On Fri May 14, 2004 at 12:46:36AM -0300, Joey Hess wrote:
> * Oldworld powerpc is not supported (incomplete).
> Still is, afaik.
Newworld powerpc partitioning is still completely broken. It was
broken in beta4, and I tried yesterday's daily snapshot and it is
still broken.
-Erik
--
Erik
On Wed Apr 21, 2004 at 09:52:30AM -0700, Nick Lopez wrote:
> It can probably be done better with a tiny hotplug rather than my while
> (true) ; do echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi; ...
> kludge.
>
> It's an upstream problem that nobody has had the time & equipment to fix
On Sat Mar 20, 2004 at 07:22:07AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> Cool. BTW, is there anything particular needed for a PReP partition ? Or
> is it just a plain empty partition that can be used for booting ? The
> box uses a MBR partition table.
$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
[--snip--]
On Wed Jan 28, 2004 at 07:25:47PM +0300, support wrote:
> You are suspected of plunder 2100 $ from account Webmoney! It
> is necessary for you to contact employee FBI USA who has
> affairs with representation Webmoney in USA. We have the
> decision of a problem and further the decision of a problem
On Mon Jan 19, 2004 at 09:24:06PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Yes, it's the tool named "ntfsresize" that the original poster was
> > referring to, and it's found in the ntfstools package.
>
> But is not in any way related to the libntfs library ?
$ dlocate /usr/sbin/ntfsresize
ntfstools: /usr/s
On Fri Jan 16, 2004 at 11:45:30AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Erik Andersen wrote:
> > And idea _where_ it fails? i.e. Did you notice if any
> > particular application is being a memory sucking pig?
>
> Yes, anna is. She insists in installing 30-some megabytes of udebs onto
&g
On Fri Jan 16, 2004 at 07:08:17AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
>
> > > Will I be able to use d-i on my notebook? It's a 486/100 with
> > > 24 MB RAM and 340 MB disk. No CD-ROM, but floppy drive and a
> > > PCMCIA ethernet card. Screen about 30 cm.
On Mon Jan 12, 2004 at 11:39:44PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote:
> * Kenshi Muto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-12 07:15]:
> | Hi,
> |
> | Is there any plan for supporting NTFS resize?
> |
> | There is already parted in debian-installer component, but parted
> | can't handle NTFS.
> |
> | I heard '
On Fri Dec 12, 2003 at 06:23:44PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> It seems that the definition of _IOR has changed in the kernel headers,
> and so the definition of BLKGETSIZE64 at the top of fdisk.c needs to be
> updated. A patch is attached which changes this to be the same as the
> #define in /
On Fri Nov 28, 2003 at 05:40:14PM +0100, Paul Wagland wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply!
>
> On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 16:37, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > On Fri Nov 28, 2003 at 02:42:15PM +0100, Paul Wagland wrote:
> > > Package: busybox-cvs
> > > Version: 20030
On Fri Nov 28, 2003 at 02:42:15PM +0100, Paul Wagland wrote:
> Package: busybox-cvs
> Version: 20030926-2.1
> Severity: important
>
> http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html specifies that umount
> should accept the '-n' option, but the binary that is delivered with
> debian does not accept
On Tue Nov 18, 2003 at 11:47:38AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > So yes, with uClibc there will be a missing weak of main()
> > if you include crt1.o into your calculations.
>
> Why weak? If you link crt1.o against so
On Fri Nov 14, 2003 at 12:21:36PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Any idea how uclibc links against main and why glibc does not have the
> same problem? I guess glibc links the startsup code into every bin
> while uclibcs startup code jumps into uclibc first?
In uClibc, crt1.o on all architec
On Wed Nov 12, 2003 at 07:32:47PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> This is very very similar to what S390 wants. Except that they might
> make do with telnetd instead of sshd.
http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
-Erik
--
Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/
On Fri Nov 07, 2003 at 09:54:43AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Arnaud Vandyck a écrit:
> >[Cc: debian-powerpc for the record! ;)]
>
> Congratulations !
I was similarly able (with a bit of manual intervention) to
install sarge on a Powerbook G4 15".
> >I'll spend sometimes to tune t
On Sun Oct 19, 2003 at 03:50:53PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Package: busybox-cvs
> Version: 20030926-2
> Severity: serious
>
> buildd.debian.org lists the following build failure on s390:
>
> <-- snip -->
>
> ...
> gcc -I./include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS
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
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
On Mon Oct 06, 2003 at 08:45:24AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> I think bruckner is prep, that Joey (Martin Shulze) has one, as well as
> Ole-Egil Hvitmyren, i think. I have asked Ole-Egil Hvitmyren also if he
> could do an AmigaONE kernel package, but no response from him also on
> this subject.
I
On Thu Sep 11, 2003 at 12:48:55AM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote:
> package: busybox-cvs
> version: 0.60.99.cvs20030819
>
> On ia64 the kernel has CONFIG_TR undefined (token ring). The busybox
> build pulls in /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h, which includes the line
>
> #undef CONFIG_TR
>
> That resu
On Mon Jul 07, 2003 at 04:38:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> Notice that you could also use XDirectFB on top of libdirectfb.
Alledgedly gtk can render directly to the framebuffer...
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.2/gtk/gtk-framebuffer.html
-Erik
--
Erik B. Andersen http:
On Thu Jul 03, 2003 at 09:20:25AM +, Sebastian Ley wrote:
>
> Erik Andersen schrieb:
>
> > Any chance you could get an strace and/or ltrace?
>
> Find an strace attached. I did it in a chroot.
> Sebastian
Thanks. Could you perhaps also send me a copy of the offen
On Thu Jul 03, 2003 at 02:35:33AM +0200, Sebastian Ley wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wanted to build a cdrom image with networking udebs as a
> substitude for the net image, which is broken because too large.
>
> I tried it with both busybox variants and they both gave me a
> segmentation fault when doin
On Thu Apr 03, 2003 at 02:49:09PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 03:04:10PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > I just did a bit of testing, and the script actually works
> > this time. :)
>
> you forget that we want to use cvs busybox which contains
On Wed Apr 02, 2003 at 01:41:24PM +0200, Martin Sjögren wrote:
> mån 2003-03-31 klockan 04.04 skrev Erik Andersen:
> > > udhcpc works, but it needs a script to operate correctly.
> >
> > It works great. Just drop this in as your
> > /usr/share/udhcpc/default.scri
On Wed Apr 02, 2003 at 01:41:24PM +0200, Martin Sjögren wrote:
> mån 2003-03-31 klockan 04.04 skrev Erik Andersen:
> > > udhcpc works, but it needs a script to operate correctly.
> >
> > It works great. Just drop this in as your
> > /usr/share/udhcpc/default.scri
On Sun Mar 30, 2003 at 10:53:35PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 06:39:35PM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
> > insmod is not currently in the busybox-cvs-udeb package, but can be
> > added, I don't know at what cost, but that gets rid of modutils-basic
> > (90684 B).
>
> it co
On Mon Mar 10, 2003 at 11:00:32PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> - switch to a smaller libc, such as uclibc
The only downside to this is that I currently do not support all
the architectures that are supported by Debian. Adding support
for a new arch to uClibc is really not very hard, and most of the
On Thu Feb 20, 2003 at 12:39:14PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote:
> It's interesting to note that in this case -8 and -9 yield the same
> results, but -9 requires more memory at the time of decompression and
> compression. I suspect the memory usage statistics will remain constant
> for any file (
On Wed Feb 19, 2003 at 05:16:48PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:08:45 -0600 (CST)
> Drew Scott Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Would squashfs work? I doubt this is an optimal compression, but it
> > might be better than alternatives. Currently the best free solution
On Thu Jan 30, 2003 at 07:15:30AM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > Have anyone used upx successfully with d-i?
> >
>
> I had a go at it the other day.
>
> I think vmlinuz is the compressed kernel, you should run it on an
> uncompressed kernel, i.e. vmlinux
>
> It didnt compress very well at all,
On Sun Dec 08, 2002 at 11:22:17PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> [Tollef Fog Heen]
> > lspci output would be good as well.
>
> I made a small udeb to store debug info on a floppy. Unfortunately
> this did not work as busybox tar is unable to create archives. This
It can be configured to
On Fri Nov 22, 2002 at 04:07:01PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> and PowerPC. Bdale started on ia64 last night. I've played around
> with getting it up and running on BSD, but no luck so far, busybox
> seems to be fairly Linux-centric. It is not a high priority, but if
> somebody picks it up, i
On Mon Nov 18, 2002 at 11:43:50PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Tollef Fog Heen
>
> | | Hmm. Did you include an /usr/share/udhcpc/default.script file?
> |
> | No, but it doesn't make any difference if I do. I just tested.
>
> I found the problem, udhcpc doesn't bring up the interface at al
On Mon Nov 18, 2002 at 03:01:37AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Glenn McGrath
>
> | We can save some space in the rootfs by using busybox from cvs
> |
> | busybox-0.60.4 130856
> | busybox-cvs 123628
> |
> | busybox-0.60.4 + dash + dhclient + insmod 271160
> | busybox-cvs with busybo
On Wed Oct 30, 2002 at 03:41:48PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote:
> reopen 161611
> thanks
>
> rootskel includes a /linuxrc shell script. It's last action is to
> exec BusyBox as /linuxrc. It cannot exec /sbin/init because doing so
> would require its PID to be one, which it isn't. I'm planning to NMU
On Wed Oct 30, 2002 at 12:09:47PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Erik Andersen]
> > Yup. You use init=/linuxrc. I recommend removing this line from
> > your syslinux.cfg. Then init will be /sbin/init, which is still
> > busybox init and should therefore do just w
On Tue Oct 29, 2002 at 06:41:02PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Erik Andersen]
> > BTW, an updated BusyBox is ready and waiting for someone to make use
> > of it...
>
> The new busybox udeb (0.60.5-1) made my freshly built d-i floppy fail
> to boot, and my freshly
On Fri Oct 04, 2002 at 10:02:31AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:39:17AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > The `Execute a shell' option is broken because BusyBox init does
> > not give controlling terminals to respawn actions. Erik, what
> > would you suggest?
>
> The following
On Tue Oct 08, 2002 at 09:24:44AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > The initrd is 1.7 mb, compressed.. I wonder if the cdrom list is supposed to
> > go on a double-size disk image and the wrong size image is created for that
> > type? TYPE=cdrom144 does not have this problem.
>
> If we use isolinux[0]
On Fri Oct 04, 2002 at 08:39:17AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> The `Execute a shell' option is broken because BusyBox init does
> not give controlling terminals to respawn actions. Erik, what
> would you suggest?
Sorry for the delay -- I was out of town for a few days last week
and did
On Sun Sep 08, 2002 at 02:25:54PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
>
> Hi, it seems like there is a bug in zcat in busybox, where:
>
> 14:01 < Marvin--> while (file_count == 0 || optind < argc)
> 14:02 < Marvin--> it increases optind, but not file_count
>
> This seems to be fixed in the developmen
On Tue Sep 17, 2002 at 02:31:57AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
>
> Hi, it seems like we have a bunch of dhcp-clients for d-i, and I'm a
> bit unsure of what purpose that serves, and which we should go for.
>
> -rw-rw-r--1 katiedebadmin44128 Aug 11 18:32
>main/d/dhcp/dhcp-client-ude
On Sun Sep 08, 2002 at 02:25:54PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
>
> Hi, it seems like there is a bug in zcat in busybox, where:
>
> 14:01 < Marvin--> while (file_count == 0 || optind < argc)
> 14:02 < Marvin--> it increases optind, but not file_count
>
> This seems to be fixed in the developmen
On Fri Aug 09, 2002 at 08:31:59AM -0700, David Kimdon wrote:
> > Our of curiosity, which version of uClibc are you working with?
>
> 0.9.12, IIRC
>
> > uClibc does cause apps to link vs the dynamic linker these days.
> > Are you using the 6 month old stuff from Woody?
>
> hmm, I wonder if I mis
On Thu Aug 08, 2002 at 07:39:09PM -0700, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote:
> Repository: mklibs
> who:dwhedon
> time: Thu Aug 8 19:39:09 PDT 2002
> Log Message:
> + * Ensure that the dynamic linker is installed along with the small
> +libs. In the case of glibc, libc.so has ca
On Fri Aug 02, 2002 at 08:51:22AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Foo
>
> | kernel, net modules, initrd with busybox, uClibc
> |
> | When the source is setup (cdrom, eth, hd)
> | download into the initrd:
>
> you still need anna, main-menu, libdebian-installer, a retriever,
> most likely lib
On Fri Aug 02, 2002 at 12:08:21PM +1000, Foo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Install floppy only needs these:
>
> kernel, net modules, initrd with busybox, uClibc
Wonderful! My only concern is that uClibc does not yet support
all the architectures that Debian supports uClibc is not
very hard to port, bu
On Wed Jul 24, 2002 at 11:28:46AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 07:42:24PM +0200, Thomas Poindessous wrote:
> > Hi, I tried to rebuild d-i and I looked that symlinks of /lib/ld-2.2.5 to
> > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (and others) was missing.
>
> Please remind me: why do we need to p
On Sat Jun 08, 2002 at 02:46:47PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Well, if it's a known issue, fix it fast because "customers" are
> getting the "I knew it, Linux is broken" message within 30 seconds of
> encountering linux. And of course "the geeks don't see the problem" with it
> nor their geeky p
On Tue Jun 04, 2002 at 06:13:43PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 02:17, Jonathan Hall wrote:
> > On my target system with 12mb of physical RAM, the boot floppies set
> > complains that I only have 9mb, and should have 12mb to run woody.
> >
> > Incidentally, 9mb is what 'fr
On Tue Jun 04, 2002 at 10:06:13AM -0700, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote:
> Repository: debian-installer/tools/lilo-installer/debian
> who:moshez
> time: Tue Jun 4 10:06:13 PDT 2002
> Log Message:
> Add more dependencies.
> This is a beginning in udebs saying which parts
> of bus
On Thu May 02, 2002 at 09:22:31AM -0500, Lawrence Lerner wrote:
> While downloading the image, McAfee reported a virus in this file.
There may be a copy of the Debian installer in those files,
which can overwrite your hard drive... ;-)
Seriously though, I think McAfee need to get a clue...
-E
On Tue Apr 30, 2002 at 03:50:27PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> Culd someone explain why is there a root shell prompt for the
> Linux kernel:
>
> "Press ENTER to obtain a shell" (waits 5 seconds)
>
> This seems something related to the cramfs filesystem (ramdisk)
> b
On Sat Apr 13, 2002 at 06:58:50PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Yes, this is kernel spam that's rather hard to suppress. There is a
> potential fix in
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2002/debian-boot-200201/msg00223.html>.
>
> Anyone up on klogctl ? Should we apply that patch?
If the goa
On Fri Apr 12, 2002 at 11:35:31AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > I just tested it on all the bootable x86 systems in my house:
> ...
> > Toshiba 490CDT Satellite Pro Laptop: Works
>
> That's good news. What was your success booting the Potato CD on this
> laptop? In my experience, the T
On Thu Apr 11, 2002 at 08:31:55PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Seriously: everyone reading this mail, burn a copy of Raphael's test image
> on a CD and try booting it in any computers you have handy. If it doesn't
> work on a machine where a potato CD does boot, please mail the lists!
I just tes
On Wed Apr 10, 2002 at 06:02:28PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:23:26PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
>
> > #include
> > Matt Zimmerman wrote on Wed Apr 10, 2002 um 04:45:08PM:
> > > 10 days != long enough to test a completely different _primary_ way of
> > > booting the
On Sat Apr 06, 2002 at 12:26:13PM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> Now, whether or not this is going to be acceptable to aj on the
> official CDs is another question. But it's an option that most
> vendors will probably jump at.
The slackware installer already uses isolinux, which lets
then pack m
On Sat Apr 06, 2002 at 08:10:16AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> The ISOLINUX/MEMDISK thing mentioned earlier looks interesting. Has
> anyone played with this? Presumably we could use MEMDISK to select
I've used Isolinux. It works for me. Lets me select from
multiple kernels on CD, with no obno
On Sun Mar 24, 2002 at 11:05:29AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> "Morten W. Petersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit:
>
> > I've created & formatted a new partition for the Debian installation,
> > and I'm now wondering how to install & configure the base system so
> > that the box can
On Thu Jan 24, 2002 at 03:57:42PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit:
>
> > Umm. Why not teach debootstrap to use mknod instead?
> > There is no good reason for debootstrap to need mkfifo,
>
> If mknod is
On Wed Jan 23, 2002 at 01:34:22AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> Well, ok. I did some testing, and we're not quite ready to release
> 3.0.19.
>
> First of all, there is #130482: We need mkfifo enabled in busybox to
> make the latest debootstrap happy.
Umm. Why not teach debootstrap to use mkno
On Mon Jan 07, 2002 at 10:58:28AM +, Richard Hirst wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:08:42AM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > to console. If people want to see what the kernel has to say,
> > (like that module foo didn't load) they can visit the syslog
> > output o
On Mon Jan 07, 2002 at 01:19:42AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > How about adding this to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/main.c
> >
> > - /* Downgrade kernel verbosity */
> > - klogctl(8, NULL, 4);
&g
On Sun Jan 06, 2002 at 02:58:53PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > When using the latest root.bin that I could find (18-dec-2001) the
> > screen get flooded with messages about modprobe not being able to read
> > the modules.dep. Altough it is able to r
On Sun Jan 06, 2002 at 01:54:12PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:15:11PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > What annoys me about bootprep.sh is that it builds a kernel as part of
> > > the boot-floppies build process; I don't s
On Fri Jan 04, 2002 at 05:05:34PM +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
>
> Adam> Hmm, wouldn't this be a busybox bug? But I try, ona fully
> Adam> installed system:
> Adam>
> Adam> # busybox ping arroz
> Adam>
> Adam> and ctrl-c works fine. Wierd.
>
> I had done the same test and got the result.
On Sun Dec 30, 2001 at 10:52:59PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 19:01, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > If they are that tight, removing the library symlinks (and just
> > using the correct names) will surely be enough to recover that
> > space.
>
>
On Sun Dec 30, 2001 at 04:08:07PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 00:46, Colin Walters wrote:
> > tag 126208 patch
> > thanks
> >
> > On Sat, 2001-12-22 at 16:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Looks like configure_static_network() needs to take steps to kill off the
> > > DHC
On Tue Dec 18, 2001 at 05:38:59PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I'd like to make mklibs.py create the minimum number of directory
> entries for the libraries it reduces. Unfortunately, my
> understanding of shared libraries is almost non-existent, so I'd
> appreciate a little help. Is i
On Tue Dec 18, 2001 at 09:21:53PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote:
>
> Just checking out boot-floppies out of CVS and building should work
> (although it downloads huge amounts of stuff), except currently the
> busybox package is broken and a new version needs to be built.
Care to elaborate on what i
On Tue Dec 18, 2001 at 12:24:56PM +, Phil Blundell wrote:
> reassign 124117 libnewt0
> thanks
>
> ... in fact, looking at the code, the change that was made here has got to be
> wrong. The "for" loop is just freeing the same string, over and over again.
> I guess it was supposed to be "free(
On Tue Dec 18, 2001 at 12:58:39PM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 02:24:39AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Florian Lohoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [..snip..]
> > > Pressing return on the "Reboot the system" also does not work. I guess
> > > this is a Kernel issue but
On Sat Dec 15, 2001 at 09:55:08AM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 07:38:03PM -0600, Mike Coleman wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian Bug Tracking System) writes:
> > > Anyhow, it's irrelevant. Since busybox wget doens't support this
> > > argument, the user's request to use th
On Fri Dec 14, 2001 at 02:02:48AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> Sorry, I've been away on business travel but I'm back now.
>
> >From my scan of the debian-boot list, I take it these bugs are holding
> 3.0.18 release:
>
> Bug#123387 -- busybox wget won't work with debootstrap anymore
>
I j
On Fri Dec 14, 2001 at 03:03:13PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > Without this patch to debian-installer/build/Makefile, the images
> > booted won't be very useful:
> >
> > + # Add missing symlinks for libraries
> > + /sbin/ldconfig -n $(TREE)/lib $(TREE)/usr/lib
> > +
>
On Fri Dec 14, 2001 at 08:15:50AM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 01:32:48AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > We were using a char to hold the return value of fgetc. Silly
> > > rabbit, chars are for kids.
> >
> > So we really n
On Fri Dec 07, 2001 at 09:34:34PM +, Philip Blundell wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erik Andersen writes:
> >I believe the problem is that vga16fb reprograms the pallette on
> >bootup to match the penguin, then later rotates it back to the
> >stock pallet
On Fri Dec 07, 2001 at 09:04:37PM +, Philip Blundell wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erik Andersen writes:
> >Does vga16fb still show that wierd color-rotated penguin picture?
>
> Not at first, but after a while the colours do go wrong. I guess something
> e
On Fri Dec 07, 2001 at 02:43:58PM +, Phil Blundell wrote:
> >> From what I remember when I had a Matrox card in this machine, I didn't
> >> get fbcon at all without CONFIG_FB_MATROX set. I have access to one
> >> other Matrox-equipped computer, so I can check it out and make sure.
> >
> >Yes.
On Thu Dec 06, 2001 at 01:51:51PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote:
>
> Hi,
> i just tried to install a woody on a 486/33. After selecting "Install
> base" and selecting the correct mirror the system seems to hang. Looking
> at ps -ef output on the second console i see debbootstrap calling
> "pkgdetai
On Sun Dec 02, 2001 at 09:50:16PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > No, I don't think this is related to the problem reported in 121110.
> > I'm guessing 121110 has been fixed along with bug#116829 -- the
> > problem was the way that busybox init and telinit didn't get along
> > together in
I'm not sure how important this is to the installer, but every
call to newtTextboxSetText (in dbootstrap) is leaking memory.
This function gets called a lot, and so this bug may badly
impact low memory machines,
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=121505
-Erik
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Erik B. Anders
On Tue Nov 27, 2001 at 07:23:45AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Added /usr/bin/printf from shellutils to initrd, required for converting
> >> between decimal and hexadecimnal numbers (ash deos not support hexadecimal
> >> numbers in arithmetic expressions
On Wed Nov 21, 2001 at 08:17:21PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 01:48:16 -0700
> "Erik Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > Good work tracking this down. I'll work up a fix
> > and upload a new version ASAP.
> &g
On Tue Nov 20, 2001 at 11:36:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> According to strace, busybox wc -c reads in the whole file in 4096 byte
> chunks. On the other hand, gnu wc -c just stats the thing, which is
> obviously tons more efficient.
Good work tracking this down. I'll work up a fix
and uplo
On Tue Nov 20, 2001 at 06:13:26AM -0800, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote:
> Repository: boot-floppies/debian
> who:sgybas
> time: Tue Nov 20 06:13:26 PST 2001
>
>
> Log Message:
>
> busybox grep does not set rc for matches in binary files :-(
Could you be sure to report a bug on thi
As a heads up, I just released busybox 0.60.2 -- this is a minor
point release in the stable 0.60.x series that just wraps up the
last few months worth of bugfixes. There should be no surprises,
but (depending on how frozen we are), you may want to be cautious
anyways. Whether it goes in or sta
On Tue Nov 13, 2001 at 06:16:23AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> # Make the dynamic linker executable
> -ld_file = find_lib("ld-linux.so.2")
> +ld_file = find_lib("ld.so.1")
> ld_file_name = os.path.basename(ld_file)
> os.chmod(dest_path + "/" + ld_file_name, 0755)
You want to use something l
On Sat Oct 27, 2001 at 06:29:11PM -0700, David Kimdon wrote:
> I don't get this. The progress that we are trying to track here, I
> think, is the extracting and installing process. The download part of
> the bootstrap works fine (both installing drivers/kernel and base).
> debootstrap gives us n
On Fri Oct 26, 2001 at 06:46:06AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 04:44:43PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> >
> > I've built and uploaded updated versions of boot-floppies 3.0.16
> > prerelease at
> > http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/main/>. These
> > were buil
On Tue Oct 23, 2001 at 02:17:32PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote:
> Fine for C or Perl, but not for a sh script like debootstrap.
>
cool. I hadn't realized this was debootstrap. I keep
getting "debootstrap" and "dbootstrap" mixed up. Can't
imagine why... :)
-Erik
--
Erik B. Andersen
On Tue Oct 23, 2001 at 12:56:15PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 04:23:05AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > Umm. What possible good would it do to parse dd output? Check the
> > return code. or stat the output file if you are paranoid.
>
> It w
On Mon Oct 22, 2001 at 09:02:49AM -0500, EXT-Bellers, Chris wrote:
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: 3.0.15 (2001-10-08)
> Severity: grave
>
>
> Busybox, or a dependancy, appears to be broken in this version of the
> woody-powerpc root floppy.
> On my Power Mac 7300/180, the system boots from
On Sat Oct 20, 2001 at 01:40:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Have you guys thought about moving to busybox /bin/sh rather than ash?
> > Or do you do that already? Or something else?
>
> It wasn't quite a posix shell last time I checked. That was a while ago
> though.
bus
On Sat Oct 20, 2001 at 01:03:12AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:45:39AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > On Fri Oct 19, 2001 at 11:20:18PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > >
> > > busybox dd does not produce output like GNU dd.
> >
>
On Fri Oct 19, 2001 at 11:20:18PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> busybox dd does not produce output like GNU dd.
So you have specifics? I've not seen a bug report from you.
-Erik
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Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/
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On Fri Oct 19, 2001 at 08:17:07PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
> > New busybox; I think this is about all we can squeeze out of it (if it's
> > not going to far even..). Still 193k to go (compressed) before it'll fit
> > on a floppy again.
>
> Make that 143k -- I was missing a -pic
On Thu Oct 18, 2001 at 11:53:23PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Anthony Towns wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:06:30PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > halt, loadkmap, mkswap, poweroff, swapoff, swapon, chgrp, chmod, chown,
> > > date, dd, gzip (but we need gunzip), more, sleep, vi, zcat
> >
>
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