Re: build error for dbootstrap on sparc

2001-05-10 Thread David Whedon
I may have been too hasty in fixing the sparc build failure. (see recent cvs activity) After further investigation I notice that I may have broken powerpc in the process. Not having a powerpc machine to test on I don't know if that is the case. I'm looking for some input. Here's the story: T

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk by dwhedon

2001-05-10 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk who:dwhedon time: Thu May 10 23:37:50 PDT 2001 Log Message: fix build failure on sparc. This completely reverses the change made from r1.7 to r1.8. Files: changed:partbl_msdos.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: should burn new potato b-f for ARM?

2001-05-10 Thread David Whedon
Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:18:09AM -0400 wrote: > > Should I do a source upload of 2.2.24 boot-floppies for the ARM stuff? Sounds reasonable, once busybox 0.52 arrives we'll have largely functioning boot-floppies, I believe. > > Anything else that needs to go into that, like the 2.2.19 kernel for

build error for dbootstrap on sparc

2001-05-10 Thread Adam Di Carlo
I can't build the woody version on sparc: gcc -Wall -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-builtin -c -o partbl_msdos.o partbl_msdos.c In file included from /usr/include/asm/string.h:11, from /usr/include/linux/string.h:21, from /usr/include/asm-sparc/unaligned.h:6,

should burn new potato b-f for ARM?

2001-05-10 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Should I do a source upload of 2.2.24 boot-floppies for the ARM stuff? Anything else that needs to go into that, like the 2.2.19 kernel for i386? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onshored.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-10 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Thu May 10 22:11:40 PDT 2001 Log Message: updates from CVS logs as of 2001-05-11; People -- please add entries to here directly, don't make me do it..! Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: possible editor for installer: QEmacs

2001-05-10 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There isn't a Debian package yet. > > There is now, because I just made one: > > http://rano.org/qemacs/ > > I'm not a Debian maintainer, of course, so if any maintainer wants to > review this and upload it, that might be useful. (I know

Re: busybox

2001-05-10 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Erik Tews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anybody going to create a new version of boot-floppys for potato with > a new version of busybox? Because the current one is unable to mount a > nfs-share. I was told NFS mounting worked for potato boot-floppies? I don't think so it's critical enou

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-10 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Thu May 10 21:56:35 PDT 2001 Log Message: fixes from Chris Tillman Files: changed:Tag: potato changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/en by aph

2001-05-10 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/en who:aph time: Thu May 10 21:55:27 PDT 2001 Log Message: fixes from Chris Tillman, slightly modified Files: changed:Tag: potato partitioning.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: actual status and action items?

2001-05-10 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the other day I had a conversation with joey on irc regarding the > status, but also the aims of b-f. From what he said, the mail > target was to get b-f out of the door as quickly as possible. for > me that did not correspond with lots of items on t

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-10 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Thu May 10 21:24:19 PDT 2001 Log Message: patch for better gzip failure in a pipeline from James D Strandboge Files: changed:driverdisks.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-10 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Thu May 10 21:23:27 PDT 2001 Log Message: talk about some special extra files needed on m68k (deprecated!) Files: changed:README -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: [patch] Updated kernel.sh, along with driverdisk.sh

2001-05-10 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Also applied. (You can see I'm working linearly thru the list, by thread). -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onshored.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: This isn't a support question but more a request.

2001-05-10 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 04:23:34PM -0400, Beck Endres wrote: > > Hi, > > I have been using Debian for quite sometime no and always prefered > > using the developement distribution. Just recently I have noticed that > > the testing distribution has a

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-05-10 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Thu May 10 21:12:25 PDT 2001 Log Message: patch for better gzip failure in a pipeline from James D Strandboge Files: changed:kernel.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: [patch] kernel.sh

2001-05-10 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Applied in CVS, thanks. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onshored.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-05-10 Thread aph
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Thu May 10 20:59:51 PDT 2001 Log Message: some updates gleaned from logs Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apology from me

2001-05-10 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Guys, sorry I haven't been around a lot lately. I just got back home today from a little business trip and it's been pretty crazy at work. Anyhow, sorry about that -- glad to see you've been making progress, however. I'm going to make a continued effort to keep up here, but do please keep in m

Processed: close bug

2001-05-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > close 95921 Bug#95921: superformat isn't on root.bin or installed by debootstrap Bug closed, send any further explanations to David Whedon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This bug was fixed in debootstrap 0.1.7 Unknown command or malformed arguments to command.

Re: Problem installing Base System !

2001-05-10 Thread David Whedon
Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:10:40AM +0200 wrote: > Hello, > > I have the woody CD-Images of Apr 11. I hope you are aware that the woody installer is still being developed. > > I go to install in my second hard disk and I have the problem: > - OK:Configure the Keyboard. > - OK:Create and Ini

Problem installing Base System !

2001-05-10 Thread IƱigo. Lekanda Irabien
Hello, I have the woody CD-Images of Apr 11. I go to install in my second hard disk and I have the problem: - OK:Configure the Keyboard. - OK:Create and Initialize partitions. - OK:Install Operating System Kernel and Modules. - FAIL: Install the Base System. - I have (in the

Processed: bug #96793 fixed

2001-05-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tags 96793 fixed Bug#96793: boot-floppies build depends on nonexistant debiandoc.decl Tags added: fixed > End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- T

Bug#95921: closeable?

2001-05-10 Thread Matt Kraai
Howdy, Now that debootstrap also upgrades fdutils, which include superformat, can this bug be closed? Or should it stick around until a fixed debootstrap makes it into woody? Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

cvs commit to base-config/debian by joeyh

2001-05-10 Thread joeyh
Repository: base-config/debian who:joeyh time: Thu May 10 10:54:45 PDT 2001 Log Message: random changes to this and that Files: changed:TODO -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tasks: counterproposal (and implimentation)

2001-05-10 Thread Arthur Korn
Hi Using debconf for tasks would also make all the current and future interfaces available for task selection. Joey Hess schrieb: > joey@silk:~/tmp/newtasksel>./tasksel -t tasklist > Selecting software to install > - > > A Debian system can be used for many tasks, a

Bug#96946: Network config fails when accepting PCMCIA question

2001-05-10 Thread Morten Wang
Package: installation Version: 2.2.23 dated 2001-04-14 After having configured PCMCIA support earlier in the installation process I am asked whether the network interface is indeed a PCMCIA adapter as the first question of the network config. If I answer "Ok" (or "Yes", I don't remember which) t

Re: di: seperate preperation and installation phases

2001-05-10 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:43:53PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There is an history buffer too in ash, but it is not compiled by default. I > > do think that BB is great for all of that, but at the moment I need mainly > > scripts. I will see if I'm

Re: di: seperate preperation and installation phases

2001-05-10 Thread Herbert Xu
Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is an history buffer too in ash, but it is not compiled by default. I > do think that BB is great for all of that, but at the moment I need mainly > scripts. I will see if I'm able to compile ash against uClibc (somebody > tried that and succeed

Re: di: seperate preperation and installation phases

2001-05-10 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 06:41:46PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: > Thierry Laronde wrote: > > > > Yep. There are several ideas in FreeBSD that I do like [I don't know if you > > remember but last year, there was a thread about the need for a "static > > shell" for recovery --- sash ; I have seen th

Re: di: seperate preperation and installation phases

2001-05-10 Thread Glenn McGrath
Thierry Laronde wrote: > > Yep. There are several ideas in FreeBSD that I do like [I don't know if you > remember but last year, there was a thread about the need for a "static > shell" for recovery --- sash ; I have seen that sash is as big as a static > ash without all the functionnalities of a

cvs commit to base-config by porridge

2001-05-10 Thread porridge
Repository: base-config who:porridge time: Thu May 10 02:16:02 PDT 2001 Log Message: Polish tranlations updates Files: changed:apt-setup.templates.pl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to base-config/debian by porridge

2001-05-10 Thread porridge
Repository: base-config/debian who:porridge time: Thu May 10 02:16:02 PDT 2001 Log Message: Polish tranlations updates Files: changed:templates.pl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: di: seperate preperation and installation phases

2001-05-10 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:51:58PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > There are two things that I would like to see in a new installer that I don't > see in debian-installer at the moment: > > 1. The ability to redo some of the installation after the system is all the way > set up. I would like to see