Re: French installation document corrections

On 12 Feb 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > >- use of inside of gives \tt and other > > funny stuff at actual output (PDF, probably LaTeX/SGML interaction) > > debiandoc-sgml bug -- please file that. I will (I am on the move for now, Hamburg was a nice city, CityNightLine is a great way t

Debian CVS: in boot-floppies:

CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: ericvb 01/02/15 03:26:24 Modified files: documentation/fr: hardware.sgml Log message: typo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Debian CVS: in boot-floppies:

CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: ericvb 01/02/15 03:30:43 Modified files: documentation/fr: preparing.sgml Log message: typo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

[drsurd@ananzi.co.za: problem fixwd!!!]

Hmm.. don't you think it's strange that kernel Oopses on an incomplete ramdisk image? Shouldn't the uncompressing stop with a CRC error or something? Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://student.uci.agh.edu.pl/~porridge/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:07:56AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > OTOH, we do want to freeze woody prior to July, so we're going to need > to hobble along with boot-floppies for one more release -- woody. Will we need another set for potato or only for woody? > Please help me out. Otherwise, go

Re: nubus-ppc installer

Greg Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the info. I've dropped out of debian-devel and subscribed to > debian-boot. I've got the stuff downloaded and after a whole lot of > apt-gets (my initial install was rather minimal). I think it's building a > whole lot more than I need. Pro

Re: d-i floppy image?

David Whedon wrote: > > What about nfsroot? It would be very convenient for me to use the other > > box like that. I could write a target for that and we would have btw > > started work on real network installation. What do you think? > I'm not completely sure what you are proposing. Do you mean

Testing woody boot/install process

I've been using an evaluation copy of vmware to capture screen shots for the GFDL release of my book, and I though I should share some of my findings. 1. During the kernel boot a large number of error messages streams up the screen, declaring modprobe failures. I saw this on an early version of t

Re: [paul@miraclefish.com: Missing page on debian.org?]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:21:57AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/i386/cfdisk.txt > > > > is blank (and referenced as required reading for 1st time installers:( > > The problem was using a sparc util-linux which doens't have that > file. Fixed. > > I've up

Debian CVS: in boot-floppies:

CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-boot Module name:boot-floppies Changes by: joey01/02/15 14:11:21 Modified files: documentation : urls.ent Log message: The LHB has moved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

sfdisk [was: Simple Partition]

I am not a coder, but was looking at sfdisk to create 128 MB swap and the rest for root partition. sfdisk -uM /dev/hda

Re: Testing woody boot/install process

Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been using an evaluation copy of vmware to capture screen shots for > the GFDL release of my book, and I though I should share some of my > findings. > > 1. During the kernel boot a large number of error messages streams up the > screen, declaring

Re: instalation stops after root.bin

Adding to what Marcin said, it's either a hardware issue or a kernel issue. Either way, there's not too much we can do. You might want to try other kernel flavors ? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

base building in b-f (was Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies)

David Whedon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here you go Dave: > > http://people.debian.org/~ajt/ Shouldn't we be using the debootstrap package? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > - integrate AJ's dynamic base building package > > > > /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/,mklibs.2558/lib-so: undefined versioned symbol > > > > name [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I can't imageine why aj's script could be calling mklibs.sh, so I > assumed this was a t

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

"Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:07:56AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > OTOH, we do want to freeze woody prior to July, so we're going to need > > to hobble along with boot-floppies for one more release -- woody. > > Will we need another set for

Re: DHCP, BOOTP and linux

"Eray Ozkural (exa)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > The BOOTP didn't work either. I then realized that it was broken for > > > my card at least and switched to 2.4.1 for my net box. The 2.4.1 did > > > have BOOTP but it didn't seem to have DHCP. Anybody knows why? > > >

mklibs.sh fixes (was Re: Debian CVS: in boot-floppies:)

Ouch ! Is it really a good idea that you applied this in the potato area? Shouldn't it have been in the woody branch? Will your changes for newer libslang and libc6 and ld.so and such break Potato? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: 2.2r2 installs but hda busy

Have no idea. It's some sort of kernel issue. Perhaps try some of the other kernel flavors, such as idepci or compact? Sorry I can't be more helpful. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: nano-tiny for debian-installer

David Whedon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We're replacing ae with nano-tiny, If I remember correctly. I imagine we want > to make a udeb out of nano-tiny for debian-installer (boot-floppies too?) Boot-floppies doesn't know anything about udebs. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onS

Re: d-i: I think it works all the way now..

Wow, you guys are making pretty damn good progress! -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ramdisk with ae for serial console

"Peter Ruser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am looking for a ramdisk-image with an editor that works on a serial > console. > > The ramdisk-image that comes with potato has the editor ae. But when working > with the serial console (the server has no graphic-card) I get an error with > the slan

Re: sfdisk [was: Simple Partition]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I am not a coder, but was looking at sfdisk to create 128 MB swap > and the rest for root partition. > > sfdisk -uM /dev/hda < ,128,S > , > EOF > > It could be wrong, there is not much info in man page. > I guess a "Here Doc" cannot be coded. > Any ideas. We drive f

Re: woody make problems

"John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 10:32:23AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > > > i think that we are going to have to make specific make/* entries for > > the case of the null %. > > just thought of something... > > resc1440%.bin: $(root_fo

Re: instalation stops after root.bin

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 09:20:36PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Adding to what Marcin said, it's either a hardware issue or a kernel > issue. But he already told me privately that it was an incompletly downloaded image. A re-download fixed the problem. I posted that in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. It

Re: Hurd CD scripts

On 11 Feb 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You may be stuck with me, but I hope not. > > Heh. Well, I don't mind. *** > Well, I guess there's a question whether we wanna go for Hurd with > boot-floppies or just focus on debian-installer (woody + 1

Re: call for volunteers -- woody boot-floppies

On 14 Feb 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > I am in need of volunteers -- people who know makefile and have worked > with boot-floppies before. My HURDish experience might be of some use to you as a tester. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Dunedin, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025

Re: mklibs.sh fixes (was Re: Debian CVS: in boot-floppies:)

Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Ouch ! Is it really a good idea that you applied this in the potato > area? Shouldn't it have been in the woody branch? Will your changes > for newer libslang and libc6 and ld.so and such break Potato? I only added support for newer libraries versions, nothing was tak