In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John H. Robinson, IV" writes: >there is an etc/messages.trm. i did do a make clean before building. > >this was the reiserfs flavour, over serial.
Right, yeah, I think I see the problem. Can you try this patch to dbootstrap and see if it helps? p. Index: main.c =================================================================== RCS file: /org/cvs.debian.org/cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/main.c,v retrieving revision 1.129 diff -u -r1.129 main.c --- main.c 2001/11/27 23:24:24 1.129 +++ main.c 2001/12/01 11:13:08 @@ -737,6 +737,32 @@ do { lang = boxChooseLanguageVariant (langs); } while (lang == NULL); + snprintf (msgcat, PATH_MAX, "/etc/messages.%s", lang->msgcat); + msgcat[PATH_MAX - 1] = '\0'; + DEBUGMSG ("loading message catalog %s", msgcat); + + if (LOAD_TRMFILE (msgcat) == 0) /* Failed to load localized strings? +*/ + { + if (LOAD_TRMFILE (TRMBACKUP) == 0) /* Failed to load English strings as +well? */ + { + problemBoxEn ("An error occured while loading application messages.", +"Problem"); + + reboot (RB_AUTOBOOT); + + /* when not root and debugging */ + boxFinished(); + exit(1); + } + else + { + char message[255]; + + snprintf (message, sizeof (message), "An error occured while loading +localized application messages from '%s'. English messages will be used instead.", +msgcat); + message[254] = '\0'; /* Just in case */ + + problemBoxEn (message, "Problem"); + } + } } else { /* Try to force the language to English */ while (langs->name != NULL && strcmp(langs->name, "English")) @@ -746,35 +772,24 @@ reboot (RB_AUTOBOOT); } lang = langs->list->items[0].p; - } - - snprintf (msgcat, PATH_MAX, "/etc/messages.%s", lang->msgcat); - msgcat[PATH_MAX - 1] = '\0'; - - DEBUGMSG ("loading message catalog %s", msgcat); - - if (LOAD_TRMFILE (msgcat) == 0) /* Failed to load localized strings? */ - { - if (LOAD_TRMFILE (TRMBACKUP) == 0) /* Failed to load English strings as well? */ - { - problemBoxEn ("An error occured while loading application messages.", "Problem"); - - reboot (RB_AUTOBOOT); - - /* when not root and debugging */ - boxFinished(); - exit(1); - } - else - { - char message[255]; - snprintf (message, sizeof (message), "An error occured while loading localized application messages from '%s'. English messages will be used instead.", msgcat); - message[254] = '\0'; /* Just in case */ - - problemBoxEn (message, "Problem"); - } + snprintf (msgcat, PATH_MAX, "/etc/messages.%s", lang->msgcat); + msgcat[PATH_MAX - 1] = '\0'; + DEBUGMSG ("loading message catalog %s", msgcat); + + /* The English messages might be /etc/messages.en, or + /etc/messages.trm in a single locale system */ + if (LOAD_TRMFILE (msgcat) == 0 + && LOAD_TRMFILE ("/etc/messages.trm") == 0) + { + problemBoxEn ("An error occurred while loading application messages", +"Problem"); + reboot(RB_AUTOBOOT); + /* when not root and debugging */ + boxFinished(); + exit(1); + } } + free (msgcat); } #else @@ -863,6 +878,37 @@ "For more information, refer to http://www.armlinux.org/strongarm.html\n"), _("Warning")); #endif + + /* See how much memory is fitted. If it's less than the + recommended amount, say so. */ + { + char *smem = NULL; + int status; + struct Arg args[] = { + { "MemTotal", 0, &smem }, + { NULL, 0, NULL } + }; + status = parsefile("/proc/meminfo", args, 2, 1); + if (status == 0 && smem != NULL) { + unsigned long mem = atol(smem), min_mem; + mem /= 1024; + /* This information comes from documentation/default.ent */ +#if defined __i386__ + min_mem = 12; +#elif defined __arm__ || defined __s390__ || defined __alpha__ || defined __mips__ + min_mem = 16; +#else + min_mem = 5; +#endif + if (mem < min_mem) { + snprintf(prtbuf, PRTBUFSIZE - 1, _( +"Your computer seems to have only %dMB of RAM. For this\n" +"version of Debian, a minimum of %dMB is recommended.\n"), + mem, min_mem); + wideMessageBox(prtbuf, _("Warning: Low Memory")); + } + } + } is_root_a_floppy (); -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]