cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-02 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:stephen.r.marenka time: Sat Jun 2 08:45:29 PDT 2001 Log Message: Removing old/unused dbootstrap/powermac.c Files: removed:powermac.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-02 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:stephen.r.marenka time: Sat Jun 2 08:46:57 PDT 2001 Log Message: Removing old/unused dbootstrap/powermac.c Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-02 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:stephen.r.marenka time: Sat Jun 2 09:27:57 PDT 2001 Log Message: Configure yaboot for chrp Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-02 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:stephen.r.marenka time: Sat Jun 2 09:27:58 PDT 2001 Log Message: Configure yaboot for chrp Files: changed:bootconfig.c partition_config.c util.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-02 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk who:stephen.r.marenka time: Sat Jun 2 09:28:01 PDT 2001 Log Message: Configure yaboot for chrp Files: changed:fdisk.h -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: powermac boot-floppy patches

2001-06-02 Thread Stephen R Marenka
check for that arch and check for a 0x41 partition instead of > Apple_Bootstrap, those will also have the requirement that /boot be > the same disk as / and bootstrap unlike newworld powermac. Done -- hope it works, at least it compiles. :-) Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's

Re: powermac boot-floppy patches

2001-06-02 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 07:35:17PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:04:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 06:35:46PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > > > > > I understand that, the problem with check_for_native_pa

Re: thoughts on boot floppies

2001-06-03 Thread Stephen R Marenka
and take the > 17floppies out of the box, he almost says: what are you doing? > > i wonder what the reason is for this. and maybe i can help out a bit. We always need help. Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP signature

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-04 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:stephen.r.marenka time: Mon Jun 4 19:01:12 PDT 2001 Log Message: More Quik fixes Files: changed:partition_config.c bootconfig.c dbootstrap.h main.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

cvs commit to boot-floppies by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-04 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies who:stephen.r.marenka time: Mon Jun 4 19:05:59 PDT 2001 Log Message: Update quik todo Files: changed:todo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-05 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies who:stephen.r.marenka time: Tue Jun 5 05:09:01 PDT 2001 Log Message: todo update Files: changed:todo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

tail /var/log/messages spasm

2001-06-07 Thread Stephen R Marenka
e object if I change the default to 2.2 (and later) kernels? I noticed that the arm message (in utilities/dbootstrap/partition_config.c) is a bit different, something about netwinder firmware. I won't change that entry without explicit instructions. Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka

Re: testing with powermac/oldworld (probs in miboot, debootstrap, kernel)

2001-06-07 Thread Stephen R Marenka
ooted right into > >MacOS > > > > I'm going to check in a bit more to all this. > > need more info here, i want to clean up the quik install function a > bit... It would be nice to know what nvsetenv calls were made, this should be in /var/log/messages (via INFOMSG

cvs commit to boot-floppies by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-07 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies who:stephen.r.marenka time: Thu Jun 7 14:57:41 PDT 2001 Log Message: Resetting ftp_archive to /archive/debian from .. Files: changed:config -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: testing with powermac/oldworld (probs in miboot, debootstrap, kernel)

2001-06-07 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:49:33PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:00:33PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > I think I remember yellowdoglinux working on a graphical interface to > > miboot, I wonder if anything came of it? > > graphical interf

Re: testing with powermac/oldworld (probs in miboot, debootstrap, kernel)

2001-06-08 Thread Stephen R Marenka
run as > well. As you can see, it's very useful for debugging to see what > actual commands are being run... Yep, logger is there, I've been using it while testing quik. Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP signature

Re: should ext2 be formated to support 2.0 kernels?

2001-06-08 Thread Stephen R Marenka
be installing a 2.2.x kernel and having the default support for a 2.0 kernel. Certainly, with 2.2.x having been around for quite a while now. Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP signature

Re: testing with powermac/oldworld (probs in miboot, debootstrap, kernel)

2001-06-08 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:29:41PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:20:41PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > > powerpc-utils should still be fixed, that diversion needs to go away. > > > > File a bug, I guess (oops, master's down

Re: critical problems in 2.3.5 prevent release

2001-06-08 Thread Stephen R Marenka
't have one at the > > moment. You should be able to run nvsetenv at VT2? (or nvsetenv boot-device). > yeah the quik stuff is pretty much going to fail unless you have a > 7200, 7300, or 7600. What else is needed? I can't fully test it, but I don't mind adding it. Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP signature

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/prototype/var/log by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-08 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/prototype/var/log who:stephen.r.marenka time: Fri Jun 8 08:14:32 PDT 2001 Log Message: Adding empty var/log/messages to rootdisk prototype Files: added: messages -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-08 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:stephen.r.marenka time: Fri Jun 8 08:15:55 PDT 2001 Log Message: Adding empty var/log/messages to rootdisk prototype Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

dpkg and DEBIAN_FRONTEND

2001-06-08 Thread Stephen R Marenka
(ala kickstart), this would be all but a requirement. Feel free to educate me. in ignorance, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP signature

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-08 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:stephen.r.marenka time: Fri Jun 8 11:28:02 PDT 2001 Log Message: Changed default ext2 formatting to use 2.2.x features, except on ARM. Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-08 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:stephen.r.marenka time: Fri Jun 8 11:28:02 PDT 2001 Log Message: Changed default ext2 formatting to use 2.2.x features, except on ARM. Files: changed:partition_config.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-08 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:stephen.r.marenka time: Fri Jun 8 11:57:15 PDT 2001 Log Message: Setup openfirmware for OldWorld PowerMacs using Quik using a shell script Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-08 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:stephen.r.marenka time: Fri Jun 8 11:57:15 PDT 2001 Log Message: Setup openfirmware for OldWorld PowerMacs using Quik using a shell script Files: changed:bootconfig.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-08 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:stephen.r.marenka time: Fri Jun 8 12:38:00 PDT 2001 Log Message: Update 2.2.x ext2 formatting to use Matt's new twobuttonbox Files: changed:partition_config.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: critical problems in 2.3.5 prevent release

2001-06-09 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 02:30:47PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:10:42AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > > > powerpc-utils wants to update a conffile. The prompt fails because stdin > > is /dev/null. You then get repeat 20 failures of dpkg beca

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-09 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:stephen.r.marenka time: Sat Jun 9 06:29:07 PDT 2001 Log Message: Added boot-command to quik boot configuration Files: changed:bootconfig.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-09 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:stephen.r.marenka time: Sat Jun 9 06:29:05 PDT 2001 Log Message: Added boot-command to quik boot configuration Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: critical problems in 2.3.5 prevent release

2001-06-09 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 05:56:08AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 08:07:43AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > > > First, I agree with you. However, my question is *what* is broken? Should > > dpkg know about DEBIAN_FRONTEND? How do conffil

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-11 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:stephen.r.marenka time: Mon Jun 11 06:21:09 PDT 2001 Log Message: Removed Configurate Base references from English documentation. Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/en by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-11 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/en who:stephen.r.marenka time: Mon Jun 11 06:21:10 PDT 2001 Log Message: Removed Configurate Base references from English documentation. Files: changed:dbootstrap.sgml tech-info.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-11 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:stephen.r.marenka time: Mon Jun 11 17:25:22 PDT 2001 Log Message: Fix the quik fixes Files: changed:bootconfig.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

debconf errors

2001-06-12 Thread Stephen R Marenka
th in bf and in base-config. Whether or not we want the slang interface, we should probably deal with the errors since they don't inspire warm fuzzies. Should we go ahead and grab libterm-stool-perl in debootstrap or is this a bug against debconf? Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka

dbootstrap_settings and proxy

2001-06-12 Thread Stephen R Marenka
Is there any reason we can't/don't save the proxy settings in dbootstrap_settings so that we can have them in base-config? It'd be handy not to have to enter the info again. Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right!

Bug#100749: cdrom entry in /etc/fstab points to non-existant /dev/cdrom

2001-06-14 Thread Stephen R Marenka
I'm not a new user and I do lots of installs. I personally would like to see a default link setup -- it's one less thing I have to do. I wouldn't mind if Matt's suggested dialog was medium in the case of multiple detected devices, but I rarely put two cd's of any k

Re: boot-floppies 2.3.5 ready for testing (i386 and powerpc so far)

2001-06-15 Thread Stephen R Marenka
e packages is failing to configure, can you look at the logs to figure out which one? Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP signature

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-15 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:stephen.r.marenka time: Fri Jun 15 07:26:08 PDT 2001 Log Message: Minor cosmetic quik cruft removal. Files: changed:bootconfig.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: boot disks 2.3.5

2001-06-15 Thread Stephen R Marenka
s one achieve this? The full-up method can be found here: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html#s-rescue-replace-kernel -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP signature

Re: boot disks 2.3.5

2001-06-15 Thread Stephen R Marenka
e, I thought that's what it was for. I believe someone is clearing up the documentation regarding that bit for woody. That's probably something I should figure out when I get some time. Happy Trails! Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP signature

Re: boot disks 2.3.5

2001-06-15 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 03:27:31PM -0700, Duane Powers wrote: > Stephen R Marenka wrote: > This applies to me precisely. Most of you probably saw my post earlier > this morning, and after beating of the stupid out of myself, > I compiled a kernel properly, and managed to get into

Re: problem with woody install (and the "fix")

2001-06-16 Thread Stephen R Marenka
first post to this list; my apologies if this is not > relevant. I'm also not subscribed to this list. This is the place and we welcome feedback. :-) Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP signature

Bug#100996: To Stephen

2001-06-17 Thread Stephen R Marenka
f of <http://debian.org>. The code is available anonymously from cvs.debian.org feel free to make patches and send them to the list. > p.s. I _love_ the two floppy net-install using compact. That's my main installation for most of my production systems (potato). Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP signature

Re: Bug#100996: To Stephen

2001-06-18 Thread Stephen R Marenka
n inode and seperate the list from the script. > Just some ideas. apt-get hasn't been installed yet, neither has much of anything else. What do you use to install apt-get and it's supporting requirements? I'm redirecting this to debian-boot where the smart people live. Stephen

Re: dbootstrap_settings and proxy

2001-06-19 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 11:56:05AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > Is there any reason we can't/don't save the proxy settings in > > dbootstrap_settings so that we can have them in base-config? > > > > It'd be handy not to have to

Re: dbootstrap_settings and proxy

2001-06-19 Thread Stephen R Marenka
I go ahead and fix that? Or perhaps, would it just be better to call write_userconfig in nf_server_select since that's where we get the proxy info anyway? Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP signature

Bug#100996: boot-floppies regress. seriously

2001-06-15 Thread Stephen R Marenka
chroot /target dselect) and see if you can figure out what broke. Then we can get it fixed. Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP signature

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-20 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:stephen.r.marenka time: Wed Jun 20 12:40:39 PDT 2001 Log Message: Moved write_userconfig code for proxy to nf_select_server so that it always gets called. Files: changed:net-fetch.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-20 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:stephen.r.marenka time: Wed Jun 20 12:40:39 PDT 2001 Log Message: Moved write_userconfig code for proxy to nf_select_server so that it always gets called. Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Bug#101642: dbootstrap_settings and proxy

2001-06-21 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:16:11PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > reassign 101642 boot-floppies > thanks > > Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > If you believe the correct thing to do is to patch dbootstrap to > > provide stable, testing, unstable to base-config, then move this bug

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-22 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap who:stephen.r.marenka time: Fri Jun 22 05:33:58 PDT 2001 Log Message: Use stable,testing,unstable to report SUITE to base-config in dbootstrap_settings closes: #101642 Files: changed:extract_base.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by stephen.r.marenka

2001-06-22 Thread stephen . r . marenka
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:stephen.r.marenka time: Fri Jun 22 05:33:58 PDT 2001 Log Message: Use stable,testing,unstable to report SUITE to base-config in dbootstrap_settings closes: #101642 Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where can i download download the debian-floppy version?

2001-06-22 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 06:36:12PM +0200, Thorsten Sp?tling wrote: > => i need a link to a site where i can download the debian-floppy > version. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/#new-inst -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[E

Bug#101916: nf_http_fetchfile error, uninstallable stable Debian 2.2.r3

2001-06-22 Thread Stephen R Marenka
use a proxy regularly. So it's a likely a matter of details. Have you tried something like the following from the VT2 command line? http_proxy=http://proxy.wherever.com:80/ wget http://www.debian.org -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP signature

Re: Boot disk doesn't recognize Compaq DL360's RAID controller

2001-06-28 Thread Stephen R Marenka
vers are built-in, so you can pretty much go right into normal operations with this kernel. However, it's not SMP, so if you have another cpu, you'll want to install another kernel after you get things online. I have 3 DL360s, all runnin' real pretty like. Good Luck! Stephen -- S

Re: Boot disk doesn't recognize Compaq DL360's RAID controller

2001-06-28 Thread Stephen R Marenka
right now my guess is that it's the compaq smart start > partition that's screwing it up so i'm gonna try and delete that, > re-configure it via the bios interface and see what happens. I toasted the DOS partition, but every time I've seen transaction block size errors, I ha

Re: Problems installing Debian Linux 2.2.17 (from kernel-image-2.2.17_2.2.17pre6-1)

2001-06-29 Thread Stephen R Marenka
ttp://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-file-descs> Good luck! Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP signature

Re: dhcp-client uselessness on powerpc

2001-07-08 Thread Stephen R Marenka
must enter testing > note bootx/bootvars should be in non-proprietary file format I've never had trouble with dhcp-client on my powerpc -- what gives? -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP signature

Re: dhcp-client uselessness on powerpc

2001-07-09 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 06:01:06PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 08:44:40PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > > > I've never had trouble with dhcp-client on my powerpc -- what gives? > > maybe its because i have a bootp server instead of a dhcp

Re: dhcp-client uselessness on powerpc

2001-07-09 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 04:24:17AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 06:55:01AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > > > Maybe that's the difference, mine's a dhcp server. I don't suppose > > you're in a position to test that? Are you

Re: Dell PowerEdge 2450 boot

2001-07-12 Thread Stephen R Marenka
FWIW, the specs for the 1550 don't look all that different from the 2450 (1U vs. 2U issues and such aside). My stock 1550 said it had a MegaRAID while it was booting. That driver is supported by the kernel. What does your scsi bios actually report? Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka

Re: Dell PowerEdge 2450 boot

2001-07-12 Thread Stephen R Marenka
Disregard the ravings of this madman. On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:17:54PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > FWIW, the specs for the 1550 don't look all that different from the > 2450 (1U vs. 2U issues and such aside). My stock 1550 said it had a > MegaRAID while it was booting.

Re: High Point 370 (Abit VP6) Support

2001-07-14 Thread Stephen R Marenka
describes how to do boot-floppies with a custom kernel. <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html#s-rescue-replace-kernel> Start with the vanilla floppies. <http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/> Best of luck.

Re: problem with dhcp-client

2001-07-15 Thread Stephen R Marenka
tween pump and dhcp-client, just change the extract files accordingly -- dbootstrap should support whichever it finds. Both of these packages seem to have annoying, long-standing bugs associated with them. Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP signature

Re: Progress with Alpha bootdisks!

2001-07-28 Thread Stephen R Marenka
"drv14chrp", "drv14prep", "drv14apus", "drv14-sun4cdm", "drv14-sun4u", "drv14-sun4dm-pci", NULL }; You probably need to add drv14generic to the above list. Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP signature

9.3 Replacing the Rescue Floppy Kernel i386

2001-08-15 Thread Stephen R Marenka
'm sure somebody can explain that better with fewer words, but I think it's better than what we have. Thoughts? Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP signature

10.3 Replacing the Rescue Floppy Kernel ppc

2001-08-15 Thread Stephen R Marenka
"Documentation not complete, text missing." Also, unless I've missed something, how does one manually modify the drivers disk? It looks like floppy-split puts on custom headers and such making it quite difficult to modify by hand. I guess this needs to be specified for i386 too

Re: does grab_paths need root?

2001-08-23 Thread Stephen R Marenka
d with $ROOTCMD and I > do not supect it will be changed just for one m68k subarch. How do I call > grab_paths as root in release.sh then? Yeah, I could just try, but I prefer > to do it right over wasting another 16h to see if it works or not. How about just adding $ROOTCMD to your pack

Re: Installing on a Compaq Proliant DL360

2001-09-14 Thread Stephen R Marenka
ases/stable/i386/install> I usually build these boxes with just the root and rescue disks and install everything else off the net. Best of luck, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP signature

Re: boot-floppies: updated i386 and powerpc versions

2001-10-26 Thread Stephen R Marenka
urday (if not before). Worked flawlessly on my Oldworld PowerMac 7600. Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP signature

[stephen@marenka.net: 9.3 Replacing the Rescue Floppy Kernel i386]

2001-12-10 Thread Stephen R Marenka
Well I wrote this about four months ago and I still haven't gotten it added to the boot-floppy docs. Would Chris or someone else with SGML experience please add it? Thanks, Stephen - Forwarded message from Stephen R Marenka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Envelope-to: marenk

[stephen@marenka.net: 10.3 Replacing the Rescue Floppy Kernel ppc]

2001-12-10 Thread Stephen R Marenka
I also wrote this about four months ago and I still haven't gotten it added to the boot-floppy docs. Would Chris or someone else with SGML experience please add it? Thanks, Stephen - Forwarded message from Stephen R Marenka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Envelope-to: marenk

Re: [stephen@marenka.net: 10.3 Replacing the Rescue Floppy Kernel ppc]

2001-12-11 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:36:48PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:47:34AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > I also wrote this about four months ago and I still haven't gotten it > > added to the boot-floppy docs. Would Chris or someone else with

Re: install disks with MegaRAID: driver not found

2001-12-20 Thread Stephen R Marenka
bly copy the module onto the bf ram disk once it's started and restart dbootstrap. Hopefully it will then find your disks. HTH, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> msg14113/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: problems making own boot-floppies for MegaRAID

2001-12-30 Thread Stephen R Marenka
;t find the promised docs. Don't bother with boot-floppies directly. Just add your custom kernel to a rescue floppy, some rough directions are at <http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/doc/ch-boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html#s-rescue-replace-kernel>. HTH, S

Bug#136818: powerpc/new-powermac] will not mount /boot partition

2002-03-04 Thread Stephen R Marenka
e a good idea not to offer a seperate /boot partition and > > to give an error that the architectures bootloader is not able > > to cope with that. > > The PowerPC boot loaders support a separate /boot partition (or > so the comments lead me to believe). If your's doesn&

Re: Uploads of daily D-I builds (was: on .ssh/authorized_keys files)

2008-05-30 Thread Stephen R Marenka
; to use only from certain hosts (using from="") and limited to > allow execution of only certain commands (using command=" Contact DSA if you have such a case. > > Your sysadmins > --- -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Uploads of daily D-I builds (was: on .ssh/authorized_keys files)

2008-06-02 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 01:12:09PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 07:35:58PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Friday 30 May 2008, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:08:02PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > > So basically th

Re: d-i floppy builds requring root

2004-10-15 Thread Stephen R Marenka
me boot floppies need root to build, so cannot be built by default > +# $(BVMEROOT) $(BVMEBOOT) $(MVME147BOOT) $(MVME147ROOT) $(MVME16XBOOT) > $(MVME16XROOT) If you want to punt vme, so be it. I'd rather see the release than have me hold it up for anything. Hopefully, we can catch it

rootskel and #269077

2004-10-06 Thread Stephen R Marenka
I've just committed a workaround for #269077 to rootskel. It only affects 2.2 kernels. It should be properly fixed, but now probably isn't the time. Would someone please upload? Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it righ

Re: adding an "outdated" warning to the installation manual for some arches

2004-10-07 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 07:43:26PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > What other architectures besides i386 and powerpc are updated well > enough to avoid such a warning? I think m68k is in pretty good shape. -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! &

Re: Final status of Debian Installer string freeze

2004-10-07 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:22:09PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > partitioner (m68k mips or s390) > (has code changes, should be tested before upload) > vmelilo-installer (m68k) done. -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: udebs that need upload (non-i386)

2004-10-21 Thread Stephen R Marenka
y gotten this one. -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#268792: Unicode (UTF-8) bug still present and failure to download libc6-udeb

2004-10-28 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:50:44AM +0200, Erik C.J. Laan wrote: > As per Joey's request I've downloaded the daily build of the debian > installer initial ramdisk image, and the kernel, and retried the > installation. Exactly which image from which day? Thanks, Stephen --

Bug#268792: Unicode (UTF-8) bug still present and failure to download libc6-udeb

2004-10-28 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:25:03PM +0200, Erik C.J. Laan wrote: > Stephen R Marenka wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:50:44AM +0200, Erik C.J. Laan wrote: > >>As per Joey's request I've downloaded the daily build of the debian > >>installer initial ramdi

Bug#268792: Unicode (UTF-8) bug still present and failure to download libc6-udeb

2004-10-28 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:27:57PM +0200, Erik C.J. Laan wrote: > Erik C.J. Laan wrote: > >Stephen R Marenka wrote: > >>On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:25:03PM +0200, Erik C.J. Laan wrote: > >>>Stephen R Marenka wrote: > >>>>On Thu, Oct 28, 2

Bug#268792: Unicode (UTF-8) bug still present and failure to download libc6-udeb

2004-10-29 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 11:31:29PM +0200, Erik C.J. Laan wrote: > Stephen R Marenka wrote: > >I've tried to document all the "magic" in > ><http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.m68k/index.html>. > But, I tried finding the string "initrd22"

Bug#281813: [m68k] [20041711] [cdrom] Failure with Debian installer on a Macintosh IIci

2004-11-18 Thread Stephen R Marenka
installer > is great! It was much harder to install MacOS on the machine than Debian > Linux afterwards. Cool! Thanks for your feedback. -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#246877: about your Debian installation report

2004-11-18 Thread Stephen R Marenka
g those too, but I haven't figured out what that's about yet. Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: announcing debian-installer release candidate 2

2004-11-23 Thread Stephen R Marenka
or come up without a network or such. -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#283680: wishlist: allow file-preseed and network-preseed on same ramdisk

2004-11-30 Thread Stephen R Marenka
e `/lib/preseed/preseed.sh', which is also in package file-preseed | (Noting disappearance of file-preseed, which has been completely replaced.) Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: release update and branching

2004-12-01 Thread Stephen R Marenka
utomatically generated file and > lost. Needs followup. Rats. (Why are automatically generated files in cvs?) Anyway, thanks to manty for fixing my fix. m68k/amiga kernels are on the daily sarge cds, so I think this is fixed. -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you&#

Re: removing 2.4 from etch/sid

2006-05-17 Thread Stephen R Marenka
cial kernels and installers around if necessary. In other words, don't worry about holding on to any kernels just for us. I hope to keep some 2.4 and 2.2 support in d-i until we get everything moved, but I'll try to keep it out of the way or in a branch. -- Stephen R. Marenka If lif

Re: A web-based frontend for the cdebconf

2006-06-12 Thread Stephen R Marenka
etty cool. m68k would certainly benefit from it, whereas I doubt we'll ever get gtk working on all m68k subarchs. -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: r38030 - trunk/installer/build/config/m68k

2006-06-13 Thread Stephen R Marenka
ve had my brain fried at the beach.) -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: arch kernel status

2006-06-13 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 05:25:29PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > m68k: update udebs from 2.6.16-1 to 2.6.16-2 already in archive (0.74) > add 2.6 kernels to CDs for appropriate subarches see attached -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! &

Re: Installing with D-I from d-ports.org

2008-09-26 Thread Stephen R Marenka
y be set in config/m68k.cfg. Sounds like a reasonable solution. Interesting that I hadn't really thought about *that* bit of the switch to debian-ports. I use approx, so I changed it once and forgot about it. Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Installing with D-I from d-ports.org

2008-09-26 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:30:31PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 26 September 2008, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 09:52:40PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > During installation you basically want to avoid displaying the mirror > > > list. But y

network console

2008-10-15 Thread Stephen R Marenka
Is there already a way to fire up just the ssh server portion of network console or something equivalent? I don't really want to run the whole installer under network-console, but I would like to be able to ssh in when the installer hangs. Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If l

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