On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:16:02AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Is it necessary to regularly rebuild the potato release documentation any
> more? I'd prefer to stop that now, but I don't know if any more commits are
> being made into that branch, or how to check for that.
I've trawled ViewCVS only_
> Yes, I am familiar with tasksel and I admit I may have done something
> wrong to cause it to skip that step, however I can't recall any odd
> actions on my part.
That stage of the install is logged to /var/log/installer.log; if you
send me the file I can run it through a replay script I have de
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--- Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> First, onc
--- Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> First, once I have Debian running I really like it. Especially the
>> apt-get solution for upgrading. However, I have installed Debian on
>> 3 different workstations and 1 file server and the process was ver
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:09:47AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Lately you've decided potato boot-floppies are not to be updated
> > anymore. There are lots of old bugs that are not already tagged as
> > potato or wontfix, but are in fact potato bu
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:57:06AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Fri Jun 22, 2001 at 03:45:40PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote:
> >
> > Don't have potato handy, but termtype was an issue with woody. I've
> > added vt102 to woody b-f. Again for woody, busybox init sets termtype
> > to vt102 for s
On Fri Jun 22, 2001 at 03:45:40PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote:
>
> Don't have potato handy, but termtype was an issue with woody. I've
> added vt102 to woody b-f. Again for woody, busybox init sets termtype
> to vt102 for serial consoles. You might be able to interact with your
> boot loader an
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:52:02AM +0200, Joerg Friedrich wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I tried to install rescent Debian 2.2 (i386) via serial console, but I
> ran into some errors.
>
> First problem was to use a terminal program. I didn't get minicom
> running. so I used seyon. But I had no colors, just b&
Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David, I think this was caused by your recent checkin to inst-methods.sgml.
>
> debiandoc2text -d debiandoc.decl -l C -O install.sgml >
> install.en.txt nsgmls:en/inst-methods.sgml:552:12:E: general entity
> "rawrite.exe" not defined and no default e
Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > No way to use 2.2.19 for boot-floppies update for Potato, there are no
> > > PCMCIA for it.
> >
> > PCMCIA modules have been compiled for 2.2.19. They've
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > No way to use 2.2.19 for boot-floppies update for Potato, there are no
> > PCMCIA for it.
>
> PCMCIA modules have been compiled for 2.2.19. They've been around for
> weeks.
Well, auric is down so I can't e
Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No way to use 2.2.19 for boot-floppies update for Potato, there are no
> PCMCIA for it.
PCMCIA modules have been compiled for 2.2.19. They've been around for
weeks.
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Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >I already merged the potato changes.
>
> Ah, okay. Some seemed to be missing; fr'example, this is in the potato Makefile
> but it doesn't seem to have made it into the woody make/vars file:
> arm part
> kernel-riscpc := $(shell $(pathcmd:P
>I already merged the potato changes.
Ah, okay. Some seemed to be missing; fr'example, this is in the potato Makefile
but it doesn't seem to have made it into the woody make/vars file:
arm part
kernel-riscpc := $(shell $(pathcmd:P=kernel-image-$(kver)-riscpc*.deb))
kernel-netwinder := $
Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm about to start work on the ARM boot-floppies for woody. Should I merge
> the ARM changes from the potato branch to the trunk, or will you take care of
> that?
I already merged the potato changes.
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>I've created the Potato branch and am in process of merging the woody
>branch to the trunk.
I'm about to start work on the ARM boot-floppies for woody. Should I merge
the ARM changes from the potato branch to the trunk, or will you take care of
that?
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Ok, the branch merge is done. Woody is now on the trunk and Potato is
on the 'potato' branch.
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David West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm using the Oct 14 materials in http://auric.debian/org/~aph/bf/
> in particular the 1.2MB boot floppies and base2_2.tgz.
>
> After problems getting the install script to find the kernel
> and drivers (I have them, but they apparently are not found,
> e
I usually do hard-disk and ftp installs with no special problems with
the media method.
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Sorry for the delay in replying - Horrid MS Source(Un)Safe problems at
work. Wouldnt have similar issues with CVS.
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes
re - cannot make a boot floppy.
>I cannot reproduce this problem. I've created several custom boot
>floppie
"Dave Williams @ Home" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Two problems to mention:
> Firstly:- 2.2.16 boot-floppies and vanilla rescue/root image from latest
> potato disk image (reported as Linux 2.2.17 from Kernel-image-
> 2.2.17-2.2.17pre6-1) cannot make a boot floppy.
>
> I've tracked the proble
Daniela Kaminski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I tried to install the debian gnu linux 2.2 "potato" on an old pentium
> mashine. I started with the rescue and the root floppy disk and the base
> sytem was installed from the cd-rom drive. After rebooting the system
> with the prepared boot floppy
Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sorry to reply to myself, but I've come to the conclusion after further
> testing that my floppy drive is 100% busted and I'm not going to be able
> to do anything useful off it. I also can't (practically) replace it. I
> do have a fully functioning Re
Stuart Ballard wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install potato from floppies (onto a laptop that doesn't
> have a CD drive). 100% reliably and repeatably, I get the following
> messages when I insert the ROOT floppy:
[snip]
> I've obtained this exact same error across 3 different root floppies
> (the thi
"Rene v. Staveren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> During loading "newly" of Potato there is no making of the file
> "/etc/resolv.conf".
Not unless you otherwise (not PPP) configure your network, no. That
is not a bug.
> When I make him myself the following problem occures.
> Normally, with Deb
Michael Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 07:41:45PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > I forgot what I already knew, which is that unfortunately i18n'd
> > dbootstrap (which I think is the top priority) requires hacked slang
> > and newt, which is in bf-utf CVS area unde
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 09:41:01PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> > Anyway, on 11 July you said:
> >
> > Akira > I think It's a critical bug enough to change debconf
> > Akira > in frozen with the latest one. Any comments?
> > Joey >
> > Joey > That would be very problimatic a
Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> Anyway, on 11 July you said:
>
> Akira > I think It's a critical bug enough to change debconf
> Akira > in frozen with the latest one. Any comments?
> Joey >
> Joey > That would be very problimatic as the one in unstable has not had a lot
> Joey > of testing.
>
> Is that
On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 07:41:45PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> I forgot what I already knew, which is that unfortunately i18n'd
> dbootstrap (which I think is the top priority) requires hacked slang
> and newt, which is in bf-utf CVS area under
> cvs.debian.org:/cvs/debian-boot CVSROOT.
>
> I h
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hm, I wonder if we make it too easy to mount an existing linux partition
> the installer hasn't formatted onto / . Mounting such a partition onto
> /home is of course a Good Thing, mounting it to root is not.
The other Joey is adding some basic checks for
I forgot what I already knew, which is that unfortunately i18n'd
dbootstrap (which I think is the top priority) requires hacked slang
and newt, which is in bf-utf CVS area under
cvs.debian.org:/cvs/debian-boot CVSROOT.
I haven't seen any commits here in 2 months.
Is i18n'd dbootstrap dead? Is
My impression regarding base-config is that there are structure
problems to debconf in Potato that prevent proper i18n.
I would *really* prefer to leave all that aside right now and focus on
the key issues:
(a) providing LANG_CHOOSER'ified dbootstrap
- which flavors on i386 ? all ? Doe
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 02:43:25PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > It seems the only way to go is make a wrapper script. I tested that, and
> > > debconf works OK (i.e. the templates show in Polish
>
> As far as I know, the
Michael Bramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> but the potato-version of debconf don't work... not really nice...
Well, we have to just live with parts of the install process being
translated and part not being translated. What else can be do.
Better to try to achive what is achievable.
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:29:41AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Michael Bramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I make a german debian cd-set for linuxland.
> >
> > I patch rootdisk.sh with:
> >
> > if [ "$language" = "de" ]; then
> > info "modifying initial inittab to run base-config in
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > It seems the only way to go is make a wrapper script. I tested that, and
> > debconf works OK (i.e. the templates show in Polish
As far as I know, the debconf is potato is still utterly broken with
regards to translated sele
Michael Bramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I make a german debian cd-set for linuxland.
>
> I patch rootdisk.sh with:
>
> if [ "$language" = "de" ]; then
> info "modifying initial inittab to run base-config in language $language"
> sed "s,/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure base-config,sh -c
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 03:04:00PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> Hello again!
>
> 1). First, the base-config thing:
>
> I tried to find a way to make base-config use Polish, so during one
> installation I booted linux in single user mode to edit /etc/inittab before
> it started debconf
>
> Her
Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It seems the only way to go is make a wrapper script. I tested that, and
> debconf works OK (i.e. the templates show in Polish, and the only
> untranslated things are yes/no buttons and two messages (in the background
> and at the top of the box), whic
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 11:16:37PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 04:27:14PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > > I disagree, it's useful, having directories without index.html is bad.
> >
> > I deny it is actually useful. All of its information is more
> > completely and clear
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 04:27:14PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > I disagree, it's useful, having directories without index.html is bad.
>
> I deny it is actually useful. All of its information is more
> completely and clearly stated at
> http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/index.*.html.
Tha
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I disagree, it's useful, having directories without index.html is bad.
I deny it is actually useful. All of its information is more
completely and clearly stated at
http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/index.*.html.
Inaccurate and incomplete informati
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anyhow, I really feel some dialog about what you're doing will be more
> effective -- experience with Corel's installer, which was in our cvs
> (partially, and too late), shows thst just dropping a lump of code into cvs
> doesn't help too much, until you
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 11:44:34PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Actually, no, this is not in webwml, because the file is built differently
> > for different architectures, and it'd be a bit harder to maintain if it was
> > in wml.
>
> You don't unde
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Actually, no, this is not in webwml, because the file is built differently
> for different architectures, and it'd be a bit harder to maintain if it was
> in wml.
You don't understand. I know its processed by m4. But on
www.debian.org/releases/potato,
Sorry for the slow reply, I was on vacation. :)
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 05:44:09PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > > For boot-floppies/documentation people: I'm not sure how to set up m4 to
> > > make two different links, depending on what kind of install is done. If it's
> > > a web build, the
Branden Robinson wrote:
> This seems like a good time to ask; how would the boot-floppies team feel
> about creating a branch in CVS for Progeny? There are probably some things
> we (Progeny) will do that Debian doesn't want to fool with.
What I really want to do is find some parts of the work y
[Please followup to -devel, since I do not yet subscribe to -boot]
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:06:10AM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> I personally would like having hardware detection stuff in woody.
This is something Progeny is attempting to accomplish for our version of
Debian later this year.
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 12:47:15PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > For boot-floppies/documentation people: I'm not sure how to set up m4 to
> > make two different links, depending on what kind of install is done. If it's
> > a web build, the link should poin
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 12:47:15PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > /debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/doc/release-notes.en.html
> >
> > (that file is referenced from
> > /debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/doc/ )
>
> I know. It's partially fixed in CVS alread
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 11:10:16PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> The file
>
> /debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/doc/release-notes.en.html
>
> Is missing from both mirrors I tested (saens and one of http.us). aj on irc told
> me to email you.
>
> (that file is referen
Randolph Chung wrote:
> > There is no "have fun" screen if you: [Q]uit dselect without using any of
> > it's options
>
> iirc joey had a reason for this. forgot what it is though.
It's some kind of a bug that happens if dselect (or maybe tasksel/apt
sometimes) exit in a certian way. I have seen
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:48:23AM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
> > before dbootstrap's start threre appear LOTS of "modprobe: modprobe: Can't
> > open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep (No such file or
> > directory)"
>
> as reported earlier, this is not really a bug, and there i
> before dbootstrap's start threre appear LOTS of "modprobe: modprobe: Can't
> open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep (No such file or
> directory)"
as reported earlier, this is not really a bug, and there isn't very much
we can do about it. This is only a "problem" on the main/ud
Stephen Starling wrote:
> > > Hey thanks for your offer of help. But I fixed it.
> > > How? I reformated the partitions and installed again.
> > > Not sure why this worked. Perhaps it wiped
> > > something I had on those partitions from my previous distro,
> > > which was Mandrake.
> >
> > Did y
Niccolo Rigacci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> >
> > > - Some modules dependancies are not resolved automatically.
> > > Noticeably lp is not loaded if I don't load parport_pc
> > > manually.
> >
> > That probably means depmod wasn't running properly. Can you test with
Niccolo Rigacci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I downloaded the latest (2.2.15) boot-floppies (boot, root,
> dev1-3) and
> started a fresh installation. During the modconf step I noticed
> some
> glitches:
>
> - Some modules dependancies are not resolved automatically.
> Noticeably lp is not lo
On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 02:41:19AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> I'm okay with being a little laggy with boot-floppies, especially if m68k
> is okay for release, since I'm working on the assumption that m68k'll
> take the most time to build and upload.
Did you send the list of required packages to
Joerg Friedrich:
> But this leeds into serious problems if a third party bootloader is used,
> i.e. IBM (OS/2) Bootloader, Powerquest Bootmagic (comes with Partition
> Magic)
Yes, this was the most annoying thing I found when I installed Debian on my
two machines, it simply wouldn't place LILO a
> I think we wait to tausq to upload -compact and -idepci flavor and for
> corresponding pcmcia packages. And b-f has to be updatet for 2.2.16
i'll do that in the next couple of days.
i think it's kinda poetic that we have 2.2.16 b-f and 2.2.16
boot-floppies... :-)
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Petr Cech wrote:
> > * #64823: incorrect LILO automatic placement on i386; 22 days old
>
> I think the subject is missleading. It only doesn't want to put LILO into
> extended partition. Let's call it a feature :)
But this leeds into serious problems if a third party bo
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 03:39:34PM +0200, Petr Cech wrote:
> I think we wait to tausq to upload -compact and -idepci flavor and for
> corresponding pcmcia packages. And b-f has to be updatet for 2.2.16
Okay, assuming all that was pretty much correct and indicative, we
should have all the source u
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 09:55:31PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> ? Or are these not really RC? (If the latter, please downgrade them
> appropriately)
>
> Basically, what I'm asking is, as far as source is concerned, are you
> ready to go? I realise you need to wait for updated base packages befor
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 09:55:31PM +1000 , Anthony Towns wrote:
> Hello world,
>
> Congratulations guys: -testing seems to hold nothing but praise for potato
> upgrades, looks good.
cool
> Is there anything more you're intending to do to b-f for potato,
> beyond 2.2.15? Alternately, do whatever
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 02:52:44AM -0700 , Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> Has this been dealt with yet?
I thought there was a symlink /bin/sh -> bash on b-f to work-around such bugs.
But it's not there. So modutils needs to be fixed.
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On 17 Jun 2000, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
>
> Has this been dealt with yet?
I don't think so. Update-modules begins with #!/bin/bash
last time I looked. (2.2.15, compact) There's also a load
of debug output in compact's kernel.
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> The section on split packages should be amended by including the
> following information about postgresql:
Oliver, it looks like someone already got this.
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