Re: Monitor autodetection

2000-11-03 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Migowski wrote: > Sounds good. I didn't know about those tools before, but I think the > detection is something we should do at one of the first things during the > install-process. Of course, I disagree. The main purpose of the debian installer is to get debian *installed*. It doesn't

Re: 2.2.18 and 2.2r1 release

2000-11-03 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Sorry I've been out for a while. Two conferences back to back for me at work and no time for Debian over the last 3 weeks. Anyhow, I'm hoping to deal with this and come up with a new ETA and assessment by sometime tomorrow. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UN

Re: Monitor autodetection

2000-11-03 Thread Daniel Migowski
Hi, On Friday 03 November 2000 03:17, you wrote: > Assuming you mean DDC for getting monitor frequencies and such, X4 > already does this automatically. If not there are apps out there like > read-edid that can do this in user-space. Combined with things like > anXious (or Progeny's dexter) this

Re: first weekly debian-installer status report

2000-11-03 Thread Jérôme Marant
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - documentation [UNCLAIMED} > Not started. I'm willing to help on this. How do I start ? What is the prefered DTD among the following : DebianDoc-SGML Docbook-SGML Docbook-XML Thanks. -- Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL

Re: newlib for installer?

2000-11-03 Thread Erik Andersen
On Fri Nov 03, 2000 at 11:06:19AM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > Erik (and the rest of the uclibc team) have been making great progress > with uclibc, it compiles busybox statically to 370KB (70KB of libraries) > whereas compiled with glibc its about 650 KB > > I dont know how this compares to

Re: boot problem

2000-11-03 Thread Wookey
n Fri 03 Nov, Tim Veazey wrote: > Hello, > > I've just attempted to install debian for the first time (new to the > linux world too). The installation seems to go ok. However, when it > comes time to reboot, the system freezes after the following boot > message: > > "Setting the System Clock u

Re: potato hard disk install bug

2000-11-03 Thread Karl Hammar
I usually do hard-disk and ftp installs with no special problems with the media method. Regards, /Karl --- Karl HammarAspö Data [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lilla Aspö 2340 +46 173 140 57

Re: Setting up a debian archive

2000-11-03 Thread Karl Hammar
Just get all files from some ftp mirror, from the debian directory and down, and copy them to your harddisk. You'll need some 10-20GB for that. But if you just want to do new i386 installs with the stable release (potato) you can skip the following directories (assuming you are standing in the de

no hard disk found during Debian installation

2000-11-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, i'm a Linux-newbie and a bought some weeks ago a 4 CD-set Debian-Linux. During the first step of the CD-boot sequence the system tries to identify the installed hardware. I receive the following message 'No hard disk drive could be found'. After this message the system goes on trying a networ

Unidentified subject!

2000-11-03 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Cc: Bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: One or two floppies (was: first weekly debian-installer status report) Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:22:54AM -0800 X-Operating-System: Linux square 2.2.17 X-Mail-Backup-To: Bas Zoetekouw Th