Bug#848597: debian-installer: handling non-preseed files

2021-04-07 Thread Shane
I realize it's been five years since the last message here, but wanted to chime in with a workaround for a particular use case. Ideally there would be a way (most likely kernel param) for the installer to either ignore DHCP filenames entirely or to carry on without complaint if it encountered one

Bug#986500: finish-install: Also install spice-vdagent for kvm/qemu guests

2021-04-07 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
2021-04-06 23:13 GMT-04:00, Arnaud Rebillout : > Dear Maintainer, > > hw-detect already installs the package qemu-guest-agent when kvm/qemu > virtualization is detect, in 'hw-detect.finish-install.d/08hw-detect': > > kvm|qemu) > apt-install --with-recommends qemu-guest-agent || true > >

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

2021-04-07 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
2021-04-07 4:51 GMT-04:00, john doe : > This move should be documented somewhere and maybe emit a warning to > that effect before starting the installer: > > "Incase of failure during the installation, it is recommended to restart > from scratch." That warning sounds good, but perhaps it should be

Bug#986566: marked as done (installation-reports: Successful hurd installation)

2021-04-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 7 Apr 2021 15:26:41 +0200 with message-id <20210407132641.pvhrmbeqs5hkn4pq@begin> and subject line Re: Bug#986566: installation-reports: Successful hurd installation has caused the Debian Bug report #986566, regarding installation-reports: Successful hurd installation to be

Bug#986566: installation-reports: Successful hurd installation

2021-04-07 Thread Joao
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/latest/hurd-i386/current/debian-sid-hurd-i386-CD-1.iso Date: 20210219 Machine: Toshiba Tecra A3x laptop Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (ple

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

2021-04-07 Thread Philip Hands
[resent -- to list this time] john doe writes: > This move should be documented somewhere and maybe emit a warning to > that effect before starting the installer: > > "Incase of failure during the installation, it is recommended to restart > from scratch." > > Could d-i verify that the installat

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

2021-04-07 Thread Philip Hands
john doe writes: > Please send through the list, so other can react to your answer/feedback. That mail was intended to be sent to the list, but I upgraded notmuch recently and seem to have had it revert to it's default keybindings. Sorry about that. However, you should be cautious about forwar

Re: Can't install Grub on SSD (bullseye)

2021-04-07 Thread Xavier Brochard
Le 07.04.2021 01:17, Steve McIntyre a écrit : Please respond to the mailing list too - that way other people may be able to help, and solutions may help other users too. Yes, sorry for the mistake. ... 1. What filesystem(s) have you set up on each disk, please? Ext4 everywhere but swap.

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

2021-04-07 Thread john doe
Please send through the list, so other can react to your answer/feedback. On 4/7/2021 11:32 AM, Philip Hands wrote: john doe writes: This move should be documented somewhere and maybe emit a warning to that effect before starting the installer: "Incase of failure during the installation, it

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

2021-04-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, le mer. 07 avril 2021 10:51:08 +0200, a ecrit: > This move should be documented somewhere and maybe emit a warning to > that effect before starting the installer: > > "Incase of failure during the installation, it is recommended to restart > from scratch." That has always been so. Even

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

2021-04-07 Thread john doe
On 4/6/2021 11:46 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 05:35:19PM -0400, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: Pardon my ignorance. I could not resist to answer to this proposal. I read this page: https://www.flamingspork.com/projects/libeatmydata/ It looks like it is not good idea to use