New experimental boot floppies (pre 2.2.17) available for testing
Hi folks,
could you give the new preview boot floppies a try? The changelog is
impressive, we have fixed *a lot* of bugs. Aph and myself have tested
the resulting disk images a couple of times, but it's always better to
have a wider range of testing.
I'm uploading the following files to http://va.debian.org/~joey/bf/
Please fetch them and give them a try.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:17 base14-1.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:17 base14-10.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1154048 Aug 27 13:17 base14-11.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:17 base14-2.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:17 base14-3.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:17 base14-4.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:17 base14-5.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:17 base14-6.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:17 base14-7.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:17 base14-8.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:17 base14-9.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15893127 Aug 27 13:17 base2_2.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4206286 Aug 27 13:07 drivers.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:07 drv14-1.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 13:07 drv14-2.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1259520 Aug 27 13:07 drv14-3.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 12:38 resc1440.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1474560 Aug 27 12:38 root1440.bin
(originally I was thinking about copying the release subdir but ETA
for one file was >1h)
Please report problems to me || debian-boot immediately
To give you an idea what is fixed in this version, here are the
relevant changelog entries. (I've backed out the documentation stuff)
boot-floppies (2.2.17) stable unstable; urgency=low
* TESTING PRE-RELEASE VERSION
* Adam Di Carlo:
- release-notes: fix typo (closes: Bug#68630)
- fix bugs preventing some l10n'd documentation from building
- temporarily disable Russian documentation, unless you have woody
debiandoc-sgml
- dbootstrap: fix a condition where /target/lib/modules was being made
a link to itself (closes: Bug#68021); run 'depmod -a' after
manipulating the /lib/modules symlink after extracting the kernel
and modules which fixes a problem with PCMCIA
* Guillaume Morin:
- more dbootstrap i18n
- dbootstrap floppy module pre-load support
* Josip Rodin:
- some documentation and doc build fixes; move documenation build
rules to documentation/ dir
* Daniel Jacobowitz:
- some powerpc-specific boot stuff fixed
- update PowerPC kernel version
* Martin Schulze:
- Added little documentation to some routines
- dbootstrap.h: Added prototype of get_kver()
- getFloppies() and affected routines return DLG_CANCEL (aka 10) when
Cancel is pressed, no need to spit an error message (closes:
Bug#68900)
- boxes.h: DLG_CANCEL is now 10 instead of 1, in order to avoid
problems with 'return 1' stuff
- Added calls to get_kver() to every _test target. Thanks tausq for
the quick investigation
- basedisk.sh: Added workarounds for missing device files and added
others to MAKEDEV call
- rootdisk.sh: Added optcd sjcd to list of i386 devices, still
missing: gscd, cm206cd and proper support for mcdx (partially
fixes: Bug#68665)
- rootdisk.sh: Added ida.1 creation (closes: Bug#68517)
- rootdisk.sh: Added -O none to mke2fs call to gain 2.0 compatibility
(closes: Bug#68659)
- basedisk.sh: Added /dev/sg* to list of created devices in the base
system (closes: Bug#67378)
- Corrected error messages when rescue.bin wasn't found (but is
there..), added " + drivers.tgz" (closes: Bug#66326, Bug#64349)
- Added padding code to pad the last drivers disk with zeroes (closes:
Bug#66030)
- Corrected behavior when user has to type in the path relative to
/instmnt, he won't be able to leave that dir anymore and don't has
to type in /instmnt anymore (closes: Bug#67082, Bug#61693)
- Filling /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep properly so the tools won't
spread warnings all over the freshly started console (closes: No bug
report yet?)
- Added more sanity checks to floppy install, inserting base disks
when the drivers are requested will result in an error (partially
close: Bug#64428)
- Choosing an archive dir that is a link indeed will not result in
'not found' messages anymore, a '/' will be appended automatically
(closes: Bug#61373)
- When selecting a directory that does not exist, an error box is
opened (closes: Bug#57733)
- Added a call to eject() after writing the boot floppy on powerpc
failed (closes: Bug#69158)
- Added support for kernel boot parameters (lilo, syslinux, m68k,
aboot) (closes: Bug#11000, Bug#25848)
- Moved Preload of essential modules around in the main install cycle
- Moved nfs:server mount into a condition (if network isup)
- German update
- Added support for new french keyboard layout fr-latin0 (closes:
Bug#57609)
- Added sanity checks before installing the base system and
configuring the device driver modules (closes: Bug#31449)
- Added a conditional message warning Netwinder people about ignoring
ext2 2.0 compatibility (close: Bug#67888)
- Corrected rescue.sh to create usable 1200 root floppies (closes:
Bug#69959, Bug#69970)
* Akira YOSHIYAMA:
- add 'termwrap' script to the base system; this is invoked by init
and allows us to set i18n env var settings for base-config and other
chores
-- Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de> Sun, 27 Aug 2000 12:05:11 +0200
Regards,
Joey
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