end-of-story (USB keyboard support on complicated hardware)

2002-01-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
> > And now tell, how should this be used? Initrd is on the second floppy, > > syslinux and the kernel is on the first. The default behaviour is to > > load the kernel from the main disk, and not do anything with another > > exchangeble disks. > > Huh? This works exactly the same way as it does n

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

2002-01-01 Thread Michel Lanners
Hey, Maybe a bit late but testing nevertheless ;-) On 15 Dec, this message from Adam Di Carlo echoed through cyberspace: > I've uploaded i386 and powerpc boot-floppies to > http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/main/>. OK, tested these (in fact the 20011221 build of bf 3.0.18) for

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

2002-01-01 Thread Philip Blundell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michel Lanners writes: >- trying to use mac-fdisk from a shell, I get this error: > > /sbin/mac-fdisk: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected > > Hmmm.. looks like ash tries to execute mac-fdisk as a shell script? Apparently the mac-fdisk binary is corrupted somehow. T

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

2002-01-01 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 01:05, Philip Blundell wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michel Lanners writes: > >- trying to use mac-fdisk from a shell, I get this error: > > > > /sbin/mac-fdisk: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected > > > > Hmmm.. looks like ash tries to execute mac-fdisk as a shell s

Re: end-of-story (USB keyboard support on complicated hardware)

2002-01-01 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 11:24:01PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Okay, I am fed up with this conversation. If you don't like my > suggestion, okay. I managed to get USB support in current BFs, so it > will work for users with similar problems, even if not with _your_ > kernels. It does not work wit

apt-utils in debootstrap

2002-01-01 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, Manoj told me on IRC that apt-utils is not on the first CD-Rom. debootstrap seems to want apt-utils, and apt-utils is "optional". Something needs fixing, either debootstrap, or apt-utils. comments? regards, junichi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

packages required in installation (Re: apt-utils in debootstrap)

2002-01-01 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:01:55 +0900 Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CC'd to debian-cd, because that's probably the relevant list. The following script checks for validity of priority/section (and I think this is what should be done, please tell me if something looks wrong) : for A in

Re: packages required in installation (Re: apt-utils in debootstrap)

2002-01-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:22:11PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > The following script checks for validity of priority/section (and > I think this is what should be done, please tell me if something looks wrong) : > for A in $(/usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch $ARCH --print-debs woody); do (apt-cache

Bug#127417: boot-floppies: Problem report saved to /instmnt (on ramdisk) by default

2002-01-01 Thread Chris Tillman
Package: boot-floppies Version: 3.0.19 built locally 12/31/2001 Severity: normal I tried out the Problem Report function on my last install. It worked very well, except for the save-where dialog (which John Robinson has been working on). Since I couldn't get the save dialog to work, I left the

Re: end-of-story (USB keyboard support on complicated hardware)

2002-01-01 Thread bounce-debian-boot=archive=jab . org
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 11:24:01PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > It does not for me. It works the same was as usuall: loads and starts > the kernel immediately, no initrd loading. Please reread my message, you need to tell syslinux to load the initrd. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://w