Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 release

2012-05-15 Thread aladjev.andrew
Hello. What about grub2 in bios, efi-x86 and efi-x86_64 modes in wheezy installer? I am using wheezy with grub2 efi-x86_64 now and I have no problems with it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:34:39AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > So to use the image you need either a DVD or a USB stick, and if you're using > a write-once DVD you're perhaps wasting the unused space; but the download > time and install footprint are still kept low and in the range of what a CD

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ re-adding CC to debian-cd and debian-boot ] Adam Borowski wrote: >On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 05:04:16PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hey folks, >> >> Remembering the fun that we had during the Squeeze release with trying >> to make single-CD installations work well, it's time to consider what >

Bug#673025: Debian 7 Alpha Install reports

2012-05-15 Thread John Northall
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD net install Image version: Date: 14/05/2012 1400 Machine: Home built Asus 945 board with SATA, Nvidia graphics Processor:Intel P4 3.2Ghz Memory:1GB Partitions: All on 1 partition Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please el

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Wookey writes: > And the USB-stick process is not as simple as it might be because you > have to find the HD-media files and then _also_ find an iso image to > put on. It's no wonder newbs are still downloading CD/DVD images. You also need to have root access to some machine to create the USB me

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Wookey wrote: > And the USB-stick process is not as simple as it might be because you > have to find the HD-media files and then _also_ find an iso image to > put on. It's no wonder newbs are still downloading CD/DVD images. I thought HD-media was a thing of the

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Wookey
+++ Steve McIntyre [2012-05-15 13:38 +0100]: > [ re-adding CC to debian-cd and debian-boot ] > > 2. USB-targeted images > > I've also tweaked DVD#1 of each set to fit in 4GB instead of the > normal 4.7GB, so that it fits on a 4GB USB stick to make it more > useful. We could quite readily produce

Tracker for debian-wheezy-DI-a1-amd64-DVD-1.iso?

2012-05-15 Thread Jordan Clarke
Hello! Last night I downloaded the Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 DVD via http, after being unable to download it via BitTorrent. Upon completing the download, I tried to seed the iso, but KTorrent was unable to contact a tracker. Is this a known issue? I'm feeling somewhat eager to use a little of

[d-i alpha1 I18N] Untranslated menu entry regarding speech synthesizer

2012-05-15 Thread Holger Wansing
Hello, I noticed that in the main menu the entry "Configure the speech synthesizer voice" is always in english, no matter what language I choose. Searching the string in the po files for the installer - it's not there! Was it not marked as translatable? Could that be fixed for the next release (m

Re: [d-i alpha1 I18N] Untranslated menu entry regarding speech synthesizer

2012-05-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le Tue 15 May 2012 17:59:20 +0200, a écrit : > I noticed that in the main menu the entry > "Configure the speech synthesizer voice" > is always in english, no matter what language I choose. > Searching the string in the po files for the installer - it's > not there! > Was it not ma

Re: Tracker for debian-wheezy-DI-a1-amd64-DVD-1.iso?

2012-05-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
j.clar...@student.unimelb.edu.au wrote: >Hello! >Last night I downloaded the Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 DVD via http, >after being unable to download it via BitTorrent. Upon completing the >download, I tried to seed the iso, but KTorrent was unable to contact >a tracker. Is this a known issue?

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 15 May 2012 22:34:20 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > And the USB-stick process is not as simple as it might be because you > > have to find the HD-media files and then _also_ find an iso image to > > put on. It's no wonder newbs are still downloading CD/DVD images. > I thought HD-media was a t

Re: [d-i alpha1 I18N] Untranslated menu entry regarding speech synthesizer

2012-05-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Samuel Thibault (15/05/2012): > It was and it is translated in 27 languages already, but I guess I > missed something that needs to be done to get them fed into d-i? Need to be sync'd into svn://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/trunk/packages/po I think? Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital si

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 06:13:24PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: >On Tue, 15 May 2012 22:34:20 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > >> > And the USB-stick process is not as simple as it might be because you >> > have to find the HD-media files and then _also_ find an iso image to >> > put on. It's no wonder n

Bug#673025: Debian 7 Alpha Install reports

2012-05-15 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting John Northall (j.north...@talktalk.net): > Package: installation-reports > > Boot method: CD net install > Image version: > Date: 14/05/2012 1400 > > Machine: Home built Asus 945 board with SATA, Nvidia graphics > Processor:Intel P4 3.2Ghz > Memory:1GB > Partitions: All on 1 partition G

Bug#673025: marked as done (Debian 7 Alpha Install reports)

2012-05-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 15 May 2012 18:22:55 +0200 with message-id <20120515162255.gi4...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org> and subject line Re: Bug#673025: Debian 7 Alpha Install reports has caused the Debian Bug report #673025, regarding Debian 7 Alpha Install reports to be marked as done. This means

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Fedora/RH folks recently added more > hacks to isohybrid to support booting on Macs: > http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/11285.html This is achieved by applying ISOLINUX program isohybrid from a recent ISOLINYX version to the already produced ISO images. syslinux-4.05 should probably do. It is a

Re: Bug#673025: Debian 7 Alpha Install reports

2012-05-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
John Northall wrote: > >Comments/Problems:None really for a novice user > >you had during the initial install. > > This PC used for numerous non windows installs. Settled on Debian 6 >as very stable. Ubuntu 12.04 is not! Tried Debian 7 alpha & >everything worked. Use Gnome Classic ...do not like la

Patch for installation-manual

2012-05-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
Let's make it clearer how we expect users to write CDs to USB sticks? Index: en/install-methods/boot-usb-files.xml === --- en/install-methods/boot-usb-files.xml (revision 67598) +++ en/install-methods/boot-usb-files.xml (w

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Steve McIntyre wrote: > (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en) but > skipped straight past section 4.3.1. Looks like we could do with a big > clear message "DO THIS UNLESS YOU HAVE SPECIAL NEEDS" to make it more > obvious. :-) I am a bit scared by the catastrophic poten

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Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Steve McIntyre] > (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en) While it is refreshing to see "cat debian.iso > /dev/sdX" instead of the usual dd nonsense (it seems there's an extremely widespread myth that you need to use dd any time you're reading or writing block devices), I t

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 05/15/2012 02:18 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > I am a bit scared by the catastrophic potential of > cat debian.iso > /dev/sdX > for X = valuable hard disk. I've wondered about that, too, when working on the relevant section of the Debian Live Manual. > Maybe one should advise people to first r

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Peter Samuelson, le Tue 15 May 2012 12:40:55 -0500, a écrit : > > (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en) > > While it is refreshing to see "cat debian.iso > /dev/sdX" instead of > the usual dd nonsense (it seems there's an extremely widespread myth > that you need to use dd

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Ben Armstrong writes: > accomplish as the superuser.) What I wonder, though, is if it is > universally true that ordinary users will always have write access to a > USB key they've just inserted. Under what circumstances will they not? At least in default debian and ubuntu systems they don't have

Re: [d-i alpha1 I18N] Untranslated menu entry regarding speech synthesizer

2012-05-15 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > Samuel Thibault (15/05/2012): > > It was and it is translated in 27 languages already, but I guess I > > missed something that needs to be done to get them fed into d-i? > > Need to be sync'd into svn://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/trunk/packages/po I think?

Re: [d-i alpha1 I18N] Untranslated menu entry regarding speech synthesizer

2012-05-15 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Holger Wansing (li...@wansing-online.de): > Hello, > > I noticed that in the main menu the entry > "Configure the speech synthesizer voice" > is always in english, no matter what language I choose. > Searching the string in the po files for the installer - it's > not there! > Was it not m

Re: Tracker for debian-wheezy-DI-a1-amd64-DVD-1.iso?

2012-05-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 01:07:01AM +1000, Jordan Clarke wrote: > Hello! > Last night I downloaded the Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 DVD via http, > after being unable to download it via BitTorrent. Upon completing the > download, I tried to seed the iso, but KTorrent was unable to contact > a tracke

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Samuel Thibault] > > I think "cp" is even more straightforward. > > Does cp accept that way since a long time? I'm not sure, but I've been using things like "cp boot.img /dev/fd0" for probably 10 or 15 years on various Linux and Unix systems. (The fact that I referred to a floppy drive may giv

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:40:55PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > >[Steve McIntyre] >> (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en) > >While it is refreshing to see "cat debian.iso > /dev/sdX" instead of >the usual dd nonsense (it seems there's an extremely widespread myth >that y

Debian installer build: failed or old builds

2012-05-15 Thread Daily build aggregator
Debian installer build overview --- Failed or old builds: * OLD BUILD:armel May 08 08:10 buildd@ancina build_iop32x_netboot http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armel/daily/build_iop32x_netboot.log * OLD BUILD:armel May 08 08:13 buildd@ancina

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Steve McIntyre] > The major win with dd onto a raw device is that you can specify the > block size. For most USB sticks, using a block size of 4MB or so is > going to be *much* faster than using the default for dd (512 bytes) > or cp (10 KB IIRC). That seemed a little fishy to me, since none of

Re: [d-i alpha1 I18N] Untranslated menu entry regarding speech synthesizer

2012-05-15 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org): > Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > > Samuel Thibault (15/05/2012): > > > It was and it is translated in 27 languages already, but I guess I > > > missed something that needs to be done to get them fed into d-i? > > > > Need to be sync'd