Bug#709751: Bug#785276: debootstrap fails with message: Couldn't find these debs: 91369800

2015-05-14 Thread Andrew Sharp
Howdy, On Fri, 15 May 2015 01:22:40 +0200 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Control: tag 785276 patch pending > > Cyril Brulebois (2015-05-15): > > Hi Andy, > > > > Andy Sharp (2015-05-13): > > > Package: debootstrap > > > Version: 1.0.67 > > > Severity: important > > > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > >

Bug#572446: installation-report: unusual configuration fails to boot after installation

2010-08-22 Thread Andrew Sharp
I will give it a try. It will take a day or two to get the setup reproduced. Cheers, a On Aug 22, 2010, at 5:38 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Andrew Sharp wrote: >> Problem 2: On testing/squeeze, even if I load sd-mod by hand, and th

Bug#572446: installation-report: unusual configuration fails to boot after installation

2010-03-04 Thread Andrew Sharp
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.38 Severity: normal So I thought for sure this would work: PXE boot the installation system http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/netboot.tar.gz Do the install, and configure the two 18GB SCSI disks as follows: /dev/md0 raid1 swap

Re: Problems installing on new iBook dual USB

2001-06-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:36:40PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:24:48AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > ~:^) One of those little things that just isn't annoying enough is > > > that it could so easily sup

Re: Problems installing on new iBook dual USB

2001-06-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:24:48AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > mac-fdisk is no longer broken, lets not fix it until it is. > > > > I had occassion to experience the broken mac-fdisk not too long > > ago. It wasn't all that cat

Re: Problems installing on new iBook dual USB

2001-06-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:21:54PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > > I'm pretty sure he corrected bugs on handling of ATA (IDE) disks also, and > > mac-fdisk in woody works perfectly with ata disks now that the `i' > command is fixed. > > > other refinements like going

Re: Busybox vi

2001-05-03 Thread Andrew Sharp
Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 07:55:40AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > The only real downside to uClibc is its limited platform support. > > > Right now I support x86, arm, m68k, sh, and powerpc. The shared > >

Re: Busybox vi

2001-05-03 Thread Andrew Sharp
Erik Andersen wrote: > > On Wed May 02, 2001 at 04:29:11PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: > > FWIW, I have taken the great work of Erik Andersen and others for BusyBox (not > > to mention Bruce Perens for the beginning) and uClibc, and I must say that > > I am quite impressed : > > Thanks. :-) >

Re: Debian potato can't boot Gericom Webboy (RH and Suse can)

2001-04-28 Thread Andrew Sharp
Geert Stappers wrote: > > At 18:06 +0200 4/26/01, Stefan Kluth wrote: > >Hi, > > > >a collegue got a Gericom Webboy (a SIS chipset based laptop, see > >e.g. http://mobilix.org/gericom_webboy_e.html ) and wanted Linux on it. I > >helpfully suggested Debian. We got the CDs from linuxiso.org > >(2.2

Bug#94419: Swap partition step skipped and not available

2001-04-18 Thread Andrew Sharp
That would be the case, except this is not an X86 install, this is a powerpc install. Which means he has to create a regular partition of type Apple_Unix_SVR2 (the default for mac-fdisk) and it has to be *named* "swap". X86 doesn't have the name thing, either. I'm pretty sure this is all covere

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Andrew Sharp
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 12:24:25PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > Perhaps you all should have read my post more fully. It is NOT an > > old kernel, it is 2.2.18pre21 and I tested an install. It works > > fine for 2.2.r2 Debian as I said.

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Andrew Sharp
-0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > For people who care about powerpc stuff > > > > While the changelog below mentions powerpc, these are of course only > > ia32 floppies. Having no patience, I have taken the liberty to > > Of course, I've built them eight times i

Re: new potato boot-floppies

2001-04-15 Thread Andrew Sharp
For people who care about powerpc stuff While the changelog below mentions powerpc, these are of course only ia32 floppies. Having no patience, I have taken the liberty to build a boot floppy for oldworld apple powermacs that solves the dreaded no response from keyboard when prompting to ins

Re: debian 2.3

2001-04-13 Thread Andrew Sharp
ReiserFS works just fine on big endian systems in 2.2. The patch for 2.4 is also available, from what I've heard. Because the kernel interfaces were/are changing so rapidly in 2.4, rfs has lagged behind a bit in the later stages of 2.3 because they don't like redoing their work every time some k

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-04-13 Thread Andrew Sharp
Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The answer is another question, how wide spread do we want the use > > of Debian to be? In FreeBSD, it works quite well, and there is no > > reason it can't work this way on Debian: y

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-04-11 Thread Andrew Sharp
Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > well frankly you need to know the fscking network numbers before going > > to setup a computer on the network, if you don't know what your > > network numbers are that can hardly be blamed on debian. dammit Jim > > im an installer not a psyc

Re: A question??

2001-03-15 Thread Andrew Sharp
I believe the current debian default (potato) is 4k. a Carl Greco wrote: > > Hola Christhian- > > Assuming you are using the ext2 file system, use the `-b' option with > mke2fs. Block size options are 1024, 2048 and 4096 bytes. A typical > ext2 file system defaults to 1K blocks. Do a `man m

Re: I can't connect to CVS server.

2001-03-10 Thread Andrew Sharp
My machine is behind a firewall running ipmasq (I assume that you aren't really running NAT, but masquerade), and it worked "fine" for me. Fine being a relative term in this case. I had to invoke the checkout command twice to get all the files. a Glenn McGrath wrote: > > Carlos Perelló Marín

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-03-07 Thread Andrew Sharp
No, no, yes, and ... no. I have one with a 2.2.17 kernel on it which isn't good for installations of 2.2r2 because they use the 2.2.18 kernel, so you get these problems with modules but it _is_ good for a rescue floppy! Just kidding, I don't want to start the rescue floppy thing again; you s

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-03-04 Thread Andrew Sharp
Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > syslinux actually. and it can take a root= argument but if you don't > > > give a root= argument you get a root disk prompt. > > > > Yeah, that's what I said/meant. The boot-floppy-hfs.img floppy > > doesn't work the same way as the rescue floppy does for other >

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-03-02 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:21:18PM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > > I've never needed rescue.bin for that. Granted I've only done two > > installs. ~:^) But there are two images called driver-1.bin and > > driver-2.bin wh

Re: Dependency on boot-floppies

2001-02-27 Thread Andrew Sharp
Because this package makes the documentation in a zillion different languages, and it uses tetex to do it. libwww is so that the build procedure can fetch things it wants from the internet. If you don't want to build the whole thing, ie. if you want to skip the doc part, you can probably skip so

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-02-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 02:48:40PM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > Um, yeah, that must be what I meant. Actually, what I meant is > > this: the docs constantly talk about booting the rescue floppy for > > this that and the other. But the "r

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-02-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
procedure are quite broken, and yes, I've already volunteered to fix them. One thing at a time, though. You lucky newworld macs can just boot from the CD. Sigh. a Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 02:28:55PM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > Welcome to the

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-02-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
Welcome to the powerpc boot floppy fiasco. The rescue floppy will only work on New World macs, and yours is an old world. The boot-floppy-hfs.img file is the image of a bootable floppy for the old world macs for install purposes, but it has a keyboard issue and doesn't work without some modifica

Bug#80878: problem booting - keyboard not responding

2000-12-29 Thread Andrew Sharp
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2r2 architecture: powerpc model: Apple PowerMac 7200 Desktop - 70MHz 603e, I think. I wouldn't be so lucky to have a 604, I'm assuming. memory: 40MB scsi0: 53C94 cdrom: MATSHITA CR-8005A, SCSI network: MACE, chip rev. 9.64 pcmcia: none keyboard/mouse: a