Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap
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time: Mon May 14 23:47:13 PDT 2001
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On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:26:44AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:05:03PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
I don't know if it is possible to enable such a per subarch warning (altough
it may be common the the m68K/amiga folk).
Floppys on m68k are completely
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:26:44AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:05:03PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
I don't know if it is possible to enable such a per subarch warning (altough
it may be common the the m68K/amiga
hi,
#if cpu(sparc) || #cpu(powerpc)
const char *fs_type_tab[] = { ext2, NULL };
#else
const char *fs_type_tab[] = { msdos, ext2, NULL };
#endif
as you can understand is impossible for a powerpc machine
to load a msdos partition, so i have modified it so:
#if
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:02:23PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote:
That is not right. Please understand, I cannot see the hard drives
because the scsi controler is not being loaded on boot. That means that
Configure Device Driver Modules will not work. I have no drives at this
time.
But you
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:19:33AM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
hi,
#if cpu(sparc) || #cpu(powerpc)
const char *fs_type_tab[] = { ext2, NULL };
#else
const char *fs_type_tab[] = { msdos, ext2, NULL };
#endif
as you can understand is impossible for a powerpc
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:11:38AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:26:44AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:05:03PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
I don't know if it is possible to enable
hi,
Can you boot from an external 1.76MB floppy ?
yes. its treated just as the old classic external floppies that I'm sure
most people had with their A500's
but 1.76MB floppies would be easily supported, almost nothing needs to be
changed, apart from the rescue disk creation. Does someone
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:11:38AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
You cannot boot from 1.4 MB floppies, only from 880 kB or 1760 kB floppies.
Well, ok no problem, just make a tarball that can be copied to
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:11:38AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
You cannot boot from 1.4 MB floppies, only from 880 kB or 1760 kB floppies.
Well, ok no problem, just make a
hi,
My 2.4.4 zImage is only 458036 bytes long. I have lots of modules, but it could
work. I remember I once did.
custom images targetted for each APUS environment might be squeezed in.
alan
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On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Buxey wrote:
Also, is there a way (under linux) to detect if the floppy is of the 1.76 or
the 880 variety ?
dont know - I always believe that floppies are too dumb..you only know
what you can do when things you try fail ;-)
grep FD_HD_3
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Buxey wrote:
My 2.4.4 zImage is only 458036 bytes long. I have lots of modules, but it could
work. I remember I once did.
custom images targetted for each APUS environment might be squeezed in.
Oh yes, this was an m68k image. APUS images are probably quite
Configuration:
1. Gateway PC with Intel Pentium III processor
2. 192 Mb ram
3. IDE boot disk
4. 3com 3c595 ethernet card with 4mm dat tape drive
5. AHA 2940 SCSI adapter
Booted from rescue floppy.
Loaded NFS and 3c595 modules,
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:57:11AM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
hi,
Can you boot from an external 1.76MB floppy ?
yes. its treated just as the old classic external floppies that I'm sure
most people had with their A500's
but 1.76MB floppies would be easily supported, almost nothing
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 01:36:19PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Buxey wrote:
Also, is there a way (under linux) to detect if the floppy is of the 1.76 or
the 880 variety ?
dont know - I always believe that floppies are too dumb..you only know
what you
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:59:21PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:11:38AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
You cannot boot from 1.4 MB floppies, only from 880 kB or 1760 kB
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 01:26:52PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:11:38AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
You cannot boot from 1.4 MB floppies, only
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:45:28PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:57:11AM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
hi,
Can you boot from an external 1.76MB floppy ?
yes. its treated just as the old classic external floppies that I'm sure
most people had with their A500's
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:20:48AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:45:28PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:57:11AM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
hi,
Can you boot from an external 1.76MB floppy ?
yes. its treated just as the old
hi,
What is the size of the 2.4.x kernel compared to the 2.2.10 one ?
bigger, I recall 2.4.4 being over 3Mb (compared to 2.2.10 being just over
2.1Mb)
alan
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hi,
Don't you need some part of AmigaOS to make a floppy bootable?
no, and yes. Under AmigaOS you run 'install df0:' but this doesnt
put any files onto the disk as such, it just writes a bootblock
(a few hundred bytes) to the floppy. Theres no reason why we couldnt have
an AmigaOS bootblock
hi,
And did you have the same amount of stuff in it ?
these are the standard downloadables from APUS@sourceforge
they have pretty much the same functionality. I guess
there are many features that can be cut out of 2.4.4
(but most stuff, such as khttpd are as modules already)
alan
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On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:05:01PM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
hi,
What is the size of the 2.4.x kernel compared to the 2.2.10 one ?
bigger, I recall 2.4.4 being over 3Mb (compared to 2.2.10 being just over
2.1Mb)
What about gzipped kernels ?
And did you have the same amount of stuff in
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:15:14PM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
hi,
Don't you need some part of AmigaOS to make a floppy bootable?
no, and yes. Under AmigaOS you run 'install df0:' but this doesnt
put any files onto the disk as such, it just writes a bootblock
(a few hundred bytes) to the
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:17:52PM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
hi,
And did you have the same amount of stuff in it ?
these are the standard downloadables from APUS@sourceforge
they have pretty much the same functionality. I guess
there are many features that can be cut out of 2.4.4
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well the form I want it in is the correct form. ll is not a valid
language code setting, ll_LL is.
Ok -- are you saying dbootstrap *must* set it in the xx_YY form?
But I had been thinking that the
boot-floppies were possibly setting this in
It appears that debootstrap still isn't available in either unstable or
testing for ppc. It certainly builds easy enough. I've poked through
http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/ but I haven't seen anything
explaining why not. Where else should I look?
It seems that
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:23:38PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
not that i can think of. certainly boot-programs (such as the
APUS/AF-booter (by Mr Duncan ) need MUI libraries, but the plain
boothack/bootstrap for APUS just needs powerpc.library, which is in ROM
I don't use APUS, plain old
Branden Robinson wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:05:22PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
- With package sets, it is delivered ... ?
In a package called package-sets-progeny, and manipulated via binaries in
the packages pkgset-tools and pkgset-tools-gnome.
Ok, then this has basically the same
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:15:14PM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
Don't you need some part of AmigaOS to make a floppy bootable?
no, and yes. Under AmigaOS you run 'install df0:' but this doesnt
put any files onto the disk as such, it just writes a
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:17:52PM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
And did you have the same amount of stuff in it ?
these are the standard downloadables from APUS@sourceforge
they have pretty much the same functionality. I guess
there are many
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:23:38PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
not that i can think of. certainly boot-programs (such as the
APUS/AF-booter (by Mr Duncan ) need MUI libraries, but the plain
boothack/bootstrap for APUS just needs
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:49:26PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:15:14PM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
Don't you need some part of AmigaOS to make a floppy bootable?
no, and yes. Under AmigaOS you run 'install df0:'
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:50:29PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:17:52PM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
And did you have the same amount of stuff in it ?
these are the standard downloadables from APUS@sourceforge
peter karlsson wrote:
It is indeed valid to specify a language code without a qualifier, for
my LANG setting, I always use sv, whereas I have sv_SE.ISO8859-1
set for my LC_ALL. When it comes to the language settings (LANG,
LC_MESSAGES), most languaegs don't need a qualifier at all, since
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Ok -- are you saying dbootstrap *must* set it in the xx_YY form?
Well, I know that just the ll form is going to cause breakage. There are
certianly other forms that arn't ll_LL that do not, but that seems
easiest.
Should I change it to do something? What?
It should be
hi,
no, and yes. Under AmigaOS you run 'install df0:' but this doesnt
put any files onto the disk as such, it just writes a bootblock
(a few hundred bytes) to the floppy. Theres no reason why we couldnt have
an AmigaOS bootblock and write it to disk with 'dd'
but you do get access
hi,
But the bootblock is code. Of course we can reverse engineer and clean room
reimplement one (IIRC it justs opens dos.library and returns 1 or 0).
over 10,000 coders have made their own bootblocks for Amiga
floppies...either commercial games or demo disks.
some even got sine-scrolling
Estimados Sres:
Desde la dirección 194.98.93.142 (algo sobre "debian y
apache", ver página web anexa) se realizan varios intentos diarios,
presumiblemente de modo automático, de contactar con nosotros por métodos no
permitidos en nuestra empresa, e ignorando la conexión que existe entre
Estimados Sres:
Desde la dirección 194.98.93.142 (algo sobre "debian y
apache", ver página web anexa) se realizan varios intentos diarios,
presumiblemente de modo automático, de contactar con nosotros por métodos no
permitidos en nuestra empresa, e ignorando la conexión que existe entre
hi,
mmm, they are not really difficult to do, i remember writting my own split
programs, because non where availabel back then.
/me thinks there are several free clones of join/split on aminet
(altough not test them). The only real problem is the choice program, but if
you only want the
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 09:40:55AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
It appears that debootstrap still isn't available in either unstable or
testing for ppc. It certainly builds easy enough. I've poked through
http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/ but I haven't seen anything
explaining why
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:19:14PM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
hi,
mmm, they are not really difficult to do, i remember writting my own split
programs, because non where availabel back then.
/me thinks there are several free clones of join/split on aminet
It's trivial to write, just some
Try linux video=vc:8
(There's help for it at the boot prompt.. Somewhere in special hardware or
something like that if you want to boot without the framebuffer console)
-Original Message-
From: Emiliano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 9:50 AM
To: [EMAIL
Hello Christian, hello all,
...
Floppys on m68k are completely useless AFAIK. Since Amigalilo is not
supported by Debian, who needs floppies anyways when everything comes on CD?
I have loaded from floppies the images i have put on them only
for the sake of test!
I have not bootstrapped
On 15-May-01, Alan Buxey wrote:
AB certainly boot-programs (such as the APUS/AF-booter (by Mr Duncan )
AB need MUI libraries, but the plain boothack/bootstrap for APUS just
AB needs powerpc.library, which is in ROM
Evening, Dr Buxley. That MUI-GUI is aeons out of date now, and really wants
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:29:19AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 09:40:55AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
Because no one's built it at all yet. The powerpc build daemon logs would
be a good choice to look, except that the powerpc build daemon is moving at
the moment.
* Stephen R Marenka [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20010515 12:57]:
It seems that http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages is a bit too
i386-centric.
It's entirely i386-centric.
So if I want to change that, where do I start? whom do I annoy?
Hmmm, if I remember correctly I implemented a fix
Hi -
I'm in the somewhat frustrating situation of having to install Debian on a
Powerbook 1400cs, which is a Nubus machine (and therefore not yet
supported by Debian). To make things worse, it does not have a cdrom drive,
just a serial connection to a Debian-PPC oldworld G3.
I have found that
boot-floppy-hfs.img is one of the set of installation disks, the lastest
potato version can be found at the following:
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/images-1.44/
The current CVS boot-floppies are woody and are not yet ready for
primetime. In
Repository: tasksel/po
who:op
time: Tue May 15 13:15:26 PDT 2001
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boot-floppy-hfs.img is one of the set of installation disks, the lastest
potato version can be found at the following:
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/images-1.44/
The current CVS boot-floppies are woody and are not yet ready for
Hola!
Desde la dirección 194.98.93.142 (algo sobre debian y apache, ver página
web anexa) se realizan varios intentos diarios, presumiblemente de modo
He estado mirando dicha página y parece una máquina con la distribución
Debian GNU/Linux, pero que no tiene nada que ver, al menos que yo
Package: boot-floppies
Version: stable
architecture: i386
memory:64MB
scsi: no
cd-rom:none
network card: ne2000 compatible
pcmcia:none
Adam Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try linux video=vc:8
(There's help for it at the boot prompt.. Somewhere in
Hi!
About this stuff, the guys at 194.98.93.142 seem to be accesing some stuff
of this spanish site, and the apache placeholder has put them in our way, I
have replied to them in the message sent also to the list that debian has
nothing to do with that machine (atlas.brainstorm.fr) and that they
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:57:37AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Also, for cdrom installs, and maybe for file:/ installs, the sources.list
debootstrap writes may well be broken. :(
Ugh. Then apt-setup will need to test it and comment it out if it's
broken. Or is this something fixable in
Repository: base-config/debian
who:joeyh
time: Tue May 15 18:23:30 PDT 2001
Log Message:
* Properly translate /usr/share/debconf/templates/apt-setup-templates
(see #95487). Also, don't include the apt-setup templates in
the main templates file, since that just wastes
Joey Hess:
Don't you get tired of seeing those messages everywhere?
Well, they are overridden by my LC_ALL setting (sv_SE.ISO8859-1).
However, LANG=sv is a correct setting, setting LANG to sv_SE is just
stupid, because there's no difference in the *written language* between
the two locales
* Vince Mulhollon
| On 05/15/2001 08:00:09 AM exa wrote:
|
| What about closing all the ports by default? The user can open them by
| himself if he wants to anyway. Security fans would really be happy then.
|
| Still have the vulnerable, exploitable binaries. All you have to do it get
|
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:00:09PM +0300, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
I sometimes have the feeling that too much security is breaking many
convenient features. It would be wrong to put in a program with known
vulnerabilities, but except that I don't see why you would want to
remove useful small
On 05/15/2001 08:00:09 AM exa wrote:
What about closing all the ports by default? The user can open them by
himself if he wants to anyway. Security fans would really be happy then.
Still have the vulnerable, exploitable binaries. All you have to do it get
root and open the talkd ports once,
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:28:37PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
You are assuming that talkd have buffer overflows, but you have no
proof of it.
Of course a reasonably paranoid person would assume that buffer
overflows exist and mitigate the risk as appropriate. Unless you can
*prove* that
On 05/15/2001 09:28:37 AM tfheen wrote:
You are assuming that talkd have buffer overflows, but you have no
proof of it. And talk is rwxr-xr-x, so what would you win by an
overflow on a local host? And I doubt that there are many bugs in a
daemon which is less than 10k big.
Perhaps it's
Previously Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
You are assuming that talkd have buffer overflows, but you have no
proof of it. And talk is rwxr-xr-x, so what would you win by an
overflow on a local host? And I doubt that there are many bugs in a
daemon which is less than 10k big.
Security works the
Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
* Michael Stone
| On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 01:08:17PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| |talk rather obsolete, but debatable
| |talkd not very secure for baseline
|
| I want those. They are very useful, and afaik, there are no security
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Emacs is not `the standard editor', it is just one of the two most popular
ones. More importantly, we need an editor in the b-f that everyone can
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The first thing I involuntarily discovered in vi was the
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