Oldworld PPC install

Hi, I've recently come into possession of a Power Macintosh G3 in beige case. I understand this to be oldworld mac. It has a 6GB IDE disk, a 4.3 GB SCSI disk and 320 MB RAM. stable/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/images-1.44/boot-floppy-hfs.img was booted however after about 20 seconds t

Bug#226722: fails to create symlink

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:20:09AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:39:08PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: > > A patch that fixes it is attached. > > the patch is broken, the proper behavior is to ignore non-existant > source files in symlink mode. > > bastian > > -- > Spock:

Bug#226871: installation report on AMD-k6 system from earlier this week

Package: installation-reports Version: INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: daily built from people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/20040104/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux polonius 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 i586 GNU/Linux (clock is wrong) Date: Tuesday Jan

Re: ia64 install report

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 07:58:57PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > b) At some point during loading the installer modules, it spews a load > > of text over the screen, such as: > > Unknown localized field: > > Description-fr.ISO-8859-15: Aucune partition de dmarrage dtecte > > That doesn't seem to c

Re: ia64 install report

Richard Hirst wrote: > a) The iso has kernel-installer_0.045_all.udeb, even though 0.046 is in > the archive. Presumably we are stuck with that until Joeyh forces 0.046 > in to testing. As a result, it installed a 2.4.19 kernel for Itanium, > rather than choosing Itanium or Mckinley 2.4.20 based

Bug#226344: choose time zone region default based on language

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:50:58PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 03:41:57PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: > > 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). > Wh

Bug#226344: choose time zone region default based on language

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 03:41:57PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: > 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). Which of the four timezones from the United States do you prefer? Any suggesti

Re: Proposal: Ask if user wants to set up network

Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:14:08PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:20:12PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I propose (if this isn't being worked on already) that d-i ask the user if he/she wants to set up his/her network

ia64 install report

INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/ia64/daily/sarge-ia64-businesscard.iso dated 08-JAN-2004 15:02 uname -a: Date: Jan 8th 2004, 23:20 GMT Method: businesscard.iso, specified 'testing', local http mirror Machine: HP i2000 proto Processor: It

Re: Partman added to d-i repository

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:02:47PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > Finally I managed to add partman to the CVS repository of d-i. I > haven't tested recently how the packages work in real situation but > only using `make TYPE=... demo' in the build directory of d-i. I > haven't documented partman-

Re: Proposal: Ask if user wants to set up network

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:14:08PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:20:12PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > >>I propose (if this isn't being worked on already) that d-i ask the user > >>if he/she wants to set up his/her network connections

Alpha: patch for srm-reader

I've noticed that srm-reader doesn't actually work for setting the default language from the SRM environment on alphas, because it's looking for a two-digit hex number in /proc/srm_environment/named_variables/language, when in all the kernels I have here it's exposed as a single binary byte. Fortu

Re: Disable frame buffer / boot in text mode?

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:20:34PM -0500, Erik Dykema wrote: > I would like to boot the installer in text mode, not in framebuffer > mode. I need it this way because we install remotely on headless > servers, and see the console via serial port and/or remote management > hardware, which d

Bug#226730: Problem with wireless pcmcia network card and keymap

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2004-01-08 07:09, you wrote: > (Bart, a lot of nl tsl stuff in this report, if you didn't manage to > see it...Alastair same for keyboard stuff : kbd-chooser and console-data) ack > > wanted to have a look at the translations > > default keyboard

Re: English localization

Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Joey, since you're fixing debconf message, I'd like to draw your > attention to: #225168: unclear terminology: CDROM drive vs reader I've reworked cdrom-detect a bit to fix that and several other issues, including the wrong CD eject bug (anyone remember the coffee spill d

Bug#226821:

Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/20040107/ uname -a: Linux feathers 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux Date: Jan. 7, 2003, 18:00 EST Method: Burned and booted i386 netinst iso; remai

kernel 2.2.25 vs d-i

I'm trying to figure out if supporting kernel 2.2.25 in d-i is possible. Why? Because I'm working on the m68k port on mac hardware. No 2.4.x kernel ever really worked with mac hardware. There is some preliminary 2.6.x work being done, but I'd rather start with a known working kernel. Here's my p

Re: Disable frame buffer / boot in text mode?

Erik Dykema wrote: > I would like to boot the installer in text mode, not in framebuffer > mode. I need it this way because we install remotely on headless > servers, and see the console via serial port and/or remote management > hardware, which does text mode. > In woody vanilla /

Re: Problems using sarge netinstall (07012004) image in bochs

Doc aka. Uwe A. P. Wuerdinger wrote: > when I try to load the ne.o network drive in default installation mode I > don't have a chance to append the IO Address. > Workaround: Lower the debconf priority or use expert mode. I think perhaps hw-detect should, if the prompt was not initially displayed,

Disable frame buffer / boot in text mode?

Hi- I would like to boot the installer in text mode, not in framebuffer mode. I need it this way because we install remotely on headless servers, and see the console via serial port and/or remote management hardware, which does text mode. In woody vanilla / bf24 this was possible by appending

Re: [Q] make demo fails

Erich Waelde wrote: > set -e; \ > mkdir -p ./tmp/demo/tree/lib/modules/2.4.22-1-386/kernel; \ > if [ -e ./tmp/demo/tree/boot/System.map ]; then \ > depmod -F ./tmp/demo/tree/boot/System.map -q -a -b \ > ./tmp/demo/tree/ 2.4.22-1-386; rm -f \ > # ./tmp/demo/tree/boot

Problems using sarge netinstall (07012004) image in bochs

I don't have any systems for testing at hand so i decided to try the new di in bochs and came across some problems. How can I activate a swap partition from within di? when I try to load the ne.o network drive in default installation mode I don't have a chance to append the IO Address. Workarou

Bug#226722: marked as done (fails to create symlink)

Your message dated Thu, 08 Jan 2004 11:17:24 -0500 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#226722: fixed in busybox-cvs 20040101-2 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

Re: [Q] make demo fails

Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > I have a related problem with make demo. > > "make TYPE=demo demo" gives me the following screen. The package lists > contain more udebs as are shown. What is wrong here? > > >^> [?] Debian installer main menu >^^> > |

Re: Proposal: Ask if user wants to set up network

Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:20:12PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I propose (if this isn't being worked on already) that d-i ask the user if he/she wants to set up his/her network connections during installation instead of assuming so. As can be seen in bug #226495

Re: debian-installer/retriever/choose-mirror/debian/po fi.po,1.26,1.27

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:10:10PM +0200, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 08:11:19PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:21:47AM +, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > > [...] > > > @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ > > > #. one in the Choices field. > > > #: ../choose-mirror.tem

Re: Proposal: Ask if user wants to set up network

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:20:12PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > I propose (if this isn't being worked on already) that d-i ask the user > if he/she wants to set up his/her network connections during > installation instead of assuming so. As can be seen in bug #226495 >

Re: [Q] make demo fails

I have a related problem with make demo. "make TYPE=demo demo" gives me the following screen. The package lists contain more udebs as are shown. What is wrong here? >^> [?] Debian installer main menu >^^> |

Re: Proposal: Ask if user wants to set up network

Am Don, den 08.01.2004 schrieb Joel Konkle-Parker um 19:20: > I propose (if this isn't being worked on already) that d-i ask the user > if he/she wants to set up his/her network connections during > installation instead of assuming so. As can be seen in bug #226495 >

Proposal: Ask if user wants to set up network

I propose (if this isn't being worked on already) that d-i ask the user if he/she wants to set up his/her network connections during installation instead of assuming so. As can be seen in bug #226495 , problems ensue when this connection

Re: [Q] make demo fails

Erich Waelde wrote: > > Hi all, > > I checked out d-i from alioth ok, and e.g. > fakeroot make TYPE=cdrom cd-image > works fine. however, > > root# make TYPE=cdrom demo The demo target chooses automatically "TYPE=demo" > fails with this message: > > # Set up modules.dep, ensure there is

Re: Re: Bug#226400: installation-reports: fails to install nic-extra-modules

Carr, Chris wrote: > There are two problems which caused the install to run out of memory > on my 32Mb machine - > > 1. The root (shm) filesystem defaults to half available RAM, ie. 16Mb. > If you set it to default to 24Mb, or even 20Mb, it would work (after > all installer components were unpack

Install Report - Failed CD-ROM install

Hi- This is my second install report, apoligies for errors, welcome correction. thanks, Erik Dykema INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Jan 07 Daily, from http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/ uname -a: Linux 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30.39 i686 unknown Date:

Install Report - Failed network install

Hi- This is my first install report, apoligies for errors, welcome correction. thanks, Erik Dykema INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Jan 08 Daily, from http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/ uname -a: Linux 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30.39 i686 unknown Date: Jan 8,

di-packages-build_0.4.1_i386.changes ACCEPTED

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Processing of di-packages-build_0.4.1_i386.changes

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Re: Make the system bootable, was: beta 2 update

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:33:41AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:30:30PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > - I don't believe that new Linux users trying to dual-boot Windows and > > Linux are the primary audience that the installer has to cater to. > > They're import

Processing of busybox-cvs_20040101-2_i386.changes

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Re: Make the system bootable, was: beta 2 update

Op do 08-01-2004, om 17:13 schreef Steve Langasek: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:33:41AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:30:30PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > - I don't believe that new Linux users trying to dual-boot Windows and > > > Linux are the primary audien

Re: debian-installer/retriever/choose-mirror/debian/po fi.po,1.26,1.27

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 08:11:19PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:21:47AM +, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > [...] > > @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ > > #. one in the Choices field. > > #: ../choose-mirror.templates:100 > > msgid "US[ Default value for http]" > > -msgstr "FI" > > +ms

Signatures on packages

Are the enclosed errors on your files? Don't fully understand download process, so your advice would be welcomed. Regards, Graham Bach PS Get same results on ftp.uk.debian and debian.hands.comReading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following NEW packages will be installed: netk

Re: [Q] make demo fails

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erich Waelde) writes: > else depmod -q -a -b ./tmp/demo/tree/ 2.4.22-1-386; fi ; > ==> depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented > > make[1]: *** [demo-tree-stamp] Error 1 > make: *** [demo] Error 2 > > What is the build system trying to tell me? > > I'm

[Q] make demo fails

Hi all, I checked out d-i from alioth ok, and e.g. fakeroot make TYPE=cdrom cd-image works fine. however, root# make TYPE=cdrom demo fails with this message: # Set up modules.dep, ensure there is at least one standard dir (kernel # in this case), so depmod will use its prune list for

Bug#226777: installation-reports: INSTALL REPORT

Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Debian-installer-version: http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/\ sarge-i386-netinst.iso 07-Jan-2004 15:46 107M uname -a: Linux debian 2.4.22-1-686 #6 Sat Oct 4 14:09:08 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux Date: Thu Jan 8 21:51:39 EST 20

Bug#226730: Problem with wireless pcmcia network card and keymap

(Bart, a lot of nl tsl stuff in this report, if you didn't manage to see it...Alastair same for keyboard stuff : kbd-chooser and console-data) First of all, many many thanks for this very detailed report which will gve work to several of us..:-))...mostly translators If someone has time. This rep

Processed: All lilo-installer bugs are d-i related

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Re: Re: Bug#226400: installation-reports: fails to install nic-extra-modules

Title: Re: Re: Bug#226400: installation-reports: fails to install nic-extra-modules There are two problems which caused the install to run out of memory on my 32Mb machine - 1. The root (shm) filesystem defaults to half available RAM, ie. 16Mb. If you set it to default to 24Mb, or even 20M

Re: Partman added to d-i repository

> Will look at the templates. First debconf templates "polishing" done and commited. I found many repetitive stuff, so it's probably not worth the translation work yet, imho, as the templates are likely to change again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Bug#226722: fails to create symlink

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:39:08PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: > A patch that fixes it is attached. the patch is broken, the proper behavior is to ignore non-existant source files in symlink mode. bastian -- Spock: We suffered 23 casualties in that attack, Captain. Index: coreutils/ln.c ==

Re: Make the system bootable, was: beta 2 update

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:30:30PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > - I don't believe that new Linux users trying to dual-boot Windows and > Linux are the primary audience that the installer has to cater to. > They're important, but I think that Debian in particular has tended > to be better at

Re: Partman added to d-i repository

Quoting Anton Zinoviev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Some things that need to be done: > > - Adjust the debconf priorities of the questions, their defaults and > test the packages for non-interactive install. > > - Add to partman-auto the ability to create symbolic links, for > example make

Bug#226758: installation-reports

Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Obtained from http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/ on 06-Jan-2004 uname -a: Linux polar 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 i686 GNU/LinuxDate: Wed Jan 7 05:23:49 EST 2004 Method: I booted of the dai

Re: Partman added to d-i repository

> - Improve the text in the template files. I'm surprised with this one: Template: partman-basicfilesystems/no_mount_point Type: select __Choices: Resume partitioning, Do not use the partition _Description: Use partition with no file system. Resume the partitioning? No mount point is assigne

Re: Partman added to d-i repository

Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Quoting Anton Zinoviev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > - Improve the text in the template files. > > Will look at the templates. I'm currently "debconf polishing" them (see partman, partman-auto). I change only "obvious" things. Mostly for presentat

Re: Portuguese PT translation

Quoting Miguel Figueiredo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello guys, > > here goes base-config/debian/po/pt.po > > please commit to base-config. > > msgfmt -o /dev/null --statistics --check pt.po > 107 translated messages. > > > This fuzziness correction is making me dizzy. It's not easy to identify

Re: Installation in russian

>> "layout" is keyboard layout. For Russian language it definitly should be >> "ru". > >> "options" set the keyboard switch key. "Caps Lock" (the default) seems to >> be a bad choise, because this key is better user to lock caps :) >> I prefer to use "Menu" key, but it is not present on all keyboa

Re: English localization

Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I noticed that the same template used "disk" earlier in the proceeding > sentence, so I have made it consistent. I waas supposed to have fixed this also. However, there were TWO instances of the "disc" word and I fixed only one:-( I'll check all this