Is sid 05/25/03 iso image usable as a debian sid installer?

2003-05-28 Thread Eric Valette
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Re: Is sid 05/25/03 iso image usable as a debian sid installer?

2003-05-30 Thread Eric Valette
Martin Sjögren wrote: ons 2003-05-28 klockan 12.17 skrev Eric Valette: Anyone tried it? Last time I downloaded a sid iso image, the installer was so broken that I did not manage to install something. Started a knoppix install to disk instead... The installer is still in alpha (no, not even

Bug#84281: Modconf does not support 2.4.(0,1) kernels

2001-01-31 Thread Eric Valette
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Installing Debian amd64 on an asus P5W DH Deluxe + E6600 : kernel on installer broken + bugs in d-i when changing kernel + modules

2006-10-30 Thread Eric Valette
Please CC me when anwsering: I'm not suscribed. OK I knew this would be painful although I've installed debian on hundred of machines over the past ten years. No deception on this point. At least I will report the actual status and seek for advices for finishing. What I did so far: 1) Took

Bug#396480: installation-reports: D-I does not work on ASUS P5W DH de luxe + E6600

2006-10-31 Thread Eric Valette
Package: installation-reports Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable boot starts, but enter an endless loop resetting the SATA controller when it tries to find the disks. Also, dmesg shows spurious irq not handled on this hardware. Apparently fixed via the libata upgrade availab

Re: Installing Debian amd64 on an asus P5W DH Deluxe + E6600 : kernel on installer broken + bugs in d-i when changing kernel + modules

2006-10-31 Thread Eric Valette
Eric Valette wrote: > Please CC me when anwsering: I'm not suscribed. > > 1) Did anybody else tried to replace a kernel with all drivers build in? > Why did the "modprobe -q evdev ||true" fail? Has it anything to do with > SMP support as the shell will probably sp

Bug#396482: installation-reports: S61mouse-support-x86 should use modprobe in the same way than other scripts (-q + || true)

2006-10-31 Thread Eric Valette
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Using this version of the script make this system boot with a kernel where all modules are built-in if [ "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" = gtk ] ; then modprobe -q evdev || true modprobe psmouse || true fi -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 AP

Re: Installing Debian amd64 on an asus P5W DH Deluxe + E6600 : kernel on installer broken + bugs in d-i when changing kernel + modules

2006-11-01 Thread Eric Valette
Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 01 November 2006 01:05, Eric Valette wrote: >> Found the culprit : S61mouse-support-x86 is incorrectly written : it >> does not use -q option for modeprobe not the || true. > > Nice job of tracing that! Want to use my new computer :-) &

Re: Installing Debian amd64 on an asus P5W DH Deluxe + E6600 : kernel on installer broken + bugs in d-i when changing kernel + modules

2006-11-01 Thread Eric Valette
Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 01 November 2006 08:45, Eric Valette wrote: >> BTW = I have written a script to update the installer to a new kernel >> *almost* automatically. Interested in putting this somewhere? > > Sure. Can you put it on a website somewhere? Then maybe fi

Bug#396482: installation-reports: S61mouse-support-x86 should use modprobe in the same way than other scripts (-q + || true)

2006-11-02 Thread Eric Valette
Geert Stappers wrote: Op 01-11-2006 om 01:07 schreef Eric Valette: Using this version of the script make this system boot with a kernel where all modules are built-in if [ "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" = gtk ] ; then modprobe -q evdev || true modprobe psmouse

Bug#396482: [Fwd: Re: Installing Debian amd64 on an asus P5W DH Deluxe + E6600 : kernel on installer broken + bugs in d-i when changing kernel + modules]

2006-11-02 Thread Eric Valette
At least include full message => Franz is ok to fix it and at least it would be consistent with the other modprobe calls in other SXX init scripts (e.g. ACPI, udev, video, ...) -- eric --- Begin Message --- On Wednesday 01 November 2006 01:05, Eric Valette wrote: > Found the culprit : S6

Bug#603318: debian-installer: Does not detect the USB wireless keyboard

2010-11-12 Thread Eric Valette
On 12/11/2010 23:49, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:22 PM, valette wrote: Bus 004 Device 002: ID 04fc:05d8 Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd Wireless keyboard/mouse<=== I managed to identify the need of hid-sunplus to get this to work. I have queued it for next kernel update. O

Bug#603318: debian-installer: Does not detect the USB wireless keyboard

2010-11-13 Thread Eric Valette
On 13/11/2010 12:03, Otavio Salvador wrote: It would be good if you could give a try to the installer. You won't need to reinstall the system just boot the new one and see if has hot it to work. OK. I can wait a bit anyway as the machine is running but as XBMC + pvr recors reading skips a bit

Bug#603318: debian-installer: Does not detect the USB wireless keyboard

2010-11-14 Thread Eric Valette
On 13/11/2010 12:52, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Eric Valette wrote: On 13/11/2010 12:03, Otavio Salvador wrote: It would be good if you could give a try to the installer. You won't need to reinstall the system just boot the new one and see if has hot it to

Bug#603798: debian-installer: /tmp is not created with 777 mode when doing manual disk partitionning

2010-11-17 Thread Eric Valette
Package: debian-installer Version: Debian Installer 14/11/2010 Severity: important Tags: d-i I reinstalled a machine this week-end. The install base smootly worked. I created a separate /tmp file system that was monted but with wrong permission. root.root 755. Visible effect is that kdm login loop

Bug#562557: console-setup: Wrong keyboard in single mode/normal boot failure

2009-12-25 Thread Eric Valette
Package: console-setup Version: 1.50 Severity: normal I had a file system witha date set in the future, and thus entered single mode. I had then a wrong keyboard which is annoying because when you are in this mode you are likely to kill your machine if using the wrong key (even enetring the pass

Bug#562557: console-setup: Wrong keyboard in single mode/normal boot failure

2009-12-26 Thread Eric Valette
On 26/12/2009 14:52, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 09:35:42PM +0100, Eric Valette wrote: I had a file system witha date set in the future, and thus entered single mode. I had then a wrong keyboard This shouldn't be happening so I need you to make few tests in order t

Bug#562557: console-setup: Wrong keyboard in single mode/normal boot failure

2009-12-26 Thread Eric Valette
On 26/12/2009 17:04, Eric Valette wrote: On 26/12/2009 14:52, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 09:35:42PM +0100, Eric Valette wrote: I had a file system witha date set in the future, and thus entered single mode. I had then a wrong keyboard This shouldn't be happening so I

Bug#562557: console-setup: Wrong keyboard in single mode/normal boot failure

2009-12-26 Thread Eric Valette
BTW readding the scripts, it look like the bug is more in console-common and that for some reason, the /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz does not get loaded. I entered rescue mode again and did the loadkeys /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz and got my french keyboard back. Unfortunately I had still

Bug#562557: console-setup: Wrong keyboard in single mode/normal boot failure

2009-12-26 Thread Eric Valette
On 26/12/2009 17:39, Eric Valette wrote: Here are the buggy lines in keymap.sh # If setupcon is present, then we've been superseded by console-setup. if type setupcon >/dev/null 2>&1; then exit 0 fi because console-setup is run tto late in case of voluntary single m

Bug#562557: console-setup: Wrong keyboard in single mode/normal boot failure

2009-12-26 Thread Eric Valette
On 26/12/2009 18:11, Eric Valette wrote: On 26/12/2009 17:39, Eric Valette wrote: Here are the buggy lines in keymap.sh # If setupcon is present, then we've been superseded by console-setup. if type setupcon >/dev/null 2>&1; then exit 0 fi because console-setup is run tto

Bug#562557: console-setup: Wrong keyboard in single mode/normal boot failure

2009-12-26 Thread Eric Valette
On 26/12/2009 20:16, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 06:39:13PM +0100, Eric Valette wrote: I tested manually after entering the maintenance mode S06keyboard-setup and yes it does print something and does a "setupcon -k" but the keyboard is still wrong after the

Bug#562557: console-setup: Wrong keyboard in single mode/normal boot failure

2009-12-26 Thread Eric Valette
I finally found the bug: I traced setupcons -k in error mode and it expects to find ckbcomp but unfortunately /usr is not mounted and ckbcomp is /usr/bin/ckbcomp I traced the setupcons -k with set -x and it exist with doing anyting because it does not find ckbcomp in the path. -- eric

Bug#562557: console-setup: Wrong keyboard in single mode/normal boot failure

2009-12-27 Thread Eric Valette
On 26/12/2009 22:47, Eric Valette wrote: I finally found the bug: I traced setupcons -k in error mode and it expects to find ckbcomp but unfortunately /usr is not mounted and ckbcomp is /usr/bin/ckbcomp I traced the setupcons -k with set -x and it exist with doing anyting because it does not

Bug#562557: console-setup: Wrong keyboard in single mode/normal boot failure

2009-12-27 Thread Eric Valette
On 27/12/2009 13:20, Anton Zinoviev wrote: Indeed copying ckbcomp to /bin instead of /usr/bin fixes the problem. Yes, I can confirm this. Setupcon tests the existence of ckbcomp even when it doesn't require ckbcomp. Thanks for the debugging. When this bug is fixed (maybe in the next upload