Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey folks, Remembering the fun that we had during the Squeeze release with trying to make single-CD installations work well, it's time to consider what we're going to *claim* to support in Wheezy. We've had a history of supporting the following single-CD installations: * Gnome desktop from CD#1

Bug#672662: cdimage.debian.org: "gnome-screesnaver" starts at livecd boot

2012-05-12 Thread Saul Reynolds-Haertle
Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: normal The list of services started at boot includes an item named "gnome-screesnaver" right next to the (assumed correct) "gnome-screensaver". Note the transposed letters. I don't yet know if this is only an issue on the livecd or also on the resulting insta

[DRAFT] Debian Installer Wheezy Alpha1 release

2012-05-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi folks, I prepared the following draft, based on copy-pastes from: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/ReleaseAnnounce I took the liberty to replace “Wheezy” with “7.0” to match the previous announce, which mentioned “6.0”. I have no strong (or bad) feeling about this, just wanted to be co

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-12 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Steve McIntyre writes: > At this point, I'm skeptical that either of the first two are going to > work acceptably with Wheezy. If that's the case, then we should warn > people that they will need to use at least one of: I agree. I tried installing debian gnome desktop from CD1 during last debconf

Re: [DRAFT] Debian Installer Wheezy Alpha1 release

2012-05-12 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Thank you Cyril and everyone. In terms of presentation, this looks fine to me. In terms of content, I added all issues from DebianInstaller/Today which I'm confident affect alpha1 (that is, 1 issue). On 2012-05-12 15:50, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi folks, I prepared the following draft, based

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sat, 12 May 2012 17:04:16 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hey folks, Remembering the fun that we had during the Squeeze release with trying to make single-CD installations work well, it's time to consider what we're going to *claim* to support in Wheezy. We've had a history of supporting the

Re: [DRAFT] Debian Installer Wheezy Alpha1 release

2012-05-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 09:50:44PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Hi folks, > >I prepared the following draft, based on copy-pastes from: > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/ReleaseAnnounce > >I took the liberty to replace “Wheezy” with “7.0” to match the previous >announce, which mentioned “

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-12 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 17:04:16 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Remembering the fun that we had during the Squeeze release with trying > to make single-CD installations work well, it's time to consider what > we're going to *claim* to support in Wheezy. We've had a history of > supporting the followi