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
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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.
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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
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
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
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
--
debian-installer_20100912_amd64.changes uploaded successfully to localhost
along with the files:
debian-installer_20100912.dsc
debian-installer_20100912.tar.gz
debian-installer_20100912_amd64.deb
debian-installer-images_20100912_amd64.tar.gz
Greetings,
Your Debian queue daemon
Accepted:
debian-installer-images_20100912_amd64.tar.gz byhand
debian-installer_20100912.dsc
to main/d/debian-installer/debian-installer_20100912.dsc
debian-installer_20100912.tar.gz
to main/d/debian-installer/debian-installer_20100912.tar.gz
debian-installer_20100912_amd64.deb
to
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
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 --
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
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.
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
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
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
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tags 246498 moreinfo
Bug #246498 [debian-installer] main-menu: Should indicate
Ctrl-Alt-Delete/kbrequest prompted reboot in progress.
Added tag(s) moreinfo.
thanks
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246498:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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)
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
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
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tags 247078 wontfix
Bug #247078 [debian-installer] Please support ISDN connectivity
Added tag(s) wontfix.
thanks
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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!!! │
│
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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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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
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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
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.
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Bug #596730 [tasksel] tasksel KDE does not install OpenOffice/KDE-integration
Added tag(s) pending.
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596730:
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
)
+
+ 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
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,
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
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
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
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