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Re: mount_partition() and filesystem types

2001-10-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:32:07PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: On Wed Oct 17, 2001 at 02:55:11PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: but as i have stated, even if you fix busybox to be smarter you still have a giant stack of wildcards in all these random filesystems in the kernel, are they going to

Re: mount_partition() and filesystem types

2001-10-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 04:36:14PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote: If busybox pays attention to the superblock magic, the chance of calling mount(2) with the wrong filesystem should be very low. Beyond that, the kernels on offical Debian boot-floppies should also be a known factor.

Re: mount_partition() and filesystem types

2001-10-18 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 00:25:37 -0800 Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:32:07PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: On Wed Oct 17, 2001 at 02:55:11PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: but as i have stated, even if you fix busybox to be smarter you still have a giant stack

Re: mount_partition() and filesystem types

2001-10-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:59:40PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: Problems should be reported upstream where apropriate, not to assign blame, but so the upstream author knows about it and can fix it for all users of that piece of software and let boot-floppies be broken for who knows how many

using loadlin from windows

2001-10-18 Thread Othmar Pasteka
hi, [if i should submit a bug report for the whole mail or the various pieces tell me] i just discovered the following: if i start windows, go to the dos mode (not the dos window; the dos window also doesn't work, it reports that there is insufficient memory for that, i can check what the exact

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2001-10-18 Thread Thomas Adick
Hallo, ich brauche die Boot Discs für die PPC Distrubition! MFG -- ** Thomas Adick ** ** icq 28356064 ** ** TA 2456-RIPE ** ** LRU : 220043 ** -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: your mail

2001-10-18 Thread H.Heinold
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 03:12:31PM +0200, Thomas Adick wrote: Hallo, ich brauche die Boot Discs für die PPC Distrubition! MFG -- ** Thomas Adick ** ** icq 28356064 ** ** TA 2456-RIPE ** ** LRU : 220043 ** -- Please go to

cvs commit to boot-floppies by rhirst

2001-10-18 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies who:rhirst time: Thu Oct 18 07:13:38 PDT 2001 Log Message: Library reduction is currently broken on hppa, reduced libnewt results in dbootstrap segv sometime before main(). Turn it off. Files: changed:rootdisk.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by rhirst

2001-10-18 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:rhirst time: Thu Oct 18 07:13:38 PDT 2001 Log Message: Library reduction is currently broken on hppa, reduced libnewt results in dbootstrap segv sometime before main(). Turn it off. Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by rhirst

2001-10-18 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:rhirst time: Thu Oct 18 07:37:57 PDT 2001 Log Message: don't ship driver*.bin on ia64, not useful Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

cvs commit to boot-floppies by rhirst

2001-10-18 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies who:rhirst time: Thu Oct 18 07:37:58 PDT 2001 Log Message: don't ship driver*.bin on ia64, not useful Files: changed:release.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reconfiguring locales in base-config?

2001-10-18 Thread Joey Hess
Eduard Bloch wrote: Since we allready have localized BFs, I imagine the following: (localized) debootstrap on BFs ask the user something like: Would you like to set the current language as the default system language? If YES, debootstrap puts the corresponding parts into /etc/locale.gen,

Re: mount_partition() and filesystem types

2001-10-18 Thread Mark van Walraven
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 04:02:19AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:59:40PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: Problems should be reported upstream where apropriate, not to assign blame, but so the upstream author knows about it and can fix it for all users of that piece

cvs commit to boot-floppies/s390-specials by gt

2001-10-18 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/s390-specials who:gt time: Thu Oct 18 09:26:37 PDT 2001 Log Message: several fixes for s390 specific code. Files: changed:parmfile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2001-10-18 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:gt time: Thu Oct 18 09:26:37 PDT 2001 Log Message: several fixes for s390 specific code. Files: changed:halt_system.c main_menu.c netconfig.c partition_config.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Fwd: cvs access problem (Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:17:26PM +0200)

2001-10-18 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:49:21AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Eric Van Buggenhaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cvs login: authorization failed: server cvs.debian.org rejected access to /cvs/debian-boot for user ericvb This is the problem here. Can anyone fix this ? Or am I doing it

[d-i] busybox-udeb increased size

2001-10-18 Thread Joey Hess
Between this spring and now, busybox-udeb has grown in size by some 52k. Since the d-i system is too big to fit on a floppy right now, we badly need to trim this back. First of all, remove the busybox vi support from busybox-udeb. We shouldn't need it on the boot floppy. If there is anything

Re: debian-installer status

2001-10-18 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Di Carlo wrote: I must say, I am a little suprised that Joey Hess hasn't been touching this at all. I don't see any reason why work on this cannot proceed (although I think it shouldn't detract from getting woody out). A variety of reasons of course. They include: - Wanting to get out

[d-i] busybox dpkg status?

2001-10-18 Thread Joey Hess
What is the current status of the busybox (u)dpkg implementation? Is it a workable replacment for udpkg now -- will it do everything udpkg does, and will it drop in as a replacement? How much space, if any, will it save? -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: debian-installer status

2001-10-18 Thread Rob Bos
- /dev is 3k bigger How practical would it be to compile devfs and include devfsd in the bootfloppies? on my system, devfsd is 33k, 15k after gzip. This would let b-f get rid of /dev/*, and could make for more reliable installation scripts (i.e, once you've inserted the

Re: [d-i] busybox-udeb increased size

2001-10-18 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:06:30 -0400 Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Between this spring and now, busybox-udeb has grown in size by some 52k. Since the d-i system is too big to fit on a floppy right now, we badly need to trim this back. There is some duplication of code with tar in the

Cannot build boot-floppies: rescue-boot.sgml: Debian-GNU.. notdefined.

2001-10-18 Thread Christoph Lameter
Maybe some special xml package is missing for boot-floppies? ** making documentation for language C make[1]: Entering directory `/home/christoph/devel/bf/boot-floppies/documentation' make all make[2]: Entering directory `/home/christoph/devel/bf/boot-floppies/documentation' rm -f messages.ent

Re: [d-i] busybox dpkg status?

2001-10-18 Thread Joey Hess
Glenn McGrath wrote: busybox dpkg adds about 16kB to a busybox with ar, gunzip and untar builtin. Hmm, that's still 4k bigger than udpkg. If it ever gets on a par with udpkg as far as size, it can go in, we're so tight for size right now that I'm not taking it if it's bigger. It sounds like

Re: [d-i] busybox-udeb increased size

2001-10-18 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:06:30PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: halt, loadkmap, mkswap, poweroff, swapoff, swapon, chgrp, chmod, chown, date, dd, gzip (but we need gunzip), more, sleep, vi, zcat debootstrap uses chmod, chown and zcat. zcat shouldn't be much of a cost

Re: [d-i] busybox-udeb increased size

2001-10-18 Thread Joey Hess
Erik Andersen wrote: Sure, no problem. Another thing you might want to try is having me enable busybox ifconfig and route for networking support, rather then using the netkit stuff. This saved a bunch of memory for the boot floppies We're using netkit-tiny right now, from the udeb by

Re: documentation bugs to fix

2001-10-18 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:38:12AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Chris, can you get documentation bugs 106218 and and 81029 please? Enclosed please check out a fix for 81029. The bug is pretty old, and the documentation it asks to incorporate is even older ;-) so these changes really need

Re: debian-installer status

2001-10-18 Thread Joey Hess
Rob Bos wrote: - /dev is 3k bigger How practical would it be to compile devfs and include devfsd in the bootfloppies? If it wasn't for that 33k binary plus config files, I'd say go for it, but we can't afford to bloat more right now. on my system, devfsd is 33k, 15k

Re: debian-installer status

2001-10-18 Thread Rob Bos
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:04:08AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Rob Bos wrote: - /dev is 3k bigger How practical would it be to compile devfs and include devfsd in the bootfloppies? If it wasn't for that 33k binary plus config files, I'd say go for it, but we can't

Re: documentation bugs to fix

2001-10-18 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:38:12AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Chris, can you get documentation bugs 106218 and and 81029 please? Attached is a doc patch to close 106218. -- ** | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux:

Re: [d-i] busybox-udeb increased size

2001-10-18 Thread Erik Andersen
On Thu Oct 18, 2001 at 11:55:40PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Erik Andersen wrote: Sure, no problem. Another thing you might want to try is having me enable busybox ifconfig and route for networking support, rather then using the netkit stuff. This saved a bunch of memory for the boot

Re: Any support for legacy-free systems? (was: Re: Can a rescue floppy load some modules before the installer starts?)

2001-10-18 Thread Kaz Sasayama
I tried to collect information on the Web about the legacy-free systems really sold on the market. Fujitsu and Hitach appeared to sell a few legacy-free models, but most vendors seemed still conservative to such configurations. So for a short-term solution, it might be OK to just note on a

[d-i] growth of insmod since 2001-09-05

2001-10-18 Thread Joey Hess
In the past few months, something has made insmod grow 15k. I'm talking about the insmod in modutils-basic. Do you have any clue what might be making it get so much bigger? I hope depmod wasn't accidentially included in that build of it or something like that.. -- see shy jo -- To

Re: debian-installer status

2001-10-18 Thread Joey Hess
The first big stumbling block that the system has *exploded* in size. Here are some handy figures about what's changed. I ran build/treecompare twice, to compare the current tree with how it looked back on 2001-09-05, and then to compare that tree with how it looked all the way back on

cvs commit to debian-installer/doc by joeyh

2001-10-18 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: debian-installer/doc who:joeyh time: Thu Oct 18 21:48:50 PDT 2001 Log Message: updates Files: changed:TODO -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#114905: patch to support s390 module configuration

2001-10-18 Thread Gerhard Tonn
Hi, sorry, I sent originally the wrong patch. Attached is the correct one. Gerhard modconf-s390.diff.gz

Re: Accessing cvs area.

2001-10-18 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:56:05PM -0400, Tommy Moore wrote: Hi guys. Tried checkout out the cvs version of the boot-floppies package and I can't get in. Am I doing soemthing wrong? cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/project-root login IT fails on the login process when I press enter as

Re: debian-installer status

2001-10-18 Thread Joey Hess
Erm, it's been so long that I forgot. We do use devfs. We still have to provide a number of compatability links in /dev, since a lot of stuff, expecially libraries, doesn't support the devfs names yet. Everything we're foing for d-i should use the devfs names, if possible.

Re: [d-i] busybox-udeb increased size

2001-10-18 Thread Erik Andersen
On Fri Oct 19, 2001 at 01:17:42PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:06:30PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: halt, loadkmap, mkswap, poweroff, swapoff, swapon, chgrp, chmod, chown, date, dd, gzip (but we need gunzip), more, sleep, vi, zcat debootstrap uses chmod, chown and

Re: debian-installer status

2001-10-18 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 00:45:38 -0400 Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 107548: /sbin/dhclient 18472: /sbin/udhcpc As much as i like dhclient, it is big. udhcp client is packaged as udhcpc its homepagepage is at http://opensource.lineo.com/udhcp/ Failing to obtain an IP is a

Bug#116092: Woody installation hung on Sparc Station 4

2001-10-18 Thread Magnus Ahltorp
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.3.6 Severity: serious Installation hangs when installing essential packages. The output on console number 4 says: Setting up sysvinit (2.03-1) ... Creating /dev/initctl and then hangs. The shell on console 2 does not respond at all after this, but the kernel

Bug#116093: DNS names does not resolve on sparc

2001-10-18 Thread Magnus Ahltorp
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.3.6 Severity: Important When I use DHCP to get my network configuration, DNS names does not resolve. This seems to be because /etc/resolv.conf points to /target/etc/resolv.conf, and /target/etc/resolv.conf points to ../tmp/resolv.conf, which is the /tmp of the