On Sunday 08 February 2009, Neil McGovern wrote:
> To try and get the website ready in time for release, it would be great
> if the boot section of the website could be updated.
I've committed some important (rather structural) fixes to the preparation
updates for lenny that had already been comm
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:20, Phil Miller wrote:
> [snip] To be really stringent about it, it
> should make sure there's enough free space left after installation
> that the system doesn't immediately fall flat on its face. For
> example, if /var is on the root partition, and it's so close to ful
This is definitely a bug, though not one to put on the partitioner.
The installer needs to check the total size of packages that are going
to be installed before it tries to start downloading and unpacking
them, and this will (unfortunately, in terms of complexity) need to be
done on a per-mount-po
After further reading, this is a well know issue (by Grub and
DebianInstaller teams).
Let call it "Persistent device naming for disks".
The aimed solution will be to use UUID by default.
It is currently considered as a "Major issue" for D-I :
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SqueezeGoals
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 03:18:19AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Steve McIntyre, le Sat 14 Feb 2009 02:11:12 +, a écrit :
>
>> I'll do my best to put loadlin back in on i386/amd64 images before we
>> build tomorrow.
>
>Thanks!
No problem. Just to confirm: I've added back tools/loadlin.{ext,tx
Steve McIntyre, le Sat 14 Feb 2009 13:05:54 +, a écrit :
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 03:18:19AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >Steve McIntyre, le Sat 14 Feb 2009 02:11:12 +, a écrit :
> >
> >> I'll do my best to put loadlin back in on i386/amd64 images before we
> >> build tomorrow.
> >
> >
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 05:07:57PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> I've added a newt terminal plugin to trunk, which I'd like to start
> using in a couple of places for squeeze, allowing us to fix #378706
> (manual package selection) and #412168 (rescue mode trouble with
> TERM=bterm). This also requi
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 04:44:53PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> Log:
> Export a new cdebconf_newt_get_progress_info function so that
> cdebconf-newt-terminal can reinitialise progress bars (since there's no
> progress_info member in struct frontend, and it won't fit in the obvious
> place without b
root said:
During the install, the usb stick was considered /dev/sda, while the SATA harddrive was /dev/sdb.
Everything worked fine until the first boot, in which the usb stick was removed, and the SATA hard drive became /dev/sda, which grub did not expect.
Also the fstab was referring to /dev/
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:11:21 +0100
Christian Perrier wrote:
>
> Which is a too small root partition for a desktop install.
>
> This is documented in http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apds02.html
>
> Of course, you could object that the guided partitioning should have
> chosen a bigge
* Joerg Jaspert [Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:48:40 +0100]:
> >> I tried rmadison, but that is/was broken:
> >> $ rmadison dhcp3
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >> File "/usr/local/bin/dak", line 248, in ?
> >> main()
> >> File "/usr/local/bin/dak", line 243, in main
> >> module.main(
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 23:31 +0900, John wrote:
> I'm running Windows Virtual Server on Windows Server 2003 on and HP
> DC5950, Athlon 4550B CPU running in IA32. It's not clear to me whether
> it has hardware virtualisation, I thought all recent AMD CPUs do, but
> virtual PC (which got removed wh
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