Inhibit a module

Hello ! I have tried beta 2 on some laptop, then a snapshot with no success because the loading of usb-uhci hangs the system. I have tried to boot with init=/bin/sh, remove the module then exec debian-installer but the installation fails later due to lack of space. I have tried to alloca

Bug#1023485: Shipped blkid is incompatible with the one in util-linux, break cryptsetup

Package: busybox-static Version: 1:1.35.0-3 Severity: important -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hey! blkid was added as an applet in busybox. This makes it available in initramfs in place of the one from util-linux. This prevents cryptsetup to works as the syntax used is not reco

Bug#856669: do not mess with running X session

Package: keyboard-configuration Version: 1.163 Severity: minor -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hey! When upgrading keyboard-configuration, the layout of my running session is messed up. I am using per-keyboard configuration (with xkbcomp) with some complex configuration and I can

Bug#413642: debian-installer-manual: After debootstrap, /dev is too minimal to mount partitions

Package: debian-installer-manual Severity: normal Hi ! Following Appendix D.3 on installing Debian from another Unix system, I think that an additionnal step must be added after editing /etc/fstab : creation of device nodes. You may get errors about inexisting special devices: mount: special dev

Bug#413644: debian-installer-manual: /etc/hosts format should follow what is done by the current installer

Package: debian-installer-manual Severity: minor Hi ! In Appendix D3.4.3, the manual say to use "127.0.0.1 localhost DebianHostName" in /etc/hosts. I think that we should follow what is done by the debian installer : 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.1.1 DebianFullyQualifiedHostNam

Bug#413645: debian-installer-manual: In appendix D.3, should mention the existence of linux-image-2.6-arch metapackage

Package: debian-installer-manual Severity: minor Hi ! The current debian-installer installs linux-image-2.6-arch metapackage. In appendix D.3.5, we should mention this metapackage instead of linux-image-2.6.18-arch. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy:

Bug#413647: debian-installer-manual: In Appendix D.3, common problem with Grub

Package: debian-installer-manual Severity: minor Hi ! Each time I install a Debian using Appendix D.3, I run into a problem when using grub-install : Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device. The solution is to use the following command before : cat /proc/mounts > /etc/

Bug#413649: debian-installer-manual: Appendix D.3 should mention how to set password and ssh

Package: debian-installer-manual Severity: minor Hi ! When doing a remote installation using appendix D.3, we could add this in paragraph D.3.7. : If you do a remote installation, do not forget to install a SSH server: aptitude install ssh And don't forget to set root password: passwd root T

Bug#413645: debian-installer-manual: In appendix D.3,should mention the existence of linux-image-2.6-arch metapackage

On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:43:55 +0100, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One suggestion. > Your 3 BRs (more coming?) are all very much related; they all deal with > the same appendix in the installation guide (the same package and they > are all similar in nature (suggestions for minor improvem