RE: new installer

2003-09-27 Thread dan
rid of devfs. Simon will being making ppc debs for me and I am near finished getting the kernel to compile the way I want for x86. My intensions are to have more support for older hardware and switch to a 2.6 kernel and get better hardware support for like softraid etc. Dan Weber -Original

RE: new installer

2003-09-27 Thread dan
DI-2.6 is my project for porting debian installer to 2.6 kernels. It can be found at alioth.debian.org/projects/di-26. I have hopes of merging it into the original tree when its completed. Dan Weber -Original Message- From: Thorsten Sauter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: new installer

2003-09-27 Thread dan
start up Cdrom, or boot from floppy -> yaboot2 -> use yaboot2 to kickstart cd. Dan Weber -Original Message- From: simon raven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 7:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: new installer > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:42:

No Subject

2001-02-23 Thread Dan
operationg system with NT 4.0 on primay & debian booting from floppy. Later converting to debian entirely. Thanks Dan Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

cvs commit to boot-floppies by dan

2001-04-10 Thread dan
Repository: boot-floppies who:dan time: Tue Apr 10 21:04:12 PDT 2001 Log Message: merge ppc to 2.2.19 Files: changed:Tag: potato config -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by dan

2001-04-10 Thread dan
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:dan time: Tue Apr 10 21:04:12 PDT 2001 Log Message: merge ppc to 2.2.19 Files: changed:Tag: potato changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies by dan

2001-04-10 Thread dan
Repository: boot-floppies who:dan time: Tue Apr 10 21:27:01 PDT 2001 Log Message: Fix broken localfiles find invocation Files: changed:Tag: potato Makefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by dan

2001-04-11 Thread dan
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:dan time: Wed Apr 11 06:15:47 PDT 2001 Log Message: fix ppc specials URLs Files: changed:Tag: potato changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/powerpc-specials by dan

2001-04-11 Thread dan
Repository: boot-floppies/powerpc-specials who:dan time: Wed Apr 11 06:15:46 PDT 2001 Log Message: fix ppc specials URLs Files: changed:Tag: potato Makefile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies by dan

2001-04-11 Thread dan
Repository: boot-floppies who:dan time: Wed Apr 11 10:42:09 PDT 2001 Log Message: Turn on CONFIG_IP_PNP_ENABLE in bootprep Files: changed:Tag: potato bootprep.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by dan

2001-04-11 Thread dan
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:dan time: Wed Apr 11 10:42:09 PDT 2001 Log Message: Turn on CONFIG_IP_PNP_ENABLE in bootprep Files: changed:Tag: potato changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by dan

2001-05-27 Thread dan
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:dan time: Sun May 27 18:50:36 PDT 2001 Log Message: remove bogl Files: changed:changelog control -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/prototype/usr/lib/terminfo/b by dan

2001-05-27 Thread dan
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/prototype/usr/lib/terminfo/b who:dan time: Sun May 27 18:50:37 PDT 2001 Log Message: remove bogl Files: removed:bterm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

cvs commit to boot-floppies by dan

2001-05-27 Thread dan
Repository: boot-floppies who:dan time: Sun May 27 18:50:36 PDT 2001 Log Message: remove bogl Files: changed:rootdisk.sh todo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/bogl by dan

2001-05-27 Thread dan
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/bogl who:dan time: Sun May 27 18:50:37 PDT 2001 Log Message: remove bogl Files: changed:Makefile removed:README README.BOGL-bterm arrow.c bdftobogl.c bogl-bgf.c bogl-bgf.h bogl-cfb.c bogl-cfb.h bogl-cfb8.c bogl-cfb8.h bogl-font.c

cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk by dan

2001-05-27 Thread dan
Repository: boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk who:dan time: Sun May 27 18:50:37 PDT 2001 Log Message: remove bogl Files: changed:EXTRACT_LIST_all SMALL_BASE_LIST_all -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta3 release

2012-10-18 Thread Dan
related changes. Releases are built > against testing, dailies against sid. > > Not sure what we can do to avoid confusion. > > > Mraw, > KiBi. Hi Cyril, Would it be possible to sign the SHA256SUMS like in previous releases? I was about to install wheezy and it would be great

GRUB floppy scripts

2003-10-28 Thread Dan Weber
grub. Dan Weber grub-menu-floppy.tar.gz Description: Binary data signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: GRUB floppy scripts

2003-10-28 Thread Dan Weber
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:38:46PM -0500, Dan Weber wrote: > A few days ago I realized that you could not make a boot disk with a debian > kernel because of the large initrd. Well I have a solution to that if you use > grub. Basically it makes grub floppy with a menu that will be instal

Bug#222607: (no subject)

2003-12-03 Thread Dan Connolly
Package: installation-reports Version: daily-2003-11-19 Severity: normal INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 2003-11-19 http://www.mmweg.rwth-aachen.de/~sebastian.ley/d-i/netinst-image-i386/daily-2003-11-19/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux dirk 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 ES

2.6 DI

2003-12-12 Thread Dan Weber
s you need. Same goes for the initrd, which would be humongous. Dan Weber signature.asc Description: Digital signature

mvme 2604,2700 and 5101 bds for sale

2004-02-18 Thread dan b
any interest? [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installer fails on initrd-tools

2004-06-08 Thread Dan C
et to get some Debian action on this box, nothing more. In fact, I'd be perfectly happy with Woody and then a distupgrade to Sid or Sarge, but my HD is 180GB, and apparently the bf2.4 disks suffer from not seeing past 137GB. Knoppix 3.4 boots and works seemingly fine, though I'd prefer a s

Re: Re: Installer fails on initrd-tools

2004-06-10 Thread Dan C
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 12:52 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Dan C wrote: > > + rootpart_devfs=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1156681320 > It seems that base-installer finds the root partition by the rather > broken method of doing a "df /target". I assume that you have a l

Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

2004-06-10 Thread Dan Callahan
all manner of digits to the end of the filesystem address. My email on the issue is under the subject "Installer fails on initrd-tools" -Dan C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

2004-06-10 Thread Dan C
-it's rather slick when it works! Take care, -Dan C On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 19:11 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you were blonde, female, and weighed less than 400 lbs I'd kiss you :) > > Yes, you're 100% right... that's exactly the problem. If you're > inst

Re: Re: Installer fails on initrd-tools

2004-06-27 Thread Dan C
> * Dan C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-10 15:48]: > > That's it. I don't know why I didn't catch this myself and (properly) > > report the error, but df /target returns: > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/ide/host0/

Woody can't find an Adaptec 3200S RAID Volume

2003-06-30 Thread Dan DeVoe
OK guys, this one has me stumped pretty bad. I'm trying to boot an IBM Netfinity 4500R (type 8656 if anyone cares) with an Adaptec 3200S RAID card with a RAID volume of 42.37GB on it (6x9GB). I've tried booting woody to linux, compact, and bf24. Each boots successfully, but does not see this disk,

[REPOST?] Woody can't find an Adaptec 3200S RAID Volume (fwd)

2003-06-30 Thread Dan DeVoe
[Looking at the web archive, it doesn't look like this message made it through. If it did, my apologies, but the page claims its updated every 20 minutes...] OK guys, this one has me stumped pretty bad. I'm trying to boot an IBM Netfinity 4500R (type 8656 if anyone cares) with an Adaptec 3200S RAI

Re: Woody can't find an Adaptec 3200S RAID Volume

2003-07-01 Thread Dan DeVoe
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Dale Amon wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:27:19AM -0400, Dan DeVoe wrote: > > OK guys, this one has me stumped pretty bad. I'm trying to boot an IBM > > Netfinity 4500R (type 8656 if anyone cares) with an Adaptec 3200S RAID > > card with a RA

Re: Woody can't find an Adaptec 3200S RAID Volume

2003-07-01 Thread Dan DeVoe
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Dale Amon wrote: > > If I need to load a custom driver from adaptec, how on earth do I even go > > about doing this? It looks like they supply a kernel patch and module, and > > I'm unsure about how to go about getting those to work with a debian > > install CD. > > Doesn't it

Spam issues on mailing list

2003-09-22 Thread Dan Weber
What is with all the spam Im receiving from the mailing list? My SA blocked some mail and I thought something was wrong but it did truly find spam. What are plans of action to remove this issue? Dan Weber signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: new installer

2003-09-27 Thread Dan Weber
ll not be sufficient. If its not sufficient, what are any other benefits for reasons why we should replace the current version of yaboot with it. Thanks Dan Weber signature.asc Description: Digital signature

RE: new installer

2003-09-27 Thread Dan Weber
on a 1.44 mb floppy which would cause issues. However if we get it to fit on cd, this plan will work great. Dan Weber -Original Message- From: simon raven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 8:13 PM To: dan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: new installer Le Sat

RE: new installer

2003-09-27 Thread Dan Weber
otloader doesn't need to know how to deal with cds. The kernel should have iso9660 support in it so that should be the solution. Dan Weber -Original Message- From: simon raven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 9:05 PM To: Dan Weber Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sub

Re: new installer

2003-09-28 Thread Dan Weber
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 21:18, simon raven wrote: > Le Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 21:12:48 -0400, Dan Weber a écrit: > > Well my intentions were to tell the bootloader to wait until it has all of > > it into memory. However this may cause a requirement of 8mb < > > i see. s

Re: new installer

2003-09-29 Thread Dan Weber
time to contribute significantly to the debian-installer > development yourself. The only way to change this is to change your > behaviour so you make a good impression, and continue to do until I > believe it. Happy hacking I agree with you on this. I think that was like a de

Re: new installer

2003-09-29 Thread Dan Weber
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:26, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:06:03PM -0400, Dan Weber wrote: > > I have begun to work on getting oldworld to boot. Basically the idea is > > to take two floppies, one with the kernel and the other with the initrd > > if we can fi

Re: new installer

2003-09-29 Thread Dan Weber
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:36, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:28:47PM -0400, Dan Weber wrote: > > I am still maintainer of d-i 2.6 and I must do a duplicate of his > > design. I wonder what size he got his initrds down to any how. > > It's the bootfloppy

Re: new installer

2003-09-29 Thread Dan Weber
I think this is the longest thread that debian-boot has ever had. On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:57, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:52:57PM -0400, Dan Weber wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:36, Matt Kraai wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:28:47PM -040

Re: new installer

2003-09-29 Thread Dan Weber
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:57, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:52:57PM -0400, Dan Weber wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:36, Matt Kraai wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:28:47PM -0400, Dan Weber wrote: > > > > I am still maintainer of d-i 2.6 an

Re: new installer

2003-09-29 Thread Dan Weber
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 20:17, simon raven wrote: > Le Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 16:26:50 -0700, Matt Kraai a écrit: > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:06:03PM -0400, Dan Weber wrote: > > > I have begun to work on getting oldworld to boot. Basically the idea is > > > to take two fl

Re: new installer

2003-10-02 Thread Dan Weber
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:25:12AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 07:45:37PM -0400, dan wrote: > > Ok I think I see the overall picture now. Basically 2.2 and the old bf24 are > > the only kernels small enough to fit on a floppy. Booting from cds is not > &

Re: new installer

2003-10-02 Thread Dan Weber
To: Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: new installer X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux 2.6.0-test5-bktree-2 X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.2 X-MailServer: Exim 4.22 On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:43:00PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Dan Weber] > > I

Re: Bug#212072: RAV AntiVirus scan results

2003-10-02 Thread Dan Weber
-days evaluation version of RAV AntiVirus v8 > (yet fully functional) please visit: > >http://www.ravantivirus.com -- Dan Weber D-I 2.6 Project http://alioth.debian.org/projects/di-26 GPG FingerPrint 2434 0F75 63ED E169 4F6A 168D 2C01 DAB6 5388 3EAD PublicKey http://mirrorlynx.com/people/dan/publickey.txt signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

2.6 Development Step 1

2004-03-16 Thread Dan Weber
need some feedback from Waldi on this one. -- Dan Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: 2.6 Development Step 1

2004-03-16 Thread Dan Weber
BTW, Start responding with some features you would like within reasonable range with 2.6. I'll start the list here. Features Requested: lvm2 reiser4 On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:36:31PM -0500, Dan Weber wrote: > The installer and all the toolsets the installer depends o

Re: 2.6 Development Step 1

2004-03-18 Thread Dan Weber
iases \ extra/modprobe.d/crypto etc/modprobe.d sh -x extra/installarchconf \ debian/module-init-tools-udeb/etc/modprobe.d/arch/ On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 10:03:53AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:36:31PM -0500, Dan Web

Re: [IMPORTANT] Moving to Subversion

2004-03-20 Thread Dan Weber
Get it over with now. Switch tomorrow! -- Dan Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:38:29PM -0800, Joshua Kwan wrote: > Hi all, > > Joey and I are interested in converting our CVS repository for > debian-installer to a Subversion repository, for more robust wo

why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-04 Thread Dan Jacobson
or him, (naturally before researching the issue further :-)) Hi Dan, I don't know have you heard about the Debian-installer use China replace Taiwan for the menu of language chooser, I felt it's such a Discrimination Against us. Here I want to speak up on the Debian list, before I speak

Re: Changing the wording of countrychooser main question

2004-04-05 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "Choose a country, territory or area:" How about just one of "Choose a territory:" or "Choose an area:" or "Choose a region:"? One size fits all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#242776: [Successful Install] Dell Latitude CPx (650Mhz/PIII + 256MB Ram)

2004-04-08 Thread Dan Weber
wever it maybe possible to add a syslinux option to flag that there is no floppy or something of that sort. Thanks for the note. -- Dan Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Patches against busybox for 2.6

2004-04-13 Thread Dan Weber
Here is that config.in patch you asked for. -- Dan On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 06:49:55PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 11:32:25PM -0400, Dan Weber wrote: > > I merged some patches from busybox cvs for insmod and rmmod to work > > simontaneously with 2.4 and

Bug#764505: kFreeBSD-amd64: Beta installer 2 seems to work

2014-10-08 Thread Dan Greene
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: Jessie beta 2 netinstall Date: Wed Oct 8 11:43:13 CDT 2014 Machine: KVM virtual machine, 1G ram, 8G disk Partitions: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted o

Bug#771040: installation-reports: Messes up Mac OS 9 driver partitions

2014-11-26 Thread Dan DeVoto
partitions, but obviously this shouldn't happen in the first place. Regards, Dan -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: Jessie Installer Beta 2 Date: Machine: G3 iBook 14 inch (model ID Powerbook4,3) Partitions: Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] =

Bug#931304: [PATCH] hid2hci: Fix udev rules for linux-4.14+

2019-09-10 Thread Dan Streetman
From: Ville Syrjälä Since commit 1455cf8dbfd0 ("driver core: emit uevents when device is bound to a driver") the kernel started emitting "bind" and "unbind" uevents which confuse the hid2hci udev rules. The symptoms on an affected machine (Dell E5400 in my case) include bluetooth devices not app

Bug#903481: debootstrap: Save apt compatible lists

2018-07-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
ou're required to run apt update after debootstrap finishes since apt will ignore the downloaded lists. -- Dan Nicholson | +1.206.437.0833 | Endless From ef2c7d1d7810b50f58554da0351e6daf572be11d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Nicholson Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 06:05:42 -0500 Subject: [PA

Bug#1071652: As a matter of fact

2024-05-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
As a matter of fact, the solution I posted doesn't work either. Therefore, be sure on the man page, to mention the true sequence needed: # debootstrap (missing step goes here) # debootstrap --second-stage

Bug#728936: Fwd: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

2013-12-08 Thread Dan DeVoto
I can confirm this bug. The keyboard is functional on the first boot screen, but when it gets to the "Choose a language" screen, the keyboard no longer works. I tested this on a Powerbook5,6 (with its built-in keyboard) and a PowerMac3,1 (with an external Macally keyboard). Interestingly, the

Re: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

2013-12-08 Thread Dan DeVoto
Confirmed on my Powerbook5,6 and PowerMac3,1. The Dec. 8th nightly still has this bug. Though the keyboard on my G3 iBook (Powerbook4,3) works fine, so Team G3! On Sat, 12/7/13, Rick Thomas wrote: Subject: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in ins

Bug#773399: installation-reports: Jessie on early Eee PC

2014-12-17 Thread Dan Greene
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Just decided to install Jessie on an early netbook; it still installs (aside from a minor issue booting the installer). -- Package-specific info: Boot method: USB Image version: Jessie beta2 i386 netinst iso Date: Machine: Asus E

Bug#774331: debootstrap: fakechroot variant fails with fakechroot not found

2014-12-31 Thread Dan Greene
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.66 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, As a normal user, trying to run debootstrap --variant=chroot (after starting fakeroot and fakechroot) yields the following: [output omitted] I: Installing core packages... W: Failure trying to run: chroot /home/user/debootstra

Bug#774332: debootstrap: fakechroot variant fails installing systemd

2014-12-31 Thread Dan Greene
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.66 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, (Everything is done as a normal user.) After running fakeroot and fakechroot and setting PATH apropriately, debootstrap --variant=fakechroot fails to bootstrap jessie. The attempt ends with the following output: I: Configuring

Bug#774331: [dan-gre...@wi.rr.com: Re: Bug#774331: debootstrap: fakechroot variant fails with fakechroot not found]

2014-12-31 Thread dan-greene
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 04:48:42PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2014-12-31, Dan Greene wrote: > > As a normal user, trying to run debootstrap --variant=chroot > > (after starting fakeroot and fakechroot) > > Do you mean --variant=fakechroot ? Yes. > > I can&#x

new debian ships with non-new emacs

2002-05-28 Thread Dan Jacobson
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gnu.emacs.bug as well. I got debian woody and emacs is 20.7. I thought debian was supposed to real advanced or something, but why old emacs? -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

"for installation instructions see www.debian.org"

2002-06-01 Thread Dan Jacobson
During woody installation I remember it says "for installation instructions see www.debian.org". You could also in addition say "or see /some/directory/html/ right on this installation CD!", as 1. we might not want to make a phone call to check instructions. 2. we might not even have a modem, no

Re: "for installation instructions see www.debian.org"

2002-06-02 Thread Dan Jacobson
27;s themselves for installation instructions is important. Dan> During woody installation I remember it says "for installation Dan> instructions see www.debian.org". Dan> You could also in addition say "or see /some/directory/html/ right on Dan> this installation CD!

woody installation script first impressions

2002-06-03 Thread Dan Jacobson
Dan Jacobson reflects on his brush with the 8 debian woody CDs: When one installs from the CD's one is directed to www.debian.org for instructions from one of those installation screens... one might not notice that the instructions are right on disk... so the installation screen should me

Re: "for installation instructions see www.debian.org"

2002-06-05 Thread Dan Jacobson
Ch> Having said that, the instructions are in the install directory on Ch> the CD, which is where you'd have to look for the installer Ch> program anyway. And the README.txt in the root directory includes Ch> the location of the instructions. I guess you could blindly boot Ch> with the CD in the

during boot, penguin's colors go wacko

2002-06-07 Thread Dan Jacobson
Booting woody, after the computer boots a bitmapped penguin appears above the "dmesg" messages. But halfway through those messages the penguin's colors "go wacko". Maybe this is on purpose, an art effect. Do others see this? -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: during boot, penguin's colors go wacko

2002-06-08 Thread Dan Jacobson
Well, if it's a known issue, fix it fast because "customers" are getting the "I knew it, Linux is broken" message within 30 seconds of encountering linux. And of course "the geeks don't see the problem" with it nor their geeky pencil protectors, etc. OK, geeky compromise: replace it with the ANSI

Installing woody on SparcServer20 over serial terminal

2002-08-17 Thread Dan Walrond
n't make a difference. The serial terminal is a Wyse WY-60. Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing woody on SparcServer20 over serial terminal

2002-08-18 Thread Dan Walrond
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 11:05:42 -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: >On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 06:22:12PM +0100, Dan Walrond wrote: > > I'm having problems installing woody onto a Sparc Server 20 using a > > serial terminal. I can get the cdrom to boot fine, along with the > > kerne

Bug#721578: debian-installer: LVM + ZFS fails to work

2013-09-01 Thread Dan Greene
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, I decided to try out the testing installer, and managed to break it by doing the following: Created a 32 bit virtuial machine (kvm) with an 8G virtual disk, and used the testing netinst iso image from today. In the installer:

Bug#872577: debootstrap: Handle existing /dev

2017-08-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
efore using debootstrap to install packages needed for building debian packages. The attached patch fixes this by using tar to emulate the old behavior. It would be really helpful if this could be applied. Thanks! -- Dan Nicholson | +1.206.437.0833 | Endless

Bug#872577: debootstrap: Handle existing /dev

2017-08-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 18 Aug 2017, Dan Nicholson wrote: >> When devices.tar.gz was being used, the devices would be written into >> place with tar. This has the effect that the devices would be merged >> into an existi

Bug#872577: debootstrap: Handle existing /dev

2017-08-22 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Philip Hands wrote: > Ben Hildred <426...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 3:25 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> >>> Dan Nicholson writes: >>> > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Henrique de Moraes Hols

Bug#872577: debootstrap: Handle existing /dev

2017-08-25 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > That certainly helps, but it doesn't cover everything since the > mkdir's and ln's could fail. Those are easier to handle by adding -p > and -f, respectively, but that's a subtle change in behavior for l

Bug#872577: debootstrap: Handle existing /dev

2017-11-22 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Dan Nicholson > wrote: > > > > That certainly helps, but it doesn't cover everything since the > > mkdir's and ln's could fail. Those are easier to handle by adding

Bug#872577: debootstrap: Handle existing /dev

2018-02-22 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 05:08:47 -0600 Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Dan Nicholson > wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Dan Nicholson > > wrote: > > > > > > That certainly helps, but it doesn't cover everything

Boot Order

2018-02-23 Thread Dan Norton
.16 03/23/2012 Please tell me the justification for putting "debian" in the menu and having it boot first, ahead of CD/DVD/USB. Thanks. - Dan

Re: Boot Order

2018-02-24 Thread Dan Norton
On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:37:02 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 22:18 -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > > Installing either stretch or buster via netinst results in changes > > to the bios menu. Under "UEFI Boot Sources" the term "Hard Drive" is > &

Re: Boot Order

2018-02-24 Thread Dan Norton
On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 14:18:13 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/24/2018 01:59 PM, Dan Norton wrote: > > [snip] > > > > In my case, there are multiple debian installations and the > > installer positions the last installation at the top of the *grub* > > m

Re: Boot Order

2018-02-25 Thread Dan Norton
On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 14:59:44 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: > On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:37:02 +0100 > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 22:18 -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > > > Installing either stretch or buster via netinst results in changes > > > t

Re: Boot Order

2018-02-26 Thread Dan Norton
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:54:22 + Steve McIntyre wrote: > It seems Dan Norton has decided to selfishly make *his* spam problem > into everybody else's spam problem, and I've just had a bounce message > in response to my mail below, saying I have to ask to be added to hi

Re: Boot Order

2018-02-26 Thread Dan Norton
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:40:20 -0500 lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:18:00PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > > Installing either stretch or buster via netinst results in changes > > to the bios menu. Under "UEFI Boot Sources"

Re: Boot Order

2018-02-27 Thread Dan Norton
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:40:20 -0500 lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:18:00PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > > Installing either stretch or buster via netinst results in changes > > to the bios menu. Under "UEFI Boot Sources"

Re: Boot Order

2018-02-28 Thread Dan Norton
On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:41:30 -0500 lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 09:01:18PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > > Why insert itself anywhere in the first place? The machine booted > > before the installation. To start installing, t

Impressions on using the debian potato installation Cds

2001-03-10 Thread Dan Jacobson
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' ... - Impressions on using the debian potato installation Cds --- [just me talking to me, but may be us

Re: Impressions on using the debian potato installation Cds

2001-03-12 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "J" == John H Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I use chrony on my other linux distribution. please ask the user if >> he agrees to writing the software clock to the hardware clock before >> doing this in the rc. scripts! the first time we notice it it is too >> late. J> during

debian wwwoffle purge

2001-03-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "Andrew" == Andrew M Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> i noticed that a default debian instalation will purge one's cache >> right away... somethng to warn about say if one were to boot debian >> one day with a shared chache on one's main disk Andrew> You need to tell the Debian packa

Re: debian wwwoffle purge

2001-03-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew M Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> i noticed that a de

Bug#96906: Debian installer 96906 is a real bug after all

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Shearer
. Using 2.2.19pre17 rescue floppy from 'testing': dan$ md5sum testing-rescue.144.bin 3745f3d17b0f9ad30a2859661224d815 testing-rescue.bin with the companion root floppy: dan$ md5sum testing-root.144.bin b0713b08ae5f772ef926dea0a7121d41 testing-root.bin (sorry, they're my file na

Re: [debian-installer] Full CDROM install

2001-07-28 Thread Dan Helfman
he debian-installer is interested in: ethernet cards. > > Is it really not usable to detect CDROM and SCSI cards ? Would it > > take much to change that ? > > [ ccing Dan Helfman about this ] > > I helped with the patch for libdetect0-udeb and it would be very easy to > a

libdetect, library reduction

2001-07-29 Thread Dan Helfman
the release version that's in Debian. It'd be nice to have a more up-to-date version available for the Woody release, so that all the latest hardware can be supported. > -David -- Dan Helfman Hover Carnage: http://hover.sf.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libdetect, library reduction

2001-07-29 Thread Dan Helfman
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 02:01:33PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 01:12:09AM -0700, Dan Helfman ?crivait: > > And as yet another approach to this, I just found out that the libdetect > > people have a program in CVS called ldetect that is supposed a &quo

bootdisk 3.0.14 i386 scrambled screen

2001-09-25 Thread Dan Shearer
b " continuing for a couple of paragraphs. -- Dan Shearer Open Source Manager Mob: +61 411 49 1800 Tel: +61 8 8130 3104 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bootdisk 3.0.14 i386 scrambled screen

2001-09-26 Thread Dan Shearer
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Dan Shearer wrote on Wed Sep 26, 2001 um 01:48:51PM: > > On a fresh install (i386 notebook, PCMCIA works - yay) comes up with > > warning message "Creating empty exim.conf so exim installs okay". This is &g

Re: bootdisk 3.0.14 i386 scrambled screen

2001-09-26 Thread Dan Shearer
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Dan Shearer wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Please forward your mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Bug is known, > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=110258&repeatmerged=yes > > Please tell me how you found this. I did

Bug#84363: PCMCIA and Xircom adapter

2001-09-26 Thread Dan Shearer
I had a similar problem to the original reporter with a PCMCIA Xircom. This was fixed as of boot-floppies 3.0.14. However now I find an "ifconfig eth0 down" will freeze the system, even though it had been working perfectly. However all-in-all, 3.0.14 works much better with PCMCI

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