Re: debian boot floppies almost ready ...

[Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 02:34:36PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 02:02:00PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > Well, i did not find also atonum in /usr/include, but then i maybe have not
> > all here.
> Its defined in fdisk.c, I was more drunk last night than I thought...
> When I replace that by atoi I guess entering the hex numbers does not work
> anymore.

...

> > Lets just do the change like you suggested, it should work fine, ...
> It worked at home, but kullervo says this:
> fdisk.c: In function `atonum':
> fdisk.c:83: warning: implicit declaration of function `isdigit'
> gcc  amigastuff.o fdisk.o  -o amiga-fdisk

Ok, so isdigit is the problem, i will add a #include <ctype.h> and try it out
this evening, ... 

Thanks for finding the problem, i thought it should have been something stupid
like that, ...

> Adding #include <ctype.h> to fdisk.c helps, didn't I do that before?
> Sven, can you test that? It seems to work on kullervo now, but I do not
> want to write it to the disk, Ill do it at home. So maybe atonum works when
> proper headers are included?

Will test, ...

> > Yes, please build it, i think one of us should take over the amiga-fdisk
> > package (maybe it should be you, my apus box is on the dying side, ... :((()
> My Amiga is over 12 years old... 

Well, it is a propperly built amiga, and i guess the powerup board have more
needs than other accelerator boards, especially on my broken A1200 (it is one
of the boards that cause problems with power supply :((()

> > We should ask frank to officially orphan it then, ...
> We can discuss this after potato.

Sure, ...

just since he told us that he thought it would be better if someone else takes
over the package, he should orphan it officially before we take it over, (just
debian administrativ stuff)

> > another thing, should be make it architecture any (for woody), since with the
> > new 2.3/2.4 kernels have support for amiga partitioning scheme, even under
> > i386 and other architecture, ...
> I will not worry about woody before potato is in the pan.

:)))

Friendly,

Svne LUTHER