Re: [RFC] localechooser: template changes

2009-11-05 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): > Here's a new overview of the proposed changes. Everything is fine by me, including: > NEW (same for shortlists and per-continent lists) >The country selected here will be used for example to select a default >locale and time zone. Normally this s

Bug#552787: #552787 [i386][squeeze][20091026-21:55] unable to install lenny from daily

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 06 November 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > Actually, I suspect that you had an old daily image (which is based on > *unstable*) that still used the 2.6.31-1 kernel while the udebs for that > kernel no longer existed in unstable because they had been updated to > 2.6.31-2. Eh, we don't have ude

Bug#511679: installation-guide-i386: Provide information on how to restore USB stick to its previous state

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
First of all, sorry for the late reply. On Tuesday 13 January 2009, M.-A. DARCHE wrote: > The problem now is that I cannot recover/restore my USB stick to its > previous state. Before me installing the Debian installer on it, the USB > capacity (size) was 2Gb and now when I open the USB device wit

Bug#552787: #552787 [i386][squeeze][20091026-21:55] unable to install lenny from daily

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 06 November 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > > Found the problem, which is documented but it's somewhat difficult > > to parse. This change in my preseed file fixed the issue: > > > > - d-i mirror/udeb/suite string lenny > > + d-i mirror/udeb/suite string testing > > This is not a b

Bug#553306: marked as done (clarify use of mirror/udeb/suite)

2009-11-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:33:00 +0100 with message-id <200911060633.01228.elen...@planet.nl> and subject line Re: Bug#553306: clarify use of mirror/udeb/suite has caused the Debian Bug report #553306, regarding clarify use of mirror/udeb/suite to be marked as done. This means that you

Bug#552787: marked as done ([i386][squeeze][20091026-21:55] unable to install lenny from daily)

2009-11-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:20:22 +0100 with message-id <200911060620.23290.elen...@planet.nl> and subject line #552787 [i386][squeeze][20091026-21:55] unable to install lenny from daily has caused the Debian Bug report #552787, regarding [i386][squeeze][20091026-21:55] unable to instal

Bug#553306: clarify use of mirror/udeb/suite

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 30 October 2009, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > In relation to #552787, I've attempted to improve the relevant text > in the preseeding appendix of the manual. It's a bit wordier (sorry > translators). The parameter mirror/udeb/suite determines the suite +for additional components for the in

Bug#331523: Link goes to non-related site

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 17 October 2009, Alex Brotman wrote: > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch01s02.html.en > > contains a link to "Kernel Traffic" which actually goes to a website > having nothing to do with kernels. The installation guides for other > architectures have the same 'broken' link

Bug#548534: installation-guide: “Copying the files — the easy way” should explicitly exclude netboot

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
tag 548534 pending thanks On Saturday 26 September 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > A colleague wanted to install Debian by starting the debian installer > from a USB stick. Reading sections install-methods/boot-usb-files.xml > and install-methods/downloading-files.xml, he went for the > second met

Processed: Re: Bug#548534: installation-guide: “Copying the files — the easy way” should explicitly exclude netboot

2009-11-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tag 548534 pending Bug #548534 [installation-guide] installation-guide: “Copying the files — the easy way” should explicitly exclude netboot Added tag(s) pending. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance.

Bug#532440: documentation: 4.3.3.: mention that bootable flag should be set?

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
tag 532440 pending thanks On Tuesday 09 June 2009, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > but when I tried to boot from the usb stick I got the error message > "no bootable partition found". I ran cfdisk and noticed that indeed > bootable flag indeed is not set. Shouldn't the manual mention that? I've add

Bug#532437: debian-installer: documentation 4.3.2.2: s/vmlinuz/linux/?

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
tag 532437 pending thanks On Tuesday 09 June 2009, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > http://debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en > > says under "4.3.2.2. Adding the installer image" that the name of the > kernel file is "vmlinuz". > > However, > http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/m

Processed: Re: Bug#532440: documentation: 4.3.3.: mention that bootable flag should be set?

2009-11-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tag 532440 pending Bug #532440 [debian-installer] documentation: 4.3.3.: mention that bootable flag should be set? Added tag(s) pending. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system adm

Processed: Re: Bug#532437: debian-installer: documentation 4.3.2.2: s/vmlinuz/linux/?

2009-11-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tag 532437 pending Bug #532437 [debian-installer] debian-installer: documentation 4.3.2.2: s/vmlinuz/linux/? Added tag(s) pending. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administr

Bug#518808: [PATCH] d-i manual: document booting from DOS

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
Hi Samuel and Holger, Sorry for not looking at this BR earlier, but somehow I don't think booting from DOS is the highest priority we have. I've looked at the patch from Holger (as that's the most extensive of the two), but have some problems with it. My comments below. Cheers, FJP On Saturday

Re: question re netcfg/dhcp_timeout

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 06 November 2009, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > I noticed a small discrepancy in the type for this question. > > packages/netcfg/debian/netcfg-dhcp.template says: >Template: netcfg/dhcp_timeout >Type: text >Description: for internal use; can be preseeded > Timeout for trying D

question re netcfg/dhcp_timeout

2009-11-05 Thread Vincent McIntyre
I noticed a small discrepancy in the type for this question. packages/netcfg/debian/netcfg-dhcp.template says: Template: netcfg/dhcp_timeout Type: text Description: for internal use; can be preseeded Timeout for trying DHCP Default: 15 but the documentation[1] says: # If you have

Re: [RFC] localechooser: template changes

2009-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 02 November 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > The existing templates for the four main questions in localechooser all > have problems: they cause Lintian warnings and don't really help the > user with what he's doing. > > Below a proposed patch to improve them. The patch also includes the > change