Re: today's boot-floppies slop build and bugs preventing 2.2.5

2000-01-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
>You don't have permission to access > /~aph/bf-2.2.5-pre-19990125/disks-1.44/compact/rescue.bin > on this server. Fixed -- sorry. .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: Debian Potato testing

2000-01-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
>Saying the boot floppies are good enough to burn a set of beta cd's for >testers. If there are known major problems with the boot floppies, then >we probably shouldn't send out a set of cd's and ask testers to try out >the install process. When 2.2.5 uploads, that is your sign its ready for gen

Re: today's boot-floppies slop build and bugs preventing 2.2.5

2000-01-26 Thread Erik Andersen
On Wed Jan 26, 2000 at 10:16:24AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > BTW, note I have fixed umount in busybox to free the loop devices when > unmounting them. So this part is atleast resolved. Thanks Ben. I was just testing your changes, and I still see busybox umount leaking one loop device per moun

Re: today's boot-floppies slop build and bugs preventing 2.2.5

2000-01-26 Thread Erik Andersen
On Wed Jan 26, 2000 at 02:24:22AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > RC bugs needing to be fixed: > > * install from hard disk is broke on i386 (busybox loop issue, see > other msgs, Erik is working this out) > I've now been able to reproduce this, and I know what is going on. I'll have a fix i

Re: today's boot-floppies slop build and bugs preventing 2.2.5

2000-01-26 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 08:27:04AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 02:24:22AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > RC bugs needing to be fixed: > > > > * install from hard disk is broke on i386 (busybox loop issue, see > > other msgs, Erik is working this out) > > What's the stat

Re: today's boot-floppies slop build and bugs preventing 2.2.5

2000-01-26 Thread Matt Porter
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 02:24:22AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > RC bugs needing to be fixed: > > * install from hard disk is broke on i386 (busybox loop issue, see > other msgs, Erik is working this out) What's the status on this? It affects more than the harddisk install... nfs, netfetch. A

Potato CD Install Report

2000-01-26 Thread James Rodgers
Received installation CD's last Friday. System configuration: Hardware: Gateway 2000 P-133 Ram: 64mb Disks: 1.0gb IDE, 1.6gb IDE, 1.6gb SCSI - Target disk 1.5gb SCSI SCSI adapter: AHA1542 CD: IDE BIOS: AMIBIOS 1.00.03.CN0T BIOS does not recognize CD. Booted from rescue.bin & root.bin. Mounted ro

Re: Debian Potato testing

2000-01-26 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On 26 Jan 2000, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hmm, that was badly worded. I'm sure the images are bootable, but that > > would be the kind of error we would want to fix before sending out more > > cd's, despite the fact that potato is frozen. I'd at

potato upgrade

2000-01-26 Thread Marco Giardini
while upgrading to potato from slink (apt-get dist-upgrade) i get several error on MD5Sum mismatch like for package cpio, urlview and some other. I have done the update on ftp.debian.org and ftp.it.debian.org with the same result. please note that i'm not subscribed to this mailing lists, so please

Re: today's boot-floppies slop build and bugs preventing 2.2.5

2000-01-26 Thread Karl B. Hammar
I get the message: You don't have permission to access /~aph/bf-2.2.5-pre-19990125/disks-1.44/compact/rescue.bin on this server. Should I ignore disks-1.44/compact? Regards, /Karl --- Karl HammarAspö Data

pre-selections replaced by tasksel and task-* -- does it work?

2000-01-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
As you may know, in potato, the pre-selections mechanism has been replaced with the tasksel pkg and the metapackages, 'task-*'. But does that system really work as well as preselections? How could it be improved? I hope some of you who are interested take the time to look at it in detail, and f

Re: Debian Potato testing

2000-01-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm, that was badly worded. I'm sure the images are bootable, but that > would be the kind of error we would want to fix before sending out more > cd's, despite the fact that potato is frozen. I'd at least like to see > 2.2.5 boot-floppies make i

Re: DHCP on potato boot floppies status?

2000-01-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's the status of DHCP support on the potato boot floppies? It's > growing increasingly important on university/business campuses and for > cable modems. It's there. > If the support isn't there, I hereby offer to do whatever it takes > to get our

Re: Potato install report

2000-01-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would it be possible to have the latest tulip.c (or at least version > 0.90) with the driver disks? I would say it is really essential, > there are no new cards with 21140s around. Kernel 2.2.14 is OK as > they've updated the driver. Since the next u

today's boot-floppies slop build and bugs preventing 2.2.5

2000-01-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Today's i386 slop build is at http://lully.debian.org/~aph/bf-2.2.5-pre-19990125/> This time its the untarred stuff rather than the huge tarballs so it should be easier for you guys. Features the new modconf from Incoming -- I haven't tested that yet but it should fix many things. RC bugs needi