Re: A small udeb contribution from an arm-chair developer

2007-04-20 Thread Michael S. Peek
Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 18 April 2007 14:09, Michael S. Peek wrote: If I set up a DHCP server using IPCop, is there a way to I tell the Debian installer to listen to my DHCP server instead of the broken Windows DHCP server? If I can figure that out then I can boot and install over the

Re: A small udeb contribution from an arm-chair developer

2007-04-20 Thread Michael S. Peek
Chris Bell wrote: On Wed 18 Apr, Michael S. Peek wrote: If I set up a DHCP server using IPCop, is there a way to I tell the Debian installer to listen to my DHCP server instead of the broken Windows DHCP server? If I can figure that out then I can boot and install over the network, without

Re: A small udeb contribution from an arm-chair developer

2007-04-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 14:09, Michael S. Peek wrote: > If I set up a DHCP server using IPCop, is there a way to I tell the > Debian installer to listen to my DHCP server instead of the broken > Windows DHCP server? If I can figure that out then I can boot and > install over the network, withou

Re: A small udeb contribution from an arm-chair developer

2007-04-18 Thread Michael S. Peek
Chris Bell wrote: Maybe I just don't understand DHCP as much as I should, but if my organization already has a DHCP server (that will provide me an incorrect IP address of 10.x.x.x), and I set up my own DHCP server, then won't that cause race conditions with the install client? At least, I've

Re: A small udeb contribution from an arm-chair developer

2007-04-16 Thread Michael S Peek
Stephen Frazier wrote: It would appear that Michael Peek works in an environment like mine. Both windows and Debian machines on the same network. The DHCP server belongs to the windows support people and they don't know how to set it up for both windows and Debian. Bingo! What I have done is

Re: A small udeb contribution from an arm-chair developer

2007-04-16 Thread Stephen Frazier
It would appear that Michael Peek works in an environment like mine. Both windows and Debian machines on the same network. The DHCP server belongs to the windows support people and they don't know how to set it up for both windows and Debian. What I have done is to create a floppy with a lot of

Re: A small udeb contribution from an arm-chair developer

2007-04-16 Thread Michael S. Peek
Chris Bell wrote: On Mon 16 Apr, Michael S Peek wrote: Geert Stappers wrote: The Etch version has "Auto mode" See http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/apbs02.html.en#preseed-auto for the details. That's very slick, and it may indeed solve my problem, but I'm not

Re: A small udeb contribution from an arm-chair developer

2007-04-15 Thread Michael S Peek
Geert Stappers wrote: The Etch version has "Auto mode" See http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/apbs02.html.en#preseed-auto for the details. That's very slick, and it may indeed solve my problem, but I'm not convinced that this will work for me: This relies on there being a DHC

Re: A small udeb contribution from an arm-chair developer

2007-04-15 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 14-04-2007 om 16:51 schreef Michael S Peek: > > > >Reading the announce of the multi-netcfg and multi-partman packages, > >I couldn't see where the added value is, nor didn't see where > >the Debian-installer should/could be improved. > > > Let's say that you have about 50 or 100 (or more) mac

Re: A small udeb contribution from an arm-chair developer

2007-04-14 Thread Michael S Peek
Geert Stappers wrote: First: The idea of promoting of software (enhancements) does intrique me. This posting is mostly about "What is so good about these udebs?" Reading the announce of the multi-netcfg and multi-partman packages, I couldn't see where the added value is, nor didn't see where t

Re: A small udeb contribution from an arm-chair developer

2007-04-14 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 14-04-2007 om 02:25 schreef Michael S Peek: > Hi guys, > > Many moons ago I wrote a few small udebs that I found useful. > If anyone is interested in taking this package under their wing, let me > know. First: The idea of promoting of software (enhancements) does intrique me. This post

A small udeb contribution from an arm-chair developer

2007-04-13 Thread Michael S Peek
Hi guys, Many moons ago I wrote a few small udebs that I found useful. I offered them to the community, but at the time the consensus was that it was too close to the release of Etch and too many people were too busy to deal with it. But at the same time, there seemed to be a few that though