Bug#105364: host name validation

2001-07-16 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:41:11AM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote: > Can anyone point me to the latest host name specification? If so, I'll be > happy to update the code to match. RFC1035 describes the recommended format for DNS names, which should be a reasonable specification to follow. -- - mdz

Re: New cvs snapshot of woody boot-floppies (supports basedebs.tgz)

2001-07-16 Thread Colin Walters
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My fault. I think this patch should do the trick. Could someone > apply it? Might as well fix the other things I broke while I'm in there. This patch supersedes the previous one. Lightly tested. Index: utilities/dbootstrap/choose_medium.c

Re: New cvs snapshot of woody boot-floppies (supports basedebs.tgz)

2001-07-16 Thread Chris Tillman
> > Well, I'm stuck on the "4403980 4403980 Downloading packages" message. For at > least 30 minutes. I don't think I crashed, because the cursor is blinking to > the right, and there is occasional disk activitiy --- this is all on my LCII > (m68K mac). I don't know what's going on here...This ma

Re: New cvs snapshot of woody boot-floppies (supports basedebs.tgz)

2001-07-16 Thread Colin Walters
Russell Hires <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Irritating is, it says searching for Release when in fact its >> searching for basedebs.tgz. > > Yeah! I second that...of course, after unpacking the basedebs, then it's > getting the Release file... My fault. I think this patch should do the trick

Re: Great but...

2001-07-16 Thread David Kimdon
This problem will be solved by the basedebs.tgz work that is currently being implemented. Once that is working we'll be able to install the bases system with a number of floppys. I'm not sure where it stands at the moment, a search or this list archive would give you a better idea. It is defini

Re: New cvs snapshot of woody boot-floppies (supports basedebs.tgz)

2001-07-16 Thread Russell Hires
> built that for m68k. On my auric page. > Got it. So far, so good. > Sometimes somebody has to explain this "directory" thingy to me. No matter > what I enter there, it doesn't like it. I have a directory named Debian-2.3 > on an affs partition. I tried /instmnt/Debian-2.3, /Debian-2.3 and vario

Re: Great but...

2001-07-16 Thread Russell Hires
At least I'm not the only one who doesn't have a problem with not being automatically being connected to the net. There's the option of installing basedebs.tgz, which I don't know if it includes the debian pppconfig utility or not...try that. Russell On Monday 16 July 2001 21:29, Robert Schw

Great but...

2001-07-16 Thread Robert Schweikert
Hi, I am interested in becomming a Debian developer/maintainer and thought a good starting point would be to instlal the current testing distribution. Thus I downloaded the disks directory created my floppies and off I went. Everything worked great until it was time to install the base system. I

Re: New cvs snapshot of woody boot-floppies (supports basedebs.tgz)

2001-07-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:51:26AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > Sometimes somebody has to explain this "directory" thingy to me. No matter > what I enter there, it doesn't like it. I have a directory named Debian-2.3 > on an affs partition. I tried /instmnt/Debian-2.3, /Debian-2.3 and var

Bug#105492: [PATCH] : bit o discussion

2001-07-16 Thread David Kimdon
I tried all the pdf viewers listed earlier in the bug report. Someone needs to write a clickable index for one of them. Unless it was hiding I didn't see one, that is annoying for documents of any size. - I don't see any reason to suggest a particular viewer. from my limited testing all t

configuration of base packages revisited

2001-07-16 Thread Joey Hess
A while back Anthony Towns wrote: > Hrm, actually I turn out not to have a choice. > > lilo depends on logrotate > logrotate depends on mailx > mailx depends on exim | m-t-a > > I don't think I can reasonably not include lilo. :) I think this is fixed in unstable as of today. Lilo dropped the l

Processed: Re: Bug#105492: www.debian.org: installation documentation index advocates non-free software

2001-07-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 105492 installation documentation index advocates non-free software Bug#105492: www.debian.org: installation documentation index advocates non-free software Changed Bug title. > reassign 105492 boot-floppies Bug#105492: installation documenta

Re: problem with dhcp-client

2001-07-16 Thread Erik Andersen
On Sun Jul 15, 2001 at 11:06:28AM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > > How hard can it be to make pump work? > > I'm tempted to grab a copy of RFC 2131 and RFC 2132 and > > fix pump so it works... What exaxtly is the problem with > > pump that caused us to switch? > > > > -Erik > > Please,

Bug#61802: ref 10022

2001-07-16 Thread BuyDirectandSAVE
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Re: New cvs snapshot of woody boot-floppies (supports basedebs.tgz)

2001-07-16 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 01:41:00AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > Hello, > > I have built a new cvs snapshot of boot-floppies. built that for m68k. On my auric page. > basedebs.tgz should be sitting loose in the directory you specify on > the choose_medium dialog. thus if you have a partition

Bug#105364: host name validation

2001-07-16 Thread Matt Kraai
Howdy, Can anyone point me to the latest host name specification? If so, I'll be happy to update the code to match. Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by kraai

2001-07-16 Thread kraai
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:kraai time: Mon Jul 16 07:37:20 PDT 2001 Log Message: Check hostname for RFC 608 compliance (closes: #105364). Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

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

2001-07-16 Thread kraai
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:kraai time: Mon Jul 16 07:37:20 PDT 2001 Log Message: Check hostname for RFC 608 compliance (closes: #105364). Files: changed:netconfig.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Bug#105311: Loading debian 1.5 on alpha udb

2001-07-16 Thread Darren Patterson
where can i download 2.2 from for the alpha multia? regards -Original Message- From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Colin Watson Sent: Monday, 16 July 2001 7:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#105311: Loading debian

Bug#105311: Loading debian 1.5 on alpha udb

2001-07-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 at 21:16:17 +0800, Darren Patterson wrote: > where can i download 2.2 from for the alpha multia? See: http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/ http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/alpha/ http://www.debian.org/distrib/ Cheers, -- Colin Watson

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

2001-07-16 Thread eb
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk who:eb time: Mon Jul 16 04:37:52 PDT 2001 Log Message: Update mac partition types/descriptions Files: changed:fdisk.h -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by eb

2001-07-16 Thread eb
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:eb time: Mon Jul 16 04:28:38 PDT 2001 Log Message: Update mac partition types/descriptions Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2001-07-16 Thread eb
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk who:eb time: Mon Jul 16 04:28:38 PDT 2001 Log Message: Update mac partition types/descriptions Files: changed:fdisk.c partbl_mac.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Processed: Re: Bug#105311: Loading debian 1.5 on alpha udb

2001-07-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 105311 boot-floppies Bug#105311: Loading debian 1.5 on alpha udb Bug reassigned from package `debian 1.5, kernel, base, etc, text tools, miscellaneous,' to `boot-floppies'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need as

Bug#105364: installer allows user to insert underscores in the hostname

2001-07-16 Thread Herbert Xu
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Matt Kraai > | The following patch checks the input for RFC 608 compliance. OK > | to apply? > [snip] > | + static const char *valid_hostname_chars = > | + "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789-"; > What about no

Bug#105364: installer allows user to insert underscores in the hostname

2001-07-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Matt Kraai | On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 07:20:59PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: | > I was helping a new user to configure his woody installation, and was | > surprised by some "funny" messages from misc. config script. First, I | > could find the reason, then I realized that he used an _ underscore

Re: dual boot with 2 hard drives

2001-07-16 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobica
> > I'm interested in learning how to dual boot with 2 hard drives. Each > hard drive will have a different OS. I plan to run debian linux 2.3r3 > and Windows 98 on them. Now, I would like it if the linux hard drive is > the one that always boots normally. The hard drive with the Windows > should