Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies (fwd)

2001-02-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:40:17AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Honestly, if it's a pain in the butt, don't worry too much about it. > > I have other more pressing priorities. > I have sucessfully built the potato bf version in the chroot o

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-19 Thread Erik Andersen
On Sun Feb 18, 2001 at 10:51:39PM -0700, Tim Riker wrote: > Looks like you have not gotten much response to this? I hacked long and > hard on the Caldera boot procedure while employed there. I've also build > custom installation procedures for other linux distros and > architectures. (including ia

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-19 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Tim Riker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's the plan for woody? Get it building. Beyond that, see the 'todo' file. > I've mostly done 2.88 boot images for CD > installs and then similar split 1.44 images for floppy. It would be a > Good Thing to continue to support the various install proce

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-18 Thread Tim Riker
Looks like you have not gotten much response to this? I hacked long and hard on the Caldera boot procedure while employed there. I've also build custom installation procedures for other linux distros and architectures. (including ia64) I'd like to get involved in the installation soon, but I'm sti

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-17 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Héctor García Álvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I haven't worked with boot-floppies before, but I volunteer to help > (or at least I'll try to). Anything to start with or should I just > pick one of the jobs you listed? Well, we first need to get it building on i386 and other arches we have

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-17 Thread Héctor García Álvarez
Hi all El 14 Feb 2001 01:07:56 -0500, Adam Di Carlo escribió: > > I am in need of volunteers -- people who know makefile and have worked > with boot-floppies before. > I haven't worked with boot-floppies before, but I volunteer to help (or at least I'll try to). Anything to start with or should

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-16 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Umpf... I tried to built the (head?) potato version on my m68k box at home, > seems that one is needing some more packages to build than the earlier > version? No, it shouldn't. > > > The biggest problem (besides a missing loop device???) >

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-16 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 09:25:15PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > "Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:07:56AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > > > OTOH, we do want to freeze woody prior to July, so we're going to need > > > to hobble along with bo

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-16 Thread Philip Charles
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > Hmm.. are we going to make hurd boot-floppies for woody? > I have already butchered b-f 2.2.17 to produce HURD boot-floppies. I will admit this kind of experience my be of limited use. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Dunedin, New Zealand;

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-16 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 07:14:10AM +, Philip Charles wrote: > On 14 Feb 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > > > I am in need of volunteers -- people who know makefile and have worked > > with boot-floppies before. > > My HURDish experience might be of some use to you as a tester. Hmm.. are we

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-15 Thread Philip Charles
On 14 Feb 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > I am in need of volunteers -- people who know makefile and have worked > with boot-floppies before. My HURDish experience might be of some use to you as a tester. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Dunedin, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:07:56AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > OTOH, we do want to freeze woody prior to July, so we're going to need > > to hobble along with boot-floppies for one more release -- woody. > > Will we need another set for

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > - integrate AJ's dynamic base building package > > > > /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/,mklibs.2558/lib-so: undefined versioned symbol > > > > name [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I can't imageine why aj's script could be calling mklibs.sh, so I > assumed this was a t

base building in b-f (was Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies)

2001-02-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Whedon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here you go Dave: > > http://people.debian.org/~ajt/ Shouldn't we be using the debootstrap package? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-15 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:07:56AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > OTOH, we do want to freeze woody prior to July, so we're going to need > to hobble along with boot-floppies for one more release -- woody. Will we need another set for potato or only for woody? > Please help me out. Otherwise, go

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-14 Thread Joey Hess
David Whedon wrote: > I remember this script posted to debian-boot a month or so ago, but can't find > the post. If anyone can direct me to it I'll be thier friend. I assume you mean Aj's base-building script. Aj has promised to make it into a proper debian package, but I don't think that's ha

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-14 Thread David Whedon
Here you go Dave: http://people.debian.org/~ajt/ David Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:29:23PM -0800 wrote: > I remember this script posted to debian-boot a month or so ago, but can't find > the post. If anyone can direct me to it I'll be thier friend. > > David > > Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:15:15AM -

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-14 Thread David Whedon
I remember this script posted to debian-boot a month or so ago, but can't find the post. If anyone can direct me to it I'll be thier friend. David Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:15:15AM -0800 wrote: > > > > - integrate AJ's dynamic base building package > > /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/,mklibs.2558/lib-so: un

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-14 Thread David Whedon
> > - integrate AJ's dynamic base building package > /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/,mklibs.2558/lib-so: undefined versioned symbol > name [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'll take a look at this one, though I'm not sure what this reference to the ld error message is. I've been a bit obsessed with debian-installe

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-14 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:11:08AM +, Dale Scheetz wrote: > You mentioned that the boot-floppies will eventuall go away. It will be replaced with new project "debian-installer", fresh, modular, beautiful, etc.. :-) Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://student.uci.agh.edu.pl/~

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
Adam, I don't have enough spare time to help out with anything on your list. I'm still available for testing help, so let me know when there is a new release. You mentioned that the boot-floppies will eventuall go away. I'm not sure what this means. Are we not going to provide floppy images for t

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-14 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:07:56AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > I am in need of volunteers -- people who know makefile and have worked > with boot-floppies before. Now that I have passed my exams I will have some more free time. Also I'm buying a new computer next week (large HD, planning a p

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-13 Thread Eray Ozkural
Hi Adam, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > - eliminate the top-level Makefile ickyness -- I'm working on this > now, I've broken up that makefile and I'm replacing all those hacked > out rules with wildcard rules and such -- requires a bit of makefile > wizardy but the 8-fold reduction in makefile

call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

2001-02-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
I am in need of volunteers -- people who know makefile and have worked with boot-floppies before. You may have heard about the debian-installer effort -- it's true. Boot-floppies is end-of-life and will eventually be taken out and shot. Hooray. No one will be happier than I. OTOH, we do want