Bug#1089540: discover: same problem here (only 1 machine affected)

2025-01-03 Thread Thomas
Package: discover Version: 2.1.2-10.1 Followup-For: Bug #1089540 I have about 10 machines running debian testing. Only one of them exhibits such a behavior. When, just to see what happens, I try to upgrade the proposed packages, everything seems to progress nicely however they are automatically ma

Bug#1088605: installation-reports: No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources

2024-12-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
/mnt/iso So there is a deduplication of about 135 MiB. Have a nice day :) Thomas

cdrom-detect merge request !5

2024-08-23 Thread Thomas
. Thank you in advance, Thomas

Bug#1077892: Acknowledgement (no hint how to flash ISO on windows)

2024-08-03 Thread Thomas Lange
Another option is the Fedora Media Writer available at https://fedoraproject.org/fmw/FedoraMediaWriter-win32-latest.exe -- regards Thomas

Bug#1077892: no hint how to flash ISO on windows

2024-08-03 Thread Thomas Lange
recommend the use of the open source software balenaEtcher. -- regards Thomas

Bug#972396: Comment on «initramfs-tools: Installation fails (no space left on device)»

2024-07-30 Thread Thomas Hahn
On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 14:00:51 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > On 26/07/2024 at 13:27, Thomas Hahn wrote: > > There was some changes with the firmware packages. > > Yes, Nvidia firmware grew bigger (but not as much as the observed > initramfs size increase) so they were moved

Bug#972396: Comment on «initramfs-tools: Installation fails (no space left on device)»

2024-07-26 Thread Thomas Hahn
There was some changes with the firmware packages. firmware-nvidia-graphics was installed automatically on boxes which don't have a NVIDIA device in their system. This blows up the initrd images to almost 4 times the size. If I apt remove firmware-nvidia-graphics the image sizes remain at the

Bug#1076753: partman-crypto: Default size for /boot partition too low

2024-07-22 Thread Thomas Mayer
too small, and even with initrd.img-6.9.8-amd64 at 80MB this can hardly keep more than 3 kernel versions at once. Please consider raising the default size for this partition. Thanks, Thomas -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing&#

Bug#1068898: Tested Martin's installer on OpenRD client and it works.

2024-07-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Sorry for the long delay in getting to this! I have successfully installed Debian 12.6 on my OpenRD "client" machine using Martin's installer. Please make it generally available as per this bug report! Enjoy! Rick

Bug#1068898: Reinstate OpenRD netboot images for bookworm

2024-06-20 Thread Rick Thomas
No sweat -- just point me at the image and let me know anything special I should be looking out for. Rick On Wed, Jun 19, 2024, at 10:06 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Cyril Brulebois [2024-06-20 07:04]: >> If memory serves, last time I did build stuff on a porter box to make >> sure the genera

Re: Writable partition for D-I ISO images

2024-03-28 Thread Thomas Lange
19 Dec 2023 13:15:53 +0100, Philip Hands said: > On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:58:39 +0100, Thomas Lange said: >> BTW if one did that, would it still be possible to read the filesystem >> if one were to burn it to a physical CD rather than write it to a USB >> stick?

Bug#968122: I confirm this bug

2024-02-11 Thread Thomas Lange
bus/usb/devices/*:*/bInterfaceSubClass': No such file or directory cat: '/sys/bus/usb/devices/*:*/bInterfaceProtocol': No such file or directory -- regards Thomas

Bug#1059815: installation-reports: unmount problem on encrypted system at shutdown

2024-01-01 Thread Thomas Bindewald
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i X-Debbugs-Cc: zefr...@gmail.com Boot method: DVD Image version: https://laotzu.ftp.acc.umu.se/debian.cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/debian.12.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso Date: Machine: VirtualBox Partitions: root@debian:~# df -Tl Filesystem

Re: Writable partition for D-I ISO images

2023-12-19 Thread Thomas Lange
he Debian installer and maybe to easily add a selection menu. A they will now which size is needed. -- regards Thomas

Re: cleanup of debian installer news

2023-09-06 Thread Thomas Lange
hese news/announcements on the debian-devel-announce mailing list. best regards Thomas

cleanup of debian installer news

2023-09-05 Thread Thomas Lange
m also come to Kochi? -- best regards Thomas

Re: Bootloader error grub minimal bash "load the kernel first" after installing my live image via calamares installer

2023-08-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
t successful in that > > either it said that the kernel version for live and installer > > were not the same. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Bug#1036430: Debian 12 : wrong keyboard mapping for Français (Macintosh)

2023-05-20 Thread thomas . chandesris
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: l10n Boot method: network Image version: debian-bookworm-DI-rc3-amd64-netinst.iso Date: 05/20/2023 5:00 PM Machine: Apple Inc. MacBookAir3,2 Partitions: Sys. de fichiers Type blocs de 1K Utilisé Disponible Uti% Monté sur udev d

Bug#1036397: Package: installation-reports

2023-05-20 Thread thomas . chandesris
Package: installation-reports Boot method: USB key Image version: debian-bookworm-DI-alpha2-amd64-netinst.iso Date: 05/19/2023 8:00 PM Machine: HP HP Stream Notebook Processor: Intel® Celeron® N2840 × 2 Memory: 2,0 Gio Partitions: Sys. de fichiers Type blocs de 1K Utilisé Disponible Uti% Mon

Bug#1035101: Failed to detect HD if Intel RST-RAID is active

2023-05-02 Thread Thomas Viehweger
OK, great! I've just rebuilt an amd64 netinst image, bundling the extra module inside (/lib/modules/6.1.0-7-amd64/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/intel/intel-rst.ko) and I've verified that this module loads fine in a VM. Hi, I made an installation test, but no change. In the shell of the installe

Bug#1035101: Failed to detect HD if Intel RST-RAID is active

2023-04-29 Thread Thomas Viehweger
Apparently we have that option enabled in the regular linux package: debian/config/kernelarch-x86/config:CONFIG_INTEL_RST=m but the relevant module isn't shipped in any udebs: /lib/modules//kernel/drivers/platform/x86/intel/intel-rst.ko Would you be willing to test an unofficial a

Bug#1035101: Failed to detect HD if Intel RST-RAID is active

2023-04-29 Thread Thomas Viehweger
Package: installation-reports Boot method: USB stick Image version: debian-bookworm-DI-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso Date: 2023-04-29 Machine: Dell Latitude 7400 Processor: i7-8665Ulspc Memory: 16 GB Partitions: - Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] =

Bug#1032743: failed to connect to WPA/PSK2 of my Ubiquity network

2023-03-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Hi, Thanks to Kibi on IRC to let me know how I should report. Boot method: USB Image version: debian-bookworm-DI-alpha2-amd64-netinst.iso Date: Feb 19 02:36 Machine: A quite old Intel NUC Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Erro

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-03 Thread Thomas Goirand
'non-free' and 'non-free-firmware' at the same time for a release or two ? How about being smarter than this? :) Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-02 Thread Thomas Goirand
only for the lifetime of bookworm, and we get rid of the package after the release). I think that's an even better approach than having this done in base-files itself. Your thoughts? Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Bug#934072: OpenRD images are gone

2022-06-23 Thread Rick Thomas
Short story: Works a treat! Longer story: Details will have to wait (it's 3AM right now) but to keep it short -- I put the two uI* files (ignored the .dtb file) onto an ext2 partition of a USB stick. Followed the instructions on Martin's page, and successfully installed back to the sa

Bug#934072: OpenRD images are gone

2022-06-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Jun 22, 2022, at 7:27 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> (If it builds, can you upload the images somewhere so Rick can test >> them?) > > Sure, that was the plan all along. > > https://people.debian.org/~kibi/openrd4bullseye/ has the tarball after a > full debian-installer build (it'll stay

Bug#934072: OpenRD images are gone

2022-06-15 Thread Rick Thomas
reverted. >> (the change to build/boot/arm/armel-kirkwood-u-boot-image-config >> is obviously fine) >> >> I don't have an OpenRD anymore but I can probably find someone if >> testing is required. > > I became aware recently that this was never fixed. Rick Th

Bug#1010488: win32-loader: please annotate the wine Build-Depends with

2022-05-04 Thread Thomas Gaugler
Fixed with the following commit:

arm64/daily/netboot/debian-installer/arm64/initrd.gz - netconf crashes in an endless loop

2022-03-23 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello, so now that we have figured out how to see the debian installer, a few dialogs later (just before the network config) 'netconf' seems to crash in an endlessloop. See video: https://tg.st/u/VID_20220323_215052568.mp4 Cheers, Thomas

arm64/daily/netboot/debian-installer/arm64/initrd.gz - black screen

2022-03-23 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
x that. Cheers, Thomas

daily-images/arm64/daily/netboot/ disappeared

2022-02-25 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello, https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm64/daily/netboot/ disappeared. Is there a replacement for it? Cheers, Thomas

Bug#1005729: Automatic partitioning fails on arm64 d-i with error message partman: mkfs.vfat: Not enough or too many clusters for filesystem

2022-02-13 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Source: partman-efi X-Debbugs-Cc: tho...@glanzmann.de Version: 94 Severity: normal Tags: d-i patch Hello, when installing Debian on an arm64 m1 machine, I get the following error during auto partitioning or when creating a EFI System Partition with more than 256 MB: partman: mkfs.vfat: Not enough

arm64 d-i for apple m1 machines

2022-02-13 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
the user does not need to install the scripts manually, please let me know. Cheers, Thomas

arm64/d-i: esp: not enough or too many clusters for filesystem

2022-02-13 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
n file bug reports for d-i? Cheers, Thomas

Re: Should /boot be ext2, instead of ext4?

2021-09-04 Thread Rick Thomas
Would it be possible to make uboot (and/or any of the other non-grub boot loaders) load grub, which then would load and configure the kernel from an ext4 or LVM partition? Rick

Fwd: bits from the Release Team: bullseye status update

2021-05-03 Thread Robert Thomas Hayes Link, Esq
:46:11 +0200 From: Paul Gevers To: Robert Thomas Hayes Link, Esq Hi Robert, On 03-05-2021 21:32, Robert Thomas Hayes Link, Esq wrote: I formerly did build acceptance for a prominent antivirus company. Just before my contract expired I was promoted from build-acceptance to the installer

Bug#982270: installation-reports: Installing Debian Bullseye on Cubox-i4 - installer finds no ethernet

2021-02-07 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of thi

Re: Installing Debian Bullseye on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive... No ethernet detected

2021-02-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, at 7:18 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, at 1:03 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: > > On https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > > you should look under the daily snapshots. > > For armhf that would be > > https://

Re: Installing Debian Bullseye on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive... No ethernet detected

2021-01-29 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi! On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, at 1:03 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: > On https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > you should look under the daily snapshots. > For armhf that would be > https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/netboot/SD-card-images/ I downloaded the two-part image from [1]

Installing Debian Bullseye on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive... "No kernel modules found"

2021-01-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021, at 6:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > Next thing to test -- can I install bullseye the same way? So I tried installing bullseye from [1] which, incidentally is dated Dec 2, 2020. Isn't this kinda old for a "current" Bullseye? It booted and the installer st

Re: Installing Debian Buster on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive.

2021-01-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021, at 12:08 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2021, at 11:15 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > On 2021-01-27, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > I'm trying to install Debian Buster [1] on my Cubox-i4P with an eSATA > > > drive. Everything seems to

Re: Installing Debian Buster on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive.

2021-01-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021, at 11:15 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2021-01-27, Rick Thomas wrote: > > I'm trying to install Debian Buster [1] on my Cubox-i4P with an eSATA > > drive. Everything seems to be fine, but when it comes time to reboot, > > it boots into the instal

Installing Debian Buster on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive.

2021-01-27 Thread Rick Thomas
I'm trying to install Debian Buster [1] on my Cubox-i4P with an eSATA drive. Everything seems to be fine, but when it comes time to reboot, it boots into the installer again, rather than the installed system. Here's what I did, and what I observed: *) I downloaded the two parts of the SDcard in

Re: Making Debian available - patch for webwml

2021-01-18 Thread Thomas Lange
use FUD when talking about non-free firmware. -- regards Thomas

Re: Calamares Installer on the website?

2020-12-19 Thread Thomas Lange
's a good idea to show more than only the Debian community in the slideshow because we do not have one on the right side. And I guess our new users also like to see an impression of how to install Debian. -- regards Thomas

Re: Calamares Installer on the website?

2020-12-19 Thread Thomas Lange
ment of the release notes. > Of course, it only supports only a subset of all architectures (since we only > have live images for i386 and amd64, at least ATM). But that's the main architectures for end-users. -- regards Thomas

Bug#962161: Add dependency to #972268

2020-10-15 Thread Thomas Gaugler
Control: block -1 972268

Bug#958649: installation-reports: On PowerMac G4 Debian-Ports installer fails to find PATA disks unless a USB drive is also present

2020-04-23 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Followup-For: Bug #958649 I forgot to include the partion information... Her it is: rbthomas@grey:~$ sudo mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda ; lsblk /dev/sda #type name length base ( size ) system /dev/sda1 Apple_partitio

Bug#958649: installation-reports: On PowerMac G4 Debian-Ports installer fails to find PATA disks unless a USB drive is also present

2020-04-23 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2020-04-19/debian-10.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso Date: Apr 22 18:44 PDT Machine: PowerMac G4 Silver "PowerMac 3,5" Partitions: Base System Installati

Bug#958527: installation-reports: Successful install of Debian Ports on PowerMac G5

2020-04-23 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2020-04-19/debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso Date: Machine: PowerMac G5 "PowerMac7,3" Partitions: rbthomas@kmac:~$ df -Tl | grep -v tmpfs Filesystem

Re: Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

2020-02-10 Thread Rick Thomas
"mac" support with 10.3 ? On Mon, Feb 10, 2020, at 3:17 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > For a friend... > > Does there exist a Buster Debian amd64 installer for mac with non-free > firmware? > > He has a been given a 2006 vintage quad core MacPro1,1 > > https://e

Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

2020-02-10 Thread Rick Thomas
For a friend... Does there exist a Buster Debian amd64 installer for mac with non-free firmware? He has a been given a 2006 vintage quad core MacPro1,1 https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-quad-3.0-specs.html That he'd like to get Linux running on. A live image for the s

Re: Dropping haveged from the installer

2020-02-09 Thread Rick Thomas
Does this mean that haveged is no longer needed on armhf hosts that are running kernels later than 5.3.9 ? I notice my armhf (Cubox) host on Debian Testing that the haveged daemon does not start. > root@cube:~# uname -a > Linux cube 5.4.0-3-armmp #1 SMP Debian 5.4.13-1 (2020-01-19) armv7l GNU/

Bug#935973: debian-installer: cryptsetup-initramfs will not be installed even when using full-disk encryption.

2019-09-27 Thread Thomas Maaß
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #935973 Hi! I can confirm this issue. cryptsetup-initramfs is not installed neither by the Buster, not by the Bullseye installer. When full-disc-encryption was set up, I have to boot in rescue mode and install the package. Regards Thomas -- System

Bug#934040: tasksel: doesn't provide transitional package for task-print-server

2019-09-09 Thread Rick Thomas
I second this recommendation! Rick > On Aug 6, 2019, at 4:25 AM, Raphaël Halimi wrote: > > Package: tasksel > Version: 3.54 > > Hi, > > Following #696658, task-print-server was renamed to task-print-service. > > Running "apt-get dist-upgrade" on current Sid tries to remove > task-print-server

Re: Volume group not found after install

2019-08-10 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Aug 9, 2019, at 9:00 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Hi, > > Steve McIntyre (2019-08-09): >> Not sure, immediately. This is going to take some effort to debug >> interactively, most likely. Can you get in using rescue mode from >> the installer? >> >> I'd be looking to check that the va

Re: Volume group not found after install

2019-08-09 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Aug 7, 2019, at 2:09 PM, fRANz wrote: > > Hi all, > I'm trying to install debian testing on X1 Carbon 7th Gen on NVMe local disk. > I'm using debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso downloaded some days ago: > > sha256 190d3ccfc9d04ad64b3d7f031d03e8d14cf13ad3857add9eab653c8f96ed4ff0 > debian-te

Re: Building CD images including firmware

2019-05-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
nice day :) Thomas

Re: Installer can't find network interface on Intel NUC BOXNUC8i3BEH1

2019-02-13 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Feb 13, 2019, at 6:51 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > >> On Feb 13, 2019, at 5:47 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2019-02-13 at 16:17 -0500, Laurent Dumont wrote: >>> I'm not sure if it's the exact same case but I had the same

Re: Installer can't find network interface on Intel NUC BOXNUC8i3BEH1

2019-02-13 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Feb 13, 2019, at 5:47 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Wed, 2019-02-13 at 16:17 -0500, Laurent Dumont wrote: >> I'm not sure if it's the exact same case but I had the same issue with a >> more recent motherboard. Debian failed to detect the network card with the >> E1000 drivers. >> >> I

Installer can't find network interface on Intel NUC BOXNUC8i3BEH1

2019-02-13 Thread Rick Thomas
I recently bought an intel NUC BOXNUC8i3BEH1. You can see a description of the product at Newegg: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856102213 I’m trying to install Debian Stretch on it debian-9.7.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and (later) firmware-9.6.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso I mad

Bug#918863: reboot returns to Windows 10 on Lenovo X1

2019-02-07 Thread Thomas Gaugler
See for a proof of concept.

Bug#918863: reboot returns to Windows 10 on Lenovo X1

2019-02-05 Thread Thomas Gaugler
Le mardi, 15 janvier 2019, 17.39:00 h CET Bernhard Übelacker a écrit : If such a system is detected, maybe a warning could be added? Sure. I suggest this would be done very early, but have no clue how to detect such a system. This would also make sense in time for buster. Could you work on a p

Bug#919023: Simplification of BOOTCFG_CreateGUID function

2019-01-11 Thread Thomas Gaugler
=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) win32-loader depends on no packages. win32-loader recommends no packages. Versions of packages win32-loader suggests: pn wine >From e735da16c5059c680d279a00de8cdf3c0e1bf53e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Th

Re: Debian Installer Buster Alpha 4 release

2018-12-17 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Dec 15, 2018, at 2:26 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Hardware support changes > > > * debian-installer: >- [armel] Disable OpenRD targets, no longer present in u-boot. Does this mean that my OpenRD hardware will no longer be supported in Buster? What about S

Re: Apologies for failing to communicate

2018-08-02 Thread Thomas Goirand
me on replies, as I'm not subscribed to debian-boot, or > feel free to reply privately if you prefer. Hi, I also would like to add that some of us want to at least investigate ways to have d-i running over on top of libc6 first, which means more help for the d-i maintainers. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Bug#615646: [installation-guide] How do I know which CD has the package I need?

2018-07-29 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 28, 2018, at 10:50 PM, Holger Wansing wrote: > +Also, keep in mind: if the CDs/DVDs you are using don't contain some packages > +you need, you can always install that packages afterwards from your running > +new Debian system (after the installation has finished). If you need to know, >

Bug#871835: speed up for debootstrap

2018-07-28 Thread Thomas Lange
know. -- regards Thomas

Bug#615646: [installation-guide] How do I know which CD has the package I need?

2018-07-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 28, 2018, at 10:44 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: > > Robert Cymbala wrote: >> QUESTION: >> I burned the first fifteen (15) CD's and GNU/Emacs, which I want to >> install, >> is not on them. How do I find out which CDs I need to burn? (There are 37 >> more in cdimage.debian.org/

Re: Links to buster release notes don't work

2018-07-25 Thread Rick Thomas
er, which isn't released yet > > So no information on releasenotes > > Buster will be released on 2019 and these pages will be updated then. > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 10:07 AM Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> >> On webpage >>https://www.debian.org/release

Links to buster release notes don't work

2018-07-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On webpage https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/releasenotes There are a bunch of links that are claimed to be for draft release notes for Buster. Unfortunately, all of them wind up at “Page not found”. Is this deliberate? Or is it possibly a result of some recent change of servers, or

Re: Error trying to update powerpc64 Jessie machine.

2018-06-29 Thread Rick Thomas
just comment out the security.debian.org line in my sources.list? Thanks, Rick On Jun 28, 2018, at 5:22 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Rick, > > This has little to do with the installer team (debian-boot@), and it > isn't (really) a powerpc-specific issue either. > > R

Error trying to update powerpc64 Jessie machine.

2018-06-28 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi! For the last couple of days, my PowerPC64 machine, running Debian Jessie, has been getting this error message when I try to do “apt update”: > W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/jessie/updates/InRelease > Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-powerpc/Packages' in Rele

Bug#901332: d-i: Offer to shut down / power off instead of reboot at the end

2018-06-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 12, 2018, at 8:56 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> So, please, at the end, where it tells the reboot message, add >> a third button that shuts down / powers off the system instead >> of rebooting. > > Still, I do agree that this would be useful in general. Especially if it could be pre-seed

Re: Clean up bug report for debootstrap

2018-03-09 Thread Thomas Lange
ck --variant=minbase stretch check --variant=minbase buster check --variant=buildd stretch check --arch i386 --variant=buildd stretch check --arch i386 stretch Please suggest more test I should do. Doing qemu-deboostrap should also work. -- regards Thomas

Re: How to install a stable system with a backport kernel

2018-01-25 Thread Thomas Lange
pports stretch with a kernel from backports, see http://fai-project.org/FAIme/ You just have to select the stable release and then enable backports. This will use the kernel from backports during installation and also for the installed system. -- regards Thomas

Re: Beginner guidance sought - creating my own boot environment based on the Debian installer

2017-12-17 Thread Thomas Lange
t use the busybox tools but just the normal versions of the commands. -- regards Thomas

Re: install to harddrive, ignore connected usb, reboot with preseeded grub

2017-12-10 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 02:22:33 -0400, "Raymond Burkholder" >>>>> said: > Is there a magic incantation for preseed files to install to a harddrive > when usb is present? This may be related to #882766. -- regards Thomas

Re: Replace discover by isenkram in d-i, better integration with virtualizations/clouds

2017-12-03 Thread Thomas Goirand
images would be affected. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)

Bug#882766: Proposal: reinstate automated device selection, blacklisting d-i?

2017-11-27 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:15:23 +0100, Thomas Lange >>>>> said: > ls -l /dev/disk/by-label gives > Debian\x209.2.1\x20amd64\x20n -> ../../sr0 > This is a kvm virtual machine booting from CD. Booting real hardware from USB stick with

Bug#882766: Proposal: reinstate automated device selection, blacklisting d-i?

2017-11-26 Thread Thomas Lange
After loading addition components, the CD is mounted and we can see which device it is. I would guess that the additional components will be loaded from the same device as we booted the installer. Still have to check it when booting from USB. -- regards Thomas

Bug#882766: Proposal: reinstate automated device selection, blacklisting d-i?

2017-11-26 Thread Thomas Lange
x209.2.1\x20amd64\x20n -> ../../sr0 This is a kvm virtual machine booting from CD. -- regards Thomas

Bug#882766: Proposal: reinstate automated device selection, blacklisting d-i?

2017-11-26 Thread Thomas Lange
9.2 amd n" TYPE="iso9660" . I think the first is more d-i specific. -- regards Thomas

Re: Easier installer?

2017-11-20 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 10:30:06 -0500, lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart >>>>> Sorensen) said: > On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 12:26:58PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: >> >>>>> On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 11:56:35 +0100, Thomas Lange s

Re: Easier installer?

2017-11-19 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 11:56:35 +0100, Thomas Lange >>>>> said: > JFTR, I just look at an openSuse Tumbleweed installation. They are > using a world map for selecting the timezone. And Linux Mint is showing a world map with timezones, but no country borders. -- regards Thomas

Re: Easier installer?

2017-11-19 Thread Thomas Lange
JFTR, I just look at an openSuse Tumbleweed installation. They are using a world map for selecting the timezone. -- regards Thomas

Re: Easier installer?

2017-11-18 Thread Thomas Lange
k theoretical or real? Did this already happened to a big open source project like Debian? If we like to support a map we should give it a try and see what happens. As Matthew said in his talk this year, Debian should use its power. -- regards Thomas

Re: Easier installer?

2017-11-17 Thread Thomas Lange
ard beside the good defaults they set. P.S.: I'm currently working on a simple way to create customized installation images, and I like to present the results on the MiniDebConf in Cambridge next week. I will also post some news here then. -- regards Thomas

Bug#871835: another improvement

2017-10-09 Thread Thomas Lange
Here's another patch which makes debootstrap a little bit faster. 0009-in-this-part-we-only-need-the-package-name-and-prior.patch Description: Binary data -- regards Thomas

Bug#871835: new patch

2017-09-23 Thread Thomas Lange
My last patch was broken. Here's a new working version. 0008-automatic-detect-if-grep-support-perl-regex.patch Description: Binary data -- regards Thomas

Bug#871835: auto detect grep options

2017-09-22 Thread Thomas Lange
Here's the patch that automatically detects if grep supports the Perl regex. 0008-automatic-detect-if-grep-support-perl-regex.patch Description: Binary data -- regards Thomas

Bug#871835: more speedup

2017-09-19 Thread Thomas Lange
I could also add a test, to check if grep supports -P. If not, don't use it. Does a non-GNU grep use -P for other things? -- regards Thomas

Bug#871835: more speedup

2017-09-10 Thread Thomas Lange
ds on a 4-core machine. 0001-speed-up-by-using-grep-P-and-setting-LC_ALL-C.patch Description: Binary data -- regards Thomas

Bug#871835: speed up for debootstrap

2017-09-07 Thread Thomas Lange
ed to look at the perl code and what it was reading. Using strace I could also see which perl calls where executed several times. -- regards Thomas

Bug#871835: speed up for debootstrap

2017-09-07 Thread Thomas Lange
mails of the patches, they explain a lot in detail. I also tried to optimize some perl regex, but my tests didn't gain a notable improvement, so if left the regex unchanged. -- regards Thomas

Bug#355801: (no subject)

2017-09-06 Thread Thomas Lange
IMO we can close this bug, because this is nowadays implemented (pretty similar) by qemu-debootstrap. -- regards Thomas

Bug#816892: why is sync needed?

2017-08-12 Thread Thomas Lange
I wonder why the sync was needed. I cannot find any info in the git logs. It seems to be there for a long time. IMO this should be removed, if noone can argue why it is needed. -- regards Thomas

Bug#871835: speed up for debootstrap

2017-08-11 Thread Thomas Lange
-s-no-need-to-print-the-dependencies-for-each-p.patch Description: Binary data 0005-we-can-get-the-size-by-using-stat-instead-of-reading.patch Description: Binary data 0006-do-not-read-all-lines-of-the-Packages-file-into-the-.patch Description: Binary data -- regards Thomas

Bug#854822: marked as done (installation-report: U-boot not correctly installed when partitioning with "Guided - use entire disk")

2017-07-17 Thread Rick Thomas
Great! Is there an installer image somewhere I can test this with on my Cubox-i4x4 ? Thanks! Rick On Jul 15, 2017, at 3:21 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Your message dated Sat, 15 Jul 2017 22:17:18 + > with message-id > and subject line Bug#854822: fixed in partman-base 191+de

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