Hi,
Please consider applying the following patch.
Thanks,
Feri.
diff --git a/doc/devel/partman/partman-doc.sgml
b/doc/devel/partman/partman-doc.sgml
index 90ff44e..2bb4467 100644
--- a/doc/devel/partman/partman-doc.sgml
+++ b/doc/devel/partman/partman-doc.sgml
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ returned by pa
Hi,
When running the installer in a Xen paravirtualised environment,
kbd-chooser errors out after selecting a keymap:
Select a keyboard layout
Keymap to use:
1. American English [*] 23. Italian
[...]
22. Icelandic
Prompt: '?' for help, d
Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 10:47 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> When running the installer in a Xen paravirtualised environment,
>> kbd-chooser errors out after selecting a keymap:
>
> I don't see this with latest in
Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 13:00 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 10:47 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>>>
>>>> When running the
Guido Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:47:50AM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> When running the installer in a Xen paravirtualised environment,
>> kbd-chooser errors out after selecting a keymap:
>
> I vaguely remember that we passed
Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ferenc Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>>>> I can imagine that the following patch would f
Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ferenc Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>> Do you have any disk with sector size bigger then 512 bytes for
>>> testing? ramdisk is not the best way of doing that.
>>
>> RAID1 of two ramdisks... :
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> Because ramdisks cannot be opened with O_DIRECT and lastest parted
>> needs it. This has been done long time ago to avoid some sync problems
>> with disks.
>
> Ferenc: can fdisk open /dev/ram devices and
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If we do want to do this, I guess it would have to be a separate step in
> pkgsel, preferably _before_ running tasksel. Maybe we should somehow check
> if there are updates available and then run an
> in-target aptitude --without-recommends safe-upgra
Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 11:46 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> Guido Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:47:50AM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>>>
>>>> Whe
Hi!
First of all, you sent the mail to me only. I quote your message in
full so that you don't have to resend it.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 07:46:17PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote next:
>
>> Andrey Melnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
&g
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > I've been using console=hvc0 -- I wonder if that has the same effect as
>> > console=ttyS0 in terms of skipping the
Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 15:56 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
>> On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> > So let me raise the issue again (and risk some bikeshed effect):
>> > * Does kbd-chooser make any sense under X
"Tim Stoop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've got a fairly strict partitioning scheme that I want to setup through
> preseeding. It's really very simple, but partman can't do it (afaict):
>
> - /boot outside of LVM, 500M
> - LVM "dom0" of 10G with several partitions for the dom0
> - LVM "domU" em
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thursday 08 May 2008, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-xen-686 suite=etch DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text
> [...]
>> kbd-chooser[881]: ERROR **: Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to
>> the console
>>
"Tim Stoop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Ferenc Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I gave up on persuading partman to do things like this, and use the
>> attached initrd overlay instead. It adds new menu items to part
"Tim Stoop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Ferenc Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> partman-auto partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select Manual
>>> doesn't work.
>>
>> It works the same f
Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 12:38 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
> Will this patch do the right thing if Xen is being installed using the
> paravirutal framebuffer device present in 2.6.26-rc? It looks to me as
> if it will not.
Goo
Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 15:04 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 12:38 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>>>
>>> Will this patch
Package: installation-reports
Version: Etch daily built netboot (2007-02-27)
Severity: normal
Boot method: network
Image version:
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/netboot.tar.gz
Date: 2007-02-27 16:00 CET
Machine: 2 X86 CPU Blade Server/883221X
Processor: dual 2.8 GHz Xeo
This failure disappears if I remove the console=ttyS0,19200 kernel
parameter. It stays if I simply move it to the front.
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Hi!
pkgsel.postinst gained the following block of code:
# upgrade_types are incompatible with Etch and upgrade option is in
# general untested for Etch installs, therefore skip
if ! db_get mirror/suite || [ -z "$RET" ]; then
db_get cdrom/suite
fi
suite=$RET
db_get pkgsel/upgrade
if [ "$R
"Michal Suchanek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 03/09/2008, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> http://live.debian.net/syslinux-test/
>
> It does not work on Intel iMacs because the keyboard emulation is
> broken there and you have to press a key to boot. It never worked,
> t
Neale Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is the "correct" way of preseeding to install no tasks?
>
> Is it as simple as preseeding: "tasksel tasksel/first multiselect"
> (i.e. include the line with no values)?
For one, I always do that.
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Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Attached a patch for an alternative, more invasive solution.
> [...]
> - I'm not really happy with 'installtxt', 'experttxt', etc.; especially
> the double t in the last is awkward. Alternatives as 'installnewt' or
> 'installclassic' have their own probl
Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Quoting Ferenc Wagner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
>> What about putting in a dash: install-txt, expert-txt or a flip:
>> txtinstall, txtexpert. Btw sparing that 'e' doesn't buy much here,
>> you could as
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I propose to add the following paragraph below the links to installation
> images on the D-I project page and on the lenny D-I page.
>
> I am currently writing the info for the installation guide. I'll send the
> draft text for that for review when I have it
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> - http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/manual/ch06s04.html
You discuss both the tarball and the package method clearly. The
first is simpler, I guess that's why it's mentioned first and is
preferred. But the second is cleaner on the installed system, thu
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The tarball contains firware _packages_, not loose firmware files.
Indeed, I somehow managed to misread that. Not sure why, maybe
influenced by past practice... Btw. "loose firmware files" is a term
I've never encountered before, but the text made it suff
maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 03:54:59PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 03:10:47PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> standard answer boot with
> rootdelay=X
It worked with etch without that parameter and the upgr
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This one time, at band camp, Ferenc Wagner said:
>> maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 03:54:59PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Oct 07, 2
Ferenc Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Ferenc, since you are affected, can you test?
>
> Using udevsettle (udevadm settle) instead of sleep?
That seems to work for me in this case. Thanks for the tip!
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Casey Gosnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> - Static IP from provider. Behind a router. To get browsers and
> things to work the computer needs to have the DNS being
> 68.105.28.12. In D-I at the 'detect network' stage it writes
> /etc/resolve.conf and has 68.105.228.13 and 68.105.228.14 as the
Hi,
I've pulled the netboot Xen variant and did a paravirtual
installation. It went all right, but I noticed a mysterious empty box
on the APT setup screen: see http://apt.niif.hu/apt-config.png above
the button. Is that maybe a degenerated scrollbar, where
volatile is hiding? It isn't include
Jérémy Bobbio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:50:26PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
>
> As we are not interested in the settings of the serial line or by the
> state of the VT, we can just omit the struct declarations and be fine
> with a dummy buffer.
Don't you risk overflowin
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wednesday 03 December 2008, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> Don't you risk overflowing the buffer by not using a union of the two
>> structs? Or are both guarranteed to never grow above 256 bytes?
>
> The original code
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thursday 11 December 2008, jaalto wrote:
>
>> Please add confimation dialog:
>>
>>"Eject the CD" [OK]
>>
>> At the final phase of the installation before the reboot. Not all CD's
>> can be ejected, because the CD may be inside a front DOOR, which
Jérémy Bobbio writes:
> The issue probably requires more invasive changes in the newt
> frontend; let's postpone them to better times.
I'm trying to reproduce the issue in a normal system context instead
of the installer environment for easier debugging. However, I can't
get any reasonable line
"George Pinto" writes:
> Image version: http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/debian-40r5-i386-DVD-1.jigdo
>
> Machine: Intel P45 Express Chipset
> Processor: Intel core2 Quad Q6700 2.66ghz
> Memory: Corsair XMS3 2GB PC3-10666
> Partitions: default scenario
>
> Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn: ?
E
Colin Watson writes:
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:54:47PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
>> I would find it useful if the preseed file could be fetched via TFTP.
>
> I think this is a great idea; we'd need a TFTP client udeb first,
> though. The installation guide recommends tftpd-hpa as the server,
Christian Perrier writes:
> Investigating this might be fairly tricky as it will be difficult to
> test our usual way (with virtual machines) as the size of the
> installation disk obviously matters here.
I fail to see the problem, virtual disks are the easiest to change
the size of. I'll try t
Christian Perrier writes:
>> The installer wants to use 33% of diskspace which is 500 G I G A (!)
>> bytes as swap space
>
> I'm personnally not in position to do such tests (moreover it may
> require a knowledge of partman that I'm not usre to have).
For a start, I could reproduce it. Crypto
Even if I change in /lib/partman/recipes/30atomic
96 512 300% linux-swap
to
96 512 128 linux-swap
the size of the swap LV won't drop below 2.8 GB. Also, when it is
left as 300%, the final size does not depend on the size of the system
RAM (tested at 1024 and 128 MB).
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On the other hand, the pseudocode in
installer/doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt gives reasonable results,
so its implementation is probably broken.
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m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes:
> On Jan 07, Frans Pop wrote:
>
>> Even better, a system I installed fairly recently does not even have
>> a /var/log/news directory.
>
> The submitter disagrees.
> The inn and inn2 packages can deal with either no directory or a 755
> directory, but not with
Frans Pop writes:
reassign 511054 rsyslogd
thanks
> However, as the system I have still used sysklogd and is free of the
> problem, and my /etc/syslog.conf mentions news log files, and the BR
> mentions rsyslogd, my best guess is that the syslog daemon is the real
> cause.
Bingo, adding
new
Ferenc Wagner writes:
> At the end of installation /target does not contain /var/log/news. But
>
> drw-r--r-- 2 root root 55 2008-10-17 18:16 /var/log/news
>
> on an older Lenny install of mine (with no Inn nearby). The dir is
> claimed by no package, /var/lib/dpkg/info/* d
Looks like it's a problem with conversion to logical extents.
After running the recipe, perform_recipe_by_lvm settles on
3246000 0 3246000 linux-swap ...
that is, on a 3GB swap, which is correct (300% of the 1GB RAM).
However, it issues
lv_create noc2 swap_1 1406
to create it, thus creating a 1
Frans Pop writes:
> On Thursday 08 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> Looks like it's a problem with conversion to logical extents.
>> After running the recipe, perform_recipe_by_lvm settles on
>>
>> 3246000 0 3246000 linux-swap ...
>>
>> th
Frans Pop writes:
> On Thursday 08 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> Looks like it's a problem with conversion to logical extents.
>> After running the recipe, perform_recipe_by_lvm settles on
>>
>> 3246000 0 3246000 linux-swap ...
>>
>> th
Christian Perrier writes:
> Quoting Ferenc Wagner (wf...@niif.hu):
>
>> I have no base to decide which is better, but there isn't too much
>> difference; I can't consider either one wrong.
>>
>> The following patch contains an unnecessary change as w
Hi,
Just trying to get an idea of the general feeling towards something
that bugs me right now: the maximum number of kernel arguments (32) is
just a tad too small for preseeding a full install (about 40 would be
enough). This form of preseeding may not seem too important at first,
but this is th
"Leif W" writes:
> Currently, mdadm, fdisk and cfdisk, ext2fs utils, and mount utils
> fully handle partitionable/partitioned raid arrays. I can handle
> this all with manual commands. But the install scripts do not allow
> any intervention or injection of manual commands in the partition
> pro
Frans Pop writes:
> On Friday 09 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> The fix is to use kB units in calculating the free space:
>>
>> free_size=$(vgs -o vg_free --units K --noheading --nosuffix $VG_name |
>> sed -e 's/\..*//g'
>
> I have comm
Pyotr Berezhkov writes:
> rebooting into the installed system failed, as the initrd
> incorrectly identified the root device. As it turned out, the root
> device specified on Lilo's kernel command line (root=fd02 in my
> case) was incorrect.
It would be interesting to see /proc/devices in the i
Frans Pop writes:
> On Sunday 11 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> I can accept this, but then this BR should not be closed, as the 1 TB
>> limit (which hit the reporter) remains. People with big disks can
>> still get huge swaps, as no LV can suck up more than 1 TB.
&g
Frans Pop writes:
> On Sunday 11 January 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
>
>>> short: the maximal size of the unlimited partition is specified as
>>> 1,000,000,000 in the recipes, and the numbers there mean MBs, so
>>> that's 1000 TB.
>>
>> OK, but IMO this is more a structural flaw in partman-auto's reci
Ferenc Wagner writes:
> Yes, at above 4 TB in kB based (LVM/crypto) calculation and above 4 EB
> in the MB based case. I wonder what would be the overhead
Of course I meant 4000 TB = 4 PB, not 4 EB here. And wondered the
overhead of compiling dc into busybox, for doing unlimited pre
Laurent Grawet writes:
> The default PE size is too small (4MB) for some use when creating
> volume groups (VG) with debian-installer.
>
> If you're dealing with large amounts of data, it is highly
> suggested to go for a larger extent size for performance reasons.
man vgcreate says:
If the
Justin B Rye writes:
> W. Martin Borgert wrote:
>> On 2009-02-07 18:41, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>> Christian Perrier, le Sat 07 Feb 2009 17:05:01 +0100, a écrit :
> +
> + Install &debian; with a hardware speech synthesis
[...] and maybe "s/a/an"
>>>
>>> Before the h of hardware
Samuel Thibault writes:
> Ferenc Wagner, le Sun 08 Feb 2009 10:33:06 +0100, a écrit :
>
>> I'd suggest something simpler, like this, if possible (my English may
>> need fixing, but the idea is to get rid of "along with support for"
>> and s/syntheses/synth
Sebastien Desreux writes:
> My only problem, but a very significant one, is that I have absolutely no
> sound.
> [...]
> My sound card is a very common (and oldish) SoundBlaster PCI 128.
> The correct kernel driver, snd_ens1371, is loaded (lsmod | grep snd).
>
> Sound does not work either when
Holger Levsen writes:
> On Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
>
>> For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started
>> without having to reconfigure the system BIOS.
>
> What does that sentence mean? Why should (only) Windows users need
> to reconfigure the bios?
To b
Emmanuel Lesouef writes:
> As suggested by Daniel, I can confirm that my system is booting after
> modifying the lilo command-line.
It's probably the same issue as #511447. Should we merge them?
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Richard Hartmann writes:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:50, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> Holger Levsen writes:
>>
>>> On Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
>>>
>>>> For Microsoft Windows users, the installer can also be started
>&
Richard Hartmann writes:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:25, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> That sounds fishy. As I understand it, win32-loader can start the
>> installer from Windows, not needing a reboot (thus not needing BIOS
>> boot order reconfiguration either). I dou
Ferenc Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So here's something to discuss. This is how it used to look like:
OMG, something totally unrelated sneaked into the attached patch,
consider this instead:
Index: packages/partman/partman-base/debian/partman-
Hi,
So here's something to discuss. This is how it used to look like:
Partition disks
---
This is an overview of your currently configured partitions and mount points.
Select a partition to modify its settings (file system, mount point, etc.), a
free space to create partitions, or
Ferenc Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> * libparted should also recognize the device type, which isn't much
>>of a problem (based on a cursory look at the sources). But that
>>would just duplicate the info on the line at best. Probably
>>so
Package: partman-base
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
Here's a way to educate humandev about XEN virtual devices.
It's kind of a substitute for parted support not yet present
in libparted 1.7.1.
Thanks,
Feri.
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Hi,
The text frontend currently prints lists like this:
8. Detect disks
9. Partition disks
10. Install the base system
11. Set up users and passwords
It would be much nicer if the numbers were right aligned. What do you
think about the following patch against cdebconf?
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Sorry for spamming the list so hard... Now I'm missing something.
I issued the following commands in the Lenny installer:
~ # modprobe raid1
~ # mdadm --create /dev/md0 --auto=yes -l1 -n2 /dev/ram0 /dev/ram1
mdadm: array /dev/md0 started.
~ # cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md0 : a
Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 16:06 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> Here's a way to educate humandev about XEN virtual devices.
>> It's kind of a substitute for parted support not yet present
>> in libparted 1.7.1.
>
&
Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 15:18 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
> Thanks Ferenc, I've commented on #474556.
Thanks, I replyed there. On speling you are definitely right, I
changed the patch. Starting number, well, do we actually need
Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Quoting Ferenc Wagner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
>> +Template: partman/text/xen_virtual_disk
>> +Type: text
>> +# eg. XEN virtual disk 1 (xvda)
>> +# :sl4:
>> +_Description: XEN virtual disk %s (%s)
>> +
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> also sprach Ferenc Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.04.07.0111 +0200]:
>> After this partman presents me with the following menu items:
>>
>> 6. RAID1 device #0 - 8.3 MB Software RAID device
>> 7. &
Package: partman-base
Severity: normal
Issue the following commands in the D-I shell:
~ # modprobe raid1
~ # mdadm --create /dev/md0 --auto=yes -l1 -n2 /dev/ram0 /dev/ram1
mdadm: array /dev/md0 started.
Then restart partman. With the text backend it says:
6. RAID1 device #0 - 8.3 MB Software
Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ferenc Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> Quoting Ferenc Wagner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>>>
>>>> +Template: partman/text/xen_
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Monday 07 April 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:25:08PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>>> The text frontend currently prints lists like this:
>>>
>>> 8. Detect disks
>>> 9
Andrey Melnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Please, add mdadm '--assume-clean' options when creating new arrays
> in installer to avoid initial resync. This make huge speedups when
> creating big arrays (100 Gb or more).
While I sympathize, I feel like it isn't the best solution. You will
get
Hi,
Looks like parted_devices gets it wrong:
~ # parted_devices
/dev/md04161536 Unknown
~ # fdisk -l /dev/md0
Note: sector size is 1024 (not 512)
Disk /dev/md0: 8 MB, 8323072 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 1016 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 1024 = 8192 bytes
I can imagine that th
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> I can imagine that the following patch would fix this issue:
>
> Looks logical.
And it indeed fixes the parted_devices output (thanks for compiling
it!), but unfortunately not the par
Hi,
I did an install with a daily image, suite=etch. It went pretty good,
but in the end there are several differences in the /var/log/*
permissions compared to an older Etch system. For example,
/var/log/messages used to be root:adm 640, now it's root:root 644.
Where does this change originate
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> I did an install with a daily image, suite=etch. It went pretty good,
>> but in the end there are several differences in the /var/log/*
>> permissions compared to an older Etch sy
Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 18:56 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
>> On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 20:35 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
>> > > I would vote for starting the numbering at 1, not 0, as linking 1 to
>> > > xvda is most n
Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 11:39 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> I've left any parted enhancements out for now, as you say they would be
>>> a useful further sp
Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>>
>>> I could go on to replace PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT with dev->sector_size
>>> throughout partman-base/par
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tuesday 22 April 2008, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> Does parted 1.8.8 exhibit the same problem? I managed to compile it,
>> but can't start on a ramdisk:
>>
>> # ~/installcd/parted/parted/parted /dev/ram1
>> Erro
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tuesday 22 April 2008, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>>> # ~/installcd/parted/parted/parted /dev/ram1
>>>> Error: Error opening /dev/ram1: Invalid argument
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> On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>>>> I did an install with a daily image, suite=etch. It went pretty good,
>>>> but in the e
Ivan Jager writes:
> The problem is that /scripts/local-top is running and trynig to set up
> md before the hard drives are detected and show up in /dev.
Add rootdelay=5 or similar to your kernel command line. This is
documented in the installation guide. Yes, this is a workaround.
Usually the
Michal Ludvig writes:
> In my case scsi_wait_scan.ko didn't wait for all SCSI disks to be
> discovered, debian initramfs moved on prematurely and failed
> miserably. Recompiling the kernel without CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC fixed
> the problem for me.
Actually, you don't need to recompile the kernel
Samuel Thibault writes:
> Christian PERRIER, le Sat 20 Nov 2010 08:19:31 +0100, a écrit :
>
>> Jeff, le Fri 19 Nov 2010 20:22:40 -0500, a écrit :
>>
>>> Later, I tried pressing TAB to change boot options and discovered that a
>>> "vga=" option was being added by default. Removing this option allo
Hi,
Does this report ring a bell here? I didn't check, but the image should
carry an isohybridized 4.02 version of isolinux. The working (lenny)
version is 3.71.
Thanks,
Feri.
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Subject: Bug#604245: Syslinux fail
"H. Peter Anvin" writes:
> On 11/21/2010 12:31 PM, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> Does this report ring a bell here? I didn't check, but the image should
>> carry an isohybridized 4.02 version of isolinux. The working (lenny)
>> version is 3.71.
>
>
"H. Peter Anvin" writes:
> For a regression... I really need it narrowed down... 3.71 to 4.02 is a
> huge change.
That's of course true. György, are you willing to test some
intermediate syslinux versions on this machine? They are distributed
precompiled at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/util
Gyorgy Jeney writes:
> On 22 November 2010 22:46, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> "H. Peter Anvin" writes:
>>
>>> For a regression... I really need it narrowed down... 3.71 to 4.02 is a
>>> huge change.
>>
>> That's of course true.
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Hi,
With the rising popularity of such devices, booting from USB
memory sticks is probably becoming the most common method of
running the Debian Installer. At the same time, introduction
of isohybrid images made HD images mostly obsolete, I
"H. Peter Anvin" writes:
> On 11/24/2010 07:34 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> Syslinux certainly used to work partitionless. Maybe this feature was
>> inadvertently lost during the major version change... Peter?
>
> It's possible... it's also possibl
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