Bug#782287: hw-detect: install open-vm-tools in d-i

2015-07-06 Thread Oliver Kurth
​open-vm-tools is mainly about user space tools. Kernel drivers have been either obsoleted, or are part of the current Linux kernel. The only kernel module still needed from open-vm-tools is vmhgfs, which we plan to obsolete in the future when we migrate to using FUSE. But vmhgfs could be distri

Bug#785241: i386 installer works, but amd64 did not

2015-07-06 Thread Andrew Buckeridge - Private
I have an Acer C720P. When I tried the amd64 installer via USB and it just rebooted the BIOS. I was able to run the i386 installer, pull amd64 kernel image and boot it from the built in flash drive. The johnlewis.ie FAQs say try another distro or mem=some_value. The i386 Debian userland is now run