Re: Install from DOS HD

2000-06-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Di Carlo wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to install the frozen 'potato' release onto an empty HD set aside for Linux, from my already installed DOS HD. I downloaded the needed files and put them in a directory on my DOS HD per installation instructions

Re: PPPoE for base?

2000-06-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
hashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to include PPPoE in the base2_2.tgz? More and more ISP provide wide band internet access throught PPPoE now. And people using PPPoE tents to install Debian through network. I have no idea. What is PPPoE? Is it packaged and in Debian?

Re: How to install Debian w/ an Adaptec PRO ???

2000-06-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Michael Agbaglo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This controller is supported by 2.3.x series - what is the easiest way to install Debian ? Can I replace the kernel on rescue disk, will this be sufficient ? I don't know... it's unsupported. I suggest installing with a support SCSI card. Hopefully

Re: Compact install fails on my hardware

2000-06-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Taketoshi Sano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try using "linux video=vc:8" on "boot:" prompt of the rescue floppy. I added a string in f5.txt about this. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Bug#64428: dbootstrap should check if right set of driver images is being used

2000-06-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Jozef Hitzinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: More confusion possible: If you accidentaly insert wrong set of floppies (base instead of drivers in my case) it will happily read all the disks (11 instead of 3), then of course fail with (not very helpful) "wrong drivers.tgz" message. Yup. If

Re: potato release notes

2000-06-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Oliver Elphick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The section on split packages should be amended by including the following information about postgresql: Oliver, it looks like someone already got this. People, I wish you would mail the list when you've handled something... it wastes my time

Re: CVS update fails: Connection reset by peer

2000-06-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Eric Hanchrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For a few days now, I haven't been able to update my copy of the boot-floppies tree. Here's what happens when I try: Is this problem still happening? It sounded like a cvs/pserver/nscd bad interaction, probably caused by the LDAP stuff being

Re: disposition of 2.2.16

2000-06-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The only thing that seems really worrying at this point is new gpm installs, but I guess that can be fixed in parallel to b-f's. Note that there's a new sysvinit waiting to go into potato, and we might also end up with a new util-linux. These

Bug#66266: installation hang

2000-06-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
retitle 66266 [slink, i386] kernel hang thanks -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#66302: Modconf uses wrong parameters

2000-06-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
severity 66302 critical merge 66302 65515 thanks Yes, this has been reported before, thanks. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#66357: No MD5sums for (most) base files

2000-06-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
severity 66357 normal reassign 66357 debian-policy thanks exa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Today, I've had the chance to thrash my root filesystem. While I was recovering the root fs, I tried to find the corrupt files with debsums. However, I then recalled that base files didn't really have

2.2.16 i386 build available for testing

2000-06-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Joey Hess has kindly provided i386 builds of 2.2.16 boot-floppies. Please test these for critical bugs -- by critical, I mean bugs which prevent installation in common scenarios. Specifically, installation via 'mounted' means, from DOS. We also need to check that loading modules which require

Re: 2.2.16 i386 build available for testing

2000-06-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam forgot to mention that they're at http://www.debian.org/~joeyh/bf/ D'oh! Thank you! -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Potato install: problems loading modules

2000-06-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Niccolo Rigacci [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I downloaded the latest (2.2.15) boot-floppies (boot, root, dev1-3) and started a fresh installation. During the modconf step I noticed some glitches: - Some modules dependancies are not resolved automatically. Noticeably lp is not loaded if I

Re: localized bf for potato release?

2000-06-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all! What are our plans for them until language chooser is ready (which I guess won't be before potato release) 1) will the localized versions be included with 2.2.16 (which I guess will be the version for potato release)? or 2) are we

Bug#65988: modules unavailable because of wierd symlink

2000-06-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
kbullock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Using the potato boot-floppied version 2.2.15-2000-06-07, I installed my system from five floppies and the Internet. ok, so you installed from floppy for the rescue/root/driver stuff, right? Which architecture? Which flavor? Which verison of

Bug#66030: tries to read past end of driver-3.bin

2000-06-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Goswin Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When installing Debian, the installation of the Driver disks reads past the end of drivers-3.bin (that probably what tar/gzip allways try) Normaly that wont be a problem, since a real floppy will have some spam after the driver-3.bin, but when

Re: boot-floppies bug cleanup

2000-07-05 Thread Adam Di Carlo
If your closing bugs I would rather you would just email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than slapping the severity to fixed. Thus the submitter gets a message. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Test Cycle Three Update

2000-07-05 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Boot floppies 2.2.16, source and i386 was uploaded to samosa a few hours ago. People are actively compiling m68k and alpha right now. I'm sure powerpc and sparc will follow shortly (dunno about arm). This should be release candidate. I mean, I know there will be more bugs and documentation is

Re: kernel 2.2.17 boot disk prob!

2000-07-05 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Forgive me for sending this mail in a cross-posting fashion, but I really need some help here. This is what I posted previously to debian-user: Thanks in advance for any replies! Well, you could check whether the rescue disk works and thereby confirm

Re: Trouble with the debian2.1 rescue

2000-07-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Can you tell us which kernel you are using? You probably should be using either the vanilla one or else the 'compact' flavor of the 2.2.16 series boot floppies. If this still does not work, you'll have to file a bug against the package 'kernel-image-2.2.17' or 'kernel-image-2.2.17-compact' .

Re: problem in installation

2000-07-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"sravikumar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HELLO WE ARE FACING THE PROBLEM IN THE INSTALLATION OF DEBIAN 2.1 ON COMPAQ SERVER ML350. THE CONFIGURATION WE ARE USING IS GIVEN BELOW COMPAQ SERVER ML350 MEMORY 256 MB CPU PIII 600 MHZ BUILT IN SCSI COMPAQ CARD ( NCR53C896) RAID CONTROLLER

Re: not i18ned part in b-f 2.2.15

2000-07-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Taketoshi Sano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Akira sent me his initial draft for the wrapper script. Here it is: [...] Maybe Chinese and Korean people can use the scheme by adding their setup in "case $LANG in". If this can be used, then I propose to put this into CVS as

Re: not i18ned part in b-f 2.2.15

2000-07-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Akira YOSHIYAMA wrote: On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:20:59 -0700 Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunatly, the debconf in frozen has known very serious problems if it is used with i18n enabled. It basically doesn't work at all. Of course the

Re: Can't Write To Temporary User Settings Files During Install

2000-07-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"A. Scott White" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't mean to be a pain in the @ss, but I really need to get this server installed and I'm completely baffled as to how I should proceed. If anyone has any answers to the quandary described below, I would certainly appreciate your input. In

Re: not i18ned part in b-f 2.2.15

2000-07-17 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Di Carlo wrote: Is there any way to i18n the forked (potato) debconf? Yes of course. And I know from experience it means touching every file in the package, and writing at least 200 lines of code. Oh well. If we can have i18n versions of the rest

Bug#67118: base system does not contain /var/log/btmp

2000-07-17 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually I vaguely remember some documentation stating that it's probably a bad idea to have a btmp file. It would certainly be a place where password would be logged plaintest if a users enters a password instead of a username by accident. Yeah, I

Re: not i18ned part in b-f 2.2.15

2000-08-06 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Taketoshi Sano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry for delay. Ditto. In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 15 Jul 2000 16:35:24 -0400, Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe Chinese and Korean people can use the scheme by adding their setup in "case $LANG in". If this c

Re: not i18ned part in b-f 2.2.15

2000-08-07 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Taketoshi Sano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had read that "just have it be added as part of base2_2.tgz" means creating a new package and get it into base2_2.tgz. I think scripts/rootdisk/sbin/termwrap is the way to add it into just root disk only, without adding the code to put it into

debiandoc-sgml and Russian, Polish

2000-08-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
As I understand it, we need the woody debiandoc-sgml pakcage in order to build Russian and Polish installation manual and release notes (assuming they are otherwise ok), correct? It's a little annoying to be in the situation again where for frozen or stable updates we need stuff from woody. Do

Re: not i18ned part in b-f 2.2.15

2000-08-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Akira YOSHIYAMA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Basically, the change in basedisks.sh for termwrap is only copying termwrap from scripts/basedisks to the base archive. Another work to support termwrap is changing in scripts/rootdisk/prototype/etc/inittab.install. I'm sure it's quite easy, but I

Re: Release Notes (Re: Stuff to do before release)

2000-08-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"J.A. Bezemer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've spent the last ~2 days getting home from my relatively-well-net-connected vacation spot. I didn't have time to examine postings to -doc/-testing and merge them in the release notes (until now I supposed Josip would've been doing that) and I won't

Re: boot problems with Industrial Computer Systems system

2000-08-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Jim Ziegler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have several ICS systems here that I would like to run Debian on. Some of them work fine, but some will not get past the syslinux stage, they get to the point of printing "Loading..." and then reboot. You think maybe it's a syslinux problem? This

Bug#69012: BugReport

2000-08-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
retitle 69012 [need more info] problem booting presario thanks "Bernd Elkemann" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: boot-floppies Version: resc1440.bin I need the version you were using; slink or potato. And which version. The splash screen will tell you if you don't remember what you

Bug#68372: fresh install: xdm does not start

2000-08-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
reassign 68372 xviddetect severity 68372 wishlist thanks Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just had my first install of potato TC3. No major problems. The main one was that xdm did not start at the end of the install procedure - I was left at the consoel prompt. The xdm package (and

Re: ReiserFS

2000-08-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Jason J [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have seen installation disks for Red Hat and Slackware to setup ReiserFS. Has anyone created them for Debian yet? Dunno. Maybe it will happen for woody. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: It's the Hurd

2000-08-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: Section 1.3 of the installation manual asks "What is Hurd?" The usage of "Hurd" is almost always with a definite article; the question should be "What is the Hurd?" (and throughout that section as well, "Hurd" should be replaced with "the

Re: a suggestion

2000-08-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: Jon Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would relish covenient clear instructions on how to make such a CDROM. Right now, we have complete images,

Re: Can't network install with 3c905TX???

2000-08-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Valentijn Sessink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben Pfaff wrote: You need to use the `compact' boot disk and driver disks, which have NIC drivers compiled in. OK thanks. But does that mean the "regular" boot-disk won't let you insert any modules??? No -- it didn't give you the 'configure

Re: Patches for Installation Manual, Chapter 1 (welcome.sgml)

2000-08-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"C.M. Connelly" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enclosed please find a set of patches for the first chapter of the Installation manual (boot-floppies/documentation/en/welcome.sgml) and boot-floppies/documentation/urls.ent. Ok -- thanks. I have some issues with it though. I also made some fixes

Bug#68021: can't locate module when installing compact flavour

2000-08-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 12:39:36PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote: if you go into a shell and do 'uname -a' what does it say? 2.2.17-compact Just some more details: I boot from a 2.2.17-compact boot disk and use the standard root disk. The

Re: Bug#68900: CVS-fixed

2000-08-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: retitle 68900 [CVS-fixed] Misterious boot-floppies error thanks I've fixed this bug (and related) and committed it to the CVS repository. It's nice to retitle but please do the right thing and add entries with the proper (closes: Bug#X) into

Re: New release of boot-floppies

2000-08-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been told that Adam plans a new release. I highly appreciate that since the 'cant find /lib/modules/2.2.16/modules.dep file' error gives a really bad idea of what Debian is doing. Yeah -- it's not release critical is it? Because 2.2.17 would be

Re: on which branch should I commit my patch ?

2000-08-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Guillaume Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since everoby seems happy with my patch (that you can find at http://www.debian.org/~gemorin/boot), I'd like to commit it to the CVS. I've seen that there is a lot of branches. Should I create a new branch or commit it in an existing one ? If

Re: New release of boot-floppies

2000-08-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Di Carlo wrote: BTW, I worry about all the new devices you just added. Are you sure we didn't just make the rootdisk too large for powerpc? Didn't exceed our I don't know. (your sentence broke there somehow...) Um, the root disk cannot

Re: Bad links in the install documents on the website

2000-08-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"James A. Treacy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As one of the webmasters for the Debian web site, I run a urlchecker over the site. There are a lot of broken links in the install documentation. It is not a priority to fix the broken links for previous releases, but the ones for potato should be

Re: root disk capacity exceeded

2000-08-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ./rootdisk.sh: [: =: unary operator expected -+ | What is that? Temporary build directory. Is there a directory to test this

Re: not i18ned part in b-f 2.2.15

2000-08-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Akira YOSHIYAMA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK. Here is a patch for the latest CVS. Oh wow. Is this ready for seirous testing and inclusion in 2.2.17? Have you tested it? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: potato release notes missing

2000-08-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 12:47:15PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: For boot-floppies/documentation people: I'm not sure how to set up m4 to make two different links, depending on what kind of install is done. If it's a web build, the link should point to

Re: DHCP and /boot

2000-08-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
William Cordis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:04:28AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: 1. DHCP doesn't work correctly, all the information is recieved, the interface goes up, the route's are correct, but no DNS. No matter what I do. I checked /etc/resolv.conf,

Re: potato release notes missing

2000-08-16 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, no, this is not in webwml, because the file is built differently for different architectures, and it'd be a bit harder to maintain if it was in wml. You don't understand. I know its processed by m4. But on www.debian.org/releases/potato, that

maintaining potato bf (was Re: what is next?)

2000-08-16 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Othmar Pasteka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i know joey hess will be the coordinator of the woody boot-floppies. you once spoke about taking over the documentation department, as the leader. is this still true or have things changed? It's still true but I'm not going to concern myself with

Bug#67771: modconf or not?

2000-08-17 Thread Adam Di Carlo
reassign 67771 modconf thanks Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Di Carlo wrote: So, uh, modconf is utterly broken on potato boot floppies? i386 only? Does the new whiptail fix it? No. It's whiptail somehow. Ah. This is not a bf bug. Reassigned. modconf+whiptail gets

Bug#67771: modconf or not?

2000-08-17 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Didn't I say whiptail? Why are you reassigning it to modconf? Sorry, brain fart. Please investigate the problem instead of reassigning blindly. Sometimes I just refile w/o investigating but its better for me to process 20 bugs and have a little

Re: Bugs against release notes?

2000-08-18 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Package: boot-floppies is the right place to file a bug. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc reduction

2000-08-18 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is here somebody around who groks library reduction? I'm not getting anywhere with it, lacking some background information and seem to be blind all over. Hmm. I guess you mebbe should look at the CVS changelog for the file and email the people who

Re: How on earth do I load modules from the floppy disks?

2000-08-18 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Pedro I. Sanchez" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "configured modules; modconf returned 32512" I'm stuck at this point. Can anyone help me here? Hmmm. Try booting with 'debug' turned on and look at the logs. You can also try going to tty2 and trying the modprobe commands manually there on the

regarding xviddetect

2000-08-21 Thread Adam Di Carlo
I know there are still plenty of video cards that xviddetect does not detect. I can see a lot of bug reports to that effect. I think it would be worthwhile to maintain a branch of xviddetect so that anXious could know about more videocards which get updated at Potato point releases. Do you

Re: Default kernel config.

2000-08-21 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Tommy Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I'm not sure the patch should be applied to the kernel just yet for a couple of reasons. One of them is that the screen reader is alpha software, but is quite usalbe in it's current form, the other reason is that if the synthesiser isn't connected

Re: Booting Sparc Station 1/2

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Mathias Wiklander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have problem booting a SS1 and a SS2 with the Debain 2.2 Sparc CD. It boots and when it want to start init it says that "Default console not found" or something like that. I'm not sure. I've CC'd the sparc user base. Please let us know if this

Bug#64823: incorrect LILO automatic placement on i386

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I choose "make linux directly bootable from hard disk" Then a dialog box says my disk is factory clean. Then a dialog box asks for an MBR. I answer no ^^ I guess I simply don't understand. If you

Bug#68716: problems booting the install

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Package: boot-CDRom Should have said "boot-floppies", even if you were booting from CD-ROM. Sorry for the unintuitive name. Version: "Official" Debian 2.1, the 4 disk version. architecture: x86 Family 5 Model 8 Stepping 12, AuthenticAMD model: no name memory:64M scsi:

Re: Bug with Rescue Boot 2.2 0714

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Gast [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The version on the floppy I am using says `Rescue 2.2 0714' If I try something like boot: resue root=/dev/hda2 debug I get an error message SCSI:fdomian Detection failed (no card) That is normal if you don't have a Future Domain SCSI card.

bf documentation hazy plans (was Re: bf rewrite?)

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anthony Towns wrote: I wonder if it would be better for Josip and Adam or whoever to simply make a release-notes.deb that they maintain independently of boot-floppies and that's easily buildable (since we have a definite .tar.gz with Build-Depends). I

bf and potato, history issue (was Re: bf rewrite?)

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We wanted to freeze potato last year but had no working boot-floppies handy. Only very few people have worked on it. This is partially true but not quite true. I hope I don't sound defensive, but it's my opinion that bf on its own was not a major

Re: Boot of 2000/98/Debian system?

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Conrad Delbert Seaman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having trouble getting lilo to boot the system I have, there seems to be a gap in the doc's. My system looks as follows. 1 20 gig disk 50% Disk C: (first partition) Windows2000(NT5)/Windows98 (this boots using the NT loader) 50%

Re: Polish bf/docs on CDs

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK. I'll try helping with the 'i18n' flavor. Can we delay 2.2r1 release until it's ready? I think so. What else remains? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#69150: boot-floppies: provide more information about available disks for partitioning

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
What is the package pdisk is in? We need to refile this bug against that package, although I doubt it's fixable. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#69620: Is section 1.7 still required?

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Fixed the phrasing. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Translated floppies?

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
We're still actively working on i18n'd Potato boot-floppies, although I wish the work went quicker. Have you updated the Swedish release notes and install manual? That's useful even w/o i18n'd boot-floppies. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Choose debian archive box confusing

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've fixed Bug#67082 and wonder if I may commit the code. I've decided to really fix it and get back the old behaviour instead of just editing the message text (which would affect all translators to fix their text as well). What I've done

Bug#69197: base: Inadequate backup instructions and tools

2000-08-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
era eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 22 Aug 2000 22:48:17 -0400, Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand. The base system is meant to be a minimally functional system, not a rescue system for recovery. It will be getting *smaller* in time, not larger. Sorry

Bug#69197: base: Inadequate backup instructions and tools

2000-08-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
era eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know how to do that. A naive user who is getting acquainted with Unix in general and Debian in particular is probably completely ignorant about backup tools and procedures. My point is that while the Debian handbook (or whatever it's called) says a

Bug#69141: boot-floppies: Can dd with volume management on in Solaris

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Thanks, fixed in CVS. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XF86_SVGA missing?

2000-08-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Conrad Delbert Seaman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to install the X window system and I run XF86Setup, only to find the following error when it tries to connect. XF86_SVGA no such file then the boot of the X window server fails. could someone point me in the right

Re: Translated floppies?

2000-08-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
peter karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Di Carlo: Have you updated the Swedish release notes and install manual? No, I have not translated those (and I don't think they even exist). I do not have time to do that, I have concentrated on translating the actual floppies, since I

Bug#69793: IBM PC Server 320 (MCA/PCI Pentium) cannot boot

2000-08-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
era eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The 256KB cache is enabled, Hmmm. You might *try* turning that off. the PCI slot interrupts (#1 and #2) are set up on "auto-select" (should I do this by hand? I get to choose the IRQs myself if I want to) I doublt that's the problem. and I've

Re: [potato] last not i18ned part in bf and more

2000-08-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems the only way to go is make a wrapper script. I tested that, and debconf works OK (i.e. the templates show in Polish, and the only untranslated things are yes/no buttons and two messages (in the background and at the top of the box), which are

Re: building i18ned docs

2000-08-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So either index.en.html should be translated and TARGETDOCS definition should contain index$(DESTEXT).html, or there should not be such thing as "index$(DESTEXT).html" at all in the Makefile. Is this fixed or still outstanding? -- .Adam Di

Bug#65606: Close the bug

2000-08-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
reassign 65606 boot-floppies severity 63198 normal merge 65606 63198 64823 thanks Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well I recommend closing the bug. What do the maintainer and submitter think? I think it should be fixed. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/

Bug#67722: PCMCIA/network conflict (cf #66284)

2000-08-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Toby White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Using boot-floppies 2.2.16, the bug described in #66284 seemed to occur. That is, PCMCIA configuration went quite happily, but then setting up the network seemed to try to reinitialise the PCMCIA system again, and failed. Using which set of install

Re: FWD: Problems with pre2 2.2

2000-08-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trae McCombs wrote: Mount a previously initilized partition, it sees you have win95, and says you need to use vfat, however, it writes it to the fstab table as being msdos. Which is a bad thing, long file names won't work for people. Trae was

Bug#69793: IBM PC Server 320 (MCA/PCI Pentium) cannot boot

2000-08-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
era eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I mean, if you can't boot linux you can't boot and there's probably littel we can do. Your installation manual requests that I submit a bug report if I can't get it to work. It's not like I'm demanding that you fix this. (And I'm sorry if I'm

Re: [potato] last not i18ned part in bf and more

2000-08-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Michael Bramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I make a german debian cd-set for linuxland. I patch rootdisk.sh with: if [ "$language" = "de" ]; then info "modifying initial inittab to run base-config in language $language" sed "s,/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure base-config,sh -c 'export

Re: using addon pack for base (Re: not i18ned part in b-f 2.2.15)

2000-08-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Taketoshi Sano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ADDON discussion clipped] Using this scheme, we can use the same base tar ball for all languages, with some extra language pack which consist of required packages for a language. I think this will not affect the main C/english only system, and

Bug#68021: /lib/modules and symlinking a symlink

2000-08-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
I was able to reproduce this set, but only after running "install OS and modules" twice. I bet the flavor doens't matter. I believe we have hit this problem before. When a symlink is made from /lib/modules to /target/lib/modules, if there is already a such a link in /lib/modules, then

2.2.17 early access testing version (i386)

2000-08-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ boot-floppies (2.2.17) stable unstable; urgency=low * TESTING PRE-RELEASE VERSION * Adam Di Carlo: - release-notes: fix typo (closes: Bug#68630) - fix bugs preventing some l10n'd documentation from building - temporarily disable Russian

Re: [patch] powerpc dbootstrap documentation.

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, ethan, let's wait on this patch a few days - until I get yaboot 0.7 -packaged-. It'll be real soon, I promise. Ok, can someone resend or else apply this patch when it's time? BTW, I've just today added some stuff about invoking

Bug#31449: Debian Bug report logs - #31449

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Looks good, although one of the messages was in English. I'm satisfied it's enough to close the bug for. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DPT SmartRaid VI PM2865U3

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Jason Mesker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to install debian 2.2 on a machine with a SmartRaid controller as said in the subject. I am getting on tty3 an error message that keeps repeating "open error" as soon as dbootstrap starts up, even at the opening screen. This message is

Re: building i18ned docs

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) keep it or get rid of it? Keep it. 2) if keep it, decide what in what source format it should be to allow tranlations Just like the original I guess. I guess it is useful for example on CDs, where there is no other documentation index. If it

Bug#64764: boot-floppies fails to recognize rescue disk on PS/2

2000-08-27 Thread Adam Di Carlo
When I attempt to install potato via b-f, the rescue disk and root disk load fine, however, when the time comes to "Load Operating System and Modules", the system fails to recognize the rescue floppy. The rescue floppy used was tested on a working system to be byte-for-byte equal to

Bug#56886: [slink, alpha] cd boot attempts mount of 08:02 as /

2000-08-27 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Can you attempt this using the newly release Potato installation system? If you still receive this problem, please let us know. It sounds like a kernel problem -- we'll have to reassign the bug to the appropriate kernel package. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/

Bug#64499: boot floppies cannot access my super floppy formated syjet

2000-08-27 Thread Adam Di Carlo
When trying to install a new debian system (after previous boot floppies experiments destroyed my partition table :((() i noticed that the boot floppies will not present me with my super floppy formatted syjet removable harddisk when asking for partitions. I have a ext2 partition on it

Bug#64522: [slink, m68k] error installing on Performa 600

2000-08-27 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Can you check whether your problem was fixed in the Potato boot-floppies? Sorry we haven't followed up on this before... -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#70036: [dbootstrap] pcmcia configuration has no way out

2000-08-27 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.16 There doens't seem to be a get out of the "configure PCMCIA" step once you're in it. The "cancel" options on the various dialogs should pop you back up to the main menu rather than merrily continuing. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL

Re: DPT SmartRaid VI PM2865U3

2000-08-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i tried to install this dpt on five servers... i have contacted the support, they only support red hat suse. If you insist , you can get a beta patch for generic kernel... I didn't success in it. So, the deal is that the linux kenrel doesn't support it? I don't

Bug#70428: DPT controller

2000-08-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Jason Mesker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, it is official, the problem lies within the new gcc 2.95.2. I compiled a new kernel with gcc 2.7.2.3 and now it's working like a charm. Interesting. Although this may still be a small bug, when I boot the ramdisk is still mounted ro and I

Bug#64499: boot floppies cannot access my super floppy formated syjet

2000-09-01 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Sven LUTHER [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you do 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' and send that as a followup to the bug? Yes, i will do, will have to wait until monday though, as my syjet is not online ... This would be a more generic solution, and maybe not a lot of work, since you already parse

Re: Miscellaneous files in `disks-*'

2000-09-02 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Chris Rutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is probably some good reason why `disks-powerpc' on the FTP site contains a bunch of HTML files, and none of the other architectures (save arm) do, but I can't work out what it is. I presume it's something to do with it being a

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