Bug#1071652: As a matter of fact

2024-05-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
As a matter of fact, the solution I posted doesn't work either. Therefore, be sure on the man page, to mention the true sequence needed: # debootstrap (missing step goes here) # debootstrap --second-stage

Bug#931304: [PATCH] hid2hci: Fix udev rules for linux-4.14+

2019-09-10 Thread Dan Streetman
From: Ville Syrjälä Since commit 1455cf8dbfd0 ("driver core: emit uevents when device is bound to a driver") the kernel started emitting "bind" and "unbind" uevents which confuse the hid2hci udev rules. The symptoms on an affected machine (Dell E5400 in my case) include bluetooth devices not app

Bug#927987: Don't tell users to use ext3

2019-04-26 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Maybe the document should say "don't worry, the installer process will walk you through this. /tmp: well I just use tmpfs. Also the worst thing is if one searches on Google for /var /home vs. just / Debian articles, he will find ../jessie/.. and has to put in the word ../stretch/.. in the URL to

Bug#927045: ^C doesn't work when booting into recovery mode

2019-04-13 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: installation-reports Severity: minor Just want to let you know after a fresh install, when booting into "(recovery mode)" from the grub menu, and typing the root passwd, # cat ^C doesn't interrupt cat, etc. One needs ^Z, then "kill %" to stop it. Yes, these just reported the same as on a

Bug#927037: Message didn't fully fit inside its window

2019-04-13 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor I recall when the graphical installer got to this message, Name: partman-crypto/progress/plain_erase_text Type: text Description: The installer is now overwriting ${DEVICE} with zeroes to delete its previous contents. This step may be skipped by ca

Bug#849509: Logs show popularity-contest installation indeed occurs after user says no

2019-04-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
OK. The package is actually installed. It is just the message about that being buffered until the next interaction probably.

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
All I know is I researched what ISO I could put on a USB stick and take to my mountain for a minimal install with no network. It worked fine, after I added that nomodeset line. It is a shame if officially debian no longer can be installed without a network.

Bug#849509: Logs show popularity-contest installation indeed occurs after user says no

2019-04-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Actually try this: When you get to the popularity-contest question, wait a few moments, then answer "no". Later examine the logs. You will see actual installation (and then removal) indeed occurs *after* the user has answered "no". So the user's eyes didn't fool him after all.

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
I'll be very happy to help you test this week. Next week I wish to proceed with final installation though. BH> Was the firmware (firmware-amd-graphics package) installed on your test BH> system? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=925556#25 mentions what ISO I used, and all logs are

Bug#925556: use UUIDs 100% in grub, not /dev/sdX

2019-04-01 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
retitle 925556 Use UUID, not sdX on grub linux lines thanks The problem simply turns out to be: grub lines like linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-8-amd64 root=/dev/sdb2 ro quiet are simply bound to fail: When the computer boots, no matter when for the installer, or later, the installed

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-01 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: installation-reports With the latest AMD CPUs the kernel will attempt to use the AMDGPU kernel driver. Alas this will result in a black screen on the minimal system installed by the installer. Therefore on all three of these lines in /boot/grub/grub.cfg linux /boot/vmlinuz-... root=.

Bug#849509: Can't blame the user for trying to read the messages

2019-03-31 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
I suppose in the logs, of Mar 27 23:38:24 in-target: Preparing to unpack .../popularity-contest_1.64_all.deb ... Mar 27 23:38:24 in-target: Unpacking popularity-contest (1.64) ... Mar 27 23:38:24 in-target: Setting up popularity-contest (1.64) ... Mar 27 23:38:24 in-target: Removing popularity-co

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-29 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Trying again with expert install and some different choices, and putting nomodeset in the grub finally booted it. I'll send new logs soon.

Bug#925991: Show version on splash screen

2019-03-29 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor The Installer splash screen should show the version number.

Bug#925887: Users fooled by Busybox boilerplate

2019-03-28 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Maybe just have a message: "press TAB to see all available commands." That would show both built-ins and non builtins. (Hope TAB works.)

Bug#925897: Always also offer UTC when asking timezone

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor Let's say you are asking the user what time zone he is in for some country: Eastern Time Zone Plains Time Zone Mountain Time Zone Other Well I recall in expert mode installation, UTC is also always present: Eastern Time Zone Plains Time Zone Mountain Ti

Bug#925896: tasksel_first: Give examples of "Standard system utilities" when asking

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor In tasksel_first_0.png the user is totally helpless trying to figure out what you mean by "Standard system utilities" So give some examples. Say "Standard system utilities (cat, ls...)" or "Standard system utilities (gnome, kde...)" or something, anything

Bug#925895: partman_choose_partition: mention that there will be one more screen with a list of proposed changes

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Here on partman_choose_partition_0.png we see both things that are about to be changed, and things that will stay the same, but we can't tell which are which. So right after the words "write changes to disk" you need to add "(You will be first shown a

Bug#925893: Also ask "Do not configure the network at this time" *before* trying to configure the network

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor Please also ask "Do not configure the network at this time" *before* trying to configure the network. Not only after, and failing. That way users installing offline wouldn't need to answer several futile questions and have futile DHCP packets sent to the

Bug#925892: Add version name next to number

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Users often hear "Stretch", "Buster", but on the installer, they see just "Debian 9". Therefore please make it say "Debian 9 (Stretch)" or "Debian 9 Stretch". In fact much wiser would be to do what iOS does, and keep them a top secret. https://medium.com/@viswa127/apples

Bug#925891: Debian Black Screen of Death worse than Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist In bug #925556, I showed you what a failed install looks like to a user who has booted via grub's "(recovery mode)" entries. If the user hadn't touched the keyboard, a normal boot would instead proceed, whereupon the user would just end up on a black s

Bug#925889: Add "exit" or "Reboot" to the menus

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist The menus are great, But you forgot one item. "Reboot". You see, no matter how the user scours the menus, he cannot find the proper way to exit (reboot). "Well he is supposed to know how to do that himself!" Yes, but he wants the "proper" way to ge

Bug#925888: Add Quick rescue mode

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Today let's discuss Rescue Mode. I think you should offer a second rescue mode choice. Call it "Quick Rescue Mode". List it right after Rescue Mode. Quick Rescue Mode would drop the user into a shell right away. No questions about languages. Yup, unfair. Sorry. No

Bug#925886: Rescue mode: When asking device to use as root file system, give more detailed choices

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor Here there is a high chance the user will chose the wrong item, because he does not recall which of his disks are which. Therefore you need to present more details, which yes, can fit on the same line. Add sizes and partition types and disk label stuff etc

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
logs.gz Description: application/gzip

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
I tried installing again. (This time with no network.) The normal graphical install. All goes fine, but in the logs there is one "Failed to get": $ grep -A 2 'Failed to get' syslog |cut -c 17- base-installer: warning: Failed to get debconf answer 'base-installer/kernel/linux/initrd'. base-install

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "SM" == Steve McIntyre writes: SM> Please attach the installer syslog so we have a chance to see what SM> happened. On the installed system, that's in /var/log/installer/syslog What should I give at that initramfs prompt you see that would put it on the screen? Then I could take a photograp

Bug#925582: Allow telling installer about local deb and Package list locations

2019-03-26 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer User has a USB drive, loaded with $ mount /dev/sdg2 on /var/cache/apt/archives type ext4 /dev/sdg1 on /var/lib/apt/lists type ext4 He takes this drive, along with another drive, containing a Debian installation ISO, to a remote mountain (offline) computer, intending to i

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-26 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
LS> Clearly the initramfs was able to mount /dev and run fsck, but mounting LS> it to /root/dev to transfer to the real rootfs failed due to a missing LS> directory. So it booted, meaning it is not a https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/ch03s06.html.en#UEFI problem...

Bug#925580: Never leave the user staring at an empty screen, even for a second

2019-03-26 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Here the user is left staring at an empty screen. (Many look that way for a while at the beginning. Even with the latest fastest hardware.) Not for long you might say. But long enough for the user to scratch his head, and then casually get out his cellphone and take a p

Bug#925579: User could have just as easily clicked the UEFI or non-UEFI...

2019-03-26 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer In https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI We read "debian-installer's support for UEFI is mostly contained in two modules. First comes the partman-efi module, and this will be loaded automatically if d-i recognises it has been booted in UEFI mode." The problem here is that on e

Bug#903481: debootstrap: Save apt compatible lists

2018-07-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
ou're required to run apt update after debootstrap finishes since apt will ignore the downloaded lists. -- Dan Nicholson | +1.206.437.0833 | Endless From ef2c7d1d7810b50f58554da0351e6daf572be11d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Nicholson Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 06:05:42 -0500 Subject: [PA

Re: Boot Order

2018-02-28 Thread Dan Norton
On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:41:30 -0500 lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 09:01:18PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > > Why insert itself anywhere in the first place? The machine booted > > before the installation. To start installing, t

Re: Boot Order

2018-02-27 Thread Dan Norton
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:40:20 -0500 lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:18:00PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > > Installing either stretch or buster via netinst results in changes > > to the bios menu. Under "UEFI Boot Sources"

Re: Boot Order

2018-02-26 Thread Dan Norton
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:40:20 -0500 lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:18:00PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > > Installing either stretch or buster via netinst results in changes > > to the bios menu. Under "UEFI Boot Sources"

Re: Boot Order

2018-02-26 Thread Dan Norton
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:54:22 + Steve McIntyre wrote: > It seems Dan Norton has decided to selfishly make *his* spam problem > into everybody else's spam problem, and I've just had a bounce message > in response to my mail below, saying I have to ask to be added to hi

Re: Boot Order

2018-02-25 Thread Dan Norton
On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 14:59:44 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: > On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:37:02 +0100 > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 22:18 -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > > > Installing either stretch or buster via netinst results in changes > > > t

Re: Boot Order

2018-02-24 Thread Dan Norton
On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 14:18:13 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/24/2018 01:59 PM, Dan Norton wrote: > > [snip] > > > > In my case, there are multiple debian installations and the > > installer positions the last installation at the top of the *grub* > > m

Re: Boot Order

2018-02-24 Thread Dan Norton
On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:37:02 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 22:18 -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > > Installing either stretch or buster via netinst results in changes > > to the bios menu. Under "UEFI Boot Sources" the term "Hard Drive" is > &

Boot Order

2018-02-23 Thread Dan Norton
.16 03/23/2012 Please tell me the justification for putting "debian" in the menu and having it boot first, ahead of CD/DVD/USB. Thanks. - Dan

Bug#872577: debootstrap: Handle existing /dev

2018-02-22 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 05:08:47 -0600 Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Dan Nicholson > wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Dan Nicholson > > wrote: > > > > > > That certainly helps, but it doesn't cover everything

Bug#872577: debootstrap: Handle existing /dev

2017-11-22 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Dan Nicholson > wrote: > > > > That certainly helps, but it doesn't cover everything since the > > mkdir's and ln's could fail. Those are easier to handle by adding

Bug#872577: debootstrap: Handle existing /dev

2017-08-25 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > That certainly helps, but it doesn't cover everything since the > mkdir's and ln's could fail. Those are easier to handle by adding -p > and -f, respectively, but that's a subtle change in behavior for l

Bug#872577: debootstrap: Handle existing /dev

2017-08-22 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Philip Hands wrote: > Ben Hildred <426...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 3:25 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> >>> Dan Nicholson writes: >>> > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Henrique de Moraes Hols

Bug#872577: debootstrap: Handle existing /dev

2017-08-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 18 Aug 2017, Dan Nicholson wrote: >> When devices.tar.gz was being used, the devices would be written into >> place with tar. This has the effect that the devices would be merged >> into an existi

Bug#872577: debootstrap: Handle existing /dev

2017-08-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
efore using debootstrap to install packages needed for building debian packages. The attached patch fixes this by using tar to emulate the old behavior. It would be really helpful if this could be applied. Thanks! -- Dan Nicholson | +1.206.437.0833 | Endless

Bug#857459: cannot scroll to bottom of help on partitioning screen

2017-03-11 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: d-i.debian.org Severity: wishlist Cannot scroll to bottom of 'help on partitioning' screen... too long... no way to read all the way to the bottom.

Bug#852670: dpkg: warning: while removing console-setup-linux, directory '/etc/console-setup' not empty so not removed

2017-01-26 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: console-setup-linux Version: 1.158 dpkg: warning: while removing console-setup-linux, directory '/etc/console-setup' not empty so not removed OK I'll remove by hand -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4147 2014-02-24 /etc/console-setup/Uni2-Fixed16.psf.gz

Bug#849509: popularity-contest installed momentarily even if user says No

2016-12-28 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Well just as if one's country must install a missle defense system just to ask the question if they should install the missle defense system... and then remove the missle defense system... But OK maybe there are some translation strings unavailable from e.g., $ for package in popularity-contest; do

Bug#849509: popularity-contest installed momentarily even if user says No

2016-12-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: installation-reports Using DISTRIB_RELEASE="9 (stretch) - installer build 20161212-00:04" the user chooses "No", the default, to the popularity-contest question. He notices through the corner of his eye, something about the package flashing by on the screen anyway! Indeed the logs expos

Bug#849508: add GO BACK choice to save logs question

2016-12-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: installation-reports Using DISTRIB_RELEASE="9 (stretch) - installer build 20161212-00:04" when getting to the question about saving logs, the user is prompted with /mnt . At this point the user wants to GO BACK to choose "open a shell" to inspect what places are in fact mounted. However

Bug#849278: zapps USB somehow

2016-12-24 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: os-prober Version: 1.71 With os-prober installed and then running update-grub and grub-install all I know is after rebooting I couldn't use any USB stuff after Debian started the main boot choice. As I depend on a USB keyboard, the only way to regain control of my computer again was to h

Bug#582231: dpkg: warning: while removing os-prober, directory '/var/lib/os-prober' not empty so not removed

2016-12-23 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
found 582231 1.71 thanks Removing os-prober (1.71) ... dpkg: warning: while removing os-prober, directory '/var/lib/os-prober' not empty so not removed # find /var/lib/os-prober -ls 1443133 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 24 12:21 /var/lib/os-prober 1442408 4 -rw-r-

Bug#840351: pstrees

2016-10-11 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
OK, I have captured both: $ pstree -al During the first occasion: `-aptitude safe-upgrade |-sh -c /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true | `-dpkg-preconfigu -w /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt | |-(dpkg-preconfigu)

Bug#840351: user asked same question twice upon upgrade

2016-10-10 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: keyboard-configuration Version: 1.151 During upgrade the user gets asked the same question twice. The first time is at Preconfiguring packages ... The second time is when (viewed with pstree -al): `-frontend -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/keyboard-configuration.posti

Bug#838332: keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout bad question

2016-09-19 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: keyboard-configuration Version: 1.149 Severity: wishlist We are asked "Keep the current keyboard layout in the configuration file? The current keyboard layout in the configuration file /etc/default/keyboard is defined as ... . Please choose whether you want to keep it. If you choose t

Bug#698491: closed by Andreas Glaeser (old report done)

2016-07-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
I hope the main focus of everything is memory sticks these days.

Bug#780011: say what --install does

2015-03-07 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: busybox $ busybox #or $ busybox --help should say what --install and --list do, as there is no way to cautiously find out when offline. I was going to report this upstream, but there are big browser warnings about https certificate expired on their site. Version 1.23. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Bug#774331: [dan-gre...@wi.rr.com: Re: Bug#774331: debootstrap: fakechroot variant fails with fakechroot not found]

2014-12-31 Thread dan-greene
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 04:48:42PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2014-12-31, Dan Greene wrote: > > As a normal user, trying to run debootstrap --variant=chroot > > (after starting fakeroot and fakechroot) > > Do you mean --variant=fakechroot ? Yes. > > I can&#x

Bug#774332: debootstrap: fakechroot variant fails installing systemd

2014-12-31 Thread Dan Greene
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.66 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, (Everything is done as a normal user.) After running fakeroot and fakechroot and setting PATH apropriately, debootstrap --variant=fakechroot fails to bootstrap jessie. The attempt ends with the following output: I: Configuring

Bug#774331: debootstrap: fakechroot variant fails with fakechroot not found

2014-12-31 Thread Dan Greene
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.66 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, As a normal user, trying to run debootstrap --variant=chroot (after starting fakeroot and fakechroot) yields the following: [output omitted] I: Installing core packages... W: Failure trying to run: chroot /home/user/debootstra

Bug#773399: installation-reports: Jessie on early Eee PC

2014-12-17 Thread Dan Greene
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Just decided to install Jessie on an early netbook; it still installs (aside from a minor issue booting the installer). -- Package-specific info: Boot method: USB Image version: Jessie beta2 i386 netinst iso Date: Machine: Asus E

Bug#771040: installation-reports: Messes up Mac OS 9 driver partitions

2014-11-26 Thread Dan DeVoto
partitions, but obviously this shouldn't happen in the first place. Regards, Dan -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: Jessie Installer Beta 2 Date: Machine: G3 iBook 14 inch (model ID Powerbook4,3) Partitions: Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] =

Bug#764505: kFreeBSD-amd64: Beta installer 2 seems to work

2014-10-08 Thread Dan Greene
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: Jessie beta 2 netinstall Date: Wed Oct 8 11:43:13 CDT 2014 Machine: KVM virtual machine, 1G ram, 8G disk Partitions: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted o

Bug#757316: whole disk one big partition is a bad default

2014-09-23 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Well OK, I hope they will mostly make swap. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87siji3shh@jidanni.org

Bug#762426: setup.exe does work, it just pops up an extra browser window

2014-09-22 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: installation-guide Severity: wishlist Regarding ! 5.1.2. Booting from Windows ! ! To start the installer from Windows, you can either ! ! obtain CD-ROM/DVD-ROM or USB memory stick installation media as described in Section 4.1, “Official Debian GNU/Linux CD/DVD-ROM Sets” respective Sect

Bug#757316: whole disk one big partition is a bad default

2014-08-07 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
1% would be fine... Else one day when they e.g., want to upgrade from ext4 to ext5 etc. and face http://www.debian-administration.org/article/643/Migrating_a_live_system_from_ext3_to_ext4_filesystem and end up with Kernel panic – not syncing Attempted to kill init when something goes wrong. All be

Bug#757316: whole disk one big partition is a bad default

2014-08-06 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Please do not make the default for beginners making the whole disk one big partition anymore. Just leave a little free space just in case... You never know when they might need to tune their unmounted file system etc... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...

Re: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

2013-12-08 Thread Dan DeVoto
Confirmed on my Powerbook5,6 and PowerMac3,1. The Dec. 8th nightly still has this bug. Though the keyboard on my G3 iBook (Powerbook4,3) works fine, so Team G3! On Sat, 12/7/13, Rick Thomas wrote: Subject: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in ins

Bug#728936: Fwd: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

2013-12-08 Thread Dan DeVoto
I can confirm this bug. The keyboard is functional on the first boot screen, but when it gets to the "Choose a language" screen, the keyboard no longer works. I tested this on a Powerbook5,6 (with its built-in keyboard) and a PowerMac3,1 (with an external Macally keyboard). Interestingly, the

Bug#721578: debian-installer: LVM + ZFS fails to work

2013-09-01 Thread Dan Greene
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, I decided to try out the testing installer, and managed to break it by doing the following: Created a 32 bit virtuial machine (kvm) with an 8G virtual disk, and used the testing netinst iso image from today. In the installer:

Bug#697486: Asus N56DP-DH11 Debian install issues - installation-reports

2013-01-19 Thread dan ry
n Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 05:31:20PM -0800, dan ry wrote: > >Ah, I'll give that a shot next time I install Debian 6 on this laptop, > >Debian 7 beta 4 seems to work well minus a few xorg issues on this laptop. &

Bug#697486: Asus N56DP-DH11 Debian install issues - installation-reports

2013-01-18 Thread dan ry
Ah, I'll give that a shot next time I install Debian 6 on this laptop, Debian 7 beta 4 seems to work well minus a few xorg issues on this laptop. On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > adn5...@gmail.com wrote: > > > >Package: installation-reports > > > >Boot method: USB Flash d

Bug#697486: Asus N56DP-DH11 Debian install issues - installation-reports

2013-01-05 Thread dan ry
Package: installation-reports Boot method: USB Flash drive Image version: Unetbootin Debian Unstable_NetInstall_x64 Date: 1-5-2012 Machine: Asus N56DP-DH11 Processor: A10-4600m Memory: 8GB DDR3 Partitions: Unknown, I selected the guided encrypted LVM option. Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta3 release

2012-10-18 Thread Dan
related changes. Releases are built > against testing, dailies against sid. > > Not sure what we can do to avoid confusion. > > > Mraw, > KiBi. Hi Cyril, Would it be possible to sign the SHA256SUMS like in previous releases? I was about to install wheezy and it would be great

Re: Help with a touchless, netbooted, preseeded installation of squeeze on lots of plugs

2012-05-17 Thread Dan Tomlinson
st route is to live with the VFAT limitation, and add a hook somewhere that copies the images after they've been generated. I'd rather avoid replacing the uboot if possible - it may be a bit rubbish, but it works fine once you manage to get a uImage on the vfat partition. HTH You

Re: (SOLVED) Help with a touchless, netbooted, preseeded installation of squeeze on lots of plugs

2012-05-17 Thread Dan Tomlinson
On 16/05/2012 17:17, Dan Tomlinson wrote: Hi all, I am trying to do something relatively advanced with the debian-installer netboot and preseed. I have been charged with the commissioning of a large number of Dreamplug armel machines with a Debian squeeze installation and I am attempting to get

Help with a touchless, netbooted, preseeded installation of squeeze on lots of plugs

2012-05-16 Thread Dan Tomlinson
here and any solutions may require me to modify d-i source and build my own installer - this is fine. I just thought I would ask the developers before I dived into trying to hack this myself. Many thanks in advance, Dan Tomlinson PS: I may have to commission hundreds of these pl

Bug#586059: Grub2 failed to install for GPT when using RAID1 and RAID6 for /boot

2010-06-15 Thread dan reportbug
Package: installation-reports Boot method: DVD Image version: Debian Installer Alpha 1 Release Date: 11-June-2010 Machine: IBM x3200 M2 Processor:Quard Core Memory:5G Hardisks: 4x2TB FileSystem: ext4 Partitions: 4x100MB RAID 1,6 <-- /boot 4x2TB RAID 6 <-- LVM2 Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn)

Bug#504914: installation-reports: Lenny install succeeded

2008-11-07 Thread Dan Ritter
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: DVD Image version: Lenny DVD install RC1 Date: Machine: generic AMD X2, Gigabyte MA-69G-S3H motherboard Partitions: FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 ext3

Bug#480937: Etch Install

2008-05-12 Thread Dan Collier
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_beta1/i386/iso-cd/ Date: 05/12/2008 Machine: Local Build with ASROCK 4CoreDual VSTA Motherboard, Processor: Intel Core2 Duo 2.66 Processor Memory:208GB Partitions: Installed on it's own dis

Re: installation errors

2007-08-17 Thread Dan Burt
when the system is fully up and running, yes, 3 disks. but for installation, just the one. Regards, Dan Burt - Original Message From: Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dan Burt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Rod Whitby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; debian-boot@lists.debia

Re: installation errors

2007-08-17 Thread Dan Burt
apologies - i think you have misunderstood my response. i have only connected 1 drive during installation. Regards, Dan Burt - Original Message From: Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dan Burt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Rod Whitby <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: installation errors

2007-08-17 Thread Dan Burt
restore (never tried before!) as it has my media stored on it! (it was the system partition that wouldnt boot so i believe these disks are intact) Regards, Dan Burt - Original Message From: Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dan Burt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Rod Wh

RE: installation errors

2007-08-16 Thread Dan Burt
boot after the installation is complete, even though the install procedure recognises a disk correctly each time - when I slave either drive back into my laptop, it contains a fully working linux filesystem. This leads me to hardware issues with the slug, but I have no means to test! Regards Dan

installation errors

2007-08-09 Thread Dan Burt
installer release) but recieve the following errors: H/W Types Mismatch! it then exits the installer process. has anyone seen this issue before? are my assumptions wrong? - i.e. it wont be using the 192.168.1.77 ip? any help would be much appreciated. Regards, Dan Burt

Bug#427939: mention discover1/discover difference in Descriptions

2007-06-07 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: discover1 Version: 1.7.21 Severity: wishlist May I suggest putting something about the difference between discover1 and discover in the package Descriptions, and not wait until the user has installed the package only to find in the Readme: Discover 1.5 has only minimal support for kern

Bug#419352: Access with keyboard with installgui

2007-04-18 Thread Dan Phillips
Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: reassign 419352 cdebconf-gtk-udeb severity minor thanks Dan Phillips ha scritto: Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Dan Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apds06.html.en Can I make a suggestion that or maybe a change request

Bug#419352: Access with keyboard with installgui

2007-04-17 Thread Dan Phillips
Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Dan Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apds06.html.en Can I make a suggestion that or maybe a change request for use of space key or Enter key rather than + or - keys for expanding the options as referred to in the

Bug#419352: Access with keyboard with installgui

2007-04-17 Thread Dan Phillips
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apds06.html.en Can I make a suggestion that or maybe a change request for use of space key or Enter key rather than + or - keys for expanding the options as referred to in the above document. I am not the first person to be fooled by this and most lik

Bug#419352: Cannot select Country using keyboard with installgui

2007-04-15 Thread Dan Phillips
Package: rootskel-gtk (I think - sorry I am not sure what package the installer uses) Version: unknown Installation from CD using the installgui option. When trying to select country in the country selection window pressing return over (for example) Europe will activate the continue button. Mou

Bug#413060: (no subject)

2007-03-01 Thread Dan Smolik
Subject: installation-reports: Boot method: network Package: installation-reports Version: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: network Image version: http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/images/daily/sparc64/netboot/2.6/boot.img Date: 1.3.2007 Machi

Bug#405250: SPARC32 floppy install - issues switching between floppies

2007-01-01 Thread Dan Oglesby
oppy based install of the SPARC32 version of Debian "testing" on a Sun SparcStation 20, a Sun SparcStation 5 (170Mhz processor), and a Sun SparcStation 5 (70Mhz processor). --Dan __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has th

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2007-01-01 Thread Dan Oglesby
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Thursday 21 December 2006 03:03, Dan Oglesby wrote: > Could you file one new installation report for the issue that you need > to press enter 4 times to get the root floppy loaded so we can keep > track of that? I think that is now the only

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-30 Thread Dan Oglesby
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Sorry for delay. I had to concentrate on other work for a bit. Not a problem at all. I know how that goes. :-) On Thursday 21 December 2006 03:03, Dan Oglesby wrote: > Could you file one new installation report for the issue that you need &

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-20 Thread Dan Oglesby
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 20 December 2006 05:18, Dan Oglesby wrote: > Just completed a flawless install of Debian off of the 2006-12-19 > floppy images on the SS20 system. All hardware detected automatically, > no errors during the install, and the syste

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-20 Thread Dan Oglesby
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 20 December 2006 05:18, Dan Oglesby wrote: > Just completed a flawless install of Debian off of the 2006-12-19 > floppy images on the SS20 system. All hardware detected automatically, > no errors during the install, and the syste

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-19 Thread Dan Oglesby
Dan Oglesby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 12 December 2006 05:32, Dan Oglesby wrote: All of my hardware in the SS5-70 is detected automatically by the 2006-12-16 floppy images. The older floppies would not automatically detect the onbo

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-18 Thread Dan Oglesby
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 12 December 2006 05:32, Dan Oglesby wrote: > Both boots I had to manually tell it to load the lance module for my > onboard NIC. I can't find a lance module, so I guess you mean sunlance. Sorry, I meant sunlance. What exact

Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install

2006-12-18 Thread Dan Oglesby
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 17 December 2006 06:03, Dan Oglesby wrote: > The installation went perfect, all hardware detected (network, SCSI > controller, and hard drive), drive partitioned just fine. After > rebooting, it looks like the SCSI controller module

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