Processed: reassign 784206 to installation-guide

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Bug#357293: marked as done (configuring unused network card)

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Bug#413645: marked as done (debian-installer-manual: In appendix D.3, should mention the existence of linux-image-2.6-arch metapackage)

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Bug#416115: marked as done (pitfal: no mention of /etc/modules)

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Bug#285317 closed by Ben Hutchings (Re: Suggestion for needed-info for IA64 and HPPA)

This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report which was filed against the installation-guide package: #285317: Suggestion for needed-info for IA64 and HPPA It has been closed by Ben Hutchings . Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. If this explanation

Bug#285317: marked as done (Suggestion for needed-info for IA64 and HPPA)

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Bug#421692: marked as done (No NVIDIA graphic card is fully supported)

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Bug#615646: Stupid Q: How do I know which CD has the package I need?

Answer: use . (I don't think this existed at the time you asked.) Maybe this should be documented, though we are unlikely to continue generating large numbers of CD iamges for future releases. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you seem to know what you are doing, you'

Bug#264530: debian-installer-manual: Could add LOADLIN next to LILO and GRUB

Startign with loadlin is now documented, though it's now long past the point where that should be removed as obsolete. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Processed: submitter 285317

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Bug#284910: marked as done (initrd for sites)

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Bug#524877: marked as done (installation-guide: Creating multiarch USB stick)

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Bug#274243: marked as done (debian-installer: Provide prebuilt nbi for etherboot)

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Bug#230552: marked as done (should explain that discover and hotplug are used for hardware detection on installed system, and how to turn that off)

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Bug#344649: marked as done (debian-installer-manual: compile kernel for SPARC)

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Bug#342572: marked as done (The installation manual does not do justice to the modular nature of d-i)

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Bug#344477: marked as done (update information on how to install on oldworld powerpc)

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Bug#283972: marked as done (update information about i386 bootloader configuration)

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Bug#417853: marked as done (kernel: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping related bug?!)

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Bug#783637: Installation fails because starting colord fails on missing libudev.so.0

> See attached. Err, this is really not the way to submit bug reports: just copy/paste the text in the mail, that'll make it *way* easier to process for everybody. > Boot method: Upgrade from Debian 7.8 in terminal inside Firefox via network? So this is not actually an installation. > 2. on fir

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Processed: Re: Bug#783613: installation-guide-amd64: Incorrect usage of the --revision string.

Processing control commands: > tags -1 + pending Bug #783613 [installation-guide-amd64] installation-guide-amd64: Incorrect usage of the --revision string. Added tag(s) pending. -- 783613: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=783613 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debi

Bug#783613: installation-guide-amd64: Incorrect usage of the --revision string.

Control: tags -1 + pending Hello, Ben Patrick, le Tue 28 Apr 2015 22:07:31 +1000, a écrit : > I suggest updating the guide to reflect this requirement, > > "Now compile the kernel: fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --revision=1.0.custom > kernel_image" Indeed, commited, thanks! Samuel -- To UNSUB

Bug#783982: D-i: preseed from floppy no longer works !

On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 07:50:54AM +0300, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > I'd prefer not to introduce any new dependecies, for portability reasons. cpio is available on any *NIX system. Having the 'preseed.cfg' in the initrd means there is no need to mount a device (like a floppy or second CDROM) See

Bug#783358: installation-reports: Debian 8 CD - "Graphical install" is not the default (installation guide says it should be)

Hello, Holger Wansing (2015-05-03): > So, shall I revert the manual back to "text install is default"? Yes please. I asked Didier to keep an eye on it but he pretended being busy with other topics. ;) > (Or will the default be changed with a point release of Jessie, > or something like that? In

Bug#783358: installation-reports: Debian 8 CD - "Graphical install" is not the default (installation guide says it should be)

Hi, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Alan Jenkins (2015-04-26): > > Package: installation-reports > > Severity: normal > > > > I've just installed debian-8.0.0-amd64-CD-1.iso in a virtual machine. > > By default, the "Install" entry was selected. > > But the install guide says the default should be "Gr

Bug#783278: patch v2

Yes, you guessed correctly. The v2 patch is the "good" one. On 05/03/2015 03:19 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: Hi David, On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 21:25 -0500, David Lechner wrote: Tags: patch I botched the first patch. This one fixes it correctly. Thanks for the patch(es). The buglog at https://bugs.d

Bug#784148: base-installer: NTP daemon should be installed on any system missing an RTC

On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 18:55 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 05:23:30PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 17:40 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > > Debian installations on hardware with no (battery-backuped) RTC > > > is likely an installation that hasn't ne

Bug#784148: base-installer: NTP daemon should be installed on any system missing an RTC

On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 05:23:30PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 17:40 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > Debian installations on hardware with no (battery-backuped) RTC > > is likely an installation that hasn't network connection. > > What makes you think that? embedded syste

Processed: Re: base-installer: NTP daemon should be installed on any system missing an RTC

Processing control commands: > reassign -1 clock-setup Bug #784148 [base-installer] base-installer: NTP daemon should be installed on any system missing an RTC Bug reassigned from package 'base-installer' to 'clock-setup'. Ignoring request to alter found versions of bug #784148 to the same values

Bug#784148: base-installer: NTP daemon should be installed on any system missing an RTC

Control: reassign -1 clock-setup Control: retitle -1 Missing support for systems without battery-backed RTC On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 17:40 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > Debian installations on hardware with no (battery-backuped) RTC > is likely an installation that hasn't network connection. What m

Bug#784148: base-installer: NTP daemon should be installed on any system missing an RTC

Debian installations on hardware with no (battery-backuped) RTC is likely an installation that hasn't network connection. So please do not push (too hard) for "you MUST allway known what time it is" Make it possible to do installs on hardware without RTC and no access to a NTP server. Installi

Bug#784148: Acknowledgement (base-installer: NTP daemon should be installed on any system missing an RTC)

Somewhat relatedly, if there is no RTC then the systemd unit hwclock-save.service should be disabled. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#784148: base-installer: NTP daemon should be installed on any system missing an RTC

Package: base-installer Severity: important It is very important that Debian systems have an accurate system clock. However not all supported systems include a battery-backed RTC (or any working RTC). Whenever there is not an RTC (and perhaps if there is an RTC but we somehow recognise that it's

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

And last little bit - what is the linux world thinking - spaces in file names? Good grief. (as well as very long names). root@jessie:/etc/NetworkManager# ls -l system* total 4 -rw--- 1 root root 260 May 1 22:44 Wired connection 1 On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Michael Felt wrote: > Maybe

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

Maybe something else to add to the release notes - the new /etc/NetworkManager/* (I hate long names and caps - I know this is not UNIX, but one of the goals of UNIX was to keep things short, fewer key presses, and less output (the example given was IBM 'mainframe' that gave a page of text for a com

Bug#783323: Broken configuration for OpenBlocks AX3-4

On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 13:10 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 08:35 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 00:40 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 20:09 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 16:35 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >

Bug#783323: Broken configuration for OpenBlocks AX3-4

On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 08:35 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 00:40 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 20:09 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 16:35 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > [...] > > > > Essentially if Boot-Device is set then Boot-*-P

Bug#783074: flash-kernel: improvements to uboot-generic bootscript

On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 09:12 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Package: flash-kernel > Version: 3.35 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > This patch adds a few improvements to the uboot-generic bootscript: > > * Use kernel version in versioned files > * Include kernel version, device and partiti

Bug#783073: bootscripts: Support using fdtfile variable passed from u-boot

On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 08:54 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >load ${device} ${partition} ${loadaddr} ${pathprefix}vmlinuz-${kvers} \ > - && load ${device} ${partition} ${fdtaddr} ${pathprefix}dtb-${kvers} \ > + && load ${device} ${partition} ${fdtaddr} > ${pathprefix}dtbs-${kvers}/${fdtfile}

Bug#783278: patch v2

Hi David, On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 21:25 -0500, David Lechner wrote: > Tags: patch > > I botched the first patch. This one fixes it correctly. Thanks for the patch(es). The buglog at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=783278 has somehow ended up with the message ordering confused. I

Bug#783323: Broken configuration for OpenBlocks AX3-4

On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 20:09 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > It seems that the code which handles the Boot-Device case is buggy in > > the face of a firmware partition which has some hierarchy to it. > > If the boot images need to be in a specific subdirectory then it's not > so unreasonable to exp

Bug#783323: Broken configuration for OpenBlocks AX3-4

On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 00:40 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 20:09 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 16:35 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > [...] > > > Essentially if Boot-Device is set then Boot-*-Path should be relative to > > > that device, if Boot-Device is no