Re: 2.6.24 boot floppy

2008-04-01 Thread sferriol
Joey Hess wrote: Bastian Blank wrote: CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y The current root floppy is an ext2 filesystem. So for this to help, we'd have to make the disk image be the initramfs cpio without an encapsulating filesystem. Could work.. I've implemented this. Please modularise ext2. another

Re: (forw) floppy daily builds failure: disk full

2007-05-31 Thread sferriol
Joey Hess wrote: Yay, not again. New kernel; new bloat. Didn't we just free up 100k on the boot floppy? i think 100k is too heavy, the solution is to reduce the kernel size. or coding init in C ? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Bug#415992: I give up

2007-03-27 Thread sferriol
Ilya A. Naydov wrote: I'd played with all this options - nothing helps... Finally, I've installed old Windows 98... http://eliot-cougar.livejournal.com/98582.html Just before that I installed Debian 3.1r2 successfully, but I've experienced some problems with HDD access during boot (DMA

Re: Bug#402746: undefined reference to __FD_ZERO and __FD_SET

2006-12-18 Thread sferriol
maximilian attems a écrit : reassign rootskel stop On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, sferriol wrote: Package: libklibc-dev Version: 1.4.30-2 Severity: normal in d-i, building rootskel/src-bootfloppy/bin/timeout_read.c failed on alpha, amd64, ia64, s390 undefined reference to '__FD_ZERO

Re: help - vanishing keyboard

2006-12-07 Thread sferriol
Did you include the usb-discover udeb on the root floppy? yes I also tried _not_ switching the floppy in time for the timeout. It then errors out with Cannot find root floppy; /dev/floppy0: cannot mount and repeats endlessly. Would it be possible to limit that to 2 (maybe 3) times? i

Re: help - vanishing keyboard

2006-12-04 Thread sferriol
hello i have no usb keyboard, so can you test the following images: http://www-timc.imag.fr/Sylvain.Ferriol/debian/d-i/i386/current there are no usb drivers in boot floppy, so you have 30 seconds to change the boot floppy to the root floppy. and after your keyboard will be activated thanks

Re: help - vanishing keyboard

2006-11-22 Thread sferriol
Frans Pop a écrit : On Tuesday 21 November 2006 10:24, sferriol wrote: So etch installer with floppies does not longer support usb keyboard and usb floppy driver, sorry :( may be we will try to find a solution but i think it will be after etch release Would it be possible to have

Re: r42623 - in trunk/packages/rootskel: debian src-bootfloppy src-bootfloppy/bin

2006-11-17 Thread sferriol
Joey Hess a écrit : sylvain ferriol wrote: include klibc-utils in src-rootskel. cpio binary and klibc-utils share the same klibc library + lib:/lib/klibc-*.so + sh:/usr/lib/klibc/bin/sh.shared \ + mount:/usr/lib/klibc/bin/mount \ + insmod:/usr/lib/klibc/bin/insmod \

Bug#395163: Installation report

2006-10-25 Thread sferriol
Tapio Lehtonen a écrit : Package: installation-reports Boot method: Floppy, dated 20061024 Image version: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/ Date: 20061025 Machine: HP Vectra VL 233MHz 64MB 2,6G IDE disk Partitions: FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use%

Bug#394079: installation-reports: x86 floppy install failed, cpio missing

2006-10-20 Thread sferriol
Holger Wansing a écrit : Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Hi, hi I just activated my good old floppy drive and did a test with the images from 17.10.06: inserting the boot disk works fine, I was prompted to give root disk; then this: Loading ../init: 194: cpio not

Bug#386059: floppy images missing

2006-09-08 Thread sferriol
etch beta 2 release seems to provide all images ... I will try these ... i build a daily floppy images with 2.6.17 kernel you can test it but be careful, it is an alpha release http://www-timc.imag.fr/Sylvain.Ferriol/debian/d-i/i386/2006_09_08/ ciao, ciao Martin Sylvain smime.p7s

Re: Debian BF install floppy

2006-09-06 Thread sferriol
Geert Stappers a écrit : On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 05:04:45PM +0200, Jean-Luc CONOTTE wrote: Hello! I am looking for a BF2.6... eg a bf2.4 - 2.6 Is this possible to find it? Or does I have to upgrade after installation?? I don't understand the question. I match BF with boot-floppies the

Re: glibc udebs

2006-05-30 Thread sferriol
Joey Hess a écrit : Aurelien Jarno wrote: I manage to build smaller udebs for the glibc. I built it with -Os, and disabled support for 2.4 kernels. On i386, the gain is 124kB on the udebs size and 260kB on the installed size. Currently it is built in a dirty way by doing that on the main

Bug#367605: broken loop mount support

2006-05-19 Thread sferriol
Joey Hess a écrit : Package: busybox-floppy-udeb Version: 1:1.1.2-1 Severity: important Tags: d-i # mount -o loop /mnt/tmp-initrd /initrd mount: Couldn't setup loop device mount: Mounting (null) on /initrd failed: No such file or directory FWIW, this is on the d-i i386 boot floppy, I've

apt-get,d-i and small hard disks

2004-11-16 Thread sferriol
hello i have a problem using apt under small disk, on a PC under debian and another during debian installation (pre-rc2). On the first PC, i do a 'apt-get upgrade' but there is no place to download packages and after configure them. i finally succeed by selecting package one by one 'apt-get

Bug#274307: partman-ext3 not available in lowmem level 2

2004-10-01 Thread sferriol
Joey Hess a crit : Package: anna Severity: important Tags: d-i In lowmem level 2, anna presents a list of udebs, which does not include partman-ext3. And partman-ext3 is not loaded at all, though the kernel udeb with the ext3 module is. This leaves partman only able to do ext2 by default. Reiserfs

Bug#270647: in lowmem-level2 anna display a list with too much packages

2004-09-08 Thread sferriol
Package: anna Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i i have a problem with anna when you are in lowmem because it displays to user a list of packages to install but if you use net-install, just before partman, anna will display all packages it founds in the mirror even packages used for a cd-install

Re: Automatic Installations

2004-06-30 Thread sferriol
Brian Sutherland a écrit : Hello all, I have to do a project requiring an auto-installation and auto configuration of many machines. I have looked at fai and autoinstall but am looking for other possibilities as well. Can d-i do this? or would i be better off taking some pieces of it and using

Re: How much mem is low, exactly?

2004-06-11 Thread sferriol
W. Borgert a écrit : On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:10:43AM +0200, sylvain ferriol wrote: this is the patch attached I applied the patch and can build anna*.udeb without problems. Where can I find information on how to create installation floppies using this .udeb? cd

Re: How much mem is low, exactly?

2004-06-02 Thread sferriol
Thiemo Seufer a écrit : W. Borgert wrote: What is the target memory for the lowmem installation? 24 MB seems not to work. I had the hope, that ca. 16 MB would be the limit. 25-45 MB, depending on architecture. Some ideas for improvements: 1. Disable certain downloads/features. IMHO it is OK to

Bug#236293: unresolved symbols when insmod 8390

2004-03-05 Thread sferriol
Shaul Karl a écrit : Package: install Version: 20040303 (floppies) Severity: normal I have used the net-drivers.img (20040303) floppy. Since I have problems with my nic I tried to insmod 8390 try 'modprobe 8390' instead sylvain from the command line of the console (2nd VT, alt+F2). I

Re: rmmod not available in installation shell

2004-02-13 Thread sferriol
Nikita V. Youshchenko a écrit : Hello. Seems it is very bad that rmmod is not available in installation shell. It makes it not possible to fix a typo in module parameters (such as invalid IRQ). i agree, modprobe do not changed module parameters when module is loaded. So if the user has made a

can not install stable release

2004-02-12 Thread sferriol
with netfloppies 20040212, i can not install stable 'woody': No installer components found 'testing' seems to work sylvain smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: goals for next release

2004-01-28 Thread sferriol
Steinar H. Gunderson a écrit : On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:39:39PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: FAIR Full Automatic Installation Revisited. More or less. :-) I don't know FAI in detail, but as far as I can tell, it contains a lot of infrastructure (ie. a full installation program, lots of server

Bug#227355: install report

2004-01-13 Thread sferriol
Gaudenz Steinlin a crit : 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

Re: Bug#220868: Patch to implement a CLEARSEEN command

2003-11-18 Thread sferriol
Denis Barbier wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:50:48PM +0100, Sebastian Ley wrote: [...] But I am quite certain that this whole stuff is a bad idea, how to abort and thus go back to main-menu should be handled directly by cdebconf, and not by config scripts. I suppose that is impossible (correct

cdebconf: error message when running test

2003-01-28 Thread sferriol
hello when i'm running test in cdebconf , see doc/testing.txt; the command : ../debconf-loadtemplate debian test.templates it returns: Cannot open template file ./templates.dat And after, i see that the command has created the file So why does it display this message?? And how can i iterate