FWD: Problems with pre2 2.2

2000-07-20 Thread Joey Hess
Trae McCombs wrote: > Mount a previously initilized partition, it sees you have win95, and says you > need to use vfat, however, it writes it to the fstab table as being msdos. > Which is a bad thing, long file names won't work for people. Trae was installing from a slightly hacked potato CD, usi

Bug#67510: nf_http_fetchfile couldn't resolve host name

2000-07-20 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
The boot-floppies version I tried was 2.2.16, not 2.2.17 as stated in the preious message! Sorry.. Niccolo Rigacci Firenze - Italy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#67510: nf_http_fetchfile couldn't resolve host name

2000-07-20 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.17 I was installing potato from scratch with the 5 floppies. I choose the network to retrieve the base system, I leaved the default (http.us.debian.org) as the server, but the download failed because the network card was unplugged. Then I plugged the card, but

Release notes

2000-07-20 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hi all! I would suggest the following changes to Release notes: - converting the paragraph about problems with 2.2 kernels to an itemized list, as this would probably make the each problem more visible - adding some more precise information about new kernel's memory limitations Also, I'

devfs support code(was Re: kernel dev patches)

2000-07-20 Thread bug1
Ben Collins wrote: > > If you are really interesed in writing some code, I'de like to see a > smallish library that interprets things in /dev of a devfs mounted > filesystem. query things like drives, partitions, devices, etc.. Devfs is > definitely going to be the way to go in woody. > > Ben >