Bug#220163: installation-reports: netboot install attempt via PXE (fwd)

2003-11-11 Thread Joe Nahmias
[ I don't know why, but for some reason installation-reports go to ] [ debian-testing, so I'm forwarding this to debian-boot for discussion ] Package: installation-reports Version: netboot daily image from 2003-11-10 Severity: normal Tags: d-i INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: daily

Re: Second stage console problem

2003-11-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Kenshi Muto] I tried debian-installer beta1 CD (net-install), and it worked on first stage. :-) Sounds good. But I noticed second stage (after reboot) had a problem for non-Latin users (Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and other non-Latin people needs special console). Hm, I suspected this.

Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

2003-11-11 Thread Geert Stappers
tag 219928 d-i severity 219928 important merge 211092 219928 thanks On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:02:34AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: Can I get more information on why this is a bug in mklibs? Does some library actually provide timeout_yet? If so, can I please see readelf -s -W output of it? See

[Fwd: [debian-installer] sarge-i386-netinst.iso]

2003-11-11 Thread mbc
fwd'ing on. i asume he got the image from a link on my page. Original Message Subject:[debian-installer] sarge-i386-netinst.iso Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 14:04:44 +0100 From: Dirk Meul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: RWTH-Aachen To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello. I'm

Processed: Re: Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

2003-11-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: tag 219928 d-i Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc There were no tags set. Tags added: d-i severity 219928 important Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc Severity set to `important'. merge 211092 219928 Bug#211092:

Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

2003-11-11 Thread Falk Hueffner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) writes: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:02:34AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: Can I get more information on why this is a bug in mklibs? Does some library actually provide timeout_yet? If so, can I please see readelf -s -W output of it? See bug 211092 (

Re: Webpage fix

2003-11-11 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 04:40:45AM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: Could somebody add the URL for the daily-built images (http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/) back to the website? They seem to have been removed, and they are useful for people who want to test the d-i beta

Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

2003-11-11 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:02:44AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) writes: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:02:34AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: Can I get more information on why this is a bug in mklibs? Does some library actually provide timeout_yet? If so, can

Bug#220139: isolinux/syslinux

2003-11-11 Thread Bjoern Laessig
I used google a while. Maybe it is interesting for you: http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2002/debian-cd-200205/msg00165.html http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/2002-December/001324.html Björn Lässig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

2003-11-11 Thread Falk Hueffner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) writes: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:02:44AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: | Can I get more information on why this is a bug in mklibs? See bug 211092 ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211092 ) | Does some library actually provide timeout_yet?

Re: Bug#220163: installation-reports: netboot install attempt via PXE (fwd)

2003-11-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 11.11.2003 schrieb Joe Nahmias um 09:16: [ I don't know why, but for some reason installation-reports go to ] [ debian-testing, so I'm forwarding this to debian-boot for discussion ] probably someone should reassign the pseudo-package installation-reports to debian-boot. I,

Bug#201191: partconf: mkfs should indicate progress

2003-11-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 11.11.2003 schrieb Steinar H. Gunderson um 04:02: A quick test indicates that most interesting mkfs-variations (ext2, ext3, reiserfs; vfat and jfs are so quick it doesn't need progress, and xfs seems only a bit slower than that) has at least some kind of progress output, so we

Re: My experience with d-i

2003-11-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Bill Allombert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Then it proceed with the `Configure network via DHCP'. This one is really painful, since it lock the install for a long time since I have no DHCP server, but I was not offered to skip this stage and go directly to 'Configure a static network'. That

Bug#220180: cdrom-detect: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: cdrom-detect Severity: normal Tags: patch d-i Now usual debconf templates polishing bug report. Proofreading by native English speakers needed. Chris, I'm sure you're reading this..:) Detailed rationale: Template: cdrom-detect/manual_config Type: boolean Default: true

Re: Bug#220163: installation-reports: netboot install attempt via PXE (fwd)

2003-11-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 11.11.2003 schrieb Joe Nahmias um 09:16: Alright, here are the highlights of how this install went: 0) OK, after much struggling (and dealing with my nemesis error message 'VFS: Cannot open root device or 3a:04') I managed to get the d-i netboot image to work via PXE. For

Bug#220139: isolinux/syslinux on special hardware

2003-11-11 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:26:52AM +0100, Bjoern Laessig wrote: I used google a while. Maybe it is interesting for you: http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2002/debian-cd-200205/msg00165.html | | El Torito BIOSes are absolute crap. There is no question about it. | Unfortunately there is

Bug#220182: netcfg: Please re-order the TCP/IP configuration questions

2003-11-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: netcfg Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i The current order is not really natural : I suggest using the following order: -IP address -Netmask -Gateway -Machine name -Domain name -DNS servers Bill, feel free to comment as you are the one who motivated me to make this BR..:-) -- System

Re: Bug#220163: installation-reports: netboot install attempt via PXE (fwd)

2003-11-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:15:01AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Am Die, den 11.11.2003 schrieb Joe Nahmias um 09:16: [ I don't know why, but for some reason installation-reports go to ] [ debian-testing, so I'm forwarding this to debian-boot for discussion ] probably someone should

Priority handling in main-menu

2003-11-11 Thread Sebastian Ley
Hello, in my opinion the priority handling on errors in main-menu needs still some work. Presently the logic is simple: Have an initial priority. If a menu item fails, lower the priority by one step. If a menu item suceeds, pump up the priority by one but not greater than the initial priority.

Bug#220182: netcfg: Please re-order the TCP/IP configuration questions

2003-11-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:44:48AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Package: netcfg Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i The current order is not really natural : I would like to propose this change; -IP address -Netmask -Gateway -DNS servers -Machine name -Domain name Bill, feel free

Processed: Re: Bug#220181: utils: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 220181 di-utils Bug#220181: utils: Debconf templates polishing Warning: Unknown package 'utils' Bug reassigned from package `utils' to `di-utils'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug

Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

2003-11-11 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:54:31AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) writes: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:02:44AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: | | | I cannot find this information there, either. | Can I get more information on why this is a bug in mklibs? See

Bug#220198: installation: proper sata support needed

2003-11-11 Thread Oliver Heinz
Package: installation Version: sarge beta Severity: normal Current Install Kernels do not include proper Serial-ATA Support. I believe that several install problems with SATA-Devices could be solved when install-kernels included the libata-patch

Failed floppy installation

2003-11-11 Thread guran
Hi I have tried a floppy installation both with the daily and the standard images and have the same problem. In standard I can't mount the already existing partitions, I am adviced to repartition. In the partition part cfdisk, when accepting the existing partitions I am getting back even if I

Bug#220048: Your installation report

2003-11-11 Thread Sebastian Ley
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:55:11AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: None unfortunately. On both machines and with all three CD drives, the BIOS tries to boot from CD-ROM, cannot do it and boots from HDD instead. [...] However, I just tried to boot the very same CD on the laptop of a friend of

Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

2003-11-11 Thread Falk Hueffner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) writes: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:54:31AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) writes: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:02:44AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: | | | I cannot find this information there, either. | Can I get more

Processed: Merge isolinux stuff

2003-11-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: tags 220048 - moreinfo Bug#220048: Cannot boot from CD Tags were: moreinfo d-i Tags removed: moreinfo tags 220139 + d-i Bug#220139: Debian Installer Sarge Beta not boot on (only) my machine There were no tags set. Tags added: d-i merge 220139 220048

Bug#220208: debian-installer-demo: missing build-depends on genromfs

2003-11-11 Thread Blars Blarson
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal After attempting a workaround for bug 219928 building debian-installer for sparc, (removing all referces to brltty) I find that the genromfs command is executed but there is no build-dependancy on the genromfs package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

2003-11-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Falk Hueffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) writes: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:54:31AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) writes: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:02:44AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: | | | I cannot find this

Usage of isolinux on the beta CDs

2003-11-11 Thread Sebastian Ley
Hello, it seems that we are locking out people from testing by using isolinux on our netinst/businesscard CDs, see #220139 and #220139. Since we do not need any of isolinux's features I propose to use syslinux on the CDs. Regards, Sebastian -- PGP-Key:

Translation testing

2003-11-11 Thread dinstaller
Hi list! Can you tell me please(or redirect to RTFM) how to test an ongoing translation? Regards, Boris Ratner. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Priority handling in main-menu

2003-11-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 11:26, Sebastian Ley wrote: Hello, in my opinion the priority handling on errors in main-menu needs still some work. Presently the logic is simple: Have an initial priority. If a menu item fails, lower the priority by one step. If a menu item suceeds, pump up the

Bug#201191: partconf: mkfs should indicate progress

2003-11-11 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:30:30PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: It would definitely help compared to what we have today, but it would still suck. Yes, but I don't think it's worth to invest more time in that now. This would be an easy and acceptable solution. Well, it's not a matter of

Bug#220180: cdrom-detect: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:08:20AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Package: cdrom-detect Severity: normal Tags: patch d-i Now usual debconf templates polishing bug report. Proofreading by native English speakers needed. Chris, I'm sure you're reading this..:) Detailed rationale:

Processed: Your installation report

2003-11-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: clone 220132 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 Bug#220132: install successful, but many oddities Bug 220132 cloned as bugs 220188-220193. reassign -1 netcfg Bug#220188: install successful, but many oddities Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to

base-config integration, boot-time parameters, and d-i droppings

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
I am planning to finally integrate base-config properly with d-i. This will involve copying the d-i debconf database to somewhere in /target, probably var/cache/debconf/installation/. In my tests it looks like cdebconf writes the database quite frequently (suprisingly frequently, really), so

Re: Priority handling in main-menu

2003-11-11 Thread Sebastian Ley
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:21:03PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: I do not know if we should think of an entire different solution to handle that but for now we could add some code to main-menu that assures that the priority will not be set = high until the offending menu point actually

Bug#201191: partconf: mkfs should indicate progress

2003-11-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:15, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: I suggest a simple solution. I think the most important thing is that users don't see a blue screen for several seconds like it's now, but a progress bar. I would only step it forward after one filesystem is created, so we don't

Bug#201191: partconf: mkfs should indicate progress

2003-11-11 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:03:53AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: This depends on the size of the filesystem and if dma is enabled or not. enabling DMA speeds up filesystem creation a lot on big disks. With DMA disabled it can take several minutes to create a big filesystem. It can, even with

Bug#220030: prebaseconfig: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:35:12PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Package: prebaseconfig Severity: normal Well, this one is maybe more important than othersAt least, ALL users of d-i will see it So, please, native English speakers, check my suggestions... Detailed rationale:

Re: Debian Installer: sr mod?

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
James Bromberger wrote: I just grabbed beta 1 (well done on the milestone); however, I cant see sr_mod in the initrd image on the 100 MB image: lib/modules/2.4.22-1-386/kernel/drivers/scsi# ls scsi_mod.o sd_mod.o While I can see usb-storage, I think I need sr_mod to be able to

Re: base-config integration, boot-time parameters, and d-i droppings

2003-11-11 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:08:43PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: In my tests it looks like cdebconf writes the database quite frequently (suprisingly frequently, really), so getting the full db should not be a problem. To make cdebconf write the database, kill the frontend with SIGUSR1. main-menu

Bug#220182: netcfg: Please re-order the TCP/IP configuration questions

2003-11-11 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:44:48AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Package: netcfg Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i The current order is not really natural : I suggest using the following order: -IP address -Netmask -Gateway -Machine name -Domain name -DNS servers ip address,

Re: Webpage fix

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: Could somebody add the URL for the daily-built images (http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/) back to the website? They seem to have been removed, and they are useful for people who want to test the d-i beta via netboot or floppy. People who want to

Re: Second stage console problem

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Another idea was to always run base-config in an UTF-8 terminal, and always install an UTF-8 capable framebuffer terminal. This way, we use the same system for all languages, and it is less likely that the lesser used configurations contain errors. I'm personally

Bug#220230: Debian Installer II: sr_mod continued

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
Package: cdrom-detect Version: 0.38 (This is on a IBM bladecenter which has a USB cdrom drive.) James Bromberger wrote: I grabbed the 2.4.22-386 kernel and added a few of the modules for testing: ehci-usb seems to fail to laod (with no explanation in dmesg). ohci-usb works

Re: Failed floppy installation

2003-11-11 Thread Martin Sjögren
tis 2003-11-11 klockan 12.17 skrev guran: Jag har haft Debian på denna boxen tidigare utan problem. For those of you who don't speak Swedish: I've had Debian on this box before without problems. /Martin -- Martin Sjögren [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key:

Re: Bug#220163: installation-reports: netboot install attempt via PXE (fwd)

2003-11-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:35:49PM -0500, Joe Nahmias wrote: Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:15:01AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: probably someone should reassign the pseudo-package installation-reports to debian-boot. If this is the general opinion of d-i folks,

Re: Priority handling in main-menu

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
Sebastian Ley wrote: in my opinion the priority handling on errors in main-menu needs still some work. Presently the logic is simple: Have an initial priority. If a menu item fails, lower the priority by one step. If a menu item suceeds, pump up the priority by one but not greater than the

Bug#220180: cdrom-detect: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-11 Thread Joe Nahmias
OK, here are my edits: Template: cdrom-detect/manual_config +_Description: Manually select the CD-ROM module and device? ^^^ use 'a' instead of 'the'. + No common CD-ROM reader was detected. + . + Your CD-ROM reader may be an old Mitsumi or another non-IDE,

Re: Bug#220163: installation-reports: netboot install attempt via PXE (fwd)

2003-11-11 Thread Joe Nahmias
Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:15:01AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Am Die, den 11.11.2003 schrieb Joe Nahmias um 09:16: [ I don't know why, but for some reason installation-reports go to ] [ debian-testing, so I'm forwarding this to debian-boot for discussion ]

Re: Bug#220163: installation-reports: netboot install attempt via PXE (fwd)

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
Joe Nahmias wrote: 1) Install boots into the main menu. Interface looks alot snazzier than the old text interface, however the line-drawing characters are all messed up on my terminal (corners are displayed as '', c.) Known bug? We're missing bogl-bterm and a lot of other utf-8 and terminal

Re: My experience with d-i

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
Bill Allombert wrote: I have entered `net' at boot prompt. Why did you do that, instead of just hitting enter? It apparently booted you up in low priority mode, which explains most of the following: The `Choose language' do nothing, but if I run it, the `Detect network hardware' will prompt

new website for Discover hardware detection suite

2003-11-11 Thread Branden Robinson
Progeny URL: http://www.progeny.com/ is pleased to announce the launch of a new website for the Discover project URL: http://platform.progeny.com/discover/ . Discover is a set of libraries and utilities for gathering and reporting information about a system's hardware. Version 1.0 of Discover

Re: My experience with d-i

2003-11-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:47:12PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Bill Allombert wrote: I have entered `net' at boot prompt. Why did you do that, instead of just hitting enter? It apparently booted you up in low priority mode, which explains most of the following: The help screen [F3] says that

Re: Slow redraws in the debootstrap stage

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
Denis Barbier wrote: Could someone please test the attached patch? I cannot test it myself at the moment, but I believe that it eliminates those flashing boxes. It seems rather broken. When the hw-detect progress bar was displayed, it cleared the screen to blue each time the bar was updated.

Bug#220135: netcfg fails with two via-rhine cards and dhcp server on eth1

2003-11-11 Thread Philip Martin
I just tried the new beta ISO images and the problem still occurs. The appropriate ethernet module gets loaded (via-rhine) but Configure the network using dhcp fails. Looking in syslog I see Nov 11 03:10:37 (none) user.debug main-menu[142]: DEBUG: Menu item 'netcfg-dhcp' selected Nov 11

Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Then how do you know it is a bug in mklibs and it is not actually a missing symbol? Which was the real reason it failed in every testcase I got my hand on so far. All of those suposedly mklibs weak symbols bugs disapeared when recompiling the faulty binaries

Re: Bug#220163: installation-reports: netboot install attempt via PXE (fwd)

2003-11-11 Thread Joe Nahmias
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Am Die, den 11.11.2003 schrieb Joe Nahmias um 09:16: Alright, here are the highlights of how this install went: 0) OK, after much struggling (and dealing with my nemesis error message 'VFS: Cannot open root device or 3a:04') I managed to get the d-i netboot

Re: My experience with d-i

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
Bill Allombert wrote: The help screen [F3] says that 'net' is good for a network install, and I wanted to test network install. IIRC, The help screens are from the boot-floppies and basically useless. Sorry if it was supposed not to work, I was not aware of the fact. As for the normal

languagechooser_1.04_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2003-11-11 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: languagechooser_1.04.dsc to pool/main/l/languagechooser/languagechooser_1.04.dsc languagechooser_1.04.tar.gz to pool/main/l/languagechooser/languagechooser_1.04.tar.gz languagechooser_1.04_all.udeb to pool/main/l/languagechooser/languagechooser_1.04_all.udeb Announcing to [EMAIL

Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

2003-11-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Then how do you know it is a bug in mklibs and it is not actually a missing symbol? Which was the real reason it failed in every testcase I got my hand on so far. All of those suposedly mklibs weak symbols bugs

Re: My experience with d-i

2003-11-11 Thread Sebastian Ley
Am Di, den 11.11.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 20:17: As for the normal boot: Initial boot worked:[X] Configure network HW: [X] Config network: [ ] I have no DHCP server Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [X] Detect hard drives: [X] When I try

Re: sarge-install onto Thinkpad

2003-11-11 Thread Clint Adams
I would certainly be interested in discussing XFS support for d-i with anyone willing to help work on it. I might be persuaded to put together maintained kernel images using the XFS patch, if there was enough overall interest to support a full d-i build and make the effort worthwhile.

Re: Bug#220163: installation-reports: netboot install attempt via PXE (fwd)

2003-11-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 11.11.2003 schrieb Joe Nahmias um 19:00: Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Am Die, den 11.11.2003 schrieb Joe Nahmias um 09:16: It would be nice, if you could write a short addition to the INSTALLATION-HOWTO about your way to install d-i via PXE boot. There is already a very short

Re: Usage of isolinux on the beta CDs

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
Sebastian Ley wrote: it seems that we are locking out people from testing by using isolinux on our netinst/businesscard CDs, see #220139 and #220139. Since we do not need any of isolinux's features I propose to use syslinux on the CDs. I think I agree. The only thing isolinux has the

Re: Slow redraws in the debootstrap stage

2003-11-11 Thread Denis Barbier
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:41:02PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Denis Barbier wrote: Could someone please test the attached patch? I cannot test it myself at the moment, but I believe that it eliminates those flashing boxes. It seems rather broken. When the hw-detect progress bar was

Bug#220265: Merge duplicates

2003-11-11 Thread Denis Barbier
reassign 220265 cdebconf severity 220265 minor tag 220265 + pending merge 218844 220265 thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Issue mounting partitions

2003-11-11 Thread Michael Opdenacker
Hello, I'm a Debian newbie, so my issue may be trivial... I'm trying to install the testing version by making a net install with http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386-netinst.iso (Nov 9, 2003). Booting starts fine, but I can't find any place to bind mount points to

Processed: Merge duplicates

2003-11-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 220265 cdebconf Bug#220265: cdebconf-newt-udeb: buttons have wrong tab ordering Bug reassigned from package `cdebconf-newt-udeb' to `cdebconf'. severity 220265 minor Bug#220265: cdebconf-newt-udeb: buttons have wrong tab ordering Severity set

linux-kernel-di_0.13_source+i386+alpha+m68k.changes REJECTED

2003-11-11 Thread Debian Installer
Rejected: Unknown distribution `UNRELEASED'. === If you don't understand why your files were rejected, or if the override file requires editing, reply to this email. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#220282: partconf: should apt-install userspace tools for created filesystems

2003-11-11 Thread Sebastian Ley
Package: partconf Severity: important Tags: d-i Partconf should make sure that appropriate userspace tools for created filesystem are installed to /target. Especially fsck.$FILESYSTEM is needed. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux coyote

Bug#219765: Languagechooser 1.03 dies on mipsel

2003-11-11 Thread kraai
Karsten Merker wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:02:30PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:26:20PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 09:38:09PM +, Alastair McKinstry wrote: if echo $LANG $LC_CTYPE | grep -q UTF-8 ; then db_set

Re: Slow redraws in the debootstrap stage

2003-11-11 Thread kraai
Denis Barbier wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:41:02PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Denis Barbier wrote: Could someone please test the attached patch? I cannot test it myself at the moment, but I believe that it eliminates those flashing boxes. It seems rather broken. When the

arcboot-installer_0.005_mips.changes REJECTED

2003-11-11 Thread Debian Installer
Rejected: no signature found in arcboot-installer_0.005_mips.changes. Rejected: no signature found in arcboot-installer_0.005.dsc. === If you don't understand why your files were rejected, or if the override file requires editing, reply to this email. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Slow redraws in the debootstrap stage

2003-11-11 Thread Denis Barbier
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:38:14PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Denis Barbier wrote: [...] I still do not know what to do with resized boxes. I've sponsored an NMU of debootstrap by Steinar that should make the resizing much less frequent. Thanks, this is certainly the best solution.

FWD: Re: Bug#215469: don't include unnecessary udebs on the cd

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
I'll bet Goswin has a pretty good handle on this. - Forwarded message from Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 22:06:53 +0100 To: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#215469: don't include

Re: Slow redraws in the debootstrap stage

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
Denis Barbier wrote: Here is another patch. I managed to get hw-detect to work directly under cdebconf and so could test it, but I prefer anyway to have it reviewed. As the previous one, it only addresses the flashing boxes problem, I still do not know what to do with resized boxes. Oh hmm,

Re: My experience with d-i

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
Sebastian Ley wrote: Am Di, den 11.11.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 20:17: As for the normal boot: Initial boot worked:[X] Configure network HW: [X] Config network: [ ] I have no DHCP server Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [X] Detect hard

Re: Issue mounting partitions

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Opdenacker wrote: I'm trying to install the testing version by making a net install with http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386-netinst.iso (Nov 9, 2003). Booting starts fine, but I can't find any place to bind mount points to my partitions. Here's what I

Bug#220230: Debian Installer II: sr_mod continued

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
James Bromberger wrote: So its not looking for /dev/cdrom as the device, but for the (devfs style name) /dev/cdroms/0? That's right. I see that the /dev dump you attached does include a /dev/cdroms/cdrom0. If the cdrom detect step is still failing it's because of some other problem. Seems to

Bug#219765: Languagechooser 1.03 dies on mipsel

2003-11-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:25:31PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: They have no real function, in fact they are logically wrong here, but they cause the shell to take an additional redirection which does not trigger the shell crash that happens without them. It's not a crash or a segfault or

linux-kernel-di_0.13_source+i386+alpha+m68k.changes ACCEPTED

2003-11-11 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: brltty-modules-2.4.22-1-386-di_0.13_i386.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di/brltty-modules-2.4.22-1-386-di_0.13_i386.udeb brltty-modules-2.4.22-1-generic-di_0.13_alpha.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di/brltty-modules-2.4.22-1-generic-di_0.13_alpha.udeb

Re: My experience with d-i

2003-11-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:17:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Bill Allombert wrote: The help screen [F3] says that 'net' is good for a network install, and I wanted to test network install. IIRC, The help screens are from the boot-floppies and basically useless. I suppose it is a bug worth

Bug#220306: cannot find usb floppy drives, etc

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
Package: bugreporter-udeb Severity: normal This package uses /dev/floppy/0, so there is no way it can work with USB floppy drives or other strange stuff. There is some more robust code for picking a floppy device in floppy-retreiver. It could be factored out into a separate program, or just

Re: Bug#220135: netcfg fails with two via-rhine cards and dhcp server on eth1

2003-11-11 Thread dinstaller
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Philip Martin wrote: I just tried the new beta ISO images and the problem still occurs. The appropriate ethernet module gets loaded (via-rhine) but Configure the network using dhcp fails. Looking in syslog I see Have the same problem, as a work around used tty2 shell

Processed: reassign 220281 to partconf

2003-11-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 220281 partconf Bug#220281: Installer Configure and Mount Partitions bug with 10 or more partitions Warning: Unknown package 'installer' Warning: Unknown package 'sarge-i386-netinst.iso' Bug reassigned from package `installer

Bug#192305: q to end, b for begin ambiguous

2003-11-11 Thread Denis Barbier
tag 192305 pending thanks On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 10:05:42AM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: Package: cdebconf Severity: minor This could almost be a wishlist item, re-prioritize if desired. I hope you don't feel this is too much of a nitpicking issue. q to end, b for begin I feel is

d-i install media disklabels

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
I suggest we come up with a simple way to label d-i install media. I looked at using eg, the FAT disk label stuff for this, but it is very limited and has various issues. Besides, it's so 1983 and so i386. I'm thinking about a simple file like the example below, just dropped into the disk as a

Re: FWD: Re: Bug#215469: don't include unnecessary udebs on the cd

2003-11-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll bet Goswin has a pretty good handle on this. - Forwarded message from Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 22:06:53 +0100 To: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Slow redraws in the debootstrap stage

2003-11-11 Thread Denis Barbier
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:11:26PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Denis Barbier wrote: Here is another patch. I managed to get hw-detect to work directly under cdebconf and so could test it, but I prefer anyway to have it reviewed. As the previous one, it only addresses the flashing boxes

Re: Bug#220163: installation-reports: netboot install attempt via PXE (fwd)

2003-11-11 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:00:22PM -0500, Joe Nahmias wrote: 1) Install boots into the main menu. Interface looks alot snazzier than the old text interface, however the line-drawing characters are all messed up on my terminal (corners are displayed as '', c.) Known bug? not know bug,

floppy-retriever_0.12_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2003-11-11 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: floppy-retriever_0.12.dsc to pool/main/f/floppy-retriever/floppy-retriever_0.12.dsc floppy-retriever_0.12.tar.gz to pool/main/f/floppy-retriever/floppy-retriever_0.12.tar.gz floppy-retriever_0.12_all.udeb to pool/main/f/floppy-retriever/floppy-retriever_0.12_all.udeb

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Why not merge dhcp and static? Try dhcp for some time or until the user hits abort. If dhcp finds any data seed it into debconf and jump to the final summary/acknowldege request in dhcp-static. Buttons there would be retry dhcp edit manual continue. I realy

Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 08:52:01PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Then how do you know it is a bug in mklibs and it is not actually a missing symbol? Which was the real reason it failed in every testcase I got

Re: Slow redraws in the debootstrap stage

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
Denis Barbier wrote: I am mainly interested to know whether it breaks anything. If not, I want to apply this patch even if it does not fix any obvious problem, because it makes it very easy to add a Working, please wait text on the root window which will become visible when no windows are

Re: Slow redraws in the debootstrap stage

2003-11-11 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 08:17:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: The progress bar dialog does of course resize a few times, even with debootstrap fixes, since the descriptions of some kernel modules are rather long. I wish it would only grow bigger, not smaller.. This is already the case, isn't it?

Re: Translation testing

2003-11-11 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:48:04PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you tell me please(or redirect to RTFM) how to test an ongoing translation? Hello, I'm not an i18n wizard, but i think you will have to grab a copy of the CVS repository, and rebuild the packages you've translated from

Re: Bug#220163: installation-reports: netboot install attempt via PXE (fwd)

2003-11-11 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:33:59PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: We're missing bogl-bterm and a lot of other utf-8 and terminal stuff on the netboot initrd. I will add it. Could you please s/nano/nano-udeb/ in pkg-lists/netboot/common ? Netboot images don't build any more. -- Jeremie Koenig [EMAIL

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
Sebastian Ley wrote: Hm, another idea: Start netcfg, with dhcp probing in the background while in the foreground presenting a select question with: Trying to automatically configure the network... Abort network configuration Configure network manually We would need then a means to

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