Re: Announcing Debian-Installer Loader mirrors
2007/1/28, Geert Stappers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Over here is the goodbye-microsoft.com site available. Seems an overload due popular demand. Would a mirror like http://nl.goodbye-microsoft.com help? (where 'nl' is a country name (which I'm willing to host)) Coral Cache http://www.coralcdn.org/ would help here http://goodbye-microsoft.com.nyud.net:8090/ Cheers Praveen -- Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#408465: debian-installer: Fails to provide for scaning second and remaining discs of a CD set.
Hi, 2007/1/26, Philip Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The installation can only use the first disc of the set. No provision for adding other discs of the set, ie apt-cdrom add. Noted on i386 and amd64. Suggested point of addition, after the net installation question. I would also like to see an option to scan other CDs. It was available in sarge installer and it now assumes you are installing from net. It would be good if installer can have a flag to specify which method it is going to use so that when the cdrom installers are created it can set the flag to true and ask user to scan other cds if he/she wishes. Other installers like netinstall can ignore this as default value of this flag is false. This has been a major annoyance since we (in India) still depends on cdrom as the major installtion source as broadband internet connection is not cheap and not available for most people. And since it fails to scan other cds tasksel is not able to install some packages which are not in the first cd (like synaptic) even though which are part of the Desktop task and the user has selected to install it and expect it to be installed. Also there is constraint for the debian-cd team to fit popular packages into the first cd. It would be great if it is included in the debian installer for etch. Cheers Praveen -- Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Etch installer not asking for additional CDs
Hi, With reference to a discussion in debian-boot and debian-desktop, it would be good to have synaptic in first CD as it would make it easier for package management with gui (and even scanning more CDs which used to happen in earlier releases during installtion but will not be there in etch and it leaves 'apt-cdrom add' as the only option to add more CDs). Would it be possible to have synaptic in first CD for etch? Regards Praveen -- Forwarded message -- From: Gustavo Franco [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: २००७ जनवरी ४ ००:२३ Subject: Re: Etch installer not asking for additional CDs To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org, SmartList debian-desktop@lists.debian.org, Raman Pandarinathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 1/2/07, പ്രവീണ്|Praveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [forgot to add debian-destop to the reciepients list in the previous mail]. 2007/1/2, പ്രവീണ്|Praveen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2006/12/20, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 20 December 2006 06:05, Raman Pandarinathan wrote: I wish the etch installer team restores this facility for the poor folks without net connectivity. Yes, this is planned but technically difficult so loading multiple CDs will not be possibly in time for Etch. If we install synaptic with the default install (it is currently in CD 2) adding cdroms would be a bit more friendly (Starting synaptic and Edit-Add CDROM won't scare newbies as much as opening a terminal 'su root' and run apt-cdrom add). Would it be possible before etch? That's possible, but unfortunately it's not up to the debian-desktop team. It relies on the way the packages are organized into the CDs. debian-cd is your target, ping steve or joeyh there but i bet they already replied in -boot. ;) thanks, -- stratus http://stratusandtheswirl.blogspot.com -- Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn. -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr
Re: Etch installer not asking for additional CDs
2006/12/20, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 20 December 2006 06:05, Raman Pandarinathan wrote: I wish the etch installer team restores this facility for the poor folks without net connectivity. Yes, this is planned but technically difficult so loading multiple CDs will not be possibly in time for Etch. If we install synaptic with the default install (it is currently in CD 2) adding cdroms would be a bit more friendly (Starting synaptic and Edit-Add CDROM won't scare newbies as much as opening a terminal 'su root' and run apt-cdrom add). Would it be possible before etch? Regards Praveen -- Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn. -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr
Re: Etch installer not asking for additional CDs
[forgot to add debian-destop to the reciepients list in the previous mail]. 2007/1/2, പ്രവീണ്|Praveen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2006/12/20, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 20 December 2006 06:05, Raman Pandarinathan wrote: I wish the etch installer team restores this facility for the poor folks without net connectivity. Yes, this is planned but technically difficult so loading multiple CDs will not be possibly in time for Etch. If we install synaptic with the default install (it is currently in CD 2) adding cdroms would be a bit more friendly (Starting synaptic and Edit-Add CDROM won't scare newbies as much as opening a terminal 'su root' and run apt-cdrom add). Would it be possible before etch? Regards Praveen -- Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn. -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr -- Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn. -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr
Re: Deactivated languages
2006/11/20, Eddy Petrișor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As I said, the problem is the actual space on the initrd and having a latin languages image/CD and a asian languages image is not such a good idea since you might end up downloading the wrong image and will be faced with a semi-useless cd since you don't know any of the other languages. Can't we give a option to choose a set of languages at the beginning say ASIAN languages, European languages, AFRICAN languages ... We can ship a set of initrd images for each laguage groups and it can be selected from grub menu at boot. (like we used to ship linux 2.4 and linux 2.6 at the same time we could have 5 initrds each for a continent). I think this would solve the problem of initrd image size in a considerable way and would not be tough to implement I think. boot: asian Regards Praveen -- Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn. -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr
Re: Debian Installer etch beta 3 released
Hi,I installed it in mysystem and was trying to do some kernel module development. I was not able to compile modules as the kernel version magic says gcc-4.0 and the default compiler is gcc-4.1 (I have used only first 2 cds). It fails with a message gcc-4.0 not found. when explicitly gave CC=/uslr/bin/gcc-4.1 for make it compiled but failed to insert the module saying the version magic is not correct'2.6.16-2-686 686 gcc 4.1' should have been '2.6.16-2-686 686 gcc 4.0'I hope etch stable will be coming with 2.6.17 compiled with gcc-4.1 Currently I can solve it if I can install gcc-4.0 (which i did in my friend's system). Since I have no net connection at home, i was wondering which CD will have gcc-4.0Then I tried to compile another kernel but again same issue ncurses-dev in which cd :-(So I might want to download 2 more cds and try my luck with those.Just wanted to share this info. CheersPraveen-- Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history.`Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn. -- Richard StallmanMe scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr
