debian-boot@lists.debian.org

2001-01-05 Thread Randolph Chung
> In the end, I hope to have the whole system building using automake > and configure, so that one can create a custom installer by giving > various options to configure. :) cdebconf already uses autoconf. i'd really prefer not to use automake if we can. it adds way too much abstraction and in my

AdvanSys SCSI timeout on 1st kernel boot

2001-01-05 Thread Marc Mongenet
Hello, I am trying to install Debian 2.2r2 from scratch (bootable CDROM or floppies) but the 2.2.18pre21 kernel is (most of the time ~95%) not able to recognize my SCSI drives. Here is the interesting part of the kernel log (booting with Rescue compact floppy) : PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI

Bug#81343: libc thread code problem in Debian Linux 2.2.17, i686

2001-01-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 04:12:58PM -0700, Gerry Wiener wrote: > Package: base > > Linux amber 2.2.17 #1 SMP Thu Sep 7 11:35:24 MDT 2000 i686 unknown > > I initially reported the bug below to the Python 2.0 bug list. The > author of Python responded by mentioning that he thinks it is a > problem

dbootstrap problem

2001-01-05 Thread Richard Giles
Pentium II PC 350MHz 64MB RAM All hardware already runs Caldera Linux 2.4 OK. Hi - Please can you help ??? I am trying to replace Caldera Open Linux 2.4 with Debian 2.2r2 (from official CDs). I want to use the exisiting partitions. Dbootstrap doesn't let me get past "Configure Device Driver Mo

Re: proxy support for wget retriever

2001-01-05 Thread Joey Hess
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > do { > debconf->command(debconf, "fset", DEBCONF_BASE "http/hostname", "seen", "false"); > debconf->command(debconf, "INPUT", "critical", DEBCONF_BASE "http/hostname", NULL); > debconf->command(debconf, "GET", DEBCONF_BASE "http/hostname", NULL); > } while (debconf->value

Bug#81343: libc thread code problem in Debian Linux 2.2.17, i686

2001-01-05 Thread Gerry Wiener
Package: base Linux amber 2.2.17 #1 SMP Thu Sep 7 11:35:24 MDT 2000 i686 unknown I initially reported the bug below to the Python 2.0 bug list. The author of Python responded by mentioning that he thinks it is a problem with the libc thread code. I wanted to make sure the bug was reported.

Bug#81319: Error upon reboot after installation: /sbin/termwrap

2001-01-05 Thread Alec Gorjestani
Package: base Version: 2.2 After installing the debian 2.2 with the UDMA66 patch, I reboot as instructed and receive the following message: /bin/sh: exec: /sbin/termwrap: cannot execute: No such file or directory This message repeats several times, then I receive: INIT: Id "1" respawning too f

Re: proxy support for wget retriever

2001-01-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Tollef Fog Heen | * 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 t

partitioning modules

2001-01-05 Thread Glenn McGrath
im starting to get into the partitioning side of of things. Ive started with this small routine that parses /proc/mounts into debconf. I figure ill do one that parses /proc/partitions and then one to get known filesystems. With those three lots of information in debconf format and mount functions

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

2001-01-05 Thread Santiago Vila
Anthony Towns wrote: > If you want minimal, just install the "important" packages. If you > want _really_ minimal, just install the "required" packages. Before telling people to do this could you please fix all the wrong priorities in testing and unstable? [ Or at least the ones regarding standar

ltmodem.o fixes Re: Winmodem test disk

2001-01-05 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Van, For the ltmodem.o driver support there have been an evolution of fixes which you can read in some more detail at http://walbran.org/sean/linux/linmodem-howto-all.html 1) Through kernel version 2.2.4 insmod -f ltmodem.o the 2.2.2 compiled ltmodem.o binary sufficed. 2) This failed with

Re: Winmodem test disk

2001-01-05 Thread Van Buggenhaut
Hi, I recently bought a Tecra 8100 which includes a Lucent linmodem. Lucent released a binary-only driver for this modem by the time of kernel 2.2.12. Unfortunately with later version of the kernel, it didn't work. Yesterday I found the reason why and patched the 2.2.18 kernel source tree. I