Re: the next step

2000-09-29 Thread Erik Andersen
On Thu Sep 28, 2000 at 06:36:00PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > I feel that the design discussions have reached the point where we'll be > more productive if we're talking about actual code. There are still many > decisions to be made, but most of them are on the level of how an > individual module sh

Re: Creating custom boot-disks

2000-09-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Pettersson, Magnus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I am thinking of creating a custom boot-cd for my company, To help when > installing multiple machines. I typically would like to have a custom kernel > initially installed on the servers so I don't have to install sources and > recompile etc

Re: debian accessibility

2000-09-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Cool. Please encourage them to file bugs. I'm not sure how well dbootstrap works on teletype or whatever devices (god I'm clueless) the blind use. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: &mdash in boot-floppies/documentation

2000-09-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 11:37:21PM +0400, Michael Sobolev wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 04:22:01PM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: > > > I'll look into this. The HTML translation map in debiandoc-sgml maps &mdash to >&mdash > > > which accord

Re: raid support in install cds

2000-09-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Robert Varga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - is there an easy way to create an installer cd with a kernel > containing the 0.90 raid patches and the necessary files from raidtools2 > included? Not easy, no. It should be possible ifyou get the boot-floppies package and muck with the source. > -

Re: 2.2.17 now building for upload to potato

2000-09-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adam Di Carlo: > > > I'm now building for release boot-floppies 2.2.17. > > Does this include the translated boot floppies? No, no one has integrated that into the build process -- I guess it was up to me (sigh) but I haven't had time. Any volunt

Re: Fried Potato

2000-09-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Akin O. Fernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings boot team, I'm having some problems installing. > > I am trying to install to my primary IDE using: > > CDROM Debian 2.2r0 official > Arch: i386 > model: home built, intel motherboard > memory 128megs > CRROM: Hitachi, ATAPI 24x > Net

Re: &mdash in boot-floppies/documentation

2000-09-29 Thread Van Buggenhaut
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 11:37:21PM +0400, Michael Sobolev wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 04:22:01PM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: > > I'll look into this. The HTML translation map in debiandoc-sgml maps &mdash to >&mdash > > which according to the HTML/XHTML book of O'Reilly doesn't exist

debian accessibility

2000-09-29 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do we have a blind volunteer who can help with testing the new > installer? I think we should add support for blind people while we > are at redesigning the installer... I forwarded this note to the blinux (blind Linux) list, and got three volunte

PCI autodetection

2000-09-29 Thread Will Lowe
Last night I put together some code from pciutils and Redhat's anaconda and came up with a little program that asks the kernel about installed PCI hardware and modprobes the needed drivers, using a little table. I don't know if it's useful or not for the next incarnation of boot-floppies, but you

Re: &mdash in boot-floppies/documentation

2000-09-29 Thread Michael Sobolev
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 04:22:01PM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: > I'll look into this. The HTML translation map in debiandoc-sgml maps &mdash to >&mdash > which according to the HTML/XHTML book of O'Reilly doesn't exist. Probably we need >to > use — but conformance is not guaranteed. I'

Re: &mdash in boot-floppies/documentation

2000-09-29 Thread Michael Sobolev
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 05:20:11PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > In HTML, there is no portable way to represent an em-dash - except by > using a plain old "-". You mean two of them, do you not? :) -- Misha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

[woody] modules for debian-installer (Re: the next step)

2000-09-29 Thread Taketoshi Sano
May I ask some questions ? In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:36:00 -0700, on the next step, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I picked this configuration because: > * It's easy to develop for -- it's easy to write a floppy and boot it, > easing the test cycle. > * The ha

Bug#72672: problem installing to hdg w/ ultra66

2000-09-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Dmitry Belenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ADC> I assume youre using the udma66 set of boot-floppies. Is that so? > > No, i'm entering kernel params, so kernel recognises everything > perfectly. As I've said, I can mount my hdg (hdg2 to be precise) > from another console. And it works. So, I

Bug#72479: Data Access Exception

2000-09-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Alan Bain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I do think something should > go in the installation manual for the SPARC version about suggesting > that the lowest memory block be contiguous. > I've checked version 2.2.17 of the install instructions and there is no > mention of the problem, whic

Re: &mdash in boot-floppies/documentation

2000-09-29 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 2927T162201-0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: > I'll look into this. The HTML translation map in debiandoc-sgml maps &mdash to >&mdash > which according to the HTML/XHTML book of O'Reilly doesn't exist. Probably we need >to > use — but conformance is not guaranteed. 151's meaning depen

Re: #72327: boot-floppies: doesn't install .bash_logout for root (fwd)

2000-09-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 02:17:03PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > > > $ tar ztvf base2_2.tgz | awk '$6 == "./root/" ' > > > > > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2000-07-05 19:47:09 ./root/ > > > > > > > > maybe this changed. At least a have some slink

Re: raid support in install cds

2000-09-29 Thread Petr Cech
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 12:55:47PM +0200 , Robert Varga wrote: > - is there an easy way to create an installer cd with a kernel > containing the 0.90 raid patches and the necessary files from raidtools2 > included? custom kernel and if you find enough space on root.bin, then > - is there a

Re: raid support in install cds

2000-09-29 Thread Robert Varga
On 29 Sep 2000, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > We do support some hardware raid devices. > > For the software raid root support you mention, that reuqires some pretty > serious changes and cannot happen in potato updates. This is an issue > for the woody installer. > > -- > .Adam Di [EMAIL P

Re: 2.2.17 now building for upload to potato

2000-09-29 Thread peter karlsson
Adam Di Carlo: > I'm now building for release boot-floppies 2.2.17. Does this include the translated boot floppies? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/peter/reklampost.html -- To U

Fried Potato

2000-09-29 Thread Akin O. Fernandez
Greetings boot team, I'm having some problems installing. I am trying to install to my primary IDE using: CDROM Debian 2.2r0 official Arch: i386 model: home built, intel motherboard memory 128megs CRROM: Hitachi, ATAPI 24x Network Card Dlink DFE-50rtx PCMCIA: none Soundcard Soundblaster AWE32 D

Bug#72479: Data Access Exception

2000-09-29 Thread Alan Bain
> > Well, it certainly seems like this is an obscure SPARC hardware > problem and you seem to have fixed it. > > Do you mind if I close this bug? We don't really maintain any > information on all the minutae of how to configure hardware for use > with Linux -- there are SPARC/Linux HOWTOs and s

Re: the next step

2000-09-29 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> I feel that the design discussions have reached the point where we'll be > more productive if we're talking about actual code. There are still many Please create a picture of the layout/concept/modules. An picture says more then 1000 Thanks, Hartmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: poweredge 2400 and installing debian.

2000-09-29 Thread Ries van Twisk
> "Ries van Twisk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hai, > > > > I'm currently in the progress of booting and installing Debian 2.2 > > on a poweredge 2400 with a Raid 5 perc raid controller (also known > > asmegaraid?). > > Are you sure this isn't supported in the 'compact' set? Actually, i