Re: Errors while making i386 woody CDs.

2002-04-09 Thread Attila Nagy

Hello,

 Both warnings are related to the same problem ... there are packages
 without a Section field. You can safely ignore those messages.
Thanks.

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Re: Small report (re: isolinux test image, debian-cd changes available)

2002-04-09 Thread Attila Nagy

Hello,

 I tested first the 24bf image. I was surprised to see it uses a
 framebuffer... Now... This can be good, but I don't understand why it is
 using it - The display is MUCH slower than using the regular interface,
 and it is still curses-based. What did we gain from framebuffer?
The I18N support, I think.
You can choose languages with special characters too (UTF8).

 Second - I am installing it using the Spanish interface. When I get to
 choose the filesystem type I will be using, the text is almost too wide
 to be shown on screen... It fits, but it is noticeably too wide, because
 of the description of the Ext3 line:
Wrong list. This report should be sent to the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
address. Please forward to them, or file the bug reports against the boot
floppies.

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Re: 2.2_r6 jigdo files cdimage.d.o

2002-04-09 Thread Richard Atterer

On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:04:56PM +0200, Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
 (Yes, jigdo-port is the only one that compiles on AIX for us. C++
 isn't exactly portable. :/)

Oh - but the file format has changed, and the latest jigdo files are
no longer readable by jigdo-port! :-( I *really* want to avoid having
to update two different programs whenever I make a change, so I have
no plans to fix jigdo-port.

[Standard rant: C++ *is* portable, and the standard has been out for 3
years - it's about time everybody caught up with it! Maybe gcc is
boot-strappable on AIX... But I realize that would be quite a lot of
work just to compile jigdo-file. :-( ]

 The important part is that the result looks exactly like the one on
 the master site so I can do an inexpensive rsync to get everything
 right.

Should be possible. However, the template files include an md5sum of
the images, which is checked by jigdo; if jigdo says that the file has
been regenerated OK, it *is* OK and no extra rsync run is necessary.

OTOH, it might make sense to fall back to rsync if not all of the
parts in an image could be retrieved. I could add that to the script.

Cheers,

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Downloading sid images using Jigdo

2002-04-09 Thread Alex Grigoriev

I tried to use jigdo-lite do download sid images, but it can't get some files 
from http://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/debian-superseded/. Will you please explain me the 
use of this files, do i need to download newest *.jigdo files to fix this?


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Re: Downloading sid images using Jigdo

2002-04-09 Thread Attila Nagy

Hello,

 I tried to use jigdo-lite do download sid images, but it can't get some
 files from http://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/debian-superseded/. Will you please
 explain me the use of this files, do i need to download newest *.jigdo
 files to fix this?
Yes, you have to download the newest *.jigdo files.
And yes, this is quite off-topic on this list :)

If there are any problems, please write me.

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Re: cvs commit to debian-cd/debian by lawrencc

2002-04-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog

Le Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 06:40:53PM -0700, Debian Boot CVS Master écrivait:
 Repository: debian-cd/debian
 who:lawrencc
 time:   Mon Apr  8 18:40:53 PDT 2002
 Log Message:
   Added syslinux to the dependencies, since it's required for ISOLINUX
   support to work.

You should put it in Recommends since it's i386-only. Otherwise
debian-cd won't be installable on non-i386 architectures. 

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Optimising Debian-CD

2002-04-09 Thread Philip Hands

Hi,

I've been watching debian-cd running on open struggle with the trivia of
generating things like Packages files, and md5sums, and it occurs to me
that much of this could do with some work.

For example the generation of the md5sum files would be done a lot
quicker by a perl script that picks the pre-calculated md5sums out of
the ftp archive's md5sum.gz file.  If we replaced the whole for loop
with a perl script, it would only need to read the md5sums once, could
load them into a hash, and simply write them out on the basis of the
files found in the CD directory.

Before I start this, does anyone have any reasons not to do this?  IMO
it's actually better to use the master md5sums, because it gives a
simple end-to-end sanity check.

If the CD building machine had a tendency to corrupt data comming off
it's disks (as happened with a previous incarnation of open) or the
mirroring run had failed in a subtle way, then a simple loop mount of
each image, and running md5sum -c on each, should catch that straight
away if the md5sums were not locally recalculated.

A slightly more ambitious replacement would be to generate the Packages
files by taking the records out of the main archive's Packages files.

Another thing that might help, but would need a significant redesign,
would be to do all this for all the CD directories from all
architectures at the same time (i.e. reorder the loop nesting) so that
the perl would only need to look at the md5sums and Packages files once
before splurging out the individual CD files.

Opinions?

In the mean time, I'll knock up an md5sum file generator, and give it a
try.

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Re: Test of el-torito and isolinux multiboot for CD

2002-04-09 Thread Michael Stone

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:37:07AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
 Filesize: 625606656 bytes

Something that's occurred to me before, and is especially relevant for a
test image like this: how 'bout a 180M mini cd image? The important
parts are booting and getting base installed, and it shouldn't take 600M
for that, should it?

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Re: 2.2_r6 jigdo files cdimage.d.o

2002-04-09 Thread Mattias Wadenstein

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Richard Atterer wrote:

 On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:04:56PM +0200, Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
  (Yes, jigdo-port is the only one that compiles on AIX for us. C++
  isn't exactly portable. :/)

 Oh - but the file format has changed, and the latest jigdo files are
 no longer readable by jigdo-port! :-( I *really* want to avoid having
 to update two different programs whenever I make a change, so I have
 no plans to fix jigdo-port.

 [Standard rant: C++ *is* portable, and the standard has been out for 3
 years - it's about time everybody caught up with it! Maybe gcc is
 boot-strappable on AIX... But I realize that would be quite a lot of
 work just to compile jigdo-file. :-( ]

3 years is a very short time. We have a fairly updated system, but 3 years
is well below the time a system might be around without any updates other
than security upgrades.

The version is:
  VisualAge C++ Professional / C for AIX Compiler, Version 5

And that is a new compiler, not a very old one. I know of a few sites that
run much older ones.

Some configure output:

checking whether the C++ compiler is recent enough... no
   * Your compiler failed to recognize some advanced C++
   * constructs. This means that it is probably too old.
   * In case compilation fails, try upgrading to a newer
   * compiler, e.g. GCC 2.95 or later.

It then procedes to fail to find db_create in -ldb[lots of versions]
despite that being installed. --without-libdb gives a failure later on at:
checking whether dgettext works... no
   * Make sure gettext is installed, or use
   * --disable-nls to switch off gettext support.
configure: error: dgettext() call could not be linked.

Also some interesting features turns up, like:
checking size of unsigned long... 0
checking size of unsigned long long... 0

With g++ (and a bunch of hacking), it compiles but fails to link. I
haven't had time to take a better look at it yet, or turn the software
over to someone else around here. It is still painful, especially compared
to jigdo-port which compiled cleanly and without problems.

  The important part is that the result looks exactly like the one on
  the master site so I can do an inexpensive rsync to get everything
  right.

 Should be possible. However, the template files include an md5sum of
 the images, which is checked by jigdo; if jigdo says that the file has
 been regenerated OK, it *is* OK and no extra rsync run is necessary.

 OTOH, it might make sense to fall back to rsync if not all of the
 parts in an image could be retrieved. I could add that to the script.

It isn't for the images, it is for having all the other files and
directories looking exactly like the master site, a true mirror. That is
why I want the same directory structure, so that it will find the images
with the correct size and not bother with them. If rsync believes it has
to sync the images, it will put a great deal of load on both sides, even
if the data is still the same.

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Woody DVD-Image?

2002-04-09 Thread Rainer Dorsch

Hello,

I am wondering, if anybody has woody DVD-Images.

Thanks.

Rainer.


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Re: Optimising Debian-CD

2002-04-09 Thread Philip Charles

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Wookey wrote:

 On Tue 09 Apr, Philip Hands wrote:
 
  I've been watching debian-cd running on open struggle with the trivia of
  generating things like Packages files, and md5sums, and it occurs to me
  that much of this could do with some work.
 
  For example the generation of the md5sum files would be done a lot
  quicker by a perl script that picks the pre-calculated md5sums out of
  the ftp archive's md5sum.gz file.
 
  Before I start this, does anyone have any reasons not to do this?  IMO
  it's actually better to use the master md5sums, because it gives a
  simple end-to-end sanity check.
 
 This seems reasonable, but will it work properly on non-official CDs - or are
 you only proposing this option for official CDs? ie on non-official Cds some
 packages are (potentially) replaced by local ones with different MD5sums. I
 don't think there is a pre-prepared md5sum.gz file to fish these out of (but
 Icould be wrong - I'm thoroughly out of date on how things have chaned in
 this area (scanpackages etal) between potato and woody.
 
  A slightly more ambitious replacement would be to generate the Packages
  files by taking the records out of the main archive's Packages files.
 
 Same proviso applies.
 

My home made packages have md5sums generated by the standard build
scripts. 

I can see no problems, provided make mirrorcheck is used.

Phil.


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Re: solution for base-config/cat:: problem

2002-04-09 Thread Eduard Bloch

#include hallo.h
Adam Di Carlo wrote on Tue Apr 09, 2002 um 08:55:22AM:

  Chris: Please, use ALL arguments from particular syslinux.cfg files. I
  was able to reproduce this bug. IMHO caused by missing ram_size
  specification, so the ramdisk-filesystem gets random IO errors, so the
  dbootstrap_settings file is not written correctly (contains cat:
  input/outpur error) and base-config dies while parsing it.
  
  I extracted the rootfs from your image, built an own CD with it (rest
  was from bf2.4 flavor), and it worked fine.
 
 That's strange, Raphael had told me before that they used the
 syslinux.cfg files as is... 

No idea which file you mean. isolinux.cfg is a syslinux.cfg similar
file, adapted by Chris to load different kernels. Compare attached
files.

Gruss/Regards,
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DEFAULT /install/linpci
APPEND root=/dev/ram ro initrd=idepci.bin flavor=idepci
LABEL linux
  kernel /install/linpci
LABEL idepci
  kernel /install/linpci
LABEL compact
  kernel /install/lincompt
  append root=/dev/ram ro initrd=compact.bin flavor=compact
LABEL vanilla
  kernel /install/linux
  append root=/dev/ram ro initrd=root.bin
LABEL bf24
  kernel /install/lin24
  append root=/dev/ram ro initrd=bf24.bin flavor=bf2.4
LABEL rescue
  kernel /install/linpci
  append noinitrd
LABEL resccomp
  kernel /install/lincompt
  append noinitrd
LABEL rescvanl
  kernel /install/linux
  append noinitrd
LABEL rescbf24
  kernel /install/lin24
  append noinitrd
DISPLAY isolinux.txt
TIMEOUT 0
PROMPT 1
F1 f1.txt
F2 f2.txt
F3 f3.txt
F4 f4.txt
F5 f5.txt
F6 f6.txt
F7 f7.txt
F8 f8.txt
F9 f9.txt
F0 f10.txt


FONT font.psf
# see /usr/doc/syslinux/syslinux.doc.gz for file format description
DEFAULT linux.bin
APPEND vga=normal noinitrd load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=16384 
root=/dev/fd0 disksize=1.44 flavor=bf2.4
TIMEOUT 0
DISPLAY debian.txt
PROMPT 1
F1 f1.txt
F2 f2.txt
F3 f3.txt
F4 f4.txt
F5 f5.txt
F6 f6.txt
F7 f7.txt
F8 f8.txt
F9 f9.txt
F0 f10.txt
LABEL linux
KERNEL linux.bin
APPEND vga=normal noinitrd load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=16384 
root=/dev/fd0 disksize=1.44 flavor=bf2.4
LABEL initrd
KERNEL linux.bin
APPEND vga=normal noinitrd load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=16384 
root=/dev/fd0 disksize=1.44 flavor=bf2.4
LABEL ramdisk
KERNEL linux.bin
APPEND vga=normal noinitrd load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=16384 
root=/dev/fd0 disksize=1.44 flavor=bf2.4
LABEL ramdisk0
KERNEL linux.bin
APPEND vga=normal noinitrd load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=16384 
root=/dev/fd0 disksize=1.44 flavor=bf2.4
LABEL ramdisk1
KERNEL linux.bin
APPEND vga=normal noinitrd load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=16384 
root=/dev/fd1 disksize=1.44 flavor=bf2.4
LABEL floppy
KERNEL linux.bin
APPEND vga=normal noinitrd root=/dev/fd0 disksize=1.44 flavor=bf2.4
LABEL floppy0
KERNEL linux.bin
APPEND vga=normal noinitrd root=/dev/fd0 disksize=1.44 flavor=bf2.4
LABEL floppy1
KERNEL linux.bin
APPEND vga=normal noinitrd root=/dev/fd1 disksize=1.44 flavor=bf2.4
LABEL rescue
KERNEL linux.bin
APPEND vga=normal noinitrd



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Re: vanilla as default or not

2002-04-09 Thread Philip Hands

On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 14:02, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
 Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
...
  Not that it will help most people --- If I'd not been part of this
  conversation, then I doubt I'd be reading the READMEs to see which my
  best bet was, I'd just grab the ones in .../current
 
 Do you think it would be possible that we could provide CD image
 labels for vendors, if they wanted to use them, which actually had the
 names I suggested listed on the CD itself?

Hmm, I think most vendors want to put their own labels on them, so that
they get to point people to their web site, and so get to sell that
customer, and their freinds, more CDs in future.

 E.g.:
 
Debian 3.0, Intel x86
CD number 2 of 5
SCSI boot CD
 
 I agree that users don't usually read and generally just pop in CD#1
 and try to boot it.

Perhaps we just need a NOTES_FOR_DISTRIBUTORS file somewhere, with hints
like this in it.

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Re: Test of el-torito and isolinux multiboot for CD

2002-04-09 Thread Glen Mehn

Look at http://cdimage.debian.org/

There are links to 'netinst' iso images, which are more like 35MB in size.

-g

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 07:05:12AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
 On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:37:07AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
  Filesize: 625606656 bytes
 
 Something that's occurred to me before, and is especially relevant for a
 test image like this: how 'bout a 180M mini cd image? The important
 parts are booting and getting base installed, and it shouldn't take 600M
 for that, should it?
 
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Re: non-booting sparc, non-making sparc

2002-04-09 Thread bbennet

Hello to all you folks who know more than me.

I used today's CVS debian-cd.

I am using an ix86 PC.
I selected sparc.
ARCH=sparc
BOOTDIR=/boot

The make stops with two errors:

cannot find file ar   
(a binary file that does something for the script but is not here)

cannot find cd.b or second.b

Then it does not make any images.

So I loop mounted a sparc image and gave the 
cd.b and second.b location to the CONF.sh
/bootdir=/dir/for/them

and it can not find that dir.
cannot find cd.b or second.b

So I copied cd.b and second.b into the debian-cd tmp dir

and it made images. But it does not boot.

So, how does a person make a bootable sparc CD
with debian-cd
by using an ix86 PC?



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Re: Optimising Debian-CD

2002-04-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog

Le Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:39:18PM +0100, Philip Hands écrivait:
 I'll commit it to CVS once I've managed a successfull build run with it,
 if that's OK.

I'd prefer to see the patch first ... because release is approaching and
I'd like to check it before it's commited.

 Well as I said it happened for 2.2r0 (IIRC) --- I can do without it
 happening again.

Sure. That means that you should launch md5sum -c though. :)

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Re: pre-release Jigdo files appearing at cdimage.d.o, please test

2002-04-09 Thread Heikki Vatiainen

I tried generating the images with jigdo-lite, but run into problems.
jigdo-lite was reporting one missing file (Found 982 of the 983 files
required by the template) and was not able to complete the
image. This was my first time with jigdo but I suspect the problem was
that non-US was updated after you had made the jigdo files.

From woody-i386-1.jigdo:
  % grep non-US woody-i386-1.jigdo
  sljMO1JHdJDT_gQYa2IPtg=Non-US:dists/woody/non-US/Contents-i386.gz


From the actual file system:
  % jigdo-file md5sum dists/woody/non-US/Contents-i386.gz
  Iegxgg-6cQCWTLwa4XFOrw  dists/woody/non-US/Contents-i386.gz

Choosing some other file, such as tools/unz512x3.exe, gives the same
checksum that is in the .jigdo file.

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Re: pre-release Jigdo files appearing at cdimage.d.o, please test

2002-04-09 Thread Philip Hands

On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 21:57, Heikki Vatiainen wrote:
 I tried generating the images with jigdo-lite, but run into problems.
 jigdo-lite was reporting one missing file (Found 982 of the 983 files
 required by the template) and was not able to complete the
 image. This was my first time with jigdo but I suspect the problem was
 that non-US was updated after you had made the jigdo files.
 
 From woody-i386-1.jigdo:
   % grep non-US woody-i386-1.jigdo
   sljMO1JHdJDT_gQYa2IPtg=Non-US:dists/woody/non-US/Contents-i386.gz
 
 
 From the actual file system:
   % jigdo-file md5sum dists/woody/non-US/Contents-i386.gz
   Iegxgg-6cQCWTLwa4XFOrw  dists/woody/non-US/Contents-i386.gz
 
 Choosing some other file, such as tools/unz512x3.exe, gives the same
 checksum that is in the .jigdo file.

That's very odd --- I've downloaded the 1_NONUS image, and it worked
fine.

Richard, is this evidence that I need to add Contents to the list of
files to grep out of jigdo's input list?  Does jigdo just assume that if
it's given a name, it's a file that matches the one in the archive?  If
that were the case, how come the Packages files didn't get the same
treatment, because they're not excluded either?  Also, how could I have
just downloaded the image?

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cvs commit to debian-cd/debian by lawrencc

2002-04-09 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master

Repository: debian-cd/debian
who:lawrencc
time:   Tue Apr  9 15:00:35 PDT 2002
Log Message:
  Change syslinux to a recommendation, per Raphael.
  
  

Files:
changed:control


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Re: solution for base-config/cat:: problem

2002-04-09 Thread Chris Lawrence

On Apr 09, Eduard Bloch wrote:
 #include hallo.h
 Raphael Hertzog wrote on Mon Apr 08, 2002 um 11:31:46PM:
 
  The cat:: missing command is an error which someone else already
  reported to debian-cd when using the bf24 flavor.
 
 Chris: Please, use ALL arguments from particular syslinux.cfg files. I
 was able to reproduce this bug. IMHO caused by missing ram_size
 specification, so the ramdisk-filesystem gets random IO errors, so the
 dbootstrap_settings file is not written correctly (contains cat:
 input/outpur error) and base-config dies while parsing it.
 
 I extracted the rootfs from your image, built an own CD with it (rest
 was from bf2.4 flavor), and it worked fine.

I wasn't sure what all the bootargs were for, so I wasn't sure which
ones were needed (I didn't want to accidentally end up with a disk
prompt or something).  I'll fix this in debian-cd cvs and update the
ISO image accordingly.

The boot.bat command lines will probably have to be fixed too.


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cvs commit to debian-cd/tools/boot/woody by lawrencc

2002-04-09 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master

Repository: debian-cd/tools/boot/woody
who:lawrencc
time:   Tue Apr  9 15:38:16 PDT 2002
Log Message:
  
  
  Add ramdisk_size and disksize arguments to loadlin and isolinux
  command lines.
  

Files:
changed:boot-i386


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cvs commit to debian-cd/tools/boot/woody by lawrencc

2002-04-09 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master

Repository: debian-cd/tools/boot/woody
who:lawrencc
time:   Tue Apr  9 15:45:11 PDT 2002
Log Message:
  
  
  Add disksize argument to loadlin command lines.
  

Files:
changed:boot-i386


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Re: solution for base-config/cat:: problem

2002-04-09 Thread Jim Westveer

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On Tuesday 09 April 2002 20:13, Chris Lawrence wrote:
 Ok, the master copy of the image is now updated:

 http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/debian-cd/

 The mirrors will probably catch it in the next day or so.  Please test
 so we can shake out the (hopefully zero) remaining bugs!

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I put your update into my local debian-cd for the 
bf24 kernel ie:

LABEL bf24
  kernel /install/lin24
  append root=/dev/ram ro initrd=bf24.bin ramdisk_size=16384 disksize=1.44 
flavor=bf2.4

and created i386 CD#1,  then did a test install with the
resulting image.No longer does it report the cat:: problem,
and the install went through with no problems.




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