> > i dunno. i have not seen the reiserfs patch for the 2.2.19 kernel in
> > Debian yet (it is on the namesys.com site though)
>
> Hmmm. You might lay some bugs on some people.
Just for the record, I uploaded the 2.2.19 patch almost as soon as it came
out. It's been in main for weeks.
-Ed
--
"Dwayne C. Litzenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Fit? I thought there was going to be a graphical install.
Boot-floppies is not graphical, no.
> Maybe I should be looking at the debian-installation section?
Perhaps, that's the next generation installer. Boot-floppies is end
of life and
"John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> as far as that goes, i can commit my ReiserFS additions to
> debootstrap
debootstrap or dbootstrap?
You can at least send patches.
> at any time. since i cannot get a boot disk to build, i have been
> hesitant to actually make the commits.
ReiserFS works just fine on big endian systems in 2.2. The patch
for 2.4 is also available, from what I've heard. Because the kernel
interfaces were/are changing so rapidly in 2.4, rfs has lagged
behind a bit in the later stages of 2.3 because they don't like
redoing their work every time some k
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:41:58PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> keep in mind that reiserfs is totally broken on big endian
> archetectures (m68k, sparc, powerpc) right now. there is work being
> done and its making progress but none of it is merged upstream yet.
Yeah, hopefully it's on par by th
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> Well, absolutely not the default, but it's a possible option. If we
> go with grub, I think that doesn't get along with ReiserFS. Is it
> necessary to use kernel 2.4.x if you want ReiserFS?
keep in mind that reiserfs is totally
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 06:24:27PM -0700, Sam Powers wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 07:15:35PM -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote:
> > > > > I was just wondering, will the next Debian release (2.3?) be based
> > > > > on kernel 2.4?
> > >
> > > It is not currently planned, for boot-floppies 2
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 07:15:35PM -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote:
> > > > I was just wondering, will the next Debian release (2.3?) be based on
> > > > kernel 2.4?
> >
> > It is not currently planned, for boot-floppies 2.3.x anyhow, to move to the
> > 2.4 kernels.
>
> Really? If the rele
> > > I was just wondering, will the next Debian release (2.3?) be based on
> > > kernel 2.4?
>
> It is not currently planned, for boot-floppies 2.3.x anyhow, to move to the
> 2.4 kernels.
Really? If the release is not going to be until the summer, I would think it
to be really unwise to use K
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:28:22PM -0700, Sam Powers wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > "Dwayne C. Litzenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > If so, will the installation program support reiserfs, a parted
> > > > frontend, will it support reiserfs a
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> "Dwayne C. Litzenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > If so, will the installation program support reiserfs, a parted
> > > frontend, will it support reiserfs as a default install method,
>
> Well, absolutely not the default, b
"Dwayne C. Litzenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 08:35:27PM -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote:
> > I was just wondering, will the next Debian release (2.3?) be based on kernel
> > 2.4?
It is not currently planned, for boot-floppies 2.3.x anyhow, to move to
the 2.
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 08:35:27PM -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote:
> I was just wondering, will the next Debian release (2.3?) be based on kernel
> 2.4? If so, will the installation program support reiserfs, a parted frontend, will
>it support reiserfs as a default install method, parted to
Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:50:15AM -0700 wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:54:01AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> >
> [suggestion to add telnet/netcat to boot-floppies]
s/telnet\//
telnet is already there. see the attachment to:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0104/msg00400.html
for the conten
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:54:01AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
[suggestion to add telnet/netcat to boot-floppies]
>
> I guess I would really shelf this for now... or just take suggestions
> and leave them in todo for now.
busybox 0.51 (others also?) includes netcat and telnet. i guess its a
m
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:57:02AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > FWIW, I, as a french native speaker, do not consider that Debian has to try
> > to put all the message catalogs for all the languages in floppies. It would
> > be enough to have flop
Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> FWIW, I, as a french native speaker, do not consider that Debian has to try
> to put all the message catalogs for all the languages in floppies. It would
> be enough to have floppies with i18n abilities and room for "C" and _one_
> other language. It
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:54:01AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> I don't mind the concept of adding more to the root filesystem, but
> the problem is you have to deal right now with the fact that any room
> we have now we're going to need for the fonts and message catalogs of
> i18n floppies.
I don't mind the concept of adding more to the root filesystem, but
the problem is you have to deal right now with the fact that any room
we have now we're going to need for the fonts and message catalogs of
i18n floppies.
Plus other arches often don't have that much space available, esp 64
bit
Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:52:58PM -0700 wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 06:58:58PM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
> > woody boot floppies have busybox telnet.
>
> telnet (or netcat) is only any good if there is a net connection. not
> everyon has one.
>
> -john
This is true, but your point is uncle
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