On Mon Jan 12, 2004 at 11:39:44PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote:
* Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-12 07:15]:
| Hi,
|
| Is there any plan for supporting NTFS resize?
|
| There is already parted in debian-installer component, but parted
| can't handle NTFS.
|
| I heard
On Fri Jan 16, 2004 at 07:08:17AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Will I be able to use d-i on my notebook? It's a 486/100 with
24 MB RAM and 340 MB disk. No CD-ROM, but floppy drive and a
PCMCIA ethernet card. Screen about 30 cm. Woody ran
On Fri Jan 16, 2004 at 11:45:30AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
Erik Andersen wrote:
And idea _where_ it fails? i.e. Did you notice if any
particular application is being a memory sucking pig?
Yes, anna is. She insists in installing 30-some megabytes of udebs onto
a ram disk. :-(
Ouch, I can
On Mon Jan 19, 2004 at 09:24:06PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
Yes, it's the tool named ntfsresize that the original poster was
referring to, and it's found in the ntfstools package.
But is not in any way related to the libntfs library ?
$ dlocate /usr/sbin/ntfsresize
ntfstools:
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On Sat Jun 17, 2000 at 12:02:51AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 09:44:31PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
On Sat Jun 17, 2000 at 01:29:43PM +1000, bug1 wrote:
Red Hat's `libfdisk' contains a partition editor with a `newt'
interface. It might be possible to port
On Sat Jun 17, 2000 at 09:30:04PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
On Sat Jun 17, 2000 at 08:13:54PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
That last isn't something that I am going to impose on the rest of you,
of course. But I would get pretty grumpy if we just continued incremental
improvements
On Tue Jun 20, 2000 at 03:37:17AM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote:
No argument here.
I think you are forgetting about something...
how is partitioning going to be accomplished without user interaction.
I'm not aware of any tools that can take a description of a filesystem
then partition and
On Tue Jun 13, 2000 at 01:02:01AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
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.
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Erik Andersen wrote:
I have .deb'ed busybox, but before I upload anything I was wondering... Lintian
complains about missing man pages on all the a
On Sun Jul 02, 2000 at 03:22:43AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
Here is what I think is happening. The kernel boots init (aka busybox).
One of the first things that init does is call console_init, which in
turn calls message to log the console it found. Since we have compiled
busybox to be
On Wed Jul 05, 2000 at 06:51:40PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
If our bf-utf8 will be completed, we may need to change this
in order to invoke the bterm and run the dpkg-reconfigure on that.
Now with this issue added on top, I almost wonder if we shouldn't have
init invoke a wrapper
On Thu Jul 06, 2000 at 10:56:19AM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 06:45:24PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Sounds like busybox mount bug, yeah. Wonder why it only hits apus??
[-snip--]
Do you think you can pester andersee directly?
Well, why not, what's his
On Tue Aug 01, 2000 at 06:25:30PM +0200, Christian Meder wrote:
wierd reason. Is this repeatable? If so, are you in a position to run some
tests?
Yep and yes. It is repeatable. I get the error when booting via tftp (tried it
several times) _and_ when booting via floppies.
I can run
On Sun Aug 13, 2000 at 11:30:47PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If we don't provide the devices, we should create them online, that
would be a feasable solution for me. Or alternatively we have to
remove the drivers that make use of them...
On Sat Aug 19, 2000 at 07:29:13PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
Hi,
rumours said that the entire boot-floppies system is to be rewritten
for woody?
While I agree that the current mass floppy requirement is a major pain
with Debian, I don't believe that this would be a proper goal.
We
'? Wouldn't just 'microdpkg' be enough? When we go to
install the base system, we really just want to unpack the .debs and drop them
into place. For this to take place we can do something like the following:
#!/bin/sh
# Lame 5 minute micro-dpkg shell script...
# Erik Andersen [EMAIL
On Mon Aug 21, 2000 at 06:32:09PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something though (I almost certainly am), but do we really
need a 'microdpkg-deb'? Wouldn't just 'microdpkg' be enough? When we go to
install the base system, we really just want to unpack the .debs and drop
On Mon Aug 21, 2000 at 11:25:55PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
unlike dpkg, dpkg-deb can quite easily be written as a shell script.
I wrote most of it as a shell script, but I cannot find a way to parse
control file entries w/o using external shell commands, which is
something of a no-no
On Wed Aug 23, 2000 at 11:31:42PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
I just checked something into cvs. it's in tools/udpkg
This is so cool. You 'da man!
-Erik
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On Sat Aug 26, 2000 at 07:07:29AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
- of which the second gives me an:
error in loading shared library /lib/libext2fs.so.2
symbol __divdi3
version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
I've spent four days on fixing this, no
On Sat Aug 26, 2000 at 02:55:21PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
explore integrating busybox tools into udpkg. either udpkg pulls in
busybox modules, or we just go ahead and add udpkg as another busybox
utility module. Erik, comments?
I'm ok with just adding it in...
with debugging turned
On Sun Aug 27, 2000 at 11:12:45AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A
Severity: wishlist
The debian installer for potato worked just fine on the netwinder, one I
convinced it to tftp boot the provided netwinder-rescue image. One hitch
though -- the
It looks like my 2.4.x sysinfo patch has (finally) made it into kernel
2.4.0-test8-pre5, restoring binary compatibility with 2.2.x. This means that
busybox binaries compiled under 2.2.x (i.e. the Debian boot floppies) should
run now run without a problem under 2.4.x kernels = 2.4.0-test8-pre5...
On Fri Sep 22, 2000 at 01:32:13PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
So instead of having 2 different inittabs to choose from I changed
init.c to cope with it. I also changed getty to cope with it (diff is
send to maintainer and upstream) for after installation.
Hmm. I don't believe I have
On Fri Sep 22, 2000 at 02:45:52PM +0200, Petr Cech wrote:
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 01:32:13PM +0200 , Goswin Brederlow wrote:
So instead of having 2 different inittabs to choose from I changed
init.c to cope with it. I also changed getty to cope with it (diff is
send to maintainer and
On Fri Sep 22, 2000 at 04:59:19PM +0200, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
Will jfs be in 2.4.0 or where can I get some docs for it?
No, jffs is in the kernel, but don't know what this is.
"JFFS -- Journaling Flash File System, Linux implementation."
JFFS only works on flash devices (i.e. it
On Sun Sep 24, 2000 at 03:32:14PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Josip Rodin wrote:
The bash package in potato includes a nice /etc/skel/.bash_logout file:
# ~/.bash_logout: executed by bash(1) when login shell exits.
# when leaving the console clear the screen to increase
On Mon Sep 25, 2000 at 12:26:07PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Martin Keegan wrote:
Incidentally, what facilities currently exist for non-interactive partitioning?
Is there a dedicated tool for this, or should one do
/sbin/fdisk scripted_responses
On Thu Sep 28, 2000 at 06:36:00PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
I feel that the design discussions have reached the point where we'll be
more productive if we're talking about actual code. There are still many
decisions to be made, but most of them are on the level of how an
individual module
On Sat Sep 30, 2000 at 12:51:22AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
Erik Andersen wrote:
Where do we upload things to? Can we get an archive area? I've had busybox
.debs ready for months now...
And I've had bug #66604 open for months too. I need to track down some
of the ftp maintainers and get
On Sat Sep 30, 2000 at 01:26:49PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
I think grub would be better since it's xplatform. I have heard
rumors that its not ready for prime time yet, though.
I've been using it with great results on my laptop, home box, and work box. I
give it two thumbs up (though
On Sat Sep 30, 2000 at 06:08:39PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
Oooh, uclibc. That's a good idea.
In fact, that's a VITAL idea.
Joey, please remember that some architectures (I'm thinking powerpc
here, and at least two more) do not support library reduction.
On Sun Oct 01, 2000 at 02:28:06PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
To be honest, I've never been given a really good explanation as to why
libc reduction works in our current setup, period. I spent a while
trying to make it work on powerpc and gave
On Wed Oct 11, 2000 at 08:13:37AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Please give me your advice if packaging busybox and mklibs.sh as seperate
packages is a good idea or not. Thanks!
This comes to my mind because:
1) Seems boot-floppies won't like to come into woody (c.f. Adam)
2)
On Fri Oct 13, 2000 at 11:14:14PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Talking to the release manager, Anthony Towns, in IRC, I learned it is
his current plan to freeze woody early in January 2001.
I think this is a laudable goal, but unfortunately I think that means
we need to retain the
On Fri Oct 20, 2000 at 02:21:34PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
"Erik" == Erik Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Erik It will fit. Oh, yes. It will. ;-)
Erik I'm sure it can be done. Though we may need to switch to libc5 or uclibc
or
Erik something more ex
On Fri Oct 20, 2000 at 02:24:59PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
"Erik" == Erik Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Erik At Lineo (where I work) we have a tool called "Lipo" (written in perl) that
Erik does the library reduction thing, and we have it
On Fri Oct 20, 2000 at 05:02:48PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
Ok, cool. Do you have a patch queue for us?
My mailbox. I can also give folks write access...
Erik The syscall layer is in a state of flux at the moment -- starting late last
Erik night I began converting from asm
On Mon Oct 23, 2000 at 10:35:37PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
And sometimes I think that would have been easier. Sheesh.
Indeed. I'm glad to see some progress finally happening though...
-Erik
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On Thu Oct 26, 2000 at 01:41:06PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
So I tried to make a .udeb today from my main-menu code. It wasn't that
hard; I ended up with a debian/rules like this:
why not
cd app-1.0
dpkg-buildpackage
cd ..
mv app-1.0.foo.deb app-1.0.foo.udeb
-Erik
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On Sat Oct 28, 2000 at 05:40:27PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
I'm happy to report that the main menu for the debian install
seems to be almost done. I have just two items on my TODO list:
* Fix the one warning at compile time.
* Figure out how to handle configuring only one virtual package
On Wed Oct 25, 2000 at 09:26:00PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
dists/ stable/ main/
binary-i386/
various .debs
disks-i386/
various .udebs
some basic boot-floppies
On Fri Nov 03, 2000 at 11:06:19AM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
Erik (and the rest of the uclibc team) have been making great progress
with uclibc, it compiles busybox statically to 370KB (70KB of libraries)
whereas compiled with glibc its about 650 KB
I dont know how this compares to
On Wed Nov 01, 2000 at 08:11:52PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
- busybox integration [Erik Anderson?]
Not started. Busybox needs to build one or more .udebs.
Probably more than one.
I claim this one. (btw, it is "Andersen" not "Anderson" :-). When the new
On Wed Nov 01, 2000 at 10:57:47PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
- http retreiver [UNCLAMED]
Not started. Download udebs, other files from network.
I claim this one as well. This will be based on busybox wget. I presume we
will also need support for other types of
On Sun Nov 12, 2000 at 03:11:53PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Once Erik uploads busybox udebs, he will also be uploading the source,
and I think a regular .deb with busybox packaged for a regular system.
So the boot-floppies can use either of those.
Ok, so in woody we'll be using the
On Mon Nov 13, 2000 at 10:09:47PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Erik Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun Nov 12, 2000 at 03:11:53PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Will means be provided to create the requisite symlinks in /usr/bin ?
I am open to suggestions on exactly what you want
On Tue Nov 14, 2000 at 11:09:06AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Erik Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am after all making this .deb exclusively for you for the woody boot
floppies, so if you have any preferences, by all means let me know. The above
seemed like an arrangement
On Mon Nov 13, 2000 at 11:02:53PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
BTW, there's something wrong with the scripts where they are saying
all the changes are by me, which is wrong.
I'll bet it's people committing with the pserver all come out as you,
since the commits actally
On Mon Nov 20, 2000 at 05:28:44PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
- busybox integration [Erik Andersen]
Not started. Busybox needs to build one or more .udebs.
Probably more than one.
The first pass at busybox udebs will be ready tonight. How do I
upload them
On Mon Nov 20, 2000 at 08:06:41PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
Erik Andersen wrote:
On Mon Nov 20, 2000 at 05:28:44PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
- busybox integration [Erik Andersen]
Not started. Busybox needs to build one or more .udebs.
Probably more
On Tue Nov 21, 2000 at 10:49:43PM +0300, Michael Sobolev wrote:
Subject asks it all. :) I have problems compiling dbootstrap
on a woody system... These may be caused by libc stuff...
In file included from losetup.c:16:
/usr/include/linux/loop.h:62: #error "Wrong dev_t in loop.h"
Argh.
On Wed Nov 22, 2000 at 01:00:38AM +0300, Michael Sobolev wrote:
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 02:11:38PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
On Tue Nov 21, 2000 at 10:49:43PM +0300, Michael Sobolev wrote:
Subject asks it all. :) I have problems compiling dbootstrap
on a woody system... These may
On Tue Nov 28, 2000 at 07:34:19PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
In reference to a message from Randolph Chung, dated Nov 27:
I was wondering if anyone is interested in arranging a time to hold a
debian-installer design brainstorming session or such on irc
(#debian-boot on irc.debian.org).
I have created a new busybox package and .udeb for the woody debian-installer.
This is a preliminary version -- I have no idea if I have the right set of apps
for the installer compiled in or not. I believe this is the most complex .udeb
creating package anyone has made so far (since it creates
On Tue Nov 14, 2000 at 03:12:27PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Well, I already have an install.sh script. If I provide the busybox.links
file that is generated at compile time then this would work just fine.
Then I could simply install /bin/busybox and /usr/bin/install_busybox.sh
and
On Fri Dec 01, 2000 at 07:25:15PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Erik Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now that I have a first pass at the woody debian-installer busybox
package out there, I now need to make another package to satisfy the
woody boot-floppies.
Well, there might be other
On Fri Dec 01, 2000 at 04:34:41PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
- busybox integration [Erik Andersen]
First pass busybox udeb is ready.
http://people.debian.org/~andersee/
Still needs a final tally of the needed apps, but should be usable...
- http
On Sun Dec 03, 2000 at 11:09:05AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
client. (No, I didn't realize that pump was installed by default, or I
would have used it, despite the fact that it violates the DHCP RFC's.
Why anyone would want to use pump is beyond me. I guess it is simple.
But
On Wed Dec 06, 2000 at 04:43:38PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
So I'm looking at busybox wget, with an eye to using it as the core of
the http retreiver. Observations:
* The chunked transfer encoding thing is a killer. Seems to break it on
a pretty large number of web sites. I guess you know
On Thu Dec 07, 2000 at 01:02:26PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
Log message:
busybox breaks udpkg
An update to that, I thought the busybox .udeb was breaking udpkg, but
it was actually that udpkg does not work with busybox ar, which was in
my path.
Oh? Details?
-Erik
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On Fri Dec 08, 2000 at 09:27:46AM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
Specifically a version, as far as i know the ar in cvs works with debs,
but i think there was a problem a few months back.
The .udeb joeyh is using was built by me from the busybox CVS last week...
-Erik
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On Fri Dec 08, 2000 at 03:28:51PM +0800, ha shao wrote:
Maybe let the user choose continent first and then countries.
Such a big list really make a user pulse for a big while.
This is a very good idea.
-Erik
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On Fri Dec 08, 2000 at 09:51:47PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
In reference to a message from Joey Hess, dated Dec 07:
Here is another debian-installer demo system. It still needs a real
debian system and doesn't chroot, nor does it even use cdebconf although
it probably could. But it is
On Fri Dec 08, 2000 at 10:30:30PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
Randolph Chung wrote:
In reference to a message from Joey Hess, dated Dec 07:
Here is another debian-installer demo system. It still needs a real
debian system and doesn't chroot, nor does it even use cdebconf although
it
On Thu Dec 07, 2000 at 06:22:21PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
On Thu Dec 07, 2000 at 10:05:32AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
Eep yes!
Can you make a new udeb out of cvs?
I will tonight. Right now I'm spending some time
working on wget (there is now an initial bit of proxy
support
On Tue Dec 12, 2000 at 06:48:05PM -0800, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote:
CVSROOT: /cvs/debian-boot
Module name: debian-installer
Changes by: joeyh 00/12/12 18:48:05
Modified files:
retriever/wget : wget-retriever.c
Log message:
enabled wget continuation support. I hope
On Tue Dec 12, 2000 at 07:01:15PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
Erik Andersen wrote:
With the latest and greatest busybox wget, I make the assumption
that if the file already exists on disk then the intention is to
continue downloading a previously aborted download... So you really
shouldn't
On Wed Dec 13, 2000 at 12:20:46PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
On Tue Dec 12, 2000 at 05:02:53PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
James just announced that package pools are fully rolled out. This means
that there is (untested) udeb support in the archive now, and we can
start uploading udebs. I
On Wed Dec 13, 2000 at 06:28:12PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
Any prefered naming scheme in use then?
busybox-udeb.*.udeb?
Well that mirrors what tausq did with cdebconf anyway.
which i copied from busybox cvs :-)
Thats what I get for doubting myself then... :-)
I looked at
On Sun Dec 17, 2000 at 03:55:43PM +0800, ha shao wrote:
I got the following error when 'make release' on boot floopy cvs:
.
gcc -Wall -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-builtin -D_GNU_SOURCE -DBB_VER='"0.43"'
-DBB_BT='"2000.12.17-07:45+"' -c -o mount.o mount.c
In file included from
On Thu Dec 21, 2000 at 09:42:30AM -0800, Taheri, Babak wrote:
I would like to know what is the equivalent command for the UNIX crypt
command in Debian X86 Linux?
In Debian there is no crypt command. There is a crypt(3) libc
interface though. If you want to crypt something, you can use
perl
On Thu Dec 21, 2000 at 02:16:11PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
The 160k being used by busybox is also too much
I was sortof liberal with enabling apps so far, just because I had no idea what
would be needed. If you see anything in the busybox.udeb that looks like a
candidate for the chopping
On Thu Dec 21, 2000 at 04:22:03PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
On Thu Dec 21, 2000 at 03:08:45PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
Here's a list of what we need by inspection:
- main-menu: nothing
- anna: nothing *
- wget-retreiver: wget *
- udpkg: ar, zcat, tar, rm *
- cdebconf: nothing
On Sat Dec 30, 2000 at 01:48:00PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Anthony Towns claimed on debian-devel that it would take us "a few
months" to prepare boot-floppies for woody. I think it can be done by
Feb. I don't think there many major issues. Here's the one's I know
of:
- use
On Fri Dec 29, 2000 at 12:56:36AM -0800, David Whedon wrote:
Known Problems:
-proc filesystem isn't working, so I can't find the network interfaces
automatically.
Hmm. And doing a 'mount proc /proc -t proc' doesn't mount it? How odd.
-netkit-tiny's ifconfig didn't work for me, so I
On Fri Dec 29, 2000 at 06:02:02PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
-wouldn't it be nice to have all the componants that will potentially be on that
magical single floppy in one place?
No. This isn't BSD!
Actually, they already are effectivly in one place...
apt-get source foo
-Erik
On Sun Dec 31, 2000 at 12:52:04PM -0800, David Whedon wrote:
you the traditional 'ifconfig' type network status info that most folks have
come to know and love. So, with that in mind, what specifically didn't work
for you?
That was all, I didn't see the output that I know and love, so
On Mon Jan 01, 2001 at 04:18:15AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
I mounted the 127Mb partition as /, and the 64Mb one as /boot.
I don't understand the rationale for installing a partition as /boot.
I always thought /boot had to be on the root partition? Isn't that
true, since it has the
On Mon Jan 01, 2001 at 12:50:52PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
But just because lilo and grub handle large hard drives doesn't mean that a
separate /boot partition has no place in the world. For example, on my
NetWinder, /boot is a small partition formatted to use old 2.0.x compatible
On Mon Jan 01, 2001 at 07:34:35PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
applogies to Gordon Matzigkeit [EMAIL PROTECTED], the official grub
maintainer. i had to change some of the source code in the grub-install
script to get around some busybox's shortcomings. bug reports against
busybox will
Having carefully looked over nano-tiny ('apt-get install nano-tiny' for the
curious) I propose we immediately throw ae out of the boot-floppies and use
nano-tiny instead. It is already linked vs slang so there are no library
problems. It _is slightly_ bigger. On x86 it adds 16k. That is a
On Tue Jan 02, 2001 at 11:00:49AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
* Joey Hess
| Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
|
| I think the patch is pretty self-explanatory. It adds proxy support
| for wget, and additionally, it _requires_ the user to input hostname
| and directory.
|
| Could
On Tue Jan 02, 2001 at 12:16:57PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| If you can show me where it should give an error, I'll
| add it right in...
Imho, it should require to get a hostname, and a directory. My
Hmm. I'm not sure I understand. Assuming you are talking about the URL wget
is
On Tue Jan 02, 2001 at 12:38:11PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote:
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:44:36PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
certain RE's will fail to be matched. this is not an exhaustive list,
and i was unable to find a test suite to test all sorts of RE's.
This problem appears to be
On Wed Jan 03, 2001 at 11:25:21PM -0800, David Whedon wrote:
Hi Erik,
I debianized netkit-tiny. The way that I made a reduced feature udeb isn't
terribly pretty, perhaps you can think of a better way. I toyed with the
idea of using autoconf and a bunch of --[dis|e]nable's, but that may
On Wed Jan 03, 2001 at 07:43:03PM -0800, David Whedon wrote:
I'm packaging netkit-tiny. I'll make a deb and a udeb for debian-installer.
I plan on putting in the udeb: ifconfig, ping, and nc.
What's the future plan on this as far as integration with busy box (or not)?
From the busybox TODO
On Tue Jan 09, 2001 at 11:31:45AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
true. if the reiserfs partition is mounted w/o the nottail option, then
LILO notices holes in the map file. (other partition types may also
benefit, such as qmail mail queue partitions). my current disks notice
this and ask
On Thu Jan 11, 2001 at 06:06:58PM -0800, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote:
CVSROOT: /cvs/debian-boot
Module name: boot-floppies
Changes by: joeyh 01/01/11 18:06:58
Modified files:
scripts/rootdisk: mklibs.sh
Log message:
argh. I just upgraded, and the name of libc.so* has
On Thu Jan 11, 2001 at 01:12:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
Joey Hess wrote:
Unfortunatly, while
the libraries get reduced, ash doesn't work (busybox does).
root@gumdrop:/home/joey/tmp/demo3chroot . bin/sh
bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: bin/sh: symbol sys_siglist, version
On Sat Jan 13, 2001 at 01:28:10PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
I still haven't really ruled out uclibc BTW, but we seem to be doing fine
on size as-is.
I realise that uClibc is probably not going to be needed or used,
but mostly for the FYI department, I thought you might be interested.
On Fri Jan 12, 2001 at 07:04:07PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What's our time frame here? I need to verify that 2.2.18 fixes the
current PowerPC installation brown bag.
I dunno. I'd like to get it all taken care of by end of month, does
On Fri Jan 19, 2001 at 04:17:43PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
Glenn McGrath wrote:
While working on support for dhclient in debian-installer I noticed that
busybox will need to have 'expr' added. I wonder how this should be handled.
I guess it makes sense to add 'expr' since it is only a
On Fri Jan 19, 2001 at 03:20:27PM -0800, David Whedon wrote:
I would be glad to have you maintain it --
Okay, I'll take it.
BTW, earlier today I dropped busybox wget into its rightful place in
netkit-tiny. wget is now disabled in the release of busybox I'm about to
upload to incoming, so
On Sun Jan 21, 2001 at 07:16:53PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
System stats
Installed udebs: anna main-menu cdebconf-udeb udpkg busybox-udeb ash-udeb
choose-mirror wget-retriever
BTW, with the new version of busybox-udeb I uploaded yesterday,
we now need to add in netkit-tiny, since
On Tue Jan 23, 2001 at 02:11:30PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
Im going to try and get a mount package that integrates with main menu,
ive just got to hook together some device, partition and filesystem
selecting code.
Once we have mount working we can try and make it standalone by
On Tue Jan 23, 2001 at 04:10:42PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
Like, if we put all the core stuff (busybox, main menu, cdebconf, etc)
into an initrd we could then either chroot to a new filesystem, or mount
another partition to get more space.
This is called "pivot root", and requires
On Tue Jan 23, 2001 at 08:49:19AM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
On Tue Jan 23, 2001 at 04:10:42PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
Like, if we put all the core stuff (busybox, main menu, cdebconf, etc)
into an initrd we could then either chroot to a new filesystem, or mount
another partition
On Tue Jan 23, 2001 at 08:49:04PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
I guess that CD-Rom drive could be anywhere from
(hd1) to (hd3).
Uh, well, you mean hda to hdc? Plus SCSI drives, etc etc. Oh, ick.
There must be a better way.
I did a similar thing once. I used a simple shell script on
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