Bug#389430: Commenting on the add-on debs issues...

2008-10-21 Thread Nathanael Nerode
parallel in structure to runs of floppy-retriever, which can check for a new floppy every time. If nobody is willing to actually take a look at my patches, perhaps you'd at least consider the analysis I put into it. My approach works better than dann's because it was designed properly.

Bug#405886: PATCH: add invocation mode for custom add-on udebs

2007-01-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
=== --- debian/copyright(revision 43677) +++ debian/copyright(working copy) @@ -2,3 +2,7 @@ anna is Copyright (C) 2000 by Joey Hess, under the terms of the GPL. Apologetically dedicated to my sister, Anna. + +Portions copyright

Customization-modules is working

2006-12-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
OK, I guess my previous message didn't get through (probably too many attachments). :-P I have customization-modules working. This is the scheme for allowing users to load custom udebs from CD, floppy, or the Internet during installation. Please advise (on the list, please; my private mail is e

Re: creating a netinstall iso from the installer

2006-10-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
>(_`> O o _; _;'7^'_ \;\ % > (GnuPG/PGP-encrypted mail preferred) _;\ _.\ _.';;) ;,;_/; > Key ID: 0x94620736 _ _'./_\('))_; );/\)}/`fsc -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Customization-modules: working version

2006-10-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
27;t want choose-mirror to configure when the user didn't choose net, for instance. All in all, this is going pretty well. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

First pass at 'customization-modules'

2006-10-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
testing has been done yet, because I'm still struggling with the installer image building process. :/ So there may be stupid bugs. Hopefully I'll manage to do testing soon. In the meantime, anyone who wants to improve this, go for it. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R

Re: Preparing linux-2.6 2.6.18-1

2006-09-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 11:25:15AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> At a minumum, the patch for tg3 exists and is fully >> functional: check with [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the version against er, that's @recycle.lbl.gov I'm having him send me a co

Bug#389430: PATCH: restructure to enable use for add-on debs

2006-09-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: net-retriever Severity: wishlist This could be easily implemented as a separate module, but I have been asked to avoid code duplication in d-i. This is intended as a first step towards full support for "add-on" udebs in the installer: udebs which can be added in at install time from a no

Re: PATCH: net-retriever -- restructure to enable use for add-on udebs

2006-09-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 24 September 2006 16:53, Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> This is intended as a first step towards full support for "add-on" >> udebs in the installer: udebs which can be added in at install time >> from a non-standard source, by manual invoca

PATCH: net-retriever -- restructure to enable use for add-on udebs

2006-09-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
fetch "dists/$codename/$pkgfile" "$Packages" || continue - checkmatch "$Release" "$pkgfile" \ - "$(md5sum "$Packages" | cut -d' ' -f1)" \ - "$(wc -c < "$Packages" | tr -d ' ')" - if [ "$ext" = '' ]; then - cat "$Packages" >> "$1" - elif [ "$ext" = .gz ]; then - zcat "$Packages" >> "$1" - fi - ret=0 - break - done - done - exit $ret + /usr/lib/debian-installer/retriever/net-retriever-core packages "$@" + exit $? ;; xerror) + # Override core behavior T="retriever/net/error" db_set "$T" "Retry" db_input critical "$T" || true -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Theocracy, fascism, or absolute monarchy -- I don't care which it is, I don't like it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Preparing linux-2.6 2.6.18-1

2006-09-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
remove dgrs based on its uselessness; we'll see what happens. > without having to deal with the two new GRs a week over highly emotional > issues, not mentioning the remaining bullshit that is going on beside it > (RM payement, > duck stuff, Duck stuff? Quack, Quack? I h

Re: Preparing linux-2.6 2.6.18-1

2006-09-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
rivers/scsi/ql1040_fw.h - drivers/usb/serial/ti_fw_3410.h - drivers/usb/serial/ti_fw_5052.h -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Preparing linux-2.6 2.6.18-1

2006-09-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
believe that the kernel team is acting in good faith to try to satisfy the Social Contract. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: non-free firmware and d-i

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ite* sure how to write that code (everything else mentioned here I think I could write right now pretty much). There is no usbstick-retriever or harddisk-retriever. There should be, for reasons beyond customization disks: it's a little silly that those options require an ISO image. :-) Th

Re: non-free firmware and d-i

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
t and get the list of udebs? However, your implementation has the advantage of being simpler and less dependent on complicated setup of the customization discs. Let's prove that Joey's six month estimate is wrong by doing it in less time even though we don't understand d-i very

Re: non-free firmware and d-i

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
here this approach will fail, excepting the impossible case, and you haven't identified any such places either. Your outline includes no points where it will fail except the impossible case: I counted. :-) -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and

Supporting multiple udeb sources.... is it really this easy?

2006-08-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
..(configure anna and the retriever, run anna with that retriever). What tricky bit am I missing? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder... Get me out of this fascist nightmare! -- T

Re: Patches to the installation manual 1: Appendix

2006-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Frans Pop wrote: >(CCing as I'm not sure if you're subscribed.) I'm not actually subscribed, but I follow the list through the web pages and the news gateway, so you don't need to Cc: me. >On Thursday 03 August 2006 02:53, Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> This fixes up

Rewriting the manual's partitioning/schemes.html: swapping and all that

2006-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
of swap you were wasting. ;-) Any arguments against that? If not, what needs to be done to make this an installer possibility (write a small installer module perhaps)? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Theocracy, fascism, or absolute monarchy -- I don't care which it is, I

Installer Manual Patches #6: Remove old mknod notes

2006-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
mark your boot partition as -Bootable. - One key point when partitioning for Mac type disks is that the -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Installation manual patches #6: remove more 2.4 obsolescence

2006-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
t is not available -when booting from a floppy. - - - - After a while you will be asked to select your language. Use the arrow keys -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Installation Manual Patches #5: i386 supported architecture update

2006-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
; now they can. + + + + @@ -29,7 +60,7 @@ communicate with peripherals such as storage devices. Your computer must use the ISA, EISA, PCI, the Microchannel Architecture (MCA, used in IBM's PS/2 line), or VESA Local Bus (VLB, sometimes called the VL -bus). +bus). Essentially all PCs sold in

Installation Manual Patches 4: RARP cleanup

2006-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
s for -the client is listed in the ethers database (either in the -/etc/ethers file, or via NIS/NIS+) and in the -hosts database. Then you need to start the RARP daemon. -In SunOS 4, issue the command (as root): -/usr/etc/rarpd -a; in SunOS 5, use -/usr/sbin/rarpd -a. - -- Nathanael Nerod

Installation Manual Patches 3: Remove obsolete 2.4 references

2006-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
exceeded, the kernel will panic. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installation Manual Patch 2: Fix obsolete URL

2006-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
erWorks. +http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/index.html";>zSeries page at the developerWorks. In short, G5, Multiprise 3000, G6 and all zSeries are fully supported; Multiprise 2000, G3 and G4 machines are supported with IEEE floating point emulation and thus degr

Patches to the installation manual 1: Appendix

2006-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
One can endlessly read zeros out of this device -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Definition of COUNTRY (Was: Resignation)

2004-05-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Adam Majer wrote: > Indeed. The word "country" needs to be replaced by "locale" or similar. That's a good choice, actually, especially given that the technical name for the thing which this selection is used for is indeed "locale". Despite the "language_country" form of locales (which was misguid

Re: Serbian translation begins

2004-04-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Christian Perrier wrote: > (Alex Malinovic, serbian tanslator, and Safir Secerovic, bosnian > translator, CC'ed. Please keep CC unless one of both mentions he's > subscribed to -boot) > > Quoting Anton Zinoviev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> > This is cyrillic-written Serbian. >> >> This is interest

Re: d-i, FAI, quik-installer for oldworld, debconf4

2004-04-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Holger Levsen wrote: > At the moment FAI is mainly used on i386, with some success stories on > sparc, ia64 and powerpc. Since FAIs design is architecture independent > (the only special requierement is nfsroot) it should be possible to extend > the support to all eleven (or 12) architectures Debi

Re: Bug#242782: languagechooser: Give more hints about the way to navigate in the list

2004-04-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Nathanael Nerode ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> Here's some English language template polishing in the form of sed >> replacements. The s/for seeing/to see/ is mandatory ("for seeing" is >> incorrect here); the rest is just p

Bug#242782: languagechooser: Give more hints about the way to navigate in the list

2004-04-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Christian Perrier wrote: > In the meantime, at least for the languagechooser screen, a very short > hint would help. > > I propose > > Description: Choose a language > The language may be chosen by scrolling down this list with Up/Down keys s/down/through/ s,with Up/Down,with the Up Arrow

Re: Location list proposal [was: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?]

2004-04-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> Please, we should be moving away from including countries at all on the >> language chooser screen. I think the current mix of languages and >> languages+countries on the first screen is very distracting already, and >>

Re: partman (was Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive)

2004-04-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting VEROK Istvan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> I echo the same sentiment. In my Hungarian translation of the "wizard" >> strings, I used something like "partitioning helped by the Wizard" or >> "partitioning guided by the Wizard". > > The french translation uses the c

Re: partman (was Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive)

2004-04-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 10:46:05PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >> >> We do have a beta3 branch in the repo, but it's acting more like a tag, >> I guess, no changes have been made to it. >> >> I tried the new partman, and it works great. Wow, that's a lot of work! >> My only q

Re: Technically: What is the point to identity to country/province, anyway?

2004-04-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 09:26:42AM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: >> I still have no clue on why "country/province" information is >> technically needed. Sure, "language" is needed, and so does "time zone", >> "keyboard", etc. But for what is "country"? > > It's use

Re: Location list proposal [was: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?]

2004-04-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Dave Jones wrote: > The country's name is "ROC"(Republic of China). > > Taiwan Province is an administrative subdivision of the Republic of China > (ROC). Even though the province-level municipalities of Taipei City and > Kaohsiung City are on the island of Taiwan, they are not administratively >

Re: partman (was Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive)

2004-04-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Joey Hess wrote: > I tried the new partman, and it works great. Wow, that's a lot of work! > My only quibble is with the use of the term Wizard, as in "Use the > Wizard to partition". I don't think wizard is a proper noun, so should > not be capitalised, and I don't see how this is better than the

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-04-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On 5.IV.2004 at 01:08 Thiemo Seufer wrote: >> >> > Eeeww... why was this? I remember partman/libparted had trouble >> > making DVH disklabels... was that the only reason for MIPS? > > There is also a problem with the numbering of the partitions (#238838, > #220990). I h

Re: Technically: What is the point to identity to country/province, anyway?

2004-04-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Alexander Winston wrote: > On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 09:26 +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > >> Hi: >> >> I still have no clue on why "country/province" information is >> technically needed. Sure, "language" is needed, and so does "time zone", >> "keyboard", etc. But for what is "country"? >

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-04-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-05 15:31]: >> > Lack of support for several arm subarch partitioning schemes. >> >> So far I (and probably the maintainers of parted also) have no info >> about this. :-( > > It doesn't support acorn labels (acorn-fdisk does

Re: Must debian-installer use iso-codes package when choosing country?

2004-04-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Joey Hess wrote: > I suggest that anyone who has an idea on the matter, tell it to > Christian and Alastair. Well, I did suggest buying a National Geographic Atlas and using the names on that. I also suggested using the long names for *everywhere*. -- Make sure your vote will count. http://ww

Re: Sugested string change in s390/netdevice

2004-04-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Eddy Petrisor wrote: > Hello Bastian, > > I am Eddy Petrisor, translator for Romaian language. > > I have come across the following string in s390/netdevice: > > [...] This parameter is required > for cards with microcode level 2.10 or later or when you want to share a > card. Actually, it shou

Re: English string in partman-target

2004-04-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
> I am not a native english speaker, but somehow the use of "consists > of" does not really feel proper here... It is, in fact, proper. However, these two previously suggested alternatives are both better: > "Partitioning a hard drive is the process of dividing it logically to > create..." >

Re: splitting root floppy by languages

2004-04-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Joey Hess wrote: > I don't feel that this is a very useful split, because you have to > assume that users may *not* be aware of these categories, and so you end > up having to list all the languages on each disk. Are there *any* categories you can assume that users will be aware of (and understan

Re: splitting root floppy by languages

2004-04-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Steve Langasek wrote: > Slavic languages are split between Latin2 and Cyrillic for the character > sets, so this may not an optimal grouping. Working out the character set groupings? Great idea... I really have absolutely no idea which languages use which code points. I was just trying to come

Re: Basque translation

2004-04-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Christian Perrier wrote: > HuhCatalan, Castillan, Galician and now Basquegreat great > great... And you have Portuguese. Yes, Iberia is well covered. -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Must debian-installer use iso-codes package when choosing country?

2004-04-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Christian Perrier wrote: > -Alastair and I recently updated the list to the most recent official > list of english and french names for "countries, regions are areas of > specific geopolitical interest"...exact wording of ISO-3166 list I love the phrase "of specific geopolitical interest". Yeech

Re: splitting root floppy by languages

2004-04-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Hmm. Indonesian (id) has its own alphabet. Correction, no, brain-fade. > So does Turkish (tr). But not very many non-Latin letters in it. :-) -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Must debian-installer use iso-codes package when choosing country?

2004-04-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Nathanael Nerode wrote: > So I wouldn't worry, as long as this is a list of *countries*, anyway, > since there's no other *country* called Macedonia (given that Greece Of course, as I said elsewhere, Taiwan can't be in a "country" list, so you can't deal with

Re: Re: Must debian-installer use iso-codes package when choosing country?

2004-04-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Anthony Johnson wrote: > > --- "Carlos Z.F. Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 05:48:43PM -0800, Anthony >> Johnson wrote: >> > No, some of you did, but more don't(especially >> people >> > in China mainland), AFAIK. >> As a chinese, I think most people in mainland won't >

Re: Must debian-installer use iso-codes package when choosing country?

2004-04-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Herbert Xu wrote: > Carlos Z.F. Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 05:48:43PM -0800, Anthony Johnson wrote: >>> No, some of you did, but more don't(especially people >>> in China mainland), AFAIK. >> As a chinese, I think most people in mainland won't mind using "Taiwan" >>

Re: Must debian-installer use iso-codes package when choosing country?

2004-04-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Herbert Xu wrote: > Carlos Z.F. Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 05:48:43PM -0800, Anthony Johnson wrote: >>> No, some of you did, but more don't(especially people >>> in China mainland), AFAIK. >> As a chinese, I think most people in mainland won't mind using "Taiwan" >>

Re: Must debian-installer use iso-codes package when choosing country?

2004-04-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Alastair McKinstry wrote: > DÃ Domh, 2004-04-04 ag 02:53 +0200, scrÃobh Frans Pop: > >> I really think that using the 'really' short names (that is just plain >> Taiwan instead of Taiwan, P.. of C..) would not be a bad compromise >> despite what the official so called short UN names say. And note

Re: Re: [i18n] String Changes in iso-codes

2004-04-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Christian Perrier wrote: > the zh_TW language. Seriously, it shouldn't be zh_(COUNTRY) at *all* -- it's certainly possible to use traditional Chinese in mainland China and it's done when copying ancient texts. The (language)_(country) system is only really appropriate when the country corresp

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-04-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Thorsten Sauter wrote: >> >> Hello d-i peoples, >> >> since we have partman now, I'm wondering if it is time to remove some >> unused packages from the archive. This will reduce the size of available >> packages for d-i and makes my bugs list smaller. :-) >> >> I have an

Re: corrections

2004-04-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 3) regarding having to have mac os installed (however small), would > immediately put stuff (d-i ?) into non-free Contrib, actually. -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: splitting root floppy by languages

2004-04-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> Everything except the asian langs currently fits on one floppy still, >> but that is unlikely to last. I need to find some way to split the latin >> languages, or perhaps split out the cryllic ones. > > This would give us: >

Re: Bug#239627: mails stupid debconf note to user when lilo is installed in d-i

2004-03-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Joey Hess wrote: > AndrÃs RoldÃn wrote: >> If you look into the lilo.config file on debian directory of the lilo >> source, you will notice that this warning is being displayed because >> there is a file called /boot/boot.b being either a symbolic link or a >> normal file. Those files were used by

Bug#239121: dhclient dumps such info into dhclient.leases, I think.

2004-03-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Joshua Kwan wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 11:23:54AM +1100, Andrew Pollock wrote: >> The installer currently defaults the hostname of a new installation to >> "debian". I think it would be sensible for it default to whatever >> hostname is provided via DHCP, if one is, otherwise fall back to >>

Re: Bug#239591: Hostname needed for DHCP

2004-03-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Frans Pop wrote: > This bugreport is related to #236533 > See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=236533 > > Maybe the two could be merged? Ek. Other ISPs *send* the hostname *after* you connect with DHCP I'm not sure exactly how to ask such a hostname question when you on

Re: [IMPORTANT] Moving to Subversion

2004-03-22 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 02:14:40PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: >> - - I am running Woody, and subversion IS NOT available for Woody. (Oh >> sure, there is something at backports.org and I'll try and get it from >> there, but that is not really the Debian way.) > > Just build a sa

Re: Unhappy customer

2004-03-22 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Braxton Neate wrote: > The fact that this e-mail comes from an aol.com address and that he/she > purchased the Debian CD of ebay explains it all... and they didn't even > say who they are, how rude! Let alone what version it was; for all we know, this person was trying to install Debian 1.0 on a

Re: suggestion: something to add!

2004-03-22 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Stefan Tibus wrote: > Personally I don't think another boot parameter is a good idea. Specially > if it is meant for the non-expert users... > I'd prefer making the DHCP/static question high priority in this case. Um, how about *medium* priority? It would be nice to have three levels: basic (almo

Re: Bug#238091: woody install created bad sun disklabels?

2004-03-21 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Nathanael Nerode] >> So it sounds like fdisk in woody created bad, non-standard Sun >> disklabels. And yet, they somehow worked. Ow. > > Actually, no. I investigated a bit; it seems fdisk is right and > partman (actually libparted) is wrong

Re: d-i beta3 | DHCP

2004-03-21 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I tried sarge d-i beta3 today. > At one point it says that it is looking for DHCP something, it says that > sometimes DHCP is slow, and then it comes out that it cannot find it. The > alternative is to give my IP number, but I do not know any IP number and, >

Bug#238091: woody install created bad sun disklabels?

2004-03-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
So it sounds like fdisk in woody created bad, non-standard Sun disklabels. And yet, they somehow worked. Ow. I suppose this really calls for a disklabel-repair program which would write a valid Sun disklabel over the non-standard disklabel without losing any data. If that's not possible (the di

Re: 2.6 Development Step 1

2004-03-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Dan Weber wrote: > The merge of module-init-tools with busybox would be a mess. First, > insmod, and rmmod appear to be 2.6 compliant from busybox cvs, but the > depmod code is not nearly the same as it was in modutils. I think we > should take joey's idea and make a module-init-tools-udeb. The

Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386

2004-03-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
elijah wright wrote: Apparently beta3 has better SATA support. Can you try? This may have something to do with device mapping in the BIOS -- I may not be feeding the right information to lilo and/or grub. Or it may have something to do with the fact that my system doesn't appear to have a 'compat

Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386

2004-03-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Martin Michlmayr wrote: Apparently beta3 has better SATA support. Can you try? I did. :-P Here's the lowdown: the installer basically works and installs the system. Unfortunately I can't get either grub or lilo to work, so I can't boot it. This may have something to do with device mapping in

Bug#236330: Not surprising

2004-03-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
>partman is unusable on s390 and blocks completely after issuing a error >about the sector size. I believe this is because libparted (and hence partman) doesn't support s/390 partition tables. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think s/390 uses a unique partition table system, unlike that of any of

possible solution to a TODO item...

2004-03-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
pipe, but returns the exit status of the first command (not the second). So instead of 'foo | logger' (giving the logger exit status) you do 'mispipe foo logger' (giving the foo exit status) I'm sure it can be improved if added functionality is desired. -- Nathan

Bug#235923: Summary of current information regarding partition table types

2004-03-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
amd64: ??? msdos ??? sh: ??? -- no clue -- Nathanael Nerode US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/arar/ http://www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

To partman or not to partman (was Re: release status)

2004-02-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I agree, and deciding one way or the other on partman will help, since >we can drop the other one to a low priority and out of memory. Well, I think partman rocks. Notably, a lot of people working on extra architectures and subarchitectures appear to be hoping that pa

Re: goals for next release

2004-01-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
> - security fixed, 2.4.24 kernel (with SATA support) > >Done for stock i386. This is the "old" stock SATA driver, rather than Jeff Garzik's libata driver, right? I quote from http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html: >Intel ICH5 family â supported in 2.4.22 and later kernels usi

Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386

2004-01-27 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Herbert Xu wrote: >Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2 Serial ATA drives, 1 IDE drive, e1000 Ethernet card. >> >> * It hangs on "loading module ide-detect" if RAID is disabled in the BIOS. >> * If RAID is enabled in the BIOS, it gets past

Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386

2004-01-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-20 12:03]: So it turns out, having installed Linux to the one drive which is visible to Linux, that the BIOS won't boot from that drive. And I can't Boot from floppy or CD and use root=/dev/... or boot

Re: Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386

2004-01-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
* Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-18 18:44]: Perhaps you didn't notice that I'm completely stuck on another matter (the wget failure). Happy to try once I can work around that. Put the drive in another PC and use debootstrap to create a base system. Or install anot

Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386

2004-01-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Herbert Xu wrote: >Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2 Serial ATA drives, 1 IDE drive, e1000 Ethernet card. >> >> * It hangs on "loading module ide-detect" if RAID is disabled in the BIOS. >> * If RAID is enabled in the BIOS, it gets past

Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386

2004-01-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-17 19:15]: 2 Serial ATA drives, 1 IDE drive, e1000 Ethernet card. * If RAID is enabled in the BIOS, it gets past that, but it never detects either Serial ATA drive. Does a standard 2.4 kernel normally work? Or do yo

Installation report: FAILED on i386

2004-01-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ally works. * Proceeding with the other drive, debootstrap fails -- wget fails to download the Release file for sarge with a "Hostname not found" failure. This pretty much scotches any install attempt, no workaround. -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html -- T

ide-scsi module not found

2004-01-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Using the "businesscard" CD, during network hardware detection, I get the complaint that this module is missing. Where can I find it? -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Usefulness of kernel-image-2.4.18-i386bf?

2004-01-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ing debian-boot as the assumed experts, and CC:ing the package maintainer. -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: English localization

2004-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Joey Hess wrote: Nathanael Nerode wrote: #. Type: select #. Description msgid "" "Please select the closest Debian mirror, relatively to network topology, not " "necessarily to geographical reasons." msgstr "" Bad English. Try this instead: "Pleas

Bug#225704: boot-floppies used in woody needs to be in woody

2003-12-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: boot-floppies Severity: serious Apparently the version in 'sid' is the version used for the release of 'woody'. This needs to be put in woody. Some DD with an understanding of the dependencies should submit it to woody-proposed-updates. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#225693: boot-floppies should never go into sarge

2003-12-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: boot-floppies Severity: serious Duh. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ports status update

2003-12-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Joey Hess wrote (with lots snipped out by me): i386: On track for beta 2 powerpc: Very shakey ia64: Likely to be in beta 2 mips: May be in beta 2 arm: Uncertian The buildds are still down for ARM. And apparently it doesn't have d-i kernels yet. Ow. Is this even likely to be released with

Re: DO NOT CHANGE TEMPLATES NOW (was: Re: English localization)

2003-12-27 Thread Nathanael Nerode
GR. We had several *weeks* of work on english strings and such reports come *now*. I had the time when I had the time. Also, I started following and trying to help debian-boot only after you were nearly done with the work. :-/ It took me a while to get the hang of the system. Then I wait

Template tweak in kbd-chooser?

2003-12-27 Thread Nathanael Nerode
debian-installer/tools/kbd-chooser/debian/keyboard-at.templates Template: kbd-chooser/kbd/at Type: text _Description: PC-style (AT connector) keyboard Technically, there are two possible PC-style connectors. The AT connector is a large round plug; the PS-2 connector is a small round plug. They

base-config template polishing

2003-12-27 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Template: base-config/intro Type: note _Description: Welcome to your new Debian system! This program will now walk you through the process of setting up your newly installed system. It will start with the basics -- time zone selection, setting a root password and adding a user, and then progress

English localization

2003-12-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
From http://people.debian.org/~barbier/d-i/l10n/en/en.po: #. Type: select #. Description msgid "" "Please select the closest Debian mirror, relatively to network topology, not " "necessarily to geographical reasons." msgstr "" Bad English. Try this instead: "Please select the closest Debian mir

Re: as we wrap up the string freeze..

2003-12-21 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Joey Hess wrote: I think we should hold off on changing any strings before the beta, unless there is a very good reason. Seems reasonable. I think that strings which are not comprehensible (or mean the wrong thing) in English qualify, right? :-) (I haven't spotted any lately, so kudos.) --

Time to remove boot-floppies from unstable?

2003-12-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
The boot-floppies package isn't in 'testing'. As far as I know, it doesn't work any more in 'unstable' and isn't maintained except for 'woody'. It's certainly not going to be used for sarge or future releases, now that debian-installer is basically functional (and its modular design has prove

Bug#223762: English l10n

2003-12-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:36:52AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: | +_Description: Network configuration method: | + Networking can either be configure by DHCP or by manually | + entering all the information. If you choose DHCP and | debian-installer is unable to get a working configuration |

Re: debian-installer status report

2003-12-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
isn't very sure of their command of English submit their template files to debian-l10n-english for review. I keep seeing little grammar and spelling errors, which really need to be fixed. -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Extensible partitioner based on libparted and cdebconf

2003-12-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I saw which actually *need* to be changed. Thanks for your impressive work! -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]