Re: termwrap again

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Taketoshi Sano wrote: I've been too busy to create/check such one small package, but I shall manage to do it in a week (or are there someone can do it for us ? I'm pleased if I can give that package to someone who can understand it and can check/test

Bug#98439: fixed in cvs

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is already code in rootdisk.sh to place the af_packet.o module on the root floppy, and code in /etc/init.d/rcS to insert the module. It isn't included on the root floppy because the module is extracted from modules.tgz, but the dependencies don't

Re: installation from floppies - bug

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Jaros/law Rachwalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: During loading packages from woody distribution, it couldn'n load adduser. Porbably there is problem with Packages, becouse adduser is in the base section, but it isn't in base directory. I really don't know why so many people are having this

Re: installation from floppies - bug

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
FYI, if you're just trying to install debian, please use the stable version (potato) not woody. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onshored.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cvs commit to tasksel/debian by joeyh

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Log Message: * Modifications to existing tasks: - added language-env to all language tasks that it supports ... I'm confused. Why are we fudgeing around with tasks rather than filing bugs against the corresponding task-* packages? Did I miss something?

please document changes in debian/changelog

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
People, please be sure to document your changes in debian/changelog, do not rely on me to do that. Thanks. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onshored.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: woody floppy test

2001-05-24 Thread Erik Andersen
On Tue May 22, 2001 at 04:07:28PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: Thanks for the report. I filed two bugs: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=nobug=98433 BTW, an updated busybox package is sitting in incoming... -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: cvs commit to tasksel/debian by joeyh

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm confused. Why are we fudgeing around with tasks rather than filing bugs against the corresponding task-* packages? Did I miss something? Ignore me -- just read the policy. Not totally happy about it because it seems to put more work on the

Bug#98075: Update inst-methods.sgml, add suntar, hfs; update setlang sections

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Woah woah woah...settle down, guys. Chris, if you can please send a corrected patch (as a mime attachment) to this list, I can apply it to the potato version. Chris, I would prefer that this stuff just be sent as a mail to this list rather than as a bug report. Ethan, don't step all over the

Re: Booting PPC/Nubus

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Fritz Jetzek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: E: Couldn't find package debootstrap I guess no powerpc porters have ported that yet. I have a powerpc now, I'll take a look at this. If someone else could, that would be better... -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onshored.com/ -- To

Bug#97574: marked as done (Debian 'stable' install assumes color monitor)

2001-05-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated 24 May 2001 03:01:00 -0400 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#97574: Debian 'stable' install assumes color monitor 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

NFS broken in potato (was Re: Boot-floppies 2.2.25 Test Report)

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
James Rodgers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Loaded NFS and 3c595 modules, configured network to static IP and attempted to load base system from nfs server. Received the following message when attempting to NFS mount from server: May 15 07:00:37 (none) user.info dbootsrap

debootstrap/b-f interaction -- quieten

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
On install base (debootstrap) step, I am getting a hang while it tells me to acknowledge that it created an empty ld.so.conf and other things. I would prefer if we not make the user have to hit return for that... -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onshored.com/ -- To

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/messages/C by aph

2001-05-24 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/messages/C who:aph time: Thu May 24 00:27:22 PDT 2001 Log Message: try to scream out that this is not ready for production use yet Files: changed:release_notes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

dbootstrap_settings (was Re: base-config cruft cleanup)

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
FYI, I suppose you already know, but he did manage to do this. I show the following dbootstrap_settings settings: KEYBD='i386/qwerty/us' DEBUG='true' DEBIAN_MIRROR_HOSTNAME='http.us.debian.org' DEBIAN_MIRROR_PATH='debian' DEBIAN_MIRROR_PORT='80' note that LANGUAGE issue isn't yet coming

Re: Problem with boot install of Woody (Testing) Couldn't download adduser

2001-05-24 Thread Matt Kraai
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:10:31AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Francis Yom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded the disks-i386 bins from woody (testing) in order to net install Woody on a new machine.? Everything worked fine up until the Install the Base System section.? I selected

Re: debootstrap/b-f interaction -- quieten

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
I suppose I wasn't clear. I honestly can't remember if the created empty ld.so.conf thing gave me a hit return to continue type prompt or not. I'll pay more attention next time. My general contention is that such messages are too low-level and there's no reason to present such things to the

Re: Booting PPC/Nubus

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a powerpc now, I'll take a look at this. If someone else could, that would be better... I've uploaded debootstrap for powerpc. Even tested it! Seems to work fine. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onshored.com/ -- To

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-24 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Thu May 24 01:10:19 PDT 2001 Log Message: update for new urgent tasks and remove some old bugs in other stuff which are fixed -- termwrap is the killer. When that is fixed, I will release 2.3.4. Files: changed:todo -- To

termwrap continued

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Once termwrap is added to base-files, I think we'll be ready for a new boot-floppies build which will Just Work (TM). Yes. I tried the easy way out: --- inittab.install 2000/08/18 19:17:29 1.5 +++ inittab.install 2001/05/24 08:10:38 @@ -26,7

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-24 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Thu May 24 01:12:35 PDT 2001 Log Message: trivialites, and finalize so things don't complain Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: 2.2.25 compact install

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Francis Larson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been trying the 2.2.25 version on a Dell Optiplex GXi. This is an all IDE box with 3com network card. The install went flawlessly till the module configuration. DHCP had worked and the base package had been downloaded. I got the message

Re: termwrap again

2001-05-24 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
A package for such a small file seems like overkill. How about I put it in base-config and whoever we find who understands how it works (You, or if not you, I contemplate looking up the original author in the cvs logs..) can just maintain it from there. Everyone has commits to base-config

Re: Where is the base tarball?

2001-05-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:20:54AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Nope, you're right. But there's really no going back now. Perhaps someone could work through a patch to debootstrap that would be able to use a dir with all the packages smooshed flat there? that won't handle the broken

Re: installing on Promise Ultra ATA100 controller / French euro keyboard

2001-05-24 Thread Funny Write
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/idepci/ i really don't understand what that directory contains...i used rawrite to create a disk from the driver-1.bin, but it wasn't detected when i inserted floppy for installing a promise ultra ata 100

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2001-05-24 Thread -
I am a chinese colleg-student.With my poor English,I only can say I'd love to be a member of you. I have a notebook-computer without CD-ROM,and its CPU is i80486DX2-50.What can I do if I want to install Debian Linux and share the happy time with it? Is there any way for me to work it on my

udma100

2001-05-24 Thread Ovide Sebastian
Hallo: I want tu buy a computer with udma100, Can I ? Is it possible to install potato r2 with udma100 ? thank you -- Sebastián Ezequiel Ovide ICQ:113198452 Universitá degli studi di Padova Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica

Re: udma100

2001-05-24 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:19:41PM +0200, Ovide Sebastian wrote: I want tu buy a computer with udma100, Can I ? Is it possible to install potato r2 with udma100 ? Make sure the particular controller is supported by the linux kernel. Then,

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by dwhedon

2001-05-24 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:dwhedon time: Thu May 24 08:14:43 PDT 2001 Log Message: treat debootstrap warnings as status messages so the user isn't prompted to hit return. Files: changed:extract_base.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debootstrap/b-f interaction -- quieten

2001-05-24 Thread David Whedon
Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:16:36AM -0400 wrote: On install base (debootstrap) step, I am getting a hang while it tells me to acknowledge that it created an empty ld.so.conf and other things. I would prefer if we not make the user have to hit return for that... -- That's by design, but

Re: Problem with boot install of Woody (Testing) Couldn't download adduser

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Yom, Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pardon the personal mail Adam. I know you must be inundated. I didn't know about this list so I appreciate it :-) Can I help with finding a solution? I'd love it if the unstable selection worked. It doesn't. As for now, what should I do to

Re: Bug#98439: dhcp support broken

2001-05-24 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 01:57:17AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Please file serious bugs against these kernels. They need CONFIG_FILTER. The following bugs have been filed against the appropriate kernel-image. 98589: sun4u 98591: powerpc-chrp 98592: powerpc-prep 98593: mac (m68k) 98595: atari

Re: debootstrap/b-f interaction -- quieten

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Whedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:16:36AM -0400 wrote: On install base (debootstrap) step, I am getting a hang while it tells me to acknowledge that it created an empty ld.so.conf and other things. I would prefer if we not make the user have to hit return

Re: debootstrap/b-f interaction -- quieten

2001-05-24 Thread Richard Hirst
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:14:49AM -0700, David Whedon wrote: Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:16:36AM -0400 wrote: On install base (debootstrap) step, I am getting a hang while it tells me to acknowledge that it created an empty ld.so.conf and other things. I would prefer if we not make the

Re: powerpc woody bf installation status

2001-05-24 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:32:44PM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:55:39PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: Well actually I meant chroot /target or chroot target gives me the error: chroot: USER=root: No such file or directory I tried using the chroot that was

Re: Bug#98439: dhcp support broken

2001-05-24 Thread Richard Hirst
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:33:55AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: I didn't find kernel-images for ia64 or hppa, perhaps due to the status of the ports. Should I put a note on their lists or just wait until they are further along? I'm working on the .config for hppa, and I have

Re: debootstrap/b-f interaction -- quieten

2001-05-24 Thread Matt Kraai
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:33:34PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: A worse problem, IMHO, is that the warning box gets scrolled off the screen by all the Unpacking ..., Setting up messages that scroll up my screen staircase fashion. Maybe that is a feature of a serial console install, and

Re: udma100

2001-05-24 Thread rick
I have used a ASUS A7V motherboard with its on board controller and it works fine. No problems. This explains how to get it working . http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/ Rick Griffith System Administrator Bruce Titus Automotive Group Hallo: I want tu buy a computer with udma100, Can I ?

Re: debootstrap/b-f interaction -- quieten

2001-05-24 Thread David Whedon
Hi Anthony, I don't know if you've seen this thread, it started here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0105/msg00719.html I figure you can provide some input. Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:35:42AM -0400 wrote: David Whedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:16:36AM -0400

dhcp-client

2001-05-24 Thread Richard Hirst
I'm working on boot-floppies for hppa. I do an install, tell it I don't want to use dhcp, and enter the static IP address details. When I reboot the system starts up dhcp-client anyway, and /etc/init.d/networking isn't run at all. eth0 is up, lo is not. To sort things out I have to --purge

Re: dhcp-client

2001-05-24 Thread Matt Kraai
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:05:47PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: I'm working on boot-floppies for hppa. I do an install, tell it I don't want to use dhcp, and enter the static IP address details. When I reboot the system starts up dhcp-client anyway, and /etc/init.d/networking isn't run at

Re: trouble with /sbin/termwrap

2001-05-24 Thread Joey Hess
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: I think this will break for devfs systems where devfsd hasn't been started yet. Using By the time termwrap and base-config are run, devfsd has been started. However, feel free to commit something to base-config cvs where termwrap now lives, for better devfs support.

cvs commit to base-config by joeyh

2001-05-24 Thread joeyh
Repository: base-config who:joeyh time: Thu May 24 11:26:59 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Patch from Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] to add termwrap to base-config. There was no other sane place to put it, so we settled on here. Closes: #98602 Files: added: termwrap

cvs commit to base-config/debian by joeyh

2001-05-24 Thread joeyh
Repository: base-config/debian who:joeyh time: Thu May 24 11:27:00 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Patch from Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] to add termwrap to base-config. There was no other sane place to put it, so we settled on here. Closes: #98602 Files: changed:

Re: cvs commit to tasksel/debian by joeyh

2001-05-24 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Bramer wrote: joey don't make this 'all in one task-package' Please don't tell me what to do when you don't understand the new task system. The new task system will allow you to remove things from tasks, easily, at install time. file server in one package. Or dialup-modem,

Re: cvs commit to tasksel/debian by joeyh

2001-05-24 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Di Carlo wrote: Not totally happy about it because it seems to put more work on the overworked archive maintainers, but what can you do, I guess it's a step forward. Actually if it creates more work for anyone, it is this list. After all, tasksel is in boot-floppies cvs and you all have

Re: termwrap again

2001-05-24 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Thank you for your proposal. In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Wed, 23 May 2001 22:06:33 -0400, with Re: termwrap again, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A package for such a small file seems like overkill. How about I put it in base-config and whoever we find who understands how it works (You,

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/prototype/etc by joeyh

2001-05-24 Thread joeyh
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/prototype/etc who:joeyh time: Thu May 24 11:40:10 PDT 2001 Log Message: termwrap has moved to /usr/sbin (and to base-config) Files: changed:inittab.install -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: termwrap continued

2001-05-24 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Di Carlo wrote: However, that causes warnings when base-config starts and base-config to hang after setting the root password (unless that's unrelated?). Hmm, I don't know why base-config would do that. What kind of warnings? Termwrap really does nothing much that I can see that could

Re: termwrap again

2001-05-24 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Thanks, I just removed the termwrap package at incoming of ftp-master. In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Thu, 24 May 2001 14:48:43 -0400, with Re: termwrap again, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: joeyh The new base-config is in Incoming now, so.. checked the cvs tree of base-config, and got

Bug#98618: Circular package dependencies

2001-05-24 Thread David Whedon
did you try: # dpkg -i libdb2_2%3a2.7.7-8_i386.deb libc6_2.2.3-1_i386.deb I think that works. -David Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:47:52PM +0200 wrote: Package: base I am trying to move from using 'stable' to using 'testing'. However, I have a showstopper in that libc6 is dependent in

Re: dhcp-client

2001-05-24 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:20:36PM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:05:47PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: I'm working on boot-floppies for hppa. I do an install, tell it I don't want to use dhcp, and enter the static IP address details. When I reboot the system starts

Re: udma100

2001-05-24 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
I've buy a hard disk of that type, it will work fine with Potato r3 (2.2.19) if the setup UDMA option be changed to use UDMA 4 or UDMA 2. Also, if you want do do your hard disk working with UDMA 100 (in future), you will need a special cable for use with UDMA 5 (and you hard disk will need

Re: termwrap continued

2001-05-24 Thread Richard Hirst
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:45:20PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Adam Di Carlo wrote: However, that causes warnings when base-config starts and base-config to hang after setting the root password (unless that's unrelated?). If your base-config is not up to date, it can appear to hang round about

powerpc-utils and DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2001-05-24 Thread Stephen R Marenka
While working on woody boot-floppies on my oldworld powermac, I noticed that powerpc-utils seems to ignore the DEBIAN_FRONTEND=Noninteractive. It thus fails to configure. This is a required package. How do I figure out what's at fault and fix it or where should I file a bug? Thanks, Stephen

Re: termwrap continued

2001-05-24 Thread Joey Hess
Richard Hirst wrote: However, that causes warnings when base-config starts and base-config to hang after setting the root password (unless that's unrelated?). If your base-config is not up to date, it can appear to hang round about there due to a poor implementation of is_system_user()

Re: termwrap continued

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Richard Hirst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:45:20PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Adam Di Carlo wrote: However, that causes warnings when base-config starts and base-config to hang after setting the root password (unless that's unrelated?). If your base-config is not

Re: dbootstrap

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Andrew D Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm working my way through a peculiar install (the box is a briq from Total Impact http://www.totalimpact.com ). The box is booting over the network and I haven't been able to run dbootstrap. What architecture? I've managed to activate and mount

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by stephen.r.marenka

2001-05-24 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:stephen.r.marenka time: Thu May 24 16:08:30 PDT 2001 Log Message: Detect PowerMac generation (OldWorld/NewWorld) Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by kraai

2001-05-24 Thread Erik Andersen
On Thu May 24, 2001 at 08:40:30AM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:34:09AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We need the latest BusyBox, which should fix everything under the sun. Not quite everything, there's still the askfirst stuff from

Bug#98618: Circular package dependencies

2001-05-24 Thread Jacob Hallén
Package: base I am trying to move from using 'stable' to using 'testing'. However, I have a showstopper in that libc6 is dependent in libdb2, which in turn is dependent on libc6. The packages in unstable are the same versions as the ones in testing, so the problem does not seem to be fixed

Bug#98629: Selecting.../Unpacking... text messes up serial console

2001-05-24 Thread Richard Hirst
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.4.3 I am using a serial console, on hppa. When deboostrap is installing the debs, I get text scrolling up my screen like this: Unpacking ppp (from .../archives/ppp_2.4.1-1_hppa.deb) ...