Bug#220651: debian-installer wrong keyboard map for English(Australia)

2003-11-13 Thread Brian May
Package: debian-installer Version: beta-1 Severity: normal Hello, I set at the menu "English(Australia)", and for some reason it selected DVORAK keyboard mapping. As QWERTY is used by majority of computers in Australia, I consider this... errr cbjrbk.bc.by^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h inconvenien

Bug#252211: Dell Dimension 8300 3.2GHz SATA

2004-06-01 Thread Brian May
8.JPG> for after changing back to the 1st console. I haven't been able to get it to correctly redisplay the first console after switching away from it, normal screen redraws don't seem to help. Switching to any other console other then the first one works fine. -- Brian May <[EMAIL

Re: Summary do D-I IRC meeting 20040619

2004-06-20 Thread Brian May
27;t test 2.4.x because I though something relatively new like SATA would require 2.6.x, I may have been mistaken... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-installer and devfs

2001-02-23 Thread Brian May
uired. 3 may or may not be important for boot disks, but don't overlook it... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-installer and devfs

2001-02-27 Thread Brian May
quot;calls" devfsd, which in turn executes modprobe to load the module. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How I can test the new Debian installation?

2001-02-27 Thread Brian May
ource/cvs >CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/project-root [874] [snoopy:bam] ~/source/cvs >cvs login (Logging in to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) CVS password: cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed: server cvs.debian.org rejected access -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To

Re: How I can test the new Debian installation?

2001-02-27 Thread Brian May
t...) and checked on debian-installer, and typed in cd debian-installer/build make get_udebs but it can't find the "modutils-basic" package. Where can these be found? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing from scratch with debs

2001-03-11 Thread Brian May
the Essential packages. Colin> Isn't unpacking base2_2.tgz the easiest way to start, or Colin> has this been obsoleted now? I agree it's less elegant. I have been told that it will be obsolete when unstable is released. See Bug#89079. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: base*.tgz is gone, and why it's gone

2001-06-16 Thread Brian May
on. I want to Jason> 'cross build' them. Why not? (never having used debootstrap yet, just curious) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

experiences: installing new testing system from network

2001-08-02 Thread Brian May
uld be clearly documented in the documentation of xserver-xfree86 what to do in cases like this. Everything else went exactly to plan. Anyway, just my feedback, I hope you can use it to make Debian even better! -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: #103302 ask permission before erasing /var/cache/apt/archives

2001-11-11 Thread Brian May
g the question twice Now I am confused... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: #103302 ask permission before erasing /var/cache/apt/archives

2001-11-17 Thread Brian May
essage, I might not be so eager to fix the bug as before. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: teamwork (was Re: #103302 ask permission blah blah)

2001-11-17 Thread Brian May
a neccesary evil ? Isn't it fun ??? Anthony> _GLENN_. IS IT REALLY TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR YOU TO NOT CC Anthony> ME ON MAILING LIST POSTS? Anthony> IF IT IS, WELCOME TO MY KILLFILE. Seriously, if both people try to blame the infighting on the other person, well... it

sparc IPC

2001-11-27 Thread Brian May
p. The screen is stuck on the segmentation fault message, followed by the prompt, and nothing I type changes anything. Anyway, hope some of this helps in improving the boot disks for woody... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sparc IPC

2001-11-28 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> Hello, I have an old sparc IPC workstation, and am trying Brian> to install Debian testing on it, using boot disks created Brian> on 2001-10-27. On other comment: it says "Extr

Re: sparc IPC

2001-11-28 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> Hello, I have an old sparc IPC workstation, and am trying Brian> to install Debian testing on it, using boot disks created Brian> on 2001-10-27. One last thing: when rebooting, it s

Re: sparc IPC

2001-11-28 Thread Brian May
Philip> Probably best to file a bug against nano-tiny itself for Philip> this. If I can reproduce. Chances are it is easy to reproduce, all you have to do is push the same wrong buttons I pressed before I got the save operation . Now I wonder what buttons I pressed... -- Brian May <[EMAI

Re: sparc IPC

2001-11-28 Thread Brian May
o tty2 and ejected it), not until I aborted the process. However, I was distracted by the message itself so I may have remembered this wrongly. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sparc IPC

2001-11-28 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/ Ben I take it that this is the newest version of the boot disks? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Sparc installation packages corrupted

2001-11-30 Thread Brian May
ven't tried it since). So maybe the problem was man-db? I noticed when I did re-install it, I was asked questions that I had never been asked before like: should man be run setuid root? Hmmm... need to try it again now I have reinstalled it and see if it still crashes. -- Brian May <[EMAIL P

Re: Sparc installation packages corrupted

2001-11-30 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> I noticed that man-db was seg-faulting in Brian> cron.weekly/man-db, so I reinstalled it (haven't tried it Brian> since). So maybe the problem was man-db? Brian>

Re: Sparc installation packages corrupted

2001-12-03 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 09:59:48AM +1100, Brian May wrote: >> I noticed when I did re-install it, I was asked questions that >> I had never been asked before like: sh

Re: Sparc installation packages corrupted

2001-12-03 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Arne" == Arne Nordmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Arne> This sounds like bug #111288. Looks like it. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-16 Thread Brian May
Frans Pop wrote: AFAIK grub (at least the default "legacy" version) also still has problems with / on XFS. That's the one other case where D-I automatically falls back to lilo. I think you mean /boot on XFS. Having / as XFS seems to work fine for me... Brian May -- To UNS

debian-installer

2007-01-28 Thread Brian May
ges/DiffIndex Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org etch/main Sources/DiffIndex [2023B] Fetched 4322kB in 39s (110kB/s) Rea

Re: debian-installer

2007-01-29 Thread Brian May
og Frans> (compressed!) for the installation (you can find that in Frans> /var/log/ after switching to VT2, or you can use the "Save Frans> debug logs" option in the installer's main menu). Will I still have it after rebooting? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: debian-installer

2007-01-29 Thread Brian May
ly downloading a Joey> few megabytes from it anyway. It wanted to download everything from ftp.debian.org. As it entire base system, additional packages, etc. Ok if you live in USA, not so good from Australia. Cost of downloading from USA is relatively expensive from here, even for Austra

Re: debian-installer

2007-01-30 Thread Brian May
the installer _will_ use Frans> black magic whereever possible. No, the only time I selected anything related to "auto" was when I chose the "guided partitioning scheme". I suspect it was already in "auto" by this stage. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-installer

2007-01-31 Thread Brian May
g is that both installers are the same, just one is graphical. I don't care if the interface is graphical based or not, but it should provide reasonable details as to what went wrong. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-installer

2007-02-03 Thread Brian May
er is a newly installed Windows computer, and setting up the IE settings is always something I forget :-(. Anyway, sounds like a good idea. Maybe it could somehow be documented or ask the user for confirmation before rebooting. Or would that be too confusing for the targeted user base? --

Re: debian-installer status report

2001-01-28 Thread Brian May
to configure/format partitions or swap space. How will this work? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#564150: Segmentation fault on iBook

2010-01-07 Thread Brian May
ng console mode to Unicode is the cause of the problem, or maybe this is a symptom of something else going wrong. -- Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org