Bug#51543: marked as done (install gotcha (nameserver))
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From: Lars Hallberg <lah@micropp.se>
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Subject: install gotcha (nameserver)
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Package: boot-floppies
Version: ?
I don't know if this have *any* relevans for the new boot-flopies with
all the changes but I just as well tell it.
When installing slink, when configuring base, You are asked if You want
to run Your own nameserver, if You say yes and leter try to install from
ftp/http You can't find the name server (obviusly).
It might be silly for an experienst user to expect bind to be in base
and it is defenitly easy for an experinsed user to fix it. But for a
newbe it is a real showstoper!
It's not easy to fix but just informing the user that if they intend to
instal ower network they have to provide a extern nameserver during
install might do.
Or even better, ask for one when it is needed.
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Subject: bugs fixed in boot-floppies 2.2.4
From: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 14:52:09 -0500
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Thank you for your bug report. The bug should have been closed by
boot-floppies version 2.2.4, now in unstable (for i386, others
following shortly). Let us know if you have any more problems.
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
Changes: boot-floppies (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
.
* fdisk: using the 2.2 features of the /proc file-system, we should be
able to detect any and all kernel-supported r/w random-access devices
* dbootstrap: installation via HTTP method (net-fetch) added; messages
not yet tuned, this method should work fine but might not look pretty
yet
* dbootstrap: look for files and stuff in
dists/potato/main/disks-%s/current where %s is the architecture name
* busybox: more updates, fixing some critical problems in tar (setuid
not respected, files with symlinks to them (i.e. libc) set to 777),
cp, and mv didn't work for directories; fix problem where symlink
targets were made world-writable (!)
* dbootstrap: when writing /etc/fstab, use tabs (closes: Bug#11926,
Bug#36657)
* dbootstrap: add commented out /dev/pts example to /etc/fstab
(closes: Bug#33950)
* dbootstrap: don't ask about GMT or not on m68k; when we *do* ask about
it, do it in one dialog box, not two; look for UTC not GMT in
/etc/default/rcS (closes: Bug#48866)
* base: remove setserial from sparc platform
* base: add xviddetect, and pciutils -- these are not yet integrated,
however; debconf-tiny integration put off due to critical
perl-5.005-base bugs
* rescue: rdev.sh handles an alternate kernel location as an optional
argument (closes: Bug#27650)
* dbootstrap: ask when mke2fs'ing whether to use 2.2 specific features
(closes: Bug#47490)
* dbootstrap: change the wording of the name server selection
(closes: Bug#23337); many other wording changes
* dbootstrap: don't put `vga=normal' in the default lilo.conf since it
apparently breaks MDA graphics cards (closes: Bug#35873)
* top-level Makefile: check for dependancies by examining
/var/lib/dpkg/status instead of running `dpkg --get-selections' since
the latter only shows whether a package is *selected* for installation
(closes: Bug#52596)
* scripts/basedisks/new_root_home/.bash_profile: trap `:' instead of `""'
so that children don't ignore the signals (closes: Bug#21867)
* dbootstrap: be more specific when prompting for floppies
(closes: Bug#48779)
* debian/rules: scrub /usr/src/boot-floppies.tar.gz more, removing wierd
ownership and permissions
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