Bug#99652: dialog boxes confusing - active choice not clear

2001-06-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 09:48:12PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Screenshot: http://kitenet.net/~joey/tmp/whiptail.png (expires in 2 > weeks or so) but how does that look on a b/w term? -john -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#99652: dialog boxes confusing - active choice not clear

2001-06-02 Thread Joey Hess
Here's a patch against newt that would fix it: --- newt.c~ Sat Jun 2 21:37:00 2001 +++ newt.c Sat Jun 2 21:37:37 2001 @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ "black", "lightgray", /* window fg, bg */ "white", "black", /* shadow fg, bg */ "red",

Bug#99652: dialog boxes confusing - active choice not clear

2001-06-02 Thread Joey Hess
David Whedon wrote: > An easy option which may or may not be any better is to not use the 'compact' > version of buttons for yes/no boxes. An example of this can be found here: > > http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/yesno_proposed.png > > for reference this is what the box looks like now: > http

ftp/network install very confusing.

2001-06-02 Thread Jerry Asher
Here's a user report. Please take it in the spirit of which it is offered: appreciation for your efforts, and some advice on what I found lacking. I'm a debian newbie, but not a linux newbie. In general I'm not a newbie with about twenty years of experience with unix, linux and pcs. I've in

Bug#99652: dialog boxes confusing - active choice not clear

2001-06-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 12:28:50PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > An easy option which may or may not be any better is to not use the 'compact' > version of buttons for yes/no boxes. An example of this can be found here: > > http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/yesno_proposed.png ugh, flashbacks to

Re: powermac boot-floppy patches

2001-06-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:13:28PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:02:33PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:13:32AM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > > ybin already supports installing and configuring for the IBM CHRP > > setup (dd to boot

Bug#99652: dialog boxes confusing - active choice not clear

2001-06-02 Thread Colin Walters
David Whedon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > An easy option which may or may not be any better is to not use the 'compact' > version of buttons for yes/no boxes. An example of this can be found here: > > http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/yesno_proposed.png I think that this is much clearer, and

Bug#99652: dialog boxes confusing - active choice not clear

2001-06-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 12:28:50PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > > An easy option which may or may not be any better is to not use the 'compact' > version of buttons for yes/no boxes. An example of this can be found here: much nicer! that looks like it would work well on black and white terms

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

2001-06-02 Thread dwhedon
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:dwhedon time: Sat Jun 2 13:04:17 PDT 2001 Log Message: use twoButtonBox rather than yesNoBox when asking for confirmation of installing anything other than the default distribution (stable). This allows me to make the default

Bug#99652: dialog boxes confusing - active choice not clear

2001-06-02 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 12:28:50PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > > > > Another alternative might be to put some sort of indicator under the > > active choice, like '^', '*', or '---^---', etc. > > > I don't know how to easily implement this with libnewt (the windowing library > boot-floppies

Bug#99652: dialog boxes confusing - active choice not clear

2001-06-02 Thread David Whedon
> I helped a friend with a B.S. in Computer Science do a Debian install > yesterday, and he was quite confused at first until I told him that > the blue choice was active. I'll agree that it isn't obvious. If you hit tab and cycle through the yes and no choices it is impossible to figure out which

Re: powermac boot-floppy patches

2001-06-02 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 07:35:17PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > 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

Re: powermac boot-floppy patches

2001-06-02 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:02:33PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:13:32AM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > ybin already supports installing and configuring for the IBM CHRP > setup (dd to bootstrap partition). so all we need to do in dbootstrap > is check for that arc

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by pb

2001-06-02 Thread pb
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:pb time: Sat Jun 2 11:00:41 PDT 2001 Log Message: more changes 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 by pb

2001-06-02 Thread pb
Repository: boot-floppies who:pb time: Sat Jun 2 10:59:13 PDT 2001 Log Message: improve handling of arm specifics Files: changed:Tag: potato release.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/prototype/etc/init.d by pb

2001-06-02 Thread pb
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/prototype/etc/init.d who:pb time: Sat Jun 2 10:57:53 PDT 2001 Log Message: include ne2k-pci on netwinder root disk Files: changed:Tag: potato rcS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

cvs commit to boot-floppies by pb

2001-06-02 Thread pb
Repository: boot-floppies who:pb time: Sat Jun 2 10:57:52 PDT 2001 Log Message: include ne2k-pci on netwinder root disk Files: changed:Tag: potato rootdisk.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

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

2001-06-02 Thread pb
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:pb time: Sat Jun 2 10:39:49 PDT 2001 Log Message: adapt for new keyboard handling in keymaps.sh Files: changed:kbdconfig.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

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

2001-06-02 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk who:stephen.r.marenka time: Sat Jun 2 09:28:01 PDT 2001 Log Message: Configure yaboot for chrp Files: changed:fdisk.h -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

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

2001-06-02 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:stephen.r.marenka time: Sat Jun 2 09:27:58 PDT 2001 Log Message: Configure yaboot for chrp Files: changed:bootconfig.c partition_config.c util.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

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

2001-06-02 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:stephen.r.marenka time: Sat Jun 2 09:27:57 PDT 2001 Log Message: Configure yaboot for chrp Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies by pb

2001-06-02 Thread pb
Repository: boot-floppies who:pb time: Sat Jun 2 09:13:22 PDT 2001 Log Message: use libc 2.2.3 for arm Files: changed:rootdisk.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by pb

2001-06-02 Thread pb
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:pb time: Sat Jun 2 09:13:22 PDT 2001 Log Message: use libc 2.2.3 for arm Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by pb

2001-06-02 Thread pb
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:pb time: Sat Jun 2 09:11:15 PDT 2001 Log Message: log dem changes Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies by pb

2001-06-02 Thread pb
Repository: boot-floppies who:pb time: Sat Jun 2 09:09:32 PDT 2001 Log Message: improve handling of arm specifics Files: changed:release.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies by pb

2001-06-02 Thread pb
Repository: boot-floppies who:pb time: Sat Jun 2 09:05:58 PDT 2001 Log Message: Use `Image' as netwinder kernel. Files: changed:kernel.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies by pb

2001-06-02 Thread pb
Repository: boot-floppies who:pb time: Sat Jun 2 09:04:38 PDT 2001 Log Message: Include ne2k-pci driver for ARM and load it before tulip. Files: changed:rootdisk.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/prototype/etc/init.d by pb

2001-06-02 Thread pb
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/prototype/etc/init.d who:pb time: Sat Jun 2 09:04:38 PDT 2001 Log Message: Include ne2k-pci driver for ARM and load it before tulip. Files: changed:rcS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

cvs commit to boot-floppies by pb

2001-06-02 Thread pb
Repository: boot-floppies who:pb time: Sat Jun 2 09:04:07 PDT 2001 Log Message: For ARM, create legacy Acorn keymaps and put them in keymaps.tgz. Files: changed:keymaps.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

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

2001-06-02 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:stephen.r.marenka time: Sat Jun 2 08:46:57 PDT 2001 Log Message: Removing old/unused dbootstrap/powermac.c Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

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

2001-06-02 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:stephen.r.marenka time: Sat Jun 2 08:45:29 PDT 2001 Log Message: Removing old/unused dbootstrap/powermac.c Files: removed:powermac.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

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

2001-06-02 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:stephen.r.marenka time: Sat Jun 2 08:43:33 PDT 2001 Log Message: Quik and yaboot partition checking and warnings update Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

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

2001-06-02 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:stephen.r.marenka time: Sat Jun 2 08:43:34 PDT 2001 Log Message: Quik and yaboot partition checking and warnings update Files: changed:bootconfig.c partition_config.c util.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where is the base tarball?

2001-06-02 Thread Anthony Towns
(Huh. I didn't send this mail? That explains why I don't have a patch yet, I guess...) On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:20:06PM +, Philip Charles wrote: > > If you aren't able to make a native Hurd installer (no cfdisk, kernel > > can't be booted before the system's installed on the hdd (doesn't fi

Re: working on branch and trunk

2001-06-02 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:25:41PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > 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 ch

Re: working on branch and trunk

2001-06-02 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:25:41PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > 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 ch

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by eb

2001-06-02 Thread eb
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:eb time: Sat Jun 2 06:32:29 PDT 2001 Log Message: update Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies by h.heinold

2001-06-02 Thread h . heinold
Repository: boot-floppies who:h.heinold time: Sat Jun 2 06:31:07 PDT 2001 Log Message: adding mipsel Files: changed:Makefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies by eb

2001-06-02 Thread eb
Repository: boot-floppies who:eb time: Sat Jun 2 06:19:09 PDT 2001 Log Message: #!/bin/sh -> #!/bin/bash these all source common.sh which is a bash script and will break if /bin/sh -> /bin/ash Files: changed:milodisk.sh nfsroot.sh package-m68k.sh release.sh rescue.sh tftpb

cvs commit to boot-floppies/powerpc-specials by eb

2001-06-02 Thread eb
Repository: boot-floppies/powerpc-specials who:eb time: Sat Jun 2 06:10:46 PDT 2001 Log Message: updates regarding newworld macs, and yaboot/booting. Files: changed:install-pmac.en.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

cvs commit to boot-floppies/powerpc-specials by eb

2001-06-02 Thread eb
Repository: boot-floppies/powerpc-specials who:eb time: Sat Jun 2 05:58:59 PDT 2001 Log Message: update this hideously outdated file (is it even used for anything?) Files: changed:Readme.yaboot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

cvs commit to boot-floppies by eb

2001-06-02 Thread eb
Repository: boot-floppies who:eb time: Sat Jun 2 04:58:05 PDT 2001 Log Message: update PowerMac booting notes to reflect current status Files: changed:todo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2001-06-02 Thread eb
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:eb time: Sat Jun 2 04:37:08 PDT 2001 Log Message: tidy up couple things. fix quik warning to use cmd-opt-p-r from cold boot Files: changed:bootconfig.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

run_silo() broken (was: Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by eb)

2001-06-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 03:00:49AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap > who:eb > time: Sat Jun 2 03:00:49 PDT 2001 > > > Log Message: > > better symlink fix in run_yaboot() run_silo() should probably take this > as well, i am certain

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

2001-06-02 Thread eb
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:eb time: Sat Jun 2 03:00:49 PDT 2001 Log Message: better symlink fix in run_yaboot() run_silo() should probably take this as well, i am certain its broken too. remove /target/vmlinux symlink if /boot is a separate partition (onl