about Bug#281324: ppp in the installer

2004-11-18 Thread Lex Hider
I made this installation report at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=281324 the other day and made some comments about ppp and network setup for people not connected to networks. I didn't see any responses and was wondering if that was because my comments were invalid or just

Bug#281324: about Bug#281324: ppp in the installer

2004-11-18 Thread Geert Stappers
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:42:16PM +1100, Lex Hider wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I made this installation report at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=281324 the other day and made some comments about ppp and network setup for people not connected to networks. I didn't see

Bug#281820: base-config broken- bin/sh bad interpreter

2004-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 07:53:12PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: James McGuire wrote: teamlimit:/home/james# base-config Configuring the base system... /usr/sbin/base-config: ./prep-menu: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied tried uploading prep-menu from working machine, no luck.

Re: Re: Debian installer and Dell Dimension 8400

2004-11-18 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:25:14PM -0500, Professor Robert C.Berwick wrote: Hi Friends, Hello Bob, I too have wrestled for the past 3 months with getting Linux (of any sort!) onto the Dell Dimension 8400.\ I've tried *every* possible brand, too. At last, I've succeeded. The issue seems

Re: missing tools from d-i ?

2004-11-18 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 11:50:09PM +0100, Fabrice LORRAIN (home) wrote: ping is not provided by d-i. It's a handy tool to have to diag. network pb. lspci is not provided by d-i. /proc/pci is obsoletware for 2.6 and does not exist with current 2.6 debian kernel. Am I the only one to miss

Bug#281878: installation-reports: Several failures with RC1 on Oldworld Powermac

2004-11-18 Thread Cameron Patrick
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: RC1 floppies from http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/2004-09-30/ uname -a: didn't get that far Date: earlier this afternoon (18 November 2004) Method: I tried several boot floppies and also netbooting; none worked. The woody

Re: apt-get,d-i and small hard disks

2004-11-18 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 04:12:02PM +0100, sferriol wrote, a cross post: hello i have a problem using apt under small disk, on a PC under debian and another during debian installation (pre-rc2). On the first PC, i do a 'apt-get upgrade' but there is no place to download packages and after

Estonians needed?

2004-11-18 Thread rhett
Good Day, I heard that you guys have some trouble translating your texts to Estonian. Well, I am from Estonia and to some extent I can help you translate the necessary materials. I have some previous experience as well. Please let me know what needs to be done and if you have a schedule for

keep boot and binaries on CF?

2004-11-18 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
[I posted something along the same lines to debian-embedded, but the list seems very low traffic. Hope this is an ok place to post!] I'm intending however to set up a Mini ITX system providing backup (rsync), netatalk and samba filesharing and lpr facilities, and possibly some network routing.

Re: release update and branching

2004-11-18 Thread Kenshi Muto
Hi, At 18 Nov 04 06:44:43 GMT, Joey Hess wrote: So it looks very much like the release will be this weekend. I've just committed a release-annoucement.txt to the usual place in the tree, and it could do with some fleshing out. I think that's all, other than updating the web site and getting

Bug#281898: Package: installation-reports

2004-11-18 Thread andre . bouvard
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: sarge i386 netinstall-cd, Pre-RC2, downloaded 17.Nov. 04 uname -a: Date: 18.Nov. 2004 Method: sarge i386 netinstall-cd Machine: IBM NetVista Type 8305-31G Processor: Memory: Root Device: Root Size/partition table: Output of lspci and lspci

Bug#281813: [m68k] [20041711] [cdrom] Failure with Debian installer on a Macintosh IIci

2004-11-18 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:38:28PM +0100, Bastian Appenzeller wrote: Method: Booted the Sarge Netboot-CD using kernel vmlinuz-2.25-mac and initrd.22 from the /cdrom directory. Kernel and ram disk were not from the netboot-cd but from S. Marenkas page. No network connection was used.

Bug#281907: Install report

2004-11-18 Thread Andrew Phillips
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 2004-11-14 uname -a: Linux phillipsa-old 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Oct 7 02:21:16 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 2004-11-17 Method: Net install off of ftp.us.d.o using a netinst cd snapshot, through a local proxy Machine: HP

Bug#281641: Acknowledgement (installation-reports)

2004-11-18 Thread Mehul N. Sanghvi
I was able to get a successful install done by using installer from Woody 3.0r2. The kernel I now have is 2.4.18-sun4u. I tried to upgrade to the latest kernel which is 2.6.8, but that failed, as did the 2.4.27 kernel that I tried to install. I get the same errors with both 2.6.8 and 2.4.27.

Bug#281923: Install report: successfull

2004-11-18 Thread Luca Capello
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 20041115, http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/20041115/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux vert 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Nov 11 12:18:43 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 20041115, 12-16 Method: booted with

Bug#281924: Debian-installer report

2004-11-18 Thread Chris Lale
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 15th November 2004, http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/ uname -a: Linux thinkpad 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Nov 11 12:18:43 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 16th November 23:31 Method:

Bug#281924: Debian-installer report

2004-11-18 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Lale wrote: Perhaps this is an omission rather than an error. I could not install when I configured the network with DHCP. The installation hung trying to fetch packages from the mirror. I suspect this was because it had not asked me for my ISP's nameservers. dhcp should provide

Re: Bug#276379 acknowledged by developer (Bug#276379: fixed in discover1-data 1.2004.11.09)

2004-11-18 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:03:54PM +0100, Timo Veith wrote: After the inital reboot, the kernel panics with Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init. A few lines before that error one can see the message bla ... megaraid.o ...init_module: No such device. This is not the right module. I don't

Bug#246877: about your Debian installation report

2004-11-18 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 04:54:17PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: If you can, please go to http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer and download the latest release of the installer. Try another install and see if the problem you reported is still present. If you're able to test this, please

Bug#281923: Install report: successfull

2004-11-18 Thread Joey Hess
Luca Capello wrote: Nothing more to say about the installation itself: on this machine all worked well and the installation process was very easy. The French transaltion seems ok (even if I'm not French mother-language), probably when you choose the method for the installation, CD-Rom should

Re: Estonians needed?

2004-11-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting rhett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Good Day, I heard that you guys have some trouble translating your texts to Estonian. Well, I am from Estonia and to some extent I can help you translate the necessary materials. I have some previous experience as well. Please let me know what needs

Bug#281907: Install report

2004-11-18 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Phillips wrote: I get video corruption right after the preseed is downloaded. This goes away after changing consoles. Could be just this box, haven't tried others. IIRC someone else reported this and he was preseeding something that was not wise to preseed, but I forget what. I

Re: release update and branching

2004-11-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-11-18 01:44]: Uploading post-sarge udebs to unstable seems like the best of these alternatives to me. Especially if we're sure that after rc2, d-i updates for sarge will be limited to security fixes, fixes for any base system breakage, and maybe

Bug#246877: about your Debian installation report

2004-11-18 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:51:25PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: The StartInstall scripts on the cd do not find the vmlinuz file nor the initrd files, simple because the path is not correct in the scripts. I can discuss that with Stephen. I thought Geert had me straight on this. Please

Bug#281878: installation-reports: Several failures with RC1 on Oldworld Powermac

2004-11-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 November 2004 11:40, Cameron Patrick wrote: Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: RC1 floppies from RC1 is ancient and can not work anymore because of kernel changes. If you really want to try d-i for powerpc, you should at least get the pre-rc2 version, but

Processing of debian-installer_20041118_i386.changes

2004-11-18 Thread Archive Administrator
debian-installer_20041118_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: debian-installer_20041118.dsc debian-installer_20041118.tar.gz debian-installer-manual_20041118_i386.deb debian-installer-images_20041118_i386.tar.gz Greetings, Your Debian queue

Re: release update and branching

2004-11-18 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:44:43AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: - upload to unstable Advantage: Easy, sid_d-i images will use them, fully autobuilt. Disadvantage: Any sarge fixes would have to go through t-p-u, which does not currently have a full set of autobuilders.

Re: release update and branching

2004-11-18 Thread Joey Hess
Anton Zinoviev wrote: The upload to unstable is risky - it means that it will be difficult to make updates in rc2 if some need arises. Its not only the lack of autobuilders for t-p-u. T-p-u doesn't have its own distribution and daily built images and this means that the future changes in

debian-installer_20041118_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2004-11-18 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: debian-installer-manual_20041118_i386.deb to pool/main/d/debian-installer/debian-installer-manual_20041118_i386.deb debian-installer_20041118.dsc to pool/main/d/debian-installer/debian-installer_20041118.dsc debian-installer_20041118.tar.gz to

Re: release update and branching

2004-11-18 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 03:56:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Either rc2 is ready to be used for a debian release or not; I happen to think it is. Rc2 is not under question. The question is whether there will be language updates in d-i before the release of sarge or not. Anton Zinoviev --

partman-auto expert recipe

2004-11-18 Thread Paul Telford
When using partman-auto preseeded with an expert-recipe is it possible to have a configuration in which the partitions span more than one disk? i.e. something like /boot and / on sda and swap on sdb If so, what would the syntax be? Thanks, Paul. -- Paul Telford | 1024D/431B38BA |

Re: partman-auto expert recipe

2004-11-18 Thread Joey Hess
Paul Telford wrote: When using partman-auto preseeded with an expert-recipe is it possible to have a configuration in which the partitions span more than one disk? i.e. something like /boot and / on sda and swap on sdb If so, what would the syntax be? Not possible with the current

Bug#281530: [s390] Installation successful, some issues

2004-11-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 22:51, Adam Thornton wrote: OK. Why debconf/priority=medium, though? I can think of two reasons. The first is personal preference. I can imagine that installing a system like a s390 is not something you do every day. I think prio=medium gives you just that little

Bug#281324: about Bug#281324: ppp in the installer

2004-11-18 Thread Lex Hider
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:40 pm, Geert Stappers wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:42:16PM +1100, Lex Hider wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I made this installation report at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=281324 the other day and made some comments about ppp and network setup

Re: release update and branching

2004-11-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:23:34PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:44:43AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: - upload to unstable Advantage: Easy, sid_d-i images will use them, fully autobuilt. Disadvantage: Any sarge fixes would have to go through t-p-u,

Bug#281813: [m68k] [20041711] [cdrom] Failure with Debian installer on a Macintosh IIci

2004-11-18 Thread Bastian Appenzeller
The installation did not finish correctly, there was an error with mounting or unmountig partitions. However, I switched to console used the poweroff Can you describe this further? Do you remember what the message was? Sorry, I do not remember the message. It was the seventh or eight

Bug#281898: Package: installation-reports

2004-11-18 Thread Christian Mack
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: sarge i386 netinstall-cd, Pre-RC2, downloaded 17.Nov. 04 ... That's a fairly old version. Boots fine but after selection of language and country it doesn't find the cdrom-drive anymore. I tried linux and linux26

Bug#282007: Installation Report PowerBook G3

2004-11-18 Thread Agon S. Buchholz
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso The CD is readable from MacOS and Windows XP. uname -a: N/A Date: 19-Nov-2004 Method: Bootable CD image Machine: Apple Macintosh PowerBook G3,

Bug#282008: Bug report: installation-reports

2004-11-18 Thread Patrick Clément-Bonhomme
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Debian-Installer pre-rc2 (20040930) uname -a: Linux angler 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Mon Sep 13 23:29:55 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 2004-11-17, 19H45 EST Method: Bootable CD-ROM, kernel image: expert26 Machine: Toshiba Tecra S1 Processor: Intel

Bug#281538: languagechooser: [s390] Invalid setup of localization

2004-11-18 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 07:11:42PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: -( -echo # Inserted by languagechooser. -echo LANG_INST=\$LOCALE\ -echo LANGUAGE_INST=\$LANGLIST\ -) /target/root/dbootstrap_settings +DESTFILE=/target/root/dbootstrap_settings +echo # Inserted by languagechooser.

Re: release update and branching

2004-11-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Anton Zinoviev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 03:56:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Either rc2 is ready to be used for a debian release or not; I happen to think it is. Rc2 is not under question. The question is whether there will be language updates in d-i before

The new languages in Debian Installer

2004-11-18 Thread Christian Perrier
(from a discussion I had in the indlinux mailing list. I enlarge the focus and CC all new languages registered translators as several things are detailed informations for all these people) Ravi Shrivastava wrote: OK, then may be I will send you 25% translated stuff and as soon it is found

Bug#282008: marked as done (Bug report: installation-reports)

2004-11-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 19 Nov 2004 06:54:37 +0100 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#282008: Bug report: installation-reports 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 not the case it is

[INTL:tl]

2004-11-18 Thread eric pareja
Tagalog translation for languagechooser -- ___ Eric Pareja (xenos AT upm.edu.ph) | Information Management Service [IMS] \e/ Network and Systems Administrator | University of the Philippines Manila _v_ ~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~[ http://www.upm.edu.ph/~xenos ]~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~ Any technology

Re: [INTL:tl]

2004-11-18 Thread eric pareja
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:19:08AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Ah, Eric, you have suprised me. Would it be possible that you indeed work on the *general* PO file (the one you can find in packages/po/ in the d-i SVN). We currently cannot support new languages as individual files and,

Bug#281878: installation-reports: Several failures with RC1 on Oldworld Powermac

2004-11-18 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:51:27PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Debian-installer-version: RC1 floppies from RC1 is ancient and can not work anymore because of kernel changes. Ahh, okay. I'm pretty sure that when I downloaded it a few days ago the d-i web site recommended it as an installation

Re: [INTL:tl]

2004-11-18 Thread eric pareja
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:22:20AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: I have just commited the packages/po/tl/po file with the translations from this file. Eric, you probably can apply for an acocunt on Alioth (alioth.debian.org) so that I can validate you for commit acces, allowing to

Re: [INTL:tl]

2004-11-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting eric pareja ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Tagalog translation for languagechooser Ah, Eric, you have suprised me. Would it be possible that you indeed work on the *general* PO file (the one you can find in packages/po/ in the d-i SVN). We currently cannot support new languages as individual

Re: [INTL:tl]

2004-11-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting eric pareja ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Tagalog translation for languagechooser I have just commited the packages/po/tl/po file with the translations from this file. Eric, you probably can apply for an acocunt on Alioth (alioth.debian.org) so that I can validate you for commit acces, allowing

Re: [INTL:tl]

2004-11-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting eric pareja ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): No problem. I think the translation documentation instructions need to be updated to reflect that. I was actually wondering about that. I've done translation on the general PO file at home and will submit that later tonight. You're right. The

Re: [INTL:tl]

2004-11-18 Thread Christian Perrier
(are you subscribed to -boot??) Yes, I'm on -boot. OK, I'll then stop spamming you with double mails... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]