OT: toasted humor was (Re: bad press at www.linuxworld.com)

2000-09-16 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 11:26:58AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > Now, there are definitely places where the install could be improved, > (this is news?), but I'm really tempted to ignore people who can't be > bothered to read the owners manual. This is an operating system, not a > toaster. >

Re: External install modules and compacted libc

2000-09-16 Thread Glenn McGrath
Torsten Landschoff wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 12:36:56PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > The way modules will work is that they should only be called (or loaded) > > if needed, so its not a matter of disabling any modules, just only > > calling the modules you need, this is the key to shr

about ui of the installation

2000-09-16 Thread Domenico Andreoli
from cvs.debian.org > > The Installer UI > > [snip] > > After the kernel boots up, the first thing the user will see is whatever UI > is being used, configuring itself. This is equivalent to the current > installer asking if the screen supports color, and keyboard configuratio

about modules in the installation process

2000-09-16 Thread Domenico Andreoli
from cvs.debian.org > > Modules > --- > [big snip] > > Unlike regular debian packages, modules for the installer will not be > policy compliant. They will not contain documentation in /usr/share/doc. > They need not comply with the FHS. They may be statically linked. They may > conflict wit

new install manual/release notes propogated to master

2000-09-16 Thread Adam Di Carlo
I've uploaded updated Release Notes and Installation Manual for Potato to master.d.o. The main feature here is updates, especially in the French, Croatian, Polish, and Czech translations. I've had to disable the Russian PDF since it won't run for me anymore. I'd appreciate any testing of bad

External install modules and compacted libc

2000-09-16 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 12:36:56PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: > The way modules will work is that they should only be called (or loaded) > if needed, so its not a matter of disabling any modules, just only > calling the modules you need, this is the key to shrinking the installer > to 1 boot disk

Re: Russian PDF ?

2000-09-16 Thread Peter Novodvorsky
++ 15/09/00 14:38 -0400 - Adam Di Carlo: > > Here are some excerpts from my attempt to build the Russian PDF: > > Language: russianb 1999/04/05 v1.1j Russian support from the babel system > > Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for > (babel)the la

Re: redesigning the debian installer

2000-09-16 Thread Adam Di Carlo
I like this scheme but I was kinda scratching my head wondering how device autodetection would work. I suppose that would just be a package, say, libdetect, which when you run the configure step, would emit information on possible network devices (including hopefully capability to do null serial