Re: HELPMY AT THE BIGINING dEBIAN ASCS DEBIAN : ? PASSWORD ? WAT IS IT?

2016-02-25 Thread Adam Wilson
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 08:46:05 + Rui Rodrigues wrote: > That nothingness is the problem. Rephrase the question or begone.

Bug#815786: d-i does not ask for hostname

2016-02-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Roger Shimizu [2016-02-26 09:44]: > > I guess this should be $HOSTNAME (if set) or "debian". But I'm not > > sure that's even worth fixing now. > > I think it deserves a fix It's not broken (see my follow-up). > because RAID set-up also depends on the hostname as default name. > see ML threa

Bug#815786: d-i does not ask for hostname

2016-02-25 Thread Roger Shimizu
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 3:40 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Roger Shimizu [2016-02-25 18:59]: >> the code in: >> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/oldsys-preseed.git/tree/oldsys-preseed >> Line: 291 >> HOSTNAME=$(grep "Server Name" $path/sda1/.config/uLinux.conf | sed 's/^.* >> //') >> >>

Bug#815786: d-i does not ask for hostname

2016-02-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Nagel, Peter (IFP) [2016-02-25 22:45]: > > Anyway, can you tell me if the installer took the hostname from DHCP? > The installer takes the hostname from DHCP. Thanks for confirming this. (I know this isn't the problem you were reporting, but I hear some issues around that and just wanted to en

Bug#815786: d-i does not ask for hostname

2016-02-25 Thread Nagel, Peter (IFP)
On 25.02.2016 19:46, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I'm not sure how difficult it would be to run netcfg again after you > connect with SSH and to show the hostname selection. > > Anyway, can you tell me if the installer took the hostname from DHCP? The installer takes the hostname from DHCP. Concern

Bug#815786: d-i does not ask for hostname

2016-02-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr [2016-02-25 10:40]: > We read the hostname and store it as $HOSTNAME but then we do: > > add "$FILE" "netcfg/get_hostname" "string" "debian" > > I guess this should be $HOSTNAME (if set) or "debian". But I'm not > sure that's even worth fixing now. Never mind... we do the ri

Bug#815786: d-i does not ask for hostname

2016-02-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Peter Nagel [2016-02-25 11:02]: > From other installations I'm used to get ask for the new hostname - e.g. the > installer prompts with the following message: ... > However, it looks like that the message (shown above) is missing for the > QNAP (armel) installation. Sorry, my explanation obviou

Bug#815786: d-i does not ask for hostname

2016-02-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Roger Shimizu [2016-02-25 18:59]: > the code in: > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/oldsys-preseed.git/tree/oldsys-preseed > Line: 291 > HOSTNAME=$(grep "Server Name" $path/sda1/.config/uLinux.conf | sed 's/^.* > //') > > hostname get from there, and d-i won't really set up $HOSTNAME? W

Bug#815918: dasdfmt: detect format status and improve handling

2016-02-25 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Package: s390-dasd Version: 0.0.34 Severity: normal Tags: d-i patch Hi, below you can find three patches to improve the low-level formatting of DASDs. After an DASD has been enabled (set online), the status sysfs attribute can be used to check if a DASD is formatted. Depending on the value of t

Bug#815916: Failure to create empty partition table on s390 DASD

2016-02-25 Thread Viktor Mihajlovski
Package: partman-partitioning Version: 111 Severity: important Tags: d-i patch X-Debbugs-CC: debian-s...@lists.debian.org, brueck...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Dear Maintainer, when I try to create an empty partition table on a DASD, the partitioning code instructs parted to write an msdos label instead

Bug#815912: dasd: detect if a DASD is already configured

2016-02-25 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
Package: s390-dasd Version: 0.0.34 Severity: normal Tags: d-i patch If you have configured one ore more DASDs, the s390-dasd shows them as "(configured)". If you then leave the module, for example, with "Finish", and re-enter the module again, the DASDs show up as "online" again. The patch below

Re: [RFC] screen/tmux support for network-console

2016-02-25 Thread Roger Shimizu
Dear Philipp, On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:12 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2016-02-19 17:00, Roger Shimizu wrote: >> >> I have a new idea on d-i/network-console: multi-console support >> (screen/tmux). > > > To be honest: This would be incredibly exciting for serial console as well. Thanks for you

Re: [RFC] screen/tmux support for network-console

2016-02-25 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2016-02-19 17:00, Roger Shimizu wrote: I have a new idea on d-i/network-console: multi-console support (screen/tmux). To be honest: This would be incredibly exciting for serial console as well. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Bug#815786: d-i does not ask for hostname

2016-02-25 Thread Peter Nagel
From other installations I'm used to get ask for the new hostname - e.g. the installer prompts with the following message: "Please enter the hostname for this system. The hostname is a single word that identifies your system to the network. If you don't know what your hostname should be, consult

Bug#815786: d-i does not ask for hostname

2016-02-25 Thread Roger Shimizu
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:12 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Peter Nagel [2016-02-24 13:47]: >> The debian installer (within expert mode) does not ask for the (new) >> hostname but just takes the hostname from the flash memory. > > We read the hostname from your existing configuration, but I don'

HELPMY AT THE BIGINING dEBIAN ASCS DEBIAN : ? PASSWORD ? WAT IS IT?

2016-02-25 Thread Rui Rodrigues

Bug#731806: marked as done (debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors)

2016-02-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 25 Feb 2016 09:33:01 +0100 with message-id <56cebc3d.1040...@physik.fu-berlin.de> and subject line Re: Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors has caused the Debian Bug report #731806, regarding debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors t