Re: Install Report, powerpc oldworld 2.3.6 dtd 6/21 06:11 (woody)

2001-06-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:21:20PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > These are some notes as I attempted to install the woody b-f. > > After selecting Partition a Hard Disk, an alert advised about there > being no need for a boot partition and "... and the root partition > must be on the first disk".

Install Report, powerpc oldworld 2.3.6 dtd 6/21 06:11 (woody)

2001-06-24 Thread Chris Tillman
These are some notes as I attempted to install the woody b-f. After selecting Partition a Hard Disk, an alert advised about there being no need for a boot partition and "... and the root partition must be on the first disk". I have had Debian installed on this machine before, on the second extern

Re: configuration of base packages

2001-06-24 Thread Randolph Chung
> Mailx does meet the criteria for important very well though. > > Is there no way to have a package be priority important and skipped by > tasksel? How about if we change the semantics of the -r and -i flags of tasksel so that it only marks a package for install if it doesn't conflict with a p

Re: Install Report (b-f 2.3.6 i386; floppy/net; standard)

2001-06-24 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: > (-testing cc dropped) > > On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:57:45PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > and setting my proxy worked pretty well. There are a few things that are > > > standard that probably shouldn't be: gcc-3.0, nfs-kernel-server, xlib6g, > > > the debconf/stool stuff,

Re: configuration of base packages

2001-06-24 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: > It's priority important, and other important packages depend on it, in > particular mailx and at. I guess all three of those could be dropped to > standard reasonably. Maybe. ? Mailx does meet the criteria for important very well though. Is there no way to have a package b

boot-floppies_2.3.6_arm.changes INSTALLED

2001-06-24 Thread Debian Installer
Installing: bf-images-1.44_2.3.6_arm.tar.gz byhand bf-archive-install_2.3.6_arm.sh byhand bf-doc_2.3.6_arm.tar.gz byhand bf-riscpc_2.3.6_arm.tar.gz byhand install-doc_2.3.6_arm.deb to pool/main/b/boot-floppies/install-doc_2.3.6_arm.deb bf-netwinder_2.3.6_arm.tar.gz byhand bf-misc_2.3.6_arm.tar.

Re: configuration of base packages

2001-06-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:38:32PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > man-db would be a good one, otherwise users never get the opertunity > > to turn on caching. > > Man-db is another one that any sane use of tasksel or dselect will pull > in automatically, so I don't think debo

Re: Problems installing on new iBook dual USB

2001-06-24 Thread Ron Golan
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 08:10:47AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * Ron Golan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010624 07:52]: > > I didn't realize that getting Debian onto this iBook would be so > > difficult. I hope someone on this list has some clues to help > > me. First I have to ask if anyone knows of

Re: Install Report (b-f 2.3.6 i386; floppy/net; standard)

2001-06-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:57:45PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > in the next boot-floppies rev, they were using mismatched names for > passing the info. fixed in CVS. > > The end result was 234MB used, which dropped to 174MB used when I ran apt-get > > clean. > > Which I have just added to base-con

Re: Problems installing on new iBook dual USB

2001-06-24 Thread tillman
* Ron Golan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010624 07:52]: > I didn't realize that getting Debian onto this iBook would be so > difficult. I hope someone on this list has some clues to help > me. First I have to ask if anyone knows of anyone installing Debian on > one of these things? It sounds to me like

Processing of boot-floppies_2.3.6_arm.changes

2001-06-24 Thread Philip Hands
boot-floppies_2.3.6_arm.changes uploaded successfully to ftp-master.debian.org along with the files: bf-archive-install_2.3.6_arm.sh bf-cats_2.3.6_arm.tar.gz bf-doc_2.3.6_arm.tar.gz bf-images-1.44_2.3.6_arm.tar.gz bf-misc_2.3.6_arm.tar.gz bf-netwinder_2.3.6_arm.tar.gz bf-riscpc_2.3.6

Re: Install Report (b-f 2.3.6 i386; floppy/net; standard)

2001-06-24 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: > base-config didn't keep what I told it You mean what you told dbootstrap, I take it. I think this will be fixed in the next boot-floppies rev, they were using mismatched names for passing the info. > base-config also seemed to be a little confused about my proxy settings.

cvs commit to base-config/debian by joeyh

2001-06-24 Thread joeyh
Repository: base-config/debian who:joeyh time: Sun Jun 24 12:56:14 PDT 2001 Log Message: * German translation from Ronald Lembcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Stefan Gybas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * 75apt-get now runs apt-get clean after installing everything unless the inst

cvs commit to base-config/lib by joeyh

2001-06-24 Thread joeyh
Repository: base-config/lib who:joeyh time: Sun Jun 24 12:56:14 PDT 2001 Log Message: * German translation from Ronald Lembcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Stefan Gybas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * 75apt-get now runs apt-get clean after installing everything unless the install

Re: base-config: "exec dpkg-reconfigure passwd" requires perl-modules?

2001-06-24 Thread Joey Hess
Richard Hirst wrote: > perl-base 5.6.1-3 > > Installer doesn't prompt for root password, and doesn't offer to > create a normal user. Instead, I get > > at /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Getopt/Long.pm line 42 > Can't locate auto/Getopt/Long/Configure.al in @INC (@INC contains: >/usr/local/lib/pe

Re: configuration of base packages

2001-06-24 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 02:48:48PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > I'm wondering why it was added to base. I understand it's > priority standard and the default debian MTA, but... It's priority important, and other important packages depend on it, in particular mailx and at. I guess all three of

Re: configuration of base packages

2001-06-24 Thread Joey Hess
Ethan Benson wrote: > man-db would be a good one, otherwise users never get the opertunity > to turn on caching. Man-db is another one that any sane use of tasksel or dselect will pull in automatically, so I don't think debootstrap need bother with downloading it. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUB

Install Report (b-f 2.3.6 i386; floppy/net; standard)

2001-06-24 Thread Anthony Towns
INSTALL REPORT (NOTE! Woody boot-floppies are *not* for the faint hearted!) Boot-Floppies: 2.3.6 (2001-06-21) Architecture: i386, idepci flavour Method: floppy install with rescue, root, drivers; net install (ftp.planetmirror.com.au; proxied) for base and standard Machine: ACER TravelMa

b-f Korean translation

2001-06-24 Thread Changwoo Ryu
Hello, I just translated the dbootstrap messages into Korean. The file is at http://people.debian.org/~cwryu/dbootstrap.ko.po . The CVS repository seems to be open to any Debian developers (which have account on cvs.d.o). Is it permitted for myself to commit the translation files and update it

Re: Bug#102080: /boot permissions root.disk 2775 why?

2001-06-24 Thread Santiago Vila
Hello. I've received a bug report requesting /boot to be made root.root and mode 755 in base-files. This is currently root.disk and mode 2775. Does anybody remember the reason for the current permissions? (If not, I'll change them as suggested). Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: base-config: "exec dpkg-reconfigure passwd" requires perl-modules?

2001-06-24 Thread Colin Watson
Richard Hirst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is on hppa, perl-modules is not part of base. > >base-config1.08 >perl-base 5.6.1-3 [...] > at /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Getopt/Long.pm line 42 >Can't locate auto/Getopt/Long/Configure.al in @INC (@INC contains: >/usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/lo

Re: Motorola k

2001-06-24 Thread Richard Hirst
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 07:37:59AM +0100, Jone Silva da Costa wrote: > Hello! > > Could you please tell me if it is possible to find somewhere a Linux version for the >Motorola 88k processor's serie? Linux for 88k does not exist. I have run one of *BSD on one, OpenBSD, maybe. Richard -- T

Re: success with cvs boot-floppies on powerpc

2001-06-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:26:06AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > the remaining problems are: one other thing, dhcp/bootp network configuration failed, i have only a bootp server which works fine for netbooting this machine, and potato boot-floppies liked it fine for network configuration (even

success with cvs boot-floppies on powerpc

2001-06-24 Thread Ethan Benson
I just did a boot-floppies build with todays CVS, built against busybox 0.51-9 (-8 is broken) and debootstrap 0.1.13. the install went pretty much perfectly, all the permissions problems are gone now, debootstrap no longer fails to mount proc. base-config went well, no problems there, excep