Bug#238857: Installation Report on Sparc32

Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Beta 3 uname -a: Linux hobbes 2.4.23 #1 Sun Nov 30 17:41:34 EST 2003 sparc unknown Date: Method: Installation attempt from burned http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/beta3/sarge-sparc-businesscard.iso Machine: Sparc IPX

Bug#783138: installation-reports from Gremany

Package: installation-reports Boot method:

Bug#885026: installation-reports: wrong path in /etc/network/interfaces when installed with PPPoE

Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: 9.3.0 Date: 2017-12-22 Machine: Hyper-V VM Partitions: Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [0]

Bug#99185: boot-floppies: Does not recognize Amiga partitions

Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.19 Severity: serious I'm filing this as a bug, as I think the problem is in the partition detection code. I don't know whether it is fixed in a newer version, the latest m68k version available for potato (and I don't dare test unstable from what I've heard abou

Bug#502550: installation-report

ppens. Booting the rescue system from CD again work without problems. Last screen output when booting in the single User mode is: ACPI: LNXTHERM01 is registered as thermal_zone0 During installation everything seemed ok. Why does the system boot from CD but not from Harddisk? Regards,

Bug#502550: the correct kernel seems to be installed

Hello Otavio, thx for your answer. Output of dpkg --list | grep linux-image is ii linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 2.6.26-8Linux 2.6.26. image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/ So the correct kernel seems to be installed. Regards, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#260970: stuck at low memory prompt

Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: downloaded on 20040723 (image dated 22-Jul-2004) http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/ uname -a: Date: 200407> Method: floppy boot planing to network install Machine: vmware workstation 3.2.0 Processor: amd mobile athlon

my first impressions of your installer

i was installing this in vmware using the daily snapshot floppies after getting round the low memory bug i mentioned a day or so ago (now apparently fixed) by giving the virtual machine more ram i progressed with the install without too many problems however i noticed the following 1: in the afte

RE: Cannot install any debian - no kernels support USB net cards?

i would use the full woody cd1 and deal with netwokring after install -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 July 2004 01:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cannot install any debian - no kernels support USB net cards? I'm not sure if this is a bug

RE: RE: Cannot install any debian - no kernels support USB net cards?

1. the module wasn't compiled into the default installed kernel 2. when I tried to add it - either as module or compiled in - the option was simply absent from the kernel config. what kernel source were you buiding from? i suggest you use the 2.4.26 source direct from kernel.org to build yoursel

RE: my first impressions of your installer

> > 5: there was no mention of secuirty updates (is this because > the secuirty > > updated for sarge aren't aranged yet?) > > This is also by design, and is because security updates are used by > default. well it didn't put any security updates line in my sources.list > > > 6: the timezone selec

RE: my first impressions of your installer

> -Original Message- > From: Christian Perrier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 25 July 2004 22:31 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: my first impressions of your installer > > > Quoting peter green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > im in england i

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Bug#261887: 8139too and sis900 install bug

the woody install kernels should only be used for installation   at least in the case of the bf24 one they no longer get security updates (there is at least local root exploit in the bf24 kernel unforutunately the fix for this caused module breakage which is why bf24 was not updated)   eit

RE: modconf maintainance - status and future?

i would leave the code old in the old repostry so the old history is preserved maybe add a notice there about the move though > -Original Message- > From: Frank Lichtenheld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Frank > Lichtenheld > Sent: 01 August 2004 23:19 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subje

RE: 花之愿鲜花礼品网

can we keep messages to this list in english please -Original Message-From: 李书昀 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 04 August 2004 08:50To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: 花之愿鲜花礼品网  花之愿鲜花礼品网   鲜花，是自然赐予人类的祝福！ 这是一家新的网上花店，在线提供鲜花预订，鲜花速递，3小时可达中国各地。 热诚欢迎各位来

RE: Boot problems with grub and 4GB+

or just default to lilo altogether unless there is some other major advantage to grub ofc > -Original Message- > From: Goswin von Brederlow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04 August 2004 22:18 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Boot problems with grub and 4GB+ > > > Hi, > > grub still

RE: [Manual] installer-manual on the website (was: release plans for website?)

imho content negotiation should only be used for initial pages and there should be an easy way to choose language manually if content negotiation gets it wrong > -Original Message- > From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 August 2004 18:21 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PRO

RE: Opinion about sarge install

> It would probably be interesting and useful for the X packaging > team to see > a diff between the config that was generated from configuring X and the > config you ultimately had to use to get X working. In my experience, > provided you give the X configuration the right input, it does a > reaso

RE: X configuration (was Opinion about sarge install)

Message- > From: Andrew Pollock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 09 August 2004 03:31 > To: peter green > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Opinion about sarge install > > > On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 11:56:00PM +0100, peter green wrote: > > > It

Bug#264506: all fine, but grub

1 not read correctly. sh-2.05b# All in all, a great piece of Software that you built there. Thanks! -- Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: LILO versus GRUB

unlike with redhat the installer is not generally used for upgrading just edit /etc/apt/sources.list then run apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade > -Original Message- > From: GEOFF BAGLEY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 11 August 2004 11:50 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: LILO ver

RE: LILO versus GRUB

note upgrading with apt-get won't change your kernel if you wan't to use a new kernel then you should either install a kernel-image package explicitly or compile your own kernel from source > I wish to use the new installer in order to make configuration of my > various Ethernet NICs > (on three

RE: LILO versus GRUB

of whether the sender was on the list or not > -Original Message- > From: Geoff Bagley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 11 August 2004 13:41 > To: peter green > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: LILO versus GRUB > > > Many thanks Peter. By the way, I am ge

stable/testing/unstable vs woody/sarge/sid

afaict the installer currently uses the first of theesee possibilities (stable/testing/unstable) in sources.list this means that when there is another release users will get automatically updated from one stable release to the next possiblly when they are really not expecting it it would seem mor

Bug#266113: installation-reports

Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: uname -a: Date: <14.8.2004> Method: Machine: Processor: Pentium III 700 MHz Memory: 124megs Root Device: Root Size/partition table: Output of lspci: :00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82440MX Host Bridge (rev 01) :00:00.1 Multim

Bug#266242: port 80 makes for a bad default for a http proxy

ive Mirror | The specified archive mirror is either not available or does not have | a valid Release file. blabla Reason being of course that on port 80 there's an apache which is not really a proxy server. A better default would be 3128 (squid's default port) or 8080. -- Peter -- To U

RE: debootstrap's basic package list

the trouble with debootstrap is that unless you have a very recent version of the package list (or are installing stable) it tends to get broken by dependency problems cdebootstrap works muc better (though unfortunately woody doesn't have it and there doesn't seem to be a backport either) another

RE: debootstrap's basic package list

i dunno what effect running cdebootstrap on your existing screwup will have but i would strongly advise starting again > -Original Message- > From: Haines Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 August 2004 01:32 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: debootstrap's basic package list >

Bug#267522: Installation report -- new nforce hardware is problematic

newer 2.6 kernel was used by default. =) Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debian (sarge rc1) installer and colinux (snapshot 20040710)

cobd0 alias="hda"-->empty 1500 meg image cobd1 --> initrd from boot.img (decompressed) ram 64 megs (allocated to colinux host machine has 480) tap adaptor with windows bridgeing root=/dev/cobd1 init=/sbin/debian-installer-boot debian installer started fine though some non english chars in the lan

RE: [coLinux-devel] Re: debian (sarge rc1) installer and colinux (snapshot 20040710)

; [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sven > Luther > Sent: 25 August 2004 09:13 > To: peter green > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [coLinux-devel] Re: debian (sarge rc1) installer and colinux > (snapshot 20040710) > > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 07:40:17PM

RE/FW: Please stop sending me emails

can someone please remove this guy from the list before his bloody autoresponders drive us all crazy > -Original Message- > From: Frank Carmickle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 27 August 2004 21:39 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Please stop sending me emails > > > THIS IS AN

RE: [PROPOSAL] 2.4.27 as default 2.4 kernel for sarge

> -Original Message- > From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 27 August 2004 22:59 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] 2.4.27 as default 2.4 kernel for sarge > > > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Quoting Joey Hess: > > > 15. Get

Installation woes on Dell 8300 (SATA Harddisk)

stalled on this system, I would be extremely grateful!...I imagine I will need to somehow get a newer kernel version with support for SATA? How would I integrate this with the 3.0 installation DVD? I was not able to find a howto online... THanks Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Bug#220268: Yor installation report

; > > Hm, don't know where this originates from. I'll assign it to > > installation, perhaps someone has an idea. > > Peter, did you use/install LVM? No, not at all. I didn't know it was possible to configure LVM with the new installer. I will try the current insta

Bug#228835: Installation report for beta 2 of d-i (failure)

ially during the mke2fs stage of the installation (the installer seems to sit hung on a blank screen, which isn't ideal). =) Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

d-i b2 hangs at ide-detect

Hello, With my ASUS P4P800 Deluxe, Samsung SP1614C S-Ata disk, d-i hangs at ide-detect. So I could not install debian with the installer. This board has a 3c940 Gbit lan on board which needs the sk98 driver, is that included in the installer kernel? regards, Peter -- .signature: No such

RE: d-i b2 hangs at ide-detect

Hello, The ide-detect hang seems to have to do with this: http://www.hentges.net/howtos/p4p800_SATA.html I will modify the BIOS settings and try again. regards, Peter Miguel Corbella writes: > Hi, > > I have the same problem but with a ASUS A7N8X. The problem is that my >

Bug#230894: debootstrap error 127

Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: uname -a: Date: Method: Machine: Processor:P4 Memory:512M Root Device: Root Size/partition table: Output of lspci: Base System Insta

Bug#233227: installation-reports

n/a 1.9 GiB n/a 4.7 GiB n/a 7.8 GiB ntfs Finish Abort I'm unsure what the d0 is supposed to be, but the first "952 MiB ntfs" partition does not exist. The "7.8 GiB ntfs" partition *does* exist on another logical drive on the array, on sep

Bug#233227: Acknowledgement (installation-reports)

option is selected. The relevant part is: user.warn menu-menu[229]: WARNING **: Configuring 'partconf' failed with error code 10 -- Peter Nelson | http://www.bucks.net | Systems Administrator| Tel: +44 129

Bug#234363: ITP bmp-extra-plugins

t a debian developer. Peter signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: queries re ARM port

this year that can sensibly run Debian, but on which compiling things like this might be suitably tedious that there's increased demand for cross compiling. -- Peter Naulls - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| http://www.chocky.org/

Bug#236364: SPARCstation 5 installation report

Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 2004/03/04 daily image from http://people.debian.org/~jbailey/d-i/sparc/daily/ uname -a: Linux opal 2.4.24-sparc32 #1 Fri Jan 30 16:04:55 EST 2004 sparc unknown Date: 2004/03/04 Method: network installation, CD-ROM, mirror: sunsite.ualberta

Bug#236364: SPARCstation 5 installation report

I went back and set the install to use testing, copied /target/bin/sleep and /target/lib/librt.so.1 to /bin and /lib, respectively and wiped the prevous installation. This time it actually got to the point of installing a kernel image. Unfortunately, the installer chose kernel-image-2.4.24-spar

Re: release status

Joey Hess wrote: Thomas Poindessous wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:34:09PM -0900, Joey Hess wrote: Thomas Poindessous wrote: demo must be disabled in config/sparc.cfg. I took the right to do it in CVS. Hmm, that must make the debian-installer-demo package rather useless. yes, I didn't realize

Bug#236364: SPARCstation 5 installation report

Thomas Poindessous wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:13:00PM -0700, Peter Karbaliotis wrote: This time it actually got to the point of installing a kernel image. Unfortunately, the installer chose kernel-image-2.4.24-sparc64-smp when it should have chosen kernel-image-2.4.24-sparc32. I think

Bug#251675: [INTL:sk] discover1 - Slovak translation update

Package: discover1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch l10n attached file is updated Slovak translation -- 5o Peter.Mann at tuke.sk KLFMANiK ICQ 12491471 PM2185-RIPE discover1_slovak.tgz Description: GNU Unix tar archive

Bug#252425: man-db causes install to fail

Package: debian-installer Severity: important Tags: sid This report pertains to the beta4 and tc1 versions of the debian-installer as run on a ppc. The 'dpkg --configure man-db' step fails in the installation, which causes the 'Install base system' step to fail. My work-around was to use console

Bug#252426: ppc cd images missing oldworld mac boot floppies

Package: debian-installer Severity: important The beta4 and tc1 ppc iso images don't have a bootable floppy image for oldworld PPC macs that cannot boot off the CD. Additionally, the installer is unable to actually make these Macs bootable from HD. I've had no luck with manually configuring 'QUIK

Bug#252508: Package: mklibs

file) -if not os.access(dest_path + "/" + lib, os.F_OK): +if not os.access(dest_path + "/" + ld_file_name, os.F_OK): command(target + "objcopy", "--strip-unneeded -R .note -R .comment", ld_file, dest_path + "/" + ld_file_n

Bug#252426: ppc cd images missing oldworld mac boot floppies

On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 05:05, Rick_Thomas wrote: > On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 05:57, Peter Lieverdink wrote: > > Package: debian-installer > > Severity: important > > > > The beta4 and tc1 ppc iso images don't have a bootable floppy image for > > oldworl

Bug#253033: installation-reports

Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: not sure; from isolinux/f1.txt: "This is a Debian installation CD-ROM, built on 20040429." uname -a: Linux server1 2.6.6-1-386 #1 Wed May 12 13:19:06 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: June 4, 2004 Method: installed from a CD-ROM burned from sar

Bug#253575: Default partitioning doesn't create a space for ELILO

erwise the installation of the kernel fails when depmod is run. 3. (The biggy). The default partitioning doesn't leave a FAT16 partition at the start of the disc for elilo to install a boot image on. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are lost in a ma

Bug#253724: daily-20040515: some suggestions and typos

Package: installation-reports Severity: normal INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 20040515 daily build for i386 uname -a: Linux nb-Spencer 2.4.26-1-386 #2 Sat May 1 16:31:24 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 2004/05/17, ~1500h ADT. Method: booted netinst CD (2.4 kernel) Machine: P4 desktop, no

Bug#253731: test-candidate-1: linux26: some cosmetic and usability problems

Package: installation-reports Severity: minor INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: test candidate 1 uname -a: machine isn't booted up right now, but it's running 2.6.6-k7 from sarge Date: 2004/6/5? +/- a couple days Method: booted netinst CD, net install from an up-to-date local mirror. Mac

Bug#233227: acknowledged by developer (closing)

staller. Must say it worked nicely on another system I did recently though. -- Peter Nelson | http://www.bucks.net | Systems Administrator| Tel: +44 1296 432486 | Bucks Net| Fax: +44 1296 398795 | -- To UNSUBSCR

Build failure

debs should be included in the udebs as well (and deleted from the final image as part of the debian-installer build process). System.map files can be passed as an argument to depmod so it does not query the host kernel. Does anyone disagree before I file bugs against various kernel udebs? =)

Re: cdebconf upload

ld be done with 2 floppies. Because I don't have a CD burner, but often I have a very fast network connection, this is my preferred method of installation. I personally would want to avoid a completely floppy-based installation at all costs though. =) Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

dpkg-scanpackages and udebs

Hi... Quick question: How does one make dpkg-scanpackages look for udebs so I can generate a local apt-able repository of udebs? =) Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please make discover2 udebs available for testing

the installer's library reduction to fail). =) Peter On Sat, 31 May 2003 03:15 am, Jeff Licquia wrote: > On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 02:43, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: --- orig/discover-2.0.2/debian/rules 2003-06-01 14:39:08.0 +1000 +++ discover-2.0.2/debian/rules 2003-06-01 22:54:01.000

Re: Please make discover2 udebs available for testing

Hi.. I imagine the correct fix is simply not to tag discover.conf as a conffile, so dpkg doesn't play fast and loose with renaming it. Hence add a: rm -f debian/discover-udeb/DEBIAN/conffiles right after the call to dh_installdeb when building discover-udeb. This seems to work fine. =)

Re: Please make discover2 udebs available for testing

the linux kernel drivers for some displays, which don't exist since only XFree86 driver data is in the discover-data udeb. Try, for example: discover --data-path=linux/module/name --data-version=2.4 network =) Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg-scanpackages and udebs

generated Packages (but why are both in there in the first place?) =) Peter On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 08:15 pm, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > Hi Peter, > > * Peter Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-06-01 07:11]: > > Quick question: How does one make dpkg-scanpackages look for udebs

Another installation failure report

her than these issues, I made it impressively close to an installed system (closest I've ever got, normally things have kept dieing in the partitioning stage.) =) Peter On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 02:44 pm, Joe Nahmias wrote: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#196033: No _meaningful_ feedback when debootstrap fails

hrough /target/var/log/debootstrap*.log). Is it possible to display the debootstrap log file(s) via the front-end when debootstrap fails? =) Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Another installation failure report

icker should need to answer it. > Try the attached patch. It works with the exception that for some reason debconf doesn't prompt for the question the first time this code is run. Any idea why? What have I missed to make this happen? /me goes back to studying for exams now. =)

Re: Another installation failure report

t know if this is another issue with > long strings in cdebconf, or if you simply forgot to do something in > anna... Well, that shouldn't be due to my patch - since I didn't change the code that deals with the _result_ of the debconf query. =) Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: debian-installer tasks for debcamp

before the release). -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: debian-installer tasks for debcamp

Martin Sjögren: > *cough* But there are probably a lot of messages that won't change > all that much, that can be translated. Great. Where do I check the sources out? -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. -- To

Bug#201537: Can't install Sarge from CD without a working network

Package: install Version: jigdo download 2003-07-12 (can't install to find out more!) I want to install Sarge from scratch on a laptop. The laptop has a strange PCMCIA NIC so I have to install without network access. I downloaded (jigdo) the first 5 CD iso images. I have tried installing with CD

Bug#206056: boot-floppies: [patch] Iyonix support and ARM fixes

N_PARTITION +{ "acorn", parse_acorn_partition }, +#endif #ifdef HAVE_MSDOS_PARTITION { "msdos", parse_msdos_partition }, #endif @@ -1112,9 +1116,6 @@ #endif #ifdef HAVE_MAC_PARTITION { "mac", parse_mac_partition }, -#endif -#ifdef HAVE_ACORN_PARTITION

Bug#206056: boot-floppies: [patch] Iyonix support and ARM fixes

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:31:03PM +0100, Peter Naulls wrote: > > This patch provides support in boot-floppies for the Castle IYONIX pc. > > It also addresses some general ARM issues. > > I will have a futher patch at a later

Re: build-from-scratch Makefile

es that affect me, and post patches with bug reports. It also pointed out that cdebconf should build-depend: on libgtk2.0-dev and intltool-debian. Pete -- Peter Clay | Campaign for _ _| .__

Re: ia64 testers wanted for sarge cds

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Hirst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> Peter, can you give us any more info on what you did to Richard> determine that the CD didn't appear to be bootable? Put it down to user error. I just reburnt the CD, and this time

Bug#237920:

p on vt1; I had to make this change myself to stop baseconfig from continually respawning. Regards Peter. -- Peter Whysall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#237919:

p on vt1; I had to make this change myself to stop baseconfig from continually respawning. Regards Peter. -- Peter Whysall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#238116: debian-installer: installer barfs on floppy.o on floppyless machines and refuses to continue

Package: debian-installer Version: sarge/sid Severity: grave Tags: sid Justification: renders package unusable On trying the sarge-cdrom from the 17.9.2003, and the latest sid from today (jigdo), both refuse to continue installation when modprobing floppy.o fails. In effect, this makes Debian on

Sparc beta 3 CD images have the wrong silo.conf

VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 00:00 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 Press L1-A to return to the boot prom Booting with "linux root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw" works. The silo.conf on the beta 3 CD images does not have the bo

Bug#236364: SPARCstation 5 installation report

This bug report should probably be closed. I will file new installation reports for newer installer images. Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 780-492-7660 Computing and Network Services University of Alberta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Bug#238819: installation report

would have been nice I figure. OTOH I installed grub on (hd0), shouldn't that have been sufficient? Comments/Problems: Worked fine on the whole. Is there no way to install on a software raid1? Great job, Peter signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#238116: acknowledged by developer (not a problem in beta 3)

'll check. Cheers Seegras -- Peter Keel, Unix System Administrator Tel +41 1 287 2993 Cyberlink Internet Services AGFax +41 1 287 2991 Richard Wagnerstrasse 6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] CH-8002 Zuerich http://www.cyberlink.ch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Bug#235617: debian-installer: Compaq Proliant DL380

Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Followup-For: Bug #235617 More information - this problem occurs on a Compaq Proliant DL380, with the root/bootable partition on /dev/ida/disc0/part2. I checked this out with Beta 3 today. Peter. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing

Bug#238091: woody install created bad sun disklabels?

o is Nobody can give me a good answer for why the kernel and the disk disagree on the geometry. It doesn't matter, though, so long as the partition table is internally consistent. Which this one is, if you parse it right, which libparted doesn't. Peter signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#238091: woody install created bad sun disklabels?

Solaris and util-linux fdisk both do it, so it's best not to argue. As far as I can tell, pcylcount is useless. This patch tells libparted to do basically what util-linux fdisk does: for reading, ignore it in favor of ncyl; for writing, give it the value of ncyl+2. Peter diff -urN parted-1.6.

one further silo-installer upatch

Josh, I haven't tested the change you made to silo-installer today, yet, but looking it over, I think the following is needed as well. I'll see if I can test it tonight. Peter --- packages/arch/sparc/silo-installer/debian/silo-installer.postinst~ 2004-03-22 23:52:18.0

Translations and changelogs, SVN

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:10:25PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Translators, as d-i status pages are still down, please note that > ddetect and netcfg just got 2 fuzzied strings which need update ok - i made update for Slovak translations, but i have two questions: --[ 1 ]-- i made 'dch

Re: Translations and changelogs, SVN

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 12:40:09AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Peter Mann wrote: > > i made 'dch -i' because of "UNRELEASED" > > may i wrote info about translation into changelogs? > > > > in some older changelogs there was info about not updating

Bug#240372: SPARCstation 5 installation report

Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 2004/03/26 daily sparc-sarge-businesscard.iso uname -a: Linux opal 2.4.24-sparc32 #1 Fri Jan 30 16:04:55 EST 2004 sparc unknown Date: 2004/03/04 Method: network installation, CD-ROM, mirror: sunsite.ualberta.ca, not proxied Machine: Sun SPARC

Re: beta3 update

said he'd review it before committing it, but I suppose more eyeballs would be a Good Thing - I've only tested it on sparc. Peter Index: packages/prebaseconfig/prebaseconfig.d/90prepare-base-config === --- packages/prebasecon

Bug#240372: SPARCstation 5 installation report

Joshua Kwan wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 17:03:00 -0700, Peter Karbaliotis wrote: WARNING: Your /etc/fstab does not contain the fsck passno field. I will kludge around things for you, but you should fix your /etc/fstab file as soon as you can. And then the boot hangs because the root filesystem

Bug#242290: Sun Fire 280R

Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: daily businesscard image from 2004/04/04 uname -a: n/a Date: 2004/04/05 Method: boot from businesscard image Machine: Sun Fire 280R Processor: UltraSparc III+ Memory: 2 GB Root Device: SCSI Root Size/partition table: n/a Output of lspci: n/a

Re: who is the maintainer of the sparc netboot.img

s=mount root=/dev/rd/0 rw". Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#242779: busybox-cvs-udeb: wget fails with 'SIZE value is garbage' on unauthoritative file length

Package: busybox-cvs-udeb Version: 20040402-1 Severity: normal Tags: sid /tmp/reportbug-busybox-cvs-udeb-5401-bhsxQd -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kern

Bug#242779: oops. used --body instead of --body-file

Package: busybox-cvs-udeb Version: 20040402-1 Severity: normal Tags: sid In an install from the sparc businesscard iso I get a 'Bad archive mirror' message when trying to get the (testing) Release file. I opened up a shell and tried manually using the command wget ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/Lin

Re: Bug#243120: installation-reports: boot failure on sparc32 (Ultra1)

Vincent McIntyre wrote: Package: installation-reports Version: 20040410 Severity: normal Debian-installer-version: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/current/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso (2004-04-10) ( MD5=21e4902c4ece557fc192fe2e94fa3862 ) uname -a: Date: 2004-04-11 15:00 (GMT+10

Re: Should base-config add added users to useful groups?

Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Andrew Pollock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Bit of a mouthful of a subject. I'm wondering if it would be beneficial to automatically add the non-root user created by base-config to a few groups, e.g. cdrom, floppy, audio, video? s/by base-config/by shadow Let's assume

Re: More tasks option in Tasksel: what tasks do you want there? (reloaded)

week." I just can't fathom the use case for this particular task. Yes, there are cases where you need a DBMS but you don't have an opinion, but I suspect in that case what you need the DBMS for is some other package, which then Depends: or Recommends: on a suitable DB eng

Re: Bug#762634: initramfs-tools: [armhf] mounting rootfs on USB disk fails / some USB host controller drivers missing in initramfs

Karsten Merker wrote: Browse online: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/base-installer.git/tree/debian/templates-arch Adding -arm@ and -boot@ for possible comments/insight. I suppose the reason for MODULES=dep being the default on arm* might be that some armel systems boot their kernel

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