Michael S. Fischer wrote:
> This brings up a good point for the Woody installer--it would be
> extremely helpful if for an FTP installation the installer would query
> a central site (e.g. ftp.debian.org) similar to CPAN's "MIRRORED_BY"
> file and obtain a list of current mirrors from which the so
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 07:14:33PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Or the user could just pick a good mirror to start with - we do have 140
> of them.
This brings up a good point for the Woody installer--it would be
extremely helpful if for an FTP installation the installer would query
a central
How easy is it to determine how much space on /, /usr, and /var a package
will take up? Can dpkg tell me this by examining its .deb file?
Mk
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On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > libfdisk is on the improve as well, and the code looks pretty nice, it
> > could probably be modularised for specific filesystems, only uspports
> > two architectures at the moment though.
> >
> > Glenn
>
> Crap, i meant libparted not libfdisk
Chee
Glenn McGrath wrote:
>
> libfdisk is on the improve as well, and the code looks pretty nice, it
> could probably be modularised for specific filesystems, only uspports
> two architectures at the moment though.
>
> Glenn
Crap, i meant libparted not libfdisk
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Joey Hess wrote:
>
> Martin Keegan wrote:
> > Incidentally, what facilities currently exist for non-interactive partitioning?
> > Is there a dedicated tool for this, or should one do
> >
> > /sbin/fdisk < scripted_responses
> >
> > and pray? If we can't do pretty arbitrary partitioning in a scrip
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Incidentally, what facilities currently exist for non-interactive partitioning?
> > Is there a dedicated tool for this, or should one do
> >
> > /sbin/fdisk < scripted_responses
> >
> > and pray? If we can't do pretty arbitrary partitioning in a scripta
Michael S. Fischer wrote:
> Let's add one more bullet point for the new installer--namely,
> alternative root filesystem support. I and my colleagues would just
> love to see ReiserFS support in woody's installer.
All this requires is a disk formatter module for reiserfs, and perhaps a
mechanism
Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 04:29:11PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > Yea, that is a problem that has been mentioned before, it is going to be
> > tricky to get around cheaply.
>
> Hmm, do we have a list of "known/expected problems" somewhere?
We do now. (doc/ISSUES in
Torsten Landschoff 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 (with everything else being
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Martin Keegan wrote:
> Incidentally, what facilities currently exist for non-interactive partitioning?
> Is there a dedicated tool for this, or should one do
>
> /sbin/fdisk < scripted_responses
>
> and pray? If we can't do pretty arbitrary partitioning in a scriptable
> fashion, the non-interac
Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> Of course I don't expect it to be ready in time (since I have to complete
> my work in this month) but I think I can make some mistakes so they are
> avoided when implementing the new Debian installer.
Since it's nearing the end of the month, I'm looking forward to wo
On debian-boot, Joey Hess wrote:
> question. This is the main reason I don't think we can use debconf as
> the UI for the partitioner, which I think is the most UI-demanding part
> of the install.
Incidentally, what facilities currently exist for non-interactive partitioning?
Is there a dedi
Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> I think it is an important question, if the partitionating should be done
> by the installer or by an external program by the installer.
>
> Calling (s|f)?fdisk or whatever has the advantage of
> well-tested-and-proofen code and user-interface. I think it should at
> lea
Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> Two new goals?
>
> - Make Debian installable to blind people (on systems where serial console
> support is available)
When designing a new character mode GUI, there are some simple things
you can do to make it at least usable to a blind user with a screen
reader lik
James R. Van Zandt wrote:
> >Sure -- Debian has always supported installing from a serial console,
> >and I hope it always will.
>
> Hmm. I beg to differ. I've been working on accessibility of Linux to
> blind users for some time. They can't use the video display,
> obviously. One installatio
Bernhard R. Link wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> > > It's on the debconf mailing list. The archives are at
> > > http://kitenet.net/auto/pipermail/config/
> >
> > Is that an open list? Since it is of interest for the installer I would
> > like to subscribe to it.
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> 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
I have to take some time off this week to go find a new place to live.
With that out of the way, I have time again until I have to actually
move. I'll try to get caught up on the thread now.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/09/22/2011220&mode=nested
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Martin Keegan wrote:
> I found the toplevel Makefile pretty annoying last time I was building
> boot-floppies; it called itself recursively with a separate make
> process, which tended to make make -n and make -j unusable.
>
> Is Joey Hess' new installer system doing to do away with the current
>
Ok here is my current status on booting debian on a poweredge 2400 with
the perc raid 5 controller.
Thinks are starting to work now.
I succesfully made a swap partition and created the other partitions.
My 2400 came with 4*18Gb HD resulting in two containers one of 4Gb and
the other about 48Gb.
Petr Cech wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 01:32:13PM +0200 , Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > So instead of having 2 different inittabs to choose from I changed
> > init.c to cope with it. I also changed getty to cope with it (diff is
> > send to maintainer and upstream) for after installation.
>
Here's a little hack I use to check which of the docs changed since I
translated them and what has changed.
Installation:
- copy the script to "documentation" directory
- modify it:
change the "$lang" variable to your language
remove the "checkdiff" function invocations for the
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A
Severity: normal
Hi,
I tried to append the info in this report to #50014, but the BTS
didn't like that, so I am just submitting a new report.
I recently did a clean install using boot floppies 2.2.16, ie,
same as 2.2r0. When the network was being configured,
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 09:58:06AM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> How do you see `debconf' in relation to `linuxconf' or `webmin'?
debconf does much less than those. It was never intended to parse the
config files of any apps. Instead it is targeted to ask some simple
questions and create a
Thank you. I did some hunting around and synced up my terminal program
with the parameters I got off a printenv on the OpenBoot prompt, and
discovered my terminal program was using Hardware flow control, and
OpenBoot had none. So I changed my terminal program to no flow control,
and voila! btw
Matt Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is it possible to install debian through a sparc serial console?
> I have a sparc with no monitor or keyboard (fine, I'm just gonna use it as
> a server anyways) I don't have access to these things. When I boot up
> using the supplied tftpboot.img,
Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri Sep 22, 2000 at 02:45:52PM +0200, Petr Cech wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 01:32:13PM +0200 , Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > > So instead of having 2 different inittabs to choose from I changed
> > > init.c to cope with it. I also changed getty
I overlooked a check for /dev/fd that now also checks for
/dev/floppy/. The install didn't recognise /dev/floppy/0 as floppy and
then tried to handle the floppy as mounted filesystem, which didn't
quite work.
So now I am able to install drivers and base, which are unpacking at
the moment.
Only p
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 11:50:25AM -0400, Matt Rose wrote:
> Is it possible to install debian through a sparc serial console?
Yes, at least I've done a test install of potato on a Sparc Classic
over a 9600bps serial line. All I recall doing was setting the port
speed and settings in the prom, an
In riva.lists.debian.boot, you wrote:
> How should we design the `debian-installer' build system?
>
> I think that it ought to be very granular, with a complex dependancy
> structure, so that changing one thing doesn't involve a long rebuild
> cycle before a testable image is generated. Makeing
Is it possible to install debian through a sparc serial console?
I have a sparc with no monitor or keyboard (fine, I'm just gonna use it as
a server anyways) I don't have access to these things. When I boot up
using the supplied tftpboot.img, it drops me into dbootstrap, and
dbootstrap
On Fri Sep 22, 2000 at 04:59:19PM +0200, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
> > Will jfs be in 2.4.0 or where can I get some docs for it?
>
> No, jffs is in the kernel, but don't know what this is.
>
> "JFFS -- Journaling Flash File System, Linux implementation."
>
JFFS only works on flash devices (i.e. i
> > > Let's add one more bullet point for the new installer--namely,
> > > alternative root filesystem support. I and my colleagues would just
> > > love to see ReiserFS support in woody's installer.
> >
> > Why reiserfs? reiserfs is the bad guy, it doesen't support other
> > architectures then
On Fri Sep 22, 2000 at 02:45:52PM +0200, Petr Cech wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 01:32:13PM +0200 , Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > So instead of having 2 different inittabs to choose from I changed
> > init.c to cope with it. I also changed getty to cope with it (diff is
> > send to maintainer and
On Fri Sep 22, 2000 at 01:32:13PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
>
> So instead of having 2 different inittabs to choose from I changed
> init.c to cope with it. I also changed getty to cope with it (diff is
> send to maintainer and upstream) for after installation.
Hmm. I don't believe I have
> Will jfs be in 2.4.0 or where can I get some docs for it?
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jfs/
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On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:50:11AM +0200, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
> I prefer jfs, it supports more then only intel and it is 64b clean.
> An alternative is xfs. Then reiserfs and then ext3fs.
Yes, that would be really neat.
Roland
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On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:13:34AM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> Perhaps if you ask IBM, they can help. They are a Linux friendly
> company, afaik.
Also in the laptop sector? I asked the German IBM Thinkpad support
about some APM problem. The conversation: Please open system control
center.
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 01:32:13PM +0200 , Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> So instead of having 2 different inittabs to choose from I changed
> init.c to cope with it. I also changed getty to cope with it (diff is
> send to maintainer and upstream) for after installation.
couldn't the rescue floppy ha
Hartmut Koptein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Let's add one more bullet point for the new installer--namely,
> > alternative root filesystem support. I and my colleagues would just
> > love to see ReiserFS support in woody's installer.
>
> Why reiserfs? reiserfs is the bad guy, it doesen't s
Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, i checked out your diff, i havent gotten very far into it yet, but
> see youve done some customisations to get init working with devfs.
>
> There is a simpler solution, change the following lines from
> ./busybox/scripts/inittab
The problem is tha
"TODD WITTER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hey list!
> I have a question about booting into debian. During installation I
> did not want to have lilo installed on the mbr. I chose to boot from
> a floppy. I also run rh6.2 and win9x on this little machine. I boot
> into redhat with a flopp
Chris AtLee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hey there,
>
> Is there a boot disk out there that doesn't need any of the base packages, but
>instead has all the necessary software to get a network connection and apt up and
>running so that you can install everything off the internet?
>
> It would
On debian-boot (inter alia), you wrote:
[snip]
>I strongly disagree with this assertion. You may clone a system's
>package inventory this way, but in doing so you will not clone the
>actual system configuration.
>> this a way to export debconf answers and your pretty much set. (i
>> don't know
Goswin Brederlow wrote:
>
> Over the last two weeks I made extensive changes to the boot-floppies
> to get it to work with a 2.4.0-test kernel and devfs mounted at boot
> time.
>
> I now have a 37K diff with a lot of changes and can install from a
> mounted medium but not from floppy.
>
> When
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On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 12:23:21AM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> ... and get rid of task-c-dev, task-c++-dev, task-tex (and probably others)
> at the same time. Or... we
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