memdetect code

Attached is some new memdetect code, it uses cdebconf, it doesnt use libdetect or anything as its pretty simple to detect memory. Its only a few KB, so its probably best to roll this code in with something else. We will need to detect memory to determine how much space we have for ramfs, or ramd

Re: Debian bootdisk with Chinese enabled.

This is the bootdisk with LANGUAGE_CHOOSER turned on. On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:43:26PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you so much for your great work. > I am trying the compact one. When the installation goes to the > step of disk partition(cfdisk) I found there is not a highlight > on

Bug#81118: base: Wishlist: High security base system (or separate add-on package)

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:57:52PM +0100, Arthur Korn wrote: > Joey Hess schrieb: > > If it is a daemon that binds to a port, and it doesn't have "secure" in its > > name or "encryption" in its description, it's gotta be insecure. > Debians minimal system (what's called 'standard') is to fat. Tha

Bug#81118: base: Wishlist: High security base system (or separate add-on package)

Arthur Korn wrote: > > Hi > > Joey Hess schrieb: > > If it is a daemon that binds to a port, and it doesn't have "secure" in its > > name or "encryption" in its description, it's gotta be insecure. > > Debians minimal system (what's called 'standard') is to fat. > Regardless of how secure it is

Bug#81118: base: Wishlist: High security base system (or separate add-on package)

Hi Joey Hess schrieb: > If it is a daemon that binds to a port, and it doesn't have "secure" in its > name or "encryption" in its description, it's gotta be insecure. Debians minimal system (what's called 'standard') is to fat. Regardless of how secure it is, many boxes just don't need the portm

Preloading add-on drivers from an extra floppy?

How does one use that feature? dbootstrap's messages do not explain clearly the expected directory structures. regards Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://student.uci.agh.edu.pl/~porridge/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216 -- To UNSUBSC

Debian Boot CVS: bcollins

CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: bcollins01/01/04 14:05:51 Modified files: utilities/dbootstrap: extract_kernel.c Log message: Hack to allow sparc driver series names. These should really be generated to match the current kernel -

RE: FW: Right SPARC 2.2.20 floppies on the Debian web site?

Great! Will I likely have to download all new everything, or just certain floppies (rescue and root)? Please let me know which floppies I should re-download! Thanks! David -Original Message- From: Ben Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 4:21 PM To: McCl

Re: FW: Right SPARC 2.2.20 floppies on the Debian web site?

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:10:59PM -0800, McClanahan, David K wrote: > > P.P.S. When Linux starts up, at the boot prompt, SILO reports that this > floppy contains the 2.2.18pre21 kernel, which does not match the 2.2.20 > the download said it was. > 2.2.20 is the version of the boot-floppie

FW: Right SPARC 2.2.20 floppies on the Debian web site?

HI: I'm forwarding this message, which I sent to a [EMAIL PROTECTED] also, but I'm not sure he is still around or available right now, but I am seriously wondering if the floppy images for the rescue, root, driver-1, driver-2, etc. disks are all for the same version.

Bug#81118: base: Wishlist: High security base system (or separate add-on package)

Anthony Towns wrote: > Oh, and for reference, portmap hasn't has a security update forever > while I've been maintaining it. Heck, there don't seem to have been any > changes to portmap since 1997. But hey, feel free to make the traditional > baseless accusations of insecurity, whatever. If it is

Re: Winmodem test disk

Hi, I'm interested in this too, to the extent that I'd like debian-installer (new debian install system that is going to replace boot-floppies, but may not actually be out for a while) to support ppp, and modems, and ideally also auto detect hardware. What you are asking for would be a large com

Winmodem test disk

Developers, This is a request for some startup assistance. You can read the horror stories a few of us are trying to deal with at: Linmodem-HOWTO http://walbran.org/sean/linux/linmodem-howto-all.html or the archives: http://linmodems.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi/1 Basically most of the new laptops/d

boot problems

Hello: I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r2 (3 disks) on a Dell laptop. I ran through the initial installation off the CD using the default options. After that, I am not able to boot off the rescue CD, hard drive, or rescue floppy. Any help would be greatly appreciated! H

Re: Replacing ae

Hi Eray Ozkural (exa) schrieb: > One thing though. Make sure that the editor in there works flawlessly > over network connections... Might be convenient for cluster guys here :) It should work over fucked up serial consoles as well (ie only alphanumerics and Escape). This is particulary importan

Re: with LANGUAGE_CHOOSER, garbage displayed in alt-F3

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:09:03PM +0800, ha shao wrote: > The virtual console at alt-F3 does not handle unicode. As > a result, any dboostrap error messages output into that > vc cannot be displayed correctly. This is a problem. The only solution I can think of is to run bterm on tty3 as well an

with LANGUAGE_CHOOSER, garbage displayed in alt-F3

The virtual console at alt-F3 does not handle unicode. As a result, any dboostrap error messages output into that vc cannot be displayed correctly. BTW: How can I turn on LANGUAGE_CHOOSER/framebuffer for other 'flavors'? I am to have udma66 build for LANGUAGE_CHOOSER. Now I can only 'test' the e

Installing on raid system.

Hi guys. Does the installation process for debian support installing on to a raid setup? I'm wanting to do software raid with a couple of drives and I'm wondering if I can install directly on to the system like this or do I have ot install on to a partition on one of the drives and then mount t

Bug#81118: base: Wishlist: High security base system (or separate add-on package)

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:14:30PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > "Standard" (and important) are basically defined as a "free, character > mode Unix system". Probably, this implies having telnet and telnetd > available, and being able to use NFS and so on. what about rsh, rlogin, rcp and such?

Bug#81118: base: Wishlist: High security base system (or separate add-on package)

On 01-01-04 Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:09:34PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > don't be so sure, i recently saw someone on -devel get yelled at for > > > saying portmap is not secure. > > Well, I would suggest, that those people who yell me for this, either do > > a aud

Bug#81118: base: Wishlist: High security base system (or separate add-on package)

On 01-01-04 Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:40:46AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > On 01-01-04 Ethan Benson wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:50:58PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > > > apt-get remove telnetd > > > > Well, why do we have telnet enabled after installati

Bug#81118: base: Wishlist: High security base system (or separate add-on package)

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:09:34PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > don't be so sure, i recently saw someone on -devel get yelled at for > > saying portmap is not secure. > Well, I would suggest, that those people who yell me for this, either do > a audit of portmap and present it on -devel or s

Bug#81118: base: Wishlist: High security base system (or separate add-on package)

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:40:46AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > On 01-01-04 Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:50:58PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > > apt-get remove telnetd > > > Well, why do we have telnet enabled after installation? > > because telnetd is priority standa

Bug#81118: base: Wishlist: High security base system (or separate add-on package)

On 01-01-04 Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:37:08AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > Well, I'm not sure if downgrading would be a good idea, but changing the > > postinst-script should be easier to do as this would part of it would be > > very generic and could be used in other sc

Re: netkit-tiny package

On Wed Jan 03, 2001 at 07:43:03PM -0800, David Whedon wrote: > I'm packaging netkit-tiny. I'll make a deb and a udeb for debian-installer. > I plan on putting in the udeb: ifconfig, ping, and nc. > > What's the future plan on this as far as integration with busy box (or not)? >From the busybox

Re: netkit-tiny-udeb

On Wed Jan 03, 2001 at 11:25:21PM -0800, David Whedon wrote: > Hi Erik, > > I debianized netkit-tiny. The way that I made a reduced feature udeb isn't > terribly pretty, perhaps you can think of a better way. I toyed with the > idea of using autoconf and a bunch of --[dis|e]nable's, but that ma

Bug#81118: base: Wishlist: High security base system (or separate add-on package)

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:37:08AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > Well, I'm not sure if downgrading would be a good idea, but changing the > postinst-script should be easier to do as this would part of it would be > very generic and could be used in other scripts via cut&paste too. perhaps, bu

Bug#81118: base: Wishlist: High security base system (or separate add-on package)

On 01-01-04 Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:40:46AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > Hm, what about changing the postinst of telnetd so, that I ask the admin > > who installs debian or the package, if he really wants to activate > > telnetd or not? > either that or downgrade tel

Bug#81118: base: Wishlist: High security base system (or separate add-on package)

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:40:46AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > Hm, what about changing the postinst of telnetd so, that I ask the admin > who installs debian or the package, if he really wants to activate > telnetd or not? either that or downgrade telnetd to another priority. > > nfsd and

Bug#81118: base: Wishlist: High security base system (or separate add-on package)

On 01-01-04 Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:50:58PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > apt-get remove telnetd > > > > Well, why do we have telnet enabled after installation? This is a bit > > security hole and I think this service should be disabled and only be > > enabled by the

Bug#81118: base: Wishlist: High security base system (or separate add-on package)

On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:50:58PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > apt-get remove telnetd > > Well, why do we have telnet enabled after installation? This is a bit > security hole and I think this service should be disabled and only be > enabled by the admin. because telnetd is priority stan

Re: proxy support for wget retriever

* Joey Hess | Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > Shouldn't the retriever be persistent and requiring a hostname and a | > directory? | | You need to read up on how debconf works. The "persistance" you are | advocating == an infinite loop. No, I am asking that debconf returns some value other than ''.

Re: proxy support for wget retriever

* Joey Hess | Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > Shouldn't the retriever be persistent and requiring a hostname and a | > directory? | | You need to read up on how debconf works. The "persistance" you are | advocating == an infinite loop. GET commands always return the same | vale, which was already in