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On Sun, May 25, 2025 at 03:31:18PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>(Adding debian-cd list)
>
>On 28/04/2025 at 23:13, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>> On 13/04/2025 à 18:33, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>> >
>> > In order to move forward I prepared a patch implementing the
&g
(Adding debian-cd list)
On 28/04/2025 at 23:13, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
On 13/04/2025 à 18:33, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
In order to move forward I prepared a patch implementing the following
logic:
if installation media is not a real CD/DVD/BD
automatically disable cdrom entries
else if
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On Fri, 2 May 2025 13:56:35 +0200 Şükrü Eren Gökırmak wrote:
On Thu, 1 May 2025 23:57:16 +0200 Pascal Hambourg
wrote:
On Thu, 01 May 2025 23:11:00 +0200 Şükrü Eren Gökırmak wrote:
I wa
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'd
On 13/04/2025 à 18:33, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
In order to move forward I prepared a patch implementing the following
logic:
if installation media is not a real CD/DVD/BD
automatically disable cdrom entries
else if sources.list has network entries
if installation media is netinst
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On 08/04/2025 at 08:37, BW wrote:
Let's say we have 1000 random Debian users performing a new server
installation.
Why only server and not also workstation or laptop ?
999 of these will not use optical media (CD-ROM/DVD) and will have a broken
package-configur
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f. I think there was some discussion about this topic in the past.
>
>> But there's no difference, if the CD/DVD image is on optical media or on
>> USB...
>
>By default an optical disc is mounted on /media/cdrom and makes apt happy,
>whereas a USB flash drive is
On 07/04/2025 at 23:04, Holger Wansing wrote:
Am 7. April 2025 20:23:09 MESZ schrieb Pascal Hambourg :
Still rely on an installation image as only source will not work for the long
future.
You will for sure end up with the situation, where a package you need is not on
the CD/DVD image, and
t use optical media (CD-ROM/DVD) and will have a broken
package-configuration (out-of-the-box) and will need to take special steps
to get it working (modifying the sources file).
The last 1 of these will have a well working system.
Please design Debian to target the vast majority, by fare, of
installa
entries from
>>> installation media, when installation is finished".
>>
>>Sort of. I think there was some discussion about this topic in the past.
>>
>>> But there's no difference, if the CD/DVD image is on optical media or on
>>> USB...
>
On 07/04/2025 at 17:32, Holger Wansing wrote:
So, it's another report of "please disable the sources.list entries from
installation media, when installation is finished".
Sort of. I think there was some discussion about this topic in the past.
But there's no difference,
5 and I can promise you that 99% of all installations
>>> are NOT performed from a CD/DVD media, but from USB flash/network or
>>> whatever, but NOT an optical media.
>>>
>>> But still you have designed the installation for CD-ROM?
>>>
>>> If I &
Hi BW,
1.
you filed this report against a non-existent package, so probably you don't get
a big audience, because of this.
2.
What you describe (installing packages inside the installer, but by hand, so
bypassing the installer) is not the usual way, so one may consider this being
a corner case.
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Hi,
Spotted while building netinst images locally via easy-build: I was
surprised to see fonts-* udebs included there. As far as I know,
those are useful at src:debian-installer build time, and included
via build/pkg
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ing directory '/<>'
> FAKECHROOT_EXCLUDE_PATH=/tmp:/dev:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/share/shunit2:
> fakechroot chroot test/chroot ./cd-exec /test/20-local-repo-upgrade.sh
> /usr/sbin/chroot: failed to run command ‘./cd-exec’: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:16: tes
Hi,
Roland Clobus (2024-10-24):
> Package: debian-cd
> Version: 3.2.1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: d-i a11y
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That doesn't appear to be debian-cd specific, as netboot/gtk/mini.iso
gives
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Hello,
Cyril Brulebois, le jeu. 24 oct. 2024 17:08:24 +0200, a ecrit:
> That doesn't appear to be debian-cd specific, as netboot/gtk/mini.iso
> gives similar results in my very limited testing
Indeed.
> > When I press a key, I can hear it bei
On 29/07/2024 at 20:28, Charles Curley wrote:
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
AFAICS if the file was not found, the message would say "the file
could not be retrieved", not "the installer failed to process the
file" which suggests the file may be corrupted.
Did you check the installer logs in tty4 or
On 28/07/2024 at 23:50, Charles Curley wrote:
When I go to load the debconf file, the installer doesn't find it. I
then go to a console and manually mount the USB stick on /media. I can
then ls the stick, more the preseed file, etc. When I then go back to
the installer, it still cannot find the
I have the latest testing netinst (20240722-03:17), and would like to
install it on a virtual machine. I have a preseed file on a USB stick.
As this is a virtual machine, the virtual hard drive is at vda, and the
USB stick shows up at sda.
When I go to load the debconf file, the installer doesn't
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Source: debian-installer-utils
Version: 1.147
Severity: normal
I'm hacking together an installer for an rpi4 locally, copying all the
files onto a FAT-formatted USB drive. I also want to do some minor
config in a preseed late_command, so I've modified the initrd to add a
preseed file.
Unfortunate
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Dear Maintainer,
it seems less a crash, instead it fails to find the
right drivers to use, therefore exits.
Looking at the Xorg.0.log from a bullseye netinst it looks
like it uses the /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so
driver inside a virtio equipped qemu VM,
which seems missing in
Package: debian-installer
Version: 20220917
Hi,
the X-Server on the netinstall CD crashes when using a virtio GPU.
qemu-system-x86_64 \
-m 1G -machine pc,accel=kvm \
-device virtio-vga \
-cdrom \
debian-12-netinstall-amd64_testing-20221029-1721/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
CD
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It’s an HP Storageworks P4300 G2 san. I’ve tried different usb sticks and cd
rom drive.
I’m guessing it’s a configvodd
Mike Hosken
Sent via my iPhone
> On 5/03/2022, at 08:52, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> wrote:
> On 3/4/22 20:22, Mike Hosken wrote:
>> It’s a RP4300 G3
&g
On 3/4/22 20:22, Mike Hosken wrote:
> It’s a RP4300 G3
What kind of hardware is that? When I google this, I'm getting results
for hamradio hand receivers.
Adrian
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This is where it gets stuck, and try’s to reboot every 15 seconds to so. Cd
won’t boot so apart from setting up a bootstrapping from the network.
It’s a RP4300 G3
Mike Hosken
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Hello,
we were trying to harmonize our grub theme across all of Kali and we
(re-)discovered that for installer images, the grub theme is actually
handled
> https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/ch06s04.html.en.
> >
> > The problem I am having is, PowerMac's don't have an eject button. I
> > can't eject the installer to add the firmware CD from
> > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-fr
, PowerMac's don't have an eject button. I
> can't eject the installer to add the firmware CD from
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/archive/8.10.0+nonfree/powerpc/iso-cd/.
> I tried to use a USB stick but the firmware was not found. (
having is, PowerMac's don't have an eject button. I
> can't eject the installer to add the firmware CD from
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/archive/8.10.0+nonfree/powerpc/iso-cd/.
> I tried to use a USB stick but the firmware was
Hi Everyone,
I'd like to install the additional firmware required for PowerPC. It
is briefly discussed at
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/ch06s04.html.en.
The problem I am having is, PowerMac's don't have an eject button. I
can't eject the installer to add the f
On 2/2/21 7:33 PM, Richard Hector wrote:
> On 3/02/21 7:02 am, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> Hi Steve!
>>
>> On 2/2/21 6:53 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>> It appears that the latest version of xfsprogs (5.10.0) has just grown
>>> a dependency on libinih, and there isn't a udeb version of libin
On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 07:33:36AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote:
> Two different libraries? It seems to be complaining about libinih, not
> libnih.
Yes libinih appears to be under active development.
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On 3/02/21 7:02 am, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Steve!
On 2/2/21 6:53 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
It appears that the latest version of xfsprogs (5.10.0) has just grown
a dependency on libinih, and there isn't a udeb version of libinih to
meet that dependency. I'll file a bug now.
Might
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 07:02:59PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>Hi Steve!
>
>On 2/2/21 6:53 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> It appears that the latest version of xfsprogs (5.10.0) has just grown
>> a dependency on libinih, and there isn't a udeb version of libinih to
>> meet that dependenc
gt;This happens at least with the "unofficial with firmware" bullseye-netinst
>>https://chuangtzu.ftp.acc.umu.se/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
>>sha256sum firmware-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
>>
Hi Steve!
On 2/2/21 6:53 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> It appears that the latest version of xfsprogs (5.10.0) has just grown
> a dependency on libinih, and there isn't a udeb version of libinih to
> meet that dependency. I'll file a bug now.
Might be an idea to investigate why libnih is required b
be a lib missing:
>mkfs.xfs /dev/nvme0n1p4
>mkfs.xfs: error while loading shared libraries: libinih.so.1: cannot open
>shared object file: No such file or directory
>
>This happens at least with the "unofficial with firmware" bullseye-netinst
>https://chuangtzu.ftp.acc.
.1: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
This happens at least with the "unofficial with firmware" bullseye-netinst
https://chuangtzu.ftp.acc.umu.se/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
sha256
On Thursday, December 31, 2020 10:53:30 AM EST Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Right. I'm more asking whether it's useful to try and pull this in for
> all arches, or just for amd64 / i386 for now.
I guess the majority of users are on amd64/i386 systems, but as the firmware
is for USB devices it would be u
Hey John,
I hope you had a good Christmas!
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 12:57:09PM -0500, John Scott wrote:
>On Wednesday, December 23, 2020 9:52:16 AM EST Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> Is this just going to be for x86 machines, or is it likely to be useful for
>> ~everybody?
>It will be useful for all ar
I've committed a rudimentary udeb in Git at
https://salsa.debian.org/jscott/open-ath9k-htc-firmware.git
for which I would appreciate feedback. Does the d-i freeze coming up in a
couple weeks mean this may not clear NEW in time for Bullseye?
If so, no biggie. Here's the gist of what it installs:
/
On Wednesday, December 23, 2020 9:52:16 AM EST Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Is this just going to be for x86 machines, or is it likely to be useful for
> ~everybody?
It will be useful for all architectures, except I don't think there are
FreeBSD and Hurd drivers yet, but it's an arch:all package regard
nel packages, which doesn't appear well documented to me in code comments
>or the manual, but I'm willing to put in the work to make Debian more usable
>with free software and hardware.
Cool. I would suggest making a udeb of your own. That way we can add
it to the list of free firmw
Hi,
I'm trying to create a custom arm64 CD image using simple-cdd, and
have the CD image with the same support as debian-arm64-xfce-CD-1.iso.
So I need a profile.package file to tell simple-cdd what packages need
to be built into the CD image. I can use the script [1] with some
modificati
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Hi,
since kernel-summary is currently broken, I have disabled that in crontab on
dillon for now
Holger
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Subject: Cron cd $DI/scripts; mr -q up; ./kernel
On Fri, 2020-08-21 at 13:31 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
[...]
> Furthermore pressing tasks are:
[...]
> - re-introduce old xorg drivers needed for PowerMacs (mach64, r128 etc)
[...]
It might be a better choice in the long term to write kernel (KMS)
drivers for these instead. Those wou
On 8/21/20 1:03 PM, jhcha54008 wrote:
> It seems that debian-cd doesn't consider packages from the 'unreleased'
> distribution (on debian-ports architectures) when running debootstrap.
> As a result, packages of priority 'required' or 'important' may be
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-9.0.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso,
grub not working on /dev/sdc
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Subject: Cron cd $DI; mr -q up ; cd $DI/scripts/testing-summary;
./gen-summary http://deb.debian.org/debian > $WWW/testing-summary.html ;
~/bin/push-www
fatal: unable to access 'https:
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On 11/19/2019 10:49 PM, Jun Sun wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer, John. I tried that before (btw. see my comments
> under "monkey-jsun" name at the end. ;0)
>
> The CD-ROM part does not work at all. The net installer still goes out to
> the network and fetch the latest re
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 09:18:33PM -0800, Jun Sun wrote:
> After some internet searching, it seems pretty clear that QEMU/mips cannot
> boot from debian CD. I hope anyone can prove that I'm wrong here.
>
> Lacking of booting from CD-ROM, the next fancy idea I can think of is to
After some internet searching, it seems pretty clear that QEMU/mips cannot
boot from debian CD. I hope anyone can prove that I'm wrong here.
Lacking of booting from CD-ROM, the next fancy idea I can think of is to
set up the host so that it fakes to the network installer, providing
Thanks for the pointer, John. I tried that before (btw. see my comments
under "monkey-jsun" name at the end. ;0)
The CD-ROM part does not work at all. The net installer still goes out to
the network and fetch the latest release and install.
To prove my points, I ran with debia
n the hope they might recognize "-boot
>d" and read from CD-ROM
>
> Just want to check to see if I'm heading to a dead wall or not.
>
> Cheers.
>
According to (1), that should be possible.
HTH.
1)
https://gist.github.com/extremecoders-re/3ce9416fc8b293198cd13891b68c
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Obviously this method works for x86_64 and i386, probably because they have
bios.
I tried the obvious combinations on MIPS with no luck so far
- add "-boot d" option; and
- also supply the kernel/initrd in the hope they might recognize "-boot
d" and read from CD-ROM
Samuel Thibault, le ven. 23 août 2019 22:03:23 +0200, a ecrit:
> Steve McIntyre, le ven. 23 août 2019 21:00:19 +0100, a ecrit:
> > Once you've done that, I'll backport it for buster builds too.
>
> Thanks, I have pushed the fix.
FI, I tested the fix in the stretch branch of debian-installer, it w
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Hi everyone,
On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 10:32:11AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Julien Cristau writes:
>
> > The synaptics Xorg driver is obsolete and should not be installed by
> > default.
>
> Maybe the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package could hint about this and
> po
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optional."
>
> Oh, so it turns out I should have simplified it *more*! Yes, that
> looks fine.
Cool. So we are now done with this 'CD-ROM -> installation media' thing.
Closing #794936 then.
Thanks again for your support!
Holger
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John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrot:
> On 9/22/19 8:52 PM, Justin B Rye wrote:
>>> The origin of the word is Latin. The word is grammatically
>>> neutrum, for which the singular is "-um", the plural is "-a". It's
>>> not a mess at all.
>>
>> Etymology does not determine current grammatical behaviour.
>
On 9/22/19 8:52 PM, Justin B Rye wrote:
>> The origin of the word is Latin. The word is grammatically
>> neutrum, for which the singular is "-um", the plural is "-a". It's
>> not a mess at all.
>
> Etymology does not determine current grammatical behaviour.
Official dictionaries do, again, look i
Holger Wansing wrote:
> Thus we could change that to:
> "If you are installing from DVD, any packages needed
> during the installation should be present on the first DVD image. Use
> of a network mirror is optional."
Oh, so it turns out I should have simplified it *more*! Yes, that
looks fine.
-
o it.
>
> I had got as far as:
> (en/using-d-i/modules/apt-setup.xml:)
> - If you do scan multiple CDs or DVDs, the installer will prompt you to
> - exchange them when it needs packages from another CD/DVD than the one
> - currently in the drive. Note that only CDs or DVDs
hem when it needs packages from another CD/DVD than the one
- currently in the drive. Note that only CDs or DVDs that belong to the
+ If you do scan multiple installation media, the installer will prompt you to
+ exchange them when it needs packages from another media than the one
+ currently i
Holger Wansing writes:
> Hi,
>
> Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
>> Justin B Rye writes:
>>
>> > Holger Wansing wrote:
>> >> And they all need to covered here.
>> >> Maybe we cannot find a term that works perfectly for all of them, however
>> >> having a suitable coverterm for all would be the major
Ben Hutchings writes:
> On Tue, 2019-09-10 at 20:21 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
[snip]
>
> I don't know exactly what cdrom-detect does, but it may still be
> specific to optical drives. In that case you could use more specific
> terms here, e.g. "The optical disc drive contains a disc which can
I expect that language has nice regular words like "agendum" and
"spaghetto", too - but alas, it isn't the language we're trying to
write the documentation in.
>> (en/howto/installation-howto.xml:)
>>Now sit back while debian-installer detects some of yo
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Justin B Rye wrote:
>> There are several related nouns here, which behave differently:
>> * "(broadcast) medium/media" (and "meejuh", treated as singular);
>> * "item of (removable storage) media/some media";
>> * "(spirit) medium/mediums".
>> Frankly it's a
m. Not multiple
installation media.
The language is very concise.
> (en/howto/installation-howto.xml:)
>Now sit back while debian-installer detects some of your hardware, and
> - loads the rest of itself from CD, USB, etc.
> + loads the rest of itself from the installation mediu
On 9/18/19 12:27 AM, Justin B Rye wrote:
>> At least this dictionary still considers it "media" plural:
>
> Yes, and if you can find a case where the patch talks about putting a
> singular "media" in the drive, please point that out, because it'll be
> a mistake that needs to be fixed.
>
>> http
Hi,
Justin B Rye wrote:
> (In en/appendix/chroot-install.xml:)
> - If you have a &releasename; &debian-gnu; CD mounted at
> + If you have a &releasename; &debian-gnu; installation medium mounted at
> /cdrom, you could substitute a file URL instead
>
Holger Wansing wrote:
>> This is a good solution for a problem that also affects the
>> Installation Guide, since it also lets you leapfrog over the old
>> problem of what cover-term to use for "CD/DVD/BluRay media" (the
>> Guide says that it's going
Hi,
Justin B Rye wrote:
> Holger Wansing wrote:
> > I would like to change the term "CD" into "installation medium" in the
> > debian-installer.
> > These days our CD/DVD images can also be used for USB sticks, and virtual
> > machines
>
it behaves in modern English. But as it happens, the
>> patch doesn't use "media" to refer to a singular CD - it uses "some
>> media" and "an item of media", the way English-speakers normally do.
>
> At least this dictionary still considers it &
On 9/18/19 12:00 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 9/17/19 11:43 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 11:37:39PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Using "media" for a singular word just sounds weird for anyone knowing
Latin.
that's how many promille of the world popula
On 9/17/19 11:43 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 11:37:39PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Using "media" for a singular word just sounds weird for anyone knowing
Latin.
that's how many promille of the world population?
also: using "handy" as a word for a mobile phone
On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 11:37:39PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Using "media" for a singular word just sounds weird for anyone knowing
> Latin.
that's how many promille of the world population?
also: using "handy" as a word for a mobile phone sounds weird for anyone
knowing English,
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