Re: Bug#97574: Debian 'stable' install assumes color monitor

Hi, > > You are using current stable boot disks? > > Yes, the 'compact' disks. > > > How exactly is it not recognizing it? > > I don't see it being detected during boot, and there's no option to > install over the network. > > > I'm assuming you are trying to load the ne or ne2k-pci module wi

Re: base-config cruft cleanup

Joey Hess: > Don't you get tired of seeing those messages everywhere? Well, they are overridden by my LC_ALL setting (sv_SE.ISO8859-1). However, LANG=sv is a correct setting, setting LANG to sv_SE is just stupid, because there's no difference in the *written language* between the two locales tha

cvs commit to base-config/debian by joeyh

Repository: base-config/debian who:joeyh time: Tue May 15 18:23:30 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Properly translate /usr/share/debconf/templates/apt-setup-templates (see #95487). Also, don't include the apt-setup templates in the main templates file, since that just wastes

Re: base-config cruft cleanup

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:57:37AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Also, for cdrom installs, and maybe for file:/ installs, the sources.list > > debootstrap writes may well be broken. :( > Ugh. Then apt-setup will need to test it and comment it out if it's > broken. Or is this something fixable in deb

Re: Rogativa desde Bolsa de Valencia

Hi! About this stuff, the guys at 194.98.93.142 seem to be accesing some stuff of this spanish site, and the apache placeholder has put them in our way, I have replied to them in the message sent also to the list that debian has nothing to do with that machine (atlas.brainstorm.fr) and that they

Bug#97574: Debian 'stable' install assumes color monitor

Package: boot-floppies Version: stable architecture: i386 memory:64MB scsi: no cd-rom:none network card: ne2000 compatible pcmcia:none "Adam Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try "linux video=vc:8" > > (There's help for it at the boot prompt.. Somewhere

Re: Rogativa desde Bolsa de Valencia

Hola! > Desde la dirección 194.98.93.142 (algo sobre "debian y apache", ver página > web anexa) se realizan varios intentos diarios, presumiblemente de modo He estado mirando dicha página y parece una máquina con la distribución Debian GNU/Linux, pero que no tiene nada que ver, al menos que yo s

Re: Booting PPC/Nubus

> boot-floppy-hfs.img is one of the set of installation disks, the lastest > potato version can be found at the following: > > > > > The current CVS boot-floppies are woody and are not yet ready fo

cvs commit to tasksel/po by op

Repository: tasksel/po who:op time: Tue May 15 13:15:26 PDT 2001 Log Message: Updated German Translation Files: changed:de.po -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Booting PPC/Nubus

boot-floppy-hfs.img is one of the set of installation disks, the lastest potato version can be found at the following: The current CVS boot-floppies are woody and are not yet ready for primetime. In

Booting PPC/Nubus

Hi - I'm in the somewhat frustrating situation of having to install Debian on a Powerbook 1400cs, which is a Nubus machine (and therefore not yet supported by Debian). To make things worse, it does not have a cdrom drive, just a serial connection to a Debian-PPC oldworld G3. I have found that t

Re: debootstrap for ppc

* Stephen R Marenka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010515 12:57]: > > > It seems that <http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages> is a bit too > > > i386-centric. > > > > It's entirely i386-centric. > > So if I want to change that, where do I sta

Re: debootstrap for ppc

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:29:19AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 09:40:55AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > Because no one's built it at all yet. The powerpc build daemon logs would > be a good choice to look, except that the powerpc build daemon is moving at > the momen

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On 15-May-01, Alan Buxey wrote: AB> certainly boot-programs (such as the APUS/AF-booter (by Mr Duncan ) AB> need MUI libraries, but the plain boothack/bootstrap for APUS just AB> needs powerpc.library, which is in ROM Evening, Dr Buxley. That MUI-GUI is aeons out of date now, and really wants r

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

Hello Christian, hello all, ... > Floppys on m68k are completely useless AFAIK. Since Amigalilo is not > supported by Debian, who needs floppies anyways when everything comes on CD? I have "loaded" from floppies the images i have put on them only for the sake of test! I have not bootstrappe

Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

Previously Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > You are assuming that talkd have buffer overflows, but you have no > proof of it. And talk is rwxr-xr-x, so what would you win by an > overflow on a local host? And I doubt that there are many bugs in a > daemon which is less than 10k big. Security works the

Bug#97574: Debian 'stable' install assumes color monitor

Try "linux video=vc:8" (There's help for it at the boot prompt.. Somewhere in special hardware or something like that "if you want to boot without the framebuffer console") > -Original Message- > From: Emiliano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 9:50 AM > To: [EMAIL

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:19:14PM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote: > hi, > > > mmm, they are not really difficult to do, i remember writting my own split > > programs, because non where availabel back then. > > /me thinks there are several free clones of join/split on aminet It's trivial to write, ju

Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

On 05/15/2001 09:28:37 AM tfheen wrote: >> You are assuming that talkd have buffer overflows, but you have no >> proof of it. And talk is rwxr-xr-x, so what would you win by an >> overflow on a local host? And I doubt that there are many bugs in a >> daemon which is less than 10k big. Perhaps

Re: debootstrap for ppc

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 09:40:55AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > It appears that debootstrap still isn't available in either unstable or > testing for ppc. It certainly builds easy enough. I've poked through > but I haven't seen anything > explaining w

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

hi, > mmm, they are not really difficult to do, i remember writting my own split > programs, because non where availabel back then. /me thinks there are several free clones of join/split on aminet > (altough not test them). The only real problem is the choice program, but if > you only want t

Rogativa desde Bolsa de Valencia

Estimados Sres: Desde la dirección 194.98.93.142 (algo sobre "debian y apache", ver página web anexa) se realizan varios intentos diarios, presumiblemente de modo automático, de contactar con nosotros por métodos no permitidos en nuestra empresa, e ignorando la conexión que existe entre usted

Rogativa desde Bolsa de Valencia

Estimados Sres: Desde la dirección 194.98.93.142 (algo sobre "debian y apache", ver página web anexa) se realizan varios intentos diarios, presumiblemente de modo automático, de contactar con nosotros por métodos no permitidos en nuestra empresa, e ignorando la conexión que existe entre usted

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

hi, > But the bootblock is code. Of course we can reverse engineer and clean room > reimplement one (IIRC it justs opens dos.library and returns 1 or 0). over 10,000 coders have made their own bootblocks for Amiga floppies...either commercial games or demo disks. some even got sine-scrolling m

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

hi, > > no, and yes. Under AmigaOS you run 'install df0:' but this doesnt > > put any files onto the disk as such, it just writes a bootblock > > (a few hundred bytes) to the floppy. Theres no reason why we couldnt have > > an AmigaOS bootblock and write it to disk with 'dd' > > but you do get

Re: base-config cruft cleanup

Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Ok -- are you saying dbootstrap *must* set it in the xx_YY form? Well, I know that just the ll form is going to cause breakage. There are certianly other forms that arn't ll_LL that do not, but that seems easiest. > > Should I change it to do something? What? > > It shoul

Re: base-config cruft cleanup

peter karlsson wrote: > It is indeed valid to specify a language code without a qualifier, for > my LANG setting, I always use "sv", whereas I have "sv_SE.ISO8859-1" > set for my LC_ALL. When it comes to the language settings (LANG, > LC_MESSAGES), most languaegs don't need a qualifier at all, sin

Bug#97574: Debian 'stable' install assumes color monitor

Package: boot-floppies Version: stable architecture: i386 memory:64MB scsi: no cd-rom:none network card: ne2000 compatible pcmcia:none I also tried using 'linux mono vga=ask' at the install bootprompt but got the same results. Emile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:50:29PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:17:52PM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote: > > > > And did you have the same amount of stuff in it ? > > > > > > these are the standard downloadables from APUS@sourc

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:49:26PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:15:14PM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote: > > > > Don't you need some part of AmigaOS to make a floppy bootable? > > > > > > no, and yes. Under AmigaOS you run 'ins

Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:28:37PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > You are assuming that talkd have buffer overflows, but you have no > proof of it. Of course a reasonably paranoid person would assume that buffer overflows exist and mitigate the risk as appropriate. Unless you can *prove* that

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 09:44:26AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:23:38PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > > > > not that i can think of. certainly boot-programs (such as the > > > APUS/AF-booter (by Mr Duncan ) need MUI libraries, but the plain > > > boothack/bo

Re: base-config cruft cleanup

Anthony Towns wrote: > Nope, but I only create it if it doesn't already exist. (So if > b-f's/dbootstrap create a dummy file, debootstrap won't touch it) Oh, I see -- if you do this _before_ installing apt, it will never copy in its example sources.list in its postinst. If that's it, then all sh

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:23:38PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > not that i can think of. certainly boot-programs (such as the > > > APUS/AF-booter (by Mr Duncan ) need MUI libraries, but the plain > > > boothack/bootstrap for APUS just needs

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:17:52PM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote: > > > And did you have the same amount of stuff in it ? > > > > these are the standard downloadables from APUS@sourceforge > > > > they have pretty much the same functionality. I guess > > ther

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:15:14PM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote: > > > Don't you need some part of AmigaOS to make a floppy bootable? > > > > no, and yes. Under AmigaOS you run 'install df0:' but this doesnt > > put any files onto the disk as such, it just wr

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Re: tasks: counterproposal (and implimentation)

Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:05:22PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > - With package sets, it is delivered ... ? > > In a package called package-sets-progeny, and manipulated via binaries in > the packages pkgset-tools and pkgset-tools-gnome. Ok, then this has basically the sa

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:23:38PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > > not that i can think of. certainly boot-programs (such as the > > APUS/AF-booter (by Mr Duncan ) need MUI libraries, but the plain > > boothack/bootstrap for APUS just needs powerpc.library, which is in ROM I don't use APUS, pl

debootstrap for ppc

It appears that debootstrap still isn't available in either unstable or testing for ppc. It certainly builds easy enough. I've poked through but I haven't seen anything explaining why not. Where else should I look? It seems that

Re: base-config cruft cleanup

Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well the form I want it in is the correct form. "ll" is not a valid > language code setting, "ll_LL" is. Ok -- are you saying dbootstrap *must* set it in the xx_YY form? > But I had been thinking that the > boot-floppies were possibly setting this in /etc

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:17:52PM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote: > hi, > > > And did you have the same amount of stuff in it ? > > these are the standard downloadables from APUS@sourceforge > > they have pretty much the same functionality. I guess > there are many features that can be cut out of 2.

Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

* "Vince Mulhollon" | On 05/15/2001 08:00:09 AM exa wrote: | | >> What about closing all the ports by default? The user can open them by | >> himself if he wants to anyway. Security fans would really be happy then. | | Still have the vulnerable, exploitable binaries. All you have to do it get

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:15:14PM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote: > hi, > > > Don't you need some part of AmigaOS to make a floppy bootable? > > no, and yes. Under AmigaOS you run 'install df0:' but this doesnt > put any files onto the disk as such, it just writes a bootblock > (a few hundred bytes)

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:05:01PM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote: > hi, > > > What is the size of the 2.4.x kernel compared to the 2.2.10 one ? > > bigger, I recall 2.4.4 being over 3Mb (compared to 2.2.10 being just over > 2.1Mb) What about gzipped kernels ? And did you have the same amount of stu

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

hi, > And did you have the same amount of stuff in it ? these are the standard downloadables from APUS@sourceforge they have pretty much the same functionality. I guess there are many features that can be cut out of 2.4.4 (but most stuff, such as khttpd are as modules already) alan -- To U

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

hi, > Don't you need some part of AmigaOS to make a floppy bootable? no, and yes. Under AmigaOS you run 'install df0:' but this doesnt put any files onto the disk as such, it just writes a bootblock (a few hundred bytes) to the floppy. Theres no reason why we couldnt have an AmigaOS bootblock a

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

hi, > What is the size of the 2.4.x kernel compared to the 2.2.10 one ? bigger, I recall 2.4.4 being over 3Mb (compared to 2.2.10 being just over 2.1Mb) alan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

On 05/15/2001 08:00:09 AM exa wrote: >> What about closing all the ports by default? The user can open them by >> himself if he wants to anyway. Security fans would really be happy then. Still have the vulnerable, exploitable binaries. All you have to do it get root and open the "talkd" ports

Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:00:09PM +0300, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > I sometimes have the feeling that too much security is breaking many > convenient features. It would be wrong to put in a program with known > vulnerabilities, but except that I don't see why you would want to > remove useful sm

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:20:48AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:45:28PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:57:11AM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote: > > > hi, > > > > > > > Can you boot from an external 1.76MB floppy ? > > > > > > yes. its treated

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:45:28PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:57:11AM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote: > > hi, > > > > > Can you boot from an external 1.76MB floppy ? > > > > yes. its treated just as the old classic external floppies that I'm sure > > most people had with the

Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > * Michael Stone > > | On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 01:08:17PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > | > | > talk rather obsolete, but debatable > | > | > talkd not very secure for baseline > | > > | > I want those. They are very useful, and afaik, there are

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 01:26:52PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > >>On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:11:38AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >> > >>>On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > >>>You cannot boot from 1

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:59:21PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:11:38AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > You cannot boot from 1.4 MB floppies, only from 880 kB or 1760 k

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 01:36:19PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Buxey wrote: > > > Also, is there a way (under linux) to detect if the floppy is of the 1.76 or > > > the 880 variety ? > > > > dont know - I always believe that floppies are too dumb..you only know >

Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Emacs is not `the standard editor', it is just one of the two most popular > ones. More importantly, we need an editor in the b-f that everyone can > use easily without having to know emacs, vi or any other editor. The first thing I involuntarily discovered in vi was

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:57:11AM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote: > hi, > > > Can you boot from an external 1.76MB floppy ? > > yes. its treated just as the old classic external floppies that I'm sure > most people had with their A500's > > > but 1.76MB floppies would be easily supported, almost not

Boot-floppies 2.2.25 Test Report

Configuration: 1. Gateway PC with Intel Pentium III processor 2. 192 Mb ram 3. IDE boot disk 4. 3com 3c595 ethernet card with 4mm dat tape drive 5. AHA 2940 SCSI adapter Booted from rescue floppy. Loaded NFS and 3c595 modules, con

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Buxey wrote: > > My 2.4.4 zImage is only 458036 bytes long. I have lots of modules, but it could > > work. I remember I once did. > > custom images targetted for each APUS environment might be squeezed in. Oh yes, this was an m68k image. APUS images are probably quite

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Buxey wrote: > > Also, is there a way (under linux) to detect if the floppy is of the 1.76 or > > the 880 variety ? > > dont know - I always believe that floppies are too dumb..you only know > what you can do when things you try fail ;-) grep FD_HD_3 linux/drivers/block

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

hi, > My 2.4.4 zImage is only 458036 bytes long. I have lots of modules, but it could > work. I remember I once did. custom images targetted for each APUS environment might be squeezed in. alan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > >>On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:11:38AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> >>>On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: >>>You cannot boot from 1.4 MB floppies, only from 880 kB or 1760 kB floppies. >>> >>Well, ok no problem, ju

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:11:38AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > You cannot boot from 1.4 MB floppies, only from 880 kB or 1760 kB floppies. > > Well, ok no problem, just make a tarball that can be copied

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

hi, > Can you boot from an external 1.76MB floppy ? yes. its treated just as the old classic external floppies that I'm sure most people had with their A500's > but 1.76MB floppies would be easily supported, almost nothing needs to be > changed, apart from the rescue disk creation. Does someon

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:11:38AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:26:44AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:05:03PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > > > > > > I don't know if it is possibl

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:19:33AM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote: > hi, > > > >#if cpu(sparc) || #cpu(powerpc) > > >const char *fs_type_tab[] = { "ext2", NULL }; > > >#else > > >const char *fs_type_tab[] = { "msdos", "ext2", NULL }; > > >#endif > > > as you can understand is imposs

Re: boot-floppies 2.2.25 with i386 2.2.19 upgrade

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:02:23PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: > That is not right. Please understand, I cannot see the hard drives > because the scsi controler is not being loaded on boot. That means that > Configure Device Driver Modules will not work. I have no drives at this > time. But yo

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

hi, > >#if cpu(sparc) || #cpu(powerpc) > >const char *fs_type_tab[] = { "ext2", NULL }; > >#else > >const char *fs_type_tab[] = { "msdos", "ext2", NULL }; > >#endif > > as you can understand is impossible for a powerpc machine > > to load a msdos partition, so i have modified

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:26:44AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:05:03PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > > > > I don't know if it is possible to enable such a per subarch warning (altough > > > it may be common the the

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:26:44AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:05:03PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > > I don't know if it is possible to enable such a per subarch warning (altough > > it may be common the the m68K/amiga folk). > Floppys on m68k are completel