Bug#1052545: os-prober in initramfs gets repeatedly disabled

2023-09-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
Package: os-prober Version: 1.81 Severity: normal Something happened in the last months. Whenever I upgrade, it seems like the os-prober part is disabled. This is just PITA. I can use the usual: dpkg-reconfigure -plow grub-efi-amd64 ... to turn it back on, and after an upgrade it's lost again.

Bug#929224: apt-cacher-ng, debootstrap and deb.debian.org combination fails

2019-06-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Sean Whitton [Wed, May 22 2019, 06:02:15PM]: > Hello Eduard, > > On Wed 22 May 2019 at 09:24PM +02, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > Uhm, I suggest you do what it says and read the manual? > > I am not trying to use an https mirror. > > I don't know what's resp

Bug#929224: apt-cacher-ng, debootstrap and deb.debian.org combination fails

2019-05-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Sean Whitton [Sun, May 19 2019, 08:08:07AM]: > I thought that the problem is that apt-cacher-ng is not able to resolve > SRV records. However, I'm not so sure about that now. debootstrap uses > wget to download stuff, so I tried this: > >

Bug#873923: installer not detecting/configuring existing LUKS/LVM setup

2017-09-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal this is a follow-up to #873862 , see there for most details. So, the outcome is, when the installer fails with the problem mentioned there, I can still reboot the system. But then, the d-i is basically stuck at the same step. The LUKS partition is not

Bug#873857: Cannot use the screenshot button with keyboard

2017-08-31 Thread Eduard Bloch
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal This is followup to #873854, see there for details. In the graphical installer, I am not able to access the "Screen picture" button in the bottom left corner with the KEYBOARD. When I use tab, the visible focus (i.e. the element with the rectangle

Bug#763695: console-setup: even worse than assumed

2015-08-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Samuel Thibault [Wed, Aug 26 2015, 12:21:19AM]: Eduard Bloch, le Wed 26 Aug 2015 00:11:10 +0200, a écrit : So... ok, maybe getting times from the log was a bad idea and causes exageration. Err, were you using strace for your whole timing of setupcon? It's no wonder it takes so

Bug#763695: console-setup: even worse than assumed

2015-08-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Samuel Thibault [Tue, Aug 25 2015, 10:52:29PM]: Eduard Bloch, le Tue 25 Aug 2015 22:34:17 +0200, a écrit : Hallo, * Samuel Thibault [Tue, Aug 25 2015, 09:56:39PM]: Eduard Bloch, le Tue 25 Aug 2015 21:35:36 +0200, a écrit : * Samuel Thibault [Tue, Aug 25 2015, 08:54:35PM

Bug#763695: console-setup: even worse than assumed

2015-08-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Anton Zinoviev [Mon, Aug 24 2015, 01:24:15PM]: On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 02:02:30AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: $ grep ioctl log | wc -l 14035 OVER 9000 ioctls! Are you kidding me? Console-setup is definitely not THAT slow. It is. Kind of. I checked again... about 20% of

Bug#763695: console-setup: even worse than assumed

2015-08-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Samuel Thibault [Tue, Aug 25 2015, 08:54:35PM]: Just so that people reading the log don't take it too exagerated: Eduard Bloch, le Tue 25 Aug 2015 20:24:22 +0200, a écrit : I checked again... about 20% of the time is spent in two calls of pidof We're here talking about ~15ms each

Bug#763695: console-setup: even worse than assumed

2015-08-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Samuel Thibault [Tue, Aug 25 2015, 09:56:39PM]: Eduard Bloch, le Tue 25 Aug 2015 21:35:36 +0200, a écrit : * Samuel Thibault [Tue, Aug 25 2015, 08:54:35PM]: Just so that people reading the log don't take it too exagerated: Eduard Bloch, le Tue 25 Aug 2015 20:24:22 +0200

Bug#763695: console-setup: even worse than assumed

2015-08-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
Package: console-setup Version: 1.132 Followup-For: Bug #763695 Dear Maintainer, inspired by the recent talk about systemd utilities I analyzed my boot process on my lower-level laptop (CPU is ok but the harddisk is plain old mechanic thing). And it's even worse than in jak's original report, it

Re: Processed: dealing with old installation-reports

2013-07-20 Thread Eduard Bloch
reassign 642159 thanks * Debian Bug Tracking System [Sat, Jul 20 2013, 01:21:16PM]: reassign 642159 apt-cacher-ng Bug #642159 [debian-installer] debian-installer preseed broken with apt-cacher-ng mirror Bug reassigned from package 'debian-installer' to 'apt-cacher-ng'. No longer marked as

Bug#590507: please allow proxy specification without http:// prefix

2010-07-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
Package: debian-installer Version: http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/kfreebsd-amd64/20100726-10:40/ Severity: wishlist Hello, the subject says it all. I would like to quickly enter 10.1.2.3:1234 without the http:// prefix. Because the question is about http proxy anyway, the installer could

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
way, definitely not by stupid expulsion process. Heck, even our current DPL may not be there if I would have acted like you few years ago (I did not forget comments like Ah, Eduard Bloch joined the club of debian-legal experts, hahaha and similar stupid rants found in IRC logs but, hey, people can

Bug#265183: pppoe workaround of the post-reboot problem

2004-09-20 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Vassilii Khachaturov [Mon, Sep 20 2004, 11:51:31AM]: PS: I won't clone 265183, there are already enough bug reports to the pppoe module problem. But what about the routing loop problem I had mentioned in the original 265183 report? It is something pretty confusing for a

Bug#272209: the dhcp progress bar could have a button to skip

2004-09-18 Thread Eduard Bloch
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Hello, when I install ubuntu in its default JohnDoe-user mode, I always have to see this DHCP lookup dialog. It needs too long. I wish there would be a button skip below the progress bar to stop searching and specify the network data later. Regards,

Bug#265183: pppoe workaround of the post-reboot problem

2004-08-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
severity 263224 serious reassign 262941 modutils severity 262941 serious merge 262941 263224 thanks #include hallo.h * Vassilii Khachaturov [Fri, Aug 13 2004, 08:50:58AM]: The thing that happens as a by-product of pppoeconf that enables the pppoe to work later on is the loading of the pppoe

Bug#264375: apt-setup does no save choosen cdrom device anyhwere

2004-08-08 Thread Eduard Bloch
Package: base-config Version: 2.40 Severity: normal Hello, as a Joe user, I tried to install Sarge having a small netinst CD in the first drive and a few weeks old Sarge DVD in the second. In the second phase with apt-setup, I was asked to specify the device where apt should locate the media.

Bug#202907: Processed: language tasks pull in reams of huge packages

2004-07-30 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Debian Bug Tracking System [Thu, Jul 29 2004, 11:03:04PM]: Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reopen 202907 Bug#202907: language tasks pull in reams of huge packages Haha. Now you stumble around the problem that I have predicted years ago, requesting conditional

Re: pppoe install

2004-06-08 Thread Eduard Bloch
Moin Jan! Jan Schukat schrieb am Tuesday, den 08. June 2004: Yesterday (June 7) I downloaded the sarge-i386-netinst.iso and installed the base system on my new VIA CL9000 board for soon to become my DSL Router. Now, after the first reboot, I set up root and normal user and then the ppp

Bug#235068: modconf: FTBFS: Cannot find unpacked kernel source

2004-02-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
severity 235068 important thanks E: Package kernel-source has no installation candidate - Considering kernel-source-2.2.25 to satisfy the dependency Oha. I'd suggest using a more specific kernel-source Build-Depends like kernel-source-2.4 or kernel-source-2.4.24. Also, the

Bug#231634: modconf dialog has broken text

2004-02-08 Thread Eduard Bloch
retitle 231634 yesno box does not wrap text lines severity 231634 grave severity 224333 grave reassign 224333 whiptail reassign 231634 whiptail merge 231634 224333 thanks -- Seid realistisch - fordert das Unmögliche. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#227691: Really serious?

2004-02-08 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Thomas Hood [Mon, Feb 09 2004, 12:11:42AM]: Eduard Bloch wrote: severity 227691 serious thanks [...] Something that must be fixed before the Sarge release. Do you think that this bug is so severe that if it is not fixed then the package had better not be released

Bug#227691: modconf: I can't enter in kernel/drivers/net section

2004-01-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
severity 227691 serious thanks #include hallo.h * willy [Wed, Jan 14 2004, 12:36:24PM]: Package: modconf Version: 0.2.45 Severity: important If i try to select kernel/drivers/net modules section it return to modules section main list. I can't choose net modules. Something that must be

Fixed in NMU of modconf 0.2.45

2003-12-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
: source all Version: 0.2.45 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Boot Floppies Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: modconf- Device Driver Configuration Closes: 174833 192232 Changes: modconf (0.2.45) unstable; urgency=low . * Kernel

Bug#221266: 'images-1.44/rescue.bin bug

2003-11-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
Moin Goswin! Goswin von Brederlow schrieb am Monday, den 17. November 2003: Tarun Kundhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN HTMLHEAD META HTTP-EQUIV=Content-Type CONTENT=text/html; charset=us-ascii TITLEMessage/TITLE ... It would

Bug#209301: modconf: on module installation failure, suggest isa-pnp.o to the user

2003-09-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Ryan Underwood [Sun, Sep 14 2003, 10:27:40PM]: If the module itself is aware of isa-pnp, then yes, this is the case. However, consider this scenario: The card is a PnP card, the driver is not PnP aware and would like to know the I/O and IRQ resources when loaded.

Bug#209301: modconf: on module installation failure, suggest isa-pnp.o to the user

2003-09-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Ryan Underwood [Mon, Sep 15 2003, 02:55:37AM]: Please refer to linux/Documentation/isapnp.txt: Write commands: --- With the write interface you can activate or modify the configuration of ISA Plug Play devices. It is mainly useful for drivers

Bug#209301: modconf: on module installation failure, suggest isa-pnp.o to the user

2003-09-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Ryan Underwood [Fri, Sep 12 2003, 10:21:21PM]: Short answer: use precompiled kernels if you cannot do it properly in your own. If you build the isa-pnp module with the kernel, the created modules (ISA drivers) will depend on it and autoload when needed. I'm not sure

Re: Network card driver not found - bf24

2003-09-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Uwe Dippel [Mon, Sep 01 2003, 11:33:12AM]: A minor hitch: While installing 3.0rc1 as default (Enter) on a DELL Inspiron 8100, the NIC-module (3c59x.o) is found and installed automatically. With bf24, it isn't. It requires manual intervention (and knowledge about the module)

Bug#206616: modconf: too wide for 80-column console

2003-08-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
reassign 206616 whiptail thanks Moin Thomas! Thomas Koenig schrieb am Thursday, den 21. August 2003: Package: modconf Version: 0.2.44 Severity: important I just ran modconf from a virtual console, and was confused when I saw all module paths start with /drivers. Here's what it looks

Bug#205519: installation: Wrong error message when disk is full

2003-08-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
severity 205519 minor tags 205519 + wontfix thanks #include hallo.h * Michiel Holtkamp [Fri, Aug 15 2003, 09:47:19AM]: Package: installation Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-15 Severity: important When a partition is too small to install everything on, and packages are unpacked to

Re: d-i debcamp in Oldenburg 2003-09-25 to 2003-09-28

2003-08-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
- ? Eduard Bloch - Karlsruhe, Germany Eduard. -- So einfach wie möglich, aber nicht einfacher! -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: boot.iso

2003-08-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * jayson [Tue, Aug 12 2003, 03:05:08PM]: from http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/boot-floppies/ when i try to install, it boots, i press enter at the prompt then it says keyboard: timeout - at keyboard not present? it is a ps2 keyboard and it obviously works if i pressed

Status of aic79xx driver

2003-08-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Tue, Aug 05 2003, 10:49:34PM]: I have recently bought a fine server running 3 raid disks on an Adaptec 39320D SCSI card. This card is supported by the Linux aic79xx driver (the old one aic7xxx does not work). == Is there someone out there who has a

Re: ITP shell-parted and debconf-partitioner

2003-08-02 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Thorsten Sauter [Thu, Jul 31 2003, 10:50:12PM]: | It would perhaps be a good idea to integrate partitioner and | partconf, if this succeeds... I'm not sure, that this is the best solution. If you would like to merge both programs, then we also need support for lvm and

Bug#191636: fix to this bug.

2003-07-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Alastair McKinstry [Sun, Jul 27 2003, 02:26:46PM]: As the maintainer of whiptail, I was not aware of this bug, which was filed against modconf. In the current newt package, whiptail and whiptail-utf8 were merged; modconf seems to work fine for me now. (There are some minor

Re: aic79xx

2003-07-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Petter Reinholdtsen [Fri, Jul 25 2003, 10:22:21AM]: I believe this driver first appeared in kernel 2.4.21, so it will be available when d-i moves from kernel 2.4.20 to 2.4.21. This transition was delayed when we discovered that the new kernel was a lot bigger then the

Re: Support for Linux Driver for the Pro/1000 MT NIC -- Debian bf2.4 Woody -- Dell Optiplex 260

2003-07-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Basab Maulik [Sat, Jul 19 2003, 06:46:22PM]: ifconfig eth0 xx:xx:xx:xx netmask 255.255.252.0 up I am getting a segmentation fault and message of trying to dereference a null pointer. Also: SIOCSIFADDR: No buffer space available Please help. Similar problems/issues

Bug#201619: modconf: non-visible module names in some sections

2003-07-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
reassign 201619 whiptail thanks #include hallo.h * Robert Millan [Wed, Jul 16 2003, 10:49:13PM]: gnome-terminal is broken? well actualy the same happens for TERM=linux and TERM=screen so it clearly has nothing to do with the terminal emulator, or even with X. Please? You

Re: Freeze after startup with bf24

2003-07-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Jeremy Hankins [Thu, Jul 17 2003, 10:39:36AM]: Unfortunately, right after the boot up (when the select language display is up) the machine freezes and wont accept any input -- capslock doesn't light the keyboard led, either. The machine is a Precision 350 from Dell

Re: Freeze after startup with bf24

2003-07-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Jeremy Hankins [Thu, Jul 17 2003, 12:19:46PM]: Just thought I'd ask to see if anyone knew why it was freezing like that and save myself a bit of work. I'm just hoping it's a boot-floppies issue and not a kernel issue, so I can install 2.4 on it It sounds like a kernel

Bug#201619: modconf: non-visible module names in some sections

2003-07-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Wed, Jul 16 2003, 08:27:42PM]: Package: modconf Version: 0.2.44 Severity: important An image better than thousand words. PNG attached. What is wrong? Please retry in a not broken terminal, eg. xterm or rxvt, or load a fixed font in this one if you can.

Re: Can't change running i386 Woody 3.0 to LSI 53C1020

2003-07-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Markus Rupprecht [Fri, Jul 04 2003, 07:43:50AM]: Now I have read, that some 53C1030 users took the 2.4.20 modules floppy to install the system. When I use mptbase.o from the 2.4.20 floppy modconf says, that they were build for kernel 2.4.20 and loading fails.

Re: Building boot images with boot-floppies on PowerMac

2003-06-30 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Sat, Jun 28 2003, 11:16:30AM]: The arch maintainer for what? My problem is with b-f, according to those documents you mention, this list is the right place. For the problem with your powerpc kernel package which was your initial problem. whereever it

Re: Building boot images with boot-floppies on PowerMac

2003-06-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Thu, Jun 26 2003, 11:11:39AM]: I have tried the testing version. It fails too: 1393+1 records out You did not understand the problem. It is not the version of BFs The problem, I thought, is that the three versions of b-f I've used do not

Re: Building boot images with boot-floppies on PowerMac

2003-06-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Wed, Jun 25 2003, 02:47:44PM]: Stable still has 3.0.22. Is there a reason 3.0.23 never moved to stable, Eduard? See above. Woody has been moved to stable under our asses, and to this time there were an RC bug about potential security problems.

Re: Building boot images with boot-floppies on PowerMac

2003-06-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Mon, Jun 23 2003, 07:19:54AM]: /archive/debian/download/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_woody_main_binary-powerpc_Packages E: Couldn't download pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-newpmac E: ./kernel.sh abort make[1]: *** [linuxnewpmac.bin] Error 1

Re: de/install broken

2003-06-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Josip Rodin [Sun, Jun 15 2003, 08:53:10PM]: debiandoc2text -l de -O install.de.sgml install.de.txt nsgmls:de/hardware.sgml:184:8:E: document type does not allow element EXAMPLE here; assuming missing P start-tag make[3]: *** [install.de.txt] Error 1 We know and someone

Re: de/install broken

2003-06-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Josip Rodin [Mon, Jun 16 2003, 03:02:16PM]: On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 02:23:33PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: debiandoc2text -l de -O install.de.sgml install.de.txt nsgmls:de/hardware.sgml:184:8:E: document type does not allow element EXAMPLE here; assuming missing P

Re: Problem Booting Install CD

2003-06-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Chris Tillman [Mon, Jun 02 2003, 05:58:47PM]: In case you need more info, my system is a Dell Dimension 8250 w/ 2.8 gHz P4 processor, 512 MB RAM, 112 GB HD, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video adapter w/128 MB RAM, a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card, and an 18 Dell 1800FP LCD

Re: Bug#186927 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#186927: romfs builtin)

2003-03-31 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Glenn McGrath [Mon, Mar 31 2003, 09:03:51PM]: Both ext2 and romfs could be compiled into the kernel and as long as romfs is used for the initrd it will save space. If we use ext2 or cramfs on the initrd it will add 2kB. I cant think of any reason against using romfs for

Re: SCSI boot

2003-03-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * MJM Wright [Tue, Mar 25 2003, 11:50:50PM]: I want a dual system -- not a dual-boot system. The IDE drives contain Win 98, with all of the Debian installation on the SCSI drives. Dual system? What exactly is your meaning of this term? Separating to different harddisks wont

Re: Bug#185420: marked as done (boot-floppies - bad kernel choice)

2003-03-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
reopen 185420 severity 185420 normal tags 185420 + help thanks #include hallo.h * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Fri, Mar 21 2003, 10:46:24AM]: Second, I agree with you that it should default to installing the same version of the kernel I chose to install with. My install kernel is

Re: [pcmcia-problem] kernel-image-2.4.20-bf2.4 -5

2003-03-20 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Brian Mays [Tue, Mar 18 2003, 04:04:25PM]: The 2.4.20 kernel source (in the kernel-source package) has version 0.11b (I think that 2.4.18 also has this version), which is why this problem doesn't appear more frequently. What patches did you apply to this kernel? Where did

Re: TheBase System Installation

2003-03-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Bernard Jean Dale [Sat, Mar 01 2003, 06:58:10PM]: I've tried a number of times to install 3.0r0 from a set of 7 cd's purchased over the internet but before the first installation cd has finished I'm advised that it is unable to install the base system.

Bug#182642: boot-floppies: boottime keymap makes 88 key adb keyboard unusable on oldworld powermac

2003-02-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Lee Adamson [Wed, Feb 26 2003, 06:47:31PM]: When the box reboots after initial base system install, a boottime keymap is loaded that seems to cause my old 88 key adb keyboard to be mapped wrong (using the qwerty/us keymap). The solution I have found is to use the shell on

Re: Testing netinstall and others

2003-02-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Klaus Imgrund [Wed, Feb 26 2003, 03:05:23PM]: With those (tried them all) the splash screen or whatever that screen It's called framebuffer console. with tux is comes up and it loads the kernel until a error msg about a reiser superblock that it cant find. I do have all

Re: SV: loop: can't get info on device

2003-02-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Emile van Bergen [Fri, Feb 21 2003, 09:47:25AM]: I found a spot in boot-floppies where this could happen, and added a check. I think this will have to wait for r3 though. Do you see any possible workarounds in the find_unused_loop_device() code in losetup.c? Yes,

Re: SV: loop: can't get info on device

2003-02-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Eduard Bloch [Fri, Feb 21 2003, 10:20:45AM]: Yes, don't try extracting the kernel more than 7 times (assuming del_loop doesn't get called appropriately) ;-) Heh? IIRC this is dead code, I replaced loop-device operations with direct losetup calls during the Woody freeze

Re: Network install of Woody

2003-02-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * John Summerfield [Fri, Feb 21 2003, 02:10:57PM]: to be a lot of interest, but not too much concrete input. Maybe one of the issues is there are so many ways to get it to work? If I were to write it (assuming I knew enough, which at present I don't), you could probably

Bug#181739: how to fix?!

2003-02-20 Thread Eduard Bloch
And what is your idea about the possible solution for #181739? Another kernel? Feasible without breaking other things? Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A boot floppy which boots a CD ROM?!

2003-02-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Sebastian Schuon wrote on Fri Feb 14, 2003 um 11:22:49PM: Hi all! Does anyone happen to know if a boot floppy exists which only loads a driver fpr the CD-Rom drive and launches the boot image found there? My computer (P100) isn't capable to boot via CDrom and i'm to lazy to

Re: hung at RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0.... need more RAM?

2003-02-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Adam Robson [Sun, Feb 09 2003, 11:33:28PM]: I think I only have 8MB of RAM is that maybe the problem? If so, is Yes. there a way to work around that? Get Slink disks from archive.debian.org and install with them. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Die Realität ist eine Illusion,

Status of boot-floppies for Debian 3.0r2

2003-02-07 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hello, after more than a month of wake-up phase, it is time to push the development a bit. Boot-Floppies 3.0.24 are almost ready, ports for most architectures have been build and we got positive test results. Outstanding issues are: - test the sparc build, any report welcome - testing and

Re: Russian localized install?

2003-02-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Martin Quinson wrote on Thu Feb 06, 2003 um 09:33:14AM: First of all, I'm not really the right person to help you coordinate your efforts. I don't speak russian *at all*. But I participate to the french translation effort, and can give some hints. I think I was the right

Re: cannot boot to install woody

2003-02-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Fabio Calefato [Thu, Feb 06 2003, 07:46:06PM]: anyway, boot hangs. i've tried re-writing it twice again, but noway. so i switched from root.bin to other img, till i succeded in booting with the rescue.bin img file. After uncompressing the img and detecting my hw, i got a

Re: making my own netinstall CD

2003-02-05 Thread Eduard Bloch
Moin Markus! Markus Schabel schrieb am Wednesday, den 05. February 2003: Eduard Bloch wrote: snip/ Use floppies and read in the manuall about kernel replacement. However, the old driver CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD680 is enabled in the new kernel of next (testing) release of boot-floppies. Please look

Re: trouble starting up

2003-02-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Benjamin Meakin [Sat, Feb 01 2003, 01:41:01AM]: hello, Hello - this List is for base-installation related topics, please report funny bugs of extra package to the appropriate maintainers. Cc'ing to gnome-session maintainer. I am having trouble getting debian and gnome to

Re: Promise FastTrak133 Raid again

2003-02-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
Moin Wolfgang! Wolfgang Pawlinetz schrieb am Saturday, den 01. February 2003: Hi List, I was searching the web for any new ideas on installing a fairly current Debian distribution (bf24 is an installation option) on a MSI Motherboard featuring the Fasttrak133 IDE RAID Controller from

Bug#174050: What do you mean?

2003-01-30 Thread Eduard Bloch
severity 174050 normal tags 174050 + moreinfo unreproducible thanks A-Ha. Sorry, your paths are Windows paths and do not tell us ANYTHING about which device is C, which is D, etc. Also, a problem with the bsdmainutils package has almost nothing in common with loadlin, so I wonder about your bug

Re: Status of boot-floppies for Debian 3.0r2

2003-01-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * dann frazier [Fri, Jan 24 2003, 01:20:29AM]: done. http://people.debian.org/~dannf/boot-floppies/sparc/ let me know if i missed anything. Fine. BenC claimed to be the one how knows what is needed to build, but I cannot count on his promises and response times. Now, I would

Status of boot-floppies for Debian 3.0r2

2003-01-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hello, after a month of wake-up phase, it is time to push the development a bit. Boot-Floppies 3.0.24 are almost ready, ports for most architectures have been build and we got positive test results. Outstanding issues are: - help Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] to test the Sparc boot-floppies -

Re: m68k 3.0.24 boot-floppies

2003-01-19 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Christian T. Steigies [Sun, Jan 19 2003, 12:47:22AM]: I've (re)built boot-floppies for m68k a few days ago and finally managed to test them on my Amiga. Installation went fine. One thing I noticed, the installer downloaded mac-fdisk, on an Amiga, is this necessary? Fine

Re: Help, can't boot bf24 on laptop

2003-01-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Marsh [Thu, Jan 16 2003, 09:23:19PM]: Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.4.21) Compaq CISS (v 2.4.5) then hangs. It sure looks as though it's necessary to get a kernel without the Compaq drivers, or at least be able to disable them at boot time? Any suggestions?

Re: detecting keyboard and mouse

2003-01-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * kumar swamy [Thu, Jan 16 2003, 03:10:01PM]: i am trying to build own debian cd. i have some problem here how do go about configuring mouse and keyboard? is there any tool that is available that will do this probing for me? a) This is the wrong list for such questions

Re: Help, can't boot bf24 on laptop

2003-01-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Marsh [Wed, Jan 15 2003, 02:16:06PM]: When I select the boot method bf24 the cd is accessed and the kernel begins to load. The load proceeds normally then hangs at the point where the following messages are displayed: ... Loading I2O Core - (c) Copyright 1999 Red Hat

Re: Help, can't boot bf24 on laptop

2003-01-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Marsh [Thu, Jan 16 2003, 08:48:59AM]: edi a) User idepci flavor. That one is created to support broken edi systems. b) Try experimental boot-floppies with edi 2.4.20-bf2.4. http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf3024/. Would it be possible to install the kernel

Re: Help, can't boot bf24 on laptop

2003-01-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Marsh [Thu, Jan 16 2003, 04:54:12PM]: edi Required files: basedebs.tar (from the archive or other edi netinst CDs), drivers.tgz and rescue.bin (2880kb version), edi both from the new BFs repository, bf2.4 trees. I could not locate the basedebs.tar. Could you

Re: Patch for utilities/dbootstrap/kbdconfig.c

2003-01-15 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Stephen R Marenka [Wed, Jan 15 2003, 12:04:18PM]: | } | else if (strstr(Arch2, PowerMac) != NULL) { | choices = keymaps_mac; | nchoices = nchoices_mac; | prefix = i386/; | } else { | choices= keymaps; |

Re: Patch for utilities/dbootstrap/kbdconfig.c

2003-01-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Ross Vumbaca [Tue, Jan 14 2003, 09:49:53PM]: Here's a patch which fixes the incorrect usage of strstr for PowerPC in kbdconfig.c - which causes the wrong keyboard choices to appear on non-apus PowerPC hardware. a) please, create a new thread and do not sent a follow-up

Re: USB and 2.4 kernel

2003-01-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Steve Cutler [Mon, Jan 13 2003, 03:19:32PM]: I have a compaq presario 1200z laptop, and in every flavor of linux I ... me the following messages and then freezes, and makes me pull the plug to get it to come back. usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c:

Re: intel e1000 gigabyte

2003-01-12 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Adam Di Carlo [Sun, Jan 12 2003, 02:26:21PM]: The PERC3/Di SCSI controller did seem supported, although it may be buggy, according to URL:http://www.domsch.com/linux/ (cf interrupt fix patch). Weird, I had a quick look at this pages, and was not able to find any patch for

Re: This bug should be fixed on boot-floppies side

2003-01-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
Moin Junichi! Junichi Uekawa schrieb am Thursday, den 09. January 2003: eject is missing from the woody basedebs. On powerpc, this makes changing the CDs extremely awkward (newbies rarely dare poke a paper clip into the CD tray). Installation from CD is impeded severely, hence the severity

Re: Current EEPRO100 Driver in boot-floppies

2003-01-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Adam Di Carlo [Thu, Jan 09 2003, 09:59:14AM]: 2. http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/index.htm As for the issue of the shipped EEPro, are you using the bf2.4 to boot with or no? This seems like an issue with the stable kernel-source-* package. There is hope

Re: Can't boot on a machine with LSI Logic 53C1030 Raid controller

2003-01-08 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Jorge Martinez [Tue, Jan 07 2003, 10:47:22AM]: downloaded it, and created the floppy with the extra drivers, but not much luck. I tried the 'mptbase.o' and 'mptscsih.o' drivers, which I think are the correct ones for my hardware. I also tried many others just for kicks.

Re: making my own netinstall CD

2003-01-08 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Bertrand d'Herouville [Wed, Jan 08 2003, 01:15:07AM]: I need to enable the support of the Silicon Image 6880 directly into the kernel. I want to make my own netinstall CD and i don't find any documentations. Does anybody have some good links for me ? Use floppies and read

Re: Can't boot on a machine with LSI Logic 53C1030 Raid controller

2003-01-08 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Jorge Martinez [Wed, Jan 08 2003, 10:28:50AM]: [date, and time] (none) user.info dbootstrap[80]: Warning: loading mptbase.o will taint the kernel: forced load [date, and time] (none) user.info dbootstrap[80]: mptbase.o: init_module: No such device Weird. Maybe it is

Bug#175241: boot-floppies: fails to ask for NONUS cdrom

2003-01-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
reassign 175241 apt thanks #include hallo.h * James R. Van Zandt [Fri, Jan 03 2003, 05:11:07PM]: Package: boot-floppies Version: 20030103 Severity: normal I have just installed Woody onto two machines using cdrom images downloaded via jigdo. After selecting packages with dselect, I loaded

Bug#174887: [THOMAS CUNY tec121@msn.com] Re: Bug#174887: (no subject)

2003-01-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
reassign 174887 debconf thanks #include hallo.h * Adam DiCarlo [Fri, Jan 03 2003, 12:43:32PM]: Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 23:19:01 -0600 From: THOMAS CUNY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#174887: (no subject) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Adam DiCarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: THOMAS CUNY [EMAIL

Re: i386 3.0.24 v2.4 boot floppies, installation report

2003-01-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h ant wrote on Tue Dec 31, 2002 um 11:45:31PM: hi, had some time to give them[*] a try today. Thanks. some trouble i had was that the installer skipped over things before i could read them. Besides of that trouble, was the installation okay? i was able to select the

Re: Possible bug in installation

2003-01-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Skip Queen [Wed, Jan 01 2003, 12:54:43AM]: I have tried to install Debian Woody 3.0 a total of six times and each time the same thing happens. My video is all screwed up. XWindows does not work. When I pick up video card (i810) it won't work at all. If I pick VESA it

Bug#174833: modconf.8 manpage translate in French

2002-12-31 Thread Eduard Bloch
tags 174833 + pending thanks The modconf.8 manpage had been translated in French. Could add it in your package ? Okay. -- solaris- smoki_: Hab ich ja nicht behauptet oder? KDE hab ich nur auf meinem SuSE System... das hab ich strikt von meinem Debian getrennt ;) [..] mrvn Er

Re: Install dialogs

2002-12-31 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Narins, Josh [Tue, Dec 31 2002, 10:30:13AM]: The combination of the two kernel images do not, I repeat, do not fit in a 10MB /boot partition. Please consider changing the recommendation in the install dialogs, so other people won't be forced to Which recommendation?

Re: Install dialogs

2002-12-31 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Narins, Josh [Tue, Dec 31 2002, 01:09:22PM]: Eduard Bloch wrote: Which recommendation? Currently, we have on boot-floppies: containing a FAT filesystem. The boot partition should be at\n least 32MB. On the next screen you will choose which disk\n I was using

Re: keyboard generates no response

2002-12-30 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Jonathan Coe [Mon, Dec 30 2002, 07:43:44PM]: I'm trying to get a 2.4-18 kernel installed on my DELL Dimension 8250. When I've chosen the kernel I want (bf24) everything starts up but when I USB keyboard? that I could build a 2.4 kernel from my working 2.2 kernel, I wondered

Bug#129090: (no subject)

2002-12-30 Thread Eduard Bloch
reassign 129090 modutils thanks How should this be a modconf problem if you add some junk to /etc/modutils/...? Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Alpträumer! AOL-Surfer! Apfelschorle-Besteller! Pannenhilfe-Anrufer! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#174360: Bug#174348: this bug is not about boot-floppies

2002-12-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Zefram [Thu, Dec 26 2002, 11:16:05PM]: There's been a lot of confusion about this, and for bugs 174348 and 174360 it's led to complaints that I'm asking for major changes to be Hey, _sorry_. Feel happy to read it from me. It does not happen too often. ;-) Gruss/Regards,

Bug#174360: DNS configuration section is inflexible

2002-12-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
severity 174360 wishlist retitle 174360 Hostname setup should be more self-explainable thanks #include hallo.h Zefram wrote on Thu Dec 26, 2002 um 01:32:40PM: When asking for a hostname, dbootstrap rejects any hostname containing dots; it demands an unqualified name. This contradicts the

Re: install bug; after swap-init fail, errmsg about flpy

2002-12-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * JD [Sun, Dec 22 2002, 11:34:23PM]: Hello INSTALLER-coding Debianians [EMAIL PROTECTED] if this belongs better in debian-testing, please advise please edit this as the shoe may fit It's okay here. -- INSTALL BUG --

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