Bug#65933: Setting clock to UTC sometimes doesn't work

2000-06-20 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.15 Subject: Setting When dbootstrap executes "Configure the Base System", if you choose to set the clock to local time, the string "UTC=no" is placed in /etc/default/rcS. This is OK. But if you re-execute "Configure the Base System" and choose to set the cloc

Re: [woody,debinst] Interim filesystem

2000-06-20 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> > > How and Interim filesystem might work (as i see it) > > > > Why have an interim fs? And what about raiserfs or better jfs ? Hartmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [woody,debinst] Interim filesystem

2000-06-20 Thread bug1
Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > > > > How and Interim filesystem might work (as i see it) > > > > > > Why have an interim fs? > > And what about raiserfs or better jfs ? > I havent tried reiserfs yet, from what i know it save us a bit of space with small files wouldnt it, does it have nay other adv

Re: [woody,debinst] Interim filesystem

2000-06-20 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> > And what about raiserfs or better jfs ? > > > > I havent tried reiserfs yet, from what i know it save us a bit of space > with small files wouldnt it, does it have nay other advantages ? > > Whats jfs? jfs is the journaling-file-system from ibm -- the aix filesystem without the LVM. We h

Re: [woody,debinst] Interim filesystem

2000-06-20 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, bug1 wrote: > Bruce Sass wrote: > > > Bruce Sass wrote: > > > > On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, bug1 wrote: > > > > > How and Interim filesystem might work (as i see it) > > > > > > > > Why have an interim fs? > > > > > > 1) To get around any space limitations presented by the boot mediu

Re: bf-utf, gnewt

2000-06-20 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Hi. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, at 18 Jun 2000 23:39:34 -0700, on bf-utf, gnewt, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: > I started trying to port the patches I found in the bf-utf repository > over to the `slang' Newt (snewt) in the `gnewt' module. Thanks for working on bf-u

Re: [woody,debinst] Interim filesystem

2000-06-20 Thread bug1
Bruce Sass wrote: > I think you are forgetting about something... > how is partitioning going to be accomplished without user interaction. > > I'm not aware of any tools that can take a description of a filesystem > then partition and setup a harddrive(s) accordingly, that seems to be a > task ne

potato boot-floppies

2000-06-20 Thread Anthony Towns
Hello world, Congratulations guys: -testing seems to hold nothing but praise for potato upgrades, looks good. Is there anything more you're intending to do to b-f for potato, beyond 2.2.15? Alternately, do whatever changes you already have in CVS account for: critical bugs - outstanding *

Re: potato boot-floppies

2000-06-20 Thread Petr Cech
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 09:55:31PM +1000 , Anthony Towns wrote: > Hello world, > > Congratulations guys: -testing seems to hold nothing but praise for potato > upgrades, looks good. cool > Is there anything more you're intending to do to b-f for potato, > beyond 2.2.15? Alternately, do whatever

Re: potato boot-floppies

2000-06-20 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 09:55:31PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > ? Or are these not really RC? (If the latter, please downgrade them > appropriately) > > Basically, what I'm asking is, as far as source is concerned, are you > ready to go? I realise you need to wait for updated base packages befor

Re: bf-utf, gnewt

2000-06-20 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Taketoshi" == Taketoshi Sano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Taketoshi> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: >> I started trying to port the patches I found in the bf-utf repository >> over to the `slang' Newt (snewt) in the `gnewt' module. Taketoshi> Thanks for work

Re: [woody,debinst] Interim filesystem

2000-06-20 Thread Erik Andersen
On Tue Jun 20, 2000 at 03:37:17AM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > No argument here. > > I think you are forgetting about something... > how is partitioning going to be accomplished without user interaction. > > I'm not aware of any tools that can take a description of a filesystem > then partition a

Re: woody installation system

2000-06-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, let's just call it debian-installer. Adam, please make a new > module with that name in the debian-boot cvs repository. Done. I set g+ws on the dir which I think is the right thing. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To

Re: potato boot-floppies

2000-06-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 03:39:34PM +0200, Petr Cech wrote: > I think we wait to tausq to upload -compact and -idepci flavor and for > corresponding pcmcia packages. And b-f has to be updatet for 2.2.16 Okay, assuming all that was pretty much correct and indicative, we should have all the source u

Re: [woody,debinst] Interim filesystem

2000-06-20 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, bug1 wrote: > Bruce Sass wrote: > > I think you are forgetting about something... > > how is partitioning going to be accomplished without user interaction. > > > > I'm not aware of any tools that can take a description of a filesystem > > then partition and setup a harddrive

Re: [woody,debinst] Interim filesystem

2000-06-20 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Erik Andersen wrote: > On Tue Jun 20, 2000 at 03:37:17AM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > > I think you are forgetting about something... > > how is partitioning going to be accomplished without user interaction. > > > > I'm not aware of any tools that can take a description of a

Re: potato boot-floppies

2000-06-20 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Petr Cech wrote: > > * #64823: incorrect LILO automatic placement on i386; 22 days old > > I think the subject is missleading. It only doesn't want to put LILO into > extended partition. Let's call it a feature :) But this leeds into serious problems if a third party bo

Bug#65988: modules unavailable because of wierd symlink

2000-06-20 Thread kbullock
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; Severity: grave Using the potato boot-floppied version 2.2.15-2000-06-07, I installed my system from five floppies and the Internet. After the driver disks had been loaded into the ramdisk, I went to install modules, but there were none in the list. After poki

Bug#65991: boot-floppies: module params STILL not passed correctly; can't install ne or adlib_card

2000-06-20 Thread J.A. Bezemer
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.15-2000-06-07 Severity: critical The modutils stuff in dbootstrap ("Configure device drivers") still does not pass options to the modprobe call. I can't install `ne' or `adlib_card' from the "GUI". Especially `adlib_card' is nice because it explicitly says it d

Bug#65991: boot-floppies: module params STILL not passed correctly; can't install ne or adlib_card

2000-06-20 Thread Randolph Chung
This is a modutils bug and has been filed many times. it has been fixed already. randolph -- Debian Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.TauSq.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: potato boot-floppies

2000-06-20 Thread Randolph Chung
> I think we wait to tausq to upload -compact and -idepci flavor and for > corresponding pcmcia packages. And b-f has to be updatet for 2.2.16 i'll do that in the next couple of days. i think it's kinda poetic that we have 2.2.16 b-f and 2.2.16 boot-floppies... :-) randolph -- Debian Developer

Bug#65991: boot-floppies: module params STILL not passed correctly; can't install ne or adlib_card

2000-06-20 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Randolph Chung wrote: > This is a modutils bug and has been filed many times. it has been fixed > already. It was supposed to be fixed in 2.2.15. It is _not_. And if it's fixed (really??) in some upcoming 2.2.16, then go tell the Acting RM _quickly_, otherwise he'll start

Bug#66003: Boot Floppy Problems using PCMCIA Network Card

2000-06-20 Thread Steven Elling
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.1.12 Following Section 7 (Using dbootstrap for Initial System Configuration) of the "Installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 For Intel x86" document, I tried to install Debian on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 with a PCMCIA 3Com 3c589D-TP NIC over NFS. It looked good until I go