Re: boot-floppies 2.2.9 report
On Tue 04 Apr 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > > - 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.
>
> Apt, actually. That's apt-cdrom doing that prompting. And it should only
> prompt for rather damanged or badly-made cd images's, if I recall correctly.
What are the specs for cd images then? I gave it a volume label
"Debian_2.2_beta_20000330". Or does it expect a file in the hierarchy
itself that contains the label? (sounds a bit silly to me, given the
iso9660 spec has a perfectly good place for the label)
However, apart from how the image may or may not be defective in this
respect: the suggested example is very out of date, and should be
changed regardless.
> > > - 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.
>
> Pauil, did you see a failure message? There are only supposed to be two
No, nothing apparent. Maybe there *was* an error, but if so, it got
overwritten immediately.
> branches that code can take:
>
> * apt-get update returns failure. Display a message with the failure
> message from apt, and return to start.
> * apt-get update retyurns success. Make new source perminant, and ask
> the user if they want to add another entry. If so, return to start, if
> not, exit.
>
> Nowhere should it be returning to the start menu without prompting you
> about *something* so either you neglected to mention that, or I have a
> very weird bug.
>
> Where did this cd image come from anyway? I'd like to try to reproduce.
Homebuilt, based on a partial mirror I maintain (partly with apt-get +
apt-move, partly with mirror to get stuff I need on a couple of other
systems without internet access). I've a quick and dirty script to link
the mirror into a cdrom hierarchy and build the Packages files etc.
Anyway, I'll try the procedure again this weekend with the latest
boot-floppies, and take more notes.
BTW, I was pleasantly surprised that something had figured out I needed
the xserver-s3 package, I had expected xserver-svga would have been
selected per default. Or is this a fluke, and actually a bug in one of
the task packages? (sorry, didn't note which ones I chose)
Paul Slootman
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