Re: woody installation system

2025-02-28 Thread wolf
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Bug#1070767: bug report install partman-crypto

2024-05-08 Thread Edson Wolf
Package: partman-crypto Version: testing The package partman-crypto which apparently expects libgcc_s.so.1 to be an installed library in the installer but lacks dependency to ensure that. Specifically, it does depend on libc6-udeb rather than libc6 with the significant difference that it lacks

Bug#960988: installation-report: Installation report for HP Pavillion X360 14-cd0004la

2020-05-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.71 Severity: minor The Buster installer could not find my wireless card (RTL 8821CE). I performed the install using a spare external wireless interface; after booting to the installed system, I found an unofficial module supporting this hardware at: h

Re: Bug#914897: tech-ctte: Should debootstrap disable merged /usr by default?

2019-02-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud dijo [Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 02:58:09PM +0100]: > === Resolution === > > The Technical Committee resolves to decline to override the debootstrap > maintainers. > > Furthermore, using its §6.1.5 "Offering advice" power, the Technical > Committee considers that the desirable solu

Re: Bug#914897: #914897: debootstrap, buster: Please disabled merged /usr by default

2018-12-05 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Ansgar Burchardt dijo [Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 08:17:56AM +0100]: > The Reproducible Builds project was so kind to help and now runs one > build in a non-merged-/usr and a second build in a merged-/usr > environment. Packages that hardcode the path to utilities, but would > pick up the wrong one in a

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

2017-02-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Thanks for the quick insight into this, Karsten! Karsten Merker dijo [Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 09:36:33PM +0100]: > (...) but this doesn't work in your case as we currently > only disable the clobbering for /dev/mmcblk0 while your SD card > shows up as /dev/mmcblk1. I am not 100% sure about that, but

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

2017-02-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Please note that the provided "hardware-summary" was taken from the second (successful) install. I mention this due to: > (...) > == > Installer hardware-summary: > == > (...) > df: Filesystem 1K-bloc

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

2017-02-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.62 Severity: important Tags: d-i -- Package-specific info: Boot method: SD card Image version: https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/hd-media/SD-card-images/firmware.MX6_Cubox-i.img.gz https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/hd-media

Bug#834974: Installation Report: Stretch Alpha 7 on Cubox-i4pro

2016-09-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
tags 834974 + confirmed thanks Martin Michlmayr dijo [Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 07:49:48PM -0700]: > The log suggests that flash-kernel was installed successfully, i.e. > that a u-boot boot script was generated correctly. > > I don't know anything about this device so unfortunately I cannot help > you

Bug#788062: os-prober corrupts LVs/partitions while being mounted inside a VM

2015-11-10 Thread Samuel Wolf
Unfortunately I must confirm this bug which is high critical! My workaround was apt-get --purge remove os-prober

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Jens Schüßler dijo [Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 10:37:33AM +0200]: > > ...And I'd like us to consider this point as well: How important are > > CD images nowadays? Who has a CD that cannot read a DVD? > > You may visit some poorer people in the world. > But hey, if they want CD-bread, why don't they ju

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
I cannot make a full, fair comparison between desktop environments, as I use none. I saw several people bark at GNOME 3, but most of them are happy adopters nowadays, so, I don't believe that factor should carry much weigh nowadays. Besides, as Jordi says, making end users re-learn everything *agai

Bug#707567: Installation finally worked after repartitioning and formatting

2013-05-10 Thread Wolf-Dieter Groll
and running on this PC -- best regards   Wolf-Dieter smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Bug#707567: installation-reports: Wheezy i386 netinst fails installing base system: /var/cache/apt doesn't exist

2013-05-09 Thread Wolf-Dieter Groll
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Error Message: [!!] Grundsystem Installieren Warnung: Failure trying to run: chroot /target dpkg --force depends --install /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_7.1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.26_i386.deb Actually, ther

Bug#707045: installation-reports: apt-get dist-ugrade to wheezy fails with broken dependencies (libglib)

2013-05-06 Thread Wolf-Dieter Groll
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Upgrading to Wheezy failed with broken dependencies: apt-get -f dist-upgrade Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut Statusinformationen werden eingelesen... Fertig Abhängigkeiten werden korrigiert... fehlgeschlagen.

Bug#694575: installation-reports: Fails to find SATA drives regardless of the FakeRAID card settings

2012-11-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
forcemerge 690886 694575 thanks Ben Hutchings dijo [Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 04:41:17PM +]: > This appears to be the same as bug #690886. > > Ben. Right, that seems to be the case — Sorry for submitting a duplicate; merging. I hope this can be fixed before the release. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#685414: installation-reports: Hangs while searching drives on a Mac Mini G4 (PowerPC)

2012-09-06 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Gaudenz Steinlin dijo [Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 09:49:22AM +0200]: > Hi Gunnar Hey Gaudenz, > > I just tried with the daily image for today, and got exactly the same > > results :( > > Not good :-( > > Which daily image did you use exactly. You may need to use a netboot > image to really get the la

Bug#685414: installation-reports: Hangs while searching drives on a Mac Mini G4 (PowerPC)

2012-08-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Gaudenz Steinlin dijo [Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 09:31:03PM +0200]: > > Package: installation-reports > > Severity: important > > Tags: d-i > > > > In case it matters: The computer's CD drive is broken and it cannot > > AFAIK boot from USB media, so I downloaded the files and instructed my > > existing

Bug#685414: installation-reports: Hangs while searching drives on a Mac Mini G4 (PowerPC)

2012-08-20 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i In case it matters: The computer's CD drive is broken and it cannot AFAIK boot from USB media, so I downloaded the files and instructed my existing yaboot to launch the installer. Once the installer starts, it asks the questions regardin

Bug#297201: partman: Support leaving unused space after partitioning

2012-05-04 Thread Robert Wolf
whole disk. Regards, Robert Wolf. -- 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/alpine.lnx.2.02.1205041340540.4...@jbys.vag.nonphf.pu

Bug#627064: partman-auto: Function create_primary_partitions() creates whole-disk partition even if smaller requested

2011-08-03 Thread Robert Wolf
{ } use_filesystem{ } \ filesystem{ ext3 } mountpoint{ / } . \ 1 1 1 ext3 $primary{ } method{ lvm } device{ /dev/sda2 } \ vg_name{ data } $defaultignore{ } . Regards, Robert Wolf. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Bug#627064: Acknowledgement (partman-auto: Function create_primary_partitions() creates whole-disk partition even if smaller requested)

2011-05-30 Thread Robert Wolf
feature, then please, provide an example of recipe how to define single 10GB primary partition on the 100GB disk with leaving the rest 90GB unallocated. Thank you very much. Regards, Robert Wolf. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#627064: partman-auto: Function create_primary_partitions() creates whole-disk partition even if smaller requested

2011-05-17 Thread Robert Wolf
tion? I have read the partman-auto-recipe.txt file of debian-installer package, but I cannot find there some other options to solve my problem. Sorry if this is duplicated report but I could not find any report for this problem. Thank you very much for solution. Regards, Robert Wolf.

Bug#613208: No Kbd/Mouse/Display after 6.0.0 Upgrade/Installation

2011-02-13 Thread Wolf-Dieter Groll
Package: installation-reports Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system First I tried to upgrade, after this failed I tried a clean install: same Problem Starting the recovery console works, but starting Xorg hangs the computer again: Messy graphical display, Mouse and Keyboard de

Installer from 20.11.2010 - Keyboard not detected

2010-11-22 Thread Wolf-Rüdiger Jürgens
I've tried to install the new installer, but my keyboard was not working. Cherry CyMotion Master Linux connected via USB. I tried another keyboard and this one was working. Wolf -- Es ist schon so: Die Fragen sind es, aus denen das, was bleibt, entsteht. Denkt an die Frage jenes Kindes:

Re: Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important

2010-01-30 Thread Josef Wolf
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 08:41:25PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > At any rate, the size of the initrd isn't a download problem so much as an > installer memory footprint problem -- which isn't mitigated by using an > install CD. > [ ... ] > > > We usually don't do make such changes lightly. > >

Re: Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important

2010-01-30 Thread Josef Wolf
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 01:07:04AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 30 January 2010, Josef Wolf wrote: > > This is why my original proposal was to decide from the value of > > netcfg/chosen_interface whether to load/configure all the vlan stuff. > > So you would *always*

Re: Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important

2010-01-29 Thread Josef Wolf
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:54:58PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 29 January 2010, Josef Wolf wrote: > > But at that time the interface chosen interface is not known. So > > deducing from chosen interface name (as outlined above) is not possible > > and this method

Re: Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important

2010-01-29 Thread Josef Wolf
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 09:44:21AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Thanks for your response, Frans! > On Friday 29 January 2010, Josef Wolf wrote: > > Since the interface name can be used to decide whether to activate vlan > > support, no new debconf questions (like netcfg/enable_vl

Re: Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important

2010-01-29 Thread Josef Wolf
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:49:50AM +, Marco d'Itri wrote: > j...@raven.inka.de wrote: > > >The rest would be mostly straight forward: load stp, garp and 8021q modules, > Why do you believe that STP and GARP are needed for a network edge node? In most cases, VLAN means _lots_ of interfaces, so

Re: Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important

2010-01-28 Thread Josef Wolf
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 09:35:47PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote: > AFAICS, getting vlan support into the installer needs to be done in three > steps: > > 1. Get 8021q kernel module into installer environment. > > 2. Install vlan package into installer environment. Only the vconfi

Re: Status of netcfg-static

2010-01-28 Thread Josef Wolf
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 03:39:46PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Josef Wolf wrote: > > I am wondering what netcfg-static is good for. Looks like it is an > > (outdated) subset of the more generic netcfg. > > No. It's used for s390: > inst

Status of netcfg-static

2010-01-27 Thread Josef Wolf
Hello, I am wondering what netcfg-static is good for. Looks like it is an (outdated) subset of the more generic netcfg. Unfortunately, even the common code of the two programs seem to have diverged over time (no wonder, duplicated code almost always suffers from this disease). Given that the netc

Re: Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important

2010-01-17 Thread Josef Wolf
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 01:37:50PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > > I hacked VLAN support into the Sarge installer once upon a time. It > wasn't a big deal, like adding the vconfig binary and extending netcfg > here and there a little bit. The problem is that you can't just > download it like the

Possible bug detecting destination disk for Grub at install

2010-01-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
in /dev/sda, it ended up writing in sdb. The memory I used was modified by unetbootin, so the bug might be with them... [Another friend] had a similar problem with another install, what I don't know is whether it happened using unetbootin, as I understand he had got hold of an external CD

Re: Ban of Uwe Bugla from debian mailinglists

2009-08-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
oject does not need non-contributors with the level of aggressivity this guy has. Thanks, -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 pgpjhtu0MDUB5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gsoc2009] debian-installer on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2009-03-05 Thread Gunnar Wolf
port for other OSs. I don't think it's probable that -at least in early stages- you will get commit access to the d-i repository, and you won't want to be stuck in an old version (but that's easily fixable by many techniques). In any case, I cannot mentor you, but if you want someb

Bug#509107: installation-reports: Installation report for Dell XPS M1210 laptop

2008-12-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: USB stick Image version: http://people.debian.org/~aba/d-i/images/daily/hd-media (+netinst), built on 2008-12-16 Date: 2008-12-17 18:00 GMT-6 Machine: Dell XPS M1210 Partitions: FilesystemType 1K-bloc

Re: Confusion about /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider file.

2008-05-23 Thread Josef Wolf
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:42:20AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Please file a bug report about this against ppp-udeb with severity minor and > >I'll look into it. Make sure you include the info above as that does seem > >to explain the difference. > It's just a name

Re: Confusion about /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider file.

2008-05-23 Thread Josef Wolf
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 07:14:52PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 22 May 2008 16:31:55 Josef Wolf wrote: > > I've done some more investigations, and it looks like this is not a > > new inconsistency. It seems to already exist for quite a while. I > > have mult

Re: How to preseed install via pppoe (for A-DSL)?

2008-05-22 Thread Josef Wolf
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 07:12:22PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 22 May 2008 16:50:59 Josef Wolf wrote: > > But wasn't ppp originally intended to connect multiple networks? In > > this (IMHO _very_ common) scenario you would always have at least two > > interface

Re: How to preseed install via pppoe (for A-DSL)?

2008-05-22 Thread Josef Wolf
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 03:05:13PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 22 May 2008 14:04:40 Josef Wolf wrote: > > I am curious whether it is really a good idea to point > > $HOSTNAME.$DOMAINNAME to 127.0.1.1. While this works fine for services > > on the local host, it fa

Re: Confusion about /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider file.

2008-05-22 Thread Josef Wolf
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 03:06:42PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 22 May 2008 13:32:37 Josef Wolf wrote: > > I am somewhat confused about the naming of the ppp provider file. On > > debian systems it used to be /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider at least since > > sarge. On

Re: Xen with Debian installer

2008-05-22 Thread Josef Wolf
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 03:13:23PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Daniel Pocock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > b) The domU systems should be indistinguishable from normal systems - > > using D-I is one way to ensure this. It seems reasonable to expect > > that any changes to the install

Re: How to preseed install via pppoe (for A-DSL)?

2008-05-22 Thread Josef Wolf
I am sorry for warming up an old thread. But I got somewhat confused about one detail of this patch to ppp-udeb: On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:39:33PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 10 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote: > > IMHO, the setting in /etc/resolv.conf is mostly for conveni

Confusion about /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider file.

2008-05-22 Thread Josef Wolf
Hello, I am somewhat confused about the naming of the ppp provider file. On debian systems it used to be /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider at least since sarge. On ubuntu, it used to be the same. But when in the sources (retrieved with "apt-get source ppp-udeb") I find no trace of this file. There

Re: How to preseed install via pppoe (for A-DSL)?

2008-02-03 Thread Josef Wolf
patch was attached to the bug tracker.) > On Monday 10 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote: > > IMHO, the setting in /etc/resolv.conf is mostly for convenience. It > > saves me some typing, that's all. In contrast, the setting in /etc/hosts > > is more important since it i

Re: How to preconfigure debconf values?

2007-12-28 Thread Josef Wolf
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 05:22:07PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 24 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote: > > Yes, I understand. But as tzdata is installed by debootstrap, there's no > > way to preseed it before installation. > > Preseeding during debootstrap is prob

Re: How to preconfigure debconf values?

2007-12-24 Thread Josef Wolf
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 11:38:10AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 24 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote: > > But dpkg-reconfigure still asks, even though I explicitly set them as > > "seen". > > That is correct. dpkg-reconfigure ignores the seen flag as othe

Re: How to preconfigure debconf values?

2007-12-24 Thread Josef Wolf
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 01:58:39AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007, Joey Hess wrote: > > tzdata 2007b-1 (in etch) does not use debconf. Thanks for the clarification, Joey! > Right. Etch still used tzconfig to set the timezone. I forgot about that. > > That means Josef will p

Re: How to preconfigure debconf values?

2007-12-23 Thread Josef Wolf
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 11:23:29PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Thanks for your help, Frans! > On Saturday 22 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote: > > debconf-preconfigure time/zone Europe/Berlin > > apt-get install tzdata > > Geert's suggestions about _how_ to set the valu

Re: How to preconfigure debconf values?

2007-12-22 Thread Josef Wolf
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 06:09:28PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > Op 22-12-2007 om 15:55 schreef Josef Wolf: > > You _might_ be missing setting the seen flag. > So in the next attempt: > > echo 'tzdata time/zone string Europe/Berlin > tzdata time/zone seen true'

Re: How to preconfigure debconf values?

2007-12-22 Thread Josef Wolf
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 01:26:40PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > Op 22-12-2007 om 12:19 schreef Josef Wolf: > > That was almost straight-forward so far. But now I'm somewhat stuck. > > I'd like to preconfigure debconf. Something like > > > > debconf

How to preconfigure debconf values?

2007-12-22 Thread Josef Wolf
Hello. I hope I am in the correct mailing list here. If I'm not, please somebody point me to the correct one. I am trying to create an live-CD via debootstrap. Here is what I have done so far: # Download packages to temp directory, so we don't need to download them # again if we want to st

Re: How to force d-i to ask for domain name?

2007-12-10 Thread Josef Wolf
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 06:54:07PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote: > > It turns out that ubuntu has lowered the priority for netcfg/get_domain > > from high to medium. Anybody knows why they have done this? > > No, we don't.

Re: How to preseed install via pppoe (for A-DSL)?

2007-12-10 Thread Josef Wolf
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 10:07:41PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote: > > I am still somewhat confused. Is ppp-udeb meant to completely replace > > netcfg? > > Let's reward your persistence with some information. Thanks for th

Re: How to preseed install via pppoe (for A-DSL)?

2007-12-10 Thread Josef Wolf
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 10:28:14PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 30 November 2007, Josef Wolf wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:20:30PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > > > Please create a patch and submit it as a bug report[1] against > > > ppp-udeb. [1] "p

Re: How to preseed install via pppoe (for A-DSL)?

2007-12-06 Thread Josef Wolf
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 02:41:11PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > Josef Wolf wrote: [ ... ] > > The next interesting point is that eth0 is not configured at the time > > ppp-udeb runs. Seems like ppp-udeb is configured before netcfg. Could > > This is normal and that is the

Re: How to force d-i to ask for domain name?

2007-12-06 Thread Josef Wolf
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 03:59:39PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > Op 02-12-2007 om 14:26 schreef Josef Wolf: > > On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 12:44:30PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > > > > An option might be a modified netcfg. > > > Build the udeb after your hack

Re: How to force d-i to ask for domain name?

2007-12-02 Thread Josef Wolf
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 12:44:30PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > Op 01-12-2007 om 12:00 schreef Josef Wolf: > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:31:04AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > > > d-i netcfg/get_domainname string change.me > > > d-i netcfg/get_domainname seen fa

Re: How to force d-i to ask for domain name?

2007-12-01 Thread Josef Wolf
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:31:04AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > Op 28-11-2007 om 22:38 schreef Josef Wolf: > > The above definition works almost as desired. The only thing is that d-i > > don't ask for the domain name, although I set the "seen" flag on the >

Re: How to preseed install via pppoe (for A-DSL)?

2007-12-01 Thread Josef Wolf
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 11:37:17AM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > Josef Wolf wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:20:30PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > > > >> Please create a patch and submit it as a bug report[1] against ppp-udeb. > >> [1] "preseeding the ho

Re: How to preseed install via pppoe (for A-DSL)?

2007-11-29 Thread Josef Wolf
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:20:30PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > Please create a patch and submit it as a bug report[1] against ppp-udeb. > [1] "preseeding the host name does not work for ppp-udeb" or something > like that should be fine Done. Now I tried to create a fixed udeb. I did the follo

Re: How to preseed install via pppoe (for A-DSL)?

2007-11-29 Thread Josef Wolf
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:23:47AM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > Josef Wolf wrote: > > Well, here's the reason why postinst returns error code 30. According to > > debconf-devel(7), error code 30 from "dh_input high netcfg/get_hostname" > > means that debc

Re: How to force d-i to ask for domain name?

2007-11-28 Thread Josef Wolf
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:24:49PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > Op 26-11-2007 om 22:31 schreef Josef Wolf: > > I have preseeded netcfg like this: > > > > d-i netcfg/disable_dhcpboolean true > > d-i netcfg/confirm_static boolean true > > d-i netcfg/g

Re: How to preseed install via pppoe (for A-DSL)?

2007-11-28 Thread Josef Wolf
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:01:31AM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > Did you try a regular image without any preseeding? I could now test regular images. And they both (debian-40r1 and ubuntu-7.10 alternate) work as expected. > There is the possiblity to set the debugging level of debconf to > DEBC

Re: How to preseed install via pppoe (for A-DSL)?

2007-11-27 Thread Josef Wolf
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:01:31AM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > Josef Wolf wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 02:41:11PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > >> Josef Wolf wrote: > > [ ... ] > >> Did you try to manually retry the configuration? > > > > Thank

Re: How to preseed install via pppoe (for A-DSL)?

2007-11-27 Thread Josef Wolf
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 02:41:11PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > Josef Wolf wrote: [ ... ] > Did you try to manually retry the configuration? Thanks for your replies and your suggestions, Eddy! Yes, I tried "udpkg --configure --force-configure ppp-udeb". But the menus were m

Re: How to preseed install via pppoe (for A-DSL)?

2007-11-26 Thread Josef Wolf
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 06:46:43PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote: >Nov 26 16:51:44 main-menu[2970]: INFO: Menu item 'ppp-udeb' selected >Nov 26 16:51:44 DEBUG:ppp-udeb: eth0 was not configured. ppp-udeb will > bring it up >Nov 26 16:51:44 kernel: [ 415.264747] eth0

How to force d-i to ask for domain name?

2007-11-26 Thread Josef Wolf
Hello folks, I have preseeded netcfg like this: d-i netcfg/disable_dhcpboolean true d-i netcfg/confirm_static boolean true d-i netcfg/get_ipaddress string 192.168.1.1 d-i netcfg/get_netmask string 255.255.255.0 d-i netcfg/get_gateway string 192.168.1.1 d-i netcfg/get_na

Re: How to preseed install via pppoe (for A-DSL)?

2007-11-26 Thread Josef Wolf
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 10:24:06PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Josef Wolf wrote: > > d-i anna/choose_modules ppp-udeb > > That's not formatted correctly. > > d-i anna/choose_modules string ppp-udeb Arghs silly me. I have copy+pasted the output from debconf-get-

Re: How to preseed install via pppoe (for A-DSL)?

2007-11-25 Thread Josef Wolf
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 02:00:59AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 24 November 2007, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > > If you need to use pppoe, then you need to load the ppp-udeb module in > > d-i. > > A link to the relevant documentation would probably help: > http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i3

How to preseed install via pppoe (for A-DSL)?

2007-11-23 Thread Josef Wolf
Hello! I am trying to create a customized install cd (based on ubuntu-7.10 alternate install cd). Everything works as desired so far. Just one problem remains: On the installed box, d-i needs to run "pppoeconfig eth1" before it configures apt-sources. Without this, apt configuration fails beca

Re: How to create crypted partition in d-i?

2007-09-07 Thread Josef Wolf
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 01:22:23PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 08:13:19PM +0200, Josef Wolf wrote: > > BTW: I tried crypted root (with /boot on separate partition) and it > > seems to work OK. Is this already supported or have I just not seen >

Re: How to create crypted partition in d-i?

2007-09-06 Thread Josef Wolf
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 12:47:02AM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 12:01:22AM +0200, Josef Wolf wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 10:45:03PM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote: > > > You first need to select "Configure encrypted volumes"

Re: How to create crypted partition in d-i?

2007-09-05 Thread Josef Wolf
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 10:45:03PM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 09:43:45PM +0200, Josef Wolf wrote: > > I tried to create an encrypted partition from d-i on etch. So I > > select "use as crypted partition" and can modify crypto parameters. > >

How to create crypted partition in d-i?

2007-09-05 Thread Josef Wolf
Hello, I tried to create an encrypted partition from d-i on etch. So I select "use as crypted partition" and can modify crypto parameters. All good and well. But where do I assign the mount point for the crypted partition? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: Questions about normal process of debian-installer

2007-08-15 Thread Josef Wolf
[ Sorry for beeing that late, but I just stumbled over this old post] On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 02:54:49PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > >Is there any support in debian-installer for displaying a README > > or similar sort of thing during (perhaps near the end of) the > > installation? Is the "your

Re: How to get proxy of installation mirror?

2007-06-01 Thread Josef Wolf
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 10:49:03PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 01 June 2007 22:25, Josef Wolf wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 07:24:28PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > On Friday 01 June 2007 19:09, Josef Wolf wrote: > > > > but this command o

Re: How to get proxy of installation mirror?

2007-06-01 Thread Josef Wolf
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 07:24:28PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 01 June 2007 19:09, Josef Wolf wrote: > > but this command outputs totally unrelated lines: > > What would be wrong with: > # debconf-get-selections --installer | \ > > grep "choose-mirror-bin mir

How to get proxy of installation mirror?

2007-06-01 Thread Josef Wolf
Hello, After installation, I want to configure the proxy settings for all the programs I use regurarly (subversion, wget, firefox, ...) automatically via a script. The quesstion is, how do I get this information from debian-installer? The only method I could find was: # debconf-get-selections

How to reboot from start scripts?

2007-06-01 Thread Josef Wolf
Hello! I noticed that shutdown from scripts in /etc/rcS.d don't really work. For example, when fsck for some filesystems fails at startup, you are thrown into a shell to fix the problem. From that shell, you have no chance to make a proper reboot. I have tried: - shutdown -r now - init 6

Re: Filesystem type survives formatting in debian installer?

2007-03-04 Thread Josef Wolf
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:04:05PM +0100, David Härdeman wrote: > >>Which libklibc version does your installed system use? > > > >1.4.0-0ubuntu3 at first reboot > >1.4.0-0ubuntu after apt-get upgrade > > > >Is this _down_graded by apt-get? Or does "dpkg -l" cut off its output? > > > >Do you thin

Re: Filesystem type survives formatting in debian installer?

2007-03-03 Thread Josef Wolf
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:26:26PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote: > In my test installations, I noticed > that the filesystem type is not set properly when I choose to reformat > filesystems in debian installer. I just noticed Bug#413065. Might it be that the problem we are discussing in th

Re: Filesystem type survives formatting in debian installer?

2007-03-02 Thread Josef Wolf
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:59:01AM +0100, David Härdeman wrote: > On Fri, March 2, 2007 1:17, Josef Wolf said: > > The error occures on the first reboot (before any of my scripts > > mentioned above come into the game). > > > > fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'UUID

Re: Filesystem type survives formatting in debian installer?

2007-03-01 Thread Josef Wolf
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:21:08PM +0100, David Härdeman wrote: > >I am trying to create a customized installation disk with the ability > >to create encrypted root filesystem. In my test installations, I noticed > >that the filesystem type is not set properly when I choose to reformat > >filesys

Re: How to apt-get from preseed/late_command?

2007-03-01 Thread Josef Wolf
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 03:51:55PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Thanks for the answer, Joey! > Josef Wolf wrote: > > I'd like to "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" from preseed/late_command > > causing the first reboot to come up with updated kernel/modules. So I > &

How to apt-get from preseed/late_command?

2007-03-01 Thread Josef Wolf
Hello! I'd like to "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" from preseed/late_command causing the first reboot to come up with updated kernel/modules. So I put this (splitted and commented for readability) into my seed file: d-i preseed/late_command string \ cp /cdrom/preseed/postinstall.sh /targ

Re: Filesystem type survives formatting in debian installer?

2007-03-01 Thread Josef Wolf
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 09:09:38PM +0100, David Härdeman wrote: Thanks four your answer, David! > [ ... ] > >Any ideas why the filesystem type is considered to be crypto_LUKS even > >after it was reformatted with ext3? I even tried to set the volume > >label in the installer, but this did not he

Filesystem type survives formatting in debian installer?

2007-02-25 Thread Josef Wolf
Hello! I am trying to create a customized installation disk with the ability to create encrypted root filesystem. In my test installations, I noticed that the filesystem type is not set properly when I choose to reformat filesystems in debian installer. This is what I am doing: 1. While doing a

Bug#410143: Dell XPS M1210 laptop installation report

2007-02-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
other installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this report. Please compress large files using gzip. Once you have filled out this report, mail it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fin

Bug#408026: Installation report

2007-01-22 Thread Gunnar Wolf
hical d-i usability is great; special kudos, as graphical tools often require a mouse, and it was not the case. The system was installed painlessly both with i386 and with AMD64 CDs. -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint:

Re: Why preseeding with localized values?

2006-12-16 Thread Josef Wolf
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:50:37AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Thanks for your quick response, Joey! And sorry that I come back to it with such a dely, but I wanted to locate the real problem first and testing the installer just takes sooo long ;-) > Josef Wolf wrote: > > I wonder about t

Why preseeding with localized values?

2006-12-13 Thread Josef Wolf
Hello! I wonder about the reason to use localized values to answer preseed questions as described on http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs03.html I find such a decision rather strange because - You never know _exactly_ what to put in the preseed file. - When you change language,

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Problems preseeding german keyboard.]

2006-12-06 Thread Josef Wolf
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 08:44:29AM +0100, Jens Seidel wrote: > The custom CD is based on ubuntu edgy alternate CD. As described in > the above howto, I use the following append line to preseed locale and > keyboard settings in isolinux.cfg (I have added line breaks for > readability) > > appen

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Problems preseeding german keyboard.]

2006-12-05 Thread Josef Wolf
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:38:28PM +0100, Herbert Kaminski wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 08:44:29 +0100, Jens Seidel wrote: > > >...append line to preseed locale and keyboard settings in isolinux.cfg > >... > > append debian-installer/locale=de_DE \ > > kbd-chooser/method=de-latin1-nodead

Re: "Choose country" in Debian Installer

2004-05-06 Thread Gunnar Wolf
t;, > "Hong-Kong" and at least one of these isn't a country, strictly > speaking) > (...) Maybe the best way to avoid the name-that-geographical-entity wordgame would be to ask 'where are you', 'where do you plan on using this computer' or something lik

Bug#238557: Hebrew appears left-to-right

2004-03-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: l10n The Hebrew option on debian-installer shows characters written left-to-right - They should appear right-to-left. I am using Beta3 on i386. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'uns

Bug#237152: Ultra Enterprise 450 installation report

2004-03-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
d.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/sys/disklabel.h?rev=1.24&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#237152: Ultra Enterprise 450 installation report

2004-03-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
stalled OpenBSD once in a Sparc with over 10 partitions. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5630-9700 ext. 1366 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

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