Re: of boot-floppies, busybox, debian-installer and woody

2000-10-14 Thread Glenn McGrath
Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I would prefer using a busybox package. Otherwise, I will again end > > up with the painful task of keeping two CVS trees in sync... The > > busybox package has been ready to upload for months, but thus far > > noone has

Bug#74346: marked as done (INIT locks up installing debian 2.2)

2000-10-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated 15 Oct 2000 01:51:15 -0400 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#74346: MB-CPU trouble has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibili

Re: woody, boot-floppies, and debian-installer projected readiness

2000-10-14 Thread Glenn McGrath
Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > [I'm re-sending this due to the subject line damage -- this is a very > important issue.] > > Talking to the release manager, Anthony Towns, in IRC, I learned it is > his current plan to freeze woody early in January 2001. > > I think this is a laudable goal, but unfor

Re: booting from floppy

2000-10-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Maciej" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER. > > When I pressed Enter i got another messages saying: > > Floppy0: perpendicular mode not supported by this FDC I dunno -- this is some sort of wierd kernel thing. Sorry, can't re

Re: boot problems

2000-10-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"George M. Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thought I would give you and update. Finally I had to reinstall > Debian becuase when I tried to configure XWindows it would not > activate the mouse and so I would find myself in XWindows and no way > to bring up a terminal window. If you have

Re: your mail

2000-10-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Go ahead and do what you have to do. > I am waiting for the build to finish, before I commit that patch. I hope > that is before I leave from Oldenburg... otherwise you might miss your > sunday evening target. Ok. I'll announce here when I

of boot-floppies, busybox, debian-installer and woody

2000-10-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would prefer using a busybox package. Otherwise, I will again end > up with the painful task of keeping two CVS trees in sync... The > busybox package has been ready to upload for months, but thus far > noone has pursued getting the new "installer"

woody, boot-floppies, and debian-installer projected readiness

2000-10-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[I'm re-sending this due to the subject line damage -- this is a very important issue.] Talking to the release manager, Anthony Towns, in IRC, I learned it is his current plan to freeze woody early in January 2001. I think this is a laudable goal, but unfortunately I think that means we need

Re: potato vanillla boot-floppies packange cant make boot floppy on HP Omnibook 6000

2000-10-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Dave Williams @ Home" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Two problems to mention: > Firstly:- 2.2.16 boot-floppies and vanilla rescue/root image from latest > potato disk image (reported as Linux 2.2.17 from Kernel-image- > 2.2.17-2.2.17pre6-1) cannot make a boot floppy. > > I've tracked the proble

Re: your mail

2000-10-14 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 08:52:39PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > "Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Any more surprises like this? > > I don't know -- you're the porter. Very funny, _somebody_ changed the behaviour of parsefile and I haven't seen any note of this on the l

Language chooser and 2.2r1

2000-10-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Based on my take on the language chooser discussions here, we are going to have to target language chooser for 2.2r2, assuming that 2.2r1 comes out in the next week or so. I just feel like making the language chooser mainstream ATM would be a big risk. I can't think of a single party (except pe

Re: your mail

2000-10-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, there is a problem: > Your m68k architecture is not supported yet. > > I guess it comes from utilities/dbootstrap/main.c, which has been changed a > little since the potato bf. > > Maybe its sufficient to patch *get_m68k_model( void

sorry about the messed up mail

2000-10-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Sorry -- had some problems with Emacs message.el configuration. It was fudging my headers. I hope it's fixed now. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: your mail

2000-10-14 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 01:14:19AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > I checked it out, will try a build, Ill tell you the results tomorrow. > > Please do. I plan on uploading 2.2.18 source pkg on Sunday. Build finished: http://pandora.debian.org/~cts/bf/ m68k patch checked in. However, there is

ITP: mklibs.sh

2000-10-14 Thread zw
I wrote: > Please give me your advice if packaging busybox and mklibs.sh as seperate > packages is a good idea or not. Thanks! > > This comes to my mind because: > > 1) Seems boot-floppies won't like to come into woody (c.f. Adam) > 2) Packages like mkinitrd-cd depends on boot-floppies solely f

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-10-14 Thread Erik Andersen
On Fri Oct 13, 2000 at 11:14:14PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Talking to the release manager, Anthony Towns, in IRC, I learned it is > his current plan to freeze woody early in January 2001. > > I think this is a laudable goal, but unfortunately I think that means > we need to retain the boo

Re: READ-pl.txt

2000-10-14 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 02:22:24PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > Ah! Now I know what he means. The problem is that the file stays in the > 'release' directory after the tarballs are created. Exactly. > > I think it has to be added to $rootfiles (for m68k), then it should be > > handled like REA

READ-pl.txt

2000-10-14 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 12:11:21PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 01:14:19AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > Moreover, that dh_installdocs is run within arch-indep, so what would > > that have to do with the m68k build? > It built fine, however the changes file sa

Re: your mail

2000-10-14 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 01:14:19AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Moreover, that dh_installdocs is run within arch-indep, so what would > that have to do with the m68k build? It built fine, however the changes file says: Files: 32a58ad155965f636dd8000a898828fe 4283 byhand - READ-pl.txt 7a25880a