Re: Status of Slink
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> > 1) There is a missing dependency on dosfstools. The build failed when it
> > didn't find mkdosfs.
>
> As that is arch-dependent, and boot-floppies is a binary-all package,
> there's not much I can do about it. Also, it's sort of a "source
> dependency". Our pkg system is not good enough for this "source packages".
That's a fair enough explanantion. Source dependencies would be very nice
for Debian.
> > 2) The install from "hard disk" option doesn't work. The installation
> > program loops back to the opening "mono" screen everytime. I was able to
> > work around problem by opening another console and manually mounting the
> > dos partition then selecting the "already mounted" option.
>
> Weird. I've tested the "hard disk" option myself, and it worked
> flawlessly...
OK, I'll try this on some other systems and see what happens. Could be due
to my "non-standard" setup.
> > 3) You haven't created enough /dev/hd?? devices!! The base system contains
> > only /dev/hda1 -> dev/hda8 and /dev/hdb1 -> /dev/hdb8. My system has lots
> > of partitions (up to /dev/hdb16!!). The hamm disks go up to /dev/hda20.
>
> That's a makedev*.deb bug:
>
> /dev/MAKEDEV
>
> hd[a-b])
> major=`Major ide0` || major=`Major hd 3` || continue
> unit=`suffix $arg hd`
> base=`index ab $unit`
> base=`math $base \* 64`
> makedev hd$unit b $major $base $disk
> for part in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 # 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
> See this one? ..............................^
> do
> makedev hd$unit$part b $major `math $base + $part` $disk
> done
>
> May you report it to the BTS, please?
Consider it done!
> > Furthermore, there is no /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd at all.
>
> Another one for makedev*.deb
>
> /dev/MAKEDEV
>
> generic-i386)
> $0 $opts std
> $0 $opts fd
> $0 $opts fd0 fd1
> $0 $opts hda hdb
> $0 $opts xda xdb
> $0 $opts sda sdb
> $0 $opts pty
> $0 $opts console
> $0 $opts ttyS0 ttyS1 ttyS2 ttyS3
> $0 $opts busmice
> $0 $opts lp
> $0 $opts par
> ;;
>
> No hdc or hdd.
And consider this done as well.
Greg
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