Re: D-I Internals manual

2018-07-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, (And sorry for the lag.) Holger Wansing (2018-06-27): > today I have committed changes to push the Debian Installer > Internationalization and Localization Guide (aka d-i internals manual) > to www. > > I created a new directory at dillon: > /srv/d-i.debian.org/www/d-i-internals for this an

Bug#708424: marked as done (d-i manual: Partitioning for Debian - confusing phrase)

2018-07-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:59:43 +0200 with message-id <20180731075943.930837c981edffdf854a9...@wansing-online.de> and subject line d-i manual: Partitioning for Debian - confusing phrase has caused the Debian Bug report #708424, regarding d-i manual: Partitioning for Debian - confusing

Bug#820637: marked as done (indirect e-mail)

2018-07-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:43:53 +0200 with message-id <20180731074353.d186c811ef6fe6565ddbb...@wansing-online.de> and subject line [installation-guide] method to file bugreports without network access has caused the Debian Bug report #820637, regarding indirect e-mail to be marked as

d-i manual: Partitioning for Debian - confusing phrase

2018-07-30 Thread Holger Wansing
> I just read something in the d-i manual in > Appendix C. Partitioning for Debian (see > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apcs01.html.en), which is > confusing: > Shortened to some words, it's like this: > > Debian needs at least one partition for itself. > But you should probably s

Bug#736791: marked as done (installation-guide: please re-activate build for hppa architecture)

2018-07-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:32:26 +0200 with message-id <20180731073226.add934494e4a1dbf6e5c2...@wansing-online.de> and subject line installation-guide: please re-activate build for hppa architecture has caused the Debian Bug report #736791, regarding installation-guide: please re-activ

[installation-guide] method to file bugreports without network access

2018-07-30 Thread Holger Wansing
> > I was unable to use direct e-mail at the time of my Debian > > installation, so I couldn't report bugs in a straightforward way. > > > > I did a workaround by composing the message on one machine, then > > mailing it from another. > > > > Add citation of 5.4.7 for those using an alternativ

installation-guide: please re-activate build for hppa architecture

2018-07-30 Thread Holger Wansing
> Control: tag -1 wontfix > > Samuel Thibault (2014-01-26): > > Well, you don't strictly have to wait for the installation guide > > package to be able to build CD images: you can set OMIT_MANUAL to 1. > > Given this… > > > I'm quite undecided about reintroducing the package in the main > >

Re: Towards Debian Buster Alpha 4

2018-07-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Cyril Brulebois (2018-07-31): > Being back from a rather busy quarter, I'd like to resume releasing d-i > more frequently. I'd like to publish a new alpha somewhen during the > next few days/weeks (if that's fine with debian-cd). Got confirmation from Steve: that looks fine. > If you have c

Towards Debian Buster Alpha 4

2018-07-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Being back from a rather busy quarter, I'd like to resume releasing d-i more frequently. I'd like to publish a new alpha somewhen during the next few days/weeks (if that's fine with debian-cd). If you have changes pending in master branches that need uploading, or specific packages that need

Bug#874385: Debian Bug report logs - #874385,debian 9.1.0 fails to install

2018-07-30 Thread Starchy Grant
I have encountered the same failure reusing a partition scheme to (re)install Debian 9.5.0 from either USB or netboot. The file that tar "can't open" is different on each attempt, and ensuring that partman erases the partitions does not seem to help.

Bug#756859: installation-guide: USB boot

2018-07-30 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Am Montag, 30. Juli 2018 schrieb Ben Hutchings: > Please remove all the text about USB-ZIP. Zip drives have been > obsolete for over 10 years and I think only very old BIOS versions will > expect that kind of partition table in USB storage devices. This text > is more likely to confuse peopl

Bug#759428: [installation-guide] non-US is no longer existing, so there is also no "export-restricted" software

2018-07-30 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Am Montag, 30. Juli 2018 schrieb Ben Hutchings: > On Sat, 2018-07-28 at 19:06 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > > Holger Wansing wrote: > > > in http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch08s03.html > > > the manual mentions "export-restricted packages" (in reference to > > > contrib and non-free).

Bug#776313: [installation-guide] Installation manual should warn about the use of LVM partition types

2018-07-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2018-07-29 at 08:22 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: [...] > diff --git a/en/using-d-i/modules/partman-lvm.xml > b/en/using-d-i/modules/partman-lvm.xml > index 89b32b958..4a5378c0d 100644 > --- a/en/using-d-i/modules/partman-lvm.xml > +++ b/en/using-d-i/modules/partman-lvm.xml > @@ -41,7 +41,1

Bug#756859: installation-guide: USB boot

2018-07-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
Please remove all the text about USB-ZIP. Zip drives have been obsolete for over 10 years and I think only very old BIOS versions will expect that kind of partition table in USB storage devices. This text is more likely to confuse people than to be useful. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Tomorrow will b

Bug#905002: flash-kernel: please add Raspberry Pi Model B+ (note the plus)

2018-07-30 Thread Johannes Keyser
Package: flash-kernel Severity: normal Dear Maintainer(s), please add Raspberry Pi model 3+ to the database (note the plus), see https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b-plus/. When trying to boot my FreedomBox image (a Debian pure blend), I'm receiving this error currently: "

Bug#413647: [installation-guide] In Appendix D.3, common problem with Grub

2018-07-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2018-07-28 at 20:10 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > Vincent Bernat wrote: > > > Each time I install a Debian using Appendix D.3, I run into a problem > > when using grub-install : > > > > Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device. > > > > The solution is to use the

Bug#759428: [installation-guide] non-US is no longer existing, so there is also no "export-restricted" software

2018-07-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2018-07-28 at 19:06 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > Holger Wansing wrote: > > in http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch08s03.html > > the manual mentions "export-restricted packages" (in reference to > > contrib and non-free). This is a left-over from non-US I think. > > Should be changed