Re: Change templates: CD -> installation medium - proposal #2

2019-09-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 03:57:00PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Tue, 2019-09-10 at 20:21 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: >[...] >> Again another thought: >> >> When we talk about an "installation disk": >> Is it clear enough, that we mean the disk where we install *from* ? >> This could likely

Re: Change templates: CD -> installation medium - proposal #2

2019-09-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2019-09-10 at 20:21 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: [...] > Again another thought: > > When we talk about an "installation disk": > Is it clear enough, that we mean the disk where we install *from* ? > This could likely be mixed up with the disk where we install *to* , right? I think this

Bug#940028: launching d-i on multiple consoles doesn't play well with preseeding

2019-09-11 Thread Sergio Gelato
Package: rootskel Version: 1.131 Severity: important I like to create Xen domU virtual machines using debian-installer, with preseeding for a no-questions-asked experience. This works well with stretch, but when I try to use buster images (from

Bug#831003: support gzip'd kernel image

2019-09-11 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On Thu, 23 May 2019 10:36:15 -0700 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: Untested and refreshed patch against current git attached. I wanted to extend this, but I ended up almost completely rewriting it: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/flash-kernel/merge_requests/15/ Instead of only using a

Bug#890262: flash-kernel: QNAP TS109, Not enough space for initrd in MTD

2019-09-11 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 01:03:43 + Ben Hutchings wrote: Now that I think about it, initramfs-tools does allow other packages to override the configuration for mkinitramfs through shell scripts in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d. This seems like a good reason to do that. I've recently

Merge requests for flash-kernel

2019-09-11 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
Hi, I have been working on getting flash-kernel to work on some Chromebooks (they have an unconventional way of booting). To help with that situation I also did some work that could help flash-kernel in general. Set root in kernel cmdline when there is no initramfs: