Package: grub-installer
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
grub-installer fails to install, with the following message in syslog:
Jul 18 20:45:52 main-menu[298]: (process:25772):
/var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-installer.postinst: 7: get_serial_console: not found
get_serial_console
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 09:22:29PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
>> Doing "touch /bin/get_serial_console ; chmod +x /bin/get_serial_console"
>> makes the package work.
> AFAICS this papers only over the problem, and fails for serial installs.
Yes, of course, it was only intended to show that the get
Hi,
Is there any reason why UTF-8 seems to be the default in Debian nowadays? I
installed sid with d-i (current businesscard as of 2004-07-21) and noticed
that LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (a locale that was not even generated); this
confused aterm and probably other applications.
A friend of mine instal
[I'm only Cc-ing 265597 to tell people to stop Cc-ing the wrong bug now :-P]
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 07:25:19AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Linux,parisc* ) ARCH=LINUXHPPA ;;
>> Linux,arm* )ARCH=LINUXARM ;;
>> Linux,x86_64* ) ARCH=LIN
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:44:44AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> See attached log, shows it loading busybox-udeb just before relocation
> hell.
busybox-udeb should not be loaded (priority extra), yet the debug log claims
busybox-udeb is priority ">= standard". This does not happen with my network
flop
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:03:47PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> No matter what I do, language-chooser is always the default in main-menu
> now. I suppose this is continuing libd-i upgrade breakage.
Just an update: There is no blank line after tha last template (and yes, it
is debian-installer/country
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:03:47PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> No matter what I do, language-chooser is always the default in main-menu
> now. I suppose this is continuing libd-i upgrade breakage.
This is probably caused by
22:53 < Sesse> Oct 15 15:36:28 (none) user.debug frontend: --> SET
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 02:43:41PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Debian-cd procudes CDs for woody which contain udebs.
s/woody/sarge/
> In that case, busybox-cvs-udeb was incorrectly included on the cd
s/busybox-cvs-udeb/busybox-udeb/
Apart from that, I fully agree with the bug report.
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 01:12:26PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> Yes, this part has always been slow, since debootstrap was invented.
> It is running the 'pkgdetails' script for each package in Packages. I
> looked once to see if some progress could be implemented, but it's
> subsidiary to debootst
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:24:23AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> * Progress bar when running mkfs.
FWIW, this has been fixed in autopartkit for some time now.
> CD installs to i386 and (some) powerpc are working, with many
> successful installs (and many bugs).
> Some success with
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 06:48:34PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Do we have any languages that are say 90% done for d-i yet? I've tried
> various languages and they always seem closer to the 20% mark, but maybe
> I have been trying the wrong ones.
Norwegian (bokmål) is rather good, at least it was the
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:05:02PM -0200, Andre Luis Lopes wrote:
> - netcfg
> Working, pending rewrite for IPv6 and multiple devices
> support.
>
> is now half done ? I mean, only IPv6 support is lacking now ?
>
> Now *that* would be cool :-)
Looks like it -- I have no clue, I'm just helpin
Package: autopartkit
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
If autopartkit can't find any drives to partition (say, a SCSI-only
system where the SCSI card was not properly detected), it dies with the
following (rather confusing) error message:
Could not stat device autopartkit/device_name doesn't exist - N
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:27:47PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> Recently cdebconf behavior has been changed to not display already seen
> questions, in order to help non-interactive installations.
> But this change makes back up quite useless, because one cannot go
> back and forth without trouble
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:37:25PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
> during the "install base system" step in d-i, i.e. while debootstrap
> is running, there is one annoying effect. The newt frontend redraws
> the whole status box (the progress bar and the text about which file
> is retrieved respecti
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:08:49PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> I've just sent a release announcement to debian-boot. I am actually
> still waiting for tomorrow's dinstall to get the official non-cd images
> updated in the debian archive, but everything else is in place for the
> beta now. I've learne
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:46:01PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
>> during the "install base system" step in d-i, i.e. while debootstrap
>> is running, there is one annoying effect. The newt frontend redraws
>> the whole status box (the progress bar and the
Package: hw-detect
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
This has been discussed on IRC earlier, but deserves a bug report so we
won't forget it before it's fixed :-)
If one first runs a module that fails (for instance, install LILO on a
non-existant drive, or install base from network with cable unplugg
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 02:46:00AM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> We should probably fix the web pages so
> - The errata is a little more complete (most notably "you can't select mirror
> at priority=high, and manual mirror selection is broken")
Add to that "m
Package: anna
Severity: minor
File: anna
Tags: d-i
(I was quite sure I had reported this before, but can't find it.
Apologies if this is a dupe. :-) )
In the list of modules to fetch, anna seems to cut off the last
character from some of the descriptions. This might be a bit confusing
to the user
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 03:49:51AM +0100, Jeremie Koenig wrote:
> Thanks, i didn't know debconf was offering this possibility. Here is the
> new version :
Applied in CVS, thanks.
(Please send your patches as attachment in the future; it makes them a lot
easier to apply.)
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 04:00:12AM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> In the list of modules to fetch, anna seems to cut off the last
> character from some of the descriptions. This might be a bit confusing
> to the user. :-)
Actually this seems to be a libd-i bug. src/package_parser.
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:45:54PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
>> If one first runs a module that fails (for instance, install LILO on a
>> non-existant drive, or install base from network with cable unplugged)
>> and then run hw-detect, weird stuff happens:
> Can you provide an easier way to reproduce
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:43:09PM +0100, Jeremie Koenig wrote:
> BTW, anna does :
>
> debconf_fset(debconf, ANNA_CHOOSE_MODULES, "seen", "false");
>
> before the question is asked. I think there are other instances of this.
> Maybe this sould be moved after we input the question ?
Definitel
A quick test indicates that most interesting mkfs-variations (ext2, ext3,
reiserfs; vfat and jfs are so quick it doesn't need progress, and xfs seems
only a bit slower than that) has at least some kind of progress output, so we
_could_ theoretically grok that. It will be ugly, though...
libparted1
What is the current status on alpha? (The ports page say that the images are
bootable, but not much more.) I have access to an AS2100 (SRM-based, in other
words) and could probably help testing/fixing bugs if the Alpha guys need it
to get on the beta 2 release.
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Could somebody add the URL for the daily-built images
(http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/) back to the website?
They seem to have been removed, and they are useful for people who want to
test the d-i beta via netboot or floppy.
Also, the last built images are from the 9th; isn't t
Wasn't this bug fixed in autopartkit 0.64?
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:30:30PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
>> It would definitely help compared to what we have today, but it would still
>> suck.
> Yes, but I don't think it's worth to invest more time in that now. This
> would be an easy and acceptable solution.
Well, it's not a matter of
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:03:53AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> This depends on the size of the filesystem and if dma is enabled or not.
> enabling DMA speeds up filesystem creation a lot on big disks. With DMA
> disabled it can take several minutes to create a big filesystem.
It can, even wit
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:08:43PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> In my tests it looks like cdebconf writes the database quite frequently
> (suprisingly frequently, really), so getting the full db should not be a
> problem.
To make cdebconf write the database, kill the frontend with SIGUSR1.
main-menu
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 08:17:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> The progress bar dialog does of course resize a few times, even with
> debootstrap fixes, since the descriptions of some kernel modules are
> rather long. I wish it would only grow bigger, not smaller..
This is already the case, isn't it
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 08:39:56PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
>> When you reselect an menu item it does a udpkg --reconfigure, right? I
> udpkg --configure --force-configure, but this is similar, yes.
Which in turn is supposed to call dpkg-reconfigure, isn't it?
>> hope that will show seen quest
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:21:17AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> Due to your last change in database.c, setting debconf/showold to true
> does nothing, DEBCONF_SHOWOLD must be used instead. Why should we call
> dpkg-reconfigure when debconf/showold could be easily set up?
Well, same thing, and ye
For various reasons, I need to build d-i with my own, custom kernels. Also,
I don't have enough space to store all modules on my installation media, so I
_must_ fetch some of them over the network.
The way I currently do this is:
- Build my own kernel, and rebuild linux-kernel-di (so the modules
How do we handle this as smoothly as possible? Should we insist on a naming
standard of some sort?
For reiserfs we have progsreiserfs and reiserfsprogs (yes, two different
packages with different maintainers), for xfs we have xfsprogs, for ext2 and
ext3 we have e2fsprogs, for jfs jfsutils etc.. Sh
Hi,
This has been fixed in CVS. The problem was that total_wanted was decremented
by the amount of distributed space after each partition (which makes no
sense anyhow; all partitions should be treated equal, regardless of which
order they are listed in). Thus, if there was enough space on the disk
Hi,
The included (untested) patch implements a new CLEARSEEN command, which
should be called right before the module aborts. I don't really like adding
new debconf commands all the time, so I'm not committing it before somebody
else acks me on this :-)
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Did we get anywhere on this? I'd vote in favour of rewriting partconf using
libparted for the file system generation, but if people disagree I could
probably write a simple progress bar. (In that case, do we want to try to
grok the mkfs output for a few known filesystems, or not?)
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OK, I've got a patch ready for this, which simply stats /target/bin/sh and
uses that as a heuristic of an already existing install (which would make
debootstrap fail). This would fail if an old /usr partition was mounted
inside a fresh / partition, but it would at least help in 95% of the cases.
(I
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 06:56:01PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> Are you talking about Exim?
>
> Bugreport 551125 becomes next sunday 4 years.
> ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=51125 )
sarge will use exim4 for precisely these reasons (exim3 isn't
debconf-configurable, exim4 is
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 07:13:54PM +0100, Sebastian Ley wrote:
> What about a private debconf question, which holds a comma separated
> list of files to apt-install. This template would come with the
> userspace-tools udeb and partconf would apt-install the packages in
> question if corresponding f
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 07:58:37PM +0100, Sebastian Ley wrote:
> Yes, in case of reiserfs, the template would come with mkreiserfs-udeb.
> I neither don't know what provides mkfs.ext3 but I suppose it is
> parted-udeb?
fdisk-udeb (source package util-linux), actually, according to Tollef.
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On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:22:01PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
>> The new template shown when no disk has been detected has two problems:
> Another error in this package templates
>
> "less then 1 minutes" should be "less thAn 1 minute"
Both errors fixed in CVS, thanks.
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(Sending this in batches of three and three, as BTS seems to get mad at me if
I send to too many at once. :-) )
I've committed most of your template polishing (#218208, #218273, #218342,
#218567, #218884, #220543) to CVS, and the bug reports will be closed when
the respective packages are upload.
(Sending this in batches of three and three, as BTS seems to get mad at me if
I send to too many at once. :-) )
I've committed most of your template polishing (#218208, #218273, #218342,
#218567, #218884, #220543) to CVS, and the bug reports will be closed when
the respective packages are upload.
(Sending this in batches of three and three, as BTS seems to get mad at me if
I send to too many at once. :-) )
I've committed most of your template polishing (#218208, #218273, #218342,
#218567, #218884, #220543) to CVS, and the bug reports will be closed when
the respective packages are upload.
(Sending this in batches of three and three, as BTS seems to get mad at me if
I send to too many at once. :-) )
I've committed most of your template polishing (#218208, #218273, #218342,
#218567, #218884, #220543) to CVS, and the bug reports will be closed when
the respective packages are upload.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:22:33PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> # ... Lowering debconf priority limit from 'debconf/priority doesn't
> exist' to 'critical'
Sounds like the main-menu bug that was fixed quite recently (giving weird
debconf/priority and lots of other ickyness).
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tags 221447 + d-i patch pending
thanks
People, _please_ remember to set the pending tag if you've committed a patch
to CVS but not uploaded the package yet. This is the fifth patch today where
this happens, every one of which means duplicate work (especially when gluck
is slow). :-)
(Other tags,
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:05:33PM +0100, Julien TOUCHE wrote:
> what is the status of unattended install with debian-installer ? there
> were some discusions about it some times ago, but there is no reference
> in Howto or TODO.
>
> some feature planned ? (or suggested)
> - normal install save
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:08:01PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >> [?] Debian Installer Main Menu >>
> | |
> | Choose the next step in the install process: |
> |
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:01:25PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Before installing debs from the CD it displayed a new progress bar as it
> checked the size of each udeb. I'm not sure what this was (not
> cdrom-checker), and it should be a bit clearer what it's doing there.
Sounds like the extra progr
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:27:21AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> I noticed that a blank blue screen appears also during fs making.
> For large disks this is quite annoying.
Known bug, should be fixed for beta 2. We're a bit unsure as of how to do
this best, though. :-)
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 08:08:47AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> lvmcfg installs the package this way:
>
> # install lvm-tools in /target if needed
> set -- `vgdisplay -v | grep 'NOT active' | wc -l`
> [ $1 -gt 0 ] && apt-install lvm10
Why all this set and wc stuff? The code should
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:35:35PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>> Why all this set and wc stuff? The code should be something along the lines
>> of
>> ( vgdisplay -v | grep -q ACTIVE ) && apt-install lvm10
> Do you mean "pvscan"? vgdisplay -v doesn't show ACTIVE at all here.
Possibly; I wasn
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 04:00:24PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Total time to install Debian: 5 minutes 15 seconds
Wow. :-)
> klogd: orinoco_cs: RequestIRQ: Resource in use
> Not sure what do to about that. I've googled around but have not found
> anything that has helped.
FWIW I've seen this too
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 01:17:16AM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
> I don't hold high hopes for this, but just in case... Actually it
> would be really nice if we got some volume discounts, I'm sure lots
> of other DDs would benefit from this.
AFAIK there was some free licenses handed ou
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:33:57PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> - a manual
> Seems to be making progress, but needs to make more progress.
Should "how to customize d-i" be a part of this?
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:23:14AM -0800, Stuart Sheldon wrote:
> I'm running beta2 of the installer on one of our install mirrors at the
> office, we (re)install an average of 10 - 15 sarge systems a month as
> part of our testing and review for our customer base. Needless to say,
> installing
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:33:31AM -0800, Stuart Sheldon wrote:
> True, but we like to specify the number of blocks:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=5 bs=512
>
> This only takes about 5 secs to run and clears the MBR as well as wipes
> enough off the front of the platter to let us crea
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 06:40:38PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> cut -c 1-512 /dev/zero | head -5 > /dev/hda
Blah, sorry, that won't work, of course, unless you're fond of having all
0x0a on your disks. :-)
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:54:25AM -0800, Stuart Sheldon wrote:
> I guess you missed my point... I wasn't looking for a "fix"... I was
> asking if it was slated for addition...
It probably isn't, but you could of course file a wishlist bug against
busybox-udeb. (We already have space problems, so
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:30:22AM -0800, Anmar Oueja wrote:
> 1. Hack Newt for now to pipe all output through bidi and some custom
> written shaping code (should be simple to do). this requires intimiate
> knowlege of Newt and fribidi. Currently the .lb LUG is looking into it.
> They might do i
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 03:46:59PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Other countries in Europe
> -
>
> Missing languages:
>
> sr (Serbian), mk (Macedonian), hr (Croatian), sq (Albanian), bs
> (Bosnian), is (Icelandic), uk (Ukrainian), be (Belarussian), mo (Moldavian)
>
>
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:11:47PM +0100, Holger Schurig wrote:
> This brought my so far that all the right answers were pre-selected.
> Unfortunately, the dialogs were still displayed, despite the "Flags: seen"
> fields. Not only in kbd-chooser, but also in other modules.
Gah, I thought I fixed t
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 03:18:50PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
>I've prepared a new upload of discover1. It's available at
> http://www.tufts.edu/~dnusin01/discover/. It includes numerous fixes,
> including the module load sorting fix and support for 2.6 kernels. If an
> upload won't break beta
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:18:15PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> I'd also like to send out a second request to any brave souls out there
> who'd be willing to test out the new discover deb with their 2.6 system.
> I've only heard of successes overall (although it takes a long time on my
> system, a
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:10:06AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> Awesome! Thanks Joey and aj and anyone else who was involved in this. Would
> someone please sponsor an upload of discover? As I previously posted, this
> includes some major fixes including the module sorting as well as initial 2.6
Package: cdebconf
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
cdebconf "seen" handling seems to be broken again -- I've preseeded
debconf with the information that "autopartkit/confirm" is seen, yet
autopartkit asks me if I really want to use the automatic partitioning
tool. (autopartkit does not "fset seen fal
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 06:31:40PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> What say we move i386 up to the 2.4.24 kernel? All the udebs are already
> available, all images build ok (and still fit!), and I have even done
> partial CD installs using 2.4.24, though never all the way due to the
> broken CD I constru
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:11:17AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> Udpkg (and maybe other tools?) must set debconf/showold (or
> DEBCONF_SHOWOLD) to true when reconfiguring packages, and when
> this is done, cdebconf can safely set debconf/showold to false
> by default.
Umm, main-menu definitely did
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 08:47:50PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
>> My suggestion was much more humble, I was thinking about something like:
>>
>> Language selected: English
>>
>> Based on your chosen language, the following
>> default settings can be used for the install.
>> If t
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 10:03:42PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
>> What about something taking the above and transforming it into a menu?
>> Something along the lines of
> Right, that's what I was trying to illistrate in the example denis
> replied to.
Oh, sorry, I read that one a tad too quick. :-)
/
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 07:17:49AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
>> Umm, main-menu definitely did this before;
> Main-menu calls 'udpkg --configure --force-configure' to force
> maintainers scripts to be run, but that's all. Either main-menu
> or udpkg must tell cdebconf to display seen questions.
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:46:54PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Tollef made that change to main-menu (version 0.018), but did not say
> why in the changelog.
I've hit Tollef, but he still can't remember why. :-)
However, I'm quite sure this has worked long after 0.018 -- this was correct
the last ti
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:18:30PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Here are the items from the TODO that are possibilities for the next
> release, with commentary. I'm trying to get an early sense of what time
> period to aim for for the next release too. Please add comments and
> corrections and new ite
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:05:19PM -0200, Andre Luis Lopes wrote:
> I for sure would love to use automated d-i installs since I have close
> to 70 machines which are all going to be used for giving students
> training on FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) using Debian.
> I'm really interes
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:39:39PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> FAIR
> Full Automatic Installation Revisited.
More or less. :-) I don't know FAI in detail, but as far as I can tell, it
contains a lot of infrastructure (ie. a full installation program, lots of
server stuff etc.) that simply shoul
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:40:41PM +0100, sferriol wrote:
> another simple way is to add an ldap driver in cdebconf.
>
> i use ldap with debconf, and it works fine
Yes, alternative cdebconf backends was one of the things I noted in an
earlier mail. It is not the entire solution, though.
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:31:14PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> What if we changed how some items on the main menu are displayed, so
> the short version (before the whole installer is loaded) looked
> something like this:
Could we please avoid making such drastic changes at this point? I feel we
are
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 02:31:33PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Aaw. This does address some common annoyances, and it's not that big a
> change..
Well, it does sound rather hairy at points, and I'm not really sure if being
presented with a big blob of information really helps a new user all that
much
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:34:36PM -0700, Gerard Beekmans wrote:
> Then I found out about debian-installer so I was wondering if there is
> something available to do an automatic installation without asking any
> questions.
Yes, it is possible, using debconf preseeding (d-i is all debconf, and all
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 02:58:41PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> From my experience, what I believe the automated installs in d-i to do (not
> having seen it done or tested it yet), it's not going to scratch the surface
> of the functionality that FAI does, and FAI pisses all over KickStart for
>
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 05:23:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Language: English
> Country:United States
> Keyboard: us
> Network:eth0 using DHCP
> Hostname: debian
> Mirror: http.us.debian.org
> Mode:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:41:36PM +0100, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote:
> 1. Something in the installer should automagically install appropriate
>drivers, if a "proprietary" video card is detected. A good approach
>found to the archives newly in form of nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-*
>packages.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 08:39:13PM -0600, John Buttery wrote:
> IMO the biggest feature that distinguishes distributions is the
> package management.
Or perhaps more the _packaging_. Debian has lots and lots of software
packaged, most of which is of extremely good quality. The Debian policy is
I
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 12:41:23AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Anyway, this patch add ID printing support for types bridge, ethernet,
> sound, usb, video and isdn. It is tested and works at least on my
> laptop.
Works on my PC (an Athlon) as well.
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On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 06:13:57PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Anaconda does a fine job on Red Hat Linux, and Progeny has ported it to
> Debian.
Anaconda for Debian is very unfinished at the moment -- AFAIK Kickstart is
one of the parts that don't work at all.
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The problem is actually not in find, it's in ash. When invoked from hw-detect
as (e.g.)
find /lib/modules/2.4.21-5-386/kernel/ | grep -q ide-scsi
grep exits before reading the entire output from find, and find gets killed
with SIGPIPE. Normally, this would not be a problem (ash would see that t
Package: cdebconf-udeb
Version: 0.41
Severity: normal
When cdebconf (at least cdebconf with the newt-frontend, which I'm using) is
set to display a template with a choice containing at least one slash character
('/'), it appears to freeze totally. I've tried this both with the latest CVS
as well a
Hmm, actually I can't reproduce this in "make demo" on my other machine...
I'll try to look into it again and see if I can track it down (ie. I'll try
triggering the bug again and take it from there :-) )
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Package: usb-discover
Version: 0.02 (not installed)
Severity: important
Tags: patch
If /lib/debian-installer.d/S45usb-linux is run on a system without PCI,
it does an "exit 0":
if [ ! -e /proc/bus/pci/devices ]; then
# PCI not present. quit
exit 0
fi
However, since this script is
Package: base-installer
Version: 0.029 (not installed)
Severity: important
Tags: patch
If multiple extra packages are queued for installation, base-installer
sends them all to apt-install at the same time, which fails if one of
them is not installable. Please see the included patch, which makes it
Package: main-menu
Version: 0.037 (not installed)
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
main-menu is supposed to skip a package if a "parallel package" already
is installed (for instance, grub-installer if lilo-installer is already
installed), but fails to do so. The reason is that the isdefault()
heuristi
Package: autopartkit
Version: 0.57 (not installed)
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch d-i
Before asking autopartkit/confirm (the message that asks the user to
confirm the deletion of everything on all hard drives), autopartkit
fsets autopartkit/confirm's "seen" attribute to false, which prevents
(amon
Package: prebaseconfig
Version: 0.034 (not installed)
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i patch
prebaseconfig.d/99reboot contains the following line:
db_fset prebaseconfig/reboot_in_progress seen false || true
Which prevents an automatic install (in my case, the user has already
been prompted to remove
Hi,
The included patch removes all internationalized template strings from the
d-i installer disks. It's quite rough and should of course not be applied
unconditionally, but if you're really cramped for space, it could be very
useful to gain those extra few kilobytes -- at least, it was the thing
It turns out the previous patch misinterpreted exit codes from menutest
scripts -- an exit value of 1 (true) means "don't care", not "don't
select". (languagechooser, for one, is affected by this.) This patch
(which should be applied on the top of the last one) should make things
work again. Apolog
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:58:40AM +0100, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> I fired up a bochs machine and booted the netinst CD
>
> It sat looping saying "unable to load vesafb.o"
This is a bug in usb-discover, which should be fixed in the latest upload,
ie. it should reach the netinst CD soon. :-)
>
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