lenny install: some problems with aptitude, and/or kernel?

2009-08-25 Diskussionsfäden Toni Mueller
Hello, I am still struggling with my FAI install, using 3.2.20 to install Lenny/amd64 from a Lenny/amd64 machine, and have encountered these problems so far (putting the lvm issue aside for a moment): 1. Installing a kernel using a class and "PACKAGES aptitude" fails with a message about a mi

Re: German keyboard layout

2009-08-25 Diskussionsfäden Robert Markula
Hi Mathieu, thanks for sharing your config! I actually managed to get it to work with the following config (hope I didn't forget anything): # ### class/BC_BASE.var: # FAI_ALLOW_UNSIGNED=1 KEYMAP=de-lat

Re: lenny install: some problems with aptitude

2009-08-25 Diskussionsfäden Toni Mueller
Hi, On Tue, 25.08.2009 at 09:53:39 +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > 2. aptitude sometimes (?) fails to install a lot of packages, leaving a > rather broken system behind, and sometimes even deletes (!!!) freshly > installed packages despite the fact that there are no conflicts. This > breaks eg. my

Re: lenny install: some problems with aptitude, and/or kernel?

2009-08-25 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Neumann
hiya > 1. Installing a kernel using a class and "PACKAGES aptitude" fails with > a message about a missing "initrd = yes" statement in > ${target}/etc/kernel-img.conf [...] > I worked around this problem by creating this custom script to install > the kernel later: Why don't you use the hooks? 1