Bug#944102: create sources.list with signed-by

2023-08-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I think this proposal to use "signed-by" is a good idea. But if you ever make such support, please consider to use deb822 style file instead of one-line old style. This way, we can avoid creating a source list configuration file with insanely long line can be avoided. (I don't know which

Bug#1017762: incompatible after "btrfs subvolume set-default ..."

2022-08-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Source: partman-btrfs Version: 55 Severity: normal It is great to have btrfs support with @rootfs. Thanks. I wish if it is a bit more verbose on what it does in installer dialogue. This is more important if we want to use existing btrfs with something like @home-uid1000 in it ;-) Anyway, I

Bug#1012041: Patch: debian/control

2022-05-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi > And the patch needs to be actually tested. Very true. Excuse me. I think what you suggests is the way to go. Thanks Osamu

Bug#1012041: Patch: debian/control

2022-05-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
Control: tags + patch -1 thanks From 980e431896d4442142bf480b14abd0049208861f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Osamu Aoki Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 14:28:00 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] Ensure update upon xkb-data update Signed-off-by: Osamu Aoki --- debian/control | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion

Bug#1012041: KeyboardNames.pl is out-of-sync with xkeyboard-config

2022-05-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Source: console-setup Version: 1.205 Severity: normal Problem symptom: I was looking at "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration" under Japanese locale and testing. Although Generic 101 and 104 keyboards are translated properly, Generic 102 and 105 keyboards were not translated properly.

Bug#983107: os-prober: generic subvolume support for btrfs

2021-02-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Speaking of btrfs integration to grub, I noticed some strange cruft code in /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober. (grub-common package) Maybe this is some backward compatibility feature code to address older os-prober. We may need to be careful around here or this may be an non-issue. In

Bug#983107: os-prober: generic subvolume support for btrfs

2021-02-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Knowing bulleseye 11 release is near and this issue may stay, people may need to work around this issue of btrfs subvolume as root partition. Here is my WORKAROUND suggestion. (Please note that my patch proposal in my original bug report is not- yet tested well.) The current Debian Grub2

Bug#983107: os-prober: generic subvolume support for btrfs

2021-02-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: os-prober Version: 1.78 Severity: normal Issue: Currently Debian os-prober support only btrfs root-filesystem on the root of the btrfs, i.e., ID 5 (FS_TREE). This makes auto generated grub.cfg to miss Linux install to btrfs for some Ubuntu and Suse since they put root-system under @

Bug#925391: task-japanese-desktop and others: Gnome-wayland compatible input method

2019-03-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: tasksel Version: 3.51 Severity: normal We will ship wayland enabled Gnome as the default for Buster! So we need to adjust to this environment. Trying to enable current default input method for Japanese under wayland caused big side effect. So the feature to enable uim requires user to

Bug#907970: Please stop using debiandoc-sgml (deprecated)

2018-09-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
ed to use the > $(wildcard) function to do that. Good catch. Thanks. This calls for 2 fixes ;-) Updated patch attached. Osamu PS: I copied Makefile from "doc/devel/internals" with funny feeling... From 6304f8e283e742b3b2831ca1f62a390621b76503 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Osamu Ao

Bug#907970: Please stop using debiandoc-sgml (deprecated)

2018-09-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
9e165a7690557672fcba4278894858b0badc789f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Osamu Aoki Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 10:54:10 + Subject: [PATCH] partman-doc: Convert to DocBook XML 4.5 Convert with: $ debiandoc2dbk -1 partman-doc.sgml Build script are from internals (some symlink) Also update .gitignore to match

installation-guide: USB boot

2014-06-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Installation guide on USB boot is a bit outdated and may need some touch up. (I could not find package to file bug report.) === USB-HDD and USB Legacy === http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apas02.html#howto-getting-images-usb A.2.2. USB memory stick | Some BIOSes can boot USB storage

Bug#600320: Migration from Ubuntu to Debian

2010-10-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, As Otavio pointed out, d-i is meant to install system to fresh formatted partition. This does not mean that you can not use d-i to migrate your system to new Debian with some skill. Since you are an experienced admin, I suspect you were doing this fresh install to an empty partition while

Re: is lilo ever installed by default anymore?

2010-09-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:24:29AM +0200, posion bit wrote: 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

Re: Some kFreeBSD port of Installation manual

2010-08-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:54:53PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Miguel Figueiredo, le Tue 24 Aug 2010 11:02:15 +0100, a écrit : On 24-08-2010 01:18, Samuel Thibault wrote: +Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a Debian GNU system that replaces the Linux +kernel with the kFreeBSD kernel. This port

Bug#526862: console-setup: fail to configure Japanese keyboard

2009-05-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 04:53:07PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: severity 526862 grave thanks On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 12:54:37PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: After upgrading to sid from lenny, keyboard under X started acting like US 101 variants even though it should be OADG109A

Bug#526862: console-setup: fail to configure Japanese keyboard

2009-05-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: console-setup Version: 1.32 Severity: normal After upgrading to sid from lenny, keyboard under X started acting like US 101 variants even though it should be OADG109A layout as Japanese. This maybe the same problem as bug#524233 since I had console-tools installed. Here is details: My

Bug#502446: debian-installer: grub-installer is not updated for grub-pc introduction

2008-11-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
. On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:41:22PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: But if you do, you must take care critical diffrences of these 2 programs. For /dev/hda3, grub legacy used (hd0,2) while grub 2 use (hd0,3). The template file in grub-installer needed to be updated not to mislead users

Bug#502446: debian-installer: grub-installer is not updated for grub-pc introduction

2008-11-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Thanks for interesting comment. On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:40:12PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 07:36:52PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: I wonder why we offer to install grub-pc to non-MBR locations in lenny. For me, disabling that is an option. But fixing

Bug#502446: update on grub-installer

2008-11-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
As I check after good night sleep, I realize my previous patch should have been not: +frgrubroot=$(($frbootpart - $grub_part_offset)) but should have been: +frgrubroot=$(($frgrubroot - $grub_part_offset)) if this should also work for Serial ATA multipath which I do not use. (RAID should have

Bug#502446: grub-installer patch with complete po file updates :-)

2008-11-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Current grub-installer script will overwrite boot sector of wrong partition for Intel based Mac users. This is not so nice thing to have for release. I now have tested and updated patch for this bug and test d-i image at: http://people.debian.org/~osamu/d-i-osamu-grub2.iso

Bug#473401: grub2 related patch

2008-11-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Roert's patch certainly address issue of grub 2 partition number elegantly, it does not address wrong text presented to the user as d-i interaction. I made similar patch but with all the text and its translations. See it at http://bugs.debian.org/502446 I also made beta2 netinst with

Bug#502446: debian-installer: grub-installer is not updated for grub-pc introduction

2008-10-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, As I looked more in detail, debian-installer works fine (does not over write unrelated data) and usable if MBR is used as BIOS emultion mode boot loader. (I.e., installed to /dev/sda (hd0) So problem is when installing to /dev/sda3 or in other word to (hd0,3). Since this causes data loss,

Bug#502446: patch second try... Bug#502446: grub-installer

2008-10-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
calculation +but it may be over correction for some RAID thingy. + + -- Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:07:24 +0900 + +grub-installer (1.35+nmu1) experimental; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. (I will not do it) + * support grub2 with correct message on device name convention

Bug#502446: Patch for Bug#502446: grub-installer is not updated for grub-pc introduction

2008-10-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
:59.0 +0900 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +grub-installer (1.35+nmu1) experimental; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. (I will not do it) + * support grub2 with correct message on device name convention + + -- Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:00:26 +0900 + grub-installer (1.35

Bug#502446: debian-installer: grub-installer is not updated for grub-pc introduction

2008-10-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I guess it is now reassigned grub-installer. Not just my emperical experience, here is rational for this bug report. http://grub.enbug.org/grub.cfg --- NOTE: you can use the update-grub utility to generate a grub.cfg file for you GRUB 2 uses new bashish scripting language that is used to

Bug#502446: debian-installer: grub-installer is not updated for grub-pc introduction

2008-10-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: debian-installer Version: rc2 Severity: important rc2 comes with grub-pc in its initramfs /pool directory. So d-i team decided to offer not only grub (grub legacy) but also grub-pc (grub 2). Good for you. grub-installer_1.32_i386.udeb grub-pc_1.96+20080512-1_i386.deb

Bug#413250: tasksel-data should be installable without tasksel

2007-03-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
for selecting tasks for insta tasksel-data recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yokohama Japan, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's

Bug#404567: patch for traditional Chinese desktop task

2006-12-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
already removed features covered by im-switch from m17n-env and almost all CJK-IM tools work with im-switch only. Osamu -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yokohama Japan, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference

Default locale policy

2006-11-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Here is my thought on locale set up after default installation should be. (This is with gdm 2.16.1-1) Currently, default locale valure as installed on my system is: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 This was selected not to get in troble with Japanese characters under console. That thought of UTF-8

Re: Default locale policy

2006-11-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 02:13:35AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 06:36:37PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: I think this is what we should expect under UTF-8 encoding: Console and daemon should run under: -- For en_* and all non-latain character countrues

Re: [RFR] Manual - new section on CD (resend)

2006-11-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Since I do not see it on ML., resend... - Hi, On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 11:33:42PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: (Resending this mail as it hasn't reached the list after about 24 hours) Hi all, I've written a new section for the manual on how to deal with CD-ROM

Re: [RFR] Manual - new section on CD (resend)

2006-11-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 07:39:01PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 03 November 2006 09:54, Osamu Aoki wrote: I think it may be good idea to remind easy/quick fix solution before giving elaborate solution. So I suggest following as the starting section. Yes, I see your point. I

Bug#267168: cdrom-detect: How about changing to wishlist bugs

2006-10-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yokohama Japan, GPG-key

Bug#267168: after thought on patch

2006-10-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
After thinking a bit more, I realized adding a bit more information serves better for logging. Here is an updated patch which adds more logging message in the fail function. Osamu --- cdrom-detect.postinst.orig 2006-10-09 19:31:46.0 +0900 +++ cdrom-detect.postinst 2006-10-09

Horrible performance: hdparm

2006-07-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 06:10:37PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Rich Johnson wrote: Judging from the lackadaisical disk LED activity, I doubt it's the disk. Disk issues can lead to apparently low disk activity in some situations, and it's the first thing I'd check: Make sure that DMA is on,

http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/svn contents

2004-08-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Question: Alioth README seems newer and correct for anonymous SVN checkout. Should I update Debian web site description? Background: I was wondering why I can not check out from SVN repository while others seems to have no issues. I was following Debian web page:

Bug#267168: ohci1394 on Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 with 2.4 kernel

2004-08-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 12:20:43PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:54:18PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: Key points: * Successful cdrom-detect (w/ osamu fix) in normal IDE case. * Funny modprobe -v ohci1394 message Aug

Bug#267227: Minor efficiency improvement for scsi device search

2004-08-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
udeb version of find having -type support as I indicated above. If mounting these entries like /dev/floppy/? and /dev/scsi was intentional KISS, please close this report again. On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 12:30:44PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: When playing with bugreporter-udeb, I had

Bug#267168: modprobe -v ohci1394 message, (successful RC1-osamu)

2004-08-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:54:18PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: Key points: * Successful cdrom-detect (w/ osamu fix) in normal IDE case. * Funny modprobe -v ohci1394 message Aug 20 22:22:40 hw-detect: Detected module 'ohci1394' for 'Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394

Bug#267219: Bug to USB stick works !

2004-08-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:07:08PM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: Here is the latest stable code for bugreporter-udeb.postinst with $REPORT_MEDIA_DEV support. :-( Now I know why REPORT_MEDIA_DEV=nofloppy boot parameter did not work. Because code was buggy just for this feature. I changed

Re: Bug#265612: cdrom-detect: can we commit to svn?

2004-08-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Let's commit at least to svn for cdrom-detect. Vincent tested couple times with both latest code of cdrom-detect. How do I get svn write access to d-i? Should I send patch / file instead? My alioth account is osamu as you know. Can you add me to the group? Then we can test this more

Re: Bug#265612: cdrom-detect patch explanation (osamu)

2004-08-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:17:55PM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: Hello Osamu attached are another round of tests, using http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/sarge-i386-netinst-bug.iso, md5 f01dbaea95c0d8627951ab788c56e3d3 The hardware is the same d600 and cpia laptops as my previous

Bug#267531: Laptop freezes completely with further notice

2004-08-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 09:44:54AM +0200, Pablo de Vicente wrote: cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta4/sarge-i386-netinst.iso) uname -a: 2.6.5-1-386 Date: 23-8-2004 Method: Installation from a CD Machine: Dell D800 ^^ Detecting hardware to find CD-ROM drives Then a

Re: Bug#265636: Idea for Dell CDROM detect issue

2004-08-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:00:32AM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: I found bug. No more serious one. But I made a minor feature enhancement. If $CDROM_DEVICES is set to none, there will be no cdrom auto detect. If $CDROM_DEVICES can be set to preseed cdrom device name. This will be handy

Bug#265636: Idea for Dell CDROM detect issue

2004-08-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
tags 265636 patch On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 08:28:41AM +0100, Joey Hess wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: Proposed ERRATA: ... We have plenty of time to fix cdrom-detect before rc2 without resorting to ugly errata like that. I'd rather turn off DMA for all CDs than have that errata, personally. OK

Bug#265636: Idea for Dell CDROM detect issue

2004-08-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
I found bug. If no IDE existed, it used to assign: devices='/dev/cdroms/*' That is bad. That section (needs to be) # Auto detect CDROM by devfs if [ -d /dev/cdroms ]; then devices=$(echo /dev/cdroms/*|grep -v '*' || true) else devices= fi Also if [ -n

Re: Bug#265636: Idea for Dell CDROM detect issue

2004-08-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
I will put my new hacked RC1 image with bug fix http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/sarge-i386-netinst-rc1-hacked-v2.iso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#265636: Idea for Dell CDROM detect issue

2004-08-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:00:32AM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: I found bug. one more log main loop: $imount out of $maxmount # Is a cdrom (image) already mounted at /cdrom? Sanity check! if [ ! -e /cdrom ] ; then I need to reorder # First run of cdrom-detect mkdir

Re: Bug#265636: Idea for Dell CDROM detect issue

2004-08-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
No, no. no. this was OK. Excuse me for noise. On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 07:43:06AM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:00:32AM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: I found bug. one more log main loop: $imount out of $maxmount # Is a cdrom (image) already mounted at /cdrom

Bug#263162: Please describe your tasksel policy, and re-add the tex task

2004-08-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 05:33:41PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: This is not what I learned tasksel to be, as a user years ago. However, I have no good suggestion regarding TeX. Perhaps a meta-package is more appropriate; however I am not sure what should be in it. Well, I think we should

Bug#265636: Idea for Dell CDROM detect issue

2004-08-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Executive summary: 1. Patch by Vincent McIntyre (Bug#265636) has good intent but buggy as is. (I wish this type of syntax exists for fail function.) 2. My previous patch was not general enough. 3. My new patch here should work but intrusive at this moment. (This can be better. fail

Re: Bug#265636: Idea for Dell CDROM detect issue

2004-08-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:54:53AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Patch by Vincent McIntyre (Bug#265636) has good intent but buggy as is. (I wish this type of syntax exists for fail function.) That was only a sketch, as I don't have a good understanding of how such an error should

Re: RC1: anna started without dists name

2004-08-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 03:22:57PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 02:02:52PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colin Watson wrote: Where should I look into? Is there any work around? It look like missing dists name. The problem seems to be the symlinks on the cdrom

Re: RC1: anna started without dists name

2004-08-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 08:32:38AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like a broken CD build without Rock Ridge extensions, perhaps. I'm pretty sure the cd is ok. I checked by booting another machine. And if I load the ide modules without dma for hdc, things work normally. I found another

Bug#265636: Errata alternative and patch

2004-08-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, As I posted on d-boot, I think you can work around this problem by editing cdrom-detect.postinst script. I attache equivalent action patch here. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brussels Belgium, GPG-key

Re: RC1: anna started without dists name

2004-08-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 02:02:52PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can not get exact log out due to missing libutil.so.1 :) But my RC1 install fails on some machine (one which had hard time mounting CD initially) with; anna[4147]: /cdrom/dists//Release anna[4147]: : No such

Re: RC1: anna started without dists name

2004-08-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 01:44:43AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 07:16:55PM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: But my RC1 install fails on some machine (one which had hard time mounting CD initially) with; anna[4147]: /cdrom/dists//Release anna[4147

RC1: anna started without dists name

2004-08-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
I can not get exact log out due to missing libutil.so.1 :) But my RC1 install fails on some machine (one which had hard time mounting CD initially) with; anna[4147]: /cdrom/dists//Release anna[4147]: : No such file or directory I have cdrom mounted and /cdrom/dists/*/RElease exist all

Re: [Manual] installer-manual on the website (was: release plans for website?)

2004-08-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 04:11:50PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 10:55:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Is there any plan for how the web site update will be handled for sarge's release? Besides just switching the names and links to sarge, I've been looking at what

Re: Automatic allocation of swap

2004-08-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:21:05AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 09:04:50PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: By spreading data over multiple partitions with great gobs of free space between small (after install) amounts of data, you're forcing longer

OT: Automatic allocation of swap

2004-08-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:36:31AM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: Really, Linux or Windows, it is bad idea to fill actively used disk up to 98%. (For your case / partition. /boot may be OK since it is practically read-only.) For Linux, 90-95%, for windows 60-70% is my common sense usage. Oops

Re: Automatic allocation of swap

2004-08-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 09:04:50PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: I have just installed another system, and took the time to try to familiarise myself with the partitioning tool. I was running a 2.6 kernel, and the install kernel's date is Jul 29 06:24. The install target was a

OT: ???? English

2004-07-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:54:37AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: peter green wrote: im in england i selected english the language selection list makes no mention of American English or british english it just says english I just ran the installer here. The _first_ screen gives a choice

Bug#256547: lowmem and swap/fdisk (20 MB system)

2004-07-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, just my thoughts (I am trying to install to 486/DX2 50 MHz with 20 MB of memory and PCMCIA ISA NIC without CD-ROM.) Summary: With minor change and text based prompting, d-i memory requirement can be lowered to 8-16 MB instead of current 32 MB. Details: Currently, 32 MB or so of RAM is

[web] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/builds

2004-07-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
As I see http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/builds page: The contents in English is good bat it lacks links to pertinent URL such as: a href=http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status; a number of different builds of the Debian-Installer CD images /a a

Re: [web] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/builds

2004-07-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 06:34:19AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: As I see http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/builds page: The contents in English is good bat it lacks links to pertinent URL such as: a href=http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports

Re: Problem formatting existing partitions

2004-07-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:14:47PM +0800, John wrote: ... On a side note, can we have symlinks in /dev for those who like the disks to appear in the traditional place and to munge them with more user-friendly tools such as fdisk? I know the feelings :) But situation is not as bad as you

Bug#259017: IDE hard-drive not being detected

2004-07-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 02:41:12PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: Package: installation-reports A friend of mine just tried to install sarge from floppies, both beta4 and daily build, into a Pentium II (Deschutes). He could not finish the installation because his hard drive could

Bug#259040: Package: installation-reports

2004-07-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 04:15:54PM -0400, Tony D'Amato wrote: Package: installation-reports Comments/Problems: It took a while to get used to the partition system. Once I figured it out, it was pretty straight forward. My only concern is that I was unable to determine how to set up logical

Re: Help me test new pcmcia-cs

2004-07-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:13:46PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote: Hello, I have created a new version of pcmcia-cs now which defaults to not bringing up new interfaces with ifup. Thanks ... but However, I am not currently on an ethernet connection, so I'm unable to test it. I'm

Re: Zip Disk installation....

2004-07-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:42:53AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2004-07-03 18:53:07, schrieb Bert Emert: Dear Debian... If you have NIC with fast net access, I recommend floppy(not exceeding 9 disks) + NIC (PCMCIA). It works (tested in Woody) Another is my Panasonic KXL-D720,

Bug#255128: cdrom-detect: Bad handling of mount error

2004-06-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 01:12:11PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: Busybox does not have sleep on this version. (Why?) Just to save space, though I understand it's in sid now. I will put updated patch, iso-image example, syslog-commented, etc at http://people.debian.org

Bug#248071: TODO for hw-detect and/or pcmcia-cs

2004-06-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, this bug is now filed to netcfg as I understand :) On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 07:45:38PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: The upshot of this for hw-detect and pcmcia-cs is that they have to be set up in one of the two following ways. 1. pcmcia-cs ifups/ifdowns interfaces on 16 bit PCMCIA cards

Re: ssh support for notebooks :) -- screen?

2004-06-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:07:21AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:25:21AM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 08:21:18PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: openssh-client-udeb. I didn't package scp because it's straightforward to do the same thing with ssh

Bug#255128: cdrom-detect: Bad handling of mount error

2004-06-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 02:03:51PM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:41:53AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Let's get it working, and then later make it pretty. That's not hard to do, and I'm sure someone will eventally add a progress bar for it. OK: Here is one. Let me check

Bug#255128: cdrom-detect: Bad handling of mount error

2004-06-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 08:54:48AM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: I will put updated patch, iso-image example, syslog-commented, etc at http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/d-i/ Uploaded with gpg/md5sum files It works but I think following messages after Detecting CD needs to be understood

ssh support for notebooks :)

2004-06-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I am wondering if ssh can be supported for normal d-i initrd too. Most importantly, scp. This is because many new PC comes without floppy to save failed install except to USB or HDD. SCP makes it easy to copy the log. This should make failed install easier to debug as long as network is

Re: Debian installation enviroment

2004-06-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 01:48:58PM +0200, Fredrik Johnsson wrote: Hi! Seams I'll have to refrase it a bit. Currently I'm trying to find out what deps the program dbootstrap on woody cdinstallation has regarding libraries, enviroment variables and other commands,program (fdisk, mke2fs and

Bug#256547: installation-reports: i486 with 20 MB lowmem+floppy fails as expected

2004-06-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
module to activate some hard disk partition automatically, I think lowmem support will be greater. Osamu -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brussels Belgium, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation

Bug#255128: cdrom-detect: Bad handling of mount error

2004-06-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 01:12:11PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: Busybox does not have sleep on this version. (Why?) Just to save space, though I understand it's in sid now. Yes. I though I saw sleep somewhere. That was sid CD :-) I will put updated patch, iso-image

Bug#255128: cdrom-detect -- pcmcia trouble in sid

2004-06-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 10:37:53PM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: PS: I noticed that business card CD does not support PCMCIA card services. 3 floppies did better job for PCMCIA on my another i486 machine. I do not have floppy on Dell so these modules could not be made available (I did

Re: ssh support for notebooks :) -- screen?

2004-06-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 08:21:18PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 01:56:24PM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: I am wondering if ssh can be supported for normal d-i initrd too. Most importantly, scp. This is because many new PC comes without floppy to save failed install

Bug#255128: cdrom-detect: Bad handling of mount error

2004-06-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:41:53AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: Are you thinking like: ... Yes, something like that.. ... I'd say this is unnecessaty, stderr is already intercepted. ... Luckily all stderr is sent to /var/log/messages anyway. Hmmm... Interesting. Let's get

.svn in initrd

2004-06-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I am just poking around :) 20040624/sarge-i386-businesscard.iso In gunzipped and mounted initrd, I see lib/debian-installer.d/.svn directory. Maybe if it is like CVS, source should be read with CVS export like command instead of CVS co. Is this intentional? Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#255128: cdrom-detect: Bad handling of mount error

2004-06-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 02:13:57PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: Applying above patch should give releaf to many old DELL users. Of course we should do some code clean up such as redirecting output to /dev/null instead. Or to syslog. I'd be gad to apply this patch if you do

Bug#254994: installation-reports: expert26 is TO MUCH, linux26 is not enough

2004-06-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 08:12:54AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 08:46:56AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I maintain that expert should map to DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium, and that it should be DEBCONF_PRIORITY=*low* that

Re: Hacking the debian-installer ISO image

2004-06-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 05:32:45PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:36:09PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Ognyan Kulev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Osamu Aoki wrote: http://people.debian.org/~osamu/hackdi It would be great if it's linked from http

Hacking the debian-installer ISO image

2004-06-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, After reporting bug, I felt at a loss since I had hard time making a small simple modification to the ISO image. I did some research and summarized it as: http://people.debian.org/~osamu/hackdi Hacking the debian-installer ISO image Abstract This document intends to provide a simple

Bug#255128: cdrom-detect: Bad handling of mount error

2004-06-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Now this patch should be even better. On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 10:15:14AM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: thanks for that careful analysis, Osamu. I have very similar hardware and it appears the problem may also be avoidable by configuring the kernel to not use DMA on cdroms. See bugs

Bug#254764: sarge-i386-netinst (20040616) fails .... I may have found fix

2004-06-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 08:58:46AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: umount /cdrom /dev/null 21 true No? || true. /me is definitely a moron..:-) Anyway, this is udeb package already frozen. But may be worth fixing it. I will file BTS to cdrom-detect package. -- To

Bug#255128: cdrom-detect: Bad handling of mount error

2004-06-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only tintin:~# echo $? 0 Finally mounted. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brussels Belgium, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation

Re: symlinks in /boot vs. symlinks in /

2004-06-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 01:16:15AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Thiemo Seufer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.06.18.2323 +0200]: OTOH, the linux kernel uses this scheme for a very log time now. Deviating from it will break make oldconfig dep install

Re: Bug#255128: cdrom-detect: Bad handling of mount error

2004-06-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 10:15:14AM +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: thanks for that careful analysis, Osamu. I have very similar hardware and it appears the problem may also be avoidable by configuring the kernel to not use DMA on cdroms. Yes. If I execute mount command without redirecting

Bug#254764: sarge-i386-netinst (20040616) fails .... I may have found fix

2004-06-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
I used 1 day newer CD on this slow CDROM PC again. Again it failed on mounting CD (when done automatically). CD integrity did not work either after this from menu. Then I went to console and umount /cdrom. This time, instead of manually mounting disk from console to /cdrom, I used install menu

Bug#254764: sarge-i386-netinst (20040615) fails cdrom mount and debootstrap

2004-06-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
take a while... modprobe:failed to load modules floppy -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brussels Belgium, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for non-developers

Bug#248363: installation-reports: Sarge netinst beta-4 on Dell Latitude CPi

2004-05-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: installation-reports (This install tries onto a machine which I had a hard time installing other distro and OSs. The same CD as one used for #248110, so it is known good CD image.) Debian-installer-version: sarge-i386-netinst.iso Beta-4 uname -a: 2.4.25-1-386 #2 . i686 Method:

Bug#248110: installation-reports: Sarge netinst beta-4 on Sony Vaio PCG-GRX690

2004-05-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brussels

Bug#233601: modconf: /usr/lib/modules_help/ does not exist

2004-02-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
whiptail [whiptail-provider] 0.51.4-19 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe -- no debconf information -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brussels Belgium, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post

Bug#215205: language-chooser: Language order shouldn't be alphabetical

2003-10-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 05:02:50PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 03:18:46PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: From my point of view, languagechooser should base its ordering in a very simple metric Alphabetic on eighter the locale or the official

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