Questions about normal process of debian-installer

2007-05-07 Thread Chris Ross
Hello there. I am not on this list, but will presumedly subscribe soon for exactly the sort of issue I have today. My company is working on bundling an internal distribution based on Ubuntu 6.06.1, which as you likely know uses debian-installer, and many other pieces of debian directl

Re: lspci does not list anything (etch and dailies)

2007-05-07 Thread Geert Stappers
> > Please take this up with the maintainers of lspci and/or the kernel. This > obviously has nothing to do with the installer. > I don't see how the D-I team can do anything to help with this. bug report is reassigned Cheers Someone who is still learning to submit a BR against the right packa

Processed: Re: Bug#422713: lspci does not list anything (etch and dailies)

2007-05-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 422713 pciutils Bug#422713: lspci does not list anything (etch and dailies) Bug reassigned from package `installation-report' to `pciutils'. > tags 422713 d-i Bug#422713: lspci does not list anything (etch and dailies) There were no tags set.

Bug#422713: lspci does not list anything (etch and dailies)

2007-05-07 Thread Geert Stappers
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Bug#422713: lspci does not list anything (etch and dailies)

2007-05-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 07 May 2007 22:27, Eddy Petrişor wrote: > I tried the Etch MA image and an Etch netboot on a desktop. The > installer failed to detect the network interface. I think the problem > lies somewhere in the kernel or in some basic library since lspci did > not returned any results in DI and al

Bug#422713: lspci does not list anything (etch and dailies)

2007-05-07 Thread Eddy Petrişor
Package: installation-report Severity: important Hello, I tried the Etch MA image and an Etch netboot on a desktop. The installer failed to detect the network interface. I think the problem lies somewhere in the kernel or in some basic library since lspci did not returned any results in DI and a

Bug#421364: installation-reports - s390

2007-05-07 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 421364 installation-reports thanks On Saturday 28 April 2007 12:20, Softlab wrote: > Package: base-installer > Status: install ok half-configured > Priority: required [...] Although the syntax is similar, the fields the BTS recognizes is totally different from the contents of the dpkg s

Bug#419947: [newt] Characters in titlebar are sometimes unbalanced

2007-05-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 07 May 2007 18:08, Davide Viti wrote: > > - Should not first a "cleaner" solution be implemented for the fact > > that the width of the sigils varies? I think subtracting a position > > currently only "works" because most times the sigil is not 2 > > positions while we do now reserve 2 po

Processed: Re: Bug#421364: installation-reports - s390

2007-05-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 421364 installation-reports Bug#421364: installation-reports - s390 Bug reassigned from package `base-installer' to `installation-reports'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking syst

Re: Debian 4.0 and VMWare Workstation 6: Installer hang

2007-05-07 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 03-05-2007 om 18:59 schreef Frans Pop: > > I can imagine that formal reaction, but OTOH this seems like a general > kernel incompatibility which they should care about. > You can be fairly sure that it is _not_ something Debian specific that is > causing the problem. Some years ago did get[1

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 27 April 2007 15:04, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > Can you give some idea of what would be needed? Some questions I > > have: > > - would we still need kbd-chooser, or is there a replacement > > We need it only during the first stage; the udebs replace it. Sorry, but I don't understand this

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 19:01, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > This means that the console maintainers will have to make an > > > > udeb with loadkeys. > > > > > > You mean a udeb from console-tools, named "console-tools-udeb", > > > with only loadkeys? > > > > Yes. > > > > > If so, we should file

Bug#419947: [newt] Characters in titlebar are sometimes unbalanced

2007-05-07 Thread Davide Viti
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 06:58:26PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 19 April 2007 00:44, Davide Viti wrote: > > The attached patch makes sure characters surrounding the title are > > always even (see also #416543). > > This is really only a very cosmetic issue. indeed > I have some reserva

Bug#422307: Sparc installation problem.

2007-05-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 07 May 2007 17:08, Frans Pop wrote: > priority=low is certainly not required to enter a shell. The easiest > method is to use from almost any installer screen until you > get to the main menu and then selecting the "execute a shell" option. > I've added a sentence in the manual about usi

Bug#422307: Sparc installation problem.

2007-05-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 07 May 2007 03:54, Anthony Smith wrote: > I had to figure out the hard way, that to get to the shells during > install you have to set debconf priority to low AND BOOT_DEBUG=3any > other combination failed for me. I repeatedly tried BOOT_DEBUG=3 and > never saw a menu where I could g