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2009-05-23 Thread McKinstry Whitford
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Re: [Pkg-kbd-devel] Switching d-i to kbd for squeeze?

2009-01-28 Thread Alastair McKinstry
list pkg-kbd-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kbd-devel Regards, Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry , http://blog.sceal.ie Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist -

Bug#388464: debian-installer: ~2.6.17-2 amd64 kernel appears to be missing lvm-mod

2006-09-25 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Frans Pop wrote: > reassign 388464 debian-installer > tags 388464 + unreproducible > thanks > > On Wednesday 20 September 2006 16:34, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > >> Installing a Dell 1950 Server (x86_64), LVM support is broken as there >> is no LVM support in t

Bug#388464: debian-installer: ~2.6.17-2 amd64 kernel appears to be missing lvm-mod

2006-09-20 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: debian-installer Version: Daily build 20060920 Severity: normal Installing a Dell 1950 Server (x86_64), LVM support is broken as there is no LVM support in the kernel (-8 or -9, I believe), and no LVM modules available. This worked with the i386 installer of the same build (20060920)

Re: Bug#379938: Crashes with libnewt0.52 (0.52.2-5.1) if libfribidi0 not installed

2006-07-27 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Andree Leidenfrost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> Package: libnewt0.52 >> Version: 0.52.2-5.1 >> Severity: important >> >> Dear Alistair, >> >> In version 0.52.2-5.1, the crashes in case libfribidi0 is not installed >> have returned. I am attaching a full backtrace

Re: Debian mactel linux support?

2006-06-29 Thread Alastair McKinstry
; Cheers, > FJP > Well, I have an intel MacMini, and a copy of Bootcamp to play with. I've been waiting for DSL to work at home (which it now does, yay!) before joining in again. So I'll give it a try. Regards Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

libnewt transition from 0.51 to 0.52

2006-03-19 Thread Alastair McKinstry
libnewt0.52 instead. It would be appreciated if you could rebuild your package accordingly. Maintainers with packages depending on libnewt0.51, according to whodepends: John Lines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (plptools) Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (libnewt-dev libnewt0.52 newt-tcl

Bug#284455: debian-installer: linux26 fails to detect CD-ROM on Dell PowerEdge 750

2004-12-06 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal On a Dell PowerEdge 750, normal d-i installs fine, but 2.6 install via 'linus26' fails to detect the CD-ROM. CD-ROM works fine when 2.6 installed later; modules lists and PCI output attached below. Regards Alastair McKinstry -- System I

Bug#284454: partman loops on "Go back" with preseed file

2004-12-06 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: partman Severity: normal Given a pre-seed file (see attached), partman presented a list of filesystems to create, which I wanted to edit. So instead of creating the filesystems, I selected "Go Back" or "No". Both threw loops: selecting "No" throws you back to the same "Write changes"

Proposed changes to console-data

2004-10-21 Thread Alastair McKinstry
keymap. Closes: #275273. * Added Lithuanian keymap to console-keymaps-at, console-keymaps-acorn for debian-installer. Closes: #275087. * Fixed dangling symlink in console-keymaps-at; thanks to Recai Oktas. Closes: #262693. -- Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 21 Oct 2

Bug#274364: #274364: please confirm that this bug is fixed

2004-10-19 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, I am clearing old bugs, and it appears that one you submitted, #274364, about USB keyboard not working, has been fixed. Can you please confirm this? Regards Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#276752: Urgent patch for kbd-chooser

2004-10-18 Thread Alastair McKinstry
-Original Message- >From: "Christian Perrier"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: 18/10/04 22:40:17 >To: "Alastair McKinstry"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: "Recai Oktas"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"<[

Re: Bug#276752: Urgent patch for kbd-chooser

2004-10-18 Thread Alastair McKinstry
-Original Message- >From: "Christian Perrier"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: 18/10/04 22:40:17 >To: "Alastair McKinstry"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: "Recai Oktas"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"<[

Re: Bug#276752: Urgent patch for kbd-chooser

2004-10-18 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Luan, 2004-10-18 at 23:41 +0300, Recai Oktas wrote: > Small rearrangement of the patch. Tested successfully for Turkish and > this time Latvian under Vmware. Sorry for my aesthetics obsessions :-) > > Regards, > Patch looks good to me; Should work with Lithuanian, which was broke due to #27

Re: newt and slang issues

2004-09-22 Thread Alastair McKinstry
>> I will upload the slang change to testing-proposed-updates >> as soon as the sid package is accepted into the archive; >> is the newt translation significant enough for t-p-u ? > >Please upload to unstable only; the release team can push the package to >testing from there once it's built on al

newt and slang issues

2004-09-22 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, I've uploaded to sid packages to fix the slang crashes (patch thanks to Bastian) and the newt Bulgarian translation. (don't know what your FTBFS issue was - I couldn't reproduce). I will upload the slang change to testing-proposed-updates as soon as the sid package is accepted into the archiv

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-28 Thread Alastair McKinstry
>On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:55:39AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: >> >> I think some of the stuff in console-cyrillic should be merged >> into console-common post-sarge; console-common is due for a >> rewrite: mostly to debconf' the font, etc. settings, >

Re: New d-i devcamp?

2004-07-28 Thread Alastair McKinstry
>also sprach Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.26.2352 +0200]: >> OK. 5 people confirmed their interest in a d-i devcamp. > >Please add me to the list of interested parties. Ditto. Regards Alastair McKinstry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Why isn't console-cyrillic part of console-data?

2004-07-27 Thread Alastair McKinstry
otes on plans I had made at http://people.debian.org/~mckinstry/console-plans.html Two main bits: As there appears to be little interest in console-{tools,data} development upstream, I'm working towards merging stuff back to kbd. I think some of the stuff in console-cyrillic should be merged

Re: keyboard autodetection

2004-07-06 Thread Alastair McKinstry
> > >Hi, > >> > > * Is there a way to autodetect (based on hardware IDs) the keyboard t>ype >> > > (eg., when you install Debian, you have to select keyboard layout and >> > > country/ type). >> > Hmm. What you're asking, I think, is whether the hardware ID implies a >> > layout. (It's not re

Bug#256405: crash displaying main menu in arabic

2004-06-27 Thread Alastair McKinstry
DÃ Domh, 2004-06-27 ag 11:29 -0500, scrÃobh Steve Langasek: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 04:35:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Package: debian-installer > > Severity: normal > > Tags: d-i > > > I booted today's sid_d-i build from a usb stick. At the language > > chooser, I chose the nice new Arabic

Bug#244978: refile under hotplug

2004-06-13 Thread Alastair McKinstry
refile 244978 hotplug thanks Refiling this bug under hotplug, as it appears to be the package still in need of work. This bug no longer involves usb-disover thanks Alastair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#244886: kbd-chooser: can't select keymap on sparc64 netboot 20040411 image

2004-06-10 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, Can you please confirm whether or not you still see this problem? I do not have access to a sparc machine and cannot debug this without help Regards Alastair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#244978: is usbutils ever needed?

2004-06-10 Thread Alastair McKinstry
ce devices, or will hotplug suffice? Regards Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Review of arcboot-installer template wanted

2004-06-10 Thread Alastair McKinstry
{arootbus})disk(${arootid})rdisk(${arootlun})partition(${arootpart}) setenv OSLoader arcboot setenv OSLoadFilename Linux . You will only need to do this once. Afterwards, type "boot" or reboot the system to proceed. Regards, Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#250548: Default keyboard for Netherlands should be 'US American'

2004-05-23 Thread Alastair McKinstry
DÃ Domh, 2004-05-23 ag 20:47 +0200, scrÃobh Frans Pop: > Package: kbd-chooser > Version: 0.50 > > Please change the default keyboard for nl_NL installations from 'Dutch' to 'US > American'? > > Rationale: > Most PC's (at a guess: over 90%) in the Netherlands are equipped with a US > keyboard. D

Bug#249164: installation report on DECstation (mipsel)

2004-05-16 Thread Alastair McKinstry
DÃ Domh, 2004-05-16 ag 16:24 +0100, scrÃobh Martin Michlmayr: > * Karsten Merker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-15 16:17]: > > Keyboard selection: [E] Kbd-Chooser only presents PC keymaps by default. > > Pressing ESC brings one back to the main menu. > >

Bug#247513: Debian Installer bug #247513: Spanish keymap on powerpc

2004-05-08 Thread Alastair McKinstry
tags 247513 moreinfo thanks Hi, I'm looking at fixing this bug 'Spanish keymap not working on debian installer, powerpc'. What actually happens when you try to choose 'Spanish' on the keyboard chooser on powerpc? (I do not have a powerpc machine) Thanks Alastair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Bug#243623: #243623: Tottasten is not a german word

2004-05-02 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi Dennis, Can you respond to this bug report about the German translation of console-data? Thanks, Alastair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#244886: kbd-chooser: can't select keymap on sparc64 netboot 20040411 image

2004-04-20 Thread Alastair McKinstry
>Package: kbd-chooser >Severity: normal >Tags: d-i > >Hi, > >I tried 20040411 netboot sparc64 image today, and I used "expert >DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low". > >I selected fr_FR, then France. In kbd-chooser, I had this choice : > >Sun keyboard >Usb keyboard > >I selected "Sun keyboard" but I didn't have

Re: Full Debian install impressions and facts

2004-04-19 Thread Alastair McKinstry
>On 18.IV.2004 at 13:27 (-0500) Branden Robinson wrote: >> >> The main challenge here, as I understand it, is that d-i basically uses >> console-data's paradigm for keyboard description. So what we need is a >> gigantic mapping table in xserver-xfree86.config to translate >> console-data keyboard

Bug#243059: #243059: back button behavior in kbd-chooser

2004-04-16 Thread Alastair McKinstry
to "choose-keymap"; BACK from choose-keymap goes to choose-arch, as expected, and back again goes to main-menu. This is all as expected, and this hasn't changed in months; maybe a bug in main-menu that was fixed? - Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Ke

Bug#243846: (no subject)

2004-04-15 Thread Alastair McKinstry
>So the stopping and starting of PCMCIA isn't always safe either, after >all. I still wonder what's so unsafe about not stopping PCMCIA during >upgrades. Important devices would disappear during the upgrade: eg. networking, or even worse, storage: e.g I have a Compact Flash PCMCIA holder: my CF c

Re: Automated xkb/kde/fonts configuration after install

2004-04-15 Thread Alastair McKinstry
>On Thursday 15 April 2004 02:54, Denis Barbier wrote: >> As you chose el_GR.UTF-8 as the default locale, you have to find >> a way to provide a working UTF-8 console. If jfbterm works for 2nd >> stage, it could also be used when installation is over, couldn't >> it? > >I thought about it, but IIR

[l10n]; change to console-data po files

2004-04-04 Thread Alastair McKinstry
if they wish, just send me the translation to commit? Regards, Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this

Bug#242007: countrychooser: Translate the list of country names

2004-04-04 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: countrychooser Version: 0.013 Severity: normal Please translate the short list of country names, as well as the full country names list. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers experimental APT policy: (990, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable') Architectur

Re: Must debian-installer use iso-codes package when choosing country?

2004-04-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
es in iso-3166. The countries in question have used the list to make their own political points; but the problem is that Debian deciding to change some names and not others is no longer being neutral. > FJP Regards, Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key finge

Re: Re: Must debian-installer use iso-codes package when choosing country?

2004-04-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
DÃ Domh, 2004-04-04 ag 04:17 +0800, scrÃobh Tetralet: > My original question is: > > "Must debian-installer use "iso-codes" package when choosing country, > Even though it will hurt some people, like people who living in Taiwan?" > > And I think your answer is "YES". > People who install Debian

Bug#241838: d-i Turkish keyboard issues

2004-04-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
t keyboard in kbd-chooser for Turkish to trqu.kmap. (2) In kbd-chooser prebaseconfig, we can change the settings passed to the second stage; I can add code there to change trqu -> trq for the second stage. I will need to test this, though. Regards, Alastair McKinstry --

Bug#241838: kbd-chooser: Need non-UTF8 keymap for Turkish

2004-04-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: kbd-chooser Version: 0.47 Severity: normal For Turkish, we want the trqu UTF8 keymap for the first stage of the install, with a non-UTF-8 keymap trq on the second stage. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers experimental APT policy: (990, 'experimental'

speakup and debian-installer

2004-04-02 Thread Alastair McKinstry
t be shipped in d-i)? Does it make more sense just to not offer speakup in kbd-chooser, or ship a speakup-variant of d-i with speakup kernel and keymap? Regards, Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New alioth repository for console-data, console-common

2004-04-01 Thread Alastair McKinstry
agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint (New) = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will

Bug#241231: DECstation 5000/133 (mipsel) install with some problems

2004-03-31 Thread Alastair McKinstry
>On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 02:21:49PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > >> Package: installation-reports > >> Debian-installer-version: daily r3k-kn02/boot.img snapshot, 200 >> "Select a keyboard layout": doesn't do anything (I didn't have a >> keyboard conncted, but anyway). > >This is the major prob

Bug#241231: DECstation 5000/133 (mipsel) install with some problems

2004-03-31 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi Martin, >Package: installation-reports > >I first chose the language, but it didn't ask me for the country but >instead dropped me into main menu on "Select a keyboard layout". Maybe >this was because of 32 MB memory only, but I didn't get a message about >low-mem installs. > >"Select a keyb

Bug#238364: bug #238264: arcboot installation on mips

2004-03-30 Thread Alastair McKinstry
/arcboot.postinst to see what fails. -- SlÃn agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint (New) = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates thi

[l10n] Updated iso-codes 3166 and 639 lists

2004-03-30 Thread Alastair McKinstry
: https://alioth.debian.org/scm/controller.php?group_id=1438 Any translator who wants CVS access please contact me. Regards, Alastair McKinstry -- SlÃn agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint (New) = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-27 Thread Alastair McKinstry
ibidi package maintainer.... > I have done so ; its present in http://people.debian.org/~mckinstry/fribidi for testing - Alastair Will diff out the patch and forward to Baruch Evan

Bug#232085: Please retest

2004-03-24 Thread Alastair McKinstry
a debug version (more comments printed in the logs); using export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=debug debuild -uc -us in kbd-chooser. -- SlÃn agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint (New) = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He that would make h

Bug#239035: mac/ADB keymaps inappropriate for powerpc

2004-03-23 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi Colin, Thanks for your report. Looking at your patch, you removed mac_kbd.c from powerpc. I'd prefer to do the following: check in mac-kbd.c: fd = open("/proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes", O_RDONLY); if ((fd < 0) || (read(fd,&c, 1) != 1)) { di_i

[i18n] String Changes in iso-codes

2004-03-21 Thread Alastair McKinstry
files? iso-codes is now present on alioth, and for any translator who wants commit rights, please email me with your alioth (debian) username. -- SlÃn agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint (New) = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5

Re: preliminary test of d-i on the mips board SWARM from Broadcom

2004-03-21 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Am Sath, 2004-03-20 ag 12:36, scrÃobh Martin Michlmayr: > * Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-20 07:27]: > > kbd-chooser in d-i _should_ autodetect serial consoles and put this > > option on the menu. Could you please send me a copy of the install log; > &

Bug#233856: should be a way to disable usb-discover at boot prompt, for bad hardware that hangs kernel

2004-03-20 Thread Alastair McKinstry
rking; ie what USB modules do you need? -- SlÃn agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint (New) = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violate

Re: Bug#238973: iso-codes: Official name for TW is "Taiwan, Province of China"

2004-03-20 Thread Alastair McKinstry
United Kingdom" in the next release, as per usability report. If you still want Taiwan to be changed, say so, and I will release with that change. -- SlÃn agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint (New) = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132

Re: preliminary test of d-i on the mips board SWARM from Broadcom

2004-03-19 Thread Alastair McKinstry
ines down.) kbd-chooser in d-i _should_ autodetect serial consoles and put this option on the menu. Could you please send me a copy of the install log; it should list whether serial console was detected or not. On the SWARM, what device is used as console (during install)? /dev/console? /dev/ttyS1?

Re: preliminary test of d-i on the mips board SWARM from Broadcom

2004-03-19 Thread Alastair McKinstry
ines down.) kbd-chooser in d-i _should_ autodetect serial consoles and put this option on the menu. Could you please send me a copy of the install log; it should list whether serial console was detected or not. On the SWARM, what device is used as console (during install)? /dev/console? /dev/ttyS1?

Re: Bug#234513: debian-installer: segfault when starting kbd-chooser

2004-03-13 Thread Alastair McKinstry
hines! Ok, now can we get this CVS version tested quickly for beta3? - Alastair > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SlÃn agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint (New) = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He

Re: IA64 install experience (HP zx6000)

2004-03-12 Thread Alastair McKinstry
the usb-discover udeb: to load modules necessary for USB keyboards, in particular, to work. This is why it must be run before keyboard input is required. What USB modules are required under woody for the keyboard to operate on the zx6000? -- SlÃn agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry &l

Re: base-config, kbd and console-tools

2004-02-28 Thread Alastair McKinstry
hange like this, I feel it important to keep kbd seperate as a backup while such a merge takes place, so if we f*ck things up, people have something else to use) > Denis -- SlÃn agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint (New) = CD45 260A 4546

[l10n] Translation needed for console-data

2004-02-26 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, In the next upload of "console-data" I am including a French Atari keymap. This means one more entry that requires translation. Can translators please provide a translation for "French (Atari)" for console-data/debian-installer? Thanks, Alastair McKinstry -- To U

[i18n]: For translators: iso-3166-udeb has changed

2004-02-22 Thread Alastair McKinstry
re adventurous. -- SlÃn agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = CD45 260A 4546 C3C0 F595 F0F6 4132 BF90 2A38 5C57 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a

Bug#232085: Bug #232085: please retest

2004-02-16 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, I'm afraid I cannot reproduce this bug. With kbd-chooser, you should be able to choose the keymap manually with DEBCONF_PRIORITY <= medium. I am able to do so on i386, at least. Can you check if this is a mac-specific bug? Have a look in the logs (console #4, or if possible copy /var/log/me

Re: Up/Down/PgDn/PgUp not working anymore in cdebconf?

2004-02-16 Thread Alastair McKinstry
>Quoting Alastair McKinstry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> (I'm working on broken i18n in newt/whiptail at the moment). > >Support for BIDI languages�? > >I've got no news from BIDI languages people, either Arabic or >Hebrew I'm starting to worry w

Re: Up/Down/PgDn/PgUp not working anymore in cdebconf?

2004-02-16 Thread Alastair McKinstry
>On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 07:18:07AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: >> With a 20040212 netinst ISO image, the direction keys do not work >> anymore for moving around d-i menus. >> >I saw this one too. I also got left with a half finished configure once >I'd "finished" following the first reboot.

Bug#232397: use menutest in bterm-unifont instead.

2004-02-14 Thread Alastair McKinstry
long. -- SlÃn agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a preceden

Re: D-I and UTF-8

2004-02-02 Thread Alastair McKinstry
ult when either (1) the kernel is fixed (2) We jump straight to X. - Alastair McKinstry > -- > Nikolai Prokoschenko > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SlÃn agus Beannacht, Alastair Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1

Bug#229761: #229761: Bad keymaps in installer

2004-01-28 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, Thanks for testing the keyboards in debian-installer. In what way do you believe these keymaps are bad? Lithuanian Latvian Japanese (106 key) Macedonian Dutch Is this in the install stage, or later? If so, which kernel, etc. did you use? Thanks, Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Countrychooser commited in CVS

2004-01-17 Thread Alastair McKinstry
conflict. Working on it. > I'm waiting for Alastair to release a new version of iso-codes with > updated codes and translations. > > I will also ask him for a iso-3166-udeb package as countrychooser > needs the iso-3166.tab file as reference. Ok, that I can do. Should it just co

Bug#225897: kbd-chooser: German translation uses wrong encoding

2004-01-05 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, The current version of kbd-chooser appears to be correct Unicode. Could you please check and confirm that this bug can be closed? SlÃn agus Beannacht, Alastair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#219290: [d-i] No USB keyboard after reboot

2003-12-28 Thread Alastair McKinstry
on as possible so that USB keyboards can be used; it must be as small as possible to fit in initrds (for floppies and the 2MB limit on isofs) , hence discover is not an option at this point. However, it would be better if the list of USB modules was taken from the maintained discover[2] package auto

Re: Should we really use countries in languagechooser

2003-12-25 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Happy Holidays! On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 09:09, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Anmar Oueja ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Please change it as you see fit. As a matter of fact. in the > > languagechoose.l10n I put in "choose Arabic to begin installer (Arab > > World" in arabic of course to direct i

Re: BIDI Status in Debina Installer

2003-12-22 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 20:38, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Anmar Oueja] > > Hello All: > > > > I would like to know the status of adding BIDI support to the Debian > > Text-based interface installer. > > I suspect the important bug is http://bugs.debian.org/212962 >, > and no one have added any

Re: cdebconf menu location

2003-12-18 Thread Alastair McKinstry
e re-written. I'd leave that until after the string freeze, though, and for people with better English than me (eg Christian Perrier :-)) Slán agus Beannacht, - Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fixed in NMU of lvmcfg 0.10

2003-12-12 Thread Alastair McKinstry
: 0.10 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: lvmcfg - Configure the Logical Volume Manager (udeb) Closes: 219471 Changes: lvmcfg (0.10) unstable; urgency=low

Re: Language choser is also keyboard choser ??

2003-12-12 Thread Alastair McKinstry
by default in the daily (and future) releases. To see the keyboard question, start with DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium on the initial prompt . The default choice of keyboard is taken from the languagechooser. Regards, Alastair McKinstry > >If you agree with that proposal i can try to submit a pa

Re: updated lithuanian .po files

2003-12-11 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 21:32, KÄstutis BiliÅnas wrote: > Hi, > > In attachement there are some updated lithuanian (lt_LT) > .po files for d-i. > > Thanks, Committed. Thank you for your contribution to Debian. SlÃn agus Beannacht - Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: why is dvorak the default keyboard for English locales?

2003-12-11 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 20:06, Joey Hess wrote: > I see that even with the latest kbd-chooser, if I pick American English > in languagechooser, it defaults to a dvorak keyboard. At least it asks > me about it now at high priority, but surely the American English > keyboard would be a much better defa

Re: Hungarian l10n of d-i

2003-12-10 Thread Alastair McKinstry
ome. Committed to CVS. Thank you for your contribution to Debian. - Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: choose-mirror country codes

2003-12-04 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 20:03, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:39:40PM +, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 21:52, Joey Hess wrote: > [...] > > > All well and good, but when I run choose-mirror in en_US, I see "US". > >

Re: choose-mirror country codes

2003-12-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 21:52, Joey Hess wrote: > Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > The countrycodes are used to provide a more "neutral" and > > defined identity of country than English name. > > > > It is easy to confuse "English name" for country with

Re: base-config 2.0

2003-12-01 Thread Alastair McKinstry
> > >I hope to finish this up so it uses the cdebconf db for the rest of the >stuff in installer-integration, and take it further so it uss any >additonal d-i stuff it can to avoid more questions. I still need to work >out how to get the equivlant of dbootstrap_setting's KEYBD and >SERIALCONSOLE fr

Re: Default bootloader

2003-11-26 Thread Alastair McKinstry
>[Geert Stappers] >> Add missing serial line (detection) support to the list. > >Are you talking about the missing serial line support in >grub-installer, or some feature of the grub boot loader? The first >should be easily fixable. At least we use grub with serial console >here at the university

Re: Localizing New Debian Installer to Arabic

2003-11-25 Thread Alastair McKinstry
you want me to submit the localised files ? The most useful ones to start with are main-menu, cdebconf and the languagechooser.l10n. Do you have Cvs access in Debian? if not, the easiest way to submit the files is just to send them to me. Beannacht, Alastair McKinstry > Anmar > > Al

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/utils/debian by mckinstry

2003-11-21 Thread Alastair McKinstry
>Am Son, den 16.11.2003 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] um 12:38: >> Update of /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/utils/debian >> In directory gluck:/tmp/cvs-serv16371/debian >> >> Modified Files: >> changelog control rules >> Log Message: >> Add di-utils-devicefiles package to provide the devicefi

Re: Re: Status of IPv6 in d-i?

2003-11-21 Thread Alastair McKinstry
a negative list tha>n to > distinguish using a positive list, though. -ipv6: Isn't it better to say > "if the IP starts with 0xf, or is ::1 it's *not* globally addressable"? I think so. Beannacht, Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Localizing New Debian Installer to Arabic

2003-11-20 Thread Alastair McKinstry
with CVS: see http://cvs.debian.org/ , checkout with root debian-boot. You can see the status of translations at http://people.debian.org/~tsauter/d-i/translations.html Regards, Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Status of IPv6 in d-i?

2003-11-20 Thread Alastair McKinstry
>Hi, > >A friend of mine, who is quite the IPv6 adopter commented to me today that a >(much) earlier version of d-i that he tried out some months ago had IPv6 >support, but that it had seemed to have gone away in the newer releases. > >Are there any plans for the installer to work with IPv6 for the

boot-floppies ; new release for 3.0r2 ?

2003-11-19 Thread Alastair McKinstry
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Asking the priority question; was Re: Bug#221186: keymap problem fixed

2003-11-17 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 21:24, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:30:16AM +, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The dvorak keymap bug is now fixed in daily builds. > > > > It is possible to work around it in two ways: > > (1) Set D

[Fwd: Alpha Debian Netinst]

2003-11-17 Thread Alastair McKinstry
A report that was forwarded to me; I am updating the ports-status page with details on submitting reports the offical way. -- Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 He that would make his own liberty secure must guar

Bug#221186: keymap problem fixed

2003-11-17 Thread Alastair McKinstry
the documentation is checked to note the change in syntax. Regards, Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Second stage console problem

2003-11-16 Thread Alastair McKinstry
on't work properly in UTF-8 modes). I don't think bogl does anything smart about this; it means that _at_the_console_ entering accents in UTF-8 locales is broken. While this does not affect d-i at the moment (no dialogs that want arbitrary text), it means most users will not want UTF-8 locales on the console. Regards, Alastair McKinstry > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#220117: Installation report

2003-11-16 Thread Alastair McKinstry
be offered (A bug is filed to make this clearer). The default keyboard is the same as it was for woody; whar is the best default keyboard for Dutch language users ? Note, a different choice may be selected for Dutch Belgian speakers. Regards, Alastair McKinstry > Wilmer van der Gaast. --

Bug#220182: netcfg: Please re-order the TCP/IP configuration

2003-11-13 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, If we do reorder the questions to -IP address -Netmask [guessed from ip address] -Gateway [guessed from previous answers] -DNS servers -Machine name -Domain name Then it may also be possible to retrieve Machine and domain name from DNS, if present. Regards, Alastair McKinstry -- To

Re: Bug#215469: don't include unnecessary udebs on the cd

2003-11-13 Thread Alastair McKinstry
> > > > >I attach some annotated lists: > > - netinst-udebs: udebs that should go on all netinst cds > - netinst-udebs-i386: additional udebs that should go on i386 netinst cds > - exclude-udebs: udebs that have no reason to go on any cd > - exclude-udebs-i386: udebs that have no reason to go

Bug#219868: choose-mirror: Go Back does not work properly

2003-11-09 Thread Alastair McKinstry
e-mirror exits before reaching the last question. > > Denis > I've just fixed this bug in CVS. Could you please retest choose-mirror? Thanks, Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: setting /etc/modules in d-i / base-config?

2003-11-09 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 23:59, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Alastair McKinstry] > > Do we (expect to) prime the /etc/modules on /target in d-i, in > > general, eg. for network interfaces, or should kbd-chooser add the > > USB modules if it spots a USB keyboard? > > My p

Re: updated lithuanian .po files

2003-11-09 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 00:04, KÄstutis BiliÅnas wrote: > Hi, > > In attachement there are some updated lithuanian (lt_LT) > .po files for d-i. Could someone commit them for me? > > Thanks, Committed. Thanks for your contribution to Debian. Alastair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#219765: Languagechooser 1.03 dies on mipsel

2003-11-08 Thread Alastair McKinstry
nf/language en > else > db_set debconf/language C > fi Hi, The code actually goes: echo $LANG $LC_CTYPE | grep -q UTF-8 if [ $? ] ; then ... Could you please test this on mipsel? I can't log into a mipsel box at the moment. if this fails, try the variant if `echo $LANG $LC_CTYPE

setting /etc/modules in d-i / base-config?

2003-11-07 Thread Alastair McKinstry
ard? This could be a generic issue: eg if a PC has multiple network cards, and the modules are loaded at boot-time in a different order to that in d-i, the eth0 / eth1 aliases will be different. Regards, Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: GOBACK in kbd-chooser

2003-11-07 Thread Alastair McKinstry
>Am Fr, den 07.11.2003 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen um 10:52: >> > On user selecting GOBACK out of the module, exit 0, not 30. Its not >> > an error and main-menu shouldn't lower the debconf priority. >> >> How do you expect this to work? If the user chooses GOBACK, he expect >> to get to the pre

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