New aboot-installer package for alpha, translations needed

2004-01-13 Thread Steve Langasek
Just as an FYI for translators, the aboot-installer package (Alpha bootloader) has just undergone a major rewrite so that it can actually be useful for installing the bootloader. This means there are several new templates to be translated, and more to come. Since some of the templates have been c

Processed: reassign 220704 to base-config

2004-01-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Processed: reassign 210612 to hw-detect

2004-01-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Processed: reassign 224528 to base-config

2004-01-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#152152: FW:STOCK MARKET ALERT: QENC 2003 Third Quarter Net Income Rose 76.8%

2004-01-13 Thread Nicholas Barber
OTC FIRST ALERT - New Public Company of the Month Symbol: QENC Market: PK Sector: Queench, Inc. BREAKING NEWS: Jan 8, 2004 -- Queench, Inc.(OTC: QENC)is now a full-time supplier of bottled water to the military. JERICHO, NY - Queench, Inc.(OTC: QENC) today announced that it has completed inspe

Re: d-i manual: xml status report

2004-01-13 Thread Joey Hess
Miroslav Kure wrote: >I did some proof of concept build system, which I use to verify >my work on document xml structure. You can download it from >http://www.debian.cz/~kurem/build.tar.gz. > >It consists of updated *.ent files according to point 2., file >build.sh, which calls

Re: d-i manual: content status report

2004-01-13 Thread Joey Hess
Miroslav Kure wrote: > I'd like to wake up developers and convince them to start writing > missing bits of documentation. This is hard to do when you cannot build the docs and see how your change looks, so I was very happy to see your post to debian-doc about the stuff you have come up with to bui

Re: installation report - successful powermac installations

2004-01-13 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > The ones in sid_d-i on gluck. I believe they are built with unstables > > udebs. > > Do you also need a test report for the sarge builds? > > Nah. If the unstable powerpc udebs work, I will try to get them propigated > to sarge for beta 2. Done, they

Bug#221908: initrd image name

2004-01-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 13.01.2004 schrieb Yann Dirson um 17:52: > The generated lilo.conf also points to /initrd.img. However, at least > after installing a new custom-built kernel-image, the links are named > /initrd and /initrd.old, so lilo still complains on that. > > After having complained about the de

Re: daily powerpc images

2004-01-13 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Il mar, 2004-01-13 alle 19:29, Steve Langasek ha scritto: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 07:12:45AM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: [...] > > I jut read on a different thread that autobuilder for CD images is up > > and running again, so I would stop creating them. > > Er, are you talking about the autobu

Bug#227600: hostname asked twice, /target unmounted too early, default real name

2004-01-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: daily from 2004-01-09 http://gluck.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/20040109/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: 2.4.23-1-386 Method: booted off daily CD image Machine: Random Laptop Processor: Celeron 366 Memory: 160 MB R

Bug#227081: marked as done (cp does not truncate existing destinations)

2004-01-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 12 Jan 2004 06:17:25 -0500 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#227081: fixed in busybox-cvs 20040101-4 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

Bug#227498: failed install with 20040111 sarge netinst ISO on Tosh SatPro 4300 Laptop

2004-01-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-12 18:49]: > o Chose 3c59x for my network card and got the "Ethernet card not > found" hate-message... waited 10 seconds or so and my PCMCIA card > came to life as expected. I just did an installation on a laptop I borrowed and I see the same. I selec

Re: Plurar and Singular

2004-01-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 12:10:38AM +0100, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 10:06:56AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > So does this mean we can use ngettext-style translations from now on? > > Only for the one thing in base-config that actually uses ngettext.. > Well, it seems t

NEWT Support for UTF-8 and Fribidi

2004-01-13 Thread Anmar Oueja
Hello All: After many tries to get fribidi integrated into d-i, we gave up and decided to do it our selves. Here is what I need to know first before we hack newt or cdebconf/newt.c : 1. is Newt UTF-friendly ? and if it is who is the code maintainer ? and is there a mailing list for it. I coul

Bug#227355: install report

2004-01-13 Thread sferriol
Gaudenz Steinlin a Ãcrit : Am Die, den 13.01.2004 schrieb sylvain ferriol um 00:07: 2. list of network modules is in reverse order I don't understand this sentence. What do you mean and which order would be the right one? Which list of network modules do you refer to? the list is displayed when it

debian-boot@lists.debian.org

2004-01-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:49:54 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#227252: installation-reports: installation sarge-i386-netinst.iso 2004-01-12 fails with libacl1 error??Installing with above iso image does fail. The installer calims that libacl1 is not r

Processed: Re: Bug#227343: discover-data: wrong module for CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420

2004-01-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tags 227343 pending Bug#227343: discover-data: wrong module for CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 Tags were: patch Tags added: pending > Thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system adm

Bug#221908: initrd image name

2004-01-13 Thread Yann Dirson
The generated lilo.conf also points to /initrd.img. However, at least after installing a new custom-built kernel-image, the links are named /initrd and /initrd.old, so lilo still complains on that. After having complained about the devfs issues, that is. I did not see that mentionned here, but si

Re: daily powerpc images

2004-01-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 07:12:45AM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > Il lun, 2004-01-12 alle 23:34, Thorsten Sauter ha scritto: > [...] > > | Should I stop creating my images for manty? > > > > I'm not aware that someone builds images for the cdrom's. I have talked > > with Joeyh (and maybe manty, ca

Re: XFS support in d-i: netinst CD image available for download

2004-01-13 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Robert, Thanks for the feedback! I think it's clear by this point where our biggest bug lies (mkfs.xfs -f) -- definitely a major issue for anyone not installing on a pristine disk... On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 01:46:43PM +1100, Robert Moonen wrote: > Well, here's my experiences with the new ins

Bug#226730: Problem with wireless pcmcia network card and keymap

2004-01-13 Thread Bastiaan Van Eeckhoudt
Hi, The translation stuff seems to be fixed, or will be fixed soon. However, I didn't see much response related to my network and keymap problems. For the networking: the problem (or a part of the problem at least) seems to be that during boot (rcS), PCMCIA isn't started. /etc/network/interfaces

Bug#227498: failed install with 20040111 sarge netinst ISO on Tosh SatPro 4300 Laptop

2004-01-13 Thread James Troup
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://people.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/20040111/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux tacitus 2.4.23-1-386 #1 Sun Nov 30 16:49:14 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux Method: Grabbed the ISO mentioned above, burnt it to CD

[Fwd: Bug#225587 acknowledged by developer (Bug#225587: fixed in wireless-tools 26+27pre7-2)]

2004-01-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Now we need someone how makes a wireless-config-udeb or integrates wireless configuration into netcfg. Is there enough space on the netboot initrd that we can include this for wireless configuration in a shell. Gaudenz -Weitergeleitete Nachricht- > From: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAI

Bug#227343: discover-data: wrong module for CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420

2004-01-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
tags 227343 pending Thanks I applied your patch to the CVS. It will be fixed with the next upload (planned for just after the beta2 release). Gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installation report - successful powermac installations

2004-01-13 Thread Joey Hess
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > The ones in sid_d-i on gluck. I believe they are built with unstables > udebs. > Do you also need a test report for the sarge builds? Nah. If the unstable powerpc udebs work, I will try to get them propigated to sarge for beta 2. -- see shy jo signature.asc Descriptio

Bug#225861: no way to back out to main menu

2004-01-13 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Jan 1, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Package: netcfg Severity: normal I'm at high priority, and dhcp fails. The dialog lets me retry dhcp, or go into static config, but does not offer a way to back out to the main menu. It should. Similarly, if I go on to the first page of static config, a

Re: installation report - successful powermac installations

2004-01-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 13.01.2004 schrieb Joey Hess um 20:20: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Which image set did you test, the ones with the unstable udebs, or the > ones with the testing udebs? If you're not sure just tell me the url.. I > need to know whether I should propigate some (which? all?) udebs into >

Bug#227355: install report

2004-01-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 13.01.2004 schrieb sylvain ferriol um 00:07: > > 2. list of network modules is in reverse order I don't understand this sentence. What do you mean and which order would be the right one? Which list of network modules do you refer to? > > 3. i have to call 3 times 'detect network hard

Re: Bug#227114: 20040108 fails on ia64

2004-01-13 Thread Joey Hess
Richard Hirst wrote: > The problem is that initrd-tools is not included on the netinst ISO. > The kernel doesn't depend on it, so that is correct. Unfortunately > on ia64 we have do_initrd=yes so kernel-installer wants to install > initrd-tools. Not a problem with the businesscard ISO because it

Re: installation report - successful powermac installations

2004-01-13 Thread Joey Hess
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > (1) The title of the boot loader message was: > Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux ${DEBIAN_VERSION}! > Seems as the substition is not done correctly by debian-cd Drat, I see another bug in my old attempted fix for that. I have checked a fix into debian-cd cvs; manty will need t

installation report - successful powermac installations

2004-01-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: sid netinst and businesscard images from gluck, built 01/11/2004 Date: 01/13/2004 Method: tested both businesscard and netinst images Machine: PowerBook G4 500Mhz Processor: G4 Memory: 256 MB Root Device: IDE, /dev/hda10 Base System Installation Checklist

Re: Failed Install - Post-Reboot network is lost

2004-01-13 Thread Erik Dykema
Seems to have been fixed, it works with the daily images i downloaded on 13th Jan. thanks much! erik Matt Kraai wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:06:54PM -0500, Erik Dykema wrote: One more note- After the install has completed, I rebooted the machine. As it is going down, something about the

Finally, cfdisk *may* use its translations

2004-01-13 Thread Christian Perrier
The following patch to partitioner/main.c finally makes cfdisk really use the translation it has on i386 platforms. Some drawbacks remain, however, as it, for instance, does not properly display french in the d-i terminal. Any high ASCII characters breaks the display and the remaining characters

Re: Arabic translation is complete (100 % done)

2004-01-13 Thread Anmar Oueja
Hello Dennis: Well it took me 4 hours of CVS check out and check in and data massage and it took Ossama Khayat (main translator) close to 1 week in total to finish almost everything. Thanks for the heads up on the identical translation issue. I will get the guys to make sure we have some consi

Re: Plurar and Singular

2004-01-13 Thread Joey Hess
Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote: > Well, it seems there are more places. I just found one while translating, > it is in debian-installer/tools/isoscan/debian/po, which says: > > The quick scan for installer ISO images, which looks only in common > places, searched ${NUM_DIRS} directories in ${NUM_FILES

Re: Plurar and Singular

2004-01-13 Thread Joey Hess
Denis Barbier wrote: > Here is a patch, tested with French language. > I forgot several points in my previous message: > * $"..." cannot handle plural forms, so calls to gettext is the only > option. > * The shell string extractor has been introduced in gettext 0.13 > * gettext 0.13 shoul

Re: Problems building d-i on sparc: mklibs failed

2004-01-13 Thread Joerg Friedrich
Joerg Friedrich schrieb am Dienstag, 13. Januar 2004 um 14:45:28 +0100: > Hi, > > I just tried to build d-i on sparc. > System was a new installed woody upgraded to unstable. > recent cvs checkout, all build-debs satisfied. > btw. its a sun e450 > > using make TYPE=cdrom > > reducing libdiscove

Re: Bug#227114: 20040108 fails on ia64

2004-01-13 Thread Richard Hirst
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 07:55:26AM +, Richard Hirst wrote: > > Install boot loader:[E] - Never got there, couldn't get a kernel installed > > This is odd. I have the buisnesscard iso here, and it lists 8 kernels, > not 4 as you got from the netinst iso. It lists images for itanium and >

Re: support for expert mode?

2004-01-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 11:45:04AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Am Die, den 13.01.2004 schrieb Holger Schurig um 10:56: > > Is this feature > > > > ui.txt --- > > Note that since cdebconf allows questions to be prioritized, it is possible > > that the install proces

Re: support for expert mode?

2004-01-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 13.01.2004 schrieb Holger Schurig um 10:56: > Is this feature > > ui.txt --- > Note that since cdebconf allows questions to be prioritized, it is possible > that the install process will skip over any or all of the questions. > --

Problems building d-i on sparc: mklibs failed

2004-01-13 Thread Joerg Friedrich
Hi, I just tried to build d-i on sparc. System was a new installed woody upgraded to unstable. recent cvs checkout, all build-debs satisfied. btw. its a sun e450 using make TYPE=cdrom and this is the problem: # Library reduction. mkdir -p ./tmp/cdrom/tree/lib mklibs -v -d ./tmp/cdrom/tree/lib

d-i powerpc status report.

2004-01-13 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, I have grabed the latest d-i builds from Thorsten, and i used the netboot image to build an builtin initrd kernel for chrp. I have not yet tried the cdrom image, but latest experiences provded that it may well be too big, altough the cdrom image might have decreased in size lately. So, i m

support for expert mode?

2004-01-13 Thread Holger Schurig
Is this feature ui.txt --- Note that since cdebconf allows questions to be prioritized, it is possible that the install process will skip over any or all of the questions. -- planned to be used for some expert/fast mode? -- Try Lin

Re: Bug#227114: 20040108 fails on ia64

2004-01-13 Thread Richard Hirst
Hi Alex, Thanks for your report, comments below.. On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:30:26PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > Package: installation-reports > Version: 20040108-ia64 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > Debian-installer-version: > http://people.debian.org/~mant

Re: sparc boot progress -- or at least a different error

2004-01-13 Thread Joerg Friedrich
Blars Blarson schrieb am Sonntag, 11. Januar 2004 um 23:59:49 -0800: > If anyone else wants to try it, it's at > http://www.blars.org/debian/blars/sparc-debian-installer.iso > (about 10 megabytes). > > So far, it's only been tested on a sparcstation LX (sun4m). I just tried on a SUn E450: here

Re: Failed Install - Post-Reboot network is lost

2004-01-13 Thread Matt Kraai
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:06:54PM -0500, Erik Dykema wrote: > One more note- > After the install has completed, I rebooted the machine. As it is > going down, > something about the /network/interfaces file flashes onscreen, though > too quick to read vigorously. > When it comes bac

Bug#227355: install report

2004-01-13 Thread sylvain ferriol
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 20040112 http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/ uname -a: 2-4-22-1-386 Date: 20040112 Method: netinst with floppies Machine: IBM PC 300GL Processor: pentium Memory: 64Mo Root Device: /dev/hda Root Size/partition

Re: Inconsistencies among pt_BR/el translations in d-i

2004-01-13 Thread Christian Perrier
CC to list with André's agreement. Quoting Andre Luis Lopes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > However, in http://people.debian.org/~barbier/d-i/l10n/pt_BR/pt_BR.po > there's a inconistency which I don't know exactly what means. It's as > bellow : > > #. #-#-#-#-# templates.pot (PACKAGE VERSION) #-#-#-#-#

Re: Headaches while trying to test my own custom d-i modules

2004-01-13 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Myself, I find it easier to include udebs I am testing on the initrd, > even if they don't normally go there. However, if they depend on a lot > of libraries, this can result in some large initrds, which may be a > problem depending on how you're booting (a