Re: local mirror updates problem

Paul DiSciascio wrote: >I'm having a problem with updates during a preseeded autoinstallation. >What I'm essentially looking for is the "right way" to provide a local >mirror along with a local updates repository to the installer with a >preseed file. I have found little to no documentation on th

Re: Bug#692309: installation-guide: 3.6.2. Boot Device Selection: Booting debian-installer from a USB stick

Samuel Thibault wrote: >Brian Potkin, le Tue 06 Nov 2012 13:05:25 +, a écrit : >> Burn plpbt.iso to a CD. > >But then why not simply burn the Debian CD image on the CD? One may create the boot-assistant tool CD once for all USB sticks, then load new images to USB stick as often as desired. Gr

Bug#681734: Failed installation at Detect network hardware

Package: installation-reports Boot method: USB stick, using Default and Expert install. Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-wheezy-DI-b1-amd64-DVD-1.iso Date: 15-Jul-2012 Machine:Self-built with Biostar TZ68A+ mobo Processor: Intel i5-2500K Mem

Re: Spam cleaning effort: November 2011

Christian PERRIER wrote: >We're now in December 2011, so it's time for our team of magic reviewers >to work on November 2011 archives. > >More details on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SpamClean If any of you didn't find any spam this month, it may have been because the wiki page had a dup

Spam cleaning effort: September 2011

I guess everyone has been doing important stuff for Debian this month, so maybe it's time for a short break with a little game I like to call "Die, Evil Spammer!!!" It's really quick, only one page, and lets every player make a genuine contribution to future readers of Debian Boot. To get started,

Re: d-i vs openSUSE's ancient installer

Harald Dunkel wrote: >I did not mean to start a flame war, but to suggest to give openSUSE's >installer a try, just to see how it works. Maybe some ideas (like the >"big" configuration window instead of asking for [OK] or [BACK] on every >screen) can be useful for Debian, too. I understand that, a

Re: d-i vs openSUSE's ancient installer

Harald Dunkel wrote: >Recently I had the chance to install openSUSE 10.3 (2007) in a virtual >machine. Instead of many dedicated menus in a chain Suse presents one >big screen giving an overview over the most important installation >options and their current settings (e.g. location, partitioning

Bug#635968: installation-reports: Initial boot after installation failed

Ralf Jung wrote: >> So far, I for one haven't seen a system which requires a >> partition _table_ to boot, not to mention a bootable >> partition in it. BIOS merely loads first 512 bytes of >> a disk into memory and jumps into that area, without >> trying to interpret what's inside. Unless you us

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

Christian PERRIER wrote: >Still, whatever "our priorities" are, adding such new feature now is >certainly not the most welcomed idea. Where were those people who so >desperately need that feature when it was *really* time to add it, ie >back in 2009 or early 2010, when new developments to D-I were

Re: Spam cleaning effort: May 2010

Christian PERRIER wrote: >We're now in June, so it's time for our team of magic reviewers to >work on May 2010 archives. > >3 reviews already happened and we all agree that there are 18 spams >this month in the archive. I marked 20. Maybe I'm too strict -- which ones aren't spam? > Curso Protoco

Re: howto reduce size of a debian base system?

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:41:30 +0100, "Geronimo Ma. Hernandez" wrote: >I would like to build such a tiny system even for i386 or amd64 systems, where >I can put the base system on a readonly memory stick (so a harddisk is only >needed for logfiles and other changing data). There is another proje

Re: Install Manual

On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:36:02 -0400, Randy Myers wrote: >I'm new to LINUX, but am working hard to eliminate Windows 100%. The >problem I run into is installing open source packages. For example, >Adobe Flash Player 10 (several bookmarks require it) and Pidgin does not >work--basically I think Yaho

Re: Log from the October 5th 2009 D-I team meeting

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 09:39:36 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: >On Wednesday 07 October 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: >> The meeting still happened (thanks to Luk and Otavio) and as usual, >> the logs are available from >> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Meetings > >Not Found >The requested URL /deb

Bug#543256: Make installing recommends optional

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:19:06 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: >I've been wondering whether we don't need a new field to express such >relationships. Something like "Soft-Depends:". That would be treated as >depends, but can be unselected manually or uninstalled later if a user >really, really wants to.

Re: Spam cleaning for August 2004

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:59:43 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: >On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: >> Back in August 2004, a huge "storm" happened with someone's >> autoresponder spamming the list with hundreds of messages, apparently >> looping. >> >> I found these in the list archive whi

Re: Spam cleaning for August 2004

Frans Pop wrote: >Possibly they can filter them directly using either a filter rule or a >list of message IDs. And the apology from the user is here: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Spam cleaning for August 2004

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:59:43 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: >On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: >> Back in August 2004, a huge "storm" happened with someone's >> autoresponder spamming the list with hundreds of messages, apparently >> looping. >If they are, maybe it would be best to co

Re: non-free firmware, WEP/WPA, freeness and disk-order on reboot.

On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:01:23 +0200, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Saturday 25 October 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 06:01:42PM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: >> > If I understand the situation correctly, the fact that one introduces >> > a usb key causes that key

Re: non-free firmware, WEP/WPA, freeness and disk-order on reboot.

On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:08:00 +0200, Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:20:29PM -0500, Don Wright wrote: >> So since the installer must use (insecure) WEP instead of (also insecure[1]) >> WPA, then Debian should not be installable on computers

Re: non-free firmware, WEP/WPA, freeness and disk-order on reboot.

On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:01:42 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Finally, since D-I doesn't seems to support WPA. I wonder if we really >should prompt for wifi firmware... which would encourage people to use >the very unsecure WEP protocol? >I could work on a patch to use a blacklist

Re: /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:42:54 +0100, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have no idea what is meant by "the /e/n/i hostname option", <...> hostname statement in /etc/network/interfaces, perhaps?

Re: New README page on debian CD

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:16:58 +0100, Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Fixed, now changed to: >... >#else >This is one disc in a set containing the the Is the duplicated word above only in the email? --Don

Re: unable to install etch ( "all-generic-ide" )

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:33:46 +0530, "reju rajeev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, >I succeed in installing with generic.all_generic_ide=1, but after the >installation i am not able to mount/detect the cdrom . please give me your >suggestions Check that /etc/fstab has the cdrom mounting on the cor

Bug#415066: installation-report: Mostly successful amd64-kde install on Intel P965/ICH8 chipset with JMicron IDE

Subject: installation-report: Mostly successful amd64-kde install on Intel P965/ICH8 chipset with JMicron IDE Package: installation-reports Version: 2.29 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: Debian GNU/Linux t

Re: unable to install etch

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:30:25 +0530, "reju rajeev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ref : mail sent to debian-boot on 2006-12-11 >Sir, >The problem still exists .. i tried latest daily build . missing cdrom >during installation. > >attaching the previous mail sent > >*Author: *reju rajeev <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Etch netinstaller has no eth0 in qemu

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 00:26:45 +0800, "Uwe Dippel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Be fscking intelligent and *leave* a download for everyone to pick it up, >before you replace it. >Leave older versions in separate directories and just change the link to it. Although such a hostile message deserves no

Bug#407222: Install problem

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:12:02 +0100, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What do you get if you type 'cat /etc/apt/sources/list' at the command >prompt? That should be 'cat /etc/apt/sources.list' - an easy typo when getting into the rhythm. 8^) -- I just realized the USB stick I casually loan

Bug#388572: debian-installer won't let me select a local apt-proxy mirror

Tested with today's i386 netinst image from: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso Debian GNU/Linux testing "Etch" - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20060921) As with earlier snapshots/releases, I had no difficulty entering m

Bittorrent and etch beta 3 CD/DVD

Currently, under i386 at least, the CD or DVD for [1]beta 3 of d-i is poorly seeded. In fact, other than binary-1, most torrents have only one seed. Is there supposed to be an official set of machines seeding all of the images? Could we get volunteers for at least one seed per continent? --D

Bug#287610: Installation failed at hardware detection (module ide-disk hangs system)

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:05:20 +1100, Janeene Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The machine cannot boot from CD, so cannot try the CD installers. Smart Boot Manager (http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/) can be started from floppy and allows some older computers to boot from CD. That's how I loaded my fire

Bug#244642: about your Debian installation report

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:54:13 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) wrote: >Hello, I'm writing you because you filed an installation report a while ago >on an old version of the debian installer. Your installation report was #244642 >and can be viewed online at .

Bug#272702: Install Report Software RAID - XFS Failed, JFS Succeeded

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:14:07 +0200, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Do you have the whole log available so we can see what package it was >unpacking? I cannot reproduce this, my installs with xfs on raid worked >ok, although lilo failed to install (and grub doesn't work with root on >xfs).

Bug#272702: Install Report Software RAID - XFS Failed, JFS Succeeded

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:14:07 +0200, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Don Wright wrote: >> Debian-installer-version: Daily netinst from 20040913 >> Debian GNU/Linux testing "Sarge" - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 >> (20040913) -- down

Bug#272702: Update to Software RAID Install Report

Update: Tried again with 20040920 netinst from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/20040920/ with the same result: XFS fails during base install. Partitioner: Noticed during selection of mount point for the second FAT32 partition (first one left as "Do not use") that FAT32 app

Bug#272702: Install Report Software RAID - XFS Failed, JFS Succeeded

Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Daily netinst from 20040913 Debian GNU/Linux testing "Sarge" - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20040913) -- downloaded as sarge-i386-netinst.iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily

Bug#247080: Install report beta4

Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: sarge-i386-netinst.iso (Beta4) Debian GNU/Linux testing "Sarge" - Official NetInst Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20040430) http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta4/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux charlie 2.4.2

Bug#245038: install report

Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: sarge-i386-netinst.iso Debian GNU/Linux testing "Sarge" - Official NetInst Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20040417) http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/i386/20040418/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux charlie 2.4.25-1-386 #1 Tue

Bug#244642: Install report sarge-i386-1 (20040417)

Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: CD built from weekly sarge-i386-1.iso via jigdo Debian GNU/Linux testing "Sarge" - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20040417) http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/cd/jigdo-area/i386/sarge-i386-1.jigdo uname -a: Linux charlie

Re: linux/custom/expert vs workstation/server/expert

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:03:51 +0100, "Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What about just >'fast' 'custom' 'expert' for high medium and low. >(perhaps having 'veryfast' for critical, too) > >(expert is still a bad word, as it also bear the confusion for a newbie Perhaps 'verbose' would

Re: failure of the 7 Mar 2004 daily build

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 17:26:38 -0900, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Michael Bonert wrote: >> attempt to access beyond end of device >> 01:00: rw=0, want=820#, limit 8192 > >Well, this sounds like you have a bad CD or ISO. Try another one. I saw what looks like the same thing, using the 6-Mar