Bug#491098: [Patch] packages/debian-installer-utils/fetch-url-methods/http fix for wget404 for latest busybox wget

2008-07-16 Thread Alex Owen
matches a different error generated by ftp. patch made againt debian-installer svn trunk revision 54394 Regards Alex Owen Index: packages/debian-installer-utils/fetch-url-methods/http === --- packages/debian-installer-utils/fetch-url

Re: i386 pxelinux.cfg no-longer serial friendly!

2008-07-12 Thread Alex Owen
If the prompt.cfg could be split in to using an include so that the menu and timeout and prompt lines were seperate from the display and f1,f2,f3 lines then I think I have a cunning plan... I will e-mail/bug report again if I get a working system. Thanks for your thoughts. Alex Owen 2008/7

i386 pxelinux.cfg no-longer serial friendly!

2008-07-12 Thread Alex Owen
for any advice Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Update request for 4.0r2 Errata.

2008-01-11 Thread Alex Owen
4.0r1." Perhaps someone knowledgeable can comment on the veracity of the above sentance and if appropriate forward the proposal to the errata editor. Many thanks Alex Owen [1] http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20071227 [2] http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/debian-installer/ -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#422088: [Patch] wish preseed_fetch could distinguish between non-existance of a requested file and other failures to fetch file.

2007-09-13 Thread Alex Owen
On 13/09/2007, Alex Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have posted to GNU-wget mailing list: > http://www.mail-archive.com/wget%40sunsite.dk/msg10259.html > proposing wget exits with exit status 4 for 404 errors > Reply already... in summary: planning to implement e

Bug#422088: [Patch] wish preseed_fetch could distinguish between non-existance of a requested file and other failures to fetch file.

2007-09-13 Thread Alex Owen
This mail is mostly a note to myself in a safe place! On 08/05/2007, Alex Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06/05/07, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alex Owen wrote: > > > + elifgrep "server returned error 404" $log >/dev/nu

Bug#422088: [Patch] wish preseed_fetch could distinguish between non-existance of a requested file and other failures to fetch file.

2007-05-08 Thread Alex Owen
On 06/05/07, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alex Owen wrote: > # TODO add progress bar > - if wget -q "$url" -O "$file"; then > + if wget -q "$url" -O "$file" 2>$log ; then > +

Bug#422088: [Patch] wish preseed_fetch could distinguish between non-existance of a requested file and other failures to fetch file.

2007-05-03 Thread Alex Owen
reseed system here. Feel free to change the exit code 4 to someother non-zero value if you will! I'm afraid this code is as yet untested. Regards Alex Owen Index: preseed/fetch-methods/file === --- preseed/fetch-methods/file (r

Bug#421602: wish d-i could pick dhcp response based on vendor-class-identifier

2007-04-30 Thread Alex Owen
could ve set ) . Note: netcfg seems to write out /etc/dhclient.conf just before calling dhclient. /etc/dhclient.conf in the initrd is edited as it is copied to the installed /target system. This editing would need to be updated if the code that writes /etc/dhclient.conf is changed. Alex Owen -- T

waking up in the 10.x.x.x network

2007-04-23 Thread Alex Owen
gine for lenny... there seemed to be lots of suggestions... my vote is for udhcpc. Anyway making the dhcp client in d-i more featureful with regards multiple dhcp servers perhaps could be added as a lenny release goal??? Just some thoughts! Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#417407: Improve safety of os-prober by ignoring active swap and using "blockdev --setro" when available

2007-04-07 Thread Alex Owen
OK here is the patch! On 07/04/07, Alex Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Attached is a patch to os-prober to: (1) make it ignore active swap [Changes in: os-prober/os-prober] (2) if blockdev is available then use it to set partitions read-only before mounting to work arround a "featu

Bug#417407: Improve safety of os-prober by ignoring active swap and using "blockdev --setro" when available

2007-04-07 Thread Alex Owen
ckdev-udeb. Regards Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#417407: debian-installer: possible workarounds for "d-i destroyed existing raid device"

2007-04-04 Thread Alex Owen
nt/umount sections of code in os-prober with calls to blockdev to set the block device readonly (and restore old perms on umount). This would side step the deficiencies in the "unconditional ext3 journal recovery code". (but this would need a block-dev udeb added to util-linux source) Just some thoughts... Alex Owen

Bug#416310: [Patch] fix fault in grub_serial_console

2007-03-27 Thread Alex Owen
pt test.sh is also attached which can be used to excercise the grub_serial_console function in the file grub_serial_console.txt. I know this is very late in the release cycle but I would like to see this rewrite of grub_serial_console enter d-i for Etch. Regards Alex Owen [For Lenny: While

Bug#416310: My Fault!

2007-03-27 Thread Alex Owen
On 27/03/07, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 27 March 2007 21:26, Alex Owen wrote: > Perhaps this should be included in the release notes for Etch? No, at most in the D-I errata I would say. Proposed entry for d-i errata: i386: Serial Console setup with GRUB There

Bug#416310: My Fault!

2007-03-27 Thread Alex Owen
Hello there, I'm afraid this is my fault. I supplied a patch to make grub-installer try to do the right thing in bug http://bugs.debian.org/224641 However the code added there assumes a FULL serial port definition on the kernel command line. eg: for the example Vagrant gives in this bug report "

Re: Will we be releasing some day?

2007-02-20 Thread Alex Owen
.1.orig.tar.gz will only work for revisiones with teh same linux-2.6_2.6.18.dfsg.1.orig.tar.gz ??? Any experts want to comment? Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: live and install in one CD?

2007-01-09 Thread Alex Owen
: [1] one way to install debian: d-i [2] a way to install from live-cd [3] a gui to create preseed files (for free!) Just a thought Alex Owen On 09/01/07, Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marco Amadori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The ubiquity approach could be s

Bug#275360: [Patch] example patch showing where to hook dhcp network config to get dhcp->static config

2007-01-04 Thread Alex Owen
bconf-db. I don't have the knowledge or time to more now so wanted to put this in BTS so others(or me later) can build on it! Regards Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#275360: [Patch] example patch showing where to hook dhcp network config to get dhcp->static config

2007-01-04 Thread Alex Owen
On 04/01/07, Alex Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This patch is in a VERY EARLY state. It inserts into /etc/dhclient-script so that the ip/mask/route etc form dhcp can be captured. This then needs to be put into the debconf database. this will allow development of static net config from

Bug#224641: [Patch] fixup serial support for grub for etch d-i

2006-11-27 Thread Alex Owen
blacklist 8250_pnp" >/etc/modprobe.d/local-8250_pnp-off Regards Alex Owen On 22/11/06, Alex Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here is a revised version of the patch which also fixes syslinux.cfg_withgtk as suggested by Otavio Salvador in: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/11/msg00

Bug#224641: [Patch] fixup serial support for grub for etch d-i

2006-11-22 Thread Alex Owen
Here is a revised version of the patch which also fixes syslinux.cfg_withgtk as suggested by Otavio Salvador in: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/11/msg00959.html Index: installer/build/boot/x86/syslinux.cfg === --- installer

Bug#224641: [Patch] fixup serial support for grub for etch d-i

2006-11-22 Thread Alex Owen
s the fix in my last revision of the patch). Regards Alex Owen Index: installer/build/boot/x86/syslinux.cfg === --- installer/build/boot/x86/syslinux.cfg (revision 42805) +++ installer/build/boot/x86/syslinux.cfg (working copy) @@ -16,2

[Patch] document defaultignore, lvmignore and lvmok in partman-auto-recipe.txt

2006-08-24 Thread Alex Owen
Patch for d-i/trunk/installer/doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt attached. It documents $defaultignore{ }, $lvmignore{ } and $lvmok{ }. Should probably be sanity checked by someone who knows them backwards though!!! Regards Alex Owen --- partman-auto-recipe.txt.orig 2006-01-18 09:36:21.0

Bug#376001: partman-base: humandev chokes on /dev/cciss/c0d0

2006-06-29 Thread Alex Owen
Package: partman-base Severity: important analysis on IRC showed that humandev function is missing support for /dev/cciss/c0d0 devices. discovered in netboot daily image 20060628 on an HP DL380 -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500

Bug#288759: Related archived bug...

2005-01-06 Thread Alex Owen
Seems insmod and lsmod and rmmod were removed from busybox on purpose to fix bug #85642. But this was a bug to fix woody so the reasons to remove insmod from busybox may have now changed!?! Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Bug#288759: related bugs

2005-01-06 Thread Alex Owen
I think that bugs 288759 and 270087 are related. Perhaps the busybox maintainer will merge them? Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: specifiying a preseed url by dhcp

2004-12-09 Thread Alex Owen
er etc and then a verbose dhcp/preseed attempt later when d-i knows what language to issue error messages in! Just my thoughts! Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: specifiying a preseed url by dhcp

2004-12-08 Thread Alex Owen
;; } In fact the option SUNW.SsysidCF is pritty much the Sun equiivilent to what we want... Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Preliminary rescue mode implementation

2004-11-28 Thread Alex Owen
Perhaps the rescue mode could have "rescue.d" dir somewhere which lvmcfg and mdcfg could drop scripts into. These scripts could detect and init and software raid and LVM stuff... probably easiest to maintain such code with the rest of the lvm/md code ? Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#224641: Tested and working patch!

2004-11-27 Thread Alex Owen
OK this patch (grub-installer-1.07-postinst.patch5) is tested and works! Sorry for the many (broken) revisions! Alex Owen --- postinst.orig-rao 2004-11-27 09:32:18.0 + +++ postinst2004-11-27 13:02:48.0 + @@ -28,11 +28,30 @@ if echo "${defconsole}"

Bug#224641: Opps... another update!

2004-11-27 Thread Alex Owen
grub-installer-1.07-postinst.patch3 is also broken... try this instead. Alex Owen --- postinst.orig 2004-11-27 09:32:18.0 + +++ postinst2004-11-27 09:52:21.0 + @@ -28,11 +28,30 @@ if echo "${defconsole}" | grep -q console=ttyS; then

Bug#224641: Testing and new patch!

2004-11-27 Thread Alex Owen
OK I have tested grub-installer-1.07-postinst.patch2 bt it did not work... Here is grub-installer-1.07-postinst.patch3 which is untested but I believe fixes the remaining problems. If I get to test it I'll post again! Alex Owen --- postinst.orig 2004-11-27 09:32:18.0

Bug#224641: Better patch!

2004-11-25 Thread Alex Owen
The serial config needs to go near the top of the file so appending it did not work! This patch puts the serial config at the top of the file! Alex Owen NB: this is still untested as far as a d-i install is concerned. --- postinst.orig 2004-11-02 14:59:09.0 + +++ postinst

Bug#224641: [Patch] support for GRUB console on serial port

2004-11-25 Thread Alex Owen
tags 224641 + patch thanks Here is an un-tested patch to make grub-installer make grub use serial port if doing a serial console install. Alex Owen --- postinst.orig 2004-11-02 14:59:09.0 + +++ postinst2004-11-25 20:55:04.0 + @@ -33,6 +33,25 @@ fi

install manual

2004-11-12 Thread Alex Owen
This page has the Install Manual in text, pdf and html formats in many languages... take your pick! (you probably want one of the pdf versions!) http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Serial console install - Best practice?

2004-10-27 Thread Alex Owen
o understand this to prepare a working patch... Thanks in advance Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#275586: Bug#245704: [PATCH] LVM on Software RAID

2004-10-16 Thread Alex Owen
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Joey Hess wrote: > Alex Owen wrote: > > --- partman/partman-lvm/init.d/lvm (revision 22848) > > +++ partman/partman-lvm/init.d/lvm (working copy) > > @@ -32,6 +34,9 @@ > > > > for id in $partitions; do > > lvm=no > > +

Bug#245704: [PATCH] LVM on Software RAID

2004-10-12 Thread Alex Owen
Here is a patch to pass on the code I've been working on for this problem. Part is for lvmcfg and most for partman-lvm. I have no local udeb repositary so I have not tested this by building the udebs. I have however patched the ramdisk in memory then run partman from the "expert" menu... this see

Bug#245704: Bug management

2004-10-08 Thread Alex Owen
If people agree that a commit.d script in partman-lvm to prepare an optional temp file for lvmcfg then this bug can be cloned and the clone assigned to partman-lvm to track that part and the orriginal can remain in lvmcfg to track that part. Good night! Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#275586: partman-lvm: /dev/md/* software RAID partitions should be able to be marked as LVM PV's

2004-10-08 Thread Alex Owen
quot; ]; }; do if [ "$flag" = lvm ]; then This solves "half the battle" of LVM on Software RAID bug #245704 tracks the other "half" of the problem(making lvmcfg read the lvm "mar

Bug#245704: create seperate LVM marker list

2004-10-08 Thread Alex Owen
nf/find-partitions at all, but some other mechanism (look at partman files)." I think the easiest way to safely interogate the partman files is from within the partman framework hence the proposal of a commit.d script and a temporary file to pass the needed info to lvmcfg. Alex Owen -- To UNSU

Bug#270550: Using d-i as rescue disk.

2004-09-08 Thread Alex Owen
x.cfg (and simmilar for other arches) then do let me know and I'll try to prepare a patch some time next week. Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: i386 pxelinux netboot + serial console

2004-09-01 Thread Alex Owen
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Joey Hess wrote: > Applied in essence, thanks. One thing I was not able to check is whether > f1.txt has the correct number of lines on a serial console. Your version > had it one line too long (should be 23) on regular console. Seems OK to me apart from f3.txt.with26: see a

Bug#224641: grub-installer serial console problems (still)

2004-08-27 Thread Alex Owen
0.51 added serial console support" However this is not the case in my experiance! [NB the other half of this original bug report (#215324) is closed and archived] Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#267838: netcfg: DHCP installer -> STATIC target

2004-08-24 Thread Alex Owen
ority defaulting to the current behaviour would do the trick plus some logic to get the answers from the DHCP response for the static config. This would be a great feature! Thanks Alex Owen -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (400, 'testing'),

RE: i386 pxelinux netboot + serial console

2004-08-23 Thread Alex Owen
Hello again... I have found the d-i svn repository and attached is my attampt at patching in the ideas I posted a few days ago. I have changed the syslinux files in d-i/trunk/installer/build/boot/x86/ but I'm assuming these are only relevant to targets in d-i/trunk/installer/buildconfig/x86.cfg

i386 pxelinux netboot + serial console

2004-08-21 Thread Alex Owen
he concept should be clear enough. Users of the VGA console should not notice any diference while users of serial consoles should get the correct information! Thanks for all your efforts... d-i is great! Alex Owen PS: I also add another stanza to my serial-9600 pxelinux config: