Bug#880152: flash-kernel: please echo cmdline before starting the kernel

2017-10-29 Thread Adam Borowski
Package: flash-kernel Version: 3.87 Severity: wishlist Hi! It would be nice if you could echo kernel cmdline before passing control. Currently there's: echo "Booting Debian from ${devtype} ${devnum}:${partition}..." I can edit the bootscript myself, but having this by default would help anyone

Re: isc-dhcpd vs udhcpd

2017-10-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Chris Boot, on lun. 23 oct. 2017 09:22:29 +0100, wrote: > Speaking as one of the two busybox maintainers, we'd certainly be happy > to help make sure udhcpc is usable across as many systems as possible in > Debian. As James has mentioned the udhcpc code is Linux-specific > currently so need

Bug#880123: jessie-pu: package syslinux/3:6.03+dfsg-5+deb8u1

2017-10-29 Thread Lukas Schwaighofer
Package: release.debian.org User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: pu Tags: jessie Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: debian...@lists.debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org, k...@debian.org Dear release team, I hereby ask for permission to update the syslinux package in jessie as w

Bug#880122: hw-detect: Drop reference to floppy disks; it's almost 2018

2017-10-29 Thread Chris Lamb
Package: hw-detect Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, Attached is the following: commit 3394baf7ac1a3f3420881bcfebb8923bb9c5f07c Author: Chris Lamb Date: Sun Oct 29 18:29:02 2017 + Drop reference to floppy disks; it's almost 2018. debian/po/templates.pot | 2 +- 1 f

Re: Permission to commit and upload?

2017-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 04:52:08PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 12 Oct 2017, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Raphael Hertzog (2017-10-09): > > > I have a few pending patches that I'd like to commit and upload... but > > > since I'm only an occasional d-i contributor, I would like to double >

Bug#868900: iso-scan: should be able to copy the ISO into RAM before mount

2017-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 05:19:21PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > When you use an ISO image stored on a disk, it makes it impossible to > re-use that disk in the installation process (e.g. for automatic > partitioning). > > In order to avoid this limitation, I would like iso-scan to be able > to

Bug#868859: iso-scan: should also scan LVM logical volumes

2017-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:48:48AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > With this patch, I ensure that we activate LVM logical volumes so that > they are visible by "list-devices" and so that they can be scanned too. > > That way we are also able to identify ISO images stored within LVM > logical volum

Bug#868848: debian-installer-utils: "list-devices partition" should report LVM logical volumes too

2017-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 10:29:59AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Just like "list-devices partition" reports back RAID partitions, it should > also report LVM logical volumes. The attached patch does this. I think this is basically a reasonable thing to do, but it seems to me that it's going to c

Bug#879987: Netboot installation report for Banana Pi M3

2017-10-29 Thread Stefan Berzl
I cannot see anything in the log that would explain why the serial console driver didn't provide any output on the Debian kernel 4.13 (with the devicetree from 4.14). Would you perhaps be willing to do another test run once the debian-installer has moved to kernel 4.14? Yes of course, only how

testing fonts for gtk UI

2017-10-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi, The Noto font might be interesting to use in the graphical debian-installer to have a uniform visual presentation across locales. Since bug#837926 Noto is used for Sinhala and I curious to explore how useful same font might be for other locales. I tried follow https://wiki.debian.org/Debia

Re: [PATCH] manual: provide a download command

2017-10-29 Thread Philipp Kern
On 10/13/2017 10:43 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Michael Stapelberg (2017-10-13): >> Index: en/install-methods/boot-usb-files.xml >> === >> --- en/install-methods/boot-usb-files.xml(revision 70855) >> +++ en/install-methods/boot-u

Bug#880104: Testing ("Buster") with LVM successfully installed

2017-10-29 Thread Jürgen Kleber
Package: installation-reports Boot method: DVD Image version: Debian GNU/Linux testing "Buster" - Official Snapshot amd64 NETINST 20171027-21:57 Date: 2017-10-28 11:00am CEST Machine: Acer Aspire 7758G Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9000 @ 2.00GHz Memory: 4045308 kB Partitions: Outpu

Bug#879987: Netboot installation report for Banana Pi M3

2017-10-29 Thread Stefan Berzl
Hello there, many thanks for your reply, I guess it can't be helped then. Out of curiosity, could you tell me on which list the discussion takes place? [0.00] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 [0.00] Linux version 4.14.0-rc6-00053-g15f859ae5c43-dirty (stefan@debian) (gcc version