Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 release

2012-05-15 Thread aladjev.andrew
Hello. What about grub2 in bios, efi-x86 and efi-x86_64 modes in wheezy installer? I am using wheezy with grub2 efi-x86_64 now and I have no problems with it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

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

2012-05-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:34:39AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: So to use the image you need either a DVD or a USB stick, and if you're using a write-once DVD you're perhaps wasting the unused space; but the download time and install footprint are still kept low and in the range of what a CD

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

2012-05-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ re-adding CC to debian-cd and debian-boot ] Adam Borowski wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 05:04:16PM +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

Bug#673025: Debian 7 Alpha Install reports

2012-05-15 Thread John Northall
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD net install Image version: Date: 14/05/2012 1400 Machine: Home built Asus 945 board with SATA, Nvidia graphics Processor:Intel P4 3.2Ghz Memory:1GB Partitions: All on 1 partition Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please

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

2012-05-15 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Wookey woo...@wookware.org writes: And the USB-stick process is not as simple as it might be because you have to find the HD-media files and then _also_ find an iso image to put on. It's no wonder newbs are still downloading CD/DVD images. You also need to have root access to some machine to

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

2012-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Wookey wrote: And the USB-stick process is not as simple as it might be because you have to find the HD-media files and then _also_ find an iso image to put on. It's no wonder newbs are still downloading CD/DVD images. I thought HD-media was a thing of the

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

2012-05-15 Thread Wookey
+++ Steve McIntyre [2012-05-15 13:38 +0100]: [ re-adding CC to debian-cd and debian-boot ] 2. USB-targeted images I've also tweaked DVD#1 of each set to fit in 4GB instead of the normal 4.7GB, so that it fits on a 4GB USB stick to make it more useful. We could quite readily produce (say)

Tracker for debian-wheezy-DI-a1-amd64-DVD-1.iso?

2012-05-15 Thread Jordan Clarke
Hello! Last night I downloaded the Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 DVD via http, after being unable to download it via BitTorrent. Upon completing the download, I tried to seed the iso, but KTorrent was unable to contact a tracker. Is this a known issue? I'm feeling somewhat eager to use a little

[d-i alpha1 I18N] Untranslated menu entry regarding speech synthesizer

2012-05-15 Thread Holger Wansing
Hello, I noticed that in the main menu the entry Configure the speech synthesizer voice is always in english, no matter what language I choose. Searching the string in the po files for the installer - it's not there! Was it not marked as translatable? Could that be fixed for the next release

Re: [d-i alpha1 I18N] Untranslated menu entry regarding speech synthesizer

2012-05-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le Tue 15 May 2012 17:59:20 +0200, a écrit : I noticed that in the main menu the entry Configure the speech synthesizer voice is always in english, no matter what language I choose. Searching the string in the po files for the installer - it's not there! Was it not marked as

Re: Tracker for debian-wheezy-DI-a1-amd64-DVD-1.iso?

2012-05-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
j.clar...@student.unimelb.edu.au wrote: Hello! Last night I downloaded the Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 DVD via http, after being unable to download it via BitTorrent. Upon completing the download, I tried to seed the iso, but KTorrent was unable to contact a tracker. Is this a known issue? I'm

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

2012-05-15 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 15 May 2012 22:34:20 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: And the USB-stick process is not as simple as it might be because you have to find the HD-media files and then _also_ find an iso image to put on. It's no wonder newbs are still downloading CD/DVD images. I thought HD-media was a thing

Re: [d-i alpha1 I18N] Untranslated menu entry regarding speech synthesizer

2012-05-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org (15/05/2012): It was and it is translated in 27 languages already, but I guess I missed something that needs to be done to get them fed into d-i? Need to be sync'd into svn://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/trunk/packages/po I think? Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc

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

2012-05-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 06:13:24PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2012 22:34:20 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: And the USB-stick process is not as simple as it might be because you have to find the HD-media files and then _also_ find an iso image to put on. It's no wonder newbs are

Bug#673025: Debian 7 Alpha Install reports

2012-05-15 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting John Northall (j.north...@talktalk.net): Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD net install Image version: Date: 14/05/2012 1400 Machine: Home built Asus 945 board with SATA, Nvidia graphics Processor:Intel P4 3.2Ghz Memory:1GB Partitions: All on 1 partition Given that

Bug#673025: marked as done (Debian 7 Alpha Install reports)

2012-05-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 15 May 2012 18:22:55 +0200 with message-id 20120515162255.gi4...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org and subject line Re: Bug#673025: Debian 7 Alpha Install reports has caused the Debian Bug report #673025, regarding Debian 7 Alpha Install reports to be marked as done. This means

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

2012-05-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Fedora/RH folks recently added more hacks to isohybrid to support booting on Macs: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/11285.html This is achieved by applying ISOLINUX program isohybrid from a recent ISOLINYX version to the already produced ISO images. syslinux-4.05 should probably do. It is a

Re: Bug#673025: Debian 7 Alpha Install reports

2012-05-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
John Northall wrote: Comments/Problems:None really for a novice user Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments and ideas you had during the initial install. This PC used for numerous non windows installs. Settled on Debian 6 as very stable. Ubuntu 12.04 is not! Tried

Patch for installation-manual

2012-05-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
Let's make it clearer how we expect users to write CDs to USB sticks? Index: en/install-methods/boot-usb-files.xml === --- en/install-methods/boot-usb-files.xml (revision 67598) +++ en/install-methods/boot-usb-files.xml

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

2012-05-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Steve McIntyre wrote: (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en) but skipped straight past section 4.3.1. Looks like we could do with a big clear message DO THIS UNLESS YOU HAVE SPECIAL NEEDS to make it more obvious. :-) I am a bit scared by the catastrophic potential

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2012-05-15 Thread Escola Paulista de Direito - EPD
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Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Steve McIntyre] (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en) While it is refreshing to see cat debian.iso /dev/sdX instead of the usual dd nonsense (it seems there's an extremely widespread myth that you need to use dd any time you're reading or writing block devices), I

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

2012-05-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 05/15/2012 02:18 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: I am a bit scared by the catastrophic potential of cat debian.iso /dev/sdX for X = valuable hard disk. I've wondered about that, too, when working on the relevant section of the Debian Live Manual. Maybe one should advise people to first read

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

2012-05-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Peter Samuelson, le Tue 15 May 2012 12:40:55 -0500, a écrit : (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en) While it is refreshing to see cat debian.iso /dev/sdX instead of the usual dd nonsense (it seems there's an extremely widespread myth that you need to use dd any time

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

2012-05-15 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca writes: accomplish as the superuser.) What I wonder, though, is if it is universally true that ordinary users will always have write access to a USB key they've just inserted. Under what circumstances will they not? At least in default debian and

Re: [d-i alpha1 I18N] Untranslated menu entry regarding speech synthesizer

2012-05-15 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org (15/05/2012): It was and it is translated in 27 languages already, but I guess I missed something that needs to be done to get them fed into d-i? Need to be sync'd into

Re: [d-i alpha1 I18N] Untranslated menu entry regarding speech synthesizer

2012-05-15 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Holger Wansing (li...@wansing-online.de): Hello, I noticed that in the main menu the entry Configure the speech synthesizer voice is always in english, no matter what language I choose. Searching the string in the po files for the installer - it's not there! Was it not marked as

Re: Tracker for debian-wheezy-DI-a1-amd64-DVD-1.iso?

2012-05-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 01:07:01AM +1000, Jordan Clarke wrote: Hello! Last night I downloaded the Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 DVD via http, after being unable to download it via BitTorrent. Upon completing the download, I tried to seed the iso, but KTorrent was unable to contact a tracker.

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

2012-05-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Samuel Thibault] I think cp is even more straightforward. Does cp accept that way since a long time? I'm not sure, but I've been using things like cp boot.img /dev/fd0 for probably 10 or 15 years on various Linux and Unix systems. (The fact that I referred to a floppy drive may give some

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

2012-05-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:40:55PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Steve McIntyre] (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en) While it is refreshing to see cat debian.iso /dev/sdX instead of the usual dd nonsense (it seems there's an extremely widespread myth that you need to

Debian installer build: failed or old builds

2012-05-15 Thread Daily build aggregator
Debian installer build overview --- Failed or old builds: * OLD BUILD:armel May 08 08:10 buildd@ancina build_iop32x_netboot http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armel/daily/build_iop32x_netboot.log * OLD BUILD:armel May 08 08:13 buildd@ancina

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

2012-05-15 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Steve McIntyre] The major win with dd onto a raw device is that you can specify the block size. For most USB sticks, using a block size of 4MB or so is going to be *much* faster than using the default for dd (512 bytes) or cp (10 KB IIRC). That seemed a little fishy to me, since none of the