Bug#1067240: debootstrap: Devuan install scripts in /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/

2024-03-20 Thread Frank Guthausen
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.134 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: frank.guthausen.2...@gmail.com file /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/ceres contains wrong keyring line keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg which should be keyring /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-archive-keyring.g

Bug#1065048: installation-reports: partition tool in d-i remembers choices; 'delete partition' (encrypted Part.) always stays 'yes'

2024-03-01 Thread Frank Weißer
Hi Pascal, Pascal Hambourg: On 29/02/2024 at 08:51, Frank Weißer wrote: Comments/Problems: 2nd NIC gets eth0 on reboot, 2nd NIC gets eth1 :-( eth* names are no persistent and may change at any boot. But ethernet interface should get predictable names like enpXsY or enoX. In /proc/interrupts

Bug#1065048: installation-reports: partition tool in d-i remembers choices; 'delete partition' (encrypted Part.) always stays 'yes'

2024-02-29 Thread Frank Weißer
Package: installation-reports Severity: wishlist (Please provide enough information to help the Debian maintainers evaluate the report efficiently - e.g., by filling in the sections below.) Boot method: USB Image version: http://get.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/amd64/iso-bd/debian-edu-12.5

Bug#1030938: os-prober: Does not detect OpenSuse Tumbleweed

2023-02-09 Thread Frank McCormick
Package: os-prober Version: 1.81 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: bea...@videotron.ca Debian Sid updated Grub today and when os-prober ran via update-grub it did not detect my OpenSuse Tumbleweed partition. The update had installed the new Grub so I could not boot into Tumbleweed. Now I have he

Bug#971943: task-laptop: Add tlp and thermald

2020-10-10 Thread Frank
Package: task-laptop Version: 3.53 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, I wish that the package tlp (to save powers) and thermald (to control the temperature) is included in task-laptop, which are quite useful for laptops. Best wishes, Frank -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.6 APT

Bug#928299: installation-reports: network-console doesnt set password hash, ssh not possible

2019-05-02 Thread Frank Gard
rd from the user list). Many, many thanks to all involved people for your immediate help. I'm looking very forward to one of the next of Buster's weekly-builds :) . > Cheers, Have a nice day, Frank. eXirius IT Dienstleistungen GmbH Juchem-Straße 24 | 66571 Eppelborn T +49 6881 999

Bug#928299: installation-reports: network-console doesnt set password hash, ssh not possible

2019-05-02 Thread Frank Gard
Hi Am 02.05.19 um 09:43 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: > Hi again, > > […] > OK, thanks. That confirms at least the echo instruction I quoted is > executed, but gen-crypt didn't do its job… > […] > … which is understandable given the segfault. > […] > > Please mention at the very least your architecture

Bug#928299: installation-reports: network-console doesnt set password hash, ssh not possible

2019-05-02 Thread Frank Gard
Dear Cyril, On Thu, 2 May 2019 08:55:54 +0200 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > […] > > OK. What does /etc/shadow look like? Its content is: installer::1:0:9:7::: > […] > echo "installer:$(gen-crypt $PASSWORD):1:0:9:7:::" >> /etc/shadow > > with gen-crypt reading some tiny amount of data from /

Bug#928299: installation-reports: network-console doesnt set password hash, ssh not possible

2019-05-02 Thread Frank Gard
oint in time since when the bug exists, and –of course– that your're able to fix it quite soon. > […] > > Greetings > Marc Many thanks and greetings, too Frank. > […] eXirius IT Dienstleistungen GmbH Juchem-Straße 24 | 66571 Eppelborn T +49 6881 5 0 | i...@exirius.de htt

Bug#928299: Confirmation

2019-05-01 Thread Frank Gard
Marc. Thanks and greetings Frank. eXirius IT Dienstleistungen GmbH Juchem-Straße 24 | 66571 Eppelborn T +49 6881 5 0 | i...@exirius.de http://www.exirius.de Amtsgericht Saarbrücken HRB 12124 Geschäftsführer: Dipl.-Math. oec. Michael Royar

grub hangs at end of installing buster amd 64

2019-01-10 Thread andrew u frank
this problem? A step to correct the error without restarting the full installation procedure? andrew -- em.o.Univ.Prof. Dr. sc.techn. Dr. h.c. Andrew U. Frank Geoinformation, TU Wien +43 1 58801 12700 office Gusshausstr. 27-29 +43 1 55801 12799 fax 1040 Wien Austria privat

Re: Secure boot ?

2018-06-18 Thread Frank Bauer
Hi, It's been almost a year, so I would like to ask whether we can expect Secure Boot support for buster? My offer to help with testing of this dreadful technology still stands. Frank On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 9:39 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Frank, > > Frank Bauer (2017-07-1

Re: Fixing the missing serial console after installation issue

2017-10-01 Thread Frank Scheiner
nding. Cheers, Frank

Re: Fixing the missing serial console after installation issue

2017-09-30 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 09/30/2017 08:17 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 09/30/2017 07:19 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Not sure, but [1] says that it should be sufficient to add all console devices to the kernel command line for systemd to detect and activate them, e.g. `console=ttyS0,9600n8` - which includes

Re: Fixing the missing serial console after installation issue

2017-09-30 Thread Frank Scheiner
ble a serial console for the mentioned users despite using a serial console configuration in the kernel command line? Cheers, Frank

Bug#872764: Package: installation-reports

2017-08-20 Thread Frank Colcord
ed on IRC, but everyone asleep. Will try to get on tomorrow evening. kind regards, Frank 1. X200 Download torrent of Debian 9 DVD 1 with non free software. 1. https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/ cd-including-firmware/9.1.0+nonfree/amd64/bt-dvd/

Secure boot ?

2017-07-15 Thread Frank Bauer
as valid option to be booted :-( Fortunately ubuntu supports secure boot for some time already, so I was able to install it as an interim solution, but I would prefer Debian. I am no developer, but if you need testing of the secure boot images, I can help. Best Regards, Frank

Re: Cannot mount NFS share in preseed/late_command ("Protocol not supported")

2016-09-26 Thread Frank Thommen
On 09/22/2016 09:37 PM, Frank Thommen wrote: Hi, in the last step of a preseeded installation I want to mount an NFS share and then finally run a configuration script which requires files stored on this share. My last step in the preseed file currently looks like: d-i preseed/late_command

Cannot mount NFS share in preseed/late_command ("Protocol not supported")

2016-09-22 Thread Frank Thommen
0 question will be asked [...] I have also tried with nfsv4 in various ways to no avail. The package nfs-commons is installed. Mounting after reboot works fine. What is the correct way to mount an NFS share within preseed/late_command? Any hint is highly appreciated. Cheers frank

Re: How to use a local Debian mirror when installing with preseed (PXE)?

2016-09-09 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi KiBi, On 09/03/2016 09:14 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hallo Frank, Frank Thommen (2016-09-01): I'm currently setting up an unattended, PXE-based network installation of Debian with preseeding. We also have a complete local Debian mirror for inhouse use. However I haven't foun

Re: How to use a local Debian mirror when installing with preseed (PXE)?

2016-09-02 Thread Frank Thommen
On 09/02/2016 09:34 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 09:08:53PM +0200, Frank Thommen wrote: There are no more server logs than the apache/webserver logs. Then a run with d-i installer. Watch the _server_ log. You mean run an installation? I did that. No errors in the

Re: How to use a local Debian mirror when installing with preseed (PXE)?

2016-09-02 Thread Frank Thommen
On 09/02/2016 08:23 PM, Geert Stappers wrote: On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 08:14:14PM +0200, Frank Thommen wrote: On 09/02/2016 08:03 PM, Geert Stappers wrote: On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 11:37:53AM +0200, Frank Thommen wrote: On 09/02/2016 01:18 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: Check the syslog in the

Re: How to use a local Debian mirror when installing with preseed (PXE)?

2016-09-02 Thread Frank Thommen
On 09/02/2016 08:03 PM, Geert Stappers wrote: On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 11:37:53AM +0200, Frank Thommen wrote: On 09/02/2016 01:18 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 06:24:16PM +0200, Frank Thommen wrote: I'm currently setting up an unattended, PXE-based network install

Re: How to use a local Debian mirror when installing with preseed (PXE)?

2016-09-02 Thread Frank Thommen
On 09/02/2016 01:18 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 06:24:16PM +0200, Frank Thommen wrote: Hi, I'm currently setting up an unattended, PXE-based network installation of Debian with preseeding. We also have a complete local Debian mirror for inhouse use. However I ha

How to use a local Debian mirror when installing with preseed (PXE)?

2016-09-01 Thread Frank Thommen
ion-en.bz2 ecc.) How can I preseed our local mirror as primary/only installation source? Cheers frank -- Frank Thommen | HD-HuB / DKFZ Heidelberg | System Administrator | f.thom...@dkfz-heidelberg.de

Plans for di-netboot-assistant (and debian-installer-netboot-***)

2015-08-21 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
We had a discussion during DebConf about di-netboot-assistant. Here are the ideas we gathered Verifying netboot image signatures --- netboot images for Debian are already signed by Release file 1. check SHA256SUM only 2. download the Release

Bug#752613: debian-installer: debian-7.5.0-amd64-DVD-{3..10}.iso appear to be missing

2014-06-25 Thread Frank Kingswood
Package: debian-installer Version: 20140316 Severity: important Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, The main archive on cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.5.0/amd64/iso-dvd/ lists 10 DVD iso images in the checksums files but only DVD isos 1 to 3 exist. The same is true for the i386 directory. -- System Inf

Bug#740974: debian-installer: apt-configuration - scanning cd-rom stalls at 11%

2014-03-06 Thread Patrick Frank
, Patrick On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > just to confirm, those URL? > > Patrick Frank (2014-03-06): > > the above mentioned problem is tested with: > > - debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso > > > http://cdimage.debian.or

Bug#740974: debian-installer: apt-configuration - scanning cd-rom stalls at 11%

2014-03-06 Thread Patrick Frank
image in virtualbox aswell as on cd-rom. I selected the expert installation method. The result was always the same: during the apt-configuration it attempted to scan the first cd-rom and stalled at the status of 11% Greetings, Patrick Frank

Wheezy installer on IBM Power LPAR with disk multipathing via dual VIOS

2014-01-21 Thread Frank Fegert
kofboot: /dev/mapper/mpatha1: No such file or directory I'll have to check this again, since it could be just another full vs. short device pathname configuration issue. I'd be happy to open bug reports on the issues mentioned above, but i first wanted to test the w

Bug#707789: requested info

2013-05-12 Thread Frank Denissen
Maximilian, Thanks for handling this case. In attachment the requested log. In fact there are two problems. The first is related to flash-kernel and makes that mkinitramfs fails. This is bad, but not too critical. The second problem is more severe: when the problem occurs all input from the

Bug#701772: iso-scan: Loads wrong iso from usb drive

2013-02-26 Thread frank
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Do you remember me?

2012-08-11 Thread Frank Porter
Hi customer, You don't have to reply, this is a test. I have a new website someurl.com You are welcome! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cgbt4kr3.d4sc.

Re: D-i beta1

2012-07-06 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
e stands for eject. > > It does not only have translation updates, though, but also: > >[ Frank Lichtenheld ] >* Declare Multi-Arch: foreign. Requested by Helmut Grohne. > Closes: #676780 >* Use dpkg-buildflags for hand-built dmcrypt-get-device, too. >

Sqeeze doesn't install

2011-02-14 Thread Frank Richards
today Tried ubuntu server and it installed ok but would prefer to use squeeze what information should I get will have to photo the screen as unable to see any means of extracting logs etc. Please advise regards Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Sqeeze doesn't install

2011-02-13 Thread Frank Richards
to read fd0 which is not installed Am I doing something wrong or is there a problem? Please advise regards Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

[Thank you] Thank you!

2010-08-16 Thread Frank Hart
Thank you for keeping my systems running 24/7. Thank you for your expertise. Thank you for your support. Thank you for running on AMD64 and ARM. Thank you for all your efforts. When I've learn't how to program better I really want to help too :-) -- This is message was sent to you from http://thank

Supressing warning in debian-installer

2010-06-16 Thread Frank Burkhardt
INFO: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' succeeded but requested \ to be left unconfigured. What can I do to make the installation 100% non-interactive? Thank you for any help, Regards, Frank -- Frank Burkhardt /"\ phone: +49 341 9940-142 Max Planck Institute for Human\ /ASCI

Bug#442225: Reporting false-positive to Anti-virus vendor

2010-04-17 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, While it was a good idea to report the bug here so other users are aware of the "problem", the best way to solve this issue is to submit the false positive to the anti-virus editor. Do you know if the problem still occurs? (IMHO, one should not use an anti-virus which editor don't let me

Re: di-netboot-assistant update for experimental

2009-11-19 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 08:42 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 19 November 2009, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > I'll test it. If that work, would it be ok to modify the default netboot > > images ? I have tested multiple initrd with pxelinux, using initrd=initrd.gz,extra.cp

Re: di-netboot-assistant update for experimental

2009-11-18 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 18:59 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 27 October 2009, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > Allow preseeding using TFTP (reqested by Otavio) > > --- > > 3. Or is it possible to pass multiple "initrd=" to a given

Re: di-netboot-assistant update for experimental

2009-11-18 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 20:08 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 17 November 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > > Wouldn't it be simpler to just allow a user to specify the image on the > > command line using a new command? Something like: > >di-netboot-assistant custom --name="mybuild" > > > > The name

Re: di-netboot-assistant update for experimental

2009-10-27 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 06:20 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: >> On Friday 16 October 2009, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: >> > I have finally resolved and merged a bunch of patch I had for >> > di-netboot-assistant. >> > [..] I have worked on some patch

Re: di-netboot-assistant update for experimental

2009-10-25 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 06:20 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 16 October 2009, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > I have finally resolved and merged a bunch of patch I had for > > di-netboot-assistant. > > [..] > > I don't think experimental is the right choice here. I d

di-netboot-assistant update for experimental

2009-10-15 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
failed URL without requiring --verbose (Closes:#493418, > Thanks to Chris Lamb) > * Output status messages to STDOUT, not STDERR (Closes:#493426, > Thanks to Chris Lamb) > * Default PROMPT to 0 in pxelinux.HEAD (Closes:#493548, Thanks to > Chris Lamb) > * Bump standards to

Re: Risk of dataloss using

2009-09-14 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, Someone posted this warning on the the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/Xen?action=diff&rev2=90&rev1=89 I suppose it would be nice to replace the line: disk = ['phy:hda1,xvda,w'] with something safer in the sample file(s): ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/i

Re: Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian GNU/Linux

2009-05-29 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 13:01 -0800, Praveen A wrote: > 2009/2/18 Eric Doviak : > > For people who are new to GNU/Linux and are simply trying to install Debian > > on a home desktop, I wrote an "Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian > > GNU/Linux."[3] > > Some comments, > Now openjdk is in

Re: Netboot and firmware

2009-05-27 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 10:32 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > I'll probably add an option like > > FIRMWARE_IN_INITRD=(none|all|$firmwarename) > > (but I would rather default to "all"). > >

Netboot and firmware

2009-05-26 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, I have just noticed Marco d'Itris note on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/NetbootFirmware Do you think it would be a problem if di-netboot-assistant was concatenating all local firmware, to the init.rd files? Are we likely to hit some size limit? I'll probably add an option like

Re: Proposed changes to linux-2.6

2009-05-24 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 22:57 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 04:41:16PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 05:32:48PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > I intend to do the following changes to linux-2.6: > > > * Change i386/686(-bigmem) to include generic op

Re: Re: Re: di-netboot-assistant - toward version 1.0

2009-05-02 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, I would like to fire-up a brainstorming for netboot images in Squeeze. As far as I can say, there are two typical architecture: * Move to .deb images * Generalize and structure the .tar.gz files Moving toward .deb images = Probably raises some problems: * Are the

Please unblock eject

2009-05-01 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
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Re: DebConf: D-I Workshops and a D-I talk to explain and motivate?

2009-04-14 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 17:47 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > > Official events have to be submitted in the Pentabarf interface before > Wednesday if I'm not mistaken. > > Would it be ok if I submit D-I Work Sessions for during DebCamp? How > long and how many do we want in that case? > > Does someone w

Please unblock eject

2009-03-08 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
Hi. Please allow eject into testing. It is blocked because of its udeb. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: wiki.d.o/DebianInstaller

2009-03-01 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 13:01 +0100, hlf wrote: > Curently, in wiki.debian.org, there are about one hundred pages begining > with DebianInstaller. > I think the structure should be different. > > I can do the renaming of the pages > (and modify also the pages which link to thoses pages) > > I make

Bug#517687: installation report

2009-03-01 Thread Frank McCormick
core Memory: 1 gig Partitions fr...@frank-desktop:~$ df -Tl FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 ext313606340 4256008 8797380 33% / tmpfstmpfs 508248 0508248 0% /lib/init/rw varrun tmpfs 508248 104

Re: The future of the D-I team

2009-03-01 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 09:37 +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:49:58PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > >> Now that the lenny release is over, I think it's time for all of us > >> to gather and discuss what the D-I team currently is and what should > >> be

Re: 40r6 locks up during boot

2009-02-14 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 23:31 +0900, John wrote: > I'm running Windows Virtual Server on Windows Server 2003 on and HP > DC5950, Athlon 4550B CPU running in IA32. It's not clear to me whether > it has hardware virtualisation, I thought all recent AMD CPUs do, but > virtual PC (which got removed wh

Bug#514098: debootstrap: /dev/fd isn't created

2009-02-04 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Package: debootstrap Version: 0.3.3.2etch1 Severity: normal Hi, I have installed a lenny VM under etch using xen-create-image (package:xen-tools). It uses debootstrap to install the guest system. The symlink /dev/fd wasn't created during the installation. I am not sure which package should

Re: [net boot doc] please recommend atftpd instead of tftpd-hpa

2009-02-02 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, Luca Favatella wrote: > [please cc me when replying as I am not subscribed to the debian-boot > mailing list] [..] > Initially I tried to use tftpd-hpa, as recommended in [d-i manual] > ("we recommend tftpd-hpa"). > >From the same guide, I read > "Debian packages will in general set this up

Re: Call for testing of RC2 images

2009-01-30 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 11:19 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> The Debian-CD Team has built the images based on RC2 installer and >> I'd like to ask for some tests before we finally announce the release. >> >> The images are available at >

Re: Call for testing of RC2 images

2009-01-29 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 11:19 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > The Debian-CD Team has built the images based on RC2 installer and > I'd like to ask for some tests before we finally announce the release. > > The images are available at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/.lenny_bibble/ > > Please send

Bug#513080: installation-report: Thinkpad T400 on Lenny (w/ intel graphics)

2009-01-27 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
reassign 513080 xserver-xorg-video-intel -- Hi, On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 08:37 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > The T400 is very well supported out of the Box, eventhough it's very > recent model (BTW, the R400 and T500 should quite be similar). > (SATA runs in AHCI, Xorg video

Bug#513080: installation-report: Thinkpad T400 on Lenny (w/ intel graphics)

2009-01-25 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.38 Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: network Image version: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/netboot.tar.gz (Lenny's daily) 20090123-10:05 Date: 2009-01-23 Machine: Lenovo Thinkpad T400 (w/ intel graphics)

Re: [RFC] New "installer-settings" component - please test and comment!

2009-01-14 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 23:06 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > If I understand correctly, the idea is to be able to be able to switch > > *easily* between standard and expert mode during the installation. > > This is a nice. >

Re: [RFC] New "installer-settings" component - please test and comment!

2009-01-13 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello Frans, On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 12:06 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > Over the past months I've been working on a new component that allows to > change "settings" for the installer. [..] > What I will say is: > * it completely changes the concept of "expert mode" If I understand correctly, the

Debian / hardware compatibility & popcon

2009-01-06 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello Chris, [CC'ing debian-boot in case some other people are interested] For DebConf8, it seems that you planned to give a talk about hardware compatibility (according to penta). That's also something I am planning to work on [for Squeeze], and I wonder if you still plan to work on that? As f

Creating usb boot pendrives

2008-12-14 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, For the record, there's a windows frontend to assist creating usb bootable pendrives. it's looks nice, probably compatible with our images (not tested), and it's GPL. Thanks for the anonymous who posted that on the wiki. Franklin [1] https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liveusb-creator/ [

Re: [RFC] Consequences for official CD/DVD images for Lenny

2008-12-03 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, [My two cents tips below] On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 23:32 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Now that everybody has had a chance to take a look at the patches and try > out the test images (ahem...) we should decide how to use the new options > and what it will mean for the images we make available for

Re: [RFR/RFC] Multi-desktop CDs for lenny - take 2

2008-12-02 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
[drop [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 03:05 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > (Follow-up to http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2008/11/msg00048.html.) > > I have done quite a bit of additional development since that previous mail > and things are now much nicer and implemented a lot cleaner. > >

Re: Log from the D-I team meeting of Sat. Nov. 29th 20:00 UTC

2008-12-01 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 11:56 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > I just linked the log of the D-I team meeting that happened yesterday, > on the Meetings wiki page: > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Meetings Sorry for missing Saturday's meeting. > bubulle> Next issue also has been wel

Re: Multi-desktop CDs for lenny (was: Support lxde-desktop properly in lenny D-I RC2?)

2008-11-22 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 01:16 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Steve and I have been brainstorming a bit about this and it looks like > we'll be going for a combined "light desktop CD" after all, containing > packages needed for both Xfce and LXDE desktop tasks. > However, debian-cd will also support buil

Re: [PROPOSAL] Identify tasks in the D-I team and "assign" them

2008-11-20 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 08:40 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > wiki page with nice tables (one per section) and for each entry have > > room for a name and a backup name? > > This works fine and makes quite easy to find who does what. Here's a fi

Bug#505243: Multiarch CD directly boots in the amd64 installer

2008-11-18 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 12:55 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > (Switching to #505243 as that is the BR about the direct boot issue.) > > Hi Philip, > > On Tuesday 18 November 2008, Philip Hands wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 01:51:37PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > > If others want to give it a try: > >

Re: Bug#505750: d-i: Add help text.

2008-11-17 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 22:16 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 17 November 2008, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > Strangely enough VirtualBox now suddenly no longer tries to boot the > > > amd64 image (as I mentioned in #505243), but correctly selects i386 > > > when I

Bug#505750: d-i: Add help text.

2008-11-17 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 17 November 2008, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: >> The attached patch enables syslinux "help text" menu features to >> display the following help text when the "help" menu entry is selected: >> "Display help screens; type &

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-17 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 13:17 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 17 November 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > I'm not in the position to decide about the inclusion of that into the > > Installation Guide but I believe it would be a problem due the > > translation. I think we should keep two patches

Bug#505750: d-i: Add help text.

2008-11-16 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
The attached patch enables syslinux "help text" menu features to display the following help text when the "help" menu entry is selected: "Display help screens; type 'menu' at boot prompt to return to this menu" This patch also fix another bug (previously, if someone pressed [tab] then edit

Non-regression checklist: virtual machine.

2008-11-16 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Here's a proposed addition to the non-regression checklist. qemu qemu-system_x86-64 kvm (32bits) virtualbox/linux (32bits) virtualbox/linux (64bits) virtualbox/windows (32bits) vmware virtualPC (32bits) hyperV (32bits) And maybe a hint like: "Those test should be made using GTK 'netinst CD', and

Re: [PROPOSAL] Identify tasks in the D-I team and "assign" them

2008-11-15 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Added a few topics marked with "+". Also in many places, I suggest to s/Maintain/\0 and Coordinate/g On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 19:50 +, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > Reorganized in 3 main topics: [..] > Added a few topics marked with "+". - Mensagem Original- De: Christian Perrier <[EMAIL P

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-15 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 05:35 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Quoting Kenshi Muto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > >> After this patch is applied, 'make build_netboot' will build boot.img.gz > >> in dest/netboot/ directory for i386 and amd64 with both te

Bug#505496: syslinux: default64 doesn't work after after reloading "config" file.

2008-11-12 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Package: syslinux Version: 2:3.71+dfsg-5 Severity: normal In the attached example (built with the script below), the idea is to automatically load vesamenu from isolinux.cfg. Then it is possible to quit the vesa menu (to use the F1 and F2 help screen. If one press "Enter", default or default64 s

Bug#505494: syslinux: ifcpu64.c32 doesn't work under virtualbox (always run 64bit thing)

2008-11-12 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Package: syslinux Version: 2:3.71+dfsg-5 Severity: normal The module ifcpu64.c32 doesn't work as expected under virtualbox. If we build a simple test image with the script below. * virtualbox will always try to run the entry "a64", where as qemu and qemu-system-x86_64 works as expected. * defa

Bug#505243: Multiarch CD directly boots in the amd64 installer

2008-11-12 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 16:23 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 11 November 2008, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > Here's a proper patch against SVN repository: > > > > I'll try to build a CD, and test it tomorrow on some computers at work. > > I'm afraid t

Bug#505243: [TEST RC1] Resize NTFS ; windows detection ; Nec VL360

2008-11-11 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
tag 505243 +patch thanks On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 19:45 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 07:51 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Quoting Frank Lin PIAT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > I have a concern regarding the "multiarch CD" : > &

Bug#505243: [TEST RC1] Resize NTFS ; windows detection ; Nec VL360

2008-11-11 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 07:51 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Frank Lin PIAT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I have a concern regarding the "multiarch CD" : > > syslinux/isolinux boots the amd-64 installer directly (i.e it doesn't > > show the menu).

Bug#505244: installation-reports: [TEST RC1] raid 1 root and boot (lilo) ; full CD desktop install

2008-11-10 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/.lenny_rc1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-CD-1.iso Date: 2009-11-10 Machine: Qemu/KVM Partitions: df -Tl FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Avai

Bug#505243: [TEST RC1] Resize NTFS ; windows detection ; Nec VL360

2008-11-10 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Package: installation-reports -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: multiarch lenny-pre-rc1 (2008-11-xx) Date: 2008-11-10 Machine: NEC Powermate VL360 Processor: AMD64 Memory: 1GB Partitions: see below Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elabora

Installation manual: searching firmware

2008-11-10 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, Here's a suggested improvement for the installation manual. (even though I know it's too late for Lenny). Franklin Index: build/entities/urls.ent === --- build/entities/urls.ent (revision 56613) +++ build/entities/urls.ent (wo

[TEST RC1] Xfce CD ; lvm boot

2008-11-09 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Boot method: CD Image version: cdimage/.lenny_rc1.../debian-testing-i386-CD-1.iso BUILT 2008-10-29 Date: 2008-11-09 Machine: Qemu Partitions: df -Tl FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/xfce-root ext3 3563904 1488112 189

Bug#505106: installation-reports: [TEST RC1] multiarch CD, tested on i386

2008-11-09 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Package: installation-reports Followup-For: Bug #505106 -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD (multiarch i386,amd64,ppc) Image version: cdimage/.lenny_rc1 ... multiarch 2008-11-05 Date: 2008-11-09 Machine: Thinkpad A22e Partitions: {single partition} Base System Installation Checklist: [O

Bug#505106: installation-reports: [TEST RC1] multiarch CD, tested on AMD64 + i386

2008-11-09 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 15:40 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > Boot method: CD > Image version: cdimage/.lenny_rc1 (2008-11-05) As mentioned in the bug tile, the CD was the i386/amd64/ppc multiarch. > * This system was installed using multiarch CD. > amd64 was properly selected a

Bug#505106: installation-reports: [TEST RC1] multiarch CD, tested on AMD64.

2008-11-09 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: cdimage/.lenny_rc1 (2008-11-05) Date: 2008-11-09 Machine: Thinkpad T61 Partitions: df -Tl: FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 ext3 2

Bug#505099: installation-reports: [RC1 TEST] Thinkpad T61 ; netboot-install ; crypto-root (dm-crypt)

2008-11-09 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: netboot Image version: testing gtk netboot image ; 20091029 Date: 2009-11-09 Machine: Lenovo Thinkpad T61 Partitions: FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/sda

Bug#505093: Partitioning, /boot, swap and dm-crypt.

2008-11-09 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
package: partman-crypto-dm I wanted to install a system with dm-crypt. So, I have created some partitions and a non-encrypted partition for /boot. By mistake,I've mixed-up swap and /boot: I defined /boot on an encrypted partition. DI told me that was wrong, so I reconfigured the encrypted partit

Bug#470601: Debian Lenny-pre-RC1 on Virtual PC 2007 / unrecoverable processor error

2008-11-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, Here's an update for my previous report. Newer kernel (maybe 2.6.24, and 2.6.26) reveals a bug in VirtualPC, where it fails to boot with the error message "An unrecoverable processor error has been encountered. The virtual machine will reset now." This bug only occurs on the installed sys

Re: Call for testing of RC1 images

2008-11-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 17:22 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 13:54 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > > > The Debian-CD Team has prepared a testing set of images[1] of RC1 for us > > to give it a try. If all goes well we should release Debian Instal

Re: Call for testing of RC1 images

2008-11-08 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 13:54 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > The Debian-CD Team has prepared a testing set of images[1] of RC1 for us > to give it a try. If all goes well we should release Debian Installer > RC1 in Monday. > > 1. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/.lenny_rc1/ I have tested root

Re: non-free firmware, WEP/WPA, freeness and disk-order on reboot.

2008-10-25 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 22:01 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 25 October 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 06:01:42PM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > If I understand the situation correctly, the fact that one introduces > > > a usb key cause

non-free firmware, WEP/WPA, freeness and disk-order on reboot.

2008-10-25 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, When a firmware is missing, DI now prompts for a device with that firmware. (great, I love that feature!). If I understand the situation correctly, the fact that one introduces a usb key causes that key to be enumerated before the sata hard disk, which causes grub to write an incorrect con

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