Sarge how-to with what one still needs to do for a basic desktop install (review relevant)

2004-08-13 Thread C. Gatzemeier
The debian-desktop wiki page [1] evolved into a good resource for things debian reviewers will most certainly pull on during the sarge review wave. The DebianDesktopHowTo [2] tries to show how to get over some issues. Would be better if it could work without a how-to though. Kind Regards,

Re: Building headless network install the proper way

2004-08-10 Thread C. Gatzemeier
(CCing debian-boot knowledge) Monday 09 August 2004 17:08 Sam Liddicott wrote: [The following] Was not enough to stop it asking for the country, language or keyboard map. A boot string (in pxelinux.cfg/default) of: append vga=normal initrd=debian-installer/initrd.gz

Bug#240721: xdebconfigurator localisation (Re: Bug#240721: localisation set during install is not active afterwards)

2004-08-04 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Am Wednesday 04 August 2004 21:28 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: The manual page is out of date. This feature was moved to another package (locale-config-skolelinux), which isn't uploaded into Sarge yet. Konstantinos Margaritas is preparing an upload of it to Sarge. Thanks for the info. Found

Bug#240721: localisation set during install is not active afterwards

2004-08-03 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Am Monday 26 July 2004 18:46 schrieb Frederik Dannemare: If you can confirm they are no longer present, I will close this report. Much has changed with the installer since April, and it is not unlikely that the problems you mention have been dealt with by the Debian Developers working on the

Bug#240721: localisation set during install is not active afterwards

2004-08-03 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Just a thought, maybe the xdebconfiguratior script-package is already capable to set up X according to the locale? I did just a basic -core install of X. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#240721: xdebconfigurator localisation (Re: Bug#240721: localisation set during install is not active afterwards)

2004-08-03 Thread C. Gatzemeier
CC to xdebconfigurators Ok, the man page suggests xdebconfigurator is capable to take the locales into account when setting up the X keyboard. The version that is in sarge did not seem to set the keyboard model for german systems to pc105, and the Variant to nodeadkeys though. Kind Regards,

Re: state of d-i sarge: broken

2004-07-04 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Am Saturday 03 July 2004 21:14 schrieb Geert Stappers: On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 02:29:55PM +0200, C. Gatzemeier wrote: If it would be possible to provide daily PXE or Etherboot d-i images that might help. People could let their boot servers serve up those and quickly test most functionality

Re: Ideas thrown around for Fully Automated Installations

2004-07-03 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Hi *! Another idea I'd like to throw in is to also keep an eye on m23 and coordinate ideas. m23 offers a complete software distribution system for debian. If the remote job fetching could be made compatible, that would be really great allowing standard d-i images to be distributed, installed

Re: state of d-i sarge: broken

2004-07-03 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Testing on real hardware would be better in such cases, but this requires far more time by burning CD images, for instance.and of course, this also requires hardware. If it would be possible to provide daily PXE or Etherboot d-i images that might help. People could let their boot servers

Bug#231756: FQDN without dhcp confirmed

2004-04-05 Thread C. Gatzemeier
The debian installer should have set your hostname to a fully qualified one, so this should work. Please confirm. I tested this with d-i beta3, I can confirm it works for the non-dhcp case. /etc/hosts has a FQDN and the hostname as alias. Calling hostname --fqdn works ok. This bug can

Bug#240701: please close

2004-04-05 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Thanks for reasigning my bugreport to the right place that I and reportbug did not found. Please close this bug since #239121: netcfg: Use default hostname from DHCP if one is received was already filed 8 days earlier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#237779: #237779: /etc/hosts is wrong (with dhcp)

2004-04-05 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Unfortunately I have to confirm this. But I think it might not be a netcfg issue but rather the duty of the dhcp-client to make sure the network config is consistent as long the connection is under their supervision, and reverted back to original state when stoping the dhcp-client. In my case

d-i: recreating MBR or boot floppy (rescue mode)

2004-04-05 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Hi! found the MBR overwriten by another OS. I thought I could test to recover with d-i, so I did. Installing grub or lilo needed to reenter the partition table, (which is ok) but I couldn't figure out how to write the MBR without newly installing the base-system. When selecting grub or lilo

Bug#240721: debian-installer-demo: localisation set during install is not active afterwards

2004-04-04 Thread C. Gatzemeier
additional information: When choosing a keymap (again!) during base-config and selecting qwertz and then german the F1-F12 and other non alpha-numerical keys do not work. I found out that by re-running dpkg-reconfigure console-data and selecting kemap from complete list the situation is

Bug#240697: acknowledged by developer (closing)

2004-03-29 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Am Montag, 29. März 2004 17:08 schrieb Joey Hess: -- Have prerelease installs default to point to the fixed name (sarge) -- At release time change installation default to point to stable as usual, and issue a security patch to change explicit sarge systems to point to stable. No, we

Bug#240693: debian-installer-demo: potentialy dangerous exit menu name (ambigous)

2004-03-28 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Am Sonntag, 28. März 2004 23:27 schrieb Joey Hess: [ Ccing to Alwin Meschede and Thorsten Sauter were involved in this translation. Note that depsite my last name, I do not speak German. ] Thanks. I've changed the English text to Finish the installation, since it might not be clear what

Bug#240697: acknowledged by developer

2004-03-28 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Hi, I perfectly understand your reasoning, but frakly not quite the conlusion. We do not want a vast quantity of users with sarge in their sources.list, who will then be left without security updates and a trivial upgrade path when sarge+1 is released. Yes, that's me ;-) I'd like my