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

2001-10-23 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/en who:toff time: Tue Oct 23 23:42:58 PDT 2001 Log Message: various minor documentation nits Files: changed:inst-methods.sgml preparing.sgml rescue-boot.sgml welcome.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by toff

2001-10-23 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:toff time: Tue Oct 23 23:16:19 PDT 2001 Log Message: Add misc stuff about mouses & kernels, closes: #81029 Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

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

2001-10-23 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/en who:toff time: Tue Oct 23 23:12:15 PDT 2001 Log Message: Add misc stuff about mouses & kernels Closes: 81029 Files: changed:appendix.sgml post-install.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: COPYCD processing for base-config

2001-10-23 Thread Christoph Lameter
On 24 Oct 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The following patches might still need some tweaking but they use the > > functionality added through the debian-boot patch: > > Christoph, thank for doing this work to merge. The base-config > changes nee

Processed: Re: Bug#116830: woody/sparc root.bin too big

2001-10-23 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > merge 116830 114425 Bug#114425: Woody & root.bin Bug#116830: woody/sparc root.bin too big Merged 114425 116830. > tags 116830 + pending Bug#116830: woody/sparc root.bin too big Bug#114425: Woody & root.bin Tags added: pending > tags 114425 + pending

Re: contributing to Debian (woody?) documentation

2001-10-23 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:29:29AM +0200, Pim Bliek wrote: > Hi, > > >Have a look at the Debian Documentation Project > >http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp > Ok, bookmarked that one. Gonna read it tomorrow, it's 0:24 am here :-) > > > - Translating manuals to Dutch. (if needed). > >yippee, I don't th

COPYCD processing for base-config

2001-10-23 Thread Christoph Lameter
The following patches might still need some tweaking but they use the functionality added through the debian-boot patch: patch to base-config against current cvs Index: lib/40apt-setup === RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/base-config/lib/

Re: boot-floppies auto partitioning & hardware detection

2001-10-23 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, David Kimdon wrote: > Cool. It is probably best if I leave you to work through these. At > the moment there are other important b-f issues that I need to look > into. I definately like the direction you went with these. I > especially like that you added a lot of function

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

2001-10-23 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:dwhedon time: Tue Oct 23 18:52:49 PDT 2001 Log Message: rootdisk getting too big, remove cruft, allow for non-pcmcia archs to not include the pcmcia code. This saves anywhere from 2.5k to 10k depending on the arch. details: dbo

Re: contributing to Debian (woody?) documentation

2001-10-23 Thread Pim Bliek
Hi, >Have a look at the Debian Documentation Project >http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp Ok, bookmarked that one. Gonna read it tomorrow, it's 0:24 am here :-) > - Translating manuals to Dutch. (if needed). >yippee, I don't think boot-floppies has any dutch (nl?) yet (currently >it looks like we hav

Bug#116830: woody/sparc root.bin too big

2001-10-23 Thread Derek Atkins
package: boot-floppies The "root" install floppy for Debian/Sparc woody is too big to fit on a floppy, making to useless. In particular, the root.bin image is 1491588, whereas a floppy can only hold 1474560 bytes. This means that root.bin is 17028 bytes too large for a standard 1.44 floppy. -d

Re: contributing to Debian (woody?) documentation

2001-10-23 Thread David Kimdon
Hi, phew, life story, cool, glad to have you on board. :-) > What can I do? > - I can write manuals. Doesn't matter what, as long as I find the topic at > least a little bit interesting. I have some experience in setting things > up, and in using a Linux box as a home-router/firewall. > - S

Processed: foo

2001-10-23 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > severity 116092 important Bug#116092: Woody installation hung on Sparc Station 4 Severity set to `important'. > End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database)

Re: contributing to Debian (woody?) documentation

2001-10-23 Thread Tommi Vainikainen
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What can I do? > - I can write manuals. Doesn't matter what, as long as I find the > topic at least a little bit interesting. I have some experience in > setting things up, and in using a Linux box as a home-router/firewall. > - Some spare time (not

Re: Problems installing Potato over the network via proxy

2001-10-23 Thread David Kimdon
cool, I guess that means busybox wget handled the username/password pair? Or did you just omit it? Thanks for the update, -David Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 03:20:10PM -0500 wrote: > > "ADC" == Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I plan on trying out a Woody install using b-f 3.0.

contributing to Debian (woody?) documentation

2001-10-23 Thread Pim Bliek
Hi, I'm not a programmar really (I do not consider some fooling around in Basic, Modula or Pascal as programming :-), but I do want to contribute to the Debian Development, in some way. Let's start from the beginning. It's gonna be a long story, it might annoy some people, maybe this is the w

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

2001-10-23 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:gt time: Tue Oct 23 12:58:00 PDT 2001 Log Message: some more s390 fixes. Files: changed:baseconfig.c partition_config.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: debian-installer status

2001-10-23 Thread Stefan Nobis
"KORN Andras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I couldn't find anything under /proc that referenced old device names. This $ cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.12 2000/10/18 drive name: hdc ... -- Until the next mail..., Stefan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Fw: DHCP failure not detected with dhclient

2001-10-23 Thread Daniel Bungert
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:36:40AM -0700, Ravi Gehlot wrote: > Hello Daniel! If your DHCP isn't working then turn off your cable modem > or dsl for few minutes. Turn it on again and test your dhcp. This is > necessary because the cable-modems have a mac number which has to be read > and recogn

cvs commit to base-config/lib by joeyh

2001-10-23 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: base-config/lib who:joeyh time: Tue Oct 23 09:01:32 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Disabled ppp script for s390, which it seems has no ppp support. * Catalan translation from jordi. * Marcin Owsiany: some spelling and style fixes of Polish translation. Files: chang

cvs commit to base-config by joeyh

2001-10-23 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: base-config who:joeyh time: Tue Oct 23 09:01:32 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Disabled ppp script for s390, which it seems has no ppp support. * Catalan translation from jordi. * Marcin Owsiany: some spelling and style fixes of Polish translation. Files: changed:

cvs commit to base-config/debian by joeyh

2001-10-23 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: base-config/debian who:joeyh time: Tue Oct 23 09:01:32 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Disabled ppp script for s390, which it seems has no ppp support. * Catalan translation from jordi. * Marcin Owsiany: some spelling and style fixes of Polish translation. Files: ch

dhcp problems

2001-10-23 Thread Glenn McGrath
There may be bug other than 109455 lurking, the other day when installing 3.0.15 my friend tried to obtain an IP using dhcp without stoping to think that we dont have a dhcp server on our lan. I corrrected him, he wanted to go back and put a static IP in, i cant remember the exact details, but dh

Re: debian-installer status

2001-10-23 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:54:11 +0200 "KORN Andras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 01:24:08AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > > It turns out that even if you compile with devfs, there are places where > > the old style device names are still used (/proc/partitions i think was

Fw: DHCP failure not detected with dhclient

2001-10-23 Thread Ravi Gehlot
Hello Daniel! If your DHCP isn't working then turn off your cable modem or dsl for few minutes. Turn it on again and test your dhcp. This is necessary because the cable-modems have a mac number which has to be read and recognized by the machine before it gets to work. Good luck. - Origina

Bug#116757: marked as done (Getting the base system over HTTP fails)

2001-10-23 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 23 Oct 2001 17:14:04 +0200 with message-id <20011023171404.A4194@s010581> and subject line Bug#116757: Getting the base system over HTTP fails 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 i

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

2001-10-23 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:gt time: Tue Oct 23 06:11:01 PDT 2001 Log Message: s390 specific bugfix. Files: changed:partition_config.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-installer status

2001-10-23 Thread KORN Andras
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 01:24:08AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: > It turns out that even if you compile with devfs, there are places where > the old style device names are still used (/proc/partitions i think was > what anoyed me), for me this ruined devfs's elegence. Ummm... % cat /proc/partiti

Bug#116757: Getting the base system over HTTP fails

2001-10-23 Thread Verheijen, W.J.A.
I did not enter a wrong URL first, but accepted URL that the installation program suggested. That URL is correct. I partly got it to work by first downloading a basedebs file and trying to install from that. It then complained about a missing .deb file, and then I tried again with network insta

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by gt

2001-10-23 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:gt time: Tue Oct 23 03:27:12 PDT 2001 Log Message: generate dasd parameter from attached disk and move dasdfmt to attach_disk function. Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

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

2001-10-23 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:gt time: Tue Oct 23 03:27:13 PDT 2001 Log Message: generate dasd parameter from attached disk and move dasdfmt to attach_disk function. Files: changed:bootconfig.c partition_config.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Bug#116757: Getting the base system over HTTP fails

2001-10-23 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:16:26 +0200 "Verheijen, W.J.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: boot-floppies > Version: 3.0.15 > > When I try to install the base system by using network (HTTP), > this fails saying: > > Malformed release file > http://http.us.debian.org:80/debian/dists/woody/Relea

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

2001-10-23 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk who:gt time: Tue Oct 23 01:52:41 PDT 2001 Log Message: support old disk layout on s390. Files: changed:partbl_ibm.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by gt

2001-10-23 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:gt time: Tue Oct 23 01:52:41 PDT 2001 Log Message: support old disk layout on s390. Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#116757: Getting the base system over HTTP fails

2001-10-23 Thread Verheijen, W.J.A.
Package: boot-floppies Version: 3.0.15 When I try to install the base system by using network (HTTP), this fails saying: Malformed release file http://http.us.debian.org:80/debian/dists/woody/Release The network connection is OK, because getting rescue.bin and Drivers.tgz works fine. I use a c