Bug#596572: debian-installer: Manual network configuration doesn't allow IPv6 addresses

2010-09-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
forcemerge 231003 596572 thanks Quoting Tanu Kaskinen (ta...@iki.fi): On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 19:28 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: reassign 596572 netcfg Ah, I wasn't aware of that package. It already had #231003 - Should Yes, netcfg is one of (many) D-I components. include IPv6 support

Processed: Re: Bug#596572: debian-installer: Manual network configuration doesn't allow IPv6 addresses

2010-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: forcemerge 231003 596572 Bug#231003: Should include IPv6 support from the beginning Bug#596572: Please allow IPv6 addresses in manual configuration. Bug#509201: Debian Installer does not work with IPv6 Forcibly Merged 231003 509201 596572.

Bug#596633: USB install fails

2010-09-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
tags 596633 moreinfo thanks Quoting Miles Fidelman (mfidel...@meetinghouse.net): Package: installation-reports Boot method: USB Installer Image version: download of testing files dated 9/10/10 per USB install instructions Please use the *daily built* images from

Bug#596667: debian-installer does not renew DHCP leases

2010-09-13 Thread Erik Auerswald
Package: debian-installer The debian installer does not renew a DHCP lease after it has expired. In a network with dynamic ARP inspection[1] this results in loosing the network connection during installation. [1] http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=1181682seqNum=8 -- Dipl.-Inform.

Bug#596667: debian-installer does not renew DHCP leases

2010-09-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:21:40AM +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote: Package: debian-installer Which version? There where several different DHCP client implementations in use over time. The debian installer does not renew a DHCP lease after it has expired. Possible. This means that the lease time

problem installing debian-506-powerpc

2010-09-13 Thread Zsombor
Hello, I have a 64-bit p550 power where I tried to install Debian using image http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.6/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-506-powerpc-CD-1.iso About a year ago I had successfully installed Debian64 but booting with this image it says: [0.510170] Ramdisk: compressed image

Bug#596667: debian-installer does not renew DHCP leases

2010-09-13 Thread Erik Auerswald
Hi, On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:54:42AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:21:40AM +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote: Package: debian-installer Which version? There where several different DHCP client implementations in use over time. All those using the one-shot busybox

Bug#596667: debian-installer does not renew DHCP leases

2010-09-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:02:06PM +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:54:42AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:21:40AM +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote: Which version? There where several different DHCP client implementations in use over time. All

Bug#596667: debian-installer does not renew DHCP leases

2010-09-13 Thread Erik Auerswald
Hi, On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 01:02:38PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:02:06PM +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:54:42AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:21:40AM +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote: Which version? There where

Bug#590678: At least fix www/debian-installer page

2010-09-13 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
Hi, thanks for testing the installer images on usb media and caring enough to report the problems you found. Nowadays usb devices are cheap and even more common than cd/dvd-rom readers and testing d-i on usb media is not so easy to accomplish successfully. There are already several reports on

Bug#596547: keyboard unusable

2010-09-13 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 06:33:51PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: Anton, do you have an idea how to fix this (or anyone else, for that matter)? We need to parse the xorg.conf keywords and option names case-insensitively, but the option values themselves are case-sensitive. Thanks for your

Bug#590678: At least fix www/debian-installer page

2010-09-13 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Miguel Figueiredo el...@debianpt.org wrote: Hi, thanks for testing the installer images on usb media and caring enough to report the problems you found. Nowadays usb devices are cheap and even more common than cd/dvd-rom readers and testing d-i on usb

Adding tag help for #581683 ([I18N, USABILITY] configure keyboard dialogs)

2010-09-13 Thread Anton Zinoviev
tags 581683 help reassign 581683 console-setup-udeb thank you Hello, I am adding the tag help for this bug. I don't understand the first part of it (the missing translations). I suppose the file usr/share/console-setup-mini/kbdnames.gz was removed for some reason in the installer image.

Processed: Adding tag help for #581683 ([I18N, USABILITY] configure keyboard dialogs)

2010-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tags 581683 help Bug #581683 [console-setup] [Graphical-install] [I18N, USABILITY] configure keyboard dialogs Added tag(s) help. reassign 581683 console-setup-udeb Bug #581683 [console-setup] [Graphical-install] [I18N, USABILITY] configure

Re: problem installing debian-506-powerpc

2010-09-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:49:03AM +0200, Zsombor wrote: I have a 64-bit p550 power where I tried to install Debian using image http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.6/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-506-powerpc-CD-1.iso About a year ago I had successfully installed Debian64 but booting with this

Bug#596633: USB install fails

2010-09-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
daily build doesn't work - details at end Christian PERRIER wrote: tags 596633 moreinfo thanks Quoting Miles Fidelman (mfidel...@meetinghouse.net): Package: installation-reports Boot method: USB Installer Image version: download of testing files dated 9/10/10 per USB install

Bug#596633: a little more data

2010-09-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Just for the heck of it, I copied the mini.iso to both / and /boot on my hard disk and tried the installer again. Now it reports, after a deep search, no installer iso images found ... while one or more possible iso images were found, they did not look like valid installer iso images --

Processing of debian-installer_20100912_amd64.changes

2010-09-13 Thread Archive Administrator
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debian-installer_20100912_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2010-09-13 Thread Archive Administrator
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Bug#596633: and a little more info

2010-09-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
At someone's suggestion, I tried configuring syslinux.cfg to set INSTALL_MEDIA_DEV=/dev/sdc1 Well - the installer still can't find the .iso, but now - exiting to shell indicates that INSTALL_MEDIA_DEV=/dev/sdc1, but... - instead of mounting /dev/sdc1 as /hd-media, the installer has mounted

Bug#445148: closed by Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org (Closing oldbug report against debian-installer #445148)

2010-09-13 Thread RPN01
I just tried the current download, and can't even get past formatting the DASD. I get a window with the following: ┌──┤ [!!] Partition disks ├──┐ │ ERROR!!! │ │ VTOC: seeking on device failed --

Re: problem installing debian-506-powerpc

2010-09-13 Thread Zsombor
Hello Len, It is happenning during the install, just after I boot from CD and choosing 'install64' (and any *64) . Tried with all imaginable boot parameters this problem still persists. But I also hate yaboot so I give a chance with grub2 squeeze. Thank you for the advise! Regards, Zsombor On

Re: problem installing debian-506-powerpc

2010-09-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 06:04:27PM +0200, Zsombor wrote: It is happenning during the install, just after I boot from CD and choosing 'install64' (and any *64) . Tried with all imaginable boot parameters this problem still persists. But I also hate yaboot so I give a chance with grub2 squeeze.

Bug#596633: USB install fails

2010-09-13 Thread Joey Hess
Miles Fidelman wrote: Just tried with the daily build - using vmlinuz dated 9/13/10 10:04 from http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/vmlinuz initrd.gz dated 9/13/10 10:04 from http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/initrd.gz mini.iso dated 9/13/10 10:04

Bug#596716: debian-installer: please add easy path to bpo and volatile sources

2010-09-13 Thread Hector Oron
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Hello, Today I wanted to install Debian lenny on a recent new machine with is not supported by debian-installer kernel in lenny. I also tried kmuto's d-i backport, but it is bit out of date. I believe it would not be hard to ask a new debconf

Bug#596633: USB install fails

2010-09-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Joey Hess wrote: The mini.iso contains only the netboot kernel and initrd, it is not useful to put that on a USB stick. I think that the documentation about putting a CD image on the USB stick is fairly clear about using an image that will work, such as the netinst image: Next, download a

Processed: Do we really need to say hey, I'm rebooting when user press Ctrl-Alt-Suppr inside D-I?

2010-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tags 246498 moreinfo Bug #246498 [debian-installer] main-menu: Should indicate Ctrl-Alt-Delete/kbrequest prompted reboot in progress. Added tag(s) moreinfo. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 246498:

Bug#246498: Do we really need to say hey, I'm rebooting when user press Ctrl-Alt-Suppr inside D-I?

2010-09-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
tags 246498 moreinfo thanks This wishlist bug says When the user presses Control-Alt-Delete / kbrequest, there should be an indication that the system is being rebooted. Currently, nothing occurs. Interaction with the installer continues right up until the screen goes black I agree that

Bug#252426: marked as done (no oldworld mac boot floppies)

2010-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:31:27 +0200 with message-id 20100913173127.gf3...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org and subject line No more floppies...no more bug has caused the Debian Bug report #252426, regarding no oldworld mac boot floppies to be marked as done. This means that you claim

Bug#256177: marked as done (want a way to load extra udebs from usb stick)

2010-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:32:34 +0200 with message-id 20100913173234.gg3...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org and subject line Loading extra udebs is now supported... has caused the Debian Bug report #256177, regarding want a way to load extra udebs from usb stick to be marked as done. This

Bug#262200: marked as done (debian-installer: d-i downloads unneeded packages)

2010-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:50:22 +0200 with message-id 20100913175022.gh3...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org and subject line The right udebs are downloaded has caused the Debian Bug report #262200, regarding debian-installer: d-i downloads unneeded packages to be marked as done. This

Bug#315393: marked as done (Problems installing Sarge on OldWorld 7300/200 Mac)

2010-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:31:27 +0200 with message-id 20100913173127.gf3...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org and subject line No more floppies...no more bug has caused the Debian Bug report #252426, regarding Problems installing Sarge on OldWorld 7300/200 Mac to be marked as done. This

Bug#231766: Maybe allow choose-mirror to use a mirror copy on local media

2010-09-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
reassign 231766 choose-mirror retitle 231766 Should allow retrieving files from a local (mounted media) mirror thanks Maybe this bug could be addressed by adding support for file:/ locations in choose-mirror? I'm not really sure that anyone has enough interest in this for such enhancement to

Bug#247078: ISDN?

2010-09-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
tags 247078 wontfix thanks I don't think anyone will ever really bother to add udebs for ISDN support in D-I now that ISDN is slowly dying. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Processed: Maybe allow choose-mirror to use a mirror copy on local media

2010-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 231766 choose-mirror Bug #231766 [debian-installer] Please include mounted file system retriever Bug reassigned from package 'debian-installer' to 'choose-mirror'. retitle 231766 Should allow retrieving files from a local (mounted media)

Bug#596633: USB install fails

2010-09-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Miles Fidelman (mfidel...@meetinghouse.net): installer starts up, gives the standard language selection, etc., then: - error: no .iso found - continue to menu, tell it to look for iso, I can see it mount both hard disks and USB stick (both /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdc); then comes back

Bug#247218: marked as done (should document which powerpc machines need video=ofonly kernel parameter)

2010-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:29:35 +0200 with message-id 20100913172935.ge3...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org and subject line Bug obsoleted by switch to X has caused the Debian Bug report #247218, regarding should document which powerpc machines need video=ofonly kernel parameter to be

Processed: ISDN?

2010-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tags 247078 wontfix Bug #247078 [debian-installer] Please support ISDN connectivity Added tag(s) wontfix. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 247078:

Bug#596730: tasksel KDE does not install OpenOffice/KDE-integration

2010-09-13 Thread Sune Vuorela
Package: tasksel On Monday 13 September 2010 10:10:54 Klaus Staerk wrote: Hello Debian KDE maintainers, when installing Debian squeeze from netinst CD and choosing KDE as alternative desktop environment, OpenOffice is installed but not the package for OpenOffice/KDE integration. Let's

Bug#213013: Wishlist still needed? (install logging with script)

2010-09-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Dear user (aha...), Do you think that the feature you wished to have in D-I (ability to run D-I from a script with all output logged as well as timings recorded...and ability to save installation logs in the target) is addressed by changes we made since then in D-I (for instance the

Processed: Re: Bug#581758: keyboard-configuration: way to enable xserver zapping not documented

2010-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tags 581758 patch Bug #581758 [keyboard-configuration] keyboard-configuration: way to enable xserver zapping not documented Added tag(s) patch. severity 581758 minor Bug #581758 [keyboard-configuration] keyboard-configuration: way to enable

Bug#213013: Wishlist still needed? (install logging with script)

2010-09-13 Thread Joey Hess
Christian PERRIER wrote: Do you think that the feature you wished to have in D-I (ability to run D-I from a script with all output logged as well as timings recorded...and ability to save installation logs in the target) is addressed by changes we made since then in D-I (for instance the

Bug#596633: USB install fails

2010-09-13 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Miles Fidelman (mfidel...@meetinghouse.net): Err, you're not supposed to put the mini.iso on the USB stick, but either the businesscard or netinst images. the instructions page implies that you can do a netboot, using the .iso found in the /netboot directory - where the only iso

Bug#581758: keyboard-configuration: way to enable xserver zapping not documented

2010-09-13 Thread Anton Zinoviev
clone 581758 -1 severity -1 normal tags -1 - patch retitle -1 way to enable xserver zapping not documented reassign -1 release-notes thank you On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:28:13PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: What about adding this in /etc/default/keyboard ? # The following variables describe

Processed: Re: Bug#581758: keyboard-configuration: way to enable xserver zapping not documented

2010-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: clone 581758 -1 Bug#581758: keyboard-configuration: way to enable xserver zapping not documented Bug 581758 cloned as bug 596738. severity -1 normal Bug #596738 [keyboard-configuration] keyboard-configuration: way to enable xserver zapping not

Bug#445148: closed by Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org (Closing oldbug report against debian-installer #445148)

2010-09-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:13:01 -0400 (EDT), Robert Nix wrote: I just tried the current download, and can't even get past formatting the DASD. I get a window with the following: ┌──┤ [!!] Partition disks ├──┐ │ ERROR!!! │ │

Processed: Re: Bug#590743: keyboard-configuration: XKBOPTIONS seems to be not propagated

2010-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 590743 xserver-xorg Bug #590743 [keyboard-configuration] keyboard-configuration: XKBOPTIONS seems to be not propagated Bug reassigned from package 'keyboard-configuration' to 'xserver-xorg'. Bug No longer marked as found in versions

Bug#581758: keyboard-configuration: way to enable xserver zapping not documented

2010-09-13 Thread Anton Zinoviev
tags 581758 patch severity 581758 minor thank you I'm lowering the severity because this is not realy a bug of console-setup. I think I'd better postpone the following patch until squeeze is released. On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 05:30:46PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: Either

Processed (with 1 errors): merging 581756 and 568645

2010-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: severity 581756 minor Bug #581756 [keyboard-configuration] keyboard-configuration: want config changes to propagate to udev/Xorg without reboot Severity set to 'minor' from 'wishlist' merge 581756 568645 Bug#568645: setupcon requires udevadm

Bug#596633: USB install fails

2010-09-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Miles Fidelman (mfidel...@meetinghouse.net): Err, you're not supposed to put the mini.iso on the USB stick, but either the businesscard or netinst images. the instructions page implies that you can do a netboot, using the .iso found in the

Bug#213013: Wishlist still needed? (install logging with script)

2010-09-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org): Christian PERRIER wrote: Do you think that the feature you wished to have in D-I (ability to run D-I from a script with all output logged as well as timings recorded...and ability to save installation logs in the target) is addressed by changes we

Processed: Re: Processed (with 1 errors): merging 581756 and 568645

2010-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 581756 console-setup Bug #581756 [keyboard-configuration] keyboard-configuration: want config changes to propagate to udev/Xorg without reboot Bug reassigned from package 'keyboard-configuration' to 'console-setup'. Bug No longer marked

Bug#596633: marked as done (USB install fails)

2010-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:58:47 +0200 with message-id 20100913195847.gl3...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org and subject line Re: Bug#596633: USB install fails has caused the Debian Bug report #596633, regarding USB install fails to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the

Status of some daily D-I builds

2010-09-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
As I just mentioned on IRC, a few daily builds seem currently non optimal: - s390 builds still point to Frans' home on people.d.o. It's very sad to say this, of course, but that doesn't exist anymore..:-( - sparc builds point to Geert Stappers home and haven't been updated since July 12th Could

Bug#596716: debian-installer: please add easy path to bpo and volatile sources

2010-09-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
reassign 596716 apt-setup thanks Quoting Hector Oron (zu...@debian.org): Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Hello, Today I wanted to install Debian lenny on a recent new machine with is not supported by debian-installer kernel in lenny. I also tried kmuto's d-i backport,

Bug#596730: tasksel KDE does not install OpenOffice/KDE-integration

2010-09-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Sune Vuorela (s...@debian.org): Package: tasksel On Monday 13 September 2010 10:10:54 Klaus Staerk wrote: Hello Debian KDE maintainers, when installing Debian squeeze from netinst CD and choosing KDE as alternative desktop environment, OpenOffice is installed but not the

Bug#596730: tasksel KDE does not install OpenOffice/KDE-integration

2010-09-13 Thread Klaus Staerk
Hi, Am 13.09.2010 22:05, schrieb Christian PERRIER: Quoting Sune Vuorela (s...@debian.org): Package: tasksel On Monday 13 September 2010 10:10:54 Klaus Staerk wrote: Hello Debian KDE maintainers, when installing Debian squeeze from netinst CD and choosing KDE as alternative desktop

Processed: Re: Bug#596716: debian-installer: please add easy path to bpo and volatile sources

2010-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 596716 apt-setup Bug #596716 [debian-installer] debian-installer: please add easy path to bpo and volatile sources Bug reassigned from package 'debian-installer' to 'apt-setup'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you

Re: Status of some daily D-I builds

2010-09-13 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 20100913 om 22:16 schreef Christian PERRIER: As I just mentioned on IRC, a few daily builds seem currently non optimal: - s390 builds still point to Frans' home on people.d.o. It's very sad to say this, of course, but that doesn't exist anymore..:-( - sparc builds point to Geert

Bug#596730: tasksel KDE does not install OpenOffice/KDE-integration

2010-09-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
tags 596730 pending thanks Quoting Klaus Staerk (klaus.sta...@gmx.net): What's the needed package? The name of the package is openoffice.org-kde. Funny: I use KDE for ages. Same for OOo. And I didn't have this package..:) I just added it to the kde-desktop task in tasksel's git repository.

Processed: Re: Bug#596730: tasksel KDE does not install OpenOffice/KDE-integration

2010-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tags 596730 pending Bug #596730 [tasksel] tasksel KDE does not install OpenOffice/KDE-integration Added tag(s) pending. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 596730:

Bug#596760: Reportbug installation-reports

2010-09-13 Thread RPN01
Package: installation-reports Boot method: z/VM virtual card reader Image version: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-s390/current/imag es/generic/ Date: 09/13/2010 09:30am Machine: IBM Z9 2094 2IFL z/VM Version 5 Release 3.0, service level 0702 (64-bit) Generated at

Re: [manual] booting from USB

2010-09-13 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
Hi all, because of #596633, #590568 and #596628 regarding USB installation where instructions on .iso to use didn't seem to be clear enough i moved the information of the already existing footnote to a paragraph hoping it's easier to understand. Here it goes a new proposal. On 11-09-2010 18:59,

Bug#596762: installation-reports: installer failed to add winXP to grub2

2010-09-13 Thread spamfang
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i -- Package-specific info: Boot method: cd Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso Date: Date and time of the install Machine: athlon xp 1800+, 2gb ram, 500gb HDD

Bug#590568: iso images

2010-09-13 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
Must be named .iso or .ISO. In the chapter you point from the manual: You can use either a businesscard, a netinst or a full CD image (see Section 4.1, “Official Debian GNU/Linux CD-ROM Sets”). Be sure to select one that fits. Note that the “netboot mini.iso” image is not usable for this

Bug#581756: keyboard-configuration: XKBOPTIONS does not properly propagate to xserver-xorg

2010-09-13 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 06:15:06PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: Triggering udev from keyboard-configuration doesn't really make sense (it's a layering violation; keyboard-configuration shouldn't need to know what the users for this configuration file are, whether X is installed, etc) Do

Bug#596633: USB install fails

2010-09-13 Thread Joey Hess
Miles Fidelman wrote: Next, download a Debian netinst CD image, and copy that file to the memory stick; any filename is ok as long as it ends in .iso. Actually, the instructions AREN'T that clear. The instructions start out with: There are two installation methods possible when

Bug#596633: USB install fails

2010-09-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Joey Hess wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Next, download a Debian netinst CD image, and copy that file to the memory stick; any filename is ok as long as it ends in .iso. Actually, the instructions AREN'T that clear. The instructions start out with: There are two

Re: [manual] booting from USB

2010-09-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Miguel Figueiredo wrote: Hi all, because of #596633, #590568 and #596628 regarding USB installation where instructions on .iso to use didn't seem to be clear enough i moved the information of the already existing footnote to a paragraph hoping it's easier to understand. As one of the bug

Bug#596760: Could not write VTOC labels

2010-09-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:27:56 -0400 (EDT), Robert Nix wrote: Image version: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-s390/current/images/generic/ The Lenny installer is a bit long in the tooth. Have you tried the Squeeze alpha1 installer? It *should* be able to install

using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-13 Thread Joey Hess
I've done some investigation of using isohybrid on an iso image (d-i alpha1 i386 netinst) to allow it to be booted from USB stick. Basically, postprocess the image with isohybrid, and write it direct to the usb stick. On the single machine I tried it on, that booted ok without any tweaking of

Re: Status of some daily D-I builds

2010-09-13 Thread Joey Hess
Christian PERRIER wrote: On the other hand, I think that other daily builds done in Joey Hess' home are very safe. Obviously, Joey has proven over years how reliable he can be and I don't see urgency to change this. Aside from not being in the building where that box is all the time, and it

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-13 Thread Joey Hess
) + + isohybrid $(TEMP_MINIISO) # Netboot files .PHONY: arch_netboot_dir diff --git a/installer/debian/changelog b/installer/debian/changelog index d3820df..2e67006 100644 --- a/installer/debian/changelog +++ b/installer/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +debian-installer (20100913) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-13 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: So ideally, debian-cd would add a small second partition to the iso file's partition table, and tack on a FAT filesystem. This could probably be done by running fdisk on the iso file after isohybrid. I've attached a patch with a script, which I am checking into d-i for now,

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-13 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: I've attached a patch with a script, which I am checking into d-i for now, that does that. Note that currently mountmedia and check-missing-firmware only find firmware on this second, special partition, if it's in udeb or deb files. When looking for loose firmware, it mounts

Bug#596786: installation-reports: installer also couldn't find broadcom card

2010-09-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i eth0 is intel board eth1 is broadcom card installer 1st asks for firmware (e100/d102e_ucode.bin) - download from debian.org per install instructions, put on usb stick, insert - seems to load (takes several minutes) then, selecting eth1

Bug#596787: installation-reports: grub legacy writes incorrect menu.lst when disks are RAIDed

2010-09-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i system has two mirrored disks, /dev/md0 is boot, /dev/md2 is root selecting grub-legacy, and specifying either /dev/hda or (hd0) for installation results in a menu.lst file with the line groot=(md0) and all of the boot sections starting