Bug#284267: installation-reports Sarge DVD

2004-12-04 Thread John Smith
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 02:14, Joe Sinsigalli wrote: > Comments/Problems: on boot up the system requests LOGON in text mode and > will accept root or user logon and password but I can't /don't know how to > get into KDE. Sorry but I am just lost as a newbie. Just to get going, log in and start

Re: partman problems (sparc and elsewhere)

2004-12-04 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> Choosing another menu item that fails totaly can get it back to a >> consistant state. Choosing a menu item that partly succeds (such as >> lvm) can make things even crazier. > >Can you give more details about this? I was able to create

Re: partman problems (sparc and elsewhere)

2004-12-04 Thread Blars Blarson
When trying to create a logical volume, I get the error: Striped: Required device-mapper target(s) not in your kernel -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard f

software raid and lvm in preseed

2004-12-04 Thread Jin Zhao
Where are instructions for that in preseed install? I searched email lists and installer manual but all examples found so far use physical disk as partman examples. I also tried manually install and set up software raid, but the 'debconf-get-selections --installer' output contains no valuable i

Re: anna cant't find /cdrom/dists//Release problem

2004-12-04 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
> The 'suite' is set using the following code from the postinst from > cdrom-detect. > > for distlink in stable testing unstable ; do > relfile=/cdrom/dists/$distlink/Release > if [ -e $relfile ] ; then > suite=$(sed -n 's/^Suite: *//p' $relfile) > log "Detected CD with '$su

Bug#284267: installation-reports Sarge DVD

2004-12-04 Thread Joe Sinsigalli
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Debian GNU/Linux "Sarge" i386 DVD/ by Debian Vendor.org uname -a: @.4.27-I-386 #1 FRI Sep 3 06:24:46 utc 2004 i686 GNU Linux Date: <10/26/04? Method: Machine: Root Size/partition table: Default desktop config> Output of lspci and lspci -n

[d-i manual] I would like to have a german version on the sarge cd

2004-12-04 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi everybody, I want to ask for the german manual to be included in the sarge branch/on the cd. The translation is so far finished, that only architecture-specific files are untranslated, so I think it would be a benefit for the sarge release. In the time remaining until the official release I wou

Bug#284253: [netboot-x86] there is a module versioning issue in 2.6 and 2.4

2004-12-04 Thread Frans Pop
severity 284253 normal thanks On Sunday 05 December 2004 01:22, you wrote: > * Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-12-05 01:01:27 +0100]: > > On Sunday 05 December 2004 00:41, you wrote: > > > it was in the mail title: > > > [netboot-x86] > > > > Ah, sorry, missed that. > > /me tends to look for e

Re: anna cant't find /cdrom/dists//Release problem

2004-12-04 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 05 December 2004 00:06, Simon Kagstrom wrote: > I guess it should be dists/sarge/Relese here. This looks like some > simple error, where is the distribution selected really? Could this > have something to do with my custom kernel? The 'suite

Processed: Re: Bug#284253: [netboot-x86] there is a module versioning issue in 2.6 and 2.4

2004-12-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > severity 284253 normal Bug#284253: debian-installer: [netboot-x86] there is a module versioning issue in 2.6 and 2.4 netboot images. Severity set to `normal'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tr

Bug#283377: Should not copy installer account to /target if network-console-config not installed

2004-12-04 Thread Frans Pop
Before I started testing the patch I realized that I had not covered one situation: if the user decides not to install over SSH after all, the network-console-config package should be purged during prebaseconfig. In the old situation that package would not be installed, but now it will already h

boot from a compact flash card

2004-12-04 Thread Micha Mutschler
hi Is it possible to install and boot sarge on/from a compact flash card that is conectet to the pcmcia bus? (after I start /etc/init.d/pcmcia the card is usually known as hde) Micha -- Linux-User #354776 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Bitte senden Sie mir keine Word- oder P

linux-kernel-di-ia64-2.6_1.0_ia64.changes ACCEPTED

2004-12-04 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: cdrom-core-modules-2.6.8-1-itanium-smp-di_1.0_ia64.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-ia64-2.6/cdrom-core-modules-2.6.8-1-itanium-smp-di_1.0_ia64.udeb ext3-modules-2.6.8-1-itanium-smp-di_1.0_ia64.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-ia64-2.6/ext3-modules-2.6.8-1-itanium-smp-di_1.0_

linux-kernel-di-ia64-2.6 override disparity

2004-12-04 Thread Debian Installer
There are disparities between your recently accepted upload and the override file for the following file(s): usb-storage-modules-2.6.8-1-itanium-smp-di_1.0_ia64.udeb: package says priority is standard, override says extra. Either the package or the override file is incorrect. If you think the o

anna cant't find /cdrom/dists//Release problem

2004-12-04 Thread Simon Kagstrom
Hello Debian-Installers! I'm trying the debian installer on a (yet) unsupported platform, a Psion 5MX Pro (a 32MB ARM PDA). Unfortunately, it cannot run the stock debian kernel, but instead uses a patched 2.4.19 kernel. After adding support for loopback devices, ISO9660, devfs and tmpfs to the ker

Bug#284253: update.

2004-12-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 04 December 2004 23:44, Niv ALTIVANIK wrote: > sorry, i forgot to mention that i'm trying to install the unstable > distribution, i did not try with testing. You also forgot to mention on which architecture (i386 probably) you were installing and which installation method (netinst, bu

Processing of linux-kernel-di-ia64-2.6_1.0_ia64.changes

2004-12-04 Thread Archive Administrator
linux-kernel-di-ia64-2.6_1.0_ia64.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: linux-kernel-di-ia64-2.6_1.0.dsc linux-kernel-di-ia64-2.6_1.0.tar.gz kernel-image-2.6.8-1-itanium-smp-di_1.0_ia64.udeb nic-modules-2.6.8-1-itanium-smp-di_1.0_ia64.udeb nic-shared-modules-2.6

Bug#284253: update.

2004-12-04 Thread Niv ALTIVANIK
sorry, i forgot to mention that i'm trying to install the unstable distribution, i did not try with testing. cheers -- Niv ALTIVANIK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -=# Debian::GNU/Linux::Addict #=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Bug#284253: debian-installer: [netboot-x86] there is a module versioning issue in 2.6 and 2.4 netboot images.

2004-12-04 Thread ALTIVANIK Niv
Package: debian-installer Severity: important ( i've runed the installer in expert mode only, ( tried expert and expert26 on both rc2 and today's snapshot )) there is a module versioning issue in 2.6 and 2.4 netboot images for x86 of the debian-installer in the rc2 release and in today's snapsho

Bug#283279: ramdisk at ide-floppy

2004-12-04 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 02:28:55PM +0100, Pascal de Bruijn wrote: > For a 2.6.8 kernel the ide-floppy.ko module takes about 19507 bytes of > disk space? Do we have that much left on the normal floppy images? Compiling a kernel, as documented in the d-i, with ide-floppy built-in, and using the d

localechooser_0.01_i386.changes REJECTED

2004-12-04 Thread Debian Installer
Rejected: localechooser_0.01_i386.changes: a file with this name already exists in the New directory. Rejected: localechooser_0.01.dsc file already exists in the New directory. Rejected: localechooser_0.01_all.udeb file already exists in the New directory. Rejected: localechooser_0.01.tar.gz file

Bug#282650: default gateway also incorrect

2004-12-04 Thread Geert Stappers
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 08:02:34AM -0800, Paul Telford wrote: > On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > Quoting Paul Telford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > So the comments in the example preseed file[1] which say "If you prefer to > > > configure the network manually, here's how" are essent

Processing of localechooser_0.01_i386.changes

2004-12-04 Thread Archive Administrator
localechooser_0.01_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: localechooser_0.01.dsc localechooser_0.01.tar.gz localechooser_0.01_all.udeb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: SATA support....

2004-12-04 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 03:38:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I gather there is a problem with installing Linux on machines with SATA > drives. I've tried installing from the woody cd and this ends up assigning my > cd > to /dev/hda and my hard drive to /dev/hde which leads to

Re: install: automatic network configuration: worked with linksys card but not CNet card

2004-12-04 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 10:08:38AM -0600, alex wrote: > Package: > Version: (recent stable net install version) > > The linux worked with the linksys card but not with the CNet card. I'm > submitting this because this information might be useful to someone else. > > The automatic DHCP / BOOTP

Bug#284223: Corrected patch

2004-12-04 Thread Eric Lavarde
Sorry, sorry, I corrected once the problem, and checked the patch, corrected on a 2nd machine, but didn't check it, and, of course, I made a mistake and sent the 2nd patch. Here is the correct patch. Cheers, Eric -- Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht der Inkompetenz. Violence is the Last Resort

Bug#283983: marked as done (installation-reports: ia64 rc2 businesscard w/ 2.6 kernel)

2004-12-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 04 Dec 2004 14:47:16 -0500 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#283983: fixed in rootskel 1.10 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

rootskel_1.10_ia64.changes ACCEPTED

2004-12-04 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: rootskel-bootfloppy_1.10_ia64.udeb to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel-bootfloppy_1.10_ia64.udeb rootskel-locale_1.10_ia64.udeb to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel-locale_1.10_ia64.udeb rootskel_1.10.dsc to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel_1.10.dsc rootskel_1.10.tar.gz to pool/main/r/root

Processing of rootskel_1.10_ia64.changes

2004-12-04 Thread Archive Administrator
rootskel_1.10_ia64.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: rootskel_1.10.dsc rootskel_1.10.tar.gz rootskel_1.10_ia64.udeb rootskel-bootfloppy_1.10_ia64.udeb rootskel-locale_1.10_ia64.udeb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#284230: megaraid2 issue

2004-12-04 Thread Mike Müller
Package: debian-installer Version: testing (sarge) i386 build 1.12.2004 Hi sarge net-inst daily build from 1.12.2004: this version (as all versions before) of the new sarge installer can't be installed on a dell poweredge 2850 with megaraid2 controller. this bug was reported before from Zachary

Processed: tagging 284223

2004-12-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.8.5 > tags 284223 patch Bug#284223: discover1: modules with dash in name are not properly handled (patch) There were no tags set. Tags added: patch > End of message, stopping processing he

Bug#283983: installation-reports: ia64 rc2 businesscard w/ 2.6 kernel

2004-12-04 Thread Joey Hess
Paul Telford wrote: > >I cannot reproduce this; I do daily ia64 autoinstalls using the 2.6 > >kernel and exactly that line to make it use the disk and it has always > >worked. > > I'll try it again to make sure I didn't fat finger something. What can > I do to debug further if it still fails? T

Bug#283983: installation-reports: ia64 rc2 businesscard w/ 2.6 kernel

2004-12-04 Thread Paul Telford
On Dec 4, 2004, at 10:08 AM, Joey Hess wrote: Paul Telford wrote: When booting the 2.6 kernel on this arch my PS/2 keyboard has no input ability. Works fine w/ the 2.4 kernel. Serial console works, did not try USB keyboard. This should be fixed in tomorrow's images, though I can't test it as my

Bug#283983: installation-reports: ia64 rc2 businesscard w/ 2.6 kernel

2004-12-04 Thread Joey Hess
Paul Telford wrote: > When booting the 2.6 kernel on this arch my PS/2 keyboard has no input > ability. Works fine w/ the 2.4 kernel. Serial console works, did not try > USB keyboard. This should be fixed in tomorrow's images, though I can't test it as my ia64 has no ps2. I can provide a netboot

Bug#284223: discover1: modules with dash in name are not properly handled (patch)

2004-12-04 Thread Eric Lavarde
Package: discover1 Version: 1.7.5 Severity: normal Hi, when booting, /etc/init.d/discover cuts module names with - before the minus, so that modprobe thinks it's an option and brings an help message. I think the attached patch solves the problem (I can provide more information, but I think, from

Re: release update and branching

2004-12-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 09:33:06AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Joeyh, do you seriously think we can release this year yet (as in the next 4 > > weeks) ? I don't think there is time for this even if t-p-u was fixed > > today. I > > I'm sure Joe

Re: sarge installer and 3rd party modules

2004-12-04 Thread Geoff Soutter
Hi Bart, I'm no expert but this sounds similar to the problem I had booting off a USB hard drive that I had installed to - only difference seems to be you require a custom module whereas I just needed to pick up some which were there but were not being used. Have a look at the instructions in my

Bug#283157: marked as done (debian-installer-manual: /target/boot is mentioned as directory for the kernel to be installed in)

2004-12-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 4 Dec 2004 17:56:59 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#283157: should be closed. 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 respo

Re: Bug#283157: should be closed.

2004-12-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 04 December 2004 17:23, Holger Wansing wrote: > The chapter in question is related the first step of installation > (before reboot), so /target/boot should be correct. Closing as requested. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Bug#284214: debian-installer-manual: Tells about CVSWeb as the version control system of d-i

2004-12-04 Thread Holger Wansing
Package: debian-installer-manual Severity: minor At http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apds02.html is written, that the source of the d-i is managed at CVSWeb. That isn't correct anymore. Should be changed though the urls are changed an link to the corresponding svn-pages. This is in .

Bug#283157: should be closed.

2004-12-04 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, just noticed, that I was wrong! The chapter in question is related the first step of installation (before reboot), so /target/boot should be correct. Sorry for bothering. I wasn't that familiar with the installation process... Greetings Holger > In > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual

Processed: busybox is not used in d-i

2004-12-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 264947 partman Bug#264947: Busybox chroot crash/errors on Sarge 08/06 for ia64. Bug reassigned from package `busybox' to `partman'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system admin

Bug#273343: About you failed installation attempt on SPARC64

2004-12-04 Thread Jö Fahlke
Am Fr, 3. Dez 2004, 16:09:39 +0200 schrieb Anton Zinoviev: > We definitely need a warning message if the user tries to put swap, LVM > or RAID at the beginning of the disk. Thanks again for you report. For now it's probably enough to metion it in the release notes. Jö. -- Bombing for peace is

Bug#228806: marked as done (installation: NTFS partion resize)

2004-12-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 4 Dec 2004 17:06:46 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line rc2 and prerc2 releases of Debian installer have NTFS resizing support has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If

Processed: Re: Processed: Some rearangement of the bugs of partman

2004-12-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > forwarded 266352 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug#266352: [MERGED] Does not detect existing unaligned partitions Noted your statement that Bug has been forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > merge 266352 242114 Bug#242114: [MERGED] Finds no partition table on a disk wi

Bug#266565: marked as done (when selecting /boot as a mountpoint, partition should be marked bootable)

2004-12-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 4 Dec 2004 16:39:14 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#266565: when selecting /boot as a mountpoint, partition should be marked bootable has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been

Processed: Some rearangement of the bugs of partman

2004-12-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 265001 [SPARC] parted_server (via libparted) fails to read and change > the partition table. In dmesg there is sys32_ioctl(partd_server:3543): > Unknown cmd fd(10) cmd(2000126c) arg(efff530) Bug#265001: install: impotent sparc partitioner: sys

Bug#284128: Second try, Grub and Lilo fails

2004-12-04 Thread Maxime GEORGE-BOURREAU
I tried a new install of Sarge RC2 on this laptop (Acer Aspire 1300) today. I boot with option : expert26 noscsi vga=792 Grub stops on message "Determining Grub boot device..." during several minutes, then I'm back to the main menu. I tried to install Lilo on /dev/hda7, but lilo fails with error 1

Bug#283294: rc2 on sparc64: workaround

2004-12-04 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 23:23:32 +0100, Herbert Kaminski wrote: >Second stage fails with: > "error: Unable to switch charset mapping to ISO-8859-15 with terminal > 'pseudo' > warning: disabling unsupported locale '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. > Configuring the base system..." >and restarting second stag

Welsh automated installs do not hang anymore

2004-12-04 Thread Christian Perrier
By using unstable's base-config, it appears that Welsh automated installs do no hang anymore. The missing comma thus seemed to be the culprit. Which means we need 2.53.5 in testing, of course. I'll test the automated Polish installs which had a similar bug, though here no comma was missing.

Bug#242308: I no longer have this laptop.

2004-12-04 Thread Maxime GEORGE-BOURREAU
I no longer have this laptop. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: release update and branching

2004-12-04 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Joeyh, do you seriously think we can release this year yet (as in the next 4 > weeks) ? I don't think there is time for this even if t-p-u was fixed today. I I'm sure Joey thinks we can release this year, yes. So do I. By "release" and "we", I think bot