Bug#62085: marked as done (installation crash)

2000-08-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#64371: Smart Array RAID Compaq do not see at boot

2000-08-22 Thread Martin Schulze
> Package: boot-floppy > Version: 2.2.15 > Severity: critical > > > I'm trying to install Potato on a Proliant 400 with a Smart Array RAID > 211 card. > > At boot, the Potato CD do not see the card. > > The server is equiped with 3 disks using RAID 5. No disk on the > motherboard SCSI port. Th

Re: "Choose debian archive" box confusing

2000-08-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've fixed Bug#67082 and wonder if I may commit the code. I've > > decided to really fix it and get back the old behaviour instead of > > just editing the message text (which would affect all translators to > > fix their tex

Re: [debian-installer] microdpkg

2000-08-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:43:41PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote: > > How would you actually handle those dependencies though? Presumably you > > don't have a udselect that'll automatically find any debs that anything > > depends on, nor a uapt to do just automatically install them; you don't > > gu

Re: [debian-installer] microdpkg

2000-08-22 Thread Randolph Chung
> How would you actually handle those dependencies though? Presumably you > don't have a udselect that'll automatically find any debs that anything > depends on, nor a uapt to do just automatically install them; you don't > guarantee any ordering so running udpkg -i foo.deb bar.deb won't bother >

XF86_SVGA missing?

2000-08-22 Thread Conrad Delbert Seaman
First off, a bit hats off to the new debian 2.2r0 installation. Within 20 minutes I was up and running a telnet session to fetch my mail. However, I'm still very unwise in the arts of making things work and I could use a pointer or two. (read I'm a newbie) I am trying to install the X window sys

Re: "Choose debian archive" box confusing

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've fixed Bug#67082 and wonder if I may commit the code. I've > decided to really fix it and get back the old behaviour instead of > just editing the message text (which would affect all translators to > fix their text as well). > > What I've done t

Re: Translated floppies?

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
We're still actively working on i18n'd Potato boot-floppies, although I wish the work went quicker. Have you updated the Swedish release notes and install manual? That's useful even w/o i18n'd boot-floppies. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

task for Josip (was Re: cant start X)

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Josip, you fielding this? It seems the release notes and releases/potato should mention this. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#69157: marked as done (boot-floppies: boot-floppy creation fails on PowerPC)

2000-08-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#69154: marked as done (boot-floppies: simplify Debian mirror selection)

2000-08-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#69620: Is section 1.7 still required?

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Fixed the phrasing. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#69150: boot-floppies: provide more information about available disks for partitioning

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
What is the package pdisk is in? We need to refile this bug against that package, although I doubt it's fixable. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#69141: boot-floppies: Can dd with volume management on in Solaris

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Thanks, fixed in CVS. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Polish bf/docs on CDs

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK. I'll try helping with the 'i18n' flavor. Can we delay 2.2r1 release > until it's ready? I think so. What else remains? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#69197: marked as done (base: Inadequate backup instructions and tools)

2000-08-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: Boot of 2000/98/Debian system?

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Conrad Delbert Seaman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having trouble getting lilo to boot the system I have, there > seems to be a gap in the doc's. My system looks as follows. > > 1 20 gig disk > > 50% Disk C: (first partition) Windows2000(NT5)/Windows98 (this boots using the NT >loade

bf and potato, history issue (was Re: bf rewrite?)

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We wanted to freeze potato last year but had no working boot-floppies > handy. Only very few people have worked on it. This is partially true but not quite true. I hope I don't sound defensive, but it's my opinion that bf on its own was not a major

Re: bf documentation hazy plans (was Re: bf rewrite?)

2000-08-22 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Di Carlo wrote: > My current thinking is to break out the release notes and the install > manual as two separate pacakges and separate CVS areas of the > debian-doc CVSROOT. I hadn't really planned on doing this in the > context of boot-floppies though, but rather when that is obsoleted by >

Re: Booting Sparc Station 1/2

2000-08-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:46:54PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Mathias Wiklander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have problem booting a SS1 and a SS2 with the Debain 2.2 Sparc CD. It > > boots and when it want to start init it says that "Default console not > > found" or something like that

bf documentation hazy plans (was Re: bf rewrite?)

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anthony Towns wrote: > > I wonder if it would be better for Josip and Adam or whoever > > to simply make a release-notes.deb that they maintain independently > > of boot-floppies and that's easily buildable (since we have a definite > > .tar.gz with Build-D

Re: Bug with Rescue Boot 2.2 0714

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Gast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The version on the floppy I am using says `Rescue 2.2 0714' > > If I try something like > > boot: resue root=/dev/hda2 debug > > I get an error message > > SCSI: Detection failed (no card) That is normal if you don't have a Future Domain SCSI card

Bug#69620: Is section 1.7 still required?

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "WARNING: This Document is in Testing". This paragraph says that it is > an "early, prerelease version". Now that potato has been released, > should this perhaps be rephrased? Aye, probably rephrased. I still think the documentation has serious problem

Bug#69617: marked as done (there should be some statically linked tar at installtime)

2000-08-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#67794: marked as done (FW: Toshiba Laptop Install Doesn't Get Beyond First Boot)

2000-08-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Processed: Re: Processed: Cambridge home for lost bugs

2000-08-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 68716 [slink, i386] problem booting no-name AMD Bug#68716: problems booting the install Changed Bug title. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database) --

Bug#68716: problems booting the install

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
> Package: boot-CDRom Should have said "boot-floppies", even if you were booting from CD-ROM. Sorry for the unintuitive name. > Version: "Official" Debian 2.1, the 4 disk version. > architecture: x86 Family 5 Model 8 Stepping 12, AuthenticAMD > model: no name > memory:64M > s

Bug#64823: incorrect LILO automatic placement on i386

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I choose "make linux directly bootable from hard disk" > > > > Then a dialog box says my disk is factory clean. > > Then a dialog box asks for an MBR. I answer no > ^^ > > I guess I simply don't underst

Re: Booting Sparc Station 1/2

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Mathias Wiklander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have problem booting a SS1 and a SS2 with the Debain 2.2 Sparc CD. It > boots and when it want to start init it says that "Default console not > found" or something like that. I'm not sure. I've CC'd the sparc user base. Please let us know if t

Re: Documentation

2000-08-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Benjamin Constant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm searching for complete documentation about boot-floppies scripts, > clear documentation about the differents parts and functions used in the > scripts... Aren't we all. I'm afraid such documentation doesn't exist. But there is the top-level R

Re: [debian-installer] microdpkg

2000-08-22 Thread Erik Andersen
On Mon Aug 21, 2000 at 11:25:55PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > > unlike dpkg, dpkg-deb can quite easily be written as a shell script. > > I wrote most of it as a shell script, but I cannot find a way to parse > control file entries w/o using external shell commands, which is > something of a no-n

Processed: Cambridge home for lost bugs

2000-08-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 67794 boot-floppies Bug#67794: FW: Toshiba Laptop Install Doesn't Get Beyond First Boot Bug reassigned from package `slink' to `boot-floppies'. > reassign 68438 kernel Bug#68438: an Oops in the kernel 2.2.14 (using fsck.ext2 on a zip disk) (f

Documentation

2000-08-22 Thread Benjamin Constant
Hi, I'm searching for complete documentation about boot-floppies scripts, clear documentation about the differents parts and functions used in the scripts... Thanks in advance Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Processed: Re: Bug#64613: boot-floppies: Only got one CD drive but system claims I have multiple

2000-08-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 64613 [unreproducable] boot-floppies: Only got one CD drive but system >claims I have multiple Bug#64613: boot-floppies: Only got one CD drive but system claims I have multiple Changed Bug title. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please con

Re: [debian-installer] microdpkg

2000-08-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:10:57PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Erik Andersen wrote: > > Doing depends will cetainly be too nasty for a shell scriot, so if we really > > want to include depends, then I agree that doing udpkg in C is the way > > to go. > Yes, we really do need depends. As Randolph say

Bug#64823: incorrect LILO automatic placement on i386

2000-08-22 Thread Martin Schulze
> Package: boot-floppies > Version: 2.2.13-2000-05-04 > Severity: critical > > Hello, > > > I have a disk ``factory clean'' with no MBR. > No primary partition on the disk, only logical. / = /dev/hda6 > I plan to install LILO on the MBR. The install procedure will not let me > do that, It give

Bug#65580: marked as done (frozen rescue floppy image for PowerMac doesn't work)

2000-08-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: Polish bf/docs on CDs

2000-08-22 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 05:52:34PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, I generally mean all i18ned floppies, but Polish version is a little > > bit special in that docs don't build in potato. > > If you look at previous posts I've done the ground

Booting Sparc Station 1/2

2000-08-22 Thread Mathias Wiklander
I have problem booting a SS1 and a SS2 with the Debain 2.2 Sparc CD. It boots and when it want to start init it says that "Default console not found" or something like that. /Mathias Mathias Wiklander Frontpartner AB Chalottenbergsvägen 6 0322-9 34 00 441 43 ALINGSÅS 070-931 24 08 [

Re: regarding xviddetect

2000-08-22 Thread Joey Hess
Bernhard R. Link wrote: > I don't know, what XF 4 does with unknown cards. > XF 3 somethime bahaves ungly: It just detects some other > card and screw up everything, so that even the text-console is > unreadable. XF 4 generally gets you some plain vga driver working in a really low resolution an

RE: regarding xviddetect

2000-08-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
> So, this means we have a process like: > > try to XF 4 autodetect > if fail > try to XF 3 autodetect > if fail > punt? > I don't know, what XF 4 does with unknown cards. XF 3 somethime bahaves ungly: It just detects some other card and screw up everything, so that even t