Bug#619983: Search for iso image misses the current device

2011-03-29 Thread Jens Seidel
Am 29.03.2011 00:38, schrieb Miguel Figueiredo: > A Segunda 28 Março 2011 20:55:03 Jens Seidel você escreveu: >> I tried the squeeze installer installed on a USB stick. Since I want to >> use the stick also for other stuff I rearranged the files and moved them >> to /boot (a

Bug#619983: Search for iso image misses the current device

2011-03-28 Thread Jens Seidel
Package: debian-installer I tried the squeeze installer installed on a USB stick. Since I want to use the stick also for other stuff I rearranged the files and moved them to /boot (as this is searched by syslinux for its config file). So I have now all installation specific stuff in this single di

Bug#504588: Some minor errors in the manual

2008-11-05 Thread Jens Seidel
Package: installation-guide - Forwarded message from Jens Seidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Jens Seidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Some errors in the manual Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:28:10 +0200 To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Mail-Followup-To: Jens Seidel <[

Some errors in the manual

2008-10-17 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi, I noticed a few (partly trivial) errors in the Installer guide. I tried first to send a proper patch but to be honest I don't have the time for it. I extented the code by some comments, I hope you find these useful. See the attached file (which you have to edit, sorry about this). The most i

Re: Lenny installer string freeze status 20080903

2008-09-04 Thread Jens Seidel
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:20:27PM +0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-03 19:12]: > > > unsure whether Lenny will release next week, or later (applies to the > > > freeze as well, I cannot remember reading about the freeze announcement > > > of the base system)

Re: Lenny installer string freeze status 20080903

2008-09-03 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Christian, On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:26:28AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > 18 days left before the end of the string freeze I suspect you want to tell us that there will be a release of the installer on this date? Since there will be no release of Lenny without an updated installer does t

Re: Please review announcement of upcoming release of Debian 4.0r4 "etch-and-a-half"

2008-07-26 Thread Jens Seidel
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 04:24:20PM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Attached you'll find the current draft for the announcement of > "etch-and-a-half". Please review it; current schedule for it to be send > out is tomorrow. Shouldn't it be "etch-and-nine-tenth" or something like this :-)

Re: [RFR] Installation Guide - update of apt-setup section for multiple CDs

2008-03-05 Thread Jens Seidel
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:27:02AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > I've updated the section in the installation guide about configuring apt to > describe that it is now possible to scan multiple CDs. > > I'd welcome comments on the new text before I commit the changes. My comments are maybe a little b

Bug#382424: second pkgsel run after cdrom eject hangs

2007-05-02 Thread Jens Seidel
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:39:25PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 03:20:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Jens Seidel wrote: > > > APT is not able to mount a Debian CD, since APT searchs by default in > > > /cdrom (see #282344) but /target/etc/fs

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Problems preseeding german keyboard.]

2006-12-05 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Josef, I forward your mail to debian-boot which is the right list for this problem. Jens - Forwarded message from Josef Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Josef Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Problems preseeding german keyboard. To: debian-l10n-german@lists.debian.org Date: Tue, 5 D

Re: Deactivated languages

2006-11-17 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi, first of all I want again to thank Christian and Frans and others for the really good work they do related to i18n. The infrastructure, the New Language Process and more are really great! Even if I rant against a very special point this doesn't mean I do not honour their work. I just want to i

Re: Deactivated languages

2006-11-16 Thread Jens Seidel
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:07:26PM +, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > IIRC this discussion happed in 2004, before Frans took over from Joey. > The consensus back then was that a partial translation is worst because > it leads people not fluent in English to invest their time just to > fall over a obstac

Re: Deactivated languages

2006-11-16 Thread Jens Seidel
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:32:31PM +1030, Clytie Siddall wrote: > On 15/11/2006, at 4:32 PM, Christian Perrier wrote: > >- Status of de-activated languages: long list of languages dropped ... > > This is sad. :( Indeed. I do not know any other Free software project which does this. It also viol

Kernel boot parameter on mips (SGI)

2006-11-01 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi, http://www.us.debian.org/releases/etch/mips/ch05s01.html.en contains: 5.1.2.1. SGI TFTP Booting On SGI machines you can append boot parameters to the bootp(): command in the command monitor. Following the bootp(): command you can give the path and name of the file to boot if you did not

Re: Important: some Debian Installer translations are in great danger

2006-09-26 Thread Jens Seidel
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 02:10:18PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 06:58:22AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > Croatian | 2005-04-03 | 1091t 256f 173u > > > In short, these two languages now have more chances to be keptbut > > no promise is made yet..:-) Josip, di

Bug#382424: D-I hangs (waiting for APT input?)

2006-09-21 Thread Jens Seidel
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 03:20:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Jens Seidel wrote: > > I can now reproduce it and found also the problem: > > APT is not able to mount a Debian CD, since APT searchs by default in > > /cdrom (see #282344) but /target/etc/fstab refers to /medi

Re: [g-i] new screenshots available (dejavu 2.9)

2006-09-11 Thread Jens Seidel
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 10:06:45PM +0200, Davide Viti wrote: > I've taken some screenshots as it was done a while ago (see [1]) > > the screenshots can be found in [2], and in case you wanted to compare them > to the > previous, see [3] I compared [2] and [3] and both look similar. Nevertheless

Re: etch beta3 - problem with graphical installation

2006-08-28 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Patrice, www-debian is the wrong list, so I added debian-boot. On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 06:48:15PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hy, > > I just downloaded the business card version of Debian Etch Beta3. > > I tried the graphical installation. I've got 2 points to tell to you : > 1) When I

Re: Many comments to Beta 3 networking stuff

2006-08-25 Thread Jens Seidel
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 08:42:19PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 01:36:00PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 11:39:22AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:26:58AM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > > > &

Bug#384510: localechooser: Please use official country names

2006-08-25 Thread Jens Seidel
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 09:48:43AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Jens Seidel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I wonder why you do not use the official country names. So I found for > > example "Macedonia, Republic of" whereas the offical name (according to > > c

Bug#343244: GTK frontend shortcuts should be documented

2006-08-25 Thread Jens Seidel
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:04:06PM +0100, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > The GTK frontend allows many keyboard shortcuts, some of the are in > common with the classical NEWT frontend > > goes forward > goes back > activates a button > navigates between items > > and some are new > > <-> collap

Bug#384510: localechooser: Please use official country names

2006-08-24 Thread Jens Seidel
Package: localechooser Severity: minor (This refers to the version of localechooser from d-i beta 3) Hi, I wonder why you do not use the official country names. So I found for example "Macedonia, Republic of" whereas the offical name (according to comments in the PO file) is "The Former Yugoslav

Bug#384475: graphical-installer: No shortcut for screenshot available

2006-08-24 Thread Jens Seidel
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 07:45:17PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Attilio Fiandrotti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Jens Seidel wrote: > Yeah, but Jens seems to mention that tabbing doesn't work. No, tabbing works well. I just cannot select the screenshot button with i

Re: Bug#384475: graphical-installer: No shortcut for screenshot available

2006-08-24 Thread Jens Seidel
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 06:10:19PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > reassign 384475 cdebconf-gtk > thanks > > Quoting Jens Seidel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > the graphical Debian Installer provides a Screenshot button but I'm > > Most g-i usability issues should be re

Bug#384475: graphical-installer: No shortcut for screenshot available

2006-08-24 Thread Jens Seidel
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor Hi, the graphical Debian Installer provides a Screenshot button but I'm unable to access it. There is no possibility to select this button using TAB and cursor keys. I also tried the Print key without success. I suggest that Alt+S makes a screenshot (and

Re: Many comments to Beta 3 networking stuff

2006-08-24 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Geert, On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 11:39:22AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:26:58AM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > > (please CC: me) > > > > Network configuration: > > My PC is connected via eth0 with my notebook which itself is connected (via

Many comments to Beta 3

2006-08-23 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi, (please CC: me) I tested the current Beta 3 of the installer (my aim was not to install a new system, that's why I send no installation report) and want to inform you about my experiences. There are many little issues which are mostly not very important. I used the netinst image from http:/

Bug#382424: D-I hangs (waiting for APT input?)

2006-08-23 Thread Jens Seidel
retitle 382424 D-I hangs (APT fails to mount the CD) thanks Hi, On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 09:22:26PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > I tried a debian installer session in qemu and noticed that it hangs > after some time. > > After installing of the base system I selected the item »ba

Bug#382424: D-I hangs (waiting for APT input?)

2006-08-10 Thread Jens Seidel
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 09:22:26PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > Since I have no direct access to the logs and command outputs I attached > screenshots of console 4 and ps. (I can access the partition in the image > from my host system using losetup but it seems not to be in sync with &

Bug#382424: D-I hangs (waiting for APT input?)

2006-08-10 Thread Jens Seidel
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:55:07PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 10 August 2006 21:22, Jens Seidel wrote: > > After installing of the base system I selected the item »back« to enter > > the main menu. Now I selected software installation but the software > > selectio

Bug#382424: D-I hangs (waiting for APT input?)

2006-08-10 Thread Jens Seidel
Package: debian-installer Hi, I tried a debian installer session in qemu and noticed that it hangs after some time. I used the debian-testing-i386-binary-1.iso image from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/jigdo-dvd/: $ cat /mnt/etch-dvd1/.disk/info Debian GNU/Linux testing "Et

Re: Bug#378404: installation guide: one more additional proposal

2006-07-22 Thread Jens Seidel
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 12:58:27PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 06:23:19PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Important is to realize that a project has sideline contributors. I fully agree! I really well remember comments like: "do not touch it at all" even for such simple stuff

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-22 Thread Jens Seidel
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 05:59:02AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jul 22, 2006, at 4:45 AM, Jens Seidel wrote: > >There are at least two ways to add a CD to APT: > > 1) By using apt-cdrom which adds a deb cdrom:[...] stanza to > >sources.list > > 2) By accessing a

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-22 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Rick, On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 03:55:28AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > Hmmm... That doesn't square with my recent experience. I've had > aptitude hang on me a couple of times with messages saying > (approximately -- from memory) "can't read cdrom". If you want, I > can explore this behavi

Re: Bug#377391: Extremely irritating libparted error message during LVM on RAID setup

2006-07-08 Thread Jens Seidel
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 06:15:51PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > After a RAID device has been set up and that device has been selected "for > use with LVM", the following message is displayed when changes to devices > and partitions are committed to disk before configuring LVM: >"Error informing

Re: i writing Debian and postfix mta howto

2006-06-26 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Ozgur, On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:01:42PM +0300, Ozgur Karatas wrote: > I prepared a document. I TOLD told how Debian 3.1 (sarge) install will be > used in the document. Can you put this to the debian doc web sites? Great! I added debian-www and the Turkish translation coordinator. I hope I g

Re: Unidentified subject!

2006-06-18 Thread Jens Seidel
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 07:11:07PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am an ubuntu user, a newbie in gcc compilation(first try) . > I DONT KNOW HOW TO CHAGE THE CFLAGS compiler option i juist installed > via synaptic. ANY HELP APPRECIATED. I really do not know what you want to achieve. Do you wan

Reboot in d-i (Was: Re: sarge3 kernel build & r3)

2006-06-08 Thread Jens Seidel
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:53:34AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > installations which has only really been tested for i386. The real > downside of using the Etch installer for Sarge is that, although a > current kernel will be used for the installation, it will still install > 2.6.8 for the target sy

Re: Having Difficulties

2006-05-28 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Steven, On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 03:16:40PM +0100, steven willis wrote: > hey guys not sure if i am talking to the right people but you might be > able to help me. Debian-Installers responsibility stops after intial boot IIRC. Maybe you should ask on debian-user. > just got hold of debian linu

Bug#368853: [tasksel-data] Minor package description fix

2006-05-25 Thread Jens Seidel
package: tasksel-data version: 2.46 severity: minor Hi, I think the current package description is not optimal: "Official tasks used for installation on Debian systems" I suggest to remove "used" as it sounds together with "on" instead of "of" strange to me. Does "used" refer to the initial syst

Re: D-I-internals workshop at Debconf

2006-05-17 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Frans On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 01:21:09AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > I'll be giving a workshop explaining the technical side of the installer > on Thursday 18-5 from 20:20 - 22:00 UTC (if my timezone calculations are > correct). > > The paper that goes with the workshop is available at: > http

Re: Running debian-installer from the command line?

2006-05-15 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Joachim, I also failed already using debian-installer from command line (on a Mipsel SUPERTOLL (German for "super great", sic!) system). I haven't tested it recently in detail but I think a few of your steps/assumptions are wrong. On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 11:44:07PM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wro

Re: Installation

2006-05-11 Thread Jens Seidel
Hallo Mario, On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:36:52AM +0200, Webmaster OPALMEDIA wrote: > Hallo und Sorry für die Störung. bitte beachte, dass dies eigentlich eine englische Mialingliste ist. > Ich habe mich durchgerungen, mal Debian zu benutzen. > AMD64 Netinst.iso geladen und gebrannt. > Installati

Re: D-I Manual - Making entities translatable

2006-05-01 Thread Jens Seidel
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 06:56:50PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > A few changes in this patch may need to be reverted later or will be > changed to a different entity later. > For example a lot of "&release-tech;" should eventually be changed to > "&release-name;". Also, evenually I'd like to change m

Re: Install Manual

2006-04-10 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Franziska, this is a English list so I answer (partly in) English. Am Montag, 10. April 2006 11:37 schrieb Franziska Schröder: > ich würde gerne bei Übersetzungen helfen. It's really nice that you want to help translating Debian into German. I CC:ed the German list and we should discuss every

Re: [g-i] freefont vs. dejavu

2006-03-17 Thread Jens Seidel
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 10:45:51AM +0100, Davide Viti wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 08:58:13AM +0100, Jens Seidel wrote: > > I would like to see the character (encoded in UTF-8) in a third column. > > done. Thanks. > I wonder if what happens to [1] (and to RTL languages in

Re: Adding cdebconf plugins to d-i svn?

2006-03-13 Thread Jens Seidel
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 12:28:22AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Luckily, it's svn, so we can move it around with no worries later > (except for probably breaking bubulle's scripts. ;-) It not that easy. If you use branches you will notice that moved directories in one branch are not (well) supported

Re: Further reduction of l10n sync commits

2006-03-07 Thread Jens Seidel
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:35:47AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Hi Christian, Hi, I'm not Christian, but let me reply anyway ... > There still are times when a minor change in the translation for a > language will result in all packages being updated. Often this is caused > by very minor changes i

Re: Indic scripts

2006-02-23 Thread Jens Seidel
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 02:30:42PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Is it possible for Khmer to be included in beta 3 if the translation > > won't be complete of all levels? > > But in any case having an incomplete translation EVEN IN LEVEL 1 will > NOT make us withdraw your translations. > >

Re: [D-I Manual] Proposal for new entities and entity translation (was: "Sarge" and "sarge" in the manual)

2004-12-20 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Frans, your mail contains Cc: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] Seidel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Maybe you want to resend it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:08:20PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > OK. I think we can address both issues. > > The next question is: what entities do we need? > I have cre

Re: "Sarge" and "sarge" in the manual

2004-12-12 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Frans, > On Sunday 12 December 2004 21:33, Holger Wansing wrote: > > in german we need, maybe in difference to e.g. english, Sarge > > (upper case) as discription of the branch and sarge > > (lower case) for example in filesystem paths. > > > > So we need different entities for that. > Yes, I

Bug#198265: Please close this bug

2004-03-12 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi, I recently looked for bogus debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages files in sarge-i386-netinst.iso and in unofficial fsn.hu Sid DVD images but was unable to find affected images. I'm nearly sure that this bug was never related to debian-installer but to a broken image generation. It should be

Bug#198265: installation-report: module loading broken

2003-06-24 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Darryl, > Package: installation > Version: sarge-i386-1 (jigdo from ~18June2003) >Installing Debian installer module >[ 0.0%] Retrieving libc-udeb >Debian Installer main menu >Failed to retrieve installer module >Retrieving the module libc-udeb failed f