Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2002-02-07
Severity: wishlist
Someone should look into what needs to be done to install
on these servers. A starting point can be found in this message to
debian-boot.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2002/debian-boot-200202/msg00132.html
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2002-02-05
Severity: normal
This recently sent to debian-boot. We should brobably fix this somehow.
From: James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Files in the archive with no extension cause problems
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are files
: modconf
Binary: modconf
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.2.34
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Boot Floppies Team [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changed-By: David Whedon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description:
modconf- Device Driver Configuration
Closes: 95851 107985 108007 113200
Changes
Do we have a new busybox yet which fixes the wget problems?
hmm, I heard something about this, but I see nothing in the BTS entry for
busybox. What's more I just took a look at which busybox I built with and
found I used my own local patched copy. Two reasons I should have waited
to
supplementary resources via the device --- network fs). The trick is in fact
to try to have the smallest bootstrapping procedure and there seems to be
already a large part of the work done.
The last time I checked for libdetect it was such a huge beast and decided
to find another way to do
Hi Robert,
After correcting my fat fingering and downloading the Release and Release.gpg
file from the ftp site I now get the message
Malformed release file /target/usr/woody/Release
wierd
Note that unless you are interested in helping to debug the installation
process,
I'll be
Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 08:22:52AM -0600 wrote:
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 04:34:39PM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
3 different boards here have a miscolored penguin as well.
I see the same thing using the compact boot-floppies. I have a
Matrox Millenium II graphics board, if that helps
I just tested an idepci install of a pre-2.3.6, building on woody and installing
testing. Stage 1 worked very well. Stage 2 didn't work so well only because
updated base-config (at least) hasn't made its way into testing. In fact
nothing is fixed in Stage 2 from the last time I installed about
Here are some alternatives to rawrite2. I haven't used them at all (no Windows
access), they just turned up on a net search.
The FDVOL, WrtDsk or RaWrite3 programs can be used under MS-DOS to copy images
to floppies.
http://www.minix-vmd.org/pub/Minix-vmd/dosutil/
NTRawrite is an attempt to
Am I missing something? How should a language which (seemingly) doesn't have
any docs get installed? :)
I'm tempted to hack this stuff, but I'm kinda out of the loop nowadays and
wouldn't want to break anything. Please advise.
I think you need to do an update, but well, I could be wrong
The other issue is that the lite libext2fs.so.2.4 should never ever
be installed on a normal system, since it's missing a lot of necessary
object files. In fact, when I was chatting with Larry McVoy, he
warned me that I might be unloosing a time-bomb that might come back
to haunt me. My
Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 11:36:16PM -0700 wrote:
Proposed revisions for Chapter 2, System Requirements attached.
Hi Chris,
I took a look at the changes and they look good, my only question is :
Why take the following out? I think it should stay.
p
-There are, however, some limitations in
So the question is, should we default /dev/cdrom to the first
CD-ROM drive if none is used during the installation,
That's my vote.
or not set
it at all in this case?
Matt
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Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 12:00:24PM -0700 wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Matt Kraai wrote:
Why? You can always reset it manually, and having it default to
something nice will make a lot of programs which rely on
/dev/cdrom work a lot better.
How many new users to linux (we are
Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:50:51PM +0200 wrote:
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:38:06PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
David Whedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One option is to make an optional i18n floppy and have a menu option: 'Load
Multiple Languages'. Then we mount the dist that contains
Anyway the problem is still there, it fails to find the packages I've
already downloaded. I've tried putting them in /archive/debian/local,
/archive/debian/Incoming, and /archive/debian/download/cache/archives.
Any ideas?
I've been putting packages in boot-floppies/updates/ nad it find
I did my best making our case :
http://bugs.debian.org/100563
Feel free to add anything to make it sound less like I'm whining.
-David
Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 06:19:54PM -0400 wrote:
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:26:55AM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
$ ls /usr/lib/libnewt*_pic.a
/usr/lib
Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:12:19AM -0500 wrote:
The only error I've seen from yesterday's testing that hasn't yet
been reported (or I missed it) is that debconf now complains as
follows.
debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Slang
debconf: (Unable to load Term::Stool) -- is
Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:11:02PM +0200 wrote:
Excuse me i'm a young french end encountered problems installing a debian 2.2.
It didn't recognize any of my 2 hard drives.
I didn't found on the sites notes about UDMA66 and i think that is the
problem
Are you using the udma66 floppies?
I guess the correct solution is to make dbootstrap write unstable
instead of sid, but I don't know how to handle slink and potato.
Suggestions?
Here is an idea:
slink and sid will never change, their proper names are just that, slink and
sid. Once woody is released someone installing potato
This will certianly work, but I still don't understand why that code is
so fond of the release names, when with a simple change to debootstrap, it
The code is fond of release names because :
1 - that's what debootstrap wanted
2 - that is a common way of talking about releases, which is
to be done:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0106/msg00308.html
Whatever, I'm now going though the list to find something to do this evening, so
feel free to re-delegate :-)
-David
Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:10:42AM -0400 wrote:
David Whedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
Lets wait until I
This is very confusing... We shoudl remove this question entirely and
replace it with an alternative selection the user could run *before*
running configure drivers, just like configure pcmcia is an
alternative there
can do, looks like we'll have 3 alternates on some archs
Next:
I've seen this each time I built i386 boot-floppies:
I: doing library reduction
/usr/home/davidw/tmp/boot-floppies-2.3.5/scripts/rootdisk/mklibs.sh: find-file-glob:
internal error: multiple matches
The disks work and the build doesn't stop, just the mysterious error message.
Either I have
Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:55:40PM +0200 wrote:
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:42:51AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
On Sun Jun 10, 2001 at 08:38:50PM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
That is a good point. The suggestion of dynmically using the busybox help
probably doesn't treat transloations very
boot-floppies 2.3.5 is looking very good. Various cleanups that have trickled in
this weekend have given us a smooth install (at least on i386). I have
installed a couple times this weekend and have only seen cosmetic bugs. I put
a freshly built set up at:
We can't take on the job of *nix education within the installer, but I think
a few k would really be a good investment for new users. I'm willing to
scrounge a few k from other places if need be...
I like this idea.
Let's add a new 'help' command (hard linked to man and info) that just
option, when it would have ordinarily displayed my choices: Directory error;
the supplied directory does not exist, please enter a new one.
The above should be fixed in cvs.
-David
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Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 12:32:08AM +0200 wrote:
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:44:49PM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 02:40:24AM +0200 wrote:
So what shall we do? Only support it for the 2.88 ones?
That is what we use for CD install, right?
Yes
I think having
That is a good point. The suggestion of dynmically using the busybox help
probably doesn't treat transloations very well, unless busybox wants translated
help.
-David
Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 02:16:48AM +0200 wrote:
Would it be an English-only file ??
Or is there a way of integrating it in
Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 08:35:46PM -0400 wrote:
As requested, here is a tzconfig varient that uses debconf for its UI. A
sample run (note that new installers will be seeing the dialog frontend
instead):
looks super.
If you want to try it, you should probably install debconf 0.9.63 from
Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 07:25:52PM +0200 wrote:
Is it possible to integrate pppoe in the bootdisks for woody?
Depends on what you are trying to do, here are some possabilities :
1 - run 'Install the base System' phase on pppoe. That will require pppd and
pppoe at least on the boot medium. For CD
I was under the impression the boot-floppy disks were being based on
packages in sid (busybox, debootstrap, etc) and used to install packages
from woody (dpkg.deb, bash.deb, libc6.deb, etc). This still seems the
sensible thing to do, to me, but stuff I read seems to indicate the
opposite is
Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 10:18:07PM +0200 wrote:
I'm use an raid controller. This controller is used juste for a UDMA100
hard drive, not for raid. The installation program, not recognize any
hard drive, and i could not install the debian linux.
Hi,
This may be a boot-floppies bug or a
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2001-06-09
Severity: minor
Tags: woody
I'm using current cvs boot floppies built on unstable, installing woody.
While installing the base system via debootstrap the following message comes up
on the concole:
PAM_unix[6120]: (su) session openned for
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2001-06-09
Severity: wishlist
Tags: woody
When dbootstrap gets to the Install the Base System stage i thas a static
lists of distrubutions that it tells you to choose from. However, in many
cases (CD install) they will not all be available.
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2001-06-09
Severity: normal
Tags: woody
This is current cvs boot-floppies.
The first time I configured the network I gave the wrong gateway. (I have
a 192.168 network with a gateway doing NAT (ipmasq))
# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Package: modconf
Version: 0.2.32
Severity: wishlist
While going through the boot-floppies install I had to rm -rf /target/ because
I wanted to try installing the base system again. When I got to the
'configure device drivers' section modconf was clever enough to see that I
alreay has 3c509
Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:26:57AM -0600 wrote:
Howdy,
I'm happy to say that I am writing this email on a system on
which I just installed sid using the 2.3.5 boot-floppies. And
there was much rejoicing.
That is great!
To make this work, I had to make two minor changes to debootstrap.
Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:58:54PM -0400 wrote:
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've done some (I'd say considerable) improvements to the dselect Beginners'
Guide, they're commited to CVS
(boot-floppies/documentation/dselect-beginner.sgml). I was wondering, would
it be possible to
Hmm... how to ship that file becomes the question, then... Ouch, that
makes it a kinda annoying issue to deal with.
I wonder if we should make a separate package for boot-floppies
documentation, tutorial, and release notes, and we could include that
in base?
I like it.
Possibly making
I'll try to code something up in the next few days.
It won't be possible to do the side-by-side-lists display, though.
That's great, the side by side thing confuses me :-)
David
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Lets wait until I burn 2.3.5 first.
I'm sure I can add the package building stuff into debian/rules in a
pretty damn short order.
Sounds like a good plan to me.
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Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:57:12AM -0400 wrote:
- during install base unable to install the 'sid' distribution, due
to this error:
dbootstrap: No such script: /usr/lib/dbootstrap/scripts/sid
I'll fix.
David
I'm going to check in a bit more to all this.
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Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.2.23
I'm turning this into a bug, cc'ing debian-boot manually since bugs.debian.org
is down at the moment.
Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:58:50AM -0700 wrote:
Are there certain details I need to give to get a
reply?
I think the only problem is we're busy and
Ug, this was me, fixed. I had assumed that running lint on the docs would find
all problems, not so, it doesn't find unresolved internal references. The only
way to catch those is to build the docs, which I just did. I doubt there are
more problems.
David
Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:49:11PM
We had yesterday a user installing onto sparc, but the only system available to
create floppy images was Windows. Since the rawrite section of the install
manual is not included in the sparc manual it wasn't easy to figure out how to
proceed. I suggest we include all the different ways of
Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:09:11PM -0500 wrote:
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:40:50PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Nobody is working on m68k boot floppies for Woody at the moment. This
is a bad situation. Unless m68k porters start working on getting
things going for their architecture, won't
Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:47:59PM -0400 wrote:
Je suis webmaster d'un site sur http://free.fr et découvre qu'un répertoire a été
crée sur
mon site dont JE SUIS LE SEUL A POSSEDER LE CODE D'ACCES en mode FTP.
Ce répertoire nomé /icon INVISIBLE à l'écran avec mon logiciel FTP contient
I filed some bugs to make these go away, see :
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0105/msg00832.html
The lilo thing isstill unresolved I have to test my theory that we don't really
need it.
Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:59:40AM +0100 wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:25:37PM +1000, Anthony Towns
Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:54:50PM +0100 wrote:
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:25:17PM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
I may have an explanation, but am not sure of the solution. When we inovke
debotstrap we communicate with in through it's stdin and fd 3. We redirect
debootstrap's stdout and stderr
Is there any software for detecting sound cards in Debian that's
effective?
I recently used libdetect to detect my sound card, it found it, though it got
the module wrong, the name was close enough that I found the right one.
Progeny uses libdetect for discover, an initrd based hardware
Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:16:36AM -0400 wrote:
On install base (debootstrap) step, I am getting a hang while it
tells me to acknowledge that it created an empty ld.so.conf and other
things. I would prefer if we not make the user have to hit return for
that...
--
That's by design, but
Hi Anthony,
I don't know if you've seen this thread, it started here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0105/msg00719.html
I figure you can provide some input.
Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:35:42AM -0400 wrote:
David Whedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:16:36AM -0400 wrote
did you try:
# dpkg -i libdb2_2%3a2.7.7-8_i386.deb libc6_2.2.3-1_i386.deb
I think that works.
-David
Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:47:52PM +0200 wrote:
Package: base
I am trying to move from using 'stable' to using 'testing'. However, I
have a showstopper
in that libc6 is dependent in
Can I help with finding a solution? I'd love it if the unstable
selection worked.
Sure, start hacking boot-floppies cvs, send patches, find bugs, just like you
are doing now. See the recent archive of this list for a look at current
issues:
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2001-05-22
Severity: grave
The the replacement of pump with dhcp-client has broken dhcp support on
boot-floppies.
I checked the kernel configs for kernel-image-2.2.19-i386 and they are
already:
CONFIG_PACKET=m
CONFIG_FILTER=y
We need to make
Thanks for the report. I filed two bugs:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=nobug=98439
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=nobug=98433
David
Tue, May 22, 2001 at 04:27:29PM -0400 wrote:
I tried the floppies with the 5/18 date from http.us, didn't get very
Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:50:35AM -0400 wrote:
David Whedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We really need to build a new version from cvs. Adam is going to tag the cvs
tree for 2.3.2. This should happen soon, I'm not sure what we are waiting on.
Whatever it is we probably shouldn't be waiting
Hi,
You are using current stable boot disks?
Yes, the 'compact' disks.
How exactly is it not recognizing it?
I don't see it being detected during boot, and there's no option to
install over the network.
I'm assuming you are trying to load the ne or ne2k-pci module with no
We really need to build a new version from cvs. Adam is going to tag the cvs
tree for 2.3.2. This should happen soon, I'm not sure what we are waiting on.
Whatever it is we probably shouldn't be waiting on it. Once it is tagged I'll
build a new set for i386.
Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:18:10PM
I assume you are suing current cvs? I've gotten a somewhat functioning system
installed with current cvs and other have too.
Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:13:02PM -0400 wrote:
Uhm, has *anyone* succeeded to install a machine using the woody boot
floppies? So far, I've just met with utter
Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:46:20PM -0400 wrote:
David Whedon wrote:
- From my TODO:
* Aph can add dboostrap_settings info that says where they got base.tgz
from. This might be able to be used to tell where the archive they used is.
Updating that thought to the present
Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:42:15PM -0400 wrote:
David Whedon wrote:
http://debian.gnaps.com/debian/
I say in theory because last time I tried debootstrap exited with an error (even
though the install appeared to work) so the variable wasn't written, but it
probably does work.
Oh
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2001-05-13
Severity: serious
I made a woody chroot and was having difficulty building the documentation. It
turns out the package sgml-data wasn't installed. It used to be pulled in by
at least debiandoc-sgml but in woody and sid debiandoc-sgml no
Sounds like a good plan. /sbin/dhclient in the deb is a script that
calls either dhclient-2.2.x or dhclient-2.0.x depending on uname -r. I
just dropped dhclient-2.0.x and dhclient from the EXTRACT lists. I
wonder if dhclient-2.2.x is renamed dhclient in the udeb? I suppose
I'll just
Sat, May 12, 2001 at 05:00:53PM -0400 wrote:
I assume this patch was already applied by David Weldon?
s/Weldon/Whedon/ everybody does it, I don't know why :-)
Yes, I applied it. If something is missing, unfinished or messed with respect to
this patch I don't know about it.
David
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Fri, May 11, 2001 at 05:39:21PM +0200 wrote:
Hello,
On Monday I had to install my new box and decided to go for Woody
directly. This is my report.
thanks for the report.
Install
---
Ok, a normal floppies install. Oh, they were compiled for Spanish, so I
could review the state of the
I may have been too hasty in fixing the sparc build failure. (see recent cvs
activity)
After further investigation I notice that I may have broken powerpc in the
process. Not having a powerpc machine to test on I don't know if that is the
case.
I'm looking for some input.
Here's the story:
Um, David, you realize 2.2.24 would be Potato, right?
umm, nope, please ignore my cluelessness, thanks.
I will also try to release 2.3.2 for Woody as soon as I can compile
it.
that's the one waiting for busybox, as I'm sure you know.
David
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On ppc I can now get all the way to extracting base.
glad to head it :-)
Sorry about
breaking Sparc -- I thought I recalled seeing __KERNEL__ in at least
asm-i386/unaligned.h, but it must have been my fuzzy eyes.
no biggie.
I have a couple
Neat, this definately would be a good thing. The current debian-installer
project might be able to become what you are talking about. We definately have
the IU abstracted from the guts and the different functional parts are well
broken up into independant modules. I've been thinking about ways
- From my TODO:
* Aph can add dboostrap_settings info that says where they got base.tgz
from. This might be able to be used to tell where the archive they used is.
Updating that thought to the present, if debootstrap downloads packages from
the net, we know whatever server it
Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:18:09AM -0400 wrote:
Should I do a source upload of 2.2.24 boot-floppies for the ARM stuff?
Sounds reasonable, once busybox 0.52 arrives we'll have largely functioning
boot-floppies, I believe.
Anything else that needs to go into that, like the 2.2.19 kernel for
ugg, wrong CVSROOT. I removed the files from cvs. Could someone with the
appropriate permissions remove the directory:
dwhedon@klecker:/org/cvs.debian.org/cvs/debian-boot/
drwxrwxr-x2 aph Debian 4096 May 9 12:59 image_stuff
Thanks,
David
Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:48:29PM -0700
There are two things that I would like to see in a new installer that I don't
see in debian-installer at the moment:
1. The ability to redo some of the installation after the system is all the way
set up. I would like to see the same utility, same user interface, that people
can use to modify
Our present status is that [EMAIL PROTECTED] has completed an install of woody
with a hacked up version of boot floppies:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0105/msg00071.html
There are a number of issues called out in that e-mail that manty has fixes for
and will apply shortly, other things
Sat, May 05, 2001 at 03:49:06PM +0200 wrote:
Hi!
Yesterday I made my first complete install of debian woody using the new
boot floppies,
yippee! I'm glad to hear it.
RFC 1 (termwrap):
I have used termwrap, rescued it from our scripts/basedisks/Attic, I have
asked before about this and
Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:00:25PM +0200 wrote:
why the hell did you hack my site!!???!!
i opened it today...
and it was full!! of you're icons
why why why!!!??
It appears as though you have installed Debian GNU/Linux, or a distribution
based on it. The icons you are concerned about are
I guess, we must move the unconfigured hack after the rs check, don't you
agree?
I agree completely, please commit the change, thanks.
Regards...
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PD: I think I'm gonna be able to do a full install in next compile and burn
round :-)
Rock on!
Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:29:11PM +0200 wrote:
FWIW, I have taken the great work of Erik Andersen and others for BusyBox (not
to mention Bruce Perens for the beginning) and uClibc, and I must say that
I am quite impressed :
1) by the size : BB statically compiled against uClibc with vi is
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2001-05-03
Severity: minor
Current cvs version of boot-floppies looks funny. All the borders that used to
be black lines with grey backgrounds are now gone and are just blue space. It
wouldn't look so funny if the title bar wasn't still there. I
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2001-05-01
Severity: grave
dbootstrap attempts to execute /target/bin/superformat. debootstrap has not
installed the package fdutils where superformat would be found. One of the
following is probably a good idea:
1. have debootstrap install
Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:21:23PM +0200 wrote:
save off /target/etc/modutils before calling debootstrap, fix it after calling
debootstrap as it gets trampled by the modutils package.
For what I see you are not talking about modutils overwriting
/target/etc/modutils but /target/etc/modules,
Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 02:36:32PM +0200 wrote:
Hello David,
This patch will update and complete the danish translations in da.po for
dbootstrap.
Hi Claus,
The patch I recieved had bad word-wrapping. It was too large for me to edit by
hand (I fixed 10 line breaks and was only 3% through the
Looks to me like you are trying to replace the kernel on the rescue disk. In
structions can be found here:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html#s-rescue-replace-kernel
I hope that helps,
David
Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:42:45PM +0200 wrote:
hi,
i am
This patch will fix some typos in the danish parts of scripts/ for
boot-floppies.
Applied, thank you.
Two of the chunks were wordwrapped in a bad way. I manually intervened. It
would be nice for you to take a quick look to make sure I didn't mess it up.
BTW, who is the expert on
Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:18:27PM +0100 wrote:
If we are going to use UTF-8 for the installer, then we need a new
editor instead of ae. I looked at the source for ae and thought it
would be easier to write a new editor from scratch than to add
multibyte support to ae.
We are currently using
Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:50:03PM +0200 wrote:
Hi!
After debugging busybox enough so that I could use the cvs version to
build installable floppies, so here is my report and also some questions I'd
like to know the answer, so that I could continue trying to inprove boot
floppies.
When
Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:22:25PM +0200 wrote:
Hello,
I'm french, debian user since hamm.
I can translate english documents, and I have some spare time to do
it, and maintain them.
great.
I don't know the current state of the french documentation in boot-floppies, but
these people are
Take a look at:
http://www.debian.org/ports/
David
Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:52:26PM +0300 wrote:
Hi,
Does Debian Linux supports Power Macintosh computers?
If so, i'm feeling need of Startup Disk(s), cause I got pair of Debian Linux CDs...
Thanx for help,
ZiLKA the
greek.), then by all means send the files over.
David
George
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I'm integrating this right now but it may take me a little time to test it.
Thanks,
David
Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:37:29PM +0200 wrote:
Tirsdag 17. April 2001 20:04 skrev Claus Hindsgaul:
Hello again,
Again...
An additional patch to activate Danish support:
Index: config
For your info I just files this one (Bug#94575) against debootstrap. Base
install still isn't happenning.
-David
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Subject: [PATCH] using non-standard call to 'head' breaks with busybox
Two more bugs of interest to boot-floppies team. Both these are preventing us
from installing the base system. They both have easy workarounds in
debootstrap. Both of these are busybox-debootstrap interaction, I'm not sure
who should be fixed.
busybox sed doesn't like 'i' option, it likes 'I'
I just submitted a bug against busybox. gunzip and/or zcat are broken. This
breaks debootstrap, so we still haven't been able to complete an install.
David
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=nobug=94331
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Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 06:23:38PM +0200 wrote:
Glenn McGrath wrote:
Romain BEAUGRAND wrote:
Does this problem come from busybox ?
If not, where does it come from ?
How do I solve it ???
Yes, it was due to some changes i made to gunzip between busybox 0.50
and and 0.51.
Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:24:07PM +0100 wrote:
Hi, I've managed to get a set of boot disks ready with everything needed to do
reiserfs and raid, both with 2.2.19 and a few patches and with 2.4.x, however
I have a few slight problems
1: editing the raidtab file, along with mkraid and
Are you aware that debian-installer is not going to be used for woody? Most of
us are working on boot-floppies now to make them ready for the woody release. I
do hope to have debian-installer at least functional for brave people to install
woody, but it will take more work.
I don't mean to
great to have the help. check out boot-floppies cvs (see instructions at
cvs.debian.org, and the archive of this list for problems if any.).
Look at the file boot-floppies/todo once checked out.
as well as fixing (and adding to if you find more problems) bugs at :
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