Re: woody, boot-floppies, and debian-installer projected readiness

2000-10-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
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

Bug#74867: eval_it update

2000-10-16 Thread Eugenia Franzoni
Package: modconf Version: 0.2.26.14 Hi I've updated the translation of the eval_it file. Here it is :-) -- Eugenia Franzoni Pluto Linux User Group http://www.pluto.linux.it *** # descriptions must nor exceed a line! # substitute `+', `-' and `,' in module names with `_' msg_Something_went_w

Re: Kernel for boot floppies

2000-10-16 Thread Glenn McGrath
Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote: > > Hi All, > > I met with joeyh during ALS and offered to work on kernel for the boot floppies. > I got the kernel down to 355 KB.. From what I understood from joeyh, the new > installer will be just the kernel and the network drivers.. However, one of the > iss

Re: Kernel for boot floppies

2000-10-16 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:00:16AM -0400, Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote: > Hi All, > > I met with joeyh during ALS and offered to work on kernel for the boot floppies. > I got the kernel down to 355 KB.. From what I understood from joeyh, the new > installer will be just the kernel and the net

Info about booting problems... and solutions

2000-10-16 Thread Marc Prokop
Hi! I have a problem when installing Debian 2.2 It boots from floppy, that is created at end of standard installation but not from hard disk /dev/hda, MBR installed crc error out of memory out of input data... and other messages are displayed in a random way, at each reboot from HD What

HD BOOT PROBLEM

2000-10-16 Thread Marc Prokop
Hi! I've performed a standard installation with Debian 2.2. MBR installed /dev/hda (/boot mounted on /dev/hda1 which is 100MB) PC with Amibios v1.5 1995-12-19, Pentium 133, Disk 1,2GB and I have the following messages which appears (not the same message at each reboot, random..which is very stan

Re: ITP: mklibs.sh

2000-10-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:58:37AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I wrote: > > Please give me your advice if packaging busybox and mklibs.sh as seperate > > packages is a good idea or not. Thanks! > > > > This comes to my mind because: > > > > 1) Seems boot-floppies won't like to come into

Re: ITP: mklibs.sh

2000-10-16 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, I don't want it, but I don't think there should be a seperate > package for a 600 lines shell script either. It's fine with me if > you think it is a good idea, though. Well, I don't see why it should be tied to boot-floppies, either. -- .

Re: HD BOOT PROBLEM

2000-10-16 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Marc Prokop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > LILO Loading Linux... > Uncompressing Linux... > Out of memory > -- System halted > Linux boots fine from "custom-boot" floppy which is saved by during > Debian install process. > > Can somebody help me... I dunno. could be many things, such a

gzip or bzip2 on boot floppies??

2000-10-16 Thread Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam
Hi , I wonder if we would be having bzip2 or gzip on the boot floppies.. All the network modules compiled takes about 1.3M, but compresssed with bzip2 , needs only 435K.. The size of bzip2 + libbz2.so is about 85K.. We can probably do the same with the initrd image.. That can save us quite some s

Bug#74913: modconf does not find modules for 2.4.0 kernels

2000-10-16 Thread Malcolm Parsons
Package: modconf Version: 0.2.27 Severity: wishlist modules for 2.4 are named /lib/modules/2.4.0/kernel/foo/bar/baz.o modconf is looking for /lib/modules/2.4.0/foo/baz.o perhaps modconf should call find(1) to locate the modules. -- System Information Debian Release: woody Architecture: i386 Ke

Bug#74913: modconf does not find modules for 2.4.0 kernels

2000-10-16 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Malcolm Parsons wrote: > perhaps modconf should call find(1) to locate the modules. perhaps it should scan modules.dep, much faster. Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ |

Re: gzip or bzip2 on boot floppies??

2000-10-16 Thread Glenn McGrath
Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote: > > Hi , > > I wonder if we would be having bzip2 or gzip on the boot floppies.. All the > network modules compiled takes about 1.3M, but compresssed with bzip2 , needs > only 435K.. The size of bzip2 + libbz2.so is about 85K.. We can probably do the > same with

Notes on test of 2.2.18-2000-10-14

2000-10-16 Thread Alain Schroeder
I just tested the above build of the boot-floppies with my Laptop and I works better than with the original boot floppies. (They had a PCMCIA-CS Version with didnĀ“t work with my pcnet card.) 1.) Boot screen (where you can boot "rescue") says it uses kernel 2.2.17, instead of 2.2.18preX. Just

Re: Bug#74913: modconf does not find modules for 2.4.0 kernels

2000-10-16 Thread Randolph Chung
> modules for 2.4 are named /lib/modules/2.4.0/kernel/foo/bar/baz.o > > modconf is looking for /lib/modules/2.4.0/foo/baz.o > > perhaps modconf should call find(1) to locate the modules. IIRC modconf just calls modprobe, so if you have a 2.4-kernel-compatible modprobe/modutils it will work fine

Re: Kernel for boot floppies

2000-10-16 Thread Glenn McGrath
Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote: > > Hi All, > > I met with joeyh during ALS and offered to work on kernel for the boot floppies. > I got the kernel down to 355 KB.. From what I understood from joeyh, the new > installer will be just the kernel and the network drivers.. However, one of the > iss