Anthony Towns wrote:
> The debconf frontend should really be passed through to the udeb frontend;
> the keymap should already have been determined.
Right. How we do that with dpkg and random postinst scripts scribbling
all over the display, I'm not sure. perhaps you preconfigure everything
first
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:16:58PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> > * you end up having downloaded the latest versions of a bunch of .debs
> > and your /var/cache/apt/archives directory is already populated
> > with 'em
> That's a good thing? :-P
Packages and Release files get put in t
This is the code i have so far that works out a list of used and unused
partitions, the heirarchy thing is working but only to two levels.
I made a md0 array comprised of /dev/hdd1 /dev/hdd2 /dev/hdd3 /dev/hdd4
(silly i know), and it recognised that md0, hdd1 - hdd4 were taken, but
it didnt reco
David Whedon wrote:
>
> I agree, a debian-installer specific library is in order, so far I've got two
> candidate functions (see utils.c in ddetect and netcfg). I took a quick look at
> publib and didn't see that it would give us much, I could have missed something.
Give me a couple of days and
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:21:24PM -0800, David Whedon wrote:
> I've started to look into doing the disk partitioner.
>
> Looking through the boot archives it looks like Eray indicated some interest, I
> don't want to step on toes, Eray, let me know if you are still working on it, we
> can work
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tools/parted-tiny/debian: changelog control copyright menutest
rules template
David Whedon wrote:
>
> >
> > sounds nice. btw, is there any standard here on the data structures?
> > would it be possible to agree on this since we're using C, and data
> > structure codes tend to be replicated over and over again? i'd be
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by standard for data str
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:53:01PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> I'll get back to you if I need you to do this. Maybe we'll come up with
> something else (for debian-installer at least) that doesn't require
> pcmcia to be removed.
Note that it should be fairly easy to only install pcmcia stuff if nec
Brian Mays wrote:
> Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Base-config has always been a stopgap measure. The real plan is to allow
> > any package that needs to be configured when a newly installed debian
> > system boots up, to do (using debconf[1]). So the various bits of
> > base-config r
Ben Collins wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 06:46:38PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> >
> > I would actually like to start with moving the password/new
> > user/shadow/md5 stuff out into passwd or some other appropriate package,
> > if Ben is willing. After that I'd be happy to unload the apt setup
>
>
> sounds nice. btw, is there any standard here on the data structures?
> would it be possible to agree on this since we're using C, and data
> structure codes tend to be replicated over and over again? i'd be
I'm not sure what you mean by standard for data structures. For the most part I
thin
Glenn McGrath wrote:
>
> Ive got some code that parses, /proc/filesystems, /proc/partitions,
> /proc/mdstats and /proc/mounts.
>
> It builds a linked list of partitions with data it has gathered along
> the way, including a list of aprent devices.
sounds nice. btw, is there any standard here on
David Whedon wrote:
>
> I've started to look into doing the disk partitioner.
>
> Looking through the boot archives it looks like Eray indicated some interest, I
> don't want to step on toes, Eray, let me know if you are still working on it, we
> can work together, o ryou can have it, just let m
I've started to look into doing the disk partitioner.
Looking through the boot archives it looks like Eray indicated some interest, I
don't want to step on toes, Eray, let me know if you are still working on it, we
can work together, o ryou can have it, just let me know, I want it soon.
I've al
Anthony Towns wrote:
> ./create_chroot.sh
> (wait while your base system is built)
> chroot chroot /bin/bash
> (play with your newly created, chrooted, Debian system, with apt, bash
> and all your favourite tools available)
This is way cool. Comments:
> * you end up having dow
Anthony Towns wrote:
> All of base that uses debconf properly gets pre-configured with
> debconf-tiny; although base-config doesn't deal with that too well
> and you have to say "no" to creating a normal user when it asks,
This is fixed.
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 06:46:38PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> I would actually like to start with moving the password/new
> user/shadow/md5 stuff out into passwd or some other appropriate package,
> if Ben is willing. After that I'd be happy to unload the apt setup
> stuff, and the rest of the l
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Base-config has always been a stopgap measure. The real plan is to allow
> any package that needs to be configured when a newly installed debian
> system boots up, to do (using debconf[1]). So the various bits of
> base-config really belong in other packages
I've just uploaded base-config 0.50, which should close all known
RC bugs. That is just the beginning of what I want to do with the
package for woody though.
Base-config has always been a stopgap measure. The real plan is to allow
any package that needs to be configured when a newly installed deb
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. : apt-setup stage1 stage3 stage4 stage6
debian : changelog config control rules templates
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Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, I have no complaints if you get things done earlier, of course :)
We'll try. I'm trying to get final Potato bf out. I think they are
pretty much ready but we need some new kernels to fix some problems.
> I'd presume we'd ship with 2.2.x on the
Will grub work as a CD multi-boot menu system ? I thought it was
hard/floppy disk based only.
Gary's system works by booting diskemu.bin as a floppy image. That then
scans the standard multiboot catalog on the CD for other floppy images,
presents a menu and boots the selected one.
This wouldn'
"Carpenter, Dean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You may want to consider doing a multiple boot image scenario for the CDs.
> That is, boot a menu that allows a choice of boot kernels to use.
Well, if we wanted this, we should use grub, rather than writing a
debian-only version.
I hate debian-
"C. Paul" wrote:
>
> Hi, ...
> one moment - please.
Do you understand what i think the problem is, that libfdisk can see
that your hda2 contains 4 internal partitions, and lists then starting
at hda5, then your extended partitions from hda9 - hda15. Your kernel
doesnt understand that hda2 contai
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:30:23PM +0100, Luca De_Vitis wrote:
> I mean: you (I hope to join and help you ASAP) should try to make the
> smallest, feturefull engine you can, and provide as many front-end and
> back-end as possible and let other to choose what to build together for the
> installati
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > What i really need you to do is compile a kernel with BSD partition
> > support,
>
> Better yet, use the kernel-image-2.2.18pre21 in Potato, which is also
> the kernel used in the vanilla set of rescue/root/driver disks.
>
You may want to consider doing a multiple boot image scenario for the CDs.
That is, boot a menu that allows a choice of boot kernels to use.
Modern bioses will allow multiboot CDs to work, but not all bioses work
properly. I only have one (out of nine) system at home that will boot a
multiboot
Hi, ...
one moment - please.
What I am trying to say is the following:
One of the first screens presents me a selection for my swap partition.
It supposes: /dev/hda15
but: as there is no /dev/hda15, it fails... (and this was the last warning)
You select "partition hardisk" for inspection and
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:56:40PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > the drawback is that it is _yet another flavour_, and currently,
> > reiserfs is available only for the i386 architecture.
>
> Why should it be another flavor? Why not just a modification to the
> existing flavors? Is there som
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:08:53AM -0800, Rob wrote:
>
> IIRC, ReiserFS had some issues with NFS last time I used it..
> This may have been corrected by now, but 5 months ago or so the
> consensus was "don't use NFS with ReiserFS".
i have had no problems with ReiserFS and NFS. i have exported Re
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:56:40PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> "John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > while i am waiting on my debian developer application, i would like to
> > work with the boot floppy developers on making a reiserfs enabled
> > installer.
>
> Yeah, checking
"John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> while i am waiting on my debian developer application, i would like to
> work with the boot floppy developers on making a reiserfs enabled
> installer.
Yeah, checking out the sources with anonymous CVS and patching from
there would be best.
>
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:15:42AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> I've filed bugs against the various i386 kernels. We should be able
> to fix this pretty easily.
>
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>
>
Cool.. that would help me out alot.
I have been considering m
On 9 Jan 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Yes, it seems that certain (all) rootdisks don't have /dev/ida through
> > some oversight or bug on our part.
>
> Fixed in CVS. We now have the following devices in /dev/ida/:
>
> c0d0 c0d12c0d2 c
It's hard to tell right now what is going to make sense as far as a GUI front
end, as we've seen by this discussion.
What I saw of gtk-fb looked really neat, pretty, etc. In fact, the first thing
that came to my mind was, "Wouldn't that look neat for debian-installer". I
haven't looked at the b
Your message dated 09 Jan 2001 11:36:58 -0500
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and subject line Bug#81343: libc thread code problem in Debian Linux 2.2.17, i686
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 n
Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yes, it seems that certain (all) rootdisks don't have /dev/ida through
> some oversight or bug on our part.
Fixed in CVS. We now have the following devices in /dev/ida/:
c0d0 c0d12c0d2 c0d3p11 c1d0 c1d12c1d2 c1d3p11
c0d0p1
Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What i really need you to do is compile a kernel with BSD partition
> support,
Better yet, use the kernel-image-2.2.18pre21 in Potato, which is also
the kernel used in the vanilla set of rescue/root/driver disks.
> and do "cat /proc/partitions" and th
Part of the confusion is that cfdisk and fdisk, apparently, can or
else can not read BSD partitions the same, no matter what kernel is
compiled with. In other words, they have their own built-in support
for reading the partitions.
I didn't even realize that until someone told me on IRC.
> When
Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I suppose I could have just looked on the FTP site instead of asking
> that particular question.. I forgot that there is a file named "kernel-config"
> that contains the uncommented .config kernel entries..
>
> Unfortunately, CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE is NOT in ther
"Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 02:11:42PM +0100, Arthur Korn wrote:
> I don't know if serial console is enabled on the boot kernel. It isn't
> in the default runtime kernel for x86 though, often wondered about
> that.
Ouch. Serial console is supposed
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 10:51:41PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > This is a bug in the dboostrap program. I am going to fix it this
> > > evening and get a new set of boot-floppies uploaded.
> >
> > Hmm
Hi all,
well, I've installed hundreds of debian to friends and university colleagues,
done seminaries about Linux installation (on debian), and every time i put
emphasis on the installation features i didn't find in any installation system:
- let user make their choice.
- let user understand wha
> debbi:/usr/src/boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk# ./testing
> /dev/hda: /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, /dev/hda5, /dev/hda6, /dev/hda7, /dev/hda8,
>/dev/hda3, /dev/hda4, >/dev/hda9, /dev/hda10, /dev/hda11, /dev/hda12, /dev/hda13,
>/dev/hda14, /dev/hda15,
> /dev/hda1 (DOS 16-bit FAT >=32M), /dev/hda2 (BS
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Eh? Are you asking why we have libfdisk at all? Look at the
> functions from libfdisk that are used by dbootstrap and you will see.
Yes ;-)
debbi:/usr/src/boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk# make
gcc -Wall -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-builtin -c -o testing.o testing.c
g
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:16:29PM -0700, Kenneth G. Kastella wrote:
> VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and
> press ENTER
>
> I press ENTER and get the following:
>
> RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
> VFS: Insert roo
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