Goals for alpha release

2002-11-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
I'd like to get an alpha release of d-i out the door soonish. Most pieces are there already, but some few crucial pieces are still missing. - ftp priorities need to be adjusted. They are used by anna for deciding what modules to install. - cdrom installs, checking whether it actually works a

cvs commit to debian-installer/tools/netcfg/debian/po by barbier

2002-11-06 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: debian-installer/tools/netcfg/debian/po who:barbier time: Wed Nov 6 14:39:44 MST 2002 Log Message: Proofreading [Norbert Bottlaender-Prier] Files: changed:fr.po -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: Testing d-i with uml?

2002-11-06 Thread Mario Lang
"Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:55:18PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: >> >> As mentioned, I'm working on accessibility support for d-i. >> As brltty will only fit on the cdrom target, I'll have >> to use cd install for testing. NOw since I don't have >> excess

cvs commit to debian-installer/tools/netcfg/debian/po by barbier

2002-11-06 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: debian-installer/tools/netcfg/debian/po who:barbier time: Wed Nov 6 12:59:25 MST 2002 Log Message: Update, by Philippe Batailler Files: changed:fr.po -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Bug#140579: Report: tftpboot install successfull

2002-11-06 Thread Alexander JOLK
Hi, it seems nobody ever reported a successfull install with tftpboot.img. Here's how I did it: 1. From .../woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21, I got the files compact/tftpboot.img images-1.44/root.bin 2. On my DHCP server, I installed the mknbi package and created an etherb

Re: missing amigamouse device (?)

2002-11-06 Thread Andreas Wüst
Hello Michel Am 05-Nov-02 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > On Son, 2002-11-03 at 00:39, Andreas Wüst wrote: >> >> I couldn't find any mouse device for a normal Amiga mouse connected to >> the mouseport. I luckily had some advice from earlier days to create it as >> follows: >> >> # cd /dev/input > >

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/utils by kraai

2002-11-06 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:26:02AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Matt Kraai > > | Had I fixed the original problem correctly, this wouldn't occur. > | The right fix is to ensure that the shell has a controlling > | terminal, so that /dev/tty will work. I don't know how to do > | this, though

Re: Testing d-i with uml?

2002-11-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:55:18PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: > Hi. > > As mentioned, I'm working on accessibility support for d-i. > As brltty will only fit on the cdrom target, I'll have > to use cd install for testing. NOw since I don't have > excess hardware, and esp. no cd burner, I need to fi

Re: [PATCH] Teach rootskel to call "initscripts"

2002-11-06 Thread Mario Lang
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Mario Lang > > | As discussed some weeks ago on this list, some installer packages > | may want to have some boot/initialize scripts run before > | the actual installer action happens.. > | > | Since editing etc/init.d/rcS for every such thing is n

Testing d-i with uml?

2002-11-06 Thread Mario Lang
Hi. As mentioned, I'm working on accessibility support for d-i. As brltty will only fit on the cdrom target, I'll have to use cd install for testing. NOw since I don't have excess hardware, and esp. no cd burner, I need to find a way to test things in UML. The only thing I need there is /dev/tty

Re: [d-i] libdebian-installer2

2002-11-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> > we don't need to bump soversion at all, unless we make > > backward-incompatible changes. just bump minor (and don't change the > > packaging name). Also, fix shlibs to depend on that version or > > later. > > But surely "adding stuff to a data structure" is a backward-incompatible > change

Re: problem with apt-get

2002-11-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* sylvain ferriol | Need to download : di-utils-shell rootskel anna main-menu | cdebconf-udeb udpkg busybox-udeb dash-udeb | kernel-image-2.4.19-386-udeb choose-mirror net-retriever ethdetect | netcfg-static netcfg-dhcp dhcp-client-udeb nic-modules-2.4.19-386-udeb | nic-modules-shared-2.4.19-386-

cvs commit to debian-installer/rootskel/src/etc/init.d by tfheen

2002-11-06 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: debian-installer/rootskel/src/etc/init.d who:tfheen time: Wed Nov 6 12:32:17 CET 2002 Log Message: Run the scripts in /etc/rcS.d on bootup, if available. Files: changed:rcS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

cvs commit to debian-installer/rootskel/debian by tfheen

2002-11-06 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: debian-installer/rootskel/debian who:tfheen time: Wed Nov 6 12:32:17 CET 2002 Log Message: Run the scripts in /etc/rcS.d on bootup, if available. Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: [PATCH] Teach rootskel to call "initscripts"

2002-11-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Mario Lang | As discussed some weeks ago on this list, some installer packages | may want to have some boot/initialize scripts run before | the actual installer action happens.. | | Since editing etc/init.d/rcS for every such thing is not | really nice, I've inserted a simple for loop there. |

Re: udeb building in pbuilder fails?

2002-11-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Mario Lang | This fails with some strange error, and I have no idea | why the pbuilder build should react differently then the dpkg-buildpackage | build. Does anyone have any hints? | | Here is the error I get when using pdebuild: | | dh_builddeb -pbrltty-udeb --filename=brltty-udeb_3.1-1_i3

cvs commit to debian-installer/tools/netcfg by tfheen

2002-11-06 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: debian-installer/tools/netcfg who:tfheen time: Wed Nov 6 12:25:57 CET 2002 Log Message: Make netcfg-dchp not ask about name servers and such -- those should be gotten from the dhcp server. Files: changed:netcfg-dhcp.c netcfg.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

cvs commit to debian-installer/tools/netcfg/debian by tfheen

2002-11-06 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: debian-installer/tools/netcfg/debian who:tfheen time: Wed Nov 6 12:25:57 CET 2002 Log Message: Make netcfg-dchp not ask about name servers and such -- those should be gotten from the dhcp server. Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Installing with d-i: summary and notes

2002-11-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Timothee Besset | Anyway the main problem is that once the params are entered, in case they | are wrong there is no way to enter them again. Use Alt-F1 or use Step 5 - | Open a shell to issue the reboot command, do network conf again, then run | through step 1 and try better params. We need to

Re: todo?

2002-11-06 Thread Richard Hirst
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:21:56AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Getting d-i to work on other arches than i386 is high-priority. I know talk is cheap, but I do intend to work on d-i for hppa and ia64. Just a matter of finding time to get started. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: [d-i][patch] cdebconf and localized fields

2002-11-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* (Denis Barbier) | On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 01:20:53AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: | > I am going to hack cdebconf in order to support UTF-8 encoded localized | > templates files. As I am new to cdebconf, I prefer posting an early | > patch, which is not tested, breaks modules (the template stru

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/utils by kraai

2002-11-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Matt Kraai | Had I fixed the original problem correctly, this wouldn't occur. | The right fix is to ensure that the shell has a controlling | terminal, so that /dev/tty will work. I don't know how to do | this, though, so you'll have to be patient while I figure it out | (or fix it yourself (p

problem with apt-get

2002-11-06 Thread sylvain ferriol
hello i download debian-installer via cvs and i 'make build' inthe build directory and it displays: tiramisu:/home/sferriol/debian/debian-installer/build# make build if [ -e ./tmp/net/tree/proc/self ]; then \ sudo chroot ./tmp/net/tree bin/sh -c "if mount | grep ^proc ; then bin/umount /p

cvs commit to debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/debian by tfheen

2002-11-06 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/debian who:tfheen time: Wed Nov 6 11:11:37 CET 2002 Log Message: Fix warnings about missing ${shlibs:Depends} for libdebconf0.3-dev. Make debian-boot maintainer, add tausq and self to Uploaders Files: changed:changelog control r

Re: Differences between mklibs.py and mklibs.sh

2002-11-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Clément Moreau | Btw, I'm not familiar with python, so, is there a good place where I | can find a guide to this scripting language ? http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html for instance. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user fri

Re: debian-installer-utils_0.06_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2002-11-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* "Christian T. Steigies" | installer-menu-item: 9 | | This last line is something I've never seen before? And its not only on m68k | where that happens... I had some problems with my sign script, so I removed | this line manually before signing. If this is a problem, please tell me and | I'll c

Re: debian-installer-utils_0.06_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2002-11-06 Thread Martin Sjögren
ons 2002-11-06 klockan 05.40 skrev Christian T. Steigies: > installer-menu-item: 9 > > This last line is something I've never seen before? And its not only on m68k > where that happens... I had some problems with my sign script, so I removed > this line manually before signing. If this is a proble