Bug#70036: [dbootstrap] pcmcia configuration has no way out

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.16 There doens't seem to be a get out of the "configure PCMCIA" step once you're in it. The "cancel" options on the various dialogs should pop you back up to the main menu rather than merrily continuing. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.c

Bug#64636: marked as done ([m68k] error installing on powerbook 520c)

2000-08-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#59312: marked as done ([insufficient info] boot-floppies: dbootstrap aborts when using raid partitions)

2000-08-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#64522: [slink, m68k] error installing on Performa 600

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Can you check whether your problem was fixed in the Potato boot-floppies? Sorry we haven't followed up on this before... -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#64499: boot floppies cannot access my super floppy formated syjet

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
> When trying to install a new debian system (after previous boot floppies > experiments destroyed my partition table :((() i noticed that the boot > floppies will not present me with my super floppy formatted syjet removable > harddisk when asking for partitions. I have a ext2 partition on it (b

Bug#56886: [slink, alpha] cd boot attempts mount of 08:02 as /

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Can you attempt this using the newly release Potato installation system? If you still receive this problem, please let us know. It sounds like a kernel problem -- we'll have to reassign the bug to the appropriate kernel package. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> --

Bug#63398: marked as done (More missing pcmcia unresolved externals in 4/17 boot disks)

2000-08-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#64764: boot-floppies fails to recognize rescue disk on PS/2

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
> When I attempt to install potato via b-f, the rescue disk and root > disk load fine, however, when the time comes to "Load Operating > System and Modules", the system fails to recognize the rescue floppy. > The rescue floppy used was tested on a working system to be byte-for-byte > equal to

Re: Potato install won't let me set root password.

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hm, I wonder if we make it too easy to mount an existing linux partition > the installer hasn't formatted onto / . Mounting such a partition onto > /home is of course a Good Thing, mounting it to root is not. The other Joey is adding some basic checks for

Re: [woody] udpkg progress

2000-08-26 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 08:09:57PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > Can do. BTW, any word on getting a new archive section in place > for installer stuff? Right now, there is no place to put Installer > specific stuff (i.e. the results of my merging udpkg into busybox, Is it possible to just make

Re: [woody] udpkg progress

2000-08-26 Thread Erik Andersen
On Sat Aug 26, 2000 at 02:55:21PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote: > explore integrating busybox tools into udpkg. either udpkg pulls in > busybox modules, or we just go ahead and add udpkg as another busybox > utility module. Erik, comments? I'm ok with just adding it in... > with debugging turned

Re: building i18ned docs

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) keep it or get rid of it? Keep it. > 2) if keep it, decide what in what source format it should be to allow > tranlations Just like the original I guess. > I guess it is useful for example on CDs, where there is no other > documentation index. I

Re: bugs 64500 and 64823

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 07:52:09AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Hello world, > > > > After installing b-f 2.2.16, 64500 and 64823 still seem to be > > open. Are these RC? Are they already fixed? Do they require a 2.2.17 be > > built? What's the deal?

Bug#69793: IBM PC Server 320 (MCA/PCI Pentium) cannot boot

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
era eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The instructions in the installation manual specifically say to submit > a bug report against boot-floppies if you can't manage to get it running. > > Sure. But

Re: summarizing i18n todo (was Re: [potato] last not i18ned part in bf and more)

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
I forgot what I already knew, which is that unfortunately i18n'd dbootstrap (which I think is the top priority) requires hacked slang and newt, which is in bf-utf CVS area under cvs.debian.org:/cvs/debian-boot CVSROOT. I haven't seen any commits here in 2 months. Is i18n'd dbootstrap dead? Is

Re: hdc: lost interrupt and very slow installation

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Definately a hardware or kernel issue. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DPT SmartRaid VI PM2865U3

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Jason Mesker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to install debian 2.2 on a machine with a SmartRaid > controller as said in the subject. I am getting on tty3 an error > message that keeps repeating "open error" as soon as dbootstrap starts > up, even at the opening screen. This message i

Bug#70006: marked as done (base: debiandoc-sgml depends on latex (debiandoc2latexps))

2000-08-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Aug 2000 16:37:26 +0200 Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 16:37:26 +0200 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Raphael Bossek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: base: debiandoc-sgml depends on latex (debiandoc2latexps) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: bug 3.3.4 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pack

Bug#31449: Debian Bug report logs - #31449

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Looks good, although one of the messages was in English. I'm satisfied it's enough to close the bug for. -- .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

2000-08-26 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:59:17PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > 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? Getting the documentation complete, I guess. regar

Re: building i18ned docs

2000-08-26 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 10:26:59PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So either index.en.html should be translated and TARGETDOCS definition > > should contain index$(DESTEXT).html, or there should not be such thing as > > "index$(DESTEXT).html" at all

Re: [debian-installer] microdpkg

2000-08-26 Thread Randolph Chung
> Im getting bogged down with forks and IPC with the C based debconf stuff > i was attempting, i might have a quick look now. Glenn, is your code available some place? randolph -- Debian Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.TauSq.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: [patch] powerpc dbootstrap documentation.

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, ethan, let's wait on this patch a few days - until I get > yaboot 0.7 -packaged-. > > It'll be real soon, I promise. Ok, can someone resend or else apply this patch when it's time? BTW, I've just today added some stuff about invoking op

[woody] udpkg progress

2000-08-26 Thread Randolph Chung
i checked in another chunk of udpkg code just now. it unpacks the .deb and writes the /var/lib/dpkg/info entries properly now. i am using the popen hack i described in a previous post for now. hopefully we can integrate this into busybox and use that instead at some point. next steps are configur

Processed: Re: Bug#69970: boot-floppies: images-1.20/root.bin consists entirely of nulls

2000-08-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > merge 69970 69959 Bug#69959: [i386] 1.2M root.bin is just nulls Bug#69970: boot-floppies: images-1.20/root.bin consists entirely of nulls Merged 69959 69970. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham

summarizing i18n todo (was Re: [potato] last not i18ned part in bf and more)

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
My impression regarding base-config is that there are structure problems to debconf in Potato that prevent proper i18n. I would *really* prefer to leave all that aside right now and focus on the key issues: (a) providing LANG_CHOOSER'ified dbootstrap - which flavors on i386 ? all ? Doe

Bug#31449: Debian Bug report logs - #31449

2000-08-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [Adam wrote] > > > I already had my system installed on the disk (which was mounted as > > > /target), and it was running 2.0.35 rather than 2.0.36, thus > > > the messages. Of course another minor problem was that the error >

Re: [potato] last not i18ned part in bf and more

2000-08-26 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 02:43:25PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > It seems the only way to go is make a wrapper script. I tested that, and > > > debconf works OK (i.e. the templates show in Polish > > As far as I know, the

Re: Installing into DOS partition

2000-08-26 Thread Erik Andersen
On Sat Aug 26, 2000 at 07:07:29AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > > -> of which the second gives me an: > > error in loading shared library /lib/libext2fs.so.2 > > symbol __divdi3 > > version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference > > I've spent four days on fixing t

Bug#29277: Constructing sentences in dinstall makes translation to Finnish hard

2000-08-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Martin Schulze wrote: > Which means, we should use something like: > > "I need disk %1 of set %2", nr, set) > > which will require a modified version of printf&co. glibc printf already supports that fwiw. Wichert. --

First Annual Linux User's Training Conference and Awards Presentation

2000-08-26 Thread David Dickson
Title:   To:      [EMAIL PROTECTED]   First Annual Linux Users' Training Conference And Awards Presentation “New Enterprise Solutions Through Linux” October 30, 2000 Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade

Bug#31449: Debian Bug report logs - #31449

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Adam wrote] > > I already had my system installed on the disk (which was mounted as > > /target), and it was running 2.0.35 rather than 2.0.36, thus > > the messages. Of course another minor problem was that the error > > messages weren't redirected to

re: Automatic installation of a Debian system

2000-08-26 Thread Sebastien Chaumat
Hello, We have a working tool at www.ens-lyon.fr/~schaumat/replicator. Let us know your comments. Cheers, Sebastien Chaumat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#70006: base: debiandoc-sgml depends on latex (debiandoc2latexps)

2000-08-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 04:37:26PM +0200, Raphael Bossek wrote: > Package: base > Version: 20000826 > Severity: important Why _base_ package? Why important? > installed today the debiandoc-sgml package to convert the > Debian Policy to ps and found that the debiandoc2latexps &g

Bug#70006: base: debiandoc-sgml depends on latex (debiandoc2latexps)

2000-08-26 Thread Raphael Bossek
Package: base Version: 2826 Severity: important hi, installed today the debiandoc-sgml package to convert the Debian Policy to ps and found that the debiandoc2latexps package depends on latex but latex where not installed... the following happens after manual installation of latex

Re: [patch] powerpc dbootstrap documentation.

2000-08-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 01:33:13AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > I have updated the installation manual to reflect improvments in ybin > (part of the yaboot bootloader package) the /boot/ofboot.b file is no > longer a conffile, it is a static file that is dynamically configured > by ybin when se

Bug#57609: boot-floppies: Putting fr-latin0 keyboard map in the boot floppies?

2000-08-26 Thread Martin Schulze
> Not very important bug. This is more a wish... > > As far a I have properly verified, the fr-latin0 keyboard map (which is part > of the kbd package) is not proposed by the installation process. > > As this meyboard map is becoming the de facto standard for users of french > keyboard layouts (

Bug#42580: marked as done (error when trying to mount a partition not marked as native could be better)

2000-08-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#42123: marked as done (specifying paths within archives at boot time)

2000-08-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#41298: marked as done (bootdisk: the rescue disk should include the sformat utility)

2000-08-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#39533: marked as done ("copy kernel-image to partition" installation method)

2000-08-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Processed: x

2000-08-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 31865 [not working] Request for Language chooser on boot-floppies Bug#31865: boot-floppies wish - no #define the translations. Changed Bug title. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham (adm

Bug#31449: Debian Bug report logs - #31449

2000-08-26 Thread Martin Schulze
> Package: boot-floppies > Version: 2.1.4 > Severity: wishlist > > If you, from withing dbootstrap, mount as root a partition (without > formatting, of course) which already has a system installed on it, > dbootstrap fails to detect this condition and take reasonable action. > On my machine, it e

Language Chooser

2000-08-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi folks, who is in charge of the language chooser? The head of choose_lang.c says that it's haggie but he says, it's somebody else. Next question: Why isn't that thing enabled? Next question: How is it supposed to work? Next question: What kind of work needs to be done to get it working? I'

Bug#29277: Constructing sentences in dinstall makes translation to Finnish hard

2000-08-26 Thread Martin Schulze
> From: Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Bug#29277: Constructing sentences in dinstall makes translation to >Finnish hard > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > C

Bug#29146: request to integrate Dbrfix10.zip

2000-08-26 Thread Martin Schulze
James, which program did the faulty repartitioning? Regards, Joey -- This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot. Oldenburger LinuxTag 2000 http://oldenburger.linuxtage.de/ Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. -- To UNSUB