installing core udebs

Im not exactly sure what the current plan is for getting the core udebs on the boot disk, but how does this sound. Use an initramdisk, linuxrc is a static version of busybox with the following features. #define BB_CHROOT #define BB_DPKG #define BB_GUNZIP #define BB_INSMOD #define BB_LINUXRC_DI

Re: your mail

On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 07:05:32PM -0700, Dan wrote: greetings, I ran into difficulty installing release 2.2. The bootfloppy creator failed. Installing to boot from the hard disk also failed. Seems to be a problem with the bootfloppy creator(?). Message to the effect that a boot floppy

Bug#84639: LILO on swap partition?

On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 12:29:28AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: I just reread the mail (it is in german so will most probably not help you). It does look like a user error now. Obviously the swap partition was marked bootable in cfdisk but I guess dinstall installed LILO into the root

Re: installing core udebs

Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 10:45:22PM +1100 wrote: Im not exactly sure what the current plan is for getting the core udebs on the boot disk, but how does this sound. What is wrong/limiting with the current way that d-i boot floppies are being created? -udeb dependancies are resolved by apt -udebs are

Bug#84639: marked as done (LILO on swap partition?)

Your message dated 24 Feb 2001 18:56:00 -0500 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#84639: LILO on swap partition? 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

Re: installing core udebs

David Whedon wrote: Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 10:45:22PM +1100 wrote: Im not exactly sure what the current plan is for getting the core udebs on the boot disk, but how does this sound. What is wrong/limiting with the current way that d-i boot floppies are being created? -udeb dependancies

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by dwhedon

Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:dwhedon time: Sat Feb 24 18:55:33 PST 2001 Log Message: extract_base.c : add debootstrap_extract_base(), tested in isolation and works okay. bugs remain in debootstrap itself. main_menu.c : call debootstrap_extract_base() in

still need help?

Adam and Co., Do you still need help with the boot floppies? I can give you some help. HP expects me to spend about half of my time on Open Source projects, and this one qualifies. It should suffice to say that I've done this before :-) Thanks Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

stuff I could do

Here is stuff I can do from the "todo" file, can I have feedback on whether I should work on any of these, or something else, please? Thanks Bruce - [2000.05.15] dialog box msg for "harddisk" option is very obscure Should not be a problem for me to do. - use busybox.deb

Oops

I responded to the wrong branch of the "todo" file. Stand by, I'll do it again. Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

stuff I can work on - Woody branch

Here's my commentary on the Woody branch of the todo file. Sorry about the false start. Bruce - test integration of AJ's dynamic base building package 'debootstrap' it is now called by dbootstrap, has been tested some. Still need to add support for cdrom installs, currently only

Re: libc6 calls to sfdisk

Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 02:42:08PM -0800 wrote: Just wondering if boot-floppies cut down version of libc6 is missing any parts needed by sfdisk. That isn't easy to determine as far as I know, short of playing with objdump and perl. How would you find this out. Get sfdisk to drop core, then