Bug#255984: minor comments on debian-installer

Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: i386/beta4 uname -a: Linux blp 2.6.3-1-386 #2 Tue Feb 24 20:20:23 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: June 24, 2004 Method: Installed with `linux26' command line, booting from USB 2.0 CD-RW with minimal CD-ROM, rest of insta

Re: Bochs can be helpful for bootdisk testing

Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bochs (the x86 emulator) can be quite helpful for bootdisk testing, > saving from lots of reboots. It's relatively fast and supports "el Torito" > for booting from CD (or ISO image, no need to burn) Another useful tool might be user-mode Linux:

Re: install debian with GUI

"Ondolan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i want to make installer debian with GUI like in Mandrake which i can > put image, button image, logo, etc. There is, or at least was, such an installer for Debian based on the framebuffer and a small graphics library I wrote called "BOGL". You might loo

Re: BOGL based frontend for cdebconf

Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've begun designing a BOGL based frontend for cdebconf. I've not actually > got anything useful yet, but I plan to take the project home with me over > break; I'll see how it goes. > > In order to do this, though, I need to separate BOGL out from

Re: redesigning the debian installer

Massimo Dal Zotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Massimo Dal Zotto wrote: > > > But if you want for example to install many similar machine from a cdrom > > > how can you specify which machine (hostname, ip, etc.) you are installing > > > without any prompting? > > > > DHCP > > This works if y

Re: Can't network install with 3c905TX???

Valentijn Sessink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tried to install potato, and as we're running a local Office-wide ;) > Debian-mirror, I thought it would be easiest to install by NFS. Well, I > could not even try it, as the boot/root floppies refuse to let me insert > the proper NIC module. You n

Re: [dbootstrap] `newt' and `boxes.c', `bogl' and `bowl'[, `???' and `boxeX.c'?]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: > I'll try to keep in mind that there needs to be a generic interface > that can be implemented by other GUI frontends, in the way that > `boxes.c' and `bowl' do it now. I'm going to break things on purpose > though, just for the freedom of it. I