thoughts on boot floppies

2001-06-03 Thread MPfeifer
hi guys, probably this thought has ben thought before, but i searched in the archives for it and didn't find it. when i installed the first time debian, i had used redhat for one year and still was a novice to linux, but when installing debian i was sold immediately, because i found it a very

Re: thoughts on boot floppies

2001-06-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:28:01AM +0200, MPfeifer wrote: hi guys, probably this thought has ben thought before, but i searched in the archives for it and didn't find it. when i installed the first time debian, i had used redhat for one year and still was a novice to linux, but when

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk by h.heinold

2001-06-03 Thread h . heinold
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk who:h.heinold time: Sun Jun 3 04:58:37 PDT 2001 Log Message: adding mipsel support Files: added: EXTRACT_LIST_mipsel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

potato documentation busted on arm

2001-06-03 Thread Philip Blundell
David, I think this was caused by your recent checkin to inst-methods.sgml. debiandoc2text -d debiandoc.decl -l C -O install.sgml install.en.txt nsgmls:en/inst-methods.sgml:552:12:E: general entity rawrite.exe not defined and no default entity make[3]: *** [install.en.txt] Error 1 p. PGP

Re: Locale for boot-floppies

2001-06-03 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Wed, 30 May 2001 21:23:32 +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: 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

Bug#99652: dialog boxes confusing - active choice not clear

2001-06-03 Thread Joey Hess
John H. Robinson, IV wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 09:48:12PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Screenshot: http://kitenet.net/~joey/tmp/whiptail.png (expires in 2 weeks or so) but how does that look on a b/w term? Well slang is supposed to let you set inverse video in BW mode independantly f

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by dwhedon

2001-06-03 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:dwhedon time: Sun Jun 3 09:22:29 PDT 2001 Log Message: oops, last checkin broke non-i386 docs. This fixes at least the English version, don't have time to check the other langs at the moment. Files: changed:Tag: potato

Re: Locale for boot-floppies

2001-06-03 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
GOTO Masanori [EMAIL PROTECTED]: LC_COLLATE copy POSIX END LC_COLLATE Wrong. `iso14651_t1' is appropriate for the UTF-8 locale. Normally I would agree, but I chose POSIX for LC_COLLATE for two reasons: it's smaller; lots of people don't like the new-fangled collation (they don't like

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

2001-06-03 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fr who:dwhedon time: Sun Jun 3 11:26:11 PDT 2001 Log Message: add two new targets so it is easier to not break the documentation lint-all-lang-docs: (check SGML validity for the documentation, all language) lint-all-arch-all-lang-docs:

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by dwhedon

2001-06-03 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:dwhedon time: Sun Jun 3 11:26:11 PDT 2001 Log Message: add two new targets so it is easier to not break the documentation lint-all-lang-docs: (check SGML validity for the documentation, all language) lint-all-arch-all-lang-docs:

Re: thoughts on boot floppies

2001-06-03 Thread MPfeifer
hi, yes, indeed with the compact kernel it worked. i installed 3 hours ago just with two floppies over the network. i wonder what the reason is for this. and maybe i can help out a bit. We always need help. yes i know that, that's also why i subscribed to this list, to see what's going on

Re: m68k boot-floppies for woody

2001-06-03 Thread Richard Hirst
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:09:11PM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:40:50PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Nobody is working on m68k boot floppies for Woody at the moment. This is a bad situation. Unless m68k porters start working on getting things going for

Re: USB on X86 platform boot

2001-06-03 Thread wwfhyuuk
Erich Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sorry for having lost the thread again now, I changed machines several times between home and workplace and also subscribed fom another address. The temporary fix or workaround based on the hint from this list, I think it was Karl Hammar [EMAIL

more sgml woes

2001-06-03 Thread Philip Blundell
I'm now suffering from this. Anyone? ln -s dynamic_sk_arm.ent dynamic.ent debiandoc2text -d debiandoc.decl -l sk -O install.sk.sgml install.sk.txt saspconvert: sk/inst-methods.sgml:275 (input line 1832): identifier `install-from-dos' is undefined saspconvert: sk/inst-methods.sgml:283 (input

Re: thoughts on boot floppies

2001-06-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:03:54PM +0200, MPfeifer wrote: yes i know that, that's also why i subscribed to this list, to see what's going on here, and where i can help. i am not a programmer, but i've got some experience with scripting, and i've always had a fascination for minidistro's.

Bug#99652: dialog boxes confusing - active choice not clear

2001-06-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 12:21:43PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: John H. Robinson, IV wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 09:48:12PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Screenshot: http://kitenet.net/~joey/tmp/whiptail.png (expires in 2 weeks or so) but how does that look on a b/w term? Well slang

Re: m68k boot-floppies for woody

2001-06-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 08:54:39PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: Anyway, so far I hit a problem with rescue.sh doing tests on $system for 'atari', etc, when rescue.sh has been invoked with $subarch='atari' and $system=''. For now I've swapped $system for $subarch in rescue.sh and am carrying

Re: m68k boot-floppies for woody

2001-06-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 02:51:21PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 08:54:39PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: Anyway, so far I hit a problem with rescue.sh doing tests on $system for 'atari', etc, when rescue.sh has been invoked with $subarch='atari' and $system=''. For

Processed: Re: Bug#99826: Rescue.bin hangs during boot at md ...

2001-06-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 99826 boot-floppies Bug#99826: Rescue.bin hangs during boot at md ... Bug reassigned from package `rescue.bin' to `boot-floppies'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham (administrator,

Re: no alpha boot-floppies

2001-06-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:15:12PM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: I wrote to the admin list to see if we could get a woody chroot on lully, but I haven't heard a responce on this at all yet (over two weeks now...and my message also stated that lully needed a kernel change due to random

Re: m68k boot-floppies for woody

2001-06-03 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 08:54:39PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: Anyway, so far I hit a problem with rescue.sh doing tests on $system for 'atari', etc, when rescue.sh has been invoked with $subarch='atari' and $system=''. For now I've swapped $system for $subarch in rescue.sh and am carrying

Bug#99837: boot-floppies: partition_config.c says no good way to detect reiserfs partition, here is a decent way

2001-06-03 Thread journey
Package: boot-floppies Version: 20010603 Severity: wishlist Ok, nothing amazing, just that there is a magic number for reiserfs, just like many other things. at byte 0x10034 (65584) there is the string ReIsErFs This should be pretty easy to check for, you just open the disk, seek to that point

Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-06-03 Thread peter karlsson
Christian T. Steigies [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, as I said, the installer doesn't find the partition, so it can't initialize it. Can you initialize it by hand? I can run mke2fs and mount it on /target manually from VC2, and this is accepted by the installer, even though it believes I do not