done.
Images can be downloaded from:
http://tsauter.dyndns.org/files/woody-install.tar.bz2
The tarball contains 100 png images, which show all importent steps to
install a woody system.
Bye
Thorsten
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Thorsten Sauter wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 09:49:20PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > Do we have any screenshots from the woody installation? If not, could
> > somebody prepare some and send them to me (or a link and I'll wget them).
> > This is a forwarded requ
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 09:49:20PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Do we have any screenshots from the woody installation? If not, could
> somebody prepare some and send them to me (or a link and I'll wget them).
> This is a forwarded request from Personal Computer World, a UK-based
Do we have any screenshots from the woody installation? If not, could
somebody prepare some and send them to me (or a link and I'll wget them).
This is a forwarded request from Personal Computer World, a UK-based
PC magazine (www.pcw.co.uk).
Regards,
Joey
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Don Armstrong wrote:
Hi Don
> I assume of course, that you have setup the bios offset for the drives
> correctly. You almost definetly need a
>
> disk=/dev/sda
> bios=0x80
I already tried this, and many other tips suggested so far. This very
same problem kept occurring on several PCs. Maybe it'
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 01:25:23PM +0200, Axel Schlicht wrote:
> Chris Tillman wrote:
>
> Hi Chris
> > > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-cd
> It's also on the CD, but I first thought it was Chinese (ch, well might
> also be Swiss) and with no Chinese
Axel Schlicht wrote:
> This is my experience (dismal, bleak, sad, devastating, frustrating
> experience) with woody or rather the attempted installation thereof.
> The even sadder story on my laptop will soon follow.
> One short remark. Knoppix (one of the first versions) runs absolutely
> smoothe
Axel Schlicht wrote:
> Karsten Merker wrote:
>
> > It is described in the installation manual, which is on your CD set
> > and also available online at:
> > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-cd
^^
On Mon, 09 Sep 2002, Axel Schlicht wrote:
NB: lilo typically doesn't just "hang". It stops loading itself at
very well defined points... it might be usefull to know exactly how
far along in this sequence it had gotten. Unless I am mistaken, it
probably stoped right after the LI.
> Somehow Linux
Chris Tillman wrote:
Hi Chris
> > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-cd
It's also on the CD, but I first thought it was Chinese (ch, well might
also be Swiss) and with no Chinese fonts at hand I decded to skip it.
And, if you first look under /doc you o
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 03:12:28AM +0200, Axel Schlicht wrote:
> Chris Tillman wrote:
> > > (If it fails try the other CDs)
> > Do you have a suggested rewording? It seems to be succinct, accurate and
> > to the point. A longer explanation would explain that we have tried hard
> > to accomodate as
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 01:22:12AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 04:41:34PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> I fixed this in man-db 2.3.20-20, after a fashion: the database won't
> get updated over time unless you have cron enabled, but this is
> difficult to avoid without maki
Stephen Depooter wrote:
Hi
> apt-cache search
Know this already, does indeed often come in handy, but often lists too
many unrelated packages.
> apt-cache show
Never tried this.
> This will often provide a reasonable selection of packages to choose
> from although sometimes there is a lot of e
"Christian T. Steigies" wrote:
> Moin,
auch Moin
> apt-cache search or wajig search work quite nicely. Also dselect still sorts
> packages according to sections, and I bet that gives you much more
> information than a CD listing. You could also read the Packages file
> directly, but I guess apt
Colin Watson wrote:
> > Unfortunately, apropos doesn't work out of the box. You have
> > to run mandb in order for it to build the apropos database,
> > this is done the first time cron runs, but on a system like
> > mine where cron never runs, well it just doesn't happen. Just
> >
> > mandb
did
Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> > > 4. About the cdrom mount point. I *think* that Debian have a 'preferred'
> > >cdrom. Once you have a system set up, you should make a link from
> > >your /dev/sr0 to /dev/cdrom. In this way every program that try to
> > >access your cdrom will find it in /d
Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
>
> * Axel Schlicht
> | > Make a new initrd or compile your own kernel?
> | No sources on my CD set. Will try and have al look at initrd
> man mkinitrd is a good start.
found the sources, am on my way.
> | > you still need a kernel driver.
> |
> | Shouldn't lp alone do th
Chris Tillman wrote:
Hi Chris
> > ISOLINUX 1.67/debian-cd 2002-05-14 isolinux: Loading spec packet, trying
> > to wing it...
> > isolinux; Failed to locate CD-ROM device; boot failed
> >
> > So Debian is still unable to boot from a mixed system, i. e. starting
> > from a scsi-device with ide-devi
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 04:41:34PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> Axel Schlicht wrote:
> > man apt.conf
> > man apt-config
> > apropos apt -> apt : nothing appropriate (that's ridiculous)
>
> Again, this is part of the standard installation you skipped.
[...]
> > Only specific marked sections ar
On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 17:38, Axel Schlicht wrote:
> > > CD-structure has greatly changed from a task / field-oriented to a
> > > first_letter_of_app_name-structure it's quite difficult to search no.
> > > apt-cache might not always be helpful.
> > You typicall do not search on the CD for programs,
> You, rather I, unpack the CDs, notice that we no longer need sources,
> call the maker (Linuxland, Munich, Germany) and are told that they are
> setting up a list of those interested in sources and - by the end of
> next week - will actually start burning them for a small fee. Nice, but
> that m
> > 4. About the cdrom mount point. I *think* that Debian have a 'preferred'
> >cdrom. Once you have a system set up, you should make a link from
> >your /dev/sr0 to /dev/cdrom. In this way every program that try to
> >access your cdrom will find it in /dev/cdrom regardless of which is
* Axel Schlicht
I'll only answer stuff where I see that other's haven't answered.
| Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| > Make a new initrd or compile your own kernel?
|
| No sources on my CD set. Will try and have al look at initrd
man mkinitrd is a good start.
| > you still need a kernel driver.
|
|
Axel Schlicht wrote:
>
> > 12. The X resolution is shown in /var/log/XFree86.0.log. Look for a
> >line like 'Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024)'. You may also find
> >the actual resolution using the command xdpyinfo.
> Should help.
Found the mistake
Subsection "Display"
Depth *
Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
Hi Giuseppe
> First a quick introduction.
> The debian installer you used will probably be superceded by a new
> installer that is being written from scratch, i.e. it is not an
> improuvement of the dbootstrap code you are using. If you are courious
> you could probably try
Hi Christian
> installed, so the kernel-image source package is on the source CD, the
> kernel-image binary package is on your CD, the kernel-source source package
> is on the source CD, the kernel-source binary (binary-all) package is on the
> binary CDs, simple isn't it?).
Well, my woody only h
Karsten Merker wrote:
> It is described in the installation manual, which is on your CD set
> and also available online at:
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-cd
Didn't look into it; thought ch stands for Chinese, and with no Chinese
fonts istalled, wh
Mr Axel Schlicht,
I am not an installation master but I think that I could try answering
some of your questions.
First a quick introduction.
The debian installer you used will probably be superceded by a new
installer that is being written from scratch, i.e. it is not an
improuvement of the dboot
Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
Hi Tollef
Thanks for the extremely fast answer.
> You can choose kernels etc by choosing which CD to use.
But then you have to know which kernel is on which CD. So here, too, a
short note would be helpful (like kernel xxx on CD yyy)
> | As I had to disable all drives except
* Axel Schlicht
| So now we try CD #2
| Whow, now we get a welcome screen
| and - via F3 - are presented with a few options:
| linux, ramdisk{0,1}, floppy{0,1}, and rescue. Not much of a choice for
| kernels.
You can choose kernels etc by choosing which CD to use.
| As I had to disable all dri
Hi installation masters.
This is my experience (dismal, bleak, sad, devastating, frustrating
experience) with woody or rather the attempted installation thereof.
The even sadder story on my laptop will soon follow.
One short remark. Knoppix (one of the first versions) runs absolutely
smoothely on
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 04:20:58PM -0700, Maria Angeles Crespo wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. Forgive my ignorance, what does
> this exactly mean? I guess bf2.4 is a version or
> similar but I?m not sure how do I get hold of it.
> Could you help me again?
Please read the fine manual. Section 4.2
Matt,
Thanks for the reply. Forgive my ignorance, what does
this exactly mean? I guess bf2.4 is a version or
similar but I´m not sure how do I get hold of it.
Could you help me again?
Thanks
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> On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 02:56:55PM -0700, Maria
> Angeles Cr
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 02:56:55PM -0700, Maria Angeles Crespo wrote:
> I am referring to a list item openned back in June
> which looks like the problem I am experiencing now.
> Reading the related entries I cannot figure out what
> the solution is. Can anyone help, please?
Did you try the bf24
Hi Matt,
I am referring to a list item openned back in June
which looks like the problem I am experiencing now.
Reading the related entries I cannot figure out what
the solution is. Can anyone help, please?
Thanks
Note: forwarded message attached.
=
Mª Angeles Crespo Dueñas
+34 91 5263345
Well, I was finally able to get Woody installed on an IBM 44P-170 (Power3)
system.
I can document the steps if there is an interest. I booted via BOOTP/tftp,
downloaded the kernel, basedebs.tar and driver.tgz with wget, and got the
rest with dselect/apt.
I do not think that 'boot-floppies' would
Hi,
I´m sending this messages just to let you know that I have just upgraded
a running Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r6 system to Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Woody
without any problem. The dist-upgrade was perfect.
The machine was an ancient Pentium 166 being used as proxy server (using
Squid), mail server (both
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From: Erik Meusel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Debian Woody installation fails on sys
> You could help trying different flavors first. For example, I expect
> some bugfixes in the bf2.4 flavor, please try to boot with this flavor
> and report success/trouble.
Yes, that'd do it. Thanks!
Could anyone close this submit? ;)
mfg, Erik
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> This is a kernel bug. Which boot-floppies flavor did you use?
Umm... newly created today.
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/
root.bin
rescue.bin
driver-[1-4].bin
> Matt
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On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 07:14:57PM +0200, Erik Meusel wrote:
> I've tried to install Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody) on an Highscreen Celeron
> 1200 Laptop, today. This thingy comes without serial devices. While booting
> the rescue disk, the installation stopped immediately while trying to setup
>
Moin Erik!
Erik Meusel schrieb am Wednesday, den 05. June 2002:
> I've tried to install Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody) on an Highscreen Celeron
> 1200 Laptop, today. This thingy comes without serial devices. While booting
> the rescue disk, the installation stopped immediately while trying to setu
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 20020605
I've tried to install Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody) on an Highscreen Celeron
1200 Laptop, today. This thingy comes without serial devices. While booting
the rescue disk, the installation stopped immediately while trying to setup
the serial devices and hun
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 11:53:59PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Dan Jacobson reflects on his brush with the 8 debian woody CDs:
>
> When one installs from the CD's one is directed to www.debian.org for
> instructions from one of those installation screens... one might not
> notice that the instru
Dan Jacobson reflects on his brush with the 8 debian woody CDs:
When one installs from the CD's one is directed to www.debian.org for
instructions from one of those installation screens... one might not
notice that the instructions are right on disk... so the installation
screen should mention it
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 06:01:14PM +0900, ?$BAj;3!!D9OB wrote:
> Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 For Intel x86 Chapter 6 Section 3 hints as if we can
> install woody up to 63rd partitions. Woody can be installable to up to 20th
>partitions
> using the default installer. Please clearly state it
Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 For Intel x86 Chapter 6 Section 3 hints as if we can
install woody up to 63rd partitions. Woody can be installable to up to 20th partitions
using the default installer. Please clearly state it in the manual so that no one mis-
understand or try to install it. Aft
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:27:15AM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote:
> Does anybody know where I may obtain the source code for boot-floppies
> 3.0.23? PowerPC if it makes a difference.
The source is the same for all architectures, and can be found in
/pool/main/b/boot-floppies/ on any Debian mirror.
uot;Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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cc:
From: Rolf Brudeseth/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
Subject:Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close
Importance: Normal
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:41:54PM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote:
>
ing & Integration, IBM Enterprise Systems Group
Austin, TX, Phone: 512-838-6558
German Poo Caaman~o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05/15/2002 03:47:54 PM
To:Rolf Brudeseth/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
cc:
Subject: Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close
El mié, 15-05-2002 a las 12:53, Rolf Brude
> > It'll be great if you can write up the steps required to get here.
>
> Well, I was not planning to get into this yet, but since you brought up the
> subject of documentation, here it comes.
>
> I am soon going on vacation. I will be back June 13th. Then I plan to
> submit bugs or post to the
El mié, 15-05-2002 a las 12:53, Rolf Brudeseth escribió:
> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:41:54PM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote:
> >> I believe I am really close to getting Debian working on an IBM 44P-170
> >> workstation.
> >>
> >> I made a combined boot/root image. The kernel is 2.4.18 from kernel.or
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:41:54PM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote:
>> I believe I am really close to getting Debian working on an IBM 44P-170
>> workstation.
>>
>> I made a combined boot/root image. The kernel is 2.4.18 from kernel.org,
>> while the root image is from Debian. I used the default powe
roup
Austin, TX, Phone: 512-838-6558, T/L: 678-6558
German Poo Caaman~o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05/15/2002 10:44:47 AM
To:Rolf Brudeseth/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
cc:[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - really close
El mar, 14-05-2002 a las 1
German Poo Caaman~o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> El mar, 14-05-2002 a las 14:41, Rolf Brudeseth escribió:
>> I believe I am really close to getting Debian working on an IBM 44P-170
>> workstation.
>>
>> I made a combined boot/root image. The kernel is 2.4.18 from kernel.org,
>> while the root i
El mar, 14-05-2002 a las 14:41, Rolf Brudeseth escribió:
> I believe I am really close to getting Debian working on an IBM 44P-170
> workstation.
>
> I made a combined boot/root image. The kernel is 2.4.18 from kernel.org,
> while the root image is from Debian. I used the default power3 config fi
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:41:54PM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote:
> I believe I am really close to getting Debian working on an IBM 44P-170
> workstation.
>
> I made a combined boot/root image. The kernel is 2.4.18 from kernel.org,
> while the root image is from Debian. I used the default power3 co
I believe I am really close to getting Debian working on an IBM 44P-170
workstation.
I made a combined boot/root image. The kernel is 2.4.18 from kernel.org,
while the root image is from Debian. I used the default power3 config file
(power3_defconfig).
Root image:
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/di
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> When I try to install woody via loadlin in DOS with the bf2.4 kernel
> flavor, loadlin says
>
> Invalid copressed format (err=1)
> --- System halted
General problem with loadlin and some systems. Works with small kernel
images, breaks with bigger files.
Gruss/Rega
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 3.0.20-2002-03-05
When I try to install woody via loadlin in DOS with the bf2.4 kernel
flavor, loadlin says
Invalid copressed format (err=1)
--- System halted
I used the standard install.bat:
..\dosutils\loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=../images-1.44/bf2.4/
Hi ...
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 07:00:21PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
>> >You're looking at dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Release; you should be looking
>> >at dists/woody/Release (which is what debootstrap's looking at).
>> Ok .. but does this make sence, to have dists/woody/Release Components
>>
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 08:52:04AM +0100, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:18:56PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> >> TMPCOMPONENTS="$(sed -n 's/Components: *//p' $reldest)"
> >> However (*2) the Release file for woody contains:
> >>Archive: testing
> >>Component: main
Good Morning (UTC)
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:18:56PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
>> Somebody else already mentioned the "Malformed release file" bug. I'm
>> not sure what the cause of this is. A potential fix included an "rm
>> Release", maybe not the best solution. However, a couple of lines
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 01:13:25PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Somebody else already mentioned the "Malformed release file" bug. I'm
> not sure what the cause of this is. A potential fix included an "rm
> Release", maybe not the best solution. However, a couple of lines
> before this snippet
Moin!
Somebody else already mentioned the "Malformed release file" bug. I'm
not sure what the cause of this is. A potential fix included an "rm
Release", maybe not the best solution. However, a couple of lines
before this snippet is found:
TMPCOMPONENTS="$(sed -n 's/Components: *//p' $relde
Package: boot-floppy
Version: 3.0.17-2001-11-18
I've a consistent error while installing Debian Woody i386, with drivers and
boot floppies on a FAT partition on the installation drive.
Exact procedure as follows:
I've downloaded files on a FAT32 Partition seen as drive C from Windows,
files dow
Hi,
after debian mirror updated succesfully, I prepared boot floppies with woddy
disks. Installation started. While base package installation, an error
occured saying "Package pcmci-cs not found" and exit. Yesterday installation
finished succesfuly.
I am mirroring daily from ftp.us.debian.org and
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Bug#116829: sysvinit postinst's 'init q'
Seve
on the
> cdroms is not enough for the new bootdiscs, and there are no low
> memory bootdiscs for Woody anymore.
> Is there an easy way of getting a woody installation on this box up
> and running?
Perhaps you can install the base system only from Potato, and then
upgrade to Woody.
Does a
oms is not enough for the new bootdiscs, and there are no low
memory bootdiscs for Woody anymore.
Is there an easy way of getting a woody installation on this box up
and running?
Thanks in advance,
Konstantin
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Package: boot-floppies
Version: 3.0.16
Severity: serious
Installation hangs during install of essential packages. tty4 shows:
Setting up whiptail (0.50.17-7) ...
Setting up sysvinit (2.83-1) ...
Creating /dev/initctl
tty2 allows keyboard input but never offers a shell. This appears to be
the sa
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Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.3.6
Severity: serious
Installation hangs when installing essential packages. The output on
console number 4 says:
Setting up sysvinit (2.03-1) ...
Creating /dev/initctl
and then hangs. The shell on console 2 does not respond at all after
this, but the kernel is
Hi!
I have problems installing woody on my powerbook.
I used version 3.0.10 and the installation procedure hangs after the message "Install
essential packages".
Apart from switching between the consoles, the system does not respond to any
commands. On the fourth
console I have all the depende
Okay, my install on my m68k LCII worked! Actually, I'm just at the reboot
stage, so we'll see how that goes. It took about 10 hours or so, but it
worked. The basedebs.tgz unpacking was certainly slow...but at 16 mhz, what
should I expect? :-)
Question about the prompt that comes with the "Ins
* Thierry Laronde
| Just to say that we have installed a Woody with woody testing bf (network
| install) and everything went fine.
FWIW, Me too. Installed on a NetFinity 5500 with ServeRAID and
everything. No problems at all. Network install.
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Hello,
Just to say that we have installed a Woody with woody testing bf (network
install) and everything went fine.
The split to user level questions after the base install is definitively a
good thing.
Sorry ;) No problem here to report...
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Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> It is not written in C. I don't use C for developing the boot-floppies, it is
> too difficult to debug in the limited enviroment of a rescue disk. My debconf
> is written in awk which is in my boot-floppies because I use it for many
> other things. Implementing debconf i
> Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> > If it can help I have an automatic installer for slink (a hack but it works
> > fine), a small debconf clone which can fit in a bootfloppy (this is not yet
> > complete but it can already read and write a debconf db)
>
> Please show us what you've got. I'm particula
Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> If it can help I have an automatic installer for slink (a hack but it works
> fine), a small debconf clone which can fit in a bootfloppy (this is not yet
> complete but it can already read and write a debconf db)
Please show us what you've got. I'm particularly interest
On Sat Jun 17, 2000 at 09:30:04PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Sat Jun 17, 2000 at 08:13:54PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> >
> > For woody, I have agreed to serve as the leader of the boot floppies
> > project.
[snip---]
>
> I think as my first action as one of your minions,
>
> Ok, let's just call it debian-installer. Adam, please make a new
> module with that name in the debian-boot cvs repository.
>
> --
> see shy jo
Let's call it "debian-automatic-installer". What I intend here is something
that given an installation medium and a config floppy or file can inst
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ok, let's just call it debian-installer. Adam, please make a new
> module with that name in the debian-boot cvs repository.
Done. I set g+ws on the dir which I think is the right thing.
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Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have .deb'ed busybox, but before I upload anything I was wondering... Lintian
> complains about missing man pages on all the apps. How important is it that I
If you put them in a directory such as /usr/lib/busybox, then lintian won't
care about the
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Erik Andersen wrote:
> > > Urgh. Gurgle, gurgle. Lets not let this one get out of hand.
> > > Lacking a marketing department, I suggest we keep it simple.
> > > "debian-installer" works for me.
> >
> > I think I prefer it too. B
On Mon Jun 19, 2000 at 01:26:51PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Erik Andersen wrote:
> > I have .deb'ed busybox, but before I upload anything I was wondering... Lintian
> > complains about missing man pages on all the apps. How important is it that I
> > comply with policy for something like BusyBox
Erik Andersen wrote:
> I have .deb'ed busybox, but before I upload anything I was wondering... Lintian
> complains about missing man pages on all the apps. How important is it that I
> comply with policy for something like BusyBox? I can add in full docs, full
> manpages, do a full set of confl
On Sat Jun 17, 2000 at 09:30:04PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Sat Jun 17, 2000 at 08:13:54PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> >
> > That last isn't something that I am going to impose on the rest of you,
> > of course. But I would get pretty grumpy if we just continued incremental
> > improvements
Herbert Xu wrote:
> One of the goals that I wish to see woody's boot-floppies (whatever you
> decide to call it) achieve is the support of a fully modularised kernel
> through initrd. initrd is not necessary for the boot floppies (or CD's,
> etc.) per se since they can load any module they need,
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> For woody, I have agreed to serve as the leader of the boot floppies
> project. Adam Di Carlo and I talked it over in January when I was in
Good luck :)
> To that end, I propose that we start a new cvs tree devoted to a new
> installation system for Debia
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> Erik Andersen wrote:
> > > increasingly innacurate. Some ideas inclde "debinst",
> > > "debian-installer", or some actual cool name someone comes up with. I
> > > hate naming projects. :-)
> >
> > Urgh. Gurgle, gurgle. Lets not let this one get out of hand
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Erik Andersen wrote:
> > Urgh. Gurgle, gurgle. Lets not let this one get out of hand.
> > Lacking a marketing department, I suggest we keep it simple.
> > "debian-installer" works for me.
>
> I think I prefer it too. But I don't care if it gets out of han
Erik Andersen wrote:
> Well then. Fearless Leader, andersee reporting for duty. :)
> I think as my first action as one of your minions, I will
> .deb'ify busybox for woody.
That certianly fits in well with my evil plan. Thanks.
> > increasingly innacurate. Some ideas inclde "debinst",
> > "deb
On Sat Jun 17, 2000 at 08:13:54PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> [ I had meant to not start this discussion until after potato was
> released, so we could concentrate on making boot-floppies perfect for
> potato. However, that's dragging on, and it looks like our work there is
> mostly done, so here go
[ I had meant to not start this discussion until after potato was
released, so we could concentrate on making boot-floppies perfect for
potato. However, that's dragging on, and it looks like our work there is
mostly done, so here goes. ]
For woody, I have agreed to serve as the leader of the boot
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