Re: 3.0.21 bf2.4 report

2002-03-25 Thread Philip Blundell
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 23:02, Andreas Wüst wrote: > Ok, I think I could do this! Is it ok when I am gonna post something on, lets > say, thursday night? Would that be ok? Or is there a very close deadline for > the manual to be frozen? No, that would be fine. Freezing the manual is not important,

Re: 3.0.21 bf2.4 report

2002-03-25 Thread Andreas Wüst
Hi Philip Am 25-Mär-02 schrieb Philip Blundell: > On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 22:38, Andreas Wüst wrote: >>> From a design perspective, the main effect of the region chooser is to >>> provide a complete locale string, eg "de_AT" rather than just "de". >>> However, this doesn't make any difference dur

Re: 3.0.21 bf2.4 report

2002-03-25 Thread Philip Blundell
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 22:38, Andreas Wüst wrote: > > From a design perspective, the main effect of the region chooser is to > > provide a complete locale string, eg "de_AT" rather than just "de". > > However, this doesn't make any difference during the first stage install > > because the message

Re: 3.0.21 bf2.4 report

2002-03-25 Thread Andreas Wüst
Hi Philip Tahnk you very much for your enlightening information!! > On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 22:18, Andreas Wüst wrote: >> Well, but that's exactly the problem: I DON'T know what the effects are, >> and therefore I just can't estimate which language/region option would be >> best for me!! > > From

Re: 3.0.21 bf2.4 report

2002-03-24 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 22:18, Andreas Wüst wrote: > Well, but that's exactly the problem: I DON'T know what the effects are, > and therefore I just can't estimate which language/region option would be best > for me!! >From a design perspective, the main effect of the region chooser is to provide a

Re: 3.0.21 bf2.4 report

2002-03-24 Thread Andreas Wüst
Hello Philip > On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 18:09, Andreas Wüst wrote: >> Maybe it should be better documented which effects the choice of the region >> will have on further installation. > > At the moment the effects are so trivial that I don't think it's all > that important to document them. But if

Re: 3.0.21 bf2.4 report

2002-03-24 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 18:09, Andreas Wüst wrote: > Maybe it should be better documented which effects the choice of the region > will have on further installation. At the moment the effects are so trivial that I don't think it's all that important to document them. But if you would like to sugge

Re: 3.0.21 bf2.4 report

2002-03-24 Thread Othmar Pasteka
hi, On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 06:50:19PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > > "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

Re: 3.0.21 bf2.4 report

2002-03-24 Thread Andreas Wüst
Hi > On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 17:56, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: >> Why do I select a region (e.g. "Deutsch (Schweiz)") here? Is it used >> for later settings? > > Right now, it just affects the defaults you are offered for the keymap > and ftp mirror (if you choose to install from the network). Isn't

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 "eingehängt", which IMHO is

Re: 3.0.21 bf2.4 report

2002-03-24 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Robert Bihlmeyer] > * base-config > > Why not in German?? AFAICS base-config is localised, so the only > problem seems to be the passing of the language setting. I'm working on this, but it require changes to the frozen base-config package as well as boot-floppies. Testers are welcome to make

Re: 3.0.21 bf2.4 report

2002-03-24 Thread Othmar Pasteka
hi, On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 06:56:44PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Someone with more grip on the Neue Rechtschreibung should double-check > these. ah well, it's supposed to be easier, but it sucks more than the old version. they now have even more special cases on how to treat things, it's

Re: 3.0.21 bf2.4 report

2002-03-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Robert Bihlmeyer wrote on Sat Mar 23, 2002 um 06:56:44PM: > French misses the "fr -" prefix. Already fixed. > I choose de_AT [Deutsch (Österreich)] BTW. > > Localised messages are logged in UTF-8, but the log-console on tty3 Who cares? These are just debugging messages. > * Keyboar

Re: 3.0.21 bf2.4 report

2002-03-23 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 17:56, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Why do I select a region (e.g. "Deutsch (Schweiz)") here? Is it used > for later settings? Right now, it just affects the defaults you are offered for the keymap and ftp mirror (if you choose to install from the network). Some programs might

3.0.21 bf2.4 report

2002-03-23 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
First off, the bootfloppies are really great! Many of the small glitches I noted during installation with 3.0.20cvs were already fixed here. The remaining issues, none of which are really showstoppers, only small typos et al: * Language chooser French misses the "fr -" prefix. Are these prefixe