Re: Bug#573891: kFreeBSD partitioning fails

2010-03-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 14 March 2010, Miroslav Kure wrote: > No clue on tty4 at this stage. However, when I go back to the main That's normal. stderr often stays buffered until you exit a component (return to the main menu). > menu and select to partition disks again, nothing happens (I am So that's not act

Re: [D-I] Info needed for partman restructuring

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 06 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > I'm working on some changes in Debian Installer affecting the display of > descriptions for block devices. For that I need to know which devices > can occur on kfreebsd. Thanks to Kenyon for his reply, but I had hoped for

[D-I] Info needed for partman restructuring

2010-02-06 Thread Frans Pop
Please keep d-boot CCed on replies as I'm not subscribed to d-bsd. Hi, I'm working on some changes in Debian Installer affecting the display of descriptions for block devices. For that I need to know which devices can occur on kfreebsd. IIUC these are the most common block device names for kfr

Re: debian-installer for GNU/kFreeBSD

2009-10-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 15 October 2009, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > I have just given a try, and during the installation, there is an error > message about security.debian.org not having support for kfreebsd. The > installation continues anyway, but it may confuse our users. > Any opinion on that? Simple. Get t

[D-I] Kernel/module udebs status - massbuild script update

2007-07-05 Thread Frans Pop
(Reply-to set to debian-boot list) kernel udeb status == Because I had to test the changes below anyway, I have done what I guess will be my last massbuild and upload of kernel/module udebs. All arches are now at 2.6.21-2, with the following exceptions: - sparc: at 2.6.20 because

[D-I] Updating kernel udebs to 2.6.20

2007-04-26 Thread Frans Pop
Hello D-I porters, Most architectures should now be able to switch to 2.6.20 for D-I (except for arm, hppa and m68k). i386 and amd64 have already been switched. Over the past two weeks Joey has done the needed work for i386 and amd64 (and necessary updates in kernel-wedge), but we've waited wit

D-I RC2 images available for testing

2007-03-12 Thread Frans Pop
(BCC to d-ports) For all architectures, except for m68k, installer and CD/DVD images of what is going to be D-I RC2 are now available for testing. RC2 is scheduled to be the D-I release shipped with Etch. Netboot, floppy and hd-media images are available from: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/di

D-I RC2 - Revisited

2007-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
Hi all, As you've probably noticed, what's intended to be the final kernel for Etch has been uploaded yesterday. I'm currently building and uploading the kernel udebs for all arches (except arm and m68k for which images are not yet available). I'll also upload new loop-aes module udebs for Spa

[D-I] Last chance to update the Installation Guide for Etch

2006-12-27 Thread Frans Pop
Hello porters, I've just announced the schedule [1] for the release of the Installation Guide to be included with the Etch release. That schedule leaves room for bigger updates until Dec 31 and for minor ones until Jan 7. This means that if you have any updates you'd like to get in for your po

Who is actively porting the Debian architectures?

2006-12-25 Thread Frans Pop
(BCCed to d-ports) Hello, We received a BR that the list of porters for PowerPC on the Organization webpage [1] was outdated. However, this seems to be true for most ports. Please reply to debian-www@lists.debian.org with an updated list of active porters for your port after discussing changes

[D-I] Please update kernel udebs to 2.6.18-6

2006-11-25 Thread Frans Pop
We are ready to make the switch to 2.6.18 for Debian Installer. For most architectures the 2.6.18-6 (ABI -3) should now be available in unstable. Please update the kernel udebs for your architecture ASAP. Cheers, FJP pgpxXnFkb9CjZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Debian Installer - Call for testing *this week*

2006-10-17 Thread Frans Pop
than English, consider installing in that language; note that one last round of translation updates is still planned, but reports of issues are still appreciated TIA, Frans Pop [1]http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s03.html#di-partition [2]http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual

D-I RC1 - release planning - soft freeze for changes in SVN

2006-10-16 Thread Frans Pop
Things are finally starting to come together for RC1. - We've found a good work-around for the bug in g-i where selected lines in multi-select lists would not be shown. We need new versions of some gtk packages for that, but these have now been uploaded. Thanks especially to Loïc Minier for h

[D-I] Switching initrd filesystem (was: mass kernel udeb update and preparations for RC1)

2006-09-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 22 September 2006 16:39, Grant Grundler wrote: > I didn't see anything for parisc (HPPA). > I don't know of any problems with initramfs on parisc. > but I don't expect any surprises from the kernel on that. Maybe I was not clear enough on this. The original text was: * type of initrd use

Re: [D-I] mass kernel udeb update and preparations for RC1

2006-09-22 Thread Frans Pop
attention. Have D-I porters actually read the mail? Is it useful that I send such mails at all? On Sunday 17 September 2006 14:28, Frans Pop wrote: > Dear (d-i) porters, > > First mass upload of kernel udebs > = > Today I have uploaded kernel udeb u

[D-I] mass kernel udeb update and preparations for RC1

2006-09-17 Thread Frans Pop
(Reply-to set to debian-boot; please only add relevant port if needed.) Dear (d-i) porters, First mass upload of kernel udebs = Today I have uploaded kernel udeb updates to 2.6.17-9 _for all arches_. This is the first time using the 'massbuild' [1] script I wrote r

Re: D-I Beta 3 - release update - please test

2006-07-31 Thread Frans Pop
for other installation methods: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-/current/images/ Known issues: - S/390 Beta 3 candidate images are broken; will be fixed with next upload - Lowmem settings in Beta 3 images are not yet correct; see below On Monday 24 July 2006 11:52, Frans P

D-I Beta 3 - release planning

2006-07-24 Thread Frans Pop
(Please reply only to debian-boot; reply-to set accordingly; add other recipients only selectively) Now that linux-2.6.16 has safely landed in testing a few days ago, we can really start working on the Beta 3 release of D-I. In fact, the migration of most udebs to testing is already in progress

D-I Beta 3 preparation - please update 2.6.16 kernel udebs

2006-07-17 Thread Frans Pop
(Please reply only to d-boot; Reply-to set accordingly) The latest upload of linux-2.6.16 is now (after today's mirror sync) available for all architectures except arm. As there were important changes, we should rebuild the kernel udebs against 2.6.16-17 before starting the builds of debian-ins

Debian Installer - Etch Beta 3 release

2006-06-22 Thread Frans Pop
(Please reply only to d-boot and optionally the relevant port list.) Hello d-i porters, Now that 2.6.16-15 kernels have been uploaded to unstable (using a linux-2.6.16 source package), we can start thinking about the Etch Beta 3 release of D-I. Currently all architectures, except for arm, have

Re: [D-I] Preparing for update in stable

2006-05-17 Thread Frans Pop
, Frans Pop wrote: > In more detail: > 1) Upload new i386 kernel udebs for both 2.4 and 2.6 to s-p-u (I've >already prepared a set) > 2) Get these acked by SRM so they actually show up in s-p-u; s-p-u > already has debian-installer sections, I'm not sure if the acceptance &

Fwd: [D-I] Post-release notes

2006-03-17 Thread Frans Pop
(This was supposed to be BCC'ed to d-ports...) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [D-I] Post-release notes Date: Saturday 18 March 2006 03:25 From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org As the last action for the Beta 2 release, the links for

Re: D-I Etch Beta2 - Status update (4)

2006-03-07 Thread Frans Pop
(already sent to d-boot) On Tuesday 07 March 2006 13:52, Frans Pop wrote: > I am very happy to announce that the debian-installer images targeted > for Beta2 are now in testing (except AMD64) and that daily (etch_d-i) > netinst and buisinesscard CD images using them are now available

D-I Etch Beta2 - Status update (4)

2006-03-07 Thread Frans Pop
I am very happy to announce that the debian-installer images targeted for Beta2 are now in testing (except AMD64) and that daily (etch_d-i) netinst and buisinesscard CD images using them are now available from [1]. These images use the 2.6.15-7 kernel. Note: full CD images are not yet available,

D-I Etch Beta2 - Status update (3)

2006-03-02 Thread Frans Pop
I've made a complete mess of CD images for Beta2 so far as the result of a wrong assumption. This means, as some installation reports and comments have shown, that CD images linked from [1] have been broken since last Friday. The good news is that there are now good Beta2 netinst and businessca