Re: Indexes of DVD 2,3,... on DVD1?

2025-06-06 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 06.06.25 06:38, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: If you're doing this offline, then you probably ought to also be generating the other DVD images anyway to take with you to your desert island in order to prove that Debian's desert island test remains valid. Yes, the problem isn't so much "havi

Indexes of DVD 2,3,... on DVD1?

2025-06-05 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, I just came across a StackOverflow question[1] where someone wants an installation medium that works offline but does not ask for the extra disks unless they are necessary. Since we need the indexes and disc IDs, this is difficult to do with the current setup, but in principle I think it

Bug#1070832: option to add an RFC822 apt source

2024-05-10 Thread Simon Richter
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.128+nmu2+deb12u1 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: s...@debian.org Hi, it would be nice to allow specifying RFC822-style apt sources from local files, both as a main mirror and as additional package sources. For example, I have a local mirror that uses a differen

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2017-08-21 Thread Simon Richter
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Bug#853735: installation-guide-amd64: EFI Bootloader problems on some laptop (mainly Toshiba)

2017-01-31 Thread Simon Richter
Package: installation-guide-amd64 Severity: wishlist Hi, there are some problems installing on laptops with broken EFI that can be worked around by installing the EFI boot loader into a special area. The installer has support for this in advanced or rescue mode, and I think this should be docume

debootstrap and cdebootstrap vs systemd

2014-11-06 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, I've run into a bit of a problem building a root filesystem for an ARM system where the kernel shipped by the vendor is 2.6 based. As systemd does not work there, I tried installing a sysvinit based system using --include and --exclude to (c)debootstrap. In short: this does not work. The end

Re: Bug#549681: needs MODULES=dep on some PowerPC systems

2010-03-24 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:23:39PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > mkvimlinuz or the used tool may provide the relevant check for running > box. Okay, so the bug should probably be cloned there. > anyway an arch with such limititation seems broken in my eyes and > need to have it's bootlo

Re: Bug#549681: needs MODULES=dep on some PowerPC systems

2010-03-24 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:30:37AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > > It would be good if mkinitramfs would fail on systems that have the > > string "platform: CHRP" in /proc/cpuinfo if compressed kernel > > and initramfs together are larger than 12 MB, to stop unpleasant > > surpris

Bug#461336: Debian on Amiga 2000

2008-01-17 Thread Simon Richter
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Sarge official m68k CD uname -a: Linux nacho 2.4.27-amiga #1 Tue Aug 30 12:35:11 CEST 2005 m68k GNU/Linux Date: 2008-01-11 Method: Booted with StartInstall_clgen, slightly modified (added bootloader option

Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

2001-05-12 Thread Simon Richter
On 12 May 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > libident why? not used by other std package, pidentd > rblcheck why standard? These are used by exim IIRC. Simon -- GPG public key available from http://phobos.fs.tum.de/pgp/Simon.Richter.asc Fingerprint: DC26 EB8D 1F35 4F44 2934 7583