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Dear Maintainer,
> If the desired time zone is not listed, then please go back to the step
> "Choose language" and select a country that uses the desired time zone (the
> country where you live or are located).
Language and country are NOT the same..
Hi,
My bad.. apparently I picked US for country instead of NL. Not being
able to set timezone to UTC or independent of country selection seems
weird though.
Op wo 5 dec. 2018 om 11:39 schreef Olaf van der Spek :
>
> Package: debian-installer
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintaine
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Is that still reproducible with current wheezy installation images? If
> that's the case, we'll see how to help you debug that further.
Hi KiBi,
Let's just close this bug, it has been almost 7 years since it was
opened. If it happens again
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Hi,
I wanted to install without a swap partition as I gave the machine 5 GB of
memory.
However, the installer doesn't give me an option to resize suggested
partitions. Could such an option be added?
Would also be handy if you have s
Hi,
Could a link to the actual downloads be included @
https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2017/20170527 ?
Gr,
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2017-05-29 15:47 GMT+02:00 Cyril Brulebois :
> Hi Olaf,
>
> Olaf van der Spek (2017-05-29):
>> Could a link to the actual downloads be included @
>> https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2017/20170527 ?
>
> I'm not sure how several dozens of extra
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Hi,
I just installed using the daily business image and the installer still assumes
the hardware clock is set to UTC. I'm in CET, so the time is one hour ahead.
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On 3/2/07, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday 01 March 2007 16:17, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> When you enable sudo in the installer (via expert mode), a password for
> the root user isn't set. Then, if you (for example) want to adjust date
> & time, it as
On 3/2/07, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Gnome date/time applet asks for the root password. The user
> password doesn't work.
Well, you could have been a bit more clear about what "it" was then. How
were we supposed to guess this was about a Gnome applet?
Yes, sorry. The 'desktop
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Hi,
I've got the same problem.
It'd be nice if there was a way to tell the installer to automatically
choose a disk, especially in single-disk systems.
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Geert Stappers wrote:
Op 15-11-2006 om 17:18 schreef Olaf van der Spek:
Hi,
I've got the same problem.
It'd be nice if there was a way to tell the installer to automatically
choose a disk, especially in single-disk systems.
Attached is a disk recipe that I used about a year ago.
David Härdeman wrote:
Dennis Hoppe said:
1. debian installer asks at which harddisk he should install debian etch.
but i have only one harddisk at my server.
...
d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/discs/disc0/disc
On Wed, November 15, 2006 17:18, Olaf van der Spek said:
I've got the
Olaf van der Spek wrote:
David Härdeman wrote:
Dennis Hoppe said:
1. debian installer asks at which harddisk he should install debian
etch.
but i have only one harddisk at my server.
...
d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/discs/disc0/disc
On Wed, November 15, 2006 17:18, Olaf van der Spek
David Härdeman wrote:
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:50:11PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
Olaf van der Spek wrote:
David Härdeman wrote:
Dennis, Olaf...could you try changing the "partman-auto/disk" entry to
"partman-auto/select_disk" in your preseed files and see if that
quot;Automatically format disk and install using LVM", sorry can't check
the exact wording of the menu right now).
I did have "d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select Guided
- use entire disk"
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s not a question as such when using preseeding.
We should handle the situation where partman-auto/disk is preseeded but
partman-auto/method is not more gracefully though.
Why doesn't it just use the default if it's not preseeded?
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Frans Pop wrote:
On Friday 17 November 2006 12:59, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
I did have "d-ipartman-auto/init_automatically_partition select
Guided
- use entire disk"
That is probably not supported.
Please see the example in the development version of the manual
Frans Pop wrote:
On Friday 17 November 2006 13:36, you wrote:
Why not?
A similar entry is shown in lines 3 and 4 of that manual.
Only for using available free space, not for formatting an entire disk.
You're right, I just copy/pasted that from running the installer
manually and it seems to
reopen 397649
thanks
Could we have NTP by default?
> But it would be a problem for the minority who have no or only
> intermittent (e.g. dial-up) network access.
Why would it be a problem?
> I leave it to the PTBs to figure out whether there is a compromise
> position.
PTBs?
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Frans Pop wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 November 2006 19:05, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>> Could we have NTP by default?
>
> Having NTP by default is not a d-i team decision but would better be
> discussed on debian-devel.
Who's decision is it?
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;s occasional
polls as a reason to dial the ISP, which is probably not what the user
expected.
NTP could be at least installed but disabled instead of not installed.
Although I'd like to have it enabled by default.
Isn't it possible to start/stop ntpd based on when the dial-up link is
Rick Thomas wrote:
On Nov 22, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
No network mean the "Network Time Protocol" won't work.
Intermittent network (e.g. dial-up) means that NTP goes for long
periods with no connection to the external time servers. The
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Hi,
I tried a daily image and wanted to see what it'd do if I selected "Install the
base system twice". It gave a warning the second time, so I canceled.
Then I selected "Configure the package manager", but instead, it tried to
install the base system
Frans Pop wrote:
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 22:28, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
I tried a daily image and wanted to see what it'd do if I selected
"Install the base system twice". It gave a warning the second time, so
I canceled. Then I selected "Configure the package manag
Package: main-menu
Severity: important
Hi,
When installing Etch using debian-40r0-amd64-netinst.iso and auto
url=xcc.demon.nl I encounter segfaults in a loop.
See also http://xcc.demon.nl/temp/segfault.png and
http://xcc.demon.nl/d-i/etch/preseed.cfg
Olaf
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On 4/10/07, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 20:00, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> When installing Etch using debian-40r0-amd64-netinst.iso and auto
> url=xcc.demon.nl I encounter segfaults in a loop.
Does the segfault also happen if you do not use a prec
On 4/10/07, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If that does not fix it, please try building up your preconfiguration file
line by line until you find what causes the segfault.
The cause is: d-i clock-setup/utc boolean false
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On 4/11/07, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Please reply to the BTS, even if I forget to set Reply-To... ;-)
Yes, sorry.
> How does it know I'm in the Netherlands then?
I'm not quite sure selecting a country that does not match a locale is
supported ATM. If it works for you, that's fine
On 4/11/07, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The cause is: d-i clock-setup/utc boolean false
OK, then let's reassign to clock-setup for now, although the real problem
could well be elsewhere.
Could you send us your last preconfiguration file? The one that made the
error show up?
Thanks fo
Package: preseed
Severity: normal
Hi,
I downloaded debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso and tried to install it in VMware
with auto url=xcc.demon.nl
This works with Etch, but with Testing, it asks language, country, priority and
then it wants to check the media integrity.
The check passes, and then
On 4/16/07, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 13 April 2007 15:28, Joey Hess wrote:
> Testing is no longer etch, but lenny, so the default url downloaded
> when using a simple url has changed
> from http://hostname/d-i/etch/./preseed.cfg
> to http://hostname/d-i/lenny/./preseed.cfg
On 5/19/07, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There was someone else who reported the same issue on IRC, but if we
cannot reproduce it, we will need you (or someone else) who can to debug
this.
'Unfortunately' I can't reproduce it either with a more recent CD image.
To try to trace this I
On 5/22/07, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 19:10, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> 'Unfortunately' I can't reproduce it either with a more recent CD
> image.
Hmm. What do you mean "recent image". Your original report was for an
off
On 5/22/07, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why is that needed?
If you can access the shell without problems after the failure, this is
possibly not needed. But you will still need to add the "set -x" somehow
_before_ the preconfiguration file gets loaded.
But network-preseed.postinst d
On 5/22/07, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 21:31, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> But network-preseed.postinst doesn't seem to exist when I'm
> configuring locale etc.
> By the time it does exist, DHCP has already run and I'm at the hostn
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> I am guessing you are doing (a) today --- am I right? (c) or (d)
> would be best.
Are there any plans to provide an API for atomic (non-durable) file
updates, not involving fsync?
Would be simpler (for apps), faster and more general (because it
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Ian Jackson
wrote:
> Olaf van der Spek writes ("Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression
> with ext4"):
>> Are there any plans to provide an API for atomic (non-durable) file
>> updates, not involving fsync?
>
> Yes. Such
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Again: Please quote the standard instead of crying. Your view of things
> disallows many of the recent improvements in filesystems, so you have to
> show evidence. All the databases and other reliable data handing tools
> uses fsync since a l
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Ian Jackson
wrote:
> Olaf van der Spek writes ("Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression
> with ext4"):
>> Probably not an issue for dpkg, but in general:
>> Don't you reset meta-data that way?
>
> Yes. If you want to
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> Lots of users have complained about the desktop performance problem,
> but the reality is we can't really solve that without also taking away
> the magic that made (c) happen. Whether you solve it by using
> data=writeback and stick with ext3, or
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> (Dropping bug report)
>
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>> > Hence the fact that all file system developers, whether they were
>> > btrfs developers or XFS developers or ext4 developers, mad
Still an issue in Squeeze. :(
Olaf
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Hi,
The mount options list doesn't include an option to enable ACLs (on ext). Could
you add it?
Greetings,
Olaf
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Hi,
I recently installed Lenny. I wanted to install without swap partition, but
didn't find an easy way to do so.
The only way appears to be to manually do the partition setup.
I'd prefer a way to delete the swap partition in guided partitioning
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Christian Perrier wrote:
>> I recently installed Lenny. I wanted to install without swap partition, but
>> didn't find an easy way to do so.
>> The only way appears to be to manually do the partition setup.
>
>
> You mean you'd prefer having a guided partitioning
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Olaf van der Spek (olafvds...@gmail.com):
>
>> No, not necessarily.
>> After choosing guided partition, it's already possible to delete the
>> (proposed) swap partition.
>> However, there is
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Hi,
Could swap be put at the begin instead of at the end of a disk?
It's better for performance and it allows one to resize the / partition without
touching the swap one.
Greetings,
Olaf
Disk /dev/sda: 17.2 GB, 17179869184 bytes
255 heads, 63 s
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
>> Could swap be put at the begin instead of at the end of a disk?
>> It's better for performance and it allows one to resize the / partition
>> without touching the swap one.
>
> /boot is very small and usually it's a good idea to have it
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> There should be absolutely no difference for performance.
> If by "performance" here you mean you want faster swap,
> I'd say you want _no_ swapping instead, and if you're
> heavily swapping, no swap relocation will ever help.
That's true.
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 256mb for swap is very rare nowadays. yes, it makes little
Is it? I thought it was the default. More doesn't make sense.
>> Not true, ext supports online resize.
>
> While ext*fs and xfs supports online resizing, one needs
> to resize p
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Lennart Sorensen
wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:18:33PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>> Is it? I thought it was the default. More doesn't make sense.
>
> If you have 8GB ram, 256MB swap is useless. 4 or 8GB might be useful.
>
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Hi,
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s01.html#boot-initrd
> you should download the netboot/debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz file
The manual doesn't tell where this file can be downloaded.
I think a link is appropriate.
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