Bug#238648: d-i beta3, modprobe tg3, netinst.iso

2004-03-17 Thread Haiml, Markus
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: <2004-03-17, http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta3/sarge-i386-netinst.iso> uname -a: < > Date: <2004-03-18 0800GMT> Method: Machine: Processor: P4, 533, 2.4GHz Memory: 2x512 DDR 333 Root Device: Root Size/partitio

Bug#238557: [l10n] Re: Bug#238557: Hebrew appears left-to-right

2004-03-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Gunnar Wolf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: debian-installer > Severity: normal > Tags: l10n > > The Hebrew option on debian-installer shows characters written > left-to-right - They should appear right-to-left. As is Arabic. We definitely need someone coding the BIDI support in the appr

Bug#229325: country/region should be used

2004-03-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Wang WenRui ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Well, the ISO-3166 _is_ "country or area & region codes" according to UN[1], > it is a "coding standard for coding the names of countries and dependent > areas" according to Wikipedia[2]. Note that from iso.org[3]: the country > names used in ISO 3166-1 a

Bug#238640: sucess

2004-03-17 Thread Jeffrey John Martin
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: March 16 2004 debian installer web site uname -a: Linux debian 2.4.25-1-k7 #1 Tue Feb 24 14:24:28 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: March 16 2004 Method: 30 meg CD and ethernet card connected to cable modem Machine: homebuilt AMD AZ11E motherboar

Re: Re: slashdotted

2004-03-17 Thread Kyle Girard
>One easy way to fix this would be to remove the continue button >entirely from select dialogs. Unfortnatly and inconsistently, we can't >get rid of it on multiselect dialogs. Or maybe the wording could be >changed somehow? What is the purpose of continue? Does it take you to the next step even i

Bug#238251: indigo2 mips install

2004-03-17 Thread Maitland Bottoms
OK, hope this helps. I was using beta3 d-i to netboot install an SGI Indigo2 mips box. I ran fdisk from a shell out of d-i, make a dos partition table so that I could then make an SGI partition table. Then I made two new partitions: Linux filesystem and swap. I did the ln -s part3 part12 trick i

Bug#238635: Sarge Installer

2004-03-17 Thread Alan Y
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Beta 2. from ftp.debian.org Downloaded 13 Mar 04 uname -a: Linux psylocke 2.4.25 #3 Wed Mar 17 08:26:02 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 15 Mar 2004, 10:00 am EST (begin) Method: Boot from installer CD. Installed base system and packages vi

Bug#229325: country/region should be used

2004-03-17 Thread Wang WenRui
Around 18 o'clock on 17 Mar, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Wang WenRui ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I'll try to have a look at ISO-3166 terminology. Using "region" may > also be confusing because we will get people asking for Rhein-Westfalen > or "Nord-Pas de Calais"...or (ultra high provocation)

Bug#238610: [Fwd: Re: Bug#238610: Installation Reports Bug]

2004-03-17 Thread Mark Bailey
-Forwarded Message- From: Mark Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#238610: Installation Reports Bug Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 21:59:29 -0500 On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 19:27, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Mark Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-17 19

Re: testing beyond Intel [PATCH]

2004-03-17 Thread Rick_Thomas
Thanks! That looks like it will be very helpful in getting me started. I don't want to seem ungrateful, but I find reading extensive documentation off a CRT screen very difficult. My eyesight is more or less normal for a middle-aged male human, but low contrast -- such as from a CRT -- makes me

Bug#238459: Sarge m68k installation-reports

2004-03-17 Thread Hank
Stephen R Marenka wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:58:17AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:10:40AM -0500, Hank wrote: Also, I would like to see ext3 support added for the 2.2.25 installation kernel on the m68k distro. It'sbeen tested for around 3 years. I'v

netboot installations on i386

2004-03-17 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Hi, I did lots of successfull netboot installations on last weekend and the weekend before while setting up a netboot environment. Some were not successfull, but the glitches were temporary. Today, I successfully installed testing and unstable from http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/m

silo-installer_0.0.3_sparc.changes ACCEPTED

2004-03-17 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: silo-installer_0.0.3.dsc to pool/main/s/silo-installer/silo-installer_0.0.3.dsc silo-installer_0.0.3.tar.gz to pool/main/s/silo-installer/silo-installer_0.0.3.tar.gz silo-installer_0.0.3_sparc.udeb to pool/main/s/silo-installer/silo-installer_0.0.3_sparc.udeb Announcing to [EMAIL P

Re: testing beyond Intel [PATCH]

2004-03-17 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:08:16PM -0500, Rick_Thomas wrote something like: > On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 05:56, Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:04:45PM -0500, Rick_Thomas wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 06:44, Sven Luther wrote: > > [ PowerPC PowerMac tester needed ] > > > > >

Processed: merging 211032 231668

2004-03-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.7.95.1 > merge 211032 231668 Bug#211032: choose-mirror: add optional netselect support to choose-mirror? Bug#231668: choose-mirror: Please use apt-spy for automatic mirror selection Merged 2

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2004-03-17 Thread Archive Administrator
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linux-kernel-di-mipsel_0.52_source+mipsel.changes is NEW

2004-03-17 Thread Debian Installer
ipv6-modules-2.4.19-r3k-kn02-di_0.52_mipsel.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-mipsel/ipv6-modules-2.4.19-r3k-kn02-di_0.52_mipsel.udeb ipv6-modules-2.4.19-r4k-kn04-di_0.52_mipsel.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-mipsel/ipv6-modules-2.4.19-r4k-kn04-di_0.52_mipsel.udeb kernel-image-2.4.19-r

linux-kernel-di-mips_0.52_source+mips.changes is NEW

2004-03-17 Thread Debian Installer
(new) cdrom-core-modules-2.4.22-sb1-swarm-bn-di_0.52_mips.udeb standard debian-installer CDROM support This package contains core CDROM support for the Linux kernel. (new) fat-modules-2.4.22-sb1-swarm-bn-di_0.52_mips.udeb extra debian-installer FAT filesystem support This package contains the FA

linux-kernel-di_0.52_source+i386+alpha+ia64+m68k+powerpc+s390+sparc.changes is NEW

2004-03-17 Thread Debian Installer
affs-modules-2.4.25-power3-di_0.52_powerpc.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di/affs-modules-2.4.25-power3-di_0.52_powerpc.udeb affs-modules-2.4.25-power4-di_0.52_powerpc.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di/affs-modules-2.4.25-power4-di_0.52_powerpc.udeb affs-modules-2.4.25-powerpc-di_0.52_power

linux-kernel-di-arm_0.52_source+arm.changes is NEW

2004-03-17 Thread Debian Installer
(new) cdrom-core-modules-2.4.25-bast-di_0.52_arm.udeb standard debian-installer CDROM support This package contains core CDROM support for the Linux kernel. (new) cdrom-core-modules-2.4.25-netwinder-di_0.52_arm.udeb standard debian-installer CDROM support This package contains core CDROM support

linux-kernel-di-hppa_0.52_source+hppa.changes is NEW

2004-03-17 Thread Debian Installer
(new) ipv6-modules-2.4.25-32-di_0.52_hppa.udeb extra debian-installer IPv6 driver This package contains the IPv6 driver for the Linux kernel. (new) ipv6-modules-2.4.25-64-di_0.52_hppa.udeb extra debian-installer IPv6 driver This package contains the IPv6 driver for the Linux kernel. (new) kernel-

Re: [LOGO] Debian boot logo informal poll

2004-03-17 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:33:07PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > Since we obviously need to pick a boot logo, I'm setting up an informal poll. > I don't have the power to say "whatever the poll says, we do", but I guess > most people will be quite OK with the results. Obviously I had to mes

kernel-wedge_1.0_i386.changes is NEW

2004-03-17 Thread Debian Installer
(new) kernel-wedge_1.0.dsc optional utils (new) kernel-wedge_1.0.tar.gz optional utils (new) kernel-wedge_1.0_all.deb optional utils udeb package builder for Debian-Installer kernel-wedge splits udeb packages out of a kernel image deb. The udebs are used by the Debian-Installer. Changes: kernel-w

Processing of linux-kernel-di-mipsel_0.52_source+mipsel.changes

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Processing of linux-kernel-di-mips_0.52_source+mips.changes

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Processing of linux-kernel-di_0.52_source+i386+alpha+ia64+m68k+powerpc+s390+sparc.changes

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Processing of kernel-wedge_1.0_i386.changes

2004-03-17 Thread Archive Administrator
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Bug#238610: Installation Reports Bug

2004-03-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Mark Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-17 19:02]: > I attempted to install GRUB in /dev/hdb on partition 6. (hdb,6). Wouldn't this be something like (hd1,5) ? -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: preliminary test of d-i on the mips board SWARM from Broadcom

2004-03-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-18 00:22]: > JFTR, On the Indy it works fine, at least in a color capable > terminal. The only caveat is to select the english locale, > otherwise it would hang. Right, I just tried choosing German (Austrian) and it hangs. > Might not help, but I simp

Bug#238609: document noapic in boot help

2004-03-17 Thread Joey Hess
Package: debian-installer-demo Version: 20040303 Severity: normal noapic is a popular boot argument, but it's not documented in the syslinux help screens. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architectu

Bug#238610: Installation Reports Bug

2004-03-17 Thread Mark Bailey
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: <http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ 20040317> uname -a: Date: <20040317 23:00Z> Method: <100MByte CD Image burned to CD> Machine: Processor: Athalon Memory: Root Device: Root Size/partition table: Output of

Bug#152152: To 151989: Wives On Iine !! wogjs

2004-03-17 Thread Candy Taylor
Our data base of married but lonely house wives has doubled in the last 3 months! The site just keeps growing!! When you fill out your profile you will immediately have access to our entire data base of married but lonesome house wives. These ladies are starving for attention. If you join you wi

Bug#238605: Package: installation-reports

2004-03-17 Thread Carlo Marashin
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: /cdimage/testing/daily/i386/20040317 uname -a: Date: 2004-03-17 22:00 Method: from a daily build CD image (17-03-2004) Machine: Compaq Proliant 1600R Hack mounted Processor: PII 400MHz Memory: 512MB Root Device: The CD-ROM and the

Bug#238599: discover: [INTL:nn] Norwegian nynorsk translation

2004-03-17 Thread Håvard Korsvoll
Package: discover Severity: wishlist Tags: patch l10n Hi Please add norwegian nynorsk translation Håvard -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.0-1-686 Locale: LANG=nn_NO, LC_CTYP

Bug#238600: debian-installer system error configuring tulip card (Alpha Platform)

2004-03-17 Thread Andy Zbikowski (Zibby)
Package: debian-installer Version: beta3 Tags: d-i, sarge When attempting to bring up the network interface after installing the tulip module, the debian-installer give output similar to: 3>>> >3>

Bug#238602: Resets during install

2004-03-17 Thread Norm Davis
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: On March 16, 2004, downloaded http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta3/sarge-i386-neti nst.iso. Got link from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ uname -a: Never got to shell Date: March 17, 2004 Method: Used Bet

Re: preliminary test of d-i on the mips board SWARM from Broadcom

2004-03-17 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Martin Michlmayr wrote: [snip] > First, I added support for this sub-arch to linux-kernel-di. The MIPS support moved to linux-kernel-di-mips{,el} in the meanwhile. [snip] > The standard debconf frontend is kind of awkward to use via the serial > console. While lists are okay because the current

Bug#238601: Debian installer working extremely slow on low memory mac68k system

2004-03-17 Thread Erik C.J. Laan
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 20040313-nativehd from http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/d-i/images-m68k/daily/mac/ uname -a: Linux debian 2.2.25-mac . 68040 GNU/Linux# from memory Date: 20040316, 15:00 - 20040317-? Method: Booted kernel and ramdisk from MacOS

SN85G4 ethernet device not discovered, forcedeth

2004-03-17 Thread Patrick Eaton
Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi folks, I had the chance to boot the beta3 netinst CD (IA32) on a Shuttle SN85G4 (AMD64). Result: The ethernet device (forcedeth, AFAIK) was not discovered. Regards Harri I recently used the 14 March daily build to install on an SN41G2 (AMD Athlon) and it worked perfectl

Bug#152152: lmportant: Wives On Iine!!v wskhzvjkr

2004-03-17 Thread Antonio Mclaughlin
Our data base of married but lonely house wives has doubled in the last 3 months! The site just keeps growing!! When you fill out your profile you will immediately have access to our entire data base of married but lonesome house wives. These ladies are starving for attention. If you join you wi

Bug#238593: debian-installer hangs on qlogicisp (Alpha Platform)

2004-03-17 Thread Andy Zbikowski (Zibby)
Package: debian-installer Version: beta3 Tags: d-i, sarge When discover tryies to add the qlogicisp module to the installer kernel, lsmod reports that qlogicisp is initilazing, and the installer hangs awaiting for the module install to finish. I'm working with a Digital Personal Workstation 500a.

Bug#238595: PT translation for discover debian package

2004-03-17 Thread Nuno Sénica
Package: Discover debian Version: 1.5-3   Here goes the PT translation of discover debian package.   Regards, Nuno     ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.618 / Virus Database: 397 - Release Date: 09-03-2004 pt.po D

Re: slashdotted

2004-03-17 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > I was very confused by this too. seemed to do something > different, and the dialog box suggested that it was going to do > something destructive like autopartition the whole device. I backed out > and chose "Finish ..." and that seemed like more the right thing. > > Definit

Installation report: FAILED on i386

2004-03-17 Thread Toshikazu Aiyama, Ph.D.
About Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have similar setup as follows: CPU: P4 1.6 GHz Make:Myself Chipset: i875/ICH5R M/B: Gigabyte GA-8i875 PATA Primary: Maxtor 160 GBSlave: None 2ndary: LG GSA-4081B Slave Ymaha CRW-F1 SATA0: Seagate 160GB SAT

[LOGO] Debian boot logo informal poll

2004-03-17 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
Since we obviously need to pick a boot logo, I'm setting up an informal poll. I don't have the power to say "whatever the poll says, we do", but I guess most people will be quite OK with the results. We'll follow Debian's ordinary voting procedures with regard to determining a winner (ie. modified

Re: m68k debian-installer call for testers

2004-03-17 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 10:36:49PM +0100, Erik C.J. Laan wrote: > asking one more question before the actual reboot happened. Soo: I can't > tell how much time it took, but certainly over 12 hours. That's slow, but it sounds like we actually support 24MB already and there's still some quite a bi

silo-installer_0.0.3_sparc.changes REJECTED

2004-03-17 Thread Debian Installer
Rejected: md5sum for silo-installer_0.0.3.tar.gz in incoming doesn't match silo-installer_0.0.3.dsc. Rejected: size for silo-installer_0.0.3.tar.gz in incoming doesn't match silo-installer_0.0.3.dsc. Rejected: silo-installer_0.0.3.tar.gz: md5sum check failed. Rejected: silo-installer_0.0.3.tar.g

Re: m68k debian-installer call for testers

2004-03-17 Thread Erik C.J. Laan
Stephen R Marenka wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 11:40:57PM +0100, Erik C.J. Laan wrote: I'm still doing that... not waiting for you, but for the machine. I started the "Installing the Debian base system" step around 15:00 local time, and now it is 23:30 and it's at 87% (for the complete last hou

Re: Sarge Boot Logo

2004-03-17 Thread Joey Hess
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:54:12PM +0100, Gruppe LAMP wrote: > > which one I like best is, from: > > Mark Selby > > Shouldn't we have a semi-formal poll on this anytime soon? Yes, please set one up. :-) -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#238584: install-report

2004-03-17 Thread Willi Mann V.
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 20040316-netinst from gluck.debian.org uname -a: Linux debian 2.4.25-1-386 #1 *Date* i686 GNU/Linux Date: 20040317 Method: netinst Installation Language was German Processor: P4 Memory: 512 MB Root Device: IDE Base System Installation

RE: Debian installer hangs when no floppy drive

2004-03-17 Thread Tim Ryder
Ok, I foundthe issue, while it says on the screen that it crashed while skipping the floppy driver, it actually crashed while setting up pcmcia. I remove the /etc/init.d/pcmcia file and it installs fine, then hopefully I can add it back after the install. Tim -Original Message- From: Tim

Re: preliminary test of d-i on the mips board SWARM from Broadcom

2004-03-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* tbm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-17 21:26]: > In the main menu, I selected "Select a keyboard layout", and chose > PS2. But then I was still on this point in the main menu, rather than > on the next one ("Detect network hardware"). The first time I select "Select a keyboard layout", I get a men

Processing of silo-installer_0.0.3_sparc.changes

2004-03-17 Thread Archive Administrator
silo-installer_0.0.3_sparc.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: silo-installer_0.0.3.dsc silo-installer_0.0.3.tar.gz silo-installer_0.0.3_sparc.udeb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

preliminary test of d-i on the mips board SWARM from Broadcom

2004-03-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
I've done some very preliminary tests with debian-installer on a mips development board from Broadcom, the BCM91250A, also known as SWARM. This is a standard ATX board with USB and PCI, and can run in little and big endian mode. Guido Guenther, Thiemo Seufer and I are going to work on adding suppo

Re: beta3 released

2004-03-17 Thread Harald Dunkel
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Harald Dunkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-17 19:41]: I had the chance to boot the beta3 netinst CD (IA32) on a Shuttle SN85G4 (AMD64). Result: The ethernet device (forcedeth, AFAIK) was not discovered. Can you post the output of: lspci lspci -n I'm sorry, but I f

Bug#152152: 151582: dharma this worth a lookfletch gvrzgcdpppkwdpj

2004-03-17 Thread Roger Christiansen
Our data base of married but lonely house wives has doubled in the last 3 months! The site just keeps growing!! When you fill out your profile you will immediately have access to our entire data base of married but lonesome house wives. These ladies are starving for attention. If you join you wi

Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386

2004-03-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
elijah wright wrote: Apparently beta3 has better SATA support. Can you try? This may have something to do with device mapping in the BIOS -- I may not be feeding the right information to lilo and/or grub. Or it may have something to do with the fact that my system doesn't appear to have a 'compat

Re: Sarge Boot Logo

2004-03-17 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:54:12PM +0100, Gruppe LAMP wrote: > which one I like best is, from: > Mark Selby Shouldn't we have a semi-formal poll on this anytime soon? I don't think it'll be easy summarizing all the loose mails that have been posted on this issue without some work :-) /* Steinar *

Re: m68k bootloader package(s)?

2004-03-17 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:41:16PM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > Right now the amiga and mac m68k bootloaders don't exist in the debian > archive. This probably makes sense, because they aren't linux programs. > However, it makes locating them and making them available for cdroms and > such mor

Debian installer hangs when no floppy drive

2004-03-17 Thread Tim Ryder
d-i beta 3 hangs during install when there is no floppy drive in the machine. Is there a work around for this? Tim

Re: beta3 released

2004-03-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Harald Dunkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-17 19:41]: > I had the chance to boot the beta3 netinst CD (IA32) on a Shuttle SN85G4 > (AMD64). Result: The ethernet device (forcedeth, AFAIK) was not discovered. Can you post the output of: lspci lspci -n Thanks. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PRO

Re: base-installer hangs when it cannot find an arch_kernel

2004-03-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Stephen R Marenka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-17 13:22]: > Sorry about that, fixed in cvs. Tested, works. Thanks. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sarge Boot Logo

2004-03-17 Thread Gruppe LAMP
which one I like best is, from: Mark Selby -- Rahmi Akyosun [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is the answer, now what was your question? #find /pubs | grep beer >> rulps Bitte senden Sie mir keine Word-, Excel- oder PowerPoint-Anhänge Siehe http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.de.html

Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386

2004-03-17 Thread elijah wright
> > Apparently beta3 has better SATA support. Can you try? > > This may have something to do with device mapping in the BIOS -- I may > not be feeding the right information to lilo and/or grub. Or it may > have something to do with the fact that my system doesn't appear to have > a 'compatibilit

Bug#237833: marked as done (install: partitioning fails if two swap partitions are available)

2004-03-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:24:45 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line works with 20040316 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

m68k bootloader package(s)?

2004-03-17 Thread Stephen R Marenka
Right now the amiga and mac m68k bootloaders don't exist in the debian archive. This probably makes sense, because they aren't linux programs. However, it makes locating them and making them available for cdroms and such more trouble. The total size is about 2MB. What do ya'll think, should I pu

Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386

2004-03-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Martin Michlmayr wrote: Apparently beta3 has better SATA support. Can you try? I did. :-P Here's the lowdown: the installer basically works and installs the system. Unfortunately I can't get either grub or lilo to work, so I can't boot it. This may have something to do with device mapping in

Bug#238459: Sarge m68k installation-reports

2004-03-17 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:58:17AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:10:40AM -0500, Hank wrote: > > Also, I would like to see ext3 support added for the 2.2.25 installation > > kernel on the m68k distro. It'sbeen tested for around 3 years. I've had no > > problems.

Re: base-installer hangs when it cannot find an arch_kernel

2004-03-17 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:36:56AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > It seems to me that base-installer hangs when it cannot find an > arch_kernel kernel. My install on a new MIPS system stopped at > 86% "Selecting the kernel to install...". Looking briefly at the > code, get_arch_kernel() seems t

Re: m68k debian-installer call for testers

2004-03-17 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:35:22AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:46:04PM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > Debian-installer has gotten to the point on m68k that it's ready for a > > few more people than me to try to break it. Ideally, we'd like d-i to > > work b

Re: beta3 released

2004-03-17 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, I had the chance to boot the beta3 netinst CD (IA32) on a Shuttle SN85G4 (AMD64). Result: The ethernet device (forcedeth, AFAIK) was not discovered. Regards Harri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#229325: country/region should be used

2004-03-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Wang WenRui ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "choosing a country" is NOT fittable, especially when you have a menu > with "Hong Kong" and "Macau" listed. > > Please change that text to something like "country/region" in the d-i. > Thanks I'll try to have a look at ISO-3166 terminology. Using "regio

Grub-installer verbosity (was: )Re: slashdotted)

2004-03-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Christian Perrier wrote: > > Have you noticed the unerased dialog below GRUB dialog ? > > > > This is related to a bug I already reported, but can't figure out > > which package I finally reported it against. > > That's the grub progress bar. The main prob

Re: slashdotted

2004-03-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Skilled hackers might use Gentoo. In my understanding, Debian is for > "real sysadmins" with real production systems. Or for anyone who needs > super-stability. Well, I don't see anything like this in our Social Contract..:-) For sure, this

Re: RFC: specification for probing other OSes

2004-03-17 Thread Christian Perrier
> IIRC for my Windows 2k system, the Windows installation creates a bootsector > on both the rootpartition _and_ the partition on which the /winnt directory > is created. > Unlike Debian, you don't have a choice :-( > > For older versions (95/98) I've had to recreate the bootsector. > > Note tha

Re: not releasing powerpc (Re: beta3 released)

2004-03-17 Thread Rick_Thomas
Geert, Thanks for the pointer. As I said (quoted below) I do not have the time or expertise to do anything more than test things that other people build. Give me fairly explicit directions for installing something on an oldworld machine, and I'll send you back a report on what happened. I've go

Bug#238525: Sparc netboot fails on Ultra5

2004-03-17 Thread Thomas Poindessous
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 05:29:52PM +, Philip Armstrong wrote: > Ah ha. Thanks. > > Why isn't devfs mounting on by default if it won't boot without it? from the changelog of d-i : * Joey Hess - Always include /dev/console, even for images that will use devfs. This means that netbo

Bug#238208: yaboot-installer: looks for archdetect in wrong place

2004-03-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 05:39:21PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:31:31PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > yaboot-installer looks for archdetect in /usr/bin, when it's actually in > > /bin. As a result, you need to manually edit > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/yaboot-installer.isinstall

Bug#238525: Sparc netboot fails on Ultra5

2004-03-17 Thread Thomas Poindessous
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 05:29:52PM +, Philip Armstrong wrote: > > boot net:dhcp devfs=mount > > Ah ha. Thanks. > > Why isn't devfs mounting on by default if it won't boot without it? I don't know. Maybe because there is no way to store kernel parameters in tftp image ? it's just a supposit

Bug#238525: Sparc netboot fails on Ultra5

2004-03-17 Thread Philip Armstrong
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:10:19PM +0100, Thomas Poindessous wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:52:14PM +, Philip Armstrong wrote: > > Package: installation-reports > > > > The tftp transfer goes fine & the kernel boots, mounts the initrd this > > time (unlike the CD install I tried earlier t

Bug#215179: marked as done (need fancy-pretty boot screens on the boot media)

2004-03-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:51:13 -0600 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Closing bug (was: need fancy-pretty boot screens on the boot media) has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If th

Bug#238557: Hebrew appears left-to-right

2004-03-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: l10n The Hebrew option on debian-installer shows characters written left-to-right - They should appear right-to-left. I am using Beta3 on i386. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'uns

Re: Creating pdf for Installation manual

2004-03-17 Thread Miroslav Kure
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:09:53PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > After getting java and fop, I ran in to one little snag: the builddone.sh > script wants a d-i/doc/manual/build/fop/fop.sh script, but that script is not > included in CVS. > > Does anyone know where I can get it? change the following

Debian-Installer for s/390 status

2004-03-17 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks s390 was not released as part of beta3. The reason is easy: there is no working partitioner because anything in d-i relays on the ability of parted to read the disklabel. The remain is easy - network device support for chandev is working except iucv. - dasd support seems to work. What n

Intel Hance Rapid SATA-RAID

2004-03-17 Thread domi
  Hi,   I bought the Supermicro P4SCi mainbord which comes with an Intel Hance Rapid SATA-RAID controller ( actually I think it's an Adaptec 1230 XA - according to the software that controlles the raid )   The raid array 1 has been made succesfuly and set bootable. But Debian doesn't see it

Re: slashdotted

2004-03-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:41:00AM -0500, Kyle Girard wrote: > I installed debian on a friend's machine using a daily build the other > day and one thing that he noticed was that on a couple of screens there > were two options to move forward with the install which lead to a bit of > confusion. Us

Fire your boss, with eBay

2004-03-17 Thread Agustin Snow
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Re: slashdotted

2004-03-17 Thread Kyle Girard
I installed debian on a friend's machine using a daily build the other day and one thing that he noticed was that on a couple of screens there were two options to move forward with the install which lead to a bit of confusion. Using this dialog for example: http://www.thiesen.org/d-i/partition-3.

Bug#238553: installation-reports

2004-03-17 Thread Guillaume Morin
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: sarge installer beta3 from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta3/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: no result (see after) Date: 2004-17-03 Method: I tried a standard install, using the french translation. Boot on a cdr

d-i on powerpc/prep (was Re: installing sarge on Motorola PowerStack...)

2004-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
CCing the debian-boot lists, since this is relevant there. On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:08:50PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote: > I succesfully booted the Powerstack with this initrd: > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/vmlinuz-2.4.22-powerpc-prep.initrd I have some problems for the 2.4.25 prep

Bug#238544: cannot enter non-ascii symbols

2004-03-17 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor I cannot enter non-latin symbols in d-i. I have tryed Ukrainian and Russian keyboard layouts. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.25 L

Re: RFC: specification for probing other OSes

2004-03-17 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for the double post, forgot to finish a sentence. On Wednesday 17 March 2004 15:38, Eddy Petrisor wrote: > There is the posibility that the partition that booted > before not to be the one containing the other(s) OS. > Take Windows 2k or XP: The

nfs-common: This useless note is annoying during all Debian installations

2004-03-17 Thread Christian Perrier
tags 228365 patch thanks The note used by nfs-common shows up during all minimum installs made with the new Debian Installer. A great care has been used for minimizing the amount of questions asked to users during system installation, so we really need to drop this note when running at high and

Bug#229325: country/region should be used

2004-03-17 Thread Rongjun Mu
Wang WenRui wrote: "choosing a country" is NOT fittable, especially when you have a menu with "Hong Kong" and "Macau" listed. Agree. Please change that text to something like "country/region" in the d-i. Yes. "country/region" is much more precise here. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: RFC: specification for probing other OSes

2004-03-17 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 17 March 2004 15:38, Eddy Petrisor wrote: > There is the posibility that the partition that booted > before not to be the one containing the other(s) OS. > Take Windows 2k or XP: They can have their boot files on > the primary partition th

Bug#238527: installation-reports

2004-03-17 Thread Thomas Poindessous
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:05:55PM +0100, Pascal Brisset wrote: > The network is configured correctly. I choose my local debian mirror > ("Enter information manually") and I make a mistake. It fails. I > "Go Back" and I get a new menu ("http" or "ftp") and I choose "http". > Then a new list of mirr

Bug#238525: Sparc netboot fails on Ultra5

2004-03-17 Thread Thomas Poindessous
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:52:14PM +, Philip Armstrong wrote: > Package: installation-reports > > The tftp transfer goes fine & the kernel boots, mounts the initrd this > time (unlike the CD install I tried earlier today), but then fails > with the following errors at the end of the log: > >

Bug#238536: Fail to load partitioner

2004-03-17 Thread Bug reporter in anonymity
Package: install Version: Sarge testing(snapshot of 12 march 2004) got from http://ftp.nl.debian.org/ by jigdo Problem: I tried to install debian from cd, but when the partitioner loads the loader halts at 14% The kernel is still functioning well and I can view the error messages at tty4, but th

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