cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fi by tvainika

2001-06-10 Thread tvainika
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fi who:tvainika time: Sat Jun 9 23:31:15 PDT 2001 Log Message: changes from negotiations with Panu Hällfors Files: changed:Tag: potato dictionary.master -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

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

2001-06-10 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:dwhedon time: Sun Jun 10 00:40:32 PDT 2001 Log Message: clean up choose_archive_dir some more, I kinda wish I had never touched it :(, but at least it is cleaner now. I think it should behave the same as in the past, we'll

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by dwhedon

2001-06-10 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:dwhedon time: Sun Jun 10 00:40:31 PDT 2001 Log Message: clean up choose_archive_dir some more, I kinda wish I had never touched it :(, but at least it is cleaner now. I think it should behave the same as in the past, we'll see. Problem

Re: critical problems in 2.3.5 prevent release

2001-06-10 Thread Richard Hirst
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:53:39PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:35:16PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: According to Richard Hirst, gcc-3.0 (at least for hppa) also has an issue. why is gcc in the base system may i ask? The .deb in question is gcc-3.0-base,

Re: critical problems in 2.3.5 prevent release

2001-06-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 11:14:14AM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:53:39PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:35:16PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: According to Richard Hirst, gcc-3.0 (at least for hppa) also has an issue. why is gcc in

Re: critical problems in 2.3.5 prevent release

2001-06-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 11:14:14AM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: The .deb in question is gcc-3.0-base, comes from gcc-3.0 source. I have included it in debootstrap for hppa because libstdc++3 depends on it. apt depends on libstdc++3, etc. Not that you've sent me a patch... Having said that,

PATCH please apply: debootstrap for hppa

2001-06-10 Thread Richard Hirst
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 08:59:51PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Not that you've sent me a patch... Here's one. I actually include libstdc++3.0 as well atm, but I expect that requirement to go away soon. I don't see any point in you adding that just to remove it next week. I added the two

Re: critical problems in 2.3.5 prevent release

2001-06-10 Thread Richard Hirst
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 02:51:41AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 11:14:14AM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:53:39PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:35:16PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: According to Richard Hirst,

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

2001-06-10 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po who:dwhedon time: Sun Jun 10 09:58:22 PDT 2001 Log Message: remove timezone configuration. This will now be handled in base-config. Files: changed:POTFILES -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

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

2001-06-10 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:dwhedon time: Sun Jun 10 09:58:22 PDT 2001 Log Message: remove timezone configuration. This will now be handled in base-config. Files: changed:baseconfig.c removed:tzconfig.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Processed: Weird debootstrap/busybox bug

2001-06-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 98522 boot-floppies Bug#98522: boot-floppies: [woody] weird problems (cannot load base from network,cannot make bootdisk,..) Bug reassigned from package `debootstrap' to `boot-floppies'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me

Bug#98522: marked as done (boot-floppies: [woody] weird problems (cannot load base from network,cannot make bootdisk,..))

2001-06-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 11 Jun 2001 03:02:57 +1000 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Weird debootstrap/busybox bug has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by tvainika

2001-06-10 Thread tvainika
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:tvainika time: Sun Jun 10 11:48:09 PDT 2001 Log Message: Added dummy doc-check's revision tracking stuff Files: changed:Tag: potato install.fi.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/fi by tvainika

2001-06-10 Thread tvainika
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/fi who:tvainika time: Sun Jun 10 11:48:10 PDT 2001 Log Message: Added dummy doc-check's revision tracking stuff Files: changed:Tag: potato welcome.sgml hardware.sgml preparing.sgml partitioning.sgml inst-methods.sgml rescue-boot.sgml

Re: critical problems in 2.3.5 prevent release

2001-06-10 Thread Matt Kraai
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 02:35:56PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 08:21:21AM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote: I don't understand your question. The base-files package contains most of the system directories, and the permissions are set correctly therein. When BusyBox tar

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by tvainika

2001-06-10 Thread tvainika
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:tvainika time: Sun Jun 10 13:12:23 PDT 2001 Log Message: Added finnish style of writing dates Files: changed:Tag: potato Makefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

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

2001-06-10 Thread kraai
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:kraai time: Sun Jun 10 13:25:54 PDT 2001 Log Message: Fix misspelling of distribution (and yeah, I know I'm anal). Files: changed:extract_base.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

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

2001-06-10 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:dwhedon time: Sun Jun 10 13:43:09 PDT 2001 Log Message: move 'Configure the Base System' step to immediately after debootstrap succeeds. It now runs without user intervention. Files: changed:extract_base.c main_menu.c

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by dwhedon

2001-06-10 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:dwhedon time: Sun Jun 10 13:43:08 PDT 2001 Log Message: move 'Configure the Base System' step to immediately after debootstrap succeeds. It now runs without user intervention. Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

2.3.5 test candidate

2001-06-10 Thread David Whedon
boot-floppies 2.3.5 is looking very good. Various cleanups that have trickled in this weekend have given us a smooth install (at least on i386). I have installed a couple times this weekend and have only seen cosmetic bugs. I put a freshly built set up at:

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

2001-06-10 Thread kraai
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:kraai time: Sun Jun 10 14:02:55 PDT 2001 Log Message: Write the chosen suite to dbootstrap_settings so that base-config will default to the user's earlier choice. Files: changed:extract_base.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Installer online help

2001-06-10 Thread Chris Tillman
The online help for the installation system is of course quite limited due to space limitations. However, the help that is available isn't really enough for new users who are just being exposed to *nix for the first time. We can't take on the job of *nix education within the installer, but I

cvs commit to base-config/debian by joeyh

2001-06-10 Thread joeyh
Repository: base-config/debian who:joeyh time: Sun Jun 10 14:47:13 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Use debootstrap_settings SUITE variable to determine what suite apt-setup defaults to, Closes: #100153 * Made 1console-tools quieter. See #100365. Files: changed:changelog

cvs commit to base-config/lib by joeyh

2001-06-10 Thread joeyh
Repository: base-config/lib who:joeyh time: Sun Jun 10 14:47:13 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Use debootstrap_settings SUITE variable to determine what suite apt-setup defaults to, Closes: #100153 * Made 1console-tools quieter. See #100365. Files: changed:

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-10 Thread David Whedon
We can't take on the job of *nix education within the installer, but I think a few k would really be a good investment for new users. I'm willing to scrounge a few k from other places if need be... I like this idea. Let's add a new 'help' command (hard linked to man and info) that just

cvs commit to boot-floppies by cts

2001-06-10 Thread cts
Repository: boot-floppies who:cts time: Sun Jun 10 14:59:33 PDT 2001 Log Message: m68k uses 2.2.19 kernel-images Files: changed:config -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by cts

2001-06-10 Thread cts
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:cts time: Sun Jun 10 15:15:39 PDT 2001 Log Message: Make Adam happy, add a changelog entry for the recent m68k fixes Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Root disk problems for i18n floppies

2001-06-10 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:44:49PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:40:24AM +0200 wrote: So what shall we do? Only support it for the 2.88 ones? That is what we use for CD install, right? Yes I think having the language chooser only for CD installs (which most people

cvs commit to base-config/debian by joeyh

2001-06-10 Thread joeyh
Repository: base-config/debian who:joeyh time: Sun Jun 10 15:26:38 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Call loadkeys with --quiet. * Reconfigure console-data instead of calling no longer existing kbdconfig. Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

2.3.5 powerpc installation

2001-06-10 Thread Chris Tillman
I downloaded the 6/7 powerpc version of 2.3.5 from http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/ powermac/ I completed an install on my newworld, up to installation of base, with no show stoppers. The dhcp worked great, I verified I could ping on the net. The new

Re: critical problems in 2.3.5 prevent release

2001-06-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 01:02:44PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: They changed it to ignore archive permissions, and leave the existing permissions unchanged. This sucks if, for instance, the modules installation step sets /lib to be world writable. is that whats happening? if so that should be

Re: 2.3.5 powerpc installation

2001-06-10 Thread David Whedon
option, when it would have ordinarily displayed my choices: Directory error; the supplied directory does not exist, please enter a new one. The above should be fixed in cvs. -David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 02:15:16PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: The online help for the installation system is of course quite limited due to space limitations. However, the help that is available isn't really enough for new users who are just being exposed to *nix for the first time. We can't

Re: Root disk problems for i18n floppies

2001-06-10 Thread David Whedon
Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 12:32:08AM +0200 wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:44:49PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:40:24AM +0200 wrote: So what shall we do? Only support it for the 2.88 ones? That is what we use for CD install, right? Yes I think having the

Re: 2.3.5 powerpc installation

2001-06-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 03:30:04PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: Here are some opportunities: During Install Operating System and Modules, I chose to install from an already-mounted (HFS) hard disk filesystem. I mounted it thru the installer, so it would know about it; but I got an immediate

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-10 Thread Chris Tillman
nano-tiny -T15 -v /help.txt why not zcat /help.gz | more ? That would work, but I used tabs to make two columns; using the editor lets me choose how much space for a tab so it's more readable and also gives the novice an interface to use to search for keywords, and scroll back and forth.

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-10 Thread Chris Tillman
FWIW busybox does have better help if you turn it on : bb with very little help: -rwxr-xr-x root/root180316 2001-06-10 14:22:28 ./bin/busybox bb with better help: -rwxr-xr-x root/root195804 2001-06-10 14:29:32 ./bin/busybox That is more space than what you are proposing, but it

Re: critical problems in 2.3.5 prevent release

2001-06-10 Thread Matt Kraai
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 02:39:51PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 01:02:44PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: They changed it to ignore archive permissions, and leave the existing permissions unchanged. This sucks if, for instance, the modules installation step sets /lib to

Invitation au 2eme salon du livre en ligne

2001-06-10 Thread invitation
Bonjour, Nous avons la joie de vous inviter au deuxième salon du livre sur internet, qui ouvrira ses portes du 11 au 16 Juin sur le site http://www.planetexpo.fr . Sur leurs stands virtuels, une centaine de maisons d'édition, de sites internet et d'associations vous feront découvrir leur

Re: 2.3.5 powerpc installation

2001-06-10 Thread Chris Tillman
/target/ for hard disks. Since stuff gets mounted under /target by the installer, and it doesn't tell the user that, it's not immediately obvious that the /target prefix is needed for paths. your supposed to let the installer mount the hard disk partition when you select `install from hard

debconf tzconfig

2001-06-10 Thread Joey Hess
As requested, here is a tzconfig varient that uses debconf for its UI. A sample run (note that new installers will be seeing the dialog frontend instead): root@silk:/home/joey/debian/packages/base-config./newtzconfig Time Zone Configuration --- Your current time zone

Re: 2.3.5 test candidate

2001-06-10 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 01:57:09PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: boot-floppies 2.3.5 is looking very good. Various cleanups that have trickled in this weekend have given us a smooth install (at least on i386). I have installed a couple times this weekend and have only seen cosmetic bugs. I

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-10 Thread David Whedon
That is a good point. The suggestion of dynmically using the busybox help probably doesn't treat transloations very well, unless busybox wants translated help. -David Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 02:16:48AM +0200 wrote: Would it be an English-only file ?? Or is there a way of integrating it in

dpkg-checkbuilddeps

2001-06-10 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I'm having a little trouble with the boot-floppies dpkg-checkbuilddeps: dpkg-buildpackage: build architecture is m68k dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: zlib-bin, dosfstools, linuxdoc-tools, snarf dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting.

Re: debconf tzconfig

2001-06-10 Thread David Whedon
Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 08:35:46PM -0400 wrote: As requested, here is a tzconfig varient that uses debconf for its UI. A sample run (note that new installers will be seeing the dialog frontend instead): looks super. If you want to try it, you should probably install debconf 0.9.63 from

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

2001-06-10 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:dwhedon time: Sun Jun 10 22:15:03 PDT 2001 Log Message: add some more files from /proc to the list to be saved. They will be empty, by the way, until: #100369: busybox cp can't copy from /proc is fixed. Files: changed:

Re: dpkg-checkbuilddeps

2001-06-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 12:21:23AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Christian T. Steigies wrote: I'm having a little trouble with the boot-floppies dpkg-checkbuilddeps: dpkg-buildpackage: build architecture is m68k dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: zlib-bin, dosfstools,

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-10 Thread Chris Tillman
That is a good point. The suggestion of dynmically using the busybox help probably doesn't treat transloations very well, unless busybox wants translated help. -David I played around with the dynamic thing a little bit, it probably wouldn't work out well in any case. As far as duplicated

Re: 2.3.5 powerpc installation

2001-06-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:43:37PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: Well one of the options is 'already mounted partition' so I thought that should be tested. You're right, it's probably not a common choice. That's interesting about the fstab; so if I manually mount an HFS disk during

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 04:41:59PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: nano-tiny -T15 -v /help.txt why not zcat /help.gz | more ? That would work, but I used tabs to make two columns; using the editor lets me choose how much space for a tab so it's more readable and also gives the novice

Re: 2.3.5 powerpc installation

2001-06-10 Thread Chris Tillman
the base tarball is obsolete, install the base system now uses debootstrap to install read debs. an unfortunate side affect of this is that you MUST install the base either via the network, from a CDROM, or a ext2 partition with a full debian mirror. crippled filesystems need not apply