Re: [potato] an installation report

2000-07-25 Thread Joey Hess
Randolph Chung wrote: > > There is no "have fun" screen if you: [Q]uit dselect without using any of > > it's options > > iirc joey had a reason for this. forgot what it is though. It's some kind of a bug that happens if dselect (or maybe tasksel/apt sometimes) exit in a certian way. I have seen

Processed: downgrade

2000-07-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > severity 67722 normal Bug#67722: PCMCIA/network conflict (cf #66284) Severity set to `normal'. > End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- To UNSUBSC

Processed: Re: Bug#67718: boot-floppies: SCSI hangs on iMac

2000-07-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 67718 kernel-image-2.2.17-powerpc Bug#67718: boot-floppies: SCSI hangs on iMac Bug reassigned from package `boot-floppies' to `kernel-image-2.2.17-powerpc'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren

Bug#67718: boot-floppies: SCSI hangs on iMac

2000-07-25 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
reassign 67718 kernel-image-2.2.17-powerpc thanks Please talk to the linuxppc-dev list about this problem. I don't have the hardware to look at it myself. On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 07:16:08PM +0200, Frank Ronneburg wrote: > Package: boot-floppies > Version: 2725 > Severity: no

Polish bf/docs on CDs

2000-07-25 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Well, I generally mean all i18ned floppies, but Polish version is a little bit special in that docs don't build in potato. I thought that I had time to finish the translation until 2.2.17 was built, but now I can see that CD images for TC3 are ready (only except for potato). Does it mean Debian w

Bug#67722: PCMCIA/network conflict (cf #66284)

2000-07-25 Thread Toby White
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; Severity: important Using boot-floppies 2.2.16, the bug described in #66284 seemed to occur. That is, PCMCIA configuration went quite happily, but then setting up the network seemed to try to reinitialise the PCMCIA system again, and failed. Opening a separat

Bug#67718: boot-floppies: SCSI hangs on iMac

2000-07-25 Thread Frank Ronneburg
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2725 Severity: normal This only applys on the PowerPC Plattform! Kernel on Bootdisks 2.2.16 has NCR SCSI Support and hangs on an iMac Rev A with a Formac iProRaid SCSI Card. This did not happend with Bootdisks 2.2.15, i think there was the driver compiled as

Re: [potato] an installation report

2000-07-25 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:48:23AM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote: > > before dbootstrap's start threre appear LOTS of "modprobe: modprobe: Can't > > open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep (No such file or > > directory)" > > as reported earlier, this is not really a bug, and there i

using addon pack for base (Re: not i18ned part in b-f 2.2.15)

2000-07-25 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Hi. (This is the topic for debian-boot. please reply to that list). In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07 Jul 2000 12:36:19 +0900, I wrote: > To show the Japanese messages on the console, we need some > terminal emulator such as kon and jfbterm. I think Chinese > requires something another one (mayb

Re: not i18ned part in b-f 2.2.15

2000-07-25 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Sorry for delay. In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 15 Jul 2000 16:35:24 -0400, Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe Chinese and Korean people can use the scheme by adding > > their setup in "case $LANG in". > > > > If this can be used, then I propose to put this into CVS > > as script

Re: [potato] an installation report

2000-07-25 Thread Randolph Chung
> before dbootstrap's start threre appear LOTS of "modprobe: modprobe: Can't > open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep (No such file or > directory)" as reported earlier, this is not really a bug, and there isn't very much we can do about it. This is only a "problem" on the main/ud

one more set of b-f needed

2000-07-25 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
I'm going to need to make another set of boot floppies for powerpc. If people don't want to deal with the testing, I can just fudge it and upload binary only; I only changed powerpc-specials/. I think a new set might be wiser, though. Thoughts? Dan /\ /---

future role of debconf

2000-07-25 Thread bug1
If debconf is going to play a central role for the woody installer it may be beneficial to rewrite it in c. Perl has its uses, but its a pretty big overhead for the installer if its only used for debconf. How stable do you consider the functionality provided by debconf, do you think it will chan

[potato] last not i18ned part in bf and more

2000-07-25 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hello again! 1). First, the base-config thing: I tried to find a way to make base-config use Polish, so during one installation I booted linux in single user mode to edit /etc/inittab before it started debconf Here are the results: First of all unfortunately this: > Hmm... this is probably ru

[potato] an installation report

2000-07-25 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Version: 22.07.2000 from CVS These are some (minor) problems I noticed during a few debug verbose installs. 1). before dbootstrap's start threre appear LOTS of "modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep (No such file or directory)" (They appear just befor

Feedback needed for patch

2000-07-25 Thread Guillaume Morin
Hi all, A little while ago I announced my intent to work on the boot floppies. I am now finished with a patch that allows to preload essential modules from a floppy at the beginning of the installation process. For example, you need a driver for the raid card on some servers. The process uses