Re: Bug#220868: Patch to implement a CLEARSEEN command
Denis Barbier wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:50:48PM +0100, Sebastian Ley wrote: [...] But I am quite certain that this whole stuff is a bad idea, how to abort and thus go back to main-menu should be handled directly by cdebconf, and not by config scripts. I suppose that is impossible (correct me if I'm wrong) since cdebconf knows nothing of the question hierarchy and neither of main-menu. When cdebconf runs a config script, questions are not immediately flagged as being seen, but pushed into a stack containing all seen questions. When the script ends, the database is updated, and when user goes back the question is removed from the stack. great i don't know if this option exists in debconf, but i think it will be useful and avoid big config.dat with /apt-setup/baddir /apt-setup/cd/another /apt-setup/cd/bad In his patch, Steinar adds tha ability to purge this stack before exiting, and thus question status is not updated. This can be very useful, my only disagreement being that IMO this purge should not be requested by config scripts, but by cdebconf itself. I wrote a patch yesterday to add an 'Abort' button to progress bars, which kills the config script (by sending SIGTERM to the right pid, as suggested by Steinar in another thread) and thus will return to main-menu. I am now polishing it, and am adding an abort capability the same way as backup works, i.e. an 'Abort' button will be displayed if it is supported by the frontend. It will go into a CVS branch when it is finished. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#227355: install report
Gaudenz Steinlin a Ãcrit : Am Die, den 13.01.2004 schrieb sylvain ferriol um 00:07: 2. list of network modules is in reverse order I don't understand this sentence. What do you mean and which order would be the right one? Which list of network modules do you refer to? the list is displayed when it tried to detect hardware and did not find, so it display a list to enable user to select manually a module. the display is like this: d c b a < initial cursor position instead of a < initial cursor position b c d 3. i have to call 3 times 'detect network hardware' to have the panel to enable me to enter options for network modules the first time, it detects nothing (i have a dlink 220e and a cs89x0 card) the second time , it rery again, nothing is detected by i have a red screen error with 'modprobe -v ide-cd' and the third time, i can config ne module but 'Ethenet card not found' (but i use the same options in woody and it works!) This is the effect of the automatic lowering of the debconf priority on failure. The "modprobe -v ide-cd" error can be ignored. Please try modprobeing the correct module in a shell on the second console. but why there is the second step? At the first time, if nothing is detected , the next step is to display the options module panel. So this is done in two steps not in three. Are these PCI cards? If yes and they are not detected correctly please provide the output of lspci -v and lspci -n along with the relevant kernel module so we can add them to the discover hardware list. no i have a isa card (ne module) and a isapnp (cs89x0 module) on woody, i can configure isapnp internal chip with isapnpdump and isapnp commands but i don't know how to configure an isapnp card with d-i, i will search later for instance, i try to configure the isa dlink card) sylvain Gaudenz smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: goals for next release
Steinar H. Gunderson a écrit : On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:39:39PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: FAIR Full Automatic Installation Revisited. More or less. :-) I don't know FAI in detail, but as far as I can tell, it contains a lot of infrastructure (ie. a full installation program, lots of server stuff etc.) that simply shouldn't be neccessary anymore with d-i. OTOH, people seem to be using it, and it is actively maintained. Not having used either FAI or Kickstart (some kind of compatibility, or at least feature-equality to the latter would be _very_ good, as I do believe many users wanting automated installs will come from a RH world), I don't really know what they can do and how. For my part, I'd probably like something that could install the system automatically, add a few packages and add a few users, and that would be OK -- but would this be enough for all users? (If those are the goals, it would probably be limited enough to make it feasible to do something like "apt-get install fair ; fair-makefloppy /dev/fd0" just after installation and have it sort out everything needed.) /* Steinar */ another simple way is to add an ldap driver in cdebconf. i use ldap with debconf, and it works fine sylvain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
can not install stable release
with netfloppies 20040212, i can not install stable 'woody': "No installer components found" 'testing' seems to work sylvain smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: rmmod not available in installation shell
Nikita V. Youshchenko a écrit : Hello. Seems it is very bad that rmmod is not available in installation shell. It makes it not possible to fix a typo in module parameters (such as invalid IRQ). i agree, modprobe do not changed module parameters when module is loaded. So if the user has made a mistake, he has to reboot... example: $modprobe parport_pc irq=7 io=0x378 $cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/irq 7 $modprobe parport_pc irq=5 io=0x378 $cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/irq 7 but with rmmod: $rmmod parport_pc $modprobe parport_pc irq=5 io=0x378 $cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/irq 5 i think we must have rmmod in busybox sylvain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#236293: unresolved symbols when insmod 8390
Shaul Karl a écrit : Package: install Version: 20040303 (floppies) Severity: normal I have used the net-drivers.img (20040303) floppy. Since I have problems with my nic I tried to insmod 8390 try 'modprobe 8390' instead sylvain from the command line of the console (2nd VT, alt+F2). I got: Using /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-386/kernel/drivers/net/8390.o insmod: Unresolved symbol bitreverse_Rbaeb160c insmod: Unresolved symbol crc32_le_Ra34f1ef5 -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.3-2.custom586.1 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How much mem is low, exactly?
Thiemo Seufer a écrit : W. Borgert wrote: What is the target memory for the lowmem installation? 24 MB seems not to work. I had the hope, that ca. 16 MB would be the limit. 25-45 MB, depending on architecture. Some ideas for improvements: 1. Disable certain downloads/features. IMHO it is OK to have a lowmem install with less features, e.g. LVM, RAID, other FSs than EXT3/EXT2, etc. Who would use a 16 MB machine with SW-RAID? :-) 2. Let the user select downloads/features. If the user does have SCSI, SATA, etc. why download the stuff and eat RAM disk space? 3. Let the user earlier create the partition table and the swap space (and acitvate the latter) and download other udebs later. 4. Use text instead of ncurses for debconf (lowmem is English-only anyway). What do the d-i people think? You may want to read packages/lowmem/README in the SVN repository. The main reason the "lowmem" mode is so ineffective is that nobody did so far the work to make it better. Thiemo i have changed anna to enable the user to select what he wants. and anna only download the selected packages (and dependencies too) the current status is: - i succeed to install in 24Mb (i select plip+partman-auto) - i do not test with lesser memory (because i use plip for testing and i currently can not use it, but this will be resolved in few hours) - of course, the memory depends on which packages you have selected - there is not enough time to include this patch for release rc1, so according with joey, i will create specific images for very lowmem PCs i will send you the patch on the list , if someone wants to test it ;) sylvain smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: How much mem is low, exactly?
W. Borgert a écrit : On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:10:43AM +0200, sylvain ferriol wrote: this is the patch attached I applied the patch and can build anna*.udeb without problems. Where can I find information on how to create installation floppies using this .udeb? cd .trunk/installer/build/localudebs ln -s ../../../packages/my_anna-local.udeb cd .. fakeroot make build_floppy_boot fakeroot make build_floppy_root fakeroot make build_floppy_net-drivers (for net installation) cd dest/floppy dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 dd if=root.img of=/dev/fd0 dd if=net-drivers.img of=/dev/fd0 Better: If such floppies exist somewhere, I would like to download... Thanks in advance! Cheers, WB smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Automatic Installations
Brian Sutherland a écrit : Hello all, I have to do a project requiring an auto-installation and auto configuration of many machines. I have looked at fai and autoinstall but am looking for other possibilities as well. Can d-i do this? or would i be better off taking some pieces of it and using them in fai? Some references of where I could start would be great. Thanks, Brian Sutherland a solution is to create a ldap driver in cdebconf (see debconf), and have all answers in a debconf db in external host sylvain smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
cdebconf: error message when running test
hello when i'm running test in cdebconf , see doc/testing.txt; the command : >> ../debconf-loadtemplate debian test.templates it returns: Cannot open template file ./templates.dat And after, i see that the command has created the file So why does it display this message?? And how can i iterate all questions in a specific instance using cdebconf And is it possible with debconf too Thanks Sylvain smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Bug#270647: in lowmem-level2 anna display a list with too much packages
Package: anna Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i i have a problem with anna when you are in lowmem because it displays to user a list of packages to install but if you use net-install, just before partman, anna will display all packages it founds in the mirror even packages used for a cd-install sylvain smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: help - vanishing keyboard
hello i have no usb keyboard, so can you test the following images: http://www-timc.imag.fr/Sylvain.Ferriol/debian/d-i/i386/current there are no usb drivers in boot floppy, so you have 30 seconds to change the boot floppy to the root floppy. and after your keyboard will be activated thanks sylvain smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: help - vanishing keyboard
Did you include the usb-discover udeb on the root floppy? yes I also tried _not_ switching the floppy in time for the timeout. It then errors out with Cannot find root floppy; /dev/floppy0: cannot mount and repeats endlessly. Would it be possible to limit that to 2 (maybe 3) times? i limit to 3 times Bonus points if it then falls back to pressing a key only. now all net packages are in net-drivers-1, so the floppy label is not adapted because it does not contain only drivers packages the patch is commited smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Bug#402746: undefined reference to __FD_ZERO and __FD_SET
maximilian attems a écrit : > reassign rootskel > stop > > On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, sferriol wrote: > > >> Package: libklibc-dev >> Version: 1.4.30-2 >> Severity: normal >> >> in d-i, building rootskel/src-bootfloppy/bin/timeout_read.c failed on alpha, amd64, ia64, s390 >> undefined reference to '__FD_ZERO' >> undefined reference to '__FD_SET' >> >> sylvain >> > > > wtf are you poking around in internal kernel routines. > the double underscore should be a warning enough. > > __FD_SET and __FD_ZERO are found in __KERNEL__ sections of posix_types.h > > no i'd never used internal kernel routines, i just used FD_SET and FD_ZERO see man select but fjp said that it bugs on other architectures smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Bug#415992: Re2: Bug#415992: Boot floppy fails to load initrd.gz (Etch)
Ilya A. Naydov wrote: I've tried this boot floppy on another PC (Desktop, Intel-based, Celeron)... It works well... So, it's not due to bad floppy... If the latest weekly build contain RC2 installer then I used RC2 installer... :-) the rc2 images are in: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/floppy/ Loading linux. Loading initrd.gz (four dots, .gz is completly loaded in RAMdrive) i just try with an old dell latitude CP M233ST (pentium) and it works then it should start kernel, but it seems that it couldn't, I don't know why... Can it be kernel2.6 incompatibility?.. i'm not a kernel expert but can you play with bios options and kernel params (like acpi,...) at boot prompt I took boot floppy from 3.1r0 (I think it is not RC2) and it works well on this very old laptop... smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Bug#415992: I give up
Ilya A. Naydov wrote: I'd played with all this options - nothing helps... Finally, I've installed old Windows 98... http://eliot-cougar.livejournal.com/98582.html Just before that I installed Debian 3.1r2 successfully, but I've experienced some problems with HDD access during boot (DMA time-out, I think... I did not remember)... ok, before giving up, just try in the boot prompt: install vga=771 noapic nolapic smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Bug#416504: Installation report Compaq LTE5150
pkgsel popularity-contest x11-common do you select an option in taskel ? if yes, i think you have to unselect all tasksel options this will install a minimal system and after you can add more applications with apt-get command sylvain smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Bug#274307: partman-ext3 not available in lowmem level 2
Joey Hess a Ãcrit : Package: anna Severity: important Tags: d-i In lowmem level 2, anna presents a list of udebs, which does not include partman-ext3. And partman-ext3 is not loaded at all, though the kernel udeb with the ext3 module is. This leaves partman only able to do ext2 by default. Reiserfs and other filesystems can be selected in anna. it's because partman-auto depends on partman-ext3 and to avoid to display a too long list, anna display only packages which are at the top of the dependency tree (example: partman-auto) we can remove this functionality but i think we will have a very long list. another solution is to remove in the list, packages which are dependencies of 'menu packages' with a installer-menu-item < current-menu-item and current-menu-item should be a template set by main-menu sylvain -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
apt-get,d-i and small hard disks
hello i have a problem using apt under small disk, on a PC under debian and another during debian installation (pre-rc2). On the first PC, i do a 'apt-get upgrade' but there is no place to download packages and after configure them. i finally succeed by selecting package one by one 'apt-get install package; apt-get clean' why apt-get can not do that automatically when there is no enough free disk space ? It's the same under debian installer, it do not verify if there is enough space on disk before installing packages, i succeed to install by executing 'apt-get clean; apt-get upgrade' in a shell thanks sylvain smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Bug#367605: broken loop mount support
Joey Hess a écrit : Package: busybox-floppy-udeb Version: 1:1.1.2-1 Severity: important Tags: d-i # mount -o loop /mnt/tmp-initrd /initrd mount: Couldn't setup loop device mount: Mounting (null) on /initrd failed: No such file or directory FWIW, this is on the d-i i386 boot floppy, I've checked that the loop module is loaded, that the file exists, and that /dev/loop/[0-7] exist. if usb is forever excluded in boot floppy, we can now set initrd in root floppy as a cpio archive, and use the busybox cpio command. the consequence is: - we do not need loop device (and udeb) because it does not mount initrd => free space in boot floppy - it does not copy the initrd contents in mnt => we reduce a lot the memory size i did a patch a long time ago, but i will try to find it sylvain smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: glibc udebs
Joey Hess a écrit : Aurelien Jarno wrote: I manage to build smaller udebs for the glibc. I built it with -Os, and disabled support for 2.4 kernels. On i386, the gain is 124kB on the udebs size and 260kB on the installed size. Currently it is built in a dirty way by doing that on the main library. If it is working and useful for d-i, I will change the build system and add another pass. The build test does not show more errors, contrary to what was reported in the bug report, probably because these udeb are using linuxthreads and not nptl. The i386 udebs are available on http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/glibc-udeb/ If you need them for other architectures, please ask me. That seems to be a 404, so I can't check, but I think we'll also need a -small-pic deb package for this to be useful for d-i, since that would allow creating smaller 2.6 floppy images with the reduced size udeb. I think Sylvian Ferriol will be interested in doing that, 124kb saved might mean he can add support for usb floppies or something like that. for 2.6 boot floppy, it is not useful. Without glibc and using only klibc, i still can not add usb modules. i will check for 2.6 root floppy, may be i can bring back nic-modules from net floppy to root floppy as set in 2.4 floppies smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: 2.6.24 boot floppy
Joey Hess wrote: Bastian Blank wrote: CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y The current root floppy is an ext2 filesystem. So for this to help, we'd have to make the disk image be the initramfs cpio without an encapsulating filesystem. Could work.. I've implemented this. Please modularise ext2. another solution is to code init in C smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Debian BF install floppy
Geert Stappers a écrit : On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 05:04:45PM +0200, Jean-Luc CONOTTE wrote: Hello! I am looking for a BF2.6... eg a bf2.4 -> 2.6 Is this possible to find it? Or does I have to upgrade after installation?? I don't understand the question. I match "BF" with boot-floppies the old Debian Installer. But why use the old installer? A second question is Where can I find floppy install for BF2.4? Visit http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ and find the line containing other images (netboot, usb stick, floppy, etc) but there are no boot and root images Thanks in advance JL Please tell if this reply did help GSt smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Bug#386059: floppy images missing
etch beta 2 release seems to provide all images ... I will try these ... i build a daily floppy images with 2.6.17 kernel you can test it but be careful, it is an alpha release http://www-timc.imag.fr/Sylvain.Ferriol/debian/d-i/i386/2006_09_08/ ciao, ciao Martin Sylvain smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Bug#394079: installation-reports: x86 floppy install failed, cpio missing
Holger Wansing a écrit : Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Hi, hi I just activated my good old floppy drive and did a test with the images from 17.10.06: inserting the boot disk works fine, I was prompted to give root disk; then this: Loading ../init: 194: cpio not found failed to extract initrd (may be out of space on ram disk) Giving up! I tried with two other media for boot and root disk, but no way. cpio is not there. as cpio is not in klibc udeb package, cpio is build separatly. but cpio was built with libklibc 1.4.27 and boot floppy has 1.4.29 libklibc. so you have to wait tomorrow for new floppies or go there: http://www-timc.imag.fr/Sylvain.Ferriol/debian/d-i/i386/2006_10_19/ Best Holger smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Bug#395163: Installation report
Tapio Lehtonen a écrit : Package: installation-reports Boot method: Floppy, dated 20061024 Image version: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/ Date: 20061025 Machine: HP Vectra VL 233MHz 64MB 2,6G IDE disk Partitions: FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 ext3 2324384381848 1824460 18% / udev tmpfs 1024052 10188 1% /dev devshm tmpfs 31104 0 31104 0% /dev/shm Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O ] Detect network card:[O ] Configure network: [O ] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [O ] Detect hard drives: [O ] Partition hard drives: [O ] Install base system:[O ] Clock/timezone setup: [O ] User/password setup:[O ] Install tasks: [O ] Install boot loader:[O ] Overall install:[O ] Comments/Problems: Install was low memory mode, but this machine has 64MB memory. Is installation from floppy always "low memory mode"? no if memory > 64M Installation did not ask anything about which modules to load etc., which I think it should ask if it really is low memory mode install. this is true if memory < 42M I deselected "standard system" from tasksel display, thinking I can install that later, but it is not available when I start tasksel in the installed system. So now some of the standard packages are not installed. Console keymap was not set up, the åäö keys did not work from console. I'm not sure if this is the fault of the installer: aptitude et al complain about GPG error and untrusted sources. Are the keyrings in /etc/apt wrong or is the mirror I use, ftp.fi.debian.org somehow wrong just now? I can provide log files on request. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: r42623 - in trunk/packages/rootskel: debian src-bootfloppy src-bootfloppy/bin
Joey Hess a écrit : sylvain ferriol wrote: include klibc-utils in src-rootskel. cpio binary and klibc-utils share the same klibc library + lib:/lib/klibc-*.so + sh:/usr/lib/klibc/bin/sh.shared \ + mount:/usr/lib/klibc/bin/mount \ + insmod:/usr/lib/klibc/bin/insmod \ + mknod:/usr/lib/klibc/bin/mknod \ + mkdir:/usr/lib/klibc/bin/mkdir \ + cat:/usr/lib/klibc/bin/cat \ + umount:/usr/lib/klibc/bin/umount \ + zcat:/usr/lib/klibc/bin/zcat \ + run-init:/usr/lib/klibc/bin/run-init \ These files should be put into a udeb. It's not appropriate to need to rebuild rootskel every time that klibc changes. yes, but it is the only solution that i've found because cpio is not in klibc-utils and it frees ~80k on bootfloppy because we do not use all klibc commands If it would be helpful, I can provide a patch to klibc to make a udeb. i send a patch to put cpio in klibc but maks said there were license incompatibility. and it works on recode cpio in BSD license so i think we have to wait. i want to see if the 80k freed will be useful for 2.6.18 because we will have to build a klibc-utils-bootfloppy udeb then sylvain smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: help - vanishing keyboard
Frans Pop a écrit : On Tuesday 21 November 2006 10:24, sferriol wrote: So etch installer with floppies does not longer support usb keyboard and usb floppy driver, sorry :( may be we will try to find a solution but i think it will be after etch release Would it be possible to have the installer try to load the root floppy after a timeout (say 30 seconds) if no key was pressed? yes i thought about this option yesterday, but we have to put all usb drivers on root floppy. i do not know if there will be enough space because we have to move all net modules in net-drivers-X floppies we have to test :) sylvain smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Bug#415992: initrd halts on Compaq laptop
Bruce Ward wrote: Well, that's different! Seems to work properly! Looking good, I've now got a prompt to insert the Root floppy. Unfortuantely, I'm just off on an overnight trip, so won't be able to test any more until tomorrow evening. ok so can you test the complete install and it seems to be a syslinux bug ? i think you have to find the first version of syslinux which does not work from sarge to etch you can do that by using snapshot.debian.net: apt line for this package: deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool syslinux deb-src http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool syslinux then, you can install specific version of package as follows: apt-get install binary-package=version Cheers, Bruce Ward smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: (forw) floppy daily builds failure: disk full
Joey Hess wrote: Yay, not again. New kernel; new bloat. Didn't we just free up 100k on the boot floppy? i think 100k is too heavy, the solution is to reduce the kernel size. or coding init in C ? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
