On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 02:42:40AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 06:18:15PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
>
> | OK, so I got a copy of debian-installer CVS and tried to create the
> | netboot initrd. After installing some needed packages I was struck by
> | libdiscover1 bein
Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 01:15:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> | According to Bastian, the "new" (circa early November) libc broke it.
> | BLKGETSIZE64 is defined in that file using the _IOR macro. Apparently
> | that macro has changed so the third argument is expected to
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 06:18:15PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
| OK, so I got a copy of debian-installer CVS and tried to create the
| netboot initrd. After installing some needed packages I was struck by
| libdiscover1 being installed (1.5-1.4.2) but not installable :-) Is it
| libdiscover1-udeb t
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 01:15:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
| According to Bastian, the "new" (circa early November) libc broke it.
| BLKGETSIZE64 is defined in that file using the _IOR macro. Apparently
| that macro has changed so the third argument is expected to be a type,
| not just a size, and
Cameron Patrick wrote:
> This seems to be because busybox wget doesn't write any progress output
> to stderr for debootstrap to read; debootstrap interprets this as wget
> failing to download, so it retries again and again.
Hmm, I think that explains many previous reports of strange package
downlo
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:36:56AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:01:46PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:00:26PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've just attempted a debian-installer installation on an i386 system
> > > wit
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:26:24AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:01:46PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
>
> | I have tried to do that but was unsuccessful. Could you describe how
> | you got it working (what files you used to boot with, if you had to
> | make a custom init
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:03:05PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:11:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> | > Where can I find these daily builds? I found the d-i ports page, but
> | > all the links under i386 were broken - the ones on gluck gave 404 Not
> | > Found errors
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:03:05PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
| About the only odd thing that I noticed was that it tried to download
| each package four times
This seems to be because busybox wget doesn't write any progress output
to stderr for debootstrap to read; debootstrap interprets this
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:11:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
| > Where can I find these daily builds? I found the d-i ports page, but
| > all the links under i386 were broken - the ones on gluck gave 404 Not
| > Found errors, and the ones on people.d.o have the infinite redirect loop
| > problem.
|
Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Okay. I was actually kind of glad to see that it wasn't using the frame
> buffer, it runs incredibly slowly on that machine (reminiscent of 9600
> baud serial connections)...
The dailys will also let you disable framebuffer by passing
debian-installer/framebuffer=false to
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:45:30AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
| Cameron Patrick wrote:
| > - Throughout the installer, the line-drawing characters looked a bit
| > messed up. (using "^" for horizontal lines, ">" for corner bits)
|
| Lack of proper frame buffer, bterm, and fonts stuff on netboot. T
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:01:46PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
| I have tried to do that but was unsuccessful. Could you describe how
| you got it working (what files you used to boot with, if you had to
| make a custom initrd, and the relevant section of dhcpd.conf).
I used the "net.gz" initrd fr
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:01:46PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:00:26PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just attempted a debian-installer installation on an i386 system
> > with no CDROM drive, using Etherboot.
>
> I have tried to do that but was unsu
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:00:26PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just attempted a debian-installer installation on an i386 system
> with no CDROM drive, using Etherboot.
I have tried to do that but was unsuccessful. Could you describe how
you got it working (what files you used to
Cameron Patrick wrote:
> - Throughout the installer, the line-drawing characters looked a bit
> messed up. (using "^" for horizontal lines, ">" for corner bits)
Lack of proper frame buffer, bterm, and fonts stuff on netboot. This has
been fixed in the dailys.
Although the underlying issue of wh
Hi,
I've just attempted a debian-installer installation on an i386 system
with no CDROM drive, using Etherboot. I admittedly used an outdated
version of Debian installer (the "beta 1" announced about a month ago),
so I apologise if some or all of these problems have already been
noticed and fixed
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