[web site] link to i386 hd-media points to file instead of directory

Hi, On the web page: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status The i386 hd-media link points to the "boot.img.gz" file instead of to its directory. This is not convenient when looking for the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files (as explained in the installation manual http://d-i.alioth.

Bug#235019: acknowledged by developer (closing)

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > I don't think this is worth implementing; the installer now detects > windows and other OSes and adds them to the grub boot menu automatically > which will be much nicer for most users than some manual windows boot > loader setup. With sarg

Bug#231635: netcfg: seems now fixed with latest versions

Package: netcfg Version: N/A; reported 2004-02-27 Followup-For: Bug #231635 I have redone the exact same test, but with updated http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/initrd.gz (at this time), and this bug seems now fixed. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture

Bug#235019: debian-installer: the installer could help extracting the bootsector

Package: debian-installer Version: N/A; reported 2004-02-27 Severity: wishlist One common multi-boot configuration is to use windows' bootloader to start linux. Windows' bootloader just needs the first linux' or grub's bootsector (512 octets) as a file (I suspect this may also be the case for othe

Bug#231635: debian-installer: surviving dhclient prevents static IP (re-)configuration

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > My guess: this may come from a surviving DHCP client. > Could you please try to confirm this. you can switch to the second > console and execute "ps" in a shell. I already did ! It was a "strong" guess :-) > The netcfg module has code to kill > a

Bug#231635: debian-installer: surviving dhclient prevents static IP (re-)configuration

Package: debian-installer Version: N/A; reported 2004-02-08 Severity: normal In the default debconf priority, the installer eagerly graps a DHCP lease without asking the user. If the user is not happy with this and wants to go back and manually configure the network, then network re-configuration

Bug#230502: debian-installer wiped out my MBR

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Jeremie Koenig wrote: > > I don't have enough skills to write a windows MBR by hand with a disk > > editor > > You probably don't need to. If GRUB is running, you can use the > following commands to boot windows (if it's still there of course): > grub> chainloader (hd0,0)

Bug#230502: debian-installer wiped out my MBR

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Marc Herbert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Generally speaking, I find the new design of the installer very nice: > > I like the idea of being able to go back and forth between "clever" > > and "manual&qu

Bug#230502: debian-installer wiped out my MBR

Package: debian-installer Version: N/A; reported 2004-01-31 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system I tried yesterday's latest (thx joeyh) debian-installer images. After circumventing a few (more or less) known bugs, I finally was very upset to see that... the installation was f

some new install documentation: "booting from a hard disk usingLILO"

Hi, I have written the following i386 documentation which explains how to use a previous linux install (potato, redhat, SuSE, etc.) and a network connection to install debian -- without any floppy nor

catching errors in pipelines (was: dbootstrap/po/Makefile gawkbug)

[Cc: very widely extended] On 31 Jul, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > It's not that pipelines in Makefile are evil. > > pipeline in shell is. Yes, you are right. Either in Makefiles or elsewhere, checking failures in shell pipelines is always tricky. But I found interesting solutions in USENET ar

Bug#154137: boot-floppies: plea for "vanilla" sub-directories

Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; reported 2002-07-24 Severity: minor This was previously reported on the debian-boot mailing-list I do not take much risk pretending that the "disks-i386/current/" directory tree is ex

[patch] utilities/dbootstrap/po/Makefile gawk bug

Let's play a boot-floopies developer game: 1) remove gawk from your machine (try something like: apt-get remove gawk ) 2) forget what you have done in step 1). Please do. 3) cd into a cleaned boot-floppies directory 4) type: make uni-docs 5) ...and finally lose a few hour