d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread John
I'm attempting a network install of Sarge. I PXE-booted off my LAN. Since my local mirror is incomplete I'm installing through my modem. I've discovered that d-i is downloading lots of stuff it won't need - pcmcia stuff, firewire stuff etc. Worse, it's downloading modules for two kernels. Since i

Re: d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting John ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm attempting a network install of Sarge. I PXE-booted off my LAN. > > Since my local mirror is incomplete I'm installing through my modem. > > I've discovered that d-i is downloading lots of stuff it won't need - > pcmcia stuff, firewire stuff etc. Well, be

Processed: Re: Bug#257964: countrychooser: Translation breaks the countries names ordering

2004-07-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > severity 257964 wishlist Bug#257964: countrychooser: Translation breaks the countries names ordering Severity set to `wishlist'. > reassign 251418 countrychooser Bug#251418: Should sort translated choices alphabetically Bug reassigned from package `cde

Bug#257964: countrychooser: Translation breaks the countries names ordering

2004-07-07 Thread Christian Perrier
severity 257964 wishlist reassign 251418 countrychooser clone 251418 -1 -2 reassign -1 po-debconf reassign -2 debconf retitle -1 Please generate Indices fields automatically for use by cdebconf (and debconf later)) retitle -2 Please support the use of Indices fields for sorting Select/Multiselect

Re: d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread John
Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting John ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm attempting a network install of Sarge. I PXE-booted off my LAN. Since my local mirror is incomplete I'm installing through my modem. I've discovered that d-i is downloading lots of stuff it won't need - pcmcia stuff, firewire stuff etc

Re: preparations for 2.6.7-3

2004-07-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:39:40AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > Jens, will you upload powerpc 2.6.7-3 too ? -2 will not be buildable > > because of the asfs patch move i believe ? > > That's okay, the asfs patch moved in 2.6.7-2 already. Ah, ok. > > I need

Re: d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread John
Christian Perrier wrote: Well, as mentioned above the general design choices have been made for having d-i as versatile as possible. This includes the choice of downloading a lot of stuff, sure. A part of this design choice is motivated by the fact that people with low bandwidth will probably use

d-i doc: boot parameters

2004-07-07 Thread John
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05.html has this link: 5.1.7. i386 Boot Parameters which leads to the top of http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s01.html#id2513778 The info I expected to see is at http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s02.html 5.2. Boot Paramete

d-i doc: 5.2. Boot Parameters

2004-07-07 Thread John
NSTALL_MEDIA_DEV This is silent on what the alternatives are. It gives one example, but how does one specify USB? CD? firewire? Network location? ATA disk? SCSI disk? What should the media contents be? a USB drive could be an entire Debian mirror - forget thumbdrives and such, I have a 40 Gbyt

d-i daily, boot problems

2004-07-07 Thread John
These are the 2.4 files: 2450662 Jul 7 02:33 initrd.gz 1208 Jul 7 02:33 initrd.list 3686400 Jul 7 02:33 mini.iso 811877 Jul 7 02:33 vmlinuz This produces numerous modprobe messages that it can't find /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-386/modules.dep and then stops. The corresponding 2

Processed: severity of 257969 is minor

2004-07-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > severity 257969 minor Bug#257969: netcfg: No "ok" button when statically configuring the network Severity set to `minor'. > End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (

Bug#255388: debian installer not install LG HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4480B

2004-07-07 Thread Andre Felipe Machado
Hello, Many thanks for your message. I tried to install with both options, kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x, expert modes. I am using Conectiva Linux 9.0. The modules.conf is below. You could see at the end the ide, mod-sr and ide-scsi modules. Please, also take a look at the fstab sent at another previous

Bug#231836: marked as done (regression with plip)

2004-07-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#257771: i386 netboot: 2.4 garbled, 2.6 broken

2004-07-07 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 06:53:47 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: >Quoting Herbert Kaminski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] >> Machine: plain vanilla i386 from parts >> Processor: AMD K6-2 500MHz >> Memory: 96MB >> Root Device: 40GB IDE /dev/hdb1 >> Root Size/partition table: 39GB ext3 on hdb1, 512 MB swap o

Re: a little user testing

2004-07-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 06.07.2004 schrieb Nathan Hurst um 7:36: > Hello, > I did some simple user testing yesterday using some windows experienced, > linux newbie people to install debian using the new sarge installer. I > watched and took notes, but didn't get involved. Here are my results: I think that

Re: d-i daily, boot problems

2004-07-07 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 July 2004 10:49, John wrote: > I'm PXE-booting. Here's the stanza, the same in each case: > label 4 > kernel images/sarge/vmlinuz > append initrd=images/sarge/net-initrd.gz vga=6 > You may need to add 'devfs=mount root

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2004-07-07 Thread Pope
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Bug#257771: i386 netboot: 2.4 garbled, 2.6 broken

2004-07-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Herbert Kaminski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > But then, installing the base system fails. VC4, shows an error message > about a syntax error in base-installer.postinst: 'Unexpected "fi" > expecting "then"' . > I made a screenshot, see http://www.medvillage.de/debian/ . This bug seem to have b

Bug#258055: (no subject)

2004-07-07 Thread Aurimas Mikalauskas
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: July 5, 2004 http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/ia64/current/sarge-ia64-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux vanile 2.4.26-1-itanium-smp #1 SMP Tue Jul 5 20:39:36 MDT 2004 ia64 unknown (time could be wrong) Date: Jul 5, 2004 20:39

Re: a little user testing

2004-07-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Gaudenz Steinlin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > 7) general feeling that the installer asked too many questions. > Do you know of any particular question that could be avoided? I guess this is related to the user choosing low priority...or "expert" mode. > > 9) being in Australia, the timezones

Re: a little user testing

2004-07-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
[ Please keep that on list!!] Am Mit, den 07.07.2004 schrieb Ben Kinder um 14:01: > Why not using Synaptic at installation time? Because you can't run Synaptic without X probably :-) > > > > --- Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Die, den 06.07.2004 schrieb Nathan Hurst um 7:36

Processing of base-installer_0.091_powerpc.changes

2004-07-07 Thread Archive Administrator
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Processing of rootskel_0.83_i386.changes

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base-installer_0.091_powerpc.changes ACCEPTED

2004-07-07 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: base-installer_0.091.dsc to pool/main/b/base-installer/base-installer_0.091.dsc base-installer_0.091.tar.gz to pool/main/b/base-installer/base-installer_0.091.tar.gz base-installer_0.091_powerpc.udeb to pool/main/b/base-installer/base-installer_0.091_powerpc.udeb Announcing to [EMA

Re: d-i daily, boot problems

2004-07-07 Thread John
Frans Pop wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 July 2004 10:49, John wrote: I'm PXE-booting. Here's the stanza, the same in each case: label 4 kernel images/sarge/vmlinuz append initrd=images/sarge/net-initrd.gz vga=6 You may need to add 'devfs=mount

Re: d-i daily, boot problems

2004-07-07 Thread John
Frans Pop wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 July 2004 10:49, John wrote: I'm PXE-booting. Here's the stanza, the same in each case: label 4 kernel images/sarge/vmlinuz append initrd=images/sarge/net-initrd.gz vga=6 You may need to add 'devfs=mount

rootskel_0.83_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2004-07-07 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: rootskel-bootfloppy_0.83_i386.udeb to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel-bootfloppy_0.83_i386.udeb rootskel-locale_0.83_i386.udeb to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel-locale_0.83_i386.udeb rootskel_0.83.dsc to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel_0.83.dsc rootskel_0.83.tar.gz to pool/main/r/root

greetings.

2004-07-07 Thread Ben Kinder
Hello all, I have recently joined the mailing list and would like to request some mentoring in helping out on the debian boot project. Where do I start? What do I have to know in advance before omitting such pretentious statements? ;) Is there any coding needed what so ever? Etc.. Ofcou

Fwd: greetings.

2004-07-07 Thread Sivan
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 06:16:36 -0700 (PDT) > Subject: greetings. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hello all, > > I have recently joined the mailing list and would > like to request some mentoring in helping out on the > debian boot project. > > > Where do I start? What do I have to know in > ad

Re: d-i daily, boot problems

2004-07-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 08:18:18PM +0800, John wrote: > I guess that improved things. Now it can't find > /var/lib/cdebconf/{questions,templates}.dat and is saying so repeatedly. Sounds like an out-of-date rootskel. Unfortunately you didn't say which image you were using. We need the URL from whi

Re: d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 15:34:56 +0800, John wrote: >Even if bandwidth didn't cause problems, the fact that it downloads so >much junk means I can't install in 64 Mbytes. This must be a problem of your special setup. Using the files 'netboot.initrd.gz' and 'vmlinuz' from http://people.debian.org/~

Re: d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread Herbert Kaminski
correction to my mail just sent a few minutes ago: the files I download are vmlinuz and initrd.gz, not netboot.initrd.gz sorry ;-) Herbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

HELP! Where is dselect in 2nd stage installation????

2004-07-07 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The title says it all. I just did an unstable PXE-netboot installation (priority medium) and saw the new tasksel. Very nice, sure. The 'manual selection' option gives me aptitude. But I _like_ dselect. It's clean, straightforward, easy (once you kno

2.6 installations: display problems

2004-07-07 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've just downloaded the netboot installation files (20040706) from: - - 2.4: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot - - 2.6: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/2.6/ If I PXE-boot with the 2.6 kernel, the transl

Bug#258055: (no subject)

2004-07-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 03:08:28PM +0300, Aurimas Mikalauskas wrote: > And of course, the /dev/ida/c0d0p1 is not a block device, it doesn't > even exist. The partition list looks like this: > > /dev/ida/disc0/part1 on /target type ext2 (rw) > /dev/ida/disc0/part3 on /target/home type ext2 (rw) > /

Re: HELP! Where is dselect in 2nd stage installation????

2004-07-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 04:15:41PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > I just did an unstable PXE-netboot installation (priority medium) and saw the > new tasksel. Very nice, sure. > The 'manual selection' option gives me aptitude. > > But I _like_ dselect. It's clean, straightforward, easy (once you know

Re: d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread Joey Hess
John wrote: > Worse, it's downloading modules for two kernels. Since it booted a 2.4 > kernel, it can't possibly use 2.6 modules. The installer should not do that. Send us your /var/log/syslog from inside the installer, or /var/log/debian-installer/syslog from the installed system. > More, my bo

Re: d-i daily, boot problems

2004-07-07 Thread Joey Hess
John wrote: > These are the 2.4 files: > 2450662 Jul 7 02:33 initrd.gz >1208 Jul 7 02:33 initrd.list > 3686400 Jul 7 02:33 mini.iso > 811877 Jul 7 02:33 vmlinuz > > This produces numerous modprobe messages that it can't find > /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-386/modules.dep and the

Re: edge of the sky

2004-07-07 Thread Tommie
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Re: HELP! Where is dselect in 2nd stage installation????

2004-07-07 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > The title says it all. > > I just did an unstable PXE-netboot installation (priority medium) and saw the > new tasksel. Very nice, sure. > The 'manual selection' option gives me aptitude. > > But I _like_ dselect. It's clean, straightforward, easy (once you know it ;-) > and

sarge netinst bug with cpqarray

2004-07-07 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
[Please CC to me, I'm not on the list] Hello! I tried installing sarge/testing to Compaq Proliant DL360 server today. I grabbed sarge-i386-netinst.iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/current/. The iso image seems to be created 05-Jul-2004 22:52. The "Compaq Integr

Processed: tagging 258055, retitle 258055 to only includes /dev/ida on i386, needed on ia64 also ...

2004-07-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.7.95.1 > tags 258055 d-i Bug#258055: (no subject) There were no tags set. Tags added: d-i > retitle 258055 only includes /dev/ida on i386, needed on ia64 also Bug#258055: (no subject) Chang

Re: d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread John
Herbert Kaminski wrote: On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 15:34:56 +0800, John wrote: Even if bandwidth didn't cause problems, the fact that it downloads so much junk means I can't install in 64 Mbytes. This must be a problem of your special setup. Using the files 'netboot.initrd.gz' and 'vmlinuz' from As I

Re: d-i daily, boot problems

2004-07-07 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 July 2004 16:26, Joey Hess wrote: > > I doubt that it's loading the whole initrd in either case. Pass > initrd_size=1 or so. Hmmm. What tftp server are you using? You will need a TFTP server with 'tsize' support. On a Debian GNU/Li

Re: d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread John
Herbert Kaminski wrote: correction to my mail just sent a few minutes ago: the files I download are vmlinuz and initrd.gz, not netboot.initrd.gz I'm using the netboot images. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#258055: (no subject)

2004-07-07 Thread Joey Hess
Aurimas Mikalauskas wrote: > After installing the base system, kernel install reports an error, > that the kernel 'kernel-image-2.4.26-1-mckinley-smp' could not be > installed and it says to check /var/log/messages for errors. That's > what I found in the log: > > The following NEW packages will b

Re: d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread John
Joey Hess wrote: John wrote: Worse, it's downloading modules for two kernels. Since it booted a 2.4 kernel, it can't possibly use 2.6 modules. The installer should not do that. Send us your /var/log/syslog from inside the installer, or /var/log/debian-installer/syslog from the installed system. N

Re: sarge netinst bug with cpqarray

2004-07-07 Thread Joey Hess
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > "Unable to install GRUB in (hd0) > Executing 'grub-install (hd0)' failed. > This is a fatal error" > > and in the console 3: > > "Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. > /dev/ida/c0d0p2 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive." > > that c0d0

Processed: tagging 258010, cloning 258010, reassign -1 to discover1-data ..., cloning 258010 ... ... ... ...

2004-07-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.7.95.1 > tags 258010 d-i Bug#258010: AMD64 install report for HP DL585, cciss detection problem There were no tags set. Tags added: d-i > clone 258010 -1 Bug#258010: AMD64 install report fo

Bug#257828: marked as done ([INTL:es] update to base-config.8)

2004-07-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:02:02 -0400 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#257828: fixed in base-config 2.35 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now y

Bug#258010: AMD64 install report for HP DL585, cciss detection problem

2004-07-07 Thread Joey Hess
Mattias Wadenstein wrote: > Then I tried to do an lvm install, only to be greeted by "no physical > volumes available" (paraphrased from memory) no matter what I did. So I > went for a guided partition creaton and then converted the large /home to > an lvm2 physical volume after the install. > > I

Re: d-i daily, boot problems

2004-07-07 Thread John
Joey Hess wrote: John wrote: These are the 2.4 files: 2450662 Jul 7 02:33 initrd.gz 1208 Jul 7 02:33 initrd.list 3686400 Jul 7 02:33 mini.iso 811877 Jul 7 02:33 vmlinuz This produces numerous modprobe messages that it can't find /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-386/modules.dep and then st

Re: 2.6 installations: display problems

2004-07-07 Thread Kenshi Muto
Hi, At 7 Jul 04 14:21:55 GMT, Frans Pop wrote: > I've just downloaded the netboot installation files (20040706) from: > - - 2.4: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot > - - 2.6: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/2.6/ > > If I PXE-boot with the 2.6 kernel,

Processing of base-config_2.35_i386.changes

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Processing of rootskel_0.84_i386.changes

2004-07-07 Thread Archive Administrator
rootskel_0.84_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: rootskel_0.84.dsc rootskel_0.84.tar.gz rootskel_0.84_i386.udeb rootskel-bootfloppy_0.84_i386.udeb rootskel-locale_0.84_i386.udeb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: HELP! Where is dselect in 2nd stage installation????

2004-07-07 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 July 2004 16:24, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 04:15:41PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Why not install nothing and then run dselect by hand? Yes, that's what I did in the end. However I think the text in the main screen n

Re: d-i doc: boot parameters

2004-07-07 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 July 2004 10:22, John wrote: > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05.html has this link: > 5.1.7. i386 Boot Parameters > > which leads to the top of > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s01.html#id2513778 > > The

Status of various disc partitioners ?

2004-07-07 Thread Karl Hegbloom
What is the status and usability of the various disc partitioners in d- i? I realize that 'partman' is the one that gets used by a non-expert install, and that in an expert install, 'autopartkit' is an option. I think I see that 'partman' supports some kind of recipe. Is that right? What I'm lo

Re: 2.6 installations: display problems

2004-07-07 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 July 2004 16:54, Kenshi Muto wrote: > If this image uses Linux 2.6.7, it's maybe #257970. Yes, kernel is 2.6.7. Thanks for your reaction. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA7B8Ugm/Kwh6ICoQRApurAJ4

rootskel_0.84_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2004-07-07 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: rootskel-bootfloppy_0.84_i386.udeb to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel-bootfloppy_0.84_i386.udeb rootskel-locale_0.84_i386.udeb to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel-locale_0.84_i386.udeb rootskel_0.84.dsc to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel_0.84.dsc rootskel_0.84.tar.gz to pool/main/r/root

base-config_2.35_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2004-07-07 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: base-config_2.35.dsc to pool/main/b/base-config/base-config_2.35.dsc base-config_2.35.tar.gz to pool/main/b/base-config/base-config_2.35.tar.gz base-config_2.35_all.deb to pool/main/b/base-config/base-config_2.35_all.deb Announcing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Closing bugs: 257828 Thank

Re: install report

2004-07-07 Thread Karl Hegbloom
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 19:57 +, digital fredy wrote: > 4 put rescue mode for recover the system I would like to see a small DFS (Debian From Scratch) Live-CD on the same disc as d-i, so that it can be dual-booted to either the installer or a rescue CD. Or, perhaps the rescue system could have

Re: sarge netinst bug with cpqarray

2004-07-07 Thread Finn-Arne Johansen
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:07:24AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > "Unable to install GRUB in (hd0) > > Executing 'grub-install (hd0)' failed. > > This is a fatal error" > > > > and in the console 3: > > > > "Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. >

Bug#257778: Screen size of fbcon boot option?

2004-07-07 Thread Karl Hegbloom
Perhaps a boot option could be added that has it call 'fbset' to set the fbcon to 104x768 or 800x600 depending? Some of the live-CD's have a kernel option to set the screen size, and others are using a different kernel line in the boot loader to set it from the kernel command line with the vga= op

Bug#258098: partman disk format prompting

2004-07-07 Thread Stephen R Marenka
Package: partman Version: 40 Severity: wishlist I'd like to see better prompting when choosing to format a partition. After the usage method is set to format, prompting should be automatic for file system and mount point (ala partconf). Another option would be to default the file system and pe

Debian Installer meeting summary : not yet

2004-07-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Due to high work load during the whole day and no free time in the evening today, I will be unable to make the summary for the Debian Installer meeting which was held on Tuesday July 6th. This may happen later...or may not happen, if I reach the week-end with no more free time..:-) -- -- To

Re: 2.6 installations: display problems

2004-07-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > If I PXE-boot with the 2.6 kernel, the translations in languagechooser for RTL > languages or languages containing accents are not displayed correctly (square > blocks for non-ascii characters). > The same happens with the 20040705 sid_d-i netinst ISO.

Bug#258109: netcfg-static: IUCV not detected as a point-to-point connection

2004-07-07 Thread Adam Thornton
Package: netcfg-static Version: 0.72 Severity: important Tags: patch IUCV is a point-to-point connection type, but netcfg-static was not detecting it as such. I have included a patch that fixes this. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (700

Bug#258108: s390-netdevice: IUCV not implemented

2004-07-07 Thread Adam Thornton
Package: s390-netdevice Version: 0.05 Severity: important Tags: patch I've implemented IUCV support for S/390. It seems to work--I'm doing an installation with it now. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing') Architecture: s390

Bug#258108: s390-netdevice: IUCV not implemented

2004-07-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Adam Thornton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > +Type: boolean > +Default: true > +_Description: Is this configuration correct? > + The configured parameter is: > + peer = ${peer} I'm not completely happy with such template. This too much relies on the long description being displayed *after* the

Bug#258108: s390-netdevice: IUCV not implemented

2004-07-07 Thread Adam Thornton
I forgot an fclose. Here's an updated patch. Adam --- netdevice.c.orig2004-07-07 14:50:40.0 -0400 +++ netdevice.c 2004-07-07 14:49:16.0 -0400 @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ static int device_selected, device_ctc_protocol, device_qeth_lcs_port; static char *device_qeth_portname, *device

Bug#258117: install-report

2004-07-07 Thread Ken Schweigert
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Beta 4 -- http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ uname -a: Linux debian-www 2.6.3-1-386 #2 Tue Feb 24 20:20:23 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: Jun 17, 2004 Method: Booted off of installer CD and select the 2.6 kernel

Bug#258119: Debian Installer Reports

2004-07-07 Thread SOUDA Hikaru
Package: installation-reports (B (BDebian-installer-version: beta 4 from cdimage.debian.org on 2004/07/03 (Buname -a: Linux soudapc 2.4.25-1-386 #2 Wed Apr 14 19:38:08 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux (BDate: 2004/07/04 (BMethod: (BInstalled using 110MB CD image. Network install from ftp.jp.debian.or

Bug#258133: base-installer: syntax error in postinst

2004-07-07 Thread Adam Thornton
Package: base-installer Version: 0.090 Severity: important line 680 of base-installer.postinst should be if [ "$subarch" != none ]; then (the "; then" is missing in the downloaded file). This is the version that is getting downloaded for an "unstable" build on S/390 at about 3:00 PM C

Bug#258136: Allow "reboot" action to halt instead

2004-07-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Package: di-utils-reboot Severity: wishlist Tags: patch I find it convenient sometimes (especially when using UML) to have d-i halt the system as its final step, rather than rebooting it. Rebooting in UML re-execs the kernel with exactly the same command line, which causes the installer to be sta

Bug#258136: Allow "reboot" action to halt instead

2004-07-07 Thread Adam Thornton
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 15:44, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Package: di-utils-reboot > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > I find it convenient sometimes (especially when using UML) to have d-i halt > the system as its final step, rather than rebooting it. This will also be very useful for S/390, for t

Re: greetings.

2004-07-07 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 06:16:36AM -0700, Ben Kinder wrote: >2) kindly provide me with the link. Please read the information at [0] [1]. [0] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ [1] http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianInstallerMeetings Regards, Anibal Monsalve Salazar -- .''`. Deb

Bug#258133: marked as done (base-installer: syntax error in postinst)

2004-07-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:21:04 -0700 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line fixed in 0.091 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to re

Processed: discover1-data lists oss instead of alsa sound modules

2004-07-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tags 255505 +wontfix Bug#255505: 10b9:5451 should use ali5451 module There were no tags set. Tags added: wontfix > Thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Deb

Bug#258108: Acknowledgement (s390-netdevice: IUCV not implemented)

2004-07-07 Thread Adam Thornton
Yet another tweak to the patch: this one writes module option information to /etc/modutils/options. I really don't know where the line "option iucv0 iucv=" should go, or how that's going to get automatically moved from the installer system to the installer system. What's the right answer for thi

Bug#258136: Allow "reboot" action to halt instead

2004-07-07 Thread Joey Hess
Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Anyway, here's a patch: > > http://www.no-name-yet.com/patches/debian-installer-utils.reboot-halt.diff So the idea is to set di-utils-reboot/halt at the boot line or similar, and never really ask the question? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#256569: marked as done (installation report, SATA not working on daily build)

2004-07-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 7 Jul 2004 23:39:45 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line fixed in discover1-data_1.2004.02.08-7 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now y

Processing of kbd-chooser_0.58_i386.changes

2004-07-07 Thread Archive Administrator
kbd-chooser_0.58_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: kbd-chooser_0.58.dsc kbd-chooser_0.58.tar.gz kbd-chooser_0.58_i386.udeb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Processed: Re: Bug#257356: installation-reports: more sata problems

2004-07-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 257356 hw-detect Bug#257356: installation-reports: more sata problems Bug reassigned from package `discover1-data' to `hw-detect'. > Thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system admini

kbd-chooser_0.58_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2004-07-07 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: kbd-chooser_0.58.dsc to pool/main/k/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser_0.58.dsc kbd-chooser_0.58.tar.gz to pool/main/k/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser_0.58.tar.gz kbd-chooser_0.58_i386.udeb to pool/main/k/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser_0.58_i386.udeb Announcing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for your cont

kbd-chooser override disparity

2004-07-07 Thread Debian Installer
There are disparities between your recently accepted upload and the override file for the following file(s): kbd-chooser_0.58_i386.udeb: package says priority is standard, override says optional. Either the package or the override file is incorrect. If you think the override is correct and the p

Bug#257356: installation-reports: more sata problems

2004-07-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
reassign 257356 hw-detect Thanks This is not a problem in discover1-data. The device kernel module for this SATA device is correctly listed. If this is a real bug, it's probably in hw-detect. On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 01:19:39AM +0200, Anders Lennartsson wrote: > drive. I have not tested to continu

Bug#258136: Allow "reboot" action to halt instead

2004-07-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 05:32:44PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Anyway, here's a patch: > > > > http://www.no-name-yet.com/patches/debian-installer-utils.reboot-halt.diff > > So the idea is to set di-utils-reboot/halt at the boot line or similar, > and never really ask the

Bug#257982: missing firewire controller

2004-07-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:19:46PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Package: discover1-data > Version: 1.2004.02.08-8 > Severity: normal > > My test laptop has firewire, and discover1 doesn't load the controller. > It's this item in lspci: > > :02:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IE

Bug#258084: marked as done (missing pci ids for tg3 and cciss)

2004-07-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 8 Jul 2004 00:17:31 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#258010: AMD64 install report for HP DL585, cciss detection problem has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If

Bug#258010: AMD64 install report for HP DL585, cciss detection problem

2004-07-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 07:56:41AM +0200, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: > Output of lspci and lspci -n: > :02:04.0 RAID bus controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart Array 5i/532 > (rev 01) > :02:06.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit > Ethernet (rev 10)

Bug#228910: marked as done (debina installer beta2 on GA-8I875)

2004-07-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 8 Jul 2004 00:21:32 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line discover issue probably fixed has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your respo

Bug#256295: discover1-data: Unhandled HW on my laptop (Thinkpad X30)

2004-07-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 12:07:50AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > :00:1e.0 Class 0604: 8086:2448 (rev 42) > :00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 42) > ? I don't think this needs a kernel module. > > :00:1f.0 Class 0601: 8086:248c (rev 02) > :00:1

Bug#256472: discover1-data: Some devices are unhandled for IBM Thinkpad T30

2004-07-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 12:19:59PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > 00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:1a30 (rev 04) > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04) > 80861a30bridge ignore 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge dunno. > 00:1e.0 C

patchs for lowmem <=32Mb in i386

2004-07-07 Thread sylvain ferriol
hello i will not be here next week, and i don't know if i have to commit this patch before RC1 so i attach the patches for S10lowmem and anna.c file test it for other arches, joey will decide to put it or not for RC1 bye sylvain Index: S10lowmem ===

Bug#257982: missing firewire controller

2004-07-07 Thread Joey Hess
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:19:46PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Package: discover1-data > > Version: 1.2004.02.08-8 > > Severity: normal > > > > My test laptop has firewire, and discover1 doesn't load the controller. > > It's this item in lspci: > > > > :02:0a.0 FireW

Re: d-i doc: boot parameters

2004-07-07 Thread John
Frans Pop wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 July 2004 10:22, John wrote: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05.html has this link: 5.1.7. i386 Boot Parameters which leads to the top of http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s01.html#id2513778 T

Bug#258176: Support for UML ubd devices

2004-07-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Package: libdebian-installer Severity: wishlist Tags: patch With this patch, di_system_devfs_map_from can generate correct mappings for UML ubd devices. http://uml-goodness.no-name-yet.com/patches/libdebian-installer.ubd.diff -- System Information: Debian Release: unstable APT prefers unstable

Re: d-i daily, boot problems

2004-07-07 Thread John
Frans Pop wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 July 2004 16:26, Joey Hess wrote: I doubt that it's loading the whole initrd in either case. Pass initrd_size=1 or so. Hmmm. What tftp server are you using? You will need a TFTP server with 'tsize' support. On a Deb

d-i: http problem.

2004-07-07 Thread John
As I mentioned in another thread I planned to do, I've implemented transparent proxy for the install. Sadly, it does't work. Here is why: 1089246525.683 19 192.168.9.133 TCP_DENIED/400 1523 GET /debian//dists/sarge/Release - NONE/- text/html HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request Server: squid/2.5.STABLE

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