setting language/keyboard at boot

2008-09-02 Thread Bernd Kloss
Hello, thanks for making a Debian-live. It is also a useful tool for maintainance. I would find it quite comfortable to have a boot-menu that lets you choose language and keyboard at boot to have your desktop AND konsoles in your keyboard-layout. Thank you Bernd Kloss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Debian-live CD/Gnome iso image don't fit on a CD (733MiB)

2008-09-02 Thread Daniel Baumann
Franklin PIAT wrote: > Hello, Hi Franklin, > I may have missed a notice somewhere, but the current gnome cd image[1] > is 732.5MiB (768112640 bytes) which doesn't fit on a regular CD[2]. this is a know issue and was noted (with explenation) on in the announcement on d-d-a. Regards, Daniel --

Debian-live CD/Gnome iso image don't fit on a CD (733MiB)

2008-09-02 Thread Franklin PIAT
Hello, I may have missed a notice somewhere, but the current gnome cd image[1] is 732.5MiB (768112640 bytes) which doesn't fit on a regular CD[2]. Franklin cdrecord -tao debian-live-lenny-i386-gnome-desktop.iso dev=/dev/hdb Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format:

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-02 Thread Martin Smith
Daniel Baumann wrote: Michal Suchanek wrote: The patch would be to add the timeout option to isolinux. You could do that - copy the iso contents, edit the isolinux configuration file, and re-create a bootable iso. live-helper supports this to be set at build time through --syslinux-timeout (or

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-02 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michal Suchanek wrote: > The patch would be to add the timeout option to isolinux. You could do > that - copy the iso contents, edit the isolinux configuration file, > and re-create a bootable iso. live-helper supports this to be set at build time through --syslinux-timeout (or LH_SYSLINUX_TIMEOUT

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-02 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 02/09/2008, Martin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michal Suchanek wrote: > > > On 02/09/2008, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > note that the keyboard issue is a generic issue for (only first ?) > Intel > > > Mac computer: > > > some informations can be

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-02 Thread Martin Smith
Michal Suchanek wrote: On 02/09/2008, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, note that the keyboard issue is a generic issue for (only first ?) Intel Mac computer: some informations can be grabbed on refit site. A simple workaround would be to continue after a small lapse of time.

Bug#497561: live-initramfs: mount-call in scripts/init-bottom/udev has wrong syntax

2008-09-02 Thread Adrian Glaubitz
Package: live-initramfs Severity: important Tags: patch The udev-script in scripts/init-bottom/ on the ramdisk created for live-initramfs seems to use an deprecated syntax for the mount-call: mount -n -o move /dev $rootmnt/dev This will cause the booting live system to abort with a kernel-pani

Re: unexpected changes - live-bottom/13swap running by default

2008-09-02 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 31/08/2008, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Lamb wrote: > > The "we do not touch filesystems by default" invariant is really important. > > > > As long as one can pass "swap" at boot time to revert the behaviour, I > would > > be in favour of the above change. > > > after

Re: debian-live-lenny-i386-standard.iso fails on an assembled box w Pentium 4 3Hz

2008-09-02 Thread Daniel Baumann
Nicola Manini wrote: > Hello, Hi, > Then I gave it a try on my assembled desktop pc, a > GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz with 1GB of ram, a couple > of hdisks, a cd burner and a dvd driver (I can provide more hardware info). what mainboard do you use? what bios does it use? is it

Re: debian-live-lenny-i386-standard.iso fails on a laptop dell D800

2008-09-02 Thread Daniel Baumann
Nicola Manini wrote: > Hellp, Hi, > (I tried also the gnome & kde versions, but they do not fit on a cd even > with overburning, so I don't much see their point). see the announcement for why this is, unfortunately, the case. > Something like "press enter to" and nothing more. No more response

Re: debian-live-lenny-i386-standard.iso fails on a laptop dell D800

2008-09-02 Thread Frank Weißer
Nicola Manini schrieb: /cut I did check that the image is burned correctly. cut/ Just cause i faced problems downloading over one dsl-line: Did you check checksums? readU Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

debian-live-lenny-i386-standard.iso fails on an assembled box w Pentium 4 3Hz

2008-09-02 Thread Nicola Manini
Hello, I downloaded & burned the prebuilt image http://live.debian.net/cdimage/lenny-builds/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-live-lenny-i386-standard.iso (I tried also the gnome & kde versions, but they do not fit on a cd even with overburning, so I don't much see their point). I did check t

Re: unexpected changes - live-bottom/13swap running by default

2008-09-02 Thread intrigeri
Hello, here’s my answer, read bellow for arguments: [ ] Use swap partitions automatically in all flavours (leave as is) [x] Don't use swap partitions automatically in all flavours [ ] Use swap partitions for standard and desktop flavours, use noswap for rescue flavour. Joseph Rawson wrote (3

debian-live-lenny-i386-standard.iso fails on a laptop dell D800

2008-09-02 Thread Nicola Manini
Hello, I downloaded & burned the prebuilt image http://live.debian.net/cdimage/lenny-builds/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-live-lenny-i386-standard.iso (I tried also the gnome & kde versions, but they do not fit on a cd even with overburning, so I don't much see their point). I did check t

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-02 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 02/09/2008, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > note that the keyboard issue is a generic issue for (only first ?) Intel > Mac computer: > some informations can be grabbed on refit site. > A simple workaround would be to continue after a small lapse of time. > > Jerome Yes

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-09-02 Thread Brendan Sleight
> Over the next few days I will rotate the tests around to try to cover > as many variants as possible. The following all tested ok. debian-live-lenny-i386-gnome-desktop.img debian-live-lenny-i386-kde-desktop.img debian-live-lenny-i386-standard.img debian-live-lenny-i386-xfce-desktop.img

Re: Kernel Panic on IBM Thinkpad R50e

2008-09-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 08:59:30PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, [...] > input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0 > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 8388608 Hi, I don't

Re: gnumeric failure

2008-09-02 Thread Daniel Baumann
Harold wrote: > Hi all, Hi, quick note: please don't hijack threads - if you change the subject, please start writing a *new* mail rather than replying to a previous one. by not doing this, your mail gets hidden in the previous thread and we'll not see it as a new mail (and it also makes reading