Bug#939799: hw-detect: remove floppy support

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Package: hw-detect
Version: 1.138
tags: patch

in attachment, patch to remove floppy support from the hw-detect package.

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diff --git a/debian/hw-detect.templates b/debian/hw-detect.templates
index c413e88e..b9854bd1 100644
--- a/debian/hw-detect.templates
+++ b/debian/hw-detect.templates
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Default: false
 # :sl2:
 _Description: Load missing drivers from removable media?
  A driver for your hardware is not available. You may need
- to load drivers from removable media, such as a USB stick, or driver floppy.
+ to load drivers from removable media, such as a USB stick.
  .
  If you have such media available now, insert it, and continue.
 
@@ -84,8 +84,7 @@ Default: true
 # :sl2:
 _Description: Load missing firmware from removable media?
  Some of your hardware needs non-free firmware files to operate. The
- firmware can be loaded from removable media, such as a USB stick or
- floppy.
+ firmware can be loaded from removable media, such as a USB stick.
  .
  The missing firmware files are: ${FILES}
  .
diff --git a/debian/po/templates.pot b/debian/po/templates.pot
index 59c12851..ad3c057d 100644
--- a/debian/po/templates.pot
+++ b/debian/po/templates.pot
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ msgstr ""
 #: ../hw-detect.templates:10001
 msgid ""
 "A driver for your hardware is not available. You may need to load drivers "
-"from removable media, such as a USB stick, or driver floppy."
+"from removable media, such as a USB stick."
 msgstr ""
 
 #. Type: boolean
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ msgstr ""
 #: ../hw-detect.templates:11001
 msgid ""
 "Some of your hardware needs non-free firmware files to operate. The firmware "
-"can be loaded from removable media, such as a USB stick or floppy."
+"can be loaded from removable media, such as a USB stick."
 msgstr ""
 
 #. Type: boolean
diff --git a/hw-detect.sh b/hw-detect.sh
index c0f785ae..c6b215bb 100755
--- a/hw-detect.sh
+++ b/hw-detect.sh
@@ -107,8 +107,7 @@ load_module() {
 		IFS="$IFS_SAVE"
 	else   
 		log "Error loading '$module'"
-		if [ "$module" != floppy ] && [ "$module" != ide-floppy ] && \
-		   [ "$module" != ide-cd ] && [ "$module" != ide-generic ]; then
+		if [ "$module" != ide-cd ] && [ "$module" != ide-generic ]; then
 			db_subst hw-detect/modprobe_error CMD_LINE_PARAM "modprobe -v $module"
 			db_input medium hw-detect/modprobe_error || [ $? -eq 30 ]
 			db_go
@@ -145,31 +144,13 @@ get_detected_hw_info() {
 	fi
 }
 
-# NewWorld PowerMacs don't want floppy or ide-floppy, and on some models
-# (e.g. G5s) the kernel hangs when loading the module.
-get_floppy_info() {
-	case $SUBARCH in
-		powerpc/powermac_newworld) ;;
-		*) echo "floppy:Linux Floppy" ;;
-	esac
-}
-
-get_ide_floppy_info() {
-	case $SUBARCH in
-		powerpc/powermac_newworld) ;;
-		*) echo "ide-floppy:Linux IDE floppy" ;;
-	esac
-}
-
 # Manually load modules to enable things we can't detect.
 # XXX: This isn't the best way to do this; we should autodetect.
 # The order of these modules are important.
 get_manual_hw_info() {
 	if [ "$LOAD_IDE" ]; then
-		get_floppy_info
 		get_ide_chipset_info
 		echo "ide-generic:Linux IDE support"
-		get_ide_floppy_info
 		echo "ide-disk:Linux ATA DISK"
 		echo "ide-cd:Linux ATAPI CD-ROM"
 	fi
@@ -502,7 +483,7 @@ if [ -d /sys/class/misc/pmu/ ]; then
 fi
 
 # Install eject?
-if [ -n "$(list-devices cd; list-devices maybe-usb-floppy)" ]; then
+if [ -n "$(list-devices cd )" ]; then
 	apt-install eject || true
 fi
 

Bug#939798: kickseed: remove floppy support

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Package: kickseed
tags: patch

in attachment, patch to remove floppy support from the kickseed package.


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diff --git a/cmdline.sh b/cmdline.sh
index 72dcd72..e1e3f74 100644
--- a/cmdline.sh
+++ b/cmdline.sh
@@ -28,12 +28,6 @@ kickseed_file () {
 		file:/*)
 			echo "${1#file:}"
 			;;
-		floppy)
-			echo /floppy/ks.cfg
-			;;
-		floppy:/*)
-			echo "/floppy${1#floppy:}"
-			;;
 		ftp://*/*)
 			spoolpath="$SPOOL/fetch/ftp/${1#ftp://};
 			mkdir -p "${spoolpath%/*}"
diff --git a/initrd-kickseed b/initrd-kickseed
index e4a0d4f..ec96ba6 100755
--- a/initrd-kickseed
+++ b/initrd-kickseed
@@ -100,11 +100,6 @@ case $KS in
 esac
 
 case $KSCFG in
-	/floppy/*)
-		mountmedia floppy || true
-		KSCFG="/media/${KSCFG#/floppy/}"
-		trap 'umount /media || true' EXIT HUP INT QUIT TERM
-		;;
 	/media/*)
 		device="${KSCFG#/media/}"
 		device="${device%%/*}"

Re: Change templates: CD -> installation medium

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

#. Type: error
 #. Description
 #: ../save-logs.templates:8001
-msgid "Failed to mount the floppy"
+msgid "Failed to mount the removable medium"
 msgstr ""


if floppies are no longer supported could be better to keep them until 
messages/code gets cleaned.




On 07/09/19 12:37, Holger Wansing wrote:

Hi,

Holger Wansing  wrote:

Am Montag, 26. August 2019 schrieb Ben Hutchings:

On Sun, 2019-08-25 at 22:12 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:

Hi,

during the now active development cycle, I would like to make some changes on
templates of the installer (affecting translations as well, of course):


Change "CD" into "installation medium"
(such as in "Loading installer components from CD")

[...]

I absolutely agree with replacing "CD", but I think "installation
medium" might be too abstract and technical.

[...]

In other instances, like when we ask whether to install packages from
another "CD", would a phrase like "disc or drive" work?


This "x or y" construct has potential to confuse people
even more...
IMHO "installation medium" is the best alternative, which
works for all media...
What do others think?


As it seems, "installation medium" wins ;-)

I have collected all relevant messages from different packages and prepared
a first proposal diff, attached.

I would like to get some reviews and comments.
Later, I plan to sent it to debian-l10n-engl...@lists.debian.org for review, 
too.


Holger






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Bug#939071: 6.4 Load Missing Firmware should mention unpacking zip/tar

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

On 02/09/19 16:10, Baptiste Jammet wrote:

[...]


I don't think the installation guide must cover the "how to use a zip
archive" case, but it can maybe suggest to use an external soft and
that firmaware files are *.deb.


Debian includes unzip, why not include it ?



For example, in installation-guide/en/using-d-i/loading-firmware.xml:
[...] and unpack it to
-the file system on the medium.
+the file system on the medium. Use an appropriate software like
+7-Zip (https://www.7-zip.org/)
+or tar (https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/) to obtain a list of *.deb
+files to put in the /firmware directory mentioned.
[...]
It is also possible to copy individual firmware files to the medium. Loose
firmware could be obtained for example from an already installed system or
-from a hardware vendor.
+from a hardware vendor. These files are generally binary files and
+named *.bin.

Baptiste




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Bug#880122: remove all references to floppies on hw-detect

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hello,

for review.

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diff --git a/debian/hw-detect.templates b/debian/hw-detect.templates
index c413e88e..b9854bd1 100644
--- a/debian/hw-detect.templates
+++ b/debian/hw-detect.templates
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Default: false
 # :sl2:
 _Description: Load missing drivers from removable media?
  A driver for your hardware is not available. You may need
- to load drivers from removable media, such as a USB stick, or driver floppy.
+ to load drivers from removable media, such as a USB stick.
  .
  If you have such media available now, insert it, and continue.
 
@@ -84,8 +84,7 @@ Default: true
 # :sl2:
 _Description: Load missing firmware from removable media?
  Some of your hardware needs non-free firmware files to operate. The
- firmware can be loaded from removable media, such as a USB stick or
- floppy.
+ firmware can be loaded from removable media, such as a USB stick.
  .
  The missing firmware files are: ${FILES}
  .
diff --git a/debian/po/templates.pot b/debian/po/templates.pot
index 59c12851..ad3c057d 100644
--- a/debian/po/templates.pot
+++ b/debian/po/templates.pot
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ msgstr ""
 #: ../hw-detect.templates:10001
 msgid ""
 "A driver for your hardware is not available. You may need to load drivers "
-"from removable media, such as a USB stick, or driver floppy."
+"from removable media, such as a USB stick."
 msgstr ""
 
 #. Type: boolean
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ msgstr ""
 #: ../hw-detect.templates:11001
 msgid ""
 "Some of your hardware needs non-free firmware files to operate. The firmware "
-"can be loaded from removable media, such as a USB stick or floppy."
+"can be loaded from removable media, such as a USB stick."
 msgstr ""
 
 #. Type: boolean
diff --git a/hw-detect.sh b/hw-detect.sh
index c0f785ae..c6b215bb 100755
--- a/hw-detect.sh
+++ b/hw-detect.sh
@@ -107,8 +107,7 @@ load_module() {
 		IFS="$IFS_SAVE"
 	else   
 		log "Error loading '$module'"
-		if [ "$module" != floppy ] && [ "$module" != ide-floppy ] && \
-		   [ "$module" != ide-cd ] && [ "$module" != ide-generic ]; then
+		if [ "$module" != ide-cd ] && [ "$module" != ide-generic ]; then
 			db_subst hw-detect/modprobe_error CMD_LINE_PARAM "modprobe -v $module"
 			db_input medium hw-detect/modprobe_error || [ $? -eq 30 ]
 			db_go
@@ -145,31 +144,13 @@ get_detected_hw_info() {
 	fi
 }
 
-# NewWorld PowerMacs don't want floppy or ide-floppy, and on some models
-# (e.g. G5s) the kernel hangs when loading the module.
-get_floppy_info() {
-	case $SUBARCH in
-		powerpc/powermac_newworld) ;;
-		*) echo "floppy:Linux Floppy" ;;
-	esac
-}
-
-get_ide_floppy_info() {
-	case $SUBARCH in
-		powerpc/powermac_newworld) ;;
-		*) echo "ide-floppy:Linux IDE floppy" ;;
-	esac
-}
-
 # Manually load modules to enable things we can't detect.
 # XXX: This isn't the best way to do this; we should autodetect.
 # The order of these modules are important.
 get_manual_hw_info() {
 	if [ "$LOAD_IDE" ]; then
-		get_floppy_info
 		get_ide_chipset_info
 		echo "ide-generic:Linux IDE support"
-		get_ide_floppy_info
 		echo "ide-disk:Linux ATA DISK"
 		echo "ide-cd:Linux ATAPI CD-ROM"
 	fi
@@ -502,7 +483,7 @@ if [ -d /sys/class/misc/pmu/ ]; then
 fi
 
 # Install eject?
-if [ -n "$(list-devices cd; list-devices maybe-usb-floppy)" ]; then
+if [ -n "$(list-devices cd )" ]; then
 	apt-install eject || true
 fi
 

Re: Bug#935069: installation-guide: remove mentions of floppies

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hello,

On 18/08/19 23:44, Holger Wansing wrote:

Package: installation-guide
Severity: wishlist


The installation-guide still mentions floppies as installation-media.
Remove that.


Filing this bugreport as a reminder.

Holger




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diff --git a/build/arch-options/hurd-i386 b/build/arch-options/hurd-i386
index 0b341aeb6..7177cc32e 100644
--- a/build/arch-options/hurd-i386
+++ b/build/arch-options/hurd-i386
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ smp_config_option="N/A"
 fdisk="fdisk.txt;cfdisk.txt"
 network=""
 # For Lenny i386 does not have floppy images
-#boot="supports-floppy-boot;bootable-disk"
 boot="bootable-disk"
 frontend="newt"
 other=""
diff --git a/build/arch-options/i386 b/build/arch-options/i386
index 4cb7d5316..090b1ca5e 100644
--- a/build/arch-options/i386
+++ b/build/arch-options/i386
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ smp_config_option="Symmetric multi-processing support"
 fdisk="fdisk.txt;cfdisk.txt"
 network="supports-tftp;supports-bootp;supports-nfsroot"
 # For Lenny i386 does not have floppy images
-#boot="supports-floppy-boot;bootable-disk;bootable-usb"
 boot="bootable-disk;bootable-usb;isohybrid-supported"
 frontend="newt;gtk"
 other="supports-wireless;supports-pcmcia;supports-serial-console"
diff --git a/build/arch-options/kfreebsd-i386 b/build/arch-options/kfreebsd-i386
index 46be8b717..8da63c7ed 100644
--- a/build/arch-options/kfreebsd-i386
+++ b/build/arch-options/kfreebsd-i386
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ smp_config_option="Symmetric multi-processing support"
 fdisk="fdisk.txt;cfdisk.txt"
 network="supports-tftp;supports-bootp;supports-nfsroot"
 # For Lenny i386 does not have floppy images
-#boot="supports-floppy-boot;bootable-disk;bootable-usb"
 boot="bootable-disk;bootable-usb;isohybrid-unsupported"
 frontend="newt;not-gtk"
 other="supports-wireless;supports-pcmcia;supports-serial-console"
diff --git a/build/arch-options/powerpc b/build/arch-options/powerpc
index d885d54e2..db8a8d8fa 100644
--- a/build/arch-options/powerpc
+++ b/build/arch-options/powerpc
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ smp_config_option="Symmetric multi-processing support"
 # in the build scripts
 fdisk="mac-fdisk.txt;cfdisk.txt"
 network="supports-tftp;supports-bootp;supports-nfsroot"
-boot="supports-floppy-boot;bootable-disk"
+boot="bootable-disk"
 frontend="newt;gtk"
 other="supports-wireless;supports-pcmcia;supports-serial-console"
 smp="supports-smp-sometimes"
diff --git a/build/entities/common.ent b/build/entities/common.ent
index 128095798..37ebf5991 100644
--- a/build/entities/common.ent
+++ b/build/entities/common.ent
@@ -184,5 +184,4 @@ to first switch tasksel to that DE using the following command, e.g:
"install.386amd">
 
 
-
   
diff --git a/build/templates/docstruct.ent b/build/templates/docstruct.ent
index f3b6e8faa..112c7881b 100644
--- a/build/templates/docstruct.ent
+++ b/build/templates/docstruct.ent
@@ -60,10 +60,6 @@
  
 
 
-  
-   
-   
-
   


diff --git a/en/appendix/chroot-install.xml b/en/appendix/chroot-install.xml
index 6dd075af2..e4b7c2505 100644
--- a/en/appendix/chroot-install.xml
+++ b/en/appendix/chroot-install.xml
@@ -304,7 +304,6 @@ Here is a sample you can modify to suit:
 /dev/XXX none  swapsw   00
 proc /proc procdefaults 00
 
-/dev/fd0 /media/floppy autonoauto,rw,sync,user,exec 00
 /dev/cdrom   /media/cdrom  iso9660 noauto,ro,user,exec  00
 
 /dev/XXX /tmp  ext3rw,nosuid,nodev  02
diff --git a/en/appendix/files.xml b/en/appendix/files.xml
index 9ecbce948..0103afd2a 100644
--- a/en/appendix/files.xml
+++ b/en/appendix/files.xml
@@ -16,16 +16,6 @@ The most important device files are listed in the tables below.
 
 
 
-
-
-  fd0
-  First Floppy Drive
-
-  fd1
-  Second Floppy Drive
-
-
-
 
 
   sda
diff --git a/en/appendix/pppoe.xml b/en/appendix/pppoe.xml
index a4610abbf..d2d6d1292 100644
--- a/en/appendix/pppoe.xml
+++ b/en/appendix/pppoe.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ after the reboot into the installed system (see ).
 To have the option of setting up and using PPPoE during the installation,
 you will need to install using one of the CD-ROM/DVD images that are
 available. It is not supported for other installation methods (e.g.
-netboot or floppy).
+netboot).
 
 
 
diff --git a/en/appendix/preseed.xml b/en/appendix/preseed.xml
index df8f2d841..1ec09a627 100644
--- a/en/appendix/preseed.xml
+++ b/en/appendix/preseed.xml
@@ -94,16 +94,6 @@ installation methods.
   yes
   yes
   yes
-
-  floppy based (cd-drivers)
-  yes
-  yes
-  yes
-
-  floppy based (net-drivers)
-  yes
-  no
-  yes
 
   ge

Bug#868900: iso-scan: should be able to copy the ISO into RAM before mount

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

On 19-07-2017 16:19, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

Source: iso-scan
Version: 1.57
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

When you use an ISO image stored on a disk, it makes it impossible to
re-use that disk in the installation process (e.g. for automatic
partitioning).

In order to avoid this limitation, I would like iso-scan to be able
to copy the ISO image into RAM and to mount it from there. The attached
patch implements precisely when the debconf question "iso-scan/copy_iso_to_ram"
returns true.

It would be nice to see this merged (the patch applies cleanly on top
of the one in #868859, but you can also merge it separately if you drop
the changelog entry).

Let me know if there's anything to improve before it's ready to be merged
(notably on the debconf template, etc.).


[...]

Installation guide update ?

Re: Não instala Debian 9.1

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Boa tarde,

esta lista destina-se a desenvolvimento do instalador e é usada em Inglês.

Caso queira preencher um relatório da instalação com os detalhes do modo 
de falha:

https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch05s04.html.pt#problem-report

Caso não consiga reportar em Inglês, então é melhor utilizar a lista 
para utilizadores, em Português: debian-user-portugu...@lists.debian.org



On 31-07-2017 18:20, Paulo Roberto Jusviak Dambros wrote:

Boa tarde,

Há alguns dias estou baixando e tentando instalar o debian no meu PC e no
Notebook. Mas sempre emite a mensagem dizendo que a instalação falhou. Eu
baixei a iso via torrent. O que pode ser?



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Bug#869932: QNAP TS-41x models - fix typo

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Package: debian-installer
Version: n/a
Tags: patch
Severity: minor

Index: manual/en/install-methods/download/arm.xml
===
--- manual/en/install-methods/download/arm.xml  (revision 70809)
+++ manual/en/install-methods/download/arm.xml  (working copy)
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 The installation files for the QNAP Turbo Station consist of a kernel and
 ramdisk as well as a script to write these images to flash.  You can 
obtain

 the installation files for QNAP TS-11x/TS-12x, HS-210, TS-21x/TS-22x and
-TS-41x/TS-41x models from .
+TS-41x/TS-42x models from .

 

Bug#868869: debian-installer should not recommend to change password periodically (and more)

[Miguel Figueiredo]

On 24-07-2017 11:38, Hideki Yamane wrote:

Hi,

On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 10:49:53 +0200
Philipp Kern  wrote:

It seems to me that today at least the guidance of mixed
character classes still makes some sense as a default, to avoid the most
obvious blunder of just using a simple dictionary word and be
compromised over SSH because password authentication is turned on.


  Okay, I agree with it.



And change it to make brute force attacks harder.


  But it also makes administrator to remember it harder as its trade-off...
  (and they maybe choose easy password as a result). It's a not good idea
  to suggests to change root password periodically, IMO. It's not a best
  practice.


  1) Add password check feature whether password has an enough strength
 like RHEL's anaconda or SUSE's installer.
  2) Drop suggestion root password change periodically from message.

  is better.




We have libpam-passwqc on the archive, which it's a "Password 
quality-control PAM module".

I think it addresses the point of checking the password strength.

Re: Acer c720 OS replacement

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Seems to be Intel 64-bit processor, so amd64 image:

http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.2.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso


On 16-09-2015 20:10, Jake Lar wrote:

Hello, I'm replacing the Chrome operating system on my Acer c720 and I'm
not sure which netinst CD image is appropriate for the Exynos 5250 GAIA
ARM processor (haswell architecture).

Could you give me any direction with this?

Thank you!

-J


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Bug#542899: manpages for os-prober

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hello all,

in attachment proposal for manpages for os-prober based on it's 
documentation.


Please review and improve.
Feel free to use it.


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.\ Manpage for os-prober.
.\ Contact debian-boot@lists.debian.org for improvements.
.TH os-prober 1 20 Sep 2014 1.0 os-prober man page
.SH NAME
os-prober - detect other filesystems with operating systems on them 
.SH SYNOPSIS
os-prober
.SH DESCRIPTION
This is a small package that may be depended on by any bootloader
installer package to detect other filesystems with o perating systems on
them, and work out how to boot other linux installs.

All one has to do is Depend on os-prober, and then run the os-prober
command. This command takes no arguments: it will scan all disks available
on the system for other operating systems, and output a list of strings
such as:

 /dev/sda1:Windows NT/2000/XP:WinNT:chain
 ^---^ ^^ ^---^ ^---^
  part.OS name for boot  short May change: type of boot loader
   loader's pretty   name  required. Usually there is only
   output  a 'linux' style bootloader or
   a chain one for other partitions
   with their own boot sectors.

Tests are executable programs in the directory /usr/lib/os-probes/. Each
test is called once per partition, with the partiton to check as its
parameter, and may output a string as described above, or nothing if it does
not recognise an OS on that partition. Tests return an exit code of 0
if they successfully found an OS, and no further tests will be run on that
partition; or return an exit code of 1 to indicate that no OS was found,
and let the next test run.

Tests that require the partition to be mounted can be placed in
/usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/. These tests are passed the following
parameters: partition, mount point, filesystem.

Bootloader installer packages will then have to process this output (fairly
trivial) to create valid configuration entries for the bootloader.

Note that os-prober can find other Linux installations, as well as other
operating systems. It does not try to work out all the information needed
to boot Linux (initrd, kernel params, etc). That task is left to
linux-boot-prober.
.SH OPTIONS
os-prober does not take any options.
.SH SEE ALSO
linux-boot-prober(1)
.SH BUGS
See http://bugs.debian-org/os-prober
.SH AUTHOR
 os-prober by the Debian Installer Team debian-boot@lists.debian.org
.\ Manpage for linux-boot-prober.
.\ Contact debian-boot@lists.debian.org for improvements.
.TH linux-boot-prober 1 20 Sep 2014 1.0 linux-boot-prober man page
.SH NAME
linux-boot-prober - figures out how to boot a linux partition
.SH SYNOPSIS
linux-boot-prober PARTITION_STRING (as returned by os-prober)
.SH DESCRIPTION

the linux-boot-prober command should be run with a single argument
consisting of a partition that is known to have a linux root filesystem on
it, as returned by the os-prober command. It will try to work out how to
boot that linux installation, and if it is successful, will output one or
more lines in the form:

 /dev/sda2:/dev/sda1:Linux:/vmlinuz:/initrd.gz:root=/dev/sda1
 ^---^ ^---^ ^---^ ^--^ ^^ ^^
   root  bootlabel  kernelinitrdkernel params
   part. part.

The root partition and boot partition may of course be the same. No guarantee
is made that any partitions referred to in the kernel parameters will still be
in the same place after Debian is installed, or that the /etc/fstab of the
system will be right, or that the system will even boot. The initrd field may
be empty if there is no initrd.  The label is whatever label was used in the
boot loader for this linux installation, and it may be quite long or very
short (or nonexistent), and may be inaccurate, confusing, or non-unique. See
TODO for other limitations.

The tests used by linux-boot-prober are in the directory
/usr/lib/linux-boot-probes/ and also in /usr/lib/linux-boot-probes/mounted,
and they are called in a similar way as the os-probes described above.
The mounted probes are passed parameters for the root partition, the boot
partition, and the directory the filesystems are mounted in.

linux-boot-prober skips over partitions that are currently mounted on /,
/target, or /target/boot.
.SH OPTIONS
linux-boot-prober does not take any options
.SH SEE ALSO
os-prober(1)
.SH BUGS
See http://bugs.debian-org/os-prober
.SH AUTHOR
 os-prober by the Debian Installer Team debian-boot@lists.debian.org

Bug#774466: delete cdn.debian.net from mirrors list

[Miguel Figueiredo]

diff --git a/Mirrors.masterlist b/Mirrors.masterlist
index bd8718a..92bd6e4 100644
--- a/Mirrors.masterlist
+++ b/Mirrors.masterlist
@@ -54,17 +54,6 @@ Comment: HTTP redirector that uses the geo and 
network location of the

  few other things. Details: http://http.debian.net
 Sponsor: http://http.debian.net/

-Site: cdn.debian.net
-Type: GeoDNS
-Archive-architecture: amd64 arm64 armel armhf hurd-i386 i386 ia64 
kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc ppc64el s390 s390x sparc

-Archive-http: /debian/
-Archive-upstream: ftp-master.debian.org
-IPv6: no
-Maintainer: Yasuhiro Araki a...@debian.org, Kenshi Muto km...@debian.org
-Comment: Automatically selects geographically close, load balanced mirror
- from a pool of mirrors that are tested frequently to ensure they are
- healthy. Details: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianGeoMirror
-
 Site: ftp.us.debian.org
 Alias: http.us.debian.org
 Includes: mirrors.kernel.org debian.osuosl.org debian.csail.mit.edu 
mirror.mycre.ws debian.gtisc.gatech.edu



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Re: erro no debian 7,7

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On 15-12-2014 10:07, Eduardo Manoel wrote:

instalei o debian 7.7 e apos a instalação deu o erro e a mensagem:no bootable 
device--insert boot disk and press any keyTinha anteriormente em meu note ACER 
ARPIRE E1-572-6, o ubuntu 14.04 Quando estava instalando ele não reconheceu a placa de 
rede (ethernet) já tentei todas as formas de particionar o disco, tentei restaurar o 
grub, tentei pendrive de inicialização. depois disso somente consegui instalar o fedora 
pois nem mesmo o ubuntu consegui voltar. tentei baixar novamente tanto em torrente como 
em CD SIO e não funciona é a versão 64bits agora estou baixando a 32 para testar. mas 
gostaria de saber o porque disso e como corrigir pois useu o debian em maquina virtual e 
gostei por isso estava mudando de distro.
Aguardo resposta.Atenciosamente,Eduardo Manoel




Esta lista é em Inglês, e sobre desenvolvimento do instalador de Debian.
A lista mais apropriada é:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user-portuguese/

O guia de instalação normalmente é uma grande ajuda:
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/pt_BR.amd64/index.html

Já agora esse Acer parece ter um processador i5, 64bit.
Instalar a 32bit não deverá ser a solução.


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Bug#769996: debian-installer: Possible help text for win32diskimager users

[Miguel Figueiredo]

[...]

 I'm not sure how comfortable I feel with including instructions for
 Windows-based stuff in to the installation guide. Maybe people more
 used to dealing with the manual will voice their opinions here.

IMHO it's a very good idea to add instructions to those who came from a
non-Debian OS.
Probably that's the public who most looks and needs for this guide.

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the the on a sentence on the installation manual

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Index: hardware/supported/arm.xml
===
--- hardware/supported/arm.xml  (revisão 69344)
+++ hardware/supported/arm.xml  (cópia de trabalho)
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
 listitempara

 The Intel IXP4xx processor series has been used in network attached 
storage

-devices like the the Linksys NSLU2.  debian; has supported the IXP4xx
+devices like the Linksys NSLU2.  debian; has supported the IXP4xx
 platform in debian; 7, but does not support it anymore from version 8 on,
 as the formerly supported devices do not provide enough flash capacity for
 the kernel used in debian; 8.


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Re: Bug#762024: installation-guide-amd64: Please add caution warning to instructions to create a usb bootable stick

[Miguel Figueiredo]

On 17-09-2014 21:22, Prekates Alexandros wrote:

Package: installation-guide-amd64
Severity: normal

In  Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide in section 4.3.1 Preparing a USB stick
using a hybrid CD or DVD image [1]
it says:

# cp debian.iso /dev/sdX
# sync

Unfortunately i used /dev/sdb1  spenting a couple of hours
trying to figure out why my mobo would boot my usb flash with
the debian image resulting in the thread:
''USB bootable debian stick wont boot on 890FXA-GD65 mobo''[2]
in the debian-user list  where after some messages a friend send
me an analytical example [3] understanding my error which in short
was that i wrote the image to a partition not to the whole drive.

So i think that it'd be helpfull the aforementioned 4.3.1 paragraph
to have a warning of caution to use the name of disk not partition.

I know that in better days with less fatique and more time i could have
think of my mistake but under pressure i blindly followed the manual
substituting the 'X' with what ever i like.



I've took a look to the text and to be honest it seems OK.
sdX it's a common nomenclature in *nix-world, the paragraph uses the 
term USB stick and not partition.
On top of the page/chapter (4.3) there's the explanation for the 
nomenclature used, see:


http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/ch04s03.html

[...] When the USB stick is inserted, it will be mapped to a device 
named /dev/sdX, where the “X” is a letter in the range a-z. [...]



Nevertheless if you really feel the instructions can be improved, here's 
a proposal using USB stick device (added device):



Index: install-methods/boot-usb-files.xml
===
--- install-methods/boot-usb-files.xml  (revisão 69341)
+++ install-methods/boot-usb-files.xml  (cópia de trabalho)
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 The CD or DVD image you choose should be written directly to the USB 
stick,

 overwriting its current contents. For example, when using an existing
 GNU/Linux system, the CD or DVD image file can be written to a USB stick
-as follows, after having made sure that the stick is unmounted:
+device as follows, after having made sure that the stick is unmounted:
 informalexamplescreen
 prompt#/prompt userinputcp replaceabledebian.iso/replaceable 
/dev/replaceablesdX/replaceable/userinput




Alexandros Prekates
http://librebytes.gr



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Re: Bug#762024: installation-guide-amd64: Please add caution warning to instructions to create a usb bootable stick

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

On 18-09-2014 16:58, Ben Hutchings wrote:
[...]


As people are still making this mistake, I would suggest explicitly
saying The image must be written to the whole-disk device and not a
partition, e.g. /dev/sdb and not /dev/sdb1.


Proposal based on your suggestion:

 The CD or DVD image you choose should be written directly to the USB 
stick,

overwriting its current contents. For example, when using an existing
GNU/Linux system, the image must be written to the whole-disk device
and not to a partition (e.g. /dev/sdb and not /dev/sdb1), after having made
sure that the stick is unmounted, do as follows:

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Bug#721847: mkfs.btrfs -f

[Miguel Figueiredo]

According mkfs.btrfs manpage the behaviour is expected:

-f, --force
  Force overwrite when an existing filesystem is detected 
on the device.  By default, mkfs.btrfs will not write to the device if 
it suspects that there is a filesystem or partition table on the device 
already.


I guess the change should be made on partman-btrfs/commit.d/format_btrfs

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Bug#740795: problems installing debian without internet connection

[Miguel Figueiredo]

On 05-03-2014 21:28, Jay Philips wrote:

Hi KiBi,

I would be glad to supply more information, but dont know what the 4th
console is.


You can switch console by pressing Alt+Number of console, for example to 
switch to console 4:


ALT+4

I searched online for the phrase but couldnt find any

explanation of it. I checked the errata[1] as you suggested, but
unfortunately it doesnt relate to me as grub isnt getting installed on
my usb and i never get the message Install the GRUB boot loader to the
master boot record?. When i reach the 'Install the GRUB boot loader on
a hard disk' page, it directly gives me the error. When i attempted to
install lilo instead, i would like to put it, it gave me the message
Running /sbin/lilo failed with the error code 127. It is mentioned
in errata, that it should be possible to recover using the rescue mode
of the installer. where can i find this rescue mode in the installer?


On the installer boot screen choose advanced options then Rescue mode.



Jay Philips

On 03/05/2014 12:45 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:

Hi Jay,

Jay Philips philip...@hotmail.com (2014-03-05):

Package: debian-installer

I was installing debian from the 7.4 64-bit xfce installer and chose
not to setup my internet settings, but during the grub bootloader
installation part, I got the following error The 'grub-pc' package
failed to install into /target/. Without the GRUB boot loader, the
installed system will not boot. There is already a report on this
and it stated that it was fixed 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672689 . I was
installing from a 4gb usb.

any chance you could switch to the 4th console to see if there are more
accurate messages explaining what went wrong when installing grub? Maybe
you suffered from the first item documented in errata[1] and grub failed
to get set up on the installation medium?

  1.
https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/debian-installer/index.html#errata

Mraw,
KiBi.






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Bug#740795: problems installing debian without internet connection

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On 05-03-2014 22:05, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 09:49:41PM +, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:

You can switch console by pressing Alt+Number of console, for
example to switch to console 4:

ALT+4


Unless something has changed, at least in the past it had to be left alt,
and F4, but maybe there are new shortcuts I don't know about.



Alt+F4

you're right

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Bug#707570: Error

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Em 10-05-2013 19:32, Holger Wansing escreveu:

Hi,



[...]


From above I read, that the subscriber used a CD as installation

medium, and the network configuration failed.
So, it was an installation from a single CD, without network mirror.
This most probably leads to a console-only install, without X.
And I think, this is what the subscriber is missing: the graphical
interface.

Holger



I've been discussing this by email with the OP and so it seems.
If you don't oppose I will close the BR as it was a successful installation.

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Bug#707570: Error

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

From your description seems you login on a console based system, with 
success.

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Bug#706438: installation-report: Perfect install on Toshiba Satellite C675

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

[...]
It took more then 24 hours for the encryption

process to go through and wipe the drive. (At least that is what I think it was 
doing.)
Minimum there should be a warning about this, and ideally it would be nice to 
skip it
with the option of doing it manually (for non-root partitions) later.


hitting cancel while the partition it's being wiped, skips the 
exhaustive wipe and jumps to the next step of the installation.


BTW, this suggestion seems to be the same as in #678015.

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Bug#701823: installation-report: Encrypted LVM assisted install failed on Lenovo T430s

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Em 27-02-2013 15:45, Raphaël Walther escreveu:

Please find attached the error message and a few logs.



Lot's of hard drive errors, such as:

Feb 27 12:53:59 kernel: [  839.770044] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 
0xfffc SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
Feb 27 12:53:59 kernel: [  839.770052] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE 
FPDMA QUEUED
Feb 27 12:53:59 kernel: [  839.770062] ata1.00: cmd 
61/08:10:90:8e:2b/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 2 ncq 4096 out
Feb 27 12:53:59 kernel: [  839.770076]  res 
40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)


quick googling, FWIW, reports bad sata cables/drives...

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Re: [portuguese translation of d-i manual] Fuzzy or unfuzzy - that's the question here

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Em 04-01-2013 17:25, Holger Wansing escreveu:

[...]


The string in question was marked as 2dwfuzzy, which was not
understood by msgmerge.


[...]

The 2dw was what I typed in Vim it should had deleted the fuzzy, 
instead of typing.

The translation it's correct, thanks for taking care of this.

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Re: Switching to graphical installer by default?

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Em 03-01-2013 01:27, Steve McIntyre escreveu:

[...]


None here, we could/should have done it a while back IMO.


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Re: DI 7.0 Beta4: fails to mount and find non-free firmware?

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi all,

Em 02-01-2013 21:38, Cyril Brulebois escreveu:

[...]


sure: not fixed in b4, will be in rc1; if somebody commits that for
errata, this link (workaround) might be useful:
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694582#10


Here it goes for discussion:

---8-

* Firmware not loaded from USB stick

If you are providing firmware for installation on a USB stick and the 
installer don't find it (e.g. multiple partitions on usb stick, 
different usb sticks) it's suggested in #694582, as workaround, that you 
manually mount the partition so the firmware is found and loaded for the 
rest of the installation.

The process it's:

1 - After configuring keyboard open a terminal (ALT+F2).
2 - edit /bin/mountmedia:
# nano /bin/mountmedia
3 - Find the following text:
	PARTITION_TYPE=$(blkid -p -s PART_ENTRY_TYPE $1 | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | 
cut -d \ -f 2)


if [ $PARTITION_TYPE != 0x5 ]  [ $PARTITION_TYPE != 
0xf ]; then

mount $1 -tauto $MNT || true
umount $MNT || true
mount $1 -tauto $MNT
media_mounted  checkcontents $MNT
fi

and reduce it to:

mount $1 -tauto $MNT || true
umount $MNT || true
mount $1 -tauto $MNT
media_mounted  checkcontents $MNT

4. Save and continue with the installation.


This issue was identified and will be fixed on Debian Installer 7 
(Wheezy) RC1.



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Bug#695058: Linux installation bug

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Em 03-12-2012 20:49, Jack Wilborn escreveu:

[...]


My questions:  Can I invoke it to just give me a non gui interface via some 
boot option?
  This option would at least allow me to view what's happening and if the boot 
actually completed properly.

I tried to download the'netinst'  image and it resulted in the same problem. 
Although I could ^C out of the scripts and get to a partial system, but many 
things seemed missing.
should I install another option, install expert64, etc?  I was hoping that the 
complete system would avoid this problem.  Any suggestions would be 
appreciated.  Note that I can't get into the system to

run any commands or see any output.  Is there any way to get'error out'  or the 
displayed output to some device? like a printer or better still a file that I 
can find?



Use your netinst image to boot in rescue mode.
With your installation image you can also choose to boot with other 
frontends, see manual [1].


What you describe seems similar to #694803 where the user also reports 
screen is black, probably due to bad screen detection.



1 - http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/ch05s03.html
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Re: Bug#694803: Wheezy beta4 installation report

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Hi all,

tl;dr: CRT monitor working freqs we're not correctly auto-detected and 
screen went black.


Which component is responsible for screen auto-detection?

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Bug#694777: Wheezy Beta4 installs but X server unusable

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Em 01-12-2012 07:23, Christian PERRIER escreveu:

Quoting Brian Potkin (claremont...@gmail.com):


Perhaps the installer could warn the user if her video card is among those
listed in AtiHowTo and the installer doesn't see the firmware supplied
somewhere by the user.  Perhaps just a referral to the wiki page ?


Didn't the installer ask for RV610_pfp.bin to be supplied?



Logically, no. Firmware for video cards is none of the installer's
business. Of coure, from the user point of view, all this is related,
but  from the logical organisation of packages, it is not. Unless I
missed something somewhere (which is possible), we focus out
firmware-related attention on network cards.



Although not mandatory for installation IMHO this could fit in hw-detect.

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Bug#694788: bug report against the installation-reports

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Em 30-11-2012 11:01, Juan Pablo Carbajal escreveu:

[...]

 Comments/Problems:

Configure network: THe system fails to find a network connection.
Complains about not using DHCP. Though the list fo netwrok devices
(wired and wireless) were correctly detected it may be that at this
point it cannot use them. I did not install firmware-linux-nonfree and
I am not sure if the DVD image already includes them.


nonfree packages, as the one you mention, are not distributed.
If you want to add firmware during installation process take a look to 
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s04.html


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Bug#692475: (no subject)

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

Em 06-11-2012 18:55, Florent Bories escreveu:

Hi,

I forgot some information.
It is inserted in the correct place.

The system was correctly installed with the beta3 d-i (regression
confirmation?)

Best regards,
Florent


can you send the (gzipped) installation log to document the issue?

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Bug#690977: partman-auto: Add a way to add discard option to filesystems

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Em 19-10-2012 19:51, Laurent Bigonville escreveu:

[...]


SSD requires filesystems (ext{3,4}, swap,...) to be mounted with the
discard option to send TRIM command to the underlying drive.

It should be possible to add this option to the fstab during install.


https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2012/03/msg00184.html

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Bug#688695: installation-reports: install a success, but there were misleading/noninformative navigation messages for text installer

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

[...]


Start screen says Press ENTER to boot or TAB to edit a menu entry

That last verb is nonsensical.  Why would you want to edit a menu
entry?  I think what is meant here is navigate (as opposed to edit)
menus.  However, I am not sure because the tab key did nothing!  I
actually navigated to the advance options using the arrow key (not the
tab key) and then entered that menu with ENTER (contrary to the above
message which claims that will boot).


to add/edit boot parameters.
More details on these parameters on 
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/ch05s03.html.


[...]


* Detect and mount CD-ROM is misleading when installing from a USB stick
(as I was).  Even the actual successful detection message claimed my
USB stick was a CD-ROM.  This overall menu item should read instead
something like Detect and mount installation medium (CD-ROM, USB-stick, etc.)

* Same issue with Load installer components from CD


It's a CD-ROM image, not a CD-ROM.

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Re: Realtek RTL8192SE Module

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

Em 22-09-2012 03:57, Robert W escreveu:

Hi there,

I've just attempted an install of Wheezy using the Beta 2 installer but
I'm unable to continue due to the kernel is missing the Realtek
rtl8192se module (CONFIG_RTL8192SE).
However it's included within the kernel to be installed. Why is this?

Regards,
Robert.


It seems [1] non-free firmware is needed to use that hardware.
You may need the firmware-realtek [2] package on non-free section of the 
archive.
The installer manual [3] provides info on adding external firmware files 
to the installation process.



1 - http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x
2 - http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firmware-realtek
3 - http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/ch06s04.html

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Bug#683381: Debian Wheezy boot fails on HP 635

[Miguel Figueiredo]

On 31-07-2012 11:20, Leroy Baum wrote:

[...]


After a successful installation Wheezy refuses to boot. After GRUB I get 
graphical“snow”  and graphical errors.


[...]

Can you can use the installation CD to boot into rescue mode and then 
install the package linux-firmware-nonfree [1] and report if your 
graphical problems are gone?


1 - http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/all/firmware-linux-nonfree/download

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Bug#679339: debian-installer: ENOSPC on /var after autopartioning with separate partitions

[Miguel Figueiredo]

There are other bug reports regarding not enough storage.
I am posting a list in case it makes sense to merge with any of this:

#241478 - Should not show the autopartitioning dialog when there is no 
enough space (even on the entire drive)


#250284 - Should warn when trying to create file system in partitions 
with inadapted (too small) size


#264903 - Please check size

#265290 - 1.8GB are not enough for / with desktop (autopartition with home)

#282155 - distinguish out-of-space from other installation failures

#356521 - free space is too small error should say roughly what the 
minimum size has to be


#368690 - Should better handle a full partition in the target system

#399686 - debootstrap should fail when there is no more diskspace.

#410735 - installation-report: tasksel should give information about 
discspace


#435769 - debian-installer: no checking for sufficient disk space

#538348 - pkgsel/tasksel: can no longer determine free space for desktop 
task


#553482 - installation-reports: confusing error message if partition too 
small


#579523 - pkgsel - Does not detect ENOSPC errors

#591277 - Minimal size for partitions might be too small

#593545 - Fails on disk space with autopart, sep. /home, too many tasks

#593998 - installation-reports: Guided setup cannot install Desktop as 
root partition too small


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Re: Problem with autoconfiguration process

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Hi,

On 28-06-2012 13:24, H.D. wrote:

Hello, I had some difficulty installing Debian. Specifically, when I'm
doing the network autoconfiguration, the wizard is asking for me to
download the  rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw file.


I have checked countless forums online and many of them suggest
downloading another package. The only problem with that is that I can
not download anything yet (even if I use Ctrl-Alt-F2) because
rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw is needed to access my wifi or web.

Can you please help me with this?


Debian Installer don't include non-free firmware but if the user wants 
it's possible to load it during the installation process.

You can do it as described on the installation guide [1].

Altough Debian don't distribute non-free packages there is a non-free 
section on the archive. The file you mention is included on the 
firmware-realtek package [2].


I hope this helps.

1 - http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/ch06s04.html
2 - http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firmware-realtek
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Re: wheezy alpha1 release: red screen

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Hi,

on the log you sent i found the following issues:

1 - udhcp - unknown parameter

Jun 19 23:26:48 main-menu[281]: (process:4263): udhcpc: has been called 
with an unknown param: leasefail

Jun 19 23:26:48 main-menu[281]: (process:4263): Received SIGTERM

but installation continues, it's not fatal.


2 - modprobe - invalid option

Jun 19 23:27:10 main-menu[281]: (process:4374): modprobe: invalid option 
-- 'l'


the installation continues

3 - dpkg - segmentation fault

Jun 19 23:28:36 debootstrap: Segmentation fault
Jun 19 23:28:36 kernel: [  190.120214] dpkg[16076]: segfault at 15 ip 
080541f8 sp bf97e10c error 6 in dpkg[8048000+3e000]


Red screen of death should happen here, before you open the second console.

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Re: wheezy alpha1 release: red screen

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2 - modprobe - invalid option

Jun 19 23:27:10 main-menu[281]: (process:4374): modprobe: invalid option
-- 'l'


I found 2 occurrences on:

hw-detect/hw-detect.sh: [ $(modprobe -l $1) ] || return 1

busybox/modutils/modprobe-small.c:modprobe -l -t dirname [ -a 
modulename ...


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Bug#678008: debian-installer: Space fun theme considered harmful

[Miguel Figueiredo]

On 18-06-2012 23:38, Rick Thomas wrote:

[...]


Can we keep this bug report open, as a way of tracking this issue in the
period before Wheezy release?


Before the previous release there was a public Call For Proposals and 
the decision on the artwork to use on the release was the 'Space Fun' theme.
IIRC For the first time Debian used a consistent artwork among desktop, 
installer, boot, cd covers, ... even for the website. Yay!


I may like the artwork or not but IMO the process was well conducted so 
I don't agree this is an issue.


For Wheezy, and for quite a time, the Call For Proposals [1] it's open 
and the process will follow.


1 - http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes

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Bug#678015: debian-installer: Guided partitioning took 26 hours to complete erasure of encripted LVM volume

[Miguel Figueiredo]

On 18-06-2012 17:40, Fernando J. Rodríguez wrote:

[...]

Had I been asked, I would have chosen no to wipe out the volume, because no 
sensitive
information was previously there


[...]

If it's ok to you not to wipe the volume you can use the Cancel button 
to cancel the wipe process.

The installation continues as usual just skipping that step.

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Bug#678015: debian-installer: Guided partitioning took 26 hours to complete erasure of encripted LVM volume

[Miguel Figueiredo]

On 18-06-2012 21:26, Touko Korpela wrote:

[...]

 If it is using /dev/urandom now, that is overkill.
 There exists many algorithms/programs using random output (many packaged
 in Debian) that are many times faster and they are safe enough for this.

If i interpreted if correctly crypto_do_wipe [1] calls blockdev-wipe [2]
to write 0s.

1 -
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/partman-crypto.git;a=blob;f=lib/crypto-base.sh;h=6c00b9e651b72c8242021382400286680705075d;hb=HEAD#l352
2 -
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/partman-crypto.git;a=blob;f=blockdev-wipe/blockdev-wipe.c;h=064ab15824e6ae97ff546cddb76d4d12e549e3f7;hb=HEAD

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Re: Bug#677519: installation-reports: 32 or 64 bit?

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

On the chapter System requirements on the installation manual it's 
available a supported architectures list [1].

This should guide to chose the architecture to use.

Please take a look and tell if it addresses your concerns.

1 - http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/ch02s01.html#id315171

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Re: Como criar dua-boot no meu computador Debian e Windows

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Olá,

O manual de instalação [1] deverá responder ás tuas questões.

Esta lista destina-se ao desenvolvimento do instalador (e em inglês), 
para suporte deves utilizar as listas debian-user-* [2][3] ou os fóruns 
Debian [4] que são uma excelente fonte de informação.


É uma boa prática, antes de instalar um sistema operativo, fazer backups.
Para o 'triple-boot' que pretendes terás de ter espaço livre no disco 
para instalar Debian.


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Hi,

the installation manual [1] should answer your questions.

This list it's for the installer development (and in English), for 
support you should use the lists debian-user-* [2] [3] or the Debian 
forums [4], which are an excellent source of information.


It's a good practice, before installing an operating system, to backup.
For the triple-boot you want you must have free space on disk to install 
Debian.



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2 - https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/
3 - https://lists.debian.org/debian-user-portuguese/
4 - http://forums.debian.net/

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Bug#676819: Can't shutdown, reboot, suspend, hibernate or switch user when logging out of the LXDE session.

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,


On 09-06-2012 17:19, Bertil Kronlund wrote:

[...]


There are some old bug reports related to lxde-session and lxpanel, e.g #534222.


good catch!
Can you look into the logs if there's more info on what is happening?

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Bug#673997: apt-cdrom issue now fixed

[Miguel Figueiredo]

This is now fixed.
My guess this was fixed with apt 0.9.5.1.

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Bug#675866: installation-reports: Gnome 3 launches in fallback mode after install

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

I'm not sure this is an installer bug as 3D acceleration it's a 
requirement for GNOME3 [1] and your virtual machine don't has direct 
rendering.


1 - 
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/FAQ#What_led_to_the_decision_to_make_3D_acceleration_a_requirement_for_GNOME_Shell.3F 





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Bug#675094: debian-installer: wheezy installer: you can bypass errors with Previous button

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

it seems an already known issue in the daily builds - please check #674100 [1] 
#673997 [2].
Debian Installer 7 Alpha 1 [3] doesn't suffer from this.

1 - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674100
2 - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673997
3 - http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_alpha1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-
wheezy-DI-a1-amd64-netinst.iso

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Bug#673910: installation-reports: Mounting filesystem after partioning failed.

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

On 22-05-2012 01:52, Andrew Spiers wrote:

[...]


Image version: 
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz


[...]


When running the wheezy alpha installer, the SSD disk is detected, and
partitioned, and it seems an ext4 filesystem can be written to /dev/sda1


Does the above file matches the Alpha version?


I then receive the error The attempt to mount a file system with the
type ext4 in SCSI3 (0,0,0), partition #1 (sda) at / failed.



May 22 00:24:43 main-menu[305]: (process:4456): mount: mounting/dev/sda1 
on /target/  failed: Invalid argument


Can you boot with debug options to try to get further information on 
what is happening?


1 - http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s03.html
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Bug#673997: Report

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Same happened to me with daily images.
Attaching log for analysis.

Running apt-cdrom from a console:

~# /target/usr/bin/apt-cdrom

fails with a message it can open a shared library - libapt-pkg.so.4.12.
Also image attached.


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Description: GNU Zip compressed data
attachment: fail.png

Bug#673195: [wheezy-alpha1] unable to install grub2 or lilo onto an btrfs filesystem

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

switching to a terminal and mounting /target/proc makes grub to install 
successfully:


mount -t proc proc /target/proc

this is the same workaround as in #662086.

The installed image, when it boots, complains about fsck.btrfs not being 
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Bug#584752: same for keymap selection

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

On 13-05-2012 13:26, Adam Borowski wrote:

Same for the keymap selection screen: if you select a wrong one, the
go back  button doesn't work.


Can you give more information in which image this happens and steps to 
reproduce it?


I have used D-I 7.0 Alpha1 and in the next step after keyboard 
selection, which it's the network configuration, i've selected 'Go Back' 
and I was driven to installer's main menu where one of the options it's 
the keyboard configuration. Selecting this option i was able to change 
keyboard layout.



(Also, it's strange that typing po selects Persian instead of Polish
-- one would expect that if a prefix search doesn't work, it'd go to O
instead).


AFAIK in the installer when you press a key the cursor jumps to the next 
option of the *single* letter pressed.
When you type 'po' it jumps to the next option that starts with a 'p' 
and then jumps to the first option that starts with 'o'.

If there's no 'o' stays in the previous choice - Persian in this case.
It jumps to Pxxx and then tries to jump ro Oxxx and not to POxxx.

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Bug#672219: OS install fails at package config

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

Thanks for giving back on your installation.
From what i see on the logs you sent it seems all related to package 
installation (mirror?) issues:



Install tasks:  [ E ]


Tasks issues:
=

May  9 06:57:13 in-target: Errors were encountered while processing:
May  9 06:57:13 in-target:  openoffice.org
May  9 06:57:13 in-target:  openoffice.org-help-en-us
[...]
May  9 06:57:17 in-target: tasksel: aptitude failed (255)
May  9 06:57:17 in-target: dpkg: dependency problems prevent 
configuration of openoffice.org:
May  9 06:57:17 in-target:  openoffice.org depends on 
openoffice.org-writer; however:

May  9 06:57:17 in-target:   Package openoffice.org-writer is not installed.

 Install boot loader:[ E ]

grub issues:

May  9 07:35:19 in-target:  grub-pc : Depends: grub-common (= 
1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1) but it is not going to be installed


lilo issues:

May  9 07:36:14 in-target: You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to 
correct these:

May  9 07:36:14 in-target: The following packages have unmet dependencies:
May  9 07:36:14 in-target:  lilo : Depends: mbr but it is not going to 
be installed


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Bug#671884: kfreebsd panic: page fault on installer image

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Package: debian-installer
Version: 20120405
Severity: important

Daily images of d-i fail [1] with message:

panic: page fault

1 - http://i.imgur.com/UPjo3.png


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Debian Installer 7 Alpha1 announcement - soon

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi all,

what will be named Debian Installer 7 Alpha1 will be ready soon. No ETA 
but should be ready in a few days - stay tunned on the debian-boot 
mailing list.


Changes and issues are listed on:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/ReleaseAnnounce


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Bug#613564: more about the card

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

thanks for the follow up on this.
From the image you provided the latest thing on screen - that is/was 
happening - it's gdm3 starting.

By this point network was already setup (7th line from top).

Without the card this doesn't happen?

Can you also test and give feedback with latest dailies [1] from the 
future Debian 7.0 (which has a newer kernel) ?



1 - http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

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Re: [RFH] Release of D-I Alpha1

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

On 23-04-2012 18:32, Otavio Salvador wrote:

[...]

 I do need help to manage the missing steps and testing. Is someone
 willing to help on it?

Count with me for testing installation images.
Can you elaborate remaining steps where we can help?

 I'm sad to ask for it but I won't be able to take it by myself and do
 need your help.

I'm sure my opinion is shared with many others, we are glad to 
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Re: [RFH] Release of D-I Alpha1

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,


On 23-04-2012 20:31, Otavio Salvador wrote:

[...]


To what we had for a1 basically:


Major bummers from recent d-i installations:
- it's not possible to install with raid+lvm because it fails while 
installing grub (see #662086).

- and kfreebsd daily builds (and installations) are failing;

Are these blockers for a1, a2 or even b1?


  get CD images built (Steve, yey!);
  test them
  finish announce mail
  mail to to d-d-a if all above work


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Bug#548791: Debian Bug report logs - #548791,Cannot install testing: Machine hangs

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

regarding the bug #548791 a lot as changed in the installer.
Now even has a new kernel 3.2.x. Can you test daily images [1] to check 
if the problem you reported still happens or is it fixed?


Thanks in advance for your feedback.

1 - http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

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Bug#662086: (no subject)

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

just a follow up, while testing today's netinst image, I confirm the 
issue is still present and fails the same way.


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Bug#666559: installation with btrfs fails due to grub-installer error

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Package: grub-installer
Version: 1.70
Tags: d-i

Installation fails while using BTRFS during grub-installer step.
Log attached.

Mar 31 18:07:45 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda'
Mar 31 18:07:45 grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
Mar 31 18:07:45 grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target 
grub-install  --no-floppy --force /dev/sda

Mar 31 18:07:45 grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error:
Mar 31 18:07:45 grub-installer:
Mar 31 18:07:45 grub-installer: cannot find a device for /boot/grub (is 
/dev mounted?)

Mar 31 18:07:45 grub-installer: .
Mar 31 18:07:45 grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install 
--no-floppy --force /dev/sda' failed.


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Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Bug#665718: black screen when stating graphical installer

[Miguel Figueiredo]

package: debian-installer
version: 20120324
tags: d-i

On starting graphical installer the screen becomes black.
This was verified on virtualbox and on real hardware (P8Z68-V 
motherboard, Intel i7 2600k cpu, Asus engtx460 gfx card).


On #debian-boot:
...The kernel crashes. If I use the fb=false option I can see the text 
output.



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Bug#665091: help!

[Miguel Figueiredo]

On 22-03-2012 13:48, RAMIRO CÉSAR Bou wrote:

Package: installation-reports
Boot method: DVD
Image version: Last image, downloaded from debian's webpage


Please give more details on the image used. Last image is ambiguous as 
it can be from stable or from testing? weekly builds?



debian does not install the DVD does not boot
the bios is configured correctly (can boot other CDs / DVDs)


The iso you downloaded matches the checksum?
See 5.3.1.2 - http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/es.amd64/ch05s03.html


[translated with google translate (my English is pretty bad)]


If it's useful for you, the installation manual is available in several 
languages.

http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/

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Bug#645997: installation-reports: Failed install with encrypted LVM (kernel install fails)

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Hi,

a few days ago i've tested an installation with btrfs and didn't failed 
as before.

Please give also some feedback on your tests.


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Re: TRIM support for ext4

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Hi,

On 12-03-2012 04:55, Joey Hess wrote:


I had the impression that there was going to be some sort of automatic
detection in the kernel of appropriate devices and that trim would be
automatically enabled for them. Is it not going to play out that way?


Just adds the mount option to partman.

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TRIM support for ext4

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Hi all,

Add the mount option 'discard' for ext4 filesystems so, during 
partitioning, TRIM can be activated for SSDs in the installed system.


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diff --git a/debian/partman-basicfilesystems.templates b/debian/partman-basicfilesystems.templates
index f615c4b..877e03c 100644
--- a/debian/partman-basicfilesystems.templates
+++ b/debian/partman-basicfilesystems.templates
@@ -367,3 +367,10 @@ Type: text
 # a 65 columns limit (which means 65 characters in single-byte languages)
 _Description: shortnames - only use the old MS-DOS 8.3 style filenames
 
+Template: partman-basicfilesystems/text/discard
+Type: text
+# :sl4:
+# Note to translators: Please keep your translations of this string below
+# a 65 columns limit (which means 65 characters in single-byte languages)
+_Description: discard - provide discard/TRIM for SSDs. Use with caution.
+
diff --git a/mountoptions/ext4 b/mountoptions/ext4
index 25bc519..3215239 100644
--- a/mountoptions/ext4
+++ b/mountoptions/ext4
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ sync
 usrquota
 grpquota
 user_xattr
+discard

i want to install Debian

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Hi,

please use proper communication channels.
FTPMaster is not intended for user support.


Use:

- Manual: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/es.amd64/index.html

- Debian User Spanish Mailing List: 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-spanish/


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Re: GSoC Project Idea: WPA2 support for the debian installer

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In #661938 i also successfully installed with WPA2.

Although working this wishlist would improve usability: #637128
(present list of available wifi networks instead of having to type it).

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Re: Debian installer build: failed or old builds

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i386 failing with:

cp: cannot stat 
`/org/cdbuilder.debian.org/src/deb-cd/d-i/d-i.debian.org/daily-images/i386/daily/cdrom/initrd.gz': 
No such file or directory

  FAILED: error 1
Failed to start disc 1, error 256
make: *** [image-trees] Error 9


...and amd64 failing with:

E: Unable to locate package ide-core-modules-3.2.0-1-486-di
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'ide-core-modules-3.2.0-1-486-di'
E: Unable to locate package ide-modules-3.2.0-1-486-di
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'ide-modules-3.2.0-1-486-di'
make[4]: *** [stamps/get_udebs-cdrom_gtk-stamp] Error 100
make[3]: *** [_build] Error 2
make[2]: *** [build_cdrom_gtk] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_build] Error 2
make: *** [build_cdrom_isolinux] Error 2


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Bug#662086: grub-install failed with raid+lvm

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Package: grub-installer
Version: 1.69
Severity: important


While installing today's daily netinst image, debian-installer failed
The storage selected during installation it's RAID1 with LVM with one 
ext4 partition.

Failed as follows:

Mar  3 23:51:43 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda'
Mar  3 23:51:43 grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
Mar  3 23:51:43 grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target 
grub-install  --no-floppy --force /dev/sda
Mar  3 23:51:44 grub-installer: /proc/devices: fopen failed: No such 
file or directory

Mar  3 23:51:44 grub-installer:
Mar  3 23:51:44 grub-installer: /proc/devices: fopen failed: No such 
file or directory

Mar  3 23:51:44 grub-installer:
Mar  3 23:51:44 grub-installer: /proc/devices: fopen failed: No such 
file or directory

Mar  3 23:51:44 grub-installer:
Mar  3 23:51:44 grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error:
Mar  3 23:51:44 grub-installer:
Mar  3 23:51:44 grub-installer: cannot find a GRUB drive for 
/dev/mapper/vg-root.  Check your device.map



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Bug#661938: Installation report for Toshiba Satellite R480-125

[Miguel Figueiredo]

 with SSDs to enable 
TRIM, i've done it manually after installation.


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Re: Problemas de instlación

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Hi,

Have you tried Debian stable [1] or even daily builds [2] ?
If so, what went wrong?

1 - 
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.4/i386/iso-cd/debian-6.0.4-i386-netinst.iso


2 - 
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso


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Bug#659986: installation-reports: Netboot fails with mdadm error at partition manager

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Hi Dayo,

thanks for testing and for your feedback.
Can you test if this happens to your system only with the netboot method 
or if also happens to your system with netinst [1] ?


Can you share the installation log [1] (gzipped please) before you try 
other installation ?


1 - 
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.4/i386/iso-cd/debian-6.0.4-i386-netinst.iso

2 - /var/log/syslog

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Bug#659986: installation-reports: Netboot fails with mdadm error at partition manager

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Hi,

[...]

dm_mod: Unknown symbol scsi_verify_blk_ctl messages.

[...]

IIRC this has happened before with kernel/modules versions mismatching.
With USB and netboot you must boot with the same kernel you're going to use.
What files did you used to boot?

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Bug#659986: installation-reports: Netboot fails with mdadm error at partition manager

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Hi,

can you detail how to reproduce it?


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Bug#655505: (no subject)

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Hi,

On 13-02-2012 19:29, os.n...@gmx.de wrote:

I assume that the problem is due to drm (direct rendering management). I tried Knoppix 
(kernel 3.0.4) and got the same problem until I set the cheatcode nodrm. Then 
Knoppix worked well. So it might be good if the Debian installer could disable drm.
Best wishes
Oliver


If you suspect the cause can be a kernel module you can try to blacklist 
[1] it to avoid being loaded.


http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModuleBlacklisting

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Bug#658511: Debian installation bug report

[Miguel Figueiredo]

On 04-02-2012 17:48, Anton Eliasson wrote:

[]


I experienced the same problem while installing Debian Testing on a
Lenovo Thinkpad T61 about a month ago. The ISO image was probably from
Dec 31 or Jan 1 but I'm not certain. I have a few different computers in
my possession. Would it be useful for you if I tested if the graphical
installation works on these?


From your report, #654866, and what i have been experiencing in 
VirtualBox for a while i suspect graphical installation is borked.
If you can test it with a recent image would be useful info to know the 
state of the current installer.


[...]

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Bug#658681: Select and install software fails with debian-testing DVD text install

[Miguel Figueiredo]

On 05-02-2012 06:02, Joe Thompson wrote:

Package: installation-reports
Severity: critical
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-b...@orion-com.com

Using the testing DVD that I downloaded the evening of 3 Feb 2012,
installation fails near the end (95% or so of the way through Select
and install software) using the text installer.

Steps followed: all choices were the defaults except as follows --

* use entire disk with LVM
* use guided partitioning, separate /home
* use kernel linux-image-3.1.0
* scan another CD: No
* use a network mirror: Yes
   * debian.lcs.mit.edu mirror
* install options: Debian desktop, SSH server

Install failed after Configuring ntfsprogs. -- Joe


Likely a mirror issue or disk full. Can you provide more info from what 
happened from the installation log?


I've just tested with the same tasks and it works.

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Bug#658511: Debian installation bug report

[Miguel Figueiredo]

On 03-02-2012 16:16, Anton Eliasson wrote:

Package: installation-reports

Boot method: dd'd netinstall ISO to a USB drive
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/jigdo-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.jigdo
from Jan 28.


[...]


Comments/Problems:
The graphical installation program caused the computer to hang at the
language selection menu. The normal bluescreen installation program
worked just fine.


I noticed the same behavior in VirtualBox installations from quite a 
while, but I'm not sure if it's a VirtualBox oddity or not.
With your report it's the 2nd real hardware installation report who 
mentions the same issue with graphical installation.


More feedback from graphical installations would be great.


In the tasksel menu, some hexadecimal numbers were shown instead of the
task names. Screenshot: http://imgur.com/nitCL


This was very recently fixed: 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=657389

If you use a daily image will be bot affected by this.


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Re: Fwd: Debian-Stable and KDE crashes

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

debian-boot it's all about debian installer development and not about 
desktop applications experience. So it's out of scope.


I guess the right thing to do it's to contribute with 
improvements/information, if possible, in the bug reports to the 
affected package.
In case of discussions please use the proper mailing lists, in Debian 
[1]  and/or in upstream if it's about development and not 
packaging/integration in Debian.


1 - http://lists.debian.org/

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Bug#655579: debian-installer: Unable to perform an installation : USB-input devices unusable

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

from the info you supplied (thanks!) from a previous installation it 
seems the keyboard uses module hid-apple.


I have checked kernel-wedge package and that module it's already 
included in the input modules [1] for the installer's kernel.


One thing you can try is to connect a 2nd keyboard and check if the 
module it's indeed loaded when you connect the keyboard.
dmesg should recognize the keyboard when you plug it and lsmod shoud 
report the module hid-apple.


1 - 
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/kernel-wedge.git;a=blob;f=modules/input-modules;h=62fc503cfa7753bb544d89cfd4332e75091d5717;hb=HEAD


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Bug#655579: debian-installer: Unable to perform an installation : USB-input devices unusable

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

[...]


these come up when I type in install expertgui at the boot-prompt (from the 
help-menu) :

1. From the main terminal :
(process : 4170) : INFO :kbd-mode : setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-8)
The screen is flashing and the above line is repeating at every second or two, 
with an ever-increasing process number.

2. When i switched to another terminal :
main-menu[1526] :DEBUG: resolver (libc-udeb) : package doesn't exist (ignored)
main-menu [1526]:INFO: Menu item 'localechooser' selected
debconf : Setting debconf/language to en
kernel : [18.686451] debconf [1520] : segfault at 200036 ip 7f89c8d29 
sp 7fff0e96bb50 error 4 in libc.so.6[7f89c6985000 + ff000]
init : process '/sbin/reopen-console /sbin/debian-installer' (pid 1509) exited. 
Scheduling for restart
init: starting pid 1614, tty '': '/sbin/reopen-console /sbin/debian-installer'

This is repeating as well, with init constantly re-spawning the process and the 
process numbers increasing with time.



[...]

This is known error in daily images from some days ago and it was 
already fixed.
Can you try at least the latest daily image, which doesn't suffer from 
this problem, to get more details from the keyboard/mouse problem?


If it works in any other linux installation please check which kernel 
module is used (e.g. lspci -k).


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Bug#655333: installation-report: no graphical install, btrfs I/O errors, configuring grub failed

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

[...]


kernel graphics drivers aren't included in d-i, so blacklisting them
won't help you.


You're right. Actually the reported errors are on booting for the 1st 
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Bug#655333: installation-report: no graphical install, btrfs I/O errors, configuring grub failed

[Miguel Figueiredo]

On 10-01-2012 13:30, Luk Claes wrote:

Package: installation-reports
Version: 2.45
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

When I tried the graphical install, it just hang.

So I continued with the non-graphical install.


Looks like a kernel module issue. There are several similar reports with 
similar description with the radeon module. Is this your case?

If it's your case can you blacklist it to test if it boots?



After partitioning (choosing btrfs for all but the swap partition), when
installing the base system the root partition almost immediately gave
I/O errors.

So I went back and chose ext4 for all partitions instead.


The btrfs issue was recent reported on #653669.
I have just tested with latest official image, which has 
kernel-image-3.1.8-2, and still fails. With this version the kernel oops 
are not visible as in previous version but still fails with the message 
run out of space.

This doesn't happen with ext4.

BTRFS in daily images is currently unusable.

[...]


I chose to use LVM. The boot partition was always plain ext4. When I
chose btrfs (on LVM) for all other partitions (except swap), the base
install spawned a gazillion I/O errors for the root partition. So I went
back and chose ext4 (on LVM) instead.

When configuring the boot loader (grub2), it showed me a progress bar
and almost immediately a red message telling me it failed. So I went
back, chose to open a console where I did the following:


[...]

With latest daily i also reproduced the grub2 error while using LVM.
I am attaching the installation log with the error.
At first glance this could belong to grub-installer.
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Bug#655099: Installing testing fails mostly same way - freeze in partitioning

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

tried latest today's netinst image and it's visible the following error:

kernel: dm_mod: Unknown symbol scsi_verify_blk_ioctl (err 0)

Screenshot from VT4: http://i.imgur.com/UdSGW.png

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Bug#655099: Installing testing fails mostly same way - freeze in partitioning

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Seems it can be due to mismatch between kernel and modules versions.
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Bug#654956: Package: installation-reports

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

On 07-01-2012 05:37, Roman Yakovlev wrote:

Package: installation-reports

Boot method: CD, but I guess any method would give same result
Image version: 6.0.1a netinstall


Please try and report against latest current stable version (6.0.3 [1]) 
or latest daily [2].

Please let us know if any of these versions have it fixed for you.

1 - http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/debian-installer/
2 - http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/




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Bug#654574: Daily netinst.iso i386 on EEE PC 4G (701) hangs, expert install works

[Miguel Figueiredo]

What happens if installing in text mode?
This is reproducible with latest daily image? (now: 04-Jan-2012 16:25)
This image corrects a nasty recent bug #654309.


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Bug#654309: daily debian installer doesn't boot

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Package: debian-installer
Version: 20120102

Daily images don't boot on amd64 and i386.
After pressing enter to start the installation process the screen starts 
flickering and on the screen keeps appearing just the following line.


INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-8)

Printscreen: http://i.imgur.com/lIhYA.png


This keeps looping and the installation process doesn't start.

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Bug#654309: daily debian installer doesn't boot

[Miguel Figueiredo]

I wasn't able to extract the syslog.
The URL bellow points to a printscreen from the VT4 console where the 
error is visible.


http://i.imgur.com/W4pIW.png

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Bug#653669: Installation failed with BTRFS

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

i tried to install the businesscard image and also failed while using btrfs.
The installation log was full of btrfs kernel errors, these errors 
repeated itself until installation fails reporting no space left on device.
I trimmed the 22 MB log, with the first 2000 lines and the last 100 
lines where the kernel error and no space left errors are visible.

If anyone needs to full log i can send it.

Not sure to which specific package this should be reassigned.

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599147_trimmed.log.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Bug#653471: installation-reports: Squeeze i386 6.0.3 on EeePC 701 Network

[Miguel Figueiredo]

On 29-12-2011 12:36, Gasha wrote:


I have Debian (LXDE) working on EEE PC 701.
Upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. There were some problems i remember.

Most probably, it is because Debian removed non-free firmware files.
Did you try full install ISO image?

Gasha


If it is needed non-free firmware, the official images don't provide it.
But still it is possible to install additional firmware from other 
medium [1].


1 - http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s04.html


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Re: linux download

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

the arch of your computer it's 'amd64', so use that arch.
It is also available an installation guide that may be useful:

http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/index.html


On 27-12-2011 07:33, Nikhil M wrote:


hi,
my lap is core i5,4gb ram and 320 hdd
i want to use linux so planned to download iso(DVD) so i have to
download all those images?which one i need to download in this list

* amd64 http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3/amd64/iso-dvd/
* armel http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3/armel/iso-dvd/
* kfreebsd-i386
  http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3/kfreebsd-i386/iso-dvd/
* kfreebsd-amd64
  http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3/kfreebsd-amd64/iso-dvd/
* i386 http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3/i386/iso-dvd/
* ia64 http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3/ia64/iso-dvd/
* mips http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3/mips/iso-dvd/
* mipsel http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3/mipsel/iso-dvd/
* powerpc http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3/powerpc/iso-dvd/
* sparc http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3/sparc/iso-dvd/
* s390 http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3/s390/iso-dvd/
* source http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3/source/iso-dvd/
* multi-arch
  http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3/multi-arch/iso-dvd/


http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3/i386/iso-dvd/
please replay i dont know which one i have to download
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Bug#650239: Hello?

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi all,

i have exchanged a few emails about this report, so far from what i 
understood from the problem:

- installs OK from stable CD;
	- when updating, after installation from CD, graphic system gets borked 
after rebooting;

- updates don't work;

I'm not sure if there's any benefit from leaving this BR open.


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---BeginMessage---
-
Holy kay-rap, youse guys are starting really, really to get on my nerves!
 I blew a half a hectobuck on your eight-disc CD set (6.0.3, 32-bit) and
when I was getting ready to load the #1 disc I noticed a silvery spot on
its data side, fully a 16th of an inch in diameter and visible at a
distance of forty feet to a one-eyed wino.  I tried to test it via a full
copy of the disc to my hard drive and didn't get any errors but, sure
enough, when I tried to install it it failed, saying it was unable to load
the installation data.  Big surprise, eh?

So, summarizing:

I have made four or five attempts with your single CD, which turns out to
be catastrophically incompatible with your online updates.

After my first few CD failures I tried downloading the installer online,
but that refused to load directly to a CD and I was never instructed how to
convert the CD I transferred it onto into a *boot* disc.  So I spent a few
hours trying to figure that out, and a few more hours trying to trick it
into installing after I booted separately.  No instructions about this from
the netsite, just choose the version you want, download it, and install.
 Thanks a lot -- I had to give up and go back to the CD.

And now I have the (far from free) *eight-CD* set and it's totally freaking
useless!

Meanwhile, through all this, I'm fighting a complete lack of useful
instructions, getting apparent inactivity without progress bars, rotating
cursors, or drive-light activity,  wondering whether I'm supposed to do
something or not, getting hung out to dry over and over again, being
offered options with no idea of what the answer should be, and generally
wasting two weeks of effort on software that simply isn't designed for
people who don't already know all the answers.

Incidentally, for your information, I have a master's degree in computer
science and more than three decades professional experience in programming
embedded systems and automated QA systems.  I'm not fully acquainted with
PC systems, but that never bothered me when I was dealing with suppliers
who had the maturity to look at their product through the eyes of their
users and provide a usable package.  So, Debian is free (but not for me, it
turns out) and one should be patient?  Well, I've just been through a half
a month of patience, and I'm afraid I'm fresh out

I'm *done with Debian, *so Ay-Dee-Ose!

B
*
*
(Don't waste any time flaming me back, because I'm putting you on Chrome
mute and I won't even see you go by.)








On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:05, Miguel Figueiredo el...@debianpt.org wrote:

 On 06-12-2011 14:30, Pa Blum wrote:

 -
 ...yes, and yes.  The first yes in that I'm using a ten-buck Live
 Install CD (which is mysteriously referred to as a DVD) in 6.0,
 32-bit form.  The second yes in that that's what I'm running the
 Manager Update on.


 Can you try an image from here:

 http://www.debian.org/**releases/squeeze/debian-**installer/http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/debian-installer/

 Official, 'normal' image - not 'live'.


 Thanks for your interest,


 It's free software, it's how we give back ;-)

  PaB


 Miguel


 

 On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 13:53, Miguel Figueiredo el...@debianpt.org
 mailto:el...@debianpt.org wrote:

Hi,

[...]


But when I do the first (and all following) restarts it boots up

with a completely scrambled GUI, even in the log-in screen which
i can
get past because I can answer it with keyboard entries without
 being
able to see it(!)


[...]

Humm, I suspect on graphic kernel module borked.
So it's not installer fault :)
You are using stable? and also updated in stable?





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Bug#650239: Hello?

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

Yesterday i did an installation with debian-i386-6.0.3 and i got, as 
usual, 'tasksel' in which i selected Desktop task to install and it went 
OK (as usual).


If you provide the installation log from the installation with problems 
maybe someone can take a look.
To be honest, in dozens of installations i never seen the problem you 
initially report.


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Re: Is there a way to install from xp?

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi,

Ter, 2011-11-01 às 15:45 -0700, rose perry escreveu:
 I love you'r system!   But my network Is connected to a wireless AP.
 So my wireless card don't load.  What should I do.  I tried google no
 luck yet.  But I won't give up.  Should I try to mount my xp partition
 and load that firmware_linux-non-free-all.deb?  But I'll find
 instructions for my card.  Only problem is they need files on the
 network.  Guess I'll have to dl them to my xp partition.   What I'm
 asking does that package have wireless card firmware?

You can put whatever files you need also in a USB storage device.
This may be useful:
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/ch06s04.html




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Bug#647406: please consider removing #debian-boot reference from installation guide

[Miguel Figueiredo]

Hi all,

here it goes my suggestion:
- drop development IRC channel;
- suggest forums.debian.net;
- as well as ask.debian.net.


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mr diff: /home/elmig/debian/debian-installer/. (in subdir /home/elmig/debian/debian-installer/manual)
Index: build/entities/urls.ent
===
--- build/entities/urls.ent	(revision 67004)
+++ build/entities/urls.ent	(working copy)
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@
 
 !ENTITY email-debian-boot-list debian-boot@lists.debian.org
 
+!-- support --
+!ENTITY url-debian-user-forums http://forums.debian.net/;
+!ENTITY url-ask-debian-net http://ask.debian.net/;
+
 !-- base for the current distribution --
 !ENTITY disturlftp url-debian-ftp;debian/dists/releasename;/
 !ENTITY disturlurl-archive;debian/dists/releasename;/
Index: en/boot-new/boot-new.xml
===
--- en/boot-new/boot-new.xml	(revision 67004)
+++ en/boot-new/boot-new.xml	(working copy)
@@ -33,9 +33,11 @@
 
 If you are new to debian; and arch-kernel;, you may need some help from more
 experienced users.
-phrase arch=x86For direct on-line help you can try the IRC channels
-#debian or #debian-boot on the OFTC network. Alternatively you can contact
-the ulink url=url-list-subscribe;debian-user mailing list/ulink./phrase
+phrase arch=x86For direct on-line help you can try the IRC channel
+#debian on the OFTC network. Alternatively you can contact
+the ulink url=url-list-subscribe;debian-user mailing list/ulink, 
+ulink url=url-debian-user-forums;Debian User Forums/ulink or even 
+ulink url=url-ask-debian-net;ask.debian.net/ulink./phrase
 phrase arch=not-x86For less common architectures like arch-title;,
 your best option is to ask on the
 ulink url=url-list-subscribe;debian-arch-listname; mailing

mr diff: finished (1 ok)

Re: FWD: debian-installer: guided full disk encryption + LVM complains about insecure swap appeared again

[Miguel Figueiredo]

From the title of the BRs may be related with the recent #642115 [1].

Unfortunately I don't have the expertize to go deeper on this.
CCing Jon and Joey, who may have a clue on this... not sure who can help
on this issue.

1- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=642115


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 - Forwarded message from Santiago José Soliño Díez sol...@gmail.com 
 -
 
 Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:23:17 +0100
 From: Santiago José Soliño Díez sol...@gmail.com
 To: jo...@debian.org
 Subject: debian-installer: guided full disk encryption + LVM complains about
   insecure swap appeared again
 X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.0-
 
 This bug appeared again on installer. A few months ago I'd
 installed the daily version and had no errors, but later versions gave
 the same error, then disappeared and now reappeared.
You can watch the bug on attached images
 
 
 
 
 
 
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