Re: i18n requires setlocale

2002-09-09 Thread Martin Sjögren
mån 2002-09-09 klockan 03.45 skrev Junichi Uekawa: Why can't they be in UTF-8? My local encoding *is* UTF-8 Your local encoding is a country default that has been used in the past, and which is used in your debconf templates file, assumed when you do not specify an encoding in your

Re: Localized default values (was Re: [d-i] Problems with variousdebconf templates)

2002-09-09 Thread Martin Sjögren
(not saying what joeyh already said) mån 2002-09-09 klockan 00.28 skrev Denis Barbier: On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 11:51:43PM +0200, Martin Sjögren wrote: Also, a pretty standard policy when translating things is to try not to change the meaning of the text. Huh? I only want to change the

cvs commit to debian-installer/utils/debian by pere

2002-09-09 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: debian-installer/utils/debian who:pere time: Mon Sep 9 02:33:50 MDT 2002 Log Message: Correct filename. Thanks to Denis Barbier for reporting the problem. Files: removed:di-utils-mount-partitions.template added: di-utils-mount-partitions.templates -- To

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/utils/debian by tfheen

2002-09-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Denis Barbier] Wrong filename, should be di-utils-mount-partitions.templates I've now fixed it in CVS. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to debian-installer/utils/debian by pere

2002-09-09 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: debian-installer/utils/debian who:pere time: Mon Sep 9 02:36:29 MDT 2002 Log Message: Ignore generated files and directories. Files: added: .cvsignore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Failure to boot on dual xeon 2ghz/asus pr-dls

2002-09-09 Thread Rubin
Hi People, I'm having this boot problem that I've never seen before on a very modern box. The specs are as follows: Dual Xeon 2ghz (hyperthreading support) ASUS PR-DLS Motherboard 80gb ATA100 EIDE Harddisk Normal IDE CDROM 2gb DDR Memory ATI Mach64 onboard 2x Intel 10/100/1000 eepro Chipset:

Re: Localized default values (was Re: [d-i] Problems with various debconf templates)

2002-09-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On 09 Sep 2002 09:07:47 +0200 Also, a pretty standard policy when translating things is to try not to change the meaning of the text. Huh? I only want to change the default value, how does it have an impact on the meaning of the text? Changing the default value changes the

Re: i18n requires setlocale

2002-09-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
ISO-8859-? for most european countries, EUC-JP in Japan, and so on. Not what your environment variable holds. Hmm. I meant to ask whether or am I cursed with Latin1 because I happen to live in western Europe? (but I must've forgotten it somehow) which it seems I am. So my conversion

Re: i18n requires setlocale

2002-09-09 Thread Martin Sjögren
mån 2002-09-09 klockan 11.38 skrev Junichi Uekawa: ISO-8859-? for most european countries, EUC-JP in Japan, and so on. Not what your environment variable holds. Hmm. I meant to ask whether or am I cursed with Latin1 because I happen to live in western Europe? (but I must've

Re: Failure to boot on dual xeon 2ghz/asus pr-dls

2002-09-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Rubin | Booting the installation medium (debian 3.0 stable cd) goes fine and | install gives no errors and smoothly finishes up. after reboot, the | system will not boot up from the target disk (/dev/hda in this case) | I've tried both Lilo and Grub but to no avail; I don't even get a |

Re: Localized default values (was Re: [d-i] Problems with various debconf templates)

2002-09-09 Thread Martin Quinson
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 09:07:47AM +0200, Martin Sjögren wrote: Seriously my feeling is that users are getting bored when they choose a language and provided default values do not take this information into accout (when choosing keyboard layout, mirrors, default system language, etc.).

Re: Localized default values (was Re: [d-i] Problems with various debconf templates)

2002-09-09 Thread Denis Barbier
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 09:04:20PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Denis Barbier wrote: Isn't English spoken in quite a lot more countries than United States? ;) Why is United States a good default value whereas France is not for French speaking people? Because the US is reasonably well

installing on Sony VAIO PCG-N505SN

2002-09-09 Thread Torsten Curdt
I am trying to install woody with the latest netinst disks on my Sony VAIO PCG-N505SN but up to now failed misserably. After inserting the root disk and pressing return I get a request_module[block-major-2]: Root fs not mounted Looking up the screen I found also

Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-09 Thread Axel Schlicht
Chris Tillman wrote: Hi Chris http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-cd It's also on the CD, but I first thought it was Chinese (ch, well might also be Swiss) and with no Chinese fonts at hand I decded to skip it. And, if you first look under /doc you

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by joerg

2002-09-09 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:joerg time: Mon Sep 9 06:39:03 MDT 2002 Log Message: Applied patch from Stefan Foerster [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get in sync with english 1.153 Files: changed:release-notes.de.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I18N roadmap [was: i18n requires setlocale]

2002-09-09 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 11:52:42AM +0200, Martin Sjgren wrote: No, but isn't that the point of separating sv_SE.UTF-8 from sv_SE.ISO-8859-1? gettext does the conversion on the fly, so all gettext-using programs work just fine. Debconf doesn't. (yet) To sum up then: - for udebs, we: *

Re: I18N roadmap [was: i18n requires setlocale]

2002-09-09 Thread Denis Barbier
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 03:36:58PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: [...] - for debs (base system), we: * make the templates.ll files in whatever encoding * either recode them or not when concatening [...] Some developers keep all translations in a single templates file, see 'adduser' for

Bug#160223: Woody boot-floppy failure during partitioning

2002-09-09 Thread Ben Dooks
Package: boot-floppy Version: 3.0.24 Architecture: arm If the partition has no recognisable structure, acorn-fdisk fails, and then when asked if you would like to zero the partition table, the system fails to exec the cfdisk utility. cfdisk: not found -- Ben Klingon Washing Motto 1: Today is

Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-09 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 09 Sep 2002, Axel Schlicht wrote: NB: lilo typically doesn't just hang. It stops loading itself at very well defined points... it might be usefull to know exactly how far along in this sequence it had gotten. Unless I am mistaken, it probably stoped right after the LI. Somehow Linux

Re: Failure to boot on dual xeon 2ghz/asus pr-dls

2002-09-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-09 11:58:02 +0200]: which kernel version do you have installed? can you boot it using linux root=/dev/hda1 initrd= from the cdrom boot prompt? Second that question since I know it is not possible to boot some dual processor machines with the 2.2

[Arglh...] netinst on a Dell pe1650 whith PXE

2002-09-09 Thread abory
Hi dear fellows, I've found on Matt Domsh's page [1] a netinst suitable for a Dell pe1650 [2]: bootbf2.4.19-ac4.iso Unfortunatly I'm not very aware with linux net booting. At this point, DHCP and TFTP work fine. I'm curently trying PXE to boot the pe1650. But I don't know how to organise the

Re: I18N roadmap [was: i18n requires setlocale]

2002-09-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Marcin Owsiany | 1. Am I right that cdebconf handles the templates in debian-installer? yes. | 2. Is this possible on all architectures? I mean: do all architectures |use framebuffer? |That also means that bterm will be Essential in debian-installer, |since we won't be able to

Bug#160223: 7500 board boot discs

2002-09-09 Thread Philip Blundell
reassign 160223 boot-floppies thanks On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 17:35, Vincent Sanders wrote: Hi ben added another issue to the debian bug track db earlier... Oh, I guess you mean 160223. Ben, in future you might want to file bugs against the boot-floppies package; it's more likely that people

Processed: Re: 7500 board boot discs

2002-09-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 160223 boot-floppies Bug#160223: Woody boot-floppy failure during partitioning Bug reassigned from package `boot-floppy' to `boot-floppies'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking

Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-09 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Axel Schlicht wrote: Karsten Merker wrote: It is described in the installation manual, which is on your CD set and also available online at: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-cd ^^ ^^

Is Sarge bootable?

2002-09-09 Thread Claudio
Excuse me, for my total ignorance, but i really don't know how to do resolve this problem: i download the Sarge, all 9 cd, but i can't install it. I don't understand if this distribution is bootable, in first. Then, when i try to install it using dselect of the Potato, i recive an error (100,

Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-09 Thread Axel Schlicht
Axel Schlicht wrote: This is my experience (dismal, bleak, sad, devastating, frustrating experience) with woody or rather the attempted installation thereof. The even sadder story on my laptop will soon follow. One short remark. Knoppix (one of the first versions) runs absolutely smoothely

Re: installing on Sony VAIO PCG-N505SN

2002-09-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Torsten Curdt [Mon, Sep 09 2002, 12:39:33PM]: I am trying to install woody with the latest netinst disks on my Sony VAIO PCG-N505SN but up to now failed misserably. After inserting the root disk and pressing return I get a Into which drive did you insert the root disk?

Re: I18N roadmap [was: i18n requires setlocale]

2002-09-09 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 03:50:26PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 03:36:58PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: [...] - for debs (base system), we: * make the templates.ll files in whatever encoding * either recode them or not when concatening [...] Some

cvs commit to boot-floppies by pb

2002-09-09 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies who:pb time: Mon Sep 9 15:58:40 MDT 2002 Log Message: add riscstation easy install kit Files: changed:release.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I18N roadmap [was: i18n requires setlocale]

2002-09-09 Thread Martin Sjögren
mån 2002-09-09 klockan 15.50 skrev Denis Barbier: On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 03:36:58PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: [...] - for debs (base system), we: * make the templates.ll files in whatever encoding * either recode them or not when concatening [...] Some developers keep all

Re: I18N roadmap [was: i18n requires setlocale]

2002-09-09 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 03:36:58PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 11:52:42AM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote: 2. Is this possible on all architectures? I mean: do all architectures use framebuffer? Some m68k's could not use lang chooser in b-f because there is no bterm

Re: Woody Installation

2002-09-09 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 01:25:23PM +0200, Axel Schlicht wrote: Chris Tillman wrote: Hi Chris http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-cd It's also on the CD, but I first thought it was Chinese (ch, well might also be Swiss) and with no Chinese fonts

Re: Is Sarge bootable?

2002-09-09 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 08:01:18PM +0200, Claudio wrote: Excuse me, for my total ignorance, but i really don't know how to do resolve this problem: i download the Sarge, all 9 cd, but i can't install it. I don't understand if this distribution is bootable, in first. Then, when i try to