Bug#241569: yaboot fails on Sarge 20040330 NetInst

2004-04-02 Thread Ethan Benson
avoid that by using -b /dev/your_bootstrap_partition -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: new installer

2003-10-04 Thread Ethan Benson
it as a guide, or just adapt it. it could be better, but as is will work for most OF 1.0.5 machines. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: new installer

2003-10-04 Thread Ethan Benson
the CD post-boot is fine, its on the same scsi bus as the disk, so if you plan to actually install you would need the right scsi driver anyway. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: new installer

2003-10-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:12:56AM +, simon raven wrote: Le Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 23:52:58 -0800, Ethan Benson a écrit: On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:16:52AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: also .coff kernels don't even work until 2.4.23 (maybe). ask ben herrenschmidt about that actually

Re: new installer

2003-10-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:29:43AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:12:56AM +, simon raven wrote: Le Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 23:52:58 -0800, Ethan Benson a écrit: On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:16:52AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: also .coff kernels don't even work

Re: new installer

2003-10-03 Thread Ethan Benson
late. the bootstrap partition must be the first one created. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: new installer

2003-10-03 Thread Ethan Benson
it right, it needs to depend on yaboot since yaboot provides ofpath. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: new installer

2003-10-02 Thread Ethan Benson
. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: new installer

2003-10-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:49:16AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:33:53AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:19:58AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: a .coff kernel won't autoboot, the user would have to manually get into OpenFirmware and boot

Re: new installer

2003-10-02 Thread Ethan Benson
care. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: new installer

2003-10-02 Thread Ethan Benson
is i think a bit beyond saying that comething is broken crap. i never said anyone was retarded. i said yaboot-installer was a complete retarded mess. which it is. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: new installer

2003-09-27 Thread Ethan Benson
level kernel bootstrapping, or even of the powerpc architecture, the current problems don't have anything to do with either. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: #103302 ask permission before erasing /var/cache/apt/archives

2001-11-17 Thread Ethan Benson
as they are far to important to be maintained by hostile individuals who DO NOT have Debian users interests in mind. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ msg12307/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: #103302 ask permission before erasing /var/cache/apt/archives

2001-11-17 Thread Ethan Benson
. thank you. Ethan? It seems like you've been attempting to calm down the rhetoric lately? It is Joey who is spewing personal attacks against me, him and your great release manager. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ msg12308/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problems with sparc boot installation

2001-11-15 Thread Ethan Benson
for all parts of the base install. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ msg12249/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [PATCH] set sticky bit when creating /var/tmp mount-point

2001-11-15 Thread Ethan Benson
of this. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ msg12251/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: library reduction problems in recent rootdisk.sh

2001-11-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 06:12:13PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote: On Tue Nov 13, 2001 at 06:16:23AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: # Make the dynamic linker executable -ld_file = find_lib(ld-linux.so.2) +ld_file = find_lib(ld.so.1) ld_file_name = os.path.basename(ld_file) os.chmod

Re: Installation success on Powerbook G4 (TiBook, the newest model)

2001-11-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:03:13AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:57:59PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: BTW, is anyone working on 2.4 PowerMac boot disks then? Colin Walters and i were going to look at it shortly, do

Re: is it too late for 2.2.26 powerpc boot-floppies and r4

2001-11-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:13:25AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: don't really have the capability or the time to attempt that. Colin Walters tried but said it would not build. Well, I guess we're SOL since no one can build it. cd images

Re: 2.4.x boot floppies, was: Vulnerable SSH versions

2001-11-14 Thread Ethan Benson
: switch to an architecture using 2.4 by default. 2: make your own custom set of boot-floppies. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ msg1/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: library reduction problems in recent rootdisk.sh

2001-11-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:33:26PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: Erik Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue Nov 13, 2001 at 06:16:23AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: # Make the dynamic linker executable -ld_file = find_lib(ld-linux.so.2) +ld_file = find_lib(ld.so.1

Re: 2.4.x boot floppies, was: Vulnerable SSH versions

2001-11-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:42:10PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: People with such old hardware are probably better of with bo or hamm or potato. They probably need the low-mem target too. which are not (or will not in potato's case) be supported with security updates. -- Ethan Benson http

Re: [PATCH] set sticky bit when creating /var/tmp mount-point

2001-11-13 Thread Ethan Benson
(making mount point %s, real_mount_point); if (! mkdir(real_mount_point, WithMode)) { chmod(real_mount_point, WithMode); Regards, Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ethan Benson http

Re: [PATCH] set sticky bit when creating /var/tmp mount-point

2001-11-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 12:02:18PM +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 10:53:16PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote: partition_config::mount_partition() uses mode 01777 when creating /tmp as a mount-point, but doesn't

Re: library reduction problems in recent rootdisk.sh

2001-11-13 Thread Ethan Benson
the dynamic linker executable -ld_file = find_lib(ld-linux.so.2) +ld_file = find_lib(ld.so.1) ld_file_name = os.path.basename(ld_file) os.chmod(dest_path + / + ld_file_name, 0755) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ msg12191/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: library reduction problems in recent rootdisk.sh

2001-11-13 Thread Ethan Benson
~$ dpkg -s libc6 | grep ^Ver Version: 2.2.4-5 eb@dogbert ~$ uname -m ppc furthermore from looking at rootdisk.sh more archs use ld.so.1 then use ld-linux.so.2. look at the list for yourself. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ msg12200/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [PATCH] set sticky bit when creating /var/tmp mount-point

2001-11-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:07:49AM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 04:20:36AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 12:02:18PM +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - what good will this do? the permissions

Re: library reduction problems in recent rootdisk.sh

2001-11-12 Thread Ethan Benson
in /archives/ -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ msg12145/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: #103302 ask permission before erasing /var/cache/apt/archives

2001-11-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:40:05AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 12:51:42AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 08:38:31PM +1100, Brian May wrote: Ethan == Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ethan we are not talking about this, we

Re: library reduction problems in recent rootdisk.sh

2001-11-12 Thread Ethan Benson
/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ msg12168/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /lib/security on root disk

2001-11-12 Thread Ethan Benson
the install root disk, though? because the s390 console is too broken for words. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ msg12169/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#119337: boot-floppies: dbootstrap looks for Release file in wrong location

2001-11-12 Thread Ethan Benson
is stored in /instmnt/dists/woody/main/binary-$ARCH. wrong. dists/woody/Release is the correct file. if its missing your CD is broken. the Release files under binary-$arch are not complete. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ msg12170/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: #103302 ask permission before erasing /var/cache/apt/archives

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 07:12:01AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:44:15PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:53:13PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Othmar Pasteka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: just something what everyboday should know if he/she

Re: #103302 ask permission before erasing /var/cache/apt/archives

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 08:38:31PM +1100, Brian May wrote: Ethan == Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ethan we are not talking about this, we are talking about Ethan base-config rm -rf'ing /var/cache/apt WITHOUT ASKING. Hmmm... Maybe I misunderstood something, but my

Re: #103302 ask permission before erasing /var/cache/apt/archives

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
a new one. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: library reduction problems in recent rootdisk.sh

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
to DEBUG_SPAM yields: Still need: atexit ditto! Builds ok with mklibs.sh (I haven't tried a test install yet). mklibs.py is broken, but nobody knows why. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ msg12137/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: #103302 ask permission before erasing /var/cache/apt/archives

2001-11-10 Thread Ethan Benson
solution, the correct solution is for the base-config maintainer to cooperate and fix this, but if he refuses to be useful we shall have to fix it another way (unless someone wishes to NMU and reNMU when new versions revert the fix.) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: Installation success on Powerbook G4 (TiBook, the newest model)

2001-11-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:57:59PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: BTW, is anyone working on 2.4 PowerMac boot disks then? Colin Walters and i were going to look at it shortly, do you have any suggestions on the best method to implement flavors for different kernel versions? -- Ethan Benson

Re: Installation success on Powerbook G4 (TiBook, the newest model)

2001-11-10 Thread Ethan Benson
, but that will be resolved, i hope :). there is a documentation problem with G4 OpenFirwmare, someone needs to properly analize it and find the proper way to configure the netboot server. its also possible it only works with a proprietary Apple extended version of dhcpd. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson

Bug#118276: boot-floppies: Changes involving quik in woody b-f should be backported to potato

2001-11-05 Thread Ethan Benson
the release manager would allow it anyway). i also fixed the potato make bootable step to refuse to run on newworlds. beyond these changes thats all thats going to change on potato boot-floppies. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: Move fstab configuration?

2001-11-04 Thread Ethan Benson
don't allow you to rerun that step, its automatically run after base install (since its non-interactive now). if your messing with partition ordering you need to edit /etc/fstab yourself, or better do it before you install. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: Make debootstrap re-entrant?

2001-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
and: Extracting whiptail. for 10 minutes. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ msg12559/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Capturing install screenshots

2001-11-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 04:49:15PM -0700, Nicolas Lopez wrote: -- We still need to do something about quik, ritual goat sacrifice is somewhat tricky to implement in C... - Ethan Benson on debian-boot 5-30-01 heh -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: debootstrap 0.1.15.5, urgent for woody, needs testing

2001-11-01 Thread Ethan Benson
yes, if it did we would just use busybox's (assuming its version is even as full featured as you seem to want it to be). all debootstrap needs is a minimal command to spew newlines to dpkg, thats it. thats why its called SMALLyes and not just yes. endless pedantism deleted -- Ethan Benson http

Re: Make debootstrap re-entrant?

2001-11-01 Thread Ethan Benson
the defective progress bar stuffs. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: Make debootstrap re-entrant?

2001-11-01 Thread Ethan Benson
scratch. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ msg12667/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: boot-floppies: updated i386 and powerpc versions

2001-10-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:33:54PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h Ethan Benson wrote on Fri Oct 26, 2001 um 06:46:06AM: the debootstrap progress dialog still sucks though, it stops on `extracting whiptail...' and never changes until debootstrap finishes and then the box

Re: boot-floppies: updated i386 and powerpc versions

2001-10-26 Thread Ethan Benson
sucks though, it stops on `extracting whiptail...' and never changes until debootstrap finishes and then the box is popped. users will no doubt think something is br0ke and do drastic things to make it broken. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ msg12655/pgp0.pgp Description

Re: boot-floppies auto partitioning hardware detection

2001-10-24 Thread Ethan Benson
, depending on the subarch this will be a Apple_Bootstrap type (macs, mac partition tables) or 0x41 (PReP, IBM CHRP, msdos partition tables). ia64 also requires a similar bootstrap partition. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: boot-floppies auto partitioning hardware detection

2001-10-24 Thread Ethan Benson
(though it may be the same as mac-fdisk, a 68K person would have to comment). powerpcs using dos partition tables use fdisk of course. sparc uses it as well. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: Woody install report

2001-10-21 Thread Ethan Benson
) this is not totally related to debian-boot, but are there any plans to ship Woody with a 2.4 kernel ? only on architectures which require it. (read not i386) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: Woody install report

2001-10-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 11:45:47AM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote: Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (3) in the post-boot configuration, why are MD5 passwords defaulted to No ie not enabled ? compatibility with crufty old unixes i suppose. if you were to make the box into an NIS

Re: quick install report from Windows

2001-10-20 Thread Ethan Benson
into in b-f. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Ethan Benson
/\+.*//;q'` } busybox dd does not produce output like GNU dd. Sort is a little harder, but feasible as a shell function. Wanna? :-) BTW: does ls --block-size=1 -s look broken to you? busybox ls doesn't know what that is. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:45:39AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: On Fri Oct 19, 2001 at 11:20:18PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: busybox dd does not produce output like GNU dd. So you have specifics? I've not seen a bug report from you. well it at least didn't used to display any output

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:36:49PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:20:18PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 06:34:12PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote: Substitute FILE for touch FILE. that should already be done in the last patch or two

Re: quick install report from Windows

2001-10-20 Thread Ethan Benson
off leaving it alone, fscking with that mess will probably just introduce more bugs then it will fix. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: debian-installer status

2001-10-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:50:42PM -0700, Rob Bos wrote: - /dev is 3k bigger How practical would it be to compile devfs and include devfsd in the bootfloppies? the real installed system should not use devfs nor require it. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson

Re: mount_partition() and filesystem types

2001-10-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:32:07PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: On Wed Oct 17, 2001 at 02:55:11PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: but as i have stated, even if you fix busybox to be smarter you still have a giant stack of wildcards in all these random filesystems in the kernel, are they going

Re: mount_partition() and filesystem types

2001-10-18 Thread Ethan Benson
mount -t ext3,ext2,xfs,reiserfs where only those are tried in sequence. but for right now my current code in dbootstrap is the ONLY safe and sane solution. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: mount_partition() and filesystem types

2001-10-18 Thread Ethan Benson
annihilate a formally working set of boot-floppies we don't need to be talking about adding more possiblities for things like that to happen. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: message to remove boot cd

2001-10-05 Thread Ethan Benson
powermacs anyway). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: Where O where is my basedebs.tgz?

2001-10-04 Thread Ethan Benson
partition is when you install via a pile of floppies. otherwise its simply unpacked from whatever partition, or NFS mount you are accessing it from. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: Where O where is my basedebs.tgz?

2001-10-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:22:57AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 05:52:26AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: only problem with it is the basedebs.tgz needs to match the debootstrap it will be used with. so if debootstrap gets updated and the basedebs.tgz gets

Re: Where O where is my basedebs.tgz?

2001-10-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:03:13AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:49:08AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: the only solution is building basedebs.tgz only with the version of debootstrap that the latest build of b-f used. or accepting the fact that you have

Re: bootloader for woody

2001-10-04 Thread Ethan Benson
. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: Where O where is my basedebs.tgz?

2001-10-04 Thread Ethan Benson
space left. basedebs are what? what is using 50MB? the kernel? i don't think so. the basedebs.tgz is on the HFS partition not the ext2 partition (and its never copied to the ext2 partition). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: boot-floppies, busybox size reduction status

2001-10-03 Thread Ethan Benson
really don't want the job of auditing every shell script used in boot-floppies to see if it works with busybox ash, we know they work with Herbert's ash just fine. # some friendly symlinks +ln -sf /usr/bin/route $R/sbin/route this is a kludge, fix busybox. -- Ethan Benson http

Re: Where O where is my basedebs.tgz?

2001-10-03 Thread Ethan Benson
://penguinppc.org/~eb/debian/$arch are broke. all ~/ pages are at master.penguinppc.org however i do not supply basedebs.tgz files anymore, and will not. master.penguinppc.org is no longer on an unlimited bandwidth internet connection. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: [Patch] Documentation updates (multiple languages)

2001-09-30 Thread Ethan Benson
choose the Apple-USB keyboard layout command=alt if you choose the other layout (don't remember what its called offhand) then option=alt (the default from booting the kernel). despite the name, Apple-USB works perfectly fine with apple adb keyboards. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net

Re: I created yet another woody coaster

2001-09-29 Thread Ethan Benson
important or required. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: .config for boot-floppy-hfs.img

2001-09-27 Thread Ethan Benson
proprietary Apple CDROM drivers which require a distribution licence. the only way to get this is by using a proprietary, expensive CD burning software that only runs on MacOS, a proprietary OS. thats exactly what LinuxPPC did, and what Debian will NEVER do. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson

Re: 3.0.14 Rules!

2001-09-27 Thread Ethan Benson
. So, would it make sense to have dbootstrap set boot-file to Linux by default? no see above. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

busybox config.h

2001-09-27 Thread Ethan Benson
+#define BB_FEATURE_SORT_REVERSE i severly doubt we need this. // Enable uniqe sort -//#define BB_FEATURE_SORT_UNIQUE +#define BB_FEATURE_SORT_UNIQUE i severly doubt we need this. // // Enable command line editing in the shell. // Only relevant if a shell is enabled. On by default. -- Ethan

Re: debootstrap breaks with libc6.1 2.2.4-2 postinst

2001-09-26 Thread Ethan Benson
a permission denied on readlink and bail. (if its set -e like most other maintainer scripts). why is this only a problem on ia64/x86? i don't see this on powerpc. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: busybox still too bloated

2001-09-26 Thread Ethan Benson
). The udeb is only 72k though. and it doesn't break powerpc unlike busybox ash. (i have already explained why). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: busybox still too bloated

2001-09-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 05:38:16PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: On Wed Sep 26, 2001 at 03:28:51PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:05:17AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: Erik Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to have on the boot floppies) brings it to 59k. It looks

Re: .config for boot-floppy-hfs.img

2001-09-26 Thread Ethan Benson
and expensive proprietary software on a proprietary OS, and requiring a licence to distribute the result. thats why debian will never have oldworld bootable CDs. for newworlds its quite easy, look at debian-cd source for how. (or list archives where i have explained it a bit). -- Ethan Benson http

Re: busybox still too bloated

2001-09-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 06:45:37PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: On Mon Sep 24, 2001 at 04:09:35PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: reopen 113503 thanks busybox is still too bloated, 12k can be saved on powerpc by applying the rest of my patch, a new patch is enclosed here: Too bloated

Re: busybox still too bloated

2001-09-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:25:19AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: On Tue Sep 25, 2001 at 12:11:29AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: busybox in potato was much smaller then busybox in woody, if you don't wnat to remove all this bloat just make a bloody -bf package. NMU should be done ASAP

Re: busybox still too bloated

2001-09-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:04:28PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Also, what about busybox ash? Is that mature enough to use instead of the proper ash package? Or did it have some problems? it ignores posix. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

busybox still too bloated

2001-09-24 Thread Ethan Benson
// // Enable a nifty progress meter in wget (adds just under 2k) -#define BB_FEATURE_WGET_STATUSBAR +//#define BB_FEATURE_WGET_STATUSBAR // // Enable HTTP authentication in wget #define BB_FEATURE_WGET_AUTHENTICATION -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

busybox still too bloated

2001-09-24 Thread Ethan Benson
// // Enable a nifty progress meter in wget (adds just under 2k) -#define BB_FEATURE_WGET_STATUSBAR +//#define BB_FEATURE_WGET_STATUSBAR // // Enable HTTP authentication in wget #define BB_FEATURE_WGET_AUTHENTICATION -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ - End forwarded message

Re: debootstrap stalls

2001-09-21 Thread Ethan Benson
) to work around that use ftp instead, ftp://ftp.kernel.org -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: debootstrap stalls

2001-09-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 02:30:58PM -0600, Hugo Graumann wrote: * On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:28:06PM -0800, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:06:59PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: At this rate debootstrap might get the base system loaded by next year if I

Re: boot-floppies 3.0.14 available for testing (i386 and powerpc)

2001-09-18 Thread Ethan Benson
is a wee bit overzealous... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: mklibs.py, unresolved symbol

2001-09-16 Thread Ethan Benson
-linux.so.2 and changed it to ld.so.1 (which is what powerpc uses). it still doesn't work on chrp or pmac, only apus for some reason. all the others it just goes on forever with one unresolved symbol. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: mklibs.py, unresolved symbol

2001-09-16 Thread Ethan Benson
(ld_file) os.chmod(dest_path + / + ld_file_name, 0755) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: boot floppies drivers disk(s)

2001-09-15 Thread Ethan Benson
the tar.gz of the modules directly to the disk with a dd command? the split images are in a special format, use the floppy_split utilty built during the b-f build process. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: boot floppies drivers disk(s)

2001-09-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 11:55:23AM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 03:42:33AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:20:50PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: Hi Guys, I'm customising the bootfloppies 3.0.13 1.44 images for my own installation

Re: build failure on ia32

2001-09-09 Thread Ethan Benson
from /target/... /usr/lib/yaboot is a symlink to /target/usr/lib/yaboot that was the only way especially given the discusting bloat of current yaboot binary. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: build failure on ia32

2001-09-09 Thread Ethan Benson
busybox package ive been using locally. (using the Config.h patch i posted to the list). as soon as a busybox enters woody that doesn't include loads of cruft things will be fine. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: build failure on ia32

2001-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:48:13PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: On Tue Sep 04, 2001 at 04:18:42PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: yup but again i still need busybox reduction since none of this reiser stuff is on the powerpc disks, and i still have a problem with space there. Hmm

mklibs.py

2001-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
reduction pass 731 570 symbols, 1 unresolved it just does that eternally. running in debug mode didn't reveal anything more useful. isn't there any way for it to print the unresolved symbol, and what binary it came from? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: [Patch] Install Manual Touch-up: refreshed

2001-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
that enchanted with supporting the crappy oldworlds much less the oldoldworlds... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: mklibs.py

2001-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 03:24:49AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: it doesn't seem to work on the chrp root image: same for pmac i fiddled around a bit, but i can't tell whats going on. (and i don't speak python in the least). [...] I: library reduction pass 727 570 symbols, 1 unresolved I

mklibs.py, unresolved symbol

2001-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
the last unresolvable symbol for the powerpc root disks is: calling readelf -s /var/tmp/boot-floppies/root-tmp-14083/lib/libpopt.so.0.0.0-so-stripped Still need: atexit 570 symbols, 1 unresolved -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Re: debootstrap not working in boot floppies 3.0.13

2001-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:32:33AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:05:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: sounds like an excellent reason debootstrap should NOT include non-free in the list of Packages files it requires. Ethan, take a pill already. You don't have

Re: build failure on ia32

2001-09-04 Thread Ethan Benson
for a while. this won't happen anymore since i added a check to see if the regular root image is larger then the floppy sized image that gets created (regardless of what size floppy). now the build will fail and whoever is building will have to deal with it or not release. -- Ethan Benson http

Re: busybox bloat

2001-09-03 Thread Ethan Benson
shell. There are no known bugs... but has anyone actually done any regression testing of posix shell scripts on it? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

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