Bug#1064624: Hard to short-stroke an encrypted drive

2024-02-25 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 12:34:50AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Not if you do not write anything to them, or if you TRIM them. You can stop explaining to me how TRIM works. commit 0c659b82d11e Author: Matthew Wilcox Date: Thu Apr 2 10:37:25 2009 -0400 ata: Add TRIM infrastruct

Bug#1064624: Hard to short-stroke an encrypted drive

2024-02-25 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 11:42:37PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > On 25/02/2024 at 05:40, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > > The partitioner "guided partitioning" offers me: > > > > - use the largest continuous free space > > - use entire disk > &g

Bug#1064791: No ethernet card in a laptop

2024-02-25 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Package: debian-installer On my new laptop, d-i prints "No Ethernet card was detected. If you know the name of the driver (etc)". This confused me, as I thought it _also_ couldn't find the wifi driver (since it's a new laptop, it's possible the d-i kernel doesn't know about the wifi device). I

Bug#1064624: Hard to short-stroke an encrypted drive

2024-02-24 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Package: debian-installer The partitioner "guided partitioning" offers me: - use the largest continuous free space - use entire disk - use entire disk and set up LVM - use entire disk and set up encrypted LVM I want "use largest contiguous space and set up encrypted LVM". That would let me r

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-02-24 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Package: debian-installer I just did an installation with the 2024-02-24 debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso image. I forget the exact wording used, but when setting up a user, d-i printed advice that user passwords should be changed frequently. This is no longer current good advice (since 2017):

Bug#976616: Abysmally slow writes to crypted partition

2020-12-05 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Package: partman-crypto This isn't really a bug in partman-crypto, but I'm reporting it here for tracking purposes as requested by Steve McIntyre. The symptom I first experienced was when doing an install on a Tiger Lake laptop with a 1TB SSD. The step where we run blockdev-wipe was going to tak

Bug#976112: Overwriting with random data message truncated

2020-11-29 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Package: debian-installer Version: 2020-11-23 When installing on an NVMe device, the message "The installer is now overwriting /dev/nvme0n1p3 with random data to prevent meta-information leaks from " is truncated in the graphical installer. I'd suggest just s/The installer is now o/O/ Also, i

Re: Suggestion: Change the link names on http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/

2009-11-26 Thread Matthew Wilcox
esigning* the pages with the links > instead of forcing changes into an existing layout where the changes do > more harm than that they improve things. I have no objection to changing the layout. I want to make this page more new-user friendly (since it's rather key to getting

Bug#475398: tasksel: add kerneloops to standard task

2008-04-11 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 01:38:30PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > I installed it without problems on my KDE desktop. It's dependencies look > sane (did not pull in any new packages in my case) and the default > configuration is to ask to be allowed to submit. > > Only remaining question is how it wor

Re: [hardware-donation] HP 9000 D220 (France)

2006-03-26 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 10:30:05PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > I also have two more B180s (also PA-7300LC CPU) and some faster > 3000/J6000 machines here if someone is interested. > Must pick up or arrange pick up. ... from the Silicon Valley area ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Bug#353942: SATA CD-ROM drives unnecessarily hard to get working

2006-02-24 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:45:37PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 04:54, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > If this doesn't get fixed, the workaround needs to be documented. > > I expect Fujitsu won't be the only people shipping SATA CD-ROMs during

Re: Bug#353942: sigh, udev..

2006-02-22 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 01:55:16PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Another way to do this might be to tag parameters on the command line > with the module they apply to. Matthew Wilcox suggests in this bug > report that libata.atapi_enabled=1 will send that parameter to the > libata dr

Bug#353983: eth* network interfaces change after install

2006-02-22 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Package: debian-installer Version: 21-Feb-2006 Hardware: Fujitsu P7120 Lifebook This model has an ieee1394 connector, so we autoload the eth1394 module during the first boot, and this is loaded before the 8139too module that drives the built-in ethernet connector. So eth1394 gets eth0 and 8139t

Bug#353942: SATA CD-ROM drives unnecessarily hard to get working

2006-02-21 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Package: debian-installer Version: 21-Feb-2006 My wife just got a shiny new Fujitsu Lifebook P7120 (thanks to Joey Hess raving about it on Planet the other day). I downloaded the latest nightly build for Etch and tried to install it. This far too much fun, thanks to the SATA CD-ROM drive. You

Bug#271387: insufficient space in /

2004-09-12 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Package: installation-reports Sorry; I'd send this somewhere better, but I'm not quite sure which component is actually responsible for this. On my x86 laptop, debian-installer chose to partition the drive thusly: major minor #blocks name 3 0 39070080 hda 3 1 146632 hda1

Bug#271011: Failed install on hppa C3600

2004-09-10 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: sarge-hppa-businesscard 20040909 uname -a: Linux reseau 2.4.26-32-smp #1 SMP Tue Aug 24 20:39:01 CEST 2004 parisc GNU/Linux Date: 2004-09-10 around 13:00 UTC Method: Downloaded ISO of above, burned to CD-RW, booted. Mirror was ftp.

Cursor keys failing to work

2004-09-10 Thread Matthew Wilcox
'lo. I just tried to do a graphical install on an hppa C3600 and failed, probably due to the hppa images being 2 weeks out of date. Jeff has already taken care of that. The problem I'd like to discuss is cursor keys. If I try to use them (USB keyboard), strange things happen. Switching to a s

Why is it so hard to build?

2004-03-16 Thread Matthew Wilcox
I've had three attempts at building d-i for hppa. 1. It won't build on a woody system (the packages it wants aren't available). 2. Documentation is broken -- build/README does not document that "make build_netboot" won't work. You need to type "fakeroot make build_netboot" instead. 3. It won't

Re: [parisc-linux] Re: Woody installer for PARISC

2001-04-08 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 05:05:05AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Sounds like they should put their effort in debian-installer then? If > they don't even have a basic toolchain and kernel, and boot-floppies > will be obsoleted by end of year, is it worth it? we need to have something installable