Re: Installer online help

2001-06-11 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 09:34:50PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: 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

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by eb

2001-06-11 Thread eb
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:eb time: Sun Jun 10 23:30:24 PDT 2001 Log Message: Add execlog_to_string() function that stores the program's stdout in a variable and send stderr to syslog, also returns the programs exit code. pretty much rewrite run_plilo_quik(): - ditch

Re: 2.3.5 powerpc installation

2001-06-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 11:08:10PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: So more attention will need to be paid to getting all the possibly needed net driver modules into the installer (for example, last time I checked, rtl8139 or 8139too wasn't available for powerpc; that's what I need for my all

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

2001-06-11 Thread eb
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:eb time: Sun Jun 10 23:45:26 PDT 2001 Log Message: remove useless line from run_plilo_quik() Files: changed:bootconfig.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by pb

2001-06-11 Thread pb
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:pb time: Sun Jun 10 23:47:22 PDT 2001 Log Message: add build-dep on console-common for arm Files: changed:control -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies by pb

2001-06-11 Thread pb
Repository: boot-floppies who:pb time: Sun Jun 10 23:47:49 PDT 2001 Log Message: fix arm handling Files: changed:release.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/make by pb

2001-06-11 Thread pb
Repository: boot-floppies/make who:pb time: Sun Jun 10 23:48:49 PDT 2001 Log Message: use 2.88 image for netwinder rescue Files: changed:arm.rules -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:27:11AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: gzipping a gzipped file doesn't make it any smaller, so compressing before making it part of the filesystem won't save space. The larger filesystem created by leaving it uncompressed will be matched by the better compressability

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by pb

2001-06-11 Thread pb
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:pb time: Sun Jun 10 23:50:35 PDT 2001 Log Message: log those changes Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies by pb

2001-06-11 Thread pb
Repository: boot-floppies who:pb time: Sun Jun 10 23:50:07 PDT 2001 Log Message: Really do build netwinder tftp image this time. Files: changed:Makefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/prototype/etc/init.d by pb

2001-06-11 Thread pb
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/prototype/etc/init.d who:pb time: Sun Jun 10 23:49:24 PDT 2001 Log Message: ne2k-pci needs 8390.o too Files: changed:rcS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

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

2001-06-11 Thread eb
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:eb time: Mon Jun 11 00:06:01 PDT 2001 Log Message: bugfix in run_quik, thanks to Colin Walters Files: changed:bootconfig.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

cvs commit to boot-floppies by eb

2001-06-11 Thread eb
Repository: boot-floppies who:eb time: Mon Jun 11 02:26:26 PDT 2001 Log Message: update powerpc booting items Files: changed:todo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bootp network configuration

2001-06-11 Thread Ethan Benson
I have seen a couple people mention that dhcp network configuration worked for them with cvs boot-floppies. when i tested it failed, and now the only reason i can think of as to why is that i have a bootp server, not a dhcp server. (only reason i have it is to netboot this powermac which

cvs commit to boot-floppies by eb

2001-06-11 Thread eb
Repository: boot-floppies who:eb time: Mon Jun 11 03:57:20 PDT 2001 Log Message: note need for bootloader documentation fixage Files: changed:todo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-11 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:stephen.r.marenka time: Mon Jun 11 06:21:09 PDT 2001 Log Message: Removed Configurate Base references from English documentation. Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

laoding drivers (floppy-boot)

2001-06-11 Thread Juerg Oehler
hi, i was having a look at debian distribution after working with suse and hat. first i loaded the installation guide down and studyed the hole thing. there is pretty information to find. then i loaded all the floppy images from stable/main/distr-i386/current/images-1.44. after that i put the

Re: 2.3.5 test candidate

2001-06-11 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Whedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: debconf tzconfig

2001-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
Marcin Owsiany wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 08:35:46PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Select a city or time zone: eastern [...] You selected the time zone: US/Pacific I don't get it. Just a mistpaste. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: dpkg-checkbuilddeps

2001-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Di Carlo wrote: Christian T. Steigies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Who's fooling who? Or is this a special feature of the boot-floppies? I think dpkg 1.9.8 for m68k was not built/uploaded because the i386 version made some trouble. I guess you'll have to work around the lack of a

Re: dpkg-checkbuilddeps

2001-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
Christian T. Steigies wrote: So on m68k, I should not need zlib-bin, linuxdoc-tools, or snarf. Bug filed, you can use this patch in the meantime --- /usr/bin/dpkg-checkbuilddepsWed Jun 6 23:39:21 2001 +++ dpkg-checkbuilddeps Mon Jun 11 10:54:37 2001 @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@

ScanMail Message: To Recipient virus found and action taken.

2001-06-11 Thread POST-SA
Title: ScanMail Message: To Recipient virus found and action taken. ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange has detected virus-infected attachment(s). Sender = Abraham Perez Palma Cupé Recipient(s) = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject = Help Scanning Time = 06/11/2001 19:13:07 Action on virus found: The

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-11 Thread Erik Andersen
On Sun Jun 10, 2001 at 08:38:50PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: 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. I'm willing to accept patches to properly internationalize busybox.

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-11 Thread Erik Andersen
On Sun Jun 10, 2001 at 02:52:50PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: 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

mklibs.sh oddess

2001-06-11 Thread David Whedon
I've seen this each time I built i386 boot-floppies: I: doing library reduction /usr/home/davidw/tmp/boot-floppies-2.3.5/scripts/rootdisk/mklibs.sh: find-file-glob: internal error: multiple matches The disks work and the build doesn't stop, just the mysterious error message. Either I have

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-11 Thread Erik Andersen
On Mon Jun 11, 2001 at 10:29:33AM -0700, David Whedon wrote: On x86: [root@slag busybox_udeb_builddir]# ll ./busybox.help -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 148988 Jun 11 10:48 ./busybox.help* [root@slag busybox_udeb_builddir]# ll ./busybox.orig -rwxr-xr-x

cvs commit to base-config by joeyh

2001-06-11 Thread joeyh
Repository: base-config who:joeyh time: Mon Jun 11 11:30:37 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Added GMT prompting and setting to tzsetup. * Fixed some other tzsetup bugs. * Added a quick little introductory message before base-config runs. Files: changed:tzsetup tzsetup.8

cvs commit to base-config/debian by joeyh

2001-06-11 Thread joeyh
Repository: base-config/debian who:joeyh time: Mon Jun 11 11:30:37 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Added GMT prompting and setting to tzsetup. * Fixed some other tzsetup bugs. * Added a quick little introductory message before base-config runs. Files: changed:changelog

cvs commit to base-config/lib by joeyh

2001-06-11 Thread joeyh
Repository: base-config/lib who:joeyh time: Mon Jun 11 11:30:38 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Added GMT prompting and setting to tzsetup. * Fixed some other tzsetup bugs. * Added a quick little introductory message before base-config runs. Files: removed:01console-tools

su message

2001-06-11 Thread Matt Kraai
Howdy, I've been investigating why the su in man-db installation logs a message to the console. It cannot log the message to /dev/log, since it is executing in a chroot. It falls back to logging the message to the console. The best solution I've though of is to make /dev/log available in the

problem with latest boot-floppies

2001-06-11 Thread Matt Kraai
Howdy, While testing David Whedon's latest boot-floppies, I was intermittently unable to install the system. It would print a message saying that the install was successful, and then a message saying that debootstrap had failed (with a non-zero exit status). Looking on tty4, I saw the

Re: laoding drivers (floppy-boot)

2001-06-11 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:40:22PM +0200, Juerg Oehler wrote: hi, i was having a look at debian distribution after working with suse and hat. first i loaded the installation guide down and studyed the hole thing. ^^ I

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-11 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:42:51AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: On Sun Jun 10, 2001 at 08:38:50PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: 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.

latest potato boot-floppy fails

2001-06-11 Thread bri r
I used the idepci version of the latest boot-floppy for potato. The install.bat script under DOS is pretty easy--thank-you. However, it failed at the same spot I had a problem before, (search for Make boot floppy failed). It gives the same error messages and behavior. Is there another way?

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-11 Thread David Whedon
Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:55:40PM +0200 wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:42:51AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: On Sun Jun 10, 2001 at 08:38:50PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: That is a good point. The suggestion of dynmically using the busybox help probably doesn't treat transloations very

UTF support removed from slang packages

2001-06-11 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hi! Too bad that UTF-ied slang is too buggy for whole distro. The changelog says, though: Removed UTF support to seperate package. Where is it? Was it ever made/uploaded? Do you need help with it? regards Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: boot-floppies 2.2.5 (potato) ready for testing

2001-06-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:52:41PM -0300, Carlos Barros wrote: I had a little problem with a power-pc (Mac 6500/300). The only way to install debian is using a floppy (the debian-cd images doesn't boot). that is correct, there will never be bootable CDs for oldworld macs. Another is that

Re: su message

2001-06-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 12:46:40PM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote: Howdy, I've been investigating why the su in man-db installation logs a message to the console. It cannot log the message to /dev/log, since it is executing in a chroot. It falls back to logging the message to the console. yup.

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unable to boot 2.88 image

2001-06-11 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hi! Both Adam and I are unable to boot the 2.88 images (from David Whedon's set, using vmware). We get the message Boot failed at the very beginning of boot process. I think this is syslinux's message, but I'm not sure. Running syslinux -s on the image doesn't help. Has anyone suceeded booting

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-11 Thread Erik Andersen
On Mon Jun 11, 2001 at 02:03:21PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:55:40PM +0200 wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:42:51AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: On Sun Jun 10, 2001 at 08:38:50PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: That is a good point. The suggestion of dynmically using

[OT] extracting boot image from 'el torito' image

2001-06-11 Thread Brent Verner
Hi, Sorry for the noise, but I figured this is the best list for the question. How can I extract the boot image from a bootable ISO image? I've tried dd if=iso.raw of=boot.img bs=2 skip=21 count=720 but it doesn't give me the bootable floppy image. Many thanks. brent -- - - - - -

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-11 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:stephen.r.marenka time: Mon Jun 11 17:25:22 PDT 2001 Log Message: Fix the quik fixes Files: changed:bootconfig.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-06-11 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Mon Jun 11 19:08:04 PDT 2001 Log Message: start 2.3.6 Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2001-06-11 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/en who:aph time: Mon Jun 11 19:15:00 PDT 2001 Log Message: minor doc clarification Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-11 Thread Glenn McGrath,,,
David Whedon wrote: The nice things i see about this is that the messages have a chance of being maintained if put into busybox cvs. The problem is that they are separated from the people who actually want the messages to exist (Debian), though not too far, since busybox is pretty Debian

Processing of boot-floppies_2.3.5_powerpc.changes

2001-06-11 Thread James Troup
boot-floppies_2.3.5_powerpc.changes uploaded successfully to auric.debian.org along with the files: bf-arch_2.3.5_powerpc.tar.gz bf-archive-install_2.3.5_powerpc.sh bf-doc_2.3.5_powerpc.tar.gz bf-misc_2.3.5_powerpc.tar.gz Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-11 Thread Chris Tillman
I'll propose the following, and I can help too, probably, if this sounds like a good idea: 1. translate config.XX.h in busybox. This would give us a common base for creating i18n help files. One of the following: A. provide just compile time i18n of busybox plus the creation of a number

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by aph

2001-06-11 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:aph time: Mon Jun 11 19:38:06 PDT 2001 Log Message: elaborate a bit on powerpc partitioning; add a link to Ethan Benson's mac-fdisk tutorial Files: changed:urls.ent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

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

2001-06-11 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/en who:aph time: Mon Jun 11 19:38:11 PDT 2001 Log Message: elaborate a bit on powerpc partitioning; add a link to Ethan Benson's mac-fdisk tutorial Files: changed:partitioning.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: latest potato boot-floppy fails

2001-06-11 Thread bri r
I tried your suggestion, David. I.e., rescue root=/dev/hda2 (hda2 is where my linux root partition lies). I get a screenful of: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-, errno = 8 without quotes of course. Brian --- David Whedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know

Re: latest potato boot-floppy fails

2001-06-11 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:29:40PM -0700, bri r wrote: I used the idepci version of the latest boot-floppy for potato. The install.bat script under DOS is pretty easy--thank-you. However, it failed at the same spot I had a problem before, (search for Make boot floppy failed). It gives the

Re: debootstrap and dselect tutorial

2001-06-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 06:38:50PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: if you want, you could take over the build and release for web stuff, that would be one less thing for me to do to keep http://www.d.o/releases/... documentation up-to-date. I forgot how it's done... maybe we should