Bug#68496: modconf: when arguments have been given to configure a module, it is not possible anymore to try to load this module without arguments

2000-08-03 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
Package: modconf Version: 0.2.26.14 Severity: important The boot disks use modconf to select the appropriate modules. When installing the Test 3 CD-ROM, I tried to use modconf to set up the lp.o module. I used the default suggested arguments io=0 irq=0. It didn't work. After loading other ne

/boot nonexistant on sun4cdm install disk set

2000-08-03 Thread William Cordis
I have a SPARCstation 5 that I'm trying to install debian on. I downloaded the 2.2.16-2000-07-14 disks from /debian/dists/potato/main/disks-sparc/sun4cdm and the root.bin that I used came from debian/dists/potato/main/disks-sparc/images-1.44 All went fine until I tried to download the driver.tgz

Bug#68016: tftp and floppy install broken on sun4m

2000-08-03 Thread Ben Collins
> > After recompiling new boot floppies could you put them up somewhere. > Recompiling boot floppies on our small sparc 10/20 and Ultra I is a pain. > Done. Please try these: http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/2.2.16-2000-08-03/ You should only need to get the root.bin to make sur

debinst: debconf based installer

2000-08-03 Thread bug1
Ive been working on writting a debconf in c, im calling it debconf-native at the moment. If we can make the user interface for debconf a bit more flexible, it would be ideal to base the entire woody isntaller around. Debconf would be great for users becasue it would be same tool they could use

Bug#68016: tftp and floppy install broken on sun4m

2000-08-03 Thread Christian Meder
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 09:47:45AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > So what's the moral of the story: a (normal) bug report against gcc 2.95 > > because it seems to misoptimise jobs.c for sparc (although it works on > > sparc64), an (important) bug report against ash to get it recompiled for

Re: OT Question: c libraries

2000-08-03 Thread bug1
There is a script in the boot-floppies src, /scripts/mklibs.sh, it strips the library down to only the objects required to run specified binaries. Jarkko Kovala wrote: > > Hi. > > This is kind of off topic, sorry. > > How did you get the c libraries on the boot floppies so small? > > -- --

ReiserFS

2000-08-03 Thread Jason J
I have seen installation disks for Red Hat and Slackware to setup ReiserFS. Has anyone created them for Debian yet? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compressed modules

2000-08-03 Thread Randolph Chung
> But they're extracted and copied to a ramdisk at the moment, right? no, they are extracted into /target (your target /) randolph -- Debian Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.TauSq.org/ PGP signature

Bug#68016: tftp and floppy install broken on sun4m

2000-08-03 Thread Ben Collins
> > So what's the moral of the story: a (normal) bug report against gcc 2.95 > because it seems to misoptimise jobs.c for sparc (although it works on > sparc64), an (important) bug report against ash to get it recompiled for > sparc potato (either disable -O2 for jobs.c or use gcc2.7.2.3) whic

Bug#68016: tftp and floppy install broken on sun4m

2000-08-03 Thread Christian Meder
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 01:16:39PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > On Tue Aug 01, 2000 at 07:40:38PM +0200, Christian Meder wrote: > > > > > > The umount the rescue image, and try again. Changing things > > > the way will avoid all the pain of recompiling everything. > > > > I guess we won't be a

OT Question: c libraries

2000-08-03 Thread Jarkko Kovala
Hi. This is kind of off topic, sorry. How did you get the c libraries on the boot floppies so small? -- Jarkko Kovala Software developer, OpenMobile Inc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compressed modules

2000-08-03 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Randolph Chung wrote: > well, it's already stored in a compressed format on the floppy But they're extracted and copied to a ramdisk at the moment, right? Wichert. -- _ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignor

Bug#68021: can't locate module when installing compact flavour

2000-08-03 Thread Christian Meder
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 06:19:02PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote: > > I boot from a 2.2.17-compact boot disk and use the standard root disk. > ^^^ > > There is a root disk that goes with the compact boot disk. Are you > saying you

Re: Question for the boot floppies team.

2000-08-03 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Jon Pennington wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 12:55:52PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > Does it really make sense to ship disk images for 5 1/4in floppies? > > Whoever takes them from CD has certainly a CD reader... > > Would not be enough to leave them on ftp.debian.org

inconsistency with install.en.txt

2000-08-03 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
Hi all, I installed potato very recently and found some inconsistency with install.en.txt during the installation. First in "7.12 Configure the Network" the installer really asked about DHCP and BOOTP but it is not explained in install.en.txt, and I do not know anything about DHCP and BOOTP so