Bug#739380: installation-reports: Install to USB a Mess

2014-02-17 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
-- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UT

Bug#698878: installation-reports: Boot from USB stick 1 - install to USB stick 2

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, I think the Debian Installer does an excellent job but I have quibbles with: the partitioner's handling of swap the grub installer's handing of USB sticks. See Comments/Problems below. Also my first attempt failed at t

Bug#698877: installation-reports: Install as VM guest - boot from virtual USB stick

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, Apart from the grub bit, the installation was fine. Well done. See Comments/Problems below. -- Package-specific info: Boot method: USB image Image version: 16-Nov-2012 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dis

Bug#696877: installation-reports: Wheezy DI-b4-amd64-netboot-mini.iso from an usb stick fails trying to install grub

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
On 24/01/13 12:56, Steven Chamberlain wrote: Thanks Paul, On 24/01/13 12:22, Paul Bryan Roberts wrote: # mount | grep cdrom Ah of course, this is netboot... # list-devices cd /dev/sr0 # list-devices maybe-usb-floppy # list-devices usb-partition /dev/sda4 What exactly is sda4; is that

Bug#696877: installation-reports: Wheezy DI-b4-amd64-netboot-mini.iso from an usb stick fails trying to install grub

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
n't think I'm using a 'hybid media on USB'. I threw together a USB image with both 32- and 64-bit mini.iso and a syslinux menu to choose between them. I didn't go anything specific to create a USB/CD hybird. I hope this helps. I'm willing supply more information if

Bug#698713: installation-reports: Installation Report using USB stick

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ asks us to file an installation report even if there are no problems. Installation was fine. Well done. Small quibbles with choice of filesystems and grub installation. Issues (not In

Bug#698712: installation-reports: Installation Report using USB stick

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ asks us to file an installation report even if there are no problems. Installation was fine. Well done. Small quibbles with choice of filesystems and grub installation. Issues (not In

Bug#698710: installation-reports: Installation Report using USB stick

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ asks us to file an installation report even if there are no problems. Installation was fine. Well done. One quibble with the installation of grub. One issue with the default X configur

Bug#698709: installation-reports: Installation Report using USB stick

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ asks us to file an installation report even if there are no problems. Installation was fine. Well done. Installation used a wireless network interface. This is much improved wrt the Deb

Bug#698706: installation-reports: Installation Report using loopback interface

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ asks us to file an installation report even if there are no problems. Installation used a wireless network interface. This is much improved wrt the Debian Squeeze Installer. Slight prob

Bug#698707: installation-reports: Installation Report using USB stick

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ asks us to file an installation report even if there are no problems. Installation used a wireless network interface. This is much improved wrt the Debian Squeeze Installer. Slight prob

Bug#698700: installation-reports: Installation Report using loopback interface

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ asks us to file an installation report even if there are no problems. Installation was fine. Well done. ISA sound card driver not loaded automatically. -- Package-specific info: Boot

Bug#698699: installation-reports: Installation Report using loopback interface

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ asks us to file an installation report even if there are no problems. Installation was fine. Well done. Temporary issue with power management and swap but I don't blame the installer.

Bug#698688: installation-reports: Installation Report using loopback interface

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ asks us to file an installation report even if there are no problems. Installation was fine. Well done. Issues with Nvdia graphics controller but these are not installer issues. -- Pa

Bug#608025: [debian-installer] Windows 7 entry is not written to GRUB list

2011-02-05 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Hi Colin, Sorry but I've been busy this week and haven't checked this e-mail account for several days. Colin Watson wrote: Paul, could you describe your partitioning setup? Partition set up on old desktop: # sudo sfdisk -l /dev/sda1 Device Boot Start End #cyls#blocks Id Sys

Bug#609072: Trials over WLAN: Installation (The Process) Now Successful but Installation (The Result) Not Satisfactory

2011-01-05 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Net Installer Image version: 6.0 (squeeze) - installer build 20110101-03:54 Date: a) 4-Jan-2011 b) 4-Jan-2001 Machine:a) Laptop Packard-Bell b) Laptop OEM Processor: a) 800 MHz Celeron, 128 Kb cache b) 2.8 G

Bug#608025: [debian-installer] Windows 7 entry is not written to GRUB list

2011-01-01 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
a second hard disk. The installation here used a USB installer in conjunction with the amd64 net installer and not a straight net install from CD. Happy New Year, Paul Bryan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Bug#226777: installation-reports: INSTALL REPORT

2004-01-08 Thread Paul Bryan
ave done in the first place, but then I wouldn't have spotted this problem :P I ran apt-get update and everything was okay and I continued the install process. Otherwise, the install was a breeze. I was suprised by how much was set up for me and good a job the installer did detect