Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by kraai

On Thu May 24, 2001 at 08:40:30AM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:34:09AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > We need the latest BusyBox, which should fix everything under the sun. > > > > Not quite everything, there's still the askfirst stuf

Re: [fw: Re: debootstrap/b-f interaction -- quieten]

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:40:26AM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > > > That's by design, but I'm happy to change it. debootstrap considers these > > > messages to be warnings, so we were displaying them. > > Ok -- it's a debootstrap bug then, or > I don't think it is a debootstrap bug. > > else de

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by stephen.r.marenka

Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:stephen.r.marenka time: Thu May 24 16:34:56 PDT 2001 Log Message: Add quik and yaboot partition notes and checks Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by stephen.r.marenka

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Re: libutf8, bogl, bgf fonts and tools vs boot-floppies

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:29:03AM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > Hi! > > Sorry for being absent for such a long time - life is brutal > :-) > > We need to have the stuff in subject included in bf bould > process somehow. The question is: how? AFAIK bterm has its own > package (bogl-bterm), as d

libutf8, bogl, bgf fonts and tools vs boot-floppies

Hi! Sorry for being absent for such a long time - life is brutal :-) We need to have the stuff in subject included in bf bould process somehow. The question is: how? AFAIK bterm has its own package (bogl-bterm), as does bdf fonts' source. (Now we either need to put libutf8 in its package or make

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk by stephen.r.marenka

Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk who:stephen.r.marenka time: Thu May 24 16:18:42 PDT 2001 Log Message: Add Apple_Bootstrap support to libfdisk Files: changed:fdisk.c fdisk.h partbl_mac.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by stephen.r.marenka

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Bug#98629: Selecting.../Unpacking... text messes up serial console

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:25:17PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > I may have an explanation, but am not sure of the solution. When we inovke > debotstrap we communicate with in through it's stdin and fd 3. We redirect > debootstrap's stdout and stderr to /dev/tty4. stdout and stderr have those >

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by stephen.r.marenka

Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:stephen.r.marenka time: Thu May 24 16:08:30 PDT 2001 Log Message: Detect PowerMac generation (OldWorld/NewWorld) Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by stephen.r.marenka

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Re: Where is the base tarball?

On Thu, 24 May 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: > > At present the Hurd is installed two ways. > > First, by a cross install where the tarball is unpacked onto a Hurd > > partition from a Linux system. Secondly, where the tarball is > > incorporated into a modified boot-floppies and installed in a mo

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by stephen.r.marenka

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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by stephen.r.marenka

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Re: dbootstrap

It's PowerPC-based. FYI. On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:42:07AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Andrew D Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm working my way through a peculiar install (the box is a briq from > > Total Impact http://www.totalimpact.com ). The box is booting over the > > networ

Bug#98629: Selecting.../Unpacking... text messes up serial console

I may have an explanation, but am not sure of the solution. When we inovke debotstrap we communicate with in through it's stdin and fd 3. We redirect debootstrap's stdout and stderr to /dev/tty4. stdout and stderr have those messages described below. My guess is that when installing over a ser

Bug#98629: Selecting.../Unpacking... text messes up serial console

Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.4.3 I am using a serial console, on hppa. When deboostrap is installing the debs, I get text scrolling up my screen like this: Unpacking ppp (from .../archives/ppp_2.4.1-1_hppa.deb) ... S

Re: termwrap continued

Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Richard Hirst wrote: > > > > However, that causes warnings when base-config starts and base-config > > > > to hang after setting the root password (unless that's unrelated?). > > > > If your base-config is not up to date, it can appear to hang round > > ab

Re: termwrap continued

Richard Hirst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:45:20PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > However, that causes warnings when base-config starts and base-config > > > to hang after setting the root password (unless that's unrelated?). > > If your base-c

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by kraai

Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:kraai time: Thu May 24 13:18:01 PDT 2001 Log Message: Add auto stanzas for configured interfaces to /etc/network/interfaces Files: changed:netconfig.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by kraai

Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:kraai time: Thu May 24 13:18:01 PDT 2001 Log Message: Add auto stanzas for configured interfaces to /etc/network/interfaces Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: dhcp-client

Howdy, The following discussion has been transpiring on debian-boot. I was hoping you could explain why dhcp-client provides its own init.d script, rather than relying on ifupdown to start it. Matt On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:08:31PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:

Re: trouble with /sbin/termwrap

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:28:46PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > I think this will break for devfs systems where devfsd hasn't been > > started yet. Using > > By the time termwrap and base-config are run, devfsd has been started. > > However, feel free to commit somethin

Re: dhcp-client

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:05:47PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > and add 'auto lo', 'auto eth0' to /etc/network/interfaces. Hah! I believe the auto stuff is a change from Potato that dbootstrap doesn't accomodate. Easy enough to fix. Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're

Re: termwrap continued

Richard Hirst wrote: > > > However, that causes warnings when base-config starts and base-config > > > to hang after setting the root password (unless that's unrelated?). > > If your base-config is not up to date, it can appear to hang round > about there due to a poor implementation of is_system

powerpc-utils and DEBIAN_FRONTEND

While working on woody boot-floppies on my oldworld powermac, I noticed that powerpc-utils seems to ignore the DEBIAN_FRONTEND=Noninteractive. It thus fails to configure. This is a required package. How do I figure out what's at fault and fix it or where should I file a bug? Thanks, Stephen --

Re: termwrap continued

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:45:20PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > However, that causes warnings when base-config starts and base-config > > to hang after setting the root password (unless that's unrelated?). If your base-config is not up to date, it can appear to hang round ab

Re: udma100

I've buy a hard disk of that type, it will work fine with Potato r3 (2.2.19) if the setup UDMA option be changed to use UDMA 4 or UDMA 2. Also, if you want do do your hard disk working with UDMA 100 (in future), you will need a special cable for use with UDMA 5 (and you hard disk will need b

Re: dhcp-client

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:20:36PM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:05:47PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > I'm working on boot-floppies for hppa. I do an install, tell it I > > don't want to use dhcp, and enter the static IP address details. > > > > When I reboot the system

Bug#98618: Circular package dependencies

did you try: # dpkg -i libdb2_2%3a2.7.7-8_i386.deb libc6_2.2.3-1_i386.deb I think that works. -David Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:47:52PM +0200 wrote: > Package: base > > I am trying to move from using 'stable' to using 'testing'. However, I > have a showstopper > in that libc6 is dependent in l

Re: termwrap again

Thanks, I just removed the termwrap package at incoming of ftp-master. In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on "Thu, 24 May 2001 14:48:43 -0400", with "Re: termwrap again", Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: joeyh> The new base-config is in Incoming now, so.. checked the cvs tree of base-config, and g

Re: termwrap continued

Adam Di Carlo wrote: > However, that causes warnings when base-config starts and base-config > to hang after setting the root password (unless that's unrelated?). Hmm, I don't know why base-config would do that. What kind of warnings? Termwrap really does nothing much that I can see that could p

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/prototype/etc by joeyh

Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/prototype/etc who:joeyh time: Thu May 24 11:40:10 PDT 2001 Log Message: termwrap has moved to /usr/sbin (and to base-config) Files: changed:inittab.install -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: termwrap again

Thank you for your proposal. In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on "Wed, 23 May 2001 22:06:33 -0400", with "Re: termwrap again", Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A package for such a small file seems like overkill. How about I put it > in base-config and whoever we find who understands how it wor

Re: cvs commit to tasksel/debian by joeyh

Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Not totally happy about it because it seems to put more work on the > overworked archive maintainers, but what can you do, I guess it's a > step forward. Actually if it creates more work for anyone, it is this list. After all, tasksel is in boot-floppies cvs and you all hav

Re: cvs commit to tasksel/debian by joeyh

Michael Bramer wrote: > joey don't make this 'all in one task-package' Please don't tell me what to do when you don't understand the new task system. The new task system will allow you to remove things from tasks, easily, at install time. > file server in one package. Or dialup-modem, dialup-i

Bug#98618: Circular package dependencies

Package: base I am trying to move from using 'stable' to using 'testing'. However, I have a showstopper in that libc6 is dependent in libdb2, which in turn is dependent on libc6. The packages in unstable are the same versions as the ones in testing, so the problem does not seem to be fixed lat

cvs commit to base-config/debian by joeyh

Repository: base-config/debian who:joeyh time: Thu May 24 11:27:00 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Patch from Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to add termwrap to base-config. There was no other sane place to put it, so we settled on here. Closes: #98602 Files: changed:cha

cvs commit to base-config by joeyh

Repository: base-config who:joeyh time: Thu May 24 11:26:59 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Patch from Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to add termwrap to base-config. There was no other sane place to put it, so we settled on here. Closes: #98602 Files: added: termwrap

Re: trouble with /sbin/termwrap

Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > I think this will break for devfs systems where devfsd hasn't been > started yet. Using By the time termwrap and base-config are run, devfsd has been started. However, feel free to commit something to base-config cvs where termwrap now lives, for better devfs support.

Re: dhcp-client

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:05:47PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > I'm working on boot-floppies for hppa. I do an install, tell it I > don't want to use dhcp, and enter the static IP address details. > > When I reboot the system starts up dhcp-client anyway, and > /etc/init.d/networking isn't run

dhcp-client

I'm working on boot-floppies for hppa. I do an install, tell it I don't want to use dhcp, and enter the static IP address details. When I reboot the system starts up dhcp-client anyway, and /etc/init.d/networking isn't run at all. eth0 is up, lo is not. To sort things out I have to --purge dhcp

Re: debootstrap/b-f interaction -- quieten

Hi Anthony, I don't know if you've seen this thread, it started here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0105/msg00719.html I figure you can provide some input. Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:35:42AM -0400 wrote: > David Whedon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:16:36AM -0400

Re: udma100

I have used a ASUS A7V motherboard with its on board controller and it works fine. No problems. This explains how to get it working . http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/ Rick Griffith System Administrator Bruce Titus Automotive Group > Hallo: > > I want tu buy a computer with udma100, Can I ?

Re: debootstrap/b-f interaction -- quieten

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:33:34PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > A worse problem, IMHO, is that the warning box gets scrolled off the > screen by all the "Unpacking ...", "Setting up" messages that > scroll up my screen staircase fashion. Maybe that is a feature of > a serial console install,

Re: Bug#98439: dhcp support broken

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:33:55AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > I didn't find kernel-images for ia64 or hppa, perhaps due to the status > of the ports. Should I put a note on their lists or just wait until they > are further along? I'm working on the .config for hppa, and I have CONFIG_FILTE

Re: powerpc woody bf installation status

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:32:44PM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:55:39PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > Well actually I meant "chroot /target" or "chroot target" gives me the > > error: > > > > chroot: USER=root: No such file or directory > > > > I tried using the

Re: debootstrap/b-f interaction -- quieten

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:14:49AM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:16:36AM -0400 wrote: > > > > On "install base" (debootstrap) step, I am getting a hang while it > > tells me to acknowledge that it created an empty ld.so.conf and other > > things. I would prefer if we not m

Re: debootstrap/b-f interaction -- quieten

David Whedon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:16:36AM -0400 wrote: > > > > On "install base" (debootstrap) step, I am getting a hang while it > > tells me to acknowledge that it created an empty ld.so.conf and other > > things. I would prefer if we not make the user have to

Re: Bug#98439: dhcp support broken

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 01:57:17AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Please file serious bugs against these kernels. > They need CONFIG_FILTER. The following bugs have been filed against the appropriate kernel-image. 98589: sun4u 98591: powerpc-chrp 98592: powerpc-prep 98593: mac (m68k) 98595: atari

Re: Problem with boot install of Woody (Testing) "Couldn't download adduser"

"Yom, Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pardon the personal mail Adam. I know you must be inundated. I didn't > know about this list so I appreciate it :-) > > Can I help with finding a solution? I'd love it if the "unstable" > selection worked. It doesn't. > As for now, what should

Re: debootstrap/b-f interaction -- quieten

Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:16:36AM -0400 wrote: > > On "install base" (debootstrap) step, I am getting a hang while it > tells me to acknowledge that it created an empty ld.so.conf and other > things. I would prefer if we not make the user have to hit return for > that... > > -- That's by design

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

Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:dwhedon time: Thu May 24 08:14:43 PDT 2001 Log Message: treat debootstrap warnings as status messages so the user isn't prompted to hit return. Files: changed:extract_base.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: udma100

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:19:41PM +0200, Ovide Sebastian wrote: > I want tu buy a computer with udma100, Can I ? > > Is it possible to install potato r2 with udma100 ? Make sure the particular controller is supported by the linux kernel. Then,

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by kraai

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:34:09AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > We need the latest BusyBox, which should fix everything under the sun. > > Not quite everything, there's still the askfirst stuff from inittab > which is happening on tty1 instead of tty2. There is

Re: default language setting on a fresh system [was: Re: base-config cruft cleanup]

Marcin Owsiany schrieb: > > Something like ~/.environment would probably make more sense, > > Right. Good idea. Now we need to think of a name that isn't > already used by some shell. (that shell'd better use ~/._environment ...) And of a way to make it useable with bourne, C and other shells (

Re: udma100

Ovide Sebastian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want tu buy a computer with udma100, Can I ? > > Is it possible to install potato r2 with udma100 ? All I can say is that a lot of people have problems -- search the debian-boot archives. If you buy *me* a machine like that, I can pretty much gua

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by kraai

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > We need the latest BusyBox, which should fix everything under the sun. Not quite everything, there's still the askfirst stuff from inittab which is happening on tty1 instead of tty2. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onshored.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: installing on Promise Ultra ATA100 controller / French euro keyboard

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:40:22AM -0400, Funny Write wrote: > > >http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/idepci/> > > i really don't understand what that directory contains...i used rawrite to > create a disk from the driver-1.bin, but it wasn't detec

Re: ?

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:24:57PM +0800, - wrote: > I am a chinese colleg-student.With my poor English,I only can say "I'd > love to be a member of you." > I have a notebook-computer without CD-ROM,and its CPU is > i80486DX2-50.What can I do if I want to install Debian Linux and sh

Re: default language setting on a fresh system

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:54:33AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > What keeps you from sourcing .bashrc from .bash_profile ? That's what I use > here : > > > $grep bashrc ~/.bash_profile > # include .bashrc if it exists > if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then > source ~/.bashrc > $ First of all edi

Re: default language setting on a fresh system [was: Re: base-config cruft cleanup]

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 01:40:39AM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote: > Marcin Owsiany schrieb: > > The problem is that for bash by default, > > > > login shells source _only_ .bash_profile, and > > interactive _non-login_ shells source _only_ .bashrc > > > > I suggest that we wri

Re: Where is the base tarball?

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:08:22PM +, Philip Charles wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > IMO debootstrap needs to support a tarball method where it fetches > > debs out of a tarball. but if not then i guess we will have to accept > > that debian can be installed only with di

udma100

Hallo: I want tu buy a computer with udma100, Can I ? Is it possible to install potato r2 with udma100 ? thank you -- Sebastián Ezequiel Ovide ICQ:113198452 Universitá degli studi di Padova Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica

Re: Where is the base tarball?

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:08:22PM +, Philip Charles wrote: > > If there is no option for a tarball with a root filesystem in debian-boot, > then the Hurd is in trouble. At present the Hurd is installed two ways. > First, by a cross install where the tarball is unpacked onto a Hurd > partit

Re: Where is the base tarball?

On Thu, 24 May 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:20:54AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > > Nope, you're right. But there's really no going back now. > > > > Perhaps someone could work through a patch to debootstrap that would > > be able to use a dir with all the package

?

I am a chinese colleg-student.With my poor English,I only can say "I'd love to be a member of you." I have a notebook-computer without CD-ROM,and its CPU is i80486DX2-50.What can I do if I want to install Debian Linux and share the happy time with it? Is there any way for me to work it on my

Re: installing on Promise Ultra ATA100 controller / French euro keyboard

http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/idepci/> i really don't understand what that directory contains...i used rawrite to create a disk from the driver-1.bin, but it wasn't detected when i "inserted floppy" for installing a promise ultra ata 100 cont

Re: Where is the base tarball?

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:20:54AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Nope, you're right. But there's really no going back now. > > Perhaps someone could work through a patch to debootstrap that would > be able to use a dir with all the packages smooshed flat there? that won't handle the broken f

Re: trouble with /sbin/termwrap

* Richard Hirst | ## | ##Recognize terminal type. | ## | case `/usr/bin/tty` in | /dev/tty|/dev/console|/dev/tty[1-9]*) | TERMINAL=console | ;;

cvs commit to boot-floppies by kraai

Repository: boot-floppies who:kraai time: Thu May 24 01:22:43 PDT 2001 Log Message: We need the latest BusyBox, which should fix everything under the sun. Files: changed:todo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Where is the base tarball?

Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:03:51AM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote: > > > > The woody boot-floppies use debootstrap, which builds the base > > system on the fly from individual packages. These packages can be > > available locally (via a hard drive, CDROM, etc

Re: termwrap again

> A package for such a small file seems like overkill. How about I put it > in base-config and whoever we find who understands how it works (You, or > if not you, I contemplate looking up the original author in the cvs > logs..) can just maintain it from there. Everyone has commits to > base-confi

Re: 2.2.25 compact install

Francis Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been trying the 2.2.25 version on a Dell Optiplex GXi. This is > an all IDE box with 3com network card. The install went flawlessly till > the module configuration. DHCP had worked and the base package had been > downloaded. I got the messag

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Thu May 24 01:12:35 PDT 2001 Log Message: trivialites, and finalize so things don't complain Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

termwrap continued

Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Once termwrap is added to base-files, I think we'll be ready for a > new boot-floppies build which will Just Work (TM). Yes. I tried the easy way out: --- inittab.install 2000/08/18 19:17:29 1.5 +++ inittab.install 2001/05/24 08:10:38 @@ -26,

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Thu May 24 01:10:19 PDT 2001 Log Message: update for new urgent tasks and remove some old bugs in other stuff which are fixed -- termwrap is the killer. When that is fixed, I will release 2.3.4. Files: changed:todo -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Booting PPC/Nubus

Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a powerpc now, I'll take a look at this. If someone else > could, that would be better... I've uploaded debootstrap for powerpc. Even tested it! Seems to work fine. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onshored.com/> -- To UNSUBSC

Re: debootstrap/b-f interaction -- quieten

I suppose I wasn't clear. I honestly can't remember if the "created empty ld.so.conf" thing gave me a "hit return to continue" type prompt or not. I'll pay more attention next time. My general contention is that such messages are too low-level and there's no reason to present such things to th

Re: Problem with boot install of Woody (Testing) "Couldn't download adduser"

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:10:31AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > "Francis Yom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I downloaded the disks-i386 bins from woody (testing) in order to net > > install Woody on a new machine.? Everything worked fine up until the > > "Install the Base System" section.? I

dbootstrap_settings (was Re: base-config cruft cleanup)

FYI, I suppose you already know, but he did manage to do this. I show the following dbootstrap_settings settings: KEYBD='i386/qwerty/us' DEBUG='true' DEBIAN_MIRROR_HOSTNAME='http.us.debian.org' DEBIAN_MIRROR_PATH='debian' DEBIAN_MIRROR_PORT='80' note that LANGUAGE issue isn't yet coming u

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/messages/C by aph

Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/messages/C who:aph time: Thu May 24 00:27:22 PDT 2001 Log Message: try to scream out that this is not ready for production use yet Files: changed:release_notes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns