Re: Debian Boot CVS: dwhedon

2001-02-02 Thread Joey Hess
Debian Boot CVS Master wrote: > Log message: > remove /dev/ stuff Do you know why it didn't work? It's conceptually much cleaner to put it in rootskel. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Boot CVS: dwhedon

2001-01-31 Thread David Whedon
meant normal dependancy, not build Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:39:45PM -0800 wrote: > CVSROOT: /cvs/debian-boot > Module name: debian-installer > Changes by: dwhedon 01/01/31 23:39:44 > > Modified files: > build : Makefile > build/debian : control > > Log message: >

Re: Debian Boot CVS: dwhedon

2001-01-30 Thread Joey Hess
Debian Boot CVS Master wrote: > control: added isa-pnp-modules-2.4.0-di so I can load my 3c509 module > config: no need to compile in floppy support when using initrd, Joey was right, > I wasn't using an initrd. Want me to build/uplad the kernel or will you? -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Debian Boot CVS: dwhedon

2001-01-28 Thread David Whedon
We have a less crippled system now, I still haven't gotten my 3c509 module to load, odd. Anyway, to get it to fit on the floppy I needed to build cdebconf without the slang frontend. I think the text frontend should be all we have on the single floppy version. It is completely functional, and t

Re: Debian Boot CVS: dwhedon

2001-01-27 Thread Joey Hess
Debian Boot CVS Master wrote: > Log message: > fix the boot problem, got a crippled system to boot and I interacted with cdebco > nf, fun. Woo hoo! This is an important milestone. > -added some tty's to /dev/ > -remove CVS/ dirs from root filesystem > -put in a little stat about how small your k

Re: Debian Boot CVS: dwhedon

2001-01-27 Thread David Whedon
The system dies right before, or right after calling, or trying to call init. I expect something with the prototype filesystem (rootfs/ that I just added) is wrong. I did try the prototype root filesystem from boot-floopies too and it didn't work either, so my problem may be something else. -Da

Re: Debian Boot CVS: dwhedon

2001-01-26 Thread Joey Hess
> +CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y I actually left that out? Wow :-) > +CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y I don't think you need floppy support to load an initrd from floppy -- doesn't the kernel let the bios/loader do it? Could be wrong though. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Debian Boot CVS: dwhedon

2001-01-25 Thread Randolph Chung
> add some comments, error checking, have the user confirm operations, still not > tested. btw, when i tried this on my udma66 drive (/dev/hdg) it complains that it doesn't recognize things any ideas? randolph -- Debian Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.TauSq.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Debian Boot CVS: dwhedon

2001-01-24 Thread exa
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:12:26PM -0800, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote: > Now it actually does something, probably. I haven't got a chance to test it > yet and I'll want to look it over carefully before doing so. It can (in > theory) create and delete partitions using libparted. Dave, sorry fo