Re: discover2: new bus "sata"?

2004-07-25 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 04:08:01PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > Wouldn't it be reasonable to introduce a new bus 'sata' > to discover? IMO no. What should it be good for? I don't know of any device hanging on an SATA bus needing some special kernel module. Kernel modules are needed

Re: New d-i devcamp?

2004-07-25 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 07:15:37PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Last years d-i devcamp was a great success. The co-location with the > "non-intel linux gathering" in Oldenburg proved to move the d-i > porting a long step forward, and the grouping of d-i people managed to > improve d-i a

Re: discover2: new bus "sata"?

2004-07-26 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 07:41:16PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 04:08:01PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > >>Hi folks, > >> > >>Wouldn't it be reasonable to introduce a new bus 'sata' &

Bug#236423: Problem persists

2004-07-26 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
tags 236423 +help Thanks On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 02:09:55PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > Hi, > > I'm operating with 1.2004.02.08-7, and I'm still seeing the same stuff > getting spat out during the boot process. > > If there's any more information I can provide, don't hesitate to ask. I'm tryi

Bug#239784: lspci/lspci -n

2004-07-26 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
tags 239784 +moreinfo Thanks Hi Manuel On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 09:55:30AM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 09:00:08AM +0200, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: > > The output of lspci itself is already included. Let me know if you > > really need the lspci -n listing, I'll try to get ac

Re: debian-installer beta-4 for ppc

2004-07-30 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Kevin As mentioned on my site, please send all questions and bug reports about the installer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't mail me in private mail about that. See below for my answer: On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 11:23:42AM -0400, Kevin C. Baird wrote: > I had a little problem with the Beta 4 installe

Re: Sarge netinst on Pismo

2003-10-15 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Uwe Steinmann schrieb: Hi, I just got the latest (14 Oct) sarge installer for powerpc and booted a Apple PowerBook Pismo. It doesn't get far and starts flashing the lcd when it trieds to load some kernel modules. So it booted and you got to the language question first. That's at least something.

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Goswin von Brederlow schrieb: Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: 6) Test installer! The incarnation I used couldn't install the kernel and modules because of the missing ppcdetect. I got around this in console 2 by copying th

Re: Install report

2003-10-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Joey Hess schrieb: Fraser Campbell wrote: Loading the second floppy, some dots or a spinning cursor would be useful here just to show meaningful progress. I agree, though it will take some shell magic, since all I have is POSIX shell, and the following command: zcat floppy/initrd.gz > mnt/tmp-

Re: Templates and all user intraction strings consistency

2003-10-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Fre, den 17.10.2003 schrieb Christian Perrier um 07:11: > Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Please react (even for telling me that all this is already planned in > d-i plans :-))). To me your proposal sounds like a summary of most i18n issues discussed here during the last w

Re: [ppc] ppcdetect not found and latest iso freeze during the boot [was: Re: share partition between macosx and debian]

2003-10-18 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Sam, den 18.10.2003 schrieb Arnaud Vandyck um 00:28: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:13:41 +0200 > Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > > Last thing, I'll probably use Branden Robinson's help page to install, > > &

Re: [ppc] ppcdetect not found and latest iso freeze during the boot

2003-10-18 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Sam, den 18.10.2003 schrieb Arnaud Vandyck um 13:47: > On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 12:09:16 +0200 > Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Am Sam, den 18.10.2003 schrieb Arnaud Vandyck um 00:28: > > > It's three days I can't boot the daily imag

dependency checking in copy-modules (linux-kernel-di)

2003-10-18 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi joey and others I'm trying to make linux-kernel-di usable for arch!=i386. I first tried to understand the dependency checking code in copy-modules, but it probably needs a degree in rocket-science to understand that completely. But as far as I understood it, dependencies are only checked base

discover2 packages for debian-installer

2003-10-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Since I didn't hear anything from progeny I have made discover2 packages for testing. You can download them at http://www.soziologie.ch/~steinlin/d-i/discover2/ As we don't get any responses from progeny I ask myself if it's really a good thing to base our hw-detection on discover or if we should

Re: dependency checking in copy-modules (linux-kernel-di)

2003-10-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 20.10.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 02:00: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > I'm trying to make linux-kernel-di usable for arch!=i386. > > > > I first tried to understand the dependency checking code in > > copy-modules, but it probably needs a degree in rocke

Re: PowerPC CHRP network install

2003-10-21 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 21.10.2003 schrieb Rolf Brudeseth um 22:08: > > > I downloaded the debian-installer via cvs and read the documentation. It > appears to indicate that there are two supported netinst methods; however, > both require a CD? No, you dont' need to burn the image on a CD. > > On a PowerPC

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Sven Luther schrieb: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:01:25PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:14:21AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ah. I tried using a floppy ramdisk with the regular image, and it did load it up. But Sven's i

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-24 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Fre, den 24.10.2003 schrieb Chris Tillman um 08:15: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:14:29PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Aha! I got a working kernel. I guess I know more than I think I do :) > > Here is the diff for the config, from your -small config. I really > don't know which of these were

Re: Conflict in debian-installer/tools/base-installer/debian/

2003-10-28 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 27.10.2003 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen um 23:44: > Please clean up the conflict you commited, and make it a habit to use > 'cvs diff -u' before you commit: Done, sorry about that gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Bug#217503: Evil autopartkit should _NEVER_ _NEVER_ try to overwrite an unknown partition table

2003-10-28 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Sam, den 25.10.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 11:29: > Package: autopartkit > Version: 0.62 > Severity: critical > Justification: causes serious data loss > > Ok, i am trying to make debian-installer work on the pegasos, and to my > surprise, yesterday, autopartkit without really giving me the cho

Re: discover2 packages for debian-installer

2003-10-28 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 29.10.2003 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen um 00:05: > [Gaudenz Steinlin] > > Since I didn't hear anything from progeny I have made discover2 packages > > for testing. You can download them at > > http://www.soziologie.ch/~steinlin/d-i/discover2/ > > G

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-29 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 29.10.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 08:17: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:41:18PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:42:22AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > Am Fre, den 24.10.2003 schrieb Chris Tillman um 08:15: > > > > On Thu, Oc

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-29 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 29.10.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 10:46: > BTW, i tried a new install today and the configure&mount partition > exhibited some strange (and buggy) behavior. I have 11 partitions, and i > choose the last partition to be ext3 formated and mounted as /. The / is > shown after the first par

Bug#212919: drop fstab creation from autopartkit

2003-10-29 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
pere wrote sometime ago: > When partconf-mkfstab is creating a proper fstab, I can remove the > code in autopartkit to do the same, and this problem will go away. > > I am not sure if that has happened yet. Do you know what needs to be done? I would really like to drop created-fstab from autopar

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-29 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 29.10.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 13:57: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:22:58AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > BTW, the -powerpc kernel fails to boot on my pegasos system, but this is > > > probably due to devfs. Do you all run devfs with its cryptic device >

Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

2003-10-29 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 29.10.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 15:01: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 02:35:25PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Am Mit, den 29.10.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 13:57: > > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:22:58AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > > > BTW,

Bug#218190: exits after selecting partition

2003-10-29 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Package: partconf Version: 0.11 Severity: grave partconf exits immediately after a partition is selected. Is this really partconf? I see the same behaviour in partitioner on powerpc. It exits after I select a disc to partition. It's because of the wrong path to archdete

Bug#106875: base-config should provide network setup

2003-10-30 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Package: base-config Version: 1.74 Severity: important Followup-For: Bug #106875 base-config should provide network configuration similar to d-i's netcfg-dhcp and netcfg-static if the network has not been set up by d-i (eg. cdrom install). Otherwise base-config will fail like described above. --

Bug#218343: yaboot-installer: Debconf templates polishing

2003-10-30 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
tags 218343 +pending thanks you for your review, I applied most of the changes in CVS. Am Don, den 30.10.2003 schrieb Christian Perrier um 18:49: > Template: yaboot-installer/bootdev > Type: select > Choices: ${DEVICES} > Default: invaliddevice > -_Description: On which device should yaboot b

Re: d-i steps order : why directly go into cfdisk?

2003-11-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Sam, den 01.11.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 10:45: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:50:54AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Currently, the steps order looks like : > > > > Language selection > > Network hardware detection > > Modules loading > > ... > > > > then partition hard disk (the good ol

Re: d-i steps order : why directly go into cfdisk?

2003-11-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Sam, den 01.11.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 12:12: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:17:45AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Am Sam, den 01.11.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 10:45: > > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:50:54AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > Current

Bug#218689: partitioner: Unable to start mac-fdisk

2003-11-02 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
merge 18689 18690 Thanks Am Son, den 02.11.2003 schrieb Chris Tillman um 06:49: > I suspect the arch-detect thingy is not working right. I was able > to partition the disk by going into console 2 and typing > This is fixed in version 0.11 of partitioner. Please retry as soon as the daily builds

Re: [ppc] install report 2003-11-03 :'(

2003-11-04 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Zitat von Arnaud Vandyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > With the default boot, no argument, booting, then, asking for the > language, then the keyboard, then changing the debconf priority, then > execute a shell, then reboot! > > oups! :'( > > With DEBCONF_PRIORITY=normal I got this menu: > > +

build broken without module-init-tools

2003-11-04 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debian-installer/build$ cvs diff -r1.237 -r1.238 Makefile Index: Makefile === RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/build/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.237 retrieving revision 1.238 diff -u -r1.237 -r1.238

Re: [ppc] install without using any physical media

2003-11-05 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Arnaud Vandyck schrieb: On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 08:46:27 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) wrote: What about spending time to find out how to netboot? http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook/ The word netboot is not on this page! ;) Also, I do not want to re-format my linux partition each tim

Bug#219344: kbd-chooser segfaults after usb-keyboard selection

2003-11-05 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Package: kbd-chooser Version: 0.29 Tags: d-i When testing the latest daily image (11/04/2003, arch: i386) after language selection I get to the main-menu. Then I choose kbd-chooser and it presents me a list of usb-keyboards, but I only have an at keyboard. I select one and get back to main-menu wi

installation report

2003-11-05 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Arch: i386 Image: netinst (11/04/2003) 1. kbd-chooser segfaults (see bug I just submitted) 2. After loading udebs from the cdrom netcfg-dhcp is executed. It does not get an ip adress but still suceeds and tries to load modules from the net. This also sets up dhcp for ip configuration on

Bug#219344: kbd-chooser segfaults after usb-keyboard selection

2003-11-06 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 06.11.2003 schrieb Christian Perrier um 08:15: > (I kept you CC'ed as I don't know if you're subscribed to -boot) No need to CC me, I'm on debian-boot > > Same bug as the one I reported as 219295. Same "solution" also (use > kbd-chooser twice.and not three times as I mentioned earl

Bug#219392: netcfg-dhcp succeeds although no lease was acquired

2003-11-06 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Package: netcfg-dhcp Version: 0.27 Tags: d-i Severity: important If the computer has a network device and is connected to a network, but there is no dhcp server on this net, then netcfg-dhcp succeeds although no lease is acquired. ps shows, that the dhcp-client process is still running afterwards.

successful powerpc installation

2003-11-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: businesscard, 11/06/2003 uname -a: Linux tigerente 2.4.22-powerpc-small #1 mar nov 4 11:37:39 CET 2003 ppc GNU/Linux Method: udebs on cdrom, base from net Machine: PowerBook G4, 500MHz, 1st generation Processor: G4 Memory: 256MB Root Device: /dev

initrd-tools installation (was: Re: [ppc-new_tibook-15"] install report 2003-11-05)

2003-11-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 06.11.2003 schrieb Arnaud Vandyck um 15:01: > Wow! > > First, should it be possible to NOT install the network via DHCP? but > ask: 1° dhcp; 2° static; 3° no network. > > Everything was good untill kernel installation... > > I have a list of kernel. I chose 2.4.22 and it stay top thi

adding initrd-tools to powerpc netinst cds

2003-11-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Manty Could you please add the following packages to the powerpc netinst cds: cramfsprogs module-init-tools initrd-tools They are needed to create an initrd for booting a minimal kernel which has most drivers compiled as modules. There will be such a kernel for powerpc very soon now (kernel-i

Re: successful powerpc installation

2003-11-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Fre, den 07.11.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 17:58: > Thank you tremeously for this report. I was worried that powerpc was > broken again, but it seems it generally works. I think we can update the > last known good CD image (Oct 8th -> Nov 7th, wow!) for both i386 and > powerpc now. If possible on

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-11-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Fre, den 07.11.2003 schrieb Andrew Pollock um 22:39: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:55:09AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Andrew Pollock wrote: > > > > > Someone should perhaps turn this into a wishlist bug report against the > > > > relevant package. I can never guess what the right relevant pack

Re: explicit image classification in INSTALLER-HOWTO

2003-11-09 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Son, den 09.11.2003 schrieb Filippo Giunchedi um 11:02: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 03:55:58PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > > > first of all thanks for the great work with d-i, it is really cool! after > > > playing around with some images I found netinst confusing, I th

Re: beta released

2003-11-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 04:48, Joey Hess wrote: > Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:08:49PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > We should probably fix the web pages so > > - The errata is a little more complete (most notably "you can't select mirror > > at priority=high, and m

Bug#219888: anna: Give the user full control of modules to be installed

2003-11-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 00:42, Jeremie Koenig wrote: > Package: anna > Version: 0.043 > Severity: wishlist > > Hello, > > The anna TODO list contains : > | * Include all packages that will be autoinstalled in the question about > | what to install, in addition to those that will not be installed.

Bug#219929: kbd-chooser: wrong default selection for language de (germany)

2003-11-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 10:05, Sebastian Ley wrote: > If I select german (Germany) the default for kbd-chooser will be Swiss > German. I don't know if there are any differences at all to a German > keyboard. If not just close this bug. There are quite a lot of differences on the special characters. S

Re: beta released

2003-11-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 13:39, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:08:49PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > BTW, can i now remove the udeb packages from the powerpc kernel packages ? Yes, if you agree that they should be handeld by linux-kernel-di. gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: beta released

2003-11-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 14:58, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 02:56:28PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 13:39, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:08:49PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > BTW, can i now remove the ude

Re: Flavors

2003-11-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 15:26, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:59:51PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Chris Tillman wrote: > > > In the old installation manual, there were four (no, 5) flavors of > > > kernels for i386. In the current kernel module, only one kernel > > > version is lis

Bug#219888: anna: Give the user full control of modules to be installed

2003-11-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 16:07, Jeremie Koenig wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:37:30AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > IMHO it would be better to simply have the current behaviour on priority > > medium and your new "full control" behaviour on priority low. I d

Re: ibook G4 no hd

2003-11-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 10.11.2003 schrieb Matthias Kirschner um 21:41: > Hello Gaudenz > I have tested it. But the installation prozess ended with the question > if i want to restart my computer. But the system wasn't even installed. > After I said yes to the question if i want to restart i saw a screen >

Re: Bug#220163: installation-reports: netboot install attempt via PXE (fwd)

2003-11-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 11.11.2003 schrieb Joe Nahmias um 09:16: > [ I don't know why, but for some reason installation-reports go to ] > [ debian-testing, so I'm forwarding this to debian-boot for discussion ] > probably someone should reassign the pseudo-package installation-reports to debian-boot. I, S

Bug#201191: partconf: mkfs should indicate progress

2003-11-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 11.11.2003 schrieb Steinar H. Gunderson um 04:02: > A quick test indicates that most interesting mkfs-variations (ext2, ext3, > reiserfs; vfat and jfs are so quick it doesn't need progress, and xfs seems > only a bit slower than that) has at least some kind of progress output, so we > _

Re: Bug#220163: installation-reports: netboot install attempt via PXE (fwd)

2003-11-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 11.11.2003 schrieb Joe Nahmias um 09:16: > Alright, here are the highlights of how this install went: > > 0) OK, after much struggling (and dealing with my nemesis error message > 'VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 3a:04') I managed to get the d-i > netboot image to work via PXE. Fo

Re: Priority handling in main-menu

2003-11-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 11:26, Sebastian Ley wrote: > Hello, > > in my opinion the priority handling on errors in main-menu needs still > some work. Presently the logic is simple: Have an initial priority. If a > menu item fails, lower the priority by one step. If a menu item suceeds, > pump up the

Bug#201191: partconf: mkfs should indicate progress

2003-11-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:15, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > I suggest a simple solution. I think the most important thing is that > > users don't see a blue screen for several seconds like it's now, but a > > progress bar. I would only step it forward after one filesystem is > > created, so we do

Re: Bug#220163: installation-reports: netboot install attempt via PXE (fwd)

2003-11-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 11.11.2003 schrieb Joe Nahmias um 19:00: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Am Die, den 11.11.2003 schrieb Joe Nahmias um 09:16: > > > > It would be nice, if you could write a short addition to the > > INSTALLATION-HOWTO about your way to install d-i via PXE b

Re: Bug#215469: don't include unnecessary udebs on the cd

2003-11-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 13.11.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 05:57: > - I don't know what these would be used for in d-i either, but choose > not to keep them on the CD. > partconf-mkfstab This one creates the fstab. Since petter removed fstab creation from autopartkit it is the only udeb providing cr

Re: dhcp clients

2003-11-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 13.11.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 05:39: > I noticed that while the cdrom install pulls in dhcp-client-udeb and > uses it for dhcp, the floppy net install does not have a dhcp client > listed, so it falls back to using udhcp, from busybox-cvs-udeb. > > This does not seem like a good idea

Re: Bug#220135: netcfg fails with two via-rhine cards and dhcp server on eth1

2003-11-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 12.11.2003 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] um 00:57: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Philip Martin wrote: > > > I just tried the new beta ISO images and the problem still occurs. > > The appropriate ethernet module gets loaded (via-rhine) but "Configure > > the network using dhcp" fails. Looking in

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 12.11.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 01:55: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Why not merge dhcp and static? > > > > Try dhcp for some time or until the user hits abort. > > If dhcp finds any data seed it into debconf and jump to the final > > summary/acknowldege request in dhcp-static. But

Re: dhcp clients

2003-11-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 13.11.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 20:48: > I will at least switch all i386 images that need a dhcp client over to > dhcp-client-udeb. If someone can tell me what is the right dhcp client > for powerpc, it is still using both udhcp and pump right now and I'd > like to fix that. I think we

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Fre, den 14.11.2003 schrieb Christian Perrier um 06:44: > I second your plans. Of course, I hope you'll try to keep as much as > possible of the templates tanslations while merging the > packages. There is a lot of work in them, though the polishing > stuff will fuzzy some strings. atm there are

Re: powerpc 2.4.22-3 kernel packages ready.

2003-11-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi I just tested the small flavour on pmac and it works well. All the issues present in -2 seem to be resolved. Thanks for your work on the powerpc kernel. gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [patch]: fdisk-udeb needs reduced .mo files for l10n

2003-11-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Fre, den 14.11.2003 schrieb Denis Barbier um 21:02: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 06:21:56PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > > >The fdisk-udeb for debian-installer requires cut-down versions > > > >of the .mo files for localisation. > > > >The following patch produces these. > > > > .../.

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Fre, den 14.11.2003 schrieb Christian Perrier um 18:09: > Quoting Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I have indeed a running script so that updated PO files are available > > online (and then translators can grab them, not all translators want to > > learn CVS and checkout a local copy of

Bug#221203: debian-installer: Minor error in debconf template "netcfg-no_interfaces"

2003-11-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Axel Noetzold schrieb: Package: debian-installer Severity: minor Tags: patch -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux pc12 2.4.20-686 #1 Mon Jan 13 22:22:30 EST 2003 i686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] please refer to my enclosed dif

Re: Bug#221203: debian-installer: Minor error in debconf template "netcfg-no_interfaces"

2003-11-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Axel Noetzold schrieb: * Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031117 14:44]: Axel Noetzold schrieb: * Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031117 14:10]: Axel Noetzold schrieb: debian-installer, please do not do so. See[1] for the rationale. Hm, it is ddtp... Your reference

Re: Bug#209240: NMU proposal for discover (i18n issues)

2003-11-18 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 18.11.2003 schrieb Branden Robinson um 16:43: > [Please CC me on replies.] > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:38:20PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Branden Robinson] > > > Please feel free to go ahead. > > > > > > Progeny is concentrating on Discover 2.x: > > > > This sounds ver

discover2 for debian-installer

2003-11-18 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 18.11.2003 schrieb Branden Robinson um 22:53: > [Please CC me on replies.] > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:13:53PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Unfortunately I can not find the changelog in the pre 2.0.2 tarball on > > the progeny website. Where can I find

Re: Introduction to list

2003-11-19 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 19.11.2003 schrieb Barry C.Hawkins um 16:28: > List, > Hello. My name is Barry Hawkins. I am interested in getting involved > with the efforts for the new Debian installer. I have no C experience > yet, and my shell skills are nascent. I would be willing to help out > in th

Re: Default bootloader

2003-11-19 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 19.11.2003 schrieb Andrés Roldán um 14:43: > As the maintainer of LILO, I know that there is advantages on GRUB and advantages > on LILO. Some users will need LILO advantages, some will need GRUB advantages. > I'm not intending to make a flamewar of bootloaders. I just suggest not to

Bug#221533: install fails - "couldn't download exim4"

2003-11-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 19.11.2003 schrieb Joe Drew um 22:54: > On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 16:03, Joey Hess wrote: > > Joe Drew wrote: > > > At first, DHCP failed since the Debian installer didn't detect my > > > Airport card. > > > > Is this a hardware detection problem that we should do something about? > > Are

Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/utils/debian by mckinstry

2003-11-21 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Son, den 16.11.2003 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] um 12:38: > Update of /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/utils/debian > In directory gluck:/tmp/cvs-serv16371/debian > > Modified Files: > changelog control rules > Log Message: > Add di-utils-devicefiles package to provide the devicefiles nee

Re: (low priority) udeb naming

2003-11-26 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Joey Hess schrieb: On 13 Dec 2000 I wrote: James Troup wrote: You can't have a .udeb with the same name as a .deb; this is enforced by katie (i.e. the package will be REJECTed) at JoeyH's specific request. BTW my reasoning behind that is it could get confusing if someone manages to install a ud

Bug#219528: Random root tmpfs filesystem size.

2003-11-26 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
I now realize this doesn't help, as some architectures still use linux 2.2, which doesn't have tmpfs. As a consequence we can't just use the "tmpfs" name and use options that don't apply everywhere. Which architecture still uses kernel 2.2 with d-i? I thought that the plan was to move all archite

Re: use of release names in d-i

2003-12-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 01.12.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 06:33: > Please can't we change this to use symbolic release names? Seconded. gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 01.12.2003 schrieb Robert Staudinger um 14:27: > INSTALL REPORT > > Debian-installer-version: 2003-11-29 > http://www.soziologie.ch/~steinlin/d-i/powerpc/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso > uname -a: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.20-8d_owen_aty128 #1 Wed Jul 16 13:04:19 > CEST 2003 ppc ppc

Re: install report

2003-12-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 01.12.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 03:01: > Network config found my card, but did not get a dhcp lease from vmware. > Probably a problem with my vmware, but this let me experience the > oh-so-pleasant path of dhcp failing after a long timeout, and main-menu > running it again and again whe

Bug#222791: INSTALL REPORT - problems

2003-12-03 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
clone 222791 -1 -2 reassign -1 choose-mirror retitle -1 do not ask distribution on cdrom install reassign -2 partitioner retitle -2 umount partitions before partitioning Thanks Am Mit, den 03.12.2003 schrieb Jeff Williams um 12:04: > Package: installation-reports > Version: beta1 > > INSTALL RE

Re: plans for discover transition (was: plans for d-i string freeze)

2003-12-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
There apparently was some discussion between branden robinson and me which did not get through to the list or at least the list archive due to the break in. Branden proposed the following transition: --- Well, here's what I'd personally like: :) 1) Get a good feedback cycle going between Proge

Re: plans for discover transition (was: plans for d-i string freeze)

2003-12-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Son, den 07.12.2003 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen um 19:45: > [Gaudenz Steinlin] wrote: > > There apparently was some discussion between branden robinson and me > > which did not get through to the list or at least the list archive > > due to the break in. Branden p

Re: plans for discover transition (was: plans for d-i string freeze) [progeny.com #2385]

2003-12-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Son, den 07.12.2003 schrieb Doug Porter um 19:00: > Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > One consequence of this is that we need discover2 udebs ASAP. > > If you guys haven't noticed, there are bits in the Subversion > repository for building

Re: plans for discover transition (was: plans for d-i string freeze)

2003-12-08 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 08.12.2003 schrieb David Nusinow um 00:12: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 12:00:06AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > David Nusinow was interested in it. If he still wants to take it I'm > > fine with that. I'm not particularly interested in maintaining a

Re: d-i calender

2003-12-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Am Mit, den 10.12.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 11:18: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:36:53PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > 12/08 cvs reopens > > 12/14 string freeze begins > > 12/21 string freeze ends > > 12/28 beta 2 release > > > > At least that's my current thinking. > > Err, i just hope that s

combination of --data-path and display options (was: Bug#209240: NMU proposal for discover (i18n issues))

2003-12-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 18.11.2003 schrieb Branden Robinson um 16:43: > For example, it turns out a "di-discover" tool wasn't needed after all; > it was possible to pass arguments to the existing discover utility to > get output in the format desired by the d-i team. > > * discover/discover/Makefile.in >

Bug#223624: Installer Report - CD boot problem, IDE_SCSI module prevents IDE CDROM mounting, and inflexibility in options - but good hardware detection and working sound.

2003-12-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 10.12.2003 schrieb Barrie James um 23:34: > Suggestions : I'm surprised the network config is split into 2 sections, dhcp > and static. I would have thought that this would be 2 options in a single > section, maybe with dial-up as a further option as a lot of Debian users will > have

Bug#223762: netcfg: Debconf templates polishing - 2nd round

2003-12-12 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
tags 223762 pending Thanks Thanks for your polishing work. Am Fre, den 12.12.2003 schrieb Christian Perrier um 08:36: > Package: netcfg > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > The recent modifications for handling DHCP network configuration have > introduced new templates in the package. > > Some

Re: debian-installer status report

2003-12-12 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Fre, den 12.12.2003 schrieb Paul Telford um 21:24: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Something I'd like to try is getting separate pairs of d-i developers > > and porters together in one place, and see if and see if such small > > teams they can make some real progress. I encourage

netcfg debconf templates - please review

2003-12-12 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
[Please CC me on replies to debian-l10n-english] Hi could someone please review the attached debconf templates. As I'm not a native English speaker there are probably some mistakes. Thanks Gaudenz Template: netcfg/get_method Type: select Default: Dynamic addressing (DHCP) _Choices: Dynamic add

Re: New discover package

2003-12-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi David Thank you for your work. I will have a look at it today. I would suggest to add both of us as uploaders and to add [EMAIL PROTECTED] as maintainer. What do other debian-boot members think about that? Am Son, den 14.12.2003 schrieb David Nusinow um 07:18: > Hi Gaudenz, >I've put toget

Re: d-i CD images unavailable?

2003-12-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Sam, den 13.12.2003 schrieb Harald Dunkel um 18:03: > Hi folks, > > Seems that the links pointing to the CD images on > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ are > broken. Is there a description somewhere how to > create the CD images? try http://www.mmweg.rwth-aachen.de/~sebastian.ley

Re: d-i CD images unavailable?

2003-12-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Son, den 14.12.2003 schrieb Harald Dunkel um 15:59: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Am Sam, den 13.12.2003 schrieb Harald Dunkel um 18:03: > > I would be very interested in creating a netinst CD based on > kernel 2.6.0-test11 (or newer). Is there some kind of README >

Re: my experiences withthe new Debian installer

2003-12-15 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Could you please tell us which version of the installer you tried (download location and date). Am Mon, den 15.12.2003 schrieb Eric S. Johansson um 00:06: > Issues: > > If you do not have an ethernet cable plug-in during DHCP address > acquisition, retrying with a cable plugged in does not a

Re: Inoffizielle Debian-DVD

2003-12-15 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 15.12.2003 schrieb Andreas Hanemann um 10:01: > Hi > > ich habe versucht, die inoffizielle Debian-DVD (Sarge) mittels Jigdo zu holen. > leider ist seit gestern abend auf der angegebenen URL (ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/ > CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/sarge-dvd/jigdo/) die PC-Version (i386

Re: daily build up and running

2003-12-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 16.12.2003 schrieb Harald Dunkel um 07:55: > Martin Sjögren wrote: > > mån 2003-12-15 klockan 14.39 skrev Harald Dunkel: > > > >>Hi Martin, > >> > >>How do you build these images? Probably you have a > >>script. Is this something that can be published? > > > > > > Sure I have a scrip

Re: base-config CVS relocated

2003-12-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 16.12.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 10:36: > Indeed we are ? > > Joeyh, what do you think of the powerpc kernel issue, if the plan is > still have a beta2 in 18 days, and nothing happens in this week about > the powerpc kernel hold hostage in the NEW queue, i will upload a > version of t

Bug#224065: Package: installation-reports

2003-12-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 15.12.2003 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] um 18:28: > When I run lilo I get this message and am unsure of what I should do to solve this: > siegle:~# lilo > Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure. > Name change: '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc' -> '/

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