Re: preparation for the alpha

2002-12-10 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Erik Andersen] > It can be configured to create archives if you need it. Since this > far there was no need, there was no need to waste space on such > things, so archive creation was disabled. Yes, please. If the size change is neglectable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: preparation for the alpha

2002-12-08 Thread Erik Andersen
On Sun Dec 08, 2002 at 11:22:17PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Tollef Fog Heen] > > lspci output would be good as well. > > I made a small udeb to store debug info on a floppy. Unfortunately > this did not work as busybox tar is unable to create archives. This It can be configured to

Re: preparation for the alpha

2002-12-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Martin Sjögren] > Since we must make sure nothing is printed to stderr by anything (it > would screw up all frontends but text), we should somewhere redirect > all of that into a log file, that could be copied into /target as > well. I'm not sure what the best place for doing that is... The > deb

Re: preparation for the alpha

2002-12-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Tollef Fog Heen] > lspci output would be good as well. I made a small udeb to store debug info on a floppy. Unfortunately this did not work as busybox tar is unable to create archives. This udeb was going to copy all the content of /var/log/ into the archive, and run the following script to fe

Re: preparation for the alpha

2002-12-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Martin Sjögren | I'm not sure what the best place for doing that is... The | debian-installer script? main-menu? /sbin/debian-installer would be best, IMHO. So it will just be run when debconf is actually running. You fix? -- Tollef Fog Heen

Re: preparation for the alpha

2002-12-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Anthony Towns | On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:22:20AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > The following stuff is still missing: | > - reporting tool (code to write, non-trivial) | | A good aim is probably to make this as trivial as possible. A possibility | is to store the udebconf database in /tar

Re: preparation for the alpha

2002-12-05 Thread Martin Sjögren
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:23:17PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Since we must make sure nothing is printed to stderr by anything (it > > would screw up all frontends but text), we should somewhere redirect > > all of that into a log file, that could be copied in

Re: preparation for the alpha

2002-12-05 Thread debian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Since we must make sure nothing is printed to stderr by anything (it > would screw up all frontends but text), we should somewhere redirect > all of that into a log file, that could be copied into /target as > well. I'm not sure what the best place for doing that is... T

Re: preparation for the alpha

2002-12-05 Thread Martin Sjögren
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:37:48PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:22:20AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > The following stuff is still missing: > > - reporting tool (code to write, non-trivial) > > A good aim is probably to make this as trivial as possible. A possibilit

Re: preparation for the alpha

2002-12-04 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:22:20AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > The following stuff is still missing: > - reporting tool (code to write, non-trivial) A good aim is probably to make this as trivial as possible. A possibility is to store the udebconf database in /target just before rebooting (it

preparation for the alpha

2002-12-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
I'm hoping for an alpha this weekend. The following stuff is still missing: - reporting tool (code to write, non-trivial) - add mkswap (should be trivial, might need a busybox upload) The following things are done, but could use a little testing: - menu ordering (uploaded today) - check that the