Bug#593812: debian-installer: Impossible to answer to questions on normal install

2010-08-24 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 08:32:26PM +0200, Alain rpnpif wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 07:10:08PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > debian-installer, as its name says, is for installing Debian, not to > > upgrade it. If you want to upgrade it, the proper way is to use apt, > > aptitude or one of th

Bug#593812: debian-installer: Impossible to answer to questions on normal install

2010-08-23 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Alain rpnpif (rpn...@free.fr): > I do not think that partman is relevant. Forbidden an upgrade of an old > installation is not a good choice for me. D-I has never been meant for performing system upgrades. apt/aptitude do the job much better. I actually don't really know what you're try

Bug#593812: debian-installer: Impossible to answer to questions on normal install

2010-08-23 Thread Alain rpnpif
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 07:10:08PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > debian-installer, as its name says, is for installing Debian, not to > upgrade it. If you want to upgrade it, the proper way is to use apt, > aptitude or one of their graphical front-end. > > This is therefore the proper way to fix

Bug#593812: debian-installer: Impossible to answer to questions on normal install

2010-08-23 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 09:06:45AM +0200, Alain rpnpif wrote: > > I'm afraid no. It is even surprising that g-i works where the text > > installer doesn't as I don't see any functionnality difference in that > > matter: re-using existing partitions with a Linux system already > > installed on them

Bug#593812: debian-installer: Impossible to answer to questions on normal install

2010-08-23 Thread Alain rpnpif
> I'm afraid no. It is even surprising that g-i works where the text > installer doesn't as I don't see any functionnality difference in that > matter: re-using existing partitions with a Linux system already > installed on them is not supported at all. I do not understand also but it is the reali

Processed: Re: Bug#593812: debian-installer: Impossible to answer to questions on normal install

2010-08-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 593812 partman-basicmethods Bug #593812 [debian-installer] debian-installer: Impossible to answer to questions on normal install Bug reassigned from package 'debian-installer' to 'partman-basicmethods'. > severity 593812 wishlist Bug #

Bug#593812: debian-installer: Impossible to answer to questions on normal install

2010-08-21 Thread Christian PERRIER
reassign 593812 partman-basicmethods severity 593812 wishlist thanks Quoting Alain rpnpif (rn...@free.fr): > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:19:24AM -0400, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > I have trouble understanding what you mean by "to upgrade > > initramfstools in mod edebootstrap". > > > > Could y

Bug#593812: debian-installer: Impossible to answer to questions on normal install

2010-08-21 Thread Alain rpnpif
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:19:24AM -0400, Christian PERRIER wrote: > I have trouble understanding what you mean by "to upgrade > initramfstools in mod edebootstrap". > > Could you give us the messages that appear on the fourth console? As > Aurélien was explaining, if something is on-interactive w

Bug#593812: debian-installer: Impossible to answer to questions on normal install

2010-08-21 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting rpn...@free.fr (rpn...@free.fr): > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:40:48AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > > This is something actually normal. What is not normal is that packages > > ask setup questions directly on the console, this is forbidden by > > policy. Do you have the name of such p

Bug#593812: debian-installer: Impossible to answer to questions on normal install

2010-08-21 Thread rpnpif
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:40:48AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > This is something actually normal. What is not normal is that packages > ask setup questions directly on the console, this is forbidden by > policy. Do you have the name of such packages? > I think that it is not normal because

Bug#593812: debian-installer: Impossible to answer to questions on normal install

2010-08-21 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 02:01:18AM +0200, rpnpif wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: grave > > debian-installer (netinstall) of 2010-08-19. > With normal mode of install (ncurses ?), it is impossible to answer to setup > questions (configure) seen in the background screen (Alt-F4). The

Bug#593812: debian-installer: Impossible to answer to questions on normal install

2010-08-20 Thread rpnpif
Package: debian-installer Severity: grave debian-installer (netinstall) of 2010-08-19. With normal mode of install (ncurses ?), it is impossible to answer to setup questions (configure) seen in the background screen (Alt-F4). The install freeze. Only a kill action in busybox can do to continue.