Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by dwhedon
David Whedon <dwhedon@debian.org> writes:
> Good new is we have somewhat working woody boot-floppies (on i386 now at least).
>
> I booted off resc1440.bin, root.bin. I had to manually insmod my ethernet
> module (see note below). dbootstrap now supports debootstrap. Some kinks need
> to be worked out (see below) but overall it is going well. I couldn't complete
> the base install as we are still waiting for console-data to sneek into testing.
I wonder if we should switch from using 'testing' to using 'unstable'.
> These three are probably easy to fix, I haven't looked into them much:
>
> - At startup I get : Error loading the keymap i386/querty/us.bmap form
> /etc/keymaps.tgz
this is bug 80942 plaguing us for a while now.
> - syslogd not working, maybe it is because /dev/log doesn't exist, I get tail:
> /var/log/messages: No such file or directory I ctrl-C it a few times and try
> manually starting syslogd, mkfifo /dev/log, eventually it works, not sure
> what I actually needed to do.
Ooch.
> - modconf doesn't find any modules. My only choice is to be finished and
> return to the previous menu.
Ouch. Maybe file positions moved? Or is related to 80942 ?
I'm trying to build for sparc now...
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