debian on compaq proliant 800 witch smar-2sl RAID-card

2000-12-04 Thread Rikard Nilsson
hello hope this is the adress to mail, if its not, delete or forward to someone how cares ive installed debian during the weekend on an compaq proliant 800 with a smart-2sl RAID card. the problem is that the installation-program has any support för the RAID-card, so i had to by hand tell the insta

udma100 asus a7v not found ["lhomer" ] Re: Fw: [PLUG] hopeful new Linux recruit

2000-12-04 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
My small problem has been solved. Thank you for all the help and support. I am now able to install and run off a hard drive although the installation named the drive "hdg", and I can't boot from that drive just yet..I also can no longer see it in a windows directory..small matters. Apparently my

Bug#78750: Can't load lp module during install

2000-12-04 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.17-2000-11-11 Fresh install with standard 1.44 floppies (rescue, root and drivers). When configuring kernel modules, it is impossible to load the lp module, because modprobe is unable to discover the parport_pc dependance. Workaround: load first the parport_p

Re: bugs 64500 and 64823

2000-12-04 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 02:12:02PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, the problem is that it is not an official CDROM, but a copy of the > > archive on harddisk. There is no sense to generate rescue.bin on apus, since > > it is only used for getting

Debian Boot CVS: mss

2000-12-04 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: mss 00/12/04 05:06:41 Modified files: utilities/dbootstrap/langs: ver2.py Log message: trying to make it independent of the python-xml package version -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Debian Boot CVS: mss

2000-12-04 Thread Michael Sobolev
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 05:06:41AM -0800, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Modified files: > utilities/dbootstrap/langs: ver2.py > > Log message: > trying to make it independent of the python-xml package version Please check if it works for you. :) If it does not, please send the versions of python

Re: bugs 64500 and 64823

2000-12-04 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All in all, what i would want to happen is that when dbootstrap detects it is > running on an apus subarch, it does the same thing as if cdrom was supplied, > in case it was forgotten. It would be a 3 lines patch or so, surrounded by a > #ifd __powerpc__

Bug#77487: marked as done (md5sum.txt file for disks-i386 doesn't match files on server)

2000-12-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated 04 Dec 2000 09:59:49 -0500 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#77487: md5sum.txt file for disks-i386 doesn't match files on server has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If t

Re: [VA-Debian] Comments from a first-time Debian install.....

2000-12-04 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Oh no, it's the "should tasksel autoselect standard" question again. We > > had a talk about this last spring, and probably chose wrong. > > > > I've just uploaded to unstable a base-config that calls tasksel -s. > > Problem solved. > > Hrm th

Re: Debian Boot CVS: gleydson

2000-12-04 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Michael Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 08:31:14AM -0400, Gleydson Mazioli da Silva wrote: > > I've added the language code before of each language option (so it look > > less confuse). A bit example: > > en - You have chosen English. Press Enter to proceed > > Hmm.

Debian Boot CVS: maehara

2000-12-04 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: maehara 00/12/04 08:19:45 Modified files: utilities/dbootstrap/po: ja.po Log message: Now messages should be up-to-date. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: [VA-Debian] Comments from a first-time Debian install.....

2000-12-04 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >From: Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 03 Dec 2000 01:49:26 -0500 > >Well, as you probably already know, since the PCMCIA subsystem is by >definition in the form of kernel modules, the only way to solve this >would be to put cardmgr and the

Re: Debian Boot CVS: gleydson

2000-12-04 Thread Michael Sobolev
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 11:07:33AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 08:31:14AM -0400, Gleydson Mazioli da Silva wrote: > > > I've added the language code before of each language option (so it look > > > less confuse). A bit example: > > > en - You have chosen English. Press

Re: translating boot-floppies -- call for more updates

2000-12-04 Thread Keita Maehara
From: Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: translating boot-floppies -- call for more updates Date: 28 Nov 2000 19:36:03 -0500 > I apologize for any frustration on the part of non-English speakers or > translators based on the fact that their translations have not been > part of the mainstr

Bug#75106: dbootstrap: wrong choice for partition for LILO bootsector

2000-12-04 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Partionning: > /dev/hda unused (but has old OS and std M$ mbr) > /dev/hdc1 /boot > /dev/hdc2 swap > /dev/hdc3 / > /dev/hdc4 /local > > As answers to dbootstrap, as 1st partition to mke2fs I selected hdc3, > mounted it as root, and then mke2fs'd the other

Re: Boot-floppy translations and extra newlines

2000-12-04 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Tapio Lehtonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm sorry my Finnish translations have caused the boot-floppy builds > to break. I believe it is the PO -mode in XEmacs which adds extra \n > characters, if I edit in Emacs I can not get the translation > identical to the original as far as newlines go

Re: weekly debian-installer progress report

2000-12-04 Thread David Whedon
Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 10:01:09PM +0100 wrote: > > - other hardware detection [David Whedon] > > David has written detectors for sound, ethernet, cd, cpu, > > disk, and memory detection. All need testing. > > Great! I've been thinking about sound card detection, especial

Re: Debian Boot CVS: joeyh

2000-12-04 Thread nilly
** Original Message ** FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SENT: Fri 12/01/2000 9:49 AM TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBJECT: Debian Boot CVS: joeyh > > > >CVSROOT: /cvs/debian-boot > >Module name: debian-installer > >Changes by:joeyh 00/11/30 18:38:00 > > > >debian-installer/retriever/choos

Re: Debian Boot CVS: joeyh

2000-12-04 Thread nilly
** Original Message ** FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SENT: Fri 12/01/2000 9:48 AM TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBJECT: Debian Boot CVS: joeyh > > > >CVSROOT: /cvs/debian-boot > >Module name: debian-installer > >Changes by:joeyh 00/11/30 18:38:36 > > > >debian-installer/retriever/choos

Re: Debian Boot CVS: joeyh

2000-12-04 Thread nilly
** Original Message ** FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SENT: Fri 12/01/2000 6:34 AM TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBJECT: Debian Boot CVS: joeyh > > > >CVSROOT: /cvs/debian-boot > >Module name: debian-installer > >Changes by:joeyh 00/11/30 15:12:02 > > > >Modified files: > > main-m

Re: Debian Boot CVS: joeyh

2000-12-04 Thread nilly
** Original Message ** FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SENT: Fri 12/01/2000 6:18 AM TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBJECT: Debian Boot CVS: joeyh > > > >CVSROOT: /cvs/debian-boot > >Module name: debian-installer > >Changes by:joeyh 00/11/30 15:14:29 > > > >Modified files: > > main-m

Re: Debian Boot CVS: joeyh

2000-12-04 Thread nilly
** Original Message ** FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SENT: Fri 12/01/2000 9:49 AM TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBJECT: Debian Boot CVS: joeyh > > > >CVSROOT: /cvs/debian-boot > >Module name: debian-installer > >Changes by:joeyh 00/11/30 18:44:23 > > > >Added files: > > retriever

FW: Comments from a first-time Debian install.....

2000-12-04 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not on any of the Debian developer's mailing lists yet, and I didn't want to send this to some inappropriate place. (I'd really rather not replicate RMS's drive-by flaming on the tcl list from a few years ago. :-) However, I thought some Debian developers might app

Bug#75106: dbootstrap: wrong choice for partition for LILO bootsector

2000-12-04 Thread Yann Dirson
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 11:12:18AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Ouch. Yes. That's not unlike what I said when I realized what I was going to ask the installer to do :) > I have no clue why this was happening. For some reason it's > thinking that /dev/hdc1 is your root partition. > > Is it re

Debian Boot CVS: aph

2000-12-04 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: aph 00/12/04 16:14:29 Modified files: utilities/dbootstrap: bootconfig.c Log message: comments; change a message slightly in the lilo decision point -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: [VA-Debian] Comments from a first-time Debian install.....

2000-12-04 Thread Karl Hammar
Task standard packages: Would that mean that you could uncross it and get a truly minimum (for debian) configuration, possible making "embedded" people happy? Regards, /Karl --- Karl HammarAspö Data

Re: Boot-floppy translations and extra newlines

2000-12-04 Thread Matej Vela
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 01:21:00PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Tapio Lehtonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm sorry my Finnish translations have caused the boot-floppy builds > > to break. I believe it is the PO -mode in XEmacs which adds extra \n > > characters, if I edit in Emacs I can not

Re: dbootstrap: understanding is_cdrom_image

2000-12-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 04:01:15PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You are missing the point of my function. It is meant to test if we are > > booting from a cdrom. Your check is something completely different. Might > > be better to make a new test jus

Re: dbootstrap: understanding is_cdrom_image

2000-12-04 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You are missing the point of my function. It is meant to test if we are > booting from a cdrom. Your check is something completely different. Might > be better to make a new test just for your purposes, rather than risk > messing up the current function.