Re: Etch 1/2 CD images for test (was: Misc development news (#6))

2008-04-22 Thread Alexander Schmehl
[ dropping debian-devel, not of general interest ] [ added debian-publicity ] Hi! * Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080422 17:25]: > > Please help test "etch and a half" [..] > I have built two "etchnhalf" netinst CD images (i386 and amd64) for people > who'd like to try them out. They contain:

Re: Debian Live (Was: Debian Logo Use)

2008-04-16 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! Please CC me, as I'm (not yet/longer) subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Jérémy Bobbio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080416 10:35]: [..] > The debian-installer team is already lacking enough dedicated people to > properly answer all its bug reports [1]. More releases (of any kinds) > that would not ha

Re: A common Debian style for Debian Installer and the desktop

2007-06-16 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070615 10:42]: [ Red swirl and red i-dot is needed ] > I Disagree. Because the shape of the swirl is usually enough to make the > connection to the "real" logo and the organization behind it, we should > be pretty much free for all color variations. Th

Re: General question

2006-08-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Eddy Petri??or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060801 17:16]: > There is preseeding which should automate installations for as many > cases as you may want. But, OTOH, I think it would be useful to add > some means to select at boot time one of "newbie scheme", "mail server > scheme", "desktop scheme"

Bug#368690: Installation fails, when /var/cache/apt/archives is full

2006-05-24 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: installation-reports Boot method: Boot from netinst CD, used private mirror as source Image version: 2006-05-24, http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso Date: Wed May 24 08:48:25 CEST 2006 Machine: selfmade Shuttle SN41-G2 Processor: A

Re: Debian DVD Cebit-Edition: What is the password for root ?

2006-03-16 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! [ Answering for the archive, allready answered the very same mail send to -user ] * Geert Stappers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060316 12:46]: > > I have got a Debian-DVD at the Cebit in Hannover. Installing went fine, but > > it > > does not ask, what password root should have. However, I saw t

Tell journalists about rc2?

2004-12-05 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi d-i developers! A couple of month ago, during the CeBIT here in Germany, some journalists from the magazine "ix" [1] (a bigger it magazine, targeting the more professional users and developers) visited our Debian booth, and took a look at the snapshot of the debian installer we showed (I think

Re: Bug#283346: Installing LILO into LVM partition fails badly

2004-11-28 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Thomas Hofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041128 12:55]: > What I did: I created a LVM partition on hda6 with a root and a home > partition inside. Because /boot is on the LVM, the installer defaults > to LILO. I decided to install LILO into hda6 (in order to chainload it > via another installation th

Re: dpkg can't access deb packages in archives

2004-08-22 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Good morning. * Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040822 03:11]: > However, when it comes chroot running dpkg-reconfigure on > console-data, the package turns out not to be installed. Although > debootstrap checked and validated the package (and its two related > packages), it did not extract an

Re: Debian Installer and installing on encrypted partitions?

2004-08-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Moin! * Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040818 14:40]: > > > does the new Debian Installer somehow support to install Debian on > > > encrypted partitions? > > No. But I would love to have it. Are you up for the job? > Andreas Mueller mentioned me at Debconf he wanted to work on this..

Install report.... kind of

2004-06-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Dear d-i Team, I just wanted to tell you a sure sign, that your installer surely rocks, since a semi-newbie with just basic knowledge was able to install a nice Debian System. In a foreign Language. Which he couldn't not read. Not a single character. Actually: He didn't knew, which language it was

Bug#252107: 2004-05-30 fails with 2.6 kernel on PowerBook G4 (2.4 works fine)

2004-06-01 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Good evening! * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040601 20:25]: > Um. This was bug #244589, and was fixed in busybox-cvs ages ago ... > > Aargh. WHY did that version of busybox-cvs-udeb never make it into > testing? I guess it must have been that stupid netcfg thing. We'll have > to pull 2.6 f

Bug#252107: 2004-05-30 fails with 2.6 kernel on PowerBook G4 (2.4 works fine)

2004-06-01 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040530/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso uname -a: Don't know Date: Mo Mai 31 17:03:41 CEST 2004 Method: booted from CD, while 2.4 worked, trying install-2.6 fails Machine: PowerBook G4

Bug#251892: 2004-05-30 fails with 2.6 kernel on PowerBook G4 (2.4 works fine)

2004-05-31 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040530/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso uname -a: Don't know Date: Mo Mai 31 17:03:41 CEST 2004 Method: booted from CD, while 2.4 worked, trying install-2.6 fails Machine: PowerBook G4

Re: Bug#248902: installation-report debian-installer beta4, arch i386

2004-05-13 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040514 00:13]: > Someone suggested a while ago to use LABEL= in d-i. Can someone who > uses this feature explain exactly how it works? If I put LABEL=/home > in a /etc/fstab, how does Linux know which partition is associated > with this label? IIRC you ca

Bug#246357: newbie installation report

2004-05-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Dennis Stampfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040429 22:54]: > Alex, how about "Verwendungszweck:"? or "Verwendung:"? I prefer the > second, "Verwendung: formatieren" or "Verwendung: Als Swap..." seems ok > to me. But I will take a look at the running installer and think about > it again.. Sorry for the

Re: Full Debian install impressions and facts

2004-04-16 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040416 10:59]: > The XFree keyboard was US layout while I had chosen a french layout > for the console keyboard during d-i. I think we need some closer > interaction between the console-* package settings and the xfree settings. See #242605 and #238778.

Bug#242561: Installation report: Nearly Newbie installs debian quite sucessfull, some observations

2004-04-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/i386/20040406/sarge-i386-businesscard.iso uname -a: Linux kerkyon 2.4.25-1-686 #1 Tue Feb 24 10:55:59 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: Wed Apr 7 13:09:53 CEST 2004 Method: How did

Bug#242511: Install report beta3 i386 wireless

2004-04-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040407 05:18]: > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/i386/20040406/sarge-i386-netinst.iso > didn't booted on my notebook > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/i386/20040405/sarge-i386-netinst.iso > didn't

Re: Bug#242511: Install report beta3 i386 wireless

2004-04-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040407 05:18]: > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/i386/20040406/sarge-i386-netinst.iso > didn't booted on my notebook > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/i386/20040405/sarge-i386-netinst.iso > didn't

Bug#242511: Install report beta3 i386 wireless

2004-04-06 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/i386/20040406/sarge-i386-businesscard.iso booted, but didn't found my wlan card http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/i386/20040406/sarge-i386-netinst.iso didn't booted

Bug#242444: Installation Report: beta3 grub failed with xfs

2004-04-06 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: beta 3, from gluck uname -a: Linux annuminas 2.6.4 #3 Sun Mar 28 14:35:45 CEST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux (has been replaced by a customized kernel, to lazy to boot ther original one) Date: 28th of March, arround 4pm Method: > How di

Re: Improved laptop support in d-i?

2004-04-01 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Finn-Arne Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040401 11:15]: > apmd and sleepd is of little use in new laptops which don't support > apm, only acpi Right for apmd, but: $ apt-cache show sleepd|grep -i acpi It supports both APM and ACPI. Didn't read deeper in the docs, but sounds interesting. Your

Bug#240228: installation-reports: beta3 installation report

2004-03-26 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: beta3 uname -a: Linux debian 2.6.4-1-686 #1 Sat Mar 13 19:25:38 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: Mon Mar 22 19:51:00 CET 2004 Method: Using the 100MB image from beta 3, booted from hdb, installed the rest via network from my pri

Small notes after Installation

2004-03-10 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Good morning, during the last weekend I had the oportunity, to test the debian installer. Nice work you did with it. Unfortunatly I needed to give the computer back, so I can't send you a full installation report, but I took some notes during the installation. I think we used the d-i from 04 of m

Re: New d-i debcamp in a few months?

2003-07-23 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030722 16:36]: > One initial idea is to arrange it from Monday 2003-10-27 to Friday > 2003-10-31 at http://www.einschlingen.de/>. I think I should mention, that this will collide with the Linux World Expo in Frankfurt [1] (I organize the Debian booth the