Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* Jimen Ching [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-07-24 13:27]:
I recently received an old Dell M200s tower desktop. I tried to install
Debian on it with beta4. But the kernel failed to detect the IDE
controller, so I don't have any drives at the drive partition stage.
Bastian Blank wrote:
devfs is marked as stable within 2.4.x, also there are problems with
not devfs-capable drivers (i don't find any the since several months).
there are a couple of applications that i am aware of that do not get
along with devfs very well. (wmppp and mingetty being two of
Bastian Blank wrote:
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:18:46AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
there are a couple of applications that i am aware of that do not get
along with devfs very well. (wmppp and mingetty being two of them).
mingetty works fine with devfs, while getty wont. other
Bastian Blank wrote:
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:27:17AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
mingetty allocated the first terminal, no problem. any second and
subsequent totaly failed.
do you have devfsd installed and/or
yes
use /dev/ttyX instead of /dev/console/X?
i made no tweaks
David Kimdon wrote:
yes, it sounds as though we definately want an updated 2.4.18
i was forwarded the actual securityfocus links that described the
vulnerabilities. the kernel-source-2.4.18 that we have currently fails
to address these issues specifically.
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
I think we're waiting for the problem to be fixed by the kernel
maintainer. We should use a patched 2.4.18 since it seems unlikely to
me that the archive maintainers will allow a new kernel (2.4.19) into
stable point releases.
actually, i was asked to produce a
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
^^ ^^
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 12:44:34AM -0500, Wilbur Killebrew wrote:
Package: installation
Version: 2.11n (Debian 3.0 woody)
1. The partition type entry field gets filled with seemingly
random, usually inappropriate values.
i'm not quite sure what you mean here, can you give an example of
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:43:58PM -0400, Justin Whitney wrote:
Do any debian packages support splashimage= support for grub?
i did find some splashimage= patches:
http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/grub/patches/grub-0.91-vga16.patch
and
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:26:09AM +0100, J M Cerqueira Esteves wrote:
* John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-05-09 22:47 +]:
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 07:34:30PM -0300, Jim Skea wrote:
I'm posting this to debian-boot since it seems where most of the
discussion
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 07:34:30PM -0300, Jim Skea wrote:
I'm posting this to debian-boot since it seems where most of the
discussion on the base-config problem is gong on.
my question, for those with base-config 1.33.17, and no easy way to
upgrade it, what is the workaround?
-john
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On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 07:54:52PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 07:42:33PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote:
How can I make screenshots from the BF-system?
There was a thread about this no more than a couple of days ago on -devel; a
search should find it. Personally,
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:06:44AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
We have made a test image (thanks go to Chris Lawrence) :
http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/debian-cd/
this image failed on a Dell Dimension XPS M200s
however, i suspect hardware problems since after copying the floppy
images onto
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
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 04:50:50PM -0800, David Kimdon wrote:
cd1: idepci; cd2 scsi; cd3: bf2.4; cd4: vanilla
Any seconds?
seconded.
-john
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On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 09:09:57AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
sid + whiptail + libnewt-utf8-0 libnewt-utf8-dev libnewt-utf8-pic
is not happy. since whiptail wants libnewt0, which conflicts with the
rest.
whiptail-utf8 is the one required to be installed, not whiptail.
i noticed
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:49:55AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
I've got an impression that make clean doesn't seem to clean up the
downloaded deb files ?
no, but make distclean does
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i feel dense :/
i have boot-floppies in a clean woody and sid chroot. they both pass
make check with no problems.
but for make, they both fail at the same place:
i18n_low_space=true ./rootdisk.sh /archive/debian/download 3700 3.0 C
I: internationalized mode enabled
... snip of
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:34:05AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
David Kimdon wrote on Tue Feb 19, 2002 um 10:48:22PM:
Can someone summarize what needs to be done to make boot-floppies
buildable again?
With the split of libslang, we need following programs which link against the
.UTF-8
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:03:19PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
oh, i think i see it: comparing dpkg --get-selections in each chroot, i
see sid has this: slang1a-utf8
let me see if this is the case...
no; it is not quite that simple. installing libnewt-utf8-0 removes
libnewt-dev
Architecture: i386 (Pentium II (Deschutes) 400.913)
Disk: IDE (WDC WD400BB-00AUA1, ATA DISK drive)
Video: nVidia Corporation Vanta [NV6] (rev 21)
NIC: Intel Corp. 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 5)
using bf2.4 flavour, it installed nicely. using the framebuffer.
the one complaint, when formatting
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:31:38PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You could try adding ramdisk=8000 to that.
Tried. Nothing.
did you run memtest86 http://www.teresaudio.com/memtest86/ to prove that
your memory really is good?
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 04:09:45PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
- Formatting the partitions: the screen is filled with details about the
progress of the ReiserFS-Journal being written. This is confusing for some
Well, on slow harddisks you would like to have more info about the
problem.
ome congratulations may be in order, i am not sure
i updated sid again this afternoon (around midnight GMT), and rebuilt
the bootfloppies. it failed:
I: single locale mode forced for flavor '', no FB console support
I: ld.so on this architecture is ld-linux.so.2
E: expected to find
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 07:25:13AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
IMHO reiserfs simply isn't viable anymore. So I don't really care
please explain - how is it ``not viable anymore''? replaced by ext3? the
only thing ext3 has is journalling. reiserfs brings a lot more to the
table than simply
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 01:02:12AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
Hello Adam, hello everyone.
As promised on IRC, I have worked on a useable solution for using the
2.4 kernels in our current boot floppies and I think I have one.
provided we can meet the following criteria, i have no objections
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:13:58PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
2) I managed to make a 1.2M kernel which fitted on the floppy disk.
However the syslinux loader reports a 'corrupt kernel'. I noticed that
when I tried to cp /usr/src/source*2.2.19/vmlinux to /mnt/linux the
machine
i feel very good about my /instmnt patches.
but i do wish to test them as best as possible first, so i did a make
clean, and tried to rebuild.
utilities/dbootstrap/lang is causing me problems:
./ver2.py 1 i386 langs.xml
processing langs.xml, utf=1, arch=i386
opening langs.c
Traceback (most
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 01:19:39PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
i have no idea what to do about this, or where to look for it, or
anything. so i am stuck. if anyone has any clues, please let me know.
Perhaps you didn't do a
make check
did that, everything was good.
before
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 02:02:19AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
./ver2.py 1 i386 langs.xml
processing langs.xml, utf=1, arch=i386
opening langs.c
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ./ver2.py, line 138, in ?
dumper (arch) (utf == '0', outfile, result)
File ./dumper.py
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:01:36PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
This being a UTF error, maybe it can be avoided by either
make build
not from the top level CVS directory. that is what i have been trying :/
i want to get a complete set of disks, and use the root.bin as a chroot.
if that
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:54:32PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 02:02:19AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
./ver2.py 1 i386 langs.xml
processing langs.xml, utf=1, arch=i386
opening langs.c
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ./ver2.py, line 138
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:01:36PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
export USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER := false
in config (since your stuff is not involved with either of those).
nope. did not work, but with the help of dancerj on irc, we were able
to determine that it was python-xml that was the
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 02:09:34AM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
Problems:
1) My kernel is 1.5M, larger than a floppy! Won't this be a problem?
of you try to put in on a floppy, yes.
2) Can I somehow mount the boot disk image without putting it on a
floppy and mounting that, to
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:12:02AM -0800, John Wenger wrote:
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2001-12-27
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
The version is 3.0.19, obtained from http://sbih.org/debian/bf3.0.19/.
this is un-official set contains still
the diffs so far:
Index: choose_medium.c
===
RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/choose_medium.c,v
retrieving revision 1.123
diff -u -r1.123 choose_medium.c
--- choose_medium.c 2001/12/27 15:25:52
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 12:45:24PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 10:58:33PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
should we use /target, or / ?
my initial thought was /target, since the only other mounted partitions
would be there (such as, re-using a /var partition
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 12:09:24AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
last time i did a _full_ install of woody onto a laptop, baseconfig was
started _before_ the pcmcia card services were started. so getting
packages over the net failed.
base-config is run from inittab
i'm working on getting rid of the /instmnt messages for
choose_archive_dir(). i have successfully gotten rid of it, and only
some cosmetic issues remain. i will submit my patches, even if i do not
get the cosmetic issues entirely worked out.
the usability issue i have found is this:
the
this is more appropriate for debian-devel or debian-mentor
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:02:48AM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote:
Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A few months ago I put together a Debian floppy-maker script for usage
on powerpc. The script depends on the MacOS-provided
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 10:18:20PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
The way to generate basedebs.tgz is by using debootstrap, like:
cd /tmp
mkdir woody
debootstrap --download-only woody woody http://http.us.debian.org
debootstrap --download-only woody woody http://http.us.debian.org/debian
cd
i just did a test install of 3.0.18
architecture: i386
flavour: reiserfs
console: serial
there are still some problems with the mounting of non-ext2 partitions
(i have a fix for that), and the /instmnt problem (i have a partial fix
for that)
another minor annoyance, more of a user issue, and
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 03:06:11PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Tom Wzietek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My point is: it should be started automatically. I'm referring to the
first time logon after base installation, when base-config is run on
the first console.
My point is: It *is*
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 03:17:26PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Ok, good enough for me. I've retagged 3.0.18 boot-floppies. Uploading
source and i386 shortly (will take 2-3 hours).
i have built the i386 from a tagged checkout, you can get the release
directory from:
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 12:00:33AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 03:27:41PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
are showing. Here's what they say:
init started: Busybox v. 0.60.3-pre (2001.12.07-03:53+)
Bummer, could not run '/etc/init.d/rcS': Permission denied
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 03:27:41PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
are showing. Here's what they say:
init started: Busybox v. 0.60.3-pre (2001.12.07-03:53+)
Bummer, could not run '/etc/init.d/rcS': Permission denied
grep: /proc/cmdline: No such file or directory
ah, damn. my fault.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 01:37:08AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1) no mkfs.reiserfs in the root.bin
scripts/rootdisk/SMALL_BASE_LIST_i386_reiserfs lists 'sbin/mkreiserfs'.
Isn't that the right thing? If not, please check in a fix
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 01:11:41AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
John H . Robinson IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
it is caused by the spawning of bterm in the /sbin/udbootstrap script.
So we need some way to bypass bterm when booting with a serial console
right? Is there a way to do
this is yet another note,
but i am not sure how to fix it. this is an atypical build process, so
this is why i can find it
% make clean
% make resc2880reiserfs.bin
... snip! ...
I: including font for bterm
cp: cannot stat `utilities/bogl/unifont-reduced.bgf': No such file or directory
E:
code snippet:
utilities/dbootstrap/choose_medium.c
216 static int choose_archive_dir(char *text, char *prefix)
217 {
...snip...
243 if (!preventry) {
244 /* CM_MOUNTPOINT_DIR is default if it's mounted */
245 if (!system(cat /proc/mounts | grep -q
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2001-12-12
Severity: important
when the kernel is passed the console=ttyS0 option, the kernel boot
messages are properly sent to the console.
however, the language choose shows up on the first virtual console, and
the keyboard is non-responsive.
some additional information:
it is caused by the spawning of bterm in the /sbin/udbootstrap script.
i changed the script to:
#!/bin/sh
if (/dev/fb0) 2/dev/null ! /usr/bin/tty | grep -q ttyS ; then
export LC_CTYPE=C@utf-8
exec /usr/bin/bterm -f /unifont-reduced.bgf /sbin/dbootstrap
fi
exec
i am doing this mostly for documentation. i should probably file
bugreports,
all issues listed affect the reiserfs flavour:
1) no mkfs.reiserfs in the root.bin
unable to create a reiserfs partition (this is very defeatest of the
whole flavour)
(could be an artifact of my abreiviated
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 04:59:53PM -0800, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote:
fixed the EXTACT_LIST and SMALL_BASE_LIST to support varying
flavours within an architecture
required for reiserfs and udma100-ext3
as a secondary effect, rootreiserfs.bin and rootudma100-ext3.bin are now
both too
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 04:35:39PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
BTW, the recently uploaded version of kernel-image-2.2.20-udma100-ext3
has vga16fb again. If you switch to the new kernel version, you can
enable it in rootdisk.sh. AFAICS the pcmcia-modules-2.2.20-reiserfs
packages is the only
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 11:14:54AM +, Philip Blundell wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John H. Robinson, IV writes:
there is an etc/messages.trm. i did do a make clean before building.
this was the reiserfs flavour, over serial.
Right, yeah, I think I see the problem.
Can you
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 10:59:29PM +, Philip Blundell wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John H. Robinson, IV writes:
i'm testing the installer now. should it have asked about language?
No, the reiserfs flavour isn't i18n enabled. The only ones that will
give you a choice
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 07:41:51PM +, Philip Blundell wrote:
Are you running on a machine with fbcon enabled? (If you see a penguin on the
screen during bootup, you have fbcon.)
Do the vanilla or reiserfs flavours work any better?
i tried with reiserfs, and i get the flashing also.
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:35:03PM +, Philip Blundell wrote:
I think it's the -pic packages that you have to watch out for particularly.
Make sure that libnewt-utf8-pic is installed, and libnewt-pic is not. Having
both of them is probably bad news.
libnewt-pic
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:55:35PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:35:03PM +, Philip Blundell wrote:
I think it's the -pic packages that you have to watch out for particularly.
Make sure that libnewt-utf8-pic is installed, and libnewt-pic is not. Having
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 12:05:30AM +, Philip Blundell wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John H. Robinson, IV writes:
Problem
An error occured while loading application messages.
that is further than i got before.
If you haven't done make clean
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:46:15PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
i am rebuilding, after a make distclean (not sure what that is going to
buy me, other than a lot more network usage, as .deb's get downloaded)
same error.
i even tried the root.bin version. i verified that /etc
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 02:00:08AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
i186 has 1027 available on root.bin 1440 vanilla. Other flavors seem
similar, although reiserfs is signifcantly smaller.
no framebuffer support (had to take it out, in order to get the reiserfs
bit in monolithically)
-john
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On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 05:47:42PM -0500, Carpenter, Dean wrote:
I need to produce a screen-by-screen document detailing the woody/testing
install process for internal use here.
i found that running dbootstrap in an xterm is sufficient.
you may want to do it in a chroot, and take othre
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 04:06:29PM -0700, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote:
Make tftpboot images for vanilla, compact, ide and idepci (do we want them all,
reiser too?).
it makes my testing easier, in the lab i had set up, yes
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On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:04:04PM -0400, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
It looks like this problem is related to pcmcia-cs and not to the boot-floppies
work at all.
i've seen that, too.
i'd recommend installing the 3.1.22potato pcmcia-cs, and if that works,
hold the package there
echo pcmcia-cs
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 12:09:22AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
major frownies: (again, who to bug? netbase?)
smtp is probably exim, which should be secure enough (although I
prefer Postfix personally). The others are from netkit-inetd.
i
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:03:16AM -0400, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
I'm tyring to install the i386 disks from 'testing' on a Toshiba 1805-S203,
to which I've added a Linksys Combo ethernet card.
you didn't mention which flavour (if any) you were using.
I guess that somehow the system doesn't
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 12:54:34PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:
3. asked, if i wanted to mount root with -notail, althought
i had a ext2 /boot partition, this could be probably
autodected.
the -notail option is useful for more than just /boot.
it also speeds up access, at a cost of
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 08:00:16PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
and now i have the Congratulations, you have successfully installed
Debian! screen. *whew!*
major frownies: (again, who to bug? netbase?)
[jhriv@chao:~]% nmap cthulhu
Starting nmap V. 2.53 by [EMAIL PROTECTED
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:29:54PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
it looks like update_console_info() in
./utilities/dbootstrap/baseconfig.c is the place to fix this.
Hmm, are you suggesting the console args should be parsed from
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:10:17AM -0600, Ed Boraas wrote:
What are our plans for boot-floppies, wrt supporting a ReiserFS root
partition? At the very least, would it be feasible to include mkreiserfs on
the boot set? I know that there's some code in boot-floppies to ask about
formatting
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:53:18PM -0600, Ed Boraas wrote:
Just out of curiosity, are we planning to ship 2.2.19 on woody's floppies,
or (already-reiserfs-enabled) 2.4.x?
i386 will be 2.2.19
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doing a serial console install on i386 architecture, serial console, i
noticed upon reboot that everything went smoothly until base-config
completed, and the getty was spawned.
T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt102
my console was using 115200 bps, not 9600.
the
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 01:52:34PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
MaX in the FaX [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
the guy who builds the
reiser version doesn't provide that? Why not?
I think because the goal, is to have only a floppy disk set, not a
bootable cdrom. The problem is
maybe i am missing something, but i built a stable chroot, apt-got
boot-floppies, and am trying to build them.
however, i am running into a chicken/egg problem. for i386, the kernel
is 2.2.19pre17. however, there is no vanilla kernel, and if i bump it up
to 2.2.19, there are no PCMCIA modules.
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 09:48:12PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Screenshot: http://kitenet.net/~joey/tmp/whiptail.png (expires in 2
weeks or so)
but how does that look on a b/w term?
-john
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On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 12:28:50PM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
An easy option which may or may not be any better is to not use the 'compact'
version of buttons for yes/no boxes. An example of this can be found here:
much nicer! that looks like it would work well on black and white
terms
reiserfs eneabled installer for woody is still a possibility.
since it looks like that 2.2.19 (or a variant thereof) shall be the
default kernel for at least one reiserfs supported architecture, it will
be ultimately up to the kernel maintainer as to which route to go:
1) yet-another-flavor
2)
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:24:50PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
QEmacs is a tiny full-screen editor with UTF-8 support, a hex mode and
the ability to edit huge files efficiently:
http://www-stud.enst.fr/~bellard/qemacs/
have you contacted the author? has he given his blessing to
we have a 2.2.x kernel for about half the architectures, and a 2.4.x
kernel for the rest. are we going to have a 2.4.x kernel for all our
architectures when the woody floppies are released?
what's the likelyhood of supporting grabbing the ramdisk over nfs?
(thinking specifically of i386
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:42:16PM -0400, James D Strandboge wrote:
Currently I have it for woody, and just grab what I need from sid and put it in my
$(ftp_archive)/local directory, which seems to work ok.
that is exactly what i have done, and is probably the safer way to go.
otherwise, all
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 04:51:16PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote:
FWIW, on the 10th of april has been released a version of Busybox including
a 22k vi. Perhaps, in the future, the end of the small editors wars ;)
:) but how close to a ``real'' vi is it?
/me goes to find out . . .
-john
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On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:54:01AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
[suggestion to add telnet/netcat to boot-floppies]
I guess I would really shelf this for now... or just take suggestions
and leave them in todo for now.
busybox 0.51 (others also?) includes netcat and telnet. i guess its a
moot
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:28:22PM -0700, Sam Powers wrote:
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
"Dwayne C. Litzenberger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If so, will the installation program support reiserfs, a parted
frontend, will it support reiserfs as a default
Package: reiserfsprogs
Version: 3.x.0d-2
Severity: wishlist
this is for the woody bootfloppies to be able to install a reiserfs
partition. this patch will allow mkreiserfs to be called with multiple
-f flags to prevent asking any questions. great for non-interactive use
diff -Naur
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:14:38PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
sure hope non subscribers can mail to this group, and hope one day to
be able to read it via nntp. also the name "boot" doesn't 100% match
the description "installation' ...
the next generation installer, debian-installer, should
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 10:27:14PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
- eliminate lilo configuration
Replace it with what?
Is there a release of GRUB that works with Reiser FS?
LILO is more filesystem-independent, which is both its curse and its virtue.
yes there is. the GRUB in woody is
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:09:58PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
what if - we made rescue.sh (and friends) smart enough to know about its
size and other optings (ie: -s) so we could do this:
resc%.bin: $(root_for_rescue) linux% rescue.sh $(arch_rescue_deps)
$(ROOTCMD) ./rescue.sh
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 08:58:14PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
"John H. Robinson, IV" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
it seems that make does not like empty % expandos in make/rescue
Yah, I noticed that late last night, but I was too tired to fix in all
cases. Fixed in CVS now.
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 10:32:23AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
i think that we are going to have to make specific make/* entries for
the case of the null %.
just thought of something...
resc1440%.bin: $(root_for_rescue) linux% rescue.sh $(arch_rescue_deps)
$(ROOTCMD
after i learned i had to upgrade to woody to build the disks - -
(and keeping the potato deb lines in, thanks to console-data)
i got a *clean* copy of the cvs tree (circa Tue Feb 13 09:41:02 PST
2001)
% cd /usr/src
% mkdir cv-woody
% cd woody
% cvs -d :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/debian-boot co
the woody branch depdends upon libgd1-dev, however i cannot find that
anywhere. consequently, make check never succeeds.
i cannot imagine that i am the only one to have this problem; if i am, i
would like to know why i am :)
bottom line: can someone tell me where i can find libgd1-dev?
-john
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 08:42:56PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
the woody branch depdends upon libgd1-dev, however i cannot find that
anywhere. consequently, make check never succeeds.
i cannot imagine that i am the only one to have this problem; if i am, i
would like to know why i am
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 09:49:20AM +0100, Sergio Rua wrote:
I'm very interested on reiserfs. Are there any plan to do Debian
installation over it?
please see http://chao.ucsd.edu/debian/boot-floppies/
-john
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i am trying to get up to speed on the variety of the installing methods
(in order to intelligently modify it :)
and i know bootfloppies, that is what is used for potato. i understand
bootfloppies, and i have no problems with that one.
Q1: is the one available from cvs
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:08:53AM -0800, Rob wrote:
IIRC, ReiserFS had some issues with NFS last time I used it..
This may have been corrected by now, but 5 months ago or so the
consensus was "don't use NFS with ReiserFS".
i have had no problems with ReiserFS and NFS. i have exported
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:56:40PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
the drawback is that it is _yet another flavour_, and currently,
reiserfs is available only for the i386 architecture.
Why should it be another flavor? Why not just a modification to the
existing flavors? Is there something
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 07:34:35PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
i have not written up any HTML documentation yet.
http://chao.ucsd.edu/debian/boot-floppies/
now i have.
-john
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