Re: [d-i] debconf, partitioning widget?

2002-07-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Joey Hess | Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > Does anybody have a suggestion on how to solve this problem? | | I'd suggest writing the partitioner with some real ui toolkit and making | it feed relevant values back into the debconf database. how would you call the right partitioner based on UI?

Re: Booting 2.4.18 kernel from Adaptec 2100s configured as RAID-1

2002-07-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Neil S Hamilton wrote on Sun Jul 14, 2002 um 09:41:11PM: > /etc/lilo.conf (I can't currently copy/paste this) installs the MBR to > /dev/sda and gives the root as /dev/sda3. > > Running Lilo seems to go fine, but on reboot, with SCSI selected in the > BIOS, I get a string of numbers pr

Re: [d-i] debconf, partitioning widget?

2002-07-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 08:03:27PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > in order to get debian-installer into working shape, it is obvious > > that the user has some way to partition the hard drive. An > > auto-partitioner will probably only need debconf as it's UI. However, > >

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Re: Running translated install system from harddisk?

2002-07-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 08:12:32PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote: > On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 18:45, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Does the xlp work on other architectures? No xlp.tgz shows up in disks-powerpc, > > for example. > > There's no reason why it shouldn't work. You just need to add the > appro

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2002-07-14 Thread MRS MARIAM ABACHA
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Re: Task French & mozilla-locale-fr

2002-07-14 Thread Joey Hess
Aurelien Jarno wrote: > I am not sure it is the right place to ask that, but I have been told > that on #debian-devel. > > I have a bug report to add mozilla-locale-fr to the French task. The > problem I see, is that installing the French task will install mozilla, > which is maybe not was is

Re: [d-i] debconf, partitioning widget?

2002-07-14 Thread Joey Hess
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > in order to get debian-installer into working shape, it is obvious > that the user has some way to partition the hard drive. An > auto-partitioner will probably only need debconf as it's UI. However, > manual partitioning using debconf will be very painful. Developing a

[d-i] debconf, partitioning widget?

2002-07-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
in order to get debian-installer into working shape, it is obvious that the user has some way to partition the hard drive. An auto-partitioner will probably only need debconf as it's UI. However, manual partitioning using debconf will be very painful. Developing a debconf partitioning widget m

Booting 2.4.18 kernel from Adaptec 2100s configured as RAID-1

2002-07-14 Thread Neil S Hamilton
Hi folks - I hope someone can help me with this :) I've been struggling with this for hours now, so I think the time has come to cry for help. I've installed a very basic woody from a 2.4 bootable CD from http://people.debian.org/~blade/boot-floppies/cvs/boot-bf2.4-with-basede bs.iso I had to

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Bug#152235: no manual page

2002-07-14 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 16:50, Falk Hueffner wrote: > Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * Philip Blundell > > > > | Would you care to check the changes you made to mklibs into CVS? > > | cvs.debian.org:/cvs/debian-boot, module mklibs. > > > > sure, I wasn't aware that mklibs was

Re: Running translated install system from harddisk?

2002-07-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
Philip Blundell: > I'm not sure which help text you're referring to. The short note at the top of the dialog, stating what will happen next. > Did the release notes show up properly? No. > As for the menu, you're saying that each individual line was either > present or missing, right? Yes.

Re: Running translated install system from harddisk?

2002-07-14 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 18:45, Chris Tillman wrote: > Does the xlp work on other architectures? No xlp.tgz shows up in disks-powerpc, > for example. There's no reason why it shouldn't work. You just need to add the appropriate line to the PPC section of release.sh: [ -f xlp.tgz ] && cp xlp.tgz

Re: Running translated install system from harddisk?

2002-07-14 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 18:57, Peter Karlsson wrote: > Philip Blundell: > > > Ah, okay. Can you give an example of a string that goes wrong? > > Well, for instance the help text that's supposed to be displayed isn't. > Also, only one or two of the options were shown in the menu, the rest > were b

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Re: Running translated install system from harddisk?

2002-07-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
Philip Blundell: > Ah, okay. Can you give an example of a string that goes wrong? Well, for instance the help text that's supposed to be displayed isn't. Also, only one or two of the options were shown in the menu, the rest were blank (although selectable). Please Cc replies to me, -- \\// P

Re: Running translated install system from harddisk?

2002-07-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 11:20:20AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Peter Karlsson wrote on Sun Jul 14, 2002 um 09:58:51AM: > > > Ah. Are there any cd images available that will do a network > > installation, but that has all the translations? The only netinstall > > images I have seen ha

Bug#152235: no manual page

2002-07-14 Thread Falk Hueffner
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Philip Blundell > > | On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 08:52, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > | > * Matt Kraai > | > > | > | There is no manual page for mklibs. I stumbled across one at > | > | DebConf2, however, and have appended it below. > | > > | > Thanks -

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Bug#152235: no manual page

2002-07-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Philip Blundell | On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 08:52, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > * Matt Kraai | > | > | There is no manual page for mklibs. I stumbled across one at | > | DebConf2, however, and have appended it below. | > | > Thanks -- fixed version uploading now. | | Would you care to check the

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Bug#152235: no manual page

2002-07-14 Thread Philip Blundell
On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 08:52, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Matt Kraai > > | There is no manual page for mklibs. I stumbled across one at > | DebConf2, however, and have appended it below. > > Thanks -- fixed version uploading now. Would you care to check the changes you made to mklibs into CVS?

Re: Running translated install system from harddisk?

2002-07-14 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 13:24, Peter Karlsson wrote: > Philip Blundell: > > > I would guess the font on the image you're using has some characters > > missing. > > I don't think so, I get gaps for most text strings, not only for the > non-ASCII characters. Besides, those characters looks correct f

Re: Running translated install system from harddisk?

2002-07-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
Philip Blundell: > I would guess the font on the image you're using has some characters > missing. I don't think so, I get gaps for most text strings, not only for the non-ASCII characters. Besides, those characters looks correct from the language select menu. Please Cc replies to me -- \\//

Re: Running translated install system from harddisk?

2002-07-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
Eduard Bloch: > Weird. Does it happen with "normal" Debian CDs or is it my fault? I do not have any normal cds to test with, unfortunately. > Loadlin has general problems with newer kernels, and is no longer > maintained. Too bad. But it might be worth mentioning in the documentation that it m

Re: Running translated install system from harddisk?

2002-07-14 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 12:08, Peter Karlsson wrote: > However... Running the ftp site stuff with the cd in the drives gives > me Swedish as an option, but it gives me a lot of blanks in the menus, > which makes it impossible to use. I would guess the font on the image you're using has some charact

Task French & mozilla-locale-fr

2002-07-14 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hello, I am not sure it is the right place to ask that, but I have been told that on #debian-devel. I have a bug report to add mozilla-locale-fr to the French task. The problem I see, is that installing the French task will install mozilla, which is maybe not was is wanted by people installin

Re: Running translated install system from harddisk?

2002-07-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Peter Karlsson wrote on Sun Jul 14, 2002 um 12:08:17PM: > However... Running the ftp site stuff with the cd in the drives gives > me Swedish as an option, but it gives me a lot of blanks in the menus, > which makes it impossible to use. Weird. Does it happen with "normal" Debian CDs or

Re: Running translated install system from harddisk?

2002-07-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
Eduard Bloch: > http://people.debian.org/~blade/boot-floppies/cvs/ Thanks for the tip. However, it seems that my target machine refuses to boot from cd (weird, but not Debian's fault). However... Running the ftp site stuff with the cd in the drives gives me Swedish as an option, but it gives me

Re: Running translated install system from harddisk?

2002-07-14 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Peter Karlsson wrote on Sun Jul 14, 2002 um 09:58:51AM: > Ah. Are there any cd images available that will do a network > installation, but that has all the translations? The only netinstall > images I have seen has had the language choose explicitly disabled. http://people.debian.org/~

Re: Running translated install system from harddisk?

2002-07-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
Philip Blundell: > I don't think the installer will search for XLP on a hard disk, only a > CD-ROM. Ah. Are there any cd images available that will do a network installation, but that has all the translations? The only netinstall images I have seen has had the language choose explicitly disabled