Complex preseeded partitioning

2009-07-29 Thread Matthew Johnson
oot/2007/05/msg00657.html 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2007/06/msg00178.html 2. http://mjj29.matthew.ath.cx/debian-upload/custom-partitioner/ -- Matthew Johnson signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon Apr 06 11:07, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > So lets get grub2 working everywhere. :) A worthy goal. > Sure, but don't remove lilo until we're happy that grub2 does work everywhere. Matt -- Matthew Johnson signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-06 Thread Matthew Johnson
out if there are _known_ situations for which it's required. By all means print large warnings or only make it available in expert mode, or whatever, but please don't break existing functionality. Matt -- Matthew Johnson signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: complex partitioning preseeding, Qemu setup

2007-06-14 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:00:15 Geert Stappers wrote: > Op 08-06-2007 om 01:54 schreef Matthew Johnson: > > On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 22:49 Geert Stappers wrote: > > > > > > What I know from qemu, is that it can handle one single disk image. > > > Please tell more about

Re: complex partitioning preseeding

2007-06-07 Thread Matthew Johnson
the udeb. It's currently set so that it appears just before partman-base. I don't see why that would affect anna-install. To clarify, anna-install package works where as udpkg -i from the same shell at the same time doesn't work. Matt -- Matthew Johnson signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: complex partitioning preseeding

2007-06-07 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed May 23 16:58, Matthew Johnson wrote: > I have written a short script illustrating how it might work > (http://mjj29.matthew.ath.cx/partition) which reads a file of that name > and prints the commands that would be needed to do the setup. > > I'd like comments on this ap

Bug#425859: user-setup: Cannot preseed an installation with a locked (!) root password and no user account

2007-05-24 Thread Matthew Johnson
Package: user-setup Severity: minor I have been trying to preseed config files for a set of servers we have just bought. Since I do not want either the root password (even hashed) in the config file or any user-interaction on these (headless) machines, I would like to disable both the root passwo

complex partitioning preseeding

2007-05-23 Thread Matthew Johnson
on. - there's no progress/error handling - partitioning needs to be handled, preferably in a platform-independent way - I haven't looked at password input for encryption - obviously it should trigger installs of the correct FS/MD/LVM/crypt packages Matt -- Matthew Johnson signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#397317: installation-report: Installation of etch fails on Dell X200

2006-11-07 Thread Matthew Johnson
nting my filesystems allows base-setup to run but tzsetup, setting passwords, installing the bootloader (either) all failed and I had to do them by hand as well. Matt -- Matthew Johnson http://www.matthew.ath.cx/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#397317: installation-report: Installation of etch fails on Dell X200

2006-11-06 Thread Matthew Johnson
Package: installation-report Severity: important Trying to install Etch with the daily netinst CDs on a Dell X200 problems with all install modes: - Cannot select British English and a Dvorak keyboard layout (either standard or converted to British layout). Ubuntu has a 'type some keys to

Bug#239892: Acknowledgement (Debian Installer Bug report)

2004-03-24 Thread Matthew Johnson
The kernel image installed seems to have been a -k7 image, which is odd, since its a p3 Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#239892: Acknowledgement (Debian Installer Bug report)

2004-03-24 Thread Matthew Johnson
Also, the kernel image it installed is shafted. Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#239892: Debian Installer Bug report

2004-03-24 Thread Matthew Johnson
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: sarge-businesscard.iso from gluck on 24/03/04 uname -a: Linux emerald 2.4.25-1-386 #1 Tue Feb 24 08:11:13 EST 2004 i868 unknown Date: 24/03/04 18:21 Method: CD Boot Machine: Dell Poweredge Workstation Processor: Intel PIII Coppermine 1Ghz Me