Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-08 Thread Chris Reich
This powerpc user would rather not see powerpc dropped from the netinstall disk but accepts that it may be the time to do it in the interests of the much larger number of x86 based hardware in the wild. - Chris Reich; Rochester, New York twittername: chrisreich --- On Thu, 7/8/10, Steve McInty

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:00:38AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >(dropped powerpc for this subthread) > >On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 01:09 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> >Do you have any idea where perl (not perl-base) comes from? python >> > (not python-minimal) doesn't seem to be in the base system

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 09:17:19AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 01:16 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 08:49:36AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >> >On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 22:46 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> the multi-arch DVD. >> > >> >Another random th

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 12:49:52AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 07:16:59AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >> >>Hardlinks are used in preference to symlinks since these are expected to >>work better with isolinux and the Xen tools. >> >>Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell >> >>diff --g

problems with preseeding partman-auto/expert_recipe

2010-07-08 Thread Enrico van Goor
Hi all, I'm having problems with preseeding the partitions. I have the following configuration: d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string boot-root-tmp :: 250 250 250 ext3 $primary{ } $bootable{ } method{ format }

Possible Bug in Partman with 2TB storage.

2010-07-08 Thread Stuart Sheldon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Install issue with Daily Net Boot Build. Partitions created by partman cause system to crash during format. System with 3Ware 9550SXU Controller with three 1T SATA drives in a RAID5 Config. Problem does not exist when partitions are created with p

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-08 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 15:23 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:00:38AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >I don't think libuuid-perl really needs perl and I have filed #588427 to > >that effect. > > Cool. It's tagged as pending already in the perl team's VCS, very fast turnaroun

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-08 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 12:45 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 12:49:52AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 07:16:59AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >> > >>Hardlinks are used in preference to symlinks since these are expected to > >>work better with isolinux

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-08 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 01:16 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 08:49:36AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 22:46 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> the multi-arch DVD. > > > >Another random thought, would we be better off enabling the xen variant > >on the m-a

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-08 Thread Ian Campbell
(dropped powerpc for this subthread) On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 01:09 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > >Do you have any idea where perl (not perl-base) comes from? python > > (not python-minimal) doesn't seem to be in the base system but is on > > the CD as well. Similarly nothing seems to pull in bin

Re: floppy install

2010-07-08 Thread Holger Wansing
Hello, Philip Hands wrote: > Is it worth mentioning this for future people hunting for floppy > installs? > > James, if you try that, perhaps you could write-up any issues you bump > into, so that we could still offer a floppy install method, even if we > no longer try to cram the latest install

Re: floppy install

2010-07-08 Thread Philip Hands
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 22:12:59 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: ... > So, the upgrade stops with the error message (only wrote from mind) > "debianutils: trying to overwrite add-shell, which is already in > package passwd". Does upgrading passwd first, with something like: apt-get install passwd g

Bug#588419: debian-testing-i386-DVD-1.iso does not start

2010-07-08 Thread Holger Wansing
Hello, Fabrizio Regalli wrote: > Comments/Problems: > > The installation does not start with the message: Unable to find > configuration file That looks like bug#587150, which has already been fixed in unstable. Holger -- = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Crea

Bug#588407: debian-installer: d-i copies firmware file to wrong location

2010-07-08 Thread Matthias Julius
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal I have installed Squeeze on a Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop from a i386 netinst CD downloaded on Tuesday last week. During network setup d-i pointed out that the firmware file e100/d101m_ucode.bin is missing. After I put that onto a USB drive d-i copied

Bug#588419: debian-testing-i386-DVD-1.iso does not start

2010-07-08 Thread Fabrizio Regalli
Package: installation-reports Boot method: DVD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-dvd/debian-testing-i386-DVD-1.iso Date: 07/07/2010 11.00am Machine: Acer Travelmate 5740 Processor: intel i3 core Memory: 4 GB Partitions: Base System Installation Checklis

grub-installer_1.52_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2010-07-08 Thread Archive Administrator
Accepted: grub-installer_1.52.dsc to main/g/grub-installer/grub-installer_1.52.dsc grub-installer_1.52.tar.gz to main/g/grub-installer/grub-installer_1.52.tar.gz grub-installer_1.52_i386.udeb to main/g/grub-installer/grub-installer_1.52_i386.udeb Override entries for your package: grub-i

Processing of grub-installer_1.52_i386.changes

2010-07-08 Thread Archive Administrator
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