On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:31:39PM -0500, Phil Howard wrote:
> Is the list still working?
Yes, but I stopped looking at that inbox daily since most people on it
weren't using it.
>
> I got my CDROM working again. For some reason, while I had Solaris
> installed on the harddrive, the CDROM would not work. Actually it
> worked in Solaris for reading, but PROM would not boot from it. I'm
> assuming Solaris booting up set something somewhere between the PROM
> states and the drive states that messed up being able to boot from
> the CDROM.
>
> I also got real video working now. Turns out the serial port has a
> problem somewhere and is not working correctly. I'll have to try
> serial B something and see if that's OK.
>
> Anyway, now that I can boot from CDROM, I burned a copy of the May
> 18 mini-install.iso and proceeded to try an install in normal video.
> Everything looked OK until the package SELECT menu. In order to
> capture what happened, I switched back to serial and tried it all
> again. Here's what I saw:
>
> In the SELECT menu, there were the 2 entries for sets A and N in a
> 2 row scroll box, plus 3 more garbled entries. The 5 entries are:
>
> =============================================================================
> | | [X] A Base Linux system | |
> | | [X] N Networking (TCP/IP, UUCP, Mail, News) | |
> | | [ ] if [ | |
> | | [ ] = 1 | |
> | | [ ] 0 = | |
> =============================================================================
>
> Since the 2 proper packages were selected, I decided to go ahead anyway
> and selected OK. Then it really hosed, spewing out:
>
> =============================================================================
> dialog version 0.3, by Savio Lam (lam836@cs.cuhk.hk).
> patched to version 0.4 by Stuart Herbert (S.Herbert@shef.ac.uk)
> cdialog (ComeOn Dialog!) version 0.9a by Pako (demarco_p@abramo.it)
>
> *@ Display dialogs from shell scripts *
>
> Usage: dialog <Common options> <Box options> { --and-widget <Common options> <Box options> }
>
> Coommon options: <l options>
> [--backtitle <backtitle>] [--sleep <secs>] [--beep] [--beep-after]
> [--clear] [--begin <y> <x>] [--aspect <ratio>] [--print-size]
> [--print-maxsize] [--size-err] [--separate-output] [--cr-wrap]
> [--tab-len <n>] [--tab-correct] [--print-version] [--no-kill]
> [--title <title>]
>
> Glo bal options: [-hadow] [--no-shadow] [--separate-widget "<str>"]
>
> Box o<ptions:
> --ye <text> <height> <width>
> --msgbox <text> <height> <width>
> --infobox <text> <height> <width>
> --inputbox <text> <height> <width> [<init>]
> --textbox <file> <height> <width>
> --menu <text> <height> <width> <menu height> <tag1> <item1>...
> --checklist <text> <height> <width> <list height> <tag1> <item1> <status1>...
> --radiolist <text> <height> <width> <list height> <tag1> <item1> <status1>...
> --guage <text> <height> <width> <percent>
> --tailbox <file> <height> <width>
> --tailboxbg <file> <height> <width>
>
> (auto-size with height and width = 0. Maximize with height and width = -1)
> (global-auto-size if also menu_height/list_height = 0)
> /usr/lib/setup/SeTPKG: 14: Syntax error: "then" unexpected
> =============================================================================
>
> So it obviously looks like the SELECT menu script is passing some garbage
> to dialog, and that appears to be some of the code. So I'm guessing there
> is an extra trailing backslash, or a line of missing dialog data.
>
> I'll dig into it later. But I thought I'd pass this along right now just
> to see if this is an old or new problem or whatever.
Yeah that was reported a while back and was a problem with the mini-ISO
diff I have against the new ramdisk image. The mini ISO is gone now since
the stable release will bring full ISO images. It was taking a while to
recreate the mini ISO and upload the new one to the ftp site each time.
--
David Cantrell | david@slackware.com
KG6CII | Slackware Linux Project
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