Finalizing beta2: please dak copy-installer, urgent d-i, build images

2012-09-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi ftpmasters, release team, cd team, please respectively, do: - dak copy-installer - urgent d-i - start building installation images (I think it needs at least a dinstall + a mirror pulse though); putting them into a “dot-dir” for the time being would be nice. Mraw, KiBi. signature.as

Re: EFI approach and patches

2012-09-02 Thread Mika Rastas
Nice work Steve, And just in time for me. I bought a UEFI system second hand and got it from mail on Friday. Its got a ASUS Sabertooth 990FX board with the newest bios. I installed with your third version of the installer and it worked. Though still having trouble with double booting to win7 and

Bug#686502: pxz produces archives broken for busybox's unxz

2012-09-02 Thread Holger Levsen
package: pxz version: 4.999.9~beta+git537418b-1 severity: important affects: busybox x-debbugs-cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org,xz-ut...@packages.debian.org,jn...@users.sourceforge.net Hi, pxz (somtimes) produces archives broken for busybox's unxz, while they decompress fine with unxz from xz-u

Re: Bug#686502: pxz produces archives broken for busybox's unxz

2012-09-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Bastian, On Sonntag, 2. September 2012, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 03:18:40PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > ~/t$ busybox unxz typo3-src_4.5.19+dfsg1.orig.tar.xz > > ~/t$ tar tf typo3-src_4.5.19+dfsg1.orig.tar 1>/dev/null > > tar: Unexpected EOF in archive > > tar: Error is

Re: Amending task-xfce-desktop (was: Bug#686468: [wheezy] [amd64] [daily 20120831] Fujitsu Lifebook AH532 installation report)

2012-09-02 Thread Joey Hess
Karsten Merker wrote: > A possible solution would be to add a recommends on > gstreamer0.10-alsa to task-xfce-desktop, so that it gets pulled > in during the system installation while not fiddling with the > xfce4-mixer dependencies which are correct from the package point > of view. > > What do y

Re: EFI approach and patches

2012-09-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
Mika Rastas wrote: >Nice work Steve, *grin* Thanks! >And just in time for me. I bought a UEFI system second hand and got it >from mail on Friday. Its got a ASUS Sabertooth 990FX board with the >newest bios. > >I installed with your third version of the installer and it worked. Awesome. >Though

Re: pxz produces archives broken for busybox's unxz

2012-09-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Holger, Holger Levsen wrote: > pxz (somtimes) produces archives broken for busybox's unxz, while they > decompress fine with unxz from xz-utils packges. I noticed when trying > to uncompress pxz compressed initramfs files, while this is an universal > way to reproduce it: Thanks! Could you

Re: EFI approach and patches

2012-09-02 Thread Mika
The debian entry that was made during install broke eighter on windows install or Asus boot menu just wouldn't get it running. I wasn't sure could I use efi recovery boot selection to install grub again automatically? Does it work so or is it just for manual recovery with the system loaded as efi a

Re: EFI approach and patches

2012-09-02 Thread Mika
Dough of course the verbose output is nicer. /home# efibootmgr -v BootCurrent: Timeout: 3 seconds BootOrder: ,0002,0003,0005,0001 Boot* Debian GNU/Linux HD(3,613a4800,f4000,ea481e18-9503-404e-84ed-088f005a3ee1)File(\EFI\debian\grubx64.efi) Boot0001 Hard DriveBIOS(2,0,00)P0: WDC W

Bug#679276: debian-installer: Debian installer fails to prevent the user from defining more than 10 md devices

2012-09-02 Thread ck850
As a matter of fact it *does* prevent the creation of more than 11 md devices but as far as I can see this is a bug, not a feature. In the file lib/md-base.sh: # Find the next available MD device number md_next_device_number () { local md_num="$(grep ^md /proc/mdstat | \