potato boot-floppies update available for testing

[Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>]

I have a version of the boot-floppies (installation system) available
for i386 at 

   http://people.debian.org/~aph/current/

Especially people who had trouble in combination with *BSD disk
slices, this version should fix those.  There are a number of other
fixes as well, such as the termwrap dying thing, and busybox NFSv3
mount support.

I don't want to release this yet since I haven't had a chance to test
recent change (busybox, library reduction) at all, and it might be
horribly broken.  

If someone or ones could try this out and report any postive/negative
results to <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>.  Note that my time is
rather limited, and I'm not really accepting any feature requests for
Potato (since I'm working on woody boot-floppies).

Thanks.

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>

boot-floppies (2.2.21) stable; urgency=low

  * Michael Sobolev
    - language chooser allows a default language
    - some Russian dbootstrap message updates
    - README-Translators: improvements
  * Paul Romanchenko: Russian dbootstrap updates and fixes
  * Marcin Owsiany <porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl>
    - Polish documentation updates
    - some language chooser build problems fixed
    - README-Translators: improvements
  * Peter Karlsson: Swedish dbootstrap updates
  * Erik Andersen <andersen@lineo.com>: Busybox fixes for loop device
    (closes: Bug#64500)
  * Karl Hammar: syslinux documentation for working around a loop when
    downloading SCSI scripts on NCR-based HBAs
  * Ethan Benson: PowerPC documentation improvements (closes: Bug#69161)
  * Adam Di Carlo:
    - Makefile: fix the localfiles rule, which was breaking in some
      instances; fix mirror-to-master rule in documentation/Makefile
    - Maintainers: credit Bill Bennet, The ComputerHelperGuy, for his
      donation of CD sets
    - documentation: fix alpha driver files (closes: Bug#78521); remove
      some stale stuff left over from slink, esp in the dbootstrap info;
      fix bad external links and some bad internal links 
      (closes: Bug#82024); update downloadable files based on newest
      released boot-floppies; talk about mounting stuff manually and other
      improvements (closes: Bug#69786); remove slink'isms from Chapter 7,
      adding a pretty much whole new discussion of the base-config steps;
      discuss install extra modules from floppy; update copyright notice;
      document booting from different CDs for different flavors on i386;
      discussion of Solaris/*BSD slices next to fdisk/cfdisk 
      (closes: Bug#65903); more stuff required in replacement rescue kernels
    - include French Release Notes
    - dbootstrap: minor message changes so things are more understandable;
      when we ask for the Debian CD-ROM, ask specifically for the *first*
      CD-ROM; ask fewer questions about archive locations, in fact, no
      questionsin the cases that some is using a media where things are
      where we can find them (closes: Bug#82912) the "load modules from
      floppy" step was reworded a bit to make it more clear that this an
      extra, non-std thing; fix some gratuitous references to floppies in
      the welcome message
    - release notes: fix a bad link on i386 to ports
    - README-Users.m4 (top-level README): fix alpha subarch reference;
      mention that local copies of stuff should retain the directory
      structure; improve discussion of various files; spell fixes
    - README-{flavors} (i386): put as README.txt in <flavor> dirs as
      well; refer users to the top-level README.txt for information on
      what the files are for
    - termwrap won't fail miserably if /etc/environment doesn't exist
      (closes: Bug#81319)
    - rootdisk: add /dev/ida/c[01]d[0123] devices back, which were
      mistakenly removed (closes: Bug#79890)
    - base: hack /root permissions more stringently to go-rx
      (closes: Bug#76771)
    - alpha: use kernel 2.2.18
  * Michael Bramer:
    - German updates
    - colored scripts/rescue/messages/de/debian.txt
  * Tapio Lehtonen: Finnish message updates
  * Petr Cech <cech@debian.org>: Czech message updates
  * Othmar Pasteka: German updates
  * Enrique Zanardi: Spanish updates
  * RISKO Gergely <risko@debian.org>: Hungarian updates
  * Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS: Esperanto updates
  * Christian T. Steigies <cts@debian.org>:
    - m68k uses 2.2.17 kernels now
  * H.Heinold <heinold@physik.tu-cottbus.de>:
    - fix a libfdisk bug
  * Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>:
    - dbootstrap: hack to accomodate sparc drivers disk series names
      (closes: Bug#79004) -- we suspect this problem also may exist for
      m68k and other non-i386 arches
  * Josip Rodin: fix arch-title in German documentation
    (closes: Bug#83131)
  * Glenn McGrath:
    - fix partition-ordering freebsd/solaris bug (closes: Bug#80325)
  * Zhao Way: Starting work on Chinese translation
    (thanks hashao and the lists)
  * Gleydson Mazioli da Silva: Portuguese updates
  * Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Peña: Spanish updates
  * ha shao: bogl patches for 32 bpp framebuffers; enable framebuffer
    support (LANG_CHOOSER only)
  * Christophe Martin: French updates
  * Eric Van Buggenhaut: French updates
  * Philip Blundell: 
    - being extending ARM support for multiple architectures (riscpc,
      netwinder, shark), not yet complete
    - ARM root.bin: use libc 2.1.3, better device creation support
    - ARM-specific keymap support added
    - ARM tftpboot image support added

 -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>  Sat, 10 Feb 2001 18:04:51 -0500