Re: kernel, devfs and /proc/partitions question.

2003-12-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 16.12.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 11:46: > Hello, > > I have some questions concerning the kernel and its devfs usage. > > If i understand correctly, all kernels used for debian-installer should > have the devfs built, but not the devfs-automount stuff loaded. > > My understanding wa

Re: kernel, devfs and /proc/partitions question.

2003-12-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 16.12.2003 schrieb Christoph Hellwig um 13:14: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:46:38AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > It's not correct, but expected. Better don't use devfs. (Yeah, I know > the d-i folks don't get it, but fortunately I hope I won't ever have to > reinstall Debian on this bo

Bug#224131: netcfg: Changes to templates for clearer choices offered

2003-12-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 16.12.2003 schrieb Christian Perrier um 09:56: > Package: netcfg > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > I propose the attached changes to debconf tempaltes for netcfg. Basically, > this means changing the "Dynamic addressing" choice by "Automatic network > configuration" choice, which is

Re: base-config CVS relocated

2003-12-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 16.12.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 18:40: > 2) linux-kernel-di need to be fixed to make use of it. What needs fixing there? Gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PowerPC installation report

2003-12-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Am Mit, den 17.12.2003 schrieb Jesus Climent um 11:30: > During last weekend, in DebConf-ES (more to come, probably in -announce) i > reinstalled my ibook. I had some problem with the installation, and I would > like to share them. > > The main problem was the lack of yaboot configuration in

Bug#224285: wrong characters in keyboard layout selection

2003-12-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Package: kbd-chooser In the keyboard layout selection screen of kbd-chooser (and only in this screen!) non ASCII Characters are displayed as 2 "strange" characters. I selected swiss german (de_CH) in languagechooser. As I was unable to find the corresponding template in kbd-chooser it might be th

RFC: discover 1 -> 2 transition plan for Debian

2003-12-18 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
[please keep cc'ing debian-boot, discover-workers and David Nusinow] Hi I see 3 different ways how the transition from discover 1 to discover 2 in Debian could be handled. All of them need coordination between progeny (probably the maintainer of the new discover 2 packages) and debian-boot (maint

Re: *-di kernels break multi-kernel bootimage support.

2003-12-18 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 18.12.2003 schrieb Thiemo Seufer um 17:59: > Hello All, > > i just found that the new *-di kernel flavour puts its kernel image in > /boot/vmlinu{x,z}. This breaks the support for building several boot > images of the same type but with different kernels. If I understand you right you

Re: Updated Czech translation for d-i

2003-12-18 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 18.12.2003 schrieb Christian Perrier um 18:12: > Quoting Miroslav Kure ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi, > > > > in attachement there are some updated Czech .po files > > aiming for 95% done. (Just lvm file missing :-) > > Folks, > > I'm now OK for helping in commiting such work. However,

Bug#224403: Installation report

2003-12-18 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 18.12.2003 schrieb Chris Carr um 19:12: > > Comments/Problems: > *1 as before, you know it's not good to default to DHCP. The new version of netcfg (which is currently in the new queue) does only probe DHCP for then seconds and then ask if you want to do manual configuration by defaul

Re: Update of doc/translations.txt

2003-12-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Sam, den 20.12.2003 schrieb Christian Perrier um 10:48: > With Petter's agreement, I have updated this file : > > -updated package list, with a new category for udebs related to > not-yet supported architectures > > -a few more information on how to work on translations > > > Please review a

netcfg udeb_include on netinst images

2003-12-21 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
I was wondering why netcfg shows up on netinst cdroms although it is priority optional. I then discovered that netcfg-(dhcp|static), ethdetect, choose-mirror and pump-udeb are in udeb_include on these images. Is there a special reason for this? IMO these packages should only be in udeb_include on

Bug#212143: /etc/mailname as well

2003-12-21 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Sam, den 20.12.2003 schrieb Martin Michlmayr um 21:40: > Note that in addition to /etc/hostname, the name should also be put in > /etc/mailname. It currently contains "(none)". Not sure about that, but shouldn't this be set by the MTA's postinst? Gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#224620: dhcp & lvm problems, partconf & GRUB wishlist

2003-12-21 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Sam, den 20.12.2003 schrieb Martin Michlmayr um 18:33: > Package: installation-reports > > Why do you ask for the debconf priority at the beginning? I think it > should just be "high" by default and people who want something lower can > pass "DEBCONF_PRIORITY". I guess/hope this is currently

Bug#224645: netcfg wishlists, udhcpc|pump, intend /etc/network/interfaces

2003-12-21 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Sam, den 20.12.2003 schrieb Martin Michlmayr um 18:45: > This PC had two Ethernet devices, and one was connected to another machine > running a DHCP server. netcfg showed: > eth0: Ethernet or Fast Ethernet > eth1: Ethernet or Fast Ethernet > I selected eth1, but got an error. Unfortunately

how to combine two lists without join?

2003-12-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
To integrate discover2 into hw-detect I need to combine to lists into one without join (which is not available in busybox and not on d-i images): MODEL_INFOS=$(discover -t all) MODULES=$(discover --data-path=linux/module/name all) MODEL_INFOS and MODULES now contain a list of vendor/model string

Re: netcfg udeb_include on netinst images

2003-12-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Son, den 21.12.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 17:11: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > I was wondering why netcfg shows up on netinst cdroms although it is > > priority optional. I then discovered that netcfg-(dhcp|static), > > ethdetect, choose-mirror and pump-udeb are in

Re: translations.txt --> Debian installer translation micro-HOWTO

2003-12-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 22.12.2003 schrieb Christian Perrier um 12:15: > How to translate > > This document is intended to be a tutorial for gettext-related > stuff. Please look for documentation of PO editing software such as > KBabel, PoEdit, EMacs PO-mode, etc. This should probably read "

Re: netcfg udeb_include on netinst images

2003-12-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 22.12.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 18:11: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > I agree with this. The best we can do for now is probably the following: > > - netcfg and choose-mirror on businesscard > > - netcfg on netinst (networking is needed for second stage) > > -

Re: How to use a bleeding-edge ISO CD image?

2003-12-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 22.12.2003 schrieb Christian Perrier um 16:37: > OK, now that all translation stuff is nearly over, I want to test d-i > under VmWare, but I want to use bleeding edge packages, ie those built > from the CVS and from the unstable branch of the archive. > > By going to the build/ directo

Re: how to combine two lists without join?

2003-12-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 22.12.2003 schrieb Thiemo Seufer um 19:52: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > The appended hack works as long as both lists have the same length. This should be the case. I once thought about shift but did not realize that it's not only used to shift script parameters but

Re: how to combine two lists without join?

2003-12-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 22.12.2003 schrieb Daniele Nicolodi um 16:14: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 01:29:55PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Hello, i have coded this solution, it works with bash (called in posix > mode as sh) but i don't know if it's work with busybox shell. I don'

Re: Bug#221907: no need to always install pcmcia-cs for d-i

2003-12-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
[for debian-cd: Discussion about the removal of pcmcia-cs, lilo and mbr from the debootstrap list] Am Mon, den 22.12.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 07:59: > Anthony Towns wrote: > > Yes, that is the answer I want. How about pcmcia-cs? > > Same story, hw-detect apt-installs it if it sees that the machi

Re: documentation location quandry

2003-12-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 23.12.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 06:05: > 4. Reorganise the tree to something that makes more sense, such as: > toplevel/ > debian-installer/ > build/ > doc/ > debian/ > >

Re: netcfg_0.36_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2003-12-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Juppi jeh jeh :-) Bug hunting will start now! Gaudenz Am Die, den 23.12.2003 schrieb Debian Installer um 03:20: > Accepted: > netcfg-dhcp_0.36_i386.udeb > to pool/main/n/netcfg/netcfg-dhcp_0.36_i386.udeb > netcfg-static_0.36_i386.udeb > to pool/main/n/netcfg/netcfg-static_0.36_i386.udeb > ne

Re: New powerpc kernel packages accepted.

2003-12-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 23.12.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 11:30: > Hello, > > Finally, the new powerpc kernel packages have been accepted and will > probably enter the archive this evening. This means that as of tomorrow, > the powerpc build will be broken, and i will try to fix what needs > fixing in debian-

Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 23.12.2003 schrieb Martin Michlmayr um 09:10: > * Harald Dunkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-22 18:10]: > > Found it. But I could not pass the DHCP entry in the main menu, even > > though I manually called udhcpc, and ifconfig showed me that I've Manually running udhcpc does not work, b

Bug#220188: bug partially solved

2003-12-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
severity 220188 wishlist retitle 220188 netcfg: include ppp/modem configuration Thanks As the "DHCP taking very long" problem is now solved in the latest netcfg package I'm downgrading this bug to wishlist for a PPP/modem configuration option in netcfg. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Bug#186594: why is #186594 assigned to netcfg?

2003-12-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi pere Why did you assign #186594 to netcfg? IMHO it should be closed or reassigned to boot-floppies. Gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#224645: netcfg wishlists, udhcpc|pump, intend /etc/network/interfaces

2003-12-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
reassign 224645 discover severity 224645 normal retitle 224645 do not sort modules before loading Thanks Am Die, den 23.12.2003 schrieb Martin Michlmayr um 11:03: > * Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-21 12:10]: > > > After boot, eth0 and eth1 suddenly chang

Bug#212143: /etc/mailname as well

2003-12-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
tags 212143 pending Thanks Am Die, den 23.12.2003 schrieb Martin Michlmayr um 14:18: > * Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-21 12:10]: > > Am Sam, den 20.12.2003 schrieb Martin Michlmayr um 21:40: > > > Note that in addition to /etc/hostname, the name should a

Re: New powerpc kernel packages accepted.

2003-12-24 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 24.12.2003 schrieb Sven Luther um 07:38: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:45:14PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Sven Luther wrote: > > > Saddly, it is as i have feared, that the package will be accpepted on > > > the eve of me going out for christmas and being offline until monday the > > > 2

discover 2 test packages

2003-12-24 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi I fixed discover2 support in hw-detect yesterday (already in the archive thanks to joeyh) and now I uploaded discover2 packages for testing to my website: http://www.soziologie.ch/~steinlin/d-i/discover2/ I renamed the packages to discover2-udeb and discover2-data-udeb. You have to change your

Bug#225512: netcfg: add wifi configuration

2003-12-30 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Package: netcfg Tags: d-i Severity: wishlist Am Sam, den 27.12.2003 schrieb Martin Michlmayr um 10:46: > - Forwarded message from Thorsten Sauter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > * Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-26 12:33]: > | * Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: discover 2 test packages

2003-12-30 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 24.12.2003 schrieb Gaudenz Steinlin um 13:46: > Hi > > I fixed discover2 support in hw-detect yesterday (already in the archive > thanks to joeyh) and now I uploaded discover2 packages for testing to my > website: > http://www.soziologie.ch/~steinlin/d-i/discover2/

Re: generally successful install report from usb keychain

2003-12-30 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 30.12.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 22:00: > Some ugly things during boot: > > - discover decided I should have a i810_rng module, but this module > failed to load with "No such device". According to pci.lst these devices need the i810_rng module: 80862418bridge i810_rng

Bug#225512: netcfg: add wifi configuration

2003-12-30 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 30.12.2003 schrieb Martin Michlmayr um 17:28: > * Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-30 10:54]: > > Package: netcfg > > Tags: d-i > > > > I submitted this email as a wishlist bug to netcfg. > > As I said before, this has been fil

Re: generally successful install report from usb keychain

2003-12-30 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 31.12.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 01:06: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > I don't know where the dot comes from neither... > > I'm wondering where /etc/hostname comes from at all... > > > > The wired /etc/mailname comes from my totaly wrong fix for

Re: generally successful install report from usb keychain

2003-12-31 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 31.12.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 01:30: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Am Die, den 30.12.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 22:00: > > > Some ugly things during boot: > > > > > > - discover decided I should have a i810_rng module, but this module > >

Re: Sarge netinst: wrong sequence of SCSI drives

2003-12-31 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 31.12.2003 schrieb Harald Dunkel um 13:53: > Hi folks, > > Using the Sarge netinst CD of yesterday I tried to install > Debian on a SCSI disk. > > d-i gave me an unusual sequence of SCSI drives to select > the boot disk from. Here is the list of disks as presented > by d-i: > > /dev/

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-05 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 01.01.2004 schrieb Joey Hess um 20:56: > Thorsten Sauter wrote: > > | So my new plan is, as soon as i386 is releasable, to work to migrate the > > | current set of debian-installer udebs and images to testing. AJ has > > | agreed to do this without the usual testing delay stuff, all in

Re: Proposal: Ask if user wants to set up network

2004-01-08 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 08.01.2004 schrieb Joel Konkle-Parker um 19:20: > I propose (if this isn't being worked on already) that d-i ask the user > if he/she wants to set up his/her network connections during > installation instead of assuming so. As can be seen in bug #226495 >

Re: [Q] make demo fails

2004-01-08 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
I have a related problem with make demo. "make TYPE=demo demo" gives me the following screen. The package lists contain more udebs as are shown. What is wrong here? >^> [?] Debian installer main menu >^^> |

Re: [Q] make demo fails

2004-01-09 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 08.01.2004 schrieb Thiemo Seufer um 20:08: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > I have a related problem with make demo. > > > > "make TYPE=demo demo" gives me the following screen. The package lists > > contain more u

discover and beta2 freeze

2004-01-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
) unstable; urgency=low * New maintainers, David Nusinow and Gaudenz Steinlin maintaining for the Debian Installer Team * discover-udeb now depends on discover-data-udeb; Closes: #188820 * Typofix in update-initrd manpage; Closes: #218353 * cdroms now symlinked in order; Closes: #182009

Re: discover and beta2 freeze

2004-01-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Sam, den 10.01.2004 schrieb Joey Hess um 16:16: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > The sort -u fix fixes the problem with two network interfaces changing > > order in the installed system. > > This upload mainly fixes problems in the non-udeb packages (except for >

Re: [debian_inst@yahoo.com: d-i fails on eepro100]

2004-01-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
[Debian Fan, I'm sending you this mail to try to resolve the problem you had with your Ethernet Card when testing debian-installer, other read below] Can you please try if your card works when loading the e100 module instead of the eepro100 module? If not please send us the output of lspci -v on t

Re: FAILED : Install Report : d-i_powerpc-20040109

2004-01-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Son, den 11.01.2004 schrieb Fabrice Lorrain (home) um 21:13: > Hi, > > Not much to say, I tryed the netinst-cdrom and it still fails on the > libopencdk4 download. Did you use the sarge or the sid images (don't know if they differ on powerpc tough)? Please provide download location and downloa

Bug#227055: Debian Installer failure on 15" PowerBook G4

2004-01-12 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Sam, den 10.01.2004 schrieb Barry Hawkins um 18:39: > Package: installation-reports > Version: Debian Installer Sarge Business Card daily build, see below > > INSTALL REPORT > > Debian-installer-version: January 09, 2004 daily of > sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso at >

Re: support for expert mode?

2004-01-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 13.01.2004 schrieb Holger Schurig um 10:56: > Is this feature > > ui.txt --- > Note that since cdebconf allows questions to be prioritized, it is possible > that the install process will skip over any or all of the questions. > --

installation report - successful powermac installations

2004-01-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: sid netinst and businesscard images from gluck, built 01/11/2004 Date: 01/13/2004 Method: tested both businesscard and netinst images Machine: PowerBook G4 500Mhz Processor: G4 Memory: 256 MB Root Device: IDE, /dev/hda10 Base System Installation Checklist

Bug#227355: install report

2004-01-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 13.01.2004 schrieb sylvain ferriol um 00:07: > > 2. list of network modules is in reverse order I don't understand this sentence. What do you mean and which order would be the right one? Which list of network modules do you refer to? > > 3. i have to call 3 times 'detect network hard

Re: installation report - successful powermac installations

2004-01-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 13.01.2004 schrieb Joey Hess um 20:20: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Which image set did you test, the ones with the unstable udebs, or the > ones with the testing udebs? If you're not sure just tell me the url.. I > need to know whether I should propigate some (which?

Bug#227343: discover-data: wrong module for CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420

2004-01-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
tags 227343 pending Thanks I applied your patch to the CVS. It will be fixed with the next upload (planned for just after the beta2 release). Gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Fwd: Bug#225587 acknowledged by developer (Bug#225587: fixed in wireless-tools 26+27pre7-2)]

2004-01-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
tem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Bug#225587 acknowledged by developer (Bug#225587: fixed in wireless-tools > 26+27pre7-2) > Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:18:20 -0600 > > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report &

Bug#221908: initrd image name

2004-01-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 13.01.2004 schrieb Yann Dirson um 17:52: > The generated lilo.conf also points to /initrd.img. However, at least > after installing a new custom-built kernel-image, the links are named > /initrd and /initrd.old, so lilo still complains on that. > > After having complained about the de

Re: Debian-installer powerpc status and beta2.

2004-01-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 14.01.2004 schrieb Joey Hess um 20:24: > Sven Luther wrote: > > So, Joey, if it is ok with you, powerpc may probably be ready for the > > beta2 before this weekend, and if beta2 images and CDs can be built on > > saturday, this would mean one last round of testing on sunday, and a > > b

Re: some more german issues

2004-01-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 14.01.2004 schrieb Christian Perrier um 20:51: > Quoting Holger Schurig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > In the keyboard-layout choser, you can only select "german (no-dead-keys)", > > but not the other german format with dead keys. > > > > > > > > > > The translation of "no-dead-keys" into

Re: Debian-installer powerpc status and beta2.

2004-01-15 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 14.01.2004 schrieb Sven Luther um 22:32: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:41:27PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Am Mit, den 14.01.2004 schrieb Joey Hess um 20:24: > > > Sven Luther wrote: > > > > So, Joey, if it is ok with you, powerpc may probably

Re: beta 2 and beyond

2004-01-15 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 15.01.2004 schrieb Joey Hess um 04:33: > I've gone ahead and started the beta 2 release process. CD images are in > place and I will send out the release announcement once the web site has > updated. (Some install media won't appear in sarge until tomorrow's > dinstall.) > OK, beta2 is

Bug#228068: FTBS: kernel-headers depenancy

2004-01-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Package: discover2 Severity: important Tags: d-i Justification: fails to build from source This packages build-depends on kernel-headers. Buildds do not resolve this virtual dependency. I need to copy the relevant kernel-headers into the package source. This bug report is to keep a reference of

Bug#228071: discover2: FTBFS ia64: build-dependency problem with libxml2

2004-01-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Package: discover2 Severity: important Tags: d-i Justification: fails to build from source discover2 goes past the kernel-headers problem present on other archs on ia64, but fails to resolve libxml2 (<< 2.5.7-1) | libxml2-utils (>= 2.5.7-1) Probably I will remove the libxml2 dependency as libxml2

Bug#227853: debian-installer: [PATCH] small fix for sparc, installs discover-udeb

2004-01-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 15.01.2004 schrieb Thomas Poindessous um 10:22: > Package: debian-installer > Version: [PATCH] small fix for sparc, installs discover-udeb > Severity: normal > > Hi, here is a small fix, which adds discover and discover-data in sparc > netboot image. Did you check if discover is actual

Re: Installation report and plans for oldworld power macintoshes

2004-01-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 14.01.2004 schrieb Jeremie Koenig um 23:25: > - try to make the commented subarch code in anna come to life, in > order to get a suitable bootloader for one's subarch. > > If anyone has ideas about the above things, please speak now. Another possible solution which would b

Re: Installation report and plans for oldworld power macintoshes

2004-01-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Sorry, I did not read your installation report before replying to this mail. If yaboot-installer is presented to you as an option this is clearly a bug. Please tell us which architecture "archdetect" reports on your machine. What's the return code of yaboot-installers "isinstallable" script? Gaud

Re: netcfg hostname and domain questions

2004-01-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Fre, den 16.01.2004 schrieb Otavio Salvador um 16:44: > Hello folks, > > Yestarday I've talked with Joey in IRC and some ideas come in mind, so > I need discuss about this with all: > > The current netcfg code doesn't ask for domain in default debconf > priority but this is wrong since domain

Bug#228134: installation-reports: consistently try network config even if not

2004-01-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Fre, den 16.01.2004 schrieb Eugen Dedu um 19:23: > Package: installation-reports > Severity: normal > > INSTALL REPORT > > Debian-installer-version: the beta 2 from > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > > uname -a: Linux snoopy 2.4.22-powerpc #1 lun dec 15 15:03:39 CET 2003 ppc >

Bug#228135: installation-reports: Successful installation on PowerBook G4

2004-01-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Fre, den 16.01.2004 schrieb Eugen Dedu um 19:33: > Package: installation-reports > Severity: normal > > Debian-installer-version: the beta 2 from > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > uname -a: Linux snoopy 2.4.22-powerpc #1 lun dACc 15 15:03:39 CET 2003 ppc > unknown > Date: 16 Jan

Bug#228158: DI installation report for Dell Latitude CPi 366A

2004-01-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Fre, den 16.01.2004 schrieb Martijn Brouwer um 23:49: > Package: installation-reports > Version: testing > > INSTALL REPORT > > Debian-installer-version: daily build from somewhere half december > uname -a: Linux 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 203 i686 GNU/Linux > > Date: somewhere en

Re: New Discover Upload Possible?

2004-01-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 20.01.2004 schrieb Steinar H. Gunderson um 02:30: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:18:15PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > > Detecting hardware: ns83820 cmpci emu10k1 usb-uhci usb-uhci usb-uhci usb-uhci > > I'd guess this was the reason for the "sort -u" in the first place -- please > cons

Re: discover2 udebs

2004-01-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 19.01.2004 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow um 19:56: > Hi, > > I installed kernel-headers on m68k manually and build discover2. > > The UDeb is at > > rsync://mrvn.homeip.net/m68k-sid/new/discover2/ > > If someone could sponsor an upload it would help. The current version of discover2

Re: discover2 udebs

2004-01-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 20.01.2004 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow um 11:39: > Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, the autobuilders should handle them then. Did you put a Closes > into the changelog? Yes, of course. They are listed as resolved on b.d.o > > > Does m68k

Bug#228638: installer not working properly on oldworld powerpc

2004-01-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 20.01.2004 schrieb Rolando Abarca um 00:16: > Package: debian-installer > Version: (unknown, from sarge netinstall cd) > > After booting into linux, right after starting the installer the screen > goes to black. If I switch to other console it works, I can see the > process running and

discover Debian package maintainer

2004-01-21 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi The purpose of this mail is to inform discover-workers of the plans the debian-installer team has for discover2 and to give you the possibility to object to out plans. Current state of discover2 in Debian: I have packaged an udeb only version of discover2 which is in the archive now. This pack

Bug#228763: Debian installer installation-report

2004-01-21 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 20.01.2004 schrieb Nagy Gabor um 20:23: > Output of lspci: > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04) > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04) > 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge

Re: discover Debian package maintainer

2004-01-21 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 21.01.2004 schrieb Branden Robinson um 16:17: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:48:50PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Hi > > > > The purpose of this mail is to inform discover-workers of the plans the > > debian-installer team has for discover2 and to give

Bug#228772: Install Report - discover locked, boot hung

2004-01-21 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 20.01.2004 schrieb Stephen Frost um 21:58: > Comments/Problems: > > Alright, first a few bitches: > - Waiting for DHCP to time out sucked, I know it won't work, > eth0 isn't even connected to anything > - Couldn't configure my wireless card (eth1), though it did >

Bug#228772: Install Report - discover locked, boot hung

2004-01-21 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 21.01.2004 schrieb Stephen Frost um 17:08: > * Gaudenz Steinlin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Am Die, den 20.01.2004 schrieb Stephen Frost um 21:58: > > I tend to agree, but I have no idea which module it was trying to load.. > Does it log which module it's t

Bug#228772: Install Report - discover locked, boot hung

2004-01-21 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 21.01.2004 schrieb Stephen Frost um 17:38: > * Gaudenz Steinlin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Am Mit, den 21.01.2004 schrieb Stephen Frost um 17:08: > > > * Gaudenz Steinlin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Am Die, den 20.01.2004 schrieb Stephen Frost

Bug#228839: Should re-ask the debconf-priority question at the end of base-config

2004-01-21 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 21.01.2004 schrieb Christian Perrier um 06:30: > Package: base-config > Version: 2.08 > Severity: normal > > When debian-installer, for some reason, went into a problem, the debconf > priority is automatically lowered from high to medium. > > This setting remains after base-config run

Bug#228772: Install Report - discover locked, boot hung

2004-01-21 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 21.01.2004 schrieb Stephen Frost um 18:16: > * Gaudenz Steinlin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Am Mit, den 21.01.2004 schrieb Stephen Frost um 17:38: > > > * Gaudenz Steinlin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Am Mit, den 21.01.2004 schrieb Stephen Frost

Bug#228839: Should re-ask the debconf-priority question at the end of base-config

2004-01-21 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 21.01.2004 schrieb Joey Hess um 18:34: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > I don't quite understand your proposal, but I think the best fix for > > this issue would be to not set the cdebconf priority at the end of the > > install in base-config but to set it to the

Bug#228772: Install Report - discover locked, boot hung

2004-01-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 22.01.2004 schrieb Stephen Frost um 03:35: > * Gaudenz Steinlin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > This looks like discover is hanging when detecting the hardware not when > > loading modules. > > Yup, looks like that's it somehow, if not earlier... > &g

Re: Gtk Installer

2004-01-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 22.01.2004 schrieb Matthew A. Nicholson um 03:00: > Is the gtk-installer written in gtk or gtk2? It is written in gtk2, but it is not functional atm. The developement of the graphical installer was stalled to first complete the other parts of d-i. The problem with the graphical install

Re: help for debian power book 17"

2004-01-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 22.01.2004 schrieb Sven Luther um 10:14: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:19:49PM -0800, Enora Doku wrote: > > hello, > > I have a powerbook G4 17" and i tried to install > > debian. In the begening it gave some problems, like > > didn't recogenize hard disk. > > This is more probably a ke

Bug#228763: Debian installer installation-report

2004-01-25 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 22.01.2004 schrieb Nagy Gabor um 19:11: > On 04-Jan-21 16:24, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Am Die, den 20.01.2004 schrieb Nagy Gabor um 20:23: > > > Output of lspci: > > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev > &g

Bug#228772: Install Report - discover locked, boot hung

2004-01-26 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
FYI I cloned this bug and assigned it to discover. The new bug number for the discover issue is #229736. Thanks Gaudenz Stephen Frost schrieb: * Gaudenz Steinlin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This looks like discover is hanging when detecting the hardware not when loading modules. Playing with

Re: something for pci.lst

2004-01-26 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
David Nusinow schrieb: On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 09:28:33PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: 2.6.1. For 2.4.22 its called "ehci-hcd", as it seems. You have to enable the optional development drivers in menuconfig. The naming conflicts between 2.4.x and 2.6.x is something that should be addressed for di

Re: something for pci.lst

2004-01-26 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 26.01.2004 schrieb David Nusinow um 23:56: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:22:24PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Discover2 will have a general mechanism to avoid these name conflicts. > > The hardware database has a field for the kernel version. > > &

Bug#229863: Beta 2 boot cd problem with NForce2 MB

2004-01-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
[CC'ing wnpp #218753] Am Die, den 27.01.2004 schrieb Dermot Bradley um 05:07: > The screen "Detecting hardware and loading kernel modules" gave a list of > ethernet modules to pick from. I tried selecting "sk98lin" for the onboard > Marvell Gigabit chip and got back "Error while running 'modprobe

patch for debian/rules

2004-02-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Son, den 01.02.2004 schrieb Ian Murdock um 02:02: > Hi Gaundenz, > > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Am Sam, den 31.01.2004 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] um 02:47: > > > >>Author: imurdock > >>Date: 2004-01-30 20:47:28 -0500 (Fri, 30 Jan 2004) > >>New R

Re: Unsupported hardware report tool

2004-02-02 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Am Mon, den 02.02.2004 schrieb Simon Hürlimann um 02:51: > Hi > > I wrote a small perl script which should make reporting unsupported hardware > easier. It shows you an edited output of lspci. You can then select a device > and specify the kernel module if you know. It creates a bugreport f

patch for control and discover.postinst

2004-02-02 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
r Workers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +Uploaders: Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0), libcurl2-dev | libcurl-dev, libexpat1-dev, autoconf, libtool, doxygen, opensp, sgml-data, docbook-xml, xsltproc, ldp-docbook-xsl, links, docbook-to-man, lib

Bug#231635: debian-installer: surviving dhclient prevents static IP (re-)configuration

2004-02-09 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
reassign 231635 netcfg Thanks Am Son, den 08.02.2004 schrieb Marc Herbert um 00:58: > Package: debian-installer > Version: N/A; reported 2004-02-08 > Severity: normal > > In the default debconf priority, the installer eagerly graps a DHCP lease > without asking the user. If the user is not happy

Request for Testers - discover 2.0.2 packages

2004-02-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi I prepared packages of discover 2.0.2 and synced the discover-data package with the latest discover-data in the archive. Now is the time to test these packages! You can download them from http://pkg-discover.alioth.debian.org/ or add these lines to your sources.list deb http://pkg-discover.al

Re: Request for Testers - discover 2.0.2 packages

2004-02-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 10.02.2004 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen um 20:12: > [Gaudenz Steinlin] > > Now is the time to test these packages! > > OK. What do you want me to test? I've installed and executed > discover. What else? Do you have a sid system to test them on? Did it recongni

Re: New Debian Boot logo proposal

2004-02-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 11.02.2004 schrieb Alessandro Polverini um 14:08: > Hello, > we have prepared a couple of proposals of the new boot logo for the > Sarge installer. > > You can find screenshots, and RLE encoded pictures at: > > http://nibbles.it/debian/ > > Feedback is welcome, I like both of them. I

Re: Request for Testers - discover 2.0.2 packages

2004-02-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 11.02.2004 schrieb Harald Dunkel um 20:17: > PS.: Here is another patch to support kernel 2.6.x: Thanks for your patch. I will include it in the next test release. Additionally I forwarded it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gaudenz > > -- snip -- > --- discover-modprobe.orig 2004-02-10 17:5

Re: Request for Testers - discover 2.0.2 packages

2004-02-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 11.02.2004 schrieb Harald Dunkel um 20:27: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > > discover-data does not currently support kernel 2.6 module names. > > discover now supports multiple entries for different kernel versions. > > Patches to add 2.6 support to dis

Bug#233535: discover-data: erroneous Prism module in pci.list

2004-02-19 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 19.02.2004 schrieb Joey Hess um 03:08: > cobaco wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 2004-02-18 15:07, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > Package: discover-data > > > Version: 1.2002.08.21-2 > > > > > > Greetings, > > > > > > The entry in /usr/share/discov

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