Bug#226344: choose time zone region default based on language

2004-01-11 Thread Matt Kraai
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:47:02PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Matt Kraai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I don't want it to default to a time zone. I want it to default > > to the US region. > > I guess you mean the American continent...:-) No, I mean the US section. I didn't select

Re: unable to start x

2004-01-11 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 03:12:11PM +0100, francois wrote: > Hello. > > I am a new user of debian gnu/linux, and i have chosen this system > because i've been told this is the most efficient above all. > But unfortunately, whereas I can afford every single specifications > about my sy

my video card

2004-01-11 Thread francois
    I tryed to run debian on a computer whose card is an ATI radeon mobility M6. this is all I can tell about this one (computer is a notebook Pentium 4) and the other one is a desktop computer whose card is a nvidia blaster 4 titanium 4800 with 128MB of ddr ram at 650Mhz. it is plu

Re: my video card

2004-01-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting francois ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >Sorry but I couldn't send this message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] so I try here [EMAIL PROTECTED] would even be better -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Plurar and Singular

2004-01-11 Thread Nikolai Prokoschenko
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 08:04:24PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > -- assume that ${PACKAGE_COUNT} falls into the largest plural category >the language has, because I don't know of a language where this >wouldn't be the case given the number of packages in Debian Not quite. For example, in

Re: daily images for PA-RISC/HPPA

2004-01-11 Thread Fabrice Lorrain (home)
Thorsten Sauter a écrit : Hello debian-installer's :-), I have setup daily images for the HPPA architecture on paer.debian.org. The images creates cdrom, netboot and a lif image from source. As usually everything is available here: http://people.debian.org/~tsauter/d-i/images-hppa/daily/ I

Bug#227081: (no subject)

2004-01-11 Thread Glenn McGrath
Woops, looks like i introduced that bug... ive commited your patch to busybox's cvs. Glenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Plurar and Singular

2004-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: > GNU gettext has an interface, ngettext, designed to handle choosing > between multiple translations based on the number being substituted. > This is probably not practical for d-i. ngettext is in gettext-base, which is available to base-config, so we can use that. I've made

Re: menu-item number for "aboot-installer-findfs"?

2004-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: > Is creating a separate module that runs after partconf the right way to > handle this? If so, what number should it get in the menu? Also, how > would this module trigger backing up in the menu, to require the user to > reformat/repartition? I think that with partman you

Re: Plurar and Singular

2004-01-11 Thread Nikolai Prokoschenko
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:27:35AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > GNU gettext has an interface, ngettext, designed to handle choosing > > between multiple translations based on the number being substituted. > > This is probably not practical for d-i. > ngettext is in gettext-base, which is available

Re: Plurar and Singular

2004-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:27:35AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > GNU gettext has an interface, ngettext, designed to handle choosing > > > between multiple translations based on the number being substituted. > > > This is probably not practical for d-i. > > ngettext

sparc boot progress -- or at least a different error

2004-01-11 Thread Blars Blarson
After spending way to much time beeting on it, (and burning a couple coasters) I've finally gotten the sparc d-i to mount the generated root filesystem. Unfortuanatly it doesn't get much farther: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 978k freed VFS: Mounted root (romfs

Re: sparc boot progress -- or at least a different error

2004-01-11 Thread Thomas Poindessous
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 07:04:42AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > After spending way to much time beeting on it, (and burning a couple > coasters) I've finally gotten the sparc d-i to mount the generated > root filesystem. Unfortuanatly it doesn't get much farther: Hi, I tried to use netboot meth

Re: Plurar and Singular

2004-01-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 01:04:17PM +0100, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 08:04:24PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > -- assume that ${PACKAGE_COUNT} falls into the largest plural category > >the language has, because I don't know of a language where this > >wouldn't

Re: sparc boot progress -- or at least a different error

2004-01-11 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 07:04:42AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > After spending way to much time beeting on it, (and burning a couple > coasters) I've finally gotten the sparc d-i to mount the generated > root filesystem. Unfortuanatly it doesn't get much farther: > > RAMDISK: Compressed image fo

Re: sparc boot progress -- or at least a different error

2004-01-11 Thread Blars Blarson
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 07:04:42AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > /bin/sh: relocation error: /bin/ishn: isytmb[ol1 .]ur:em , Uvenrsiiomn > pGLlIBeC_m2.e0 nnott ededfi neSd PinA fRilCe lisbcy.sso.t6 ewimth lcinak ltilme > r1ef8er8ence Further testing (fix /dev in tmp/cdrom/tree, chroot into it)

Re: Plurar and Singular

2004-01-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Nikolai Prokoschenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > So does this mean we can use ngettext-style translations from now on? Could you give details about this? PS : congrats for the great work on RU translations -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: [debian_inst@yahoo.com: d-i fails on eepro100]

2004-01-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
[Debian Fan, I'm sending you this mail to try to resolve the problem you had with your Ethernet Card when testing debian-installer, other read below] Can you please try if your card works when loading the e100 module instead of the eepro100 module? If not please send us the output of lspci -v on t

Re: [debian_inst@yahoo.com: d-i fails on eepro100]

2004-01-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-11 19:10]: > > (BTW, I think discover switched all eepro100 modules to e100; but > > apparently [according to some mails I saw, e.g. on -boot] some kinds > > don't work with e100 yet, although they do work with eepre100) > Do you have some more exact

Re: sparc boot progress -- or at least a different error

2004-01-11 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 08:24:47AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 07:04:42AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > > /bin/sh: relocation error: /bin/ishn: isytmb[ol1 .]ur:em , Uvenrsiiomn > > pGLlIBeC_m2.e0 nnott ededfi neSd PinA fRilCe lisbcy.sso.t6 ewimth lcinak ltilme > > r1e

Re: [debian_inst@yahoo.com: d-i fails on eepro100]

2004-01-11 Thread Thomas Poindessous
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 06:47:47PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > The submitter claims that his laptop only works with the eepro100 > module, not with e100. This has been fixed this then, but since > (afaik) all occurences of eepro100 have been changed to e100 in a > previous version of discover

Re: Plurar and Singular

2004-01-11 Thread Nikolai Prokoschenko
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 06:04:51PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > So does this mean we can use ngettext-style translations from now on? > Could you give details about this? What do you mean exactly? ngettext-style translation would be the described method of including several translation, us

Re: Plurar and Singular

2004-01-11 Thread Nikolai Prokoschenko
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 10:08:46AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Have I understood you right, that debian-installer is not able to support > > ngettext, or is it usable, but not practical? > I assumed that it would be too complex to try to use ngettext from > debconf-based shell scripts, becaus

Install Report : d-i_i386-20040109

2004-01-11 Thread Fabrice Lorrain (home)
Hi, I did a couple of cdrom-install this afternoon (netinst image). Not much to say (everything was ok) except for the pb with the arabic line in language-chooser. This ligne is back to a bunch of ? (This pb doesn't show up on the powerpc-netinst-20040109). @+, Fab -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Bug#152152: INFO: OSSI: Pursuing Roy Jones Jr. for a 3-fight deal

2004-01-11 Thread Augustus Levine
OSSI: Pursuing Roy Jones Jr. for a 3-fight deal RATING: STRONG Shares Outstanding 1,061,300 Float (est.) 14,000,000 52 Week High $1.25 52 Week Low $0.11 Current Price$0.07 Vulcan Comm. starts OSSI with a Strong Buy Rating and a Target Price of $300 Investing in OTC Penny stocks

FAILED : Install Report : d-i_powerpc-20040109

2004-01-11 Thread Fabrice Lorrain (home)
Hi, Not much to say, I tryed the netinst-cdrom and it still fails on the libopencdk4 download. Whishlist : Could someone add a "net" target on the powerpc-cdrom. @+, Fab -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Plurar and Singular

2004-01-11 Thread Denis Barbier
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 08:55:57PM +0100, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 10:08:46AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > Have I understood you right, that debian-installer is not able to support > > > ngettext, or is it usable, but not practical? > > I assumed that it would

Re: FAILED : Install Report : d-i_powerpc-20040109

2004-01-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Son, den 11.01.2004 schrieb Fabrice Lorrain (home) um 21:13: > Hi, > > Not much to say, I tryed the netinst-cdrom and it still fails on the > libopencdk4 download. Did you use the sarge or the sid images (don't know if they differ on powerpc tough)? Please provide download location and downloa

Re: Plurar and Singular

2004-01-11 Thread Nikolai Prokoschenko
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 10:07:06PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > useful. This is true, but maybe in this specific case you could rewrite > the translated text to something like: > The Debian package management tool, apt, is now configured, and can > install any package. Current number of pac

Bug#219888: Could so have a look at this anna patch ?

2004-01-11 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 07:59:08PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: > Why not always display all of the packages, and preselect those > that anna would have installed if the question hadn't been asked? It's exaclty the way it works when priority == low. The whole list, however, is quite impressive (and sl

Re: sparc boot progress -- or at least a different error

2004-01-11 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I tried to use netboot method, and I can't get my sparc to use initrd. Right now I'm working on cdrom booting, and havn't tried netboot. Try using "root=0100" in your silo.conf. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Plurar and Singular

2004-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote: > What do you mean exactly? ngettext-style translation would be the > described method of including several translation, using msgid_plural etc. > I just found out, that I could have used these, if the templates had such > a possibility, but unfortunately, this is not do

Re: Plurar and Singular

2004-01-11 Thread Nikolai Prokoschenko
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 06:02:52PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > What do you mean exactly? ngettext-style translation would be the > > described method of including several translation, using msgid_plural etc. > > I just found out, that I could have used these, if the templates had such > > a possib

Re: FAILED : Install Report : d-i_powerpc-20040109

2004-01-11 Thread Fabrice Lorrain (home)
Gaudenz Steinlin a écrit : Am Son, den 11.01.2004 schrieb Fabrice Lorrain (home) um 21:13: Hi, Not much to say, I tryed the netinst-cdrom and it still fails on the libopencdk4 download. Did you use the sarge or the sid images (don't know if they differ on powerpc tough)? Please provide download

Re: Plurar and Singular

2004-01-11 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Monday 12 January 2004 01:13, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote: > Umhh... Well, I appreciate youîtrying, but please remove this hack > - it is easier to rephrase in this case. Like already said, russian > language has _three_ singular/plural forms for different numbers, > so your hack will not please

Re: Plurar and Singular

2004-01-11 Thread Denis Barbier
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:13:21AM +0100, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote: [...] > Umhh... Well, I appreciate you???trying, but please remove this hack - it is > easier to rephrase in this case. Like already said, russian language has > _three_ singular/plural forms for different numbers, so your hack w

another base-config Hungarian translation update

2004-01-11 Thread VEROK Istvan
Please commit. Thanks, Istvan # Hungarian translation of debian-installer. # Copyright (C) 2003 THE debian-installer'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER # This file is distributed under the same license as the debian-installer package. # VERÓK István <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2003. # Translators, please read /usr/shar

Bug#227114: 20040108 fails on ia64

2004-01-11 Thread Alex Williamson
Package: installation-reports Version: 20040108-ia64 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Debian-installer-version: http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/ia64/20040108/sarge-ia64-netinst.iso uname -a: 2.4.20-ia64 #1 Mon Jan 5 07:53:11 GMT 2004 ia64 Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2

Re: FAILED : Install Report : d-i_powerpc-20040109

2004-01-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:24:56PM +0100, Fabrice Lorrain (home) wrote: > Sarge. > dowload location : > people.d.o/~manty/testing/netinst/powerpc/20040109/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso > download date : provided in the subject (20040109) It may not make a difference in this case, but please note tha

Re: FAILED : Install Report : d-i_powerpc-20040109

2004-01-11 Thread Fabrice Lorrain (home)
Fabrice Lorrain (home) a écrit : Hi, Not much to say, I tryed the netinst-cdrom and it still fails on the libopencdk4 download. Now using the businesscard image from : http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/powerpc/20040109/sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso This image doesn't set the /et

VMWare discounts for DDs?

2004-01-11 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hi, I know this has been mentioned before, at least I remember seeing it it -private, but since VMWare is atm the only usable solution (of adequate speed and hw features support) to be used for testing, I would like to ask if anyone knows of a discount for DDs (for the workstation version). S

Re: VMWare discounts for DDs?

2004-01-11 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 01:17:16AM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > I don't hold high hopes for this, but just in case... Actually it > would be really nice if we got some volume discounts, I'm sure lots > of other DDs would benefit from this. AFAIK there was some free licenses handed ou

Bug#227055: Debian Installer failure on 15" PowerBook G4

2004-01-11 Thread Barry Hawkins
Package: installation-reports Version: Debian Installer Sarge Business Card daily build, see below INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: January 09, 2004 daily of sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso at http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/powerpc/daily/ uname -

Processed: reassign 215207 to choose-mirror

2004-01-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Processed: pending

2004-01-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: Plurar and Singular

2004-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
Denis Barbier wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:13:21AM +0100, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote: > [...] > > Umhh... Well, I appreciate you???trying, but please remove this hack - it is > > easier to rephrase in this case. Like already said, russian language has > > _three_ singular/plural forms for di

Re: FAILED : Install Report : d-i_powerpc-20040109

2004-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
Fabrice Lorrain (home) wrote: > Now using the businesscard image from : > http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/powerpc/20040109/sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso > > This image doesn't set the /etc/resolv.conf. Old stories ... Please try the one from here instead: http://people.debian.o

ntfsresize

2004-01-11 Thread Kenshi Muto
Hi, Is there any plan for supporting NTFS resize? There is already parted in debian-installer component, but parted can't handle NTFS. I heard 'ntfsresize' in ntfstools can handle NTFS (includes Windows XP). IMHO it's nice for users to support NTFS resize without any special doing. Thanks, --

Re: Plurar and Singular

2004-01-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Nikolai Prokoschenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > up. BTW, is it actually possible or acceptable to misuse the > Last-Translator field for something like "Debian Russian-L10n?Team"? I > feel slightly uncomfortable with only my name put there, even though not > that much activity is given from th

Headaches while trying to test my own custom d-i modules

2004-01-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Well, I'm still stucked at the following : I want to check modifications I make to d-i modules (mostly for i18n stuff, but that's not the point). Up to now, I figured out how to do this for packages which are included in build images created by the build system in build/ --> created udebs and put