Debian Installer Test and Howto

2006-08-18 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
Hi Team, I performed a test of the new Beta3 and made some screenshots and a Howto for new users along the way. In case you're interested: it's on thedebianuser.org under http://blog.thedebianuser.org/?p=27 (text mode install), and http://blog.thedebianuser.org/?p=79 (graphical install) Thanks

Re: booting up the system

2006-08-18 Thread Geert Stappers
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 01:28:51AM -0300, Iuri Sampaio wrote: I've installed on my machine a dual boot system, one to debian and other windows. But I reinstalled my windows OS and now I lost lilo boot loader and I can boot my linux. Do you know a way to get into my debian box?

Why manual po-file msgids one long line?

2006-08-18 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
Is it necessary to have the installer guide msgids in po files one huge line? It would seem to me they could be indented to make them more readable. I mean, text like this is pretty bad for reading: msgid The benefit you gain depends on a type of a MD device you are creating. Currently

Bug#383540: smp system not detected

2006-08-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:32:11AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: That's a known issue. Unfortunately there seems to be no way the extra processors can be detected while running a UP kernel. And fixed with 2.6.17 for i386 and amd64. 2.6.17 don't longer provide UP versions of the kernels. Bastian --

Bug#383608: debian-installer: touchpad doesn't work

2006-08-18 Thread Francesco Frassinelli
Package: debian-installer Severity: important With the grafical installer (I've tested only beta3), the touchpad of my Compaq Presario 1800 (18XL19L) doesn't work. I have to set up my system with the keyboard. When I start my Debian, the touchpad works perfecty. -- System Information: Debian

Re: Urgent : megaraid and qla2300 modules not found

2006-08-18 Thread De Leeuw Guy
dann frazier a écrit : On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 03:05:35PM +0200, De Leeuw Guy wrote: Hello, I have 2 days to install debian etch on our production server. I download the last daily build of the cdrom (release debian-testing-ia64-netinstall.iso 20060815). But missing the driver

Bug#383611: debian-installer should provide fallback or config option for net-repo access

2006-08-18 Thread Tuncer Ayaz
Package: debian-installer Version: etch beta3 debian-installer naturally tries to connect to security.debian.org but I have a few issues with the current implementation: the connection timeout is too long a user should be able to specify - beforehand in expert mode and as a fallback in

Bug#381657: installation-guide: Korean PDF build patch

2006-08-18 Thread Changwoo Ryu
2006-08-18 (금), 14:12 +0900, Changwoo Ryu 쓰시길: 2006-08-18 (금), 00:45 +0200, Frans Pop 쓰시길: - Where does the build/templates/header.ko.tex file come from? Did you write it yourself or was it available somewhere? I think we do need to know this for copyright reasons. It would probably

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-18 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
Hi, On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 03:19:18AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Has *anybody* had any success getting the Linux version 2.6.16-2- powerpc (Debian 2.6.16-17) kernel to boot an OldWorld machine with BootX? Or *any* kernel after 2.6.15? I think the anwser is plainly no. :( Well, you would

Bug#383626: feedback - usb-stick installation amd64 etch b3

2006-08-18 Thread alan
Package: installation-reports Boot method: usb-stick Image version: etch Beta 3: debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso downloaded 17. Aug. 06 from the debian HP Date: 17. Aug. 06 , end of day Machine: desktop, selfmade Processor: AMD64 Sempron 2800+, VIA chipset

Installation hangs up during Retrieving bsdmaintils

2006-08-18 Thread Gary M. Kassander
I do not know if this is the proper forum for this concern or not, but I'm going to report a problem. During installation of Debian etch I ran into a problem. I downloaded the ISO file from debian.org web site and burn a CD. This procedure went without a hitch. I then inserted a CD in

Bug#383540: smp system not detected

2006-08-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 18 August 2006 11:33, you wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:32:11AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: That's a known issue. Unfortunately there seems to be no way the extra processors can be detected while running a UP kernel. And fixed with 2.6.17 for i386 and amd64. 2.6.17 don't longer

linux-kernel-di-s390-2.6_0.06_s390.changes ACCEPTED

2006-08-18 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: crypto-modules-2.6.17-2-s390-di_0.06_s390.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-s390-2.6/crypto-modules-2.6.17-2-s390-di_0.06_s390.udeb dasd-modules-2.6.17-2-s390-di_0.06_s390.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-s390-2.6/dasd-modules-2.6.17-2-s390-di_0.06_s390.udeb

Re: Why manual po-file msgids one long line?

2006-08-18 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 18/08/06, Tapio Lehtonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it necessary to have the installer guide msgids in po files one huge line? It would seem to me they could be indented to make them more readable. I mean, text like this is pretty bad for reading: msgid The benefit you gain depends on a

Re: Why manual po-file msgids one long line?

2006-08-18 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 18/08/06, Tapio Lehtonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it necessary to have the installer guide msgids in po files one huge line? It would seem to me they could be indented to make them more readable. I mean, text like this is pretty bad for reading: msgid The benefit you gain depends on a

Bug#383544: Bug#383540: smp system not detected

2006-08-18 Thread dann frazier
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:32:11AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: Any idea if the HTT flag being present would be a reliable indication of dual-core? Not sure, but it sounds like a reasonable assumption. Looks easy enough to implement if we get confirmation. Care to send in the output of dmidecode

Bug#383540: oops - wrong bug number

2006-08-18 Thread dann frazier
oops, most of these follow-ups should've gone into 383544. i'll bounce these messages back to 383544, sorry for the duplication please ignore for the purposes of 383540. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 18, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: Hi, On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 03:19:18AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Has *anybody* had any success getting the Linux version 2.6.16-2- powerpc (Debian 2.6.16-17) kernel to boot an OldWorld machine with BootX? Or *any* kernel after 2.6.15? I

Bug#383544: Bug#383540: smp system not detected

2006-08-18 Thread dann frazier
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:33:59AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:32:11AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: That's a known issue. Unfortunately there seems to be no way the extra processors can be detected while running a UP kernel. And fixed with 2.6.17 for i386 and amd64.

Bug#383667: Issues installing Debian 4.0/b3

2006-08-18 Thread Geert Vanderkelen
Package: installation-reports Hi! I tried installing Debian 4.0 beta3 using the ISO for installation via network on my Dell Inspiron 8000, which hosted already various Linux distro the last 6 years. - Using default installation it went well, but it failed just after download the

Bug#382888: marked as done (debian-installer: needs install continuation capability)

2006-08-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:10:58 +0200 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#382888: closed by Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#382888: debian-installer: needs install continuation capability) has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means

Re: Bug#foobar: marked as done: Canary out of the keyboard

2006-08-18 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 09:19:01AM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Your message dated Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:10:58 +0200 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#382888: closed by Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#382888: debian-installer: needs install continuation

linux-kernel-di-amd64-2.6_1.12_amd64.changes is NEW

2006-08-18 Thread Debian Installer
(new) acpi-modules-2.6.17-2-amd64-di_1.12_amd64.udeb extra debian-installer ACPI support modules This package contains linux kernel modules for ACPI. (new) cdrom-core-modules-2.6.17-2-amd64-di_1.12_amd64.udeb standard debian-installer CDROM support This package contains core CDROM support for

Bug#382891: marked as done (different package configuration in g-i and d-i?)

2006-08-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:11:58 +0200 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Processed: Re: Bug#382891 closed by Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#382891: debian-installer: configurations that delay package installation) has caused the attached Bug report to be marked

Processing of linux-kernel-di-amd64-2.6_1.12_amd64.changes

2006-08-18 Thread Archive Administrator
linux-kernel-di-amd64-2.6_1.12_amd64.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: linux-kernel-di-amd64-2.6_1.12.dsc linux-kernel-di-amd64-2.6_1.12.tar.gz kernel-image-2.6.17-2-amd64-di_1.12_amd64.udeb nic-modules-2.6.17-2-amd64-di_1.12_amd64.udeb

Bug#383667: marked as done (Issues installing Debian 4.0/b3)

2006-08-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:48:27 +0200 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Closing Bug#383667: Issues installing Debian Etch/Beta3 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the

[D-I Manual] Build log for en (18 Aug 2006)

2006-08-18 Thread Frans Pop
A build of the Debian Installer Manual was triggered by an update to SVN. There were no errors during the build process. The new version of the manual has been uploaded successfully. A log of the build is available at: - http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i_manual/log/en.log === It is possible to

Bug#383540: smp system not detected

2006-08-18 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 18 August 2006 11:33, you wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:32:11AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: That's a known issue. Unfortunately there seems to be no way the extra processors can be detected while running a UP kernel. And fixed with 2.6.17 for i386 and amd64.

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-18 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:44:23AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Perhaps the Debian PTBs should simply admit that PowerPC OldWorld Macintosh is an unsupported sub-arch for Debian etch? /-8 What is PTBs? :) Well, aside the issue of booting, the kernel runs just fine and so does the user

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: What is PTBs? :) Powers that be...

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: Well, aside the issue of booting, the kernel runs just fine and so does the user space... As you can look at http://www.us.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata, I think it is partially admitted in Oldworld powerpc boot floppies will not

Bug#138282: new generation Briana

2006-08-18 Thread Hardin Alyson
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Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-18 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 03:06:03PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: I don't think the errata takes any notice of the fact that, quite independent of freeness considerations, there is *no* working boot loader for the 2.6.16 kernel on an OldWorld Mac. I've tried both bootx and quik and neither

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-18 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:56:52PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Do you think it will be ready for inclusion in etch at release time? Hard to say, since Piotr and I have no deadline... :) Cheers, -- .''`. Aurélien GÉRÔME : :' : `. `'` Free Software Developer `- Unix Sys Net Admin

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-18 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:52:24PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: What is PTBs? :) Powers that be... On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:44:23AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Perhaps the Debian PTBs should simply admit that PowerPC OldWorld Macintosh is an

Bug#383710: busybox: missing versioned build-dep on dpkg-dev

2006-08-18 Thread Andres Salomon
Package: busybox Version: 1:1.1.3-2 Severity: serious Attempting to build busybox on sarge yields the following during build: make[1]: Leaving directory `/busybox-1.1.3/debian/build/build-udeb' cp debian/build/build-udeb/docs/BusyBox.1 debian/build/build-udeb/docs/busybox.1 touch

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:58:07PM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:52:24PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: What is PTBs? :) Powers that be... On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:44:23AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Perhaps the

busybox override disparity

2006-08-18 Thread Debian Installer
There are disparities between your recently accepted upload and the override file for the following file(s): busybox-static_1.1.3-3_amd64.deb: package says priority is optional, override says extra. Either the package or the override file is incorrect. If you think the override is correct and

busybox_1.1.3-3_amd64.changes ACCEPTED

2006-08-18 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: busybox-static_1.1.3-3_amd64.deb to pool/main/b/busybox/busybox-static_1.1.3-3_amd64.deb busybox-udeb_1.1.3-3_amd64.udeb to pool/main/b/busybox/busybox-udeb_1.1.3-3_amd64.udeb busybox_1.1.3-3.diff.gz to pool/main/b/busybox/busybox_1.1.3-3.diff.gz busybox_1.1.3-3.dsc to

Bug#383540: smp system not detected

2006-08-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:33:59AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:32:11AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: That's a known issue. Unfortunately there seems to be no way the extra processors can be detected while running a UP kernel. And fixed with 2.6.17 for i386 and amd64.

Bug#383710: marked as done (busybox: missing versioned build-dep on dpkg-dev)

2006-08-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:47:15 -0700 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#383710: fixed in busybox 1:1.1.3-3 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now

Bug#383557: installation-report: [ia64] HP Integrity rx2600

2006-08-18 Thread dann frazier
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:41:53AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: I've removed the exception and will add an erratum for beta3. Thanks Frans! You should be able to work around this by passing this as boot parameter: base-installer/kernel/linux/initramfs-2.6=true I tried this, but it yielded the

Bug#378654: marked as done (Missing upstream copyright holder name in /usr/share/doc/busybox/copyright)

2006-08-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:47:15 -0700 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#378654: fixed in busybox 1:1.1.3-3 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now

Processing of busybox_1.1.3-3_amd64.changes

2006-08-18 Thread Archive Administrator
busybox_1.1.3-3_amd64.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: busybox_1.1.3-3.dsc busybox_1.1.3-3.diff.gz busybox_1.1.3-3_amd64.deb busybox-static_1.1.3-3_amd64.deb busybox-udeb_1.1.3-3_amd64.udeb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon -- To

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 12:18:23AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:58:07PM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:52:24PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: What is PTBs? :) Powers that be... On Fri,

Re: Bug#383540: smp system not detected

2006-08-18 Thread David Härdeman
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 03:59:34PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: And is there a way to override SMP detection on the kernel commandline? 2.6.17 still doesn't give me a reliable clock on my amd64 system when running smp. Boot with nosmp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Processed: keysize is limited

2006-08-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 381973 partman-crypto Bug#381973: cryptsetup: segfaults in luksOpen with -c blowfish-cbc-essiv:sha256 -s 448 Bug reassigned from package `cryptsetup' to `partman-crypto'. bye Unknown command or malformed arguments to command. hello,

Bittorrent and etch beta 3 CD/DVD

2006-08-18 Thread Don Wright
Currently, under i386 at least, the CD or DVD for [1]beta 3 of d-i is poorly seeded. In fact, other than binary-1, most torrents have only one seed. Is there supposed to be an official set of machines seeding all of the images? Could we get volunteers for at least one seed per continent?

Bug#383740: quik-installer incorrectly allows separate root and /boot

2006-08-18 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: quik-installer Severity: normal Due to a bug in the quik manpage stating that root and /boot can be on different partitions quik-installer was 'fixed' to allow installation of quik when /boot and root were not the same partition (but on the same disk). This is incorrect as testing

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 18, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:52:24PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: What is PTBs? :) Powers that be... On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:44:23AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Perhaps the Debian PTBs

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 18, 2006, at 6:43 PM, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 12:18:23AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:58:07PM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:52:24PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:

Bug#155374: my chance

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