netinst sums and signatures?

2019-11-01 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I usually install using a netinst image, which I find here: https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ I figured I should verify the checksum and signature, though, and looked at this page: https://www.debian.org/CD/verify That tells me there should be signed checksum files alongside the image

Re: netinst sums and signatures?

2019-11-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 2/11/19 4:04 AM, john doe wrote: > On 11/1/2019 2:13 PM, Richard Hector wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I usually install using a netinst image, which I find here: >> >> https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ >> >> I figured I should verify the checksum and

Re: netinst sums and signatures?

2019-11-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 2/11/19 6:56 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > On 2/11/19 4:04 AM, john doe wrote: >> On 11/1/2019 2:13 PM, Richard Hector wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I usually install using a netinst image, which I find here: >>> >>> https://www.debian.org/CD/n

Install on remote KVM?

2018-08-11 Thread Richard Hector
Hi - I hope I'm in the right place; feel free to redirect me. I want to install on a KVM-based VPS, using an ordinary installer (ie not using the image provided). I used the provider's method to provide an ISO, and supplied the standard amd64 netinst image - it boots fine, but can't find the 'cdr

Re: Install on remote KVM?

2018-08-11 Thread Richard Hector
On 11/08/18 22:43, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2018-08-11 at 20:14 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: >> Hi - I hope I'm in the right place; feel free to redirect me. >> >> I want to install on a KVM-based VPS, using an ordinary installer (ie >> not using the i

Re: Install on remote KVM?

2018-08-11 Thread Richard Hector
On 12/08/18 00:16, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2018-08-11 at 22:58 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > [...] >> I'm mostly familiar with the netinst image, and it's what I generally >> use to install on real hardware. >> >> I'm less familiar with netb

Re: Install on remote KVM?

2018-08-12 Thread Richard Hector
On 12/08/18 11:20, Jose R R wrote: > UpCloud provide a similar interface to Virt-Manager when installing > your own OS. They address the issue being discussed here -- by > describing 'a trick' to install your own OS: Thanks Jose - I don't think this method is applicable to my situation/provider, h

Re: Install on remote KVM?

2018-08-12 Thread Richard Hector
On 12/08/18 01:37, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2018-08-12 at 00:25 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: >> On 12/08/18 00:16, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> On Sat, 2018-08-11 at 22:58 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: >>> [...] >>>> I'm mostly familiar with the netin

Re: Bug#911241: grub-installer - Remove grub-legacy support

2018-10-18 Thread Richard Hector
On 18/10/18 3:54 AM, Bastian Blank wrote: > Package: grub-installer > Version: 1.157 > > Please remove grub-legacy support. I intend to request removal pretty > soon as it does not longer work. > > Bastian Hi Bastian - do you mean you intend to request removal of grub-legacy from debian? I don

Installer - add BIOS boot partition?

2019-01-10 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I've just done most of an installation on a BIOS machine, with a pair of new 4TB disks, which require GPT. Grub fails to install, which I possibly should have predicted - though I thought di might have either coped or warned me. It seems I need a BIOS boot partition, and that it should f

Re: Installer - add BIOS boot partition?

2019-01-10 Thread Richard Hector
On 11/01/19 6:52 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:04:16PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've just done most of an installation on a BIOS machine, with a pair of >> new 4TB disks, which require GPT. >> >> Grub fa

Re: Installer - add BIOS boot partition?

2019-01-10 Thread Richard Hector
On 11/01/19 2:31 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > Incidentally, could/should I have made that RAID1? I created bios > partitions on both my disks, and have grub-install-ed to both. The > partitions do seem to be identical. I should clarify - I have 4 partitions on each drive: bios raid: /

Re: Installer - add BIOS boot partition?

2019-01-11 Thread Richard Hector
On 12/01/19 3:44 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 02:31:22PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: >> That worked great, thanks. Though it seems the '1.0MB' free before my >> first partition wasn't big enough (or not aligned right?) so I had to >> st

Re: Multiple console support

2019-01-19 Thread Richard Hector
On 19/01/19 5:27 PM, Wookey wrote: > This problem doesn't arise on x86 where there is 'always' a screen (or > some BIOs magic to reflect what would be on the screen to serial). Is that true? I'm sure the Soekris box I've got (in storage) (admittedly, probably not a supported cpu any more) only has

Re: XFS file system creation fails (https://chuangtzu.ftp.acc.umu.se/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-testing-amd64-netinst.iso)

2021-02-02 Thread Richard Hector
On 3/02/21 7:02 am, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Steve! On 2/2/21 6:53 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: It appears that the latest version of xfsprogs (5.10.0) has just grown a dependency on libinih, and there isn't a udeb version of libinih to meet that dependency. I'll file a bug now. Might

serial console install issues

2021-04-10 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I'm commenting here partly because I don't know which bit of software is at fault for each problem ... I have a PCEngines APU4, which has a serial port and no video hardware. I'm using a USB-serial adapter, with a null-modem cable. I'm using a Buster netinst USB stick - 10.1 I think

Re: serial console install issues

2021-04-11 Thread Richard Hector
On 11/04/21 9:10 pm, Samuel Thibault wrote: Geert Stappers, le dim. 11 avril 2021 10:55:28 +0200, a ecrit: On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 08:57:38AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 11:51:57AM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > > > > a serial port and no

Re: serial console install issues

2021-04-11 Thread Richard Hector
On 11/04/21 9:26 pm, Samuel Thibault wrote: Richard Hector, le dim. 11 avril 2021 21:18:49 +1200, a ecrit: On 11/04/21 9:10 pm, Samuel Thibault wrote: > $ git grep -i "Boot console" . > en/boot-installer/parameters.xml: Boot console > po/[...] > > That's very

Re: serial console install issues

2021-04-11 Thread Richard Hector
On 12/04/21 4:38 am, Lou Poppler wrote: 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

Re: serial console install issues

2021-04-11 Thread Richard Hector
On 12/04/21 1:48 pm, Richard Hector wrote: I got the hang of the boot parameters, though that section doesn't mention removing the 'vga=xxx' section from the linux command line. I'm not sure if that's important; I'll have to retest to confirm. I've checked

Re: serial console install issues

2021-04-11 Thread Richard Hector
On 11/04/21 11:51 am, Richard Hector wrote: Then finally, I can't remember how, I discovered that it didn't like displaying on a 24-line terminal, which most of the terminals I tried default to. With a 25-line terminal, it all seems useable - and Minicom mostly displays it ok too

Re: serial console install issues

2021-04-11 Thread Richard Hector
On 11/04/21 10:15 pm, Geert Stappers wrote: On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 11:10:20AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Geert Stappers, le dim. 11 avril 2021 10:55:28 +0200, a ecrit: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 08:57:38AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > > > On how to prevent that more people solve a solved

Re: serial console install issues, all the links of the chain

2021-04-12 Thread Richard Hector
On 12/04/21 6:18 pm, Geert Stappers wrote: Do we know the "path" that original poster is using? Possible format for answer to this - APU device - 9-pin serial connector - null-modem, cross connects everthing - 9-pin serial connector - USB-Serial-Adapter - Linux computer - XFCE de

Re: serial console install issues

2021-04-12 Thread Richard Hector
On 13/04/21 12:31 pm, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2021-04-12 at 13:48 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: On 11/04/21 9:26 pm, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Richard Hector, le dim. 11 avril 2021 21:18:49 +1200, a ecrit: > > On 11/04/21 9:10 pm, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > $ git gre

Installation comment

2021-07-24 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, Sorry for the minimal detail - hopefully someone else will understand this much better than I do, and be able to fill in if required. Failing that, I might be able to do better later. Just spent many more hours on this than anticipated, and need sleep. I installed bullseye on my HP P

Re: Installation comment

2021-07-26 Thread Richard Hector
On 26/07/21 5:42 pm, Geert Stappers wrote: On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 03:43:18AM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, Sorry for the minimal detail - hopefully someone else will understand this much better than I do, and be able to fill in if required. Failing that, I might be able to do better

dosfstools for EFI partition?

2023-05-13 Thread Richard Hector
Hi, Hopefully this is the right, or close enough, place ... Given that EFI is common, should dosfstools now be a standard package, so that we can fsck the partition when required? Happy to file as a bug, if I know what to file it against. Cheers, Richard

Bug#842626:

2020-08-23 Thread Richard Hector
On 23/08/20 8:17 pm, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Yes, the bug is still existing: the > installer doesn't warn about installing 32bit on 64bit. But reporting > a new bug report would leave the old one unseen. And it'd then be even > less informative: with the new bug report only we would not remember >

Bug#1015887: debian-installer: Adding https repo doesn't work without manually installing ca-certificates

2022-07-22 Thread Richard Hector
Package: debian-installer Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Using netinst bullseye 11.4 installer: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-11.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso I chose to add a network mirror, using https, and the default 'deb.debian.org'. I used (non-graphical)

Bug#1015887: debian-installer: Adding https repo doesn't work without manually installing ca-certificates

2022-07-22 Thread Richard Hector
On 23/07/22 18:07, Geert Stappers wrote: Control: severity -1 wishlist Why? Because there's a workaround? Is everyone expected to be able to find that workaround? https is an option provided in the installer, that apparently doesn't work (at least with the netinst installer), and it's not i

Bug#1015887: debian-installer: Adding https repo doesn't work without manually installing ca-certificates

2022-07-23 Thread Richard Hector
On 23/07/22 23:01, Cyril Brulebois wrote: As mentioned by Julien, getting the installer's syslog (compressed, to make sure it reaches the mailing list) would help understand what's going on. Oh - uncompressed, it made it into the BTS, but not to the list. Here's a compressed version. Cheers