- http://people.debian.org/~cts/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot floppies 2.2.23
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 01:45:45PM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 12:31:23PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Jonathan McDowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I recall, building on m68k in particular needs a lot of files external to CVS for some reason. Poor ghetto port that it is. The bootstra.tpp file is the only one I've actually come across so far. If you look at: potato/main/disks-m68k/current/source/m68k-support.tar.gz you see the other files which were used in the last bf build for m68k. Yup, I've been pulling them from the actual install disks actually. There seems to be at least some stuff in there that's packaged but not pulled from the packages (atari-bootstrap springs to mind). (I'm still slowing building disks but I keep finding something I've forgotten about or running out of disk space. It'll finish one day. :) J. -- Programmer, | Three can keep a secret, if two | Tel/SMS (Orange): sysadmin | are dead. | +44-7974-678646 BHMF. | | Made by HuggieTag -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Question regarding /etc/apt/sources.list and boot-floppies
I have been trying to jump into boot-floppies to help, but found that some packages that are required by boot-floppies are in sid and not woody (like nano-tiny). I realize that they will eventually make it into woody, but my question is should I have my /etc/apt/sources.list be set up for sid or woody if I am trying to help with boot-floppies? Or does it matter at this point because woody is not frozen? Currently I have it for woody, and just grab what I need from sid and put it in my $(ftp_archive)/local directory, which seems to work ok. Thanks, James Strandboge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new kernels, potato boot disks for testing
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:54:24PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
I've put a build of the latest (pre-2.2.24) potato book disks in
ftp.armlinux.org:/debian/boot-floppies. There are network boot
images for CATS and NetWinder, plus a kernel and rescue image for
RiscPC. Please try them out and report feedback to me or the
debian-boot mailing list.
Thanks for making the boot-floppies, Phil!
I tried just the kernel and root.bin on my Acorn RiscPC, I did not
download the base.tgz (not enough bandwidth here). I also used an old
ARM potato r0 CD I still had.
Everything worked fine (in particular, no crashes on my ARM710), with
one exception: The installer looked for
"riscpc/{drivers.tgz,images-1.44/rescue.bin}", while on my
_r0_CD_ROM_, only
"2.2.16-something/{drivers.tgz,images-1.44/rescue.bin}" was present.
But the directory structure on ftp.armlinux.org seems to imply that
the extra directory level for the "riscpc" subarchitecture has been
added, so this should be OK...
Cheers,
Richard
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Re: new kernels, potato boot disks for testing
Richard Atterer wrote: But the directory structure on ftp.armlinux.org seems to imply that the extra directory level for the "riscpc" subarchitecture has been added, so this should be OK... Yes, that was deliberate. The various subarchitectures need slightly different root disks, and very different drivers, so the files have to be further separated out. Your old 2.2r0 CD predates this stuff, and only has support for one platform. Thanks for testing. It's good to hear that it does work on a non-StrongARM machine. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#94419: Swap partition step skipped and not available
When you partitioned your hard disk, did you remember to mark one of the partitions as Type 82 (Linux Swap) before writing the table and exiting?... If the installer doesn't see any Type 82 partitions, it will assume you either screwed up (hence the choice to repartition again), or that you don't want one (do without). ... Adam Conrad -Original Message- From: Chris Tillman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug#94419: Swap partition step skipped and not available Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.23 When installing a new system from the boot floppy, the first step is to choose a keyboard, then partition a hard disk. After partitioning my hard disk using the provided utility, I used w to write the partition map, then q to quit the utility. When I was returned to the dbootstrap menu, I was presented with text concerning creation of a swap partition, but a 'Next' menu item choice of Partition a Hard Disk again. The 'Alternate' menu item is Do Without a Swap Partition. I selected the Initialize and Activate a Swap Partition item from further down the list manually, but when I did an error resulted: No swap partitions that had already been mounted were detected. Thus I was forced to select Do Without a Swap Partition to be able to continue with my install. I am trying to install on a PowerBase 180 PowerPC with attached SCSI disks (I was using sdb). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#94417: Manual navigation to hard disk for rescue.bin installation fails
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.23 After selecting Install Operating System Kernel and Drivers from the dbootstrap menu, I wanted to type in the path to the directory on my hard disk where powermac/images-1.44/rescue.bin could be found. I selected the appropriate option from the menu (manually specify the path). I found that I could type in the path following instmnt/, in my case Debian/current, and that I could use the ... menu to browse my disk and verify that the files were within the specified directory, but when I chose OK to acknowledge the final path, it could not find the files. On the other hand, if after I first selected Install Operating System Kernel and Drivers, I instead chose the 'list all paths' option, the installer took a long time to search my entire disk but did finally propose the same path I had typed in on the first try. It then continued with the installation after I accepted the proposed path. This same problem occurred later when attempting to install the Base system through a similar dialog. The manual path specification didn't work. I was using the files which had been downloaded earlier to my internal hard disk hda5, which was mounted for me properly by the system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#94419: Swap partition step skipped and not available
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.23 When installing a new system from the boot floppy, the first step is to choose a keyboard, then partition a hard disk. After partitioning my hard disk using the provided utility, I used w to write the partition map, then q to quit the utility. When I was returned to the dbootstrap menu, I was presented with text concerning creation of a swap partition, but a 'Next' menu item choice of Partition a Hard Disk again. The 'Alternate' menu item is Do Without a Swap Partition. I selected the Initialize and Activate a Swap Partition item from further down the list manually, but when I did an error resulted: No swap partitions that had already been mounted were detected. Thus I was forced to select Do Without a Swap Partition to be able to continue with my install. I am trying to install on a PowerBase 180 PowerPC with attached SCSI disks (I was using sdb). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#94435: [m68k] Extracting kernel from floppy image fails
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; reported 2001-04-18 Severity: important version: Potato mac m68k (busybox 2000.11.29-07:44+) Problem: When installing to NFS root, a message mentioning special handling of the installation images is shown, then mounting the images fails. Details: dbootstrap runs 'dd //path/to/images-1.44/rescue.bin /dev/ram 2 /dev/null' and then 'mount -r -t ext2 /dev/ram /floppy', which fails with an 'invalid argument'. Running the dd command by hand in the shell, and leaving off stderr redirection, I find that dd returns the usage message to stderr. According to Joey (on #debian-boot) when I asked, the only thing he could find referencing /dev/ram was: extract_kernel.c:sprintf(prtbuf, "dd %s/%s /dev/ram 2 /dev/null",Archive_Dir,diskimage); which looks correct. So for some reason the current executable version doesn't have the '' in it. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux tarot 2.4.3cc #3 Tue Apr 17 15:37:13 PDT 2001 i586 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#94419: marked as done (Swap partition step skipped and not available)
Your message dated Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:37:08 -0800 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#94419: Swap partition step skipped and not available has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 18 Apr 2001 19:59:16 + From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Apr 18 14:59:16 2001 Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from cepheus.azstarnet.com [169.197.56.195] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 14py6e-00079l-00; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:59:16 -0500 Received: from [169.197.8.114] (dhcp114.mc01.dsl.azstarnet.com [169.197.8.114]) by cepheus.azstarnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA09241 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:59:14 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sent-via: StarNet http://www.azstarnet.com/ X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 4.5 (0410) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:57:37 -0700 Subject: Swap partition step skipped and not available From: "Chris Tillman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.23 When installing a new system from the boot floppy, the first step is to choose a keyboard, then partition a hard disk. After partitioning my hard disk using the provided utility, I used w to write the partition map, then q to quit the utility. When I was returned to the dbootstrap menu, I was presented with text concerning creation of a swap partition, but a 'Next' menu item choice of Partition a Hard Disk again. The 'Alternate' menu item is Do Without a Swap Partition. I selected the Initialize and Activate a Swap Partition item from further down the list manually, but when I did an error resulted: No swap partitions that had already been mounted were detected. Thus I was forced to select Do Without a Swap Partition to be able to continue with my install. I am trying to install on a PowerBase 180 PowerPC with attached SCSI disks (I was using sdb). --- Received: (at 94419-done) by bugs.debian.org; 18 Apr 2001 23:37:51 + From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Apr 18 18:37:51 2001 Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from kitsune.nwc.alaska.net (alaska.net) [209.112.130.10] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 14q1WA-bk-00; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:37:51 -0500 Received: from erbenson.alaska.net (95-pm30.nwc.alaska.net [209.112.158.95]) by alaska.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA12334; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:37:10 -0800 (AKDT) Received: from plato.local.lan (plato.local.lan [192.168.0.4]) by erbenson.alaska.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAE32398B; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:37:07 -0800 (AKDT) Received: by plato.local.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 893B2101F6; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:37:08 -0800 (AKDT) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:37:08 -0800 From: Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#94419: Swap partition step skipped and not available Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="xsILJLaVOAbiPmXa" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:57:37PM -0700 X-OS: Debian GNU Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --xsILJLaVOAbiPmXa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:57:37PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.23 =20 When installing a new system from the boot floppy, the first step is to choose a keyboard, then partition a hard disk. After partitioning my hard disk using the provided utility, I used w to write the partition map, the= n q to quit the utility. =20 When I was returned to the dbootstrap menu, I was presented with text concerning creation of a swap partition, but a 'Next' menu item choice of Partition a Hard Disk again. The 'Alternate' menu item is Do Without a Sw= ap Partition. =20 I selected the Initialize and Activate a Swap Partition item from further down the list manually, but when I did an error resulted: =20 No swap partitions that had already been mounted were detected. =20 Thus I was
Bug#94419: Swap partition step skipped and not available
That would be the case, except this is not an X86 install, this is a powerpc install. Which means he has to create a regular partition of type Apple_Unix_SVR2 (the default for mac-fdisk) and it has to be *named* "swap". X86 doesn't have the name thing, either. I'm pretty sure this is all covered in the docs for mac-fdisk. a Adam Conrad wrote: When you partitioned your hard disk, did you remember to mark one of the partitions as Type 82 (Linux Swap) before writing the table and exiting?... If the installer doesn't see any Type 82 partitions, it will assume you either screwed up (hence the choice to repartition again), or that you don't want one (do without). ... Adam Conrad -Original Message- From: Chris Tillman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug#94419: Swap partition step skipped and not available Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.23 When installing a new system from the boot floppy, the first step is to choose a keyboard, then partition a hard disk. After partitioning my hard disk using the provided utility, I used w to write the partition map, then q to quit the utility. When I was returned to the dbootstrap menu, I was presented with text concerning creation of a swap partition, but a 'Next' menu item choice of Partition a Hard Disk again. The 'Alternate' menu item is Do Without a Swap Partition. I selected the Initialize and Activate a Swap Partition item from further down the list manually, but when I did an error resulted: No swap partitions that had already been mounted were detected. Thus I was forced to select Do Without a Swap Partition to be able to continue with my install. I am trying to install on a PowerBase 180 PowerPC with attached SCSI disks (I was using sdb). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#94419: Swap partition step skipped and not available
Oh good point... Didn't notice that is was PowerPC... Ignore me, then.. :) ... Adam -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew Sharp Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 7:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Chris Tillman' Subject: Re: Bug#94419: Swap partition step skipped and not available That would be the case, except this is not an X86 install, this is a powerpc install. Which means he has to create a regular partition of type Apple_Unix_SVR2 (the default for mac-fdisk) and it has to be *named* "swap". X86 doesn't have the name thing, either. I'm pretty sure this is all covered in the docs for mac-fdisk. a Adam Conrad wrote: When you partitioned your hard disk, did you remember to mark one of the partitions as Type 82 (Linux Swap) before writing the table and exiting?... If the installer doesn't see any Type 82 partitions, it will assume you either screwed up (hence the choice to repartition again), or that you don't want one (do without). ... Adam Conrad -Original Message- From: Chris Tillman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug#94419: Swap partition step skipped and not available Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.23 When installing a new system from the boot floppy, the first step is to choose a keyboard, then partition a hard disk. After partitioning my hard disk using the provided utility, I used w to write the partition map, then q to quit the utility. When I was returned to the dbootstrap menu, I was presented with text concerning creation of a swap partition, but a 'Next' menu item choice of Partition a Hard Disk again. The 'Alternate' menu item is Do Without a Swap Partition. I selected the Initialize and Activate a Swap Partition item from further down the list manually, but when I did an error resulted: No swap partitions that had already been mounted were detected. Thus I was forced to select Do Without a Swap Partition to be able to continue with my install. I am trying to install on a PowerBase 180 PowerPC with attached SCSI disks (I was using sdb). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#94458: depmod after drivers installation fails because directory is incorrect
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:28:31PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.23 After Install Operating System Kernel and Drivers completed, an error message informed me that the drivers installation had failed. Looking in the error log, I noted the error depmod: No modules were found in /target/lib/modules/2.2.19 that could be configured. I went to Execute a Shell and navigated to /target/lib/modules and asked for a ls, with the results 2.2.18pre21 Apparently a directory was created but with the incorrect revision number to match the installation package. Are you absolutely sure you have a bootdisk and rootdisk from the same build? The 2.2.23 I uploaded had a /target/lib/modules/2.2.19: block/ fs/ ipv4/ ipv6/ misc/ net/ pcmcia/ scsi/ usb/ I'm betting you used an out-of-date mirror for a network install. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question regarding /etc/apt/sources.list and boot-floppies
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:42:16PM -0400, James D Strandboge wrote: Currently I have it for woody, and just grab what I need from sid and put it in my $(ftp_archive)/local directory, which seems to work ok. that is exactly what i have done, and is probably the safer way to go. otherwise, all the packages will come from unstable vice testing (where there is a different one in each) -john -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
