Re: boot-floppies 2.2.9 report
On Sun 02 Apr 2000, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl> writes:
>
> > I burnt a cdrom with boot-floppies 2.2.9 yesterday, and tested it just
> > now. Results so far:
>
> Please tell us what architecture you are using. I assume i386, since
> most of the ports seemed to need 2.2.10.
Oops, yes, i386.
> > - When rebooting the first time from disk, all the pcmcia modules had
> > unresolved symbols.
>
> File a bug on the pcmcia-modules-* pkg you were using. This depends
> on which flavor you were using.
I wasn't using *any* pcmcia-modules-* pkg. This was right after the
first time reboot (i.e. after base2_2.tgz is installed and nothing
more).
> > - When asked what access method to use (cdrom / http / ftp / manual
> > edit) I chose cdrom, and was subsequently prompted for the name of the
> > cdrom. The example was something like "Debian 2.1r4 cdrom 1", which is
> > (a) a wrong example to give as most end users will copy that, and
> > (b) not what the volume label is, which is reasonably easy to find out:
> > LABEL=`dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=1 skip=32808 count=32 | tr`
> > will do nicely. I believe there's a specific tool for this
> > somewhere, but can't recall its name just now.
>
> Um. At what stage does this occur? Looks like you should file a bug
> against base-config I guess.
I'll take more notes next time I get a chance... Maybe this weekend.
> > - After the procedure scans the "index" files (I guess the Packages
> > files), it came back to the question of what access method to use
> > (cdrom / http / ftp / manual edit). By choosing "manual edit" and then
> > quitting ae it went onto the next phase.
>
> This sounds like a nasty base-config problem.
Ditto.
[...]
> File a wishlist against tasksel.
>
> Really, it's only by filing bugs (one problem per bug please) that you
> can be sure your reports will be (eventually) taken care of.
OK, done for a couple; although I wouldn't have guessed that the last
one should belong to tasksel (didn't even know there was such a package
:-)
Paul Slootman
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