Re: partition selection

2003-02-05 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:39:39PM -0800, Michael Cardenas wrote: > The problem is that when I select "create filesystem" the only partition > thats offered is part5, which already has a reiser filesystem on it. > > I even tried creating my own reiserfs on part6, and it still doesn't > show up. A

partition selection

2003-02-05 Thread Michael Cardenas
I tried to install sarge with tollef's latest netinst floppy image. My laptop is already partitioned, and it has 7 partitions, and so in the installer I just load the modules to detect the hard drive, and skip the partitioning. The problem is that when I select "create filesystem" the only part

prebaseconfig_0.022_powerpc.changes ACCEPTED

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Processing of prebaseconfig_0.022_powerpc.changes

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Re: Running base-config from within first stage installer

2003-02-05 Thread Ryan Lovett
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:17:29AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Joey Hess] > > Why would we want to make that an option? It doesn't sound like a > > good kind of option, it just buys you more complexity and more ways > > to fail for no gain. I am not interested in supporting people who > >

Re: Where are d-i CVS commit messages being sent ?

2003-02-05 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:24:39PM -0200, Andr? Lu?s Lopes wrote: > Sorry if it's a FAQ, but I wasn't able to figure out by myself where the > messages which were sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are being sent now. I was > used to check this list daily looking for any changes within CVS > templates so I

Re: Where to report bugs on debian-installer

2003-02-05 Thread Matt Kraai
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:15:25AM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > I'm in the process of getting sarge on my new computer. I thought that > would give me a nice chance to do some testing on the new > debian-installer. I used the business-card iso btw. I do have a lot of > comments an want to do some b

Where are d-i CVS commit messages being sent ?

2003-02-05 Thread André Luís Lopes
Hi, Sorry if it's a FAQ, but I wasn't able to figure out by myself where the messages which were sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are being sent now. I was used to check this list daily looking for any changes within CVS templates so I could easily update my translations and commit them. Could someone g

Where to report bugs on debian-installer

2003-02-05 Thread Tim Dijkstra
Hi, I'm in the process of getting sarge on my new computer. I thought that would give me a nice chance to do some testing on the new debian-installer. I used the business-card iso btw. I do have a lot of comments an want to do some bug reporting, but I don't know which package to report on. So may

Re: lilo or grub as the default boot loader on i386?

2003-02-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Matt Kraai] > I don't care which we default to eventually. In the short term, > though, we should not default to grub-installer until bug #177725 is > fixed. Well, sure. We need to fix both the lilo and grub problems. Both list of bugs are related to the debian packages, and not with the upstr

Re: Testing network install does not have all network modules

2003-02-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Jouni Tulkki] > Why doesn't the network install iso image (80mb version) have all > network drivers? I have a Realtek card and the installer says that > it cannot load the appropriate module. Is there any way that I can > get that module from somewhere? Is this rtl8139? The driver changed name f

Re: Running base-config from within first stage installer

2003-02-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Joey Hess] > Why would we want to make that an option? It doesn't sound like a > good kind of option, it just buys you more complexity and more ways > to fail for no gain. I am not interested in supporting people who > try to do that with base-config. It saves me a reboot, and speeds up the insta

Re: lilo or grub as the default boot loader on i386?

2003-02-05 Thread Ryan Lovett
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 06:27:30PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > The previous versions of Debian used lilo, bug I am not sure why. At > this time, grub is working quite well, and it includes a few features > making it my boot loader of choice. But grub will fail with some > BIOSes and disk

Re: lilo or grub as the default boot loader on i386?

2003-02-05 Thread Markus Schabel
Bruce Sass wrote: On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: At the moment we have two boot loaders for i386 available. Both lilo-installer and grub-installer are available. One of them need to be the default choice. The default choice will probably be used by most first time installers,

Re: lilo or grub as the default boot loader on i386?

2003-02-05 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > At the moment we have two boot loaders for i386 available. Both > lilo-installer and grub-installer are available. One of them need to > be the default choice. The default choice will probably be used by > most first time installers, and will also

Re: making my own netinstall CD

2003-02-05 Thread Eduard Bloch
Moin Markus! Markus Schabel schrieb am Wednesday, den 05. February 2003: > Eduard Bloch wrote: > > >Use floppies and read in the manuall about kernel replacement. However, > >the old driver CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD680 is enabled in the new kernel of > >next (testing) release of boot-floppies. Please lo

Re: lilo or grub as the default boot loader on i386?

2003-02-05 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 06:27:30PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Which boot loader should we make the default for i386? I suggest > making grub the default. The lilo boot loader should be included as > an option, until grub work on all the machines where lilo will work. I don't care which

Re: lilo or grub as the default boot loader on i386?

2003-02-05 Thread Markus Schabel
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: At the moment we have two boot loaders for i386 available. Both lilo-installer and grub-installer are available. One of them need to be the default choice. The default choice will probably be used by most first time installers, and will also work as a recommondation f

lilo or grub as the default boot loader on i386?

2003-02-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
At the moment we have two boot loaders for i386 available. Both lilo-installer and grub-installer are available. One of them need to be the default choice. The default choice will probably be used by most first time installers, and will also work as a recommondation from the Debian installation

Bug#179919: lilo-installer: Missing dependency to find+mapdevfs?

2003-02-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I located mapdevfs in the di-utils-mount-partitions package, which is not installed when I use autopartkit. I believe the mapdevfs program must be moved into another package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#179919: lilo-installer: Missing dependency to find mapdevfs?

2003-02-05 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 05:06:39PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > When choosing "Install LILO on the hard disk" from d-i main-menu, I > get a question about where to install the boot block, accept the > default, and then the installer failed with this error message: > > [default = /dev/scsi

Re: Running base-config from within first stage installer

2003-02-05 Thread Joey Hess
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I've made a small udeb to run base-config from d-i, and will test it > some more before I check it into Debian CVS. It would then be > optional if base-config should run before or after reboot from HD. Why would we want to make that an option? It doesn't sound like a

Re: suite names

2003-02-05 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:45:45AM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote: > ons 2003-02-05 klockan 07.36 skrev Matt Kraai: > > To fix bug 148606, I'd like to change choose-mirror and > > cdrom-detect to use stable, testing, and unstable instead of sarge > > and sid. > > > > I'll also need to change base-ins

Bug#179919: lilo-installer: Missing dependency to find mapdevfs?

2003-02-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: lilo-installer Version: 0.0.8 Severity: grave When choosing "Install LILO on the hard disk" from d-i main-menu, I get a question about where to install the boot block, accept the default, and then the installer failed with this error message: [default = /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lu

a graphical interface for debian-installer

2003-02-05 Thread Michael Cardenas
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:32:10PM +0900, Akira TAGOH wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 08:39:24 -0800, > > "MC" == Michael Cardenas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > MC> Yes, the udeb should have the package name libpango1.0-0-udeb, if it > MC> doesn't already. > > MC> You're talking about th

Re: making my own netinstall CD

2003-02-05 Thread Markus Schabel
Eduard Bloch wrote: Use floppies and read in the manuall about kernel replacement. However, the old driver CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD680 is enabled in the new kernel of next (testing) release of boot-floppies. Please look at http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf3024/ and report the results. The module 3c5

Problems with "unejectable" CD when installing Woody b24f?

2003-02-05 Thread Paul Siu
OK, I have a different problem. I decided to try out the Woody b24f instead of the vanilla. After playing around with it a while, I eventually figure out that I had to include a "nomce" option to get around the machine check exception that it keeps causing a kernel panic at startup. Now, I can't in

Re: Unable to install vanilla version of Woody

2003-02-05 Thread Paul Siu
OK, it's my fault since I am new to Linux and was not too clear on what was being booted. Basically, I had some difficulty getting the dual boot from NT to work properly, and for some reason this machine can't be boot from the USB based floppy. I have been using the install disc to boot the system

Bug#178991: marked as done (segmentation faults)

2003-02-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated 05 Feb 2003 13:46:44 + with message-id <1044452804.2110.16.camel@coll> and subject line closing has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to r

Re: Testing network install does not have all network modules

2003-02-05 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 03:56:20PM +0200, Jouni Tulkki wrote: > Why doesn't the network install iso image (80mb version) have all network > drivers? I have a Realtek card and the installer says that it cannot load the > appropriate module. Is there any way that I can get that module from > somew

Re: Unable to install vanilla version of Woody

2003-02-05 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 02:19:49AM -0500, Paul Siu wrote: > I have a strange problem that I can't figure out. I am attempting to install > Debian Woody 3.0 on my machine. I boot up on disc 2 (Vanilla) and attempt to > install. Unfortunately, I notice that the kernel it install is the idepci > versi

Testing network install does not have all network modules

2003-02-05 Thread Jouni Tulkki
Why doesn't the network install iso image (80mb version) have all network drivers? I have a Realtek card and the installer says that it cannot load the appropriate module. Is there any way that I can get that module from somewhere? I think it is idiotic that the the network installer doesn't h

Re: anna and Release files

2003-02-05 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:37:38AM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote: > Tollef and I have been discussing what to do with Release files. The > current state of anna is that it tries > main/debian-installer/binary-$(ARCH)/Packages* > local/debian-installer/binary-$(ARCH)/Packages* > This is suboptimal

Re: suite names

2003-02-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Matt Kraai] > To fix bug 148606, I'd like to change choose-mirror and > cdrom-detect to use stable, testing, and unstable instead of sarge > and sid. Remember that the CDs contain symlinks for most suite names, so it is not enough to check if cdrom/dists/${suite}/ exits. > Any objections? If th

Re: One .po file instead of several

2003-02-05 Thread Denis Barbier
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:54:33AM +0100, Martin Sjögren wrote: > mån 2003-02-03 klockan 19.42 skrev Petter Reinholdtsen: > > [Denis Barbier] > > > Sure, it is really nice, thanks. > > > We could then put merged PO files online and update them automatically > > > so that translators do not need a f

Re: One .po file instead of several

2003-02-05 Thread Martin Sjögren
mån 2003-02-03 klockan 19.42 skrev Petter Reinholdtsen: > [Denis Barbier] > > Sure, it is really nice, thanks. > > We could then put merged PO files online and update them automatically > > so that translators do not need a full checkout of debian-ibstaller. > > Where should I put it? Somewhere i

Re: suite names

2003-02-05 Thread Martin Sjögren
ons 2003-02-05 klockan 07.36 skrev Matt Kraai: > Howdy, > > To fix bug 148606, I'd like to change choose-mirror and > cdrom-detect to use stable, testing, and unstable instead of sarge > and sid. > > I'll also need to change base-installer to retrieve the Release > file and use it to determine th

anna and Release files

2003-02-05 Thread Martin Sjögren
Tollef and I have been discussing what to do with Release files. The current state of anna is that it tries main/debian-installer/binary-$(ARCH)/Packages* local/debian-installer/binary-$(ARCH)/Packages* This is suboptimal. :) There are a few problems with getting this information from Release