On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 01:45:37PM -0500, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 05:42:39PM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote:
> > tables. Also, I am looking at writing some code to support *BSD disklabels
> > (not that this really helps anything ...).
>
> Why not? Especially the Compaq Al
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 05:42:39PM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote:
> tables. Also, I am looking at writing some code to support *BSD disklabels
> (not that this really helps anything ...).
Why not? Especially the Compaq Alpha Servers can only boot from BSD
disklabels...
Roland
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Roland Bauerschmi
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Since this list will be needed for discussion related to boot-floppies, I
> wonder if we should break the debian-installer traffic out into a
> separate list?
I don't think it's really necessary.
The purpose of the debian-boot list is the debian installa
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Randolph Chung wrote:
> > * udpkg is 97% done
>
> I'd say more like 80%, though the rest should be pretty simple to do.
> I'll try to get this done by the end of the week.
>
> > * udebconf ??
>
> I was hoping to have gotten some code feedback and/or volunteers to help
> me
Timshel Knoll wrote:
> > Ive had a look at partitioning with parted, i made a small program that
> > showed partition and drive details, and chopped up libparted manually to
> > only include functions needed, and that was relatively only 20 KB or so,
> > but when i started adding extra functionali
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 02:25:11PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > * modules to set up network, partition hard disk, download modules, set
> > up swap, format the disk, install the base system, and set up lilo are
>
Agreed :)
>
> Ive had a look at partitioning with pa
Randolph Chung wrote:
>
> > * udebconf ??
>
> I was hoping to have gotten some code feedback and/or volunteers to help
> me work on this :-) i will continue to work on this as time permits,
> though i am spread kinda thin atm.
>
I had a superficial look at it, but didnt really come to grips wi
> * udpkg is 97% done
I'd say more like 80%, though the rest should be pretty simple to do.
I'll try to get this done by the end of the week.
> * udebconf ??
I was hoping to have gotten some code feedback and/or volunteers to help
me work on this :-) i will continue to work on this as time perm
Joey Hess wrote:
> * main-menu is 90% done, and will be finished by the end of this week
> * udpkg is 97% done
> * udebconf ??
Randolph has started this,
http://auric.debian.org/~tausq/cdebconf-0.10.tgz
> * modules to set up network, partition hard disk, download modules, set
> up swap, form
Randolph Chung wrote:
> When we were working on potato boot-floppies, it was my understanding
> that potato freeze != boot-floppies freeze. Several important additions
> (http-fetch, etc) went in after the freeze. If this is the case for
> woody as well, then we should find out from ajt when he th
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Talking to the release manager, Anthony Towns, in IRC, I learned it is
> his current plan to freeze woody early in January 2001.
>
> I think this is a laudable goal, but unfortunately I think that means
> we need to retain the boot-floppies for woody.
I'm afraid that I agre
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> 12 weeks may be optimistic, but if its going to be frozen for 6 months,
> then we could have a new installer in that timeframe, of course planning
> development schedules based on anticipating long freese time is probably
> foolhardy.
>
> Joey recen
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 05:01:22PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> I think one of the problems for the potato floppies as far as adding new
> features was the extended time we were either preparing for a feature
> freese or actually in the freese. It must have been over 6 months.
We froze mid-Janur
> Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > If this is the case for woody as well, then we should find out from
> > ajt when he thinks the installer portion of woody should be
> > feature-frozen.
In an ideal world, boot-floppies / debian-installer (and all of base)
would be the *first* thing
Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When we were working on potato boot-floppies, it was my understanding
> that potato freeze != boot-floppies freeze. Several important additions
> (http-fetch, etc) went in after the freeze.
I think http fetch was in before. Some other stuff trickled
> I think this is a laudable goal, but unfortunately I think that means
> we need to retain the boot-floppies for woody.
When we were working on potato boot-floppies, it was my understanding
that potato freeze != boot-floppies freeze. Several important additions
(http-fetch, etc) went in after th
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> [I'm re-sending this due to the subject line damage -- this is a very
> important issue.]
>
> Talking to the release manager, Anthony Towns, in IRC, I learned it is
> his current plan to freeze woody early in January 2001.
>
> I think this is a laudable goal, but unfor
[I'm re-sending this due to the subject line damage -- this is a very
important issue.]
Talking to the release manager, Anthony Towns, in IRC, I learned it is
his current plan to freeze woody early in January 2001.
I think this is a laudable goal, but unfortunately I think that means
we need
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