Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday
Émeric == Émeric Maschino emeric.masch...@gmail.com writes: Émeric Just to let you know that I've successfully installed Wheezy Émeric using the netinst CD on a spare HDD, using default parameters Émeric (using entire HDD and one single partition as partition Émeric scheme) except for localization of course. I've been trying to install using the XFCE CD on a zx6000. The boot rom doesn't recognise the CD as being bootable.The netinst CD does work. -- Dr Peter Chubb peter.chubb AT nicta.com.au http://www.ssrg.nicta.com.au Software Systems Research Group/NICTA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/84ehcxhtmj.wl%pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au
Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday
Hi, Sorry for the late reply, I didn't have access to my zx6000 workstation until now. Just to let you know that I've successfully installed Wheezy using the netinst CD on a spare HDD, using default parameters (using entire HDD and one single partition as partition scheme) except for localization of course. One manual intervention was nevertheless required. During the installation process, the ELILO boot loader installation failed with /usr/sbin/elilo returning error code 1. I've chosen to continue without installing a boot loader and restarted my workstation using the netinst CD in rescue mode to check what was going on. It finally appears that the default /etc/fstab generated during Wheezy installation encompasses an incorrect entry (well, to me, it is incorrect) mounting /dev/sd?1 (/dev/sdb1 in my case) to /boot/efi. I've simply removed this entry, deleted the /boot/efi empty folder created during Wheezy installation and rerun elilo -v to correctly reinstall ELILO and then elilo --efiboot to create the GNU/Debian entry in EFI. Everything else ran fine. Thanks to all who contributed to make Wheezy on ia64 a reality. Émeric 2013/5/2 Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com Hi folks, As we're expecting to release this Saturday (4th May) and I'm going to be preparing the CDs and DVDs to go with the release, it would be lovely if we have some volunteers to help test the images. We have been doing testing of the daily, weekly and Release Candidate images as they're produced, but it would be nice to get more coverage in the testing, especially: * non-PC architectures * more obscure combinations of options like partitioning, filesystems etc. * different desktops with differing package sets I've started a wiki page at https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCD/ReleaseTesting/Wheezy and I'll be filling in more details there in the next couple of days, including some specific configurations that I'd like to see tested. If you can help us test on Saturday, please take a look and join me in #debian-cd where we'll be coordinating. Cheers, -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Managing a volunteer open source project is a lot like herding kittens, except the kittens randomly appear and disappear because they have day jobs. -- Matt Mackall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ia64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130502012910.gb28...@einval.com
Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday
Hi, From debian-cd testing we have some things to perhaps add to the errata[0]: * DVD-1 doesn't offer a choice of desktop environment; it will install the default (GNOME; or on kfreebsd, XFCE). * Installing linux on btrfs seems extraordinarily slow. * Installing kfreebsd on ufs may be slow. * The partitioner on kfreebsd may show a harmless warning about invalid ioctl for a device; choose 'Ignore' to proceed. * mipsel: the CD/DVD install media are not bootable, and do not contain d-i - only packages. [0] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/#errata Thanks, Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51865dec.1050...@pyro.eu.org
Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 14:26:04 +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: Hi, From debian-cd testing we have some things to perhaps add to the errata[0]: * DVD-1 doesn't offer a choice of desktop environment; it will install the default (GNOME; or on kfreebsd, XFCE). I don't think that's a bug? Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 05:49:54PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 14:26:04 +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: Hi, From debian-cd testing we have some things to perhaps add to the errata[0]: * DVD-1 doesn't offer a choice of desktop environment; it will install the default (GNOME; or on kfreebsd, XFCE). I don't think that's a bug? The former is an unexpected feature, to be honest. The m-a DVD does offer other desktops on the boot menu, but only Gnome fits. It's something we'll put into the errata. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs. -- Mike Andrews -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130505155841.gb10...@einval.com
Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 16:58:41 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 05:49:54PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 14:26:04 +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: Hi, From debian-cd testing we have some things to perhaps add to the errata[0]: * DVD-1 doesn't offer a choice of desktop environment; it will install the default (GNOME; or on kfreebsd, XFCE). I don't think that's a bug? The former is an unexpected feature, to be honest. The m-a DVD does offer other desktops on the boot menu, but only Gnome fits. It's something we'll put into the errata. Oh, I thought this was about tasksel, not the boot menu. Nevermind me. Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday
On 05/05/13 17:02, Julien Cristau wrote: Oh, I thought this was about tasksel, not the boot menu. Nevermind me. Actually that is what I thought; that tasksel was supposed to let me choose. Maybe that feature was removed a very long time ago though in favour of the boot menu options. So the problem is rather, that some of the DVDs are unable to satisfy the desktop chosen at the boot menu? Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5186831e.10...@pyro.eu.org
Re: Help with Wheezy CD testing on Saturday
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 05:04:46PM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: On 05/05/13 17:02, Julien Cristau wrote: Oh, I thought this was about tasksel, not the boot menu. Nevermind me. Actually that is what I thought; that tasksel was supposed to let me choose. Maybe that feature was removed a very long time ago though in favour of the boot menu options. So the problem is rather, that some of the DVDs are unable to satisfy the desktop chosen at the boot menu? Correct, yes. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb. -- Steven M. Haflich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130505191949.gc10...@einval.com
