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Re: Testing CVS version of boot-floppies



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Luc Stepniewski <lstep@free.fr> writes:
> While installing the CVS version of boot-floppies (from 23 December), I
> noticed some problems:
> 
> 1) The new code to detect the CD drives works well, but: I have an
> IDE drive (/dev/hdd), and a SCSI drive (CD writer on /dev/sda).
> With the new code it detects well both drives, but selecting any of
> these (even the 'no drive correspond to my settings') returns to the
> beginning of the installation (welcome screen) ?!  If I make the
> installation (without turning on the SCSI drive), it works
> perfectly.

Chris, has this already been fixed?

> 2) The compilation fails if I set the LINGUA variable to 'fr'
> instead of 'C' in the config file. It seems some translations are
> missing.

They'll catch up...

> 3) In case of failure while compiling boot-floppies, you should
> implement an automatic 'losetup -d /dev/loop3' (or put it in make
> clean), it was a real pain to find out why I couldn't compile again,
> after a silly error stopping the execution of make.

Um, hmm... I'l look into that.

> 4) I don't know if you remember the mail I sent you about the
> inclusion of suppport for IBM serveRAID cards. You told me to wait
> for the 2.2.13 kernel, as it is included into it (but not activated
> in the debian config).  I filed a normal bug report to Herbert Xu
> (#52597), 12 days ago, but you, as maintainer, do you use the
> current kernel-image-*.deb when compiling boot-floppies, or do you
> make your own ?

We use the stock version.  We build with whatever is the newest
upstream kernel.

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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