Re: successful installation with 2.3.5 boot-floppies

2001-06-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 12:19:47AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > (An additional problem is that the auric's recent problems (not master's, > this is a whole new set from the last 24 hours or so) have screwed up both > testing and the pool in general to an unknown degree. Depending on the state > o

Re: successful installation with 2.3.5 boot-floppies

2001-06-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue Jun 12, 2001 at 08:37:21PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > > > they're allowed to have special instructions that you have to carry out > > > very precisely ("Switch to VC 2, type this confusing sed command... Before > > > rebooting, switch to

Re: successful installation with 2.3.5 boot-floppies

2001-06-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:37:21PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Anthony, I sense some impatience and/or hostility here. What is it > we can do to make you more happy? (For reference, most of the hostility is primarily due to non-Debian related computer problems; the best thing you can do is e

Re: successful installation with 2.3.5 boot-floppies

2001-06-13 Thread Dale Scheetz
Before everyone gets too bent out of shape, let me re-assure you all that the debian-testing group is here to help, and now that we have releases to work on, I am confident that the team will begin testing. I've been pretty busy trying to find a job (finding work is always harder than doing work.

Re: successful installation with 2.3.5 boot-floppies

2001-06-12 Thread Erik Andersen
On Tue Jun 12, 2001 at 08:37:21PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > they're allowed to have special instructions that you have to carry out > > very precisely ("Switch to VC 2, type this confusing sed command... Before > > rebooting, switch to VC 2, and chmod these directories like so..."), > > a

Re: successful installation with 2.3.5 boot-floppies

2001-06-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 12:04:49PM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote: > I was under the impression the boot-floppy disks were being based on > packages in sid (busybox, debootstrap, etc) and used to install packages > from woody (dpkg.deb, bash.deb, libc6.deb, et

Re: successful installation with 2.3.5 boot-floppies

2001-06-09 Thread David Whedon
> I was under the impression the boot-floppy disks were being based on > packages in sid (busybox, debootstrap, etc) and used to install packages > from woody (dpkg.deb, bash.deb, libc6.deb, etc). This still seems the > sensible thing to do, to me, but stuff I read seems to indicate the > opposite

Re: successful installation with 2.3.5 boot-floppies

2001-06-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 12:04:49PM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote: > Yep. If you are interested in the other known issues, you might > want to look at my faq-o-matic entry[1] for the boot-floppies. It > lists the status of all the issues that I know about. Some notes on the FAQ-o-matic questions:

Re: successful installation with 2.3.5 boot-floppies

2001-06-08 Thread Matt Kraai
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:23:50AM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:26:57AM -0600 wrote: > > To make this work, I had to make two minor changes to debootstrap. > > After booting, I switched over to the shell on tty2 and opened > > /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/sid with nano-tiny

Re: successful installation with 2.3.5 boot-floppies

2001-06-08 Thread David Whedon
Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:26:57AM -0600 wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm happy to say that I am writing this email on a system on > which I just installed sid using the 2.3.5 boot-floppies. And > there was much rejoicing. That is great! > To make this work, I had to make two minor changes to debootstrap.