On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:57:12AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
- had to edit the 'system' file on the miboot floppy with ResEdit
to add video=atyfb:vmode:11 for my hardware
Is there any workarund for this? Any way at all to set ker
args differently to cope with video hardware?
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:40:06PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Can someone remind me what is the benefit of having
Ash + historic + uClibc +static ?
We're trying to save space?
For Ash, one needs some shell I think...
For saving of space, uClibc should be obvious.
For historic, it's for
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:30:13AM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote:
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:40:06PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Can someone remind me what is the benefit of having
Ash + historic + uClibc +static ?
We're trying to save space?
Hint : using old termcap (I made the test
hi,
yesterday I built the root.bin for mips and made an root.tat.gz wie the
nfsroot.sh. Then set up nfs-server unpacked the root.tar.gz booted the
kernel Hwith the rootnfs. The installer starts, but then busybox claims
that it can not determine
the rootfs. Any suggestions? I know have too look
Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmm. Well actually there are four kernels.. I'll list them again:
kernel-image-2.2.19-alpha_generic_2.2.19-1_alpha.deb
kernel-image-2.2.19-alpha_nautilus_2.2.19-1_alpha.deb
kernel-image-2.2.19-alpha_jensen_2.2.19-1_alpha.deb
Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For historic, it's for convenience for the user. This is sugar, but if sugar
can be included without a huge cost, it's worth trying.
What's wrong with hetio (other than the fact that it has been removed from
the archive)?
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:27:09PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For historic, it's for convenience for the user. This is sugar, but if sugar
can be included without a huge cost, it's worth trying.
What's wrong with hetio (other than the fact that it
On 7 Jun 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
I've rewritten the top-level README file, it was indeed something of a
mess. Hopefully it's a bit clearer now.
:)
-Peter
Code is much like elephant dung. The more code, the more bugs.
You have to let it rest a while to make sure that the bugs are gone
Christian T. Steigies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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 their architecture,
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Previously Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Not right now, I expect we'll need updated kernel packages soon.
Ok, forget about that. Yes, new package would be nice ;)
Ok, building 2.2.25 for i386 and source upload now.
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include /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/sid
At the moment it is a symlink to woody, and the way we build the root disk
doesn't preserve symlinks, so we are wasting a few k with two copies of the
same file, just different names. I am assuming that at some point in
Herbert Xu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Where did these come from? They aren't mine. The ones in the archive are:
They are older ones you sent me.
kernel-image-2.2.19-generic_2.2.19-1_alpha.deb
kernel-image-2.2.19-generic_2.2.19-2_alpha.deb
kernel-image-2.2.19-jensen_2.2.19-1_alpha.deb
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:18:40PM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:57:12AM -0400 wrote:
- during install base unable to install the 'sid' distribution, due
to this error:
dbootstrap: No such script: /usr/lib/dbootstrap/scripts/sid
I'll fix.
Need to add
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Intermittently during testing, I've found that the tail
/var/log/messages running on tty3 sometimes reports no such file or
directory. I assume this is because the messages file simply doesn't
exist yet.
Certainly one fix for this would be to touch messages in=20
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:05:03PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:57:12AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
- had to edit the 'system' file on the miboot floppy with ResEdit
to add video=3Datyfb:vmode:11 for my hardware
Is there any workarund for this? Any way
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Joey, is it possible to have base-config configure the timezone?
Hm, what command would you normally run to do that? tzconfig? It doesn't
really match the interface used by the rest of the install process, if
so.
I guess that
Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:58:54PM -0400 wrote:
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've done some (I'd say considerable) improvements to the dselect Beginners'
Guide, they're commited to CVS
(boot-floppies/documentation/dselect-beginner.sgml). I was wondering, would
it be possible to
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:54:06AM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote:
Herbert Xu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Where did these come from? They aren't mine. The ones in the archive are:
They are older ones you sent me.
kernel-image-2.2.19-generic_2.2.19-1_alpha.deb
I re-ran the install to get the messages in the v.console 2:
user.info dbootstrap[136]: write_boot_floppy: found floppy of size 1440
user.info dbootstrap[136]: formatting floppy with cmd 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH =
/target/lib: /target/usr/lib; /target/usr/bin/superformat /dev/fd0/ hd'
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:00:33PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
I think I remember yellowdoglinux working on a graphical interface to
miboot, I wonder if anything came of it?
graphical interface != useful
it already has a graphical interface, its just a useless one that
doesn't let you do
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:55:50PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
Intermittently during testing, I've found that the tail
/var/log/messages running on tty3 sometimes reports no such file or
directory. I assume this is because the messages file simply doesn't
exist yet.
thats not a tail
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:01:50PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Richard Hirst wrote:
and when I reboot the system I get T0 respawning too fast from init.
Rebooted with init=/bin/sh, renamed inittab.real to inittab, rebooted,
logged in, and I find that /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure base-config
Repository: boot-floppies
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time: Thu Jun 7 14:57:41 PDT 2001
Log Message:
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Hello,
I downloaded the boot-cd image (app. 30 mb's) wich
I think you call 'Netboot cd' (?)
Well, when I boot it, I get a screen full of text,
and have to press ENTER to continue. But when I press ENTER the screen goes
black, and the monitor light is orange... What could possibly be the
Hmm... how to ship that file becomes the question, then... Ouch, that
makes it a kinda annoying issue to deal with.
I wonder if we should make a separate package for boot-floppies
documentation, tutorial, and release notes, and we could include that
in base?
I like it.
Possibly making
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:47:57PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Sounds great. dbootstrap doesn't run dselect, base-config does. With
that in mind I figure we want to add this to base-config, yes?
Oh, yeah, duh.
Hmm... how to ship that file becomes the question, then... Ouch, that
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:16:16AM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:58:54PM -0400 wrote:
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've done some (I'd say considerable) improvements to the dselect Beginners'
Guide, they're commited to CVS
Package: potato
Version: 2.2r3
When installing Debian, the book says to include a serial driver in the
kernel. The driver should be in the misc category. I did not see any
serial drivers in there. I can't use the modem, wvdial gives a
communication error.
1. Should I run setserial first?
2.
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:30:21PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
I've done some (I'd say considerable) improvements to the dselect Beginners'
Guide, they're commited to CVS
(boot-floppies/documentation/dselect-beginner.sgml). I was wondering, would
it be possible to make a dialog
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 08:23:24PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Are you applying this patch or do you need someone to apply it?
If you are sending patches to this need that need applying, please
make it very clear, perhaps with subject of [APPLY PATCH PLS].
I applied the subarch/system
Artur Gorniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I couldn't start Sparcstation 2 from potato and current woody disks.
It's working with Ben's one.
It was hanged just after Booting Linux message.
No idea what the issue is. Please try 2.3.5 when that releases or
tests, I guess. Maybe it's fixed
Gonzalez Jorge-QJG005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When installing Debian, the book says to include a serial driver in
the kernel. The driver should be in the misc category. I did not
see any serial drivers in there.
Most installation kernels have serial built in, IIRC.
Do 'dmesg | grep tty'
I'll try to code something up in the next few days.
It won't be possible to do the side-by-side-lists display, though.
That's great, the side by side thing confuses me :-)
David
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Repository: boot-floppies/debian
who:aph
time: Thu Jun 7 20:09:29 PDT 2001
Log Message:
reburn for final release
Files:
changed:changelog
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Stephen R Marenka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
run ofpath, read its stdout into a variable, send its stderr to
syslog, check its return code, if its != 0 bail. then strip off the
trailing newline from the ofdev variable and strcat a 0 onto it. then
later we call nvsetenv boot-device %s,
Repository: boot-floppies/debian
who:aph
time: Thu Jun 7 20:10:25 PDT 2001
Log Message:
bump urgency to medium
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Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap
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time: Thu Jun 7 18:58:55 PDT 2001
Log Message:
patch for new base-config on serial console
Files:
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David Whedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Adam wrote:
I wonder if we should make a separate package for boot-floppies
documentation, tutorial, and release notes, and we could include that
in base?
I like it.
Possibly making a pkg per each arch, or else one arch-indep
package that
Greg Leppert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When trying to uncompress the kernel image from the Rescue floppy to boot
and install a new Debian installation, I get a Invalid compressed format
(err=2) and the system halts. I still have my HD formatted for a FAT32
with WinME installed, which i plan
bri r [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I re-ran the install to get the messages in the v.console 2:
user.info dbootstrap[136]: write_boot_floppy: found floppy of size 1440
user.info dbootstrap[136]: formatting floppy with cmd 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH =
/target/lib: /target/usr/lib;
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Richard Hirst wrote:
base-config now runs and I selected an http source for APT. Unfortunately
it chose to go for 'stable' without asking. I want unstable, for hppa.
I installed kernel+modules and base system from an unstable tree on a
local http
I am now producing boot-floppies 2.3.5. I am building for the
following arches:
- i386
- powerpc
I can also build on sparc if needed; I'll do that later if no one else
gets to it I guess.
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Tenho a versão demo linux N 4, mais estou com
poblemas, o CD da o boot , pelo CD-ROOM , mais quando chega no grafico trava, a
tela fica toda preta, algumas vezes consegui, que tudo funciona se
bem.
Já tentei todas as soluções descritas na
revista nada da certo o que voçê recomenda.
Minha
Could you submit your problem in English ?
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 12:32:20AM -0300, sebatião depaula santos wrote:
Tenho a versão demo linux N 4, mais estou com poblemas, o CD da o boot , pelo
CD-ROOM , mais quando chega no grafico trava, a tela fica toda preta, algumas vezes
consegui, que
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:49:33PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:00:33PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
I think I remember yellowdoglinux working on a graphical interface to
miboot, I wonder if anything came of it?
graphical interface != useful
it already has a
[...]
Lets wait until I burn 2.3.5 first.
I'm sure I can add the package building stuff into debian/rules in a
pretty damn short order.
Sounds like a good plan to me.
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Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:54:06AM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote:
Does anyone know what is wrong?
Looks like it doesn't fit. :-(
Yes, jack up the size of the rootdisk.
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Intermittently during testing, I've found that the tail
/var/log/messages running on tty3 sometimes reports no such file or
directory. I assume this is because the messages file simply doesn't
exist yet.
Certainly one fix for this would be to
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
no that won't change anything, what your seeing is no such file or
directory messages being logged.
Oh, that's a possibility too.
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Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That would be good. Would this binary package be built from boot-floppies
source package, or do you want someone to make a whole new source package
for it? If the latter, it would be no problem for me to do so[1].
Hmm, you're the release notes
Hofstede [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I downloaded the boot-cd image (app. 30 mb's) wich I think you call
'Netboot cd' (?)
Um, that didn't come from Debian, or not from us, at least. What was
the URL?
Well, when I boot it, I get a screen full of text, and have to press
ENTER to continue. But
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Well, it seems easiest (to me) to first add it in base-config, and
file a bug against libc6 to request that be properly folded out into
libc6.
I'll try to code something up in the next few days.
It won't be possible to do the side-by-side-lists display, though.
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Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.2r3
flavor: vanilla
architecture: i386
model: Dell Dimension XPS D266 (Pentium II 440LX chipset)
memory: 192 MB
scsi: [none]
cd-rom: Kenwood ATAPI
network card: LNE100TX
pcmcia: none
When trying to
Boot-Floppies 2.2.25 for Potato i386 has been built and I would like
to get some testing on it.
It is available at
http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.25-2001-07-07/
Please keep in mind that we are working almost solely on woody now, so
I'm really only
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