Re: Templates and all user intraction strings consistency

2003-10-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > So, why not start by making a first polishing of all this *now* ? Consider this as volunteering for doing the work, or the most part of it (I'm not a native english speaker as you probably already understood by yourself by reading me). Of course,

Re: USB support

2003-10-16 Thread dann frazier
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 03:24:05AM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:16:53PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:05:34PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > I've been working on d-i usb support today. Current statu

New images build script - call for testing round 2

2003-10-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, I updated my branch (-r mrvn) again and its time for another round of testing. Take note of build/TODO, build/config/main (mirror setup) and build/config/targets (what to build). You can leave it as it is unless you want to grab the ~50MB partial mirror from somewhere nearer. When you build

Re: busybox vs busybox-cvs?

2003-10-16 Thread Erik Andersen
On Fri Oct 17, 2003 at 01:29:29AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:01:48PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Can someone explain to me what features are in the new busybox that > > prevents us from using regular old busybox? TIA. > > go away I think I must have missed the rest o

Re: busybox vs busybox-cvs?

2003-10-16 Thread Erik Andersen
On Thu Oct 16, 2003 at 07:01:48PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Can someone explain to me what features are in the new busybox that > prevents us from using regular old busybox? TIA. The newer version has lots of shiney new features of course. And the new linux-kernel sytle config system makes it eno

Re: Install report

2003-10-16 Thread Fraser Campbell
On Thursday 16 October 2003 13:28, Joey Hess wrote: > > When "detecting network hardware and installing modules for it" I do not > > consistently get warned that not all the modules are available. For > > example my machine had a pcnet32 card and an 8139too, it loads the > > 8139too but doesn't w

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linux-kernel-di_0.4_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2003-10-16 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: brltty-modules-2.4.22-1-386-di_0.4_i386.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di/brltty-modules-2.4.22-1-386-di_0.4_i386.udeb cdrom-modules-2.4.22-1-386-di_0.4_i386.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di/cdrom-modules-2.4.22-1-386-di_0.4_i386.udeb ext3-modules-2.4.22-1-386-di_0.4_i386.udeb

Re: USB Floppy

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Shah wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 17:12, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > How can I get to a shell so that I can check /dev/scsi? > > > > If you booted with BOOT_DEBUG=5, you should have gotten one before you > > went into this loop, right after it finished hardware detection. > > Hmmm...I didn't get

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Re: USB Floppy

2003-10-16 Thread Shah
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 17:12, Joey Hess wrote: > > How can I get to a shell so that I can check /dev/scsi? > > If you booted with BOOT_DEBUG=5, you should have gotten one before you > went into this loop, right after it finished hardware detection. Hmmm...I didn't get a shell. Could this be a pr

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Re: busybox vs busybox-cvs?

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:01:48PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Can someone explain to me what features are in the new busybox that > > prevents us from using regular old busybox? TIA. > > go away I'm sorry, but I just cannot accept that as an answer. I am one of the two or

Re: bloat in libdebian-installer

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Bastian Blank wrote: > > This function is used in two binaries in the whole tree. My previous > > email provides a grep of the entire CVS tree to show which ones. > > you don't. i found at least 2 additional packages. I looked again, and I still see only utils and yaboot-installer. > > It semes

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Re: USB Floppy

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Shah wrote: > > "linux BOOT_DEBUG=5" > > When I try this, it gets to the part where it requests the second floppy > and then prints the following over and over: > > --- > > .+ [ -b dev/floppy/0 ] > + mount dev/floppy/0 -o ro -tvfat flo

Re: USB Floppy

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
I apoligise. I have forgotten about a small detail with usb floppy installs: They don't work unless you have a fixed debootstrap-cvs-floppy-udeb on them with a few additional commands. Until bug #215169 is fixed, the boot floppy will not support USB floppies. Probably no need for all that debuggi

Bug#215158: marked as done (cannot run a shell w/o setting up network?)

2003-10-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:17:23 -0400 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#215158: fixed in debian-installer-utils 0.28 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

Re: busybox vs busybox-cvs?

2003-10-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:01:48PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Can someone explain to me what features are in the new busybox that > prevents us from using regular old busybox? TIA. go away bastian -- Extreme feminine beauty is always disturbing. -- Spock, "The Cloud Minders", sta

Re: bloat in libdebian-installer

2003-10-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:44:20PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > this is a realy bad example. this function is used in a bunch of > > packages. > You seem to have completly missed my point. i don't think so > This function is used in two binaries in the whole tree. My previous > email provides a gr

Re: USB Floppy

2003-10-16 Thread Shah
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:53, Joey Hess wrote: > A more complicated thing to try is, at the boot: prompt, enter > "linux BOOT_DEBUG=5" > This will produce a very verbose bootup, and it will drop you into a > shell at several points (just exit the shell to keep going). There is a > program called u

debian-installer-utils_0.28_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2003-10-16 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: debian-installer-utils_0.28.dsc to pool/main/d/debian-installer-utils/debian-installer-utils_0.28.dsc debian-installer-utils_0.28.tar.gz to pool/main/d/debian-installer-utils/debian-installer-utils_0.28.tar.gz di-utils-shell_0.28_i386.udeb to pool/main/d/debian-installer-utils/di-u

Re: USB Floppy

2003-10-16 Thread Shah
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 16:00, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > What does it find? Any USB or scsi stuff at all? > > MfG > Goswin How can I get to a shell to check this? Alt-F2, etc. doesn't work... -- Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: USB Floppy

2003-10-16 Thread Shah
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:53, Joey Hess wrote: > Shah wrote: > > I just got a new laptop (Toshiba R100) and I thought I'd give the new > > debian-installer a try. The laptop only has a USB floppy drive and I'm > > having trouble getting the installer to start. I dowloaded the > > bootfloppy image,

Re: USB Floppy

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Shah wrote: > > Do you know that this USB floppy drive is in fact supported by linux? > > I own one that is, and one that is not. > > Its the one the Sony Vaio's use: PCGA-UFD5. According to linux-usb.org > its supported. The one I have that I have never got to work is from a sony picturebook. D

Re: Templates and all user intraction strings consistency

2003-10-16 Thread kraai
joeyh wrote: > Christian Perrier wrote: > > So, why not start by making a first polishing of all this *now* ? > > I'm with you. I've started to review and fix up the english text of > templates of packages I touch. Would you please document what they should be first? -- Matt -

Re: bloat in libdebian-installer

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Can you build -pic files for libdebian-installer. Oh, the irony. If it needs -pic files, that is a 100% proof we're doing something wrong. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Install report

2003-10-16 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:28:36 -0400 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fraser Campbell wrote: > > Loading the second floppy, some dots or a spinning cursor would be useful here > > just to show meaningful progress. > > I agree, though it will take some shell magic, since all I have is POSIX >

Re: USB Floppy

2003-10-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I just got a new laptop (Toshiba R100) and I thought I'd give the new > debian-installer a try. The laptop only has a USB floppy drive and I'm > having trouble getting the installer to start. I dowloaded the > bootfloppy image, the floppy image, and th

Re: bloat in libdebian-installer

2003-10-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 04:25:08PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Here we have a function that is used in one powerpc specific module, and > > in one utility program that is not installed as part of any d-i boot > > image. And yet this function is included

busybox vs busybox-cvs?

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Can someone explain to me what features are in the new busybox that prevents us from using regular old busybox? TIA. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Install report

2003-10-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 01:12:26PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Yes, this part has always been slow, since debootstrap was invented. > > It is running the 'pkgdetails' script for each package in Packages. I > > looked once to see if some prog

Re: (not so) proper install report

2003-10-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) writes: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:43:00PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Geert Stappers wrote: > > > > > > Yes I did a net install. > > > > So net installs are working, cd installs are broken because it tries to > > install busybox-udeb which it should not inst

Re: Templates and all user intraction strings consistency

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: > While doing this, I focused on french. However, the more I progressed > in this work, the more it became evident that english templates > currently HAVE NO CONSISTENCY AT ALL. Yep. We basically have to rewrite them all before release. I guess this will suck for transla

Re: USB Floppy

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Shah wrote: > I just got a new laptop (Toshiba R100) and I thought I'd give the new > debian-installer a try. The laptop only has a USB floppy drive and I'm > having trouble getting the installer to start. I dowloaded the > bootfloppy image, the floppy image, and the net_drivers image and tried >

Re: bloat in libdebian-installer

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 04:25:08PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Here we have a function that is used in one powerpc specific module, and > > in one utility program that is not installed as part of any d-i boot > > image. And yet this function is included on all our boot media,

Re: poewerpc kernel 2.4.22-2 ...

2003-10-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 02:19:33PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Hello, > > I would like people to test the new packages i have made available at : > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22 New versions of these packages will be available in half an hour or so, when i finish uploading.

Re: poewerpc kernel 2.4.22-2 ...

2003-10-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 08:00:20PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > > > I would like people to test the new packages i have made available at : > > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22 > > [...] > > > Once i get a positive feedback for

USB Floppy

2003-10-16 Thread Shah
Hi, I just got a new laptop (Toshiba R100) and I thought I'd give the new debian-installer a try. The laptop only has a USB floppy drive and I'm having trouble getting the installer to start. I dowloaded the bootfloppy image, the floppy image, and the net_drivers image and tried booting with tho

Re: Lithuanian .po files for d-i

2003-10-16 Thread Kęstutis Biliūnas
Kt, 2003-10-16 22:43, Denis Barbier rašė: > > In attachement there are initial translated lithuanian (lt_LT) > > files for d-i. Could someone commit them for me? > > Done. I removed a (0x13) from main-menu, could you please check > that this is correct? Thanks. All right. In attachement there

Re: bloat in libdebian-installer

2003-10-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 04:25:08PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Here we have a function that is used in one powerpc specific module, and > in one utility program that is not installed as part of any d-i boot > image. And yet this function is included on all our boot media, which > is always almost ful

Re: Install report

2003-10-16 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 01:12:26PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > Yes, this part has always been slow, since debootstrap was invented. > It is running the 'pkgdetails' script for each package in Packages. I > looked once to see if some progress could be implemented, but it's > subsidiary to debootst

Processed: Fixed in NMU of busybox 1:0.60.5-2.1

2003-10-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tag 215444 + fixed Bug#215444: installation: Relocation error while executing anna Tags were: d-i Tags added: fixed > tag 215944 + fixed Bug#215944: remove busybox-udeb There were no tags set. Tags added: fixed > quit Stopping processing here. Please

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Templates and all user intraction strings consistency

2003-10-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Hello (again) folks, I just finished a general work on french translations for (mostly) templates used in d-i. The goal was, after seeing my first tests of the installer, to get some consistency in the various templates and menus shown to the use during installation. During this work (with the h

bloat in libdebian-installer

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
As I have perhaps said before, I'm concerned at the amount of bloat in libdebian-installer. This is one specific example. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/debian-installer>grep di_system_devfs_map_from -r . ./doc/libdi-changes.txt:di_mapdevfs -> di_system_devfs_map_from ./libdebian-installer/src/system/de

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:33:36PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > Goswin von Brederlow schrieb: > > >Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > >> > >>> > >>>6) Test installer! The incarnation I used couldn't install

Re: Install report

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:46:54PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Fraser Campbell wrote: > > > Progress bar does not move when downloading packages file. Again my screen > > > goes blank, on tty2 I can see that debootstrap is running though so I

Re: (not so) proper install report

2003-10-16 Thread Geert Stappers
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:43:00PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Geert Stappers wrote: > > > > Yes I did a net install. > > So net installs are working, cd installs are broken because it tries to > install busybox-udeb which it should not install at all, and it installs > it before lbic-udeb. Maybe t

Re: Updated Czech .po files --please commit

2003-10-16 Thread Denis Barbier
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 08:16:55AM +0200, Miroslav Kure wrote: > Hi, > > In attachement there are updated Czech .po messages for debian-installer > and base-config. Could somebody competent eventualy copy them in? Done, thanks for your help. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: Lithuanian .po files for d-i

2003-10-16 Thread Denis Barbier
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:57:44AM +0300, K?stutis Bili?nas wrote: > Hello, > > In attachement there are initial translated lithuanian (lt_LT) > files for d-i. Could someone commit them for me? Done. I removed a (0x13) from main-menu, could you please check that this is correct? Denis -- To

Bug#215444: messes up udeb priorities

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 02:43:41PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Debian-cd procudes CDs for woody which contain udebs. > > s/woody/sarge/ > > > In that case, busybox-cvs-udeb was incorrectly included on the cd > > s/busybox-cvs-udeb/busybox-udeb/ Finger macros, sorry

Re: postrm, etc cruft in control.tar.gz

2003-10-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any udeb that has templates files needs to either pass -n to > dh_installdebconf, or export DH_OPTIONS=-n in its rules file, to avoid > getting a autogenerated postrm. I think the latter is a good idea for > all d-i packages except those like cdebconf that b

Re: Boot from USB hard drive?

2003-10-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Bao C. Ha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > What do I need to do to install Debian on a USB hard drive? > And to boot from it? Some time. Joey Hess is working on Debian installer from an usb stick. You boot with a 2 floppy set that will then detect your usb and run the installer from u

Bug#215444: messes up udeb priorities

2003-10-16 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 02:43:41PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Debian-cd procudes CDs for woody which contain udebs. s/woody/sarge/ > In that case, busybox-cvs-udeb was incorrectly included on the cd s/busybox-cvs-udeb/busybox-udeb/ Apart from that, I fully agree with the bug report. /* Steinar

Bug#215444: messes up udeb priorities

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Package: debian-cd Severity: grave Debian-cd procudes CDs for woody which contain udebs. The packages files for these udebs have prioties that do not match the priorities listed in the Packages files in the debian archive. Since the debian installer uses these priorities to decide what usbs to ins

Processed: Re: Bug#216111: don't offer previously selected mount point

2003-10-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 216111 partconf Bug#216111: don't offer previously selected mount point Bug reassigned from package `partitioner' to `partconf'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administ

Bug#216111: don't offer previously selected mount point

2003-10-16 Thread Martin Sjögren
reassign 216111 partconf thanks tor 2003-10-16 klockan 19.08 skrev Joey Hess: > Package: partitioner Close, but no cigar. ;) /Martin -- Martin Sjögren [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key: http://www.mdstud.chalmers.se/~md9ms/gpg.html let hello = "hello" : hello in putStr (unli

postrm, etc cruft in control.tar.gz

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Any udeb that has templates files needs to either pass -n to dh_installdebconf, or export DH_OPTIONS=-n in its rules file, to avoid getting a autogenerated postrm. I think the latter is a good idea for all d-i packages except those like cdebconf that build real debs too. Someone might want to take

Processed: reassign 215158 to di-utils-shell

2003-10-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 215158 di-utils-shell Bug#215158: cannot run a shell w/o setting up network? Bug reassigned from package `main-menu' to `di-utils-shell'. > End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracki

Re: poewerpc kernel 2.4.22-2 ...

2003-10-16 Thread kraai
Martin-Eric Racine wrote: > Sven's above 5 powerpc subrach variants are a great move, but to really be > usefull, one should be capable of selecting among them during Sarge installation > to actually get a subarch-optimized kernel right on their system from the start. You will be able to. In fact

Boot from USB hard drive?

2003-10-16 Thread Bao C. Ha
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Re: Install report

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Could we change this please. pcnet32 is what vmware has so its quite > popular among i386 testers. If I have to choose between real hardware and vmware, I think real hardware should win. It's much less painful to burn a third floppy on vmware than with real hardware.

Bug#216111: don't offer previously selected mount point

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Package: partitioner Version: 0.09 Severity: wishlist Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> installed d-i, and observes: > I really liked the portion of the partitioning module, where it lists > partitions and you get to choose mount points and fs types, very intuitive. > One improvement would b

Re: Install report

2003-10-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fraser Campbell wrote: > > When "detecting network hardware and installing modules for it" I do not > > consistently get warned that not all the modules are available. For example > > my machine had a pcnet32 card and an 8139too, it loads the 8139too but

Re: Install report

2003-10-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Joey Hess schrieb: Fraser Campbell wrote: Loading the second floppy, some dots or a spinning cursor would be useful here just to show meaningful progress. I agree, though it will take some shell magic, since all I have is POSIX shell, and the following command: zcat floppy/initrd.gz > mnt/tmp-

Bug#215324: another report of this

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Another report of this, from Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I used the grub boot loader, upon reboot it didn't boot, kernel could not be > found. Problem was that the root argument in each kernel stanza was > incorrect; "root(hd0,1)" instead of "root(hd0,0)". Perhaps grub-installer >

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Goswin von Brederlow schrieb: Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: 6) Test installer! The incarnation I used couldn't install the kernel and modules because of the missing ppcdetect. I got around this in console 2 by copying th

Re: (not so) proper install report

2003-10-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:47:57PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Geert Stappers wrote: > > [ net booting ~sjogren d-i images ] > > > > > > > > The october 15th installs into a working system. > > > > > > Wow, that's great to kno

Re: Install report

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Fraser Campbell wrote: > On Thursday 16 October 2003 01:01, Fraser Campbell wrote: > > > I chose to configure the network using DHCP. This left me at a screen > > where my only choice was > > What I meant to say was that after configuring using DHCP I had a screen where > the only option was co

Re: Install report

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Fraser Campbell wrote: > Loading the second floppy, some dots or a spinning cursor would be useful here > just to show meaningful progress. I agree, though it will take some shell magic, since all I have is POSIX shell, and the following command: zcat floppy/initrd.gz > mnt/tmp-initrd To get a

Re: poewerpc kernel 2.4.22-2 ...

2003-10-16 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > I would like people to test the new packages i have made available at : > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22 [...] > Once i get a positive feedback for these, and once auric is up again, i > will upload those to the new queue, and the onl

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2003-10-16 Thread viruswall2
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Bug#216109: hang first time into the partitioner (from install report)

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Package: partitioner Version: 0.09 Severity: normal Tags: d-i Fraser Campbell reported an install of d-i to the debian-boot list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). In it he described a problem with the partitioner: When first trying to partition harddrive nothing seemed to be happening, pressing enter move

Re: i386 cd driver floppy image out of space

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Howdy, > > The i386 cd driver floppy image build fails as follows: > > set -e; if [ ext2 = ext2 ]; then \ > genext2fs -d ./tmp/floppy/cd_drivers -b 1440 -r 0 dest/cd_drivers-image.img; \ > elif [ ext2 = romfs ]; then \ > genromfs -d ./t

Re: (not so) proper install report

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Geert Stappers wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:47:57PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Geert Stappers wrote: > [ net booting ~sjogren d-i images ] > > > > > > The october 15th installs into a working system. > > > > Wow, that's great to know. Sounds like we are making progress on the > > libdeb

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Stewart Smith
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 00:58, Chris Tillman wrote: > No, I don't think so. Well, maybe. The CD is an hfs/iso, so in theory > one could put BootX on it (both resource fork and data fork). But in > practice, it might not work well. The first issue that arises is: what > kind of Linux script can build

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/build by goswin

2003-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Update of /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/build > In directory gluck:/tmp/cvs-serv10426 > > Modified Files: > Tag: mrvn > Makefile > Log Message: > restrict mklibs to the initrd-tree in question > > > Index: Makefile > ===

i386 cd driver floppy image out of space

2003-10-16 Thread kraai
Howdy, The i386 cd driver floppy image build fails as follows: set -e; if [ ext2 = ext2 ]; then \ genext2fs -d ./tmp/floppy/cd_drivers -b 1440 -r 0 dest/cd_drivers-image.img; \ elif [ ext2 = romfs ]; then \ genromfs -d ./tmp/floppy/cd_drivers -f dest/cd_drivers

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:59:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > 1) Burn a CD from > > > > > > > > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/powerpc/ > > > > > > > > (I used the sarge-po

Re: PowerPC people please test the new build code

2003-10-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:43:43PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > The yaboot configs need renaming and possibly adjusting: > > boot/powerpc/*-yaboot.conf > > I will let this work to the yaboot/pmac folk. > > > You need to (check and) specify what

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:59:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > I tested d-i using BootX. > > Greate. Your destined to test disk boots for powerpc then. You make 'em, I brea

Re: PowerPC people please test the new build code

2003-10-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:43:43PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Forget it, i was in the wrong directory (d-i, not d-i/build). > > > > Still strange. debuild shoulw run within fakeroot. Youm mi

Bug#216084: main-menu: Retriever names should be translatable

2003-10-16 Thread kraai
Christian Perrier wrote: > When time comes to use the "Load installer modules", the next screen show > the possible retrievers. Their names are *not* translatedSo far I did > not encounter these retriever names in po files, so I'm assuming that they > are currently not translatable. > > Is is

Re: PowerPC people please test the new build code

2003-10-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:43:43PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Forget it, i was in the wrong directory (d-i, not d-i/build). > > Still strange. debuild shoulw run within fakeroot. Youm might want to > report it as a bug. Mmm, make in build

Re: PowerPC people please test the new build code

2003-10-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:43:43PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Forget it, i was in the wrong directory (d-i, not d-i/build). > > Still strange. debuild shoulw run within fakeroot. Youm might want to > report it as a bug. Ok, i may do that.

Re: Install report

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 09:54:52AM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote: > tor 2003-10-16 klockan 07.28 skrev Goswin von Brederlow: > > When something completes successfully main-menu seems to assume you > > correct a previous error and resumes automatic install, which just > > selects the next choice. That

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > I tested d-i using BootX. Greate. Your destined to test disk boots for powerpc then. > Cool. Tell me again though, there are some oldworld pmacs which can't do > this and need miboot, rig

Re: base-installer resizes the progressbar a lot

2003-10-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:31:28AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > I just don't like the flickering of the box changing size all the > > time. In bochs you can watch it diapear and reapear. I usually do > > something else while it installs and it loo

Re: PowerPC people please test the new build code

2003-10-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Forget it, i was in the wrong directory (d-i, not d-i/build). Still strange. debuild shoulw run within fakeroot. Youm might want to report it as a bug. > > I do get lot of : > > > > missing list, pkg-lists/initrd-cdrom-boot/powerpc, for type > > initr

Bug#216048: marked as done (linux-kernel-di: Cycles on vesafb.o module loading)

2003-10-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:56:57 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#216048: Acknowledgement (linux-kernel-di: Cycles on vesafb.o module loading) has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dea

Processed: merge 214232 216046

2003-10-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > merge 214232 216046 Bug#214232: partconf: Doesn't care which partition I want to format/mount Bug#216046: partconf: Partition changes above partition 9 applied incorrectly Merged 214232 216046. > tag 214232 pending Bug#214232: partconf: Doesn't care wh

Bug#216084: main-menu: Retriever names should be translatable

2003-10-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: main-menu Version: Retriever names should be translatable Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i (again this is maybe not sent to the appropriate package : it's not that easy, folks, when you don't know the details of d-i.Feel free to reassign, I'll try to learn from my mistakes!) When time c

Bug#214232: merge 214232 216046

2003-10-16 Thread Matt Kraai
merge 214232 216046 tag 214232 pending thanks These appear to be the same bug. It's fixed in CVS. -- Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

poewerpc kernel 2.4.22-2 ...

2003-10-16 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, I would like people to test the new packages i have made available at : http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22 The novelty of these packages against the 2.4.22-1 ones is that, despite all kernels being still vmlinu[xz]-2.4.22-powerpc, they now come in different subarch specific i

Bug#216045: partconf: i386 also

2003-10-16 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:39:26PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > In my test on powerpc, there were no headings shown for the > displayed columns. Headings would be nice. Also on i386, it is an all archs issue. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Bug#216046: partconf: one digit

2003-10-16 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:44:54PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > When I selected partition 10 (or 11) in the table to create a > filesystem or swap on, after the selection was complete the table > showed that the selection was made on partition 1 instead. > > On powerpc, if a filesystem were ac

(not so) proper install report

2003-10-16 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:47:57PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Geert Stappers wrote: [ net booting ~sjogren d-i images ] > > > > The october 15th installs into a working system. > > Wow, that's great to know. Sounds like we are making progress on the > libdebian-installer mess. However, AFAIK cd

Re: base-installer resizes the progressbar a lot

2003-10-16 Thread Matt Kraai
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:31:28AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I just don't like the flickering of the box changing size all the > time. In bochs you can watch it diapear and reapear. I usually do > something else while it installs and it looks like its done but then > its only changing si

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