Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
downloaded on 2003.01.05, md5sum b355a7bd83354e3b93e14ee33dc8841b.
uname -a:
Linux danube 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 200
Package: base-config
Version: 2.04
Severity: wishlist
I wish the time zone region defaulted to the US since I chose to
install using English (US).
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Bug#222607: USB keyboard does not work after reboot
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Bug#219290: [d-i] No USB keyboard after reboot
Bug#222607: USB keyboard does not wo
Steve Langasek wrote:
> So to recap and make sure I understand this correctly:
>
> - Normal development takes place on the trunk.
> - Changes required for beta2 (presumably for one of the ports) are made
> on the branch as well.
> - Uploads to unstable of d-i packages should come from the beta2
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:21:18PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> But asking the same novice installer to chose between
> /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
> and
> /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
> for installing the boot sector is?
No, but that's the best we have right n
Kenshi Muto wrote:
> At 6 Jan 04 01:45:13 GMT,
> Joey Hess wrote:
> > Kenshi Muto wrote:
> > > OK, I can add console-cyrillic and console-terminus when you
> > > choice 'Russian' for installation language. (base-installer.postinst)
> >
> > I think you should move that to languagechooser's postinst
James J. Ramsey wrote:
> I was advised that to workaround my pet problem of my
> CD-ROM's broken support for DMA that I was to use the
> expert install. I was told that since the installer in
> expert mode prompts me to pass parameters to a module
> it is about to load, I can pass the appropriate
>
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:01:43PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> >
> > [Joey Hess]
> > > The branch is set up, it's called "beta2", so "cvs update -r beta2" to
> > > switch a tree over to it, etc. So this means that cvs head is open for
> > > random development not targete
At 6 Jan 04 01:45:13 GMT,
Joey Hess wrote:
> Kenshi Muto wrote:
> > OK, I can add console-cyrillic and console-terminus when you
> > choice 'Russian' for installation language. (base-installer.postinst)
>
> I think you should move that to languagechooser's postinst, this seems a
> better fit than
I was advised that to workaround my pet problem of my
CD-ROM's broken support for DMA that I was to use the
expert install. I was told that since the installer in
expert mode prompts me to pass parameters to a module
it is about to load, I can pass the appropriate
parameters to the module that hand
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:23:06PM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
> m?n 2004-01-05 klockan 15.55 skrev Matt Kraai:
> > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:53:41AM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
> > > m?n 2004-01-05 klockan 06.09 skrev Matt Kraai:
> > > > Howdy,
> > > >
> > > > The latest daily debian-installer
Kenshi Muto wrote:
> OK, I can add console-cyrillic and console-terminus when you
> choice 'Russian' for installation language. (base-installer.postinst)
I think you should move that to languagechooser's postinst, this seems a
better fit than base-installer.
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Kenshi Muto wrote:
> Hmm, how to solve changelog conflict?
> I'd like to modify base-installer.postinst for next beta (not for beta2).
Commit as usual (although, I have a greatly changed version of that file
I hope to commit soon.) If we need to update base-installer for beta 2,
we will use a spec
I continue to work I18N for next beta (It will be too late for beta2).
At 5 Jan 04 15:22:02 GMT,
Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> So maybe it is possible to install console-cyrillic at the first stage only
> in cases when it is needed? And install jfbterm in other cases ...
OK, I can add console-cy
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 02:31:29PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> For the DECchip 21140 card, discover currently loads the lmc module,
> while the 79c970 card uses the pcnet32 driver. Can you confirm that
> this works or should the DECchip 21140 use the tulip module? (Hmm,
> looking at the kern
At 5 Jan 04 23:37:43 GMT,
Joey Hess wrote:
> > Or maybe should be commit them to both branches?
> >
> > Example: #226293 fix
>
> You're welcome to try, but it's highly unlikely it would get in, unless
> the package was puched into beta 2 for some other good reason.
Hmm, how to solve changelog co
Great. I did not know about this community. well I am now a registered
user (user ID: anmar-guest), which is kind of silly but oh well.. :)
Now what do I need to do to get the cvs write access ?
Thanks alot
Anmar
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Anmar Oueja]
great. well i am not a debian developer
Argh, I forgot base-installer...
At 6 Jan 04 00:24:36 GMT,
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > So maybe it is possible to install console-cyrillic at the first
> > stage only in cases when it is needed? And install jfbterm in other
> > cases ...
>
> One of the challenges is deciding where to put the l
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> [Joey Hess]
> > The branch is set up, it's called "beta2", so "cvs update -r beta2" to
> > switch a tree over to it, etc. So this means that cvs head is open for
> > random development not targeted at beta 2.
>
> Do we upload from the branch or from the trunk?
If i
Can anyone explain why the ugly hack in kernel-installer to modify DELAY
in initrd-tools is there? Has the bug it works around since been fixed
in initrd-tools? I have a zero delay in my mkinitrd.conf by default.
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At 5 Jan 04 15:22:02 GMT,
Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > I think installed packages at 1st stage should be smallest.
> > I'm planning to use jfbterm for 2nd stage.
>
> Jfbterm and unifont also cost some space...
Yes, but it can handle all of major language.
> I'm not really familar with curre
Anmar Oueja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello all:
>
> Just wanted to let you know that Arabic Language translation of Debian
> installer has reached 11% and there is a lot of activity to get it
> done ASAP.
>
> Here is the link for the status (dynamically updated) :
> http://www.arabeyes.org/
Hi,
At 5 Jan 04 17:23:44 GMT,
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
> On Monday 05 January 2004 17:48, Kenshi Muto wrote:
> > OK, greek seems LANG=el_GR.ISO-8859-7.
> > Did you run 'jfbterm -c other,ISO-8859-7,iconv,UTF-8'?
>
> Yes it works in ISO encoding as well (for ISO encoded text of course
> only
[Joey Hess]
> The branch is set up, it's called "beta2", so "cvs update -r beta2" to
> switch a tree over to it, etc. So this means that cvs head is open for
> random development not targeted at beta 2.
Do we upload from the branch or from the trunk?
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[Nikita V. Youshchenko]
> I'm not really familar with current DI status. Is debootstrap the only tool
> used to install packages at the first stage? Seems not - at least kernel
> package seems to be installed in another way.
No, it is possible to install packages using apt as well. apt-install
i
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:33:17PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> This one is to make sure our sources.list.udeb.local isn't ignored
> by our CVS. Is using that file how I am supposed to add udeb
> sources?
> Index: .cvsignore
I'm using it here, and it's documented and referenced with
[Joey Hess]
>> (I commited the languagelist.l10n etry but that wasn't a very good idea)
>
> The encoding was bad. With a fixed encoding it actually looks Arabi-ish.
Actually, there were nothing wrong with the encoding. The problem was
that the characters _were_ question marks, ie the correct cha
Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > The branch is set up, it's called "beta2", so "cvs update -r beta2" to
> > switch a tree over to it, etc. So this means that cvs head is open for
> > random development not targeted at beta 2.
>
> So, this means that we can comm
Christian Perrier wrote:
> However, I think this should go in the upcoming "beta-2" branch
> because of the lack for BIDI implementation in beta-2
I think the above sentance is missing a "not".
> (I commited the languagelist.l10n etry but that wasn't a very good idea)
The encoding was bad. With
[Anmar Oueja]
> great. well i am not a debian developer so no write access to cvs
> but i have a friend who is and i plan on getting him to commit the
> stuff himself.
You do not have to be an debian developer to gain write access to CVS.
You have to apply for an account on alioth, and let us know
thanks Christian:
Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting Anmar Oueja ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Hello all:
Just wanted to let you know that Arabic translation of the installer
have gone up to 39% in 3 days. We are moving quite nicely and should
have the whole thing finished in a week or so.
I think this
Hi,
I find it common practice by new translators (like me) that country
codes in choose-mirror are not translated and just copied. (It's good
to use en.po for reference while translating.) But that's not all. I
didn't understand "US[ default..]" until Denis Barbier point me that
this is the
I just updated the build tree we use in Skolelinux to build our d-i
floppies. They are so small I started to wunder it the changes are
still neded. Anyone know more?
This one is to make sure our sources.list.udeb.local isn't ignored
by our CVS. Is using that file how I am supposed to add u
Fabrice Lorrain (home) a écrit :
wishlist :
Can someone provide kernel+tftpboot image for the archs where d-i is in
a testing state ?
Replying to myself :
They are at the regular place :
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-*
Fab
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Steve Langasek wrote:
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:16:39PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
Christian Perrier wrote:
Lower debconf priority and the boot loader installation entries will
show up on main-menu.
Wouldn't you admit that this is _very_ hard to find?
Do you really think that choosing a bo
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:41:16PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Polish and Slovenian have been back to 93% due to incomplete
> translations in choose-mirror (country codes needs to be translated,
> not just copied...I should have checked this).
Ok that's no problem I'll translate it soon.
I'v
Hi,
The current version of kbd-chooser appears to be correct Unicode.
Could you please check and confirm that this bug can be closed?
SlÃn agus Beannacht,
Alastair
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 04:59:37PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
[...]
> > * Choose a mirror
> >
> > Strange sorting in the country list, Germany (de) comes
> > before Denmark (dk) :-)
>
> Hm well, I think that is sorted at build time actually. That's worth a
> bug report..
In fact they are no
Polish and Slovenian have been back to 93% due to incomplete
translations in choose-mirror (country codes needs to be translated,
not just copied...I should have checked this).
Finnish may soon reach PERFECT state.
Chinese nearly finished as well as norwegian bokmal...
15 PERFECT
1 COMPLETE
5 ALM
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> The branch is set up, it's called "beta2", so "cvs update -r beta2" to
> switch a tree over to it, etc. So this means that cvs head is open for
> random development not targeted at beta 2.
So, this means that we can commit translation minor fixes to beta-2?
--- Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> James J. Ramsey wrote:
> > The documentation on expert mode in the
> > INSTALLATION-HOWTO is a little thin, but you
> *seem* to
> > be saying that just to turn off DMA for the
> CD-ROM, I
> > have resort to avoid using Debian's hardware
> detection
> > an
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 08:14:04PM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> Hello.
>
> May I ask what's wrong with status webpage?
> http://people.debian.org/~barbier/debian-installer/l10n/
>
> It shows that Polish has untranslated choose-mirror.po file.
> I've checked this file and it seems that
Christian Perrier wrote:
Alioth is up since today morning, about 10am GMT. I was lucky enough
just to test 10minutes after it went up..:-)
Thanx
Harri
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On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:50:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Geert Stappers wrote:
| | > > "Configure keyboard" does nothing
| | >
| | > This is because your keyboard is already configured by d-i.
> > That reminds me on an usablity test done in Oldenburg.
> > The request was to show what already h
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:29:03PM +0100, Simon H?rlimann wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 20:50, Joey Hess wrote:
> Geert Stappers wrote:
| | | > > "Configure keyboard" does nothing
| | | >
| | | > This is because your keyboard is already configured by d-i.
> > > That reminds me on an usablity test
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:16:39PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Christian Perrier wrote:
> >Lower debconf priority and the boot loader installation entries will
> >show up on main-menu.
> Wouldn't you admit that this is _very_ hard to find?
Do you really think that choosing a bootloader should
mån 2004-01-05 klockan 15.55 skrev Matt Kraai:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:53:41AM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
> > m?n 2004-01-05 klockan 06.09 skrev Matt Kraai:
> > > Howdy,
> > >
> > > The latest daily debian-installer images are dated 2004-01-01.
> > > Do you know why more recent builds are n
Package: ddetect
Version: N/A; reported 2004-01-05
Severity: normal
"Detecting hardware" is incorrectly translated to "Détection du matériel
réseau" in french
This should be "Détection du matériel".
This BR for the record, just waiting for alioth CVS access to be OK.
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Debia
The branch is set up, it's called "beta2", so "cvs update -r beta2" to
switch a tree over to it, etc. So this means that cvs head is open for
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Christian Perrier wrote:
Lower debconf priority and the boot loader installation entries will
show up on main-menu.
Wouldn't you admit that this is _very_ hard to find?
lilo is still the default boot loader (no idea whether this is
supposed to change) but grub is definitely a possible choice.
I t
Quoting Anmar Oueja ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hello all:
>
> Just wanted to let you know that Arabic translation of the installer
> have gone up to 39% in 3 days. We are moving quite nicely and should
> have the whole thing finished in a week or so.
I think this should be commited ASAP, just after
Martin Sjögren wrote:
> But kbd-chooser and choose-mirror have sane defaults from
> languagechooser, right? Time zone selection ought to have that too, and
> base-config mirror choice could be done away with completely and use
> what d-i used. KDE's wizard, I don't know anything about...
Right on
I'd appreciate it if everyone could hold off on committing changes to
cvs until I branch it for beta 2. Before I do that, I need to commit the
few things I uploaded for beta 2 this weekend.
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Hello all:
Just wanted to let you know that Arabic translation of the installer
have gone up to 39% in 3 days. We are moving quite nicely and should
have the whole thing finished in a week or so.
What is the status of BIDI implementation. I heard nothing from nobody.
Please let us know as it i
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Your comment about freezing the udebs in unstable made me conclude
> that I would be unable to get these fixes into d-i before the sarge
> release.
Must be a misunderstanding then. The udebs are frozen in testing for
beta 2. When beta 3 is ready, it will replace all th
James J. Ramsey wrote:
> The documentation on expert mode in the
> INSTALLATION-HOWTO is a little thin, but you *seem* to
> be saying that just to turn off DMA for the CD-ROM, I
> have resort to avoid using Debian's hardware detection
> and load the modules manually with modconf. I *hope*
> you are
On Monday 05 January 2004 17:48, Kenshi Muto wrote:
> OK, greek seems LANG=el_GR.ISO-8859-7.
> Did you run 'jfbterm -c other,ISO-8859-7,iconv,UTF-8'?
Yes it works in ISO encoding as well (for ISO encoded text of course
only).
Anyway, I was hoping to have the UTF-8 encoding as standard for the
gr
Package: prebaseconfig
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
The package assignment may be wrong.I've looked at vt4 and saw that I
was in debootstrap-udeb postinst when this happened.
Symptom:
-Vmware installation
-no network connecttion for the system host
-Error "Failed to retrieve "Release" file from
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> I will test the powerpc images on my powerbook until the end of this
> week. IMHO Sven has to decide about the powerpc freeze date, because
> most of the work on powerpc has to be done on non-pmac subarches. He
> will probably the one doing this work.
> I will be able to w
Quoting Nikita V. Youshchenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I'm not really familar with current DI status. Is debootstrap the only tool
BTW, if you're looking for work to do, the russian translations were
far from complete and Ilgiz Kalmetev was quite alone to work on
these...so you're welcome..:-)
-
> I think installed packages at 1st stage should be smallest.
> I'm planning to use jfbterm for 2nd stage.
Jfbterm and unifont also cost some space...
I'm not really familar with current DI status. Is debootstrap the only tool
used to install packages at the first stage? Seems not - at least ker
At 5 Jan 04 14:45:18 GMT,
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
> > I'm care about this situation. Japanese, Chinese and Korean have
> > same problem.
>
> Greek has this problem as well. At least last time I checked (2 days
> ago).
Interesting.
> > Could you test jfbterm whether fits Russian or not?
>
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:53:41AM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
> m?n 2004-01-05 klockan 06.09 skrev Matt Kraai:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > The latest daily debian-installer images are dated 2004-01-01.
> > Do you know why more recent builds are not available?
>
> Because alioth is down. There was a prob
On Monday 05 January 2004 16:24, Kenshi Muto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At 5 Jan 04 13:34:52 GMT,
>
> Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > However, not everything is perfect yet.
> > At the very beginning, I selected Russian language.
> > So after rebuut and starting base-config, it tried to display
> > messages
Am Don, den 01.01.2004 schrieb Joey Hess um 20:56:
> Thorsten Sauter wrote:
> > | So my new plan is, as soon as i386 is releasable, to work to migrate the
> > | current set of debian-installer udebs and images to testing. AJ has
> > | agreed to do this without the usual testing delay stuff, all in
Hi,
At 5 Jan 04 13:34:52 GMT,
Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> However, not everything is perfect yet.
> At the very beginning, I selected Russian language.
> So after rebuut and starting base-config, it tried to display messages in
> Russian. However, it didn't configure console to display cyrillic
--- Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> James J. Ramsey wrote:
> > I tested the Jan 3rd i386 netinst iso. It still
> > doesn't work with older ATAPI CD-ROMs that can't
> > handle DMA, since 1) the standard kernel parameter
> > ide=nodma gets mysteriously ignored by the
> installer,
>
> There is
Hello.
I've not looked at DI for several months. Today I downloaded current netinst
and installed a vmware. And guess what? It installed Debian! I'm impressed.
Great Work!
However, not everything is perfect yet.
At the very beginning, I selected Russian language.
So after rebuut and starting base
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Bug#224285: wrong characters in keyboard layout selection
Bug reassigned from package `kbd-chooser' to `console-data'.
> reassign 226170 console-data
Bug#226170: kbd-chooser: German (Germany) language set swiss keyboard lay
Hi all,
Sorry for the delay in replying... christmas and all ;-)
However, I am afraid that this issue is still not resolved.
Towhit:
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BusyBox v1.00-pre4 (2003.12.31-23:56+) multi-call binary
Usage: umount [flags] FILESYSTEM|DIRECTORY
[EMAIL
Quoting Harald Dunkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi folks,
>
> Any chance to get Alioth up and running again? I am trying
> to access the CVS files for _days_, but without luck. Web
> access doesn't work, either.
Alioth is up since today morning, about 10am GMT. I was lucky enough
just to test 10minu
Quoting Harald Dunkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> grub-installer? You mean d-i supports grub?
Sure
>
> I have never seen this option at installation time.
> How can I avoid Lilo in favour of Grub?
Lower debconf priority and the boot loader installation entries will
show up on main-menu.
lilo is st
Hi,
I have just finished my first ever debian install using the Feb 2nd snapshot
of debian-installer. Prior to this I have used and installed Gentoo (more
failed attempts than successful), SuSE, Redhat and Mandrake. I would like to
report my finding to the list.
My system specifications are as fo
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:58:58PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> As has been noted, gnome and the gnome task is completly broken in testing.
> Just like it has been for over 6 months. I remeber mailing the maintainer
> of the gnome metapackage last spring about these problems with no response
> and no
mån 2004-01-05 klockan 06.09 skrev Matt Kraai:
> Howdy,
>
> The latest daily debian-installer images are dated 2004-01-01.
> Do you know why more recent builds are not available?
Because alioth is down. There was a problem with the images because I
used an outdated build directory and cannot cvs
sön 2004-01-04 klockan 22.58 skrev Joey Hess:
> So I picked kde from gdm and it worked ok. One annoying thing was that its
> setup wizard asked me _again_ what country I was in, bringing the grand
> total of times the installer asked me stuff about that to 6:
> - language/country chooser
>
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Joey Hess]
Are you talking about the reported freeze in serial console after
languagechooser, or just a general, non-user-visible cleanup?
I am talking about a general non-user-visible cleanup, to make sure
kbd-chooser, lilo-installer, grub-installer (and possibly oth
[Joey Hess]
> Are you talking about the reported freeze in serial console after
> languagechooser, or just a general, non-user-visible cleanup?
I am talking about a general non-user-visible cleanup, to make sure
kbd-chooser, lilo-installer, grub-installer (and possibly other
packages) use common i
Hi folks,
Any chance to get Alioth up and running again? I am trying
to access the CVS files for _days_, but without luck. Web
access doesn't work, either.
Many thanx for your help
Harri
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Hmm, I or MUA missed something.
At 5 Jan 04 06:20:30 GMT,
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