cvs commit to debian-installer/kernel-image-di by joeyh

2001-03-25 Thread joeyh
Repository: debian-installer/kernel-image-di who:joeyh time: Sun Mar 25 20:44:53 PST 2001 Log Message: * Rebuilt with kernel-source-2.4.2 2.4.2-3, to get initrd freeing fix, and initrd on cramfs support. * Also turned on tmpfs, for playing with as a better ramfs than ra

cvs commit to debian-installer/kernel-image-di/debian by joeyh

2001-03-25 Thread joeyh
Repository: debian-installer/kernel-image-di/debian who:joeyh time: Sun Mar 25 20:44:53 PST 2001 Log Message: * Rebuilt with kernel-source-2.4.2 2.4.2-3, to get initrd freeing fix, and initrd on cramfs support. * Also turned on tmpfs, for playing with as a better ramfs

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/rootskel/src/etc/init.d by joeyh

2001-03-25 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >* Added a new linuxrc, which sets up a ramfs filesystem, copys the > installer into it, pivot_roots so its the new root, ensures proc and > dev are mounted, and runs busybox init. >* Made rcS clean up by unmounting the initrd, and freeramdisking it >

cvs commit to debian-installer/rootskel/src by joeyh

2001-03-25 Thread joeyh
Repository: debian-installer/rootskel/src who:joeyh time: Sun Mar 25 20:39:39 PST 2001 Log Message: * Added a new linuxrc, which sets up a ramfs filesystem, copys the installer into it, pivot_roots so its the new root, ensures proc and dev are mounted, and runs busybo

cvs commit to debian-installer/rootskel/debian by joeyh

2001-03-25 Thread joeyh
Repository: debian-installer/rootskel/debian who:joeyh time: Sun Mar 25 20:39:39 PST 2001 Log Message: * Added a new linuxrc, which sets up a ramfs filesystem, copys the installer into it, pivot_roots so its the new root, ensures proc and dev are mounted, and runs bus

cvs commit to debian-installer/rootskel/src/etc/init.d by joeyh

2001-03-25 Thread joeyh
Repository: debian-installer/rootskel/src/etc/init.d who:joeyh time: Sun Mar 25 20:39:39 PST 2001 Log Message: * Added a new linuxrc, which sets up a ramfs filesystem, copys the installer into it, pivot_roots so its the new root, ensures proc and dev are mounted, and

cvs commit to debian-installer/build by joeyh

2001-03-25 Thread joeyh
Repository: debian-installer/build who:joeyh time: Sun Mar 25 20:28:34 PST 2001 Log Message: revamped the stats Files: changed:Makefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to debian-installer/build by joeyh

2001-03-25 Thread joeyh
Repository: debian-installer/build who:joeyh time: Sun Mar 25 20:05:23 PST 2001 Log Message: It seems to roughly work to use number of files and dirs in tree * 2 as the fuzz factor, rather than manually specifying one. Since we don't need any space on the initrd anymore (with pivo

cvs commit to debian-installer/build/debian by joeyh

2001-03-25 Thread joeyh
Repository: debian-installer/build/debian who:joeyh time: Sun Mar 25 19:52:31 PST 2001 Log Message: heh Files: changed:control -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

d-i: a suprise

2001-03-25 Thread Joey Hess
kernel-image-di (0.011) unstable; urgency=low * Turned OFF cramfs, after noticng this: 831kcramfs-mnt/var/lib/dpkg/info 110kext2-mnt/var/lib/dpkg/info Same contents; cramfs does poorly with lots of small files, compared to appropriatly tuned ext2. It actually made th

Re: Bug#90204: installation process unclear when network card notfound

2001-03-25 Thread TeknoDragon
On 25 Mar 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > There is no such tool to ask the network configuration questions aside > from dbootstrap (the program that runs during install), and that is > end of life, and that is not available after install is done. Might I suggest etherconf. It has a few bugs (I gues

Re: lack of support for NICs during installation

2001-03-25 Thread TeknoDragon
On 25 Mar 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > TeknoDragon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > there are 4 such kernels for i386 -- the significant ones are the > vanilla ones, the 'idepci', and the 'compact' kernels. I assume that the modules on the official CD are rather complete, is that not accurate? I

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Bug#90204: installation process unclear when network card not found

2001-03-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark W. Eichin) writes: > Umm, actually, that's exactly what happened to me (after USB turned > out to not be a problem): 2.2 uses the 2.2.17 kernel which doesn't > support (or even identify as ethernet) the 3COM MiniPCI > ether+uselessmodem card on the daewoo motherboard. How

cvs commit to debian-installer/build by joeyh

2001-03-25 Thread joeyh
Repository: debian-installer/build who:joeyh time: Sun Mar 25 15:02:33 PST 2001 Log Message: let's use the 2.4.2 kernel now (aaah, so easy :-) Files: changed:Makefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by dwhedon

2001-03-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Whedon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Good new is we have somewhat working woody boot-floppies (on i386 now at least). > > I booted off resc1440.bin, root.bin. I had to manually insmod my ethernet > module (see note below). dbootstrap now supports debootstrap. Some kinks need > to be wo

Re: new kernel images uploaded

2001-03-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Whedon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I built a release of boot-floppies 2.2.22 for i386. Current cvs will build fine > as long as you grab a copy of all 4 2.2.19pre17 debs. Where will we build the > release for 2.2.r3? But lacks the pcmcia-modules still, so I backed that out, unfortunate

Re: new kernel images uploaded

2001-03-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Whedon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am a bit confused about the flavors that we'll use for 2.2r3 on i386. > 2.2.19pre17 has only a vanilla and an ide flavor. Are we down to just these two > flavors for 2.2r3? No -- for i386, you need the following all to be sync'd up: kernel-image

Re: Can't load device driver modules from floppy

2001-03-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Brian Ledbetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I'm trying to install debian 2.2r2 on my machine and I'm unable > to load device driver modules when I click on configure Device Driver > Modules. I get an error saying "Cannot mount the floppy. Stop." "No > modules were found in /targ

Re: Debian installer not recognizing high-numbered HD?

2001-03-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
I-Gene Leong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, that's correct. I got ahold of the source to boot-floppies (didn't > know the package name initially) so I'll see if I can spot anything. Great. You will want to look in utilities/libfdisk I bet. If feel motivated to work from CVS, that sometimes

lack of support for NICs during installation

2001-03-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
TeknoDragon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you mean "stock kernel" as in the one compiled for installations (plus > allmodules), then you should hear about this: there are 4 such kernels for i386 -- the significant ones are the vanilla ones, the 'idepci', and the 'compact' kernels. > These ca

Re: i18n boot-floppies updated

2001-03-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Well, look, right now, on the LANG_CHOOSER enabled version of the boot-floppies (dbootstrap), it isn't writing the user language selection anywhere. What I ought to do is write the user language setting to the /root/dbootstrap_settings setting file, where I write stuff already. I've just made t

cvs commit to base-config/debian by joeyh

2001-03-25 Thread joeyh
Repository: base-config/debian who:joeyh time: Sun Mar 25 13:40:50 PST 2001 Log Message: * Added Galician translation of debconf templates (but not the apt-setup debconf templates) from [EMAIL PROTECTED], Closes: #91310 Files: changed:changelog added: templates

Re: Bug#90204: installation process unclear when network card notfound

2001-03-25 Thread TeknoDragon
On 24 Mar 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Sure, but at that point, they're in an unsupported zone. Its actually > very rare (in fact, I've never heard of any cases) where NIC devices > aren't supported by one of the stock kernels. Anyhow, they can read > about replacing the kernel in that section.

Re: TFTP booting on SPARCstation IPX

2001-03-25 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On 21 Mar 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Actually I have two IPXs with > > 48Mb RAM and 16Mb RAM, ROM Rev 2.4 and ROM Rev. 2.3 respectively. > > > > They both act in exactly the same manner when I boot them from my other Sun > > computer, a SPARCstation IPX using the command 'boot net'. They wi

Re: i18n boot-floppies updated

2001-03-25 Thread Peter Novodvorsky
Roger So <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A better approach IMHO is to leave the default locale to C, but make it > easy for individual users to choose their own locale. If you developer doesn't need default locale for his language, he can set it to C in po file. But, please, don't do this for _

Re: Debian installer not recognizing high-numbered HD?

2001-03-25 Thread I-Gene Leong
On 24 Mar 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Package: boot-floppies > Version: 2.2.21 > > I-Gene Leong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 22 Mar 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > I-Gene Leong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > hdg: secondary 20G UDMA33 drive (which is where I want to put Debian) >