Bug#701171: Brief install report: Toshi C850/0G6

2013-02-22 Thread Neale Banks
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image Version: Debian GNU/Linux testing Wheezy - Official Snapshot amd64 xfce-CD Binary-1 20130211-05:00 Machine: Toshiba C850/0G6 Vendor-Info: http://www.mytoshiba.com.au/products/computers/satellite/c850/pscbwa-0g6001 Processor: Intel(R)

Bug#700688: Toshi C850/046 and nomodeset

2013-02-17 Thread Neale Banks
Yet another observation... loading the nonfree firmware and booting the kernel with the nomodeset parameter helps a bit: the display is discernable, but not yet usable. It's flickering and the left approx 1/8th is on the right sie of the screen (i.e. the left edge is displayed approx 7/8ths to

Bug#700688: Brief install report: Toshi L850/046

2013-02-16 Thread Neale Banks
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013, Neale Banks wrote: [...] * The big one: Video card is (from lspci): 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Thames XT/GL [Radeon HD 7600M Series] This appears to unsupported in X :-( Looking for updates/workarounds. Moreinfo

Bug#700598: scrambled/torn display, booting wheezy weekly amd64 CD on L850/046

2013-02-15 Thread Neale Banks
On Fri, 15 Feb 2013, Steve McIntyre wrote: [...] Neale, could you try the following for me and tell me what happens please? I need you to type the following (blind!) at the corrupt display: c (call up a grub command line) terminal_output console (switch to

Bug#700688: Brief install report: Toshi L850/046

2013-02-15 Thread Neale Banks
Package: installation-reports A brief report of installing on a new Toshi L850/046 Boot method: CD Image Version: Debian GNU/Linux testing Wheezy - Official Snapshot amd64 xfce-CD Binary-1 20130211-05:00 Machine: Toshiba L850/046 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3230M CPU @ 2.60GHz Memory: 4GB

Bug#700598: scrambled/torn display, booting wheezy weekly amd64 CD on L850/046

2013-02-14 Thread Neale Banks
Package: installation-reports Attempting to boot the Wheezy weekly amd64 CD of 2013/2/11 on a new Toshiba L850/046 (in EFI mode, secure boot disabled) results in scrambled display. The machine initiates boot from the CD, displays 'Welcome to GRUB!' then 'Warning: prefix is not set'. Then the

Bug#696135: Moreinfo: Weekly CD of 20121217 failed

2012-12-17 Thread Neale Banks
We tested with the new weekly build[1] of 17 Dec 2012 - this failed in the same way. Neale. [1] http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#696135: CD not detected on Dell Optiplex 755

2012-12-16 Thread Neale Banks
Package: installation-reports Attempting to install wheezy i386 XFCE weekly build on Dell Optiplex 755 fails at Detect and mount CD-ROM with No common CD-ROM drive was detected. Most recent weekly build tried is 2012/11/12 (XFCE). The installer can successfully check the CD-ROM's integrity.

Bug#542963: X fails after new lenny install on iMac G3

2009-09-08 Thread Neale Banks
Hi, Similar experience with a blue iMac and debian-502a-powerpc-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso today: install proceeds normally but on reboot X doesn't get past a blank screen. /etc/X11/xorg.conf has no content (exists, but zero length). Log from X Server:

preseeding no tasks?

2008-09-16 Thread Neale Banks
According to http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs04.html#preseed-pkgsel I can also choose to install no tasks, and force the installation of a set of packages in some other way. What is the correct way of preseeding to install no tasks? Is it as simple as preseeding: tasksel

Unidentified subject!

2008-09-16 Thread Neale Banks
According to http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs04.html#preseed-pkgsel I can also choose to install no tasks, and force the installation of a set of packages in some other way. What is the correct way of preseeding to install no tasks? Is it as simple as preseeding: tasksel

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-21 Thread Neale Banks
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Daniel Baumann wrote: Before, I was creating the Packages files, and did a 'gzip -c -9 Packages Packages.gz' to compress them. If I do them with 'cat Packages | gzip --best Packages.gz', like debian-cd does it, then it works. Turns out this wasn't my problem (at least

Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-20 Thread Neale Banks
On Sat, 19 May 2007, Daniel Baumann wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: Hmmm. These look *very* similar to issues I've seen in the last few months while hacking on debian-cd: * shortcomings in busybox gunzip (#402482) thanks ;) i suspected 'corrupted' indices (or, indicies not the way

debootstrap says Packages was corrupt

2007-05-17 Thread Neale Banks
Hi, I've been, mostly successfully, customising the etch Netinst with preseeding. But... I added a few more debs to the pool and rebuilt Packages[.gz] with apt-ftparchive - now debootstrap complains: Warning: file:///cdrom/dists/etc/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz was corrupt and Warning:

preseeding: making a question critical

2007-04-17 Thread Neale Banks
Hi, I've been customising Debian installation with preseeding using a preseed file on the Netinst CD, which is mostly working out OK. However, one point eludes me - getting a question to be always asked, regardless of its priority. Specifically, the hostname is set via DHCP but we'd like the