Re: elilo-installer copyright status

Hey Dann, Not sure what you want me to say, but "GPL version 2 or later" is fine with me. It was a long time ago, but as I recall I just wrote a shell script and did a bit of packaging work. Richard dann frazier wrote: (Trying a different address for Richard, @debian.org bounces) On Sat, Se

Re: [parisc-linux] Re: if something is not done, hppa will not have an installer for sarge

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 10:15:46AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 10:05, Richard Hirst wrote: > > Unbootable, or unbootable on 64 bit h/w? > > It seems to be unbootable entirely, but for 32 bit kernels that's random > (sometimes it w

Re: [parisc-linux] Re: if something is not done, hppa will not have an installer for sarge

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 09:19:27AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 06:12, Richard Hirst wrote: > > It may be relevant that the ISO had a rather long kernel commandline, > > relative to the 127 char limit that palo claims. I'm never sure > > whet

Re: if something is not done, hppa will not have an installer for sarge

ith beta 4 of d-i. That's in two weeks. > > > > > > Note that hppa basically worked in mid-January, but it's not been kept > > > up. > > > > > > > The problem with hppa now, seems to be the same as what Richard Hirst > > r

Re: Why is it so hard to build?

Hi Willy, Basically needs more developer effort to get it working well on hppa. Unfortunately I've been too busy lately and have dedicated the time I did have to d-i for ia64. You need to build on unstable, and I iirc the QM_MODULES thing was a glibc or kernel headers issue. I have built it for

Re: partman-palo template

On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 03:32:59PM +0100, cobaco wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > the partman-palo template states that the palo partition should be in the > first 2 /Mb/ > > Im guessing this needs to be either MB or MiB ? It would be 2GB (or GiB), not 2M

Re: Default partition table type for non i386?

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:05:48AM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > Hi! > > Can people working on non-i386 tell how we can find the default > partition table type. This is necessary for the autopartitioner of > partman to work on them and will also simplify the dialog for creation > of new partitio

Re: ia64 boot failure - no kernel

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 04:48:40PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > I downloaded, burned, and ran sarge-ia64-netinst.iso, but with no luck. > On boot, the box lands in an 'EFI Boot Manager' which allows boot device > selection. I point it at the cd (named 'cdrom2' in my configuration) > and tell

Re: d-i doesn't load ext3-modules udeb on ia64

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 12:54:48PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Richard Hirst wrote: > > This is the daily build for 20040208, netinst iso. > > sid_d-i or the probably broken other one? http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/netinst/ia64/20040208/ > > Also, I select

Re: d-i doesn't load ext3-modules udeb on ia64

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:23:43PM +, Richard Hirst wrote: > This is the daily build for 20040208, netinst iso. ext3-modules is on > the iso, but it is not getting loaded. I had to manually udpkg -i > /cdrom/.../ext3-modules*udeb and then modprobe jbd ext3. > > I don't k

d-i doesn't load ext3-modules udeb on ia64

This is the daily build for 20040208, netinst iso. ext3-modules is on the iso, but it is not getting loaded. I had to manually udpkg -i /cdrom/.../ext3-modules*udeb and then modprobe jbd ext3. I don't know why ext3-modules isn't automatically loaded; any ideas? Also, I selected a local mirror,

Bug#229465: partman, command_set_flags() breaks if flags added to parted

Package: partman Version: 6 Tags: d-i command_set_flags() depends on PED_PARTITION_LAST_FLAG, and so it breaks if any extra flags are added to parted. I am working on adding a new parted flag to handle hppa boot partitions, and it would be nice if partman didn't need rebuilding to support it. Th

Re: d-i install report, hppa

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:35:11PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > * Richard Hirst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-19 18:30]: > | On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 04:44:03PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > | > * Richard Hirst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-18 20:48]: > | > | Initi

Re: d-i install report, hppa

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 04:44:03PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > * Richard Hirst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-18 20:48]: > | Initial boot fails due to a SEGV in frontend; this appears to be because > | of a bug in glibc, triggered by libm being reduced to what is effectively >

Re: Beta2 sources.list config

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 03:26:15AM -0600, Matthew A. Nicholson wrote: > On two occasions during installations, when the installer gets to apt's > sources.list configuration, it keeps asking for sources until the user > presses cancel, at which time the installer will drop to expert mode. This is

d-i install report, hppa

INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: cvs-head, 20040118, built locally uname -a: Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:28:45 + Method: netboot of lifimage (netboot-image.img), installing from local unstable mirror. Machine: B180L, Merlin L2+ 180 (9000/778/B180L) Processor: PA7300LC (PCX-L2) M

PA-RISC/HPPA netboot lifimage generation

On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 07:23:39PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > * Richard Hirst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-10 17:51]: > | The SEGV is in "frontend", looks like a null pointer deref. I switched > | to text frontend, fixed d-i to actually make a lifimage for netboot

Re: ia64 beta2 install report

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:09:00PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Richard Hirst wrote: > > apt config after booting requires you to hit to get out of the > > "add apt source" screen. I think after adding the first one, it should > > give you a "do you want to a

ia64 beta2 install report

Tested both netinst and businesscard ISOs, on i2000 prototype (dual Itanium). Both worked fine. Only issues, which are already known are: elilo udeb works but is English only and spews some unwanted text to the screen. Will be fixed in the next upload. Installed kernel gives "sc()" message

Re: Bug#227114: 20040108 fails on ia64

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:23:49PM +, Richard Hirst wrote: > Ugh, ignore my recent post saying networking wasn't configured after > installing from the 20040111 netinst iso. > > What has actually happened, is that the installed system has a > /etc/network/interf

Re: Bug#227114: 20040108 fails on ia64

Ugh, ignore my recent post saying networking wasn't configured after installing from the 20040111 netinst iso. What has actually happened, is that the installed system has a /etc/network/interfaces file containing: cut == auto lo iface lo inet loopback # This entry w

Re: Bug#227114: 20040108 fails on ia64

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:39:02PM +, Richard Hirst wrote: > I'm putting this scsi error problem down to dying hardware. I went back > to the 20040108 iso that I'm previously used, and am getting similar > (and worse) symptoms, only on one of the two disks. Ripped the

Bug#227114: 20040108 fails on ia64

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 02:39:47PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Richard Hirst wrote: > > The problem is that initrd-tools is not included on the netinst ISO. > > The kernel doesn't depend on it, so that is correct. Unfortunately > > on ia64 we have do_initrd=yes so kernel-

Re: Bug#227114: 20040108 fails on ia64

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 07:55:26AM +, Richard Hirst wrote: > > Install boot loader:[E] - Never got there, couldn't get a kernel installed > > This is odd. I have the buisnesscard iso here, and it lists 8 kernels, > not 4 as you got from the netinst iso. It lists im

Re: Bug#227114: 20040108 fails on ia64

Hi Alex, Thanks for your report, comments below.. On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:30:26PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > Package: installation-reports > Version: 20040108-ia64 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > Debian-installer-version: > http://people.debian.org/~mant

Re: daily images for PA-RISC/HPPA

On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 01:17:56PM +, Richard Hirst wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 08:21:17AM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > > > > Hello debian-installer's :-), > > > > I have setup daily images for the HPPA architecture on paer.debian.org. > > The i

Re: daily images for PA-RISC/HPPA

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 08:21:17AM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > > Hello debian-installer's :-), > > I have setup daily images for the HPPA architecture on paer.debian.org. > The images creates cdrom, netboot and a lif image from source. As > usually everything is available here: > http:/

Re: ia64 install report

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 07:58:57PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > b) At some point during loading the installer modules, it spews a load > > of text over the screen, such as: > > > > Unknown localized field: > > Description-fr.ISO-8859-15: Aucune partition de dmarrage dtecte > > > > That doesn't s

Re: ia64 install report

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 07:58:57PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Richard Hirst wrote: > > a) The iso has kernel-installer_0.045_all.udeb, even though 0.046 is in > > the archive. Presumably we are stuck with that until Joeyh forces 0.046 > > in to testing. As a result, it inst

Re: ia64 install report

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 06:58:48AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > I tried to find this tring in the beta2 tree, but I could not. Anyway, > > > it appears to be a French translation that is wrongly encoded; d-i should > > > only use utf-8. If you can grep out the relevant udeb in /var/lib/dpk

ia64 install report

INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/ia64/daily/sarge-ia64-businesscard.iso dated 08-JAN-2004 15:02 uname -a: Date: Jan 8th 2004, 23:20 GMT Method: businesscard.iso, specified 'testing', local http mirror Machine: HP i2000 proto Processor: It

Re: d-i ia64 install report, with patch

On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 03:24:20PM -0900, Joey Hess wrote: > Richard Hirst wrote: > > Still doesn't automatically load ide-probe-mod.o, but joeyh has that > > change queued waiting for alioth to come back, I believe. That meant I > > had to mess about a bit to get t

d-i ia64 install report, with patch

Using: p.d.o/~manty/testing/netinst/ia64/20040103/sarge-ia64-buisnesscard.iso dated 02-JAN-2004 15:02 Still doesn't automatically load ide-probe-mod.o, but joeyh has that change queued waiting for alioth to come back, I believe. That meant I had to mess about a bit to get the cdrom visible. T

Bug#225823: mklibs 0.1.13 fails on ia64

Package: mklibs Version: 0.1.13 tags: d-i Trying to build debian-installer-20031230: ... ... Object: ./tmp/cdrom/tree/lib/libm.so.6.1-so-stripped Object: ./tmp/cdrom/tree/lib/libdebconfclient.so.0-so-stripped Object: ./tmp/cdrom/tree/lib/libslang.so.1-UTF8-so-stripped Object: ./tmp/cdrom/tree/lib

Re: Installation Report (failure)

On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 03:50:35PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Erich Waelde wrote: > > New year, new images, new luck, new exciting features: > > > > used image from ~manty: > > sarge-i386-netinst-20031231.iso (2003-12-31 17:00) > > 2c806ec1e53ac891b431ab0a6a84bfab > > > > > > Everything works f

Re: d-i ia64 install report

On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 01:10:53PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Richard Hirst wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 06:46:24PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Richard Hirst wrote: > > > > parted seems to be broken. It doesn't seem able to create filesystems > > &

Re: d-i ia64 install report

On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 06:46:24PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Richard Hirst wrote: > > parted seems to be broken. It doesn't seem able to create filesystems > > anymore. Havn't looked in to this yet, but "mkpartfs pri ext2 1000 > > 2000" just retur

Re: d-i ia64 install report

On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 06:46:24PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Richard Hirst wrote: > > Installing sarge didn't work, because it doesn't have the newest > > debootstrap, so I used it to install sid. This is the first time I've > > tried d-i for a few weeks

d-i ia64 install report

This is using the daily build sarge-ia64-buisnesscard.iso, dated 30-DEC-2003 11:02. Installing sarge didn't work, because it doesn't have the newest debootstrap, so I used it to install sid. This is the first time I've tried d-i for a few weeks, and some things have broken in the meantime. Issue

Re: architectures status

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:53:10PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > If you're involved in a d-i port, please write back and tell me what the > current status is (boots to main menu, some successful installs, > whatever), and what you expect the status to be in approximatly 2 weeks. I've been working on i

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/libdebian-installer/src by waldi

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:49:32AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:26:21PM +0000, Richard Hirst wrote: > > Havn't looked closely at this code, but that struct looks like it will > > end up generating lots of unaligned access traps on ia64, as mem[

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/libdebian-installer/src by waldi

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:29:00PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Update of /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/libdebian-installer/src > In directory gluck:/tmp/cvs-serv10695/src > > Modified Files: > Makefile.am exec.c hash.c mem.c packages.c parser_rfc822.c > string.c > Added Fil

Re: debian-installer images failing on ia64 autobuilder

On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:07:28PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > Joey Hess wrote: > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > > debootstrap-udeb: Depends: mounted-partitions > > > > I see Richard Hirst fixed this, so neve

Re: debian-installer images failing on ia64 autobuilder

On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:07:28PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > Joey Hess wrote: > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > > debootstrap-udeb: Depends: mounted-partitions > > > > I see Richard Hirst fixed this, so neve

Re: ia64 install report

On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:00:04PM +, Richard Hirst wrote: > Had to boot with TERM_UTF8=no to avoid issue where bterm dies with > SIGILL. Not yet investigated or filed bug. hadn't seen that before as > I'd been testing netboot, which doesn't use bterm. Actually,

ia64 install report

INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Dated 07-Nov-2003 16:17 uname -a: Linux (none) 2.4.20-ia64 #1 Tue Oct 14 04:24:27 MDT 2003 ia64 unknown Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 11:40:08 + Method: cdrom boot, b

Bug#219503: choose-mirror broken for manual entry

package: choose-mirror vesrion: cvs (0.21+) tags: d-i If you run choose-mirror and try to "enter information manually", it doesn't work. Used to work until recently. The problem is in choose-mirror.c, where choose_country() ends with: country = strdup(debconf->value); debconf_se

Re: fdisk isn't getting installed

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 10:01:49PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Hi, > > when trying out images on alpha today I noticed that fdisk is not > getting installed. > > Two things can be done: > > 1. raise fdisks priority so anna installs it > 2. have partitioner depend on it > > The 2. thing

Re: [powermac] installation report gluck image from october 31

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:51:24PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:59:38PM +0000, Richard Hirst wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:18:45AM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > > > Many progress! Many thanks for the good

Re: [powermac] installation report gluck image from october 31

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:18:45AM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Hi all! > > Many progress! Many thanks for the good job. > > Now the problems I faced: > > - debootstrap stopped with error code 127. I read the > /target/var/log/debootstrap.log: > ln: /target/usr/bin/awk: File exists > >

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

On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 11:48:07PM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote: > 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

Bug#215455: ddetect needs to modprobe ide-floppy.o on ia64

package: ddetect version: 0.44 tags: d-i On ia64 we have ide-floppy.o, and not floppy.o. I'm not sure what the right way is to make ddetect modprobe ide-floppy.o... we could just add echo "ide-probe-mod:Linux IDE probe Driver" echo "ide-detect:Linux IDE detection Driver" + echo "

Bug#215453: ddetect, bad pattern match on module search

package: ddetect version: 0.44 tags: d-i The following line from hw-detect.sh if find /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ | grep -q ${module}\\.o is broken. On ia64 we don't have floppy.o but we do have ide-floppy.o. When trying to load the floppy module, the above grep matches ide-floppy.o and co

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

package: libdebian-installer version: cvs tags: d-i di_mem_chunk_alloc() returns 4 byte aligned areas, even on 64 bit platforms. This is bad, when the caller is going to lay some struct containing longs or pointers over the alloc-ed memory. On ia64 it results in loads of unaligned access excepti

Bug#215404: di_check_dir() missing

package: libdebian-installer version: cvs debug builds of kbd-chooser call di_check_dir() but versions of libdebian-installer beyond 0.15 do not provide it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#215403: debconf_capb definition broken

package: cdebconf version: cvs debconfclient.h has #define debconf_capb(_client, _capb...) \ _client->command(_client, "CAPB", ##_capb) which should probably have a ", NULL" included to match similar defines in that file. kbd-chooser gives SEGV on ia64, probably because of that missing NULL

Re: why kernel-image.udeb

On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 07:55:24PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 07:06:02PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The businesscard .iso is now about ~60MB, which probably won't even fit on > > most "businesscard"-sized CDs. Could somebody please answer: > >

Re: ia64 testers wanted for sarge cds

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:07:18PM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > Peter, please reply to the lists, I don't know a thing about ia64 and people > on the lists can help us with this kind of things ;-) > > On Oct 07 2003, Peter Chubb wrote: > > > "Santiago" == Santiago Garcia Mantinan <

Re: First HPPA test

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 08:42:34PM +0200, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > > Hi all, > > Yesterday, I have tried to install a fresh Debian system on my hppa > 712/60 using the new debian-installer. Attached are my notes about this > process. In short: most of the stuff is working, and you can using d-i >

Re: ia64 testers wanted for sarge cds

Hi Khalid, On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 03:31:44PM -0600, Khalid Aziz wrote: > I tried the netinstall CD image on an HP zx2000 and didn't get very far. > Here are the two problems I saw that prevented me from going any > further: > > 1. Selecting "Detect a keyboard and select layout" causes: > >

Re: d-i - subarchitecture stuff

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:44:19AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op vr 03-10-2003, om 10:04 schreef Richard Hirst: > > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:12:59AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > I'll hereby specify for m68k: > > > - mac > > > - amiga

Re: d-i - subarchitecture stuff

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:12:59AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > I'll hereby specify for m68k: > - mac > - amiga > - atari > - vme > - unknown Well, as we currently have three different vme kernels (mvme147, mvme16x, bvme6000), that might mean three different subarchs. Richard -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Debian Installer, ia64 status update

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 07:58:49AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 07:46:44AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:56:23PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > > Ugh, just seen it in action. Very ugly, IMHO, with the window jumping > >

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:19:21PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:47:37PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > Yes, and having the auto-partitioner understand to create an f0 > > partition for hppa, and a small efi boot partition for ia64, etc, would > >

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 03:37:26PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:53:22PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > To fix this issue, I'd need to expose a new flag through the parted i/f, > > so you could "set palo on", or similar. For msdos tables it

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:51:08AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:41:49AM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:38:11AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:32:20PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > >

Bug#213669: cdebconf-newt-udeb: progress bar dialog changes size all the time, which is ugly

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 05:48:42AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:55:17PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > With the "progress bar status text wrapping" patch that was made at > > debcamp, the dialog changes size all the time (it changes height) to > > make room for the

Re: Debian Installer, ia64 status update

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:05:20AM +0200, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:12:18PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > I'm using the newt frontend, which looks pretty good, except for some > > package names running off the edge of the screen during base install. &g

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:38:11AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:32:20PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > >> Make it depend on "partitioning-program", and make both fdisk-udeb and > >> parted-udeb "Provide[s]:" that. Should solve the problem. > > No, it won't. anna coul

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:09:25PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:59:05PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > For hppa I need fdisk-udeb pulled in when d-i runs. parted cannot be > > used to partition for hppa because we need a partition for palo of type >

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:07:37PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:59:05PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > Hi, > > For hppa I need fdisk-udeb pulled in when d-i runs. parted cannot be > > used to partition for hppa because we need a partition for

d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

Hi, For hppa I need fdisk-udeb pulled in when d-i runs. parted cannot be used to partition for hppa because we need a partition for palo of type 'f0', and parted doesn't let you specify partition types (didn't last time I looked anyway). At the moment I have to specifically request that install

Debian Installer, ia64 status update

Installing from cdrom works, although my build system has local fixes for a few bugs where I'm waiting for new versions of packages: 210570 - discover-data, fix module used for various QLogic cards 210359 - kernel-patch-2.4.20-ia64, CONFIG_TR kernel headers problem, breaks busybox-cvs 212

Re: d-i experiences

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:58:40AM +0100, Daniel Silverstone wrote: > It seems debootstrap barfed on an id call, something to do with [ and I see this on ia64 too. 'id' in busybox doesn't work in the d-i environment, but does work in a normal system environment. That particular error seems to be

Re: Initial d-i success on alpha

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:40:47PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > - debootstrap fails with an error ',: applet not found' (IIRC -- I >don't have the log in front of me right now). That's game,set,match; >can't do much if you can't start the actual install. :) Had this on ia64 also. Turn

d-i, kernel-img.conf and {link,image}_in_boot

Hi, link_in_boot is just the new name for image_in_boot. rootskel/debian/templates-arch defined link_in_boot, which is used in tools/base-installer/debian/kernel-installer.postinst when creating /etc/kernel-img.conf. However, that script writes image_in_boot = yes link_in_boot = $link_in_boot wh

Bug#210359: kernel CONFIG_TR interferes with busybox CONFIG_TR

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 results in the 'tr' applet being disabled in the config-udeb build. The include seq

Re: debian installer on ppc/pegasos

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:44:45PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:41:06AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:16:07AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > > > Freeing initrd memory: 2028k freed > > > VFS: Mounted

Re: Status for reiser support in d-i

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 04:57:36PM +0400, Yury Umanets wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 16:34, Richard Hirst wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:39:05PM +0400, Yury Umanets wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:22, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > > > [Yury Umanets] &g

Re: Status for reiser support in d-i

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:39:05PM +0400, Yury Umanets wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:22, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Yury Umanets] > > > But when I said, about improving parted interface, I meant, that > > > somebody should write a patch exactly to making parted to use > > > ncurses or some

Re: cdebconf upload

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:59:12AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Erik Andersen wrote: > > > 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 >

Re: Preparation of Boot-Floppies release 3.0.24

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 07:55:46PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > ( first semi-official call-for-helpers, see also: > http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf3024/ ) > > Preparation of Boot-Floppies release 3.0.24 > === hppa b-f built from cvs Dec 21th are availabl

Re: Preparation of Boot-Floppies release 3.0.24

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 07:55:46PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > ( first semi-official call-for-helpers, see also: > http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf3024/ ) > > Preparation of Boot-Floppies release 3.0.24 > === ia64 b-f built from cvs Dec 20th are availabl

Re: [cdebconf] helper macros, i18n, backup, etc

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:09:16PM -0800, Randolph Chung wrote: > sorry for the late reply, i was out of town for a few days. > > > 1. The helper macros recently introduced do break several packages > > under debian-installer/tools/ which used to declare their own > > debconf_input function. Mayb

cdebconf/src/debconfclient.h rev 1.3 breaks things

"add commandf() api and helper macros per request" defined macro debconf_input(), which breaks everything that has a local debconf_input() function and includes that header, for example, netcfg.c, ethdetect.c Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

cvs main-menu bust?

This change: @@ -304,20 +306,21 @@ int ret, i; struct package_t *dep; + if (di_pkg_is_virtual(p)) { + if (!satisfy_virtual(p)) + return 0; + } + for (i = 0; p->depends[i] != 0; i++) { if ((dep = p->depends[i]

Re: loading the initrd

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 03:47:58PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:14:03PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > This is something of a shot in the dark, but try using a filesystem that > > is not cramfs. I vaguely remember some problems along these lines being > > due to cramfs,

Re: working on the Alpha port

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:52:18AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 05:31:41AM +0300, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: > [...] > > Dec 12 02:19:35 (none) user.info init: Starting pid 882, console /dev/console: >'/sbin/debian-installer' > > Cannot open template file /var/lib/cdebco

Re: Default disk partition table type?

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 12:41:23PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > The current autopartkit contains the following code: > > /* Need to define on a per arch basis */ > #if defined(__i386__) > #define DISK_LABEL "msdos" > #else /* not __i386__ */ > #error "Default DISK_LABEL is not

d-i hppa support update

Currently builds a net-boot image, 32 bit only, which I have successfully used to install on a B180, via serial and graphical consoles. Install ran right through to login prompt fairly smoothly. If you want to build it, you need a kernel udeb, which you can find here:

d-i on hppa semi-working

Hi, I have d-i semi-working on hppa; currently breaks on 'partition hard drive' because it doesn't know which partitioner to use. I will commit changes, or file bugs, as appropriate in the next day or two. My current build (net-bootable image) is at ftp.parisc-linux.org:/home/ftp/d-i/lifimage-

Re: todo?

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:21:56AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Getting d-i to work on other arches than i386 is high-priority. I know talk is cheap, but I do intend to work on d-i for hppa and ia64. Just a matter of finding time to get started. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: woody install for hppa

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 11:01:30PM -0400, Neal Robinette wrote: > Hi, I am trying to install woody on a 735/99 with 320 megs of RAM and > a 2.4 GB HP FW SCSI hard drive. I have downloaded copies of the > install disks. Installationgoes just fine, but the install program > can't detect my harddrive

Re: [d-i] debconf, partitioning widget?

On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 09:21:51AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Richard Hirst > > | Current status is that it can handle msdos and gpt table creation, and > | partition creation and deletion. Tested only on ia64. Not touched it > | since March, but I can certainly make the

Re: [d-i] debconf, partitioning widget?

On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:14:36PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Philip Blundell wrote on Tue Jul 16, 2002 um 09:03:29PM: > > > Ah, I just noticed that there is already a newt-based parted frontend > > (nparted), which will do for "dialog" mode. The standard parted should > > suffice

Bug#152804: boot-floppies: framebuffer causes Mobile Radeons to lock

On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 01:13:20AM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote: > On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 17:21, Chris Tillman wrote: > > It was already documented by Richard. But, I added some more details about > > what the problems look like and what machines have reported problems. > > Okay, cool. I wonder i

Re: i18n second stage...

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:54:39PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > gluck.d.o (aka ddtp) is down. Know someone the problem? That's hosted at HP, isn't it? they are having some internal routing problems the last day or so. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by rhirst

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:36:19PM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:03:13PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:39:22PM +0200, Pierre Machard wrote: > > > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:31:47PM -0700, Debian Boo

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by rhirst

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:39:22PM +0200, Pierre Machard wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:31:47PM -0700, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote: > > Repository: boot-floppies > > who:rhirst > > time: Wed May 15 12:31:46 PDT 2002 > > Log Message: > > add "nolangchooser" boot option to disa

Re: coordinating b-f 3.0.23 release

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:01:22PM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:23:59PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > > For coordinating, can we agree to perhaps tag and start it building > > tonight? I don't see anything blocking 3.0.23 release. > > Do we now have an op

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