Re: Another installation failure report

2003-06-04 Thread Peter Hawkins
Hi... On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 07:38 pm, Martin Sjögren wrote: > > There are a few issues with the patch: > 1. It asks about too many packages. Packages that are already installed > should definitely not be in the list at all. It shouldn't prompt for those - see the tests for installed() when building

Re: Please make discover2 udebs available for testing

2003-06-04 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Jeff Licquia] > Thanks for all the feedback, patches, and patience. I'm still > learning my way around discover, and this is my first udeb. No problem. I was expecting a few iterations before the package became useful. :) But we are very late at getting the next beta version of the Sarge CDs o

Re: monitorless intall - a newbie question

2003-06-04 Thread Chris Tillman
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 07:52:37PM +0100, Ken Gilmour wrote: > Replying to the message sent by R.Stepanyan on 04 Jun 2003 20:06:48 > +0200, received at 19:51:09 on 04/06/2003. R.Stepanyan wrote: >Hi all, > >I would like to ask for any information regarding an installation of >Debi

Re: Another installation failure report

2003-06-04 Thread Martin Sjögren
ons 2003-06-04 klockan 06.31 skrev Peter Hawkins: > Hi... > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:39 pm, Martin Sjögren wrote: > > Yes. A future project of mine is to change that question so that > > packages with priority standard will appear in the list too, with > > checked boxes. But this question will most li

Re: Problem Booting Install CD

2003-06-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Chris Tillman [Mon, Jun 02 2003, 05:58:47PM]: > > In case you need more info, my system is a Dell > > Dimension 8250 w/ 2.8 gHz P4 processor, 512 MB RAM, > > 112 GB HD, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video adapter w/128 MB > > RAM, a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card, and an 18" > > Dell 1800FP

Re: Another installation failure report

2003-06-04 Thread Peter Hawkins
Hi... On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:39 pm, Martin Sjögren wrote: > Yes. A future project of mine is to change that question so that > packages with priority standard will appear in the list too, with > checked boxes. But this question will most likely be asked at priority > low, as only a nitpicker should

Re: Repeatable Custom Installation

2003-06-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:19:23PM -0300, Brian M. Hunt wrote: > Does anyone know of a sensible means to do many custom debian installations at > once, from CD? > > What I am thinking of is a ground-up installer (specific to ia32, really), > that takes care of partitioning, boot manager, file sy

Bug#195955: problem installing woody on a old pc

2003-06-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 05:52:13PM +0200, Toniolo Athos wrote: > Package: boot-floppies > Version: woody stable 3.0.23-2002-05-21 > > flavor:vanilla > architecture: i386 > model: AMD Am5X86 > memory:12M > scsi: absent > cd-rom:absent > network card: abse

Fwd: RE: Bug#195251: installation problem

2003-06-04 Thread Chris Tillman
- Forwarded message from "Sharp, Thomas R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 08:41:39 -0400 From: "Sharp, Thomas R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2654.89) To: "'Chris Tillman'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Bug#195251: installation problem Chris th

Fwd: Bug#195251: FW: Bug#195251: installation problem

2003-06-04 Thread Chris Tillman
An observation for the d-i team: the dbg_log.tgz is very useful. Also, good additions to it would be the output of df and the debootstrap.log. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: 2003-06-02 Install failure report

2003-06-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:04:10AM -0400, Joe Nahmias wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Martin Sjögren wrote: > > tis 2003-06-03 klockan 06.44 skrev Joe Nahmias: > > > 3) Finally, we have (yet another) segfault during base-installer. This > > > one also occurs during th

Re: your mail

2003-06-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 05:00:13PM +1000, Bryce Taplin wrote: > Hi, > > I have just recently followed the install procedure for a > minimal install using the mini-iso image cd method. > > After following the procedure and selecting reboot, system goes through > the normal process, and

Repeatable Custom Installation

2003-06-04 Thread Brian M. Hunt
Does anyone know of a sensible means to do many custom debian installations at once, from CD? What I am thinking of is a ground-up installer (specific to ia32, really), that takes care of partitioning, boot manager, file system setup, core user & utilities (ie. a subset of debian 'base'), and i

Bug#196033: No _meaningful_ feedback when debootstrap fails

2003-06-04 Thread Peter Hawkins
Package: base-installer Version: 0.022 Severity: normal Hi... I'm using the 'newt' frontend of debian-installer when installing. If debootstrap fails, the message that the frontend displays does not contain enough information to track down the problem (one has to go grubbing through /target/va

Bug#181271: marked as done (rootskel: Alt-Ctrl-Del should reboot the machine)

2003-06-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 03 Jun 2003 17:47:42 -0400 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#181271: fixed in rootskel 0.31 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

rootskel_0.31_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2003-06-04 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: rootskel-locale_0.31_i386.udeb to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel-locale_0.31_i386.udeb rootskel_0.31.dsc to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel_0.31.dsc rootskel_0.31.tar.gz to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel_0.31.tar.gz rootskel_0.31_i386.udeb to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel_0.31_i386.u

Re: Another installation failure report

2003-06-04 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Martin Sjögren] > Yes it's bad. I don't know a clean way to do it though, since > languagechooser should depend on cdebconf-udeb, and what happens > when you pick languagechooser from the menu is that packages are > recursively configured. What about moving the cdebconf priority question away fr

Bug#166353: marked as done (cdrom-detect: Tries to load the same module twice)

2003-06-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 03 Jun 2003 17:17:14 -0400 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#166353: fixed in ddetect 0.30 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

ddetect_0.30_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2003-06-04 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: ddetect_0.30.dsc to pool/main/d/ddetect/ddetect_0.30.dsc ddetect_0.30.tar.gz to pool/main/d/ddetect/ddetect_0.30.tar.gz ethdetect_0.30_all.udeb to pool/main/d/ddetect/ethdetect_0.30_all.udeb hw-detect-full_0.30_all.udeb to pool/main/d/ddetect/hw-detect-full_0.30_all.udeb hw-detec

Re: 2003-06-02 Install failure report

2003-06-04 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Martin Sjögren] > Well, we still want to ask about hostname, we want to do that no > matter what installation scenario, so it should be split off from > netcfg (it's on the TODO), but I agree that all the confirmation > prompts are silly. Why ask about host name if DHCP and DNS give us the correc

Re: your mail

2003-06-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 01:53:32PM +1000, Bryce Taplin wrote: > Hi, > > I am using the net installer to try and set up debain on my > computer. I am using the minimal > > Cd iso image burnt to a cd-rw, which is around 30Mb in size. I can get > through most of the set-up however when i

Bug#195955: problem installing woody on a old pc

2003-06-04 Thread Toniolo Athos
Package: boot-floppies Version: woody stable 3.0.23-2002-05-21 flavor:vanilla architecture: i386 model: AMD Am5X86 memory:12M scsi: absent cd-rom:absent network card: absent pcmcia:absent Hi All, I tried to install Debian 3.0 on my old PC with 1

Re: Translating d-i (was: Translation)

2003-06-04 Thread George Papamichelakis
Martin Quinson wrote: Well, the technic behind is all different (debconf templates + po-debconf), but the result is quite identical: A bunch of po files instead of one big po file. It is even possible to merge all the small po files in one big to work on only one big po file, if you prefer. The si