devfs-enabled kernels and /proc/partitions

2001-11-25 Thread Colin Walters
Currently, the boot-floppies can't deal with a kernel which has CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y, even if CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT is not set. I tracked this down to libfdisk not liking the devfs /proc/partitions. I started to write a little C function which translated the names, and this is fairly trivial for IDE.

Re: Bad floppies on startup

2001-11-25 Thread Grant Bowman
Thanks for your help, Chris. * Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011124 00:32]: There is no base.tgz for woody (not yet anyway). You configure the network, then install base from the installer over the network. Great, no need for base at all in my case. O. You burned rescue.bin on the

Bug#120950: USB boot-floppies

2001-11-25 Thread Philip Blundell
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eduard Bloch writes: Should we support them? And when, how? I can imagine to hack the kernel so it looks on /dev/fd0, then on listed devices for the root image. In addition, there should be support in dbootstrap so the drives are (for example) linked to /dev/fd0 or

Bug#120950: USB boot-floppies

2001-11-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Philip Blundell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20011125 10:31]: [Christoph, does your Vaio really not have a CD drive at all? I thought they all shipped with at least an external CD-ROM that plugged in to the PCMCIA socket.] The external CD-ROM does not ship with the Vaio per default; only

cvs access

2001-11-25 Thread Vasko Miroslav
Hi, I tried to get woody branch of boot-floppies to update slovak translation I tried it README-CVS' way: # If you are using anonymous (readonly) access: export CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/debian-boot cvs login and when a did hit the Enter on password, I got: [mirec@zemiak bf]$

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

2001-11-25 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk who:blade time: Sun Nov 25 05:19:21 PST 2001 Log Message: - added NTFS to FSTYPE_MSDOS and partition typ to PTYPE list (untested) Files: changed:fdisk.h fdisk.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

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

2001-11-25 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/en who:falk time: Sun Nov 25 09:25:18 PST 2001 Log Message: Untabify Alpha arch list to avoid misformatting. Files: changed:hardware.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#120950: USB boot-floppies

2001-11-25 Thread Christoph Berg
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 11:40:38AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Philip Blundell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20011125 10:31]: [Christoph, does your Vaio really not have a CD drive at all? I thought they all shipped with at least an external CD-ROM that plugged in to the PCMCIA socket

Bug#120950: USB boot-floppies

2001-11-25 Thread Christoph Berg
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:39:23AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: Kannst du mal sagen, über welches Device das Floppy-Laufwerk denn angesprochen wird? Und die dazugehörigen minor/major Nummern? (ls -la /dev/device). Und die Kernel-Messages, wenn das Laufwerk erkannt wird bzw. der Treiber geladen

Re: cvs access -- part II

2001-11-25 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:43:11PM +0100, Vasko Miroslav wrote: so, CVS checkout is working now, it was our fault but, which version should I translate? simple cvs co boot-floppies or cvs co -r woody boot-floppies? I want to translate woody floppies, but in README-CVS is not

Re: cvs access -- part II

2001-11-25 Thread Philip Blundell
In message 20011125190450.F203@Obsession, Chris Tillman writes: On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:43:11PM +0100, Vasko Miroslav wrote: simple cvs co boot-floppies or cvs co -r woody boot-floppies? woody is the trunk, I suspect either statement would get you the same stuff. Actually no, it looks like

Bug#61802: marked as done ([alpha] bugs in documentation)

2001-11-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated 25 Nov 2001 20:24:00 +0100 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line [alpha] bugs in documentation 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

Processed: [alpha] problems with norika boot disk

2001-11-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: tags 62672 +potato Unknown tag/s: +potato. Recognized are: patch wontfix moreinfo unreproducible fixed potato woody sid help security upstream pending. Bug#62672: [alpha] problems with norika boot disk Tags added: thanks Stopping processing here.

Re: Bug#121110: boot-floppies: TFTP boot on Alpha broken

2001-11-25 Thread Colin Walters
Falk Hueffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rgh mellum: re init q, when I had that problem ia64, it was because I forgot to boot with root=/dev/ram rgh mellum: without that, the kernel wants to do it's initrd magic, and runs /linuxrc before starting sbin/init. linuxrc is linked to init, so

unusable disks (known problem, but workaround?)

2001-11-25 Thread Jordi Mallach
Hi, So I built my fancy Catalan-enabled boot-floppies (replacing some language with catalan in langs_root) and obviously I stumbled on #120637. Is there a way of building Catalan-only floppies, which may workaround this bug? I'd like to upload some floppies somewhere so people can test them and

cvs commit to modconf/template by dwhedon

2001-11-25 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: modconf/template who:dwhedon time: Sun Nov 25 17:55:24 PST 2001 Log Message: brazilian updates thanks to Claudio Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] Files: changed:eval_pt_BR.fixed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

cvs commit to modconf/debian by dwhedon

2001-11-25 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: modconf/debian who:dwhedon time: Sun Nov 25 17:55:24 PST 2001 Log Message: brazilian updates thanks to Claudio Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Processed: maint

2001-11-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: tags 117641 pending Bug#117641: modconf: Updated brazilian portuguese (pt_BR) modconf translation Tags added: pending End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator

cvs commit to base-config by joeyh

2001-11-25 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: base-config who:joeyh time: Sun Nov 25 18:20:38 PST 2001 Log Message: * Fixed a typo in the termwrap man page, Closes: #120609 * Added pt_BR man pages from Andre Luis Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Closes: #121136 Files: changed:Tag: woody-tree termwrap.8

cvs commit to base-config/debian by joeyh

2001-11-25 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: base-config/debian who:joeyh time: Sun Nov 25 18:20:38 PST 2001 Log Message: * Fixed a typo in the termwrap man page, Closes: #120609 * Added pt_BR man pages from Andre Luis Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Closes: #121136 Files: changed:Tag: woody-tree

Re: unusable disks (known problem, but workaround?)

2001-11-25 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 01:34:04AM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: Hi, So I built my fancy Catalan-enabled boot-floppies (replacing some language with catalan in langs_root) and obviously I stumbled on #120637. Is there a way of building Catalan-only floppies, which may workaround this bug?

cvs commit to base-config/debian by joeyh

2001-11-25 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: base-config/debian who:joeyh time: Sun Nov 25 19:29:52 PST 2001 Log Message: * Danish translation fixes from Claus Hindsgaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Files: changed:Tag: woody-tree changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by dwhedon

2001-11-25 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:dwhedon time: Sun Nov 25 21:17:03 PST 2001 Log Message: - fix badly broken language chooser (closes: #120637) Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

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

2001-11-25 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:dwhedon time: Sun Nov 25 21:17:03 PST 2001 Log Message: - fix badly broken language chooser (closes: #120637) Files: changed:Makefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Processed: maint

2001-11-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: tags 120637 pending Bug#120637: boot-floppies: dbootstrap fails to set an installation language and it totally fails Tags added: pending End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system

Re: unusable disks (known problem, but workaround?)

2001-11-25 Thread David Kimdon
Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 01:34:04AM +0100 wrote: Hi, So I built my fancy Catalan-enabled boot-floppies (replacing some language with catalan in langs_root) and obviously I stumbled on #120637. Is there a way of building Catalan-only floppies, which may workaround this bug? I'd like to upload

Bug#121186: boot-floppies: modconf, dbootstrap and bterm don't play well together

2001-11-25 Thread David Kimdon
Package: boot-floppies Version: current cvs Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system The root problem appears to be that /dev/tty isn't available to processes running in a bterm. Perhaps this should be reassigned to bogl-bterm? It would be _super_ cool if we can get language

woody boot-floppies

2001-11-25 Thread Bo Lorentsen
Hi ... I just tried the new boot floppies on two different mashines, and they just just worked fine (using the ATA100-ext3 disks). But the first machine gave me some trobles, as I installed in a HPT366 mashine (BP6). The system found and installed everything just fine, but lilo gave me some

Re: bug: cdimage.debian.org should warn against downloading with an ISDN connection

2001-11-25 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:18:44AM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach »Florian Lohoff« am 2001-11-25 um 23:31:01 +0100 : ISDN a few years back). Flatrates are only available with ISDN. Where? I thought that the only flatrate which survived, was the T-DSL flatrate? Many local Bells

Bug#121157: dhcp fails to notice that dhcp failed

2001-11-25 Thread Sam Hartman
package: boot-floppies severity: important version: 3.0.17-2001-11-18 If dhclient fails to get a lease, the boot floppies still assume that the network configured successfully. An error message is printed by dhclient which sleeps, but returns success to the script. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#121160: Network fails to reconfigure after one failed configuration

2001-11-25 Thread Sam Hartman
package: boot-floppies Using PCMCIA networking, if you try to configure the network after having already done so once, you get an error that some modules are already loaded. This was a problem because the DHCP failed to work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#121177: boot-floppies: can't install dpkg

2001-11-25 Thread ieure
Package: boot-floppies Version: 3.0.17-2001-11-18 Severity: critical trying to install debian woody on my test machine (386DX-40, 8mb ram) results in this error (on tty4): -- snip -- Preparing to replace dpkg 1.9.18 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.9.18_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement dpkg ...

Bug#121065: powerpc,powermac - missing boot floppy hfs-boot-disk from documentation

2001-11-25 Thread Grant Bowman
Package: boot-floppies Version: 3.0.17 The main floppy that needs to be booted (along with root.bin) to install powermac at all is hfs-boot-disk. It is mentioned nowhere in the documentation. -- -- Grant Bowman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#121110: boot-floppies: TFTP boot on Alpha broken

2001-11-25 Thread Falk Hueffner
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; reported 2001-11-25 Severity: normal Installing via tftpboot.img will stall at installation of libc6.1, as has been reported to debian-alpha several times, e.g. http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2001/debian-alpha-200110/msg00010.html. rgh told me on IRC:

Re: help please

2001-11-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 04:07:05PM -, Clive Leonard wrote: I have now installed Debian, and it boots up from HHD and leaves me in a text only mode. All I can seem to do is log in and out as root (or user) and do nothing else! I don't know, but surely debian has some form of GUI? Of

Re: bug: cdimage.debian.org should warn against downloading with an ISDN connection

2001-11-25 Thread Richard Atterer
[Crossposting to debian-boot, please CC me any debian-boot-only posts] On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 09:21:15PM +0100, Markus Redeker wrote: The help pages on cdimage.debian.org (especially http://cdimage.debian.org/ch11.html) recommend that one should download Debian from Internet if one has a

Re: bug: cdimage.debian.org should warn against downloading with an ISDN connection

2001-11-25 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Richard == Richard Atterer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Do the woody bootfloppies support installing via ISDN? Perhaps if they do not, they should. Someone should perform that labor and make it possible. I wonder if it would require an entire new flavor of images, or if it's only

Re: bug: cdimage.debian.org should warn against downloading with an ISDN connection

2001-11-25 Thread Philip Blundell
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl M. Hegbloom wr ites: Perhaps if they do not, they should. Someone should perform that labor and make it possible. I wonder if it would require an entire new flavor of images, or if it's only a matter of inserting the correct modules? I know zilch about

Re: bug: cdimage.debian.org should warn against downloading with an ISDN connection

2001-11-25 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:03:09PM -0800, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Perhaps if they do not, they should. Someone should perform that labor and make it possible. I wonder if it would require an entire new flavor of images, or if it's only a matter of inserting the correct modules? I know