PXE booting a 'netinst' image (was: Debian Installer Buster Alpha 4 release)

2019-02-25 Thread Vincent.Mcintyre
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 02:29:27AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Steve McIntyre (2018-12-17): > > But... The problem you're most likely seeing is caused by a simple > > fact. The *netboot* image ends up downloading significant chunks of > > the installer and the base system at runtime from the s

[resolved] PXE booting uefi machines (x86)

2019-02-25 Thread Vincent.Mcintyre
To followup on this. The hardware I was testing with showed UEFI options in the setup screens but apparently it was incomplete - there was no support for UEFI netbooting, even after upgrading to the latest firmware. Testing with different hardware worked on my initial setup, first time. So now I am

Bug#833706: this is not solved

2019-02-25 Thread Alex Brett
On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 07:36:37 +0100 spambox wrote: > i stumbled on the same bug in a PXE based installation on vmware > > the console displays a segfault and "error 4 in libc-2.23.so" >From your screenshot it looks like Ubuntu you are installing - we hit this >exact issue with Ubuntu 16.04 (Xeni

Re: Bug#914897: tech-ctte: Should debootstrap disable merged /usr by default?

2019-02-25 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Dear Technical Committee members, I call for vote immediately on the following resolution. === Resolution === The Technical Committee resolves to decline to override the debootstrap maintainers. Furthermore, using its ยง6.1.5 "Offering advice" power, the Technical Committee considers that the de

Bug#749991: A tiresome subject for YEARS.

2019-02-25 Thread Adrian Almenar
This also happens with daily and weekly testing images: At least, tried with netinst from here: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/ And daily from here: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/current/amd64/ PXE installation is also broken with the sa