Re: netcfg and dhcp

2000-12-25 Thread David Whedon
Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:42:33PM -0800 wrote: > Hi David, I have taken a look at the current netcfg, and I am wondering > what your plans are for dhcp. It looks like you fully support dhcp, via > calling a dhcp client and setting up other things. Problem is, this is > somewhat counter to the debian

Re: lilo udebization

2000-12-25 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: > You'll note I didn't say the install media: I said "rescue disk". We > can't reasonably do without a rescue disk; whether it's the same as > the installer or some other difficult to maintain offshoot of b-f's is > another matter. Ok, fair enough. Although I have never used

Re: lilo udebization

2000-12-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 01:03:25AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Anthony Towns wrote: > > We need lilo on a rescue disk, at least... > Take another look at the system. I'm not even guarenteeing a *shell* on > the install media. You'll note I didn't say the install media: I said "rescue disk". We can'

[risko@atom.hu: Re: lilo udebization]

2000-12-25 Thread Gergely Risko
Hello! Sorry, I'm a mutt beginner ;) I forgot to cc to the list again. Thanks, Gergely - Forwarded message from Gergely Risko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 22:59:23 +0100 From: Gergely Risko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: lilo udebizat

Re: lilo udebization

2000-12-25 Thread Joey Hess
Gergely Risko wrote: > You mean, before restart but after base-system installed, we can apt-get > from a chroot for example? Right. We could use apt or use the retreiver system that's part of d-i, it is capable of parsing normal Packages files and downloading regular .deb packages too. We have t

Re: cdebconf problems

2000-12-25 Thread Joey Hess
Randolph Chung wrote: > well i suppose i can't think of a way to build this so that i > can have /usr/share/debconf/{frontend,confmodule} work correctly. is > diversions the right thing to do here? Is confmodule the same? Do you need to use a file named frontend; nothing should refer to

Re: lilo udebization

2000-12-25 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: > We need lilo on a rescue disk, at least... Take another look at the system. I'm not even guarenteeing a *shell* on the install media. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lilo udebization

2000-12-25 Thread Gergely Risko
Hello! > We definatly need boot loaders (at least one for each arch) to integrate > into either cdebconf or debconf, but it doesnt need to be a core > component. > > Core componenents should be just enough to start the install process. > > A boot loader can be fetched by whatever fetch method i

Re: lilo udebization

2000-12-25 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 05:44:16PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > We definatly need boot loaders (at least one for each arch) to integrate > into either cdebconf or debconf, but it doesnt need to be a core > component. I'm not sure if this has been discussed, but how will/can say the partitioni