Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-10-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 08:59:48PM -0700, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote: > Repository: boot-floppies > who:aph > time: Sat Oct 20 20:59:48 PDT 2001 > > > Log Message: > > remove 'ide' flavor here too > > Files: > > changed:release.sh > At some point, the directory names in

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by toff

2001-10-20 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:toff time: Sat Oct 20 23:21:20 PDT 2001 Log Message: add sparc notes about floppy booting Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/messages/C by toff

2001-10-20 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/messages/C who:toff time: Sat Oct 20 23:17:09 PDT 2001 Log Message: add pointer to Install Instrs in splash screen Files: changed:release_notes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/en by toff

2001-10-20 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/en who:toff time: Sat Oct 20 23:13:59 PDT 2001 Log Message: add floppy booting notes for sparc, closes #106218 Files: changed:rescue-boot.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-10-20 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Sat Oct 20 20:59:48 PDT 2001 Log Message: remove 'ide' flavor here too Files: changed:release.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making a customized mirror installable

2001-10-20 Thread KORN Andras
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:48:41PM -0700, David Kimdon wrote: > > I have set up a rather customized mirror of Debian sid and lots of > > unofficial apt-sources mostly for my personal use. It has a slightly > > modified directory structure, custom Packages file, custom overrides, > > and it lacks

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Joey Hess
Erik Andersen wrote: > busybox has a version of ash in it now. We have made a number of changes > and add features like full command line editing, and tab completion, while > still making it a fair bit smaller then the current ash package. There may > be a few more things needed, but I'm already

Re: quick install report from Windows

2001-10-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:14:43PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Yes, it is. > > As you are no doubt aware, I was hoping to maybe look at how this > could be improved a little w/o a total rewrite. Now is the time for a > boot-floppies feature freeze, not total rewrites. then your probably bett

Re: [d-i] nic-modules udeb size reduction

2001-10-20 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:13:43AM +1000, herbert wrote: > > I don't believe that this warrants another release immediately. However, > I will make a new nic-modules package available this weekend. You'll find them in http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/debian/udeb/ -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is

Bug#116411: Potato-Floppies for Alpha Systems broken

2001-10-20 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Sat, 2001-10-20 18:27:34 -0400, Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jan-Benedict Glaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I wrote a bug report some days ago that the driver floppies don't > > match the root/boot floppies for Alpha. I reactivate this bug, > >

Processed: Re: Bug#116411: Potato-Floppies for Alpha Systems broken

2001-10-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tags 116411 + potato Bug#116411: Potato-Floppies for Alpha Systems broken Tags added: potato > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#116413: Alpha: Wrong partition No. for aboot

2001-10-20 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Sat, 2001-10-20 18:26:15 -0400, Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jan-Benedict Glaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > After installing my videocard-less system (with more or less > > PITA) I had difficulties to boot it. I've added an extra > > partition

Bug#116413: Alpha: Wrong partition No. for aboot

2001-10-20 Thread Falk Hueffner
Jan-Benedict Glaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: boot-floppies > Architecture: Alpha > Version: current/ > Distribution: woody/sid > > After installing my videocard-less system (with more or less PITA) I > had difficulties to boot it. I've added an extra partition for /boot > (as I norma

Re: b-f 3.0.16 preparing

2001-10-20 Thread Herbert Xu
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ehm, really? I thought the binary compatibility would not break because > of few fixes. IMHO we won't need new pcmcia-modules-*, the old ones > should be still useable. "modconf" does not report unresolved > dependencies, so I guess the modules should w

Bug#116411: Potato-Floppies for Alpha Systems broken

2001-10-20 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
Package: boot-floppies Version: unknown Distribution: stable/potato Architecture: Alpha Hi! I wrote a bug report some days ago that the driver floppies don't match the root/boot floppies for Alpha. I reactivate this bug, they don't match. It I insert the driver floppies, I'm told to insert other

Bug#116413: Alpha: Wrong partition No. for aboot

2001-10-20 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
Package: boot-floppies Architecture: Alpha Version: current/ Distribution: woody/sid Hi! After installing my videocard-less system (with more or less PITA) I had difficulties to boot it. I've added an extra partition for /boot (as I normally do for all other architectures I am workin on as well)

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

2001-10-20 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:gt time: Sat Oct 20 12:40:08 PDT 2001 Log Message: don't overwrite peer address. activate loopback during initial setup on s390. Files: changed:netconfig.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by gt

2001-10-20 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:gt time: Sat Oct 20 12:40:08 PDT 2001 Log Message: don't overwrite peer address. activate loopback during initial setup on s390. Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

cvs commit to boot-floppies/s390-specials by gt

2001-10-20 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/s390-specials who:gt time: Sat Oct 20 12:40:08 PDT 2001 Log Message: don't overwrite peer address. activate loopback during initial setup on s390. Files: changed:netsetup.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Processed: Fixed in NMU of modconf 0.2.35

2001-10-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tag 105648 + fixed Bug#105648: sbc60xxwdt installed when selecting sb Tags added: fixed > tag 113424 + fixed Bug#113424: modconf: Brazilian portuguese modconf translation doesn't get applied Tags added: fixed > tag 114905 + fixed Bug#114905: patch to

Re: [d-i] partkit vs autopartkit

2001-10-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:06:38PM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait: > 1. Identifying available media, and deciding which to use. > 2. Identifying existing partitions, and deciding what to do with > them (delete them, keep them unchanged, resize them). > 3. Deciding how many pa

b-f telemetry box patches

2001-10-20 Thread David Kimdon
> Have you had a look at the patches that I posted recently? Is there a > change to get the hardware autodetect and autopart/format in? I was hoping to take a look at them but haven't gotten a chance yet. I'm definately interested in adding some of the features but we have to be extremely careful

Fixed in NMU of modconf 0.2.35

2001-10-20 Thread David Kimdon
tag 105648 + fixed tag 113424 + fixed tag 114905 + fixed quit This message was generated automatically in response to a non-maintainer upload. The .changes file follows. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 19:03:03 -0700 Source: modconf Binary: mod

modconf_0.2.35_i386.changes INSTALLED

2001-10-20 Thread Debian Installer
Installing: modconf_0.2.35_all.deb to pool/main/m/modconf/modconf_0.2.35_all.deb modconf_0.2.35.dsc to pool/main/m/modconf/modconf_0.2.35.dsc modconf_0.2.35.tar.gz to pool/main/m/modconf/modconf_0.2.35.tar.gz Announcing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Setting bugs to severity fixed: 105648 113424 1149

Re: b-f 3.0.16 preparing

2001-10-20 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Adam Di Carlo wrote on Sat Oct 20, 2001 um 01:11:24PM: > > do an NMU. People building BFs for non-i386 should also make sure that > > they are using the fixed kernel images. > > Well, unfortunately, we'll need new pcmcia-modules-* packages as well. Ehm, really? I thought the binary co

Bug#116307: marked as done (boot-floppies: Failure to build documentation)

2001-10-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 20 Oct 2001 10:45:17 -0700 (PDT) with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#116307: boot-floppies: Failure to build documentation has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Erik Andersen
On Sat Oct 20, 2001 at 01:40:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Have you guys thought about moving to busybox /bin/sh rather than ash? > > Or do you do that already? Or something else? > > It wasn't quite a posix shell last time I checked. That was a while ago > though. bus

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Have you guys thought about moving to busybox /bin/sh rather than ash? > Or do you do that already? Or something else? It wasn't quite a posix shell last time I checked. That was a while ago though. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: [d-i] partkit vs autopartkit

2001-10-20 Thread Joey Hess
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Anyway there are several tasks (actually my autoparkit do them all > (without asking anything though)) : > - resizing partitions (autopartkit does only resize FAT) > - creating partitions in the free space (that may have be liberated by > the previous resize) > (autopa

Re: debian-installer status

2001-10-20 Thread Joey Hess
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the real installed system should not use devfs nor require it. I will note only that all the kernels Herbert is producing have devfs built in, and leave it at that. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:46:32PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Removed stuff: > > /bin/touch > > /usr/bin/head > > /usr/bin/sort > > /usr/bin/wc > > ...are all used by debootstrap. Is there a full list somewhere? -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: b-f 3.0.16 preparing

2001-10-20 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Adam Di Carlo wrote on Sat Oct 20, 2001 um 03:55:58AM: > debootstrap with better progress monitoring (yet to be NMU'd until I > test it more). > > So if you have some stuff that needs to get in, get it in. I'll > probably release 3.0.16 sometime over the weekend. Please note the curr

Re: [debian-installer] Full CDROM install

2001-10-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:58:53PM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait: > Looks interesting, but I'll let it sit for a while since we're not > aiming at cdrom installs quite yet. Hopefully it won't be too far away ... once you have a working network installer, it'll be a matter of hours to have a working c

Re: Malformed release file in woody 2.0.15

2001-10-20 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 18:32:21 +1000 "Glenn McGrath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A friend is installing 2.0.15, trying to install woody gives an error > Malformed release file in , tried ftp.au.debian.org and the default > mirror, gave the same error. > > Installing unstable got past this error.

Re: debian-installer status

2001-10-20 Thread Glenn McGrath
On 20 Oct 2001 09:36:14 +0200 "Stefan Nobis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:50:42PM -0700, Rob Bos wrote: > > > > - /dev is 3k bigger > > > > > > How practical would it be to compile devfs and include devfs

Bug#116307: boot-floppies: Failure to build documentation

2001-10-20 Thread Christoph Lameter
On 20 Oct 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > debiandoc2text -d /usr/share/sgml/debiandoc/dtd/sgml/1.0/debiandoc.dcl -l C > > -O install.sgml > install.en.txt > > nsgmls:en/rescue-boot.sgml:1038:46:E: general entity > > "Debian-GNU-Linux-Installation-M

Re: [d-i] partkit vs autopartkit

2001-10-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:59:35AM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait: > There seems to be quite a lot of overlap between partkit and > autopartkit. I guess the former gives more control, and the latter > figures it all out for you (and can resize fat partitions). So we > probably want both, but for the im

Re: [d-i] growth of insmod since 2001-09-05

2001-10-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:45:18AM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait: > In the past few months, something has made insmod grow 15k. I'm talking > about the insmod in modutils-basic. Do you have any clue what might be > making it get so much bigger? I hope depmod wasn't accidentially > included in that bui

Bug#116358: ls: --block-size needs a better description

2001-10-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Package: fileutils Version: 4.1-7 Severity: normal On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:18:03PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:41:25AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > > BTW: does "ls --block-size=1 -s" look broken to you? > > > > > > > > busybox ls doesn't know what that

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by gt

2001-10-20 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:gt time: Sat Oct 20 04:28:53 PDT 2001 Log Message: some more fixes for s390 and disable dhcp on s390, if static configured during first stage of installation. Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

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

2001-10-20 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:gt time: Sat Oct 20 04:28:54 PDT 2001 Log Message: some more fixes for s390 and disable dhcp on s390, if static configured during first stage of installation. Files: changed:main_menu.c netconfig.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk by gt

2001-10-20 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk who:gt time: Sat Oct 20 04:28:54 PDT 2001 Log Message: some more fixes for s390 and disable dhcp on s390, if static configured during first stage of installation. Files: changed:EXTRACT_LIST_s390 SMALL_BASE_LIST_s390 -- To UNSU

cvs commit to boot-floppies by gt

2001-10-20 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies who:gt time: Sat Oct 20 04:28:53 PDT 2001 Log Message: some more fixes for s390 and disable dhcp on s390, if static configured during first stage of installation. Files: changed:rootdisk.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

cvs commit to boot-floppies/s390-specials by gt

2001-10-20 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/s390-specials who:gt time: Sat Oct 20 04:28:53 PDT 2001 Log Message: some more fixes for s390 and disable dhcp on s390, if static configured during first stage of installation. Files: changed:netsetup.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Erik Andersen
On Sat Oct 20, 2001 at 01:03:12AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:45:39AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > > On Fri Oct 19, 2001 at 11:20:18PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > > > busybox dd does not produce output like GNU dd. > > > > So you have specifics? I've not seen

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Mark van Walraven
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:41:25AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > BTW: does "ls --block-size=1 -s" look broken to you? > > > > > > busybox ls doesn't know what that is. > > > > Sorry, meant fileutils' ls. Bug? > > the ls you have available on boot-floppies is busybox, not fileutils. Forge

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Mark van Walraven
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:03:12AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > but parsing some basically informative verbosity output from a utility > is a damned fragile kludge of a way to do something, what if the > format of this output changes in the future? Agree with the sentiment, but changing the outpu

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:36:49PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:20:18PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 06:34:12PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote: > > > Substitute "> FILE" for "touch FILE". > > > > that should already be done in the last pat

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Mark van Walraven
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:20:18PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 06:34:12PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote: > > Substitute "> FILE" for "touch FILE". > > that should already be done in the last patch or two that were NMUed, Cool. > but i could have missed one. debootstra

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:45:39AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > On Fri Oct 19, 2001 at 11:20:18PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > busybox dd does not produce output like GNU dd. > > So you have specifics? I've not seen a bug report from you. well it at least didn't used to display any outp

Malformed release file in woody 2.0.15

2001-10-20 Thread Glenn McGrath
A friend is installing 2.0.15, trying to install woody gives an error Malformed release file in , tried ftp.au.debian.org and the default mirror, gave the same error. Installing unstable got past this error. Glenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: [d-i] today's treecompare

2001-10-20 Thread Erik Andersen
On Fri Oct 19, 2001 at 11:20:18PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > busybox dd does not produce output like GNU dd. So you have specifics? I've not seen a bug report from you. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consume

Processed: Re: Bug#116307: boot-floppies: Failure to build documentation

2001-10-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tags 116307 + unreproducible Bug#116307: boot-floppies: Failure to build documentation Tags added: unreproducible > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database) --

Re: debian-installer status

2001-10-20 Thread Stefan Nobis
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:50:42PM -0700, Rob Bos wrote: > > > - /dev is 3k bigger > > > > How practical would it be to compile devfs and include devfsd in the > > bootfloppies? > > the real installed system should not use devfs nor re