Re: unable to finish debian-installer

2014-12-08 Thread Anthony F McInerney
Which version of Debian are you attempting to install. And with which version of the installer did you use (direct link to the URL/file you used/downloaded). Also can you confirm the specs of the laptop. (i read something like a PII with 64MB of ram?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: unable to finish debian-installer

2014-12-08 Thread Anthony F McInerney
I'm not familiar with how this installer works. However if no one else responds with some useful commands to type, i can run a vm and check how it works out. I'd be curious how you went from wheezy to jessie within the installer. I'd also wonder what happens at the moment if you go back through

Re: unable to finish debian-installer

2014-12-08 Thread Anthony F McInerney
Ok just for those following this, i've downloaded the winloader from the location given, popped a virtualboxVM up with windows 2000 sp4. 196MB ram, 6gb hdd, and installed debian Wheezy in normal mode just fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#768657: The inittab interface - Re: Bug#766187: runit: Fails to install runit after fresh install of jessie beta2

2014-11-25 Thread Anthony F McInerney
I noticed that my last mail about 766187 being related to 768657 didn't actually go to the bug report. (which was about this bug being related) Anyway, both of these bugs seem to be about providing /etc/inittab in one form or another. Please see KiBi's last entry about providing it via D-I which

Re: Bug#768657: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#768657: sysvinit: Please provide xen virtual console in inittab

2014-11-14 Thread Anthony F McInerney
Hi, Apologies if this is just noise, but i believe this grave bug may be related to (or at least helped by) this discussion. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=766187 runit: Fails to install runit after fresh install of jessie beta2 (because /etc/inittab is missing) Thanks

Re: Debian 7 with i486 non pae

2014-10-26 Thread Anthony F McInerney
Try alt+f4 to see an install log, while the installer is running / before it cashes. You could also try various non-free cd's http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-12 Thread Anthony F McInerney
On 12 August 2014 09:51, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: Could you do MATE too please? MATE: (with mate-desktop-environment-extras) free ^[[C total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 506756 397480 109276 7096 58820 166076 -/+ buffers/cache: 172584 334172 Swap: 392188 0 392188 The ctrl

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-12 Thread Anthony F McInerney
We happen at work to have users with very important needs of 3D resources, so one of my colleagues conducted some performance tests with and without a compositor (the compositor being GNOME 3). It turns out that with a recent adapter, 3D applications are running a small bit faster under

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-12 Thread Anthony F McInerney
-shell' is pure fabrication. On 12 August 2014 13:20, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le mardi 12 août 2014 à 13:12 +0100, Anthony F McInerney a écrit : Virtualbox Results (no guest drivers installed) Glxgears is not a relevant 3D benchmark. But the funniest thing is that you did

Re: Artwork for jessie?

2014-08-12 Thread Anthony F McInerney
I adapted Serenity for my live-spin of debian jessie with e17. https://a.fsdn.com/con/app/proj/n00bix/screenshots/build2-32bit-v2.png The menu button is actually the DVD face.

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Anthony F McInerney
On Mon, 11 Aug, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Thomas Weber twe...@debian.org wrote: Not sure why you'd want to go for third world countries, but let's look at Germany (Aldi is one of the two biggest discounters here):

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Anthony F McInerney
How do you measure memory? Free? Could you quite possibly post the output of free and whatever else you measure with? (the full output) For reference against jessie, i'm installing an up to date jessie right now... Thanks Anthony (bofh80)

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Anthony F McInerney
XFCE: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:506756 362468 144288 6568 22756 179264 -/+ buffers/cache: 160448 346308 Swap: 392188 0 392188 GNOME: total used free shared

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Anthony F McInerney
On 12 August 2014 01:03, Kees de Jong keesdej...@gmail.com wrote: Are we really comparing RAM here as if it were the 90's? I had stated previously XFCE had started showing memory usage similar to gnome. This has quite obviously changed. I was wrong, and i'm posting it as a correction to my

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-10 Thread Anthony F McInerney
Would the people who are claiming that blank cdr are cheaper than dvdr, especially in third world countries, please cite sources (shops, price checkers etc) of the price of say 5 pack or 10 pack, even up to 50pack of CD's, vs the same amount of DVD's, from those third world countries. Is the price

Bug#755848: preseed d-i netcfg/hostname does not set hostname

2014-07-24 Thread Anthony F McInerney
d-i preseed/early_command string kill-all-dhcp; netcfg when using priority=critical

Bug#647405: [PATCH] adding mirror deb-src booleon

2014-05-09 Thread Anthony F. McInerney
Signed-off-by: Anthony F. McInerney afm...@gmail.com --- debian/apt-mirror-setup.templates | 8 generators/50mirror | 7 ++- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/apt-mirror-setup.templates b/debian/apt-mirror-setup.templates index

[PATCH] Adding netrc to generate auth.conf

2014-05-06 Thread Anthony F. McInerney
Signed-off-by: Anthony F. McInerney afm...@gmail.com --- debian/apt-setup-udeb.templates | 7 +++ generators/60local | 7 +++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/debian/apt-setup-udeb.templates b/debian/apt-setup-udeb.templates index 7b7afcf..fdfb3d8 100644