Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-18 Thread Narcis Garcia
The problem is Debian-Live doesn't allow to choose the locale at boot menu, as other distributions do. El 18/11/16 a les 11:50, Iain R. Learmonth ha escrit: > Hi, > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:32:53PM +0300, ha...@bayindir.org wrote: >> Pardus is also planning to use this package inside their l

Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-18 Thread Narcis Garcia
__ I'm using this express-made address because personal addresses aren't masked enough at lists.debian.org archives. El 18/11/16 a les 11:50, Iain R. Learmonth ha escrit: > Hi, > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:32:53PM +0300, ha...@bayindir.org wrote: >> Pardus is also planning to use this pa

Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-18 Thread Iain R. Learmonth
Hi, On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:32:53PM +0300, ha...@bayindir.org wrote: > Pardus is also planning to use this package inside their live & installable > hybrid media. While I don't have the time to take full ownership of the > package, I can happily help in planning and implementing the improveme

Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-18 Thread Iain R. Learmonth
Hi, On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 10:57:16AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > This sounds like an annoying loss of functionality for those who use it. Please feel free to adopt this package. Thanks, Iain. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: > Note that this is *only* the package that launches the Debian installer from > *within* the running live system. This sounds like an annoying loss of functionality for those who use it. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-17 Thread hakan
Hi, Pardus is also planning to use this package inside their live & installable hybrid media. While I don't have the time to take full ownership of the package, I can happily help in planning and implementing the improvements of required changes. I've also investigated some if its bugs and fi

Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-17 Thread Hakan Bayındır
Hi, Pardus is also planning to use this package inside their live & installable hybrid media. While I don't have the time to take full ownership of the package, I can happily help in planning and implementing the improvements of required changes. I've also investigated some if its bugs and fi

Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-17 Thread Michael .
>>It's a native package, there's no need to develop a replacement, just fix up the thing we have (or entirely replace it if you wish). Isn't the part in brackets developing a replacement? If it is broken and no one is working on it, or is willing to work on it, it is effectively orphaned anyway. T

Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-17 Thread Iain R. Learmonth
Hi, On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 06:49:43PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On the latter I can't really comment, but I would find it very > > unfortunate if this package would get removed from stretch *now*… (where > > there is no time to develop a replace

Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Holger Levsen wrote: > On the latter I can't really comment, but I would find it very > unfortunate if this package would get removed from stretch *now*… (where > there is no time to develop a replacement…) Why would anyone develop a replacement instead of taking it over? In

Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 04:02:46PM +, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: > I am proposing the removal of debian-installer-launcher from Debian as this > software generally gives bad user experience and does not see the levels of > testing required for us to ensure it is of reasonable quality. fair

Re: debian-installer-launcher

2014-09-03 Thread Ozi Traveller
Hi Zed This is my take on it from my testing in wheezy. I happy to be corrected. The desktop launcher gets hostname from the /etc/hostname file. See here : https://github.com/ozitraveller/star-live-build/tree/master/xfce-64/config/includes.chroot/etc The text installer seems to default to debian

Re: debian-installer-launcher

2014-09-03 Thread Zed
Thank you, Fernando - This was the ultimate solution. I placed my preseed.cfg in the same location and made references as you did, and it is now reading SOME of my preseed.cfg. Is there a specific order items need to be in the preseed.cfg? What I am seeing now, when I launch the installer from

Re: debian-installer-launcher

2014-08-29 Thread Zed
The below fixed the preseed issue from the boot menu, but not the liceCD installer. I am pretty sure the details from Fernando will be what I need to do, but once again, I will update as soon as I make more progress. Thanks, all. Z On 8/29/2014 3:27 PM, Zed wrote: I accidentally took the list

Re: debian-installer-launcher

2014-08-29 Thread Zed
Thank you, Fernando - If I hit a wall again after my rebuild and modifying my isolinux *.cfg files, I will give your setup a try. Have a good one! Zed (Devin) On 8/29/2014 3:06 PM, Fernando Toledo wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:51:35 -0600, Zed wrote: Thanks to Daniel on IRC with a little dir

Re: debian-installer-launcher

2014-08-29 Thread Zed
I accidentally took the list of a few responses, and Stefan was kind enough to let me know, so here is the last communication I sent him (intending to go to the whole list) with the solution, or at least what appears to be so far: root@debian:/# find /lib/live -name "preseed.cfg" /lib/live/mou

Re: debian-installer-launcher

2014-08-29 Thread Fernando Toledo
On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:51:35 -0600, Zed wrote: Thanks to Daniel on IRC with a little direction I learned why it was skipping the preseed. Basically, I had not appended the parameters to the boot options in isolinux. It is copying the preseed to the ISO now, but it can't be located when the inst

Re: debian-installer-launcher

2014-08-29 Thread Zed
Here are all the configs in my isolinux dir. * isolinux.cfg:* include menu.cfg default vesamenu.c32 prompt 0 timeout 0 *menu.cfg* menu hshift 0 menu width 82 menu title Boot menu include stdmenu.cfg include live.cfg include install.cfg menu begin advanced menu title Advanced options inc

Re: debian-installer-launcher

2014-08-29 Thread Stefan Baur
Am 29.08.2014 um 21:51 schrieb Zed: > I have tried various boot options to resolve, but receive the same error > (with the file:/// as entered of course): > append preseed/file=/install/preseed.cfg > append preseed/file=/media/cdrom/install/preseed.cfg > append preseed/file=/media/cdrom0/install/p

Re: debian-installer-launcher

2014-08-29 Thread Zed
Thanks to Daniel on IRC with a little direction I learned why it was skipping the preseed. Basically, I had not appended the parameters to the boot options in isolinux. It is copying the preseed to the ISO now, but it can't be located when the install is loading. I have my preseed here: /conf

Re: debian-installer-launcher

2014-08-29 Thread Richard Owlett
Zed wrote: I believe I have figured this out... *fingers crossed* Cheers! Z Please post the results. It may be helpful to a wider audience than you might expect. I've found much useful information when reading about solutions to problems which do not have obvious connection to what ever I'm

Re: debian-installer-launcher

2014-08-29 Thread Zed
Ok, I have the preseed.cfg done and in the /includes.installer/ directory, but when I run lb build, it is ignoring the preseed config. Here are two lines that I have in my preseed.cfg: d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic d-i apt-setup/use_mirror boolean false But, when I run the insta

Re: debian-installer-launcher

2014-08-29 Thread Zed
I believe I have figured this out... *fingers crossed* Cheers! Z On 8/29/2014 9:27 AM, Zed wrote: I have added the debian-installer-launcher to my live-build and added a desktop icon to launch the installer. Everything works fine, but when the install is finished, I have to manually disconnec

Processed: Re: debian-installer-launcher: doesn't configure the package manager, which leads to a broken system afterwards

2011-07-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > retitle 617386 needs to set cdtype to live when using live-installer Bug #617386 [debian-installer-launcher] debian-installer-launcher: doesn't configure the package manager, which leads to a broken system afterwards Changed Bug title to 'needs t