Re: configuration of base packages

2001-06-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:54:24AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Hm, this is really your call as the maintainer of debootstrap, but an > alternative way to look at is it debootstrap could just be responsible > for installing enough packages to let base-config set up a full base > system. Hrm. Well,

Re: configuration of base packages

2001-06-25 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: > > Is there no way to have a package be priority important and skipped by > > tasksel? [ Meaning debootstrap not tasksel, but I think you figured that out. ] > :-/ > > I'd like to be able to automatically determine what to download and > install from the Packages file as fa

Re: Problems installing on new iBook dual USB

2001-06-25 Thread Chris Tillman
>> > Software Restore CD have HD Setup. What does Apple use these days to >> > partition drives? I want to Dual boot Mac OS and Linux and thought it >> > would be better to create the new Mac OS partitions with an Apple >> > tool. >> >> http://www.cfcl.com/~eryk/linux/pdisk/ is pretty much the sam

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

2001-06-25 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 10:35:04PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > 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

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

2001-06-25 Thread Chris Tillman
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:21:20PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: >> I noticed, this has probably always been a feature, that if you're >> heavy handed with the enter key, it's easy to skip steps, or rather, >> have them performed as default. For example, if you don't have a >> CD-ROM installed, tr

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

2001-06-25 Thread Anthony Towns
Package: debootstrap On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 01:32:43PM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote: > When I tried building 0.1.12 locally (using fakeroot), /dev and > the symlinks in devices.tar.gz had the correct groups. I also > checked 0.1.13, and it appears to have the correct group > information. Weird. I'l

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po by cwryu

2001-06-25 Thread cwryu
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po who:cwryu time: Mon Jun 25 19:34:15 PDT 2001 Log Message: Added Korean dbootstrap message Files: changed:Makefile added: ko.po -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: configuration of base packages

2001-06-25 Thread Joey Hess
Randolph Chung wrote: > > 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? Um, I meant to say by debootstrap. Ignore me. I think tasksel is doing exactly the right thing. -- see shy jo --

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

2001-06-25 Thread Matt Kraai
Howdy, Regarding the strange permissions in /dev, I was able to reproduce these on my system. It appears that all the symlinks, sockets, and named pipes (and only these) had weird group ownership. I looked in the devices.tar.gz file in debootstrap 0.1.12, and the groups for symlinks were indeed

Re: what is ,and were?

2001-06-25 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Mon, 25 Jun 2001 06:10:17 -0800 "skipe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > i have installed Libranet Linux version 1.9.1 uh... what about getting support from them? > Cdmod: /etc/resolv.conf > how do i fix this? touch /etc/resolv.conf should do it... maybe you don't have this file > doe's it ha

Bug#101844: SCSI root partition

2001-06-25 Thread Matt Kraai
Howdy, How far did you get in the installation procedure? Did you see this message after installing the base system, installing LILO to your hard drive, and then rebooting? According to the devices.txt file included with the kernel sources, device 08:03 corresponds to /dev/sda3. That is, the t

Re: what is ,and were?

2001-06-25 Thread Tal Danzig
Hi, More appropriate for [EMAIL PROTECTED] since Libranet is based on Debian, but not quite the same :) CCing there. * On Mon Jun 25, 2001 06:10:17 -0800, skipe wrote: > i have installed Libranet Linux version 1.9.1 > and it has your lates program. > i'm happy with the program,except i get a me

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

2001-06-25 Thread kraai
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:kraai time: Mon Jun 25 09:34:57 PDT 2001 Log Message: Run ifconfig down before configuring a static interface to clear old (and possibly bad) gateway information. Files: changed:netconfig.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by kraai

2001-06-25 Thread kraai
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:kraai time: Mon Jun 25 09:34:56 PDT 2001 Log Message: Run ifconfig down before configuring a static interface to clear old (and possibly bad) gateway information. Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debian install system approach

2001-06-25 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyway, the logic isn't backwards, it's just looking more at getting > things right in the future than at the moment. In particular, for > future releases we need to get in the habit of always having working > boot-floppies, even when we're not expectin

what is ,and were?

2001-06-25 Thread skipe
i have installed Libranet Linux version 1.9.1 and it has your lates program. i'm happy with the program,except i get a message on boot up that said can not find Cdmod: /etc/resolv.conf how do i fix this? doe's it have anything to do with that when i start(startx) the text in the program loo

Boot-Floppies Info

2001-06-25 Thread Thomas H. George
I installed boot-floppies but there is no info or man page. dpkg -a boot-floppies explains it is only for advanced maintainers. Still it sounds like what I need to make a cd set of my current stand-alone system. Is any documentation available? Thank you for any guidance - Tom George -- T

Re: Support for a new language!

2001-06-25 Thread Matt Kraai
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 05:54:05AM -0700, Mturi Elias wrote: > Dear Sir/madam, > I'm a computer science student at the University > of dar es salaam. > Kiswahili language is currently not supported in your > GNU/LINUX distributions. > Some of the people in my country,dont understand > english lang

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by eb

2001-06-25 Thread eb
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:eb time: Mon Jun 25 06:37:01 PDT 2001 Log Message: Enable `Edit Kernel Boot Paramaters' on powerpc Add support for additional kernel paramaters to run_plilo_quik() and run_pilo_yaboot() Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

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

2001-06-25 Thread eb
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:eb time: Mon Jun 25 06:37:02 PDT 2001 Log Message: Enable `Edit Kernel Boot Paramaters' on powerpc Add support for additional kernel paramaters to run_plilo_quik() and run_pilo_yaboot() Files: changed:bootconfig.c main_men

Re: 2.3.6 report

2001-06-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:43:46AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > base because boot-floppies are ready for it. > > That's not going to happen particularly quickly, because -testing *isn't* > > ready for it, because they haven't had a chance to get int

Support for a new language!

2001-06-25 Thread Mturi Elias
Dear Sir/madam, I'm a computer science student at the University of dar es salaam. Kiswahili language is currently not supported in your GNU/LINUX distributions. Some of the people in my country,dont understand english language and they want to use computers in their daily business activities. Wha