Package: installation-guide-amd64
Severity: minor
Tags: d-i
Dear Maintainer,
Buster installation guide section 3.6.4. documents the dangers of the Windows 8
"fast boot" feature. Most users now have Windows 10, where this feature is
renamed "fast startup". I suggest this section (and its title)
Hopefully this is already changed in the Bullseye install guide, but if not, I
don't think I will learn how to make edits before Bullseye releases.
The Buster install guide says in Section 3.6.3
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch03s06.en.html#UEFI
Another UEFI-related topic is th
On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 20:05 +, Bernard McNeill wrote:
> This machine does not have either CD or DVD drive. Does have internal SSD.
> This machine normally runs Windows-10.
> Objective is to have Debian on external HDD (Toshiba), connected to
> laptop via USB3.
>
> Events:
> Under Windows, dow
On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 11:46 +, Bernard McNeill wrote:
>
> On 07/02/2021 22:26, Lou Poppler wrote:
> > On Sun, 2021-02-07 at 15:14 -0700, Lou Poppler wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2021-02-07 at 20:44 +, Bernard McNeill wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > >
On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 20:07 +, Bernard McNeill wrote:
[...]
> I was planning the re-install, and came across this page:
> https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Dell/Dell_XPS_13_9360
>
> It says to 'Change the SATA from RAID On to AHCI, without this change
> Linux will not find SSD'.
> Qu
On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 20:47 +, Bernard McNeill wrote:
>
> On 08/02/2021 20:33, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Bernard McNeill (2021-02-08):
> > > It says to 'Change the SATA from RAID On to AHCI, without this change
> > > Linux
> > > will not find SSD'.
> > > Questions: 1. To me, SATA is a refer
On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 14:57 -0700, Lou Poppler wrote:
>
> See
> https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/Pros-Cons-AHCI-vs-Raid-On-XPS13-9300-NVMe/td-p/7636984
>
Reading more on that page looks like you should not change the setting unless
you are prepared to re-install your Windows; bu
On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 22:26 +, Bernard McNeill wrote:
>
> On 08/02/2021 21:57, Lou Poppler wrote:
> > On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 20:47 +, Bernard McNeill wrote:
> > >
> > > On 08/02/2021 20:33, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > > > Bernard McNeill (2021-02-
On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 22:26 +, Bernard McNeill wrote:
[...]
> I have one SSD (which has Win-10 on it), there is no other disk
> (spinning or otherwise) on the machine.
> The BIOS System Information says 'M.2. SATA =(none)'
> and 'M.2. PCIe SSD-0=87NB51ASK5HS'.
> However: Under BIOS System Conf
On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 22:59 +, Bernard McNeill wrote:
>
> On 08/02/2021 22:44, Lou Poppler wrote:
> > On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 22:26 +, Bernard McNeill wrote:
> > [...]
> > > I have one SSD (which has Win-10 on it), there is no other disk
> > > (s
On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 22:59 +, Bernard McNeill wrote:
>
> But, as I think I mentioned earlier, I am very reluctant indeed to mess
> around with Windows itself.
> I have backed up the user data, but I am not at all sure how to
> re-install Windows itself. If the machine failed I suspect I wo
On Tue, 2021-02-09 at 07:22 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'd like to install the additional firmware required for PowerPC. It
> is briefly discussed at
> https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/ch06s04.html.en.
>
> The problem I am having is, PowerMac's don't have an eject
On Sun, 2021-04-11 at 21:18 +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
>
> I think so, yes. But my problems started earlier than booting linux, at
> the SysLinux menu. Perhaps what's needed is more of an appendix for
> dealing with serial consoles?
>
> Anyway, I'll try to be more helpful tomorrow :-)
I trie
On Mon, 2021-05-24 at 15:19 -0700, ddueh...@verizon.net wrote:
>
> Comments/Problems:
>
> It’s far easier to just download an image than to try to figure out how to
> download via bittorrent.
The downloads are small enough that I can wait for them to download. I spent
much more time finding
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/8.6.0+nonfree/i386/bt-cd/firmware-8.6.0-i386-netinst.iso.torrent
Date: Dec 13, 2016 17:00 UTC
Machine: Uniwill 223ii0
Processor: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M p
Package: installation-reports
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version: debian-8.7.1-amd64-netinst.iso via BT
Date: Feb 13, 2017 23:00 UTC
Machine: Dell 3620
Partitions:
Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sect
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version: debian-31r5-i386-netinst.iso, from usc.edu mirror, md5sum good
Date: 7 Mar 2007, 22:00 UTC
Machine: Old Gateway, Tabor{2,3} motherboard
Processor: P3 (Katmai) 596MHz
Memory: 384 MB ECC
Partitions: none
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Frans Pop wrote:
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 23:58, Lou Poppler wrote:
> The text of the error screen, and the text of the Installation Guide,
> seem to be saying clearly that these modules are needed to drive the
> IDE hardware, and this was the last chance to auto
Package: installation-reports
Trying to upgrade from sarge to etch, not doing well.
I net-installed sarge a couple weeks ago, and got it working mostly well,
with gdm X desktop and kernel 2.6.8. I was having some minor ethernet
driver problems which googling suggested might be fixed by a newer k
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta3/amd64/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b3-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: November 19, 2012, 01:00 UTC
Machine: Dell Optiplex 770
Processor: dual Core3 intel
Memory:
Partitions:
SCSI3 (0,0,0) (sda) -
Thanks for your reply -- for some reason it didn't arrive here as email,
but I found it tonight while looking in the debian-boot list archives.
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:00:49 +, Brian Potkin wrote:
: On Mon 19 Nov 2012 at 02:09:47 -0500, Lou Poppler wrote:
:
: > Comments/Problem
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, Brian Potkin wrote:
On Thu 22 Nov 2012 at 01:37:02 -0500, Lou Poppler wrote:
I see that the beta-4 version is available today. I'll grab that, and try
it out to see if it will work automatically.
It works for me.
It worked for me too. The installation completed
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version: debian-wheezy-DI-b4-amd64.netinst
Date: Nov 28, 2012, 01:00 UTC
Machine: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 755
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz
Memory: 4 GB
Partitions:
root@ivanovad:/var/log# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Lou Poppler wrote:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee
ATI RV610 [Radeon HD 2400 XT] [1002:94c1]
Subsystem: Dell Optiplex 755 [1028:0d02]
Kernel driver in use: radeon
[ ... ]
Various online research brings me to
http
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Brian Potkin wrote:
[AMD] nee ATI RV610 [Radeon HD 2400 XT] [1002:94c1]
Subsystem: Dell Optiplex 755 [1028:0d02]
Kernel driver in use: radeon
[ ... ]
http://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo
which looks like I should install some non-free firmware for this card.
I find
On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Brian Potkin (claremont...@gmail.com):
Perhaps the installer could warn the user if her video card is among those
listed in AtiHowTo and the installer doesn't see the firmware supplied
somewhere by the user. Perhaps just a referral to the w
On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Brian Potkin wrote:
I've tried to read
http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch02s02.html
and
http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s04.html
from a new user's perspective. There is nothing there, as far as I can
see, which says only missing firmware for network card
On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Brian Potkin wrote:
A minimal patch to the Guide is at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695403
Thanks Brian, this looks very helpful.
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