Andreas Tille writes:
> "Given that the next step needs Windows anyways, we're documenting the
> Windows option here."
I have no hardware to try this on, but don't think Windows is strictly
required. None of the usual tools liked the self-extracting exe, but it
extracted fine under Wine on x8
Paul van der Vlis writes:
> I've tried it again now and found in the bios an option "use Microsoft
> UEFI CA key". This option was off, when I turn it on the Debian
> installer did start with secure boot on.
Yes, this is a problem with many modern PCs. Quite frustrating as the
failure mode is w
Bastian Blank writes:
> Hibernation does not work on any modern x86 machine
"any"? Really? You've tested all of them?
And your definition of "modern" is?
Implying that Debian now only supports "modern" hardware matching that
definition?
Sorry, your argument is void. Hibernation works. Exce
Michael Hudson-Doyle writes:
> Well busybox's udhcpc would seem a likely candidate here -- but its IPv6
> support (iirc the reason we switch to dhclient from klibc's ipconfig in
> Ubuntu's initramfs, at least) is described as incomplete.
udhcpc is a very good IPv4 candidate indeed. The ability
Philip Hands writes:
> That's just a case of running `chmod g+rw /home/*` though isn't it?
I guess you meant `chmod g+r /home/*`. Group writable home will upset
quite a few applications, whether the groups are unique per user or
not.
Bjørn
Ben Hutchings writes:
> On Mon, 2020-09-21 at 20:42 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> On Mon, 2020-09-21 at 17:43 +0200, Martin Samuelsson wrote:
>> > Philip Hands @ 2020-09-21 (Monday), 15:30 (+0200)
>> > > Martin Samuelsson writes:
>> > >
>> > > Just to be clear on this point, are you saying [...
Geert Stappers writes:
> Virtual Machines (Qemu, KVM, Xen, ... ) and OCI containters ( "Docker
> images") are the new serial port only computers.
>
> In other words: There are many servers without video hardware.
(Un)fortunately, depending how you look at it, running a remote qemu
machine with f
john doe writes:
> Unless I'm missing something, it does work for me with something like:
>
> -nographic -cdrom *.iso -kernel kernel-path -append
> "console=ttyS0,115200n8 ..."
>
>
> '-serial' might also be needed.
Try repeating that when installing on bare metal without a monitor.
The lack of
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes:
> According to that logic you would have to replace the save icon in every
> desktop application because we're no longer using floppy disks.
Well.. I actually bought a 5 1/4" floppy drive a few weeks ago.
Had been thinking about maybe copying whatever documents
Julien Cristau writes:
> Users shouldn't have to think about it. It's our job to make our
> install process do the right thing in the first place.
Well, it doesn't, and most users are aware of that. DTRT is hard. It's
almost impossible when hardware is part of the equation. Debian is
good, bu
Julien Cristau writes:
> The synaptics Xorg driver is obsolete and should not be installed by
> default.
Maybe the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package could hint about this and
point to xserver-xorg-input-libinput? As it is now, I don't understand
how anyone is supposed to figure out that this
Michael Kesper writes:
> Having to change all affected places after downloading the bootfiles can be
> error prone
> and should be avoidable, I think.
+1
I use this (most likely buggy and incomplete) script to unpack the
netboot.tar.gz into a release dependedent location:
#!/bin/sh
#
DEBUG=1
Julien Cristau writes:
> We already have a change queued to revert it for build chroots. I don't
> believe anything more is warranted at this stage.
Making the package behave differently on build chroots is adding a bug,
not fixing one.
Bjørn
Samuel Thibault writes:
> It's a matter of someone fixing the code. It seems Igor Scheller is
> happy to work on it, he just needs a way forward, not being only told
> that what is currently there is nonsense.
Well, using fe80::1 as default gateway would not be a problem if it
weren't for the e
Samuel Thibault writes:
> Bjørn Mork, le mar. 12 juin 2018 13:30:39 +0200, a ecrit:
>> But this will:
>>
>> frtest3:~# ip route add 2001:db8:f00::1/128 dev eth1
>
> So this is a route, which can be checked for.
No, it is a route you can safely add. Checking for i
Samuel Thibault writes:
> Bjørn Mork, le mar. 12 juin 2018 10:52:30 +0200, a ecrit:
>> Huh? What is this? There is no "gateway must be in subnet" requirement
>> in IPv6. The gateway must only be reachable, which means that you must
>> be able to resolve the
Igor Scheller writes:
From 6bff2dee11a8d5493f87ec541f854e3897ef6a9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Igor Scheller
> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 23:52:37 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] Added support for fe80 addresses as gateway
>
> ---
> netcfg-common.c | 5 -
> static.c
Stanislaw Findeisen writes:
> On 2017-06-19 03:48, Charles Chambers wrote:
>> Has anyone else tried to install 9.0 over WiFi yet?
>
> I have tried to install 9.0 on a new Dell Precision 5520, with an Intel
> WiFi Link 8265 card, and failed.
>
> The missing firmware files (as reported by the insta
Andreas Tille writes:
>> Since this is still an open discussion in #846002, I would have
>> preferred if you would not try to force your own preference here before
>> the CTTE made its decision.
>
> While I'm not sure whether its a personal preference or whether some
> discussion I might have mis
Wouter Verhelst writes:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:07:36PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>> > I'm not sure, if the "acpi" command line utility is that useful which
>> > would warrant having it installed by default. The attached patch drops
>> > it as well. Incidentally, this was also suggested for
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes:
> On Apr 24, Michael Biebl wrote:
>
>> A while ago, I already filed a bug to have acpid and acpi-support-base
>> removed from tasksel [1], since it duplicates functionality which is
>> nowadays provided by systemd/logind.
> Indeed they are not needed when syste
"Lennart Sorensen" writes:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 05:21:30PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>> Lennart Sorensen (2014-01-06):
>> > Debian stable means not changing things in general, so adding new
>> > drivers is not something that is done.
>>
>> Sorry, that's wrong.
>>
>> The linux kernel is
Dmitrijs Ledkovs writes:
> On 5 September 2013 20:58, Bjørn Mork wrote:
>> Christian PERRIER writes:
>>
>>> Quoting Bjørn Mork (bj...@mork.no):
>>> So, it's probably less overkill than it may seem at first glance to
>>> imagine that installing hea
Christian PERRIER writes:
> Quoting Bjørn Mork (bj...@mork.no):
>
>> We can continue like this if you want. Or maybe you'd like to define
>> your problem instead of your solution?
>
> I'm sorry to play this game, but have you noticed who sent this bug report?
Dmitrijs Ledkovs writes:
> My latest ultra notebook doesn't have ethernet port and needs
> out-of-the-tree wifi drivers compiled.
> I fetched the tarball off github on my phone & transferred it to that
> notebook over USB and then compiled.
And this is the preferred solution, which you would rec
Joey Hess writes:
> Bjørn Mork wrote:
>> Really? I seriously doubt that. It's about as good as making it easier
>> for the users to replace the default libc or init system with a non-
>> Debian package.
>
> I have never needed to replace libc in order to make my
Joey Hess writes:
> If we begin installing it by default,
> users should come to just expect that they can build kernel modules from
> source without doing anything more than a make, which will be a good
> thing.
Really? I seriously doubt that. It's about as good as making it easier
for the us
Peter Chubb writes:
>> "Petter" == Petter Reinholdtsen writes:
>
> Petter> [Peter Chubb]
>>> It's more than that -- cat /proc/partitions doesn't show the stick
>>> at all. I suspect that the USB stick wasn;t recognised when it was
>>> plugged in.
>
> Petter> Right. Then it probably is a ker
Richard Betham writes:
> Installer failed to detect mobile broadband device on USB.
> I suggest that the kernel module called 'option' should have been
> installed, but it was not.
>
> Huawei Mobile Broadband device (bought from 3) was plugged into a USB
> socket during boot.
> An Epson Stylus
Miles Fidelman writes:
> well, it turns out that the installer, when accessed over a remote
> serial connection, forgets its kernel options when going into rescue
> mode
>
> i.e.:
> boot: CR #works just fine
> boot: rescue CR # fails miserably
> boot: rescue console=ttyS2,115200n8 #works just fin
Philipp Kern writes:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:25:06AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
>> For example:
>>
>> bjorn@canardo:~$ grep localhost /etc/hosts
>> 127.0.0.1 localhost
>> ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
>>
>> bjorn@c
Philipp Kern writes:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:30:58PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>> On Sep 17, Philipp Kern wrote:
>> > True, but somehow I feel that freeze time is not the time to change this.
>> I disagree, netcfg should be fixed. There is plenty of time to look at
>> any fallback, and eve
Michelle Konzack writes:
> Am 2012-09-08 16:43:00, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
>> Maybe. But given that many customers will be completely satisfied with
>> a solution where they have access to the IPv4 web via a http proxy, I
>> believe that we will start to see IPv4 as an extra service you h
Michelle Konzack writes:
>> You can use DNS64/NAT64 to access IPv4 destinations, you will need to
>> make this possible for some years anyway.
>
> I will see, how I have to set it up on my Linux Router and CISCO 7600.
I recommend using the tayga and bind9 wheezy packages. That just works.
Conf
Stefan Nagy writes:
> Am Mittwoch, den 15.08.2012, 20:21 +0200 schrieb Bjørn Mork:
>> The driver firmware request is required to enable those who want to load
>> the optional firmware. Just ignore it if you don't want to.
>
> I'm not saying debian installer shouldn
Stefan Nagy writes:
> I have a notebook with a realtek nic which doesn't need any non-free firmware
> files to operate. However, debian installer requests me to install non-free
> firmware. It doesn't make any difference if I install it or reject the request
> – the network adapter just works.
>
Timo Juhani Lindfors writes:
> Bjørn Mork writes:
>> No, you don't. On a default Debian system you need to be a member of
>> the "floppy" group. From /lib/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules :
>
> Yeah but you are not a member of that group by default surely?
Timo Juhani Lindfors writes:
> Wookey writes:
>> And the USB-stick process is not as simple as it might be because you
>> have to find the HD-media files and then _also_ find an iso image to
>> put on. It's no wonder newbs are still downloading CD/DVD images.
>
> You also need to have root acces
Bjarni Ingi Gislason writes:
> I looked a some keyboards (new and old) with Icelandic letters.
> The keys B00 are marked with the broken bar in violation to the
> Icelandic standard for keyboards (ÍST 125:1995) and also the (ÍST)
> ISO/IEC 9995:3:1994 standard (Keyboard layout for text and offi
Samuel Thibault writes:
> Christian PERRIER, le Mon 11 Apr 2011 06:55:47 +0200, a écrit :
>> > Northern Norwegian
>>
>> Should be "Norwegian Nynorsk" if that keymap is really aimed for
>> "nn". Beware, this could also be a keymap suited for Northern Sami.
>>
>> Hence CC'ing Petter as the moral a
Julien Cristau writes:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 17:12:43 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
>
>> The SHMConfig is of course not necessary, but convenient. Among other
>> things, it makes it very easy to check the current settings using
>> "synclient -l"
>>
> Go
Cyril Brulebois writes:
> T.F. Torrey (14/01/2011):
>> I had two problems installing Xorg:
>>
>> 1. The synaptics touchpad does not respond to tapping or scrolling
>> by default, which is an odd choice. I was able to get it working
>> after reading instructions at wiki.debian.org.
>
> It does wo
Hello,
I wonder if it would be possible to add the line
serial 0
to the debian-installer syslinux config? This should not affect the
common desktop installation at all, and it is absolutely necessary for
headless server installations depending on serial console.
I have noted the "wontfix" bu
Colin Watson writes:
> Huh? Don't use grub-setup - use grub-install. Calling grub-setup
> directly is strictly for experts and is not generally supported.
Interesting. How is the non expert user supposed to know this?
Judging by the manual pages, I would have guessed the opposite:
$ man g
Daniel Baumann writes:
> how about adding your parameters to EXTLINUX_PARAMETERS in
> /etc/default/extlinux? then they will be used for all images in the
> config automatically.
Yes, I do that for the kernel console. But you also need to configure
extlinux for serial console so that you can sel
Aurelien Jarno writes:
> Following the work of Luca Favetella [1] during the Google Summer of
> Code [2], I am happy to announce that a first version of the
> debian-installer images are available here:
>
> http://temp.aurel32.net/d-i-kfreebsd/
>
> Here are the SHA512 of the two images:
>
>
Ian Campbell writes:
> The lguest and Xen paravirt_ops implementations both reserve all IO
> ports in the 0-65535 range which prevents ide-generic from loading
Excuse me for being daft, but wasn't that the whole point of
paravirt-ioport?
/*
* Reserve the whole legacy IO space to prevent any
Steve Langasek writes:
> I think the use case is users who are being control freaks about the set of
> packages on their systems. If the set of packages being pulled in as
> recommends is *wrong* (they don't fit the Policy definition of Recommends),
> bugs should be filed against those packages
Julien Cristau writes:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 14:38:35 -0500, Adam Majer wrote:
>> David Nusinow wrote:
>> > Please see http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/InputHotplugGuide for the
>> > rationale and #515214 for more info.
>>
>> That is great, yet it does nothing for me except change fonts. I
Samuel Thibault writes:
> Giacomo Catenazzi, le Wed 08 Apr 2009 19:47:55 +0200, a écrit :
>> Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> >> I installed grub (and Debian). Trying the Windows hidden partition
>> >> (to install windows), grub stopped working (it was rescue mode, but
>> >> without capability to rescue
Michal Čihař writes:
> I just wanted to test something on sparc and tried to install Lenny in
> Qemu and it fails, it looks like silo configuration is somehow broken,
> but I don't know the platform at all.
Do you try to boot the Lenny installer with a sparc32 qemu system? That
won't work. Len
Frans Pop writes:
> On Sunday 11 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> Yes, at above 4 TB in kB based (LVM/crypto) calculation and above 4 EB
>> in the MB based case. I wonder what would be the overhead
>
> I'm not going to worry about 4TB support at this point.
4TB and more will become quite no
Jurij Smakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> We have recently recognized that serial console detection in the
> installer is not working as expected, which resulted in RC bug
> http://bugs.debian.org/504721.
The problem is that there is no reliable platform independent way to
detect the preferr
I know the timing is bad and that this probably have to be delayed until
after lenny is released, but I just haven't been able to find the answer
to this question:
Why isn't
serial 0 9600 0
included in debian-installer/*/boot-screens/menu.cfg?
Is this known to cause problems on any system? The
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