Package: installation-guide
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On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> At the moment we have two boot loaders for i386 available. Both
> lilo-installer and grub-installer are available. One of them need to
> be the default choice. The default choice will probably be used by
> most first time installers, and will also
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
<...>
> You don't have to distribute the reduced build. It is made as part of
> make initrd.
>
> I think you are trying to solve a non-issue here. :)
hmm, sounds like that may be the case.
So, the only coding affected by -pic libs would be that which ne
On Wed, 5 Dec 2002, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Bruce Sass
> | On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> | > Most of those are built from -pic libraries, which are reduced
> | > versions of the normal libraries. It is impossible to know which
> | > functions are needed
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> Most of those are built from -pic libraries, which are reduced
> versions of the normal libraries. It is impossible to know which
> functions are needed before the actual build of the boot media.
>
> So, yes, it is a bit inconsistent, but it's the only
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> fre 2002-11-22 klockan 06.46 skrev Michael Cardenas:
> > Also, should I put more specific cvs instructions? Or should dd's just
> > know how to get the source?
>
> Put more specific instructions. Non-DD's without cvs experience may
> benefit from this
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> BTW, my computations of %wasted was wrong because it was relative to total
> disk space instead of used disk space. On my partitition the correct number
> is about 11.8% of the used space. That's a lot of space in my opinion.
12% may be a low estimat
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Martin Keegan wrote:
> What is the scope of debconf? I thought it was just for packages. Is
> system configuration and host identification going to have to be shoehorned
> into it, or is it that debconf is just a clever mechanism for asking
> questions in a pretty UI and doin
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> The linear mode case bothers me. Trying to think about how the installer
> could detect and fix it..
>
> It could detect looping items[1]. The fix is always going to be to back the
> install process up to some previous item that went wrong, and let the
> use
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> > debconf here, but about the installation system which uses debconf. Can we
> > save and load different pre-stored profiles?
<...>
> Loading: Move the data from the already installed system to each new
> install somehow, hopefully by the network,
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> > Sparcs and powerpc also have PCI support for the most part -- maybe
> > the focus should be just on PCI support. Then we could look at SBUS
> > on older sparcs as a sideline?
>
> Concentratin on PCI is the goal, IMO. SBUS device detection is overkill.
On 5 Jul 2000, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Do you have time to merge this stuff (which is the same as in
> m68k-specials) into the main install manual?
Ya, but not 'til the weekend.
> http://www.debian.org/~holgate/m68k-quick-install/sgml-source.tgz
I don't think this is the most recent version.
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Tue Jun 20, 2000 at 03:37:17AM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote:
> > I think you are forgetting about something...
> > how is partitioning going to be accomplished without user interaction.
> >
> > I'm not aware of any tools
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, bug1 wrote:
> Bruce Sass wrote:
> > I think you are forgetting about something...
> > how is partitioning going to be accomplished without user interaction.
> >
> > I'm not aware of any tools that can take a description of a filesyste
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, bug1 wrote:
> Bruce Sass wrote:
> > > Bruce Sass wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, bug1 wrote:
> > > > > How and Interim filesystem might work (as i see it)
> > > >
> > > > Why have an interim fs?
> >
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, bug1 wrote:
> Bruce Sass wrote:
> > On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, bug1 wrote:
> > > How and Interim filesystem might work (as i see it)
> >
> > Why have an interim fs?
>
> 1) To get around any space limitations presented by the boot medium, or
&
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> Bruce Sass wrote:
> > It would be very confusing to have .debs that could not be installed
> > onto an existing Debian system. The boot-floppies .deb is not useful to
> > the average user, but it can still be installed; debinst .debs w
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> Bruce Sass wrote:
<...>
> > <...description of a dpkg based installation system...>
> > > I think this would require a minimum of 16 mb of disk space, and
> > > probably a bit more. Since with ramfs, disk
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> Erik Andersen wrote:
> > > increasingly innacurate. Some ideas inclde "debinst",
> > > "debian-installer", or some actual cool name someone comes up with. I
> > > hate naming projects. :-)
> >
> > Urgh. Gurgle, gurgle. Lets not let this one get out of hand
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
<...>
> These wouldn't be .deb's that are policy complient, or that you'd want
> to install onto a real debian system. (They would in fact, probably have
> dependancies to prevent that.)
Policy is what you people make it, since .debs have never been used in
t
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> The ideas I stress are important are:
>
> 1. Modularity.
> 2. Do the absolute minimum in the installer, do as much as is possible
>in the full debian install.
A side effect of both these points is that the installation system
should become scalable and
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