Re: Preseed, netinstall with amd64

2007-05-18 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 17-05-2007 om 23:37 schreef Albert Shih: Op 16-05-2007 om 15:15 schreef Albert Shih: the installation crash after core-installation with loop message like process x : INFO kbd-mode : setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-8) (just

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 18 May 2007 04:53, Neale Banks wrote: But... I added a few more debs to the pool and rebuilt Packages[.gz] with apt-ftparchive - now debootstrap complains: If you change the Packages file, you also need to update the md5sum and size in the Release file. pgplb5BSfm8zx.pgp

Bug#423634: Info received (Bug#423634: installation and bug report)

2007-05-18 Thread Mal Phillips
Upgraded the 3.1 r5 laptop Tecra 530CDT to Etch. Did low memory install from the 'full' CD set. No boot disk used. Same problem. PCMCIA card working throughout install. But on re-boot no sign of life from the network. I noticed during the install that the laptop would not automatically

Bug#423634: Info received (Bug#423634: Info received (Bug#423634: installation and bug report))

2007-05-18 Thread Mal Phillips
You asked : What are the installed packages ('dpkg --get-selections', in the hope that you installed only a base system so that this remains readable)? Is the pcmciautils package installed? Yes. PCMCIAUTILS is shown as being installed. Regards Mal Phillips On 18/05/07, Debian Bug Tracking

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-18 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:47:11PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Well, from the very few I see (I'm the de facto console-data maintainer, mostly because despite my lack of knowledge, I still can do some work, but I'm not involved in console-tools and kbd), I'm not sure that there are other

Bug#424942: marked as done (debian-installer: Cannot use entire RAID device rather than partitioning it)

2007-05-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 18 May 2007 11:07:14 +0200 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#424942: debian-installer: Cannot use entire RAID device rather than partitioning it has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has

Processed: Re: Bug#421692: No NVIDIA graphic card is fully supported

2007-05-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 421692 installation-guide Bug#421692: No NVIDIA graphic card is fully supported Bug reassigned from package `nvidia-settings' to `installation-guide'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug

Re: testing 20070705 Lenny on ia64 (rx3600)

2007-05-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 17 May 2007 22:36, Grant Grundler wrote: Not useable because network drivers are completely missing from the initrd. Drop into a shell and look at /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/net/. It's not there. On a netinst CD image network drivers are never included in the initrd. Instead

linux-kernel-di-amd64-2.6_1.26_amd64.changes ACCEPTED

2007-05-18 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: acpi-modules-2.6.21-1-amd64-di_1.26_amd64.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-amd64-2.6/acpi-modules-2.6.21-1-amd64-di_1.26_amd64.udeb ata-modules-2.6.21-1-amd64-di_1.26_amd64.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-amd64-2.6/ata-modules-2.6.21-1-amd64-di_1.26_amd64.udeb

Bug#388290: more analysis of recommends

2007-05-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 17 May 2007 23:14, Joey Hess wrote: Well, this is entirely too much cruft for me to try to analize, but --without-recommands uses 1698MB and --with-recommands uses 2047MB. Can the recommends possibly be worth a 17% size increase for the desktop install? It's no secret that I

Bug#424640: debian-installer: installer cannot regonize harddrive

2007-05-18 Thread Viktor Matys
I used DVD iso builded by jigdo. The last two isos (may 14 and 10) don't work, but previous (april 30) worked well. I tested the last iso (jigdo may 14) also on another computer based on VIA, and result was the same - Cannot recognize hard drive. I did lsmod immediatelly after booting (when

New dmidecode uploaded to unstable

2007-05-18 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I've just uploaded a new version of dmidecode into unstable. It might affect debian-installer, so you might want to keep an eye on the issue. It changes the output format slightly. This is the reason I have waited until after Etch was released with the upload, and also the reason I warn about

Problem booting Debian/NSLU2 after flashing

2007-05-18 Thread Martin Weinberg
Dear Folks, The short story: After flashing my new NSLU2 with the latest Debian di-nslu2.bin firmware, the device does not finish booting. It seems to stop with the amber status light, no beeps. The long story: I confirmed, of course, that the unit works under the native firmware. I changed

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
Frans Pop wrote: If you change the Packages file, you also need to update the md5sum and size in the Release file. same problem here, but *with* updated (and correct) Release file. would it be of any help uploading a sample iso? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 18 May 2007 17:54, Daniel Baumann wrote: Frans Pop wrote: If you change the Packages file, you also need to update the md5sum and size in the Release file. same problem here, but *with* updated (and correct) Release file. would it be of any help uploading a sample iso? Suggest

Bug#425038: ITP: win32-loader -- Debian-Installer loader for win32

2007-05-18 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: win32-loader * URL : http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: NSIS, C, Bash. Description : Debian-Installer loader for win32 This package provides a

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-18 Thread Christian Perrier
A couple of days ago I uploaded a new release of kbd where I did everything I can do about this package (including the udeb). It entered unstable today. Now I will wait some time to see if I have introduced some bugs so I have a chance to fix them. After that I will announce the

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Baumann wrote: same problem here, but *with* updated (and correct) Release file. You do know there are two separate Release files that need to be updated? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#388290: more analysis of recommends

2007-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007 23:14, Joey Hess wrote: Well, this is entirely too much cruft for me to try to analize, but --without-recommands uses 1698MB and --with-recommands uses 2047MB. Can the recommends possibly be worth a 17% size increase for the desktop install?

Re: New dmidecode uploaded to unstable

2007-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I've just uploaded a new version of dmidecode into unstable. It might affect debian-installer, so you might want to keep an eye on the issue. Thanmks to Colin, d-i no longer uses dmidecode at all, except when generating installation reports, so we're probably fine.

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
Joey Hess wrote: You do know there are two separate Release files that need to be updated? I only updated /dists/etch/Release, which one did I miss? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet:

Re: lenny d-i confused about disk detection

2007-05-18 Thread John Morrissey
Hi Frans-- On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:56:03PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 09 May 2007 22:14, John Morrissey wrote: I don't have an easy way to copy this output right now (network-console seems unusable outside of the daily builds due to #288053 AFAICT?) No, that has never made it

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Neale Banks wrote: May 18 00:29:38 debootstrap: /target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages: No such file or directory May 18 00:29:38 debootstrap: /target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages: No such file or

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
Daniel Baumann wrote: I only updated /dists/etch/Release, which one did I miss? as said on irc, the arch Release file in /dists/etch/main/binary-*/Release do not need to be changed, and have no influence to this bug anyway. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
Joey Hess wrote: This suggests that a deb is corrupt or is not being loaded properly, since debootstrap uses ar to extract the first set of debs. i even get those errors if I just 'unpack' the image, and re-assemble it, without changing any .deb or .udeb. as the initrd.gz is also unchanged, i

Re: lenny d-i confused about disk detection

2007-05-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 18 May 2007 20:21, John Morrissey wrote: Hm, is there a way to preseed this? Ideally, we'd like to have a netboot installation that autoconfigures via DHCP, prompts you for a hostname, and spawns sshd (network-console) to finish the installation. You need

Can't set screen resolution in a preseed

2007-05-18 Thread Adam Dorsey
I work for West Virginia University in the department of computer science and electrical engineering. We run our infrastructure on a modified version of Ubuntu, and we use debian-installer preseed files to automatically install and configure everything the way we need it. Currently we have

Re: Hello

2007-05-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 17 May 2007 17:34, Roman Semenov wrote: I would like to select a nobootloader option that corresponds to number 7700 What command does this selection. (I m trying to select this option from preseed file) There is no command that allows to select a specific item from the menu.

Re: Preseed, netinstall with amd64

2007-05-18 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 18-05-2007 om 15:31 schreef Albert Shih: 20070518 Stappers: Try install url=http://some-where/preseed.cfg that is the auto option not enabled, you will have to select language, keyboard and perhaps more, manually. After the auto options the preseed URL kicks

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
Joey Hess wrote: Neale Banks wrote: May 18 00:29:38 debootstrap: /target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages: No such file or directory May 18 00:29:38 debootstrap: /target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages: No

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
Steve McIntyre wrote: Hmmm. These look *very* similar to issues I've seen in the last few months while hacking on debian-cd: * shortcomings in busybox gunzip (#402482) thanks ;) i suspected 'corrupted' indices (or, indicies not the way d-i wants them) rather than corrputed busybox, because