Re: Etch 1/2 CD images for test

2008-04-30 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, I did a test installation with the i386 netinst image (sorry, only lowmem install), and it went completely fine. Logs attached. Only one note: on the F1 help screen the disc reports beeing a debian 5.0 installation medium. This should be something like 4.0 rX, right? -- Kind regards Hol

Re: [RFC] Abandoning lowmem level 1

2008-04-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > IMO a difference of 4 MB is not really worth the testing effort, nor > > does it make any real difference to users. So I propose to just get rid > > of the distinction between lowmem level 1 and 2. > > The only reason I can see to

Re: Etch 1/2 CD images for test

2008-04-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Holger Wansing wrote: > I did a test installation with the i386 netinst image (sorry, > only lowmem install), and it went completely fine. Logs attached. Thanks. > Only one note: on the F1 help screen the disc reports beeing > a debian 5.0 installation medium. This sh

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Bug#478661: debian-installer: Preseed hangs when installing using aptitude (debconf error)

2008-04-30 Thread Ronald
Package: debian-installer Version: Lenny (snapshot of 25 april 2008)(netinst) Severity: normal Note that I have had the exact same error before and that was fixed a while after. But now it came back (Regression?). Here's the deal: I install debian from the (daily generated) netinst image using

[PATCH/RFC] Re: Kernel selection on i386 for Xen compatibility

2008-04-30 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 12:30 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > Shall I define a new environment variable ${DI_FLAVOUR} passed to the > base-installer/kernel scripts containing the kernel suffix (i.e. -486 > vs -686-bigmem) or ... Something like this? (only tested with the tests in the tree so far not a

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Re: Kernel selection on i386 for Xen compatibility

2008-04-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 12:30 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > Shall I define a new environment variable ${DI_FLAVOUR} passed to the > > base-installer/kernel scripts containing the kernel suffix (i.e. -486 > > vs -686-bigmem) or ... > > Something like

Bug#474698: partman-base: Inconsistent output if sector size != 512 bytes

2008-04-30 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ferenc Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Do you have any disk with sector size bigger then 512 bytes for >>> testing? ramdisk is not the best way of doing that. >> >> RAID1 of two ramdisks... :) Jokes aside, fdisk says it has sector >> size 102

Bug#474698: partman-base: Inconsistent output if sector size != 512 bytes

2008-04-30 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> Because ramdisks cannot be opened with O_DIRECT and lastest parted >> needs it. This has been done long time ago to avoid some sync problems >> with disks. > > Ferenc: can fdisk open /dev/ram devices and

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Re: Kernel selection on i386 for Xen compatibility

2008-04-30 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 10:39 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 12:30 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > Shall I define a new environment variable ${DI_FLAVOUR} passed to the > > > base-installer/kernel scripts containing the kernel su

Processed: block 470894 with 460843

2008-04-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.26 > block 470894 with 460843 Bug#460843: please support additional options to use with the default boot option Bug#470894: grub-installer: user parameters are not added to grub.cfg for g

Bug#474698: partman-base: Inconsistent output if sector size != 512 bytes

2008-04-30 Thread Otavio Salvador
Ferenc Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Ferenc Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Do you have any disk with sector size bigger then 512 bytes for testing? ramdisk is not the best way of doing that. >>> >>> RAID1 of two ramdisks... :

Bug#474698: partman-base: Inconsistent output if sector size != 512 bytes

2008-04-30 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> Because ramdisks cannot be opened with O_DIRECT and lastest parted >> needs it. This has been done long time ago to avoid some sync problems >> with disks. > > Ferenc: can fdisk open /dev/ram devices and

Re: syslinux vesamenu

2008-04-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 14 April 2008, Joey Hess wrote: > Last month syslinux got submenu support for vesamenu, so its now doable.. > > Here's an example image with menu items for text and gtk: > http://kitenet.net/~joey/tmp/mini.iso That looks a _lot_ more usable. I think I'd still prefer: Install Install (gr

Re: syslinux vesamenu

2008-04-30 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 14 April 2008, Joey Hess wrote: >> Last month syslinux got submenu support for vesamenu, so its now doable.. >> >> Here's an example image with menu items for text and gtk: >> http://kitenet.net/~joey/tmp/mini.iso > > That looks a _lot_ more usable

Bug#474698: partman-base: Inconsistent output if sector size != 512 bytes

2008-04-30 Thread Otavio Salvador
clone 474698 -1 reassign -1 parted block 474698 -1 retitle -1 fully support >512-byte sector size thanks Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You also have not really answered the question whether the use of >> PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT in parted_server is correct at all. > > Yes and no.

Processed (with 1 errors): Re: Bug#474698: partman-base: Inconsistent output if sector size != 512 bytes

2008-04-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > clone 474698 -1 Bug#474698: partman-base: Inconsistent output if sector size != 512 bytes Bug 474698 cloned as bug 478735. > reassign -1 parted Bug#478735: partman-base: Inconsistent output if sector size != 512 bytes Bug reassigned from package `partm

Re: syslinux vesamenu

2008-04-30 Thread Joey Hess
Otavio Salvador wrote: > I'd like to know when Joey plans to commit it. Joey? I've been holding off for review. Now that we're happy with it except for some minor string changes and reorganisation (which should be doable without a lot of pain, I think, although there are certian types of reorganis

Re: Etch 1/2 CD images for test

2008-04-30 Thread Rick Thomas
Is there any chance of producing an "Etch+0.5" test image for PowerPC? I'd love to run it through my testing farm. Enjoy! Rick On Apr 30, 2008, at 3:34 AM, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Holger Wansing wrote: I did a test installation with the i386 netinst image (sorry, only

Re: [RFC] Abandoning lowmem level 1

2008-04-30 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > I don't really see that having lowmem 1 or 2 makes that big a difference > from a user perspective. Users with boxes with that little memory will > probably be savvy enough to handle lowmem 2 anyway. Not installing standard priority udebs by default is still a big usability is

Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot

2008-04-30 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 09:01:18PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Package: grub-installer > Version: 1.29 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I did an install from debian.exe with d-i dailies to install sid > (#473364). Unfortunately the /etc/grub.d/30_otheros that was generated >

Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot

2008-04-30 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:38:56PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > This patch gets rid of the problem [...] argh. There was supposed to be a patch... -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Index: grub-in

Possible bug in installation program on Lenny/SPARC NetInstall ISO image

2008-04-30 Thread Terrell Prude' Jr.
Hello folks, I believe I have found a bug in the Lenny installer on UltraSPARC. This is during the partitioning phase. I can specify the partitions just fine. However, when I'm done, and I choose "Finish partitioning and write changes to disk", I get back to the "Partition Disks: This is an ov

Re: Possible bug in installation program on Lenny/SPARC NetInstall ISO image

2008-04-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Terrell Prude' Jr. wrote: > main-menu[701]: INFO: > (process:18081): /lib/partman/check.d/05silo_check: .: line 10: can't > open /lib/partman/definitions.sh > main-menu[701]: INFO: > (process:18081): /lib/partman/check.d/05silo_check: .: line 10: can't > open /lib/partma

Processing of silo-installer_1.14_sparc.changes

2008-04-30 Thread Archive Administrator
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2008-04-30 Thread Debian Installer
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Re: Etch 1/2 CD images for test

2008-04-30 Thread Frans Pop
Hi Rick, On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Rick Thomas wrote: > Is there any chance of producing an "Etch+0.5" test image for > PowerPC? I'd love to run it through my testing farm. Technically I could, but I'm not sure that I want to. First, it is quite a lot of work because of all the different kern

Re: Etch 1/2 CD images for test

2008-04-30 Thread Rick Thomas
OK. Would it be helpful if I did an Etch install then "aptitude dist- upgrade" on as many Mac architectures as I can? I don't have any non- Mac PowerPC machines, so I can't try the oddball kernel versions anyway. Is there anybody else out there who does? Rick On Apr 30, 2008, at 10:12 PM

Re: Etch 1/2 CD images for test

2008-04-30 Thread Frans Pop
(There's really no need to CC me on d-boot mail!) On Thursday 01 May 2008, Rick Thomas wrote: > Would it be helpful if I did an Etch install then "aptitude dist- > upgrade" on as many Mac architectures as I can? I don't have any non- > Mac PowerPC machines, so I can't try the oddball kernel versi