Re: Bug#706989: Please add support for Ubuntu saucy

2013-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 07:31:07PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2013, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Instead any > > Ubuntu release that doesn't have a specific config should fall back to > > a default ubuntu config. > > > > Similary any

Re: Wheezy size

2013-05-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 02:49:35PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 01:45:51PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > *BAD THINKING!* > > OK, it is a hot button issue with me as I'm on dialup. Causes me to > > wait until DVD's are available from vendors. > > I've a physically smal

Re: Bug#706989: Please add support for Ubuntu saucy

2013-05-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:52:30AM -0600, Adam Conrad wrote: > Package: debootstrap > Version: 1.0.49 > Severity: normal > > Subject says it all, really. Please add support for saucy, by adding > it as a symlink to gutsy, like previous Ubuntu releases. > > Thanks, > > ... Adam Please don't do

Re: [PATCH] grub-installer: Support menu selection of grub boot disk

2013-04-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:48:40AM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > Support user selection of grub boot disk from a list of disks > via a new question, grub-installer/choose_bootdev. > Check for a mismatch between a preseeded value of grub-installer/bootdev > and the guess at the default boot disk

Re: How the debian-boot installer fucked up my system

2012-06-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Félix Arreola Rodríguez writes: > Oops, I forget CC the mailing list, Forwarding. > > El lun, 25-06-2012 a las 16:22 +0200, Matthias Richerzhagen escribió: >> Hello, >> >> As i have no optical drive in my Computer and i didn't wanted to invest >> time to get a boot USB stick running i decided t

RFC: Event based initramfs

2012-06-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, a short while ago we had a lively discussion about the problems in initramfs with devices apearing too late (especially USB devices) or crypto/md/lvm/multipath devices being stacked in a way the initramfs scripts wouldn't handle. A simple solution for this problem is to use udev to watch out

Bug#676372: API breakage

2012-06-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: libdebian-installer4 Version: 0.80 Severity: serious File: /usr/lib/libdebian-installer.so.4 At some point between squeeze and wheezy the declaration of di_release_file.sum has changed from char * to char **. This breaks the API making it impossible to compile software (e.g. cdebootstrap)

Re: Planning for final lenny point release (5.0.10)

2012-02-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Adam D. Barratt" writes: > On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 23:05 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> Working on the four-monthly schedule for oldstable, the next lenny point >> release would be due in early February. >> >> As the security team have recently confirmed that security support for >> lenny will

Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russell Coker writes: > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> PS: I myself like a seperate /usr but I wouldn't use it for my parents. >> I do want a seperate /var and /home for them though so they can't DOS >> the system by filling up their home. >

Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russell Coker writes: > On Sun, 18 Dec 2011, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> > Doing this has many advantage. Like, if your laptop has to unexpectedly >> > reboot (like when you inadvertently removed power cord when batteries >> > were not plugged, which happens often in real life), having separated

Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le samedi 17 décembre 2011 à 17:42 +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit : >> I do recommend a separate /usr to anyone. It's *not* safe to say that, >> and I know many people that agree with me. To me, it has, and still is, >> the best choice. You have no rights to arbitrar

Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek writes: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 07:32:35PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: >> On 16.12.2011 18:38, Joey Hess wrote: >> > Christian PERRIER wrote: >> >> I'm inclined to follow this advice and would indeed propose that the >> >> "atomic" partman-auto recipe is kept, however without a s

Bug#605516: Bug#602539: Successfull install creates broken system (mounting fs fails)

2010-12-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Samuel Thibault writes: > Goswin von Brederlow, le Thu 02 Dec 2010 08:53:28 +0100, a écrit : >> You can warn during partitioning if there isn't even space for the >> standard task. > > Some people want to be able to install just the base system and only > that.

Bug#605516: Bug#602539: Successfull install creates broken system (mounting fs fails)

2010-12-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Christian PERRIER writes: > Quoting Denis Laxalde (dlaxa...@gmail.com): >> clone 602539 -1 >> reassign -1 base-installer >> retitle -1 should check size of common mountpoints before proceeding to >> installation >> tags -1 d-i >> thanks >> >

Bug#603798: debian-installer: /tmp is not created with 777 mode when doing manual disk partitionning

2010-11-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Eric Valette" writes: > Package: debian-installer > Version: Debian Installer 14/11/2010 > Severity: important > Tags: d-i > > I reinstalled a machine this week-end. The install base smootly worked. > I created a separate /tmp file system that was monted but with wrong > permission. > root.root

Are read-only / install bugs RC?

2010-11-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, I recently did a squeeze install with read-only / and /usr and found a few minor glitches: * ifupdown installed without /dev/shm mounted * /etc/mtab not a link to /proc/mounts * /etc/fstab lists the device for proc as "proc", system says "none", mounting local filesystems gives error * lvm

Bug#602539: Successfull install creates broken system (mounting fs fails)

2010-11-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: network Image version: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz 20-Oct-2010 21:02 8.7M Date: Machine: HP ProLiant MicroServer Partitions:

Re: Bug#584254: dpkg should support a --force-unsafe-io option or such

2010-10-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Guillem Jover writes: >> 3) dpkg is pointlessly slow in such use cases as buildds where *sync() is >> not >> important at all. > > Well, even if the buildd chroot supposedly should be able to be recreated > easily, if the zero-lenght file issues appear on it, then it might not > be obvious some

Bug#597461: Please add support for wheezy

2010-09-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.23 Severity: serious Tags: squeeze sid The next release will be called wheezy. Please add support for that. MfG Goswin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-06-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve McIntyre writes: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 03:06:14PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >>On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 14:30 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> For the last few builds, the i386/amd64/powerpc sid netinst image has >>> become too big to fit on one CD any more. The following packages are >>>

Re: Getting d-i to find firmware on the CD generated by debian-cd

2010-06-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve McIntyre writes: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 03:17:08PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 06:58:52PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> >>I've added code into debian-cd to generate images with firmware on the >>first CD. Add "FORCE_FIRMWARE=1" in CONF.sh. I've also twea

Bug#572939: Busybox lacks switch_root command

2010-03-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: busybox Version: 1:1.14.2-2 Severity: normal Hi, please add the switch_root command to Debians busybox that the linux Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt describes. Since it is impossible to get rid of libc6 in the initramfs I looked into getting rid of klibc instead. B

Re: Debian installer with RAID of 6TB

2010-03-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Chris Moules writes: > OK, I have done a reinstall this morning and managed to resolve the issue. > > Before running the Debian Lenny installer, I booted to a rescue console and > did a "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1MB count=250" to erase the first part > of the disk. After this, everything se

Bug#557322: --exclude='ing essential packages

2009-11-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Otavio Salvador writes: > Hello, > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Goswin von Brederlow > wrote: >> Please also consider the case of virtual packages. E.g. --exclude >> exim4 should not add exim4 back in due to dependencies on >> mail-transport-agent. Instead

Bug#557322: --exclude='ing essential packages

2009-11-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Otavio Salvador writes: > Hello Ivan, > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >>  OS> To you exclude a package you also need to exclude all one that >>  OS> depends on it otherwise it will be added back into the installation >>  OS> list by the dependency resolution code. >> >>

Re: [RFC] Packages that looks ready for uploading

2009-06-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Stephen R Marenka writes: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 06:08:51PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 02:54:48PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> > Yes please. How does one go about uploading m68k-only packages? Don't >> > you have to do a source+m68k upload, which presumably the m

Re: Raising minimum CPU requirement for i386 kernel

2009-05-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"J.A. Bezemer" writes: > On Sun, 24 May 2009, Bastian Blank wrote: > >> Hi folks >> >> I would like to raise the minimum CPU requirement for the shipped Linux >> kernels in the i386 port to i686 (with cmov). > [..] > > Popcon gives us some rough numbers to think about: > > linux-image-2.6-686

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Matthew Johnson writes: > On Mon Apr 06 08:55, Frans Pop wrote: >> > This is a heads up mail for the D-I team. >> >> I'm not sure where the original mail comes from, but IMO this should be >> discussed on d-devel, especially since it impacts more than just D-I. I >> suspect there are quite a f

Bug#392480: debian-installer: add support for "cleaning" hard drives

2009-03-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Paul Menzel writes: > Am Mittwoch, den 11.03.2009, 14:53 +0100 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: >> Paul Menzel writes: >> >> > Am Mittwoch, den 11.03.2009, 11:08 +0100 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: >> >> Matt Taggart writes: >> >> >> >>

Bug#392480: debian-installer: add support for "cleaning" hard drives

2009-03-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Paul Menzel writes: > Am Mittwoch, den 11.03.2009, 11:08 +0100 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: >> Matt Taggart writes: >> >> >> Well this assumption (to encrypt the disc afterward) is not necessarily >> >> valid. A company is giving away computers to a scho

Bug#392480: debian-installer: add support for "cleaning" hard drives

2009-03-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Matt Taggart writes: >> Well this assumption (to encrypt the disc afterward) is not necessarily >> valid. A company is giving away computers to a school or for use for >> children, where no encryption is needed. They require you to wipe the >> drive. (Ok, they should do it themselves to be on the

Re: On installation media and firmware [Re: New section for firmware]

2009-01-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frans Pop writes: > On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: >> It would be nice if you (or someone else) would then explain[1] why >> having a limited set of d-i images + cd images which contained the >> non-free firmware necessary for certain hardware to boot would be an >> intractab

Re: [PATCH] RAID10 and RAID6

2008-07-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Ryan Niebur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.07.17.2137 +0200]: >> Here is a patch that adds support for RAID6 and RAID10 to the >> debian installer. > > Wow! Thanks! > >> +_Description: Number of active devices for the RAID6 array: >> + The RAID6

Bug#485790: generate separate /boot as workaround for buggy LBA48 ?

2008-06-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 13 June 2008, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> > Earlier instances of the same problem. The 8 GiB barrier was because >> > of the BIOS only issuing one 24-bit ATA command. I'm not sure how >> > common will

Bug#485790: generate separate /boot as workaround for buggy LBA48 ?

2008-06-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:58:13PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: >> On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Robert Millan wrote: >> > This is not a bug about a problem I found, but about a problem I think >> > can become common with the introduction of >2 TiB disks. >> > >

Re: debmirror can't download some boot system's files

2008-06-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Alexander Golovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had downloaded my local Debian Etch mirror with debmirror, then I was > trying to create my dvd's. Now all is ok, except one: for create first > bootable dvd "debian-40r3-i386-DVD-1.iso" I need some files which hadn't > downloaded with debmirror:

Re: KVM

2008-05-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 06:46 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 09:39 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> > >> >> b) The dom

KVM [Was: Re: Xen with Debian installer]

2008-05-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 09:39 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> b) The domU systems should be indistinguishable from normal systems - >> using D-I is one way to ensure this. > > I'm afraid I don't have any helpful suggestions about your current > issues. Ho

Re: Xen with Debian installer

2008-05-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Daniel Pocock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Hi, >> >> do you need to use the Debian-Installer? >> >> I always use xen-create-image from xen-tools which creates a fully >> functional domU for you with one simple command. &

Re: Xen with Debian installer

2008-05-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, do you need to use the Debian-Installer? I always use xen-create-image from xen-tools which creates a fully functional domU for you with one simple command. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel selection on i386 for Xen compatibility

2008-04-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi guys, > > In order to support running the installer in a Xen guest it is necessary > to install a PAE (686-bigmem) kernel if the hypervisor is either PAE or > 64 bit. It is possible to write a little utility which will query the > hypervisor for this i

Re: How to create crypted partition in d-i?

2007-09-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josef Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One more interesting improvement would be to put /boot onto an USB > stick. Are there any problems to expect with such a setup? For > example, one might (accidentally) run "apt-get upgrade" without > mounted /boot partition. I would rather put /boot on t

Re: Buts about partman [LONG]

2007-07-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I want to try to rewrite from scratch partman-lvm, but I have a >> question. I'd like to name the new package partman-lvm2. Is this ok? > > Why don't do that in your people branch and then we produce some

Re: Bug#401876: Dictionaries-common sometimes prompts users during d-i

2006-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Agustin Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 05:25:03AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Agustin Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Details of my installation, >> > >> > * debian-testing-i386-binary-1.is

Re: Bug#401876: Dictionaries-common sometimes prompts users during d-i

2006-12-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Agustin Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Details of my installation, > > * debian-testing-i386-binary-1.iso RC1 DVD installation image > * 4000MB qemu target image, single partition + swap, no network > * German locales (But spanish keyboard for my convenience) > * Tasks: Desktop Umgebung + St

Bug#401876: Acknowledgement (Missing proper dictionary for selected language)

2006-12-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, some additions. I wrote the bug while installing and was a bit quick. As it turns out later during install the german dictionary gets installed and it asks again what dictionary should be default. So the package selection works fine. It just shouldn't ask I think. Or at least only ask once.

Re: [RFC] Detecting type of CD image and using that to make apt-setup smarter

2006-11-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> You can install from netinst without networking to get just a base >> system. > > That's a point. > >> Also don't forget that basically everybody wants to use a >> m

Re: [RFC] Detecting type of CD image and using that to make apt-setup smarter

2006-11-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > joeyh, sledge, others, > > After working with d-cd a lot over the past week, I think I've come up > with a solution that will allow us to detect if the user is installing > from netinst CD, full CD or DVD. > This would allow us to let apt-setup ask the "us

Bug#398342: installation-report: Raid6 and Raid10 missing from Software RAID setup. SATA disks mapped in wrong order.

2006-11-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I finally reached the Boot-loader installation the Grub > installation failed. > I tried to install it manually. But as I have disks 6 discs connected > to boot the nv_sata (4disks) and the sata_sil (2 disks) and the order > of those contoller

Bug#395262: "Arch: all" package FTBFS due to test needing network access - RC?

2006-11-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Goswin von Brederlow] >> Do they fail when you use sudo instead of fakeroot or when you run the >> complete build process as root? > > The usual reason a package fails with sudo is that it assumes the > $(PWD) macro will

Bug#395262: "Arch: all" package FTBFS due to test needing network access - RC?

2006-11-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:11:45AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Real or fake makes no difference. Anything that test id or file >> permissions will (hopefully) behave the same with fakeroot. > > Wrong; otherwise the

Re: D-I RC1 - release planning - update - freeze over, restrained updates

2006-11-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There have been some (expected) delays in getting all needed udebs into > testing, but they are finally there. No reports of blocking issues, so > I've just uploaded the build of debian-installer that should become RC1. Will that include m68k? I looked fo

Bug#395262: "Arch: all" package FTBFS due to test needing network access - RC?

2006-11-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
oot, anything is writable, so this test fails. > > [Goswin von Brederlow] >> That test should add a test for root and skip it. If that is the only >> reason not to build as root then that should be no excuse (post >> etch). > > Your unspoken premise is that there is a _reaso

Bug#395262: "Arch: all" package FTBFS due to test needing network access - RC?

2006-11-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
t; includes a test for the ability to handle read only directories >> > > correctly. As root, anything is writable, so this test fails. >> >> [Goswin von Brederlow] >> > That test should add a test for root and skip it. If that is the only >> > reason not to build as

Bug#395262: "Arch: all" package FTBFS due to test needing network access - RC?

2006-11-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 23:16 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:02:22AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> > While I fully agree with you on all points, I think that this should be >> > discussed post-etch with the general question o

Re: install: choose kernel

2006-10-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 28 October 2006 22:00, Douglas Tutty wrote: >> I'm at the point of choosing which kernel to install: >> >> linux-image-2.6-amd64-generic >> linux-image-2.6.17-2amd64 >> linux-image-2.6-amd64 > > There is absolutely no difference :-

Re: non-free firmware and d-i

2006-09-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sep 7, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Joey Hess wrote: > >> This won't be practical. They are just udebs, but they have complex >> interdependencies and we can't expect users to pick the right set of >> udebs to put on a driver floppy that both supports all the hard

Re: non-free firmware and d-i

2006-09-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> * In case we're installing from the network, download (using a TFTP >> client) a tarball with udebs from the same TFTP server we've booted >> from (which would require us to figure out somehow where we booted >> from). I *thin

Re: partman: please create ext3 file systems with online resize support

2006-08-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Goswin von Brederlow] >> 100GiB is either way to high (for my 200MB / partition) or way too >> low (for my 1TiB data partition). I think the value should be less >> than 16TiB (maximum size) and no more than 10 t

Re: partman: please create ext3 file systems with online resize support

2006-08-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 05:03:39PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> I've tested this patch, and it proved to be incomplete. ext2prepare >> need an argument extra, with the new maximum size for the partition. >> Not sure how to properly calc

Bug#378984: fstab default /proc entry nosuid

2006-07-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 20 July 2006 13:23, maximilian attems wrote: >> please apply belows patch, to add the /proc line to fstab with nosuid. > > There was a short discussion about this on IRC. > > Kamion: What do you think of #378984? > fjp: suspicious of noexec, ar

Re: cross-installer

2006-06-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) writes: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:45:00AM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Holger Levsen wrote: >> > which solution do you think is better? the cross-installer (isnt there >> > one for amd64 already?) or the native installer? >> >> There is cur

Re: This is getting ridiculous ...

2006-06-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 04:31:24PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Anyway, I suggest you do as so many people have suggested before. Keep >> working, send patches and try really hard to stay on everybodies good >> side f

Re: This is getting ridiculous ...

2006-06-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 09:38:47AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 08:23:59AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: >> > On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 01:29:24AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: >> >> [ d-i team member asks opinions of d-i team members

Bug#300603: closed by Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (closing)

2006-06-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian Bug Tracking System) writes: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > #300603: choose-mirror: Should not test for root in clean target, > which was filed against the choose-mirror package. > > It has been closed by Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > >

Re: Dropping the amd64-generic flavour

2006-06-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Goswin von Brederlow: > >> I would suggest keeping the name amd64-generic. It is easier for users >> to see that -generic fits all than -k8. > > It's also easier to reintroduce split packages if necessary.

Re: Status of LVM/RAID in d-i?

2006-06-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Christophe Chisogne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Frans Pop wrote: >> I'm just looking at the changes in LVM and RAID and I'm wondering what the >> status is. How well has the new code been tested? > > I had very serious issues with lvm management (Etch d-i beta2 and 2006-06-12). > > My config lo

Re: Dropping the amd64-generic flavour

2006-06-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frederik Schueler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > with 2.6.17-final, I am going to drop the amd64-generic flavour. > > The reason is simple: On amd64, the linux-2.6 package has 11 flavours > in total, which is way too much. The build takes over 5 hours currently, > as each flavour takes

Re: Dropping the amd64-generic flavour

2006-06-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frederik Schueler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > with 2.6.17-final, I am going to drop the amd64-generic flavour. > > The reason is simple: On amd64, the linux-2.6 package has 11 flavours > in total, which is way too much. The build takes over 5 hours currently, > as each flavour takes

Re: Bug#373097: file-preseed: file preseeding can't be used for anna/choose_modules

2006-06-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> Frans Pop wrote: >> > > 16 load-iso >> > >load-cdrom >> > >> > Why not put these last 2 at 15? Seems unlikely we'll want something in >> > between there. >> >> I'd rather leave a hole for some future u

Re: Preseed problem regarding X11-common

2006-06-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Lars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > I have to install Debian on 50+ computers and is therefore creating > a preseed install-cd, but there is one major problem. During the > installation the X11-common package popups with a nofification, not > a question, and you have to press "procced". I do

Re: sarge3 kernel build & r3

2006-06-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 09:33:54PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > That said, currently, backports are not an easy solution because of udev, >> > which

Re: sarge3 kernel build & r3

2006-06-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Karl Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For people wanting to install Sarge on AMD64 I recommend using the > mini.iso found here: > > http://amd64.debian.net/debian-installer/daily/netboot/ > > I did a sarge jfs on RAID with home on jfs/raid1/lvm with only minor > problems with this iso. > > Th

Re: etch/sid amd64 failed to install

2006-06-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Fathi Boudra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Jeudi 8 Juin 2006 13:00, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : >> > grub-installer: info: Calling `apt-install grub` failed >> >> That is because until last night there was no grub in etch. > > i've got now "no

Re: sarge3 kernel build & r3

2006-06-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That said, currently, backports are not an easy solution because of udev, > which cannot be taken as is without pulling in the whole gnome, so a bit of > work is needed. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther What do you mean? You don't seriously mean udev depends

Re: sarge3 kernel build & r3

2006-06-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 08 June 2006 13:33, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> > - increasing differences between the Sarge 2.6.8 and current kernels; >> >> That is a reason for. > > Only if we _would_ include some backports repositor

Re: sarge3 kernel build & r3

2006-06-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Also replying to other mails about Sarge support in Etch installer) > > On Wednesday 07 June 2006 20:42, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I ment that when you select sarge in choose

Re: etch/sid amd64 failed to install

2006-06-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Fathi Boudra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi, > > i found a similar thread on may but that doesn't help me. I try to install > etch amd64 using netinst daily build and failed on grub installation step : > apt-install: Reading package lists... > apt-install: Building dependency tree... > apt-inst

Re: Bug#371166: marked as done (FTBFS: cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/terminfo/b/bterm': No such file or directory)

2006-06-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Would it be ok to push 1.31 into etch? Since the etch version can not >> be build this prevents amd64 from having an etch D-I for the time >> being. > > I suspect that changes including the

Re: sarge3 kernel build & r3

2006-06-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:42:23PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > (Removed irrelevant CCs for this question) >> > >> > On Wednesday 07 June 2006 1

Re: Bug#371166: marked as done (FTBFS: cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/terminfo/b/bterm': No such file or directory)

2006-06-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
> From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Bug#371166: FTBFS: cp: cannot stat > `/usr/share/terminfo/b/bterm': No such file or directory > To: Goswin Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 12:49:33 -0400 > > Version: 1.24 > > Goswin Brederlow wro

Re: sarge3 kernel build & r3

2006-06-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Removed irrelevant CCs for this question) > > On Wednesday 07 June 2006 10:11, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> If possibly it would be nice to have different mirror lists for sarge >> and etch/sid in choose-mirror. >

Re: sarge3 kernel build & r3

2006-06-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:23:45PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: >> The more arches are built by the same person, the easier coordination is. >> So your offer is very welcome. >> >> Note that you'll need to check out the kernel udeb package sources from >> t

Re: glibc udebs built with -Os

2006-05-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > After a discussion with Joey Hess and later with Frans Pop at Debconf > 6, we have decided that it could be a good idea to have a udeb glibc > built with -Os. > > I have made a few tests, mainly on i386 and amd64, and also on all > architect

Bug#249993: bug still open? new email-adress!

2006-05-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hello, > > rechecking all of my emails (puuhh..) i found "my" bug-report again. > is it still open? > now i could try it again - really! > > and: i have now a new emailadress: [EMAIL PROTECTED] please only > write to this address! > > greetings fro

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

2006-05-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christian Perrier wrote: >> This is a user error, as Tolimar indeed modified the initial >> partitioningHowever, it is not very well handled by the installer, >> it seems. > > I've seen this too, it just hangs when it's out of space. I assume this > is s

Re: How does an apt-cacher user select his debian mirror?

2006-05-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) writes: > On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 10:30:54PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas J. Koenig) writes: >> >> > Today I tried out the current debian installer "testing-i386-netinst" >> > (dai

Re: How does an apt-cacher user select his debian mirror?

2006-05-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas J. Koenig) writes: > Today I tried out the current debian installer "testing-i386-netinst" > (daily build) on my tiny network where I have a server running > apt-cacher. This means that the address is not one of the official > mirrors. > > I could not figure out what I h

Re: How can I make mirrors?

2006-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kimberley Crombie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > how do imake a mirror apt-get install reportbug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How can I make mirrors?

2006-05-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kimberley Crombie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > how do imake a mirror aeh, sorry for the last mail. I ment: apt-get install reprepro MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: graphics or text as default?

2006-05-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Stefano Canepa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > the CD images with both graphical and textual installer will run > graphical as default? > At my LUG when we explain the installation process to new users we > present Mandriva and Debian and many users choise to install Mandriva

Re: implemention of raid by software

2006-04-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"k.k.pathak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > how we install raid by software You select it fro the menu when partitioning your drives. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [RFR] Proposal for installs without network connection

2006-04-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Frans Pop wrote: >> The patch leaves one important issue open though. >> If the user is installing from CD, you don't want him to be able to select >> a different suite for the mirror to be used for pkgsel than was used for >> base installation from CD. >>

Re: [RFR] Proposal for CD-ROM only installs

2006-04-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Geert Stappers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 07:24:36AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: >> Bill Allombert wrote: >> >On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:19:24PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: >> >> >>With Beta 2 we have lost the option to (easily) install without using a >> >>network

Re: RFC: combined i386/amd64 install images

2006-04-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:32:28PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Sorry, I ment isolinux. And do you realy want 32bit on a 64bit cpu for >> etch? > > If I have some proprietary 32bit software to run, then yes I might. &

Re: RFC: combined i386/amd64 install images

2006-04-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:47:11AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> I have proposed this before but only now that amd64 has been added to >> Debian can this realy be done (soon): >> >> It would be great if the Debi

RFC: combined i386/amd64 install images

2006-04-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, I have proposed this before but only now that amd64 has been added to Debian can this realy be done (soon): It would be great if the Debian Installer for i386 could also install amd64. Here is how it should work and what needs patching: 1) Grub detects a 64bit cpu and loads a 64bit kernel

Re: Automatically installing an SMP kernel on AMD64 SMP machines

2006-04-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: > On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 03:17:18PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> I know the difference between the two, but that's actually the only >> difference in dmidecode between single-core and dual-core CPUs. > > An AMD system spits out a hyperthreading mes

Re: [PATCH] choose-mirror.c

2004-12-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jerry Haltom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The following patch to choose-mirror.c removes the need for the hard > coded PREFERRED_DISTRIBUTION variable by allowing it to be overridden > with a pre-seeded value (good for non-Debian Debian's (Ubuntu)). Do I understand this right that now we can det

multiarch debian-installer

2004-12-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, since amd64 and em64t cpus are capable of running both 32bit and 64bit it would be nice to have a multiarch debian-installer that lets the user choose which one to use. I know amd64 will not be part of sarge but hear me out please. My idea is to add kernel-image-di-amd64 udebs to i386 and to

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