Re: Font reduction problems

2000-10-12 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 02:45:27AM +0400, Michael Sobolev wrote: > > How do you create you all.utf file? > And the answer to this question is really important as error code -1 means `An > invalid multibyte sequence encountered'. I'd guess that the file all.utf is > not in utf-8... I knew i've fo

Re: Font reduction problems

2000-10-12 Thread Michael Sobolev
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 02:38:15AM +0400, Michael Sobolev wrote: > Well, I've been using unifont.bdf as it comes in bf-utf. I checked the program with ucs.bdf font, but unfortunately, it comes with symbolic names for characters (what is not supported by this simple program). unifont.bdf uses U+xx

Re: Font reduction problems

2000-10-12 Thread Michael Sobolev
Well, I've been using unifont.bdf as it comes in bf-utf. How do you create you all.utf file? -- Misha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian Floppies/ReiserFS

2000-10-12 Thread Marc A . Volovic
Hi, While not officially a developer, I have prepared a VERY limited set off ReiserFS'd boot floppies. They are a mixed blessing - much manual intervention is required to make use of them, but I HAVE successfully installed machines with them. Would anyone be interested in the beasts? -- ---M

Font reduction problems

2000-10-12 Thread Marcin Owsiany
With: LC_CTYPE=eo.UTF-8 LD_PRELOAD=/home/porridge/debian/boot/boot-floppies/utilities/bogl/libutf8_plug.so the following happens: $ ./reduce-font ../../../bf-utf/unifont.bdf < ../all.utf > reduced_unifont.bdf -1: bytes: 6 Used chars: 128 (0 processed) $ ./reduce-font ../../../bf-utf/ucs.bdf < ..

Re: traceroute root exploit

2000-10-12 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > No, I don't think so. In 2.2r1 it will be installed that way, however. Thanks for reminding me. I have base-config doing this, but haven't backported to potato yet. I'm at ALS now, but this is at the top of my priority list for whenever I can find the time. -- see sh

Processed: The traditional lost-bugs sweep

2000-10-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 67794 boot-floppies Bug number 67794 not found. > reassign 68438 kernel Bug number 68438 not found. > reassign 68497 boot-floppies Bug#68497: potato sparc /etc/silo.conf irregularity Bug reassigned from package `boot-floppies' to `boot-flopp

Bug#74346: MB-CPU trouble

2000-10-12 Thread palou
I put back the old trsuty Cyrix 6x86 166+ in the machine and everything runs like a charm. Therefore I'm sure this is a MB-CPU problem and nothing to do with Debian. I should mention that with the MII 300 the machine would be quite cranky with an old RH 6.0 installation, and only boot WinNT with t

Re: Language chooser

2000-10-12 Thread Michael Sobolev
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:40:44AM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > Now there's the problem with fonts. The smallest I could find is font.bgf. > IIRC Takesoshi Sano said this one is mostly OK (as for what characters it > contains). But it's too big to fit on a floppy. One option seems to be > font r

Re: Language chooser - patch

2000-10-12 Thread Michael Sobolev
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 07:32:03PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > The only grotty thing about it, really, is that it required us to have > bf-utf8 in the same parent dir as the boot-floppies area is, which is > pretty much the best we can do in a bad situation, IMHO. That sounds good. One could ch

booting from floppy

2000-10-12 Thread Maciej
I have a problem to install my Debian/GNU Linux on my system. I have a 486DX100 PC, with CD-ROM and 32MB RAM, HD 850MB. I created an image for my 1.44 floppy using: rawrite2 -f rescue.bin -d a Everything was fine then i booted my PC and while it was booting I got the message: VFS: Insert root