No response from keyboard on Oldworld- possibly relevant kernelchange

2001-04-05 Thread Chris Tillman
, but I'm thinking maybe if the floppy doesn't get into the right state before the wait, the wait could last a very long time. When do we expect Debian to move into the 2.3 kernel territory? Then I might have a chance of a successful install on my Oldworld mac. -- Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install Grief/Powermac 9500

2001-04-12 Thread Chris Tillman
I have the same challenge. There's a concise bash primer at http://penguinppc.org/usr/primer.shtml Good luck! -- From: michael sean edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Install Grief/Powermac 9500 Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2001, 2:30 PM I got

no subject

2001-04-16 Thread Chris Tillman
I'm happy to hear the oldworld keyboard problem will soon be fixed. In the meantime, I've been scratching my head wondering how I can manage to install Debian on my NewWorld iMac 350, unless I get a CD. I was sort of avoiding buying a CD because I wanted to learn more about how the whole thing

Bug#94417: Manual navigation to hard disk for rescue.bin installation fails

2001-04-18 Thread Chris Tillman
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.23 After selecting Install Operating System Kernel and Drivers from the dbootstrap menu, I wanted to type in the path to the directory on my hard disk where powermac/images-1.44/rescue.bin could be found. I selected the appropriate option from the menu

Bug#94419: Swap partition step skipped and not available

2001-04-18 Thread Chris Tillman
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.23 When installing a new system from the boot floppy, the first step is to choose a keyboard, then partition a hard disk. After partitioning my hard disk using the provided utility, I used w to write the partition map, then q to quit the utility. When I was

Bug#94419: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#94419: Swap partition step skipped and not available)

2001-04-19 Thread Chris Tillman
I selected the Initialize and Activate a Swap Partition item from further down the list manually, but when I did an error resulted: No swap partitions that had already been mounted were detected. Thus I was forced to select Do Without a Swap Partition to be able to continue with my

Bug#94458: depmod after drivers installation fails because directory is incorrect

2001-04-19 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:28:31PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.23 After Install Operating System Kernel and Drivers completed, an error message informed me that the drivers installation had failed. Looking in the error log, I noted the error depmod

Re: Floppy-less booting

2001-04-22 Thread Chris Tillman
Loading kernel ... kernel loaded Loading ramdisk ... ramdisk loaded at 0x180, size: 1474560 bytes DEFAULT CATCH!, code=0300 at %SAR0: 01608158 %SAR1: 3030 thats interesting. Then I got the OF prompt again. I entered mac-boot, and got just an alternating folder symbol

Re: Floppy-less booting

2001-04-22 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 04:30:38PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: I did download the 2.2.19 bf from archive.debian.org, and tried them, with a very similar result. Only the addresses were different: archive.debian.org? i thought that was only for old stuff. try ftp.debian.org. I also

Re: Floppy-less booting

2001-04-24 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 04:30:38PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: After entering install, it almost worked. I got; Loading kernel ... kernel loaded Loading ramdisk ... ramdisk loaded at 0x180, size: 1474560 bytes DEFAULT CATCH!, code=0300 at %SAR0: 01608158 %SAR1: 3030

Bug#205153: modconf: 0.2.44, missing some functions (ie: write_it_down)

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Tillman
gives you an opportunity to add tags). I believe modconf's maintainer is still Eduard Bloch, but you can always reach the maintainer of a package by emailing packagename@debian.org. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one

Re: We received your mail

2003-08-23 Thread Chris Tillman
a help desk either. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: building boot-floppies in a dchroot ?

2003-08-26 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:14:47AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 06:52:31PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:48:41PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Hello, I am trying to build the woody boot-floppies in a debian dchroot, but this fails

Re: building boot-floppies in a dchroot ?

2003-08-26 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:48:29AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 06:52:31PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:48:41PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Hello, I am trying to build the woody boot-floppies in a debian dchroot, but this fails

Re: Problems with bf2.4

2003-08-26 Thread Chris Tillman
. You're accidentally booting the 2.2 kernel, probably your rescue.bin is wrong. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: debian installer on ppc/pegasos

2003-08-27 Thread Chris Tillman
this one. A couple of boot arguments to try, may do something, and won't hurt: debug verbose -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: i18n of cdebconf (Re: i18n of tasksel (and cdebconf))

2003-08-27 Thread Chris Tillman
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Re: need help getting X running - XF86Config

2003-09-13 Thread Chris Tillman
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Bug#210825: Scrambled disk images

2003-09-13 Thread Chris Tillman
manual, which is required reading for installs, for using these type floppy images under MacOS with Disk Copy. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: d-i experiences

2003-09-16 Thread Chris Tillman
the time to help anywhere near as much as I should anyway. I went through the templates a few months ago to edit English, I am happy to do it again. Do you remember which ones seemed out of whack? Maybe I'm missing some. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris

Re: The d-i build from Martin Sj?gren works

2003-09-16 Thread Chris Tillman
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Re: [install-doc] DocBook SGML/XML?

2003-09-16 Thread Chris Tillman
of them all repeated, requiring 11 changes whenever something common needed to be fixed. Also x11 translations. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#211260: rootskel: /linuxrc should include path for chroot

2003-09-17 Thread Chris Tillman
. /linuxrc dev/console dev/console 21 So that we would see the error again and d-i makes the progress it should make. Applied in CVS. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: [install-doc] DocBook SGML/XML?

2003-09-18 Thread Chris Tillman
don't think anything should be stopped by one person's preferences. Your solution sounded fine, it sounds like it accomplishes the same purpose through a slightly different mechanism. Why would I object? Help is always good! -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris

Re: [install-doc] DocBook SGML/XML?

2003-09-18 Thread Chris Tillman
myself why the docbook consortium don't publish a xml schema.) I know next to nothing about DTDs and xsl, help is appreciated. I'm really just the text-entering Indian here, certainly not a wise Chief. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people

Re: [install-doc] DocBook SGML/XML?

2003-09-18 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 06:05:07PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 07:18:56AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: I don't know, it DocBook supports include directives which makes it possible to use several input files. Many of the sections are laid out just this way, one

Re: [install-doc] DocBook SGML/XML?

2003-09-21 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 11:54:20AM +0200, Miroslav Ku?e wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 08:47:30PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: I's encourage people to proof/correct the changes in the hardware, install-methods, and preparing folders. In particular, I wonder what tag should be used

Re: Greek translation for boot-floppies

2003-09-21 Thread Chris Tillman
corrected it; got something against those Finns? :) -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [install-doc] DocBook SGML/XML?

2003-09-22 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 07:36:16AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 07:18:48PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: [...] Thanks, Bastian. We are looking at debian-installer/doc/manual/en, for example the supported-hardware docs in hardware/hardware-supported.xml. Your solution

Re: updated powerpc debian-installer builds

2003-09-22 Thread Chris Tillman
partition and then pointing OpenFirmware to them directly: boot hd:10,yaboot Will the net-initrd.gz work in this case? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: updated powerpc debian-installer builds

2003-09-23 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:12:26PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Chris Tillman wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 02:38:45PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Hi I just updated my webpage[1] with the debian-installer images for powerpc. The images contain the d-i udebs (modules

Installer report

2003-09-25 Thread Chris Tillman
This is the main menu for debian-installer, version x.xx -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Installer report

2003-09-26 Thread Chris Tillman
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Re: Minimal memory installation

2003-09-26 Thread Chris Tillman
as well? You will need at least 16M for the 2.4 kernel. I don't believe I've heard of any successful 8M installs. Try slink? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: new installer

2003-09-27 Thread Chris Tillman
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Bug#184857: netcfg-dhcp: Another vote for eliminating this message

2003-09-27 Thread Chris Tillman
#1 Mon Sep 9 09:01:43 EDT 2002 ppc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#213015: main-menu: When udebs segfault, main-menu should display some error message

2003-09-27 Thread Chris Tillman
: Linux ip68-107-137-100.tc.ph.cox.net 2.4.19-powerpc #1 Mon Sep 9 09:01:43 EDT 2002 ppc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#213014: netcfg-dhcp: XB-Installed-Menu-Item numbers conflict

2003-09-27 Thread Chris Tillman
a direct serial line -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: powerpc Kernel: Linux ip68-107-137-100.tc.ph.cox.net 2.4.19-powerpc #1 Mon Sep 9 09:01:43 EDT 2002 ppc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people

Bug#213016: main-menu: Display version of d-i in the main menu header

2003-09-27 Thread Chris Tillman
09:01:43 EDT 2002 ppc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cdebconf/slang user interface

2003-09-28 Thread Chris Tillman
might make sense. Wouldn't it be preferable to place the question below the description, so the answer buttons (Yes, No, Maybe) appear directly below the question? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net

Re: updated powerpc debian-installer builds

2003-09-28 Thread Chris Tillman
net-pf-1 That might explain why there weren't any Configure Network items in the menu. I assume you're still the one building these guys, thanks! -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#213174: cdrom-detect loops at manual configuration question

2003-09-28 Thread Chris Tillman
and then No on the next question. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: powerpc Kernel: Linux ip68-107-137-100.tc.ph.cox.net 2.4.19-powerpc #1 Mon Sep 9 09:01:43 EDT 2002 ppc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people

Bug#213175: main-menu: Add Reboot item to main menu

2003-09-28 Thread Chris Tillman
: powerpc Kernel: Linux ip68-107-137-100.tc.ph.cox.net 2.4.19-powerpc #1 Mon Sep 9 09:01:43 EDT 2002 ppc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: updated powerpc debian-installer builds

2003-09-29 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 04:22:55AM -0500, Matt Kraai wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 02:48:25PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: I tried mounting my partition at /cdrom, but the kernel doesn't have hfs compiled in. I think we need to correct this, powerpc users will always want to be able

Re: Testing DI

2003-09-30 Thread Chris Tillman
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Re: Menu items consistency (was Re: Start using new SETTITLE cdebconf command)

2003-09-30 Thread Chris Tillman
be reviewed by an English native speaker, as did Chris Tillman days ago for templates files. But the sooner the better, so that translators have more time to work on them. I looked at the existing items with 'main-menu' in the name, and they all use verbs (I agree with Martin). There were only a half

Re: create netinst

2003-10-01 Thread Chris Tillman
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Re: d-i - subarchitecture stuff

2003-10-02 Thread Chris Tillman
. Then you could follow the pattern with powerpc_chrp_rs6k etc, and these would become machine parseable. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Chris Tillman
vmlinus-2.4.22-powerpc-pmac, and it is 1675729 in size, thus cannot fit on a 1.44 floppy. Is there anything that can be removed which would allow it to fit on a floppy for oldworld booting? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:48:28AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: Thanks, Sven. I gzipped vmlinus-2.4.22-powerpc-pmac, and it is 1675729 in size, thus cannot fit on a 1.44 floppy. Is there anything that can be removed which would allow it to fit on a floppy for oldworld booting? Actually, we

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Chris Tillman
, using BootX. I needed to un-check the no-video-driver checkbox, as I have noted before with other 2.4 kernels. I will try booting it with quik, but I rather doubt it will work, because of its size. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Chris Tillman
/ and the uname of the kernel is also 2.4.22-powerpc, so they didn't get loaded. In /boot, the file name is vmlinux-2.4.22-powerpc-pmac . -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 07:01:58PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:10:59AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Anyway, please test and give feedback, before i upload, so we can have all these powerpc subarches

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 06:44:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:07:21AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:48:28AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: Thanks, Sven. I gzipped vmlinus-2.4.22-powerpc-pmac, and it is 1675729 in size, thus cannot fit

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-05 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:58:21PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:10:52AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Anyway, please test and give feedback, before i upload, so we can have all these powerpc subarches

Re: Proposed build system

2003-10-05 Thread Chris Tillman
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Re: Proposed build system: PREP

2003-10-05 Thread Chris Tillman
out there, we can't support it. I believe the prep build has been broken in boot-floppies for more than a year, with no one stepping up to fix it. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

question_db_delete

2003-10-05 Thread Chris Tillman
Trying to build d-i tonight, I get a failure in mklibs: No library provides non-weak question_db_delete Yet, libdebconf.so matches in a grep search. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net

Re: [install-doc] About translations

2003-10-06 Thread Chris Tillman
have on it the better. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#211092: question_db_delete

2003-10-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:30:31AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 07:15:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: Trying to build d-i tonight, I get a failure in mklibs: No library provides non-weak question_db_delete Congratulations ;-) you have been hit by #211092 Yet

Re: Bug#211092: question_db_delete

2003-10-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 04:16:06PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) writes: On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 07:15:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: Trying to build d-i tonight, I get a failure in mklibs: No library provides non-weak question_db_delete

Re: My first d-i installation of a mips.

2003-10-06 Thread Chris Tillman
and then go around it. Is there some way we can fool d-i into thinking a step's been done, with a console command, so we can bull ahead if necessary? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net

Re: current install disks modification

2003-10-06 Thread Chris Tillman
-floppies installer could switch distributions at a higher level. And, where should applications be sent? ;) That's a lotta developers. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#214500: ddetect: FTBFS on powerpc: cc1: unknown C standard `c99'

2003-10-06 Thread Chris Tillman
.tc.ph.cox.net 2.4.22-powerpc #1 Sat Oct 4 08:20:43 CEST 2003 ppc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#214499: libdebian-installer: No rule to make target 'configure'

2003-10-06 Thread Chris Tillman
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Bug#188865: autopartkit: Still occurring: 'configure' not found

2003-10-06 Thread Chris Tillman
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Bug#214503: autopartkit: FTBFS: incorrect dependency?

2003-10-06 Thread Chris Tillman
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Re: How to create a installer with d-i?

2003-10-08 Thread Chris Tillman
, there is no Makefile, etc. Where should I enter to test it? Thank you very much Nelson A. de Oliveira Fot testing purposes, it's much easier to download an iso image from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/ -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris

Re: Booting trouble

2003-10-10 Thread Chris Tillman
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Re: [RFC] hard drive / usb storage installs

2003-10-11 Thread Chris Tillman
. Not sure if that's the way you want to do it though. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: anna's hard-coded priority list of retreivers

2003-10-13 Thread Chris Tillman
not be dependent on anything, though. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apache: call for english review

2003-10-13 Thread Chris Tillman
/utils/debian/di-utils-shell.templates http://cvs.debian.org/debian-installer/utils/debian/di-utils-choosesystem.templates -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Proposed patch: ppcdetect - archdetect

2003-10-14 Thread Chris Tillman
+++ tools/base-installer/debian/changelog 14 Oct 2003 14:24:54 - @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ * Alastair McKinstry - Add versioned depends on libdebconfclient-dev, to get working debconf_ macros. + * Chris Tillman +- change ppcdetect to archdetect and corresponding CASEs

Install notes

2003-10-14 Thread Chris Tillman
there should be nothing depending on automatic partitioning. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Sarge netinst on Pismo

2003-10-15 Thread Chris Tillman
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Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-15 Thread Chris Tillman
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Bug#216045: partconf: No column headings for partition selection table

2003-10-15 Thread Chris Tillman
Sat Oct 4 08:20:43 CEST 2003 ppc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Install report

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Tillman
picking is wonderful; it just zooms along and does its thing. But if there has been some problem along the way which hasn't been solved, it should always drop back to the menu and just take orders from the user. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:59:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: I tested d-i using BootX. Greate. Your destined to test disk boots for powerpc then. You make 'em, I break 'em

Re: Install report

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Tillman
the 'pkgdetails' script for each package in Packages. I looked once to see if some progress could be implemented, but it's subsidiary to debootstrap itself so I couldn't figure it out. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:33:36PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Goswin von Brederlow schrieb: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: 6) Test installer! The incarnation I used couldn't install the kernel and modules

Re: busybox vs busybox-cvs?

2003-10-17 Thread Chris Tillman
not fair to browbeat him on the list. Just stick to what's wrong with the code, not what's wrong with the coder. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Second round of powerpc subarch investigation : boot-loaders.

2003-10-19 Thread Chris Tillman
from that. This is the solution that prep used in boot-floppies. It was problematic to be building kernels within the installer build. I don't have any better ideas though. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot

Re: Proposal for low-mem cdrom install and minimum kernel versions thereof

2003-10-21 Thread Chris Tillman
adding a low-memory test to my list, to see how the current installer does. There are a lot of older machines out there that we're leaving behind if we require 32MB. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net

Re: IBM 43P-150 installation

2003-10-21 Thread Chris Tillman
the kernel bigger, not smaller :(( BTW, the quik patch that Ben sent to the list takes away our quik size worries. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ppc] unable to install on new powerbook14

2003-10-21 Thread Chris Tillman
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Re: PowerPC CHRP network install

2003-10-21 Thread Chris Tillman
) over bootp/dhcp/tftp/whatsoever works. We definitely need testing in this area. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: first nearly successful USB media install

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:40:14AM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote: ons 2003-10-22 klockan 05.42 skrev Chris Tillman: On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:56:39PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: In cfdisk, I told it to change my 128 mb swap partition to ext2, and write and quit. For some reason the next

Re: Section 3.7.5.1 of Install Manual

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Tillman
this the kernel installed and everything was good. Thanks for the document though, other than this hiccup everything worked first time. Thanks, I added the tip. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net

Re: problems with debian

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Tillman
-xfree86 -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [new-powermac] boot on hd but install does not recognize hd!

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Tillman
, This is woody, right? Do you have a CD in the drive when you boot? There's some bug in the woody installer that prevents it from seeing the hard drive on powerpc, if there is a CD in the drive when booting. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Tillman
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Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-23 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 07:54:37AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:14:21AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, it didn't get much farther when I tried a kernel

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-23 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:03:46AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:01:25PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:14:21AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, it didn't get much farther when I tried

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-23 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:44:38AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Sven Luther schrieb: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:01:25PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:14:21AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ah. I tried using

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-23 Thread Chris Tillman
see, not too likely to succeed I'm afraid. Any ideas what options might get me around the ramdisk prompt where it doesn't accept the Enter key? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: new build/debian directory

2003-10-23 Thread Chris Tillman
was complaining about udebs/*.deb (--unpack) instead of extraudebs. Shortly after that, the build stops when it can't find ./tmp/bootfloppy/tree/boot/vmlinux . (Also on powerpc) -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-24 Thread Chris Tillman
CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y -CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=m +CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y # # Kernel hacking -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: HOWTO install Debian from another distribution?

2003-10-24 Thread Chris Tillman
The same logic works with apt-get --reinstall install apt-get -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Second round of powerpc subarch investigation : boot-loaders.

2003-10-24 Thread Chris Tillman
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