Re: trying to create a custom sarge isntaller

2004-12-20 Thread Dick Visser
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Joey Hess wrote: > > I am stuck here, but this may be because I have not alot experience in > > building packages. > > This was fixed in version 0.69 of linux-kernel-di-i386-2.6. Aha! Now it builds udebs fine :) Strange, but 0.69 was in unstable, and I had my system set to us

164lx sarge rc2 installer

2004-12-20 Thread Bernd Krueger-Knauber
Hi together, I'm a Alpha newbie and just managed to install SRM on our 164lx. (as recomended) Now if I try to boot the netinst cd or boot via netboot, I always got: aboot: Can't load kernel. Memory at fc31 - fc57170f (chunk 0) is Busy (Reserved) I found a mail above a DS25 with

Re: Problems with d-i RC2 on BW G3 R2

2004-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:55:05PM +0100, Stephane Louise wrote: The right place for this kind of thing is the debian-boot mailing list, CCing there. More precisely, you should have made an installation report. > Hi, > > I tried to test the debian installer RC2 on my computers at home. It > wen

Re: Re: trying to create a custom sarge isntaller

2004-12-20 Thread Daniel Dickinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've had the same probem using svn co svn://svn.debian.org/d-i/tags/d-i/rc2 This is supposed to be rc2 but it doesn't build due to 'some modules are in more than one package' as the first poster mentioned. What am I doing wrong, if anything. If this is

Bug#286467: sparcstation lx install 20041218 image -- kernel oops at end

2004-12-20 Thread Blars Blarson
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 20041218 http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/sparc/20041219/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux blast 2.4.27-1-sparc32 #1 Tue Aug 24 01:05:41 PDT 2004 sparc GNU/Linux Date: 2004-12-19 22:00 Method: How d

driver disk feature

2004-12-20 Thread Dick Visser
Hi While working on a custom sarge installer, I realized that it would be much easier to have some possibility to add my custom module during the install process. I know that woody had this feature (driver disk), but I cannot seem to find it anymore in sarge? thanks, -- **** Dick Vis

Re: Re: trying to create a custom sarge isntaller

2004-12-20 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Dickinson wrote: > What am I doing wrong, if anything. If this is what it looks like, > which is that rc2 in svn is not the rc2 that was released, this is not > good from a version control perpective. It is the rc2 that was released, but the debs in testing have changed in the meantime. >

Bug#283303: Analysis and possible workaround

2004-12-20 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 10:46:05AM -0500, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > No, this bug does not exists if the swap partition is not the first on the > disk. However, as indicated in the bug trail (see my message with subject > "[sparc] updated parted_server.c patch"), everything works fine if the > cha

Building current Debian Installer

2004-12-20 Thread Brian Fromme
Hi, I am trying to get a build environment for DI, but I can't find the packages: initrd-preseed and preseed-common I read the DebianWiki for DebianInstallerBuild and updated the build dependencies as directed by dpkg-checkbuilddeps. Then I run: % make build_netboot Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org

adding custom module - other aproach

2004-12-20 Thread Dick Visser
Hi again Being determined to get it done, I decided to go via the "modify existing cd image" way, as described at http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianInstallerModify Here is what I did: * compiled a 2.6.8-1-386 kernel, exactly the same config as sarge kernel, except my custom scsi module is

Re: Building current Debian Installer

2004-12-20 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 December 2004 18:02, Brian Fromme wrote: > I am trying to get a build environment for DI, but I can't find the > packages: initrd-preseed and preseed-common Maybe because they are only available in unstable? /me thinks you could have

Re: trying to create a custom sarge isntaller

2004-12-20 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Joey Hess wrote: Daniel Dickinson wrote: What am I doing wrong, if anything. If this is what it looks like, which is that rc2 in svn is not the rc2 that was released, this is not good from a version control perpective. It is the rc2 that was released, but the debs in testing have changed in the m

Does preseed/file work or did I something wrong?

2004-12-20 Thread Dennis Stampfer
Hey, on Saturday (build 20041018), I tried to load a preseed.cfg from floppy with d-i sarge netinstall: "linux preseed/file=/floppy/preseed.cfg" the preseed.cfg itself contained two options pasted from the examples I found in the manual. The installer could not load the file, it "may be corru

Re: Building current Debian Installer

2004-12-20 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Brian Fromme wrote: Hi, I am trying to get a build environment for DI, but I can't find the packages: initrd-preseed and preseed-common I read the DebianWiki for DebianInstallerBuild and updated the build dependencies as directed by dpkg-checkbuilddeps. Then I run: Is there some other magic pl

Bug#286534: (no subject)

2004-12-20 Thread Eric Carlsen
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: sarge netinst installer (RC2) from debian installer home page uname -a: Date: 12/20/04 Method: I tried to install from the netinst cd. Machine: Dell Precision 340 Workstation Processor: Pentium 4 2.40 GHz Memory: 1 GB Root Device: IDE 80

Bug#286539: tasksel: Missing languages in Makefile

2004-12-20 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: tasksel Version: 2.18.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch l10n I've just discovered that the translations of tasks descriptions and the phrases used by tasksel are only enabled when languages are listed in the Makefile. Thus, for a few languages for which a translation was available, no trans

[D-I Manual] Proposal for new entities and entity translation (was: "Sarge" and "sarge" in the manual)

2004-12-20 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (Please keep the main discussion for this subject on d-boot.) On Tuesday 14 December 2004 07:40, Miroslav Kure wrote: > Well, before we switched to the new build scheme with just one master > file, you could redefine entities in install.xx.xml -- firs

Re: Bug#286534: Installer fails to read partition table.

2004-12-20 Thread Eric Carlsen
Sorry, forgot to add subject line. On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:28:34 -0500, "Eric Carlsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Package: installation-reports > > Debian-installer-version: sarge netinst installer (RC2) from debian > installer home page > uname -a: > Date: 12/20/04 > Method: I tried to install

Bug#286534: Installer fails to read partition table.

2004-12-20 Thread Eric Carlsen
Sorry, forgot to add a subject line. On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:28:34 -0500, "Eric Carlsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Package: installation-reports > > Debian-installer-version: sarge netinst installer (RC2) from debian > installer home page > uname -a: > Date: 12/20/04 > Method: I tried to insta

Bug#286578: netboot tarballs should have version in the path somewhere

2004-12-20 Thread Matt Taggart
$VERSION could be things like rc2 daily-20041220 taggart-1.23 etc. Then you could also have a "current" symlink a la boot-floppies. Hmm, the tarball has symlinks that point back into the structure (like pxelinux.cfg) so those would need to change too, but shouldn't be a problem. The

Re: [D-I Manual] Proposal for new entities and entity translation (was: "Sarge" and "sarge" in the manual)

2004-12-20 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Frans, your mail contains Cc: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] Seidel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Maybe you want to resend it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:08:20PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > OK. I think we can address both issues. > > The next question is: what entities do we need? > I have cre

Re: [PATCH] choose-mirror.c

2004-12-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jerry Haltom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The following patch to choose-mirror.c removes the need for the hard > coded PREFERRED_DISTRIBUTION variable by allowing it to be overridden > with a pre-seeded value (good for non-Debian Debian's (Ubuntu)). Do I understand this right that now we can det

Re: [D-I Manual] Proposal for new entities and entity translation (was: "Sarge" and "sarge" in the manual)

2004-12-20 Thread Nikolai Prokoschenko
On Dec 20, 2004 at 10:08:20PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Current entity New entity Definition > - --- manual "Debian Installer Manual" How will it be used? You can forget 'Just look this up in &manual;' as this is untranslatable to languages, in which the endings of

Bug#286614: Problem with existing LVM installation during Sarge install

2004-12-20 Thread Andrew Konosky
Package: Partitioner Version: Debian Sarge Net-Install CD I have two 80gb hard drives with an existing Windows 98SE and an existing Fedora Core 3 installation using two LWM physical volumes on /dev/hda4 and /dev/hdb2. I did a pvmove to transfer all the data off hda4, then intended to use it to i

Processed: tagging 286539

2004-12-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.8.5 > tags 286539 pending Bug#286539: tasksel: Missing languages in Makefile Tags were: l10n patch Tags added: pending > End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you