Bug#114425: Woody & root.bin

2001-10-04 Thread Mirek Luc
Package: boot-floppies Version: 3.0.13 (24 August, 2001) architecture: sparc model: SPARCstation-20 memory: 144MB scsi: Sparc ESP100A-FAST cd-rom: TOSHIBA XM-4101TASUNSLCD, SCSI network card: LANCE Ethernet I think it is well-known-problem (24 of Aug!). But maybe not...:) The woody/main/disks-spa

Re: Where O where is my basedebs.tgz?

2001-10-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:01:12AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > 'debian/rules basedebs' from an unpacked source tree. Hrm. > Building them is arch independent, right? So a cronjob on auric could build > them for all arches. No big up-/downloads involved, since all the files are > alread

Re: Where O where is my basedebs.tgz?

2001-10-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:22:57AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 05:52:26AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > only problem with it is the basedebs.tgz needs to match the > > debootstrap it will be used with. so if debootstrap gets updated and > > the basedebs.tgz

Re: Where O where is my basedebs.tgz?

2001-10-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* "Chris Tillman" | btw, the links previously given on the list for basedebs.tgz such as | | http://penguinppc.org/~eb/debian/$arch http://gagatan.samfundet.no/basedebs/ for instance. Updated nightly. -- Tollef Fog Heen Axiom #1: You Can't Win -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

bootloader for woody

2001-10-04 Thread Robert Millan
Hello, Which bootloader is going to ship in the Woody bootfloppies, is it clear yet? I'd like to suggest using the GRUB bootloader. As I see it, there's an important advantage in using GRUB: - GRUB will be able to boot the future Debian releases of GNU/Hurd, GNU/FreeBSD, GNU/Win without going

Re: bootloader for woody

2001-10-04 Thread Erik Andersen
On Thu Oct 04, 2001 at 11:40:16PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hello, > > Which bootloader is going to ship in the Woody bootfloppies, is it clear > yet? > > I'd like to suggest using the GRUB bootloader. As I see it, there's an > important > advantage in using GRUB: > > - GRUB will be able

Re: boot-floppies, busybox size reduction status

2001-10-04 Thread Jens Ruehmkorf
Hi all, > So Adam, is it agreeable that I upload a version of busybox to the > main archive with these changes? David has now validated that this is > viable and saves space. earlier in this list it has been suggested to have a busybox-bf package in addition to the normal busybox package. I wou

Re: bootloader for woody

2001-10-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, 05 Oct 2001 00:19:24 Erik Andersen wrote: > > I'd love it if we use grub. But keep in mind that grub is only focused > on x86 systems. It doesn't do much good on powerpc or arm or > well since GNU/Hurd and GNU/Win32 releases are also (so far) specific to ia32, i think that advan

Re: bootloader for woody

2001-10-04 Thread Jens Ruehmkorf
Hi Robert, hi Erik, On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Erik Andersen wrote: > On Thu Oct 04, 2001 at 11:40:16PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > [...] > > I'd like to suggest using the GRUB bootloader. As I see it, there's > > an important advantage in using GRUB: why don't you suggest it then ;) > > - GRU

Re: boot-floppies, busybox size reduction status

2001-10-04 Thread Erik Andersen
On Fri Oct 05, 2001 at 12:21:23AM +0200, Jens Ruehmkorf wrote: > Hi all, > > > So Adam, is it agreeable that I upload a version of busybox to the > > main archive with these changes? David has now validated that this is > > viable and saves space. > > earlier in this list it has been suggested

Re: Where O where is my basedebs.tgz?

2001-10-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:03:13AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:49:08AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > the only solution is building basedebs.tgz only with the version of > > debootstrap that the latest build of b-f used. or accepting the fact > > that you

Re: bootloader for woody

2001-10-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:40:16PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hello, > > Which bootloader is going to ship in the Woody bootfloppies, is it clear > yet? lilo > I'd like to suggest using the GRUB bootloader. As I see it, there's an not going to happen, its already been discussed and decid

Re: Where O where is my basedebs.tgz?

2001-10-04 Thread David Kimdon
> again permission needs to be asked first. and there isn't much way for > debootstrap to ask questions through dbootstrap. Actually there is, we just aren't using it for anything. We can ask yes/no questions from debootstrap through dbootstrap. > there is already a bug on debootstrap to do bet

Re: boot-floppies, busybox size reduction status

2001-10-04 Thread David Kimdon
> > earlier in this list it has been suggested to have a busybox-bf package in > > addition to the normal busybox package. I would strongly encourage this, > > though for different reasons: > > > What you suggest sounds reasonable to me. > I wonder if we could use the .udeb for this purpose? Ad

Re: Where O where is my basedebs.tgz?

2001-10-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 07:39:21PM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > A user has a Mac with a 200MB harddisk. The disk has three partitions, 100MB > for MacOS, 80MB for linux, 20MB for linux swap. And maybe 8MB of ram, so no, > the swap partition can not be used for /var or added to / (this is

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/cs by dwhedon

2001-10-04 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/cs who:dwhedon time: Thu Oct 4 18:31:21 PDT 2001 Log Message: fix bad sgml Files: changed:rescue-boot.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bf-3.0.15 CVS from oct 4: install.cs.sgml

2001-10-04 Thread David Kimdon
funny, I found that too but had forgot to commit the fix, I just did. Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:10:14PM -0500 wrote: > Hi, > I tried to build bf from CVS to see how much my latest patches have broken. > Seems they were ok, but: > > [...] > ln -s dynamic_cs_m68k.ent dynamic.ent > debiandoc2text -d /

cvs commit to boot-floppies/mips-specials by aph

2001-10-04 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/mips-specials who:aph time: Thu Oct 4 18:58:12 PDT 2001 Log Message: Directory /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/mips-specials added to the repository Files: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-10-04 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Thu Oct 4 18:59:46 PDT 2001 Log Message: MIPs changes from Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Files: changed:Makefile release.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

cvs commit to boot-floppies/make by aph

2001-10-04 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/make who:aph time: Thu Oct 4 18:59:50 PDT 2001 Log Message: MIPs changes from Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Files: added: mips.rules -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

cvs commit to boot-floppies/mips-specials by aph

2001-10-04 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/mips-specials who:aph time: Thu Oct 4 18:59:54 PDT 2001 Log Message: MIPs changes from Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Files: added: Makefile addinitrd.c ecoff.h -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

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

2001-10-04 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:aph time: Thu Oct 4 19:00:00 PDT 2001 Log Message: MIPs changes from Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Files: changed:bootconfig.c main.c partition_config.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-10-04 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Thu Oct 4 19:01:41 PDT 2001 Log Message: MIPs changes from Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: Where O where is my basedebs.tgz?

2001-10-04 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 04:53:15PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > i tend to think CD installation is the only possible option in these > circumstances, unfortunatly debootstrap copies files from the CD to > /var/cache instead of just using them directly. (that could and > should be fixed). Actuall

Re: Where O where is my basedebs.tgz?

2001-10-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:03:59PM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 04:53:15PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > what? what is using 50MB? the kernel? i don't think so. the > > basedebs.tgz is on the HFS partition not the ext2 partition (and its > > never copied t