Re: Install report with UEFI Debian CD on HP elitebook 840 G1

2015-01-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 09:49:22AM -0500, Jean Privat wrote: >In the installer on the usbstick with upload3 in "UEFI Boot only >(Without CSM)" mode: > # cat /sys/firmware/efi/fw_platform_size > >64 I was hoping (maybe?) that you might have got 32 there, implying that the system wasn't booti

Re: Install report with UEFI Debian CD on HP elitebook 840 G1

2015-01-13 Thread Jean Privat
In the installer on the usbstick with upload3 in "UEFI Boot only (Without CSM)" mode: >>> # cat /sys/firmware/efi/fw_platform_size 64 You had my attention, but now you have my curiosity... -- Jean PRIVAT, professeur/professor Département d'informatique/Department of Computer Science U.Q.A.M.

Re: Install report with UEFI Debian CD on HP elitebook 840 G1

2015-01-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 03:40:50PM -0500, Jean Privat wrote: >> Yes, that sounds like the problem. You've ended up booting in BIOS >> mode, so the installer can't do any EFI things at all. Roughly when >> did you try this daily image? In the last month or so, or older than >> that? > >last wednesda

Re: Install report with UEFI Debian CD on HP elitebook 840 G1

2015-01-12 Thread Jean Privat
> Yes, that sounds like the problem. You've ended up booting in BIOS > mode, so the installer can't do any EFI things at all. Roughly when > did you try this daily image? In the last month or so, or older than > that? last wednesday if I remember correctly. so 2015-01-07 >>* Seeing that the insta

Re: Install report with UEFI Debian CD on HP elitebook 840 G1

2015-01-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 09:35:30AM -0500, Jean Privat wrote: >> Hmmm, sounds like a BIOS/firmware bug if you need to add that custom >> boot method - UEFI boot option registration should work without >> that. > >After the install, the computer booted to windows. Using the bios >bootmenu (F9) the de

Re: Install report with UEFI Debian CD on HP elitebook 840 G1

2015-01-12 Thread Jean Privat
> Hmmm, sounds like a BIOS/firmware bug if you need to add that custom > boot method - UEFI boot option registration should work without > that. After the install, the computer booted to windows. Using the bios bootmenu (F9) the default option is "OS Boot Manager" that boots windows. But "debian"

Re: Install report with UEFI Debian CD on HP elitebook 840 G1

2015-01-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 04:05:15PM -0500, Jean Privat wrote: >Hi, Hi Jean, >I just received a new laptop so naturally I installed Debian on it. *grin* Of course! >My steps: > >* on the elitebook, update the bios firmware trough the bios setup >* on an other computer, dd the image from >http://c

Re: install report

2004-07-07 Thread Karl Hegbloom
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 19:57 +, digital fredy wrote: > 4 put rescue mode for recover the system I would like to see a small DFS (Debian From Scratch) Live-CD on the same disc as d-i, so that it can be dual-booted to either the installer or a rescue CD. Or, perhaps the rescue system could have

Re: Install Report (22 June 04 Daily Build), Problem with Time Zones

2004-06-24 Thread Christian Perrier
> Well, here are some more settings--perhaps they may help you track down > the problem: After running exactly this setup in VmWare, I finally ended with "date" showing a time in EDT timezone. and /etc/localtime was properly linked to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Eastern So, I'm afraid investiga

Re: Install Report (22 June 04 Daily Build), Problem with Time Zones

2004-06-24 Thread Michael Bonert
Christian, I'm not sure what to say to the fact that you can't reproduce it. Well, here are some more settings--perhaps they may help you track down the problem: Base System Install - language setting: - en (other countries) english Country: - Canada Kernel:

Re: Install Report (22 June 04 Daily Build), Problem with Time Zones

2004-06-24 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Michael Bonert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Debian-installer-version: > > 22 June 2004 > > $ md5sum sarge-i386-netinst.iso > 5db3c8d500380d664c748356910a6d2e sarge-i386-netinst.iso For the record, this is 20040622 sid_d-i > There appears to be some pro

Bug#230440: marked as done (FWD: Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed)

2004-06-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
ST) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:44:21 -0500 From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FWD: Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol=&q

Bug#230440: FWD: Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed

2004-05-31 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 27.V.2004 at 13:55 (+0200) Yann Dirson wrote: > > Then partition objects in memory should probably be initialized as > having no fs on them, instead of looking up the disk. This is exactly what the newer versions of partman do. > Or, maybe better, they could be initialized from disk only if

Bug#230440: FWD: Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed

2004-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 02:17:50PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > As I attempt to do more not-so-uncommon things (with the 2004-01-03 > > snapshot)... > > This is very old now can you please try a new image from > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/ and see if that > works b

Bug#248998: [avl@planet.nl: Re: INSTALL REPORT]

2004-05-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: INSTALL REPORT Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 20:56:10 +0200 To: Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,NO_REA

Bug#230440: FWD: Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed

2004-05-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
> As I attempt to do more not-so-uncommon things (with the 2004-01-03 > snapshot)... This is very old now can you please try a new image from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/ and see if that works better? > - I initially have a HD with a single ext3 partition + swap (from a

Processed: Re: INSTALL REPORT

2004-03-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: Install report about localized install

2004-02-10 Thread Miroslav Kure
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 12:03:31PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > After reboot (to second-stage), I don't see (czech) accented > > characters, but some other symbols (like percent, box, average mark, > > ...) instead of š,č,ř... Some texts a

Re: Install report: kernel-image*.deb is missing

2004-02-09 Thread Daniel Déchelotte
Eric Bus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : | I used apt-get to install kernel-image-2.4.24-1-686. When you get the | LILO (or GRUB) configuration screen, press ALT-F2, Enter (which will | give you an linux prompt). Type 'apt-get install | kernel-image-2.4.24-1-686' (or change 686 to another arch if

Re: Install report: kernel-image*.deb is missing

2004-02-09 Thread Daniel Déchelotte
Eric Bus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : | I used apt-get to install kernel-image-2.4.24-1-686. When you get the | LILO (or GRUB) configuration screen, press ALT-F2, Enter (which will | give you an linux prompt). Type 'apt-get install | kernel-image-2.4.24-1-686' (or change 686 to another arch if

Re: Install report about localized install

2004-02-09 Thread Miroslav Kure
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 12:03:31PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > After reboot (to second-stage), I don't see (czech) accented > > characters, but some other symbols (like percent, box, average mark, > > ...) instead of š,č,ř... Some texts

Re: Install report about localized install

2004-02-09 Thread Kenshi Muto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, At 9 Feb 04 11:03:31 GMT, Christian Perrier wrote: > > After reboot (to second-stage), I don't see (czech) accented > > characters, but some other symbols (like percent, box, average mark, > > ...) instead of ~,~,~... Some texts are not localize

Re: Install report about localized install

2004-02-09 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Dear list. > > I am trying new Debian installer (sid_d-i sarge-i386-netinst.iso > from 5.2.2004). I choose installation in czech, everything goes ok, > but labels in cfdisk are showing only to the first accented character > and then disappear. Ye

Re: install report: sid on i386, pure SCSI, part 2

2004-02-08 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:51:09 +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: >On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 12:31:49AM +0100, Herbert Kaminski wrote: >> saying: "modprobe -k ini9100u" . /lib/modules of the initrd >> does not contain any file with this name, but there is initio.o, >> and also all other moules loaded in 'loa

Re: Install report: kernel-image*.deb is missing

2004-02-08 Thread Eric Bus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joey Hess wrote: | Everyone is running into this missing kernel thing. Can someone get a | debug trace of base-installer/apt-install and find out why it's | failing to install the kernel? The machine I used to test the floppy installer will be re-insta

Re: Install report: kernel-image*.deb is missing

2004-02-08 Thread Joey Hess
Everyone is running into this missing kernel thing. Can someone get a debug trace of base-installer/apt-install and find out why it's failing to install the kernel? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Install report: kernel-image*.deb is missing

2004-02-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Eric Bus wrote: > I used apt-get to install kernel-image-2.4.24-1-686. When you get the > LILO (or GRUB) configuration screen, press ALT-F2, Enter (which will > give you an linux prompt). Type 'apt-get install > kernel-image-2.4.24-1-686' (or change 686 to another arch if you'r

Re: Install report: kernel-image*.deb is missing

2004-02-08 Thread Eric Bus
Well - I trried that as well but I'm not clever enough to do it without dpkg-. I used apt-get to install kernel-image-2.4.24-1-686. When you get the LILO (or GRUB) configuration screen, press ALT-F2, Enter (which will give you an linux prompt). Type 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.24-1-686' (

Re: Install report: kernel-image*.deb is missing

2004-02-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Eric Bus wrote: > I have the same problem with d-i images from 20040131 and up. But I can > install the kernel from tty2. I have no idea why it skips it during > base-system-installation. Well - I trried that as well but I'm not clever enough to do it without dpkg-. I tried t

Re: Install report: kernel-image*.deb is missing

2004-02-07 Thread Eric Bus
I tried d-i image from today (6.2.2004) and noticed that grub and lilo installation failed. The reason is that there was no kernel on the /target at all. When I looked at the apt cache there was no kernel-image* package avialable. I have the same problem with d-i images from 20040131 and up. But

Re: main-menu retreiver selection still broken (Re: install report: sid on i386, pure SCSI)

2004-02-05 Thread Joey Hess
Here is what's going on. cdrom-detect fails to configure as it cannot find the drive. The user selects anna from the main menu. Anna depends on retriever, a virtual package provided by floppy-retriever, and cdrom-retriever. main-menu needs to configure at least one of these to continue, and it choo

Re: install report: sid on i386, pure SCSI, part 2

2004-02-05 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 12:31:49AM +0100, Herbert Kaminski wrote: > Booting Knoppix and having a look at the hard disk does not reveal > anything suspicious (to me), maybe with one exception: > when I mount the /boot/initrd.img-xxx from the hard disk, it > contains a file 'loadmodules' with, amon

Bug#218774: main-menu retreiver selection still broken (Re: install report: sid on i386, pure SCSI)

2004-02-05 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 11:34:21PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Funny, I'd run into this same problem 94 days ago, and I filed a bug > then, but forgot about it. This is bug #218774 (main-menu). > > I'm tempted to "fix" this bug by putting load-cdrom and load-floppy[1] on > the CDROM, dropping load-i

main-menu retreiver selection still broken (Re: install report: sid on i386, pure SCSI)

2004-02-04 Thread Joey Hess
Herbert Kaminski wrote: > On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:51:08 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > >> Sorry, there is no little menu after hardware detection. I immediately > >> get the screen titled "[!!] Detecting hardware and loading kernel modules" > >> that says "Your installation CD-ROM couldn't be mounted.

Re: install report: sid on i386, pure SCSI

2004-02-04 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:51:08 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: >> Sorry, there is no little menu after hardware detection. I immediately >> get the screen titled "[!!] Detecting hardware and loading kernel modules" >> that says "Your installation CD-ROM couldn't be mounted.This probably... >> ...Try again t

Re: install report: sid on i386, pure SCSI

2004-02-04 Thread Joey Hess
Herbert Kaminski wrote: > Well, not only the docs, the floppy images I downloaded from links on > the D-I homepage two days ago contain modules for version 2.4.22, > whereas 2.4.24 is needed. The prominant links on the d-i home page are prominantly marked as being for for beta2 of the debian ins

Re: install report: sid on i386, pure SCSI

2004-02-04 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 13:11:39 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: >Herbert Kaminski wrote: >> trying to install sarge-i386-netinst.iso from >> http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/netinst/i386/20040131/ >> on a pure SCSI drives me crazy :-] > >What scsi controller please? d-i's CD knows about sever

Re: Install Report: Failure - Dell PowerApp Web 100 - Failed to detect scsi controller

2004-02-04 Thread Joey Hess
Erik Dykema wrote: > OK, I think i get it, thanks! I was attempting to install the > 'testing' distribution, that must be why it didn't work. > So the 'fix' for this is to get the 2.4.24 kernel into testing. > OR, to build a 'testing' version of d-i. Yes, I may see about gettin

Re: Install Report: Failure - Dell PowerApp Web 100 - Failed to detect scsi controller

2004-02-04 Thread Erik Dykema
Hi- OK, I think i get it, thanks! I was attempting to install the 'testing' distribution, that must be why it didn't work. So the 'fix' for this is to get the 2.4.24 kernel into testing. OR, to build a 'testing' version of d-i. As a side note, I have a question regarding why the netboot imag

Re: Install Report: Failure - Dell PowerApp Web 100 - Failed to detect scsi controller

2004-02-04 Thread Joey Hess
Erik Dykema wrote: > Everything seems to boot up fine, but the kernel fails to detect the > adaptec scsi controller, so the installer gets to the 'Partition Hard > Drives' part without any warning and then won't go any further. There > is no error message suggesting that hard drives were not de

Re: install report: sid on i386, pure SCSI

2004-02-04 Thread Joey Hess
Herbert Kaminski wrote: > trying to install sarge-i386-netinst.iso from > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/netinst/i386/20040131/ > on a pure SCSI drives me crazy :-] What scsi controller please? d-i's CD knows about several common controllers, but the less common ones do still re

Re: install report - powerbook failure

2004-02-04 Thread Joey Hess
Matt Kraai wrote: > Howdy, > > Thanks for testing Debian-Installer. > > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 05:23:06PM -0600, Nicholas Williams wrote: > > The base system would not install. It says it could not download > > the package "libgcrypt7." I tried both normal and expert installs, I > > also tried

Re: install report: sid on i386, pure SCSI

2004-02-04 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Herbert Kaminski wrote: > Hi, > > trying to install sarge-i386-netinst.iso from > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/netinst/i386/20040131/ > on a pure SCSI drives me crazy :-] > > First, the CD does not boot with standard settings, where KNOPPIX > boots easily. What is the error

Re: install report - powerbook failure

2004-02-03 Thread Matt Kraai
Howdy, Thanks for testing Debian-Installer. On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 05:23:06PM -0600, Nicholas Williams wrote: > The base system would not install. It says it could not download > the package "libgcrypt7." I tried both normal and expert installs, I > also tried configuring the network settings

Re: Install Report: Failure - Dell PowerApp Web 100 - Failed to detect scsi controller

2004-02-03 Thread Kenneth MacDonald
> "Erik" == Erik Dykema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Erik> INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Feb 3nd Daily, Erik> from: http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/ Erik> Comments: I am booting with vmlinuz / netboot-initrd.gz from Erik> ~sjogren: Erik> http:/

Re: Install Report: Success, dell powerapp web 100

2004-02-03 Thread Joey Hess
Erik Dykema wrote: > Everything worked great, with one exception: > I setup APT with an http source from my local mirror. Afterwards, it > went back to the apt setup screen and didn't say 'You've setup one > apt-source, want to setup another?' or anything like that, I had to hit > cancel to kic

Re: Install Report - Failure to detect SCSI Adaptec AIC-7892a

2004-02-02 Thread Erik Dykema
Hi- I was / am using the daily builds here: http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/ I just download the kernel and initrd as I am using pxelinux to boot everything off the network. Are these images no longer maintained / fixed? Erik Joey Hess wrote: Erik Dykema wrote: I

Re: Install Report - Failure to detect SCSI Adaptec AIC-7892a

2004-01-30 Thread Matt Kraai
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 09:09:33AM -0500, Erik Dykema wrote: > However in the past few days the installer has failed to detect the > scsi card in my machine, which seems to be a big step backwards. > It's a Dell PowerApp Web 100 1U server. The installer stops on the > 'Partition Hard

Bug#230440: FWD: Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed

2004-01-30 Thread Joey Hess
lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:41:51 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed As I attempt to do more not-so-uncommon things (with the 2004-01-03 snapshot)... - I initially have a HD with a single ext3 partition + swap (from a previou

Re: Install Report - Failure to detect SCSI Adaptec AIC-7892a

2004-01-30 Thread Joey Hess
Erik Dykema wrote: > I have been testing the daily builds almost every weekday since at > least december, so far progress has continued to the point where i can > get almost all the way through the installer :) > However in the past few days the installer has failed to detect the > s

Re: Install report

2004-01-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Steve Langasek wrote: > severity 226742 grave Thanks for adjusting this and sharing my opinion. BTW, I had the same observation that in the first install process the keyboard was adjusted fine and after the reboot changing the keymap failed. Kind regards Andreas

Re: Install report

2004-01-16 Thread Steve Langasek
severity 226742 grave thanks On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 08:31:53PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 Christian Perrier wrote: > > This is a known console-data bug...not BTS available to me currently > > but it is easy to find. > Yes, I found it immediately after my posting to this li

Re: Install report

2004-01-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Christian Perrier wrote: > Well, we have a tool for translators for checking unstranslated stuff, > but there are some cases where, even if the string is translated, the > translations is not shown by debconf. So, this is why you may be asked > about what you found. I hereby p

Re: Install report

2004-01-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I tried the German installation and I think I found only one not yet translated > > > screen - so thanks to all the translators as well. > > > > Which one? > Damn - I forgot it because I've thought there would be a tool > which shows untranslated stu

Re: Install report

2004-01-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 Christian Perrier wrote: > This is a known console-data bug...not BTS available to me currently > but it is easy to find. Yes, I found it immediately after my posting to this list: #226742. The problem is that I think it should be of RC priority if we would not like to leave a

Re: Install report

2004-01-15 Thread Andreas Tille
> > I tried the German installation and I think I found only one not yet translated > > screen - so thanks to all the translators as well. > > Which one? Damn - I forgot it because I've thought there would be a tool which shows untranslated stuff, but it's no problem I'll do a further install in th

Re: install report: successful install on iBook

2004-01-15 Thread Michael Rex
Quoth Thorsten Sauter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * Michael Rex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-14 19:30]: >| Booting from image didn't work, like all other images I tried before. > > why not? It's working fine for me. I just checked an image yesterday and it boots. The image I tested before, built on 09.

Re: Install report

2004-01-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Joey Hess wrote: > Please file a bug report on console-data. I checked this immediately after sending my first mail and found #226742. I added my observation and the opinion that Severity "normal" is to low in this case. I'm not an installer expert but from a installer point

Re: Install report

2004-01-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Steve Langasek wrote: > I would prefer to always offer security.d.o (and default to yes) > regardless of what distro is being installed. For one thing, users may > install from the beta while sarge==testing, and want to use security > updates afterwards once it becomes stable

Re: install report: successful install on iBook

2004-01-14 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Michael Rex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-14 19:30]: | Booting from image didn't work, like all other images I tried before. why not? It's working fine for me. | Is http://people.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/netinst/powerpc/daily/ | the right place to get official daily builds? If so I'll

Re: Install report

2004-01-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 12:01:50PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > at first thanks for all your fine work at d-i. I never installed a Debian > box so easy and so fast as with > > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/daily/sarge-i386-businesscard.iso > (downloaded today size = 3

Re: Install report

2004-01-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I tried the German installation and I think I found only one not yet translated > screen - so thanks to all the translators as well. Which one? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: Install report

2004-01-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > 2. A more serious problem is that the keymap was not set correctly. > I verified this by > dpkg-reconfigure console-data > (selected: qwertz / German / Standard / latin1 - no dead keys) > and got the following stderr output:

Re: Install report

2004-01-14 Thread Joey Hess
Andreas Tille wrote: > 1. I selected "testing" as distribution. In this case it makes no sense > to include security.debian.org into source.list. I would include a > check here whether the distribution is stable and if not security > should be left out here. The installer does ma

Re: Install report

2004-01-14 Thread Holger Schurig
> 2. A more serious problem is that the keymap was not set correctly. > I verified this by > dpkg-reconfigure console-data > (selected: qwertz / German / Standard / latin1 - no dead keys) > and got the following stderr output: > > Looking for keymap to install: >

Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed

2004-01-12 Thread Joey Hess
Yann Dirson wrote: > I could find nothing obviously alarming on this subject in syslog, > although there are many "broken dependency" reported all around. I > saved the syslog through nc (hopefully installed by a previous run on > the target HD, kudos to you for having put it here ;) nc is not in

Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed

2004-01-12 Thread Denis Barbier
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 03:40:07PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: [...] > > - in the list of country to select mirrors from (and possibly other > > lists), when using french as a language, the coutries are not sorted > > according to their translation, but appear to be sorted by their > > english

Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed

2004-01-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Yann Dirson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I won't anwser to all of these. Only those I have a kind of answer or something to add. > BTW, is it wise at all to use devfs, which is tagged as OBSOLETE in 2.6 !? I have the same objection. This breaks out from woody AND from next release. The argumen

Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed

2004-01-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Yann Dirson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > - in the step where one assigns fstype/mountpoints to partitions, when > one selects a swap partition, and just validates current choice for > fstype, the swap partiton is assigned a mountpoint matching the last > mountpoint assigned (eg. "/", which then

Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed

2004-01-12 Thread Yann Dirson
As I attempt to do more not-so-uncommon things (with the 2004-01-03 snapshot)... - I initially have a HD with a single ext3 partition + swap (from a previous RH install). If I repartition by deleting the ext3 and repartitionning that space in 2, on the partition setup screen I notice the 1st part

Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed

2004-01-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Yann Dirson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > - the items in the initial language menu all start with "choose this" > or a translation of it, which makes it impossible to quickly jump to a > particular language with one keystroke, as was possible in old > installer I've proposed a new prospective la

Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed

2004-01-12 Thread Yann Dirson
Ah, I forgot to fill some boxes On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:46:01PM +0100, ydirson wrote: > Memory: 192MB > Root Size/partition table: single ~9GB root, 512M swap And to mention yet other problems: - the items in the initial language menu all start with "choose this" or a translation of it, which

Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed

2004-01-12 Thread Yann Dirson
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:46:01PM +0100, ydirson wrote: > Comments/Problems: > > Partition hard drives: > > if I just follow the steps lineraly, no problem. At first, I had hit > cancel at some point before (have to check and reproduce), and the HD > selection menu was incomplete (did not menti

Re: Install Report - mkinitrd / cciss error at kernel install step

2004-01-10 Thread Klaus Ade Johnstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fredag 9. januar 2004, 17:35, skrev Erik Dykema: > Comments/Problems: > 1. Everything seems to install fine excepting the kernel. The red > screen comes up and says that the kernel failed. I hit alt-f3 to see > what happened, and find the following:

Re: Install Report - mkinitrd / cciss error at kernel install step

2004-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:14:34PM -0500, Erik Dykema wrote: > >> Things that seem curious: > >> Why is mkinitd caring about my hardware devices, doesn't it just > >>need to see the files in /target? > >mkinitrd needs to build an initrd that will be able to find the real > >root device after

Re: Install Report - mkinitrd / cciss error at kernel install step

2004-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:35:23AM -0500, Erik Dykema wrote: > This is my third install report, apoligies for errors, welcome > correction. It is similar but more complete (due to the busybox bug > being fixed) than yesterday's with the same kernel install problem. > Is there an outs

Re: Install Report - mkinitrd / cciss error at kernel install step

2004-01-09 Thread Erik Dykema
Things that seem curious: Why is mkinitd caring about my hardware devices, doesn't it just need to see the files in /target? mkinitrd needs to build an initrd that will be able to find the real root device after booting. If /target/dev/cciss doesn't exist, mkinitrd has nothing to work fro

Re: Install Report - Failed network install

2004-01-09 Thread Matt Kraai
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:06:59PM -0500, Erik Dykema wrote: > 2. On attempting to install the base system, it says that it is > retrieving package files, then finding package sizes, then retrieving > packages, validating, extracting packages. Then the screen goes blue > for a bit with no menu

Re: Install report, take 2: alpha businesscard 2004-01-02

2004-01-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:45:02PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > So, I figured I'd give this image another go after pulling the SCSI > controller out of the machine. The SCSI card happens to be an > integrated SCSI/ethernet device, so there was definitely no network > configuration happening on

Re: INSTALL REPORT - Gnome does NOT! load

2004-01-04 Thread Daniel Cardenas
I know why it worked 10 days ago when I installed. I was following someone else's install instructions at: http://www.pcc-services.com/debian_install.html Thanks Sebastien and Steve for the help and fix. - Daniel Sebastien Bacher wrote: The problem is than tasksel install gnome-core (the meta

Re: install report (success, i386+xfs) was: XFS support in d-i: netinst CD image available for download

2004-01-04 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: > Ah, I hadn't thought of that. I'm not sure how this is handled for > other non-default filesystem types. I'll take a look at getting > xfsprogs installed by default in such a case. The reiserfs thing is really a hack, it's better if the mkfs.* programs in the udebs be mod

Re: install report (success, i386+xfs) was: XFS support in d-i: netinst CD image available for download

2004-01-04 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Erich, On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 07:24:59PM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote: > I have successfully installed a xfs based system. Details see > below. I was very pleased with the installer image! Thanks! Glad to hear it! > Initial boot worked:[O] > Configure network HW: [O] > Config network:

Re: install report : jan 03 vmware businesscard

2004-01-04 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: > The screen is occasionnaly not cleaned up before the main menu pops up > again : for instance, when running prebaseconfig, getting an error > because of network problems while trying to fetch the Release > file.the "Retrieving" window remained behind the main menu whe

Re: INSTALL REPORT - Gnome does NOT! load

2004-01-04 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Daniel Cardenas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to vorlon on irc, the install code contains no Gnome code, > so this is an upstream problem. > Tried "apt-get install gnome-session", after apt-get different errors > were received. Seems like very little of the gnome system was > installed.

Re: INSTALL REPORT - Gnome does NOT! load

2004-01-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 07:50:17PM -0700, Daniel Cardenas wrote: > According to vorlon on irc, the install code contains no Gnome code, so > this is an upstream problem. I didn't mean to suggest that this was an upstream problem, only that it wasn't an installer problem. This may well be a bug i

Re: INSTALL REPORT - Gnome does NOT! load

2004-01-03 Thread Daniel Cardenas
According to vorlon on irc, the install code contains no Gnome code, so this is an upstream problem. Tried "apt-get install gnome-session", after apt-get different errors were received. Seems like very little of the gnome system was installed. Daniel Cardenas wrote: I have the same or similar i

[Fwd: Re: INSTALL REPORT - Gnome does NOT! load]

2004-01-03 Thread Daniel Cardenas
I have the same or similar issue with the Jan 2nd build. KDE seems to work fine. Gnome error: could not find /usr/bin/gnome-session If I try to run failsafe gnome, I get an error that says the Gnome installation could not be found. I used ReiserFS. I'm some what new to Linux this so pardon the la

Re: install report; jan 02 vmware netinst

2004-01-02 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > base-config priority is still screwed up (foiled again!). Which is just weird. I did 2 installs to my test laptop, one of the same netinst, one of the jan 2 businesscard, and both got the base-config priority right. In vmware, it was medium, and that was a non-default value in q

Re: Install report (not successfull, 2nd image of 20031230, i386)

2004-01-01 Thread Erich Waelde
Hi Joey, thanks for your "cannot reproduce". It seems that powering off my test box makes a difference. I also suspect that my CD-RW is no good any more and chose to use a new one. With that most of the problems mentioned before (below) vanish. And since there is a new image, I'll send in a se

Re: Install report (not successfull, 2nd image of 20031230, i386)

2003-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
Erich Waelde wrote: > Debian-installer-version: > 30-Dec-2003 11:11h netinst.iso 2nd build from > http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/ > > just to be sure: > md5sum sarge-i386-netinst-20031230.2.iso > 8d88a368fc2225144b8592d75684 sarg

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
Anton Zinoviev wrote: > gives me acces to the repository (I am zinoviev AT debian org) I will be > able to add partman to the official repository. I've added you, it might take up to an hour for the change to take effect and you'll need to request a "missing password" on alioth if you have not alr

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-29 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What's the status of partman? Is that available for testing already? The packages can be used and finally there is support for i18n. I am going to have better connection to Internet on 6 Jan 2004. On this date I will put the packages on http://lm

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-28 00:40]: > cfdisk can not handle partition tables where the order of the logical [...] What's the status of partman? Is that available for testing already? -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-28 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Manually HDD partitioning didn't work. cfdisk quit's with an > error. Used automatic partitioning. cfdisk can not handle partition tables where the order of the logical partitions in the disk does not follow their numbers. For example when /dev/hda6 is phisi

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Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-26 Thread Robert
Joey Hess wrote: Robert wrote: Manually HDD partitioning didn't work. cfdisk quit's with an error. Used automatic partitioning. Any chance you can tell us what the error wis? Hmmm... I'am sorry but I can't remember the error message exactly. I know - not a very useful answer... As fa

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-25 Thread Joey Hess
Robert wrote: > Manually HDD partitioning didn't work. cfdisk quit's with an error. Used > automatic partitioning. Any chance you can tell us what the error wis? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Install report

2003-12-18 Thread Jukka Neppius
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jukka Neppius wrote: > > 1. No documents! The page > > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ has a promising link to > > "The Debian-Installer's INSTALLATION HOWTO". Unfortunately it does > > not give anything. > > I think you'll find that link is

Re: Install report

2003-12-15 Thread Jukka Neppius
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jukka Neppius wrote: > > 1. No documents! The page > > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ has a promising link to > > "The Debian-Installer's INSTALLATION HOWTO". Unfortunately it does > > not give anything. > > I think you'll find that link is

Re: Install report

2003-12-14 Thread Joey Hess
Jukka Neppius wrote: > 1. No documents! The page > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ has a promising link to > "The Debian-Installer's INSTALLATION HOWTO". Unfortunately it does > not give anything. I think you'll find that link is working now. We're still in the process of restoring

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