Re: [Fwd: Alpha Debian Netinst]

2003-12-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:27:46PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:27:06PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >

Re: install report

2003-12-01 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:01:25PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Before installing debs from the CD it displayed a new progress bar as it > checked the size of each udeb. I'm not sure what this was (not > cdrom-checker), and it should be a bit clearer what it's doing there. Sounds like the extra progr

Re: install report

2003-12-01 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:29:15AM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:01:25PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Before installing debs from the CD it displayed a new progress bar as it > > checked the size of each udeb. I'm not sure what this was (not > > cdrom-checker), and

Re: install report

2003-12-01 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:27:21AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > I noticed that a blank blue screen appears also during fs making. > For large disks this is quite annoying. Known bug, should be fixed for beta 2. We're a bit unsure as of how to do this best, though. :-) /* Steinar */ --

INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-01 Thread Robert Staudinger
INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 2003-11-29 http://www.soziologie.ch/~steinlin/d-i/powerpc/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.20-8d_owen_aty128 #1 Wed Jul 16 13:04:19 CEST 2003 ppc ppc ppc GNU/Linux Date: 2003-12-01 12:00 Method: Install from CD Boot off

Re: Re: CDs not bootable when attempting to install sarge using new debian install

2003-12-01 Thread Carlos Boneti
I have the very same problem. The same disc boots on a Dell GX240, but fails to boot on another pc with an Award Bios (GA-8S650GXM F5). Both of them are able to boot Knoppix and Gnoppix. Hope this helps in some way. Carlos Boneti Analista de Sistemas Instituto Atlantico 55 85 216-7924 "Argue for

use of release names in d-i

2003-12-01 Thread Joey Hess
d-i uses code names, like "sarge", instead of symbolic names like "testing". For example, this template: Template: mirror/distribution Type: select Choices: sarge, sid Default: sarge _Description: Distribution to install: Please select the distribution you want to install. . Sar

base-config 2.0

2003-12-01 Thread Joey Hess
I'm finally modifying base-config to use the d-i cdebconf db. I currently have it inheriting debian-installer/locale, debconf/priority, mirror/distribution, and mirror/http/proxy from d-i, which has increased the second stage priority to high by default and thus shown some bugs in base-config (amou

cdebconf template purging

2003-12-01 Thread Joey Hess
I've noticed that unlike debconf, cdebconf does not put Owners fields in its templates.dat files. Besides making the format not really compatable with debconf's and thus breaking several tools (sigh..), this makes me wonder: How does cdebconf handle removing old templates when all questions that us

Re: install report

2003-12-01 Thread Joey Hess
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > Sounds like the extra progress bar I added to debootstrap a while ago -- > basically, what it does is fetching the size for each .deb so it can build up > a proper progress bar later. Note that this was there earlier too, there just > wasn't a progress bar for it (on a

Processed: tagging 220836

2003-12-01 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: base-config 2.0

2003-12-01 Thread Alastair McKinstry
> > >I hope to finish this up so it uses the cdebconf db for the rest of the >stuff in installer-integration, and take it further so it uss any >additonal d-i stuff it can to avoid more questions. I still need to work >out how to get the equivlant of dbootstrap_setting's KEYBD and >SERIALCONSOLE fr

Re: use of release names in d-i

2003-12-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 01.12.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 06:33: > Please can't we change this to use symbolic release names? Seconded. gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 01.12.2003 schrieb Robert Staudinger um 14:27: > INSTALL REPORT > > Debian-installer-version: 2003-11-29 > http://www.soziologie.ch/~steinlin/d-i/powerpc/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso > uname -a: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.20-8d_owen_aty128 #1 Wed Jul 16 13:04:19 > CEST 2003 ppc ppc

d-i bugs without corresponding packages/aboot-installer

2003-12-01 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, I am working on the aboot-package, which got bug #173016 assigned to it. There seems to be some yet unreleased aboot-installer-package to which the bug really belongs. Since the patch (by coincidence also from me) in #173016 is probably out of date (c.f. bug #218208 which has a similar probl

sarge-netinstall-iso, Dell Brio

2003-12-01 Thread Jim McCloskey
I was eager to try the new installer for sarge, and I also had to do an install on a Dell Brio (Celeron 733MHz, a couple of years old). So I thought I would kill two birds with one stone. I downloaded sarge-i386-netinst-iso from gluck on November 11th and burned it to CD. I got nowhere at all,

Re: install report

2003-12-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 01.12.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 03:01: > Network config found my card, but did not get a dhcp lease from vmware. > Probably a problem with my vmware, but this let me experience the > oh-so-pleasant path of dhcp failing after a long timeout, and main-menu > running it again and again whe

Re: use of release names in d-i

2003-12-01 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Please can't we change this to use symbolic release names? Seconded. I went to this topic while working on the templates. I wanted supposed to raise this subject last weekbut the compromise of Debian servers (and for myself, the creation of a new GPG k

Re: use of release names in d-i

2003-12-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Joey Hess] > Please can't we change this to use symbolic release names? Check that it work with CD installs first. I remember some problems with missing symlinks and / or debootstrap only understanding the code names. I am not sure if this template is the one used by the retrievers nor base-ins

debian installer image anyone?

2003-12-01 Thread Robert Lemmen
hi folks, i wanted to test the beta of the new debian installer, but it's located on one of the servers that are currently down (gluck.d.o). is there an image somewhere else that i can fetch, or should i just wait for gluck to come up again? cu robert -- Robert Lemmen

Re: use of release names in d-i

2003-12-01 Thread Joey Hess
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Joey Hess] > > Please can't we change this to use symbolic release names? > > Check that it work with CD installs first. I remember some problems > with missing symlinks and / or debootstrap only understanding the code > names. I am not sure if this template is the

Re: debian installer image anyone?

2003-12-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Robert Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi folks, > > i wanted to test the beta of the new debian installer, but it's located > on one of the servers that are currently down (gluck.d.o). is there an > image somewhere else that i can fetch, or should i just wait for gluck > to come up again? >

Re: AXP (alpha) install cd iso, which cd is bf2.4?

2003-12-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Flatt, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello All, > > What CD iso disk image do I use to install: Debian 3.0r1 ,bf2.4 for > my Alpha Multia? > > The i386 distro is labeled. Is the alpha cd's the same? I am still > playing with my DEC Multia and would like some of the 2.4 feat

Re: use of release names in d-i

2003-12-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 05:40:42PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > If the CDs had Release files that included the code name then we could > use that to map between the names. Unfortunatly, the CDs do not > currently have such a thing, nor does the debian archive. Huh? ] $ lynx -dump http://ftp.debian.o

Re: base-config 2.0

2003-12-01 Thread Joey Hess
Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Whats the issue? > Have you seen kbd-chooser/debian/prebaseconfig? > You can retrieve the keyboard setting from cdebconf; > I'm not sure what SERIALCONSOLE is in dbootstrap; > debian-installer/serial-console is a boolean set by > kbd-chooser saying whether or not a s

Processed: tagging 220477

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Processed: retitle 59989 to naming service (LDAP, nis+, etc) support

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Processed: tagging 212440

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Processed: closing 211246

2003-12-01 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Processed: severity of 196625 is wishlist

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Processed: retitle 59988 to naming service (LDAP, nis+, etc) support

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Processed: merging 215639 215724

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ASUS P5A-B (166 MHz) can not boot

2003-12-01 Thread Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim
FYI: Usually there is no problem to boot GNU/Linux with this old computer (e.g. Woody, Knoppix, RH, et. al.). However, the new network installer (beta 9 November) does not recognize the CDROM (/dev/hdd). Also, the boot diskette does not recognize the CDROM :( regards, -- Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrah

AXP (alpha) install cd iso, which cd is bf2.4?

2003-12-01 Thread Flatt, David
Hello All, What CD iso disk image do I use to install: Debian 3.0r1 ,bf2.4 for my Alpha Multia? The i386 distro is labeled. Is the alpha cd's the same? I am still playing with my DEC Multia and would like some of the 2.4 features on this little server. WiFi to name one of them.