Package: debian-installer
Severity: moderate
Hi,
Take a harddisk and create a file system (say ext3) on the whole disk.
# mke2fs -j /dev/sdd
# /dev/sdd is entire device, not just one partition!
# Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
Now use this disk to install debian. Under the partitioning menu, you d
(Dropped private CCs)
On Monday 01 March 2010, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> * the binary-only kernel we're working with, they haven't even
> bothered to put in ext2,3 or 4
ext4 is enabled.
From dmesg:
EXT4-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT4 FS on mmcblk0p3
Package: debian-installer
Version: squeeze 20100211
Severity: important
* installing squeeze via netboot CD mini.iso (ISO file timestamp 2010.02.11),
expert mode
* after menu item 'detect disk' kernel detects disks and I see /dev/sda,
/dev/sda1 etc in shell
* after pressing 'partition disks'
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Hector Oron wrote:
>> Hello,
>
> hi hector, this is a timely message / issue to raise: it's very
> relevant for the (newly discovered) CT-PC89E arm netbook which a
> friend of mine found.
>
>>
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Benjamin Henrion wrote:
> Do you know where I can buy such device?
cc'd to adam gill, he's the person with direct contact with the factory.
[ the rest of this message is informational, for your benefit, ben,
and also for anyone else who'd like one, too, so you k
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Hector Oron wrote:
Hello,
Nowadays, the number of devices (non x86) is growing and growing.
Lots of these devices have not upstream linux kernel support, which
makes it a bit harder to maintain in the context of debian-installer.
Also, afaict, debian-installer team does not
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:48:55AM -0500, JLB wrote:
> I have a suggestion. The best solution to the 'devices shipped with
> hard/impossible-to-change binary kernels' problem, as far as I can tell,
> would have to come not from the Debian team, but from the upstream kernel
> team.
>
> Namely,
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:48, JLB wrote:
> Namely, if there was ALWAYS a way (which could not be turned off) to extract
> a kernel's configuration (in a format which could be plunked into
> /usr/src/linux and used to build new modules) from the running kernel,
> things would be much simpler.
>
> W
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 03:50:18AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 25 February 2010, dann frazier wrote:
> > fyi, I'm planning to upload a new set of linux-kernel-di packages for
> > the upcoming etch point release, mainly to fix a regression on s390
> > (#562525).
>
> Ack. Let me/us know wh
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