Hi,
Please consider applying the following patch.
Thanks,
Feri.
diff --git a/doc/devel/partman/partman-doc.sgml
b/doc/devel/partman/partman-doc.sgml
index 90ff44e..2bb4467 100644
--- a/doc/devel/partman/partman-doc.sgml
+++ b/doc/devel/partman/partman-doc.sgml
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ returned by
Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net writes:
I am a bit scared by the catastrophic potential of
cat debian.iso /dev/sdX
for X = valuable hard disk.
What about recommending /dev/disk/by-id/usb-X instead?
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Patryk Ściborek pat...@sciborek.com writes:
But to my surprise it creates much bigger PV than I want:
[...]
And LV root takes all available space:
Last time I checked it was impossible to preseed an LVM setup where not
all the space was allocated. I had to resort to custom scripts invoked
by
Julien Escario esca...@azylog.net writes:
Hello,
I'm trying to configure full automated install.
The server is booting over pxe, get his dhcp lease and retrieve the preseed
file
over http.
Preseeding is working well but not for the net config : ip address, hostname,
...
After reboot,
Matt Taggart tagg...@debian.org writes:
I am attempting to debug a preseed install on serial console and I
can't just switch to another VC to get the log or run a shell. If I
could access the built-in webserver to access the logs or ssh to run a
shell and poke around, that would help a lot.
stephane travassac steph.sv...@gmail.com writes:
I have find the solution
I had netcfg/dhcp_timeout=60 in the kernel command line and it's work.
Good. As far as I know, there's already a fix for this (allowing
shorter timeouts) in the development version of netcfg, which didn't
make it into
Miguel Figueiredo el...@debianpt.org writes:
New proposal for the messages.
You still don't seem to handle the case when going back isn't
supported. Is that entirely forbidden in the installer?
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Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE jmpo...@gooze.eu writes:
* On startup, only C and English are proposed. I suppose this is a
problem with language detection due to serial console. Right? How can I
unable all languages on startup?
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=301343: 'This
Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com writes:
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:42:33AM +0100, Matthieu COUDERT wrote:
Neither the install nor the graphical install option works.
When I choose one of these options, the bottom of the screen gets
covered with multicolored snow, and nothing else happens.
I
Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE jmpo...@gooze.eu writes:
Le mardi 01 mars 2011 à 22:09 +0100, Ferenc Wagner a écrit :
Then you'll get the equivalent of a PXE installation, but started
from flash.
This is great. Do I also need the mini.iso, right?
No, nothing is needed beyond linux and initrd.gz
Marc Haber mh+debian-b...@zugschlus.de writes:
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 01:41:58AM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Marc Haber mh+debian-b...@zugschlus.de writes:
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 04:28:16PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
I guess the following changes do kind of a job:
etc/udev/rules.d/69
Marc Haber mh+debian-b...@zugschlus.de writes:
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 04:44:07PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Maybe, I didn't try it on SMP. write_net_rules has some locking to
prevent such issues, though.
My rule hasn't, but it shouldn't do anything if the script is silent,
should
Wookey woo...@wookware.org writes:
[Forwarded from Debian-arm list to somewherre where the answers might
be better known. ]
Please forward this back if it's really arm-related.
From: Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE jmpo...@gooze.eu
Subject: Re: Starting Debian installer from Grub2 on Flash
To:
Miguel Figueiredo el...@debianpt.org writes:
A Quinta 24 Fevereiro 2011 15:29:41 Dieter Faulbaum você escreveu:
Miguel Figueiredo el...@debianpt.org writes:
A Terça 22 Fevereiro 2011 17:27:47 Dieter Faulbaum você escreveu:
Please take a look on the installer log at
Marc Haber mh+debian-b...@zugschlus.de writes:
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 04:28:16PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
I guess the following changes do kind of a job:
etc/udev/rules.d/69-bootif.rules (inside the installer's initrd)
ACTION==add, SUBSYSTEM==net, IMPORT{program}=bootif $attr{address}
Marc Haber mh+debian-b...@zugschlus.de writes:
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 06:39:48AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Thomas Mieslinger (thomas.mieslin...@1und1.de):
To get my job done all those 5000 Machines must comply to some very
very basic guidelines. After the installation, the
Marc Haber mh+debian-b...@zugschlus.de writes:
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 06:33:55AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Thomas Mieslinger (tho...@mieslinger.de):
Package: debian-installer
Version: 20110106+b1
Tried to autoinstall squeeze on dell poweredge hardware with drac5
or idrac6
Hilmar Preusse hill...@web.de writes:
On 25.02.11 Ferenc Wagner (wf...@niif.hu) wrote:
Hilmar Preusse hill...@web.de writes:
During the upgrade of lvm by calling apt-get dist-upgrade
everything has been fixed, but until then these file systems were
unavailable.
Strange, LVM should scan
Hilmar Preusse hill...@web.de writes:
During the lenny-squeeze upgrade I noticed that right after the first
reboot (item 4.4.5 in the squeeze release notes) my logical volumes were not
found any more.
I have the LVM set up on IDE disks. Before the reboot the PV's were on
/dev/hda11,
Magicloud Magiclouds magicloud.magiclo...@gmail.com writes:
When using debian installer cd, there are many options to set. And I
could modify some parts, for example localechooser, to make some
customizing.
What if I just want to make some options fixed, so the user do not
have to use
Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org writes:
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 21:52:53 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
In short, I know that volatile is now named squeeze-updates...but
how is it called more generically?
'Urgent bug fixes', or something to that effect?
Timely updates, or
Olaf van der Spek olafvds...@gmail.com writes:
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Lennart Sorensen
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote:
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:18:33PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
Is it? I thought it was the default. More doesn't make sense.
If you have 8GB ram,
Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.br writes:
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 22:06, Michael Tokarev m...@tls.msk.ru wrote:
FEATURE_SHADOWPASSWDS
support for getspent() and friends.
Current: deb n static y udeb n
Proposed action: enable for deb
Discussion: It is quite unexpected that busybox
Costin costi...@gmail.com writes:
I can't believe this bug has gone one whole year unnoticed and
unfixed... and still counting.
You certainly have a point. Anyway, xfs is automatically present in my
tests, and I could get ntfs by downloading the
ntfs-modules-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem-di installer
Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org writes:
it would be nice if the debian-installer could support network bonding
on several interfaces.
Why do you think it's worth the effort? Installation isn't performance
critical, nor does it require high availability. And you can easily
configure
Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org writes:
On Thu Jan 27, 2011 at 13:19:49 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org writes:
it would be nice if the debian-installer could support network bonding
on several interfaces.
Why do you think it's worth the effort
Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org writes:
Just for the record, the difference between the size of the binary in
busybox-udeb 1.17.1-9 (as is currently in git) when built on i386 with and
without vconfig is 384 bytes.
I wonder if you really need this after all. vconfig is deprecated, and
even
Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org writes:
On Fri Jan 21, 2011 at 15:02:30 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org writes:
Just for the record, the difference between the size of the binary in
busybox-udeb 1.17.1-9 (as is currently in git) when built on i386
Hermann Lauer hermann.la...@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de writes:
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 08:47:40PM +, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
sym53c8xx is included in the linux-kernel-di-sparc-2.6 so i guess it
should be detected.
Can you try with a recent image and give feedback?
You are right, it is
Gregory Nowak g...@romuald.net.eu.org writes:
reboot with the cd in the drive, and get the beep from the pc speaker.
I hit tab, space console=ttyUSB0, and get no serial output.
Are you sure that your USB-serial driver and the USB core is compiled
into the installer kernel? The standard 8250
reassign 607906 linux-2.6
thanks
I reproduced the panic with the daily installer (first attachment). By
stopping before disk-detect and using a shell I could narrow this down
to the modprobe mptspi command (second attachment). It takes quite
some time to hit the BUG, which is then sooner or
ow...@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) writes:
The system can boot from CD but when I go ahead with Install at the
initial screen, kernel panics. The message I get is:
[ 0.596893] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
on unknown-block(8,3)
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Taro Sato t...@ap.smu.ca writes:
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote:
Taro Sato ubu...@gmail.com writes:
I've tried d-i beta 2 on Dell XPS 630i. I first tried creating a USB
memory stick with the installer .iso on it (following a standard
procedure
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes:
Quoting Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org):
I would like to apply this to the manual so that it does not fall out of
sync with what is released. I hope translations will be maneagable; I
tried to keep the new text small.
Seems fine to me. Late for
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes:
Quoting Philippe Villiers (kissif...@gmail.com):
I'm using Mac failovers on a virtual machine where i'm trying to
install Debian Squeze.
The problem is when I try to specify my IP adress and such, I have a
gateway unreachable error.
In fact I
Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org writes:
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 09:32:02PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Signed-off-by: Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu
---
packages/netcfg/dhcp.c | 10 --
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c b
Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org writes:
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 00:31:07 +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu writes:
-execvp(udhcpc, arguments);
+/* execvp doesn't like const strings for no reason, so we can
+ cast away
Signed-off-by: Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu
---
packages/netcfg/dhcp.c |7 ---
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c b/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c
index 385799b..ce93b26 100644
--- a/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c
+++ b/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c
@@ -133,8
Signed-off-by: Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu
---
packages/netcfg/dhcp.c | 10 --
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c b/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c
index f706c5c..385799b 100644
--- a/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c
+++ b/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c
of the slow link-up
problems which recently emerged (at least when DHCP is used).
Thanks,
Feri.
Ferenc Wagner (3):
Fix the type of the option array element.
Make udhcpc continuously retry getting a lease until dhcp_timeout.
Silence a compiler warning.
packages/netcfg/dhcp.c | 17
As long as all pointers are of the same size (as usual), this doesn't
make a difference.
Signed-off-by: Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu
---
packages/netcfg/dhcp.c |2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c b/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c
index f7ffa00
Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu writes:
-execvp(udhcpc, arguments);
+/* execvp doesn't like const strings for no reason, so we can
+ cast away the const to suppress the compiler warning */
+execvp(udhcpc, (char **)arguments);
Actually, I started
Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org writes:
Index: netcfg/dhcp.c
===
--- netcfg/dhcp.c (revision 66154)
+++ netcfg/dhcp.c (working copy)
@@ -521,6 +521,7 @@ (after udhcpc exited with a lease)
}
unmerge 603960
retitle 603960 Linux 2.6.32 EDD probe takes 30 seconds when booted from CD-ROM
thanks
Eric Wayman wayma...@gmail.com writes:
I just tested the original beta2 squeeze installer. Selecting
Install from the splash screen menu exhibited the same behavior as
with the special ISO you
Eric Wayman wayma...@gmail.com writes:
I just tested the ISO you linked me to; sorry for the long delay in my
response.
Hi Eric,
No problem, thanks for testing!
Basically, everything works. [...]
I think I see what the issue is. When I entered test and test-788,
it took about 30 seconds
Package: debian-installer
Version: squeeze beta2 netinst started from HDD by grub
Severity: normal
Hi,
On an IBM x345 I reliably get a longish hang during
Detecting disks and all other hardware, then a BUG and a resulting
panic. The BUG isn't always the same, as the two attached console
logs
Michal Filka michal.fi...@gmail.com writes:
how can I remove GTK support from debian-installer?
By removing the appropriate initrd file.
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Jose Luis Zabalza jlz.3...@gmail.com writes:
Is there a smart way to build a d-i initrd with pressed.cfg inside?
Now I uncompress, copy preseed.cfg and compress again the initrd.gz file.
is this the only one way to get a initrd.gz with preseed?
No, but this is the most general way. The other
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl toli...@debian.org writes:
Am 02.12.2010 11:36, schrieb Alexander Reichle-Schmehl:
I saved the contents of /var/log/installer after the installation, but
need to recover mu original system for now to do some work.
Ähh... Sorry. It seems it wasn't a good idea to
Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org writes:
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 05:37:55PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org writes:
Hercules s390 emulator installation failed at disk partitioning;
new partitions don't seem to show up in /dev.
Thanks for the detailed but to-the-point
tag 606976 +moreinfo
thanks
Taro Sato ubu...@gmail.com writes:
I've tried d-i beta 2 on Dell XPS 630i. I first tried creating a USB
memory stick with the installer .iso on it (following a standard
procedure); the install USB stick works on my other computer (Lenovo
T410s). However, on 630i
tag 605759 +moreinfo
thanks
Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org writes:
Hercules s390 emulator installation failed at disk partitioning;
new partitions don't seem to show up in /dev.
Hi,
Thanks for the detailed but to-the-point report. This may be a kernel,
a udev or a partman issue. Could you
tag 603960 +moreinfo
thanks
Eric Wayman wayma...@gmail.com writes:
This bug also occurs when using the amd64 iso image
(http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_beta2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-squeeze-di-beta2-amd64-netinst.iso),
downloaded 2010-12-10. Exactly the same behavior is exhibited: I
Floris Bos b...@je-eigen-domein.nl writes:
I think the arping applet should be enabled in the Busybox build.
It helps a great deal in debugging general network issues and could be
helpful to create a solution for some other bugs like:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=537271
Floris Bos b...@je-eigen-domein.nl writes:
The value specified using netcfg/get_hostname seems to be ignored, if a
reverse DNS entry is present for the IP-address of the server being installed.
[...]
I think netcfg/get_hostname should take precendence over everything else.
Half of the
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes:
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 05:45:30PM +0800, Qin Bo wrote:
Dec 10 10:49:14 netcfg[3916]: INFO: eth0 is disconnected. (MII)
Dec 10 10:49:14 netcfg[3916]: INFO: eth0 is not a wireless interface.
Continuing.
Dec 10 10:49:14 netcfg[3916]:
Floris Bos b...@je-eigen-domein.nl writes:
On Friday, December 10, 2010 05:12:39 pm Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Floris Bos b...@je-eigen-domein.nl writes:
I think the arping applet should be enabled in the Busybox build.
It helps a great deal in debugging general network issues and could
Floris Bos b...@je-eigen-domein.nl writes:
On Friday, December 10, 2010 05:17:15 pm Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Floris Bos b...@je-eigen-domein.nl writes:
The value specified using netcfg/get_hostname seems to be ignored, if a
reverse DNS entry is present for the IP-address of the server being
Dimitri Timofeev dimitri.timof...@gmail.com writes:
Installer displays boot menu, beeps and halts. Another laptop (Dell
Vostro 1310) boots ok and starts installer when using the same USB
stick.
This may be the same as #604245 and #604560. Could you please try the
workaround detailed in
Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com writes:
[Joey Hess]
Attached patch implements that. Please test.
I am unable to test. The Debian Edu developer gathering is over, and
the test machines have been placed back into their storage boxes. :(
I've got access to Dell PE2650 machines with
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes:
Ferenc Wagner wrote:
I've got access to Dell PE2650 machines with Tigon3 cards, which also
work without the TSO firmware. I could probably seize one for testing
if needed.
I'd appreciate that. Ping me if you need a boot image for testing.
Looks like I
Hi,
Testing the squuze beta1 installer I ran into a networking problem.
Primary network interface:
1. eth0: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet [*]
2. eth1: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet
Prompt: '?' for help, default=1
Hi,
Please try the following: instead of extracting boot.img.gz straight
into your pendrive (zcat boot.img.gz /dev/sdX), create a DOS partition
table on the pendrive with an at least 250MB large first partition, make
the partition active (bootable), and extract boot.img.gz into that
partition
Gyorgy Jeney nog.l...@gmail.com writes:
On 24 November 2010 21:54, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote:
Gyorgy Jeney nog.l...@gmail.com writes:
On 24 November 2010 20:25, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote:
# sed -i '/^timeout/s/0/50/' /mnt/syslinux.cfg
# umount /mnt
and then try to boot
Gyorgy Jeney nog.l...@gmail.com writes:
On 22 November 2010 22:46, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote:
H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com writes:
For a regression... I really need it narrowed down... 3.71 to 4.02 is a
huge change.
That's of course true. György, are you willing to test some
Package: installation-guide
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
Hi,
With the rising popularity of such devices, booting from USB
memory sticks is probably becoming the most common method of
running the Debian Installer. At the same time, introduction
of isohybrid images made HD images mostly obsolete, I
H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com writes:
On 11/24/2010 07:34 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Syslinux certainly used to work partitionless. Maybe this feature was
inadvertently lost during the major version change... Peter?
It's possible... it's also possible there is something in memory which
Gyorgy Jeney nog.l...@gmail.com writes:
On 24 November 2010 20:25, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote:
György, could you please make sure that it's a keyboard issue only, for
example by introducing a short timeout by replacing timeout 0 with
timeout 50 in syslinux.cfg? If your pendrive
H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com writes:
On 11/21/2010 12:31 PM, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Does this report ring a bell here? I didn't check, but the image should
carry an isohybridized 4.02 version of isolinux. The working (lenny)
version is 3.71.
This often happens when the BIOS doesn't have
H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com writes:
For a regression... I really need it narrowed down... 3.71 to 4.02 is a
huge change.
That's of course true. György, are you willing to test some
intermediate syslinux versions on this machine? They are distributed
precompiled at
Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org writes:
Christian PERRIER, le Sat 20 Nov 2010 08:19:31 +0100, a écrit :
Jeff, le Fri 19 Nov 2010 20:22:40 -0500, a écrit :
Later, I tried pressing TAB to change boot options and discovered that a
vga= option was being added by default. Removing this
Hi,
Does this report ring a bell here? I didn't check, but the image should
carry an isohybridized 4.02 version of isolinux. The working (lenny)
version is 3.71.
Thanks,
Feri.
Start of forwarded message
Subject: Bug#604245: Syslinux
Michal Ludvig mlud...@logix.net.nz writes:
In my case scsi_wait_scan.ko didn't wait for all SCSI disks to be
discovered, debian initramfs moved on prematurely and failed
miserably. Recompiling the kernel without CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC fixed
the problem for me.
Actually, you don't need to
Ivan Jager aij+deb...@mrph.org writes:
The problem is that /scripts/local-top is running and trynig to set up
md before the hard drives are detected and show up in /dev.
Add rootdelay=5 or similar to your kernel command line. This is
documented in the installation guide. Yes, this is a
posion bit poison...@gmail.com writes:
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org wrote:
So, I would say that LILO is no longer the default installer for some
installations of lenny.
Do you mean Squeeze?
Yes, Squeeze
What if /boot is on LVM (can happen with
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes:
Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org):
I'm working on cleaning up the release notes for the squeeze release, and in
the section on post-upgrade lilo handling, we have this note, which is
carried over from lenny (where it referred to etch):
Nelson A. de Oliveira nao...@debian.org writes:
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote:
Indeed, 3 times the memory size seems too big, particularly with large
amounts of RAM (large varies over time!).
I was reading the recipes in partman-auto and while
j.konrad debian-b...@planet8.de writes:
I selected german as language at the start.
The network console ignores that and continues in english.
Network console also ignores frontend selection (DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text).
I wonder if it's by design...
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Helmut Hullen hul...@t-online.de writes:
The simpliest way for me might be some download addresses for several
*.iso images which I can test.
Thinkpad T22, T23, T40
The image which fails to boot on the submitter's T23 is
Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk writes:
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 21:49 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk writes:
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 21:12 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk writes:
Another option might be to combine gtk/initrd.gz
Helmut Hullen hul...@t-online.de writes:
Du meintest am 27.06.10:
It would obviously be useful to know which exact image this was, so
that I have a hope of knowing if I can reproduce the bug.
Uhh, I see, this is somewhat difficult.
Today, i downloaded an iso, and it booted fine. But that
Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk writes:
Another option might be to combine gtk/initrd.gz and xen/initrd.gz so
that the overhead is only the kernel udebs and not duplicating all the
other stuff.
I probably mentioned this already, but you aren't constrained to a
single initrd.gz: you can use
Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk writes:
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 21:12 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk writes:
Another option might be to combine gtk/initrd.gz and xen/initrd.gz so
that the overhead is only the kernel udebs and not duplicating all the
other
Holger Wansing li...@wansing-online.de writes:
I found, that this not only a problem of the netinst cd, but
also hardware dependent.
I can boot my old 486 Toshiba Satellite laptop with this cd,
but on my IBM Thinkpad T23 the cd produces the isolinux error:
Error: no configuration file
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes:
On Friday 26 December 2008, Daniel Pocock wrote:
When someone is accessing a server remotely using a HP iLO, they may
not have the iLO licensed for graphical modes (extra license fees
have to be paid to HP)
Alternatively, someone may be using a serial
Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org writes:
Paul Vojta, le Thu 27 May 2010 00:47:14 +, a écrit :
In article enjn8-64s...@gated-at.bofh.it,
Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote:
Sorry, I don't trust in the future of LILO myself. If there's anything
which only LILO can do, I recommend you
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of
the master boot record and outside of a partition ...
You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO
Kurt Roeckx k...@roeckx.be writes:
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 01:11:48PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org (22/05/2010):
This means that users should *test grub2 extensively* before Squeeze
is released so that any issues can be resolved now.
There should
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of
the master boot record [...] This breaks the design of the backup
software that my employer uses. This backup software backs up the
master boot record and all partitions; but
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:36:32 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Kurt Roeckx k...@roeckx.be wrote:
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 01:11:48PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org (22/05/2010):
This means that users should
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:29:56 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of
the master boot record [...]
You may want to try extlinux, it works
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
On Mon, 24 May 2010 13:38:55 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:29:56 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes:
Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use
Daniel Baumann dan...@debian.org writes:
On 05/24/2010 11:29 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect.
It lacks a convenient configuration system, but that of grub-legacy
would be easy to adapt, and I actually plan to work
Chris Moules christop...@gms.lu writes:
It seems to me that, maybe, libparted, partman or something related in
the d-i does not work with more than 4TB. All 6TB are shown but cannot
be used. As nothing seems to have a 4TB limit I am not sure what it
could be.
A year ago there was a limit in
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes:
On Wednesday 24 February 2010, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
While I'm in Syslinux mood: version 3.85 has a full-featured gPXELinux
component, boasting HTTP support (among others). Image loading over
HTTP is *much* faster than over TFTP. On the other hand
Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe mario.ho...@tu-ilmenau.de writes:
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 01:18:01AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
Problem is: it works perfectly here for me using the daily image you linked
to on two systems: in VirtualBox and my (oldish) Toshiba laptop.
All right, I think I got it...
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes:
Why image size is important
[...]
2) makes loading the image for netboot installs slower
While I'm in Syslinux mood: version 3.85 has a full-featured gPXELinux
component, boasting HTTP support (among others). Image loading over
HTTP is *much* faster than
Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it writes:
FYI, the only devices needed by udev to start are null and console.
Aren't those created by devtmpfs? Or will Debian not use that?
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Robert LeBlanc rob...@leblancnet.us writes:
I too have been bitten by this. For as flexible as the Debian Installer is
and everything you can do, it's pretty disappointing that it can't do VLANs.
A lot of enterprises use VLANs, and it seems it would be important to have
VLAN support to
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