Quoting martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I cannot imagine how partman would hang due to the resync of RAIDs.
> Can you please try to reproduce this problem?
Hm, not sure: I vaguely remember, that the hardware in
question was a then current Dell server with two hard-disks.
If nobody faced the
Hi,
is it (or will it be) possible to check the RAM for errors
before actually doing an installation with d-i? Either as
optional step in the d-i menu or as additional boot target
for the syslinux boot prompt? Thanks for comments.
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Hi,
just a curious question: Can I use d-i (e.g. the netinst CD) with
PPP over ISDN? Not that I really want to go through the pain of
a 64 (or 56) kbit/s line, I just like to know :-) TIA!
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Quoting Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> This will be implemented in localechooser which will replace
> languagechooser and countrychooser in further d-i development (see
> /people/bubulle/localechooser in d-i SVN). Language and country will
> be preseedable as preseed/locale:
..
Do I unde
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
Preseeding the parameter
d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select
to e.g.
"Erase entire disk: IDE1 master (hda) - 1.1 GB QEMU HARDDISK"
doesn't work (of course) for other disks. It would be
useful to have a way to let debconf or
Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist
Tags: d-i
As only eight kernel parameters seem to be allowed, it is a
waste to use three parameters for:
languagechooser/language-name=English
countrychooser/shortlist=US
console-keymaps-at/keymap=us
It would be useful to have (for preseeding) one par
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> (setq preseed-font-lock-keywords
> (eval-when-compile
> (list
>(list "\\(^\\s-+#.*\\)" '(1 font-lock-comment-face))
^ this should be a '*', not a '
Nothing "serious", I just like colourful editing. I sent
the file also as a wishlist bug (#279061) for the debian-el
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;; 2004-1
Hi,
I like to feed the d-i with a "storage server" recipe, e.g.:
/ ~10 GB XFS
/var all remaining XFS
swap thrice the RAM swap
Questions:
1. There was some discussion about a "storage server" recipe
on the list. Any chance, there will be one in d-i?
2. As I have two disks,
Hi,
a colleague tried to install Debian on his HP712/60 with standard SCSI
adaptor (whatever that is). He used the d-i testing image of 2004-08-20.
The d-i went smoothly until the creation of file systems. The kernel
output on the fourth console said:
SCSI device sda: 8467200 512-bytes hdwr se
Quoting Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> The "build on 2004-05-28" is not wrong. It's the date the initrd on this
> image was built.
> Despite that it would be nice to have the iso build date there too.
Yes, if I report a problem with d-i, I do not get the question
"Which initrd exactly do
Quoting "W. Borgert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I used the netinst (105 MB image) of 2004-07-01. Some problems occured:
Many thanks for the replies. I hope, I can try the same hardware
again, when 2.6.7 is used by the d-i. It's not mine, unfortunately.
I will report abou
Hi,
I used the netinst (105 MB image) of 2004-07-01. Some problems occured:
1. Method 'linux26': Hangs during PC card phase. Had to switch off.
2. Method 'linux26 hw-detect/pcmcia=off (or so)': Did not detect the
ethernet device (Broadcom 570x Gigabit). No idea which driver to use
from
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 06:53:35PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> W. Borgert wrote:
> > What is the solution? Use LILO?
>
> A small /boot partition and grub works for me.
Hm, the harddisk is already very small, so I don't want to
waste space with multiple partitions. Also, my o
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 02:05:34PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Right, but it still seems to be a bios issue, it's unable to access all
> of the drive. They never really fix this, just push the problem back
What is the solution? Use LILO? I had LILO on that machine
before, so it still should work.
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 12:38:30PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
... grub hangs ...
> I've seen grub do this if the root partition extends too far from the
> front of the drive, and the /boot part happens to land back there. This
> happens to me on a modern p4 with a 30 gb drive.
My drive has ~0.5 GB...
(How) can I resume a failed install? Before, the
installation went fine completely, just GRUB didn't want to
boot, so I want to try LILO. I inserted the installation
floppies again, in the hope that I can soon step to the LILO
installation, but the thing presents me the partioner again.
Because t
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 01:24:40PM +, W. Borgert wrote:
> - There is room for improvement: Some tools were installed
> without my consent/need: os-prober, lilo-installer,
> nobootloader - I can't remember all, sorry. Also I'm
Now I tried again: reiserfs and xfs are
I did a RAID1 install with the netinst CD of yesterday and
failed (detailled problem report later, I will try again
first). Questions:
- Is RAID1 on / planned to be supported? IMHO, it doesn't
make much sense to have RAID1 support, but not on /. OK,
you may save the / or /boot from time to
The install on my 24 MB machine (486, 100 MHz) went fine
using the anna patch by Sylvain Ferriol. Unfortunately,
when booting after 1st stage install, I get:
GRUB Loading stage1.5.
GRUB loading, please wait...
(note the different case of 'loading')
I waited several(!) minutes, but nothing hap
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 01:40:20PM +0200, sferriol wrote:
> cd .trunk/installer/build/localudebs
...
> dd if=net-drivers.img of=/dev/fd0
That was easy! This patch is good - I can now partition on
my 24 MB machine. It seems that the memory limit is now
about 21.5 MB (for i486, stone age hardw
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:10:43AM +0200, sylvain ferriol wrote:
> this is the patch attached
I applied the patch and can build anna*.udeb without
problems. Where can I find information on how to create
installation floppies using this .udeb?
Better: If such floppies exist somewhere, I would lik
> i have changed anna to enable the user to select what he wants.
> and anna only download the selected packages (and dependencies too)
Could you provide floppy images (boot.img/root.img/net-drivers.img)
on some http-accessable place, please? I would like to test it.
> - there is not enough time
> Moreover it would be nice to have a tool which builds a minimum Debian
> mirror with just the packages needed by debootstrap and the most
> important udebs. I think that this way we could use debian-cd with a
> bottom-up approach, without downloading a whole debian mirror.
I have a recei
What is the target memory for the lowmem installation?
24 MB seems not to work. I had the hope, that ca. 16 MB
would be the limit. Some ideas for improvements:
1. Disable certain downloads/features. IMHO it is OK to
have a lowmem install with less features, e.g. LVM, RAID,
other FSs than
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 08:50:31PM -0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> add a line "waypoint 5 install_extra" so this looks like:
>
> waypoint 3 apt_update
> waypoint 5 install_extra
> waypoint 1 pick_kernel
> waypoint 10 install_kernel
>
> This should work.
Yes, I get one step fo
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 02:26:01PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> Partman remembers that the partition has already been formatted and
> doesn't format it for second time. Instead of rebooting one could
> change for example the file system from ext3 to reiserfs and then back
> to ext3. Alternative
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 06:35:41PM -0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * W. Borgert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-30 18:40]:
> > /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: RAID support requires raidtools2
> > Failed to create initrd image.
>
> root on RAID is currently not supported, due to t
Unfortunately, I cannot yet change the subject line :-(
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 11:58:53AM -0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> When you create a RAID device, you'll see something like this:
>
> RAID1 #1 - 8 GB
> #1 primary8 GB
Yes, I got that:
RAID1 device #0 - 0.1 GB Software
> unless I can incorporate db2latex-xsl-generated code into existing
> TeTeX code, it's a no go.
With db2latex-xsl, you have your own "driver" XSL
stylesheet, that sets all variables etc. E.g. to use the
stylesheet of your publisher.
> Why, can DocBook do the screenshots?
:-) Not better than La
I asked the same question here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/04/msg01355.html
The outcome was that I had to use an emulator, such as bochs
or qemu. Because of real-world-work, I didn't try. If it's
possible to run the emulator in an xterm, you might be able
to copy the screen contents
I use boot.img, root.img, net-drivers.img from the
sarge-i386-netinst.iso of 2004-05-29.
HW: mid-1990s laptop (486DX4+SL 100MHz, 24MB RAM, 520MB HD)
with floppy disk, PCMCIA-net, VGA colour graphics, sound,
serial and parallel port, but no USB/CD-ROM/firewire.
Whether in simple or in expert mode,
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 01:08:54PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> The images are also included on the daily netinst CD iso's.
Ah yes, under ./install/floppies/, cool, thanks!
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With the sarge-i386-netinst.iso of 2004-05-28, a RAID1
install fails for me. I said the installer to use both
disks (hda 8.4 and hdb 8.6 GB in size, maybe that is the
problem?). I let the installer automatically partition the
RAID device (all in one partition) and get the error
message:
[!!] Par
Are there floppy images (boot.img, root.img, and
net-drivers.img) for i386, that are newer than 2004-04-29?
Maybe daily builds? I like to test them, but don't want to
hunt yesterdays fixed bugs.
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Quoting "W. Borgert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Quoting Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > * W. Borgert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-27 19:33]:
> > > Well, the installer runs from the CD, while the installed
> > > kernel runs from the US
Quoting Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> * W. Borgert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-27 19:33]:
> > Well, the installer runs from the CD, while the installed
> > kernel runs from the USB hard-disk and has to work with the
> > initrd... I don't know,
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 04:19:59PM -0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * W. Borgert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-26 17:58]:
> > - installation with either beta4 or current of 2004-05-24 works,
> > GRUB and/or LILO can be installed on the MBR of /dev/sda, as
> >
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 07:37:07PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> ViewCVS uses anonymous SVN access and that has been disabled because of
> locking problems a couple of weeks ago.
It would be nice, if somebody with write access on the host
could create a four line HTML page with this information
inste
An Exception Has Occurred
Python Traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/org/svn.debian.org/viewcvs/lib/viewcvs.py", line 2585, in main
request.run_viewcvs()
File "/org/svn.debian.org/viewcvs/lib/viewcvs.py", line 263, in run_viewcvs
self.rootpath, rev)
File "/org/svn.deb
A colleague tried this and failed, so I better ask first.
Environment:
- some relatively new Dell Latitude D800 notebook (i386)
- Windows XP occupies 100% of the internal disk (/dev/hda)
(and is recognised by the current installer)
- external USB 160GB Maxtor harddisk (/dev/sda) 100% for Debian
Quoting Tapio Lehtonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 12:08:44PM +0200, W. Borgert wrote:
> > what is the best way to create screenshots of d-i dialogs?
>
> I used a camera. It is more work, because I edited the image files to
Oh no :-) Thanks very much for
Hi,
what is the best way to create screenshots of d-i dialogs?
Installing via serial cable?
Using d-i demo, if it still exists?
I'm going to create an installation manual, but not w/o illustration :-)
TIA!
Cheers, WB
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- SW-RAID support would be very great, this is sth. the other distros
have for long. What prevents Paul's mdadm stuff from going into d-i?
- Support for 2.6 is important, too.
Cheers, WB
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Hi,
unfortunately, I don't know whether sarge will support RAID1 (I believe
that is what you meant when saying RAID) out of the box. I really hope
so, because otherwise it would be a disadvantage of Debian compared to
RH/MDK/SuSE. The good news is, that some people, notably Paul
Fleischer, are w
and c key at the same time).
[apt-get update, etc.]
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s would avoid this type
> of confusion. It must be done with care though.
That would be much better.
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:58:31AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> W. Borgert wrote:
> > when asked for the right Debian mirror I chose a local mirror setup
> > by myself. That worked perfectly. Unfortunately, the security site
> > of Debian seems to be included always. I do
Hi,
when asked for the right Debian mirror I chose a local mirror setup
by myself. That worked perfectly. Unfortunately, the security site
of Debian seems to be included always. I do not want to have the
security site in the sources.list, because the machine does not have
internet access - just
Hi,
I had a small problem, not sure whether this is a bug or what.
For some reasons(*) I like to install LILO, not GRUB. d-i
doesn't let me a choice and installes GRUB. Before finishing
d-i and rebooting I selected in the menu to install LILO.
That failed with an error message like "LILO install
Hi,
I just tried to install a machine with two SCSI disks, but only the
first disk should be used. Using XFS for all partitions but swap on
the first disk lead to an error message "could not mount partition
of type swap" or so. d-i always went back to the partitioning menu.
I changed all XFS par
Quoting Finn-Arne Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
(mkinitrd problems when installing kernel with d-i + md)
> I guess it has to do something with the way the root partition is
> detected. after the system is installed, mkinitrd has no problem
> detecting that the root partition is on a md-device
Mayb
Hello,
today I sat down together with an experienced Linux/UNIX admin and
we went through the complete installation with RAID1. Unfortunately,
we didn't succeed. We have two identical HDs and created four
partitions on each in an identical layout. We sat all(!) partitions
to type 'FD'. We crea
Quoting Erich Waelde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:47:37PM +, W. Borgert wrote:
> > > 1. I'm a RAID/MD newbie: Is there a howto or manual about
> > >what every single step I have to take to realise RAID1
> > >using t
bout these things,
because I don't have any "dual boot" systems.]
Is this a known issue?
2. X just didn't run. I'm not sure about the graphics card
of his machine, but maybe it's an Nvidia.
Is there a known issue with Toshiba notebook computers?
Thanks in
Hello,
this is a d-i beginners question: Is it possible to use d-i
from a running system? I.e. boot Knoppix and use d-i from
there to install Debian?
Thanks in advance!
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w? Other question: Do I really need more than 24 MB
for partitioning?
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Quoting Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> W. Borgert wrote:
> > Will I be able to use d-i on my notebook? It's a 486/100 with
> > 24 MB RAM and 340 MB disk. No CD-ROM, but floppy drive and a
> > PCMCIA ethernet card. Screen about 30 cm. Woody ran fine.
>
>
Quoting Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> - Support for systems with only 32 mb of memory (i386 only).
Will I be able to use d-i on my notebook? It's a 486/100 with
24 MB RAM and 340 MB disk. No CD-ROM, but floppy drive and a
PCMCIA ethernet card. Screen about 30 cm. Wood
en
look down at Debian because we don't have it. Aarrgghh.]
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Hello,
a colleague of mine installed Sarge (netinst ISO image of 2004-01-11).
He's a Windows guy and a very good professional GUI design engineer.
He used Linux before (SuSE). Here are his comments:
1. In the submenu "Configure apt" you can choose different methods,
such as ftp, http, file sy
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