Re: Sarge netinst on Pismo

what happened afterwards because of > the flashing lcd. I guess the key press had no effect. Sounds like it's segfaulting and restarting? You might be able to stop the flashing using Ctrl-S or Ctrl-C and then switch to console 2 or 3? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

ebian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#216046: partconf: Partition changes above partition 9 applied incorrectly

Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: powerpc Kernel: Linux ip68-107-137-100.tc.ph.cox.net 2.4.22-powerpc #1 Sat Oct 4 08:20:43 CEST 2003 ppc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox do

Bug#216045: partconf: No column headings for partition selection table

Sat Oct 4 08:20:43 CEST 2003 ppc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Install report

ou along. If everything is going well, this automatic next-step picking is wonderful; it just zooms along and does its thing. But if there has been some problem along the way which hasn't been solved, it should always drop back to the menu and just take orders from the user. -- Debian GNU/Li

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:59:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > I tested d-i using BootX. > > Greate. Your destined to test disk boots f

Re: Install report

he Release file and Packages file and then hangs > while probably verifying and parsing the file. Yes, this part has always been slow, since debootstrap was invented. It is running the 'pkgdetails' script for each package in Packages. I looked once to see if some progress could be implem

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:33:36PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > Goswin von Brederlow schrieb: > > >Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > >> > &g

Re: busybox vs busybox-cvs?

the list. Why am I writing this? Because I've heard enough from Bastian to know that he knows very little English, and for that reason if no other, I think it's not fair to browbeat him on the list. Just stick to what's wrong with the code, not what's wrong with the coder.

Re: Second round of powerpc subarch investigation : boot-loaders.

ibly even many of them, > one of them being specialized for miboot and its 1.3Mo kernel size > requirement, and build the kernel udebs from that. This is the solution that prep used in boot-floppies. It was problematic to be building kernels within the installer build. I don't have an

Re: Proposal for low-mem cdrom install and minimum kernel versions thereof

ow the current installer does. There are a lot of older machines out there that we're leaving behind if we require 32MB. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IBM 43P-150 installation

rnel to get it to work: > > CONFIG_NFS_V3=y > > CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y > > Mmm, making the kernel bigger, not smaller :(( BTW, the quik patch that Ben sent to the list takes away our quik size worries. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Till

Re: [ppc] unable to install on new powerbook14"

d the newer version of yaboot is available at penguinppc.org. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PowerPC CHRP network install

should work in > theory. zImage.initrd or zImage plus a separate initrd (if this is > possible on your arch) over bootp/dhcp/tftp/whatsoever works. We definitely need testing in this area. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance)

Re: first nearly successful USB media install

rtition, not the partition type. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: first nearly successful USB media install

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:40:14AM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote: > ons 2003-10-22 klockan 05.42 skrev Chris Tillman: > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:56:39PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > > > In cfdisk, I told it to change my 128 mb swap partition to ext2, and > >

Re: Section 3.7.5.1 of Install Manual

NOT "proc". Once I did this the kernel installed and everything was good. > > Thanks for the document though, other than this hiccup everything worked first time. Thanks, I added the tip. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a

Re: problems with debian

the point of system installation. One thing, though: to reconfigure X, the command is dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [new-powermac] boot on hd but install does not recognize hd!

ler can't see the harddisk? > > Thanks for your time, This is woody, right? Do you have a CD in the drive when you boot? There's some bug in the woody installer that prevents it from seeing the hard drive on powerpc, if there is a CD in the drive when booting. -- Debian GNU/

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

pose this is just because quik doesn't load the ram up ahead of time? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:14:21AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > However, it didn't get much farther when I tried a kernel that did > > have drivers ... it read the partitions OK, but failed soon

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 07:54:37AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:14:21AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: &g

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:03:46AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:01:25PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:14:21AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:44:38AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > Sven Luther schrieb: > > >On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:01:25PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > >>On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:14:21AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> >

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

l. > > Could you have a look at this this evening. I'll see, not too likely to succeed I'm afraid. Any ideas what options might get me around the ramdisk prompt where it doesn't accept the Enter key? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris

Re: new build/debian directory

I suppose the change I just checked in will > fix it though. I got a similar error in the same place, I assume after the update. For me, dpkg was complaining about udebs/*.deb (--unpack) instead of extraudebs. Shortly after that, the build stops when it can't find ./tmp/bootfloppy/tree/b

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

753,7 +1753,7 @@ # # CONFIG_CRC32 is not set CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y -CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=m +CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y # # Kernel hacking -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: HOWTO install Debian from another distribution?

de to pick individual packages. If you have dpkg running, but it's not registered, yo can use dpkg --install dpkg The same logic works with apt-get --reinstall install apt-get -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff

Re: Second round of powerpc subarch investigation : boot-loaders.

It should ask for a root disk, at which point you'll just have to reboot for now. We'll need help testing the debian-installer very soon! Thanks for your contributions. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test

The reduced kernel does not seem to boot on the 9500. It produces the small penguin icon and loads from the floppy, then blanks the screen and stops. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:41:13PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:53:56AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > The reduced kernel does not seem to boot on the 9500. It > > produces the small penguin icon and loads from the floppy, > > then blanks the screen

Bug#217775: choose-mirror: Debconf templates polishing

file download protocol. If unsure, select "http"; it is less > prone to problems involving firewalls. I second these. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#217775: choose-mirror: Debconf templates polishing

Would it be OK to incorporate small corrections like this when applying the patch? In general I think what you're doing is great and will make the installer much more user friendly. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a peopl

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:42:22AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Am Fre, den 24.10.2003 schrieb Chris Tillman um 08:15: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:14:29PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > Aha! I got a working kernel. I guess I know more than I think I do :) &

Re: Bug#217503: Evil autopartkit should _NEVER_ _NEVER_ try to overwrite an unknown partition table

together. I'm also attempting to understand the myriad of targets and images that will be available, we'll have to explain to users how to choose the one they need. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at co

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:17:34AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:41:18PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:42:22AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > Am Fre, den 24.10.2003 schrieb Chris Tillman um 08:15: > > > >

Re: custom task with bf

local dir(without bf) works from this cd > can anyone help? debootstrap compares the MD5 signature. Did you generate a new MD5sums file also? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: [ppc] netinstall image from gluck report

RITY=normal -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge netinst with PCMCIA ethernet fails to install modules

same > problem, or is that a different beast? I was thinking of trying a woody > netinst and then a dist-upgrade. But if that's known to have issues > then I'll just bite the bullet and download the full ISOs with jigdo. AFAIK pcmcia works in woody. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operatin

Bug#218690: partitioner: Unable to start mac-fdisk

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Bug#218689: partitioner: Unable to start mac-fdisk

2.4.22-powerpc #1 Sat Sep 27 04:08:08 CEST 2003 ppc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Bug#218597: should display a notice when changing the debconf priority level

uld display a note before jumping to a higher > priority. I couldn't agree more. This would definitely help to avoid the panicky the 'Captain! She's out of control!' feeling. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people insta

Re: [WOODY] Need sugestion for Floppy-Install

to the secondary IDE? Much faster than reading 114 floppies, one at a time. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#218690: Processed: reopen

I saw it had been merged with 218689, a better solution; but I had just closed the merged bug. So I reopened it. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Bug#218992: base-installer: Debconf templates polishing

om the APT sources. Please choose > + one of them in order to make to system bootable from the hard drive. > > Consistency with the Style Guide document. Maybe better english is possible? ... make the system bootable ... -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the P

Bug#219189: cdrom-checker: Debconf templates polishing

nally, so use it in the Main Menu entry also. > Same for "CD-ROM" and "integrity" (the latter may be dropped...) good idea to drop integrity, because of the possessive issue. > I also suggest adding "(s)" as we allow for checking several CD's. > > -- Sy

Bug#219469: ddetect: Debconf templates polishing

le is not listed. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#219472: iso-scan: Debconf templates polishing

n installer ISO image was not found. The ISO > + image you downloaded is maybe corrupted. > + . > + Please do a network install instead, or reboot and fix the ISO image. ... image you downloaded may be corrupted. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chr

Re: "Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 For Intel x86" - Xwindows config?

it, search at xfree86.org, and post on a list there, or on debian-user. This list is actually for development of the installer, and X configuration is beyond its scope. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at co

Bug#219471: lvmcfg: Debconf templates rewrite

) were found in your system. All > physical volumes may already be in use. You may also need to load > some required kernel modules or re-partition the hard drives. > -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at

Bug#219633: netcfg: Debconf templates polishing

cfg/confirm_static > Type: boolean > Default: true > -_Description: Is this configuration correct? > +_Description: Are these informations correct? > + Currently configured network parameters: > + . >interface = ${interface} >hostname = ${hostname} &

Flavors

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Re: Flavors

On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:59:51PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Chris Tillman wrote: > > In the old installation manual, there were four (no, 5) flavors of > > kernels for i386. In the current kernel module, only one kernel > > version is listed. Can we dump all the instruc

Bug#220180: cdrom-detect: Debconf templates polishing

ch' associated with distributions. Usually each is just termed a 'distribution' which seems right to me; each distribution stands by itself. So, I would remove 'branch' and 'branches', otherwise OK. > Template: debian-installer/cdrom-detect/title > Type:

Bug#220030: prebaseconfig: Debconf templates polishing

; > -- System Information: > Debian Release: testing/unstable > Architecture: i386 > Kernel: Linux mykerinos 2.4.22 #2 Mon Sep 29 15:12:10 CEST 2003 i686 > Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8) > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Second stage console problem

t of base-config > and into the plain old linux console though. :-/ ... so that's next ... -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

r; without it blind users cannot install. > Does brltty break on i386, m68k or alpha too? Don't know. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install manual language codes

ponds, make it the way you think it should be. We don't have a Makefile yet, so there's nothing standing in your way. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dhcp idea

you make changes here, except for that the answer would be to always run it after a change. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: powerpc 2.4.22-3 kernel packages ready.

ytes. After it was finished, I re-checked with dpkg -s and it was _still_ not installed. What's going on here? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#220949: install: Installer overwrites user data without warning

step at a time as it did in boot-floppies. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: powerpc Kernel: Linux iMacBlue.cox.net 2.4.22-powerpc #1 Sat Sep 27 04:08:08 CEST 2003 ppc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the Pe

Re: Debconf templates polishing status

onf ; NONE ; Already OK;; > retriever/choose-mirror ; NONE ; Already OK?;; > tools/bugreporter-udeb ; NONE ; Already OK;; > > base-config;220836;;; > shadow;221151 > > -- > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "uns

Bug#220917: Sparc section 11.2.3.1.1 Rescue floppy images and 11.2.3.1.3 TFTP boot images refer to non existant urls

urrent/sun4cdm/tftpboot.img > > ../current/sparc64/tftpboot.img should be ../current/sun3u/tftpboot.img > > -- > Regards Vincent Thanks. I applied this in CVS. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at co

Bug#221266: 'images-1.44/rescue.bin bug

7;s been working great. Are you inserting CD #2, not CD #1? CD #2 is only used for _booting_ the vanilla flavor; the kernels are all there on CD #1 though in the right folder structure. > Also, I can't find any 'drivers.tgz' file on the iso image. This is > another file t

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/main-menu/debian by toff

version in there. I guess we should set a DI_VERSION variable at the top level build? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Realtek RTL8139

stem By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fwd: Install Report from a Linux newbie - some comments

on yourself for what you were doing), and fill it in. BTW, I've started working on a really basic linux-newbie help file. I'd appreciate any feedback you have; if you'd like I can email it. I have it posted at http://members.cox.net/toff1/ (Download the 'aclue' link in bin

Re: Problems with Sarge netinst and Yaboot

TED]:0,yaboot.conf: Unknown or > corrupt filesystem > Can't open config file > Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.10 > Enter "help" to get some basic usage information > boot: > Please wait, loading kernel... > :0,/vmlinux: Unable to open file, Invalid device -- Debian

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/main-menu/debian by toff

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:40:01PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:07:48PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > +- Added ${VERSION} so the version will show in the main menu title >

Re: Problems with Sarge netinst and Yaboot

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:07:44PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:20:53PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, I've just bought a PowerBook G4 12". > > > > I have downloaded the Beta1 of Sarge NetInst for PowerPC (November 9th) >

Re: boot-floppies ; new release for 3.0r2 ?

;s been built some time ago, but I think not. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#222381: installation-reports: Installation Report

ed. I was saved by doing a chroot to the target and apt-getting > ftp. It was very ugly, but it worked. wget is in the installer. It would be nice if, when the user types ftp, the response could be 'Try wget'. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris

Re: Modconf and 2.6 kernel

think it's being actively maintained, there was no response to the previous post IIRC. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FWD: Can't Get Past "Install the Base System"

ation program couldn't find any directory containing a file > basedebs.tar or dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Release." The last time I saw this, the user had booted from some CD other than CD #1 and still had that CD in the drive. The base files are on CD #1, so be sure that's the o

Re: 1.44 meg boot disk problem

he 18 one has 18 of 20 (checked with a binary editor). Here are the md5sums I get from the downloaded files: a56b386132512c7e8bdd334d2af2f593 /home/toff/base-17.bin c2d1e669d65a7a4a4b20fbcd5eae4894 /home/toff/base-18.bin -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris T

Re: netcfg debconf templates - please review

aker there are probably some mistakes. > > Thanks > > Gaudenz -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

D-I build / initial test on powerpc

I built d-i on a stable powerpc machine, first installing the build dependencies (in build/control) from sid. libpopt0 (needed for pump-udeb) also needed to be upgraded to sid, the stable version was insufficient. (I'm not sure if it should become a bulid dependency as a result.) I completed the

Re: Trouble getting Quik working...

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:31:57PM +0100, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 21 Jan, this message from Chris Tillman echoed through cyberspace: > > Wow, Michel, I wonder if that's the same problem so many people > > have getting the beige G3's to use quik? > > Most p

Re: Network install

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:15:02AM -0300, Jorge Cornejo wrote: > Hi.. I'm reinstaling my debian system and when 'the computer is > downloading the file syslinux_1.66-1_i386.deb the next error is > presented You didn't say what the error is. When I follow that link, it's good. >

Re: Little improvement to modconf...

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:06:26AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Salutacions! > > First of all, sorry for my english, hope you can understand > me... > > I'm switching to debian gnu/linux, after navigating on a > couple of distro's, because i feel debian is the more free > one... and becom

Re: Booting From Rescue Disk To Begin Clean Install

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 02:00:23PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the right list, but I'm gonna try here (I'm also > subscribed to several other of the Debian lists, including debian-user, > so if this question belongs there, please excuse my faux pas). > > Currently I'

Re: Booting From Rescue Disk To Begin Clean Install

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:05:44PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Chris Tillman wrote: > > >I think you need a different flavor. Did you try idepci? > > > > I don't understand, different boot loader? No, a different flavor. http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i3

Re: PreDepend error in upgrading to Woody from CDs

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:08:42PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > After having been away from my Debian Linux system for some time, I just > purchased the set of 7 CDs to upgrade my system to Woody > > > > I followed the Release Notes, upgrading using dselect, and ran into a > PreDepend error,

Re: PreDepend error in upgrading to Woody from CDs

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:21:32PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > > ... Earlier stuff that the CD upgrade from Potato to Woody was failing > with the error "Couldn't configure a pre-depend" and similar using both > dselect and apt-get... > > > ... Trying minimum upgrades under dselect also faile

Re: PreDepend error in upgrading to Woody from CDs

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:21:32PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > > ... Earlier stuff that the CD upgrade from Potato to Woody was failing > with the error "Couldn't configure a pre-depend" and similar using both > dselect and apt-get... > > > ... Trying minimum upgrades under dselect also faile

Re: PreDepend error in upgrading to Woody from CDs

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 08:13:02PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > > > Chris replied: > > Do you have a source for stable in your /etc/apt/sources.list? > The stable (woody) libc6 is 2.2.5-11.2, way beyond what apt > thinks you're trying to install. > > Maybe you need to apt-get update, with th

Re: Unable to install vanilla version of Woody

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 02:19:49AM -0500, Paul Siu wrote: > I have a strange problem that I can't figure out. I am attempting to install > Debian Woody 3.0 on my machine. I boot up on disc 2 (Vanilla) and attempt to > install. Unfortunately, I notice that the kernel it install is the idepci > versi

Re: Running base-config from within first stage installer

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:10:35AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Joey Hess] > > That saves time only until you discover, after labourously > > installing all of debian, that the boot loader failed to install > > properly and you then have to repeat the whole install again. No > > thanks. >

Re: booting on CD for a 7043/150

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:01:45PM +0100, Timothee Besset wrote: > I'm trying to get DI code running for a 7043/150 powerpc box. Since the > kernel image and everything is too big to fit on a floppy, the only > solution is to boot on CD. > > After some looking around, I have found the following in

Re: [d-i] Choosing the install kernel?

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 09:52:47AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Petter Reinholdtsen] > > The base-installer in cvs chooses kernel image using the > > debian-installer/kernel/image template from rootskel. I'm woundering > > how I am supposed to set up my install CD to use another kernel.

Re: RW for one-time install.

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:41:13AM -0500, James Woollen wrote: > why do you recommend the CD-RW for a one-time install. i will be > installing on an older machine that i anticipate will have issues (at > least potentially more) dealing with an RW vs an R. i don't see any reference to CD-RW in the

Re: Could you point me to the floppy-installer source?

On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 05:45:17PM -0800, Tatsunori Hashimoto wrote: > Ok.. streight to the point. > > Me and some friends are creating a linux configurator... in which we > would like to use the debian-installer which seems definately superior > to all other installers (ours will be floppy inst

Re: Misleading examples in install guide

On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:38:48PM -0600, Martin Maney wrote: > > I came at this roundabout: I was looking for some background on using > debootstrap (1), and that led me, eventually, to the install guide at > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade > >

Re: loop: can't get info on device

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:07:45PM +0100, ?ke Wiv?nge wrote: > I'm very new to Linux and Debian and when I try to install Debian from a > CD burned with "debian-30r1-i386-binary-1_NONUS.iso" it just stops when > it's installing kernel and driver modules, and on the error console it > says: > > loo

Re: loop: can't get info on device

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 07:35:20PM -0700, toff wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:07:45PM +0100, ?ke Wiv?nge wrote: > > I'm very new to Linux and Debian and when I try to install Debian from a > > CD burned with "debian-30r1-i386-binary-1_NONUS.iso" it just stops when > > it's installing kernel an

Re: SV: loop: can't get info on device

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:47:25AM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:25:20AM +0100, Åke Wivänge wrote: > > > > That device is normally on the root.bin filesystem. Maybe > > > it got deleted or hidden somehow? You should see many devices > > > in /dev, including l

Re: Network install of Woody

On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:58:23AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > The documentation for using bootroms (such as PXE) is incomplete. See the (ia386) >install guide: > 4.5.5 Move TFTP Images Into Place which links to 11.2.3, and contains the text, "NOT >YET WRITTEN." > > 5.5 Booting from TFTP >

Re: error? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:23:30PM +0100, Florian Schaper wrote: > Section: > 4.5.4 Enabling the TFTP Server > line: > tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/etc/in.tftpd in.tftpd /tftpboot > > you most likely wanted to write : > tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.tftpd /tftpboot > > or am I wrong

Re: cdebconf upload

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:54:47PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Martin Sjögren] > > I want to make a cdebconf upload to fix the problem of bogl being > > included in cdebconf-udeb. > > Yes, please do. The new cdebconf packages breaks my d-i build because > the floppies are full. The f

Re: [OT] installation documentation

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 05:02:07PM +0100, Fabrice LORRAIN wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know what package to report the wishlist bug against. So I would > appreciate if so in the list could forward to the right place. > > Doing a woody install on powerpc (imac first generation). It took me > some ti

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