Re: Installer with custom partitioner/filesystem package question

2024-02-06 Thread Aaron Goulding
Update: So a suggestion for anyone who runs into anything similar, run your tests on another machine if possible. It turns out, my NVME was beginning to fail, and the install proceeds properly now. -Aaron On Mon, Feb 5, 2024 at 1:23 PM Aaron Goulding wrote: > Hey all! > > So I am attempting to b

Installer with custom partitioner/filesystem package question

2024-02-05 Thread Aaron Goulding
Hey all! So I am attempting to build a custom Deb12 installer where the goal is to be able to do a zerotouch install to a system (currently using preseeding) and have it set up the partitioning for an encrypted root. Normally I'd just use preseeding entirely, but partman-auto-crypto doesn't allow

not really a bug, but a question....

2023-11-04 Thread Joel Anthony Zrolka
To whom it may concern I'm looking for a specific machine object file. The file is en_US.mo. If you have a copy or can whip one up real quick, could you attach it to a reply? Thank you. Sincerely, -- Joel A. Zrolka ® 6300 N. 11th St. Apt.# 31 McAllen, Texas 78504 Cell Phone: (956)-403-4

Re: Bug#1028062: debian-installer: Audio-based Installation - Question for keyboard layout and choice of hot keys

2023-01-06 Thread Luna Jernberg
> > I suggest to replace them by j, f (and d for example). > > We need these to be possibly usable for answering textual questions. > > > 2) Having to use a Germany keyboard, I had to web search for the english > > keyboard layout to know what key would repeat the current

Bug#1028062: debian-installer: Audio-based Installation - Question for keyboard layout and choice of hot keys

2023-01-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
h > keyboard layout to know what key would repeat the current question. I suggest > to move the question about the keyboard layout up a little. And conversely people have largely told us that we really need to have language/country questions very first, before anything else. I don't think we can change that. Samuel

Bug#1028062: debian-installer: Audio-based Installation - Question for keyboard layout and choice of hot keys

2023-01-06 Thread Peter Schwede
rd, I had to web search for the english keyboard layout to know what key woul d   repeat the current question. I suggest to move the question about the keyboard layout up a little. Thanks for your efford! Peter -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.6  APT prefers stable-updates APT polic

Re: adduser Debconf question - can we remove it?

2022-09-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 11:36:58AM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > There's a comment, that adduser is called in noninteractive mode > (user-setup package). > > That explains, I guess. Probably. And it can go away for bookworm. Greetings Marc -- --

Re: adduser Debconf question - can we remove it?

2022-08-28 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Holger Wansing wrote (Sun, 28 Aug 2022 11:21:38 +0200): > Hi, > > Am 28. August 2022 09:12:40 MESZ schrieb Marc Haber > : > >On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 02:07:08AM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > >> I cannot remember having seen any such message ("Do you want system-wide > >> readable home dire

Re: adduser Debconf question - can we remove it?

2022-08-28 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Am 28. August 2022 09:12:40 MESZ schrieb Marc Haber : >On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 02:07:08AM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: >> I cannot remember having seen any such message ("Do you want system-wide >> readable home directories?") during test installations BTW. > >Test installation in expert mod

Re: adduser Debconf question - can we remove it?

2022-08-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 02:07:08AM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > I cannot remember having seen any such message ("Do you want system-wide > readable home directories?") during test installations BTW. Test installation in expert mode? Greetings Marc -- -

Re: adduser Debconf question - can we remove it?

2022-08-27 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Steve McIntyre wrote (Sun, 21 Aug 2022 21:51:06 +0100): > On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 10:06:58PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > >Hi > > > >On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 12:01:03PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > >> adduser maintainer here. Adduser currently has a single debco

Re: adduser Debconf question - can we remove it?

2022-08-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 10:06:58PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >Hi > >On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 12:01:03PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> adduser maintainer here. Adduser currently has a single debconf >> question, "Do you want system-wide readable home directories?",

Re: adduser Debconf question - can we remove it?

2022-08-21 Thread Marc Haber
Hi On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 12:01:03PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > adduser maintainer here. Adduser currently has a single debconf > question, "Do you want system-wide readable home directories?", > resulting in the setting of DIR_MODE in adduser.conf. > > How does the De

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2022-04-09 Thread hessenh...@web.de
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Re: adduser Debconf question - can we remove it?

2022-03-23 Thread Philip Hands
Bjørn Mork writes: > Philip Hands writes: > >> That's just a case of running `chmod g+rw /home/*` though isn't it? > > I guess you meant `chmod g+r /home/*`. Yes. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/

Re: adduser Debconf question - can we remove it?

2022-03-23 Thread Bjørn Mork
Philip Hands writes: > That's just a case of running `chmod g+rw /home/*` though isn't it? I guess you meant `chmod g+r /home/*`. Group writable home will upset quite a few applications, whether the groups are unique per user or not. Bjørn

Re: adduser Debconf question - can we remove it?

2022-03-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Philip Hands (2022-03-22): > They'll presumably also want to do that to deal with any other users > created before they change the setting, so it seems like no extra > effort really. I'd have thought that anyone with an opinion about > changing the default will also know they need to run that chm

Re: adduser Debconf question - can we remove it?

2022-03-22 Thread Philip Hands
Marc Haber writes: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 02:54:36PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> People having strong opinions about this setting can always >> adjust the configuration after the installation? > > Sure they can, it's a dpkg-conffile¹ after all, but they'll have to > manually adapt the acc

Re: adduser Debconf question - can we remove it?

2022-03-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 02:54:36PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > People having strong opinions about this setting can always > adjust the configuration after the installation? Sure they can, it's a dpkg-conffile¹ after all, but they'll have to manually adapt the account created by d-i if they wa

Re: adduser Debconf question - can we remove it?

2022-03-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Marc, Marc Haber (2022-03-22): > adduser maintainer here. Adduser currently has a single debconf > question, "Do you want system-wide readable home directories?", > resulting in the setting of DIR_MODE in adduser.conf. > > Adduser is going to change its default in th

adduser Debconf question - can we remove it?

2022-03-22 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, adduser maintainer here. Adduser currently has a single debconf question, "Do you want system-wide readable home directories?", resulting in the setting of DIR_MODE in adduser.conf. Adduser is going to change its default in the future to 2700 due to a number of sensible b

Bug#990781: localechooser: mojibake at 'Select a Language' question when in speech mode

2021-07-07 Thread Philip Hands
Package: localechooser Version: 2.92 Severity: minor When doing a speech install, the menu of available languages does not manage to render the own-language versions of some languages, where those languages require another font: https://openqa.debian.net/tests/11328#step/locale/1 (where one c

Bug#990568: netcfg: Link detection timeout question should show interface name

2021-07-02 Thread Daniel Lewart
Package: netcfg Version: 1.174 Severity: minor Tags: patch Debian Installer Team, Laptop has both an Ethernet and a Wi-Fi interface. D-I "Configure the network" asks for the link detection timeout twice without indicating the interface, which can be confusing. Below is an *untested* patch which

Re: Question about Installer

2020-10-26 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 07:18:47PM +0330, negin jafari wrote: > Dear sir or madam, Hello Mailinglist, > I am a university Student trying to learn a lot of things about Debian. > I searched all ur website about changes in installer framework in each > release but I couldn’t find any useful data.

Question about Installer

2020-10-23 Thread negin jafari
Dear sir or madam, I am a university Student trying to learn a lot of things about Debian. I searched all ur website about changes in installer framework in each release but I couldn’t find any useful data. As I know calamares is new in Debian-10 and before that Debian-installer was used . But I

Bug#849508: marked as done (add GO BACK choice to save logs question)

2020-08-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 7 Aug 2020 23:44:04 +0200 with message-id <20200807234404.35e377ed8bc47c218bcf5...@mailbox.org> and subject line Re: Mass-closing old installation-report bugs --- round 4 has caused the Debian Bug report #849508, regarding add GO BACK choice to save logs question

Bug#962925: partman-efi: improve non_efi_system question

2020-06-15 Thread McIntyre, Vincent (CASS, Marsfield)
Package: partman-efi Version: 84 Severity: minor If find the partman-efi/non_efi_system question somewhat confusing. If one sets it to 'false' that means the installer will configure the system for BIOS mode booting, even if the installer is running in EFI mode. If one sets it 't

Re: Question about building a full bootable image using (Debian 7)

2019-09-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
ying any boot code from the CD. Assuming it ever was bootable. > My Question is: > How do I create a new bootable iso image file from my build directory ready > for burning onto a DVD. > I tried just burning the build directory tree but did not boot (I suspected > as much but did it an

Re: Question about building a full bootable image using (Debian 7)

2019-09-29 Thread Gregory A. Lewis
ry, then copied them (via tar) into > my > > > iso build directory, made my modifications I am OK up to that point. > > > > > > My Question is: > > > How do I create a new bootable iso image file from my build directory > > > ready for burning onto a

Re: Question about building a full bootable image using (Debian 7)

2019-09-29 Thread Geert Stappers
so build directory, made my modifications I am OK up to that point. > > > > My Question is: > > How do I create a new bootable iso image file from my build directory > > ready for burning onto a DVD. > > I tried just burning the build directory tree but did not boot (I >

Re: Question about building a full bootable image using (Debian 7)

2019-09-29 Thread Gregory A. Lewis
Hello g4jht, have you gotten any response on this topic ? I am quite interested. My question is Debian related in that I am trying to build a bootable memory stick to drop a Debian system onto an old Macintosh laptop. I do not know what the command or command sequence is to transfer the system

Question about building a full bootable image using (Debian 7)

2019-09-28 Thread g4jht
stripped the files into a directory, then copied them (via tar)  into my iso build directory, made my modifications I am OK up to that point. My Question is: How do I create a new bootable iso image file from my build directory ready for burning onto a DVD. I tried just burning the build

Bug#932149: Question about documented Buster ram requirement (#932149)

2019-08-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Martin Samuelsson, le jeu. 22 août 2019 12:58:41 +0200, a ecrit: > The values seem to come from version 1.47 of lowmem from merely a few months > back. How are they obtained? As described in lowmem's README. But AIUI the Xen case (which I indeed didn't test) requires bigger values. > Since they

Bug#932149: Question about documented Buster ram requirement (#932149)

2019-08-22 Thread Martin Samuelsson
Dear Samuel Thibault, I was about to prepare a patch to fix #932149 by removing what I understood to be outdated information, but then realized you've actually made recent changes to it and must thus ask for your knowledge. Details below. Martin Samuelsson @ 2019-07-16 (Tuesday), 17:58 (+0200

Fwd: Question on debian-installer

2019-05-24 Thread Al Patel
Hi, I am trying to use debian on an embedded system that does not have a CD. I have used the debian CD image as a starting point and packed the CD contents in initrd and rebuild a bootable ISO that has the installer. I have created a preseed file to enable autoinstall. Auto-install fails at step

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Re: LVM partitioning preseed.cfg / kickstart question

2018-03-15 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Below is a known-good partitioning recipe similar to your use case. It puts all of /, not just /boot, in a real partition. I think the main difference is the start of the second stanza 614401000 1 lvm while you have 100 1000 -1 xfs There may be a bug in handling -1 as the upper limi

Re: LVM partitioning preseed.cfg / kickstart question

2018-03-12 Thread Jim Campbell
Gentle bump. Might someone be able to assist / identify what I'm missing here? Thanks very much, Jim On Tue, Mar 6, 2018, at 1:47 PM, Jim Campbell wrote: > Hi All, > > I seem to be having trouble with correctly partitioning a hard drive > using a PXE boot + preseed file , and am seeking help.

LVM partitioning preseed.cfg / kickstart question

2018-03-06 Thread Jim Campbell
Hi All, I seem to be having trouble with correctly partitioning a hard drive using a PXE boot + preseed file , and am seeking help. What works: I can use an expert_recipe string as part of a preseed.cfg file contained in a custom ISO (booted via grub-imageboot), and it correctly partitions a dr

Re: Beginner question - stable installer build fails - why?

2018-01-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2018-01-28 at 13:01 +1300, Alex King wrote: > * Follow https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2017/12/msg00375.html to build > with a backports kernel. > * Try to do the same with Jessie, which is what my customer actually wants. > * Make whatever changes necessary so the backport kernel is

Re: Beginner question - stable installer build fails - why?

2018-01-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Alex King (2018-01-28): > Indeed that worked very well and resulted in a successful build, thank you. > > My next steps: > > * Follow https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2017/12/msg00375.html to build > with a backports kernel. The net-retriever patch is… wow. Preliminary patches were posted

Re: Beginner question - stable installer build fails - why?

2018-01-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Alex King (2018-01-28): > > Also, build/README contains this: > > | Recipe: > > | - Install the build-dependencies on the host system > > |(run dpkg-checkbuilddeps in the parent installer/ directory). > > | - Create your own sources.list.udeb.local, otherwise the build host's > > |source

Re: Beginner question - stable installer build fails - why?

2018-01-27 Thread Alex King
On 28/01/18 12:51, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Alex King (2018-01-28): I wanted to build a net installer that would load stable (actually jessie but I'll start with stable) but using a recent kernel. Firstly I went to https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller#Development and https://wiki.debian.org

Re: Beginner question - stable installer build fails - why?

2018-01-27 Thread Alex King
Indeed that worked very well and resulted in a successful build, thank you. My next steps: * Follow https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2017/12/msg00375.html to build with a backports kernel. * Try to do the same with Jessie, which is what my customer actually wants. * Make whatever changes n

Re: Beginner question - stable installer build fails - why?

2018-01-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Alex King (2018-01-28): > I wanted to build a net installer that would load stable (actually jessie > but I'll start with stable) but using a recent kernel. > > Firstly I went to https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller#Development and > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/CheckOut > > I chec

Re: Beginner question - stable installer build fails - why?

2018-01-27 Thread Alex King
Hi, thanks for your help, see below regarding documentation. On 28/01/18 00:52, Geert Stappers wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 11:38:54AM +1300, Alex King wrote: I'm trying to build an installer following build/README, but must have something basic wrong.  So far I have: * apt-get source deb

Re: Beginner question - stable installer build fails - why?

2018-01-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Alex King (2018-01-27): > I'm trying to build an installer following build/README, but must have > something basic wrong.  So far I have: > > * apt-get source debian-installer > * Install the build-dependencies on the host system > * (did not install a sources list as I'm happy with the s

Re: Beginner question - stable installer build fails - why?

2018-01-27 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 11:38:54AM +1300, Alex King wrote: > I'm trying to build an installer following build/README, but must > have something basic wrong.  So far I have: > > * apt-get source debian-installer > * Install the build-dependencies on the host system > * (did not install a sources

Beginner question - stable installer build fails - why?

2018-01-26 Thread Alex King
I'm trying to build an installer following build/README, but must have something basic wrong.  So far I have: * apt-get source debian-installer * Install the build-dependencies on the host system * (did not install a sources list as I'm happy with the system one) * make build_netboot This f

Re: User Build Question

2018-01-14 Thread Craig Block
n the megabytes than gigabytes. I also do other personalizations while I'm at it such as preseeding/preconfiguration and a few tweaks in startup. That brings me to another question I have. I'd like to figure out how to exert some control over the udebs anna wants to load the packages de

Re: User Build Question

2018-01-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/14/2018 07:59 AM, Craig Block wrote: Hello debian-boot subscribers, I'm doing a personalized cdrom build of debian-installer using the 8.10 dist on i386. I have a small issue. I'm adding all the udebs normally retrieved from the pool by appending them to the base file in the packages d

User Build Question

2018-01-14 Thread Craig Block
Hello debian-boot subscribers, I'm doing a personalized cdrom build of debian-installer using the 8.10 dist on i386. I have a small issue. I'm adding all the udebs normally retrieved from the pool by appending them to the base file in the packages directory. This is so I can make a minimal b

Bug#849508: add GO BACK choice to save logs question

2016-12-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: installation-reports Using DISTRIB_RELEASE="9 (stretch) - installer build 20161212-00:04" when getting to the question about saving logs, the user is prompted with /mnt . At this point the user wants to GO BACK to choose "open a shell" to inspect what places

Bug#840351: user asked same question twice upon upgrade

2016-10-10 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: keyboard-configuration Version: 1.151 During upgrade the user gets asked the same question twice. The first time is at Preconfiguring packages ... The second time is when (viewed with pstree -al): `-frontend -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/keyboard

Bug#838332: keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout bad question

2016-09-19 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: keyboard-configuration Version: 1.149 Severity: wishlist We are asked "Keep the current keyboard layout in the configuration file? The current keyboard layout in the configuration file /etc/default/keyboard is defined as ... . Please choose whether you want to keep it. If you choose t

Re: stretch installer question

2016-05-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
e: Sat, 21 May 2016 19:31:38 From: Steve McIntyre To: Jude DaShiell Cc: debian...@lists.debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: stretch installer question On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 12:13:10PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Is the package selection section of the stretch installer as bro

Re: stretch installer question

2016-05-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 12:13:10PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: >Is the package selection section of the stretch installer as broken in all >versions as it is in the x86_64 version of firmware testing iso? I preserved >logs but once installation was finished and system rebooted, ssh was nowhere >to

stretch installer question

2016-05-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
Is the package selection section of the stretch installer as broken in all versions as it is in the x86_64 version of firmware testing iso? I preserved logs but once installation was finished and system rebooted, ssh was nowhere to be found on the new system. I may be able to copy the install

Question prompted by [Re: Should apt-transport-https be Priority: Important ? (Re: own cloud task in tasksel?)]

2016-03-19 Thread Richard Owlett
o strongly tied to the concept once expressed as "what facility would _everybody_ expect in _any_ system". My question "Are there key words that I should search for to get current ideas for useable small installs?" TIA

Quick Question

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Question about apps

2015-08-02 Thread Reggie Thomas
Hello, Debian Linux,I see in your Package Manager you have XBMC (X-BOX MEDIA CENTER) but would like to see more TV streaming programs & Sports TV Streaming examples: {MobiTV by Undertap} {PlayTV-LiveTV by RacheyLabs} {WebTV by Web Tv} {Roku by Roku Inc} I have tried many Linux Distro's and ca

Bug#562427: marked as done (please rephrase the installer question about MODULES setting for initramfs-tools)

2014-02-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:43:31 +0300 with message-id <20140225124331.ga25...@mraw.org> and subject line Re: Bug#562427: cryptsetup: Cannot enter luks pass phrase with USB keyboard during boot has caused the Debian Bug report #562427, regarding please rephrase the installer qu

Re: preseeding the priority of a question? (red flag for joeyh)

2013-11-17 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthiba...@debian.org): > Hello, > > Discussing with a friend of mine, we ended up wondering whether it is > possible to preseed the priority of a question. > > The idea is that the typical situation at stake is that one would > want to have one

preseeding the priority of a question?

2013-11-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Discussing with a friend of mine, we ended up wondering whether it is possible to preseed the priority of a question. The idea is that the typical situation at stake is that one would want to have one expert-level question asked during d-i, but without switching the debconf level to

Re: Move desktop type selection from kernel parameter to debconf question?

2013-07-01 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen (p...@hungry.com): > Well, I did not plan to present it in the normal installation. The > question should be a priority low or medium in the common case. I > added code to make it possible to preseed the priority to raise it to > a point where it is

Re: Move desktop type selection from kernel parameter to debconf question?

2013-07-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
id not plan to present it in the normal installation. The question should be a priority low or medium in the common case. I added code to make it possible to preseed the priority to raise it to a point where it is presented to users, but that would be the unusual usecase. The target audience of this ud

Re: Move desktop type selection from kernel parameter to debconf question?

2013-07-01 Thread Joey Hess
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > At the moment one can choose which of kde, gnome, lxde,xfce (and > others?) should be installed using the desktop= kernel option to d-i, > or by preseeding the tasksel/desktop debconf value. > > But I've seen requests for a normal debconf q

Move desktop type selection from kernel parameter to debconf question?

2013-06-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
At the moment one can choose which of kde, gnome, lxde,xfce (and others?) should be installed using the desktop= kernel option to d-i, or by preseeding the tasksel/desktop debconf value. But I've seen requests for a normal debconf question instead, and implemented a new udeb this eveni

Re: [portuguese translation of d-i manual] Fuzzy or unfuzzy - that's the question here

2013-01-04 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
Em 04-01-2013 17:25, Holger Wansing escreveu: [...] The string in question was marked as "2dwfuzzy", which was not understood by msgmerge. [...] The 2dw was what I typed in Vim it should had deleted the "fuzzy," instead of typing. The translation it's correct,

[portuguese translation of d-i manual] Fuzzy or unfuzzy - that's the question here

2013-01-04 Thread Holger Wansing
izando loadlin" #. Tag: title #: install-methods.xml:1010 + #, no-c-format msgid "Hard disk installer booting from DOS using loadlin" + msgstr "" + "Arrancar o instalador de disco rígido a partir de DOS utilizando " + "loadlin" =

Bug#690351: marked as done (installation-reports: Succesful install of 7.0 beta 2 with one extra debconf question)

2012-10-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:30:55 +0200 with message-id <20121013073055.gh5...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org> and subject line Re: Bug#690351: installation-reports: Succesful install of 7.0 beta 2 with one extra debconf question has caused the Debian Bug report #690351, reg

Bug#690351: installation-reports: Succesful install of 7.0 beta 2 with one extra debconf question

2012-10-12 Thread Brad Bosch
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Clean install of beta2 netboot xfce with the exception of bug 680877 (fixed in unstable) Suggest promoting hddtemp package to testing -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: netboot beta 2 Date: Machine: HP zt30

Bug#609704: marked as done (Please document how to use preseed values to skip RAID1 confirmation question)

2012-08-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:00:06 + with message-id and subject line Bug#609704: fixed in installation-guide 20120826 has caused the Debian Bug report #609704, regarding Please document how to use preseed values to skip RAID1 confirmation question to be marked as done. This means

Bug#684796: marked as done (D-I wheezy B1 installation question/issue)

2012-08-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 14 Aug 2012 06:18:17 +0200 with message-id <20120814041817.gm9...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org> and subject line Re: Bug#684796: D-I wheezy B1 installation question/issue has caused the Debian Bug report #684796, regarding D-I wheezy B1 installation question/issue

Bug#684796: D-I wheezy B1 installation question/issue

2012-08-13 Thread Matthew Variot
Okay, I will double check the network connectivity Thanks! Matt V. On Aug 13, 2012, at 4:30 PM, Holger Wansing wrote: Hello, Matthew Variot wrote: Doing a netinstall starting from cd... The distro "wheezy" did not appear to be supported on ftp.us.debian.org and mirror.cc.columbia.edu.

Bug#684796: D-I wheezy B1 installation question/issue

2012-08-13 Thread Holger Wansing
Hello, Matthew Variot wrote: > Doing a netinstall starting from cd... > > The distro "wheezy" did not appear to be supported on ftp.us.debian.org > and mirror.cc.columbia.edu. The apparently relevant message on VT4 > contains: > > mirror does not support the specified release (wheezy) I tes

Bug#684796: D-I wheezy B1 installation question/issue

2012-08-13 Thread Matthew Variot
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: debian- wheezy-DI-b1-i386-netinst.iso Date: 2012 08 13 Machine: Great Quality GigaPro (Please don't laugh too hard! ;-) ) Processor: Via Samuel 2 Memory:512MB Partitions: Not Far Enough into procedure Output of lspci

Bug#411585: marked as done (cdebconf: values for question not deleted on unregister)

2012-06-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#637452: marked as done (Lower priority of first user's fullname question)

2011-08-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#637452: Lower priority of first user's fullname question

2011-08-15 Thread Joey Hess
Christian PERRIER wrote: > >From Jérémy Bobbio BOF at DebConf, we could take ideas about improving > the way non-skilled users understand this question and the question > about login name. We could even make both questions appear on the same > screen (by losing the fact that th

Bug#637452: Lower priority of first user's fullname question

2011-08-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Colin Watson (cjwat...@debian.org): > I object to this change. It's surely not a hard question for people to +1 >From Jérémy Bobbio BOF at DebConf, we could take ideas about improving the way non-skilled users understand this question and the question about login name. We

Bug#637452: Lower priority of first user's fullname question

2011-08-11 Thread Joel Rees
5:34:30PM +0100, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: >> > Good question, but the installer just setups the first account, doesn't >> > manage >> > user's accounts. >> >> The installer should set up the first account in a manner that does not >> require

Bug#637452: Lower priority of first user's fullname question

2011-08-11 Thread Joel Rees
(Noise from a sometimes user) On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 05:20:57PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 05:34:30PM +0100, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: >> > Good question, but the installer just setups

Bug#637452: Lower priority of first user's fullname question

2011-08-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: Package: user-setup Version: 1.40 Tags: patch currently it is asked the fullname of the first user being created during the standard installation. Lowering the priority, the question will be skipped and the standard installation will

Bug#637452: Lower priority of first user's fullname question

2011-08-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 05:20:57PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 05:34:30PM +0100, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > > Good question, but the installer just setups the first account, doesn't > > manage > > user's accounts. > > The installer

Bug#637452: Lower priority of first user's fullname question

2011-08-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 05:34:30PM +0100, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > Good question, but the installer just setups the first account, doesn't > manage > user's accounts. The installer should set up the first account in a manner that does not require later management simply i

Bug#637452: Lower priority of first user's fullname question

2011-08-11 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
[...] > Doesn't that mean the user will be created without a full name entered > at all? the first account, yes. > Won't that look ugly in many places? Good question, but the installer just setups the first account, doesn't manage user's accounts. > How do

Bug#637452: Lower priority of first user's fullname question

2011-08-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 04:49:13PM +0100, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > currently it is asked the fullname of the first user being created during the > standard installation. > Lowering the priority, the question will be skipped and the standard > installation will be completed w

Bug#637452: Lower priority of first user's fullname question

2011-08-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 04:49:13PM +0100, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > Package: user-setup > Version: 1.40 > Tags: patch > > currently it is asked the fullname of the first user being created during the > standard installation. > Lowering the priority, the question wi

Bug#637452: Lower priority of first user's fullname question

2011-08-11 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
Package: user-setup Version: 1.40 Tags: patch currently it is asked the fullname of the first user being created during the standard installation. Lowering the priority, the question will be skipped and the standard installation will be completed with one less question to the user. The

Re: Filesystem encryption question

2011-07-23 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 09:22, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2011-07-22, Otavio Salvador wrote: >>> 2) two new options into expert-mode installer: >>> -s 512 -c aes-xts-plain64 (future new standard) >>> -s 256 -c aes-xts-plain64 (performance option) >> Please report a bug against partman-crypto so we

Re: Filesystem encryption question

2011-07-23 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-07-22, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> 2) two new options into expert-mode installer: >> -s 512 -c aes-xts-plain64 (future new standard) >> -s 256 -c aes-xts-plain64 (performance option) > Please report a bug against partman-crypto so we can handle it. It's another variant for #482092 though.

Re: Filesystem encryption question

2011-07-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
2011/7/16 Zdenek Kaspar : ... > 1) d-i kernel needs to support: CONFIG_CRYPTO_XTS and CONFIG_CRYPTO_GF128MUL This is enabled on kernels and now I queued it to inclusion for next kernel uploads. > 2) two new options into expert-mode installer: > -s 512 -c aes-xts-plain64 (future new standard) > -s

Filesystem encryption question

2011-07-16 Thread Zdenek Kaspar
Hi, I think it's good time to use XTS for filesystem encryption since RedHat already does so in rhel5/6. Looks like cryptsetup -c aes-xts-plain64 -s 512 is their standard for filesystem encryption during system install. 1) d-i kernel needs to support: CONFIG_CRYPTO_XTS and CONFIG_CRYPTO_GF128MUL

Re: Bug#408641: Please default to the one-and-only disk; already displayed for confirmation in the next question

2011-04-07 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
to save time, the "grep with wc" appears on line 879 of the syslog. -- Melhores cumprimentos/Best regards, Miguel Figueiredo http://www.DebianPT.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org A

Bug#408641: Please default to the one-and-only disk; already displayed for confirmation in the next question

2011-04-07 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
Hi, tested the patch and doesn't work. I've tried also with grep "\n" and also doesn't work. So i have tried with "wc": select_auto_disk() { local DEVS DEVS=$(get_auto_disks) [ -n "$DEVS" ] || return 1 if [[ `echo "$DEVS" | wc -l` == "1" ]]; then #

installation custom question

2011-03-16 Thread huachuan fengzi
Hi there, I am trying to add something custom in the CD installation, I mean for example, add a selection after user has done the netcfg, ask if something is needed, and then get the answer to do something. How should I do it? I tried to build a udeb with templates and preinst files, add it into

Bug#408641: Please default to the one-and-only disk; already displayed for confirmation in the next question

2011-02-06 Thread Joey Hess
Josh Triplett wrote: > If the user has only one disk, and chooses to do guided partitioning, > then they have to choose which of their one disk they want to partition. > The very next question (for the partitioning scheme) then confirms this > by saying "Selected for partitioning:

Bug#610627: Question: Which piece of software is responsible for picking the Experimental 'Highpoint Raid controller GNU/Linux driver Pata_HP37X' ?

2011-02-05 Thread techy techtech
Thank you Miguel Figueiredo for your kind response. To save your time, there is no need to reply, unless you want to. > Only hpt366 is available on Debian's kernel. ( Currently Debian Squeeze, to be V6. ) OK, I assume my 'HighPoint HPT370 raid controller 2001' is, or is partially supported, or

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