Re: m68k install daily build broken ?

2004-07-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 05:33:57PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > Hi, > i tried to install on a Qudra 840av and basically it doesnt work how i > try it. There is a complete lack of documentation on how to unstuff the > .sit files These are mac-specific images, which you need to read by using St

Re: please help us test the next debian-installer release

2004-07-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 03:33:46PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I'm writing you because you're listed in our records as someone who can > help test the Debian sarge installer on m68k (MVME162). > > We're close to the finalising the next release of the installer, and I hope > you can help us by testin

Re: r18729 - in trunk/packages/rootskel: debian src/lib/debian-installer src/lib/debian-installer.d

2004-07-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 09:38:18AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 06:56:16PM -0600, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Author: wouter > > Date: Thu Jul 29 18:56:16 2004 > > New Revision: 18729 > > > > Added: > >trunk/packages/rootskel/

Re: r18730 - trunk/packages/rootskel/src/sbin

2004-07-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 10:35:24AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 06:58:45PM -0600, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Author: wouter > > Date: Thu Jul 29 18:58:45 2004 > > New Revision: 18730 > > > > Modified: > >trunk/packages/roo

Re: r18729 - in trunk/packages/rootskel: debian src/lib/debian-installer src/lib/debian-installer.d

2004-07-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 11:28:41AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Are you talking about S30term-linux-s390? That file I haven't touched, > so it should still work. I'm sorry, but unless you could explain a bit > more, I don't see what the problem is. Okay, scratch that, s

Re: r18730 - trunk/packages/rootskel/src/sbin

2004-07-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:41:03PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 11:38:46AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Busybox init tries to access those devices over and over again, issueing > > an error message every time it fails. > > Ah, okay. Please open

Re: Debian-Installer release candidate 1

2004-08-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:49:03AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 11:17:22PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote: > > > - Added support for more subarches for arm (riscpc, riscstation), > >m68k (bvme6000, mvme147, mvme16x), mipsel (cobalt) and powerpc > >(oldworld). > > m68

Re: Debian-Installer release candidate 1

2004-08-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:03:34PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 11:54:39PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:49:03AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > > m68k isn't currently planning on releasing with vme right

Bug#264937: partman-auto doesn't check whether the default file system is actually supported

2004-08-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Package: partman Version: 48 Severity: important I've had a few problems with automatic partitioning on 2.2 kernels, which I didn't immediately find out, until at last I found what the culprit was. Partman-auto doesn't check whether the default file system (ext3) is actually supported by the runn

Re: USB support

2003-10-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
a legacy mode, in which the USB and the floppy disk together emulate a 'normal' floppy disk. That doesn't mean a usb floppy disk isn't a USB mass storage device; at the very least, it's supported by the usb-storage module under Linux. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux --

Re: busybox vs busybox-cvs?

2003-10-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
yours, not his. If he gives feedback on changes you made, you shouldn't see them as critique, but as peer review. That's an important part of the free/open software world. Deal with it, and don't be so protective. It won't help anyone, and certainly not debian-instal

Re: unsubscribe

2003-10-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op vr 17-10-2003, om 02:38 schreef ulistmon2208: > unsubscribe > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Li

Re: USB support

2003-10-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
27;s supported by the usb-storage module under Linux. > > > > How does that mode work then ? Dunno. I've had a laptop which came with a USB floppy drive and such support; it worked for the floppy drive, but not for a different USB mass storage device I borrowed from someone. Not s

Re: daily builds and keysigning

2003-10-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
ere are issues with 8BITMIME in that approach, but overall it works nicely. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org If you're running Microsoft Windows, either scan your computer on viruses, or stop wasting my ban

Re: Bootproblem..

2003-11-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
e, either write a boot floppy (using the material in the 'install' directory of the CD-ROM) or try to update your BIOS. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org If you're running Microsoft Windows, e

Re: Status of IPv6 in d-i?

2003-11-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 10:48, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Offhand from IRC discussions I believe we need: > > (1) ensure wget in busybox (-cvs?) is built with IPv6 support. > (2) choose-mirror works sensibly to select IPv6 mirrors > (3) (bigger) netcfg tries IPv6, tries to autoconfig > (ping local

Re: architectures status

2003-12-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
ct the status to be in approximatly 2 weeks. Dunno. If I find the time and inclination to put a lot of effort in it, perhaps a successful installation; it shouldn't be much work to fix it, it's just that I never had enough motivation to go through a high enough number of compile/test/fix cycles to

Re: Proposal for languagechooser and language list

2003-12-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
same variable, there may still be a significant difference. OK, this assumes that the code actually cares about those other parts of i18n which isn't the case in most situations, but still... -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-docume

Re: Proposal for languagechooser and language list

2003-12-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:17:39PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:02:43PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Although the difference isn't that large in the case of "nl_BE" vs. > > "nl_NL" (thanks to the euro), there is a dif

Re: Bug#225075: X-Mas netinst stumbles over release file

2003-12-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
; > > ??? Its not about booting, but installing. Writing the installer is coordinated on the debian-boot mailinglist. debian-cd doesn't do that; they create CD images, and don't directly have anything to do with what gets on the CD (at least not with writing most of it) -- Wout

Re: Make the system bootable, was: beta 2 update

2004-01-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
er they still will do so if we replace the installer... -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org "Stop breathing down my neck." "My breathing is merely a simulation." "So is my neck, stop it anyway!&q

Re: Make the system bootable, was: beta 2 update

2004-01-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op do 08-01-2004, om 17:13 schreef Steve Langasek: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:33:41AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:30:30PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > - I don't believe that new Linux users trying to dual-boot Windows and > &

Re: m68k port status

2004-01-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
installation yet, but I'm not sure if > that's my box or an actual di problem yet. Any specifics? -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org "Stop breathing down my neck." "My breathing is

Re: something for pci.lst

2004-01-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
o > provide a second pci database for the 2.6.x kernels? Or does > discover2 provide a smarter solution? The kernel (or are it the modutils?) do. In 2.6, a dash in a module name is converted to an underscore. You can still "modprobe ehci-hcd", it'll work all the same. -- Wout

Bug#231879: information for S3/VIA ProSavage8

2004-02-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Package: discover-data Version: 1.2002.08.21-2 Severity: normal Hi, It looks as if discover does not know about the graphics controller in my laptop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/share/fai/class$ lspci -s 01:00.0 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266] [EMAIL P

Bug#232116: success, but a partitioning problem (and some Dutch translation remarks)

2004-02-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
uot;verandert" > "op-maat-gemaakte" should be "op maat gemaakte" > "het installatiemedia" should be "het installatiemedium" Please take these to the debian-l10n-dutch mailinglist, where we discuss translations (BTW, help is still welcome there :

Re: mvme 2604,2700 and 5101 bds for sale

2004-02-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 04:15:57PM -0800, dan b wrote: > any interest? [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not entirely sure; are these m68k or PowerPC models? (I suspect the latter, just checking...) -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie

Re: Installation worked until...

2004-02-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
ctivate your partitions, _do_not_initialize_them_. The installer will then detect that you've got a half-installed system, and will continue where it had previously been interrupted. HTH, -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://n

Re: m68k port status update

2004-02-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
the image a floppy > image. You don't. In both cases, you need to download an image, boot the native OS, start a kernel loader which will put the image up as a RAMdisk, and go from there. The difference is that the CD-ROM image will get its udebs from CDROM, whereas the network image wil

Re: m68k debian-installer call for testers

2004-03-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
's the only testing I know of). > > ...so trying to test the installer on an MVME162 with only 16MB got > no chance to succeed? Not currently, no. If you have space to expand your available RAM, there's a possibility; otherwise, you'll have to wait a bit. -- Wouter Verhelst

Re: reiser4 in debian installer

2004-06-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:14:21PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > hi, > > how many chances i have to convince the installer kernel maintainer to > apply reiser4 patch? Not much, I might hope. Reiser4 isn't even remotely stable yet, and the guys from namesys recommend you do _not_ use it in sit

Bug#253536: debian-installer: Amd64 kernel updates

2004-06-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:43:05AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Package: debian-installer > >> Version: 20040528 > >> Severity: important > >> Tags: patch > >> Justification: fails to build from source > > > > Please

Re: Defend Debian

2003-02-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op di 04-02-2003, om 18:58 schreef Carr, Chris: > Hello Pete, > > I spent three hours last night trying to help my dad install Debian. Unless > I'm more stupid than I realise, there is a major flaw in the Debian > installation heuristic, so I'm copying this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > in case it counts

Re: hung at "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0".... needmore RAM?

2003-02-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op ma 10-02-2003, om 07:38 schreef Eduard Bloch: > #include > * Adam Robson [Sun, Feb 09 2003, 11:33:28PM]: > > > I think I only have 8MB of RAM is that maybe the problem? If so, is > > Yes. > > > there a way to work around that? > > Get Slink disks from archive.debian.org and install with th

m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-02-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi As some of you are already aware, there's a problem wrt m68k in that there's no decent 2.4 kernel for m68k yet. As such, creating an m68k debian-installer image that actually works is a bit problematic right now, since debian-installer depends on DevFS quite a lot, while DevFS will only be foun

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-03-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op za 01-03-2003, om 05:57 schreef Christian T. Steigies: > But you are right, we should get 2.4 working instead of hacking devfs into > or out of d-i... Sure, but in the mean time we have to make sure there's an installer for m68k that actually works. Else we could just as well shut down all m68k

Re: m68k, debian-installer, and DevFS

2003-03-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op za 01-03-2003, om 00:16 schreef Petter Reinholdtsen: > [Wouter Verhelst] > > As some of you are already aware, there's a problem wrt m68k in that > > there's no decent 2.4 kernel for m68k yet. As such, creating an m68k > > debian-installer image that actually w

Re: Review language list in d-i

2003-03-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op do 13-03-2003, om 00:41 schreef Petter Reinholdtsen: > This is the list of language options presented in languagechooser, > with their associated locales, language, region and languagelists. Is > it correct? Please review and let me know if there are errors? > > # FIXME Dutch also used in Bel

Re: Juridical prosecution

2003-07-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op za 05-07-2003, om 17:57 schreef Martin Sobek: > You place your page on address www.sobek-sobek.com unlawfully! Remove it > immediately or you risk juridical prosecution. I didn't see anything out of the ordinary on that page, but if you've seen a page such as on http://verhelst.dyndns.org:7557/

Re: Problems booting from floppy

2003-07-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
; ..\idepci\tftpboot.img Those aren't floppies, but netboot images. The floppy images should be in a directory with the type of floppy as part of its name (as in '1.44') -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- h

Re: d-i - subarchitecture stuff

2003-10-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
rpc: > - powermac_oldworld > - powermac_newworld > - prep > - chrp_pegasos > - chrp > - amiga > - unknown I'll hereby specify for m68k: - mac - amiga - atari - vme - unknown I'll still have to actually implement it, but it's great that it's there :-)

Re: d-i - subarchitecture stuff

2003-10-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op vr 03-10-2003, om 10:04 schreef Richard Hirst: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:12:59AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > I'll hereby specify for m68k: > > - mac > > - amiga > > - atari > > - vme > > - unknown > > Well, as we currently ha

Re: Debian-installer report (i386, translations, logics...)

2003-10-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
ful ordering, too (translations that are 15% finished will not be as useful as translations that are 100% complete, so if one misses that, it won't be as much of a problem). [not sticking my nose in anything else...] -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige

Re: RFC: specification for probing other OSes

2004-03-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
> > with their own boot sectors. > > What about the various arguments that the 'linux' style bootloader > needs? At least the kernel, initrd, the root partition of the kernel > and the appended arguments to the kernel are req

Re: RFC: specification for probing other OSes

2004-03-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 02:15:26PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On 19.III.2004 at 12:19 Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:43:56PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > > > > > What about the various arguments that the 'linux' style bootloa

Re: kernel 2.2 packages cleanup

2004-03-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 06:38:58PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > [ I've Cc'ed all maintainers of affected packages. ] > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:10:09AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 03:37:24AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > >... > > > It depends on the subarchitectu

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

2004-04-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:14:50AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 02:00:46PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, the US are mostly the most restrictive (unreasonable) juridiction > > on this kind of issues, so ... > > That's not my experience. The U.S. is very aggressive

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

2004-04-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:27:09AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > IMO we should do a clean-room implementation anyway. 1) Past > experiences with Apple have not been very fruitful, just ask the Linux > Mac68K hackers. Well, actually, they have been. It is true that Apple has long refused to giv

Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

2004-04-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 02:20:52AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:57:21AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:27:09AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > IMO we should do a clean-room implementation anyway. 1) Past >

Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:28:06AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > I'm not 100% sure that partman-efi is the right package for the bug > report, but it's as good as any. So, it's way past time to fix this > particular bug. After a fair amount of playing with systems like this > and discussing with f

Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode

2014-09-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:26:20AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 08:48:11AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:28:06AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> If the user wants to continue, we could even suggest blanking the &

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 02:02:57PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2014-11-23 13:13:05) > > Well, I'm really unsure what you're calling inaccurate in the third > > point. > > It is that "preseeding" is the mechanism used - but I may indeed be > wrong: > > I assumed the

Include the mini.iso in the debian-installer-*-netboot-* packages?

2018-06-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, For some reason, the netboot installer packages do not contain the mini.iso files. This is explicitly filtered out by way of a "grep -v mini.iso", which "git blame" tells me has always been the case. Anyone know (or remember) why that is so? I think that having .iso files on a VM host that ar

Re: Include the mini.iso in the debian-installer-*-netboot-* packages?

2018-06-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 05:09:07PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Wouter Verhelst (2018-06-26): > > For some reason, the netboot installer packages do not contain the > > mini.iso files. This is explicitly filtered out by way of a "grep -v > > mini.iso&

Bug#902436: Please also ship the mini.iso files

2018-06-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Package: src:debian-installer-netboot-images Severity: wishlist Hi, The debian-installer-*-netboot-* packages currently explicitly filter out mini.iso by way of an explicit "grep -v mini.iso", which according to git history has always been the case. One use case for having mini.iso files on host

Bug#875858: pkgsel: Offer to install/manage unattended-upgrades

2018-06-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 06:17:31PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, 28 May 2018, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > debian-boot@: the requested revert looks fine to me, bonus points if it > > comes with a (short) summary of these reasons in changelog, so that they > > can be emphasized i

Bug#615646: [installation-guide] How do I know which CD has the package I need?

2018-07-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 07:50:18AM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > +Also, keep in mind: if the CDs/DVDs you are using don't contain some packages > +you need, you can always install that packages afterwards from your running > +new Debian system (after the installation has finished). If you need to

Bug#615646: [installation-guide] How do I know which CD has the package I need?

2018-08-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 02:41:44PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 11:59:34AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 07:50:18AM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > > > +Also, keep in mind: if the CDs/DVDs you are using don't conta

Bug#907704: choose-mirror: default to deb.debian.org

2018-09-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 08:13:55PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 04:41:10PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > Control: tag -1 + patch > > > > On 08/31/2018 06:27 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > Package: choose-mirror > > > Severity: wishlist > > > X-Debbugs-Cc: tfh...@debia

Bug#907704: choose-mirror: default to deb.debian.org

2018-09-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 02:58:17PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2018-09-05 12:35, Wouter Verhelst wrote: [...] > > I disagree with that, but I do also agree that it would be preferable if > > local proxies or mirrors were used preferably. > > > > However, this

Re: auto url=example.com/preseed.file WITH PROXY?

2018-09-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 10:49:08AM +0200, Patrick Hieber wrote: > Dear all, > > I would like to automate a Debian installation with a pressed file. The > challenge I am facing is that I am forced to use a proxy to fetch the preseed > conf file from the mentioned URL. Any ideas how to solve this? I

Re: Bug#914897: debootstrap, buster: Please disabled merged /usr by default

2018-12-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 01:49:45PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Control: reassign -1 tech-ctte > > Dear Technical Committee. I don't know if you are all aware of the > discussion surrounding this, so I will recap: > > Recently debootstrap was changed to do merged-/usr by default, so that > /bin -

Re: Bug#914897: debootstrap, buster: Please disabled merged /usr by default

2018-12-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 11:31:13PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 02, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > One thing that has not been answered yet in this discussion (and if the > > TC is to make a decision about it, I think it should be) is "why are we > >

Shipping the mini.iso files with the installer-images package?

2023-12-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, I just created https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer-netboot-images/-/merge_requests/3, which removes the "grep -v mini.iso" from the "get-images.sh" script. The idea being that it can be useful to have a mini.iso available locally in case you want to install a VM with libvi

Re: Shipping the mini.iso files with the installer-images package?

2023-12-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi kibi, On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 03:00:56PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Wouter, > > Wouter Verhelst (2023-12-10): > > I just created > > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer-netboot-images/-/merge_requests/3, > > which removes the "

Re: Shipping the mini.iso files with the installer-images package?

2023-12-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 11:16:51AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I just created > > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer-netboot-images/-/merge_requests/3, > > which removes the "grep -v

Re: Shipping the mini.iso files with the installer-images package?

2023-12-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
So. On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 10:45:36AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > That sounds like a much more reasonable way forward, although I'm not > keen on extending di-netboot-assistant (it's massive already, and does > very different things). At any rate, I'll have a loo

Re: Shipping the mini.iso files with the installer-images package?

2023-12-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 01:21:13PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > So. > > On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 10:45:36AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > That sounds like a much more reasonable way forward, although I'm not > > keen on extending di-netboot-assistant (it's mas

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 03:18:48PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > On Sep 27, 2021, at 2:25 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > Even if that interpretation would work as an excuse to never do > > anything, and I'm not really sure it does, this specification has been > > published i

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 12:22:18PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 9/28/21 12:13, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > IOW, chill out, nobody's going to kill off partman unless there's > > something that's *actually* better than partman. > > Just some

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 04:08:24PM -0500, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Control: severity -1 serious > Control: tags = confirmed > > CCing the release team, and CTTE because I don't know who else is > tracking issues related to the usrmerge effort. I've consciously chosen > not to pour gasoline on

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2022-01-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 12:51:45AM +, Seth Arnold wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 08:02:50PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > The only missing bit AFAIK is getting the step where tasksel gets > > installed into the target system, and then run, to be able to grab the > > version of tasksel to use

Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

2022-01-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 09:52:42AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > I don't have anything like a design for how that should look in my head > though -- I guess interested parties should get together and come up > with a design _before_ we start trying to implement it :-) This sounds like you need some

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 04:13:57PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 05:08:57PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 05:13:22PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > >> Maybe and idea would to do something like isa-support does for e.g > >> sseX-support > >> on CPUs

Bug#269077: serial check

2004-08-31 Thread Wouter Verhelst
[...serial check thinks real consoles are serial as well...] Hm. I just referenced the code which was already in rootskel, supposing it was working OK, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Checking on my VME box, however, the /proc/self/fd/* files also link to /dev/console, so there is no way thi

Re: Debian Installation s390.

2004-09-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:02:06PM +0200, Tomasz Pijanowski wrote: > Hello, > Can you give me any help (steps , links or instruction) how install > debian S390 on mainframe (zSeries). What release? For our currently-supported release, Debian 3.0 "woody", you need to download the installation i

Bug#269077: serial check

2004-09-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:27:12AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:36:24AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > [...serial check thinks real consoles are serial as well...] > > > > Hm. I just referenced the code which was already in rootskel, supposi

Bug#784148: base-installer: NTP daemon should be installed on any system missing an RTC

2015-05-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 06:55:51PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > embedded systems, cheap embedded systems that have no real time clock, > those are the ones that I expect to be without network connection. > Example given: stand-alone mediaplayers. Isn't it possible to configure systemd so that it

Re: Bug#788634: debian-installer: Accepting a preseed URL from DHCP allows attacker to hijack installation

2015-06-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 04:48:20PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > control: tag -1 mordac > > I don't think handwaving and tagging wontfix is the right play here. > > > > Now tagging with 'mordac'. For those new to Mordac, get a > first impression at http://dilbert.com/strip/2007-11-16 > And http:

Bug#788634: debian-installer: Accepting a preseed URL from DHCP allows attacker to hijack installation

2015-07-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:03:52PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > +Template: preseed/accept_preseed_from_DHCP > > +Default: false > > +_Description: Accept a preseed URL from the DHCP server? > > :-( > > We have allready 'auto-install/enable' ( 'auto' for short ) Which does not serve

Bug#795735: partman-crypto: always encrypt swap

2015-08-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 03:55:24PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Could we enable encryption of swap by default, even when full disk > encryption is not used? As far as I undrestand, there is no > performance issue for this for most hardware made in the past > half-decade. This is obviously wrong.

Re: cdimage?? What should we call it?

2015-08-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 07:20:53AM +0200, Hideki Yamane wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 22:40:32 -0300 > Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > > And having get.debian.org as canonical maybe? But indeed I like the idea. > > Not only canonical but also gentoo does. > https://get.gentoo.

resolv binary (partman-nbd) broken

2014-02-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, When installing / to NBD, partman-nbd needs to set up some boot-time parameters so the NBD server can be found by the initrd. Unfortunately, since the initrd does not have a working resolver configured, that means we need to resolve DNS names to IP addresses in the installer. For that reason,

Re: resolv binary (partman-nbd) broken

2014-02-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 09:46:08PM +0300, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Wouter Verhelst (2014-02-21): > > It seemed to work when I originally wrote it; but today, I noticed this: > > > > wouter@carillon:~/debian/debian-installer/packages/partman-nbd$ ./resolv >

Bug#739855: partman-lvm: Irreproducible metadata size

2014-02-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 05:13:29PM +0700, st wrote: > The problem seems to be that partman-lvm created PVs with only > 195584 units-used-by-pvck allocated for metadata. However, there > is no way to create PVs with less than 1047552 units-used-by-pvck > with the standard pvcreate. Not true, as par

Bug#619236: debian PS3 installation kboot.conf needed

2014-03-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op maandag 3 maart 2014 10:38:12 schreef Antonio Ospite: > kboot-utils is in Debian[1] already, all that is missing is to find a > way to tell the installer: > > "if this system is a PS3, then install kboot-utils" > > Can anyone suggest where this kind of logic can be added in d-i? > I didn

Bug#657955: Can't reproduce this

2014-03-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, After reassigning this bug to partman-nbd, I appear to have forgotten about it. I tried to reproduce it just now, but could not. Can you? If not, I think we'll close it; it may well have been an issue that was in initramfs-tools but which has since been fixed. Regards, -- This end should

add net-retriever/localrepo?

2014-03-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, I've been thinking it might be nice to extend net-retriever so it checks the "net-retriever/localrepo" template. This would never be shown (only used for preseeding), and would work similar to the "localudebs" directory. This could be used for more easily testing modules that aren't usually i

Bug#749991: Wrong kernel in debian-installer package

2017-04-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 10:01:41AM +0700, Alexander Sosedkin wrote: > On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 00:05:17 +0200 > Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > That's unfortunate, yes, but there's no easy way to keep old packages > > around in a given repository. > > That's one way to think about it. Got it, keeping old

Re: HTTPS metadata in Mirrors.masterlist?

2017-04-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 12:25:04AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 11:20:36PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > > * https://mirror.as35701.net/debian/ (not yet accessible as > > https://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/ due to certificate only being > > valid for mirror.as35701.net) > >

Bug#860368: installer: create network bridges by default?

2017-04-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 10:50:30AM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > With libvirt, that is possible using macvtap but it is unreliable and > doesn't allow[3] communication between the guest and the host, only > between the guest and other hosts on the subnet. > > The solution is for people to configur

Bug#860368: installer: create network bridges by default?

2017-04-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 01:18:52PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > As you describe, the default network is an extra layer of NAT. It > works, but not everybody wants that. So those who don't want it can fix their bloody configuration. Are you honestly suggesting that we should create unnecessary f

Bug#860368: installer: create network bridges by default?

2017-04-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 01:32:59PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > On 15/04/17 13:27, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 01:18:52PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> As you describe, the default network is an extra layer of NAT. It > >> works, b

Re: Bug#861263: debian-installer: zfs support

2017-05-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 03:35:52PM +0100, Sam Kuper wrote: > On 06/05/2017, Ian Campbell wrote: > > It would in theory be possible to arrange build and install modules > > during installation using the in-progress target installation (where > > the normal toolchain packages could be installed) suc

UEFI support for mini.iso?

2016-02-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi folks, The "netboot" target of the debian-installer build system builds the PXE-booting files for the installer, as well as a 30-40MB "mini.iso" image that contains just the kernel and initramfs for the installer to boot. This makes it smaller than the netinst, which makes it my personal favour

Re: UEFI support for mini.iso?

2016-02-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 09:42:19AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > This image however does not support booting on a UEFI-only system. > > It does support EFI booting from CDROM. At least with qemu and OVMF > as EFI firmware. Right. I

Re: UEFI support for mini.iso?

2016-02-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 09:21:31AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debian-installer.git/tree/build/util/geniso_hybrid_plus_firmware_partition > > I add a line isohybrid -u "$iso" > >

Bug#815155: Detects impossible situation as bootable option

2016-02-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Package: os-prober Version: 1.71 Severity: normal Hi, I have a backup of the Windows installation of an old laptop on an LVM volume on a USB disk. This backup was taken by doing something along the lines of "dd if= of=". Obviously this can never boot; Windows doesn't support LVM. However, when I

Bug#780994: flash-kernel: Missing dependency on u-boot-tools fails initramfs-tools to fail

2015-03-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jan 01, 1970 at 12:49:11AM +, Martin Stigge wrote: > Package: flash-kernel > Version: 3.33 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > I just installed flash-kernel but didn't have u-boot-tools installed. I > believe it's the initramfs trigger that failed with the following: > > Generating boot s

Re: Package versioning and upgrades

2015-03-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 05:25:51PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 09:46:06PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > > Since ZoL (ZFS On Linux) isn't yet in Debian GNU/Linux, I've been > > doing my own packages for ZoL in that package repo. > > > > This include changes to the i

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