test i386 potato boot-floppies available
We're trying to pull together 2.2.17 boot-floppies release. It fixes
a lot of problems relative to the 2.2.16 boot-floppies -- see
changelog snippet below.
This is the Martin Schultz release -- kudos to him to all his hard
work chugging thru the bugs.
I know a lot of people have moved on from release worries, but it's
still very valuable to the Debian effort to be sucking in new users,
and a big hurdle to that has always been the installation system.
So please give it a try, file bugs, etc. Thanks.
--
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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
- config: re-organize a bit
- fix .cvsignore file (closes: Bug#68911)
- fix URLs in documentation based on link checking
- documentation improvements (closes: Bug#67900); change the wording
of the "in progress" warning in Chapter 1 (closes: Bug#69620);
correct workaround for volume manager, patch from Jim Crumley
(closes: Bug#69141); fix documentation on how mkofboot is invoked;
rework the 'dbootstrap' chapter, removing plenty of slink'isms;
fix some make-kpkg bugs (closes: Bug#71080)
- 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
- fix a minor libfdisk Makefile / depends problem
* Guillaume Morin:
- more dbootstrap i18n
- dbootstrap floppy module pre-load support
* Vincent Renardias: French updates (thank to Eric VanBuggenhaut)
* Jiøí Ma¹ík <masik@debian.cz>: Czech updates
* Gleydson Mazioli da Silva: Portuguese updates
* novdv: Russian translations
* Yoshizumi Endo <y-endo@ceres.dti.ne.jp>: Japanese updates
* Risko Gergely <risko@njszki.hu>: Hungarian updates
* Marcin Owsiany <porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl>: Polish updates
* Peter Karlsson: Swedish updates
* Vilem Vychodil: Czech update
* Tapio Lehtonen: Finnish translation thanks to Markku Verkkoniemi
* Enrique Zanardi: Spanish updates
* Michael Bramer: German updates
* C.M. Connelly: English documentation corrections and improvements
* Josip Rodin:
- release notes updates: APT::Force-LoopBreak, kernel 2.2.x upgrade
issues; remove sis6326 note; add info about i810; fixed X upgrade
pointer; notes about CD sets; notes about ssh
- some documentation and doc build fixes; move documenation build
rules to documentation/ dir
- fix index.LANG.html broken links (closes: Bug#67898)
* 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
* Othmar Pasteka:
- Substitution of Linux with GNU/Linux when appropriate (i.e. when
a GNU/Linux distribution is meant)
* Risko Gergely: A big Hungarian update
* Peter Naulls: add support for ARM Linux partition support
-- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Mon, 11 Sep 2000 04:57:51 -0400
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