Quoting Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org):
> Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > On the other hand, I think that other daily builds done in Joey Hess'
> > home are very safe. Obviously, Joey has proven over years how reliable
> > he can be and I don't see urgency to change this.
>
> Aside from not being in th
Quoting Miguel Figueiredo (el...@debianpt.org):
> Hi all,
>
> attached a patch and chapter page from the manual about preparing usb
> memory stick to install debian.
>
> I made some changes hoping this can be more clear to follow.
> Please review it and check if these changes are worth it.
It se
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
system has two mirrored disks, /dev/md0 is boot, /dev/md2 is root
selecting grub-legacy, and specifying either /dev/hda or (hd0) for installation
results in a menu.lst file with the line
groot=(md0) and all of the boot sections starting
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
eth0 is intel board
eth1 is broadcom card
installer 1st asks for firmware (e100/d102e_ucode.bin) - download from
debian.org per install instructions, put on usb stick, insert - seems to load
(takes several minutes)
then, selecting eth1
Joey Hess wrote:
> I've attached a patch with a script, which I am checking into d-i for now,
> that does that.
Note that currently mountmedia and check-missing-firmware only find
firmware on this second, special partition, if it's in udeb or deb
files. When looking for loose firmware, it mounts
Joey Hess wrote:
> So ideally, debian-cd would add a small second partition to the iso file's
> partition table, and tack on a FAT filesystem. This could probably be done
> by running fdisk on the iso file after isohybrid.
I've attached a patch with a script, which I am checking into d-i for now,
ybrid $(TEMP_MINIISO)
# Netboot files
.PHONY: arch_netboot_dir
diff --git a/installer/debian/changelog b/installer/debian/changelog
index d3820df..2e67006 100644
--- a/installer/debian/changelog
+++ b/installer/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+debian-installer (20100913) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+
Christian PERRIER wrote:
> On the other hand, I think that other daily builds done in Joey Hess'
> home are very safe. Obviously, Joey has proven over years how reliable
> he can be and I don't see urgency to change this.
Aside from not being in the building where that box is all the time, and
it
I've done some investigation of using isohybrid on an iso image (d-i
alpha1 i386 netinst) to allow it to be booted from USB stick. Basically,
postprocess the image with isohybrid, and write it direct to the usb
stick. On the single machine I tried it on, that booted ok without any
tweaking of isohy
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:27:56 -0400 (EDT), Robert Nix wrote:
>
> Image version:
> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-s390/current/images/generic/
The Lenny installer is a bit long in the tooth. Have you tried
the Squeeze alpha1 installer? It *should* be able to install Le
Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
Hi all,
because of #596633, #590568 and #596628 regarding USB installation where
instructions on .iso to use didn't seem to be clear enough i moved the
information of the already existing footnote to a paragraph hoping it's
easier to understand.
As one of the bug re
Joey Hess wrote:
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Next, download a Debian netinst CD image, and copy that file to the
memory stick; any filename is ok as long as it ends in .iso.
Actually, the instructions AREN'T that clear. The instructions start
out with:
"There are two installati
Miles Fidelman wrote:
> > Next, download a Debian netinst CD image, and copy that file to the
> > memory stick; any filename is ok as long as it ends in .iso.
> Actually, the instructions AREN'T that clear. The instructions start
> out with:
>
> "There are two installation methods possible
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 06:15:06PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
>
> Triggering udev from keyboard-configuration doesn't really make sense
> (it's a layering violation; keyboard-configuration shouldn't need to
> know what the users for this configuration file are, whether X is
> installed, etc)
Must be named .iso or .ISO.
In the chapter you point from the manual:
"You can use either a businesscard, a netinst or a full CD image (see
Section 4.1, “Official Debian GNU/Linux CD-ROM Sets”). Be sure to select
one that fits. Note that the “netboot mini.iso” image is not usable for
this purpose
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: cd
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
Date:
Machine: athlon xp 1800+, 2gb ram, 500gb HDD
Partitions:
Base System I
Hi all,
because of #596633, #590568 and #596628 regarding USB installation where
instructions on .iso to use didn't seem to be clear enough i moved the
information of the already existing footnote to a paragraph hoping it's
easier to understand.
Here it goes a new proposal.
On 11-09-2010 18:59,
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: z/VM virtual card reader
Image version:
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-s390/current/imag
es/generic/
Date: 09/13/2010 09:30am
Machine: IBM Z9 2094 2IFL
z/VM Version 5 Release 3.0, service level 0702 (64-bit)
Generated at 10/3
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> tags 596730 pending
Bug #596730 [tasksel] tasksel KDE does not install OpenOffice/KDE-integration
Added tag(s) pending.
> thanks
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tags 596730 pending
thanks
Quoting Klaus Staerk (klaus.sta...@gmx.net):
> >What's the needed package?
>
> The name of the package is "openoffice.org-kde".
Funny: I use KDE for ages. Same for OOo. And I didn't have this
package..:)
I just added it to the kde-desktop task in tasksel's git reposi
Op 20100913 om 22:16 schreef Christian PERRIER:
> As I just mentioned on IRC, a few daily builds seem currently non
> optimal:
>
> - s390 builds still point to Frans' home on people.d.o. It's very sad
> to say this, of course, but that doesn't exist anymore..:-(
>
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> reassign 596716 apt-setup
Bug #596716 [debian-installer] debian-installer: please add easy path to bpo
and volatile sources
Bug reassigned from package 'debian-installer' to 'apt-setup'.
> thanks
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Hi,
Am 13.09.2010 22:05, schrieb Christian PERRIER:
Quoting Sune Vuorela (s...@debian.org):
Package: tasksel
On Monday 13 September 2010 10:10:54 Klaus Staerk wrote:
Hello Debian KDE maintainers,
when installing Debian squeeze from netinst CD and choosing "KDE" as
alternative desktop enviro
Quoting Sune Vuorela (s...@debian.org):
> Package: tasksel
>
> On Monday 13 September 2010 10:10:54 Klaus Staerk wrote:
> > Hello Debian KDE maintainers,
> >
> > when installing Debian squeeze from netinst CD and choosing "KDE" as
> > alternative desktop environment, OpenOffice is installed but n
reassign 596716 apt-setup
thanks
Quoting Hector Oron (zu...@debian.org):
> Package: debian-installer
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Today I wanted to install Debian "lenny" on a recent new machine with is not
> supported by debian-installer kernel in "lenny". I also tried kmuto's d-i
As I just mentioned on IRC, a few daily builds seem currently non
optimal:
- s390 builds still point to Frans' home on people.d.o. It's very sad
to say this, of course, but that doesn't exist anymore..:-(
- sparc builds point to Geert Stappers home and haven't been updated
since July 12th
Could
Your message dated Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:58:47 +0200
with message-id <20100913195847.gl3...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#596633: USB install fails
has caused the Debian Bug report #596633,
regarding USB install fails
to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the pr
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> reassign 581756 console-setup
Bug #581756 [keyboard-configuration] keyboard-configuration: want config
changes to propagate to udev/Xorg without reboot
Bug reassigned from package 'keyboard-configuration' to 'console-setup'.
Bug No longer marked
Quoting Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org):
> Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > Do you think that the feature you wished to have in D-I (ability to
> > run D-I from a script with all output logged as well as timings
> > recorded...and ability to save installation logs in the target) is
> > addressed by change
Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting Miles Fidelman (mfidel...@meetinghouse.net):
Err, you're not supposed to put the mini.iso on the USB stick, but
either the businesscard or netinst images.
the instructions page implies that you can do a netboot, using the
.iso found in the /netb
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> severity 581756 minor
Bug #581756 [keyboard-configuration] keyboard-configuration: want config
changes to propagate to udev/Xorg without reboot
Severity set to 'minor' from 'wishlist'
> merge 581756 568645
Bug#568645: setupcon requires udevadm t
tags 581758 patch
severity 581758 minor
thank you
I'm lowering the severity because this is not realy a bug of
console-setup. I think I'd better postpone the following patch until
squeeze is released.
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 05:30:46PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
>
> Either keyboard-configurati
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> reassign 590743 xserver-xorg
Bug #590743 [keyboard-configuration] keyboard-configuration: XKBOPTIONS seems
to be not propagated
Bug reassigned from package 'keyboard-configuration' to 'xserver-xorg'.
Bug No longer marked as found in versions cons
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:13:01 -0400 (EDT), Robert Nix wrote:
>
> I just tried the current download, and can't even get past formatting the
> DASD. I get a window with the following:
>
> ┌──┤ [!!] Partition disks ├──┐
> │ ERROR!!! │
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> clone 581758 -1
Bug#581758: keyboard-configuration: way to enable xserver zapping not documented
Bug 581758 cloned as bug 596738.
> severity -1 normal
Bug #596738 [keyboard-configuration] keyboard-configuration: way to enable
xserver zapping not
clone 581758 -1
severity -1 normal
tags -1 - patch
retitle -1 way to enable xserver zapping not documented
reassign -1 release-notes
thank you
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:28:13PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
>
> What about adding this in /etc/default/keyboard ?
>
> # The following variables describ
Quoting Miles Fidelman (mfidel...@meetinghouse.net):
> >Err, you're not supposed to put the mini.iso on the USB stick, but
> >either the businesscard or netinst images.
> the instructions page implies that you can do a netboot, using the
> .iso found in the /netboot directory - where the only
Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Do you think that the feature you wished to have in D-I (ability to
> run D-I from a script with all output logged as well as timings
> recorded...and ability to save installation logs in the target) is
> addressed by changes we made since then in D-I (for instance the
>
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> tags 581758 patch
Bug #581758 [keyboard-configuration] keyboard-configuration: way to enable
xserver zapping not documented
Added tag(s) patch.
> severity 581758 minor
Bug #581758 [keyboard-configuration] keyboard-configuration: way to enable
xs
Dear user (aha...),
Do you think that the feature you wished to have in D-I (ability to
run D-I from a script with all output logged as well as timings
recorded...and ability to save installation logs in the target) is
addressed by changes we made since then in D-I (for instance the
installation-r
Package: tasksel
On Monday 13 September 2010 10:10:54 Klaus Staerk wrote:
> Hello Debian KDE maintainers,
>
> when installing Debian squeeze from netinst CD and choosing "KDE" as
> alternative desktop environment, OpenOffice is installed but not the
> package for OpenOffice/KDE integration.
Let'
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> tags 247078 wontfix
Bug #247078 [debian-installer] Please support ISDN connectivity
Added tag(s) wontfix.
> thanks
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Your message dated Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:29:35 +0200
with message-id <20100913172935.ge3...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org>
and subject line Bug obsoleted by switch to X
has caused the Debian Bug report #247218,
regarding should document which powerpc machines need video=ofonly kernel
parameter
to be ma
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> reassign 231766 choose-mirror
Bug #231766 [debian-installer] Please include mounted file system retriever
Bug reassigned from package 'debian-installer' to 'choose-mirror'.
> retitle 231766 Should allow retrieving files from a local (mounted media
Quoting Miles Fidelman (mfidel...@meetinghouse.net):
> installer starts up, gives the standard language selection, etc., then:
> - error: no .iso found
> - continue to menu, tell it to look for iso, I can see it mount both
> hard disks and USB stick (both /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdc); then
> comes back
tags 247078 wontfix
thanks
I don't think anyone will ever really bother to add udebs for ISDN
support in D-I now that ISDN is slowly dying.
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reassign 231766 choose-mirror
retitle 231766 Should allow retrieving files from a local (mounted media) mirror
thanks
Maybe this bug could be addressed by adding support for file:/
locations in choose-mirror?
I'm not really sure that anyone has enough interest in this for such
enhancement to ever
Your message dated Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:31:27 +0200
with message-id <20100913173127.gf3...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org>
and subject line No more floppies...no more bug
has caused the Debian Bug report #252426,
regarding Problems installing Sarge on OldWorld 7300/200 Mac
to be marked as done.
This me
Your message dated Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:50:22 +0200
with message-id <20100913175022.gh3...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org>
and subject line The right udebs are downloaded
has caused the Debian Bug report #262200,
regarding debian-installer: d-i downloads unneeded packages
to be marked as done.
This
Your message dated Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:32:34 +0200
with message-id <20100913173234.gg3...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org>
and subject line Loading extra udebs is now supported...
has caused the Debian Bug report #256177,
regarding want a way to load extra udebs from usb stick
to be marked as done.
Thi
Your message dated Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:31:27 +0200
with message-id <20100913173127.gf3...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org>
and subject line No more floppies...no more bug
has caused the Debian Bug report #252426,
regarding no oldworld mac boot floppies
to be marked as done.
This means that you claim th
tags 246498 moreinfo
thanks
This wishlist bug says "When the user presses Control-Alt-Delete / kbrequest,
there should be an
indication that the system is being rebooted.
Currently, nothing occurs. Interaction with the installer continues right up
until the screen goes black...".
I agree that
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Bug #246498 [debian-installer] main-menu: Should indicate
Ctrl-Alt-Delete/kbrequest prompted reboot in progress.
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> thanks
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Joey Hess wrote:
The mini.iso contains only the netboot kernel and initrd, it is not
useful to put that on a USB stick. I think that the documentation about
putting a CD image on the USB stick is fairly clear about using an image
that will work, such as the netinst image:
Next, download a D
Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
Today I wanted to install Debian "lenny" on a recent new machine with is not
supported by debian-installer kernel in "lenny". I also tried kmuto's d-i
backport, but it is bit out of date. I believe it would not be hard to ask a
new debconf
Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Just tried with the daily build - using
> vmlinuz dated 9/13/10 10:04 from
> http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/vmlinuz
> initrd.gz dated 9/13/10 10:04 from
> http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/initrd.gz
> mini.iso dated 9/13/10
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 06:04:27PM +0200, Zsombor wrote:
> It is happenning during the install, just after I boot from CD and
> choosing 'install64' (and any *64) . Tried with all imaginable boot
> parameters this problem still persists. But I also hate yaboot so I
> give a chance with grub2 & sque
Hello Len,
It is happenning during the install, just after I boot from CD and
choosing 'install64' (and any *64) . Tried with all imaginable boot
parameters this problem still persists. But I also hate yaboot so I
give a chance with grub2 & squeeze.
Thank you for the advise!
Regards,
Zsombor
On
I just tried the current download, and can't even get past formatting the
DASD. I get a window with the following:
┌──┤ [!!] Partition disks ├──┐
│ ERROR!!! │
│ VTOC: seeking on device failed -- vtoc_write_
At someone's suggestion, I tried configuring syslinux.cfg to set
INSTALL_MEDIA_DEV=/dev/sdc1
Well
- the installer still can't find the .iso, but now
- exiting to shell indicates that INSTALL_MEDIA_DEV=/dev/sdc1, but...
- instead of mounting /dev/sdc1 as /hd-media, the installer has mounted
Accepted:
debian-installer-images_20100912_amd64.tar.gz byhand
debian-installer_20100912.dsc
to main/d/debian-installer/debian-installer_20100912.dsc
debian-installer_20100912.tar.gz
to main/d/debian-installer/debian-installer_20100912.tar.gz
debian-installer_20100912_amd64.deb
to main/d/d
debian-installer_20100912_amd64.changes uploaded successfully to localhost
along with the files:
debian-installer_20100912.dsc
debian-installer_20100912.tar.gz
debian-installer_20100912_amd64.deb
debian-installer-images_20100912_amd64.tar.gz
Greetings,
Your Debian queue daemon (ru
Just for the heck of it, I copied the mini.iso to both / and /boot on my
hard disk and tried the installer again.
Now it reports, after a deep search, "no installer iso images found" ...
"while one or more possible iso images were found, they did not look
like valid installer iso images"
daily build doesn't work - details at end
Christian PERRIER wrote:
tags 596633 moreinfo
thanks
Quoting Miles Fidelman (mfidel...@meetinghouse.net):
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: USB Installer
Image version: download of testing files dated 9/10/10 per USB install
instructions
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:49:03AM +0200, Zsombor wrote:
> I have a 64-bit p550 power where I tried to install Debian using image
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.6/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-506-powerpc-CD-1.iso
> About a year ago I had successfully installed Debian64 but booting
> with this i
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> tags 581683 help
Bug #581683 [console-setup] [Graphical-install] [I18N, USABILITY] configure
keyboard dialogs
Added tag(s) help.
> reassign 581683 console-setup-udeb
Bug #581683 [console-setup] [Graphical-install] [I18N, USABILITY] configure
key
tags 581683 help
reassign 581683 console-setup-udeb
thank you
Hello,
I am adding the tag help for this bug. I don't understand the first
part of it (the missing translations). I suppose the file
usr/share/console-setup-mini/kbdnames.gz was removed for some reason in
the installer image.
The
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for testing the installer images on usb media and caring enough
> to report the problems you found.
>
> Nowadays usb devices are cheap and even more common than cd/dvd-rom
> readers and testing d-i on usb media is not
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 06:33:51PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
>
> Anton, do you have an idea how to fix this (or anyone else, for that
> matter)? We need to parse the xorg.conf keywords and option names
> case-insensitively, but the option values themselves are case-sensitive.
Thanks for your
Hi,
thanks for testing the installer images on usb media and caring enough
to report the problems you found.
Nowadays usb devices are cheap and even more common than cd/dvd-rom
readers and testing d-i on usb media is not so easy to accomplish
successfully.
There are already several reports on th
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 01:02:38PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:02:06PM +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:54:42AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:21:40AM +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > > Which version? There w
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:02:06PM +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:54:42AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:21:40AM +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > Which version? There where several different DHCP client implementations
> > in use over time.
> A
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:54:42AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:21:40AM +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > Package: debian-installer
>
> Which version? There where several different DHCP client implementations
> in use over time.
All those using the one-shot busybox
Hello,
I have a 64-bit p550 power where I tried to install Debian using image
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.6/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-506-powerpc-CD-1.iso
About a year ago I had successfully installed Debian64 but booting
with this image it says:
[0.510170] Ramdisk: compressed image found
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:21:40AM +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
Which version? There where several different DHCP client implementations
in use over time.
> The debian installer does not renew a DHCP lease after it has expired.
Possible. This means that the lease time
Package: debian-installer
The debian installer does not renew a DHCP lease after it has expired. In a
network with dynamic ARP inspection[1] this results in loosing the network
connection during installation.
[1] http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=1181682&seqNum=8
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