Re: rfc: growlight as d-i partman replacement

2021-08-14 Thread nick black
[debian-derivatives dropped from cc] [93sam, pabs added to cc] [0] nick black left as an exercise for the reader: > Christian PERRIER left as an exercise for the reader: > > Quoting nick black (nick.bl...@sprezzatech.com): > > > As said, you can find a growlight udeb in the Spr

Bug#965029: console-setup: fonts missing numerous unicode->font mappings for box-drawing characters

2020-07-14 Thread Nick Black
Package: console-setup Version: 1.196 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, While working on Notcurses (https://notcurses.com), I realized that numerous Unicode Box-Drawing Characters resolve to the missing glyph (U+FFFD), despite being well-simulated by glyphs present in the font. I

Bug#965029: console-setup: fonts missing numerous unicode->font mappings for box-drawing characters

2020-07-20 Thread Nick Black
properly being rendered as the base of its class. Except for one: the weird "big foreslash" is being mapped to a percent sign instead of a foreslash. Everything else looks correct, and seems a big improvement. -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch

Bug#965029: console-setup: fonts missing numerous unicode->font mappings for box-drawing characters

2020-07-20 Thread Nick Black
TER O Right now they render as the same missing glyph, which does nothing good for anybody =]. I add these two mappings on the fly in Notcurses for my multiselector widget. -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.

partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-23 Thread nick black
/2013/02/msg00122.html [2] https://nick-black.com/tabpower/debconf21-growlight.mkv [3] https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php?title=File:Parting_ways_with_partman.pdf [4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2013/02/msg00164.html [5] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/growlight -- nick black -=-

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-25 Thread Nick Black
omeone with an Amiga or ATARI who'd be willing to test them out. If there are no such people, is it that important? On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 5:29 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello! > > On 9/23/21 22:57, nick black wrote: > >

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-26 Thread Nick Black
nctionality. with that said, i would *still want to test on the target environment*, to make sure i'm using libparted correctly there. so that necessity remains. would this allay your concerns? --nick -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scrat

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-28 Thread nick black
no, this has been an A-, A interaction in my book--i half-expected flat rejection. so thanks, debian! i will return to my codehole and bring back something more tangible. but i found this quite promising. -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need

Re: need we support unshadowed passwords from the installer

2023-01-14 Thread nick black
Marc Haber left as an exercise for the reader: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 21:11:40 -0500, nick black > wrote: > >i'm absolutely not suggesting we stop supporting NIS or other > >programs which rely on unshadowed passwords. it's a big ol' > >tent, and we have

uefi netinst broken on 8.6.0+testing due to missing nls_ascii.ko

2016-10-08 Thread Nick Black
unted that in a shell before partitioning disks. I then insmod'd nls_ascii.ko. Things worked, grub installed, and I could boot my new UEFI installs. I can file a bug, but wasn't sure what package to file against. Thanks! -- nick black -=- http://www.nick-black.com to make an apple p

Re: uefi netinst broken on 8.6.0+testing due to missing nls_ascii.ko

2016-10-09 Thread Nick Black
e this problem in the installer already. > > That's #839552[1] (including nls_ascii into fat-modules). thanks! i'll continue using my custom install image for now, and verify this when a new netinst image gets built with this fix. -- nick black -=- http://www.nick-black.com to mak

Re: uefi netinst broken on 8.6.0+testing due to missing nls_ascii.ko

2016-10-09 Thread Nick Black
ut yeah, that was not this issue. sorry for the confusion. -- nick black -=- http://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.

rfc: growlight as d-i partman replacement

2013-02-06 Thread nick black
=411 [5] https://github.com/dankamongmen/sprezzos-world/blob/master/packaging/growlight/debian/growlight-udeb.postinst -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: rfc: growlight as d-i partman replacement

2013-02-07 Thread nick black
control archive=1301 bytes. 828 bytes,14 lines control 1092 bytes,39 lines * postinst #!/bin/sh 118 bytes, 4 lines templates Package: growlight-udeb Source: growlight Version: 1.0.4.5-SprezzOS2 Architecture: amd64

Re: rfc: growlight as d-i partman replacement

2013-02-07 Thread nick black
Christian PERRIER left as an exercise for the reader: > Quoting nick black (nick.bl...@sprezzatech.com): > > As said, you can find a growlight udeb in the SprezzOS repositories, where > > it > > is actively used in our d-i-derived installer: > It's quite likely that t

Re: rfc: growlight as d-i partman replacement

2013-02-07 Thread nick black
and can't really answer you there. I'm pretty familiar with freebsd, and think porting will not be very difficult. I've added a bug on this: https://www.sprezzatech.com/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=628 Thanks for pointing this out! -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc c

thoughts regarding bootloader installation

2012-10-13 Thread nick black
rtition or partition table information exists where GRUB would be installed (must do this for current case, but only on user-selected drive). Does anyone have thoughts to contribute? What have I overlooked here? I'm sure this idea has been had, and discussed, before. Thanks! --rigoro