Re: Link cfdisk with libncurses instead of slang?

2001-03-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Erik Andersen wrote: AFIAK the boot floppies are completly slang based with no ncurses at all. If so, making a program on them depend on ncurses would completly screw us. Indeed. Furthermore, when running mklibs.sh on slang, we get a very nice small library. For

Re: Lithuanian XKB keymap for potato rev.3

2001-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Mantas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are no lithuanian keymap for XFree 3.3.6 in potato rev.2. I would like you to include it in potato rev.3. I have working keymap and I can send it to you (it should be included in xlib6g 3.3.6). Lithuanian users has many lithuanisation related problems

Re: debian wwwoffle purge

2001-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "Andrew" == Andrew M Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i noticed that a default debian instalation will purge one's cache right away... somethng to warn about say if one were to boot debian one day with a shared chache on one's main disk Andrew

Re: Debian installer not recognizing high-numbered HD?

2001-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.21 I-Gene Leong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 22 Mar 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: I-Gene Leong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hdg: secondary 20G UDMA33 drive (which is where I want to put Debian) Now, booting with the udma66 disk is trouble-free and the

Bug#84830: Note: Same as 83049

2001-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bug # 84830 duplicates bug # 83049. Thanks, merged and retitled. Anyone have a clue on the actual problem? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onshored.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Processed: bf bug maint

2001-03-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: tags 64500 + fixed Bug#64500: [cvs fixed] install kernel modules on ppc/apus Tags added: fixed tags 65903 + fixed Bug#65903: Documenting Solaris partitions in the guide Tags added: fixed tags 69161 + fixed Bug#69161: [cvs fixed] fails to create

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

2001-03-24 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:aph time: Sat Mar 24 12:22:54 PST 2001 Log Message: this file is just cruft Files: removed:Tag: potato choose_lang.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Processed: Re: Bug#88226: Problem with potato 2.2r2 compact root disk

2001-03-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 88226 boot-floppies Bug#88226: Problem with potato 2.2r2 "compact" root disk Bug reassigned from package `installation' to `boot-floppies'. tags 88226 + fixed Bug#88226: Problem with potato 2.2r2 "compact" root disk Tags added: fixed

Re: Impressions on using the debian potato installation Cds

2001-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on the very first screen, it has a continue button with no advice on hit SPC or RET or what... one fears a wrong hit might miss a 2nd page, etc. Yah, that bigscrolling box is kinda icky. choose path : disconcerting Fixed in 2.2.21, FYI. some

Re: boot-floppies/utilities/bf-utf/ now a package

2001-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David, where is the source for this maintained? I suggest either harvesting bf-utf module on the debian-boot CVSROOT or making a new one and stomping that old one. Is it added to build-deps and depends of boot-floppies? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onshored.com/ -- To

Re: debootstrap_0.1.1

2001-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
FYI, if packages are not in testing (woody) but need to be for us, we need to file RC bugs or do something to fix that. I guess filing a critical bug against the package, requesting it be uploaded with a 'priority=HIGH' or something? Likewise, if debootstrap has porting problems, the

Re: boot flopies need help

2001-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Jerko Cilas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I help with boot flopies? Also, you can help by testing Potato boot-floppies. Make sure they work ok. We're really only considering RC problems on that now as we shift focus to Woody rather than Potato. Also, go through the bug tracking system,

pcmcia network config (was Re: kernel-image-2.2.19pre13 for 2.2r3?)

2001-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Brian Mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Looks like I'm about to modify the PCMCIA packages to use Anthony Towns' ifup/ifdown utilities by default (with a fall-back to the older /etc/pmcica/network script). Therefore, the correct place to configure PCMCIA network connections will be in

Bug#87679: netinst image is available

2001-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Kevin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /msg apt netinst? apt [netinst] ftp://ftp.ct2600.org/pub/debian/install/ . It's a 32M bootable ISO which installs the base Debian system. During the 'apt' configuration phase, it will tell you that you don't have a valid CD. Ignore that, then give

Processed: boot-floppies bug maint

2001-03-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 85033 boot-floppies Bug#85033: Installation can't find my partitions on a big drive Bug reassigned from package `installation' to `boot-floppies'. tags 85033 + fixed Bug#85033: Installation can't find my partitions on a big drive Tags added:

Re: task problem

2001-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Sorry for the long delay in response. Olivier Delemar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le ven 16 fv 2001 10:46:50 -0700, Randolph Chung crivait : ok, i'm very confused about all the "equations". the only thing tasksel does is mark packages for install by apt. what i'd suggest is that, from a

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-03-24 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Sat Mar 24 13:49:09 PST 2001 Log Message: for USE_LANG_CHOOSER, bump up # of inodes as well, allowing us to build root disks again Files: changed:Tag: potato rootdisk.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rescue by aph

2001-03-24 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rescue who:aph time: Sat Mar 24 13:50:15 PST 2001 Log Message: pass through the disksize and flavor arguments to the other types of install methods, i.e., initrd, ramdisk*, floppy* Files: changed:Tag: potato syslinux.cfg -- To

Re: just found nasty bug in i386 bf

2001-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just found a nasty bug in i386 (at least) boot-floppies. When it is downloading the kernel and modules via http it will get the vanilla version even if we're booting using a flavor. Bad. Also, the way http download fails is very very very ugly.

packages from potato-proposed-updates used in 2.2.21 bf

2001-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
FYI, I used the following packages (and only the following packages) from Potato proposed updates when building 2.2.21. Let me know if I am missing any. -rw-r--r--1 apharris staff 2164106 Jan 23 17:30 libc6-dev_2.1.3-17_i386.deb -rw-r--r--1 apharris staff 670676 Jan 23 17:27

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-03-24 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Sat Mar 24 14:04:41 PST 2001 Log Message: Guido Guenther: - SGI partition label support for MIPs Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk by aph

2001-03-24 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk who:aph time: Sat Mar 24 14:04:47 PST 2001 Log Message: Guido Guenther: - SGI partition label support for MIPs Files: changed:Makefile config.h fdisk.c fdisk.h added: partbl_sgi.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: [Guido Guenther agx@debian.org] sgidisklabels in libfdisk

2001-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
This was applied. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onshored.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

i18n boot-floppies updated

2001-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
I have updated the i18n boot-floppies Potato to the newest version -- even newer than the newest version in fact. Anyhow, please do test that. That's linked to from URL:http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ -- directly, it's http://people.debian.org/current-i18n/. Be aware of the known

Re: Bugs report

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 02:42:13PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: "Y Lemerrer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the boot image for powerpc doesn't work my powerpc is halted after the primary boot of the"boot-floppy-hfs.img" disk when i have to insert the root floppy disk please help me to find

Bug#71189: marked as done ([alpha, nothing to do] AXP get clock wrong (hwclock))

2001-03-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated 24 Mar 2001 17:29:43 -0500 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line hwclock on alpha 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

Re: FW: help with DPT I2O SmartRAID V support

2001-03-24 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 06:08:49PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: "Laubacher Libor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now had to install Adaptec 2100S HW Raid 1, but have a driver for 2.2.16 kernel from Adaptec. Need driver for 2.4.x kernel. Is any way how to generate it from 2.2.16 ? Try

Re: packages from potato-proposed-updates used in 2.2.21 bf

2001-03-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adam Di Carlo wrote: FYI, I used the following packages (and only the following packages) from Potato proposed updates when building 2.2.21. Let me know if I am missing any. Please use libc 2.1.3-18 instead, it fixes an interesting ldd bug. Wichert. --

Can't load device driver modules from floppy

2001-03-24 Thread Brian Ledbetter
Hi, I'm trying to install debian 2.2r2 on my machine and I'm unable to load device driver modules when I click on configure Device Driver Modules. I get an error saying "Cannot mount the floppy. Stop." "No modules were found in /target/lib/modules/2.218pre21 that could be configured.

Re: FW: help with DPT I2O SmartRAID V support

2001-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It looks like Adaptec never bothered to send this patch to the mainstream kernel maintainers so it'll just be another dodgy addon driver. I'm certainly not interested in maintaining it. Yeah, screw it. Why is adaptec so screwed up? -- .Adam Di

Re: Bugs report

2001-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: its a well known thorn^Wproblem that appeared in the 2.2.18 boot floppies, AFAIK no solution has yet been found. other then using the 2.2.17 boot floppies instead. this bug does make this boot floppy worthless for oldworld PowerMacs, the only other

Re: packages from potato-proposed-updates used in 2.2.21 bf

2001-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please use libc 2.1.3-18 instead, it fixes an interesting ldd bug. Oh! Oops! Ok, I'll fix this for my next build. Still waiting for the pcmcia packages... -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onshored.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: packages from potato-proposed-updates used in 2.2.21 bf

2001-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please use libc 2.1.3-18 instead, it fixes an interesting ldd bug. Um, I don't see this built for i386 yet. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onshored.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-03-24 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Sat Mar 24 18:41:08 PST 2001 Log Message: document recent 'tater fixes Files: changed:Tag: potato changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#90204: installation process unclear when network card not found

2001-03-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Whit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:20:21PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: This is described in detail in the install manual: URL:http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-init-config.en.html#s-configure-network I'll need more specific information about what in

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-03-24 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Sat Mar 24 19:40:00 PST 2001 Log Message: some targets from utils slipped in, probably a branch merge problem Files: changed:Makefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Bug#90204: installation process unclear when network card not found

2001-03-24 Thread Mark W. Eichin
very rare (in fact, I've never heard of any cases) where NIC devices aren't supported by one of the stock kernels. Anyhow, they can read Umm, actually, that's exactly what happened to me (after USB turned out to not be a problem): 2.2 uses the 2.2.17 kernel which doesn't support (or even

Re: Bugs report

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 09:34:42PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: its a well known thorn^Wproblem that appeared in the 2.2.18 boot floppies, AFAIK no solution has yet been found. other then using the 2.2.17 boot floppies instead. this bug does make

cvs commit to base-config/debian by joeyh

2001-03-24 Thread joeyh
Repository: base-config/debian who:joeyh time: Sat Mar 24 21:50:28 PST 2001 Log Message: killed dh_testversion Files: changed:rules -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: i18n boot-floppies updated

2001-03-24 Thread Ben Gertzfield
"Adam" == Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam I have updated the i18n boot-floppies Potato to the newest Adam version -- even newer than the newest version in fact. Adam Anyhow, please do test that. Great! Adam, this is a great time to ask this -- are we planning on

Re: i18n boot-floppies updated

2001-03-24 Thread Roger So
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:29:38PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Storing the chosen language in /etc somewhere will be the first step to getting a universal LANG being set; the default of C is no longer good enough, especially with glibc 2.2. For what it's worth, Red Hat has the default