d-i on Alpha: failed installation

2004-01-06 Thread Cameron Patrick
G'day, I just attempted an installation on an alpha with a daily 'business card' image from yesterday. After giving kernel boot parameters as vorlon described, the initial boot was a success. The SCSI controller and attached drives were detected. Unfortunately, some devfs weirdness seemed to

Bug#226354: can't select swap partition

2004-01-06 Thread Harald Dunkel
Package: debian-installer Version: beta2 (probably) Hi folks, Using the sarge netinst CD of 20040104 I tried to install Debian on a PC. The disk was already partitioned: hda183, reiserfs, 4 GByte hda282, swap, 1 GByte hda383 reiserfs, the rest (appr. 15 GByte)

Re: d-i on Alpha: failed installation

2004-01-06 Thread Cameron Patrick
Cameron Patrick wrote: | 0040 3e 20 c3 bf c3 bf c3 bf 73 63 73 69 2f 68 6f 73 | ..scsi/hos| | | Hmm... six bytes... utf8 weirdness happening somewhere? Argh, blame vim. Or me :( They were 'ff ff ff' in the original capture file. CP. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#226361: breaks re-install of base system

2004-01-06 Thread Joey Hess
Package: partconf-mkfstab Severity: normal Say I install the base system, and it fails. Now to continue, due to the well-known awk problem, I need to erase my partition first. So I run partconf again, and then install the base system again. This will always fail, because there will be no

base-config in CVS

2004-01-06 Thread Christian Perrier
As far as I can see, base-config is currently still 2.04 in alioth's CVS. Joey, correct me if I'm wrong, but you didn't create the beta2 branch for base-config, right ? So, commits should probably be avoided for base-config, at least until Joey makes some clarifications. -- -- To

Bug#225897: kbd-chooser: German translation uses wrong encoding

2004-01-06 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Alastair McKinstry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, The current version of kbd-chooser appears to be correct Unicode. Could you please check and confirm that this bug can be closed? Done. This was probably a mess while alioth was down. Nice to see you back. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Installation in russian

2004-01-06 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Quoting Nikita V. Youshchenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm not really familar with current DI status. Is debootstrap the only tool BTW, if you're looking for work to do, the russian translations were far from complete and Ilgiz Kalmetev was quite alone to work on these...so you're

Please be careful with string changes

2004-01-06 Thread Christian Perrier
OK, the string freeze is over, so cosmetic changes to templates is now OK. But, please be kind to translators, if possible. For instance (Matt, this is for you...:-)), when replacing Select a Keyboard Layout by Select a keyboard layout in kbd-chooser templates, it is very likely that this does

Bug#225897: marked as done (kbd-chooser: German translation uses wrong encoding)

2004-01-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 6 Jan 2004 06:43:58 +0100 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#225897: kbd-chooser: German translation uses wrong encoding has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is

Re: kernel-installer mkinitrd DELAY hack

2004-01-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Joey Hess] Can anyone explain why the ugly hack in kernel-installer to modify DELAY in initrd-tools is there? Has the bug it works around since been fixed in initrd-tools? I have a zero delay in my mkinitrd.conf by default. I believe I did the change, after reading about the problem

Re: Installation in russian

2004-01-06 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
OK, I can add console-cyrillic and console-terminus when you choice 'Russian' for installation language. (base-installer.postinst) I need more information for 2nd stage base-config. 1. Does console-cyrillic run simply '/usr/bin/cyr'? It is possible to create a cyr command line that will

Re: Installation in russian

2004-01-06 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
At 5 Jan 04 15:22:02 GMT, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: I think installed packages at 1st stage should be smallest. I'm planning to use jfbterm for 2nd stage. Jfbterm and unifont also cost some space... Yes, but it can handle all of major language. I'm not really familar with

Problem installing debian - during fdisk

2004-01-06 Thread Craig Smilovitz
Hi. I'm trying to install debian from an official CD and run into a brick wall during the installation procedure during fdisk. I've partitioned my disk previously using Partition Magic v7.0 from PowerQuest which runs on Windows ME. That utility allows me to set up my linux ext2 and swap

d-i, woody, cobalt WAS: kernel-installer mkinitrd DELAY hack

2004-01-06 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:12:06AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Joey Hess] Can anyone explain why the ugly hack in kernel-installer to modify DELAY in initrd-tools is there? Has the bug it works around since been fixed in initrd-tools? I have a zero delay in my mkinitrd.conf by

Re: Installation in russian

2004-01-06 Thread Kenshi Muto
At 6 Jan 04 08:59:04 GMT, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: 1. Does console-cyrillic run simply '/usr/bin/cyr'? It is possible to create a cyr command line that will setup console. I tried what's happen apt-install console-cyrillic at 1st stage. There is no error, and default

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:29:27AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: I will test the powerpc images on my powerbook until the end of this week. IMHO Sven has to decide about the powerpc freeze date, because most of the work on powerpc has to be done on non-pmac subarches. He

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-06 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:32:27PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: old world pmac and miboot booting is definitively not supported yet. Someone with knowledge of that and access to hardware should work on it. I've got no knowledge (yet) but I do have the hardware, an oldworld pmac, somewhere, and I

Bug#226400: installation-reports: fails to install nic-extra-modules

2004-01-06 Thread Chris Carr
Package: installation-reports Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hi, I think I found two unrelated bugs in the Sarge installer beta1. I have filed two previous installation reports using this exact same CD image - both successful, albeit with minor gripes (please configure

Re: Installation in russian

2004-01-06 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
I tried what's happen apt-install console-cyrillic at 1st stage. There is no error, and default /etc/console-cyrillic is: # Debconf: YES # Bootsetup: NO style ter-uni-framebuf size 16 encoding utf-8 layout by options caps_toggle ttys /dev/tty[1-6] For a running system, I use the

Re: Please be careful with string changes

2004-01-06 Thread Matt Kraai
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:10:46AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: OK, the string freeze is over, so cosmetic changes to templates is now OK. But, please be kind to translators, if possible. For instance (Matt, this is for you...:-)), when replacing Select a Keyboard Layout by Select a

Bug#220268: Yor installation report

2004-01-06 Thread Peter Clay
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 11:10:39AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Sebastian Ley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-11-11 21:00]: After rebooting, things are less well. The kernel complains repeatedly about can't find block-major-114. Hm, don't know where this originates from. I'll assign it to

Re: Installation in russian

2004-01-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:01:23PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: I tried what's happen apt-install console-cyrillic at 1st stage. There is no error, and default /etc/console-cyrillic is: # Debconf: YES # Bootsetup: NO style ter-uni-framebuf size 16 encoding utf-8 layout by

Bug#226419: install-doc: [MIPS] missing module/configuration information.

2004-01-06 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Package: install-doc Version: 3.0.23 Severity: normal I just installed Debian/MIPS/stable on an Indy (then upgraded to unstable, which was an adventure for another bug report). It would be helpful if the installation manual mentioned in the 'modconf' section that 'hal2' (which uses 'soundconf')

Bug#226420: install-doc: [MIPS] missing module/configuration information.

2004-01-06 Thread C. Scott Ananian
Package: install-doc Version: 3.0.23 Severity: normal I just installed Debian/MIPS/stable on an Indy (then upgraded to unstable, which was an adventure for another bug report). It would be helpful if the installation manual mentioned in the 'modconf' section that 'hal2' (which uses 'soundconf')

Bug#220268: Yor installation report

2004-01-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Peter Clay [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-05 09:16]: Peter, did you use/install LVM? No, not at all. Hmm, interesting. I thought it was due to LVM. I didn't know it was possible to configure LVM with the new installer. I will try the current installer and see if this problem is still

Re: Installation in russian

2004-01-06 Thread Nikolai Prokoschenko
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:55:07PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Also get in touch with Ilgiz Kalmetev [EMAIL PROTECTED] for coordinationg with him. (Ilgiz, I asked Nikita whether he could participate in d-i translation) http://people.debian.org/~barbier/d-i/l10n/ru/ is also important I

Bug#225683: installation-reports: no usb keyboard after reboot

2004-01-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Lee Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-31 14:24]: MINOR BUG: the final character of each line on the menu for installer components is missing. i.e: ... networ I saw this too a few weeks ago. I wonder if this is a known issue and perhaps fixed already. MINOR BUG: after each package is

Re: debian-installer/retriever/choose-mirror/debian/po fi.po,1.26,1.27

2004-01-06 Thread Denis Barbier
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:21:47AM +, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: [...] @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ #. one in the Choices field. #: ../choose-mirror.templates:100 msgid US[ Default value for http] -msgstr FI +msgstr FI [http:n oletusarvo] Fixing these msgstrs all over the time is boring, I am

Bug#226447: updated ofboot.b (Was: sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso not bootable)

2004-01-06 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
Package: debian-installer Version: unavailable; reported 2004-01-06 Tags: patch doing some investigation about this issue (not a cd problem) I tried to substitute ofboot.b with an example from the latest yaboot in doc/examples/simpleboot.chrp (attaching the file I used ) and rebuild the iso and

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:48:19PM +0100, Jeremie Koenig wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:32:27PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: old world pmac and miboot booting is definitively not supported yet. Someone with knowledge of that and access to hardware should work on it. I've got no knowledge

installing Sarge with F5D6050

2004-01-06 Thread Jesse Hammons
Hello, I'm having a devil of a time installing Sarge on a machine that has a CDROM drive and a Belkin USB Wireless NIC. I could download all seven CDs, but what would be nice is if the drivers for my NIC where installed in binary form on the d-i install CD. Is there a reason these are not

installing Sarge with F5D6050

2004-01-06 Thread Jesse Hammons
Hi All, I'm having a devil of a time installing Sarge on a machine that has a CDROM drive and a Belkin USB Wireless NIC. I could download all seven CDs, but what would be nice is if the drivers for my NIC where installed in binary form on the d-i install CD. Is there a reason these are not

Re: d-i on Alpha: failed installation

2004-01-06 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Cameron, On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:00:20PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: I just attempted an installation on an alpha with a daily 'business card' image from yesterday. After giving kernel boot parameters as vorlon described, the initial boot was a success. The SCSI controller and

Re: Installation in russian

2004-01-06 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Nikolai Prokoschenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have contacted Ilgiz on that matter a couple of weeks ago and tried to update the translations. However, it's lack of ccordination that I see as a problem at the moment. I don't know whether Ilgiz can help there, but there is at least a bug

Re: base-config in CVS

2004-01-06 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: As far as I can see, base-config is currently still 2.04 in alioth's CVS. Joey, correct me if I'm wrong, but you didn't create the beta2 branch for base-config, right ? So, commits should probably be avoided for base-config, at least until Joey makes some

Prospective languagechooser

2004-01-06 Thread Christian Perrier
Several recent discussions happened about languagechooser : -no natural sorting of proposed languages -bad mix of language/country choice which makes the language list quite strange (four french entries at the top, five english entries and so on) From these discussions, I've built a

l10n status pages for beta2

2004-01-06 Thread Denis Barbier
I do not know if this will be useful, but http://people.debian.org/~barbier/d-i/beta2/l10n/ will contain l10n status of the beta2 branch (updated daily), whereas d-i/l10n/ remains targeted at HEAD. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: beta 2 plans

2004-01-06 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:30:30PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: What hardware is it, The box says Power Macintosh 8500/120. and were do you live ? Strabourg, France. Not so far :-) Also, maybe some situation where we (me or one of the other powerpc d-i guys) build it for you, and you test it

Processing of base-installer_0.046_i386.changes

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2004-01-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: Installation in russian

2004-01-06 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:56:19PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Nikolai Prokoschenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have contacted Ilgiz on that matter a couple of weeks ago and tried to update the translations. However, it's lack of ccordination that I see as a problem at the moment.

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Re: Gaining write access to commit the Arabic translation files

2004-01-06 Thread Joey Hess
Anmar Oueja wrote: I would like to get cvs write access in order to upload the Arabic translation files for the debian installer. I did register at alioth and my user name is anmar-guest please let me know what else i need to get write access to cvs. I've added you to the project on

Re: Gaining write access to commit the Arabic translation files

2004-01-06 Thread Denis Barbier
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:40:55PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Anmar Oueja wrote: I would like to get cvs write access in order to upload the Arabic translation files for the debian installer. I did register at alioth and my user name is anmar-guest please let me know what else i need to get

Re: The Skolelinux d-i patches

2004-01-06 Thread Joey Hess
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: This one is to make sure our sources.list.udeb.local isn't ignored by our CVS. Is using that file how I am supposed to add udeb sources? Hmm, maybe things are different for Skolelinux, but we don't want sources.list.udeb.local to be added to d-i cvs, at the

Bug#226521: does not load installer components

2004-01-06 Thread Matt Kraai
Package: installation Version: 2003-01-06 daily i386 floppy images Severity: grave After the Choose a mirror step, debian-installer proceeds to the Execute a shell step instead of downloading installer components. -- Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To