Bug#410878: d-i uses mirror/http/proxy setting when it (probably) shouldn't

2013-03-04 Thread Alexander Perlis
The bug Roland reported is real, and occurs in 2013 with Debian 6 installer. There should indeed be a distinction between an APT proxy and a general-purpose HTTP proxy. Our APT proxy knows how to serve up files related to Debian mirrors, but can't do general-purpose HTTP retrievals such as pres

Bug#701223: post-install boot failure with ext2 + TTY-only (desktop tasksel skipped) installation

2013-02-25 Thread Alexander Perlis
Hi, On 02/23/2013 02:14 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: 1) I used the 6.0.6 netboot installer (tried both 32-bit and 64-bit) Could you try to reproduce this bug with the latest debian-installer being prepared for 7.0 ? Take the mini.iso from http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/ins

Bug#701223: follow-up thoughts

2013-02-22 Thread Alexander Perlis
It occurs to me that the BOGUS value in /target/dev/disk/by-uuid might be a spurious filesystem signature left over from a previous install? I've noticed that the partman ext2 formatting goes really fast compared to the ext3 and ext4 formatting, so presumably less data is being written, perhaps

Bug#701223: post-install boot failure with ext2 + TTY-only (desktop tasksel skipped) installation

2013-02-22 Thread Alexander Perlis
Package: debian-installer Version: 6.0.6 I'm trying to build a text-only (no graphical desktop) Debian system with ext2 instead of the default ext3, but the resulting install is unbootable due to a bad grub configuration. To reproduce: 1) I used the 6.0.6 netboot installer (tried both 32-bi

Bug#642159: debian-installer preseed broken with apt-cacher-ng mirror

2013-02-20 Thread Alexander Perlis
This debian-installer bug is perhaps more serious than might seem from the original bug report. It affects preseed/run and preseed/include. Not clear how to adapt the work-around from the original bug report. The bug also affects fetching in preseed/late_command, as well as subsequent attempts