woody boot-floppies

Hi ... I just tried the new boot floppies on two different mashines, and they just just worked fine (using the ATA100-ext3 disks). But the first machine gave me some trobles, as I installed in a HPT366 mashine (BP6). The system found and installed everything just fine, but lilo gave me some trou

Bug#121186: boot-floppies: modconf, dbootstrap and bterm don't play well together

Package: boot-floppies Version: current cvs Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system The root problem appears to be that /dev/tty isn't available to processes running in a bterm. Perhaps this should be reassigned to bogl-bterm? It would be _super_ cool if we can get language ch

Bug#121177: boot-floppies: can't install dpkg

Package: boot-floppies Version: 3.0.17-2001-11-18 Severity: critical trying to install debian "woody" on my test machine (386DX-40, 8mb ram) results in this error (on tty4): -- snip -- Preparing to replace dpkg 1.9.18 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.9.18_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement dpkg ... d

Re: unusable disks (known problem, but workaround?)

Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 01:34:04AM +0100 wrote: > Hi, > > So I built my fancy Catalan-enabled boot-floppies (replacing some > language with catalan in langs_root) and obviously I stumbled on > #120637. Is there a way of building Catalan-only floppies, which may > workaround this bug? I'd like to upl

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

Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:dwhedon time: Sun Nov 25 21:17:03 PST 2001 Log Message: - fix badly broken language chooser (closes: #120637) Files: changed:Makefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by dwhedon

Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:dwhedon time: Sun Nov 25 21:17:03 PST 2001 Log Message: - fix badly broken language chooser (closes: #120637) Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

cvs commit to base-config by joeyh

Repository: base-config who:joeyh time: Sun Nov 25 19:29:52 PST 2001 Log Message: * Danish translation fixes from Claus Hindsgaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Files: changed:Tag: woody-tree apt-setup.templates.da tzsetup.templates.da -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

cvs commit to base-config/debian by joeyh

Repository: base-config/debian who:joeyh time: Sun Nov 25 19:29:52 PST 2001 Log Message: * Danish translation fixes from Claus Hindsgaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Files: changed:Tag: woody-tree changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: unusable disks (known problem, but workaround?)

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 01:34:04AM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: > Hi, > > So I built my fancy Catalan-enabled boot-floppies (replacing some > language with catalan in langs_root) and obviously I stumbled on > #120637. Is there a way of building Catalan-only floppies, which may > workaround this bu

cvs commit to base-config/debian by joeyh

Repository: base-config/debian who:joeyh time: Sun Nov 25 18:20:38 PST 2001 Log Message: * Fixed a typo in the termwrap man page, Closes: #120609 * Added pt_BR man pages from Andre Luis Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Closes: #121136 Files: changed:Tag: woody-tree chang

cvs commit to base-config by joeyh

Repository: base-config who:joeyh time: Sun Nov 25 18:20:38 PST 2001 Log Message: * Fixed a typo in the termwrap man page, Closes: #120609 * Added pt_BR man pages from Andre Luis Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Closes: #121136 Files: changed:Tag: woody-tree termwrap.8

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cvs commit to modconf/debian by dwhedon

Repository: modconf/debian who:dwhedon time: Sun Nov 25 17:55:24 PST 2001 Log Message: brazilian updates thanks to Claudio Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

cvs commit to modconf/template by dwhedon

Repository: modconf/template who:dwhedon time: Sun Nov 25 17:55:24 PST 2001 Log Message: brazilian updates thanks to Claudio Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Files: changed:eval_pt_BR.fixed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Bug#121160: Network fails to reconfigure after one failed configuration

package: boot-floppies Using PCMCIA networking, if you try to configure the network after having already done so once, you get an error that some modules are already loaded. This was a problem because the DHCP failed to work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: bug: cdimage.debian.org should warn against downloading with an ISDN connection

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:18:44AM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > So sprach »Florian Lohoff« am 2001-11-25 um 23:31:01 +0100 : > > ISDN a few years back). Flatrates are only available with ISDN. > > Where? I thought that the only flatrate which survived, was the T-DSL > flatrate? Many local Be

Bug#121157: dhcp fails to notice that dhcp failed

package: boot-floppies severity: important version: 3.0.17-2001-11-18 If dhclient fails to get a lease, the boot floppies still assume that the network configured successfully. An error message is printed by dhclient which sleeps, but returns success to the script. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

unusable disks (known problem, but workaround?)

Hi, So I built my fancy Catalan-enabled boot-floppies (replacing some language with catalan in langs_root) and obviously I stumbled on #120637. Is there a way of building Catalan-only floppies, which may workaround this bug? I'd like to upload some floppies somewhere so people can test them and s

Re: bug: cdimage.debian.org should warn against downloading with an ISDN connection

So sprach »Florian Lohoff« am 2001-11-25 um 23:31:01 +0100 : > ISDN a few years back). Flatrates are only available with ISDN. Where? I thought that the only flatrate which survived, was the T-DSL flatrate? Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (e

Re: bug: cdimage.debian.org should warn against downloading with an ISDN connection

On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:03:09PM -0800, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Perhaps if they do not, they should. Someone should perform that > labor and make it possible. I wonder if it would require an entire > new flavor of images, or if it's only a matter of inserting the > correct modules? I kn

Re: bug: cdimage.debian.org should warn against downloading with an ISDN connection

> "Philip" == Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Philip> In message Philip> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karl Philip> M. Hegbloom writes: >> Perhaps if they do not, they should. Someone should perform >> that labor and make it possible. I wonder if it would require

Re: bug: cdimage.debian.org should warn against downloading with an ISDN connection

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karl M. Hegbloom wr ites: > Perhaps if they do not, they should. Someone should perform that > labor and make it possible. I wonder if it would require an entire > new flavor of images, or if it's only a matter of inserting the > correct modules? I know zilch abo

Re: bug: cdimage.debian.org should warn against downloading with an ISDN connection

> "Richard" == Richard Atterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> Do the woody bootfloppies support installing via ISDN? Perhaps if they do not, they should. Someone should perform that labor and make it possible. I wonder if it would require an entire new flavor of images, or if

Re: bug: cdimage.debian.org should warn against downloading with an ISDN connection

[Crossposting to debian-boot, please CC me any debian-boot-only posts] On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 09:21:15PM +0100, Markus Redeker wrote: > The help pages on cdimage.debian.org (especially > http://cdimage.debian.org/ch11.html) recommend that one should > download Debian from Internet if one has a f

Re: Bug#121110: boot-floppies: TFTP boot on Alpha broken

Falk Hueffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > mellum: re "init q", when I had that problem ia64, it was > because I forgot to boot with root=/dev/ram > mellum: without that, the kernel wants to do it's initrd magic, > and runs /linuxrc before starting sbin/init. linuxrc is linked to > init, s

Processed: ARGH. [alpha] problems with norika boot disk

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Processed: [alpha] problems with norika boot disk

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Bug#61802: marked as done ([alpha] bugs in documentation)

Your message dated 25 Nov 2001 20:24:00 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line [alpha] bugs in 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 is not the case it is now your responsi

Re: cvs access -- part II

In message <20011125190450.F203@Obsession>, Chris Tillman writes: >On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:43:11PM +0100, Vasko Miroslav wrote: >> simple "cvs co boot-floppies" >> or "cvs co -r woody boot-floppies?" > >woody is the trunk, I suspect either statement would get you the same >stuff. Actually no,

Bug#121110: boot-floppies: TFTP boot on Alpha broken

Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; reported 2001-11-25 Severity: normal Installing via tftpboot.img will stall at installation of libc6.1, as has been reported to debian-alpha several times, e.g. http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2001/debian-alpha-200110/msg00010.html. "rgh" told me on IRC:

Re: help please

On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 04:07:05PM -, Clive Leonard wrote: > 25th November 2001 > > Hi, > > I am trying to install debian 2.2r4 on a P3 500 with 256 MB ram 8Gb HDD. > > I have previously installed Mandrake 8.1 on this PC/HDD successfully ( I had > to use VGAlow mode). > > I have now instal

Re: cvs access -- part II

On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:43:11PM +0100, Vasko Miroslav wrote: > so, > > CVS checkout is working now, > it was our fault > > but, which version should I translate? > > simple "cvs co boot-floppies" > or "cvs co -r woody boot-floppies?" > > I want to translate woody floppies, but in README-CVS

Bug#120950: USB boot-floppies

On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:39:23AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Kannst du mal sagen, über welches Device das Floppy-Laufwerk denn > angesprochen wird? Und die dazugehörigen minor/major Nummern? > (ls -la /dev/device). Und die Kernel-Messages, wenn das Laufwerk erkannt > wird bzw. der Treiber gela

Bug#120950: USB boot-floppies

On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 11:40:38AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20011125 10:31]: > > [Christoph, does your Vaio really not have a CD drive at all? I > > thought they all shipped with at least an external CD-ROM that > > plug

Re: Bad floppies on startup

On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:23:37AM -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: > Thanks for your help, Chris. > > * Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011124 00:32]: > > There is no base.tgz for woody (not yet anyway). You configure the > > network, then install base from the installer over the network. > > Gre

Re: help please

On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 04:07:05PM -, Clive Leonard wrote: > I have now installed Debian, and it boots up from HHD and leaves me in > a text only mode. All I can seem to do is log in and out as root (or > user) and do nothing else! > > I don't know, but surely debian has some form of GUI? Of

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs by falk

Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs who:falk time: Sun Nov 25 09:25:52 PST 2001 Log Message: Alpha keyboards are just like i386 keyboards. Files: changed:english.src -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

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

Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/en who:falk time: Sun Nov 25 09:25:18 PST 2001 Log Message: Untabify Alpha arch list to avoid misformatting. Files: changed:hardware.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

help please

25th November 2001   Hi,   I am trying to install debian 2.2r4 on a P3 500 with 256 MB ram 8Gb HDD.   I have previously installed Mandrake 8.1 on this PC/HDD successfully ( I had to use VGAlow mode).   I have now installed Debian, and it boots up from HHD and leaves me in a text only mode.

cvs access -- part II

so, CVS checkout is working now, it was our fault but, which version should I translate? simple "cvs co boot-floppies" or "cvs co -r woody boot-floppies?" I want to translate woody floppies, but in README-CVS is not clear, which option to use by, miro ps: please, cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

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

Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk who:blade time: Sun Nov 25 05:19:21 PST 2001 Log Message: - added NTFS to FSTYPE_MSDOS and partition typ to PTYPE list (untested) Files: changed:fdisk.h fdisk.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

cvs access

Hi, I tried to get woody branch of boot-floppies to update slovak translation I tried it README-CVS' way: # If you are using anonymous (readonly) access: export CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/debian-boot cvs login and when a did hit the Enter on password, I got: [mirec@zemiak bf]$ exp

Bug#120950: USB boot-floppies

* Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20011125 10:31]: > [Christoph, does your Vaio really not have a CD drive at all? I > thought they all shipped with at least an external CD-ROM that > plugged in to the PCMCIA socket.] The external CD-ROM does not ship with the Vaio per de

Bug#121065: powerpc,powermac - missing boot floppy hfs-boot-disk from documentation

Package: boot-floppies Version: 3.0.17 The main floppy that needs to be booted (along with root.bin) to install powermac at all is hfs-boot-disk. It is mentioned nowhere in the documentation. -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Bug#120950: USB boot-floppies

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eduard Bloch writes: >Should we support them? And when, how? I can imagine to hack the kernel >so it looks on /dev/fd0, then on listed devices for the root image. In >addition, there should be support in dbootstrap so the drives are (for >example) linked to /dev/fd0

Re: Bad floppies on startup

Thanks for your help, Chris. * Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011124 00:32]: > There is no base.tgz for woody (not yet anyway). You configure the > network, then install base from the installer over the network. Great, no need for base at all in my case. > O. You burned rescue.bin on t

devfs-enabled kernels and /proc/partitions

Currently, the boot-floppies can't deal with a kernel which has CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y, even if CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT is not set. I tracked this down to libfdisk not liking the devfs /proc/partitions. I started to write a little C function which translated the names, and this is fairly trivial for IDE.