Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-12-01 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John H. Robinson, IV" writes: >will it be international over serial? is it supposed to be? Ah, good question. I think the answer is probably that i18n should be disabled for serial, since we don't necessarily have control of the terminal's character set. Whether

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-12-01 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 10:59:29PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John H. Robinson, IV" writes: > >i'm testing the installer now. should it have asked about language? > > No, the reiserfs flavour isn't i18n enabled. The only ones that will > give you a choice o

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-12-01 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John H. Robinson, IV" writes: >i'm testing the installer now. should it have asked about language? No, the reiserfs flavour isn't i18n enabled. The only ones that will give you a choice of language are compact, idepci and udma100-ext3. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-12-01 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 11:14:54AM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John H. Robinson, IV" writes: > >there is an etc/messages.trm. i did do a make clean before building. > > > >this was the reiserfs flavour, over serial. > > Right, yeah, I think I see the problem.

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-12-01 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <20011201130314.A29232@Obsession>, Chris Tillman writes: >PowerPC should also be 16MB. Neither the installer nor an installed >system will boot on 8MB RAM. By the time the installer is booted, >meminfo reports over 10M used. After a minimal (no X) complete system is >booted, meminfo rep

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-12-01 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John H. Robinson, IV" writes: >there is an etc/messages.trm. i did do a make clean before building. > >this was the reiserfs flavour, over serial. Right, yeah, I think I see the problem. Can you try this patch to dbootstrap and see if it helps? p. Index: main.c

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:46:15PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > i am rebuilding, after a make distclean (not sure what that is going to > buy me, other than a lot more network usage, as .deb's get downloaded) same error. i even tried the root.bin version. i verified that /etc/messages

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 12:05:30AM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John H. Robinson, IV" writes: > > Problem > > > > An error occured while loading application messages. > > > >that is further than i got before. > > If you haven't

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John H. Robinson, IV" writes: > Problem > > An error occured while loading application messages. > >that is further than i got before. If you haven't done "make clean" recently, try that and then rebuild. Otherwise, you may

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:55:35PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:35:03PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > > > > I think it's the -pic packages that you have to watch out for particularly. > > Make sure that libnewt-utf8-pic is installed, and libnewt-pic is not. H

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:35:03PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > > I think it's the -pic packages that you have to watch out for particularly. > Make sure that libnewt-utf8-pic is installed, and libnewt-pic is not. Having > both of them is probably bad news. libnewt-pic

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nils Rennebarth writes: >On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:08:11PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: >> Can you check that you don't have any trace of non-UTF8 libslang, libnewt >> or anything like that on your system? >Hmmm, libnewt-dev installs a /usr/lib/libnewt.so symlink

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:08:11PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > Can you check that you don't have any trace of non-UTF8 libslang, libnewt > or anything like that on your system? Hmmm, libnewt-dev installs a /usr/lib/libnewt.so symlink hardwired to libnewt.so.0.50.17 Not good. I'll try to rebui

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eduard Bloch writes: >Of course an updated CVS snapshot, few days ago. Please try the very latest version and let us know whether the problem is still there. >As said, the dialog boxes are broken, parts of the lines disappear when >non-ASCII characters are there.

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Philip Blundell wrote on Fri Nov 30, 2001 um 09:09:52PM: > >de language, the rest of lines is cut away when a non-ASCII character > >appears. Looks ugly. > > Do you mean you are using the 3.0.17 stuff from the archive, or the current > code from CVS? Of course an updated CVS snapsho

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eduard Bloch writes: >stuff? Sorry, I did not work on BFs for some time, now I tried the >current snaphost and was scared! The boxes have no borders, when using >de language, the rest of lines is cut away when a non-ASCII character >appears. Looks ugly. Do you mea

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nils Rennebarth writes : >I could try that. > >But the vanilla flavor will want four driver floppys, I really like to avoid >this. Right, yeah. I just meant "does dbootstrap start with the other flavours", but from what John Robinson says the answer is no. >Are t

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include John H. Robinson, IV wrote on Fri Nov 30, 2001 um 12:38:22PM: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 07:41:51PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > > > > Are you running on a machine with fbcon enabled? (If you see a penguin on the >screen during bootup, you have fbcon.) > > > > Do the vanilla or rei

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 07:41:51PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > > Are you running on a machine with fbcon enabled? (If you see a penguin on the >screen during bootup, you have fbcon.) > > Do the vanilla or reiserfs flavours work any better? i tried with reiserfs, and i get the flashing als

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nils Rennebarth writes : >dbootstrap simply segfaults right at the start. It does not do this >if run in a running system. Mmm. I was seeing this the other day, but then the problem just seemed to go away on its own. Are you running on a machine with fbcon enable

Re: Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 06:38:29PM +0100, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > I build i386 bootdisks from current cvs and tried the idepci floppies > for an install. After booting and inserting the root floppy I get a blue > screen then its cleared to black again then blue ... (running it again, this time wi

Flashing screen with cvs bootdisks

2001-11-30 Thread Nils Rennebarth
I build i386 bootdisks from current cvs and tried the idepci floppies for an install. After booting and inserting the root floppy I get a blue screen then its cleared to black again then blue ... Switching to another console doesn't help, same effect there. Switching to console 3 for error messag