cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by joey

2001-07-24 Thread joey
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:joey time: Tue Jul 24 01:28:38 PDT 2001 Log Message: Added missing changelog entry for jaqque Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

2001-07-24 Thread Martin Schulze
Thimo Neubauer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to build the Alpha-bootdisks, because up to now I haven't > heard of anyone doing this and I want the release to happen ;-) > Anyway, I'm getting an error when rootdisk.sh tries to download the > needed packages. After setting the debug-variable I found

Re: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

2001-07-24 Thread Thimo Neubauer
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:38:30AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > From a first glance it looks like a dependency problem: > > sysvinit: Depends e2fsprogs (>= 1.15-1) > e2fsprogs: version 1.22-1 is available, but: > e2fsprogs-bf version 1.22-1 will be installed, so the dependency is > not fulfille

Re: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

2001-07-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:50:42AM +0200, Thimo Neubauer wrote: > > e2fsprogs (>= 1.15-1) | e2fsprogs-bf (>= 1.15-1) not needed > Well, I thought about that as well, but if sysvinit had these > dependencies a user and/or apt could get the idea that installing > e2fsprogs-bf seems like a good ide

Re: Bug#105364: installer allows user to insert underscores in the hostname

2001-07-24 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 12:54:31PM +0200, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > > It's very early, yet. But a few things are reasonably clear. They'll > > use Unicode, they just haven't decided on the encoding. That is, all > > characters which aren't US-ASCII

Re: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

2001-07-24 Thread Thimo Neubauer
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:55:04AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > i never had any trouble with this, i used a woody chroot which is > quite normal it has sysvinit and regular e2fsprogs (not -bf) > installed. apt seems to have no trouble with this inside of > boot-floppies build. > > are you sure

Re: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

2001-07-24 Thread H.Heinold
Hi, the biggest problems with the alpha bootfloppies is the size of some files. I think libary-reduction on alpha ist really a mess. The size of root.bin is around 1,7 MB (it was 1,70 MB on A DS20, 1,72 MB on a XP-1000). This will not fit on a normal 1,44 floppy. For the builds I used chroot sid

Re: Successful first-stage bootstrap for mipsel

2001-07-24 Thread H.Heinold
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 01:56:48PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:30:39AM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > > Hallo everybody, > > I have successfully done a first-stage bootstrap (until the reboot > > after complete installation of the base system) on a DECstation > > (mi

Re: Problems with building the Alpha-bootdisks

2001-07-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:27:38PM +0200, Thimo Neubauer wrote: > > Yes, I'm running an up-to-date testing. The version of the system > building the boot-floppies has no influence on the problem, because > the apt-process showing the error uses his own > boot-floppies/sources.list. Additionally,

Re: Successful first-stage bootstrap for mipsel

2001-07-24 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:36:49PM +0200, H.Heinold wrote: > > Hm yeah in the debootstrap-scripts delo is mentioned to bee install, but the >installer > didn't find the package. Is delo now as package in the mipsel? > Not yet Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#105364: installer allows user to insert underscores in the hostname

2001-07-24 Thread Matt Kraai
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 01:57:51PM +0200, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Will the input be encoded in UTF-8? > > No, that will break too many protocols. That's the reason for ASCII > Compatible Encoding, using only characters "a-z0-9/-". > > Look at som

Re: Bug#105364: installer allows user to insert underscores in the hostname

2001-07-24 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In order to implement this, I really need to know the answers to > the following questions: > > * What encoding is used for the host name input by the user? > > * What host name validation should be performed by dbootstrap? > > * What

Bug#105364: installer allows user to insert underscores in the hostname

2001-07-24 Thread Matt Kraai
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:43:30PM +0200, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In order to implement this, I really need to know the answers to > > the following questions: > > > > * What encoding is used for the host name input by the user? > > > >

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by kraai

2001-07-24 Thread kraai
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:kraai time: Tue Jul 24 09:39:39 PDT 2001 Log Message: check host name for RFC 1123 compliance Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by kraai

2001-07-24 Thread kraai
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:kraai time: Tue Jul 24 09:39:40 PDT 2001 Log Message: check host name for RFC 1123 compliance Files: changed:netconfig.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Bug#106238: Fw: Grafik card problem of IMPORTANT

2001-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 at 18:51:54 +0200, Stefan Michlits wrote: > From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > reassign 106238 boot-floppies > > thanks > > > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 at 00:14:04 +0200, Stefan Michlits wrote: > > > Package: Boot problem > > > > > > Now I do not have before a few days

Re: Bootdisks for Dell PowerEdge 2500 and 2550

2001-07-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 11:02:34AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > On the other hand, there is an option when doing the install to add third > party kernel modules, isn't there? > That won't help for booting... Unless you use initrd. Ingemar, why don't you make a custom patched kernel and copy

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by kraai

2001-07-24 Thread kraai
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:kraai time: Tue Jul 24 14:48:55 PDT 2001 Log Message: update version number to 3.0 Files: changed:index.en.html.m4 index.ja.html.m4 index.pl.html.m4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

ash/modconf problem in 3.0.8 i386 boot-floppies

2001-07-24 Thread Matt Kraai
Howdy, The version of ash included on the 3.0.8 i386 boot-floppies appears to contain a quoting bug which prevents modconf from working. Does anyone know which version was used in building the floppies so that I can file a bug? Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Bug#106457: Can't install `testing'

2001-07-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:24:04AM -0700, George Pongas wrote: > Alt-F4 shows: > > ... > Freeing unused kernel memory: 152k freed > Segmentation fault > Segmentation fault wget is segfaulting, known problem with busybox wget. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ PGP signature

Bug#106238: Fw: Grafik card problem of IMPORTANT

2001-07-24 Thread Matt Kraai
Earlier I wrote: > > Are you installing Debian, or is this a problem booting an already > > installed system? How far does it get in the boot sequence > > between the display turns off? On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 12:39:34AM +0200, Stefan Michlits wrote: > Both!! After the CD-Rom Check turn off the