On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:44:08PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> >> one can always boot the bootloader (yaboot) manually as described many
> >> times in the debian-powerpc archives.
> >
> > Maybe Chris Tiller can add this to the Potato documentation?
> >
> At your service. I'm keeping an eye out f
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>> one can always boot the bootloader (yaboot) manually as described many
>> times in the debian-powerpc archives.
>
> Maybe Chris Tiller can add this to the Potato documentation?
>
At your service. I'm keeping an eye out for things that need documenting.
But what Ethan's referring to, manually b
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:44:05PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 07:44:03PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Current 2.3.4 i386 boot-floppies for woody testing (qualified testers
> > only please) are available at
> > http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/main/d
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 07:44:03PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Current 2.3.4 i386 boot-floppies for woody testing (qualified testers
> only please) are available at
> http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/
> Good luck. Results to debian-boot or against the
Package: boot-floppies
Severity: normal
The (ncurses?) dialog boxes for the boot-floppies are confusing,
because unless one knows in advance that the blue item is the active
one in a "Yes/No" question, one doesn't know which choice one is
picking, especially since the default varies per question.
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 07:45:30PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> dbootstrap/powermac.c seems to be an early attempt to figure out whether
> a machine was NewWorld based on the device tree. We have easier ways now and
> the file isn't even listed in the Makefile, is there any point in keeping
dbootstrap/powermac.c seems to be an early attempt to figure out whether
a machine was NewWorld based on the device tree. We have easier ways now and
the file isn't even listed in the Makefile, is there any point in keeping it?
Thanks,
Stephen
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 05:11:54PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 06:39:37PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 08:44:10AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/prototype/etc
> > > who:kraai
> > > time:
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:04:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 06:35:46PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> >
> > I understand that, the problem with check_for_native_partition is that
> > it is called after any disk is partitioned, so I'm not sure there's a
> > good way
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 06:39:37PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 08:44:10AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/prototype/etc
> > who:kraai
> > time: Fri Jun 1 08:44:10 PDT 2001
> >
> >
> > Log Message:
> >
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 06:35:46PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
>
> I understand that, the problem with check_for_native_partition is that
> it is called after any disk is partitioned, so I'm not sure there's a
> good way to check for root and Apple_Bootstrap on the same disk. That
> may have
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 08:44:10AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:07:25PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:09:52AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:25:15AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:02:02PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> > >
> > > i changed aroun
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:34:53PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:39:37PM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> > >
> > > I suspect that booting off a Zip disk is more like booting off a floppy than
> > > booting off a CD, which mea
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:09:52AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:25:15AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:02:02PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> >
> > i changed around the tests some.. i think this needs to be done
> > differently anyway.
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:13:32AM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> I don't know about the 64 bit line yet, but we certainly intend to
> support the 32 bit CHRP/PReP machines. I'll have one for testing in a
> few days, with luck.
the 64 bit machines apparently need yaboot compiled with
CONFIG_
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:32:35PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Karl Hammar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > The other issue is if the boot-floppies should be able to use a
> > > usb-keyboard.
> >
> > I think the answer here is "yes, if possib
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:32:35PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Karl Hammar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The other issue is if the boot-floppies should be able to use a
> > usb-keyboard.
>
> I think the answer here is "yes, if possible".
I think this is a matter for you guys to decide
On 1 Jun 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Erich Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > sorry for having lost the thread again now, I changed machines several
> > times between home and workplace and also subscribed fom another address.
> > The temporary fix or workaround based on the hint from
Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:09:11PM -0500 wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:40:50PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> >
> > Nobody is working on m68k boot floppies for Woody at the moment. This
> > is a bad situation. Unless m68k porters start working on getting
> > things going for their architectur
Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:15:12PM -0400 wrote:
>
> On 1 Jun 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> > Nobody is working on Alpha boot floppies for Woody at the moment.
> > This is a bad situation. Unless alpha porters start working on
> > getting things going for their architecture, won't that mean we don
On 1 Jun 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Nobody is working on Alpha boot floppies for Woody at the moment.
> This is a bad situation. Unless alpha porters start working on
> getting things going for their architecture, won't that mean we don't
> have boot-floppies and Alpha will not be able to par
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:40:50PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> Nobody is working on m68k boot floppies for Woody at the moment. This
> is a bad situation. Unless m68k porters start working on getting
> things going for their architecture, won't that mean we don't have an
> install system an
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have the change made and have been holding off on committing it until
> the new base-config gets into testing (or a few days prior).
>
> * base-config 1.00 (currently 0.69.3) (optional) (low)
> + Maintainer: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> >
> > Nobody is working on Alpha boot floppies for Woody at the moment.
> > This is a bad situation. Unless alpha porters start working on
> > getting things going for their architecture, won't that mean we don't
> > have boot-
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Have the requisite changes made it into dbootstrap/boot-floppies?
I have the change made and have been holding off on committing it until
the new base-config gets into testing (or a few days prior).
* base-config 1.00 (currently 0.69.3) (optional) (low)
+ Ma
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> Nobody is working on Alpha boot floppies for Woody at the moment.
> This is a bad situation. Unless alpha porters start working on
> getting things going for their architecture, won't that mean we don't
> have boot-floppies and Alpha will not be able to participate in th
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:34:53PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:39:37PM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> > >
> > > I suspect that booting off a Zip disk is more like booting off a floppy than
> > > booting off a CD, which mea
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Nobody is working on m68k boot floppies for Woody at the moment. This
is a bad situation. Unless m68k porters start working on getting
things going for their architecture, won't that mean we don't have an
install system and m68k will not be able to participate in the Woody
release?
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Nobody is working on Alpha boot floppies for Woody at the moment.
This is a bad situation. Unless alpha porters start working on
getting things going for their architecture, won't that mean we don't
have boot-floppies and Alpha will not be able to participate in the
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Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:39:37PM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> >
> > I suspect that booting off a Zip disk is more like booting off a floppy than
> > booting off a CD, which means that this probably is a debian-boot issue;
> > forwarding it there.
>
>
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Probably we should create a new minimal locale which is just like C,
> > except that it uses UTF-8. Maybe we can call it "C.UTF-8".
> >
> > I'm not an export on locales, but I'll try to have a loo
Karl Hammar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The other issue is if the boot-floppies should be able to use a
> usb-keyboard.
I think the answer here is "yes, if possible".
I have CC'd Herbert Xu, the i386 kernel images maintainer.
> According to kernel_source/Documentation/usb/input.txt:
>
Eric Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Glad to know that. Until now, I used to update both potato and woody versions
> against canonical english files. Should I thus drop woody for now ?
If you're working on changes to sync to potato, then work in the
potato branch.
If you're worki
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:26:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > > Regarding whether any package currently exists to help with sound card
> > > selection, no idea -- sounds like libdetect is the best chance.
> > There's also sndco
Erich Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> sorry for having lost the thread again now, I changed machines several
> times between home and workplace and also subscribed fom another address.
> The temporary fix or workaround based on the hint from this list, I think
> it was Karl Hammar <[EMAIL
Andrew M.A.Cater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Just a quick note:
>
> When selecting driver modules - generic_serial is misdescribed
> as Specialix / Rio
File a bug against modconf please.
> Installed on second hard disk of system already running sid
>
> All fine - until setting up network -
David Whedon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We had yesterday a user installing onto sparc, but the only system available to
> create floppy images was Windows. Since the rawrite section of the install
> manual is not included in the sparc manual it wasn't easy to figure out how to
> proceed. I s
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:57:00PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> one other side issue, do we plan to support IBM CHRP hardware?
> (RS/6000 and such) these machines also use yaboot, but install it a
> bit differently. yabootconfig and ybin already support that. the
> difference dbootstrap is inter
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> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:02:02PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
>
> i changed around the tests some.. i think this needs to be done
> differently anyway.
I think I'll go back to putting the checks in
check_for_native_partition,
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> > It does format them for you, I think the step is called initiali(s|z)e a
> > linux partition. This one should be called before trying to mount the
> > filesystems, did you do that?
>
> Well, as I said, the installer doesn't find
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> Je suis webmaster d'un site sur http://free.fr et découvre qu'un répertoire a été
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Hello,
I'm not a dd, so I can't do this as a formal policy change proposal, but
I've noticed that a bunch of packages use the section 'debian-installer',
which in not listed in the policy as a valid section (in part 2.1.7).
The list of these packages is:
ddetect, dhcp, udpkg, cdebconf, wget-ret
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:02:02PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> That's the problem with having a laptop for testing. Please, do test.
i will do that.
> I stripped out the yaboot.conf file I was generating to add the
> yabootconfig stuff. I didn't go back and clean out the rest of the ju
Just a quick note:
When selecting driver modules - generic_serial is misdescribed
as Specialix / Rio
Installed on second hard disk of system already running sid
All fine - until setting up network - DHCP didn't (Motorola
cable modem here may be finicky) at which point I was dead
in the water be
Hello Glenn,
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:39:03PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
[strip]
> I think with proper dependency checking a small retirever (anna) could
> be made in around 50kB by integrating it into busybox, so i definetly
> think thats the best long term plan for a retriever for fetching
>
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