Re: d-i experiences

2003-09-20 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-16 03:46]: [...] | > As I fought my way through the partitioning and formatting options I got | > many error dialogs containing what look like the output of cfdisk, only | > containing piles of escape strings too. | | AFAIK, the partitioner is

Re: d-i experiences

2003-09-18 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:06:36AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:29:44PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > Simply adding "./libpwdgrp/libpwdgrp.a ./libbb/libbb.a" (libpwdgrp.a needs > > stuff from libbb.a, too) to the end of the command line linking busybox fi

Re: d-i experiences

2003-09-18 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:29:44PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > Simply adding "./libpwdgrp/libpwdgrp.a ./libbb/libbb.a" (libpwdgrp.a needs > stuff from libbb.a, too) to the end of the command line linking busybox fixes > the problem, but there must surely be a more elegant way? OK, I think

Re: d-i experiences

2003-09-18 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:54:33PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > An strace seems to indicate that, yes -- it looks for libnss_files.so.1 but > can't find it. Without it, it finds and parses /etc/passwd correctly, but not > /etc/group for some reason. busybox has a libpwdgrp that can do these

Re: d-i experiences

2003-09-18 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 02:03:59PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > My guess was that 'id' might require more > libraries (*nss* stuff), but I havn't invesigated further yet. An strace seems to indicate that, yes -- it looks for libnss_files.so.1 but can't find it. Without it, it finds and parses /et

Re: d-i experiences

2003-09-18 Thread Richard Hirst
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:58:40AM +0100, Daniel Silverstone wrote: > It seems debootstrap barfed on an id call, something to do with [ and I see this on ia64 too. 'id' in busybox doesn't work in the d-i environment, but does work in a normal system environment. That particular error seems to be

Re: d-i experiences

2003-09-16 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 02:44:29AM +0200, Sebastian Ley wrote: > This is a known bug, although I do not remember which package is > responsible. I believe it is busybox, but I can't find a bug report. > Will investigate tomorrow. #208810 for busybox-cvs-udeb, #211009 for dash. /* Steinar */ -- H

Re: d-i experiences

2003-09-16 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 14:02, Chris Tillman wrote: > I went through the templates a few months ago to edit English, > I am happy to do it again. Do you remember which ones seemed > out of whack? Maybe I'm missing some. I will have to go back to my notes and try again to be sure, but my memory of it

Re: d-i experiences

2003-09-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:47:30AM +0100, Daniel Silverstone wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 10:18, Geert Stappers wrote: > As another comment, many of the dialogs seem incredibly poorly worded, > often in very broken english, sometimes making no sense at all. Also > sometimes the 'Go Back' button a

Re: d-i experiences

2003-09-16 Thread Sebastian Ley
Am Di, 2003-09-16 um 01.58 schrieb Daniel Silverstone: > I fired up a bochs machine and booted the netinst CD > > It sat looping saying "unable to load vesafb.o" Fixed in cvs. > Firstly, the framebuffer console is incredibly slow. But I can cope with > this... This is a problem of vmware. It i

Re: d-i experiences

2003-09-16 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 10:18, Geert Stappers wrote: > See http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/getting_started > for more information. > All help is welcome. Unfortunately the most help I can offer is an hour or so of my time testing an installer every few days. I have huge amounts of m

Re: d-i experiences

2003-09-16 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:07:29AM +0100, Daniel Silverstone wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 02:46, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > This is a bug in usb-discover, which should be fixed in the latest upload, > > ie. it should reach the netinst CD soon. :-) > > > This is a bug in busybox ash, which a

Re: d-i experiences

2003-09-16 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 02:46, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > This is a bug in usb-discover, which should be fixed in the latest upload, > ie. it should reach the netinst CD soon. :-) > This is a bug in busybox ash, which again should be fixed in the latest > upload and reach the netinst CD soon. >

Re: d-i experiences

2003-09-15 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:58:40AM +0100, Daniel Silverstone wrote: > I fired up a bochs machine and booted the netinst CD > > It sat looping saying "unable to load vesafb.o" This is a bug in usb-discover, which should be fixed in the latest upload, ie. it should reach the netinst CD soon. :-) >

d-i experiences

2003-09-15 Thread Daniel Silverstone
Hi, The following is a record of my d-i experiences today... I took a little time out at work today to try d-i. I fired up a bochs machine and booted the netinst CD It sat looping saying "unable to load vesafb.o" This was a bit of a disappointment, so I waited until I got home. On