Bug#233497: debian-installer: ieee1394 hd not detected : BIG PROGRESS

2004-02-19 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 18.02.2004 schrieb Ph LelÃdy um 19:35: > I've been able to access may ieee1394 drives. > Everything is fine as far as drivers are concerned, but with recent > kernels there remains some stuff to be done in user space. I think it's > what rescan-scsi-bus is for. I did it manually by >

Re: Request for Testers - discover 2.0.2 packages

2004-02-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Fre, den 20.02.2004 schrieb Harald Dunkel um 13:27: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > 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 n

Re: release status

2004-02-25 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Joey Hess schrieb: - discover 2 udebs exist, but there are space and testing issues. As some of you may have noticed I did not work much on this in particualr and on debian-installer in general in the last weeks. Until the end of March most of my time will be filled with learning fo

Bug#234562: debian-installer: Boot delay too short to read information

2004-02-25 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Joey Hess schrieb: Thomas Arendsen Hein wrote: Package: debian-installer Version: N/A; reported 2004-02-24 Severity: wishlist When booting from CD you don't have enough time to read about the boot options 'install', 'install-safe', 'expert' and 'expert-safe'. Of course you can press a key to st

Bug#235579: discover should be able to edit the module configuration

2004-03-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 01:51:04PM +0100, Gabor Nagy wrote: > Package: discover > Version: 1.5-2 > Severity: wishlist > > I have a laptop. My configuration never changes. Discover runs on every > boot, and I boot many times a day. Each discover run takes like 30s > time. Do you have any clue why

Re: Discover : how is it maintained?

2004-03-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Zitat von Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > OK, that's fine. Indeed, if you add me to the commiters list, I > > David, finally, what do you decide ? > > If you want, you can add my bubulle login to commiters and I'll handle > all translat

Re: New amd64 Debian-installer cdrom iso image

2004-06-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 08:01:32AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > The init.d script of discover1 tries to rm /media/cdrom0/* which of > course if read-only and fails (between installing base and grub). > > After adding an exit 0 at the top of the script I was able to install > grub and reboo

Bug#249346: discover1: Mouse module isn't loaded when using 2.6 kernel

2004-06-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 11:24:24PM +0300, Egle Pusaite wrote: > Package: discover1 > Version: 1.5-9 > Severity: normal > > > After the installation of 2.6 kernel the mouse stopped working. > I must manually run: modprobe mousedev > > I believe, it would be wise if the discover program loaded the

Bug#236423: Numerous error messages at boot

2004-06-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 12:48:37AM -0500, Joe Hester wrote: > Numerous error messages at boot: > JEDEC: Found no ICH2 rom device at location zero > > Stopped the error messages by adding a line to > /etc/discover-modprobe.conf > > skip ="ich2rom" The only PCI ID that lists this kernel module is 8

Bug#242959: uhci + ehci

2004-06-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 12:47:39AM -0700, Karl Hegbloom wrote: > I think it should load both. UHCI is for USB 1, and EHCI is for USB 2. In your bugreport you indicated that a module named usb-ehci should be loaded. But there is no such module in the debian kernel packages. The current version of d

Bug#238648: d-i, sata, netinst.iso 30.05.2004

2004-06-10 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 05:02:45PM +0200, Markus Haiml wrote: > > > --On Montag, 31. Mai 2004 15:42 -0300 Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >Can you boot debian-installer and manually load the module with: > > > > modprobe sata_promise > > > >Does debian-installer then see your

Re: HP Proliant ML350 G3 - problems with HP Smart Array 641 Controller

2004-06-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 11:44:26AM +0200, Mikael Ljungberg, technordic wrote: > Hi! > > I've bought an HP Proliant ML350 G3. On this computer there is a harddisk > controller (HP Smart Array 641 Controller) that doesn't work with any > linuxdistribution out of the box (the installation programs ca

Re: HP Proliant ML350 G3 - problems with HP Smart Array 641 Controller

2004-06-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
/tc1/sarge-i386-netinst.so or http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/tc1/sarge-i386-businesscard.iso On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:48:56PM +0200, Mikael Ljungberg, technordic wrote: > Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev den Fri, 11 Jun 2004 > 21:54:42 +0200: >

Re: HP Proliant ML350 G3 - problems with HP Smart Array 641 Controller

2004-06-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
.(reboot) I may have redrawn the number of dots wrong (it's kinda hard to follow) :) Sorry, I can't help you with this error. I'm glad to hear that the installation went this far. This shows that the installer is able to detect your controller and to load the correct kernel module.

Re: Proposal for a d-i IRC meeting (was: Re: dropping tc1)

2004-06-15 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 08:40:06PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I hope if it's a formal meeting that there are some known topics for us > > to discuss. This could be a good idea, at least it can't hurt to try it. > > Basically, I think your "dropp

Bug#253442: needs to load ataraid and pdcraid for fasttrack ide-raid controller

2004-06-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 11:05:00PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > tags 253442 + pending > thanks > > I didn't see any reply, so I'm guessing on one of the. I selected > ataraid. The fix is in CVS. I changed the entry for this to pcdraid and the other ataraid entry (bug #254451) to medley

Re: Hardware support missing : which package assign bugs to?

2004-06-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 23.06.2004 schrieb Christian Perrier um 6:42: > The subject says it all. When someone reports some hardware being > unsupported, and given (s)he gives uses the output of "lspci -v", > which package should we assign the bug report to? It depends. > > discover-data? If the hardware is s

Re: Giving a talk/demo of d-i at CLUG next month

2004-06-26 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 11:48:02AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > Hi, > > I've been dobbed in to give a talk on d-i at next month's CLUG meeting. > > I was planning on giving a brief blurb about the history behind the > installer (where we've come from, where we're trying to go) and then launch >

Re: Loading therm_* modules in d-i on Macs

2004-07-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 30.06.2004 schrieb Colin Watson um 2:40: > It'd be rather nice if the new debian-installer could load the > therm_adt746x or therm_windtunnel modules, and register them so that > they're automatically loaded by the installed system. > > I can take care of the d-i implementation, but wh

Re: problems with Sil SATA

2004-07-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 30.06.2004 schrieb Charles Steinkuehler um 22:06: > Can someone tell me if libata hardware is supposed to be auto-supported > by d_i (ie: should I file a bug report if it doesn't detect supported > hardware)? Yes, please report a bug against discover1-data and include the output of l

Re: Multiple problems with d-i on Dell Latitude (i386)

2004-07-02 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 04:12:28PM +0200, W. Borgert wrote: > Quoting "W. Borgert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I used the netinst (105 MB image) of 2004-07-01. Some problems occured: > > Many thanks for the replies. I hope, I can try the same hardware > again, when 2.6.7 is used by the d-i. It's n

Bug#255388: please provide info about kernel modules

2004-07-06 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
tags 255388 +moreinfo Thanks Hi I try to fix the problem you reported in bug #255388. Could you please provide this additional info: - Did you install with kernel 2.4 (boot option: linux) or 2.6 (boot option: linux26)? - Which modules do you need to load with your existing Linux installation

Re: a little user testing

2004-07-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 06.07.2004 schrieb Nathan Hurst um 7:36: > Hello, > I did some simple user testing yesterday using some windows experienced, > linux newbie people to install debian using the new sarge installer. I > watched and took notes, but didn't get involved. Here are my results: I think that

Re: a little user testing

2004-07-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
[ Please keep that on list!!] Am Mit, den 07.07.2004 schrieb Ben Kinder um 14:01: > Why not using Synaptic at installation time? Because you can't run Synaptic without X probably :-) > > > > --- Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Die, den 06.0

Bug#257356: installation-reports: more sata problems

2004-07-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
reassign 257356 hw-detect Thanks This is not a problem in discover1-data. The device kernel module for this SATA device is correctly listed. If this is a real bug, it's probably in hw-detect. On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 01:19:39AM +0200, Anders Lennartsson wrote: > drive. I have not tested to continu

Bug#257982: missing firewire controller

2004-07-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:19:46PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Package: discover1-data > Version: 1.2004.02.08-8 > Severity: normal > > My test laptop has firewire, and discover1 doesn't load the controller. > It's this item in lspci: > > :02:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IE

Bug#258010: AMD64 install report for HP DL585, cciss detection problem

2004-07-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 07:56:41AM +0200, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: > Output of lspci and lspci -n: > :02:04.0 RAID bus controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart Array 5i/532 > (rev 01) > :02:06.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit > Ethernet (rev 10)

Bug#256295: discover1-data: Unhandled HW on my laptop (Thinkpad X30)

2004-07-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 12:07:50AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > :00:1e.0 Class 0604: 8086:2448 (rev 42) > :00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 42) > ? I don't think this needs a kernel module. > > :00:1f.0 Class 0601: 8086:248c (rev 02) > :00:1

Bug#256472: discover1-data: Some devices are unhandled for IBM Thinkpad T30

2004-07-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 12:19:59PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > 00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:1a30 (rev 04) > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04) > 80861a30bridge ignore 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge dunno. > 00:1e.0 C

Bug#258010: AMD64 install report for HP DL585, cciss detection problem

2004-07-08 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Mattias Wadenstein wrote: From mounting the cdrom I installed from: What actually matters are the packages you have inside the initrd of the installer. You kan see them by looking at /var/lib/dpkg/status There you should have current versions of discover1-udeb and discover1-data-udeb. In theory

Bug#258010: AMD64 install report for HP DL585, cciss detection problem

2004-07-08 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Mattias Wadenstein wrote: From the initrd: Package: discover1-data-udeb Status: install ok unpacked Version: 1.2004.02.08-7 Description: hardware lists for libdiscover1 (short list) Package: discover1-udeb Status: install ok unpacked Version: 1.5-12 Provides: discover Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4

Bug#259525: Bug#255689: Bug#255439: d-i report

2004-07-15 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
[ cloned bug to discover1-data ] Am Mit, den 14.07.2004 um 11:45 Uhr -0500 schrieb Branden Robinson: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:08:58AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > There's the problem. "radeon" is not a legal value. > > > > Use "ati" instead. > > > > Do not use "atimisc", "r128", or "r

Bug#194933: --print-architecture should return powerpc instead of ppc

2003-05-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Package: udpkg Version: 0.014 Tags: patch udpkg --print-architecture returns "ppc" on powerpc instead of "powerpc" like dpkg --print-architecture does. The following patch changes this behaviour. --- udpkg.c.orig2003-05-27 19:36:57.0 +0200 +++ udpkg.c 2003-05-27 19:36:12.

Re: Status of PowerPC Debian Installer.

2003-06-03 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Sven great offer! Sven Luther wrote: I will probably be doing some debian-installer work for the Pegasos powerpc motherboard in the next time. As such, i would like to enter in contact with who is currently working on debian-installer for ppc. I am also trying to get an idea of the current sta

Bug#194631: still FTBS on powerpc

2003-06-03 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
busybox-cvs still fails to build from source on powerpc. See http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=busybox-cvs&ver=0.60.99.cvs20030426-7&arch=powerpc&stamp=1054338047&file=log&as=raw You only fixed the syscalls in syscalls.c. But busybox-cvs now fails to compile on fdisk.c and it will fail on se

busybox-cvs-net-udeb

2003-06-03 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi since some days build/pkg-lists/net/common contains busybox-cvs-net-udeb, but this udeb is currently only built on i386. So I think we should either move busybox-cvs-net-udeb to the file i386 or build busybox-cvs-net-udeb on all architectures (if this is possible). - gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCR

2003-06-12 installation failure report

2003-06-12 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Machine: powerpc (PowerBook G4) distribution: sarge type: net mirror: http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/debian Localudebs: - mac-fdisk (no udeb see #188420) - partitioner (script for powerpc, see #194590) - socket-modules (wrong name, unix.o not included see #193402) Problems: 1. mkfs.ex

Re: 2003-06-12 installation failure report

2003-06-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Chris Tillman wrote: - mac-fdisk (no udeb see #188420) Hmmm, I'm sure I saw messages on debian-powerpc about the maintainer finshing the udeb. Didn't it get uploaded? The only thing I saw was my patch and a reply from the maintainer asking whether mac-fdisk should be in /usr/sbin (as other fdi

2003-06-17 installation failure report

2003-06-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Machine: powerpc (PowerBook G4) distribution: sarge type: net mirror: http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/debian Localudebs: - mac-fdisk (no udeb see #188420) - partitioner (script for powerpc, see #194590) - udpkg (wrong output of --print-architecture, see #194933) Problems (not already re

mini-howto for d-i on powerpc

2003-06-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
hi I wrote a little webpage with tipps and tricks for using debian-installer on powerpc newworld macs. It's on http://www.soziologie.ch/users/steinlin/d-i/ You can link it from the main d-i homepage if you like it. - gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: 2003-06-17 installation failure report

2003-06-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, 2003-06-17 um 16.39 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > [Gaudenz Steinlin] > > 5. There was no menu item for kernel-chooser. Kernel-installer faild > >because there was no "default kernel". > > Strange. Did you install the udeb? kernel-chooser?

Bug#197805: yaboot-installer should depend on kernel-installer

2003-06-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Package: yaboot-installer Version: 0.0.2 yaboot installer does not depend on kernel-installer. Don't we need a kernel for booting? ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#197804: yaboot-installer tries to call /usr/sbin/yabootconfig

2003-06-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Package: yaboot-installer Version: 0.0.2 yaboot installer does not work. It tries to call /usr/sbin/yabootconfig which is not there. It should either call /target/usr/sbin/yabootconfig or we have to copy yabootconfig into the installer root or depend on yaboot - gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Building boot images with boot-floppies on PowerMac

2003-07-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, 2003-07-01 um 14.40 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I would need to build _everything_, unless there are binaries some place > for oldworld powermacs. The build document is a little terse, and I > don't see a list of udebs at all. No you don't have to do that. Read build/README. Basically you

Re: powerbook 17" install

2003-07-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, 2003-07-01 um 14.43 schrieb Brendan J Simon: > Hello, > > I'm trying to install debian on a new 1GHz Apple Powerbook. I tried the > new installer at the address suggested below by Jens. It works much > better but still has some problems. I managed to copy the kernel, > net-initrd ima

Re: powerbook 17" install

2003-07-02 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, 2003-07-02 um 03.32 schrieb Brendan J Simon: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > >Am Die, 2003-07-01 um 14.43 schrieb Brendan J Simon: > > > > > >BTW the hardware detecting part is currently reworked to use discover2 > >which will play nicer with 2.4 ker

Re: Building D-I - formerly Building boot images withboot-floppies on PowerMac

2003-07-02 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, 2003-07-02 um 02.03 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Recipe: > - install the build-dependancies on the host system > I don't know what they are, don't know how to find out so we'll see what > breaks see build/debian/control > - run "{sudo,fakeroot} make build" > Kultarr:~/cvs/bf/debia

Re: Building D-I - formerly Building boot images withboot-floppies on PowerMac

2003-07-02 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, 2003-07-02 um 23.41 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On 2 Jul 2003, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > Am Mit, 2003-07-02 um 02.03 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I'll send this off while I ponder the next breakage: > Need to download : rootskel cdebconf-udeb main-menu udpk

Re: powerbook 17" install

2003-07-03 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
e installer and no manpages, docus and so on. gaudenz Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Am Mit, 2003-07-02 um 15.37 schrieb Brendan J Simon: Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Am Mit, 2003-07-02 um 13.56 schrieb Brendan J Simon: Hi Gaudenz, Where are these new images. I downloaded th

Re: di & net-initrd & powerpc

2003-07-03 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Rolf Brudeseth wrote: I got the 'net-initrd' image for powerpc from: http://www.soziologie.ch/users/steinlin/d-i/ I try to run it on an IBM 44P-170; however, it goes into an infinite loop: ~snip Cannot open template file /var/lib/cdebconf/templates.dat Cannot open template file /var/lib/cdebcon

Re: powerbook 17" install

2003-07-05 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Fre, 2003-07-04 um 00.45 schrieb Brendan J Simon: > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > OK, I'm using the downloaded net-initrd.gz > I'm having problems as the installer can't seem to execute sfdisk, > mkfs.ext2, mkfs.ext3

Re: powerbook 17" install

2003-07-06 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Zitat von Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > >This is a known problem in busybox-cvs, pherhaps you could file a bug > >report. When unpacking these packages it should create symbolic links. > >Instead files of size 0 ar

Re: powerbook 17" install

2003-07-06 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Zitat von Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Manage to get around the problem. I fired up parted and tryed to check > partition 4. It said it was not clean and recommended using e2fsck. I > ran e2fsck and then chose to not use existing partition instead of > formatting it. The installer

Bug#202562: various debconf usage problems

2003-07-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Package: yaboot-installer Version: 0.0.4 Severity: grave Tags: patch All the debconf questions in yaboot-installer are missing priorities in the calls to debconf->command(debconf, "input", ...). debconf->value after a "go" is "ok" instead of the selected item. You have to issue debconf->command(d

yaboot-installer needs additional files

2003-07-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Additionaly to the problems I just reporte via the BTS there is another problem in yaboot-installer. It calls yabootconfig and ybin which in turn needs several executables for correct operation. Namely these files are needed in the installer root: from yaboot: /usr/sbin/ofpath, /usr/sbin/mkofb

Re: New d-i debcamp in a few months?

2003-07-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, 2003-07-22 um 16.36 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: I would be interested too. If you think I'm part of the potential participants. I will be very busy until then, but hopfull I will pass all my exams in the week before 2003-10-27. So don't expect me to contribute too much before d-i debcamp,

Re: yaboot-installer needs additional files

2003-07-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Chris Tillman wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:23:42AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: 1. In yaboot-installer's postinst make symlinks to these files from the installer disk to the files in /target (they are all there). Rather hackish solution, but it works, I tested it. and adding this i

Re: yaboot-installer needs additional files

2003-07-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Thorsten Sauter wrote: Hello, I'm aware of this problem... * Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-23 11:23]: | 1. In yaboot-installer's postinst make symlinks to these files from the | installer disk to the files in /target (they are all there). Rather | hackish soluti

Re: d-i and iBooks

2003-07-31 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Thorsten What kernel version are you using, are they the same? Am Mit, 2003-07-30 um 21.52 schrieb Thorsten Sauter: > Hi all, > > I have strange problems with the latest cvs checkout of d-i and creating > a cdrom image. > > If I use the default d-i kernel for ppc's the system boots from cdro

Re: Debconf vs. graphical installer

2003-07-31 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, 2003-07-30 um 17.47 schrieb Emile van Bergen: > Wouldn't it be better to create a wire (pipe) protocol for slightly > lower level widgets, such as > > 1. button > 2. scroll bar > 3. list > ... > > These are still sufficiently abstract for use on character terminals as > well as frame buf

Re: d-i and iBooks

2003-08-03 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Sven Luther schrieb: On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 08:06:56PM +0200, Thorsten Sauter wrote: I guess thats the best solution to put all needed images in one udeb. The makefile can copy all images into different directories on the cdrom-image. We will need some additional logic in the makefile. You hav

(powerpc) kernel udebs (was Re: d-i and iBooks)

2003-08-03 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Sven Luther schrieb: On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 04:13:02PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: We will need some additional logic in the makefile. You have to list all the possible kernel image names in build/config/arch/linux-powerpc and adjust the makefile logic in build/make/arch/linux-powerpc

Re: debian-installer kernel policy

2003-08-12 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Karsten Merker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 05:06:10PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [SNIP] What about architectures that need different images for booting different subarchs like p

Re: debian-installer kernel policy

2003-08-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Bastian Blank wrote: > Chapter 3. Packages > linux-image-VERSION-udeb > >This package only include the kernel image themself. What about architectures that need different images for booting different subarchs like powerpc? (See thread "d-i and iBooks" on this list) Should they provide one ude

updated powerpc debian-installer builds

2003-09-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi I just updated my webpage[1] with the debian-installer images for powerpc. The images contain the d-i udebs (modules) that are currently in the archive. Please test the installer and report bugs. There are probably plenty of them. gaudenz [1] http://www.soziologie.ch/users/steinlin/d-i/ --

Re: updated powerpc debian-installer builds

2003-09-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Geert Stappers wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 02:38:45PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: [1] http://www.soziologie.ch/users/steinlin/d-i/ What is the reason for this "private" archive? I'm not a DD. If you find these images useful, feel free to copy them to a more official

Re: updated powerpc debian-installer builds

2003-09-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Chris Tillman wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 02:38:45PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Hi I just updated my webpage[1] with the debian-installer images for powerpc. The images contain the d-i udebs (modules) that are currently in the archive. Please test the installer and report bugs. There are

Re: updated powerpc debian-installer builds

2003-09-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Chris Tillman wrote: You don't have to use the yaboot.conf on my site in this case. You can simply add a new section in your existing yaboot.conf. In fact the yaboot.conf files on my site are special versions for cd or netbooting. Did you include the "initrd-size=400" and append="init=/linu

Bug#202562: yaboot-installer partition description

2003-09-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 09:58, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > The current implementation uses "/dev/some_devfs_path (Typ: > > disk_model_description)" as the debconf value. This value is passed > > to yabootconfig directly as an argument wich should be the path to > > the boot partition, but the whol

Bug#202562: yaboot-installer partition description

2003-09-24 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 08:26, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > * Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-24 01:44]: > | On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 09:58, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > | > Would it not be better to display the extended info, and strip it away > | > before passing i

Re: Installer report

2003-09-26 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
hi On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 05:22, Chris Tillman wrote: > I tried the powerpc version of the installer built recently by Gaudenz > Steinlin. Since the root image was missing modprobe, I wasn't able to > get too far. But seeing a lot of errors gave me some insight into the > error h

cvs write access to debian-installer

2003-09-26 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi I talked to pere and he told me to ask you for cvs commit rights to the debian installer cvs. I have done some work on yaboot-installer and other powerpc related stuff, which I need to commit. thanks gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: menu number yaboot

2003-09-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 16:59, Geert Stappers wrote: > Hello, > > Does this make sense: > > > Index: doc/menu-item-numbers.txt > === > RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/doc/menu-item-numbers.txt,v > retrieving revision 1.16

d-i beta release powerpc

2003-09-29 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
hi thorsten and all the others I have found the last bug that stops us from releasing a beta for powerpc. The code to select a default kernel in kernel-installer was missing for powerpc. The attached patch fixes this at least for newworld. I don't know about the others. I propose you prepare a fin

Re: d-i beta release powerpc

2003-09-29 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Bastian Blank wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:26:14PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: + MODEL=`/usr/bin/ppcdetect` depreacated why -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: d-i and the archive

2003-09-30 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
sorry, I didn't want to send this only to sebastian... Sebastian Ley wrote: Please comment/extend this proposal. If seconded I'd like to start on it as soon as posible. sounds cool to me, but more like a mid- to long-term solution. I think we should now focus on getting out a beta release (probab

patch to reduce the size of discover-data-udeb

2003-10-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Jeff I was working on discover2 during d-i debcamp last week. I'm sending you my changes to integrate them into the discover2 packages. I hope you will find some time to work on them again soon. These are the changes: Makefile: - only include needed devicetypes (instead of excluding uneeded on

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-05 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 18:43, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:48:28AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Thanks, Sven. I gzipped vmlinus-2.4.22-powerpc-pmac, and it > > is 1675729 in size, thus cannot fit on a 1.44 f

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-05 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 21:15, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 06:44:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:07:21AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:48:28AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > > > > > > Thanks, Sven. I gzipped vmlinus-2

Re: Proposed build system

2003-10-05 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 09:46, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 03:31:03AM +0200, Sebastian Ley wrote: > > Hello, > > > > on the way to a build system that enables us to use the current buildd > > infrastructure for d-i images, I checked in a preliminary proposal into > > cvs. > > > > I

Re: New per subarch 2.4.22 powerpc kernels, please test.

2003-10-05 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 14:33, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 02:15:20PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 18:43, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:48:28AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at

Re: Proposed build system

2003-10-05 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 16:18, Sebastian Ley wrote: > Am So, den 05.10.2003 schrieb Gaudenz Steinlin um 14:38: > > > The image target (which builds a floppy image) is not meaningfull for > > every arch and every boot method. That i386 emulates floppys for cd > > booting

Bug#214499: libdebian-installer: No rule to make target 'configure'

2003-10-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
retitle 214499 Document build from cvs severity 214499 wishlist Thanks Matt Kraai wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 09:19:13PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: The subject error appears when building. You can work around it by running autoreconf --install As discussed on IRC yesterday, this is not a

Re: di & IBM CHRP

2003-10-09 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Rolf Brudeseth wrote: - Where can I download the di initrd for CHRP. I plan to perform a network install. Boot through BOOTP and NFS mount the initrd. There is no special initrd for CHRP at the moment (don't know if this is needed). You can extract the inird from the popwerpc images on http://gl

patch to build discover without curl

2003-10-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
hi eric If have done some work on discover to make it build without curl. Most of the code was already there from jeff. See the attached patch! If added some autoconf stuff for a "--without-curl" option. I have never used autoconf before. So please feel free to tell me if I have got something wro

Re: Discover : how is it maintained?

2004-03-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 03:19:06PM +0100, cobaco wrote: > in that case, as I'm doing the Dutch translations, could you add me > (cobaco-guest) to the pkg-discover project? > Done. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Simplified Chinese translation updated, please close bug#230372

2004-03-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 05:33:27PM +1300, Carlos Z.F. Liu wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 04:34:00PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 02:17:24AM +1300, Carlos Z.F. Liu wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Please rename file

Bug#237603: My computer hangs when discover loads parport_pc and I don't have a parport

2004-03-13 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 11:46:46AM +0100, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > Package: discover > Version: 1.5-2 > Severity: critical > Tags: sid > Justification: breaks the whole system > > The kernel module parport_pc.o hangs my computers (imac TFT 15" and > Tibook G4). I have filed a bug report about

Bug#237894: installation-reports: partman doesn't start and wifi isn't automatically detected on powerbook

2004-03-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
[ CC'ing benh as he wrote this module and hopefully knows the authoritative answer to this. ] On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:08:19PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > I'm having trouble finding the correct PCI ID in this list. Here's what > I think everything is so far. If someone could please shed some l

Re: RFC: discover 1 -> 2 transition plan for Debian

2004-03-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:07:13PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Gaudenz Steinlin] > > As I and David are going to take over the maintainership of discover > > 1.5 we are interested in fixing the transition plan now. > > If I understood you and David correctly, you wa

Re: RFC: discover 1 -> 2 transition plan for Debian

2004-03-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:05:46PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Gaudenz Steinlin] > Looking at the subversion repository, I suspect there are some patches > missing compared to the packages in the debian archive. Do you known > if this is true? I'm not sure if Ian merge

reassign to pcmcia-cs

2004-09-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
reassign 248069 pcmcia-cs Thanks I think this is a bug in pcmcia-cs. Discover1 does not try to detect cards on the pcmicia bus and the module for the pcmcia bridge seems to be listed correctly. Gaudenz signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#799976: wish: support passwd/root-login=false AND passwd/make-user=false

2015-09-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Simon Josefsson writes: >> Simon Josefsson writes: >> >> > Package: debian-installer >> > Severity: wishlist >> > >> > On some system that I preseed-install, I don't want any root >> > password set nor do I want a normal user account. I get access to >> > the system via SSH, using a public-key

Bug#799976: wish: support passwd/root-login=false AND passwd/make-user=false

2015-09-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Lennart Sorensen writes: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:50:59PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Package: debian-installer >> Severity: wishlist >> >> On some system that I preseed-install, I don't want any root password >> set nor do I want a normal user account. I get access to the system via >

Bug#722898: benchmarks

2013-09-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Thiemo Thanks for working on this. Thiemo Nagel writes: > Hello Ben, > > thanks for your input! I'm attaching a series of patches to wrap up what > we've discussed so far, more details are in the commit messages quoted > below. > > I've tested the patches by running blockdev-wipe, they are

Bug#722898: benchmarks

2013-09-17 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Thiemo Nagel writes: > Hello Gaudenz, > > thank you for your email! > > Any reason why you choose 512k? If I understand your benchmarks right, >> doubling this to 1M yelds about another 27% gain. > > > I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that I've re-run the benchmarks. After > removing O_SYNC, t

Re: init-select

2014-01-03 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Michael Gilbert writes: > Hi :) > > The TC init discussion has diverged significantly from Debian's usual > ideals of freedom and meritocracy, so I decided to do something about > it. > > So, today I wrote init-select. It's a small tool that empowers users > to freely and simply choose amon

Re: init-select

2014-01-03 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Michael Gilbert writes: > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Michael Gilbert (2014-01-03): >>> It is often far more ideal when the TC chooses to not act. TC action >>> means that the project is somehow dysfunctional. >>> >>> init-select is a very simple technical soluti

Bug#725642: installation-reports: Installer creates over-small root partition when automatically sizing separate partitions

2014-01-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Rudy Godoy writes: > Package: installation-reports > Followup-For: Bug #725642 > > > Today, a 10GB partition for root is really small. Take in count that / will > hold > /var/lib and /var/log along with /usr. For a standard desktop install it > takes > almost 6GB of space, leaving 4GB for othe

Re: net-retriever: handy debug hack to pull in development udeb's at runtime

2014-01-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Ian Campbell writes: > Package: net-retriever > Version: 1.37 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 22:23 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Ian Campbell (2014-01-22): >> > I finally got fed up of rebuilding the initrd to include new versions of >> > udebs I was hacking on,

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