On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 02:52:08PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:55:00PM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
> > Hell no, we should decide on one approach and stick to it, inconsistency
> > is bad for your health. I move that only main-menu should set titles. As
> > we discussed in
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:13:37PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
[...]
> > > Template: main-menu/anna
> > > _Description: [TITLE] Load installer modules
> >
> > No. please do not use any specific markup like [TITLE], this was only
> > an example on my side in order to find a way to put more informati
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Bug#213291: partconf-mkfstab: Creates incorrect fstab entries
Bug#213360: partconf-mkfstab: fstab creation broken
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:19:59AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 02:52:08PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:55:00PM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
> > > Hell no, we should decide on one approach and stick to it, inconsistency
> > > is bad for your healt
Hi,
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Subject: Re: i18n of tasksel (and cdebconf)
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:58:52 -0400
> This patch will be in the next release. I have to make sure tasksel 1.34
> gets into testing first (maybe it already is, I am offline).
Version 1.34 is already available i
Package: partconf-mkfstab
Severity: grave
Tags: d-i
Justification: renders package unusable
Searching for the reason why grub-installer fails to install grub, I had
a look at partconf-mkfstab.
When I just run through the normal install process and select to use
this program to create the fstab (i
Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> > I would prefer to not upload a tasksel using this new library until it
> > is in testing already, and until debootstrap installs it as part of the
> > base system.
>
> Finally libtextwrap is installed into Sarge (testing). Thus I wrote
> a simple patch for tasksel to us
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Bug#213265: partconf: fails to modprobe reiserfs
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i think cdebconf should support selection of a list value via an id.
this makes it much easier to set a default value for a generated list or
read the value for such lists. also it makes the handling of static
lists easier because the code don't need to know the real
Package: partconf
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
The way partconf mkreiserfs will cause mkreiserfs to ask questions,
which will freeze partconf.
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Le Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 20:20:56 -0400, Dan Weber a écrit:
> Apparently its builtin into the debian-installer cvs.
> run make TYPE=bootfloppy initrd
> from the build dir and that should work.
>
> Im going to review it later tonight.
> > simon
> >
k, i'll take a look at too, i have some free ti
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 20:17, simon raven wrote:
> Le Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 16:26:50 -0700, Matt Kraai a écrit:
> > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:06:03PM -0400, Dan Weber wrote:
> > > I have begun to work on getting oldworld to boot. Basically the idea is
> > > to take two floppies, one with the kernel
Le Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 16:26:50 -0700, Matt Kraai a écrit:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:06:03PM -0400, Dan Weber wrote:
> > I have begun to work on getting oldworld to boot. Basically the idea is
> > to take two floppies, one with the kernel and the other with the initrd
> > if we can fit and have
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:57, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:52:57PM -0400, Dan Weber wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:36, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:28:47PM -0400, Dan Weber wrote:
> > > > I am still maintainer of d-i 2.6 and I must do a duplicate of his
>
I think this is the longest thread that debian-boot has ever had.
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:57, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:52:57PM -0400, Dan Weber wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:36, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:28:47PM -0400, Dan Weber wrote:
> > > >
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:52:57PM -0400, Dan Weber wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:36, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:28:47PM -0400, Dan Weber wrote:
> > > I am still maintainer of d-i 2.6 and I must do a duplicate of his
> > > design. I wonder what size he got his initrds dow
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:36, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:28:47PM -0400, Dan Weber wrote:
> > I am still maintainer of d-i 2.6 and I must do a duplicate of his
> > design. I wonder what size he got his initrds down to any how.
>
> It's the bootfloppy type. Have fun.
What do yo
Le Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 16:37:03 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit:
> [Eric Côté]
> > that OldWorld PPC sub-arch will not be supported directly in the new
> > installer.
>
> OK. I leave that decision to you. Thanks for letting us know, so we
> can avoid worrying about that architecture. If you
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:06:03PM -0400, Dan Weber wrote:
> I have begun to work on getting oldworld to boot. Basically the idea is
> to take two floppies, one with the kernel and the other with the initrd
> if we can fit and have the kernel be the one kickstarting the cd. in
> the following way
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 02:52:08PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:55:00PM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
> > Hell no, we should decide on one approach and stick to it, inconsistency
> > is bad for your health. I move that only main-menu should set titles. As
> > we discussed in
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:28:47PM -0400, Dan Weber wrote:
> I am still maintainer of d-i 2.6 and I must do a duplicate of his
> design. I wonder what size he got his initrds down to any how.
It's the bootfloppy type. Have fun.
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On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:26, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:06:03PM -0400, Dan Weber wrote:
> > I have begun to work on getting oldworld to boot. Basically the idea is
> > to take two floppies, one with the kernel and the other with the initrd
> > if we can fit and have the kernel b
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 06:00:00PM +0200, Sebastian Ley wrote:
> With switching to 2.4.22 we have everything in place to create and mount
> reiser filesystems. However although the userlandtools are present and
> the kernel modules are in place, partconf does not load the kernel
> modules and hence
Package: partconf-mkfstab
Version: 0.06
Severity: important
After running /var/lib/dpkg/info/partconf-mkfstab.postinst, the
content of /target/etc/fstab is not quite correct. This is the entry
for /proc/:
/dev/sda1 /proc proc defaults 0 2
The device is bogus, and the backup pass value
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 10:37, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Eric Côté]
> > that OldWorld PPC sub-arch will not be supported directly in the new
> > installer.
>
> OK. I leave that decision to you. Thanks for letting us know, so we
> can avoid worrying about that architecture. If you change your
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:55:00PM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
> Hell no, we should decide on one approach and stick to it, inconsistency
> is bad for your health. I move that only main-menu should set titles. As
> we discussed in Oldenburg, having the titles consistent with the menu
> items is an
mån 2003-09-29 klockan 22.18 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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Um, the file encoding already was UTF-8, except for André's la
mån 2003-09-29 klockan 20.54 skrev Petter Reinholdtsen:
> [Thorsten Sauter]
> > just for make sure...
> > this means no program should set the title directly? This should be done
> > all the time by main-menu?
>
> The need to set the title will be greatly reduced, but I am not sure
> if we should
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:44:54PM +0100, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> Sorry to be dense, but I've been very ill recently and can't remember
> where things are.
I hope you're better now.
> Where can I find what is considered *the* businesscard ISO to test?
I believe that the INSTALLATION-HOWTO
Hi,
Sorry to be dense, but I've been very ill recently and can't remember
where things are.
Where can I find what is considered *the* businesscard ISO to test?
D.
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 04:50:48PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Chris Tillman]
> > I tried out the slang interface on powerpc. It's quite attractive,
> > but one thing bugged me.
>
> I like the newt frontend more. That is the one we are planning to use
> in the text version of d-i. I'm n
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 04:49:09PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[...]
> Is this the same comment format as used in the gettext handling in
> KDE?
>
> Do all programs using gettext use the same method for passing
> instructions to the translators?
No, in fact these comments are introduced to d
[Thorsten Sauter]
> just for make sure...
> this means no program should set the title directly? This should be done
> all the time by main-menu?
The need to set the title will be greatly reduced, but I am not sure
if we should require all packages to remove their titles.
> If so, I go ahead and
* Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-29 14:02]:
| Bastian Blank wrote:
| >On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:26:14PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
| >
| >>+ MODEL=`/usr/bin/ppcdetect`
| >
| >depreacated
| why
please see the thread about anna and arch-detection.
ppcdetect will be relaced b
I'm trying to install Sarge on my laptop (A Dell latitude) using the
business card CD image here:
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/
It starts to boot from the CD ok ... loads the kernel, spewing normal
kernel-starting stuff, then looks like it tries to start X, then dumps
me back a
Hi Gaudenz,
* Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-29 12:26]:
| --- kernel-installer.postinst.orig2003-09-28 17:06:53.0 +0200
| +++ kernel-installer.postinst 2003-09-28 17:35:57.0 +0200
| @@ -107,6 +107,29 @@
| fi
| ;;
| esac
| + p
* Adam DiCarlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-29 17:46]:
| Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > A few days ago a asked you about write access to the d-i cvs.
|
| I never got any such message.
|
| > Sadly I didn't hear anything from you.
|
| See above. :(
|
| > Could you please tel
* Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-29 11:33]:
| anna will use a new control field in the next version. it is called
| subarchitecture and will restrict the selection of this package only if
| it runs on this subarch.
|
| also this information should be used by kbd-chooser, which currentl
* Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-27 12:22]:
| I just implemented and commited a new cdebconf command, SETTITLE.
| This will set the debconf title from a template description, making it
| possible to translate titles.
|
| The old TITLE command is depricated and should be removed a
* Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-29 11:22]:
| On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 02:48:25PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
| > I tried mounting my partition at /cdrom, but the kernel doesn't
| > have hfs compiled in. I think we need to correct this, powerpc
| > users will always want to be able to acces
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With switching to 2.4.22 we have everything in place to create and mount
reiser filesystems. However although the userlandtools are present and
the kernel modules are in place, partconf does not load the kernel
modules and hence does not display the opt
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:46:31AM -0500, Adam DiCarlo wrote:
> Also, I need approval from the debian-installer maintainer.
I think, i'm allowed to approve this, so this is the approval for
Gaudenz Steilin to get access to the cvs.
bastian
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Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A few days ago a asked you about write access to the d-i cvs.
I never got any such message.
> Sadly I didn't hear anything from you.
See above. :(
> Could you please tell me which next steps I'm supposed to do or if
> you are just busy and will t
[Chris Tillman]
> I tried out the slang interface on powerpc. It's quite attractive,
> but one thing bugged me.
I like the newt frontend more. That is the one we are planning to use
in the text version of d-i. I'm not aware of anyone but you actually
using the slang frontend. Did you try the ne
[Denis Barbier]
> Items will be gathered into a single menu, so their context is not
> the current PO file, but the whole menu. For instance translation
> teams may decide that each item must contain a verb, so they must
> know which descriptions are in fact menu items.
OK.
> I do not understand
[Eric Côté]
> that OldWorld PPC sub-arch will not be supported directly in the new
> installer.
OK. I leave that decision to you. Thanks for letting us know, so we
can avoid worrying about that architecture. If you change your mind,
please send patches or get involved to fix the remaining probl
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:55:14PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> netcfg
builds with backward compatiblity
> partconf
builds with backward compatiblity
> yaboot-installer
seems to build with backward compatiblity
bastian
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warn_initrd just removes the warning about the initrd, it does not any
harm if the image don't use an initrd
link_in_boot makes the links always apear in /boot which is needed if
/boot is an extra partition and grub should be used. also some other
arches always needs this because the bootloader rea
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 05:23:00AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 04:22:55AM -0500, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > Network support is not included on the CDROM image. It is added
> > once you run "Load installer modules".
>
> Oh. But I did run it, and they didn't. Anything else to l
i'm currently the only people which do work on libdebian-installer,
thats why it seriously needs some independend code review.
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> new functions:
- di_system_init (const char *)
sets syslog log handler
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 04:22:55AM -0500, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 02:48:25PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > I tried mounting my partition at /cdrom, but the kernel doesn't
> > have hfs compiled in. I think we need to correct this, powerpc
> > users will always want to be able t
Bastian Blank wrote:
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:26:14PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
+ MODEL=`/usr/bin/ppcdetect`
depreacated
why
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:36:14AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> i prefere to set this
> setting always on yes and drop them as arch specific.
i delay that change one week
bastian
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hi folks
this packages needs to be changed (only arch-independend and
powerpc/i386 packages are listed)
anna, Bastian Blank (mostly done)
main-menu, Bastian Blank
base-installer
cdrom-checker
kbd-chooser (also subarch stuff)
netcfg
partconf
partitioner
yaboot-installer
udpkg (don't depend against
hi thorsten and all the others
I have found the last bug that stops us from releasing a beta for
powerpc. The code to select a default kernel in kernel-installer was
missing for powerpc. The attached patch fixes this at least for
newworld. I don't know about the others.
I propose you prepare a fin
Package: kernel-installer
Version: N/A
kernel-image should set warn_initrd=NO and image_in_boot=YES
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hi folks
currently only sparc sets image_in_boot for the kernel-image. this
breaks grub if /boot is an extra partition. i prefere to set this
setting always on yes and drop them as arch specific.
bastian
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> Hi di- and FAI- developers,
>
> I have a general question: How do di and FAI relate, when di is ready?
> Will di replace FAI? Will FAI use di? Is di only for interactive
> installation? Thanks for comments and explanation.
Yes, di can replace FAI.
Every question asked is sto
hi folks
anna will use a new control field in the next version. it is called
subarchitecture and will restrict the selection of this package only if
it runs on this subarch.
also this information should be used by kbd-chooser, which currently
does this stuff themself.
i will introduce a new temp
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:39:02PM -0400, Levi Bard wrote:
> Yeah, it hangs while loading the root ramdisk into memory. Maybe I'll try to find a
> copy of slink, or maybe I can install a distri designed for embedding, then add apt.
You could put the harddisk of this box in another computer with
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 20:03:44 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> How do di and FAI relate,
FAI does everything which is done in di but without any
interaction. FAI was designed to do mass installations of the OS and
all applications. di is only designed for the installation of one
computer
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 02:48:25PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> I tried mounting my partition at /cdrom, but the kernel doesn't
> have hfs compiled in. I think we need to correct this, powerpc
> users will always want to be able to access hfs partitions on
> their drive.
Please file a bug report
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 02:48:25PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> I tried mounting my partition at /cdrom, but the kernel doesn't
> have hfs compiled in. I think we need to correct this, powerpc
> users will always want to be able to access hfs partitions on
> their drive.
>
> I'm assuming we'll be
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