Bug#410354: Suomi vs. Suomeksi

2007-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 16 February 2007 06:44, Christian Perrier wrote: > If you prefer, a good compromise could be using what means "The > Finnish language" in Finnish. We could even launch a campaign among > translators to converge towards entries meaning "The x language" > rather than "x" alone. I d

Bug#410354: Suomi vs. Suomeksi

2007-02-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Tapio Lehtonen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I did not see an e-mail about this, but was contacted in IRC and read > the bug report. I translated "Suomeksi", because at one time it was > asked to use "in Finnish" as the original text, so I changed "Suomi" > to "Suomeksi". Timo Jyrinki is correc

Re: Extending accessibility support in D-I for Lenny

2007-02-15 Thread Christian Perrier
> Yes, but in text mode, you do not need Orca, there are existing soltuions. > Orca, as I understand it, is a screen reader for graphical environments only. > So the question stands, why would a blind user want to add the overhead that a > graphical environment brings with it, if they can't even se

Re: Extending accessibility support in D-I for Lenny

2007-02-15 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:14:04AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 15 February 2007 23:53, Gilles Casse wrote: > > Today, in principle using a Speakup enabled kernel + Speechd-Up + > > SpeechDispatcher + eSpeak or in user space, Yasr + emacspeak server + > > eSpeak, a text based dialog might

Re: Extending accessibility support in D-I for Lenny

2007-02-15 Thread Mario Lang
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 15 February 2007 22:41, Mario Lang wrote: >> For speech and braille output, I ask myself why >> a blind user would want to run the Graphical Installer instead >> of the text interface. What features does the >> graphical installer add (except ey

Problems installing in M$ virtual machine (was: Link doesn't work)

2007-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 16 February 2007 00:53, Menno wrote: > I'm not sure I'm adressing a Dutch person right now so I'll write my > mail in English :-) Almost all "regular" Debian mailing lists are in English, so good choice. You should only use other languages on language-specific mailing lists. This is no

Re: Extending accessibility support in D-I for Lenny

2007-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 February 2007 23:53, Gilles Casse wrote: > Today, in principle using a Speakup enabled kernel + Speechd-Up + > SpeechDispatcher + eSpeak or in user space, Yasr + emacspeak server + > eSpeak, a text based dialog might be correctly spoken. However, we understand that the speakup patch

Re: Extending accessibility support in D-I for Lenny

2007-02-15 Thread Gilles Casse
Mario Lang wrote: > > A side project of this indeavor would be far more > > interesting for the masses, namely getting software > > speech synthesis into Debian Installer. Currently, people > > without braille display hardware can not really > > use d-i directly. It would be desireable for Lenny

Re: Bug#410497: CONFIG_DEBUG_FS affects D-I too (was: sparc32 kernel is too big, fails to boot)

2007-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 11 February 2007 07:54, Jurij Smakov wrote: > The config variable CONFIG_DEBUG_FS, enabled recently for all kernel > flavours adds over 400K to the size of the compressed image size on > sparc32. As a result, it does not boot anymore (uncompressed image > does not fit into the allotted sp

Bug#411090: installation-reports

2007-02-15 Thread Damian-Fekete Andrei
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD network install Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Date: 2007-02-09 Machine: Asus A2NPV-MX motherboard Processor: AMD 64 Athlon 3500+ Memory: 2x512 DDRAM2 Parti

Re: Extending accessibility support in D-I for Lenny

2007-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 February 2007 22:41, Mario Lang wrote: > For speech and braille output, I ask myself why > a blind user would want to run the Graphical Installer instead > of the text interface. What features does the > graphical installer add (except eye-candy) that is > not provided by the text i

Re: Extending accessibility support in D-I for Lenny

2007-02-15 Thread Mario Lang
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > During the World Free Software Conference 3.0 (that bubulle, tbm and I > attended in Extremadura last week) I spoke with Willie Walker who works > for Sun on Accessibility and Speech. > > Willie is the lead man behind ORCA [1], which works with GTK and cou

Bug#411082: locale preseeding doesn't work for country

2007-02-15 Thread Robert Millan
Package: localechooser Severity: normal There seems to be currently no way to preseed country. When preseeding it via "locale", it'll fallback to whatever is the default country for this language. E.g. locale=en_AU results in en_US being used, etc. Relevant portion of the log: Feb 15 21:11:09

Re: RFC auth patch

2007-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 February 2007 21:49, Joey Hess wrote: > Index: manual/en/boot-installer/parameters.xml > === > +disable that authentication. Warning: Insecure, not recommended. s/I/i/ And possibly: Warning: insecure, not recommended.

Re: RFC auth patch

2007-02-15 Thread Joey Hess
peter green wrote: > imo making this availible through preseeding while it will be helpfull > for some is not going to help most people who run into this issue. > > the real fix imo would be to make apt/aptitude have an option to use > debconf for this prompt. Failing that i belive the soloution w

Re: RFC auth patch

2007-02-15 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > Would it be worth creating an alias for it (as it is very long in its raw > form)? I don't want to make it too easy to use this. > Should this be really be kept by default for the target system? If so, > that should be documented very clearly. Probably best to remove it at t

Bug#410354: Suomi vs. Suomeksi

2007-02-15 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
I did not see an e-mail about this, but was contacted in IRC and read the bug report. I translated "Suomeksi", because at one time it was asked to use "in Finnish" as the original text, so I changed "Suomi" to "Suomeksi". Timo Jyrinki is correct in pointing out that this is factually wrong and inc

Re: RFC auth patch

2007-02-15 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Index: manual/en/appendix/preseed.xml >> === >> +#d-i debian-installer/allowunauthenticated string true > > Shouldn't this parameter be documented as a boot parameter too? Would it > be worth

Re: RFC auth patch

2007-02-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 February 2007 20:05, Joey Hess wrote: > I think this is worth putting in because it's useful both when a key > expires and you still need to use old installation media, and when > installing from an unofficial, unsigned mirror, like the one the armel > port is using. I have no objec

RE: RFC auth patch

2007-02-15 Thread peter green
> I think this is worth putting in because it's useful both when a key > expires and you still need to use old installation media, and when > installing from an unofficial, unsigned mirror, like the one the armel > port is using. > > I haven't tested the code yet, but I will before I commit, if p

RFC auth patch

2007-02-15 Thread Joey Hess
I think this is worth putting in because it's useful both when a key expires and you still need to use old installation media, and when installing from an unofficial, unsigned mirror, like the one the armel port is using. I haven't tested the code yet, but I will before I commit, if people like th

Bug#380058: (no subject)

2007-02-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, With 14/02/07 Netinstall Debian testing debian-testing-amd64-netinst iso initrd is now generated without any errors. and i've found the sda/sdb reverse problem : Dell PowerEdge 1950 server  has  a virtual floppy detected and attached as scsi removable disk to /dev/sda. So Megaraid sata i

Bug#410971: interactive aptitude wants to remove hfsutils and sudo after etch installation

2007-02-15 Thread Eddy Petrișor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Thomas wrote: > Package: installation > Severity: important > > > After installation on a powerpc system (PowerMac Blue&White G3) when aptitude > is run in interactive (curses) mode, told > to do update and finish any pending operations ("g")

being careful of windows / automated install (and reinstall) without destroying windows

2007-02-15 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
heya guys, what's the best people to speak to (partman udeb) about the possibility of doing a udeb that runs gnu parted (yee, the one considered to be non-fr with ntfsresze even though it's absolutely fiiine :) ) to resize an ntfs partition, if needed, and, most importantly, to _not_

Bug#411020: Intallation report

2007-02-15 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Package: installation-reports > Boot method: CD (netinstall) > Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso Downloaded februar 14 2007. > Date: Februar 14 2007. > Machine: HP Proliant ML110 > Processor: Inte