Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Jimen Ching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-24 13:27]:
> > I recently received an old Dell M200s tower desktop. I tried to install
> > Debian on it with beta4. But the kernel failed to detect the IDE
> > controller, so I don't have any drives at the drive partition stage.
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:35:31AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 01:38:14PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > On Thu Apr 11, 2002 at 08:31:55PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > Seriously: everyone reading this mail, burn a copy of Raphael's test image
> > > on a CD and try bo
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 07:54:52PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 07:42:33PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote:
>
> > How can I make screenshots from the BF-system?
>
> There was a thread about this no more than a couple of days ago on -devel; a
> search should find it. Perso
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:06:44AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>
> We have made a test image (thanks go to Chris Lawrence) :
> http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/debian-cd/
this image failed on a Dell Dimension XPS M200s
however, i suspect hardware problems since after copying the floppy
images onto
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 07:34:30PM -0300, Jim Skea wrote:
>
> I'm posting this to debian-boot since it seems where most of the
> discussion on the base-config problem is gong on.
my question, for those with base-config 1.33.17, and no easy way to
upgrade it, what is the workaround?
-john
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 09:26:09AM +0100, J M Cerqueira Esteves wrote:
> * John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-05-09 22:47 +]:
> > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 07:34:30PM -0300, Jim Skea wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm posting this to debian
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:43:58PM -0400, Justin Whitney wrote:
> Do any debian packages support splashimage= support for grub?
i did find some splashimage= patches:
http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/grub/patches/grub-0.91-vga16.patch
and
http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/grub/patches/grub-0.91-spla
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 12:44:34AM -0500, Wilbur Killebrew wrote:
> Package: installation
> Version: 2.11n (Debian 3.0 "woody")
>
> 1. The partition type entry field gets filled with seemingly
> random, usually inappropriate values.
i'm not quite sure what you mean here, can you give an exampl
Axel Schlicht wrote:
> Karsten Merker wrote:
>
> > It is described in the installation manual, which is on your CD set
> > and also available online at:
> > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-cd
^^
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> I think we're waiting for the problem to be fixed by the kernel
> maintainer. We should use a patched 2.4.18 since it seems unlikely to
> me that the archive maintainers will allow a new kernel (2.4.19) into
> stable point releases.
actually, i was asked to produce a 2.
David Kimdon wrote:
> > >
> yes, it sounds as though we definately want an updated 2.4.18
i was forwarded the actual securityfocus links that described the
vulnerabilities. the kernel-source-2.4.18 that we have currently fails
to address these issues specifically.
http://online.securityfocus.com
Bastian Blank wrote:
>
> devfs is marked as stable within 2.4.x, also there are problems with
> not devfs-capable drivers (i don't find any the since several months).
there are a couple of applications that i am aware of that do not get
along with devfs very well. (wmppp and mingetty being two o
Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:18:46AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> > there are a couple of applications that i am aware of that do not get
> > along with devfs very well. (wmppp and mingetty being two of them).
>
> mingetty works fine with de
Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:27:17AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> >
> > mingetty allocated the first terminal, no problem. any second and
> > subsequent totaly failed.
>
> do you have devfsd installed and/or
yes
> use /dev/ttyX inst
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:09:58PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> >
> > what if - we made rescue.sh (and friends) smart enough to know about its
> > size and other optings (ie: -s) so we could do this:
> >
> > resc%.bin: $(root_for_rescue) linux% rescue.sh $(arch_rescue_deps)
> > $(ROOTCMD)
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 10:27:14PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> > - eliminate lilo configuration
>
> Replace it with what?
> Is there a release of GRUB that works with Reiser FS?
> LILO is more filesystem-independent, which is both its curse and its virtue.
yes there is. the GRUB in woody
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:14:38PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> sure hope non subscribers can mail to this group, and hope one day to
> be able to read it via nntp. also the name "boot" doesn't 100% match
> the description "installation' ...
the next generation installer, debian-installer, should
Package: reiserfsprogs
Version: 3.x.0d-2
Severity: wishlist
this is for the woody bootfloppies to be able to install a reiserfs
partition. this patch will allow mkreiserfs to be called with multiple
-f flags to prevent asking any questions. great for non-interactive use
diff -Naur reiserfsprogs-
thanks to the informative error messages, i have determined that the
shared library problem was due to the fact that i was trying to build
the boot-floppies on a woody system, while the boot disks were pulling
down unstable .deb's.
the libc versions were different, which was causing the problem.
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 04:51:16PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote:
> FWIW, on the 10th of april has been released a version of Busybox including
> a 22k vi. Perhaps, in the future, the end of the small editors wars ;)
:) but how close to a ``real'' vi is it?
/me goes to find out . . .
-john
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On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:54:01AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
[suggestion to add telnet/netcat to boot-floppies]
>
> I guess I would really shelf this for now... or just take suggestions
> and leave them in todo for now.
busybox 0.51 (others also?) includes netcat and telnet. i guess its a
m
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:28:22PM -0700, Sam Powers wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:20:12PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > "Dwayne C. Litzenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > If so, will the installation program support reiserfs, a parted
> > > > frontend, will it support reiserfs a
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:42:16PM -0400, James D Strandboge wrote:
>
> Currently I have it for woody, and just grab what I need from sid and put it in my
> $(ftp_archive)/local directory, which seems to work ok.
that is exactly what i have done, and is probably the safer way to go.
otherwise, a
we have a 2.2.x kernel for about half the architectures, and a 2.4.x
kernel for the rest. are we going to have a 2.4.x kernel for all our
architectures when the woody floppies are released?
what's the likelyhood of supporting grabbing the ramdisk over nfs?
(thinking specifically of i386 architect
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:24:50PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> QEmacs is a tiny full-screen editor with UTF-8 support, a hex mode and
> the ability to edit huge files efficiently:
>
> http://www-stud.enst.fr/~bellard/qemacs/
have you contacted the author? has he given his blessing t
reiserfs eneabled installer for woody is still a possibility.
since it looks like that 2.2.19 (or a variant thereof) shall be the
default kernel for at least one reiserfs supported architecture, it will
be ultimately up to the kernel maintainer as to which route to go:
1) yet-another-flavor
2) p
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 09:48:12PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> Screenshot: http://kitenet.net/~joey/tmp/whiptail.png (expires in 2
> weeks or so)
but how does that look on a b/w term?
-john
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On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 12:28:50PM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
>
> An easy option which may or may not be any better is to not use the 'compact'
> version of buttons for yes/no boxes. An example of this can be found here:
much nicer! that looks like it would work well on black and white
terms
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 01:52:34PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> MaX in the FaX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > >the guy who builds the
> > > reiser version doesn't provide that? Why not?
> >
> > I think because the goal, is to have only a floppy disk set, not a
> > bootable cdrom.
maybe i am missing something, but i built a stable chroot, apt-got
boot-floppies, and am trying to build them.
however, i am running into a chicken/egg problem. for i386, the kernel
is 2.2.19pre17. however, there is no vanilla kernel, and if i bump it up
to 2.2.19, there are no PCMCIA modules.
i
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:47:09PM +1000, Robert Browne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Have a floppy image called easydeb.img, happy to download it to
> debian so you can have look. Just tell me where.
sounds interesting. do you have a link for the sources and image?
i assume that the installer is licensed un
doing a serial console install on i386 architecture, serial console, i
noticed upon reboot that everything went smoothly until base-config
completed, and the getty was spawned.
T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt102
my console was using 115200 bps, not 9600.
the ``console=ttyS0,115200n8'
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:10:17AM -0600, Ed Boraas wrote:
> What are our plans for boot-floppies, wrt supporting a ReiserFS root
> partition? At the very least, would it be feasible to include mkreiserfs on
> the boot set? I know that there's some code in boot-floppies to ask about
> formatting u
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:53:18PM -0600, Ed Boraas wrote:
>
> Just out of curiosity, are we planning to ship 2.2.19 on woody's floppies,
> or (already-reiserfs-enabled) 2.4.x?
i386 will be 2.2.19
-john
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On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:29:54PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > "John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > it looks like update_console_info() in
> > > ./utilities/dbootstrap/baseconfig.c is the place to fix this.
> >
&g
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:01:38AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> one question, do these patches patch debootstrap to include the
> relevant filesystem's -progs package? eg xfsprogs, reiserfsprogs
> etc. if not the first boot may fail miserably when the fsck wrapper
> can't find /sbin/fsck.{xfs
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 12:54:34PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:
>
> 3. asked, if i wanted to mount root with -notail, althought
>i had a ext2 /boot partition, this could be probably
>autodected.
the -notail option is useful for more than just /boot.
it also speeds up access, at a cost of
Version: 3.0.13
Flavour: reiserfs
Distribution: woody
Hardware: Toshiba Satellite 330CDS
The pcmcia modules are totaly hosed. the only way to make the pcmcia
work is to compile them seperately, and after the modules have been
installed, copy in the good modules, and re-run depmod -a
(this is not
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 08:00:16PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
>
> and now i have the Congratulations, you have successfully installed
> Debian! screen. *whew!*
major frownies: (again, who to bug? netbase?)
[jhriv@chao:~]% nmap cthulhu
Starting nmap V. 2.53 by [EMAIL
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 12:09:22AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> "John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > major frownies: (again, who to bug? netbase?)
>
> smtp is probably exim, which should be secure enough (although I
> prefer Postfix per
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:03:16AM -0400, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
> I'm tyring to install the i386 disks from 'testing' on a Toshiba 1805-S203,
> to which I've added a Linksys "Combo" ethernet card.
you didn't mention which flavour (if any) you were using.
> I guess that somehow the system doe
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:52:52PM -0400, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
> > Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
> > > I'm tyring to install the i386 disks from 'testing' on a Toshiba 1805-S203,
> > > to which I've added a Linksys "Combo" ethernet card.
> I guess I'm a little confused here. Do you mean that I
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:04:04PM -0400, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
> It looks like this problem is related to pcmcia-cs and not to the boot-floppies
> work at all.
i've seen that, too.
i'd recommend installing the 3.1.22potato pcmcia-cs, and if that works,
hold the package there
echo pcmcia-c
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:47:48PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
>
> [andersen@slag gcc-2.95-2.95.4.ds5]$ dpkg -l reiserfsprogs | tail -n1
> ii reiserfsprogs 3.x.0j-6 User-level tools for ReiserFS filesystems
> [andersen@slag gcc-2.95-2.95.4.ds5]$ du -hc /sbin/mkreiserfs /sbin/reiserfsck
>
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 04:06:29PM -0700, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote:
>
> Make tftpboot images for vanilla, compact, ide and idepci (do we want them all,
> reiser too?).
it makes my testing easier, in the lab i had set up, yes
-john
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On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 05:47:42PM -0500, Carpenter, Dean wrote:
>
> I need to produce a screen-by-screen document detailing the woody/testing
> install process for internal use here.
i found that running dbootstrap in an xterm is sufficient.
you may want to do it in a chroot, and take othre rea
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 03:06:38PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> your missing the point:
/tmp and /var/tmp are being treated differently. with no good reason.
thus i submit: fix /tmp, or fix /var/tmp, so they both act the same way.
consitency is the path to least surprise.
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On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 02:00:08AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> i186 has 1027 available on root.bin 1440 vanilla. Other flavors seem
> similar, although reiserfs is signifcantly smaller.
no framebuffer support (had to take it out, in order to get the reiserfs
bit in monolithically)
-john
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 07:41:51PM +, Philip Blundell wrote:
>
> Are you running on a machine with fbcon enabled? (If you see a penguin on the
>screen during bootup, you have fbcon.)
>
> Do the vanilla or reiserfs flavours work any better?
i tried with reiserfs, and i get the flashing als
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:35:03PM +, Philip Blundell wrote:
>
> I think it's the -pic packages that you have to watch out for particularly.
> Make sure that libnewt-utf8-pic is installed, and libnewt-pic is not. Having
> both of them is probably bad news.
libnewt-pic
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:55:35PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:35:03PM +, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >
> > I think it's the -pic packages that you have to watch out for particularly.
> > Make sure that libnewt-utf8-pic is install
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 12:05:30AM +, Philip Blundell wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John H. Robinson, IV" writes:
> > Problem
> >
> > An error occured while loading application messages.
> >
> &
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:46:15PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
>
> i am rebuilding, after a make distclean (not sure what that is going to
> buy me, other than a lot more network usage, as .deb's get downloaded)
same error.
i even tried the root.bin version. i veri
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 11:14:54AM +, Philip Blundell wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John H. Robinson, IV" writes:
> >there is an etc/messages.trm. i did do a make clean before building.
> >
> >this was the reiserfs flavour, over serial.
>
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 10:59:29PM +, Philip Blundell wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John H. Robinson, IV" writes:
> >i'm testing the installer now. should it have asked about language?
>
> No, the reiserfs flavour isn't i18n enabled. Th
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 04:35:39PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
>
> BTW, the recently uploaded version of kernel-image-2.2.20-udma100-ext3
> has vga16fb again. If you switch to the new kernel version, you can
> enable it in rootdisk.sh. AFAICS the pcmcia-modules-2.2.20-reiserfs
> packages is the on
i am doing this mostly for documentation. i should probably file
bugreports,
all issues listed affect the reiserfs flavour:
1) no mkfs.reiserfs in the root.bin
unable to create a reiserfs partition (this is very defeatest of the
whole flavour)
(could be an artifact of my abreiviated bu
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 04:59:53PM -0800, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote:
>
> fixed the EXTACT_LIST and SMALL_BASE_LIST to support varying
> flavours within an architecture
>
> required for reiserfs and udma100-ext3
as a secondary effect, rootreiserfs.bin and rootudma100-ext3.bin are now
both too
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2001-12-12
Severity: important
when the kernel is passed the console=ttyS0 option, the kernel boot
messages are properly sent to the console.
however, the language choose shows up on the first virtual console, and
the keyboard is non-responsive.
the
some additional information:
it is caused by the spawning of bterm in the /sbin/udbootstrap script.
i changed the script to:
#!/bin/sh
if (/dev/null && ! /usr/bin/tty | grep -q ttyS ; then
export LC_CTYPE=C@utf-8
exec /usr/bin/bterm -f /unifont-reduced.bgf /sbin/dbootstrap
fi
exec /sbin/dboots
this is yet another note,
but i am not sure how to fix it. this is an atypical build process, so
this is why i can find it
% make clean
% make resc2880reiserfs.bin
... snip! ...
I: including font for bterm
cp: cannot stat `utilities/bogl/unifont-reduced.bgf': No such file or directory
E: ./roo
code snippet:
utilities/dbootstrap/choose_medium.c
216 static int choose_archive_dir(char *text, char *prefix)
217 {
...snip...
243 if (!preventry) {
244 /* CM_MOUNTPOINT_DIR is default if it's mounted */
245 if (!system("cat /proc/mounts | grep -q " CM_MOU
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 01:37:08AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> "John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 1) no mkfs.reiserfs in the root.bin
>
> scripts/rootdisk/SMALL_BASE_LIST_i386_reiserfs lists 'sbin/mkreiserfs'.
> Isn't
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 01:11:41AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> "John H . Robinson IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > it is caused by the spawning of bterm in the /sbin/udbootstrap script.
>
> So we need some way to bypass bterm when booting with a serial c
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 03:27:41PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> are showing. Here's what they say:
>
> init started: Busybox v. 0.60.3-pre (2001.12.07-03:53+)
> Bummer, could not run '/etc/init.d/rcS': Permission denied
> grep: /proc/cmdline: No such file or directory
ah, damn. my fault.
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 12:00:33AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 03:27:41PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > are showing. Here's what they say:
> >
> > init started: Busybox v. 0.60.3-pre (2001.12.07-03:53+)
> > Bummer
in trying to get rid of the /instmnt from the mounting of a harddrive
partition for installing of the base system, i was able to get rid of it
from one dialog box, but not all.
the problem is more subtle than i initially suspected.
i am going to work on it some more later tonight or tommorow, bu
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 03:06:11PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> "Tom Wzietek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > My point is: it should be started automatically. I'm referring to the
> > first time logon after base installation, when base-config is run on
> > the first console.
>
> My point is:
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 03:17:26PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> Ok, good enough for me. I've retagged 3.0.18 boot-floppies. Uploading
> source and i386 shortly (will take 2-3 hours).
i have built the i386 from a tagged checkout, you can get the release
directory from:
http://sbih.org/debian
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 10:18:20PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
>
> The way to generate basedebs.tgz is by using "debootstrap", like:
>
> cd /tmp
> mkdir woody
> debootstrap --download-only woody woody http://http.us.debian.org
debootstrap --download-only woody woody http://http.us.debian.org/deb
i just did a test install of 3.0.18
architecture: i386
flavour: reiserfs
console: serial
there are still some problems with the mounting of non-ext2 partitions
(i have a fix for that), and the /instmnt problem (i have a partial fix
for that)
another minor annoyance, more of a user issue, and a
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 12:09:24AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> > last time i did a _full_ install of woody onto a laptop, baseconfig was
> > started _before_ the pcmcia card services were started. so getting
> > packages over the net failed.
&g
i'm working on getting rid of the /instmnt messages for
choose_archive_dir(). i have successfully gotten rid of it, and only
some cosmetic issues remain. i will submit my patches, even if i do not
get the cosmetic issues entirely worked out.
the usability issue i have found is this:
the comments
this is more appropriate for debian-devel or debian-mentor
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:02:48AM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote:
> Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > A few months ago I put together a Debian floppy-maker script for usage
> > on powerpc. The script depends on the MacOS-provi
On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 12:45:24PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 10:58:33PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> >
> > should we use /target, or / ?
> > my initial thought was /target, since the only other mounted partitions
> > would be ther
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:12:02AM -0800, John Wenger wrote:
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: N/A; reported 2001-12-27
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
>
> The version is 3.0.19, obtained from http://sbih.org/debian/bf3.0.19/.
this is un-official set contains stil
it seems that i have resolved, either through accident or design, most
of the /instmnt problems.
the only issue left is the Live CD.
a normal CD boot is when it uses the Rock Ridge to boot to a 2.88 image.
the Live CD is something beyond weird, that i cannot describe. to say
the least, based u
the diffs so far:
Index: choose_medium.c
===
RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/choose_medium.c,v
retrieving revision 1.123
diff -u -r1.123 choose_medium.c
--- choose_medium.c 2001/12/27 15:25:52 1
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:08:35PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
>
> it seems that i have resolved, either through accident or design, most
> of the /instmnt problems.
>
> the only issue left is the Live CD.
and, of course, after putting the code down for a night, i ca
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 02:09:34AM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
>
> Problems:
> 1) My kernel is 1.5M, larger than a floppy! Won't this be a problem?
of you try to put in on a floppy, yes.
> 2) Can I somehow mount the boot disk image without putting it on a
> floppy and mounting that
i feel very good about my /instmnt patches.
but i do wish to test them as best as possible first, so i did a make
clean, and tried to rebuild.
utilities/dbootstrap/lang is causing me problems:
./ver2.py 1 i386 langs.xml
processing "langs.xml", utf=1, arch=i386
opening langs.c
Traceback (most re
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 01:19:39PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> >
> > i have no idea what to do about this, or where to look for it, or
> > anything. so i am stuck. if anyone has any clues, please let me know.
>
> Perhaps you didn't do a
>
> make check
did that, everything was good.
> befor
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 02:02:19AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
>
> ./ver2.py 1 i386 langs.xml
> processing "langs.xml", utf=1, arch=i386
> opening langs.c
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "./ver2.py", line 138, in ?
> dumper (arc
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:01:36PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
>
> This being a UTF error, maybe it can be avoided by either
>
> make build
not from the top level CVS directory. that is what i have been trying :/
i want to get a complete set of disks, and use the root.bin as a chroot.
if that
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:54:32PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 02:02:19AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> >
> > ./ver2.py 1 i386 langs.xml
> > processing "langs.xml", utf=1, arch=i386
> > opening langs.c
> > Tr
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:01:36PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
>
> export USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER := false
>
> in config (since your stuff is not involved with either of those).
nope. did not work, but with the help of dancerj on irc, we were able
to determine that it was python-xml that was
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:13:58PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
>
> 2) I managed to make a 1.2M kernel which fitted on the floppy disk.
> However the syslinux loader reports a 'corrupt kernel'. I noticed that
> when I tried to cp /usr/src/source*2.2.19/vmlinux to /mnt/linux the
> machine wou
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:07:35PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> I just ran through a clean Woody installation on 3.0.19; here's my
> observations from it. Hope these are useful. Please CC me on any comments;
> I no longer read debian-boot.
>
> - Choosing "mounted" defaults to /instmnt bu
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:32:41AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 02:46:21PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:07:35PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > I just ran through a clean Woody installation on
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 07:16:14PM -0500, Jeff Sheinberg wrote:
>
> I switched to the syslog VC to see what was happening here, and
> the problem was that the mount command executed was,
>
> mount -t ext3 /dev/hda6 /instmnt
>
> which can never succeed without the proper kernel support.
> I
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 01:02:12AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Hello Adam, hello everyone.
>
> As promised on IRC, I have worked on a useable solution for using the
> 2.4 kernels in our current boot floppies and I think I have one.
provided we can meet the following criteria, i have no objecti
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 07:25:13AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > >
> > > IMHO reiserfs simply isn't viable anymore. So I don't really care
please explain - how is it ``not viable anymore''? replaced by ext3? the
only thing ext3 has is journalling. reiserfs brings a lot more to the
table than sim
ome congratulations may be in order, i am not sure
i updated sid again this afternoon (around midnight GMT), and rebuilt
the bootfloppies. it failed:
I: single locale mode forced for flavor '', no FB console support
I: ld.so on this architecture is ld-linux.so.2
E: expected to find /lib/libc-2.2
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 04:09:45PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
>
> > - Formatting the partitions: the screen is filled with details about the
> > progress of the ReiserFS-Journal being written. This is confusing for some
>
> Well, on slow harddisks you would like to have more info about the
> p
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:31:38PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > You could try adding "ramdisk=8000" to that.
>
> Tried. Nothing.
did you run memtest86 http://www.teresaudio.com/memtest86/ to prove that
your memory really is good?
-john
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Architecture: i386 (Pentium II (Deschutes) 400.913)
Disk: IDE (WDC WD400BB-00AUA1, ATA DISK drive)
Video: nVidia Corporation Vanta [NV6] (rev 21)
NIC: Intel Corp. 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 5)
using bf2.4 flavour, it installed nicely. using the framebuffer.
the one complaint, when formatting
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:34:05AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> David Kimdon wrote on Tue Feb 19, 2002 um 10:48:22PM:
> > Can someone summarize what needs to be done to make boot-floppies
> > buildable again?
>
> With the split of libslang, we need following programs which link against the
> .UTF
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:03:19PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
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> oh, i think i see it: comparing dpkg --get-selections in each chroot, i
> see sid has this: slang1a-utf8
>
> let me see if this is the case...
no; it is not quite that simple. installing libnewt-utf8-0
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:49:55AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
>
> I've got an impression that make clean doesn't seem to clean up the
> downloaded deb files ?
no, but make distclean does
-john
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i feel dense :/
i have boot-floppies in a clean woody and sid chroot. they both pass
make check with no problems.
but for make, they both fail at the same place:
i18n_low_space=true ./rootdisk.sh "" /archive/debian/download 3700 3.0 "" C ""
I: internationalized mode enabled
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