Re: Partitioning schemes for partman-auto

2004-03-02 Thread Falk Hueffner
Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1.III.2004 at 20:10 Falk Hueffner wrote: > > > > Swap nowadays only serve to spill pages that haven't been accessed for > > hours, or to slow down the system enough so you can kill processes > > gone hay

Re: Partitioning schemes for partman-auto

2004-03-01 Thread Falk Hueffner
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Falk Hueffner wrote: > > This is the only partitioning scheme which in my opinion fits for > > users who might go with whatever the default is: > > > > / Whole harddisk > > swapnone, but 512M swap file (inde

Re: Partitioning schemes for partman-auto

2004-03-01 Thread Falk Hueffner
Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The partitioning schemes of partman-auto currently are only > examples. So if you have some idea for usefull partitioning just > tell it. I have to know what partitions your scheme has and an > example size of each partition as well as the minimal and

Re: [Q] make demo fails

2004-01-08 Thread Falk Hueffner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erich Waelde) writes: > else depmod -q -a -b ./tmp/demo/tree/ 2.4.22-1-386; fi ; > ==> depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented > > make[1]: *** [demo-tree-stamp] Error 1 > make: *** [demo] Error 2 > > What is the build system trying to tell me? > > I'm

Re: d-i on Alpha: failed installation

2004-01-06 Thread Falk Hueffner
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > main-menu(252): unaligned trap at 000120002844: 00012001d574 29 2 > > Hmm, I suppose the best way to find these might be to look at the build > logs... or use addr2line1(1) if you have an unstripped binary -- Falk -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: /etc/mailname

2003-12-19 Thread Falk Hueffner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > A few days ago I installed a Debian system (V3.0r1). > When emacs is invoked it says "No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default..." > and waits for 3 seconds. Of course this is very undesirable. > > Something is broken. Yes, and it's emacs. Waiting 3 seconds is just sill

Re: status of pppoe support in d-i ?

2003-12-16 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Marco d'Itri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I tried to rebuild d-i with ppp-udeb.deb in the local-udeb but it > >do not build anymore: > > > >461 symbols, 375 unresolved > >Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "/usr/bin/mklibs", line 469, in ? > >raise

Re: Language choser is also keyboard choser ??

2003-12-12 Thread Falk Hueffner
Daniele Nicolodi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I dont' like also the way to select language, is not clear. I like more > a solution like: > > Please chose your languge: > > DE - (I don't know german) > EN - Select that entry to procede in English > ES - (I don't know espagnol al

Re: [Fwd: Alpha Debian Netinst]

2003-11-17 Thread Falk Hueffner
> From: Andrew Forgue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Well, I'm trying the "sarge-alpha-netinst.iso" from testing (both > daily and non-daily) on an alpha PWS 500au with 128mb ram using > aboot/SRM and so far am unsuccessful. It dies while trying to mount > /dev/rd/0. If I tell it to use /dev/ram0 as a

Re: Alpha status

2003-11-12 Thread Falk Hueffner
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also busybox got miscompiled (tr support missing) due to > linux-kernel-header bugs (fixed?). Fixed in glibc (#212101), busybox probably needs recompilation, though. -- Falk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

2003-11-11 Thread Falk Hueffner
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > Then how do you know it is a bug in mklibs and it is not actually a > > > missing symbol? > > > > Which was the real reason it failed in every testcase I got my hand on > > so far. All of those suposedly mklibs weak symbols

Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

2003-11-11 Thread Falk Hueffner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) writes: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:54:31AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) writes: > > > > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:02:44AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: > | | | > I cannot find this informat

Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

2003-11-11 Thread Falk Hueffner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) writes: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:02:44AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: > | Can I get more information on why this is a bug in mklibs? > See bug 211092 ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211092 ) > > | Does some library a

Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

2003-11-11 Thread Falk Hueffner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) writes: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:02:34AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > Can I get more information on why this is a bug in mklibs? Does some > > library actually provide timeout_yet? If so, can I please see > > readelf -s -W outpu

Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

2003-11-10 Thread Falk Hueffner
Can I get more information on why this is a bug in mklibs? Does some library actually provide timeout_yet? If so, can I please see readelf -s -W output of it? -- Falk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#218632: srm_env module required by partitioner on Alpha

2003-11-02 Thread Falk Hueffner
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:54:02PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Thorsten Sauter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > | alpha.sh from partitioner relies on the srm_env module. Please add it > > > | to some core modules udeb. > > > > no idea about

Bug#218632: srm_env module required by partitioner on Alpha

2003-11-02 Thread Falk Hueffner
Thorsten Sauter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | alpha.sh from partitioner relies on the srm_env module. Please add it > | to some core modules udeb. > > no idea about alpha machines, but what about the comment line in > alpa.sh? > > > # Load srm_env.o if we can; this should fail on ARC-based sys

Bug#218632: srm_env module required by partitioner on Alpha

2003-11-02 Thread Falk Hueffner
Package: linux-kernel-di Severity: normal Hi, alpha.sh from partitioner relies on the srm_env module. Please add it to some core modules udeb. Falk -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: alpha Kernel: Linux juist 2.6.0-test3 #2 Sat Aug 9 20:21:49 CEST 200

Re: Ultimate bug: bringing sanity to linux

2003-10-31 Thread Falk Hueffner
Dominic-Luc Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Those CD images are useless to a newby without the bootup/install > diskettes for people who cannot go the network install route. Could you elaborate on that point? Most newbies will probably have PCs bought after 1995, which can boot from CDs. --

Bug#215448: di_mem_chunk_alloc() should return sizeof(long) or better alignment

2003-10-12 Thread Falk Hueffner
Richard Hirst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 11:48:07PM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > Just use long mem[] there, we can assume a C99 compiler, and it will > > ensure alignment (at least for all Linux platforms). > > Really? I thought the code

Bug#215448: di_mem_chunk_alloc() should return sizeof(long) or better alignment

2003-10-12 Thread Falk Hueffner
First, IMHO we should drop this stuff and just use malloc. I don't see any point in increasing code size and introducing new bugs thereby. Anyway: > struct di_mem_area > { > di_mem_area *next; /**< the next mem area */ > di_mem_area *prev; /**< the previous mem area */ >

Bug#178511: mklibs: Misses some symbols?

2003-10-04 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, the symbol parsing part of mklibs has been reworked in 0.1.12. Can you please check whether the problem is still there and if so, how exactly to reproduce it? -- Falk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Milo

2003-10-01 Thread Falk Hueffner
Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay, in Joey's summary of Oldenberg he hints @ Milo Source being > unavailable. Well, there's a version from Stefan Reinauer from Suse (http://www.suse.de/~stepan/), but it is difficult to compile with a non-Suse kernel source. He even has some source b

Re: aboot

2003-08-03 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Peter 'p2' De Schrijver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Attached you will find a patch for aboot which fixes the following > problems : > > - compile with gcc 3.3 > - printf("aboot: not an executable ELF file\n"); > + xprintf("aboot: not an executable ELF

Re: New d-i debcamp in a few months?

2003-07-22 Thread Falk Hueffner
> > > How many are interested in going to such event? Where are you > > > located in the world? Me too, but only if it's close and I don't have anything better to do at the time. Count me as approximately 0.4 persons. - Falk Hueffner - Tuebingen, Germany --

Bug#172828: mklibs : problem on mips

2003-04-03 Thread Falk Hueffner
Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm writing to you as the authors of mklibs Damn. Why does everybody think I know how mklibs works just because I wrote it? ;) Seriously, I just stole most stuff from existing scripts, I'm not really an expert on dynamic linking... > They are foun

Re: d-i: depmod fails on Alpha

2003-03-16 Thread Falk Hueffner
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Falk Hueffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm trying to build d-i on Alpha. I get this error: > > > > # Set up modules.dep, ensure there is at least one standard dir (kernel > > # in this case), s

Bug#184908: Missing build dependency on gtk

2003-03-15 Thread Falk Hueffner
Package: cdebconf Version: unavailable; reported 2003-03-15 Severity: important Justification: fails to build from source Current CVS: [...] Compiling /home/falk/debian/debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/src/modules/frontend /gtk/gtk.c to gtk.opic Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config sea

d-i: depmod fails on Alpha

2003-03-15 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, I'm trying to build d-i on Alpha. I get this error: # Set up modules.dep, ensure there is at least one standard dir (kernel # in this case), so depmod will use its prune list for archs with no # modules. mkdir -p ./tmp/net/tree/lib/modules/2.4.20-generic/kernel depmod -q -a -b ./tmp/net/tree/

Bug#184375: Typo in srm-reader

2003-03-11 Thread Falk Hueffner
Package: srm-reader Version: 0.01 (not installed) Severity: normal [ -e /proc/srm_environmenti/named_variables/language ] || exit 0 ^ an i too much (BTW, I didn't actually test the package, just had a look) Falk -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/un

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-12 Thread Falk Hueffner
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 05:12:06PM +0300, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:24:25 +0100 > > > "ML" == Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ML> > > ML> Alexander Kotelnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I have faced

Bug#172828: mklibs: loops on mips

2002-12-12 Thread Falk Hueffner
Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The man page doesn't mention an option to actually show the > unresolved symbols. You can give -v twice. This should probably be a separate option. -- Falk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: working on the Alpha port

2002-12-12 Thread Falk Hueffner
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 05:12:06PM +0300, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:24:25 +0100 > > > "ML" == Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ML> > > ML> Alexander Kotelnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I have faced

Re: Default disk partition table type?

2002-12-11 Thread Falk Hueffner
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK. Is this a good approximation? > > /* Need to define on a per arch basis */ > #if defined(__i386__) > # define DISK_LABEL "msdos" > #elif defined(ia64) > # define DISK_LABEL "msdos" > #elif defined(hppa) > # define DISK_LABEL

Re: keyboard

2002-10-12 Thread Falk Hueffner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm interested in a price of a Turkish keyboard We don't sell Turkish keyboards. In fact, we don't sell anything. See http://www.debian.org/ for what we actually do. -- Falk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Bug#154169: mklibs: bug re-introduces (symlinks)

2002-07-25 Thread Falk Hueffner
Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

Re: Helping a port?

2002-07-24 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 22:32, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > Wartan Hachaturow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Recently I've got a Alpha (164LX), and now ready to join the > > > effort.

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 -

Re: b-f bug maint and reassigning to install-doc

2002-07-12 Thread Falk Hueffner
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 09 Apr 2002 at 10:07:38 -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > reassign 126030 milo > [...] > > Bug 126030 must be a milo issue, right? > > Where does milo come from, anyway? #126030 isn't assigned to anyone at > the moment because there is no milo package

Bug#147841: Alphaserver 2100 5/250

2002-05-23 Thread Falk Hueffner
reassign 147841 kernel-image-2.2.20-generic thanks Looks like a problem with the kernel. Did you ever get any other Linux kernel to boot on this machine? A 2.4 kernel for example? -- Falk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: bootable woody alpha netinst cd/iso

2002-05-19 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Ted Goodridge, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to know what to tell the installer (what URL) to grab alpha > woody I don't think you can do that... You'll have to install potato first and then upgrade to woody. -- Falk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: bootable woody alpha netinst cd/iso

2002-05-19 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Ted Goodridge, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Um, the potato images will work? How? Well, by burning a CD from them, inserting it into the CDROM drive and booting from it... I'm afraid I cannot really help you unless you're a bit more specific about your problems :) Falk -- To UN

Re: bootable woody alpha netinst cd/iso

2002-05-19 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Ted Goodridge, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm offlist, so please CC me directly > > I am in dire need of a woody bootable iso image for alpha. My > floppy drives have died on me and have no way of doing a clean > install. The only working os I have is windows Could someone > gi

Re: Debian GNU/Linux on a floppyless Alpha

2002-04-05 Thread Falk Hueffner
Frank Ecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've had some fun trying to install the Potato release > of Debian GNU/Linux on a DEC Alpha Station. Everything > was fine until the installation routine asked me to > place a floppy disk into the drive associated with > /dev/fd0. Apparently, it was abou

Re: alpha/milo install on multia

2002-03-25 Thread Falk Hueffner
Florian Lohoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > except the sparse ext2 which i did not get working (Does the 2.2 Milo > really support this) Hmm, I was pretty sure it does. > there seems to be a problem with "Make system bootable from > disk". Selecting this pops up something like "Found DOS parti

Re: alpha/milo sparse ext2 install

2002-03-24 Thread Falk Hueffner
Florian Lohoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > it seems the Alpha install disks when installing via Milo (i did so > on my Multia) does not ask for ext2 kernel 2.0 backward compatibility > as it assumes the milo is built on 2.0 kernels (Which was true for > potato). Hm, I'm not quite sure I unders

Re: 3.0.21 bf2.4 report

2002-03-24 Thread Falk Hueffner
Othmar Pasteka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "mounted" perhaps "eingebunden" for consistency? > > yeah, that's sounds great, and it makes sense, opposed to the > above... i never ever read wurzel-dateisystem in a german book :). I think the standard German term is "eingehÃĪngt", which IMHO is

Re: Small patch (makes root.bin about 3900 byte smaller)

2002-03-06 Thread Falk Hueffner
Christian Leber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > could somebody please apply this small non intrusive patch or say me why > it is not an option? > (against CVS from _now_, it belongs just before the "disk loop image > filesystem" is created) > > Index: rootdisk.sh >

Re: Bug#136561: joel@diggy.com.au: missing drivers in jensen (alpha) boot floppies]

2002-03-03 Thread Falk Hueffner
Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anybody actually stepped forward to do an alpha build? I don't > think we should mark bugs as "pending" until they really are being > worked on. > > FWIW, I can build some alpha disks today if nobody else is on the case. I'm currently working o

Re: Kernel Config's for Alpha Boot Disk's

2002-01-20 Thread Falk Hueffner
campbell steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've had a pretty good look around to try and find the kernel config > file for the debian alpha boot disks, they don't seem to be in the > same place like the x86 ones are. If someone can point me in the > right direction to find them then that would

Bug#126030: boot-floppies eb164 milo hangs when lanuched by ARC linload.exe

2002-01-06 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, does any of the 2.2 milos from http://www.suse.de/~stepan/ work? I would like to use them by default, because 2.0 milos can't load kernels from newer ext2 file systems; but if it just doesn't work, I'll try to hardcode 2.0 milo for the release and document this. Falk -- To UNSUBS

Re: alpha netboot status?

2001-12-27 Thread Falk Hueffner
Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The "todo" file mentions: > > o Alpha todo: > * fix netboot > > Anyone know what the specific problem is here? Netboot seems to > work OK for me at the moment. I added that ages ago when the netboot stuff didn't even build, I've fixe

Re: 3.0.17 alpha nfs-root install problems

2001-12-19 Thread Falk Hueffner
Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 > > bu

Re: 3.0.17 alpha nfs-root install problems

2001-12-18 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Sam Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Most impressed with the new installer. Just having some grief with > installing to an alpha (specifically multia) which has no disk > devices. Boots fine. Mounts root over NFS fine. Downloads files > from the network fine. Just refuses to mount the re

Re: woody install on alpha

2001-12-10 Thread Falk Hueffner
Robert Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i just installed woody on an alpha system and i encountered a couple > of potential issues/problems that you might want to hear about: > > my system is 164ux based and uses arcbios. i downloaded the floppy > images and milo from "3.0.17-2001-11-2". >

Bug#121110: boot-floppies: TFTP boot on Alpha broken

2001-12-01 Thread Falk Hueffner
Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Falk Hueffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Package: boot-floppies > > Version: N/A; reported 2001-11-25 > > Severity: normal > > > > Installing via tftpboot.img will stall at installation o

Bug#121915: INSTALLATION - Alpha 1st driver floppy not recognized

2001-12-01 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, I'm afraid we don't have the resources to fix this currently. You may want to try the woody boot floppies instead, which can be found at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-alpha/current/ Falk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Bug#121200: Troubles

2001-11-26 Thread Falk Hueffner
Alexander Zavaruhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: boot-floppies > Version: 2.2.20-2000-12-03 > architecture: alpha > model: DEC 3000 > memory: 32Mb > > I have boot from SRM console by command "b dka500 -fl 0" > Floppy was created by command "dd if=rescue.bin of=/dev/fd0" > rescue.bin -

Bug#121110: boot-floppies: TFTP boot on Alpha broken

2001-11-25 Thread Falk Hueffner
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; reported 2001-11-25 Severity: normal Installing via tftpboot.img will stall at installation of libc6.1, as has been reported to debian-alpha several times, e.g. http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2001/debian-alpha-200110/msg00010.html. "rgh" told me on IRC:

Re: testing CD that boots

2001-11-21 Thread Falk Hueffner
A Mennucc1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a local testing repository and I periodically make CDs out of > it, using debian-cd > > I would like to make a CD that boots, and to use it to install a PC; > and to use (and test) the latest boot method > > what should I do? Install the debian-c

Re: langs.xml error

2001-11-20 Thread Falk Hueffner
Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 06:14:40PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > LC_CTYPE=en_IN.UTF-8 reduce-font /usr/src/unifont.bdf < all.utf > >unifont-reduced.bdf > > setlocale: en_IN.UTF-8 > > FYI: MB_CUR_MAX/MB_LEN_MAX

Re: langs.xml error

2001-11-20 Thread Falk Hueffner
Claus Hindsgaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: Falk Hueffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 4:00 PM > > What's the problem there? > > I believe this is because alpha has no items in the *.src files. Look at the > english.sr

langs.xml error

2001-11-20 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, with CVS boot-floppies I get on Alpha: [...] iconv -f `head -1 croatian.src | sed -e 's/^.*charset="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/'` -t utf-8 < croatian.src > croatian.xml iconv -f `head -1 norwegian.src | sed -e 's/^.*charset="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/'` -t utf-8 < norwegian.src > norwegian.xml gcc -c -Wall -g

Module location

2001-11-04 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, when I try to install the modules for Alpha, having the boot disk stuff in a dir on my harddisk, I get: Nov 4 19:14:53 (none) user.info dbootstrap[53]: no '/instmnt//dists/woody/main/disks-alpha/current//images-1.44/rescue.bin' files found, kernel not in the default location Nov 4 19:14:

Re: test of woody tftpboot.img stalls

2001-11-01 Thread Falk Hueffner
(I cc this to debian-boot in case somebody has an idea about the init stuff) "Mikael Westerberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Still problems with latest tftboot.img(3.0.16-2001-10-30). During > two attempts to install the installation has stalled while > extracting libc6. I can still switch c

Re: Cant install anymore... VERY CRITICAL

2001-10-22 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Roger Eklund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > its impossible to install debian from the net... ive tried woody > several times and several days now on diffrent connections and > computers... its something in the installation scrip.. it downloads > the base system and extracts it.. but when it

Re: Woody install report

2001-10-21 Thread Falk Hueffner
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > (3) in the post-boot configuration, why are MD5 passwords defaulted to > > "No" ie not enabled ? > > compatibility with crufty old unixes i suppose. if you were to make > the box into an NIS server that would matter i think. Somebody who wants that

Bug#116413: Alpha: Wrong partition No. for aboot

2001-10-21 Thread Falk Hueffner
Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Falk Hueffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ok, I can fix this, the SILO part already has equivalent code to > > handle this that I can steal. But I don't see any point in having > > a separate /boot partit

Bug#116413: Alpha: Wrong partition No. for aboot

2001-10-20 Thread Falk Hueffner
Jan-Benedict Glaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: boot-floppies > Architecture: Alpha > Version: current/ > Distribution: woody/sid > > After installing my videocard-less system (with more or less PITA) I > had difficulties to boot it. I've added an extra partition for /boot > (as I norma

Re: installing

2001-10-19 Thread Falk Hueffner
"ivo jorris graad.p" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I bought a set of Debian 2.2r3. there are 3 source cds, 3 binary alpha > cds and 3 binary i386 cds. > I want to install Debian into DEC Personal Workstation 600a, I've upgrade > the bios and now I'm using SRM console. > I want to ask how to insta

MontaVista library optimizer

2001-09-23 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, MontaVista have released their library reducing tool at http://sourceforge.net/projects/libraryopt/. Has anybody checked yet whether this is suitable for us? In the long time, it seems to be more reasonable to use an external tool instead of hacking our own scripts; and at first glance, it

Re: Alpha Milo/rescue/root floppies on LX164

2001-08-15 Thread Falk Hueffner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With ArcBIOS v5.70: > The LX164 MILO disk works great. The install is almost flawless, with > two exceptions: > tasksel exits with an error stating that all task definitions are > duplicated. This condition is present also in the woody & sid versions > of tasksel o

Re: Alpha Boot Floppies: new version

2001-08-14 Thread Falk Hueffner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Anthony Towns just posted a method on debian-boot [of making a > > basedebs.tgz file] > > OK, I gave this a try, same result; let me type in the end of console > 4 (anything really odd is probably a typo): > > dpkg: warning - ignoring pre-depencency problem ! > (Re

Re: Alpha Boot Floppies: new version

2001-08-14 Thread Falk Hueffner
Doug Larrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quoting Falk Hueffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > That's really good news. I couldn't get bootp to work, so I > > couldn't test it. There were some suspicious hacks in the > > previous version... &

Re: Alpha Boot Floppies: new version

2001-08-14 Thread Falk Hueffner
Doug Larrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The good news? bootp/tftp boot works great! In SRM, you need to > select bootp via console variable ('set ewa0_protocol bootp' or > something like that) rather than via a flag to the boot command > ('boot -proto bootp ewa0' does not work, failing with

Alpha Boot Floppies: new version

2001-08-09 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, I've built new boot floppies from the current boot-floppies CVS and put them on ftp://134.2.15.134/boot-floppies/disks-alpha/. I think they are now in a state to be added to ftp.debian.org at the next boot-floppies release. I've used MILO 2.2-17 this time, since 2.2-18 was reported to be brok

Re: Alpha bootdisk status

2001-08-09 Thread Falk Hueffner
Istvan Gyenes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8 Aug 2001, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > > Here are my plans for the Alpha bootdisks: > > > > * special Jensen and Nautilus stuff. I can't test this, I can only try > > not to break it. > > I'll t

Alpha bootdisk status

2001-08-08 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, Herbert Xu has uploaded a fixed ash to incoming, so the crash problem when installing modules will go away soon. The alpha bootdisk generation is generally a bit crufty and broken, I intended to clean up things a bit, but I have not much knowledge about the different Alpha systems, I've only

Re: Library reduction on Alpha (was: Re: Alpha: aboot rescue disk)

2001-08-07 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Christopher C. Chimelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7 Aug 2001, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > > Yes, it acually doesn't seem to make any difference. With mklibs.sh: > > What exactly does this script do to libc (or really, what isn't it > doing

Library reduction on Alpha (was: Re: Alpha: aboot rescue disk)

2001-08-07 Thread Falk Hueffner
Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > P. S. the mklibs.sh libm trick didn't seem to work > > Meaning -- didn't reduce far enough? Yes, it acually doesn't seem to make any difference. With mklibs.sh: -rw-r--r--1 root root 1743331 Aug 7 18:37 root.bin total 4273 -rwxr-xr-x

Re: libm on root-filesystem?

2001-08-05 Thread Falk Hueffner
Goswin Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ls -l lib > total 2137 > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 124160 Aug 6 06:22 ld-2.2.3.so* > > mklibs.py: > ls -l lib > total 1542 > -rw-r--r--1 root root 124160 Aug 6 06:03 ld-2.2.3.so Hmm, needs to be made executable IIRC, but I

Alpha: aboot rescue disk

2001-08-05 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, currently, the rescue disk for Alphas with SRM/aboot doesn't work because e2writeboot fails. The first problem is that e2writeboot doesn't return a nonzero status on failure so this will go unnotified; I've tried filing a bug about this but the BTS is down. It fails because the disk is too f

Re: New bootdisks / first install report / help needed

2001-08-05 Thread Falk Hueffner
Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Helge Kreutzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I can try them on a ruffian which is currently out of production due to > > some technical difficulties and on my LX, maybe on an XP1000. Regarding > > my LX I cannot complete the installation due to m

Re: Build problem for Alpha bootdisks

2001-08-02 Thread Falk Hueffner
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:31:20AM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > method is wasteful because it downloads all dependencies. So I suggest > > this as a workaround till we can get apt-get to ignore dependencies > > *complete

Re: Build problem for Alpha bootdisks

2001-08-01 Thread Falk Hueffner
Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But didn't someone mention this was a sysvinit bug which was getting > fixed? I have no idea. In any case, as Ethan Benson already pointed out (http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0107/msg00639.html), the current method is wasteful because it downloads

Re: Build problem for Alpha bootdisks

2001-07-30 Thread Falk Hueffner
Thimo Neubauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 03:45:37AM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > Do I have to add sysvinit to the package list, or what's the problem? > > The problem was already being discussed starting at > http://lists.debian.org/d

Build problem for Alpha bootdisks

2001-07-29 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, I'm just trying to build the boot disks for Alpha, but I get: I: downloading required packages from files /data/src/boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/EXTRACT_LIST_all /data/src/boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/EXTRACT_LIST_alpha D: ash base-passwd busybox console-data dhcp-client debootstrap e