Bug#48778: powermac bf issues (was Re: Bug#48778: Feature has been implemented)

2001-04-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 01:15:23AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it is possible NOW to have a fully working `make linux bootable from the hard disk' step on newworld powermacs. right now that step is 100% broken on this varient. Is anyone going

docs

2001-04-05 Thread Benjamin Meyer
Hi there, Are there docs on how the current install system works? -Benjamin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NewWorld dbootstrap bootloader installation info

2001-04-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:15:23AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: [Of course, I have no idea if I can even help much yet which is why I was using anonymous pserver access -- I want to get familiar with the code first, and don't know how long that'll take. There's probably little chance I'll be

Re: Bug#92907: [dbootstrap] net-fetch log message improvements

2001-04-05 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Out of curiosity, when are boot-floppies bugs closed (as opposed to fixed)? With the next major release? When the version are installed into the archive, like any other package. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onshored.com/ -- To

modconf doesn't support 2.4.2 kernel?

2001-04-05 Thread ivan . robain
Hi, I have read that Modconf doesn't support 2.4.(0,1) kernels. As far as I experienced, it doesn't work with the 2.4.2 neither. I wanted to know if there was a solution, cause I didn't find any, since I don't even know the reason why it doesn't work with 2.4.x. Please let me know if there is

Re: modconf doesn't support 2.4.2 kernel?

2001-04-05 Thread Bert Zulauf
Am Donnerstag, 5. April 2001 16:47 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I have read that Modconf doesn't support 2.4.(0,1) kernels. As far as I experienced, it doesn't work with the 2.4.2 neither. I wanted to know if there was a solution, cause I didn't find any, since I don't even know the

Re: Anonymous CVS checkout broken?

2001-04-05 Thread David Whedon
Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:15:23AM -0600 wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 05:19:54PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: After that, all techniques are the same. Simply check out the sources. For the lastest Potato version, do: cvs co -r potato boot-floppies Note that Potato is on a branch

Re: modconf doesn't support 2.4.2 kernel?

2001-04-05 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Ivan If a PCMCIA LAN bus card is the issue, carefully read /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/README-2.4, as the kernel Configure.help is not adequate in this instance. For support of my: # cardctl ident 1 product info: "3Com Corporation", "3CCFE575BT", "LAN Cardbus Card", "001" manfid: 0x0101,

Re: modconf doesn't support 2.4.2 kernel? critical typo corrected

2001-04-05 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
The lines were omitted from the previous transmission Ivan If a PCMCIA LAN bus card is the issue, carefully read /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/README-2.4, as the kernel Configure.help is not adequate in this instance. For support of my: # cardctl ident 1 product info: "3Com Corporation",

Unidentified subject!

2001-04-05 Thread Denis Kosygin
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Re: Boot-floppies for Woody

2001-04-05 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 12:48:43AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Thomas Guettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I try to build boot-floppies for woody. I checked out the source from CVS. I get the following error: E: no such library './lib/ld-2.1.3.so' E: ./rootdisk.sh abort

No Subject

2001-04-05 Thread bounce-debian-boot=archive=jab . org
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Woody installer for PARISC

2001-04-05 Thread Paul J.Y. Lahaie
Hello everyone, Here are the changes I've made to the boot-floppies package to support the PARISC architecture. Makefile: Added an entry for hppa support, make root.tar.gz common.sh: Small fixes to the functions that came up during debugging rescue.sh: - Define the hppa "floppy" type (ext2) -

Re: Boot-floppies for Woody

2001-04-05 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Thomas Guettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't use the woody branch. That's what I did. I checked out the project boot-floppies without parameters. If I read the Archive correctly this gives me the woody-branch since some days. No, that's called the HEAD. Taht is indeed what you are

Bug#92919: no subject)

2001-04-05 Thread Jeffery Kline
Yes. You have saved us money and time - enable PNP is the fix. This does not appear in any documentation I found. Thank you. --Jeff On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Hendrik Schaink wrote: Helllo Jeffery, You, Jeffery Kline wrote: Package: kernel-image Package: boot-floppies Version: kernel

Bug#93054: eliminate wait after downloading files

2001-04-05 Thread Matt Kraai
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; 2.2.22-2001-04-02 After downloading rescue.bin, drivers.tgz, and base2_2.tgz from the network, dbootstrap waits for around two minutes. That is, the progress indication screen indicates that the file is completely downloaded, but the log message indicating

Re: still not out of the woods with idepci / compact kernels

2001-04-05 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Hi. In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on "05 Apr 2001 00:50:18 -0400", with "Re: still not out of the woods with idepci / compact kernels", Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I have heard that the boot option "video=vga16:off" works well. So I think we should note this option in the place

initrd filesystem types/sizes

2001-04-05 Thread Glenn McGrath
By the looks of it romfs is the clear winner for space savings. 180483 initrd.cram.gz 161209 initrd.iso.gz 161023 initrd.ext2.gz 160621 initrd.minix.gz 159622 initrd.rom.gz romfs adds about 4kB to the kernel when built in cramfs adds ? the initrd filesystem will have to be builtin, which will

Re: initrd filesystem types/sizes

2001-04-05 Thread Tim Riker
from 2.2.18pre21 with cramfs patch (links are still broken): timr@localhost:/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/fs$ ls -l total 524 -rw-r--r--1 root root27057 Jan 23 22:42 cramfs.o -rw-r--r--1 root root41336 Jan 23 22:42 fat.o -rw-r--r--1 root root32516 Jan

Re: slang, boot-floppies, and wide character support

2001-04-05 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Hi. In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on "05 Apr 2001 00:58:56 -0400", with "Re: slang, boot-floppies, and wide character support", Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Taketoshi Sano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Akira Yoshiyama [EMAIL PROTECTED] who made the patch for termwrap, has made the

Re: slang, boot-floppies, and wide character support

2001-04-05 Thread David Whedon
I've read on this list that David Whedon has already packaged the bf-utf directory itself. Is this already uploaded ? Not yet, I'm hoping to sometime soon, it is currently at: http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/debian/ By the way, if anyone would like to maintain the package that would

Re: initrd filesystem types/sizes

2001-04-05 Thread Glenn McGrath
Tim Riker wrote: from 2.2.18pre21 with cramfs patch (links are still broken): timr@localhost:/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/fs$ ls -l total 524 -rw-r--r--1 root root27057 Jan 23 22:42 cramfs.o -rw-r--r--1 root root41336 Jan 23 22:42 fat.o -rw-r--r--1 root

Bug#93069: install manual refers to outdated license location

2001-04-05 Thread Matt Kraai
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A The installation manual refers to /usr/doc/copyright as the directory in which the GPL can be found. The following patch fixes it to point to /usr/share/common-licenses instead (and updates all the translations as well). Matt Index:

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by dwhedon

2001-04-05 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:dwhedon time: Thu Apr 5 20:18:11 PDT 2001 Log Message: The installation manual refered to /usr/doc/copyright rather than /usr/share/common-licenses when indicating the location of a GPL copy. patch from Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by dwhedon

2001-04-05 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:dwhedon time: Thu Apr 5 20:20:05 PDT 2001 Log Message: indicate 93069 is fixed Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#90967: proposed fix

2001-04-05 Thread Matt Kraai
Howdy, I believe that this is caused by a bug in libfdisk. It does not add hdg to the fdisk_disks list because the device_blocks[] array does not contain the proper information for the hdg, hdh, hdi, or hdj drives. The device number for hdg is 34 8, by using the information in device_blocks

Processed: bugs

2001-04-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: tags fixed 64565 Unknown command or malformed arguments to command. tags fixed 93069 Unknown command or malformed arguments to command. reassign 67118 debootstrap Bug#67118: base system does not contain /var/log/btmp Bug reassigned from package

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by dwhedon

2001-04-05 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:dwhedon time: Thu Apr 5 20:34:51 PDT 2001 Log Message: bug 64565 is fixed as well Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Processed: Re: Processed: bugs

2001-04-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: tags 64565 fixed Bug#64565: base unpack should have progress bar Tags added: fixed tags 93069 fixed Bug#93069: install manual refers to outdated license location Tags added: fixed End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk by dwhedon

2001-04-05 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk who:dwhedon time: Thu Apr 5 22:41:38 PDT 2001 Log Message: added support for installing woody, potato and slink debootstrap can't install sid right now. removed soem cruft from net-fetch.c Files: changed:SMALL_BASE_LIST_all --

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

2001-04-05 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:dwhedon time: Thu Apr 5 22:41:38 PDT 2001 Log Message: added support for installing woody, potato and slink debootstrap can't install sid right now. removed soem cruft from net-fetch.c Files: changed:extract_base.c

No response from keyboard on Oldworld- possibly relevant kernelchange

2001-04-05 Thread Chris Tillman
Title: No response from keyboard on Oldworld- possibly relevant kernel change There were 2 lines added in to the rd.c kernel module in version 2.2.18 very close to the line where the user is requested to insert the floppy. These lines were also in 2.2.19, but disappeared in version 2.3.0.