Release notes: Whats new in the installer?

2006-10-28 Thread Rob Bradford
ng to contribute a (detailed) list of points. Please file bugs against release-notes in the BTS making sure to indicate that this is information about the install in the title. Cheers, Rob -- Rob Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &

Re: Release Notes available for translation

2004-09-16 Thread Rob Bradford
o a 2.2 series or better Linux kernel before proceeding with the upgrade. Nor this. Some how you're not looking at the sarge branch there. I followed your link, and that looked fine but you musnt choose to download HEAD. As that currently has the woody version. Cheers, Rob > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBSfH6gm/Kwh6ICoQRAjUTAKCTHUCrwWWG5x0NXHSCMLEE6LYlTQCfUXSY > ZSgVlqnyDTJ1YPZPtT/ayF4= > =7pJK > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > -- Rob Bradford - http://robster.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#266604: debian-installer: Could have installed 586 kernel on Pentium system

2004-08-18 Thread Rob Bradford
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 02:13:07PM +0200, thijs wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: wishlist > > I've installed Sarge using d-i RC1 on an old Pentium (I) system. > Everything went fine, which is good! There's one minor thing though: the > installed kernel was a 386-kernel, while it coul

Bug#246483: Should install SMP kernel automatically

2004-08-12 Thread Rob Bradford
Hi, On my initial reading of the postinst script for the base-installer package it should install an smp kernel on systems which have multiple processors mentioned in dmesg. However I think that at no point in the installer does it indicate thats its installing such a kernel. Your bug report ind

Bug#258331: base-installer: kernel choosing probably broken on m68k

2004-07-08 Thread Rob Bradford
Package: base-installer Severity: normal Just from inspection of the debian/postinst file it appears that the m68k kernel choosing code is incomplete, possibly as a stub, compared to other archs' i.e. m68k) case "$SUBARCH" in amiga|atari|mac|bvme6000|mvme147|mvme16x|q40|sun3|sun3x)

Re: Running base-config from within first stage installer

2003-02-06 Thread Rob Bradford
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:53:52PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > It saves me a reboot, and speeds up the install. > > That saves time only until you discover, after labourously installing > all of debian, that the boot loader failed to install properly and you > then hav

Bug#177343: grub-installer: Should support all archs supported by grub

2003-01-19 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 12:54:54AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Perhaps it would be an idea to add 'grub' to the build depend list, to > make it more obvious that this package require grub to be usefull? Or > perhaps just make it architecture independant, as there is nothing in > the packa

Re: debian-installer - using devfs in the installed system

2002-12-08 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 21:47, Bastian Blank wrote: > hi folks > > we discuss about devfs or not devfs in the installed system. > we currently map any devfs path to the non devfs variant. the count of > map definitions will grow if we want to support more special hardware. > so the question is, why

Re: CVS location for dselect documentation for beginners

2002-12-07 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 22:15, Josip Rodin wrote: *snip* > > > The situation is similar with the release notes, which just need a few > > > tags to be able to skip some info for architectures recently released. > > > > Yes, ditto. Great. Having the release notes in b-f cvs always seemed illogical

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/en by robster

2002-09-22 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 20:47, Rob Bradford wrote: > On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 16:32, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:07:44AM -0600, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote: > But make lint-docs works fine, as you say. Hhhhm. Does make > install-manual-html for for you? Oops.

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/en by robster

2002-09-22 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 16:32, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:07:44AM -0600, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote: > > Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/en > > who:robster > > time: Sun Sep 22 09:07:44 MDT 2002 > > Log Message: > > Made some minor changes with respec

Bug#145904: install-doc: Document isolinux multiboot failure with SCSI cdrom (i386 only)

2002-05-10 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 17:43, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Package: install-doc > Version: N/A; reported 2002-05-05 > Severity: normal > > The section describing the various install CDs and what they boot needs > to be updated (for i386). > > We realized that the isolinux multiboot method seems to fa

Pre release needs

2002-04-28 Thread Rob Bradford
This is a final call for changes to the release notes that should be commited before the 1st of May to get to me within 24 hours, most people have already sent me anything if relevent. I dont know when the CDs will be generated but i suspect enough time should be left between you sending me change

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by cklin

2002-04-21 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 04:18, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote: > Repository: boot-floppies/documentation > who:cklin > time: Sat Apr 20 20:18:39 PDT 2002 > Log Message: > Remove the redundant 'xtide' entry recently introduced into the list of > split packages. > > > Files: > chan

Bug#137991: Done my bit

2002-04-14 Thread Rob Bradford
The APT thing is now resolved, it details installing apt first (and debconf). Cheers -- Rob 'robster' Bradford http://robster.org.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#141102: Not release notes

2002-04-09 Thread Rob Bradford
Hi, this is not release notes but installation manual. Adam, are you looking after this? -- Rob 'robster' Bradford http://robster.org.uk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: When SGML formatting fixes hit translators

2002-03-05 Thread Rob Bradford
> Please think of us for a moment before submitting such patches (and > reformatting large paragraphs after deleting a word). I am sure that > robster had all the best intentions and were not at all aware of this > side effect when submitting the patch. Of course the SGML source should > not be al

Re: ide-scsi as default

2002-02-24 Thread Rob Bradford
> So, any good reasons against it? If no, I will go ahead and change the > defaults. > So long as there is a symlink /dev/cdrom to the apropriate device and the /etc/fstab uses this ratehr than /dev/hdc or whatever. Progeny Debian did this by default. Thanks -- Rob 'robster' Bradford http://ro

Re: searching boot-floppies for udma 100 (promise)

2002-02-09 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 11:38, MaX wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm searching for an unofficial boot floppy for potato with support for the promise >controller (Ata100) > > someone can send me an address? > > Another question: > woody can support ata100 diring the installation? > > tnx > MaX Hey. Is t

Bug#132350: basedebs.tgz not gzipped

2002-02-05 Thread Rob Bradford
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 00:32, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Rob Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20020204 19:55]: > > > Using the basedebs.tgz resulted in the installer complaining that > > > gunzip failed. I gzipped the file and everything worked. > > > > &

Bug#132350: basedebs.tgz not gzipped

2002-02-04 Thread Rob Bradford
> Using the basedebs.tgz resulted in the installer complaining that gunzip > failed. I gzipped the file and everything worked. > Methinks you useda buggy browser, some versions of netscape and mozilla are known to ungzip the file when the download occurs. This is not a bug on this debian packag

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by toff

2002-01-29 Thread Rob Bradford
On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 02:15, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote: > Repository: boot-floppies/documentation > who:toff > time: Sun Jan 27 18:15:42 PST 2002 > Log Message: > add Javi input from 13 Dec, touch up > > Files: > changed:release-notes.sgml Cool. :) Thanks -- Rob 'robster

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by robster

2002-01-28 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 21:30, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote: > Repository: boot-floppies/documentation > who:robster > time: Sun Jan 27 13:30:19 PST 2002 > Log Message: > Major formatting cleanup. Lets get cracking! > This is basically the cue for everyone to look at the release

Clarification of release notes issues

2002-01-02 Thread Rob Bradford
Heh. What a mess. It seemed 3 days before I commited to cvs using the woody tag, which it was suggested for me to do, by someone who shall remain nameless, toff commited my work to cvs under the head branch. So, having read the threads the correct solution IMHO is to merge the two branches which