Bug#913431: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 2 release

2023-04-24 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, Le 24/04/2023 à 21:49, Emanuele Rocca a écrit : Let me know if this is ok for you. As d-i is already in RC, if you prefer, I can revert the longint2human part that modifies some information, and only keep the human2longint that adds some new input that were forbidden before (no change f

Bug#913431: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 2 release

2023-04-21 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi Philip, I made a push request[1] but I missed the fact that it fails. It was due to the tests being run with sh(dash) instead of bash or busybox sh. So, I just fixed the code so that it works with any of these 3 shells and I update the testsuite. Now, all the tests pass on salsa. Let

Bug#913431: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 2 release

2023-03-27 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi Philip, Le 27/03/2023 à 02:07, Philip Hands a écrit : Hi Vincent, I've applied your patch and pushed it to to salsa (my fork) to get it built by CI ... which failed, because of the use of ${X/...} and ${X:...}, which it seems busybox doesn't like. So I've changed that code, and added a co

Bug#913431: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 2 release

2023-03-26 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 26/03/2023 à 18:38, Emanuele Rocca a écrit : Hi Vincent, On 2023-03-24 11:03, Vincent Danjean wrote: However, I did not rebuild all the installer packages to generate a new installer and test it in real conditions. I haven't had the time to test your patch yet, but there's a hac

Bug#913431: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 2 release

2023-03-24 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 23/03/2023 à 12:01, Vincent Danjean a écrit : Le 23/03/2023 à 11:41, Vincent Danjean a écrit :    Hi, Le 23/03/2023 à 10:06, Emanuele Rocca a écrit : There is (now) a function in partman-base called valid_human [1] which checks if the partition size specified by the user is valid. Probably

Bug#913431: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 2 release

2023-03-23 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 23/03/2023 à 11:41, Vincent Danjean a écrit :   Hi, Le 23/03/2023 à 10:06, Emanuele Rocca a écrit : Hi Vincent, On 2021-06-20 10:54, Vincent Danjean wrote: Would someone give a feedback to the (old) patch proposed in #913431 in order to be able to also use power-of-two units in the

Bug#913431: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 2 release

2023-03-23 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, Le 23/03/2023 à 10:06, Emanuele Rocca a écrit : Hi Vincent, On 2021-06-20 10:54, Vincent Danjean wrote: Would someone give a feedback to the (old) patch proposed in #913431 in order to be able to also use power-of-two units in the Debian Installer? It took a while, sorry about that

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 2 release

2021-06-20 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, On 14/06/2021 23:26, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the second > release candidate of the installer for Debian 11 "Bullseye". > [...] > Feedback for this release > = > > We need your help to find bugs and further improve

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 2 release

2020-03-19 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, Le 16/03/2020 à 17:27, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : > Known bugs in this release > == > > * There seems to be no known major bug as of yet. It is not a major bug, but it seems that the installer (partman in particular) still does not support power-of-two units (KiB,

Bug#913431: partman-base: Add support for kiB, MiB, ... input

2019-02-26 Thread Vincent Danjean
Package: partman-base Followup-For: Bug #913431 Hi, Any news on this bug? Any input about the provided patch? It seems that Debian Installer Buster Alpha 5 release still do not accept power-of-two units. :-( Regards, Vincent -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT

Re: Debian Installer Buster Alpha 4 release

2018-12-18 Thread Vincent Danjean
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Le 15/12/2018 à 23:26, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the fourth alpha release > of the installer for Debian 10 "Buster". Would it be possible to have remarks about #913431 (partman-base: Ad

Bug#913431: partman-base: Add support for kiB, MiB, ... input

2018-11-10 Thread Vincent Danjean
linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) >From e5b23df47a4a3d771a764f6e12193cc71718c954 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vincent Danjean Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2018 21:56:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Allows one to use power-of-two units in human2longint kiB, MiB, GiB, TiB are now allowed and computed correctly ---

Bug#855583: installation-reports: No power of two units in partman component

2017-02-20 Thread Vincent Danjean
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Hi, This bug is not new but I report it for the first time. When creating partition and LV, it is not possible to use 'power of two' units, only 'power of ten'. The Debian installer only accept 50GB (=5000 B) and not 50GiB (=53687091200 B)

Re: Simultaneous EFI and Legacy bootloader installation

2016-03-31 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 30/03/2016 23:11, Mario Limonciello a écrit : > I'm assuming simple is a relative term. You would have to be able to > resize a filesystem in order to make another partition for the ESP. That is the hardest part > Then you also could run into a situation of a system that wouldn't like > an ES

Re: Simultaneous EFI and Legacy bootloader installation

2016-03-30 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 30/03/2016 03:48, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann a écrit : > Hi > > On 2016-03-29, Mario Limonciello wrote: >> On 03/29/2016 07:50 PM, Limonciello, Mario wrote: > [...] >>> I'd like to propose changing this and by default install both legacy and >>> UEFI bootloaders on architectures that support both

Bug#702395: debian-installer: When booting with EFI, only the first console works

2013-03-05 Thread Vincent Danjean
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal I just installed a new laptop with the Debian installer rc1. I put the netinst img raw on a usbkey and boot from it. First, I boot with the legacy BIOS. Here, the installer works as always. I can access (with Alt-Fx) to two more consoles (F2 and F3) and

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

2010-10-20 Thread Vincent Danjean
think Ockham's razor). >> >> No. Both of those groups also have other meanings. > > > How about the "root" group? This would hurt systems where umask is 002 (or 007) by default (the root group is the primary group of the root user with nobody else in it

Bug#476184: For the grub maintainers II

2009-09-07 Thread Vincent Danjean
artitions (mostly LVs) are used by running guest. These partitions MUST NOT be mounted on the host. I even change /etc/lvm/lvm.conf so that PV for guests are not detected (and activated) on the host. Regards, Vincent -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0x9D025E87 vdanj...@debian.org GPG

Re: Please help solve #504721

2008-11-29 Thread Vincent Danjean
aller. Let me know if you want I try with my setup. But I'm currently unable to see grub prompt on the serial console : I did not needed it so I did not try to make it works at all. So I'm not sure at all I can boot the debian-installer for now (I do not have screen anymore). Regards,

Re: auto/hands free installation

2000-11-30 Thread Vincent Danjean
p://sourceforge.net/projects/replicator/. I know the physic labo in my school uses this software to install (replicate from a model) a debian distrib on their computer. Vincent -- Vincent Danjean tel + 33 4 72 72 85 47 Projet CNRS-INRIA ReMaP fax

Re: OT: install from a live! cdrom

2000-11-29 Thread Vincent Danjean
work with Linux without installing it (with a laptop borrowed during hollidays for example), or when I want lots of tools to repair a crashed system. Vincent -- Vincent Danjean tel + 33 4 72 72 85 47 Projet CNRS-INRIA ReMaP fax + 33 4 72 72 80 80 Laboratoir

Re: Initial install using apt

2000-09-08 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 7 Sep 2000, Chris AtLee wrote: > Hey there, > > Is there a boot disk out there that doesn't need any of the base > packages, but instead has all the necessary software to get a network > connection and apt up and running so that you can install everything > off the internet? > > It would be