maybe you remember: some weeks (or months) I've emailed you... I
wanted to help out with Debian and cciss support for the Installer
too sad... my time is spare at the moment (I will marrie in may and
there is A LOT to prepare)
congratulations :-)
and I wasn't able to finish my
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap
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time: Thu Apr 11 01:22:11 PDT 2002
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cosmetics, fixed my old debug message
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 01:34:38AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Denis Barbier) writes:
would it be possible to call m4 with -P flag? French translator is writing
'format' in index.fr.html.m4, and it is removed by m4 because it is a
primitive. There are certainly other
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:13:25PM -0700, David Kimdon wrote:
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 3.0.22
Severity: minor
I observed this as well today. I tested the vanilla kernel, there
were no borders on the first few boxes (I didn't progress as far as
the driver config, so I can't confirm
#include hallo.h
Matt Zimmerman wrote on Wed Apr 10, 2002 um 09:31:12PM:
Well, no. :) idepci is known to fail for people with scsi and new ide
hardware, so it's not really the best choice either. There probably is
no best choice, but a system with a menu where you can choose a choice
is
#include hallo.h
Matt Zimmerman wrote on Wed Apr 10, 2002 um 09:26:45PM:
Do you follow those distributions' user and support mailing lists? I
certainly don't, so I've no idea who can or can't install them. What I do
Oh, please stop talking about theoretical issues without any real
evidence.
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:31:12PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 05:39:36PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
I have installed many SCSI systems (including the one that I'm using right
now) with potato CD #1, which I assume has a similar configuration.
Potato CD#1 used the
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:12:28AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
Matt Zimmerman wrote on Wed Apr 10, 2002 um 09:26:45PM:
Do you follow those distributions' user and support mailing lists? I
certainly don't, so I've no idea who can or can't install them. What I do
Oh, please stop talking
Le Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 03:45:11PM -0700, Debian Boot CVS Master écrivait:
Add disksize argument to loadlin command lines.
BTW, I noticed that you removed the cdrom argument from the loadlin
call. I guess it's not needed. In fact I think it's a good idea to put
it back and to add it to the
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-11
Severity: normal
The linedrawing characters used in the display boxes are coming up as
normal characters. This is causing them to take too much space in the
line and pushes the titles to the right.
System: i386
-- System Information
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-11
Severity: normal
On an old 486, many messages like this were seen while booting the
default installation root.bin:
modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.20/modules.dep
On a newer machine they go past so
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po
who:mquinson
time: Thu Apr 11 07:19:52 PDT 2002
Log Message:
still some more string shorter (thanks to Ludovic Rousseau, Thomas Poindessous and
Matt Kraai)
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On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:25:25AM -0500, David Stanaway wrote:
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 01:56, Martin Quinson wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:16:26AM +0200, Thomas Poindessous wrote:
Here is a small correction (sorry for the 80 cols)
--- main_menu.c Tue Feb 12 22:29:37
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:29:14PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote:
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:25:25AM -0500, David Stanaway wrote:
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 01:56, Martin Quinson wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:16:26AM +0200, Thomas Poindessous wrote:
Here is a small correction
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap
who:bcollins
time: Thu Apr 11 08:46:04 PDT 2002
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SILO _can_ do ext3
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Just tried the bf-2.4 floppies on a new server here at work - turns out
that certain intel mobo/phoenix-bios/aic7896 combinations won't work
unless the IO-Apic support is forced on - without it, the machine just loops
continuously resetting the scsi bus/devices. ( Apparently this is an IRQ
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:40:59PM +0100, Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote:
Just tried the bf-2.4 floppies on a new server here at work - turns out
that certain intel mobo/phoenix-bios/aic7896 combinations won't work
unless the IO-Apic support is forced on - without it, the machine just loops
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Matt Kraai wrote:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0108.2/0734.html
and 2 replies later:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0108.2/0750.html
I've dropped a new kernel onto the bf2.4 floppy, and it now boots Ok.
( not sure whether it
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 06:02:51PM +0100, Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote:
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Matt Kraai wrote:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0108.2/0734.html
and 2 replies later:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0108.2/0750.html
I've dropped a
#include hallo.h
Matt Kraai wrote on Thu Apr 11, 2002 um 10:14:54AM:
or a floppy image with a kernel with apic compiled in, so you can turn
it on with a lilo boot pramater? Or both?
Please file a wishlist bug against the kernel package being used
(i.e., kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4).
It
#include hallo.h
Matt Kraai wrote on Thu Apr 11, 2002 um 10:03:34AM:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0108.2/0750.html
I've dropped a new kernel onto the bf2.4 floppy, and it now boots Ok.
( not sure whether it finds the modules though - replacing the kernels
is easy -
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Eduard Bloch wrote:
Did you never get problems with other operating systems?
It's new hardware.
Did you try other 2.2.x kernels?
I did try other kernels/distros. RH 6.2 installs Ok, it has apic
enabled. RH 7.x boots its installer, but then goes on to install
a kernel
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Bug#142357: boot-floppies: Linedraw characters incorrect
Severity set to `minor'.
merge 142357 142305
Bug#142305: i386 - borders gone on vanilla flavor
Bug#142357: boot-floppies: Linedraw characters incorrect
Merged 142305
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 07:10:32PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
I do not care. I included the IO-APIC support in first versions of the
kernel, but this caused problems reports from DELL laptop users. A
possible way would to enable it in kernel and forbid with boot options.
But it is too late to
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Bug#142359: boot-floppies: Error messages from modprobe during boot
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tags 142359 + unreproducible
Bug#142359: boot-floppies: Error messages from modprobe during boot
Tags added: unreproducible
thanks
tag 142359 -unreproducible
thanks
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 07:48:25PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
#include hallo.h
Oliver Elphick wrote on Thu Apr 11, 2002 um 02:40:28PM:
On an old 486, many messages like this were seen while booting the
default installation root.bin:
modprobe:
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Recognized are: patch wontfix moreinfo unreproducible fixed potato woody sid help
security upstream pending.
Bug#142359: boot-floppies: Error messages from modprobe during boot
Tags added:
All,
As of my last test, using the 2.4 boot cd from
people.debian.org/~blade/... I was able to do a normal install on both a
Compaq ML370 and a DL380. Both worked just like you would expect! GREAT!
There were a lot of packages that needed to be updated and tested to get
the cciss support
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 08:42:57PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 20020411
Severity: important
I downloaded all bf2.4 files from www.debian.org:
rescue.bin
root.bin
linux.bin
install.bat
basedebs.tar
and placed them in the correct directories (Note
severity 142421 important
severity 123203 important
severity 137486 important
severity 134569 important
reassign 142421 loadlin
merge 142421 140608 123203 137486 134569
thanks
#include hallo.h
Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote on Thu Apr 11, 2002 um 08:42:57PM:
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 20020411
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Bug#142421: boot-floppies: bf2.4 flavor fails at uncompressing linux.bin
Severity set to `important'.
severity 123203 important
Bug#123203: [i386] invalid compressed format, system halted
Severity set to `important'.
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation
who:barbier
time: Thu Apr 11 12:51:43 PDT 2002
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initial translation of index.fr.html.m4 [Patrice Karatchentzeff]
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Hi,
I'm pleased to see the real progress that has been made
on boot floppies since potato. Many thanks to te whole
team. Also, thanks to the debian-cd team.
I successfully installed the test CD, but I have common
hardware so it doesn't really count.
What I like (among others):
-
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po
who:mquinson
time: Thu Apr 11 15:18:48 PDT 2002
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yet another translation improvement
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who:bcollins
time: Thu Apr 11 15:19:08 PDT 2002
Log Message:
Switch sparc tftp image creation to use piggyback instead of TILO until I
can get TILO fixed. Update callers of tftpboot.sh to add the sysmap file
to the command line. Piggyback needs this
Repository: boot-floppies/make
who:bcollins
time: Thu Apr 11 15:19:08 PDT 2002
Log Message:
Switch sparc tftp image creation to use piggyback instead of TILO until I
can get TILO fixed. Update callers of tftpboot.sh to add the sysmap file
to the command line. Piggyback needs
Repository: boot-floppies/debian
who:bcollins
time: Thu Apr 11 15:20:48 PDT 2002
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Updates for sparc/Ben
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Last two stragglers referencing sun4dm-pci
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:45:12AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
would it be possible to call m4 with -P flag? French translator is writing
'format' in index.fr.html.m4, and it is removed by m4 because it is a
primitive. There are certainly other similar problems, which are still hidden.
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po
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Translation of new messages to follow the english version.
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Kaz Sasayama [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit:
The Japanese translation for Install LILO in the MBR (use this if
unsure). is too long. It takes 70 columns and the dialog box becomes
too wide to fit in a screen.
Thanks, is there any more of such ?
regards,
junichi
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I haven't seen others yet.
Junichi Uekawa wrote:
Thanks, is there any more of such ?
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Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-12
Severity: normal
See subject. mke2fs and mkreiserfs do not touch the first 100 bytes of
the partition, but exactly this area (first 4 chars) is used to detect
the XFS filesystem. So you can reinitialise an ex-XFS partition as often as
you
Your message dated Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:30:50 +0200
with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and subject line Bug#142439: boot-floppies: missing tulip driver in modules list
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
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 01:38:14PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
On Thu Apr 11, 2002 at 08:31:55PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
Seriously: everyone reading this mail, burn a copy of Raphael's test image
on a CD and try booting it in any computers you have handy.
...
I just tested it on all the
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:35:31AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 01:38:14PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
On Thu Apr 11, 2002 at 08:31:55PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
Seriously: everyone reading this mail, burn a copy of Raphael's test image
on a CD and try booting it
Package: install-doc
Version: 3.0.23
This section of the manual hasn't been completed, and is quite unhelpful
if you are trying to do a network install. Suggestions of how to use a
proxy, what the server path should look like, what protocols are
acceptable (http, ftp?), and how to use a
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 20020411
Severity: important
I downloaded all bf2.4 files from www.debian.org:
rescue.bin
root.bin
linux.bin
install.bat
basedebs.tar
and placed them in the correct directories (Note that it is nowhere explained
where to place install.bat) of a FAT partition
This is an old problem. The kernel tries to load a module while
Err, of course. I misread the beginning of the report.
booting. Since the kernel and modules aren't installed, it
fails, spamming the console as it retries. On new machines,
dbootstrap hides these messages before most users
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:15:08AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
#include hallo.h
Matt Zimmerman wrote on Wed Apr 10, 2002 um 09:31:12PM:
I have installed many SCSI systems (including the one that I'm using right
now) with potato CD #1, which I assume has a similar configuration. I've
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:12:28AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
Did YOU help introducing ANY new features in boot-floppies? I18n? Kernel
2.4, other filesystems, RAID support, lots of bugfixes in the existing
code, etc. etc.? Either you can continue your mission of distruction, or
you stop
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 06:02:28PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
10 days != long enough to test a completely different _primary_ way of
booting the installation system.
a) isolinux is not completely new. It is syslinux, extended with ability
of reading iso9660. Show me one failure
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:12:28AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
Did YOU help introducing ANY new features in boot-floppies? I18n? Kernel
2.4, other filesystems, RAID support, lots of bugfixes in the existing
code, etc. etc.? Either you can continue your mission of distruction,
or you stop
severity 142357 minor
merge 142357 142305
thanks
#include hallo.h
Oliver Elphick wrote on Thu Apr 11, 2002 um 02:35:26PM:
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-11
Severity: normal
First: which release, which flavor?
The linedrawing characters used in the display boxes are
severity 142359 minor
tags 142359 + unreproducible
thanks
#include hallo.h
Oliver Elphick wrote on Thu Apr 11, 2002 um 02:40:28PM:
On an old 486, many messages like this were seen while booting the
default installation root.bin:
modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 18:36, Eduard Bloch wrote:
Oliver Elphick wrote on Thu Apr 11, 2002 um 02:35:26PM:
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-11
Severity: normal
First: which release, which flavor?
root.bin was downloaded from testing on April 9th I don't know what
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 18:48, Eduard Bloch wrote:
severity 142359 minor
tags 142359 + unreproducible
thanks
#include hallo.h
Oliver Elphick wrote on Thu Apr 11, 2002 um 02:40:28PM:
On an old 486, many messages like this were seen while booting the
default installation root.bin:
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 3.0.22
The Japanese translation for "Install LILO in the MBR (use this if
unsure)." is too long. It takes 70 columns and the dialog box becomes
too wide to fit in a screen.
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#include hallo.h
Richard Hirst wrote on Thu Apr 11, 2002 um 11:15:32AM:
I observed this as well today. I tested the vanilla kernel, there
were no borders on the first few boxes (I didn't progress as far as
the driver config, so I can't confirm problems there.)
Booting with linux
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 01:58:41PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Le Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 03:45:11PM -0700, Debian Boot CVS Master ?crivait:
Add disksize argument to loadlin command lines.
BTW, I noticed that you removed the cdrom argument from the loadlin
call. I guess it's not needed.
Hi guys,
I just wanted to give y'all a heads up that I'd like you all to stick
around post woody, and keep/start working on CDs and installation stuff
for the next release. This doesn't change anything about debian-installer,
it'd just be helpful if you don't all wander off for four to six
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: MD5
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I just noticed that if one uses the woody (i386) as
a rescue disk, unfortunately it does not have
fsck installed as part of the initrd image ?!?
Humm. I beleive potato did support this.
Kinda hard to fix a broken disk with out fsck ;-/
On Thursday 11 April 2002 13:37, Jim Westveer wrote:
I just noticed that if one uses the woody (i386) as
a rescue disk, unfortunately it does not have
fsck installed as part of the initrd image ?!?
--
But I am incorrect, there is e2fsck.
Sorry for my mistake.
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