Proposal for completing the builds web page

2004-06-26 Thread Christian Perrier
Now that Joey pointed me to recent changes in the main d-i page, I think that one is clear enough and no major change is needed to it. The daily builds page may be completed, though and this is the place we can intriduce Vince McIntyre suggestions I received last week-end and talked about at the d

Re: Bug#256263: trival patch

2004-06-26 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:43:29PM -0400, Warren A. Layton wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 09:41:47PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > > > > > Just let us, debian-boot, known what we can expect. > > Pardon me for the confusion. What I meant is that yes, yaboot-1.3.12-2 > will have an increase

Bug#256346: Wrong 'Test-lang' fields in italian and spanish tasks

2004-06-26 Thread Recai Oktas
Package: tasksel Severity: normal Tags: l10n patch Please find the patch attached. -- roktas diff -ruN tasksel.orig/tasks/italian tasksel/tasks/italian --- tasksel.orig/tasks/italian 2004-06-24 02:05:23.0 +0300 +++ tasksel/tasks/italian 2004-06-26 14:06:06.0 +0300 @@ -1,5

Bug#255189: partman-auto: should use LVM

2004-06-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.06.25.1808 +0200]: > On the other hand, if I'm installing a system with d-i, I probably > don't want to use lvm. I prefer to keep my systems simple and > I don't need the complication of lvm on them. This is a personal > preference, and maybe I should

Bug#255128: cdrom-detect: Bad handling of mount error

2004-06-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:41:53AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Are you thinking like: ... > Yes, something like that.. ... > I'd say this is unnecessaty, stderr is already intercepted. ... > Luckily all stderr is sent to /var/log/messages anyway. Hmmm... Interesting. > Let's

Pre-seeding XFree settings for keyboard in Debian Installer

2004-06-26 Thread Christian Perrier
Currently, we probably all know that choosing a non US keyboard during Debian Installer and then installing X, all this at high debconf priority (with X configuration debconf questions about keyboard *not* asked) will end with a strange system where the user has chosen, say a french keyboard.bu

Bug#255189: partman-auto: should use LVM

2004-06-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 01:45:53PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.06.25.1808 +0200]: > > On the other hand, if I'm installing a system with d-i, I probably > > don't want to use lvm. I prefer to keep my systems simple and > > I don't need the complic

Re: Pre-seeding XFree settings for keyboard in Debian Installer

2004-06-26 Thread Recai Oktas
* Christian Perrier [2004-06-26 14:33:12+0200] > Currently, we probably all know that choosing a non US keyboard during > Debian Installer and then installing X, all this at high debconf > priority (with X configuration debconf questions about keyboard *not* > asked) will end with a strange system

Bug#256354: hd inst on i386 failed

2004-06-26 Thread Andreas Barth
l three cases there was a final kernel panic. lilo-configuration is: image=/boot/d-i-20040626/vmlinuz label=d-i initrd=/boot/d-i-20040626/initrd.gz append="devfs=mount,dall" optional I'm now going to try my luck with the netinst.iso of beta-4. Cheers, Andi -- ht

Bug#256354: hd inst on i386 failed

2004-06-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
8388608 You probably need a ramdisk_size= parameter. You can obtain the value with ramdisk_size=$(expr $(zcat "$1" | wc --bytes) / 1024) $1 = the initrd file > In all three cases there was a final kernel panic. > > lilo-configuration is: > image=/boot/d-i-20040626/vmlinuz >

Re: Proposal for completing the builds web page

2004-06-26 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: > Now that Joey pointed me to recent changes in the main d-i page, I > think that one is clear enough and no major change is needed to it. > > The daily builds page may be completed, though and this is the place > we can intriduce Vince McIntyre suggestions I received last

Processing of rootskel_0.77_powerpc.changes

2004-06-26 Thread Archive Administrator
rootskel_0.77_powerpc.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: rootskel_0.77.dsc rootskel_0.77.tar.gz rootskel_0.77_powerpc.udeb rootskel-bootfloppy_0.77_powerpc.udeb rootskel-locale_0.77_powerpc.udeb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon -- To UNSUBSCRI

Bug#256354: hd inst on i386 failed

2004-06-26 Thread Joey Hess
ncomplete write (-28 != 32768) 8388608 > > In all three cases there was a final kernel panic. > > lilo-configuration is: > image=/boot/d-i-20040626/vmlinuz > label=d-i > initrd=/boot/d-i-20040626/initrd.gz > append="devfs=mount,dall" > optional If

Bug#256001: marked as done (cdebconf: Fails to autoselect available text frontend)

2004-06-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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rootskel_0.77_powerpc.changes ACCEPTED

2004-06-26 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: rootskel-bootfloppy_0.77_powerpc.udeb to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel-bootfloppy_0.77_powerpc.udeb rootskel-locale_0.77_powerpc.udeb to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel-locale_0.77_powerpc.udeb rootskel_0.77.dsc to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel_0.77.dsc rootskel_0.77.tar.gz to pool

Bug#256346: marked as done (Wrong 'Test-lang' fields in italian and spanish tasks)

2004-06-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Processing of tasksel_2.02_i386.changes

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tasksel_2.02_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2004-06-26 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: tasksel_2.02.dsc to pool/main/t/tasksel/tasksel_2.02.dsc tasksel_2.02.tar.gz to pool/main/t/tasksel/tasksel_2.02.tar.gz tasksel_2.02_i386.deb to pool/main/t/tasksel/tasksel_2.02_i386.deb Announcing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Closing bugs: 256346 Thank you for your contribution to Debi

Re: Pre-seeding XFree settings for keyboard in Debian Installer

2004-06-26 Thread Kenshi Muto
At 26 Jun 04 12:33:12 GMT, Christian Perrier wrote: > As a consequence, users not aware of this will just be unable to login > as soon as their chosen password contains letters which are mapped > differently on a FR and a US keyboard (and there are a *lot*). > > This is obviously very bad and I so

Re: Giving a talk/demo of d-i at CLUG next month

2004-06-26 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 11:48:02AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > Hi, > > I've been dobbed in to give a talk on d-i at next month's CLUG meeting. > > I was planning on giving a brief blurb about the history behind the > installer (where we've come from, where we're trying to go) and then launch >

Bug#256371: discover1: [INTL:uk] Ukrainian debconf templates translation update

2004-06-26 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
Package: discover1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch l10n d-i Please update Ukrainian debconf templates translation (po file attached). Thanks -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.

Debian installation enviroment

2004-06-26 Thread debian
Hello all! I've used debian fora couple of years but actually never thought much about the installation process except to ge tmy system installed. But now I'm part of a research project and I need to find out about among other thing dbootstrap, what enviroment variables it uses and required progra

Bug#255042:

2004-06-26 Thread Stephen Roylance
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Stephen Roylance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-18 11:07]: I went back to the beta4 installer disk and the system is up and running now. When I had the problem I looked at the other virtual consoles, but You have to do it with the tc1 image and you've to do it exa

Bug#256374: Installation hangs on Compaq Presario 1220 while loading module 'ide-cd' during hardware detection for the CD-ROM drive (beta4, i386, linux26)

2004-06-26 Thread Robin Blondon
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Sarge Beta 4 110 MB CD image for i386 downloaded on June 26, 2004 from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ uname -a: Date: June 26, 2004 Method: Boot from CD-ROM Machine: Compaq Presario 1220 laptop Processor: Cyrix MediaGX 200MHz Me

Re: Pre-seeding XFree settings for keyboard in Debian Installer

2004-06-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Christian Perrier] > As a way to circumvent this, I propose that we pre-seed > xserver-xfree86 settings about keyboard, mostly > "xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/keyboard/model" and > "xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/keyboard/layout" with appropriate > values, depending on the chosen keyboar

Bug#256374: Installation hangs on Compaq Presario 1220 while loading module 'ide-cd' during hardware detection for the CD-ROM drive (beta4, i386, linux26)

2004-06-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Robin Blondon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-26 12:47]: > This problem did not appear when trying to install using the Linux 2.4 > kernel. After you've made an installation with 2.4, can you install the 2.6 package and check if you see similar problems? -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Bug#256389: installation-reports: loading scsi drivers during netboot

2004-06-26 Thread Wilfried Goesgens
Package: installation-reports Version: sarge Severity: grave Tags: sid Justification: renders package unusable Hy... I've tried no net-boot install a box with scsi-disks. ok, setting up the network environment, and which images to use took me some time to find out. But once the installer was runn

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Bug#256374: Installation hangs on Compaq Presario 1220 while loading module 'ide-cd' during hardware detection for the CD-ROM drive (beta4, i386, linux26)

2004-06-26 Thread Robin Blondon
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Robin Blondon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-26 12:47]: This problem did not appear when trying to install using the Linux 2.4 kernel. After you've made an installation with 2.4, can you install the 2.6 package and check if you see similar problems? Do you mean to

Bug#256374: Installation hangs on Compaq Presario 1220 while loading module 'ide-cd' during hardware detection for the CD-ROM drive (beta4, i386, linux26)

2004-06-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Robin Blondon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-26 15:18]: > Do you mean to upgrade the kernel to 2.6 or to try to reinstall Sarge > using the linux26 option? No, you can simply install the 2.6 kernel package after completing the installation. > I still need to figure out how to complete the instal

Bug#256374: Installation hangs on Compaq Presario 1220 while loading module 'ide-cd' during hardware detection for the CD-ROM drive (beta4, i386, linux26)

2004-06-26 Thread Per Olofsson
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 15:18 -0300, Robin Blondon wrote: > I still need to figure out how to complete the installation with 2.4. It > has a PCMCIA wireless LAN card (a Linksys WPC11) that I need to figure > out how to get the installer to recognize. It should be recognised automatically. Could

Bug#256401: modconf: location of modprobe config files changed with module-init-tools

2004-06-26 Thread Yann Bloch
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-20040626-1 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Versions of packages modconf depends on: ii modutils 2.4.26-1 Linux module utilities ii whiptai

Bug#256374: Installation hangs on Compaq Presario 1220 while loading module 'ide-cd' during hardware detection for the CD-ROM drive (beta4, i386, linux26)

2004-06-26 Thread Robin Blondon
Per Olofsson wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 15:18 -0300, Robin Blondon wrote: I still need to figure out how to complete the installation with 2.4. It has a PCMCIA wireless LAN card (a Linksys WPC11) that I need to figure out how to get the installer to recognize. It should be recognised

Bug#256374: Installation hangs on Compaq Presario 1220 while loading module 'ide-cd' during hardware detection for the CD-ROM drive (beta4, i386, linux26)

2004-06-26 Thread Per Olofsson
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 16:46 -0300, Robin Blondon wrote: > I found in bug #250596, the person had to eject and reinsert his > wireless card for it to be detected. I tried this and it worked. Is the > system supposed to be able to detect the card without needing to > reinsert the card? Yes, you

Bug#256354: hd inst on i386 failed

2004-06-26 Thread Andreas Barth
* Martin Michlmayr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040626 15:25]: > * Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-26 14:50]: > > The 2.6 boot ended with the error message: > > RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 8388608 > You probably need a ramdisk_size= parameter. You can obtain the value > with ramdi

Bug#256405: crash displaying main menu in arabic

2004-06-26 Thread Joey Hess
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: d-i I booted today's sid_d-i build from a usb stick. At the language chooser, I chose the nice new Arabic choice, and then at countrychooser, it was at the full list of contries, and I realized I din't speak Arabic, and selected the back button. At

Bug#256354: hd inst on i386 failed

2004-06-26 Thread Andreas Barth
* Martin Michlmayr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040626 15:25]: > * Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-26 14:50]: > > I'm now going to try my luck with the netinst.iso of beta-4. > Please use the images from > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/current/ > instead. The net

Processed: reassign

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Bug#248977: marked as done (tasksel: Korean task shouldn't include openoffice.org-help-en)

2004-06-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#250808: marked as done (tasksel attempts to install kdebase-audiolibs which is not available)

2004-06-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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net-boot installer question

2004-06-26 Thread John Smith
Hi All, just started using the debian-installer, got my first few systems installed with sarge through PXE and net-boot. Wanted to find out more about the inner workings and modify the first boot of the kernel. According to the instructions vmlinuz is booted with init=/linuxrc so

Re: net-boot installer question

2004-06-26 Thread Joey Hess
John Smith wrote: > just started using the debian-installer, got my first few > systems installed with sarge through PXE and net-boot. > > Wanted to find out more about the inner workings and > modify the first boot of the kernel. According to the instructions > vmlinuz is booted with

Bug#256426: SCSI fatal bug seems recent

2004-06-26 Thread Jack Carroll
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: June 19, 2004 ftp.rutgers.edu testing uname -a: Linux jeeves 2.4.25-1-586tsc #2 Wed Apr 14 20:49:50 EST 2004 i586 GNU/Linux Date: June 19, 2004 about 2200 EDT Method: How did you install? FTP download from mirror What did you

Hacking on d-i

2004-06-26 Thread John Summerfield
I'd like to make a few minor changes for my own use - specify my local mirror, maybe partition layout and such. I started out by unpacking the initrd to see what's in it, and was pretty happy to see debian-installer is a shell script: there's almost no limit to the magic one can do there on a g

Re: Proposal for completing the builds web page

2004-06-26 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > There are some typos. Other than that, one problem is that it doesn't > really talk about anything other than CD images. H, I see. It seems (at least this is my feeling) that most testers use CD images so the page reflects this. I'm not very familiar

Re: Pre-seeding XFree settings for keyboard in Debian Installer

2004-06-26 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [Christian Perrier] > > As a way to circumvent this, I propose that we pre-seed > > xserver-xfree86 settings about keyboard, mostly > > "xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/keyboard/model" and > > "xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/keyboard/layout"

Re: Giving a talk/demo of d-i at CLUG next month

2004-06-26 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 01:38:27PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > I just gave a talk about debian-installer at debian day on LinuxTag. > It's title was "debian-installer internals". You can download the slides > at http://www.soziologie.ch/~steinlin/d-i/talk/. Thanks! Very nice slides. I'll u

Re: Hacking on d-i

2004-06-26 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 01:00:32PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > I'd like to make a few minor changes for my own use - specify my local > mirror, maybe partition layout and such. > > I started out by unpacking the initrd to see what's in it, and was > pretty happy to see debian-installer is a

20040625 i386 sarge_d-i businesscard OK

2004-06-26 Thread Christian Perrier
Environment: VmWare Platform  : i386 Kernel : 2.4 Locale : da_DK Image  : businesscard Priority  : high Result : OK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

20040625 i386 sid_d-i businesscard OK

2004-06-26 Thread Christian Perrier
Environment: VmWare Platform  : i386 Kernel : 2.4 Locale : ar_EG Image  : businesscard Priority  : high Result : OK PS : Errors would have probably happen at medium priority (#256405) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Bug#256301: LVM in Beta 4

2004-06-26 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 01:37:54AM +0200, Leszek wrote: > > Yesterday I've tried to use Beta 4 on my friend's comp; the problem was > that upon selecting a root partition for a format and setting up a swap > part. , it started bugging me about LVM. No matter which option I went for > ( and I've

Bug#256405: crash displaying main menu in arabic

2004-06-26 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Some experimentation and it looks like the problem is just with showing > the current d-i main menu, localised to Arabic. I can reproduce the same > problem by booting in expert mode, selecting Arabic, and pressing enter; > when it tries to draw the main me