[etch] Update about localechooser

2004-10-27 Thread Christian Perrier
As most d-i related work has slowed down for me the very last couple of days, I got time again for working on localechooser. So, this is time for a quick update about the status of this package. Localechooser is aimed at being the replacement package for languagechooser and countrychooser package

Bug#278580: Great! Install with RAID1 and booting

2004-10-27 Thread Hans van Kranenburg
Package: installation-reports Hi Folks, Although I did many Debian installs, here's my first install report. I re-installed one of the 'servers' (in fact they're desktop models) we use at our college/professional school (THRijswijk, The Netherlands). This one is a P IV Compaq which I configured as

Bug#278496: Comments on RAID in partman

2004-10-27 Thread Pierre Machard
Hi, On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:37:49PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 05:53:31AM -0400, Matthew P McGuire wrote: > > > > Overall the installtion of the box using the daily build was not a > > problem. I used the daily build to try out the RAID support recently > > added to

Bug#278566: base-config: "configure apt" menu entry doesn't ask mirror question again

2004-10-27 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Package: base-config Version: unknown Severity: normal I don't have the right version at hand, it is the one installed by debian-installer pre-rc2. After tasksel, I interrupted aptitude downloading packages because the mirror I chose turned out to be too slow; I then was thrown into the base-conf

Bug#278563: Install CD fails to boot on Apple PowerMac G5 dual 1.8 GHz

2004-10-27 Thread Michael Shields
Package: debian-installer Severity: important Tags: sarge The 2004-10-26 snapshot CD image, as well as a previous beta4 version, fail to boot on an Apple PowerMac G5 dual 1.8 GHz when using the command line "install-power4 video=ofonly". The last message displayed is "openpic2: exit"; the system

Processing of debian-installer_20041027_i386.changes

2004-10-27 Thread Archive Administrator
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Re: unsuccessful installation on oldworld powermac apple 6400/180

2004-10-27 Thread Christian Leimer
Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > Hmm I should have said this in a more friendly way. > > Would the following procedure work: > - boot using the boot floppies > - load the necessairy modules using disk images / net > - mount /target > - chroot /target and run quik > - reboot > Dont forget to look if

linux-kernel-di-hppa-2.6_0.1_hppa.changes ACCEPTED

2004-10-27 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: ipv6-modules-2.6.8-2-32-di_0.1_hppa.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-hppa-2.6/ipv6-modules-2.6.8-2-32-di_0.1_hppa.udeb ipv6-modules-2.6.8-2-64-di_0.1_hppa.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-hppa-2.6/ipv6-modules-2.6.8-2-64-di_0.1_hppa.udeb kernel-image-2.6.8-2-32-di_0.1_hppa.udeb

linux-kernel-di-hppa-2.6_0.2_hppa.changes ACCEPTED

2004-10-27 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: ipv6-modules-2.6.8-3-32-di_0.2_hppa.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-hppa-2.6/ipv6-modules-2.6.8-3-32-di_0.2_hppa.udeb ipv6-modules-2.6.8-3-64-di_0.2_hppa.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-hppa-2.6/ipv6-modules-2.6.8-3-64-di_0.2_hppa.udeb kernel-image-2.6.8-3-32-di_0.2_hppa.udeb

Processed: reassign 259867 to console-data

2004-10-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.8.5 > reassign 259867 console-data Bug#259867: does not sort languages in chooser Bug reassigned from package `kbd-chooser' to `console-data'. > End of message, stopping processing here. P

Patch for sorting keyboard layout names and translations in debian installer

2004-10-27 Thread Christian Perrier
tags 259857 patch d-i thanks The attached patch allows the sorting of keyboard layout names, including in localized environments. This makes use of the Indices-xx field in debconf, which is ATM used only by cdebconf, IIRC. THus, this patch will work only when console-data is used from Debian Ins

Re: unsuccessful installation on oldworld powermac apple 6400/180

2004-10-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, at 11:04 AM, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 01:44:06PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: Hi, On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:33:45AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: As I've said before, if you can afford the disk space (big IDE disks are cheap) the boot loader t

Don't think she's as happy as she can be if you haven't tried this.

2004-10-27 Thread Derek J. Lawrence
Why go on with a small p e n ì s? We can help within days! http://www.boliopple.com/9/4/index.php?ai=7790&com=35&; xzRny8180Cz96oSy1ZmYour wrong.No one had the guts to raise a riot, but if a European woman went through the bazaars alone somebody would probably spit betel juice over her dress.

Re: unsuccessful installation on oldworld powermac apple 6400/180

2004-10-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, at 07:44 AM, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: Hi, On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:33:45AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: As I've said before, if you can afford the disk space (big IDE disks are cheap) the boot loader that I suggest as being most robust and flexible is MacOS with BootX

Bug#278375: mail from all notes even after debootstrap goes to /var/mail/mail?

2004-10-27 Thread Joey Hess
Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:08:06PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > It really seems to me a shame that exim ships with a default mail > > configuration that is so unusable. > > Please state how a unconfigured MTA should behave. Of course it's not strictly speaking uncofigured in th

Re: unsuccessful installation on oldworld powermac apple 6400/180

2004-10-27 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 01:44:06PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:33:45AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > As I've said before, if you can afford the disk space (big IDE > > disks are cheap) the boot loader that I suggest as being most > > robust and flexi

Bug#248442: marked as done (installation-reports on Supermicro)

2004-10-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:37:25 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#248442: about your Debian installation report 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

Bug#270395: marked as done (install report: kernel 2.4 on dual xeon, problems with raid1 and pdc202xx_new)

2004-10-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:10:27 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#270395: install report: kernel 2.4 on dual xeon, problems with raid1 and pdc202xx_new has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has

Bug#278462: Debian Installation Report: Kernel Panic

2004-10-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 05:13, Thiago F.G. Albuquerque wrote: > The installation went ok. The problem is that the kernel doesn't boot. > The messages are: > > Cannot open root device "hdb5" or 03:45 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel Panic: VFS: unable to mount root f

Bug#248442: about your Debian installation report

2004-10-27 Thread Kristof Hardy
Previously reported problem solved. Installation went very smooth.. Joey Hess wrote: Hello, I'm writing you because you filed an installation report a while ago on an old version of the debian installer. Your installation report was #248442 and can be viewed online at

Bug#270395: install report: kernel 2.4 on dual xeon, problems with raid1 and pdc202xx_new

2004-10-27 Thread Anders Lennartsson
Hi I have just tried with the 2004-10-26 netinst cd. I mainly works with kernel 2.4.27 on the Dual Xeon machine described earlier. I recommend this bug to be closed. There seems to remain a small glitch with the Promise IDE card. At first reboot (and thereafter) the raid volume on the two disks a

Bug#239082: marked as done ([i386] [beta3] [netinst] hard drive problem; lost interrupt)

2004-10-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:54:09 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#239082: bugs solved 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 responsibi

Processed: Re: SATA on Dell PowerEdge SC420

2004-10-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 278203 discover1-data Bug#278203: d-i fails to detect new SATA controller Bug reassigned from package `discover-data' to `discover1-data'. > tags 278203 d-i Bug#278203: d-i fails to detect new SATA controller There were no tags set. Tags added

Re: SATA on Dell PowerEdge SC420

2004-10-27 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 278203 discover1-data tags 278203 d-i thanks On Wednesday 27 October 2004 14:37, Gavin Hamill wrote: > Sorry, I must have missed this mail first time round.. I reported a bug > against discover-data so the lspci info is there :) d-i uses discover1, so reassigning to discover1-data. --

Re: SATA on Dell PowerEdge SC420

2004-10-27 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:02:45AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > name of the needed module (in that case "ata_piix") > I had the same problem in #275428. Same basic chipset (ICH6). > ata_piix is not in the "linux" d-i kernel (upstream did not merge it into > 2.4.x until 2.4.28-pre1, before t

Bug#239082: bugs solved

2004-10-27 Thread Stephan Kulka
As I already know that I have to use the "noacpi" option I used it immediately with the linux26 installation and using the already existing partitions the installation was done in 10 minutes using the pre rc2 version of the Sarge Installer. I really would like to congratulate all of you for such a

Re: unsuccessful installation on oldworld powermac apple 6400/180

2004-10-27 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
Hi, On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:33:45AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > As I've said before, if you can afford the disk space (big IDE > disks are cheap) the boot loader that I suggest as being most > robust and flexible is MacOS with BootX. Ok, could you send me the MacOS installation CD? I don'

There's nothing especially the

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Bug#278496: Comments on RAID in partman

2004-10-27 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 05:53:31AM -0400, Matthew P McGuire wrote: > > Overall the installtion of the box using the daily build was not a > problem. I used the daily build to try out the RAID support recently > added to partman. Everything worked absolutely great after I figured > out one small ca

Bug#277481: Installation report

2004-10-27 Thread Pierre Machard
Hello, On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:30:26PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > I had to resize pre-installed windows' ntfs partition, and hopefully the > > pre-rc2 is advertised as having "online ntfs resizer". But it isn't > > advertised in the installation process. The partitionn

Bug#259297: Adaptec 2120S w/RAID5... installer fails to install grub workaround

2004-10-27 Thread Ivica Samija
Hi, I had same problem with Adaptec 2120s / RAID1. /dev/sda=hd0 /boot=/dev/sda1=hd0,0 Here what I did. - Grub will fail to install on (hd0). Choose . - Go to console (F2). type: "chroot target" "update-grub" - (to create menu.lst in /boot/grub/) "exit" - Go back to m

Bug#278496: Comments on RAID in partman

2004-10-27 Thread Matthew P McGuire
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Daily Build from 2004 Oct 21 uname -a: Has been updated to 2.4.27-1-686-smp (was possibly 2.4.27-1-686) Date: 2004 Oct 21 through 23 Method: Net-Install using sarge-i386-netinstall.iso Machine: VA Linux 2230 Processor: Dual PIII 800mhz Memor

Serial console install - Best practice?

2004-10-27 Thread Alex Owen
Hi, Is the best practice for serial conosle installs with d-i to use "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text" ? Is the answer to this question arch dependent? Is this/should this be auto-detected? If "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text" is the best way to do serial installs I'll prepare an svn patch to include this argument t

Bug#278375: mail from all notes even after debootstrap goes to /var/mail/mail?

2004-10-27 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Marc Haber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:08:06PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > It really seems to me a shame that exim ships with a default mail > > configuration that is so unusable. > > Please state how a unconfigured MTA should behave. Probably quite difficult..:-) O

Bug#247101:

2004-10-27 Thread Toshikazu Aiyama, Ph.D.
Hi Joey, Thank you for your inqiry about the bug I reported. And I am sorry to my late response due to my other commitment. I installed 3 ways: just simply hitting return, linux26, and expert26. Here is my new installtion report: Debian-installer-version: Oct26's d-i businesscard obtained

Re: broken link at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status

2004-10-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 08:28:09PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 04:04:58PM +0200, Christian Leimer wrote: > > I hope this is the right place to ask for a correction. > > The powerpc floppy link at the page in the subject does not work. > > The broken link > > is :http://people