Re: initramfs-tools 0.7x pending changes - klibc only initramfs

2006-07-21 Thread Jeff Bailey
out that it was almost immeasurably fast on a tmpfs. =) While it's generally true that it's important not to optimise without test data to measure against, many of the things that I expected to take alot of time just don't because everything is already in memory. Tks, Jeff Bailey --

Re: d-i sparc build

2004-05-15 Thread Jeff Bailey
oth the beta4 branch and the trunk. I use anonymous to connect. How do I get its permissions fixed? Tks, Jeff Bailey -- What do they mean when they say "pirate"? They're saying that helping your neighbor is the moral equivalent of attacking a ship. - Richard M. Stallman signatur

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

2004-03-29 Thread Jeff Bailey
esult in that anyway. Tks, Jeff Bailey -- Ignorance was bliss. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: This is not a d-i BUG!!! - Bug#239136: sun ultra 30 beta 3 boot failure

2004-03-22 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 04:44, Safir Secerovic Linux Zagor wrote: > I believe this is not a bug, this occured at my sun ultra1 also, but it > is due to a CD-ROM drive on your ultra not READING A REWRITABLE CD > PROPERLY, TRY BURNING YOUR ISO IMAGE ON A PLAIN CD-R disc. That's an interesting theory

Bug#239012: sun ultra 2 beta 3 install

2004-03-20 Thread Jeff Bailey
i sets up for serial-only machines. I doubt this is sparc-specific, though. I'll probably hit this one when I start porting to Arm next week. Thank-you so much! Tks, Jeff Bailey -- I never know what to expect when you respond to my postings. No insult intended, you are merely a surprise :) - Carlos O'Donnell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

HPPA d-i -> Nightly builds now available

2004-03-19 Thread Jeff Bailey
ing those. Tks, Jeff Bailey -- Ignorance was bliss. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ports-status sparc update

2004-03-19 Thread Jeff Bailey
Joey, Can you please update the sparc section of: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status To reflect that netboot is different for sparc32 and sparc64? All the CDs are unified, however. I don't remember hearing a success report for sparc32. Tks, Jeff Bailey -- Igno

Re: RFC: discover 1 -> 2 transition plan for Debian

2004-03-16 Thread Jeff Bailey
at it's uncontested that discover is the best choice for 2.4, and that we're only talking about 2.6 kernels? Tks, Jeff Bailey -- Ignorance was bliss. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: discover 1 -> 2 transition plan for Debian

2004-03-16 Thread Jeff Bailey
ested because if we need hotplug anyway for pc-card stuff and possibly for correct udev support, it might make sense to not bother with discover2 at all, and just use discover1 for 2.4, and hotplug for 2.6. (I don't know what the 2.2 folks need) Tks, Jeff Bailey -- Ignorance was bliss. --

Re: RFC: discover 1 -> 2 transition plan for Debian

2004-03-16 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 03:37:50PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Jeff Bailey] > > I'm curious, though. The new hotplug seems to have the goal of > > replacing discover. It may make sense to use that instead of > > discover2 on 2.6 based systems (since it&#

Re: RFC: discover 1 -> 2 transition plan for Debian

2004-03-16 Thread Jeff Bailey
an find my latest packages on > http://pkg-discover.alioth.debian.org/. They are even apt-getable :-) > Also Jeff Bailey once said in private mail, that he will probably work on > discover and check if all patches are merged. He is working on 2.6 supp

ia64 nightlies

2004-03-12 Thread Jeff Bailey
I'm just finishing a trial run, but it looks like ia64 nightlies will be generated again starting tonight. Tks, Jeff Bailey -- Ignorance was bliss. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IA64 install experience (HP zx6000)

2004-03-12 Thread Jeff Bailey
of all that for me, so I was able to ignore it. Tks, Jeff Bailey -- Ignorance was bliss. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IA64 install experience (HP zx6000)

2004-03-12 Thread Jeff Bailey
achine that generates the nightly snapshots needs to be reinstalled, and I'm getting hit on this bug myself. =) Tks, Jeff Bailey -- I never know what to expect when you respond to my postings. No insult intended, you are merely a surprise :) - Carlos O'Donnell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Sparc64 Netbooting

2004-03-12 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 08:03, Thomas Poindessous wrote: > Ok, I found why. In initrd, /dev is not populated, and so there is no > /dev/console when initrd is mounted. I don't know why, maybe it's > related to devfs. > > Anyone has a idea ? > > PS : i did a mknod console c 5 1 in the initrd image

Bug#222630: acknowledged by developer (no longer uses ext2)

2004-03-04 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 10:37:27AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > partconf no longer offers ext2 as a choice, so this bug is resolved. > > Yoiks, what about people who want ext2? Erm. Yeah. Please keep. hurd-i386 only has ext2 and ufs as reasonable choices right now. -- Don't worry. You're ju

Re: Sparc d-i status

2004-02-24 Thread Jeff Bailey
s should be in the category "things anyone who cares about Sparc" can do, as opposed to the "benc and davem are the only ones with a clue how to fix this" category... =) Your call, though. Tks, Jeff Bailey -- I never know what to expect when you respond to my postings. No insult i

Re: Sparc d-i status

2004-02-24 Thread Jeff Bailey
27;t we just use parted for now, until a better solution comes around? It's in the archive, and AFAICT supports Sparc. (ia64 uses it right now, too) > we also need a silo-installer Right. Any takers? =) Tks, Jeff Bailey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sparc d-i status

2004-02-24 Thread Jeff Bailey
e partman thing will make this silently go away before we get there. Other TODOs: - Once we have CD Booting working, start producing snapshots for Manty to builds CDs from. - Switch from piggyback to tilo. tilo currently doesn't like our kernels, though. (This isn't necessary, just a nice

Re: debian-installer on arm status

2004-02-24 Thread Jeff Bailey
supported, or did they fit somehow boot off of those other images? Tks, Jeff Bailey -- I never know what to expect when you respond to my postings. No insult intended, you are merely a surprise :) - Carlos O'Donnell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: release status

2004-02-23 Thread Jeff Bailey
ppen first or around the same time. (Not critical, though, since discover1 generally works for most 2.6 cases) Tks, Jeff Bailey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: m68k port status update

2004-02-20 Thread Jeff Bailey
ate > to mess with separate package lists.) Let's work together on this - I've been thinking about it alot, and haven't come up with a solution that meets all the needs. =( Tks, Jeff Bailey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sparc : work & results

2004-02-15 Thread Jeff Bailey
nts about it, I'll probably apply my config. I don't have the skills to fix tilo, and we can always switch to it later. > Once these bugs are resolved, and fdisk-udeb, new kbd-chooser and > partionner are added to the archive, we will have a good d-i for sparc ! Have you tested wi

Re: Request for Testers - discover 2.0.2 packages

2004-02-14 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 02:33, Harald Dunkel wrote: > This patch would introduce /usr/bin/tr in discover-modprobe . > Is that a problem? This might cause a problem on systems that have /usr on a separate filesystem. Can you use "sed -e 's/-/_/g'" ? It's in /bin Tks

Re: Sparc netboot

2004-02-13 Thread Jeff Bailey
nt to play along, my nightly snapshot for Sparc will include this patch. Tks, Jeff Bailey On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:01:15PM +0100, Thomas Poindessous wrote: > Hi, > > about the problem with the "bus error", I think it's coming from the > file unifont.bgf > it'

Re: rmmod not available in installation shell

2004-02-13 Thread Jeff Bailey
modules anyway? Tks, Jeff Bailey -- I never know what to expect when you respond to my postings. No insult intended, you are merely a surprise :) - Carlos O'Donnell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: sparc : some problems and netboot image available

2004-02-12 Thread Jeff Bailey
7;s about > the line in config/i386/cdrom.cfg : > EXTRALIBS = /lib/libnss_dns* /lib/libresolv* I've been meaning to take a look at that, since libc-udeb should have those files in it anyway. Tks, Jeff Bailey -- I never know what to expect when you respond to my postings. No insult

Bug#227852: kbd-chooser: [PATCH] the last one, I hope

2004-02-12 Thread Jeff Bailey
body applied the two last patchs ? One of them was already done. Please don't keep overloading a single bug with multiple patches. Some of them are likely to get lost. I think I've got all of them in CVS now. Tks, Jeff Bailey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: [PATCH] small patch to fix cdrom build for sparc

2004-02-12 Thread Jeff Bailey
wait to see what BenC's comments on this are. I'm cc:'ing #231484, where I filed a tentative patch to tilo. Tks, Jeff Bailey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Allowing for different kernel revisions

2004-02-10 Thread Jeff Bailey
e be reasonably combined. Having separate directories, plus ranges within them. It would mean that we could keep decent historical information (like debian-cd still has potato and other things) without having to worry about cruft building up in the current sandbox. Tks, Jeff Bailey -- To UNS

Re: PC Card Ethernet After Reboot

2004-02-10 Thread Jeff Bailey
issue. I just had to poke around and insmod all the right pieces in the right order and it went. Consider using 'modprobe' instead, which often takes care of that for you. Tks, Jeff Bailey -- I never know what to expect when you respond to my postings. No insult intended, you are mer

Allowing for different kernel revisions

2004-02-09 Thread Jeff Bailey
ughts? Tks, Jeff Bailey -- I never know what to expect when you respond to my postings. No insult intended, you are merely a surprise :) - Carlos O'Donnell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: conditional for pkg-list, sparc needs two cdrom-initrd

2004-02-08 Thread Jeff Bailey
at the autobuilder sits in/ Tks, Jeff Bailey -- I never know what to expect when you respond to my postings. No insult intended, you are merely a surprise :) - Carlos O'Donnell signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: upgading sparc d-i bugs to release-critical

2004-02-07 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 18:13, Blars Blarson wrote: > The first six bugs in the list below are the ones I am talking about. > All have patches in the BTS and have been sitting unfixed for a couple > of weeks. Unless someone convinces me otherwise, I'll upgrade them to > grave in two days. This doe

Re: FWD: debian-installer help w/ sparc

2004-02-05 Thread Jeff Bailey
rouble figuring out exactly how to get them to > boot... Luvly! The linux-kernel-di stuff is almost done - I have to test thm's build patch to get the kernels named right. I've updated the image directories this afternoon for the new udebs. Hopefully there'll be Sparc images

Re: something for pci.lst

2004-01-26 Thread Jeff Bailey
who dual boot between the two. Tks, Jeff Bailey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Nightly ia64 netboot images

2004-01-22 Thread Jeff Bailey
e. I haven't attempted to install them (I'm not well setup for netboot here), so I can't say whether they should be "Building" or "Working" (anyone have a sec to try it?) Tks, Jeff Bailey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: beta 2 and beyond

2004-01-15 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 20:23, David Nusinow wrote: > And for discover1, there is a patch that apparently works to allow > discover1 to work with 2.6. I've been using the "modprobe -n" solution proposed in #223682 for a couple weeks now and it's been working well. Tks

Re: Problems building d-i on sparc: mklibs failed

2004-01-15 Thread Jeff Bailey
parc is multiarch. I'm working with BenC to get the Sparc kernels done such that they include the System.map for us. Then we need to point depmod to the right System.map for each architecture. (Recall that sun4u needs 64 bit kernels and sun4m cannot have them). See bug 227644 - I'm hoping t

Re: Problems building d-i on sparc: mklibs failed

2004-01-14 Thread Jeff Bailey
er building d-i I got a cdrom-image.img and a cdrom-initrd.gz You shouldn't need to do this - Sparc is generally expected to be in 32 bit mode when you're compiling. Other packages in Debian don't do anything to check for this. I generally do a "sparc32 /bin/bash" do ma

Re: Bug#212101: kernel CONFIG_TR interferes with busybox CONFIG_TR

2003-09-30 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:38:26PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > Discussing with Jeff Bailey on IRC today indicates that a solution is > forthcoming on this bug: he estimates that in a week, there will be new > glibc packages in the archive that don't depend on the upstream kernel

CD Image typo

2003-04-02 Thread Jeff Bailey
or bug against. Tks, Jeff Bailey -- Are you going to stay vegeterian? Are you going to start eating human flesh? (from http://www.moshez.org/vegeterian.html) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Processed: Reassign 175353

2003-01-23 Thread Jeff Bailey
reassign 175353 mklibs,libstc++5-pic thanks This bug does not apply to libc6 - our _pic.map files are arch-dependant. Tks, Jeff Bailey On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:33:20AM -0600, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > reassign 175353 mkli