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- Subject: package selection problems
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- Date: Mon Feb 28 01:46:21 2000
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Re: package selection problems (Re: boot floppies 2.2.7 available for testing)
Re: package selection problems (Re: boot floppies 2.2.7 available for testing)
package selection problems (Re: boot floppies 2.2.7 available for testing)
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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 00:10:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Brandon Mitchell <bmitch@surfree.com>
To: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: package selection problems (Re: boot floppies 2.2.7 available for testing)
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[ i'm not on deb-boot, so cc me with replies ]
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> > Because I have no cd, wasn't currently dialed in, and don't have a local
> > mirror :-) I put the settings that would work when I do dialin. (The
> > phone is currently tied up with this, and it didn't even offer to setup
> > ppp when I configured the network card.)
>
> I see. dbootstrap is supposed to set a variable if you tell it to use PPP,
> and then base-config will prompt you if you want to dial up before that
> configuration happens. It sounds like dbootstrap never gave you a chance to
> set up ppp during the initial install. If that's so, it sounds like you may
> have hit a bug in the boot floppies. I don't know when/where they prompt
> about setting up ppp, though..
It's not a big deal to me, I know to run pppconfig. I assume it's because
I configured an ethernet card that it skipped ppp. With more people using
cheap network card/hub setups at home, we may want to prompt for this
anyway. I didn't check to see if it was a menu option, and I wasn't using
verbose, so maybe it's already taken care of. My point was that you must
cancel a valid apt config if the mirror isn't currently available. A
minor nuisance at most.
> > > > I had to cancel the apt config to pass to the next part.
> > > > Canceling the simple/advanced package selection returned me to the same
> > > > (or maybe the apt) dialog. I knew simple would have problems since I
> > > > didn't have a network connection. Trying advanced caused a reboot.
> > >
> > > That's quite odd since it just runs dselect.
> >
> > Very odd. It will also take a while to replicate (spending 10 minutes
> > feeding floppies, another 10 answering questions, and watching it think or
> > reboot for another 10, for a "switching to runlevel 6" message that lasts
> > a few seconds).
>
> When it boots up and starts asking for the root password, flip over to vc 2,
> long in as root (no password), and run
> "DEBCONF_DEBUG=1 dpkg-reconfigure base-config". This may provide some useful
> information.
I'll try that next time.
Brandon
Brandon Mitchell * http://public.surfree.com/bmitch
bmitch@surfree.com * ICQ: 30631197
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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 21:00:33 -0800
From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
To: Brandon Mitchell <bmitch@surfree.com>
Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: package selection problems (Re: boot floppies 2.2.7 available for testing)
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Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> Because I have no cd, wasn't currently dialed in, and don't have a local
> mirror :-) I put the settings that would work when I do dialin. (The
> phone is currently tied up with this, and it didn't even offer to setup
> ppp when I configured the network card.)
I see. dbootstrap is supposed to set a variable if you tell it to use PPP,
and then base-config will prompt you if you want to dial up before that
configuration happens. It sounds like dbootstrap never gave you a chance to
set up ppp during the initial install. If that's so, it sounds like you may
have hit a bug in the boot floppies. I don't know when/where they prompt
about setting up ppp, though..
> > > I had to cancel the apt config to pass to the next part.
> > > Canceling the simple/advanced package selection returned me to the same
> > > (or maybe the apt) dialog. I knew simple would have problems since I
> > > didn't have a network connection. Trying advanced caused a reboot.
> >
> > That's quite odd since it just runs dselect.
>
> Very odd. It will also take a while to replicate (spending 10 minutes
> feeding floppies, another 10 answering questions, and watching it think or
> reboot for another 10, for a "switching to runlevel 6" message that lasts
> a few seconds).
When it boots up and starts asking for the root password, flip over to vc 2,
long in as root (no password), and run
"DEBCONF_DEBUG=1 dpkg-reconfigure base-config". This may provide some useful
information.
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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 23:37:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Brandon Mitchell <bmitch@surfree.com>
To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
cc: debian-testing@lists.debian.org
Subject: package selection problems (Re: boot floppies 2.2.7 available for testing)
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Ok, this time it's an old system that I have sitting in the corner.
After reboot, it asks to configure apt. Now, I have no cd, not currently
dialed in, and no local mirror. Manually configuring the sources.list
works easy enough, complains about not being able to verify things
(expected). I had to cancel the apt config to pass to the next part.
Canceling the simple/advanced package selection returned me to the same
(or maybe the apt) dialog. I knew simple would have problems since I
didn't have a network connection. Trying advanced caused a reboot.
Definately not a good result. On the plus side, following a reboot, the
awery keyboard problem is gone.
Brandon
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> Boot-floppies 2.2.7 have been released, and need some testing. 2.2.7 is
> mostly bugfixes, plus more changes to lbr/lilo prompting. Several of the
> previous problems, like networking and DHCP, seem to have been fixed;
> others, like PCMCIA, may still be a problem. We need some more problem &
> success reports to figure out where to go and what to do from here. Much of
> what Adam posted about the last release is still quite relevant:
>
> > Debuggers should be using the 'debug' bootarg when booting. Other
> > interesting bootargs are 'verbose' (for instance, if you don't want to
> > retain 2.0 compat in your e2fs filesystems) and 'quiet' (tries to
> > inhibit prompts whenever possible).
Brandon
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