cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by gt

2001-10-24 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:gt time: Wed Oct 24 07:37:48 PDT 2001 Log Message: ibm partition table rework. Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new debootstrap NMU for testing

2001-10-24 Thread Richard Hirst
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 02:23:03AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: I put up a new debootstrap 0.1.15.7 at URL:http://people.debian.org/~aph/ for testing with. This has some (minor I'm afraid) robustness improvements and better info and warning messages during failure. Try it out, let me

Re: contributing to Debian (woody?) documentation

2001-10-24 Thread David Kimdon
Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:29:29AM +0200 wrote: Hi, Have a look at the Debian Documentation Project http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp Ok, bookmarked that one. Gonna read it tomorrow, it's 0:24 am here :-) - Translating manuals to Dutch. (if needed). yippee, I don't think boot-floppies has any

Re: new debootstrap NMU for testing

2001-10-24 Thread Richard Hirst
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 04:58:16PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: I just built cvs b-f with this new debootstrap on ia64, and it has given me a warning dialog Failure while required. in_target_msg () { local msg=$1 shift if ! eval chroot $TARGET $@; then warning Failure while $1

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

2001-10-24 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:dwhedon time: Wed Oct 24 11:43:53 PDT 2001 Log Message: from Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] - when user wants to select an unmounted partition and there is only one partition to choose from, don't prompt, just

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-10-24 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Wed Oct 24 15:15:01 PDT 2001 Log Message: libfdisk changes; debootstrap I'm going to be bumping up requirement for Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: boot-floppies auto partitioning hardware detection

2001-10-24 Thread David Kimdon
.disk/info containing a string like: + + Debian GNU/Linux 1.0 $CODENAME - Official i386 Binary-1 (20011024) + + and pull off the number after 'Binary-'. + + if an error occors return -1, otherwise return + the number of the CD. +*/ +int get_debian_cd_num(char *mount_point

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk by aph

2001-10-24 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk who:aph time: Wed Oct 24 15:28:21 PDT 2001 Log Message: require debootstrap 0.1.15.7 Files: changed:EXTRACT_LIST_all -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by dwhedon

2001-10-24 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:dwhedon time: Wed Oct 24 15:33:14 PDT 2001 Log Message: - da.po update thanks to Claus Hindsgaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk by aph

2001-10-24 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk who:aph time: Wed Oct 24 15:38:20 PDT 2001 Log Message: clean up after make testing Files: changed:Makefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[fw: booting with lowmem on a 386]

2001-10-24 Thread David Kimdon
Hi, I'm not sure what is causing that error. Here is the section of the 2.1 install manual that describes low memory systems: http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/ch-rescue-boot.fr.html#s-low-mem -David - Forwarded message from christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: christian

Re: boot-floppies auto partitioning hardware detection

2001-10-24 Thread Christoph Lameter
Looks fine to me. Selective comments below. On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, David Kimdon wrote: 4. I reworked the choose_medium.c patch so now we verify that it is the right cdrom. (see choose_medium.c and util.[ch]). I don't have a cdrom to test with, and I'm not sure if that is the right way to test

Re: boot-floppies auto partitioning hardware detection

2001-10-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 03:04:36PM -0700, David Kimdon wrote: partition_config.c : If there is only one drive, assume that is the drive we want to partition. FIXME: do we like this? Ask the user if they want to auto partition the drive. If so then take the first drive and divide it into 3

Re: boot-floppies auto partitioning hardware detection

2001-10-24 Thread Christoph Lameter
Then we would probably need arch specific default partitioning strings. Do all arches support fdisk? Then we could simply have different schemes depending on arch. On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 03:04:36PM -0700, David Kimdon wrote: partition_config.c : If

Re: boot-floppies auto partitioning hardware detection

2001-10-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 04:50:33PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: Then we would probably need arch specific default partitioning strings. Do all arches support fdisk? Then we could simply have different schemes depending on arch. no, macs must use mac-fdisk, m68K uses pmac-fdisk iirc

Bug#109455: dbootstrap thinks dhcp succeeds even when there's no IP

2001-10-24 Thread David Kimdon
Hi, The way I read this is that we should be able to make dhclient exit with an error if it can't configure the interface. With that in mind I wrote the included patch. I tested this on my system and it works like I want it to. I verified that currently dhclient will exit with success if it

Re: 3.0.16 for testing (debootstrap esp!)

2001-10-24 Thread Uwe A. P. Wuerdinger
Adam Di Carlo wrote: Hi, I've uploaded a boot-floppies 3.0.16 testing to URL:http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/. [-snip-] Installation of a new system with that boot disks (reserfs) faild. 1. It faild while using our local debian mirror by telling

Re: dhcp problems

2001-10-24 Thread David Kimdon
I verified this afternoon that dhclient does indeed behave in this mischevious manner. Perhaps the patch I sent to 109455 can solve this issue. -David Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:23:57AM +1000 wrote: There may be bug other than 109455 lurking, the other day when installing 3.0.15 my friend tried

Re: COPYCD processing for base-config

2001-10-24 Thread Christoph Lameter
On 24 Oct 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I haven't been following what you're doing exactly (David is handling that) but isn't the test [ -d /dists ] a little too easy to get a false positive on? I am not sure what would cause that? There

Processed: boot-floppies bug maint

2001-10-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: tags 113785 + wontfix Bug#113785: Are woody and sid hard coded into boot-floppies? Tags added: wontfix thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- To

New version of `mkbimage'

2001-10-24 Thread Thierry Laronde
Hello, A new version of the script allowing the creation of bootable virtual disks, with ext2, minix or fat12 fs and the GRUB (patched) is here: http://corpus.polynum.org/admin/mkbimage Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D

Re: 3.0.16 for testing (debootstrap esp!)

2001-10-24 Thread Uwe A. P. Wuerdinger
David Kimdon wrote: By the way haw far is the inclusion of wget as replacement for the old http methode? wget has completely replaced our old http method. That's strange. I used the old disk set again and it worked just fine with ftp2.de.debian.org and our local mirror greets Uwe --

Processed: blah

2001-10-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 116958 boot-floppies Bug#116958: Module-Parameters are not deleted Bug reassigned from package `debootstrap' to `boot-floppies'. End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham

Re: new debootstrap NMU for testing

2001-10-24 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 02:27:33AM +0200, Jö Fahlke wrote: Actually, I think the right solution is just to change: repeat () { local n=$1 shift while [ $n -gt 0 ]; do if eval $@; then ^^ to if $@; then break else n=$(( $n - 1 ))

Bug#116991: (no subject)

2001-10-24 Thread Mark Histed
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.23 I'm trying to install potato on a new system and having no luck. I burned an iso image of the 2.2.23 boot floppies. I can get to Install Operating System and Modules I select CD-ROM, and after a bit I see the message Mount Failed\ Unable to mount The