debian-installer status, thoughts

2001-01-29 Thread David Whedon
Good news! I just used netcfg-static to bring up the network on my machine after booting off the floppy. fun. Problems: 1. 3c509 modules depends on isa-pnp module. It looks like if you configure the kernel to have modular isapnp, then some of the ISA modules are configured to use that. Does

Re: Notes on dbootstrap makefile and plans [Re: Debian Boot CVS: tausq]

2001-01-29 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:03:51AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: What I do have a problem with right now is LANG_CHOOSER and how it was never really completed. Very frustrating. I feel like the i18n folks got us 95% there, but neglected to finish off the critical last 5%. Yes, i can feel

No Keyboard when booting the powerPC bootdisk

2001-01-29 Thread John McLoud
Hi! Im having a "little" problem, when booting from the dick, found in /install/powermac/boot-floppy-hfs.img on the official Debian-CD. I dont have any access to my keyboards (one is connected to the ADB, the other to the USB port of my PowerMacintosh 4400). Some time ago, I downloaded an

Re: debian-installer status report

2001-01-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Joey Hess | - http retriever [Joey Hess] | Works, needs testing and proxy support. Has proxy support. Needs proxy and general testing. Will soon have ftp support. -- Tollef Fog Heen Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are. -- To

Debian installation screens (cont)

2001-01-29 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, last week I sent the following e-mail and someone replied me. I forgot the mail. It is something like get boot-floppies package and use dbootstrap. I tried to do a "make release" and the following error occurs: find . -name \*~ | xargs rm -f make resc1440.bin

Re: Debian installation screens (cont)

2001-01-29 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:44:42PM -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: I forgot the mail. It is something like get boot-floppies package and use dbootstrap. I tried to do a "make release" and the following error occurs: find . -name \*~ | xargs rm -f make resc1440.bin

Debian Boot CVS: ericvb

2001-01-29 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: ericvb 01/01/29 09:52:29 Modified files: documentation : release-notes.fr.sgml Log message: Christophe Martin finished the French translation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Bug#83608: [PATCH]: modutils-udeb for debian-installer

2001-01-29 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously David Whedon wrote: We're really strapped for space trying to fit all on a single floppy. We have to carefully consider the 10k that using modprobe will cost us. Is it possible for you to elaborate on why you don't want us to use insmod. We really only need it to insmod a nic

Re: Bug#83608: [PATCH]: modutils-udeb for debian-installer

2001-01-29 Thread David Whedon
Okay, using modprobe is a good idea. I have a new patch to modutils; it includes modprobe and is attached. Thanks, -David Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 07:47:38PM +0100 wrote: Previously David Whedon wrote: We're really strapped for space trying to fit all on a single floppy. We have to

Re: Debian Boot CVS: aph

2001-01-29 Thread Joey Hess
the apt-get way of downloading is *not* going to work for us. It refuses to download Required packages that are already installed. Feh!!! Have you tried setting Dir::State::status to point to an empty file or something? -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: busybox for b-f yet?

2001-01-29 Thread Erik Andersen
On Mon Jan 29, 2001 at 02:57:44AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: I note that in busybox_0.49pre-1 we still don't yet have a means of making the various symlinks to busybox stuff. Or am I just missing it? Is this forthcoming? It's starting to be a bother not to have it... Hmm. Did I forget

Debian Boot CVS: joeyh

2001-01-29 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:base-config Changes by: joeyh 01/01/29 13:48:08 Modified files: debian : changelog control rules Log message: * Built with fixed debhelper to get all the pt_BR template merged in. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

[Fwd: Debian's new installer]

2001-01-29 Thread Glenn McGrath
The following is a bit of a description about how Conectiva's installer works. You have probably picked up from the list that cdebconf and udeb packages are basically the heart of the new debian installer. cdebconf provides the user interface and installer modules are handled like regular

Re: bogl forked (was Re: [patch] bogl memset_var for 32 bpp screen)

2001-01-29 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:54:38PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:27:51PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry for not being clear - yes, I know that bterm has the same bug.