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: This bug should be fixed on boot-floppies side

2003-01-09 Thread Michael Schmitz
I think this bug should be dealt on boot-floppies side. Shouldn't it ? Eduard Bloch told me it's a debootstrap issue (there's no need for eject in the initial installer, just in the basedebs since CD changing only happens during second stage install). Pass the blame, please...

romfs initrd and kernel config

2003-01-09 Thread Glenn McGrath
I commited changes to build/Makefile to allow the filsystem on the initrd to be specified, it defaults to ext2 so it currently doesnt make any difference. 748 net-initrd.ext2.gz 736 net-initrd.romfs.gz So romfs saves us 12kB on the filesystem overheads of the initrd. It requires romfs be

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

2003-01-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
I think this bug should be dealt on boot-floppies side. Shouldn't it ? HOW? It would be easy to add this to debootstrap's call, but if the packaging is missing in basedebs.tar, people installing from it would fail. So debootstrap would require an update, or at least a change in

Re: patch: debian-boot as maintainer for grub-installer?

2003-01-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Petter Reinholdtsen] I suggest applying this patch to make grub-installer maintained by debian-boot, and to make sure it shows up on URL:http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?[EMAIL PROTECTED]. Anyone against it? Tollef told me it was ok to commot it, so I did. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

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

2003-01-09 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 09:48:14AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: I think this bug should be dealt on boot-floppies side. Shouldn't it ? Eduard Bloch told me it's a debootstrap issue (there's no need for eject in the initial installer, just in the basedebs since CD changing only happens

updating http://www.debian.org/intro/organization

2003-01-09 Thread Adam DiCarlo
I'm updating http://www.debian.org/intro/organization and I wanted to have you guys here review this. I forget who volunteered to manage the install manual? Installation System Team -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] current: Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Installation System for `stable' -- [EMAIL

Re: Current EEPRO100 Driver in boot-floppies

2003-01-09 Thread Adam DiCarlo
CCS Crew [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The driver in the boot-floppies images for the eepro100 seems to be out-of-date and broken. The problem is characterized by the NIC's failure to respond after minimal usage. Intel (and newer drivers for the NIC) offers a working driver for Linux that I have

Re: 3c905b-tx and 3c905c-txm cannot install

2003-01-09 Thread Adam DiCarlo
ASC - Ronald Roeleveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci/net/3c59x.o: Init_module : Device or resource busy Hint: insmod error can be caused by incorrect module parameters including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci/net/3c59x.o: insmod

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: Current EEPRO100 Driver in boot-floppies

2003-01-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Adam DiCarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-09 09:59:14 -0600]: 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. It would seem like an issue for upstream more than for a downstream package. Having

Re: Bug#175187: This bug should be fixed on boot-floppies side

2003-01-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 07:40:24PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: I don't really like the way the amount of packages debootstrap installs is increasing, but that probably has to be done... There probably needs to be a long-sought distinction between base system and installation system There

Re: Bug#175187: This bug should be fixed on boot-floppies side

2003-01-09 Thread Adam DiCarlo
Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 07:40:24PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: I don't really like the way the amount of packages debootstrap installs is increasing, but that probably has to be done... There probably needs to be a long-sought distinction between

di: initrd isnt free'd

2003-01-09 Thread Glenn McGrath
Booting the net flavour. cat /proc/mounts shows /dev/root.old is mounted on /initrd devfs is mounted twice on /dev I think one of the devfs mount must be from the ext2 ramdisk prior to moving it to tmpfs, even though the path doesnt say so. I cant unmount dev it reports Device or resource

Saludos desde España

2003-01-09 Thread Amigos de Panama
Hola amiga/o Me llamo Alberto Sánchez. Te escribo desde Madrid, España y formo parte de un equipo del Movimiento Humanista. Desde hace aproximadamente un año estoy participando activamente en actividades organizativas en tu bello país, sobre todo en el área indígena. Hoy son ya millones de

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2003-01-09 Thread big
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Reinsert slang backend in cdebconf udeb?

2003-01-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I believe the current cdebconf udeb is missing slang support because of the size problem reported in url:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=84230. But if I read the report correctly, the real problem was with library reduction, and not the existance of the slang backend. Is this

Re: romfs initrd and kernel config

2003-01-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Glenn McGrath] So we could save upto 35kB on the rescue disk, however we need to consider if we should have a kernel config specifically for the debian-installer, or should it be usable with the existing kernel package initrd system. I believe it is good to use the same kernel both places,