support for OpenRD and Sheevaplug (was Re: Debian Installer Buster Alpha 4 release)

2018-12-30 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2018-12-17, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Dec 15, 2018, at 2:26 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> >> Hardware support changes >> >> >> * debian-installer: >> - [armel] Disable OpenRD targets, no longer present in u-boot. > > Does this mean that my OpenRD hardware will no lon

Re: Debian Installer Buster Alpha 4 release

2018-12-29 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Cyril, thanks for the summary and all your work for the installer. I have not seen any mentioning of supporting Blends in the new installer. I remember that we talked about this at DebConf 16 that chances are good that we finally will get the feature to select Blends right from the installer.

Re: Debian Installer Buster Alpha 4 release

2018-12-18 Thread Vincent Danjean
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Le 15/12/2018 à 23:26, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the fourth alpha release > of the installer for Debian 10 "Buster". Would it be possible to have remarks about #913431 (partman-base: Ad

Re: Debian Installer Buster Alpha 4 release

2018-12-17 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Dec 15, 2018, at 2:26 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Hardware support changes > > > * debian-installer: >- [armel] Disable OpenRD targets, no longer present in u-boot. Does this mean that my OpenRD hardware will no longer be supported in Buster? What about S

Re: Debian Installer Buster Alpha 4 release

2018-12-16 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 02:29:27AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Steve McIntyre (2018-12-17): > > But... The problem you're most likely seeing is caused by a simple > > fact. The *netboot* image ends up downloading significant chunks of > > the installer and the base system at runtime from the s

Re: Debian Installer Buster Alpha 4 release

2018-12-16 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 01:18:59AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 11:00:25AM +1100, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > >Hello > > > >I was trying to download the netboot image for amd64, > >because the one I have (2018-12-06) has a segfault in libc6. > > > >The link on the installer

Re: Debian Installer Buster Alpha 4 release

2018-12-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve McIntyre (2018-12-17): > But... The problem you're most likely seeing is caused by a simple > fact. The *netboot* image ends up downloading significant chunks of > the installer and the base system at runtime from the suite it > targets. For buster, that is still very much a moving target an

Re: Debian Installer Buster Alpha 4 release

2018-12-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 11:00:25AM +1100, Vincent McIntyre wrote: >Hello > >I was trying to download the netboot image for amd64, >because the one I have (2018-12-06) has a segfault in libc6. > >The link on the installer team page > https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ >for the _netinst

re: Debian Installer Buster Alpha 4 release

2018-12-16 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Hello I was trying to download the netboot image for amd64, because the one I have (2018-12-06) has a segfault in libc6. The link on the installer team page https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ for the _netinst_ image points at https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/buster_di_alpha4/amd