sparc IPC

Hello, I have an old sparc IPC workstation, and am trying to install Debian testing on it, using boot disks created on 2001-10-27. I have encountered 3 bugs so far with the woody installation process: 1. When booting tftp, the workstation downloads the kernel without problem. It says "selecting

Re: testing boot floppies 3.0.18

Jeff Sheinberg wrote: > o After rebooting, I am asked if I want to startup the ppp > connection, however, the pppconfig program is _not_ run before > pon is executed. A newbie user would be completely lost here, > and under potato, pppconfig was run before pon was executed. The c

Re: woody i386 error in installation

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 04:20:14PM +0100, Landsberg, Philippe wrote: > Hy, > > I use the 3.0.17-2001-11-18 bootdisks for woody(i386). I've a problem with > the installation programm of woody. I get an error during the download of > the base system. The bug is kown as #114603 (Malformed release fi

Re: Kernel hangs, can't install

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:35:08PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > I don't know if this is the right place, but... > > Trying to install woody on an old 486 (24MB), the 'vanilla' > kernel hangs. > The last things I see on the screen are: > > PCI: probing PCI hardware > Linux N

Boot failed

Thought you might like to know about a perplexing problem I'm having that may provide an opportunity to improve the debian boot process. I have a Potato rescue disk that I have used on many installations. I just got two new computers that give me a "Boot failed" message. I verified that the dis

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

Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:pb time: Tue Nov 27 15:24:24 PST 2001 Log Message: Select English if not in UTF-8 locale Files: changed:main.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

zip dependency for riscpc install archive

Are we sure that build-time dependencies on non-US programs are unacceptable? Right now the riscpc install just doesn't work at all, which is obviously no good. I'm not sure how to fix it yet, but I guess it needs sorting out one way or the other in fairly short order. p. --- Forwarded Mess

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by pb

Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:pb time: Tue Nov 27 14:27:28 PST 2001 Log Message: log 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

Repository: boot-floppies who:pb time: Tue Nov 27 14:26:47 PST 2001 Log Message: Detect presence of fbcon and use this to decide whether or not to go for LC. Files: changed:rootdisk.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

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

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eduard Bloch writes: >#include >Philip Blundell wrote on Tue Nov 27, 2001 um 07:15:16PM: > >> I guess it would be nice if dbootstrap caught this situation early and >> told the > >You get a warning if you did not create some swap space. What additional >things do y

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

#include Philip Blundell wrote on Tue Nov 27, 2001 um 07:15:16PM: > I guess it would be nice if dbootstrap caught this situation early and > told the You get a warning if you did not create some swap space. What additional things do you wish? Something like Continue? -> Yes -> "Sorry Dave, I c

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

In message <20011127015622.B209@Obsession>, Chris Tillman writes: >8MB RAM is not be enough for woody, it's a 12MB minimum according to >the install manual for i386. Have you tried the potato installation? I guess it would be nice if dbootstrap caught this situation early and told the user that t

Re: fallback to single language when fbcon not available

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marcin Owsiany writes : >The messages are in UTF-8, and I guess that when printed on a non-UTF-8 >terminal, they mangle the display. > >I think we would either need a non-UTF-8 versions of messages or some subset >of recode/iconv as well as apropriate fonts on the f

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

On Mon 26 Nov, Richard Atterer wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 10:12:53PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > > Internal ISDN cards need a pile of modules, plus some supporting > > user-space stuff. I don't think there is any hope of adding this to > > the woody boot-floppies at this stage in the gam

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Re: failed installation debian-mipsel (Decstation 5000/150)

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > I see. I haven't used TFTP on the DECstation ever. I think the default > > timeout is too low anyway. RFC826 does not specify any timeouts but > > keeping them below 2 minutes is pointless IMO. If an interface assigned > > to an IP address chang

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by cts

Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:cts time: Tue Nov 27 07:55:19 PST 2001 Log Message: m68k uses 2.2.20 kernel-images Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies by cts

Repository: boot-floppies who:cts time: Tue Nov 27 07:55:19 PST 2001 Log Message: m68k uses 2.2.20 kernel-images Files: changed:config -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: failed installation debian-mipsel (Decstation 5000/150)

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 03:33:42PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > > The decstation fails to answer ARP requests while downloading. From > > kernel 2.2 on the arp entries expire faster which lets the tftp download > > fail somewhere in the middle.

woody i386 error in installation

Hy, I use the 3.0.17-2001-11-18 bootdisks for woody(i386). I've a problem with the installation programm of woody. I get an error during the download of the base system. The bug is kown as #114603 (Malformed release file). Is this error Fixed? I found something on the mail archive but it doesn't

Re: Install report, using latest CVS floppies

Jordi Mallach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: First, it gave me a choice between eth0 and eth1, when I only have an ethernet card, and dmesg only shows eth1, so I don't know where eth0 came from, and why it's using eth1 and not eth0. This one _has_ to be fixed really soon now ! The R

Re: failed installation debian-mipsel (Decstation 5000/150)

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Florian Lohoff wrote: > The decstation fails to answer ARP requests while downloading. From > kernel 2.2 on the arp entries expire faster which lets the tftp download > fail somewhere in the middle. I see. I haven't used TFTP on the DECstation ever. I think the default ti

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

Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po who:dancer time: Tue Nov 27 06:15:38 PST 2001 Log Message: little more update Files: changed:ja.po -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: failed installation debian-mipsel (Decstation 5000/150)

On Tue, 2001-11-27 13:49:30 +0100, Florian Lohoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:43:10PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > > At least this should be mentioned: > > > > > > echo 4096 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0/retrans_time > > > > Is

Re: failed installation debian-mipsel (Decstation 5000/150)

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:43:10PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > At least this should be mentioned: > > > > echo 4096 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0/retrans_time > > Is it needed for TFTP? What for? The decstation fails to answer ARP requests while downloading. From kernel 2.2 on the ar

Kernel hangs, can't install

Hello, I don't know if this is the right place, but... Trying to install woody on an old 486 (24MB), the 'vanilla' kernel hangs. The last things I see on the screen are: PCI: probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University ...ect.pp... unable to handle kernel pa

Re: failed installation debian-mipsel (Decstation 5000/150)

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Florian Lohoff wrote: > At first the installation misses a short "Howto boot a decstation over > the net" which is not that trivial. It depends on how you are doing it... For me MOP appears to be piece of cake now that you can boot ELF directly. :-) Nothing to configure,

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

>Perhaps with the above patch we don't need to pursue this avenue >further? Guess so. I'll reassign the bug to bogl and see what Dan has to say. If it turns out that there was some good reason for that line to be commented out in the first place, we might have to make another plan. p. --

Processed: this boot-floppies problem seems to be caused by a bug in bogl-bterm

Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 121186 bogl-bterm Bug#121186: boot-floppies: modconf, dbootstrap and bterm don't play well together Bug reassigned from package `boot-floppies' to `bogl-bterm'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. De

Re: fallback to single language when fbcon not available

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 07:41:23AM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > >I don't think a UTF-8-enabled dbootstrap will run correctly without a > >bterm. At least it never did for me. > > Even if the locale is set to something not UTF-8? I think so. > If that's true, it's a pretty severe bug and we n

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

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:39:58AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Do I need to change something else in config? (I'm rebuilding with an > > explicit export USER_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER := false now) > That's what I was suggesting, except you have a typo above USER_ -> > USE_ . That line is right above L

Processed: maint

Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tags 121157 pending Bug#121157: dhcp fails to notice that dhcp failed Tags added: pending > thanks, Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database)

Bug#121374: [David Weingart ] Base system stalls during boot

Package: boot-floppies Severity: important --- Begin Message --- My system: PowerMac G4/400 PCI Graphics, 160 MB RAM, 2 internal IDE drives - 10 GB Western Digital and a 40 GB Maxtor. My problem: I'm trying to install Woody, so I downloaded the files needed to create an boot/install CD (as p

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

Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:58:30PM + wrote: > In message , David Kimdon writes: > >The root problem appears to be that /dev/tty isn't available to processes > >running in a bterm. > > Well, I've spent most of this evening just trying to get i18n'd boot-floppies to >start