Re: Bug#99229: spurious warning during install

2001-05-30 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:06:57AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: During normal installation, debootstrap throws up a warning: Creating empty ld.so.conf This will stop the install and ask the user to continue. Hrm. Is it possible to just display warnings in a different colour to normal

Re: Bug#98075: Update inst-methods.sgml, add suntar, hfs; update setlang sections

2001-05-30 Thread Chris Tillman
Attached is the latest editing based on discussions on debian-boot (Ref. MacOS Floppy Creation) -- Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] inst-methods.dif

powermac boot-floppy patches

2001-05-30 Thread Ethan Benson
Here are several patches to fix some things up on powerpc/powermac: todo.diff - bootloader setup corrections, and update re yabootconfig bootprep.sh - #!/bin/sh - #!/bin/bash prevents build failure when /bin/sh is ash EXTRACT_LIST_powerpc_pmac.diff - remove hfsutils

Re: powermac boot-floppy patches

2001-05-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:44:19AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: Here are several patches to fix some things up on powerpc/powermac: todo.diff - bootloader setup corrections, and update re yabootconfig er small fix to todo.diff, new diff attached. -- Ethan Benson

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Wed May 30 07:37:25 PDT 2001 Log Message: slight rewording to pkg failed msg Files: changed:common.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-30 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:48:40AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: fdisk -l /dev/hda: ===[ cut ]=== Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 17471 sectors, 18613 cylinders, RDB: 3 Logical Cylinders from 1 to 22364, 143122432 bytes/Cylinder Device Boot Mount Begin End Size Pri

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Wed May 30 07:51:24 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Ethan Benson - todo: update status regarding PowerMac booting plans - bootprep.sh: use /bin/bash as we should be - remove hfsutils and yaboot/ybin/mkofboot from the PowerPC root

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

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk who:aph time: Wed May 30 07:51:38 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Ethan Benson - todo: update status regarding PowerMac booting plans - bootprep.sh: use /bin/bash as we should be - remove hfsutils and yaboot/ybin/mkofboot from the

Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-30 Thread peter karlsson
Christian T. Steigies: But are you sure bf 2.2.19 uses the 2.2.10 kernel and not 2.2.17? These are the files taken directly from my nearest Debian mirror. I downloaded the amigainstall.tgz and base2_2.tgz files, re-packed the first tgz to an lha on my i386 box, transferred the files to the

Re: boot-floppy short-term status

2001-05-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
Adam Di Carlo wrote: Please do check unstable for your arch has the newest tasksel, base-config, and busybox -- you may have to port it for your arch. For powerpc, busy-box is at 1.0.51-5 which is pretty close, so someone is keeping it up. The other two are the same as i386. I

Re: [Karl Hammar karl@kalle.csb.ki.se] Re: installation problem

2001-05-30 Thread Erich Mueller
On 30 May 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Please! Retain the CC to the debian-boot list. Sorry. Erich Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But it does not solve the problem at hand. The bios only offers USB chip enable or disable and usb keyboard and usb mouse enable disable

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by joy

2001-05-30 Thread joy
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:joy time: Wed May 30 08:44:23 PDT 2001 Log Message: corrected several wrong/odd things Files: changed:dselect-beginner.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Bug#99229: spurious warning during install

2001-05-30 Thread David Whedon
I filed some bugs to make these go away, see : http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0105/msg00832.html The lilo thing isstill unresolved I have to test my theory that we don't really need it. Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:59:40AM +0100 wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:25:37PM +1000, Anthony Towns

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by ericvb

2001-05-30 Thread ericvb
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:ericvb time: Wed May 30 09:27:54 PDT 2001 Log Message: Corrected tag. Files: changed:dselect-beginner.fr.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:aph time: Wed May 30 09:46:36 PDT 2001 Log Message: more documentation updates from Chris Tillman Files: changed:Tag: potato urls.ent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/en by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/en who:aph time: Wed May 30 09:46:39 PDT 2001 Log Message: more documentation updates from Chris Tillman Files: changed:Tag: potato inst-methods.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by ericvb

2001-05-30 Thread ericvb
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:ericvb time: Wed May 30 09:52:57 PDT 2001 Log Message: updated Files: changed:TODO -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: powermac boot-floppy patches

2001-05-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here are several patches to fix some things up on powerpc/powermac: All applied now. this will all build fine even with the current yaboot in unstable (1.2.1-1.1.1-1) but for the future `Make system bootable' and ybinwrapper to work we must have

Re: MacOS floppy creation

2001-05-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:40:21AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: So this particular issue is unchanged in d-i vs b-f. And, again, it's a debian-cd issue if I'm not mistaken. no its a bootloader issue, quik doesn't work on CDs, and miboot (whats

Re: installation problem

2001-05-30 Thread Karl Hammar
[to Erich] http://www.msi-technology.de/download/bios/63xx/K7T%20Pro-Turbo%20v2.7.zip is available. If you have problems downloading it, I have put it up as ftp://kalle.csb.ki.se/pub/tmp/K7T_Pro-Turbo_v2.7.zip I.e. without spaces (there seem to be some problems with netscape and

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by joy

2001-05-30 Thread joy
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:joy time: Wed May 30 10:39:08 PDT 2001 Log Message: moved bits of 'conclusion hints' to front, where they will be more useful; changed the email to debian-doc since bortz hasn't done anything about this in years, added and others to the

Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Christian T. Steigies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe you can try the experimental boot-floppies (I thought I had uploaded them long ago?). Link is on my potato page, but this should work: auric.debian.org/~cts/bf What changes, if any, would there be in that version? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL

Bug#99185: boot-floppies: Does not recognize Amiga partitions

2001-05-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
peter karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Di Carlo: Sure, just install the boot-floppies package, that includes source to the latest boot-floppies for Potato, 2.2.25. Well, I can't install the package since I haven't been able to install Debian yet, since the installer won't

Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

2001-05-30 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:46:13AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Here's a provisional list of packages which are standard or higher and should not be: fingerd not very secure for baseline ftpd not very secure for baseline

Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-30 Thread peter karlsson
Christian T. Steigies: Maybe you can try the experimental boot-floppies (I thought I had uploaded them long ago?). Link is on my potato page, but this should work: auric.debian.org/~cts/bf The installer says the same things There are no Linux swap partitions and There are no Linux native

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by ericvb

2001-05-30 Thread ericvb
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:ericvb time: Wed May 30 12:05:21 PDT 2001 Log Message: Updated to current canonical file. Files: changed:Tag: potato dbootstrap.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by ericvb

2001-05-30 Thread ericvb
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:ericvb time: Wed May 30 12:09:45 PDT 2001 Log Message: Added etherconf ref. Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Wed May 30 14:09:25 PDT 2001 Log Message: just a comment change Files: changed:kernel.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Locale for boot-floppies

2001-05-30 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Probably we should create a new minimal locale which is just like C, except that it uses UTF-8. Maybe we can call it C.UTF-8. I'm not an export on locales, but I'll try to have a look at it and see if I can make something work. I tried blending i18n

cvs commit to boot-floppies/make by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/make who:aph time: Wed May 30 15:49:12 PDT 2001 Log Message: remove the LC cruft, why not use USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER; add some utilities/dbootstrap/po Files: changed:utils -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Wed May 30 15:53:16 PDT 2001 Log Message: my recent changes Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/make by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/make who:aph time: Wed May 30 16:42:30 PDT 2001 Log Message: possibly fix alpha invokation of kernel.sh, but it's still rather perverted and there don't seem to be any developers working on it Files: changed:alpha.rules -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

cvs commit to boot-floppies/make by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/make who:aph time: Wed May 30 16:43:08 PDT 2001 Log Message: move some alpha settings to alpha.vars, and remove some unusued and crufty stuff which was using pathcmd... Files: changed:alpha.vars vars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: powermac boot-floppy patches

2001-05-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 07:21:54PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: or it can just run the wrapper /usr/sbin/yabootconfig -q -t =2E.. without bothering with the environment variable it doesn't really matter what way we do it, whichever you think makes most sense. i think the wrapper should be

Re: Bug#99285: would be nice to produce a -pic version of the libraries

2001-05-30 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:55:55PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Would it be possible to create a new package, say, e2fslibs-pic and comerr-pic ? We use these libraries in the rootdisk of the boot floppies, and we are unable to reduce libext2fs.so, libe2p.so, and libcom_err.so since there are

Noooooo! [was: Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by aph]

2001-05-30 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:48:45PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: remove the LC cruft, why not use USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER Because LC is turned on for flavours that support it _if_ USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER is on. Please revert that (and related) changes. Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fixed in NMU of boot-floppies 2.3.4

2001-05-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
tag 98439 + fixed tag 98629 + fixed quit This message was generated automatically in response to a non-maintainer upload. The .changes file follows. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 23:07:00 -0400 Source: boot-floppies Binary: boot-floppies Architecture:

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Wed May 30 18:10:46 PDT 2001 Log Message: branch merge for changes in 2.2.24 and 2.2.25 Potato boot-floppies; ARM porters in particular may wish to review what I did and possibly back it out; French merge rolled back Files: changed:

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/en by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/en who:aph time: Wed May 30 18:12:51 PDT 2001 Log Message: ofpath patch application from Ethan Benson; it's possible this should go against Potato as well Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-30 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Wed May 30 20:24:54 PDT 2001 Log Message: add dosfstools for powerpc, alpha, m68k; sync build-depends and depends Files: changed:control -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fr by ericvb

2001-05-30 Thread ericvb
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:ericvb time: Wed May 30 20:37:22 PDT 2001 Log Message: ofpath patch application from Ethan Benson; it's possible this should go against Potato as well Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Systems with no floppy

2001-05-30 Thread J.A. Bezemer
I suspect that booting off a Zip disk is more like booting off a floppy than booting off a CD, which means that this probably is a debian-boot issue; forwarding it there. Regards, Anne Bezemer On Thu, 24 May 2001, Joe Krahn wrote: Your CD-image page promotes installing via a floppy