Install report

2004-01-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, at first thanks for all your fine work at d-i. I never installed a Debian box so easy and so fast as with http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/daily/sarge-i386-businesscard.iso (downloaded today size = 38535168 time = 2004-01-11 23:17). I tried the German installation a

Re: Install report

2004-01-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Steve Langasek wrote: > I would prefer to always offer security.d.o (and default to yes) > regardless of what distro is being installed. For one thing, users may > install from the beta while sarge==testing, and want to use security > updates afterwards once it becomes stable

Re: Install report

2004-01-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Joey Hess wrote: > Please file a bug report on console-data. I checked this immediately after sending my first mail and found #226742. I added my observation and the opinion that Severity "normal" is to low in this case. I'm not an installer expert but from a installer point

Re: Install report

2004-01-15 Thread Andreas Tille
> > I tried the German installation and I think I found only one not yet translated > > screen - so thanks to all the translators as well. > > Which one? Damn - I forgot it because I've thought there would be a tool which shows untranslated stuff, but it's no problem I'll do a further install in th

Re: Install report

2004-01-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 Christian Perrier wrote: > This is a known console-data bug...not BTS available to me currently > but it is easy to find. Yes, I found it immediately after my posting to this list: #226742. The problem is that I think it should be of RC priority if we would not like to leave a

Re: Install report

2004-01-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Christian Perrier wrote: > Well, we have a tool for translators for checking unstranslated stuff, > but there are some cases where, even if the string is translated, the > translations is not shown by debconf. So, this is why you may be asked > about what you found. I hereby p

Re: Install report

2004-01-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Steve Langasek wrote: > severity 226742 grave Thanks for adjusting this and sharing my opinion. BTW, I had the same observation that in the first install process the keyboard was adjusted fine and after the reboot changing the keymap failed. Kind regards Andreas

Install report: kernel-image*.deb is missing

2004-02-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I tried d-i image from today (6.2.2004) and noticed that grub and lilo installation failed. The reason is that there was no kernel on the /target at all. When I looked at the apt cache there was no kernel-image* package avialable. Just a quick note - I try to save all relevant information.

Re: Install report: kernel-image*.deb is missing

2004-02-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Eric Bus wrote: > I have the same problem with d-i images from 20040131 and up. But I can > install the kernel from tty2. I have no idea why it skips it during > base-system-installation. Well - I trried that as well but I'm not clever enough to do it without dpkg-. I tried t

Re: Install report: kernel-image*.deb is missing

2004-02-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Eric Bus wrote: > I used apt-get to install kernel-image-2.4.24-1-686. When you get the > LILO (or GRUB) configuration screen, press ALT-F2, Enter (which will > give you an linux prompt). Type 'apt-get install > kernel-image-2.4.24-1-686' (or change 686 to another arch if you'r

German translations (Was: Install report)

2004-02-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Christian Perrier wrote: > Well, we have a tool for translators for checking unstranslated stuff, > but there are some cases where, even if the string is translated, the > translations is not shown by debconf. So, this is why you may be asked > about what you found. I did a fu

Testing Beta 4 on Sparc Ultra 10

2004-06-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, some days ago the hard disk of my Ultra Sparc 10 was blown away. I wanted to use this as good chance to test debian-installer and got http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/beta4/sarge-sparc-businesscard.iso Unfortunately the machine says: Bad magic number in

Re: Testing Beta 4 on Sparc Ultra 10

2004-06-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Christian Perrier wrote: > Could you try the tc1 version ? > > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/tc1/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso It was absolutely the same behaviour as I described in my posting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/06/msg00092

Re: Testing Beta 4 on Sparc Ultra 10

2004-06-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Peter wrote: > What is this tcl version btw? The login screen says: Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 333MHz), Keyboard Present OpenBoot 3.15, 256 MB memory installed, Serial #10648638 After pressing -A I tried: ok probe-ide Device 0 ( Primary Mast

Re: Testing Beta 4 on Sparc Ultra 10

2004-06-03 Thread Andreas Tille
BTW, because there was an answer to the previous mail with subject: "Make tc1 more visible?" I can ensure you that the bug is *not* fixed in the daily build from today! On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Andreas Tille wrote: > TCP: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0 > cramfs:

Bug#252588: install: Installation fails on Sparc Ultra 10

2004-06-04 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: install Severity: important The bug report is related to the following ISO images: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/20040602/sarge-sparc-businesscard.iso http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/tc1/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso http://cdimage.

Bug#186085: acknowledged by developer (Bug#186085: fixed in tasksel 2.01)

2004-06-24 Thread Andreas Tille
message -- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:18:10 -0700 From: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Bug#186085 acknowledged by developer (Bug#186085: fixed i tasksel 2.01) This is an automatic

Debian installer test

2003-02-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, while trying to set up a random box I obtained at LinuxTag Chemnitz I tried http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386-businesscard.iso from 26.2.2003 At first I observed Problems loading tulip.o which is located in a subdirectory of the network drivers. Loading it

Re: Debian installer test

2003-02-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Cardenas wrote: > > 1. nb_NO (default) > > 2. nn_NO > > 3. se_NO > > 4. lv_LV > > > > oh, and I forgot to file a bug for this, but for god's sake the > locales need more descriptive names! I personally have no idea what > those locales stand for

Re: Debian installer test

2003-02-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Matt Kraai wrote: > What was the error message you saw when you tried to load it > through debian-installer? Uhm, sorry, forgot to notice that. Perhaps I should try another box which is not yet installed. Something like not found ... > > installer[4621]: receive_packet fail

Bug#155374: Bug#190592: pending meaning change

2003-08-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Anthony Towns wrote: > The definition of the "pending" tag has been changed to: > > ] pending > ] A solution to this bug has been found and an upload will be > ] made soon. > > The (release critical) bugs above have been tagged pending for over a > month, s

Bug#758096: Filed Bug#758096: tasksel: Allow to select specific packages during installation - just "DE", "Web server", "Mail server" is NOT enough

2014-08-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 01:05:27PM +0400, Vitaliy Filippov wrote: > Just filed the bugreport for tasksel (being inspired by the gnome > discussion...) > > Bug#758096: tasksel: Allow to select specific packages during > installation - just "DE", "Web server", "Mail server" is NOT enough Beein

Bug#758116: tasksel: Allow to select Blends selection during installation - just "DE", "Web server", "Mail server" is NOT enough

2014-08-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: tasksel Version: 3.14.1 Severity: normal Tags: d-i Hi, beeing inspired by bug #758096 (I was asked to separate this topic from the topic of this bug) and the recent discussion on Blends list, I'd like to add a pointer to the thread basically starting here: https://lists.debian.org/d

Bug#758096: Filed Bug#758096: tasksel: Allow to select specific packages during installation - just "DE", "Web server", "Mail server" is NOT enough

2014-08-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Cyril, On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:28:52PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > Andreas Tille (2014-08-14): > > Beeing inspired by the recent discussion on Blends list, I'd like > > to add a pointer to the thread basically starting here: > > > &

Bug#758116: Please be verbose whether you would like to get your Blend promoted by tasksel

2014-08-26 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, yesterday I joined the videostream of the installer BoF at DebConf[1]. I also became a bit involved via IRC. Joey Hess raised the question about the criteria to add a Blend or not. I answered "all in the list of the bug report #758116" which IMHO fits the criterion of "actively maintained an

Bug#758116: Please be verbose whether you would like to get your Blend promoted by tasksel

2014-08-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Mike, On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 07:08:27AM +, Mike Gabriel wrote: > > I guess this only makes sense if a Debian Edu machine (standalone) > can be installed via Debian's normal D-I, right? Why do you think only this is would make sense? IMHO it would make perfectly sense to feed a freshly i

Bug#758116: Please be verbose whether you would like to get your Blend promoted by tasksel

2014-08-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Franklin, On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 08:57:37AM +0800, Franklin Weng wrote: > > I think it should be also a criterion that the team behind the Blend > > confirms that they are interested and so I'm hereby pinging all lists in > > question to ask you for confirmation. I have set Reply-To to the bu

Bug#758116: Please be verbose whether you would like to get your Blend promoted by tasksel

2014-09-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 07:45:12AM +0200, Per Andersson wrote: > > I don't think this is a particularly good measure since the blends are > relatively unknown. I think it is not a measure for a sequence but rather a measure whether a Blend should be included or not. For instance I missed mu

Bug#758116: Please be verbose whether you would like to get your Blend promoted by tasksel

2014-09-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Per, On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 02:50:19PM +0200, Per Andersson wrote: > > > > I think it is not a measure for a sequence but rather a measure whether > > a Blend should be included or not. > > Possibly, but the fact is that only three blends have more than zero installs. > Better then to have so

Bug#758116: More tasks option in Tasksel: what tasks do you want there?

2014-09-09 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Cyril, On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 02:33:06AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > At some point it would really be nice to have a summary of what happened > or what was discussed at DebConf, but on mailing lists. While I'm very > happy to see stuff happen during in person meetings, keeping people wh

Bug#758116: More tasks option in Tasksel: what tasks do you want there? (reloaded)

2014-09-09 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Thomas, thanks for caring for this topic. On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 11:15:48PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > ... > So, with what you're proposing, we'll have something like this: > >│[*] Desktop environment │ >│[*] ... Xfce

Any news about Blends in tasks selection (Was: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 2 release)

2014-10-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Cyril, On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 09:11:24PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the second beta > release of the installer for Debian 8 "Jessie". > ... thanks for your report and your continuous work on the installer. I wonder what might be the o

Re: Any news about Blends in tasks selection (Was: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 2 release)

2014-10-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Cyril, On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 06:02:11AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > Andreas Tille (2014-10-08): > > On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 09:11:24PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the second beta > &

Re: Any news about Blends in tasks selection (Was: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 2 release)

2014-10-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Cyril, On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:14:53AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > > In other words: I perfectly know the fact that Blends are widely > > ignored even amongst Debian developers and that's not about you / the > > debian-boot team - perhaps my "running around and tell people" is just

Re: Any news about Blends in tasks selection (Was: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 2 release)

2014-10-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Bas, On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 07:19:36PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:20:02AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > I admit I expected *you* to know about Blends for a while - but > > considering the video recorded quote I think I was not wrong using this >

Re: Any news about Blends in tasks selection (Was: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 2 release)

2014-10-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 08:29:47PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Well, Blends and "the desktop situation" could be considered > orthogonal. > > > > Do all blends work well with all desktop environments? > > No. While this "no" means: There exist 1 or 2 Blends focussing on

Re: Any news about Blends in tasks selection (Was: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 2 release)

2014-10-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Holger, On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:25:20AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2014, Andreas Tille wrote: > > While this "no" means: There exist 1 or 2 Blends focussing on a > > specific desktop environment (as far as I know Debian Ed

Re: Any news about Blends in tasks selection (Was: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 2 release)

2014-10-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Bas, On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 07:49:32PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > > > For the moment the way to install Blends is to use the plain Debian > > installer and afterwards install a bunch of metapackages. > > Ah, and that's what you want to change now. That sounds like a very > good idea. :-)

Re: Any news about Blends in tasks selection (Was: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 2 release)

2014-10-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Bas, On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 08:27:37PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > Ok. Is it supposed to be possible to install more than one blend > simultaneously? Is that technically prevented with Conflicts? Not at all. I have not tested but I would bet that you can install all existing metapackages of

Bug#758116: re: popcon

2014-11-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 Joey Hess wrote: > There is going to be a limited amount of space in tasksel for blends, > given current debconf UI constraints. Yes, we know this. Does this statement of yours mean A) I'm not going to fix this B) I'm not going to fix this in Jessie C) Please make m

Bug#758096: Blends in D-I tasksel selection? (Was: Filed Bug#758096: tasksel: Allow to select specific packages during installation - just "DE", "Web server", "Mail server" is NOT enough)

2014-11-11 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I guess the sad news that Joey Hess leaves Debian has spread also to Debian Blends list. The direct consequence for Blends is that Joey will not work on this bug (#758096) and will also most probably not rise any opinion on it any more but we somehow need to move on. I realised that the chan

Bug#758096: Blends in D-I tasksel selection? (Was: Filed Bug#758096: tasksel: Allow to select specific packages during installation - just "DE", "Web server", "Mail server" is NOT enough)

2014-11-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 04:09:09PM +, Chris Bell wrote: > >I understand the reasons for removing these tasks from tasksel in the > installer but I think that some, especially mail-server, were a great help > to inexperienced users because they set sensible defaults over all the > included

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2019-12-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Steve, the first alpha of the installer of Debian 11 is out. As we talked at DebConf about better Blends support: Is there anything we can test regarding tasksel? Kind regards Andreas. On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 10:32:28PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > somehow I

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2020-03-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Steve, On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 07:16:11PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >Not yet, I'm afraid. A little too swamped so far, but you're near the > >top of my TODO list. I'm hoping to get some time for development on > >this in the next couple of months. > > (Overdue!) update: I've been hacking

Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2018-08-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, to give some status information about how we can make Blends more visible at installer stage: Holger Levsen, Phil Hands, Steve McIntyre and I had some discussion in DebCamp. The conclusion was that adding Blends to the installer tasksel menu would be perfectly possible if tasksel itself woul

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2018-08-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Ole, On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 12:23:58PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > Filippo Rusconi writes: > > Also, when I installed debian-science and debichem last time, the process > > downloaded such an amount of software that it almost filled my disk (which > > I was > > not suspecting). Maybe, a ro

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2018-12-03 Thread Andreas Tille
year old idea to have Blends right in the installer. Is there any work in progress that could be tested? Kind regards Andreas. On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 10:34:36AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > to give some status information about how we can make Blends more > vis

Re: Debian Installer Buster Alpha 4 release

2018-12-29 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Cyril, thanks for the summary and all your work for the installer. I have not seen any mentioning of supporting Blends in the new installer. I remember that we talked about this at DebConf 16 that chances are good that we finally will get the feature to select Blends right from the installer.

Hierarchical tasksel / Blends support (Was: Debian Installer Buster Alpha 5 release)

2019-02-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Cyril, thanks for your continuous work on the installer and lots of new great features. On Sat, Feb 02, 2019 at 12:45:32PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > We need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, > so please try it. Sorry for repeating my question[1] but it is not cle

Re: Hierarchical tasksel / Blends support (Was: Debian Installer Buster Alpha 5 release)

2019-02-10 Thread Andreas Tille
:-( Well, I know that lots of us are super busy with several projects. That's how things are. > On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 09:22:39AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > >Sorry for repeating my question[1] but it is not clear to me whether > >support of Blends is a planed feature of the

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2020-10-06 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Steve, On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 07:16:11PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >Not yet, I'm afraid. A little too swamped so far, but you're near the > >top of my TODO list. I'm hoping to get some time for development on > >this in the next couple of months. > > (Overdue!) update: I've been hacking

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2020-10-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Steve, On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 10:23:19AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hey Andreas! I hope you're keeping well! Thanks, I'm perfectly fine. I hope you as well. > You must be > psychic - I just started picking things up again last weekend. Argh, now you have made my deepest secret public!

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2021-03-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Steve, On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 10:23:19AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hey Andreas! I hope you're keeping well! > > On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 06:08:02PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > >> (Overdue!) update: I've been hacking on this for a while, and I hope > >

Bug#988696: installation-reports: No network management in LXDE task

2021-05-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal (Please provide enough information to help the Debian maintainers evaluate the report efficiently - e.g., by filling in the sections below.) Boot method: USB Image version: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2024-02-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Holger, Am Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 11:43:35PM +0100 schrieb Holger Wansing: > I would like to push a proposal here on this longstanding topic: Thanks a lot for supporting this long standing topic which actually bothers me than 20 years. But Debian is not only about technique it is also about pat

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2024-05-10 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Holger, thanks a lot for your effort. Its really appreciated and very valuable for the Blends effort. Am Thu, May 09, 2024 at 11:05:28PM +0200 schrieb Holger Wansing: > Holger Wansing wrote (Tue, 13 Feb 2024 23:43:35 +0100): > > could we just "copy tasksel with its UI and infrastructure" int

Contacting Debian Boot team

2024-05-26 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, while I contacted the release team previously[0] there was no response so far. I tried to establish this first contact since I consider the release team of really high relevance. Meanwhile I have added some more information to my contact mails including advertising a DebConf event (see below

Re: Contacting Debian Boot team

2024-05-31 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Cyril, sorry for my late reply - I was basically offline the last couple of days. Am Sun, May 26, 2024 at 08:55:37PM +0200 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: > What follows is only my point of view, and anyone active within the > installer team is welcome to share their own. Thanks a lot for your exten

Re: Contacting Debian Boot team

2024-06-06 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, Am Fri, May 31, 2024 at 04:54:13PM +0200 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: > > However, my question was rather whether you know some valid reasons > > why derivatives are exchanging the install method - maybe that > > question should be better asked on Debian-Boot (if so feel free to > > ignore this qu

Re: Contacting Debian Boot team

2024-06-06 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Phil, Am Mon, May 27, 2024 at 12:15:47AM +0200 schrieb Philip Hands: > This is mostly because I found that I wasn't able to devote the time > required to test things to my satisfaction when my first daughter came > along, So we will see you back in the team once your youngest child is around 1

Re: Contacting Debian Boot team

2024-06-06 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Holger, Am Thu, May 30, 2024 at 04:48:17PM +0200 schrieb Holger Wansing: > Andreas Tille wrote (Sun, 26 May 2024 11:31:24 +0200): > > - Do you feel good when doing your work in Debian Boot team? > > While I have to admit that I'm mostly doing just the simple things :-

Re: Contacting Debian Boot team

2024-06-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Emanuele, finally I've found some time to follow your links. Am Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 09:29:18AM +0200 schrieb Emanuele Rocca: > > Trixie runs fine on it, though there are some rough edges. Full details > on https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Thinkpad/X13s Two things somehow would pre

Re: Contacting Debian Boot team

2024-06-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Bjørn, Am Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 01:18:52PM +0200 schrieb Bjørn Mork: > > I have no hardware to try this on, Same here. I'm not seeking any hardware actively. I simply imagine that I want to buy some non-Intel/AMD based laptop which somehow behaves like my normal work-horse without restrictio

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2021-11-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Steve, Am Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 04:53:48PM + schrieb Steve McIntyre: > > I've made a *small* amount of progress at hacking on debconf (route > #2). But again I've had other things come up, not least another round > of Secure Boot fixes. We're not going to have changes in for > Bullseye. Sor

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2022-01-10 Thread Andreas Tille
at 02:46:52PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 10:23:19AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> Hey Andreas! I hope you're keeping well! > >> > >> On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 06:08:02PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > >> >> (Overd

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2022-01-10 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Phil, Am Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 08:02:50PM +0100 schrieb Philip Hands: > Fixing that last bit is next on my TODO list. Once done, that should > allow us to try things out rather more easily, and thus have a chance to > demonstrate that they are ready for a wider audience. > > I'll follow up here

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2022-01-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Steve, Am Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 11:33:38PM + schrieb Steve McIntyre: > Much as I hate to let you down, I think the best policy now is to be > honest (with myself and you!) and say that I'm not going to find time > to do this any time soon. Sorry. :-( No need to be sorry about this. I highl

Bug#1005818: task-lxde-desktop: libreoffice is used as default pdf reader

2022-02-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: task-lxde-desktop Version: 3.68 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: andr...@an3as.eu Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? On a fresh installation of bullseye libreoffice is started when clicking on a pdf file. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or

Bug#1010393: installation-reports: No swap partition which disables hibernate

2022-04-30 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: installation-reports Severity: important (Please provide enough information to help the Debian maintainers evaluate the report efficiently - e.g., by filling in the sections below.) Boot method: usb Image version: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmw

Bug#1010393: installation-reports: No swap partition which disables hibernate

2022-04-30 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Steve, Am Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 09:17:18PM +0100 schrieb Steve McIntyre: > >The actual problem I'd like to report is that no swap partition was > >created which is probably fine if the box is featuring 64GB. However, > >this prevents from using hibernation feature which I'm missing now and > >t

Bug#1010393: installation-reports: No swap partition which disables hibernate

2022-05-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Pascal, Am Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 11:27:36PM +0200 schrieb Pascal-liste: > There are mentions of a swap logical volume in partman's log. > Swap area not being a filesystem, df does not show it. Well, to make things short also lsblk does not show any swap partition. I retried now with https

Bug#851555: Retitle tasksel bug to focus on an actual solution

2022-06-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Control: retitle -1 Please enable hierarchical tasksel to support Blends in installer The origin of this bug is actually #186085 which was marked done and is archived without a real solution (unarchiving seems not to work these days). Here is a collection of links to the topic from mailing lists

Installation failure

2004-09-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I failed to install the daily build installer CD from 09/02/2004 on a AMD Duron 800 MHz with a 80GB harddisk which was not detected by the install kernel. The syslog messages were equal to the ones below but neither the normal install routine nor fdisk or cfdisk on a text console where able

Re: Installation failure

2004-09-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Joey Hess wrote: Andreas Tille wrote: # fdisk /dev/hda Unable to open /dev/hda # cfdisk /dev/hda FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive The debian installer uses devfs. Well that means exactly what if it does not detect the harddisk? It only means that my manual

Bug#758116: Bug status

2015-11-04 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi all, On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 02:04:41PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > I would be quite interested to get this done; being visible during the > > installation is one of the motivations in creating a Blend. > > I can certainly appreciate that. Thanks for the clear statement which is hope

Re: Bug#846002: Debian Installer Stretch RC 1 release

2017-01-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 02:24:13PM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote: > > Important changes in this release of the installer > > == > > > > * [...] > > * As noted in the Stretch Alpha 6 release announcement, Debian Pure > >Blends appeared in the

Bug#758116: Every second year we are talking about a proper installer

2016-03-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi folks, I'd like to attract your attention onto bug #758116 which is requesting a sensible selection of Blends tasks right from the installer. While the bug report received a lot of positive responses nobody raised up to actually provide and test the needed code. Since we only have nearly six

Re: Bug#758116: Allow to select Blends selection during installation - just "DE", "Web server", "Mail server" is NOT enough

2016-05-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, [due to traveling to some Debian Med related workshop in Paris I was a bit offline-ish - so I become involved a bit late into this discussion and just add my points where I think further input might be helpful.] On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 02:00:14PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > > > I have no

Re: Bug#758116: Allow to select Blends selection during installation - just "DE", "Web server", "Mail server" is NOT enough

2016-05-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 09:42:47AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Christian Perrier (2016-05-18): > > (thanks for prodding me...you never know, indeed, though I still read > > -boot...;-) ) > > (wow, great!) May be some OT chatting about super marathons might keep Bubulle attracted. :-P > > S

Re: Bug#758116: Allow to select Blends selection during installation - just "DE", "Web server", "Mail server" is NOT enough

2016-05-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 10:18:42AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > two more ideas from irc: > > < pabs> KiBi, tbm: re blends/desktops stuff, what about showing that only in > expert mode? I'm not sure whether "expert mode" fits the intended user target group. > < h01ger> or a ded

Re: Debian Installer Buster Alpha 1 release

2017-09-20 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Cyril, On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 04:53:03PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first alpha > release of the installer for Debian 10 "Buster". > > > Important notes for this release of the installer > ==

Re: Bug#401025: installation-report: Fails to mount encrypted LVM

2006-12-04 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, is there anything I could do or test I could run on the machine to provide more info and track down the problem? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#401025: installation-report: Fails to mount encrypted LVM

2006-12-11 Thread Andreas Tille
Sorry for the late reply. The forewarding via BTS to my mail address seems to be broken and I'm not subscribed to the list. Please CC me to ensure quick answer. > BTW, this seems to be a bug in installation-report: The installer > logs are not any more in /var/log/debian-installer but in > /va

Bug#401025: installation-report: Fails to mount encrypted LVM

2006-12-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Frans Pop wrote: Options to configure LVM will appear as soon as you mark a partition to be used as "physical partition for LVM". See installation guide. I was expecting it to be under the Encrypted LVM section and moreover I had no idea how to use partman to resize LVM p

Bug#401025: installation-report: Fails to mount encrypted LVM

2006-12-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Frans Pop wrote: No, aptitude should not give that error. The most likely cause is that the mirror you are using was (temporarily) broken. This might be and using a different mirror (after killing aptitude) seems to work. On the other hand if a broken mirror might lead to

Re: Bug#401025: installation-report: Fails to mount encrypted LVM

2006-12-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Frans Pop wrote: Let's keep this report focussed on the original problem. If you cannot reproduce that anymore, I'd suggest to just close it. As I promissed I will close the bug because I can not reproduce it. The second try worked - at least regarding the Cryped-LVM issue

Bug#273797: tasksel needs tree structure

2004-09-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: tasksel Version: 2.12 Severity: wishlist Hello, tasksel now supports selection of Debian-Edu tasks. This is a big advantage because we could adopt this for other Custom Debian Distributions as well and it might be a workaround for bug #186085. On the other hand kind of a tree structure

D-i Beta or daily build

2006-07-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I want to setup a machine from scratch (Compaq Proliant ML530 with fibre network adapter) and I wonder, whether I should use http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/etch_d-i/beta1/i386/iso-cd/ which is a little bit old (November 5, 2005) or rather http://cdimage.debian.org/cdima

Yet another list statistics for debian-boot

2009-01-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, as you can read in my lightning talk at DebConf http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/200808_lightning/ I did some investigation on who is frequently posting on our mailing lists. I now created graphs until end of last year and write a short summary for those lists I regard worth a comme

Re: Debian Installer Lenny Beta1

2008-03-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the first beta of Debian Lenny's Installer. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_beta1/ Just stumbled upon this by chance when I was looking for installer images for my new box and instal

Bug#394744: Package: installation-reports

2006-10-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso from Oct 17, 2006 Date: Oct 20, 2006 Machine: PC (assembled at local dealer) Processor: AMD Sempron AM2 3000+ 256kB (FSB 16

Bug#394744: Package: installation-reports

2006-10-22 Thread Andreas Tille
2006/10/22, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm going to have to close this installation report as a "successful install" because AFAICT the installer did everything right. If a device is not supported in the kernel, there is very little we can do. Sure. My intention was to announce a "success

Re: Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (4.0/etch)?

2006-11-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 04:50:29PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Martin Zobel-Helas] gpg --recv-keys A70DAF536070D3A1 && (gpg --export -a A70DAF536070D3A1 | apt-key add -) Uh, don't forget the part about verifying that the key is actually signed by

Bug#471410: Installing accessibility packages by default?

2009-03-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: It has been suggested a few times (471410, 511329, 516723) to add an "accessibility" item to tasksel, which would e.g. install gnome-accessibility. The task would be automatically selected when accessibility features was used during d-i itself. I won

Bug#471410: Installing accessibility packages by default?

2009-03-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: $ apt-cache search accessibility which is quite weak. Tags FTW. Look for Accessibility tags and you'll find a lot of packages. Sure. But do all our package handling tool support DebTags? Are our users aware of DebTags. (Well I admit they migh

Bug#471410: Installing accessibility packages by default?

2009-03-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: I'll send you a patch to expand it to a somewhat bigger list. Great. It is applied and shows up at the tasks pages now. I'm sthibaul-guest on alioth. You are now able to commit the changes yourself. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-ti

Re: RFC: bringing back task packages

2011-02-18 Thread Andreas Tille
[Not sure whether we should keep the long To: - list, I'd suggest continuing on debian-devel but keep it for the moment.] On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:20:30PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > A long time ago, tasksel installed task packages, which were regular > metapackages. This was dropped because the

Install report with pre2

2004-12-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, just one minor glitch: I had to use boot floppys because a machine had trouble booting from CD. This worked fine using the three provided disk images (boot + root + cddriver). But from the moment when control went over to the CD the language and keyboard settings were lost. I had to go back

Automatically created root partition seems to be quite small

2012-11-12 Thread Andreas Tille
[Please CC me, I'm not subscribed] Hi, my son and me independently installed two boxes with the recent Wheezy beta installer. Everything went smooth so far - thanks for your fine work. However, I might like to question the choice of the automatically suggested size for the root partition (when

Re: Automatically created root partition seems to be quite small

2012-11-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 09:26:49PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > Please make a proper installation report including the log from your > install. There's just no way to fix anything with the info you > provided. Done: #693107. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBS

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