cvs commit to debian-installer/libdebian-installer by sjogren

2002-09-08 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master

Repository: debian-installer/libdebian-installer
who:sjogren
time:   Sun Sep  8 04:21:32 MDT 2002
Log Message:
  Add di_pkg_parse() to parse Packages files
  Add di_stristr() for case-insensitive substring matching

Files:
changed:Makefile debian-installer.c debian-installer.h


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cvs commit to debian-installer/libdebian-installer/debian by sjogren

2002-09-08 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master

Repository: debian-installer/libdebian-installer/debian
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time:   Sun Sep  8 04:21:32 MDT 2002
Log Message:
  Add di_pkg_parse() to parse Packages files
  Add di_stristr() for case-insensitive substring matching

Files:
changed:changelog


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cvs commit to debian-installer/anna/debian by sjogren

2002-09-08 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master

Repository: debian-installer/anna/debian
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time:   Sun Sep  8 04:26:58 MDT 2002
Log Message:
  Use di_pkg_parse from libd-i

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changed:changelog control


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cvs commit to debian-installer/anna by sjogren

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Repository: debian-installer/anna
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time:   Sun Sep  8 04:26:57 MDT 2002
Log Message:
  Use di_pkg_parse from libd-i

Files:
changed:Makefile anna.h retriever.c

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cvs commit to debian-installer/main-menu by sjogren

2002-09-08 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master

Repository: debian-installer/main-menu
who:sjogren
time:   Sun Sep  8 04:28:18 MDT 2002
Log Message:
  Use di_pkg_parse from libd-i

Files:
changed:Makefile main-menu.h status.c tree.c


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cvs commit to debian-installer/main-menu/debian by sjogren

2002-09-08 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master

Repository: debian-installer/main-menu/debian
who:sjogren
time:   Sun Sep  8 04:28:20 MDT 2002
Log Message:
  Use di_pkg_parse from libd-i

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changed:changelog control


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care to upload new busybox?

2002-09-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen


Hi, it seems like there is a bug in zcat in busybox, where:

14:01  Marvin-- while (file_count == 0 || optind  argc)
14:02  Marvin-- it increases optind, but not file_count

This seems to be fixed in the development version.  Care to upload a
fixed package?

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Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/utils/debian by tfheen

2002-09-08 Thread Denis Barbier

On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 08:36:20PM -0600, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote:
 Repository: debian-installer/utils/debian
 who:tfheen
 time:   Sat Sep  7 20:36:20 MDT 2002
 Log Message:
   Initial checkin of mounter
   
 
 Files:
 changed:changelog control
 
 added:  di-utils-mount-partitions.postinst di-utils-mount-partitions.template

Wrong filename, should be di-utils-mount-partitions.templates 

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i18n requires setlocale

2002-09-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa

Hi,

i18n of messages and other things require setlocale.
AFAIK there are no call to setlocale in the sources.


Adding 

  setlocale(LC_ALL,);

to start of each main() should be enough.



Otherwise applications will be running in C locale.




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Re: i18n requires setlocale

2002-09-08 Thread Martin Sjögren

sön 2002-09-08 klockan 13.59 skrev Junichi Uekawa:
 Hi,
 
 i18n of messages and other things require setlocale.
 AFAIK there are no call to setlocale in the sources.
 
 
 Adding 
 
   setlocale(LC_ALL,);
 
 to start of each main() should be enough.

I've been thinking the same thing. However, the i18n support is pretty
hazy as it is:

* main-menu asks debconf for debian-installer/language which afaict
doesn't exist. IMO it would be better if the thing that asked for
debian-installer/language first, sets LANG=$language after that, so
setlocale can be used.
* The Packages file parsing didn't support Description-ll_CC, only
Description-ll (something I'm working on fixing) and I'm not sure about
cdebconf as I get lost in the source code when I try to have a look.
* Not all templates are in UTF-8.
* debconf TITLE commands aren't translated at all.
* Should we even use debconf i18n (which is pretty limited) or po files
as per gettext?
* How much i18n can we (and how much do we want to) fit on the floppy?

That's just a list on top of my head, there are probably more issues
than this.


Regards,
Martin



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Woody Installation

2002-09-08 Thread Axel Schlicht
: DCAS-34330   Rev: S65A
  Type Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

  Vendor: PLEXTOR  Model: CD-ROM PX-32TS   Rev: 1.01
  Type :  CD-ROMANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0

  Vendor: CyberDrv Model: CD-ROM TW240SRev: 1.40
  Type :  CD-ROMANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0

  Vendor: PLEXTOR  Model: CD-ROM Rewritable-2x2x6  Rev: 2.00
  Type :  CD-ROMANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr2 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0

scsi : detected 3 SCSI cdroms  1 SCSI disk total

...
sr0: NOT LISTED, WHY ?
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x   cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
sr2 scsi3-mmc drive:  2x/6x  writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray

Partition check
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
hda: hda1  hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11  hda2
hdb: hdb1  hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 hdb10 hdb11 
hdc: [PTBL] [2491/255/63] hdc1  hdc5 hdc6 hdc7 
 
What's that? Why? Seems to be Partition table / CHS, but why?

insmod: modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20020908.log Read-only
file system
insmod: /libs/modules/2.2.20/misc/unix.o: cannot create
/var/log/ksymoops/20020908121553.ksyms Read-only file sestem
insmod: /libs/modules/2.2.20/misc/unix.o: cannot create
/var/log/ksymoops/20020908.log Read-only file sestem

is this serious?

...

Loading modules:
unix af_packet ne2k-pci ne2k-pci.c: v1.02 for Linux 2.2 
??? af_packet: what's that, who installed that?

nek2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'Realtek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xb800, IRQ 12

eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xb800, IRQ12, MAC-Address
sb Soundblaster audio driver Coipyright ...
SB 4.13 detected OK (220)
sb: interrupt test on IRQ7 failed - probable IRQ conflict
nls_cp437 vfat nfs


/proc/modules
  sb 32456   0 (unused)
  uart401 5872   0 [sb]
  sound  56384   0 [sb uart401]
  soundlow 384   0 [sound]
  soundcore   2452   5 [sb sound]
  usb-uhci   18220   0 (unused)
  usbcore43920   0 [usb-uhci]
* ide-scsi7060   0
* parport_probe   3360   0 (autoclean)
* parport_pc  7276   1 (autoclean)
  lp  4580   0 (autoclean)
* parport 6852   1 (autoclean) [parport_probe parport_pc
lp]
* pcmcia_core45824   0
  nfs71180   0 (unused)
  lockd  42420   0 [nfs]
* sunrpc 57816   0 [nfs lockd]
  vfat9428   0
  nls_cp437   3896   1
  ne2k-pci4240   1
  83905944   0 [ne2k-pci]
  af_packet   6152   0 (unused)
  unix   11352   5 (autoclean)

Why ide-scsi? Never asked for that. The only DVD drive may also be
accessed through directly.
Sunrpc? What's that
Pcmcia? Didn't we remove Pcmcia during intallation?
Parport? I only want to print thru my parallel port. No scanners, No
CD-ROMs, nothing else.

What can I delete?

Debian System Configutarion
...
just run /usr/sbin/base-config
Just imagine, all thoes usesful bits of information stored in a nice
text file. If Possible with something like: You installed xxx, config
files are  config programs are  format of config files (no man
pages as usual) can be found at a, the following errors occured
during install , to solve them run  or edit . Wouldn't this
be just great?

Writing down /usr/base/config (hoping not to lose slip of paper)

No GMT - Europe/Berlin
md5 passwords enabled
shadow passwords enabled

create user

Q: How secure are passwords like 'I1,just4.want4 in2 No_of_Chars11'. Can
they easily be cracked too? (Meaningful sentence + special chars on the
same key on all keyboards)

delete PCMCIA

No PPP for installing

Apt-Configuration
/dev/cdrom : yuck : changed to /mnt/cd32 = /dev/sr0
fstab : /dev/sr0  /mnt/cd32  iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
mount /mnt/cd32 works

entering /mnt/cd32 in Ap-config causes error-message : /mnt/cd32 no
block device
mounting /mnt/cd32 solves this problem, but apt-config is skipped (very
bad)
No way back.
How do I configure it now?

So
run tasksel - no
run dselect - no

mail : no configuration, not decided what will be necessary. Will ask in
further posting.

login
man apt
man apt-cache
yucck, pager is more, no less installed (extremely bad)
man apt.conf
man apt-config
apropos apt - apt : nothing appropriate (that's ridiculous)
Nothing tells me how to create apt.conf. As there was a graphical
interface in the install program, it would be nice if it could be used
outside the installation process.
cd  /usr/share/doc/apt
cat guide.text.gz | gzip -d | more
doesn't yield anything useful either. So, how do I now create apt.conf?
The sample under /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf however does not
contain

Re: i18n requires setlocale

2002-09-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa

 * main-menu asks debconf for debian-installer/language which afaict
 doesn't exist. IMO it would be better if the thing that asked for
 debian-installer/language first, sets LANG=$language after that, so
 setlocale can be used.
 * The Packages file parsing didn't support Description-ll_CC, only
 Description-ll (something I'm working on fixing) and I'm not sure about
 cdebconf as I get lost in the source code when I try to have a look.
 * Not all templates are in UTF-8.

No templates should be in UTF-8.
They need to be converted from their local encoding to 
the UTF-8 on the fly, or on creation of udebs.

 * Should we even use debconf i18n (which is pretty limited) or po files
 as per gettext?

It should probably be worked on by Tomohiro Kubota, on the
real debconf... 

We used po files for boot-floppies, and I think it was quite easy to 
maintain, as far as po files went. But I'm used to po files.

I gather that many people are used to maintaining debconf
templates, so it shouldn't make much difference.


 * How much i18n can we (and how much do we want to) fit on the floppy?

That is why udebootstrap may be required.


Note that debian-installer goes very far back from boot-floppies in
respect to i18n.

boot-floppies worked around the size constraints by loading 
locale information from file on CD-Rom, if it was available.
(xlp.tgz).


regards,
junichi

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Re: i18n requires setlocale

2002-09-08 Thread Martin Sjögren

sön 2002-09-08 klockan 17.31 skrev Junichi Uekawa:
 No templates should be in UTF-8.
 They need to be converted from their local encoding to 
 the UTF-8 on the fly, or on creation of udebs.

Why can't they be in UTF-8? My local encoding *is* UTF-8 (unless I
misunderstand what you mean). And on-the-fly conversion is something
that I want debconf to do, but it also requires specifying the encoding
in the templates files. But I don't see the importance of templates not
being in UTF-8. Precious few editors don't support UTF-8, and even if
someone happens to use an editor that doesn't, there's iconv. Gtk 2 and
hence Gnome 2 use UTF-8 for all text and po files, so it's not as if it
can't be done.

 We used po files for boot-floppies, and I think it was quite easy to 
 maintain, as far as po files went. But I'm used to po files.

I'm used to po files too, being a member of the Swedish team in the
Translation Project. Using po files is simple enough for a translator
(and fairly well documented).

 Note that debian-installer goes very far back from boot-floppies in
 respect to i18n.

Exactly, and since i18n is such a complicated matter, it makes sense to
use what has been produced by others who have thought a lot about it
(e.g. gettext) instead of producing something ourselves that may or may
not be good enough.

 boot-floppies worked around the size constraints by loading 
 locale information from file on CD-Rom, if it was available.
 (xlp.tgz).

Nod. I'm not 100% up to speed on what the single floppy is supposed to
be able to do (bootstrap for systems that can't boot from CDs and
netinstall I suppose, but what else?)

This is a tough nut to crack as we say in Sweden.


Regards,
Martin



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Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-08 Thread Axel Schlicht

Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
Hi Tollef
Thanks for the extremely fast answer.
 You can choose kernels etc by choosing which CD to use.
But then you have to know which kernel is on which CD. So here, too, a
short note would be helpful (like kernel xxx on CD yyy)

 | As I had to disable all drives except /dev/hda I'll have to to without a
 | swap drive.
 | Mounting /dev/sda4
 
 Uhm, you are saying you only had hda here, but then continuing to mount sda4?
Sorry: all drives except /dev/sda, of course

 | Install Kernel and Driver Modules : pressed enter : skipped by install
 | routine (not good)
 
 Parse error.
What to do now? File a bug report?

 | Why not tell users how to enter parameters?
 Because it is dependend on the kernel module?
But couldn't each driver bring its own message? Would make it much more
user friendly.
 
 | + vfat   : OK
 |   (No description available) : That's a joke, isn't it
 | + nfs: OK
 |   (No description available) : That's a joke, isn't it

 file bugs against modconf.
How do I do this thru windoze? Some docs available?
 
 | Select Installation Medium (didn't we have that before and before ...)
 
 I usually install base from the network, though I may install the
 kernel from cd, so this is a sane question.

 | So, Linux seems to scan for several scsi-adapters. How to disable this?
 Make a new initrd or compile your own kernel?
No sources on my CD set. Will try and have al look at initrd
 
 | hdc: [PTBL] [2491/255/63] hdc1  hdc5 hdc6 hdc7 
 |  
 | What's that? Why? Seems to be Partition table / CHS, but why?
 
 Asking those who make the installation system why the kernel prints
 stuff in a particular way isn't too productive.  I suggest you ask
 those on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good point here. Will do this.
 
 | Loading modules:
 | unix af_packet ne2k-pci ne2k-pci.c: v1.02 for Linux 2.2 
 | ??? af_packet: what's that, who installed that?
 packet socket, iirc.
I don't want to use iirc, so can I delete it?
 
 | Parport? I only want to print thru my parallel port. No scanners, No
 | CD-ROMs, nothing else.
 you still need a kernel driver.
Shouldn't lp alone do the work. Normally I compile my own kernel, but
without sources...
 
 | Q: How secure are passwords like 'I1,just4.want4 in2 No_of_Chars11'. Can
 | they easily be cracked too? (Meaningful sentence + special chars on the
 | same key on all keyboards)
 quite.  The Debian installation is not supposed to be a beginner's
 course on UNIX.
Sure, just a question along the way. Thanks

 You installed base and said no to dselect and tasksel, that means you
 have a minimal system.
I always thought less was the preferred pager in Linux, so I would
rather expect it than more.

 | How do I find out how to find out how to find out any information on
 | anything in Debian?
 Read the docs?
Where to find them (debian specific) if you don't know where to start
looking.
Serious question.

 | For some stupid reason it insists on /dev/cdrom (direct access to a dev
 | file, aaargh) which
 | points to /dev/scd0, why not to /dev/sr0 ???
 | How to get rid of ide-pci (might cause that scd0). And how to set up apt
 | so it will only access /mnt/sd32 (mount point for /dev/sr0).
 
 idepci is your kernel flavor.  And if you want apt-cdrom to work
 properly, it needs to know the block device.
 
 | But apt insists on /cdrom. How can I change that to /mnt/cd32
 /etc/fstab.
tried that, didn't work.

 We are not your servants.  We do our best.  Throwing shit in our face
 is useless.
Of course not. If it came over like that, sorry.
The problems I have might also be the problems of others. Maybe
providing more info during installation might make debian more
appealing.
So far I only worked in text mode doing all the stuff that would take
far to long under windoze (especially sorting, file processing (sed /
awk etc) ). X was on my boxes, but hardly ever used.
No that I am planning to move over for good, I have to install more
stuff and will also see more points where _I_ think more information
will be helpful. I wouldn't call this throwing shit - at least that was
never intended.

 | What happens if you accidentally hit no. Will the next scan delete the
 I suggest you use dselect or aptitude, since you know what you want
 and don't want.
But the big question is: What's it called and where is it. As the
CD-structure has greatly changed from a task / field-oriented to a
first_letter_of_app_name-structure it's quite difficult to search no.
apt-cache might not always be helpful.

 | So let's try X only. (And have fun afterwards lloking for all the apps
 | one by one)
 | Eh? X installs bc, biff, binutils, bison, cpp, ispell, cpp, gdb?
 | Strange.
 Why is that strange?
I didn't expect them in X
 
 | xdm? I don't want any graphical login.
 Then don't install xdm.
I never asked for them. During another installation (on my laptop) I was
presented a menu from which to choose a gdm without a choice to say no,
thanks, don't want this. Somehow it seems 

Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-08 Thread Giuseppe Sacco

Mr Axel Schlicht,
I am not an installation master but I think that I could try answering
some of your questions.

First a quick introduction.
The debian installer you used will probably be superceded by a new
installer that is being written from scratch, i.e. it is not an
improuvement of the dbootstrap code you are using. If you are courious
you could probably try it from CVS:
http://cvs.debian.org/debian-installer/

The second warning is that you are referring to errors that should be
addressed to different target:
- Linuxland, for the CD that you got,
- Debian, for the installation procedure,
- Kernel, for the problems about SoundBlaster and other modules.

Said that, I would reply to some of your points.

1. The documentation about the sb module and all its arguments is
   /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/Documentation/sound/Soundblaster
   Of course the actual path will be different for a different kernel
   version.

2. I think that you should not setup the network and audio card while
   installing Debian. You should normally setup ONLY the modules you
   need for the installation itself (like scsi drivers.)

3. To setup the modules after the installation of Debian you need to
   create a file in /etc/modutils/. The files already there will be
   useful for understanding how they work. You still have more
   documentation on this in
   /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/Documentation/modules.txt
   In that document you will find how to know what parameters a module
   needs (/sbin/modinfo -p sb)
   If you want to load some module at boot time, than insert its name in
   /etc/modules.

4. About the cdrom mount point. I *think* that Debian have a 'preferred'
   cdrom. Once you have a system set up, you should make a link from
   your /dev/sr0 to /dev/cdrom. In this way every program that try to
   access your cdrom will find it in /dev/cdrom regardless of which is
   your real cdrom device (scsi, ide, ...)
   The usual mount point for the cdrom in /cdrom. After Debian is
   installed you usually find a line like this one in /etc/fstab
   /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,exec,noauto

5. The ide-scsi. Some program require a SCSI device. The ide-scsi
   software emulate the SCSI interface on an IDE device. If you need to
   activate it then you have to load the module *AND* use an argument
   during the loading of the linux kernel (i.e. in LILO or grub). If you
   do not set the argument for ide-scsi during boot then you do not have
   to worry about it. It is probably opened by some program but will not
   actually work since you did not provide the argument. An example of
   the argument is hdc=ide-scsi that means: create a faked SCSI device
   controller and a fakes device chain and a faked SCSI disk device that
   the emulator should map to the hdc device.

6. About the matrox driver. I am not an owner of a matrox card but I
   understood that XFree requires a driver for that board that is
   available from the matrox web site.

7. The CVS for the documentation is not available only under Linux. You
   use any CVS client on any unices or user WinCVS under MS-Windows.
   Moreover you have the HTTP interface in http://cvs.debian.org/

8. The apt.conf file is documented in man. To have more information just
   type 'man apt.conf'. It this doesn't show up, then prabably you have
   a misconfigured man. Did you tried mandb?

9. mail. On a Debian system you need at least local mail in order to
   deliver mail from cron. If you use exim, then you may choice from a
   menu that will permit you a 'local delivery only' installation. You
   may run eximconfig anytime to change it.

10. Security update. This a different source for your apt. You may
   insert it in /etc/apt/sources.list and then run the apt frontend you
   like. The question about using root is strange: you need to have root
   privilege to install any package in Debian. There is no special rule
   in using security update since they are normal packages that fixes
   security bug in a stable distribution like woody.

11. tcpwrapper is way to secure your network connected machine at
   application level. To have more information on it look for the
   package tcpd.

12. The X resolution is shown in /var/log/XFree86.0.log. Look for a
   line like 'Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024)'. You may also find
   the actual resolution using the command xdpyinfo.

13. When you boot your system using the Debian kernel than you have a
   lot of driver installed. This is the reason that during boot you see
   many SCSI drivers trying to find its own hordware. To avoid it you
   have to recompile your kernel without these drivers.

14. The kernel source are available in a *BINARY* package and not only
   in the source package. You may install it via the package
   kernel-source with the correct version (the one you like.)

Hope this help. At least for some problems.

Bye,
Giuseppe


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cvs commit to base-config by porridge

2002-09-08 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master

Repository: base-config
who:porridge
time:   Sun Sep  8 13:32:14 MDT 2002
Log Message:
  Updated polish translations (man pages and templates)

Files:
changed:apt-setup.pl.8 apt-setup.templates.pl base-config.pl.8 termwrap.pl.8 
tzsetup.pl.8 tzsetup.templates.pl

added:  validlocale.pl.8


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2002-09-08 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master

Repository: base-config/debian
who:porridge
time:   Sun Sep  8 13:32:15 MDT 2002
Log Message:
  Updated polish translations (man pages and templates)

Files:
changed:changelog templates.pl


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Re: i18n requires setlocale

2002-09-08 Thread Chris Tillman

On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 06:49:54PM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
 s??n 2002-09-08 klockan 17.31 skrev Junichi Uekawa:
  No templates should be in UTF-8.
  They need to be converted from their local encoding to 
  the UTF-8 on the fly, or on creation of udebs.
 
 Why can't they be in UTF-8? My local encoding *is* UTF-8 (unless I
 misunderstand what you mean). And on-the-fly conversion is something
 that I want debconf to do, but it also requires specifying the encoding
 in the templates files. But I don't see the importance of templates not
 being in UTF-8. Precious few editors don't support UTF-8, and even if
 someone happens to use an editor that doesn't, there's iconv. Gtk 2 and
 hence Gnome 2 use UTF-8 for all text and po files, so it's not as if it
 can't be done.
 
  We used po files for boot-floppies, and I think it was quite easy to 
  maintain, as far as po files went. But I'm used to po files.
 
 I'm used to po files too, being a member of the Swedish team in the
 Translation Project. Using po files is simple enough for a translator
 (and fairly well documented).
 
  Note that debian-installer goes very far back from boot-floppies in
  respect to i18n.
 
 Exactly, and since i18n is such a complicated matter, it makes sense to
 use what has been produced by others who have thought a lot about it
 (e.g. gettext) instead of producing something ourselves that may or may
 not be good enough.
 
  boot-floppies worked around the size constraints by loading 
  locale information from file on CD-Rom, if it was available.
  (xlp.tgz).
 
 Nod. I'm not 100% up to speed on what the single floppy is supposed to
 be able to do (bootstrap for systems that can't boot from CDs and
 netinstall I suppose, but what else?)
 
 This is a tough nut to crack as we say in Sweden.


For floppy installs, why not plan on having a floppy version available
in each language rather than trying to do a multilingual floppy?


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Re: i18n requires setlocale

2002-09-08 Thread Denis Barbier

On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 05:14:56PM +0200, Martin Sjögren wrote:
[...]
 * Should we even use debconf i18n (which is pretty limited) or po files
 as per gettext?
[...]

FYI I have written some tools to manage translated Debconf templates files
with gettext and will send an ITP as soon as documentation is over.

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Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-08 Thread Axel Schlicht

Karsten Merker wrote:
 
 It is described in the installation manual, which is on your CD set
 and also available online at:
 http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-cd

Didn't look into it; thought ch stands for Chinese, and with no Chinese
fonts istalled, why bother to look into it?

 
   file bugs against modconf.
  How do I do this thru windoze? Some docs available?
 
 http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
Will look into it.
 
 
 iirc = if I remember correctly = wenn ich micht recht erinnnere
Blush.

 You need both of the unix and af_packet modules, they provide
 functionality that is needed by the installer.
OK

 Look for example into /usr/share/doc/debian/FAQ/; if you do not have
 that directory, install the package doc-debian.
 A list of further documentation is available at
 http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals.

Next on my look-into-list

Thanks a lot.
Axel Schlicht


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Re: [d-i] Problems with various debconf templates

2002-09-08 Thread Denis Barbier

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 10:36:41AM +0200, Martin Sjögren wrote:
 mån 2002-09-02 klockan 10.27 skrev Denis Barbier:
  I was unclear, sorry, here is the problematic template:
Template: mirror/country
Type: select
Choices: ${countries}
Default: United States
Description: Use a mirror from what country?
 The goal is to find a mirror that is close to you on the network -- be
 aware that near countries, or even your own, may not be the best choice.
 
 But still, language is orthogonal to country. You don't want to
 translate the country, not even the default value. If we always used the
 ll_CC notation it would be possible, but it would be a lot of redundancy
 involved.

In another email you told having misunderstood my position, now it's my turn
to try to misunderstand you ;)
What is your position about hostnames?
  Template: mirror/http/mirror
  Type: select
  Choices: ${mirrors}
  Default: http.us.debian.org

I definitely want to add
  Default-fr: ftp.fr.debian.org
but am I the only translator interested in providing better defaults when
they are locale-dependent?

Denis


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by claush

2002-09-08 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master

Repository: boot-floppies/documentation
who:claush
time:   Sun Sep  8 15:21:21 MDT 2002
Log Message:
  Danish update

Files:
changed:release-notes.da.sgml


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Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-08 Thread Axel Schlicht

Hi Christian

 installed, so the kernel-image source package is on the source CD, the
 kernel-image binary package is on your CD, the kernel-source source package
 is on the source CD, the kernel-source binary (binary-all) package is on the
 binary CDs, simple isn't it?).
Well, my woody only has 7 Binary-CD-s and one Add-On-CD (Open Office).
So, I never expected the
kernel sources to be on them.
find /cdrom -name '*kernel*' -print
yielded kernel 2.2.20 and 2.4.xx
apt-get install kernel-sources-2.2.20 kernel-sources-2.4.18
OK
So now I think I can compile my own kernel

  CD-structure has greatly changed from a task / field-oriented to a
  first_letter_of_app_name-structure it's quite difficult to search no.
  apt-cache might not always be helpful.
 You typicall do not search on the CD for programs, thats what dselect and
 friends are for.
What do you do if you are looking for a program with particular features
but don't have the slightest idea as what it might be called. Here
browsing the CD's has often been a good idea, but will no longer work
with the new layout.

 they are not _in_ X, but xfree86 is not only one package, it depends on
 several other packages and the one or other package requires (or suggests)
 one of the packages you mentioned. If you use dselect to install packages,
 you should be able to see what packages require. And if you try to unselect
 one of those packages, it will tell you which package needs/recommends it.
makes sense.

   | xdm? I don't want any graphical login.
   Then don't install xdm.
  I never asked for them. During another installation (on my laptop) I was
  presented a menu from which to choose a gdm without a choice to say no,
  thanks, don't want this. Somehow it seems to default to installing a
  gdm.
dkpg -r xdm
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of xdm
  x-window-system depends on xdm
so I cant't remove it, but I think it should not be installed by
default.

Thanks for the help

Axel Schlicht


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Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-08 Thread Axel Schlicht

Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
Hi Giuseppe 

 First a quick introduction.
 The debian installer you used will probably be superceded by a new
 installer that is being written from scratch, i.e. it is not an
 improuvement of the dbootstrap code you are using. If you are courious
 you could probably try it from CVS:
 http://cvs.debian.org/debian-installer/
Will look into that (as well as dbootstrap).
 
 1. The documentation about the sb module and all its arguments is
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/Documentation/sound/Soundblaster
Of course the actual path will be different for a different kernel
version.

 3. To setup the modules after the installation of Debian you need to
create a file in /etc/modutils/. The files already there will be
useful for understanding how they work. You still have more
documentation on this in
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/Documentation/modules.txt
In that document you will find how to know what parameters a module
needs (/sbin/modinfo -p sb)
Now that I have found the kernel source on the BINARY CDs I can go on.
 
 4. About the cdrom mount point. I *think* that Debian have a 'preferred'
cdrom. Once you have a system set up, you should make a link from
your /dev/sr0 to /dev/cdrom. In this way every program that try to
access your cdrom will find it in /dev/cdrom regardless of which is
your real cdrom device (scsi, ide, ...)
The usual mount point for the cdrom in /cdrom. After Debian is
installed you usually find a line like this one in /etc/fstab
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,exec,noauto
I would like to have apt read from /mnt/cd32. Which file do I have to
tweak now? I. e. whre does apt store ist predilection for /cdrom or is
it compiled in?

 5. The ide-scsi. Some program require a SCSI device. The ide-scsi
software emulate the SCSI interface on an IDE device. If you need to
activate it then you have to load the module *AND* use an argument
during the loading of the linux kernel (i.e. in LILO or grub). If you
do not set the argument for ide-scsi during boot then you do not have
to worry about it. It is probably opened by some program but will not
actually work since you did not provide the argument. An example of
the argument is hdc=ide-scsi that means: create a faked SCSI device
controller and a fakes device chain and a faked SCSI disk device that
the emulator should map to the hdc device.
I have 3 SCSI CD-ROMs and a SCSI harddisk, so most programs should be
happy.
No compiling a no kernel, ide-scsi will be dead. Never had any problems
befor w/o it.

 6. About the matrox driver. I am not an owner of a matrox card but I
understood that XFree requires a driver for that board that is
available from the matrox web site.
I looked at xfree86.org again. They say it's part of the svga-driver.
I think I will ask again in debian-x with copy of my config file
attached.
 
 7. The CVS for the documentation is not available only under Linux. You
use any CVS client on any unices or user WinCVS under MS-Windows.
Moreover you have the HTTP interface in http://cvs.debian.org/
Good to know.
 
 8. The apt.conf file is documented in man. To have more information just
type 'man apt.conf'. It this doesn't show up, then prabably you have
a misconfigured man. Did you tried mandb?
Found it now, it's /etc/apt/sources.list

 9. mail. On a Debian system you need at least local mail in order to
deliver mail from cron. If you use exim, then you may choice from a
menu that will permit you a 'local delivery only' installation. You
may run eximconfig anytime to change it.
Local mail is installed and will soon be configured, but I have to
retrieve mail from several ISPs and also want to read several languages
not using Roman characters. Will ask this again in debian-isp.

 
 10. Security update. This a different source for your apt. You may
insert it in /etc/apt/sources.list and then run the apt frontend you
like. The question about using root is strange: you need to have root
privilege to install any package in Debian. There is no special rule
in using security update since they are normal packages that fixes
security bug in a stable distribution like woody.
To run apt-get, you must be root, so that means to access the web as
root. I don't like the idea. Is there a way to do this wothout being
root?


 11. tcpwrapper is way to secure your network connected machine at
application level. To have more information on it look for the
package tcpd.
OK

 12. The X resolution is shown in /var/log/XFree86.0.log. Look for a
line like 'Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024)'. You may also find
the actual resolution using the command xdpyinfo.
Should help.
 
 13. When you boot your system using the Debian kernel than you have a
lot of driver installed. This is the reason that during boot you see
many SCSI drivers trying to find its own 

Re: i18n requires setlocale

2002-09-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen

* Chris Tillman 

| For floppy installs, why not plan on having a floppy version available
| in each language rather than trying to do a multilingual floppy?

Because we will then have a zillion different floppies to choose from?
:)

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Re: [d-i] Problems with various debconf templates

2002-09-08 Thread Martin Sjögren

sön 2002-09-08 klockan 23.09 skrev Denis Barbier:
  But still, language is orthogonal to country. You don't want to
  translate the country, not even the default value. If we always used the
  ll_CC notation it would be possible, but it would be a lot of redundancy
  involved.
 
 In another email you told having misunderstood my position, now it's my turn
 to try to misunderstand you ;)
 What is your position about hostnames?
   Template: mirror/http/mirror
   Type: select
   Choices: ${mirrors}
   Default: http.us.debian.org
 
 I definitely want to add
   Default-fr: ftp.fr.debian.org
 but am I the only translator interested in providing better defaults when
 they are locale-dependent?

France != French. Isn't French spoken in quite a lot more countries than
France? For example Canada...

Also, a pretty standard policy when translating things is to try not to
change the meaning of the text. If I'm in the USA while installing
Debian, I might want to use Swedish during the installation, though I
definitely don't want to use ftp.se.d.o. Yes, I can change back the
default, but isn't the Usually, ftp.your country code.debian.org is a
good choice. enough?

We had a discussion about it on IRC a while back, I can't seem to find
it in my logs though :(


Regards,
Martin



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Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-08 Thread Axel Schlicht

Axel Schlicht wrote:
 
 
  12. The X resolution is shown in /var/log/XFree86.0.log. Look for a
 line like 'Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024)'. You may also find
 the actual resolution using the command xdpyinfo.
 Should help.

Found the mistake
Subsection Display
  Depth *
  Modes *
EndSubSection
did not contain any modes. Entered them manually, X seems to run no, no
border, nice outfit. Think that was it.

Axel Schlicht


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Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen

* Axel Schlicht 

I'll only answer stuff where I see that other's haven't answered.

| Tollef Fog Heen wrote:

|  Make a new initrd or compile your own kernel?
|
| No sources on my CD set. Will try and have al look at initrd

man mkinitrd is a good start.

|  you still need a kernel driver.
|
| Shouldn't lp alone do the work. Normally I compile my own kernel, but
| without sources...

I think you need both.

|  | How do I find out how to find out how to find out any information on
|  | anything in Debian?
|  Read the docs?
|
| Where to find them (debian specific) if you don't know where to
| start looking.  Serious question.

The install manual has a lot of information.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-moreinfo.en.html
has some pointers.

|  We are not your servants.  We do our best.  Throwing shit in our face
|  is useless.
|
| Of course not. If it came over like that, sorry.
| The problems I have might also be the problems of others. Maybe
| providing more info during installation might make debian more
| appealing.

Sure, it's just a bit demotivating to mostly getting reports saying
«this doesn't work, this doesn't work», some in a quite harsh tone.  I
apologize for my harsh reply, I should have known better than to
answer that way.

|  | What happens if you accidentally hit no. Will the next scan delete the
|  I suggest you use dselect or aptitude, since you know what you want
|  and don't want.
|
| But the big question is: What's it called and where is it. As the
| CD-structure has greatly changed from a task / field-oriented to a
| first_letter_of_app_name-structure it's quite difficult to search no.
| apt-cache might not always be helpful.

aptitude is a package browser, similar to dselect (but has a lot
better UI).  There you can also peek at what the different tasks
depends on

|  | xdm? I don't want any graphical login.
|  Then don't install xdm.
|
| I never asked for them. During another installation (on my laptop) I was
| presented a menu from which to choose a gdm without a choice to say no,
| thanks, don't want this. Somehow it seems to default to installing a
| gdm.

The desktop task, most likely.  Please file a wishlist bug against
against {kdm,xdm,gdm} asking them to offer a choice «none».

|  | Binutils: Kernel link failure info. Nice. Affects which kernels? 2.2.*,
|  | 2.4.*
|  | 2.2.17 in Potato (2.2.r0) did link OK). Info should be saved to disk, so
|  | scribbling down again.
| 
|  It is.
|
| Where? And (once again) how do I find out if and where something is
| written?

It should be sent to root's mailbox, and it should have been
documented under /usr/share/doc/binutils (which I just checked, and it
doesn't seem to be).

|  Then I suggest you sit down and write that documentation.  Scratch
|  your own itch.
|
| I would be willing to do so, but as I hate programming, I won't read
| source code. If the programmers did provide at least a short (and
| complete) list of keywords and an outline of the way they intend their
| programs to work + how to find that list, I should be starting out quite
| soon.

(speaking for myself here): I suck at documentation.  If a person asks
how something works (or is supposed to work), I can tell them, quite
well, but there is something which makes it hard for me to write
decent docs.  If somebody like you came along and asked all those
questions, I'd be happy to answer.

|  uhm, what OS does _not_ have a CVS client those days?
|
| But: I cannot connect using Linux, and it's not possible to do so under
| Windows. So offering a second way of accessing them might be a good
| idea.

WinCVS?  Or, you can download them off the web using viewCVS (the web
interface), though the latter is most likely quite painful,
considering the number of files.

| In closing.
| Imagine somebody new to Linux. Wouldn't you too like Linux to be easier
| to install. the more information you find during installation, the
| easier it will be to install. Information available AFTER you installed
| will not be accessible while you install. So my plea here is to provide
| more of it during installation.

Indeed.  Which is why I am spending a lot of time rewriting the
installation system right now. :)  It'll be a lot better.

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Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-08 Thread Giuseppe Sacco

  4. About the cdrom mount point. I *think* that Debian have a 'preferred'
 cdrom. Once you have a system set up, you should make a link from
 your /dev/sr0 to /dev/cdrom. In this way every program that try to
 access your cdrom will find it in /dev/cdrom regardless of which is
 your real cdrom device (scsi, ide, ...)
 The usual mount point for the cdrom in /cdrom. After Debian is
 installed you usually find a line like this one in /etc/fstab
 /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,exec,noauto
 I would like to have apt read from /mnt/cd32. Which file do I have to
 tweak now? I. e. whre does apt store ist predilection for /cdrom or is
 it compiled in?

from 'man apt-cdrom':

   --cdrom
  Mount  point;  specify  the  location  to mount the
  cdrom.  This  mount  point  must   be   listed   in
  /etc/fstab  and  propely configured.  Configuration
  Item: Acquire::cdrom::mount.

  9. mail. On a Debian system you need at least local mail in order to
 deliver mail from cron. If you use exim, then you may choice from a
 menu that will permit you a 'local delivery only' installation. You
 may run eximconfig anytime to change it.
 Local mail is installed and will soon be configured, but I have to
 retrieve mail from several ISPs and also want to read several languages
 not using Roman characters. Will ask this again in debian-isp.

You may use fetchmail to get your email, then probably any MUA (mail
user agent) will work. I think that you could use mutt on a utf-8
enabled xterm. Better solutions in debian-user mailing list.

  10. Security update. This a different source for your apt. You may
 insert it in /etc/apt/sources.list and then run the apt frontend you
 like. The question about using root is strange: you need to have root
 privilege to install any package in Debian. There is no special rule
 in using security update since they are normal packages that fixes
 security bug in a stable distribution like woody.
 To run apt-get, you must be root, so that means to access the web as
 root. I don't like the idea. Is there a way to do this wothout being
 root?

You have to be root. If you don't want to be root than you could
probably give the right to use apt to some user vua the program called
sudo.

Bye,
Giuseppe


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Localized default values (was Re: [d-i] Problems with various debconf templates)

2002-09-08 Thread Denis Barbier

On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 11:51:43PM +0200, Martin Sjögren wrote:
[...]
 France != French. Isn't French spoken in quite a lot more countries than
 France? For example Canada...

Isn't English spoken in quite a lot more countries than United States? ;)
Why is United States a good default value whereas France is not for French
speaking people?

 Also, a pretty standard policy when translating things is to try not to
 change the meaning of the text.

Huh?  I only want to change the default value, how does it have an impact
on the meaning of the text?

 If I'm in the USA while installing Debian, I might want to use
 Swedish during the installation, though I definitely don't want
 to use ftp.se.d.o. Yes, I can change back the default,

Exactly.

 but isn't the Usually, ftp.your country code.debian.org is a
 good choice. enough?

Then why is a default value provided?

Seriously my feeling is that users are getting bored when they
choose a language and provided default values do not take this
information into accout (when choosing keyboard layout, mirrors,
default system language, etc.).

Denis


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Re: Localized default values (was Re: [d-i] Problems with various debconf templates)

2002-09-08 Thread Thomas Poindessous

On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 12:28:07AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
 On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 11:51:43PM +0200, Martin Sjögren wrote:
 Then why is a default value provided?
 
 Seriously my feeling is that users are getting bored when they
 choose a language and provided default values do not take this
 information into accout (when choosing keyboard layout, mirrors,
 default system language, etc.).

I agree.

And boot-floppies works that way. If I choose French install, I got french
mirror.

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RE: Serverprobleme ??

2002-09-08 Thread JASSY


Hallo,
Du hast Recht,ich hatte Serverprobleme ! Mein
Domainserver ist offline !! :-( 
Keine Ahnung warum!!! Aber ich habe wieder alles 
im Griff.

Die Seite ist jetzt zu erreichen unter :

http://erotikpur.yeah.net/


Probier es mal aus und mail mir mal ob das so okay ist.

Bis dann

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Hallo Jasmina

sag mal hast Du Serverprobleme?? Ich wollte mir mal
Deine neue
Seite anschauen, aber unter Deiner Adresse tut sich nichts!
Dabei war ich so neugierig auf die neue Page. Kannst Du
mir mal Deinen neuen LINK schicken so das ich mir die Seite 
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Re: care to upload new busybox?

2002-09-08 Thread Erik Andersen

On Sun Sep 08, 2002 at 02:25:54PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
 
 Hi, it seems like there is a bug in zcat in busybox, where:
 
 14:01  Marvin-- while (file_count == 0 || optind  argc)
 14:02  Marvin-- it increases optind, but not file_count
 
 This seems to be fixed in the development version.  Care to upload a
 fixed package?

k, I'll do that this evening,

 -Erik

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Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-08 Thread Chris Tillman

 You, rather I, unpack the CDs, notice that we no longer need sources,
 call the maker (Linuxland, Munich, Germany) and are told that they are
 setting up a list of those interested in sources and - by the end of
 next week - will actually start burning them for a small fee. Nice, but
 that means that I won't be able to create my own kernel afterwards.
 Weird to sell Linux without sources.

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-post-install.en.html#s-kernel-baking

Sources for all programs are required to be available from your vendor, and
are also available online at http;//packages.debian.org/package-name (among
others).

 Now, after inserting CD#1 into /dev/sr0 we are greeted by this charming
 and encouraging little message:
 
 (If it fails try the other CDs)

Do you have a suggested rewording? It seems to be succinct, accurate and 
to the point. A longer explanation would explain that we have tried hard
to accomodate as many different machine architectures as possible, by 
providing differently configured boot kernels on the different CDs,  
one of which should boot on most any machine. But, that's covered in
much more detail in

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-cd

 ISOLINUX 1.67/debian-cd 2002-05-14 isolinux: Loading spec packet, trying
 to wing it...
 isolinux; Failed to locate CD-ROM device; boot failed
 
 So Debian is still unable to boot from a mixed system, i. e. starting
 from a scsi-device with ide-devices present. Will work the other way
 round. No problem with windoze, OS/2 et. al. in such a situation.
 (not a new bug, present since at least 2.0 (hamm? slink?)

I don't believe this is true; if it is, it should be added to the docs. 
What is more likely, is that it needs a kernel with the correct scsi drivers
(which you get by picking the appropriate boot flavor).

 So now we try CD #2
 Whow, now we get a welcome screen
 and - via F3 - are presented with a few options:
 linux, ramdisk{0,1}, floppy{0,1}, and rescue. Not much of a choice for
 kernels.

If isolinux had worked on your machine, you would have been given a 
choice of kernels. Since it didn't you have the backup plan: try
different CDs.

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-cd
 
 I could go on here (and already did so in the first try) just to find
 out that lilo is still unable to write to the correct hard disk in a
 mixed system (see above).

Can't speak to that. Bug lilo?

 So, the old game again: diable ide ports AND set all hds to 'none'.
 
 Inserting CD#1 again and  rebooting
 same result, very strange. (Debian based Knoppix e. g. would have no
 problem here).
 Yuck.
 
 So CD#2
 accepting default (linux)
 and we get:
 modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
 /lib/modules/2.2.20/modules.dep
  (No such file or directory)

No worry, you haven't installed yet.

 And now the first splash screen
 ... boot-floppies version 3.0.23
 ... built on 2002-05-15 by Adam Di Carlo

Where the debian website and Installation Instructions link is displayed.
I wish the paper manual you received was the instructions, as you assumed.

 As I had to disable all drives except /dev/hda I'll have to to without a
 swap drive.
 
 ...
 Mounting /dev/sda4
 
 Install Kernel and Driver Modules : pressed enter : skipped by install
 routine (not good)

What happened? I don't understand. It did nothing? This would be the next
dialog:
 
 Select Installation Medium : CD-Rom chosen
 
 Install Kernel and Driver Modules
 changed CD for CD#1
 enter, skipped again by install routine

?
 
 Found a Debian CD-ROM
 Finally found drivers (what about telling users which CD to insert for
 modules?)

I don't think you need to insert a CD for modules; they are loaded at
boot AFAIK.

 So far I have always compiled my own kernel (just for this reason, but
 without any sources I can't but use modules)

In any case the limited installation system would not support compiling
a kernel.

   So second attempt
   Command-Line-Arguments
   irq=5
   Error message: I/O, IRQ, and DMA are mandatory... installation failed
   How do I separate entries? Commata, spaces, semicola, cola ?

I agree, the module installation process is cumbersome. The more advanced
detection tools being used in the new installer should help a lot.

   Now, sb16 requires TWO DMA-adresses 1 AND 5), TWO ports (220 AND 330)
   How to enter this?
   /usr/doc/sb* /usr/cod/soundblaster* does not exist.

Since the installation system was designed to fit on a floppy, and
must work in a ramdisk, it has no documentation or manuals. I think a
good suggestion for CD builders would be to add a documentation CD; 
in fact I just submitted a bug asking for one.

 this out? Why not tell users how to enter parameters?

Thankfully, I use powerpc where all modules I know of can autodetect.
 
 usb-section : error-message for 0.0001 sec, please allow more time for
 the older (over 20) guys like me. Just wanted to see what usb might 

Re: i18n requires setlocale

2002-09-08 Thread Chris Tillman

On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 11:43:17PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
 * Chris Tillman 
 
 | For floppy installs, why not plan on having a floppy version available
 | in each language rather than trying to do a multilingual floppy?
 
 Because we will then have a zillion different floppies to choose from?

Right, but they're an organized zillion. One user is likely to need only
one language, so from that viewpoint he gets to choose from a few.

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Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-08 Thread Stephen Depooter

On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 17:38, Axel Schlicht wrote:
   CD-structure has greatly changed from a task / field-oriented to a
   first_letter_of_app_name-structure it's quite difficult to search no.
   apt-cache might not always be helpful.
  You typicall do not search on the CD for programs, thats what dselect and
  friends are for.
 What do you do if you are looking for a program with particular features
 but don't have the slightest idea as what it might be called. Here
 browsing the CD's has often been a good idea, but will no longer work
 with the new layout.

apt-cache search enter keywords here

apt-cache show package name 

This will often provide a reasonable selection of packages to choose
from although sometimes there is a lot of extra packages to sort
through.

Another place is to look is http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages where
there is a categorized listing and a searching capability.

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Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-08 Thread Colin Watson

On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 04:41:34PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
 Axel Schlicht wrote:
  man apt.conf
  man apt-config
  apropos apt - apt : nothing appropriate (that's ridiculous)
 
 Again, this is part of the standard installation you skipped.

[...]

  Only specific marked sections are handled by debconf...
  Man Xwrapper : no manual entry for debconf
  Apropos Xwrapper : nothing appropriate
  Well, yes
 
 Unfortunately, apropos doesn't work out of the box. You have 
 to run mandb in order for it to build the apropos database,
 this is done the first time cron runs, but on a system like 
 mine where cron never runs, well it just doesn't happen. Just
 
 mandb

I fixed this in man-db 2.3.20-20, after a fashion: the database won't
get updated over time unless you have cron enabled, but this is
difficult to avoid without making man a pain to use; at least you get a
database built with the man pages from base packages.

Do you think it's worth me making an upload to stable with just this
change, to see if it'll be let into 3.0r1?

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Re: Localized default values (was Re: [d-i] Problems with various debconf templates)

2002-09-08 Thread Joey Hess

Denis Barbier wrote:
 Isn't English spoken in quite a lot more countries than United States? ;)
 Why is United States a good default value whereas France is not for French
 speaking people?

Because the US is reasonably well connected to everywhere and has Debian's
main round-robin mirror network in it. If these facts of servers and network
topology should change, we should then change the default of course.

A lot more languages than English are spoken in the US too. You really think
a Spanish speaker in California or Tennessee wants to hit a mirror in Spain?

 Then why is a default value provided?

A default value is probably going to be *shown* whether you explicitly
provide one or not. Whatever country starts with A and is at the top
of the list is probably not a good choice.

 Seriously my feeling is that users are getting bored when they
 choose a language and provided default values do not take this
 information into accout (when choosing keyboard layout, mirrors,
 default system language, etc.).

Bored? If you want to provide sane location-based defaults, then ask the
user where they are. This information, if in a reasonable form, can be
re-used by base-config, which already has to ask about it for time zone
setup. (Or do you think I should force all French speaker's computers to
be set to GMT when they install? :-P)

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Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-08 Thread Axel Schlicht

Chris Tillman wrote:
Hi Chris

  ISOLINUX 1.67/debian-cd 2002-05-14 isolinux: Loading spec packet, trying
  to wing it...
  isolinux; Failed to locate CD-ROM device; boot failed
 
  So Debian is still unable to boot from a mixed system, i. e. starting
  from a scsi-device with ide-devices present. Will work the other way
  round. No problem with windoze, OS/2 et. al. in such a situation.
  (not a new bug, present since at least 2.0 (hamm? slink?)
 
 I don't believe this is true; if it is, it should be added to the docs.
 What is more likely, is that it needs a kernel with the correct scsi drivers
 (which you get by picking the appropriate boot flavor).
Take a fully configured linux system (condition is scsi AND ide, boot
sequence ide first) and invoke lilo.
Restart, and lilo will hang. Disable all ide drives and lilo will find
and write to the scsi drive.
I already asked this question a couple of years ago in the compuserve
*nix fora, but could not get a solution. Same situation with Suse,
Redhat, Caldera ...
Somehow Linux doesn't get the order right. My bios shows the scsi drive
as 0x80 / c: but thereafter you cant't run lilo. Revese it (ide first)
and you won't have any problems.
Also happens with a self-tailored kernel with the correct scsi-driver.

 Sources for all programs are required to be available from your vendor, and
 are also available online at http;//packages.debian.org/package-name (among
 others).
I called them, and, as I already say, they are now collecting orders and
will burn and sell the CDs for a nominal fee. I didn't know that the
kernel sorces are packed at buinaries. Found and unpacked them, so
everything shopuild be fine now.

  Now, after inserting CD#1 into /dev/sr0 we are greeted by this charming
  and encouraging little message:
 
  (If it fails try the other CDs)
 Do you have a suggested rewording? It seems to be succinct, accurate and
 to the point. A longer explanation would explain that we have tried hard
 to accomodate as many different machine architectures as possible, by
 providing differently configured boot kernels on the different CDs,
 one of which should boot on most any machine. But, that's covered in
 much more detail in
 http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-cd
What about providing something like indicating a file which lists all
possible kernels on all CD's. should be a text file so that a simple cat
| more will sufice to read it.
 
  So now we try CD #2
  Whow, now we get a welcome screen
  and - via F3 - are presented with a few options:
  linux, ramdisk{0,1}, floppy{0,1}, and rescue. Not much of a choice for
  kernels.
 If isolinux had worked on your machine, you would have been given a
 choice of kernels. Since it didn't you have the backup plan: try
 different CDs.
Might have something to do with the SCSI / IDE thing. Maybe a bug.
Sameone wiser than I might inspect it.
 
  modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
  /lib/modules/2.2.20/modules.dep
   (No such file or directory)
 No worry, you haven't installed yet.
Worked fine after installing.

  Install Kernel and Driver Modules : pressed enter : skipped by install
  routine (not good)
 What happened? I don't understand. It did nothing? This would be the next
 dialog:
It just alternated between the two. Might have been caused by the wrong
CD being inserted.
A error message telling the user to insert the correct disk would surely
stop this.

 I don't think you need to insert a CD for modules; they are loaded at
 boot AFAIK.
I meant modules ( drivers = modconf
 
 
 I agree, the module installation process is cumbersome. The more advanced
 detection tools being used in the new installer should help a lot.
After some fiddling I got it to work, but many potential users might
throw in the towel at this stage.

 Since the installation system was designed to fit on a floppy, and
 must work in a ramdisk, it has no documentation or manuals. I think a
 good suggestion for CD builders would be to add a documentation CD;
 in fact I just submitted a bug asking for one.
 
 Thankfully, I use powerpc where all modules I know of can autodetect.
Lucky you

 If it was a true error message, I'm sure it would have stayed
 visible. Probably just a progress type message.
Maybe usb was listed, but not available at the moment. As I don't intend
to use it (I just wanted to peek and see what's provides) I won't
bother.

  (where does it hide the parameters to sb
Searching for files with almost the same datestamp as /etc/modules-
  /etc/modules/conf)
Couldn't the first line of /etc/modules be something like
... all parameters are in /etc/modules.conf )
 
 Well, modules.conf states at the top that it is controlled by the
 system, not to be directly edited. So that would be inappropriate.
Of course, but here you can see which paramters are being passed. Nice
place to look if something doesn't work.

  Network
  ...
  DNS Server address : blank With several ISPs, 

Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-08 Thread Axel Schlicht

Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
 
 * Axel Schlicht
 |  Make a new initrd or compile your own kernel?
 | No sources on my CD set. Will try and have al look at initrd
 man mkinitrd is a good start.
found the sources, am on my way.
 
 |  you still need a kernel driver.
 |
 | Shouldn't lp alone do the work. Normally I compile my own kernel, but
 | without sources...
 I think you need both.
Compiling will do it, as before.

 | Where to find them (debian specific) if you don't know where to
 | start looking.  Serious question.
 The install manual has a lot of information.
 http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-moreinfo.en.html
 has some pointers.
I have been given many good links so far. Will delve into the whole
matter.
 
 |  We are not your servants.  We do our best.  Throwing shit in our face
 |  is useless.
 | Of course not. If it came over like that, sorry.
 | The problems I have might also be the problems of others. Maybe
 | providing more info during installation might make debian more
 | appealing.
 
 Sure, it's just a bit demotivating to mostly getting reports saying
 this doesn't work, this doesn't work, some in a quite harsh tone.  I
 apologize for my harsh reply, I should have known better than to
 answer that way.
I might have shown too much of my frustration, but this is the first
time I ever had such a hassle with Debien / Linux.

 |  | What happens if you accidentally hit no. Will the next scan delete the
 |  I suggest you use dselect or aptitude, since you know what you want
 |  and don't want.
 |
 | But the big question is: What's it called and where is it. As the
 | CD-structure has greatly changed from a task / field-oriented to a
 | first_letter_of_app_name-structure it's quite difficult to search no.
 | apt-cache might not always be helpful.
 
 aptitude is a package browser, similar to dselect (but has a lot
 better UI).  There you can also peek at what the different tasks
 depends on
Will give it a closer look.

 |  | xdm? I don't want any graphical login.
 |  Then don't install xdm.
 | I never asked for them. During another installation (on my laptop) I was
 | presented a menu from which to choose a gdm without a choice to say no,
 | thanks, don't want this. Somehow it seems to default to installing a
 | gdm.

 The desktop task, most likely.  Please file a wishlist bug against
 against {kdm,xdm,gdm} asking them to offer a choice none.
Will file - as suggested - several bugs soon.
 
 |  | Binutils: Kernel link failure info. Nice. Affects which kernels? 2.2.*,
 |  | 2.4.*
 |  | 2.2.17 in Potato (2.2.r0) did link OK). Info should be saved to disk, so
 |  | scribbling down again.
 |  It is.
 | Where? And (once again) how do I find out if and where something is
 | written?
 
 It should be sent to root's mailbox, and it should have been
 documented under /usr/share/doc/binutils (which I just checked, and it
 doesn't seem to be).
There was no mail, not even the normal welcome mail, but mail hasn't
been configured yet.
So, mea culpa.

 |  Then I suggest you sit down and write that documentation.  Scratch
 |  your own itch.
 |
 | I would be willing to do so, but as I hate programming, I won't read
 | source code. If the programmers did provide at least a short (and
 | complete) list of keywords and an outline of the way they intend their
 | programs to work + how to find that list, I should be starting out quite
 | soon.
 
 (speaking for myself here): I suck at documentation.  If a person asks
 how something works (or is supposed to work), I can tell them, quite
 well, but there is something which makes it hard for me to write
 decent docs.  If somebody like you came along and asked all those
 questions, I'd be happy to answer.
Let me get networking / gatewaying etc. done and I will start out.
 
 |  uhm, what OS does _not_ have a CVS client those days?
 |
 | But: I cannot connect using Linux, and it's not possible to do so under
 | Windows. So offering a second way of accessing them might be a good
 | idea.
 WinCVS?  Or, you can download them off the web using viewCVS (the web
 interface), though the latter is most likely quite painful,
 considering the number of files.
Hope with a working DSL connection this problem will be history.

 | In closing.
 | Imagine somebody new to Linux. Wouldn't you too like Linux to be easier
 | to install. the more information you find during installation, the
 | easier it will be to install. Information available AFTER you installed
 | will not be accessible while you install. So my plea here is to provide
 | more of it during installation.
 
 Indeed.  Which is why I am spending a lot of time rewriting the
 installation system right now. :)  It'll be a lot better.
Please continue.


Thanks again for the long and helpful answer

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Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-08 Thread Axel Schlicht

Giuseppe Sacco wrote:

   4. About the cdrom mount point. I *think* that Debian have a 'preferred'
  cdrom. Once you have a system set up, you should make a link from
  your /dev/sr0 to /dev/cdrom. In this way every program that try to
  access your cdrom will find it in /dev/cdrom regardless of which is
  your real cdrom device (scsi, ide, ...)
  The usual mount point for the cdrom in /cdrom. After Debian is
  installed you usually find a line like this one in /etc/fstab
  /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,exec,noauto
  I would like to have apt read from /mnt/cd32. Which file do I have to
  tweak now? I. e. whre does apt store ist predilection for /cdrom or is
  it compiled in?
 
 from 'man apt-cdrom':
 
--cdrom
   Mount  point;  specify  the  location  to mount the
   cdrom.  This  mount  point  must   be   listed   in
   /etc/fstab  and  propely configured.  Configuration
   Item: Acquire::cdrom::mount.
Was also answered by others. Will have to do some reading.
 
   9. mail. On a Debian system you need at least local mail in order to
  deliver mail from cron. If you use exim, then you may choice from a
  menu that will permit you a 'local delivery only' installation. You
  may run eximconfig anytime to change it.
  Local mail is installed and will soon be configured, but I have to
  retrieve mail from several ISPs and also want to read several languages
  not using Roman characters. Will ask this again in debian-isp.
 
 You may use fetchmail to get your email, then probably any MUA (mail
 user agent) will work. I think that you could use mutt on a utf-8
 enabled xterm. Better solutions in debian-user mailing list.
I will ask again and in more detail on debian-isp.

   10. Security update. This a different source for your apt. You may
  insert it in /etc/apt/sources.list and then run the apt frontend you
  like. The question about using root is strange: you need to have root
  privilege to install any package in Debian. There is no special rule
  in using security update since they are normal packages that fixes
  security bug in a stable distribution like woody.
  To run apt-get, you must be root, so that means to access the web as
  root. I don't like the idea. Is there a way to do this wothout being
  root?
 
 You have to be root. If you don't want to be root than you could
 probably give the right to use apt to some user vua the program called
 sudo.
I just hate to have an outgoing connection as root. Maybe I will find /
be told a good way to secure my system.


Thanks a lot again

Axel Schlicht


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Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-08 Thread Axel Schlicht

Colin Watson wrote:
 
  Unfortunately, apropos doesn't work out of the box. You have
  to run mandb in order for it to build the apropos database,
  this is done the first time cron runs, but on a system like
  mine where cron never runs, well it just doesn't happen. Just
 
  mandb
did mandb
Purging old database entries in /usr/share/man
mandb: can't update index cache /var/cache/man/index.bt: No such file or
directory.
Processing manual paes under /usr/share/man
fopen: No such file or directory
Updating indes cache for path '/usr/share/man. Wait...
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/vdex.1x.gz: whatis parse for
vdesk(1x) failed
...
Purging old database entries in /usr/local/man...
mandb:  can't update index cache /var/cache/man/oldlocal/index.bt: No
such file or directory.
Processing manual pages under /usr/local/man...
fopen: No such file or directory
...
Purging old database entries in /usr/X11R6/man...
mandb:  can't update index cache /var/cache/man/X11R6/index.bt: No such
file or directory.
Processing manual pages under /usr/X11R6/man...
fopen: No such file or directory
...

mandb
no errors now
Are those errors normal for a first invokation of mandb?
 

 I fixed this in man-db 2.3.20-20, after a fashion: the database won't
 get updated over time unless you have cron enabled, but this is
 difficult to avoid without making man a pain to use; at least you get a
 database built with the man pages from base packages.
 
 Do you think it's worth me making an upload to stable with just this
 change, to see if it'll be let into 3.0r1?
I have never been involved in developing Debian, so I better should
remain silent on this (although I appreciate all improvements).

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Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-08 Thread Axel Schlicht

Christian T. Steigies wrote:

 Moin,
auch Moin
 
 apt-cache search or wajig search work quite nicely. Also dselect still sorts
 packages according to sections, and I bet that gives you much more
 information than a CD listing. You could also read the Packages file
 directly, but I guess apt-cache search uses that as an input. And if you
 insist on reading the files on the CD, find also works on CD-Roms.
Will give aptitude / dselect etc. a try
 
  dkpg -r xdm
  dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of xdm
x-window-system depends on xdm
  so I cant't remove it, but I think it should not be installed by
  default.
 
 Of course you can remove it, x-window-system is only a task which pulls in a
 bunch of other packages, including xdm, because the standard user who
 wants the x-windows-system also wants xdm. You are the non-standard user.
 After installing the task, nobody stops you from removing the task and
 individual packages which were pulled in by that task. Its just a convenient
 thing to select one package and get X (or C development, or ...) going
 instead of selecting an xserver, some fonts, a windowmanager and a terminal
 emulator and maybe more manually. Its very easy to forget something and you
 wonder why X is not working. Been there, done that, xterm was my favourite.
That helps.

Thanks a lot

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Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-08 Thread Axel Schlicht

Stephen Depooter wrote:

Hi
 apt-cache search enter keywords here
Know this already, does indeed often come in handy, but often lists too
many unrelated packages.

 apt-cache show package name
Never tried this.
 This will often provide a reasonable selection of packages to choose
 from although sometimes there is a lot of extra packages to sort
 through.
 Another place is to look is http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages where
 there is a categorized listing and a searching capability.
This sound good and helpful. Will browse there.

Thanks a lot.

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Re: i18n requires setlocale

2002-09-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa


 Why can't they be in UTF-8? My local encoding *is* UTF-8

Your local encoding is a country default that has been used 
in the past, and which is used in your debconf templates file,
assumed when you do not specify an encoding in your templates file.

ISO-8859-? for most european countries, EUC-JP in Japan,
and so on.

Not what your environment variable holds.


 (unless I
 misunderstand what you mean). 


So there is a misunderstanding.



 And on-the-fly conversion is something
 that I want debconf to do, but it also requires specifying the encoding
 in the templates files. 

We know the encoding of the templates files, and we are going towards a 
on-the-fly conversion.

 But I don't see the importance of templates not
 being in UTF-8. 

They should not be in UTF-8 suddenly, without any signification
of them being in UTF-8.
Well, if they had been UTF-8 from the beginning, then that
would be okay.



Note that on-the-fly conversion using iconv is very expensive.

$ du -sh /usr/lib/gconv/
4.4M/usr/lib/gconv

We are not going to fit that onto a floppy.

 I'm used to po files too, being a member of the Swedish team in the
 Translation Project. Using po files is simple enough for a translator
 (and fairly well documented).

exactly.

 
 Exactly, and since i18n is such a complicated matter, it makes sense to
 use what has been produced by others who have thought a lot about it
 (e.g. gettext) instead of producing something ourselves that may or may
 not be good enough.

ditto, but since debconf has been going in this direction,
and joey hess made it the beast it is, it seems like we are sticking 
to it this way.

  boot-floppies worked around the size constraints by loading 
  locale information from file on CD-Rom, if it was available.
  (xlp.tgz).
 
 Nod. I'm not 100% up to speed on what the single floppy is supposed to
 be able to do (bootstrap for systems that can't boot from CDs and
 netinstall I suppose, but what else?)

El-torito bootable CD image ? 
Are we still using 2.88MB image is used for booting from the CD-Rom?

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Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-08 Thread Chris Tillman

On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 01:22:12AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
 On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 04:41:34PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
 I fixed this in man-db 2.3.20-20, after a fashion: the database won't
 get updated over time unless you have cron enabled, but this is
 difficult to avoid without making man a pain to use; at least you get a
 database built with the man pages from base packages.
 
 Do you think it's worth me making an upload to stable with just this
 change, to see if it'll be let into 3.0r1?

I think there's an expectation that a unix/linux system have working
apropos. But the alternative is to tell people to mandb in the
manual. I don't think it's worth the potential hassle, personally.

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Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-08 Thread Chris Tillman

On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 03:12:28AM +0200, Axel Schlicht wrote:
 Chris Tillman wrote:
   (If it fails try the other CDs)
  Do you have a suggested rewording? It seems to be succinct, accurate and
  to the point. A longer explanation would explain that we have tried hard
  to accomodate as many different machine architectures as possible, by
  providing differently configured boot kernels on the different CDs,
  one of which should boot on most any machine. But, that's covered in
  much more detail in
  http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-cd
 What about providing something like indicating a file which lists all
 possible kernels on all CD's. should be a text file so that a simple cat
 | more will sufice to read it.

That would be the README's in /install/doc

   Archive path (only one available) : /instmnt
  We tried to not ask questions where only one response was possible;
  apparently this one was missed.
 So it will be remedied soon.

No, as someone else mentioned we're not working on boot-floppies
any more. We'll need help testing the new installer once it becomes
available. You'd agree it's a minor problem?

   What can I delete?
  Are you really tight on disk space? With 20-40G disks, most users just
  don't worry about disk space at this level any more. You would be
  absolutely amazed how much of that M$ system you're leaving behind is
  useless on a particular machine.
 I simply hate having anything unneeded on my box. Maybe I'm slightly
 paranoid with all the stuff spying on you under windoze. (And I started
 out with an extremely expensive 10 MB harddisk a couple of years ago. So
 I'm still unwilling to waste space)

In that case, you'll be interested in a little program called cruft.
It needs decent documentation, too.
 
  Please submit a detailed bug report on base-config. There should be a
  way back. (BTW, reportbug is an excellent program to use to report bugs).
 Will do this.
  
 As I have to work in many languages, some of them with non-Roman
 letters, internationalization is very important and confusing for me.

I hope you can help us clear this up for the user.

  Good point. It's the database of configuration questions you have
  asked and answered. The debconf man page is installed with
  debconf-doc, which is _not_ installed by default. Please write a bug
  on debconf asking that it either install a man page, or prohibit any
  other packages from using its name in vain.
 Will do.

  We would certainly appreciate your help in the testing and
  documentation areas. There are all too few people in Debian who are
  good documentors.  Most are programmers who associate writing
  documentation with eating broccoli, and IMHO really appreciate having
  docs built for them by the people that can figure out how to use their
  programs. Most are willing to help you figure it out though.
 As soon as I have everything in place, especially the networking /
 gateway / securing part, I will come back. Offered translating already
 over a year ago, but have never been able to get Linux work with my
 modem / ISDN card. Now with DSL things should be better.

Oh yeah. Definitely. Better  faster.
  
   How shall I ever recommend Linux and especially Debian to anybody, if
   the installation is still so clumsy, and documentation (especially on
   how to configure something, the EXACT format with ALL options of config
   files etc.) is still either nonexistent or only to be found by a long
   time developer.
  
  You would have been helped a lot by the install manual, I think. Some
  of the details are properly hidden and defaulted until you investigate
  how else that program can serve you. There are many documentation
  weaknesses.
 Found the manual, will read it now. (So far I could alway install
 everything without to much trouble. Woody was the first version giving
 me a real nightmare.)
 Maybe it would be a nice idea to include a big file sumarizing all the
 changes in a eays to scan format. Espacially changed config tools and
 file formats. A list of changed app names was in the book included in my
 distro.

Our attempt is the release notes (on the CD or website).

  Did you ask Google?
 Google and X is not the best combination. Maybe I didn't find the
 correct keywords, but I now have a couple of links to look into.

Google and lynx get along pretty well.

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Re: i18n requires setlocale

2002-09-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa

On Sun, 8 Sep 2002 16:51:49 -0700
Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  | For floppy installs, why not plan on having a floppy version available
  | in each language rather than trying to do a multilingual floppy?
  
  Because we will then have a zillion different floppies to choose from?
 
 Right, but they're an organized zillion. One user is likely to need only
 one language, so from that viewpoint he gets to choose from a few.

Can we also have a zillion ISO images ?

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