On Wednesday 09 May 2007 07:01, Earl wrote:
> Comments/Problems: when I tried to do the hard drive, using the manual
> partition option, I got i386 type partitions (primary and logical
> partitions). I accepted the partitioning and was told that SILO
> wouldn't load. It was right.
The only way I
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Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I use and like 'quiet' myself. I'd have no problems with adding that as a
> default boot parameter.
*if* we go for usplash installed on either all or some installations,
I think it would be good to add a bootloader menu entry with
"nosplash" and without "
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 22:14, John Morrissey wrote:
> > It looks like the utility 'parted_devices' is not returning any
> > output. What do you get if you run that command on VT2 after the
> > first time the disk detection phase is executed?
>
> ~ # parted_devices
> Floating point exception
OK.
> > IMHO, you need to get that major of users will be coming from Windows
> > World and then those "ugly texts while booting" worry them much more
> > then helps.
>
> Are those our primary target audience?
Yes. Mine at least.
They are part of our target, either directly or indirectly. I
Quoting Anton Zinoviev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:04:31AM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> >
> > The next problem is who has to upload kbd...
>
> I wasn't clear here. My point was that while I can make some
> improvements in this package (fix some bugs), I don't feel myself
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On Wednesday 09 May 2007 22:02, Robert Millan wrote:
> Here it is. I tested it with grub-installer from trunk, but only in
> combination with an etch installer because of current
> mklibs/gcc/binutils breakage.
Sorry, but depending on parted-udeb for this is IMO not ac
Package: grub-installer
Version: 1.24
Severity: normal
When experimenting with scripts to create persistent device names in
debian-installer, I found that grub-installer creates an incorrect
configuration if symlinks are used in /target/etc/fstab.
For instance, with a fstab like this:
...
/de
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:39:04PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 May 2007 20:40, John Morrissey wrote:
> > The local disks are detected without a problem; the /dev/sd* symlink is
> > set correctly, and I can fdisk(8) the drives with no problem. However,
> > the install displays disk-det
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:19:34AM +0200, David Härdeman wrote:
unstable now has a recent version of usplash which supports user input
(yay, cryptsetup passphrase prompts) and a new debian theme, so perhaps it
would be a good idea to add usplash to the Desktop task?
And for those who are curiou
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On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:00:15PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> Package: grub-installer
> Severity: important
>
> As of 1.95+20070505-1, grub2 supports GPT on PC/BIOS systems [1]. When user
> is installing a GPT disk, grub-installer should automaticaly switch to grub2
>
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 20:40, John Morrissey wrote:
> The local disks are detected without a problem; the /dev/sd* symlink is
> set correctly, and I can fdisk(8) the drives with no problem. However,
> the install displays disk-detect/module_select:
>
> No disk drive was detected. If you know the
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 20:24, Joey Hess wrote:
> Frans Pop wrote:
> > I agree with that. One my desktop I currently get a fat red FAILED
> > during shutdown because an LVM volume cannot be unmounted as it is in
> > use (or maybe it is still #402511, I have not investigated).
> > Totally stupid.
>
Hopefully d-boot is the right place for this question. If not, please point
me in the right direction. :-)
I'm having a problem installing lenny. Last Friday (4 May), we did several
lenny installs, but the next batch we did the following Tuesday (8 May)
failed.
The local disks are detected withou
Frans Pop wrote:
> I agree with that. One my desktop I currently get a fat red FAILED during
> shutdown because an LVM volume cannot be unmounted as it is in use (or
> maybe it is still #402511, I have not investigated).
> Totally stupid.
I'm not sure what's totally stupid about this, but any st
Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> as humans are better at coping with errors than humans are.
?
> And by the way, showing the user how many useless things start at
> install time can only be a good indication for them to think about
> deinstalling most of them. Hiding how many unneded daemons lurk around
reassign 422075 debian-cd
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On Thu, 03 May 2007 19:36:10 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> reassign 422075 debian-cd
> thanks
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> Reassigning to debian-cd for this issue.
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bug still belongs to installation-reports. I'm rea
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Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> There is information presented to me durng
> boot, which has some (perhaps marginal) value. Pretty colors are
> mostly contentless, so have _less_ value, at the very least, they
> contribute nothing.
Actually, usplash exposes information that was not previousl
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 10:42, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> The main problem with all coloration and graphical output is that it
> can only show problems anyone expected. The old Debian scripts output
> was quite uniform and thus anything out of the row was easy to spot
> and look what it is. Now som
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 16:01, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> I agree that this would be a good idea. The version of Debian Edu
> based on Etch already uses usplash by default, to reduce the confusion
> when new users boot the system, and provide a less frightening boot
> experience. We also boot
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:04:31AM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
>
> The next problem is who has to upload kbd...
I wasn't clear here. My point was that while I can make some
improvements in this package (fix some bugs), I don't feel myself
qualified to maintain it.
Anton Zinoviev
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On Wed, 09 May 2007 09:58:55 -0300, Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Well, I respect your opinion while I continue to disagree. We ought to
> attract the user and look-and-feel makes difference.
Why? Why should we try to be the microsoft of the Linux world?
Why should we put
On Wed, 9 May 2007 01:14:55 -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Sorry, I'll try to rephrase without the use of arbitrary figures:
> Nobody in their right mind wants to read verbose success messages from
> 91[1] distinct startup scripts on every boot. Saying that novice
> users ne
[David Härdeman]
> unstable now has a recent version of usplash which supports user input
> (yay, cryptsetup passphrase prompts) and a new debian theme, so perhaps it
> would be a good idea to add usplash to the Desktop task?
I agree that this would be a good idea. The version of Debian Edu
base
* Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070509 15:03]:
> > And by the way, showing the user how many useless things start at
> > install time can only be a good indication for them to think about
> > deinstalling most of them. Hiding how many unneded daemons lurk around
> > only contributes to bloat
"Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> And by the way, showing the user how many useless things start at
> install time can only be a good indication for them to think about
> deinstalling most of them. Hiding how many unneded daemons lurk around
> only contributes to bloat.
Do you real
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Why do you think the regular users are so much beneath you
> that they are too dumb to handle information?
I don't. I think that if the user wants more information he'll likely
start to find o
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* Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070509 10:15]:
> Users who have better things to do with their time than pore over boot
> messages, including me, don't care about boot-time output unless something
> fails; and if anything the current default verbosity of our boot scripts
> makes it *harder* t
Davide Viti ha scritto:
Very recently a patch [1] was pushed upstream in directfb, which is
supposed to fix a similar crash on ppc (#422146), again due to linux_input.
If you have time, could you please try rebuilding directfb udeb with
Ville's patch and rebuild a gtkminiiso for testing?
I'v
David Härdeman ha scritto:
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:24:01PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
Otavio Salvador ha scritto:
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
My standpoint is that installing (or at least activating) splashy
should only be done if it is *known* beforehand that the display
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 02:30:31AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Tue, 8 May 2007 16:25:37 -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >> Why should the default be an option with less value?
> > Because there's a difference between data and information, and 99% of
> > the *information
On Wed, May 9, 2007 9:28, Manoj Srivastava said:
> On Wed, 09 May 2007 02:22:15 +0200, David Härdeman said:
>> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 05:17:55PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> "Hiding information"...I remember when most Linux distros had xconsole
>> running in the background in X per default in
On Wed, May 9, 2007 8:23, Joey Hess said:
> David Härdeman wrote:
>> The 15-sec timeout are not really bugs in the sense that they'll degrade
>> anything (it just doesn't look pretty).
>
> Having a system that randomly[1] flips out of the pretty graphics that a
> user has come to expect and into so
>Very recently a patch [1] was pushed upstream in directfb, which is
>supposed to fix a similar crash on ppc (#422146), again due to linux_input.
>If you have time, could you please try rebuilding directfb udeb with
>Ville's patch and rebuild a gtkminiiso for testing?
>
I've tried an iso image u
On Tue, 8 May 2007 16:25:37 -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> Why should the default be an option with less value?
> Because there's a difference between data and information, and 99% of
> the *information* in the boot sequence can be conveyed much more
> efficiently using color
On Wed, 09 May 2007 02:22:15 +0200, David Härdeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 05:17:55PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 May 2007 18:39:28 +0200, Christian Perrier
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>
>>> It is also perfectly obvious that nice boot environments te
On Wed, 9 May 2007 06:46:38 +0200, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> > Why should the default be an option with less value?
>>
>> Well, maybe because majority of users start to use a system because
>> they think it's beautiful and neat? :-D
> That is *exactly* my point. So
On Tue, 08 May 2007 20:17:48 -0300, Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> However, who *really* uses that information in normal situations?
>>
>> Well, not all the world is exactly like you. I routinely "use" the
>> information.
> While I
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:53:24PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
>
> I have no idea what the real differences between kbd and console-setup are
> and what the future of both packages will be next to console-setup.
Console-setup detects which one is installed so it doesn't matter.
Kbd supports large c
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 07:33:39PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> 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
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