Re: a cvs floppy test to install a woody cd by a BF newbie (report)

2001-05-05 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> Debconf should fall back to dialog when it determines slang is not going > to work. Yes, it does I realised later when instead of trying to fullfill his needs I just let it continue :-) > Anyway, it is basically a bug in debconf that it half-defaults[1] to the > slang frontend. The slang front

Re: a cvs floppy test to install a woody cd by a BF newbie (report)

2001-05-04 Thread Joey Hess
Package: debconf Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > If we bypass this problems, then we find out that libterm-stool-perl and a > lot of its depencencies are missing, so dpkg-reconfigure doesn't work (it > is trying to start debconf using slang), so either we install all the stuff > that is needed

Re: a cvs floppy test to install a woody cd by a BF newbie (report)

2001-04-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* David Whedon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010426 17:24]: > > When installing the base packages there seems to be a problem with > > exim, the empty config is created on /target and exim checks for > > it on /, so you get complaints from exim. > sounds like the exim config should be chrooted. Err, ex

Re: a cvs floppy test to install a woody cd by a BF newbie (report)

2001-04-26 Thread Erik Andersen
On Thu Apr 26, 2001 at 05:24:37PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > > perhaps add : > > ::shutdown:/bin/umount -a -r > /dev/null 2>&1 > ::shutdown:/sbin/swapoff -a > /dev/null 2>&1 > > to: > > boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/prototype/etc/inittab I just updated the inittab file. It needed the foll

Re: a cvs floppy test to install a woody cd by a BF newbie (report)

2001-04-26 Thread David Whedon
Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:50:03PM +0200 wrote: > Hi! > > After debugging busybox enough so that I could use the cvs version to > build installable floppies, so here is my report and also some questions I'd > like to know the answer, so that I could continue trying to inprove boot > floppies. > > W

a cvs floppy test to install a woody cd by a BF newbie (report)

2001-04-26 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! After debugging busybox enough so that I could use the cvs version to build installable floppies, so here is my report and also some questions I'd like to know the answer, so that I could continue trying to inprove boot floppies. When installing the base packages there seems to be a problem