Adding debian-x to CC.
On 01/01/2021 16:52, Karl-Heinz Künzel wrote:
For a crosscheck I installed 'debian-10.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso'
Xfce. System working!
sources.list buster -> bullseye, update, upgrade, dist-upgrade, reboot
and after grub system crashes 'black screen'.
Restart again, now
I have noticed that there seem to be issues with shim and shim-signed,
the former has a complaint from the gcc maintainers about being built
with an old version of gcc, the latter depends on an old version of shim.
Are their plans to fix this for bullseye? are their difficulties getting
new
On 19/01/19 04:27, Wookey wrote:
Arm64 (arm in general in fact) has a rather fundamental problem with
D-I, which is that both serial and display are sensible default
devices for the installer to run on. Which is 'correct' depends very
much on the hardware and the circumstances. You may be
Why are they creating 32-bit virtual machines?
At least with virtualbox 32-bit VMs can run on any host. 64-bit VMs require
VT-x which is all too often disabled in the BIOS.
My original post to this bug report may have confused the issue I had
with the main kernel to the issue I had with the backports kernel. When
I came back to the system at a later date the monitor was turning off
when booting with a the jessie kernel while the storage problem was
happening with
On 13/09/15 21:02, Peter Michael Green wrote:
Unfortunately on reboot the system hung, attempting to boot with quiet removed
from the kernel
command line showd the last userland boot message as "Starting LSB: Prepare
console". Trying to
boot in recovery mode also hung showing ata related
Reopen 782976
Thanks.
On 24/04/15 22:49, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 02:17:25AM +0100, peter green wrote:
Release team: can you clarify whether you intend to actually remove kfreebsd
from the jessie suite of the official archive before/during the jessie
release
Package: debian-installer-netboot-images
Severity: serious
The RC policy states Packages must be buildable within the same
release.. In this context I interpret buildable as buildable from
actual sourcecode (not just package together) and the same release as
the collection of stuff that
Release team: theres a question for you at the end of the mail.
On 20/04/15 00:49, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
peter greenplugw...@p10link.net (2015-04-20):
Package: debian-installer-netboot-images
Severity: serious
The RC policy states Packages must be buildable within the same release..
In
On 22/03/15 13:36, Holger Wansing wrote:
Hi,
is there a reason why the year for copyright declaration should not be
converted into an entity?
Would ease the repeating changing.
Patch attached, works for both xml and po based translations.
Correct me if I'm wrong here but shouldn't the
Karsten Merker wrote:
Browse online:
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/base-installer.git/tree/debian/templates-arch
Adding -arm@ and -boot@ for possible comments/insight.
I suppose the reason for MODULES=dep being the default on arm*
might be that some armel systems boot their
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Why would you NOT use uImage?
Why would you add an unnessacery conversion step if you have a
bootloader capable of loading regular kernel images directly?
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Busybox has been failing to build in raspbian with what appear to be text
formatting differences.
http://buildd.raspbian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=busyboxarch=armhfver=1%3A1.22.0-4stamp=1393285422
FAIL: expand with unicode characher 0x394
--- expected
+++ actual
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Δ 12345ΔΔΔ
It seems there are some unofficial builds at
http://people.debian.org/~zumbi/di-armhf/ but only for one particular
peice of hardware (and it's not the one I have)
I tried building d-i mx5_netboot following the instructioions on the
wiki. However it failed with
Reading package lists... Done
Joey Hess wrote:
Alexey Eromenko wrote:
Default Debian-6 KDE installs gnash, an extremely unstable
component, that constantly crashes KDE Konqueror, when user accesses
any flash-enabled website (such as www.amd.com).
Wouldn't that be a bug in konqueror-nsplugins? No plugin should be
3) The relevant versions are now no longer available anywhere [2]: they
are no longer in the archive and we don't have a snapshot.d.n for that
period.
I don't think this statement is correct. snapshot.debian.net seems to
have all dates up to and including 2009/03/28, that date is after
The i386/amd64/powerpc DVD is more problematic as having all desktops will
completely fill the DVD leaving no room for other packages with a high
popcon score.
Proposal is therefore to drop powerpc support from this DVD. With only
i386 and amd64 there is still room for the top ~2600 packages
The solution Sven has proposed can be improved, without all the mirror
bloat, I think. The sane thing to do would be for debootstrap to default
to what's in /etc/apt/sources.list when no mirror is given. This avoids
the logistical nightmare of having to make and update
$arch.ftp.debian.org
I wanted to make some small tweaks to the setup before rebooting at the
end of the install so I could run the system using qemu in nographic
mode after installing it using the graphical mode.
So I backed out to the menu and selected the option to launch a shell,
chrooted into the target and
package: installation-reports
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: kernel and initrd passed to qemu on command line
Image version: daily build downloaded on sat 6 sep 2008 from
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/armel/images/daily/versatile/netboot/
Date: sat 6 sep 2008
Machine:
package: win32-loader
severity: important
justification: renders the package unusable for some users.
according to [EMAIL PROTECTED] win32-loader will use an
existing directory that matches debian in the windows filesystem.
Unfortunately grub's filename matching and windows are different
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I run the windows based installer but after reboot grub won't boot and shown
his prompt.
After a little investigation I discovered grub was asked to look for image files to load from a
debian directory in the Windows disk but they were in Debian directory
instead.
I have successfully loaded an earlier build of lenny on the same hardware.
Checking Google, I found a long discussion of the problem at:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/949548
This suggests that the lenny beta 2 kernel may not work with my processor.
Is this something
Mark Thommyppillai wrote:
Is there anything else I could try?
You could solder on a serial port so you can watch the boot process and
see where it fails.
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I am wondering if it is a good idea to remove lilo entirely. At the
moment, lilo has been pulled from testing, and the code is in a shape
Can either version of grub handle all the cases that lilo can? for
example can either of them handle the situation where root is on lvm and
there is
Does libparted have support for that kind of partition table?
it doesn't look like it (both parted and gparted also detect the
partition table type as GPT).
If not, it would have to be implemented there first.
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package: partman
severity: wishlist
On mutliboot intel based macs the normal partition table type is a
MBR+GPT hybrid. Currently when used with such a partition table partman
destroys the MBR parition table causing bootloader installation to fail
and thus making installing debian on such
But it would affect an 'aptitude reinstall' of the package. As the user did
not _himself_ ask for a seen flag to be set here (as in the case of
preseeding [2]), I did not consider this a very nice solution.
The user has effectively seen the question, they were just asked it by
d-i instead
While preparing this, I noticed that there is no hint in
the manual, that in such cases man should use the defrag
program to put all data on the ntfs partition together to
one block.
(defrag program is only mentioned in chapter about
non-debian partitioning, but using defrag is also
Well, my reasoning was simple: if we drop a language, then the only
solution for users is installing in English, right?
Think of a user who speaks some minority language well and a major
language other than english reasonablly but thier knowlage of english is
very poor/nonexistant.
Such a
Although, this needs proper documentation and warnings in the installer
manual and future release notes: like Christian noted, this can be bad
if os-prober fails to do its job.
This is a bit like the issue of whether to prompt for which drive to
use, IMO the risk if detection goes wrong is
peter green wrote:
Greg Flynn wrote:
Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 11 June 2007 02:51, Greg Flynn wrote:
I'm trying to install debian 4.0r0 via the floppy images. The laptop
is a Averatec 3200 series laptop with AMD Athlon XP-m 2000+, 256MB
RAM,
a dead DVD-ROM/CD-RW (will not work at all
I wonder what program keeps track of all the data that comes from
the floppies.
For this to work it would be nessacery to modify the bootloader (iirc the
floppies use syslinux) to read the extra floppies and do something with them
(say append them to the end of the initrd and pass some kernel
-Original Message-
From: Geert Stappers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 25 April 2007 22:15
To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: nano-udeb: Depends: libc6 (= 2.5)
Op 21-04-2007 om 16:40 schreef Frans Pop:
On Saturday 21 April 2007 09:13, Geert Stappers wrote:
When
Of course, while this is the correct default behavior, it seems reasonable
to me that we should allow users to override it with preseeding
or the like,
so that's IMHO a valid wishlist request.
a related issue is if you have a cd not loaded through the CD mechanism for
whatever reason and
http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
A network install or netinst CD is a single CD which enables you to install
the entire operating system. This single CD contains just the minimal amount of
software to start the installation and fetch the remaining packages over the
Internet.
This is
PS: Is there a way to fix memory hardware issues ?
if you can get the system working well enough to install and compile stuff (say
by pulling out some of the memory) you can build a custom kernel with the
badram patches. Then put the bad memory back in, run a memory test and use the
There is no mention of updating /etc/modules. Without a network driver,
or something else equally critical, you may find your remote dedicated
box happily running while noone can ssh into it.
afaict nowadays /etc/modules isn't really nessacery anymore and can even cause
upgrade problems. If
I am still not sure my failure was not due to a misconfigured
network/router but the D-Link DI-524 used usually works fine for me.
can you check if the default gateway is set and if there is something sane in
resolv.conf within the installer environment?
failing that try starting the
Personally I also feel that all possible solutions effectively make
/etc/fstab unreadable and unmaintainable. Maybe Debian should
lead the way
to make /etc/fstab a generated file (like e.g. modules.conf used to be).
what is so bad about /dev/disk/by-path/pci-:00:07.1-ide-0:0-part1 ?
That it's not a persistent means of identifying a filesystem.
for most users fstab has always identified by rough position (e.g. hda=ide
primary master), changing to a system based on partition IDs would mean a lot
of relearning for admins (e.g. its no longer ok to backup a partition by
I've added module-assistant to forcd1. build-essential was already
included.
are the kernel headers for the standard debian kernels on CD1 as well? module
assistant isn't going to be much use without those.
-Original Message-
From: Mike Hore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 09 March 2007 01:40
To: Frans Pop
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bug#413788: Daily Etch build fails to install on iMac G5 -
Ethernet not detected
Hi again Frans,
On Thursday 08 March 2007 02:30, Mike Hore
UUIDs certainly have their disadvantages (verbosity being the main one),
but they're a hell of a lot better than labels for automatic use like
this. UUIDs are suitable for automatic generation while labels should
only be set by the sysadmin. The fiasco with Red Hat's installer setting
labels
-Original Message-
From: Marco d'Itri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 07 March 2007 11:05
To: Robert Millan [ackstorm]
Cc: Mike Hommey; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-release@lists.debian.org
Subject: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug
On Mar 07, Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL
by-uuid contains my two ext3 partitions but not my swap
partition, it also seems like it may be vulnerable to becoming confused.
Only if the admin is a moron and keeps around multiple file systems
cloned with dd.
are you calling it moronic to make a backup of a partition by dding to to a
I don't know how invasive those changes might be. AFAIK Ubuntu already
does it (Colin?) and wouldn't be too hard to pick the changes from
them but we would also need RM and Frans approval :(
ubuntu already does what? there are four possible soloutions proposed aren't
there (labels in fstab
I don't believe this should be changed for etch at this point in
the release
process, and that's speaking as someone who's run into this problem myself
with SCSI device renumbering -- it's awkward and annoying to have to
manually fiddle your boot config because a USB device is no longer
I urge you to reconsider severity of this problem. There's
another situation
that makes it much worse:
The correct solution is to make d-i use labels in fstab and to find the
root file system. udev has not much to do with this.
Which will enable a whole lot of other broken setups.
Be fscking intelligent and *leave* a download for everyone to
pick it up,
before you replace it.
Leave older versions in separate directories and just change
the link to it.
Be fscking intelligent and try this:
wget
AFAICT this option is relevant not only for vfat, but also for ntfs and
iso9660, but _not_ for fat16.
afaict it is not relavent for partitions mounted as dos (no long filenames) but
it *is* relavent for fat12 and fat16 partitions mounted as vfat and using long
filenames.
This is a problem though, using symlinks for the downloads like this
rather than just updating the links essentially means that any user who
doesn't pay carefull attention to how things are done and has a long
download containing resumes (e.g. a user who has a slow and unstable
internet
Updating the links on a daily basis synchronised with CD builds is
unfortunately not possible given the design of the Debian website.
would it be possible soloution to make the links on the debian-installer page
point to a page hosted on the cdimage server (and therefore able to updated by
the
This has certainly appened, *but* I have only see it happen with
downloads
of Sarge images as amd64 are not mentioned on the sarge pages (because it
was not a release arch). To the best of my recollection, I have never yet
seen this happen with Etch images.
me neither but from the posts
It could also be that there really is an issue with the display of VFAT
filenames if UTF-8 is used, but that would not be my first guess.
Anyway, I doubt this would be an installer issue as there is no real way
for the installer to determine the correct settings.
VFAT stores filenames in
reopen 412982
reassign 412982 gnome
thanks
The Gnome date/time applet asks for the root password. The user
password doesn't work.
this sounds like a gnome bug then, it really should be able to handle the case
with the root account disabled but sudo availible.
Looking for the signatures seem superflous,
I was suggesting that because of the metion previously in the discussion that
some systems apprently didn't like it being zero'd out, only nuking known
problem partition signatures would be much less likely to cause other issues
than nuking anything
oops forgot to send this to the list
The problem does not relate to d-i per se. What's happening is that luks
creates its header in the first bytes of the partition (so generally at
bytes 0 - 300 or so).
ext3 any some other file systems create their header at an offset of 2
blocks (or
this sounds like a bug in mke2fs to me, it is not cleaning up
the sectors
before its header and as a result the partition gets misrecognised.
I think it's there because some arches and some partitioning schemes
actually have real data in the first sector which can't be overwritten
or
I want to install the distribution debian for ia64 and when i
restart de the PC with the bootable installation CD inside it
does not work, the pc read from CD but the installation doesn't
start. What can i do?. With the distribution for i386 it works perfectly.
The core 2 duo is not an
Unfortunately, adding good DNS via network-admin doesn't archieve the same
effect, because dhclient will overwrite /etc/resolv.conf whenever
it's run
the most obvious question would be why doesn't network-admin know this and do
something about it?
,
which is going to be quite often if you
-Original Message-
From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 20 February 2007 08:36
To: Robert Millan; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bug#411552: please set a timeout in syslinux screen
Here are some scenarios to consider:
* Suppose that I'm blind. I put in the CD, reboot,
That is obviously a problem, but so is d-i booting unexpectedly.
D-I doesn't touch anything until told to does it?
i don't really see how unexpectedly ending up at the first screen of the
installer is any worse than unexpectedly ending up at the syslinux boot prompt,
either way you just
I think this is worth putting in because it's useful both when a key
expires and you still need to use old installation media, and when
installing from an unofficial, unsigned mirror, like the one the armel
port is using.
I haven't tested the code yet, but I will before I commit, if people
package:debian-installer
severity:wishlist
conffile prompts should not happen during installation (unless of course the
admin uses a vt to edit files manually), but sometimes they do due to bugs in
packages or other issues.
just freezing with the conffile prompt on another vt and worse no way
-Original Message-
From: Wojciech Zareba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 08 February 2007 16:28
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bug#410218: etch RC1 release installation
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD netinst default install
Image version:
Partman (guided partitioning) will still ask the user to select
which disk to
partition, even if there's only one disk.
personally i think its better that it asks
consider the situation where a user has two drives but the one they want to use
for debian is not detected.
then they select the
The problem with adding a development task has always been, and
continues to be, that people do not use the same tools for development,
and that there are no good defaults beyond basic C-style development
tools.
mind you a similar thing applies to say the file server task, there are at
package: debian-installer
currently to use guided partitioning on a system with no unpartitioned free
space the user must go into manual partitioning, resize the existing partition
and then go back out of manual partitioning and select guided using the largest
free space, this is somewhat
The install did not find the CDROM drives.
As a workarround you might like to try installing using the boot, root,
net-drivers 1 and net-drivers 2 floppies.
However, when booting after the installation, the NPE driver seems to
assume control of the interface name eth0, which causes something to
rename the interface of the USB to ethernet adapter to eth1_rename.
it sounds to me like the built in nic is getting detected first before the USB
to
My ATI Rage was also not configured after install -- gdm fails and X
reports no devices. Missing input and video drivers. ATI device is
configured as agp. The desktop package doesn't seems to install the
correct driver or detect it I guess. Easy fix -- I added the video and
input
The initial debootstrap doesn't have download speed reported, but then,
it's only a few dozen megabytes download.
thats a pretty long wait for a dialup, isdn bri or very low end broadband
user.
wouldn't it be more sensible to combine the protocol, hostname, port (if such a
question exists) and directory questions into a single request for a mirror
url?
For experienced users, yes. For newbies, definitely not (IMNSHO). For
them, the only really variable part they understand is the hostname, the
rest is goobleycook.
Feel free to try to convince me otherwise.
imho there are only two classes of people who are likely to be using the manual
In particular, it kept waiting at the fd0 lines, so what I think
is that it
had troubles with that. This notebook does NOT have a floppy drive, so I
guess that the long wait is related to fd0 timing out.
is this by any chance one of those laptops where the bios thinks there is a
floppy
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD boot with nothing extra typed at boot prompt
Image version: Etch RC1 full CD 1
Date: Date and time of the install
Machine: maxdata PC
Processor: celeron D (at least according to the label on the front)
Memory: 256MB
Partitions: df -Tl
it should have said and windows still booted fine afterwards.
it has recently been announced that there will be seperate CDs for
kde/gnome/xfce with different desktop tasks and package selections.
but what is the plan for other means of installation
(buisnesscard/netinst/floppies/netboot)? will there be 3 seperate desktop tasks
listed? will there be one
This was possible in export installs and this is still possible in
expert installs. The behaviour has not changed with regard to that matter.
i'm pretty sure i've never intentionally booted d-i in expert mode, and when i
did a sarge install i'm pretty sure i managed to skip creating a
Not sure what was wrong here, but it does not seem like something we can
fix in the installer.
well ntfsfix cleared up the journal and made it work so it would presumablly be
possible to do that, i dunno how safe ntfsfix is though.
btw why do you ask for installation reports even on
i've tried to reproduce this bug but failed
btw in the process of trying this i discovered that busybox --install
doesn't seem to work either i had to manually copy busybox and make a
symlink for this test.
debian:~/busyboxinstall# cp /bin/busybox .
debian:~/busyboxinstall# ln -s gunzip
http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current/images/
floppy/
the net drivers and cd drivers are there but boot and root are missing.
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windowswindow~1.log is 92k, but it has 41 clusters (164k)
ERROR !!!
Ignore
Cancel
dmesg -c on second console didnt showed anything relevant, only
information that swap was mounted/added.
Perhaps the fat system there was damaged before and debian tried to
mount it? But if so then this
: 04 October 2004 14:33
To: Peter Green
Cc: Adeodato Simó; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dropping 386 support
peter green wrote:
calling stuff i386 when it will not run natively on a 386 seems
like asking
for confustion to me
True, but we're way
calling stuff i386 when it will not run natively on a 386 seems like asking
for confustion to me
why and when was this instruction emulation needed in the first place (that
is why and when was the userland changed to need it)
-Original Message-
From: Adeodato Simó [mailto:[EMAIL
i had a similar problem once when installing sarge on vmware
the vmware system crashed very dirtily during base config (this was nothing
to do with debian it was an external usb hard drive on the windows side that
decided to hang it has done this several times usring other things)
anyway after
sarge release seems to be delayed indefinately by some issue with the
testing-secuirty autobuilders
noone seems to be reavealing just what is wrong with them though?!
a little offtopic i know but does anyone know what is holding them up?
-Original Message-
From: Kenshi Muto
: bypassing partman
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 02:19:10AM +0100, peter green wrote:
for various reasons i want to be able to use debian installer
to install on
a block device that is not a partition
is there any way to bypass partman and set up the mappings between
mountpoints and block
One way to cheat is to configure some partition sheme by partman and
then to change it manualy acording to your needs. Then the system
will know that partman is configured and will not restart it.
this assumes that your system has block devices that patman recognises at
all
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debain installer seems unable to load net drivers from the second floppy
drive
is this a bug and if so where should it be reported
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sounds like it
the boot floppy was still in the first floppy drive at the time
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From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 18 September 2004 01:24
To: peter green
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: is this a bug
peter green wrote:
debain installer seems
for various reasons i want to be able to use debian installer to install on
a block device that is not a partition
is there any way to bypass partman and set up the mappings between
mountpoints and block devices manually?
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may i ask why [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't go straight to the
listmasters?
-Original Message-
From: Martin Schulze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 28 August 2004 08:08
To: Peter Green
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RE/FW: Please stop sending me emails
peter
it may have been caused by admin action on his side
during the height of the problem i sent a rather strongly worded email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] about the issue and it may be that they have taken action to
disable his broken mail system
-Original Message-
From: John Summerfield
sounds like it didn't pick up the default gateway
what if anything does the route command output after the network is brought
up
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From: Tim Douglas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 28 August 2004 01:27
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bug#268484: Installation report
can someone please remove this guy from the list before his bloody
autoresponders drive us all crazy
-Original Message-
From: Frank Carmickle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 27 August 2004 21:39
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Please stop sending me emails
THIS IS AN
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From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 27 August 2004 22:59
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Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] 2.4.27 as default 2.4 kernel for sarge
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Quoting Joey Hess:
15. Get ftp-master to
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Cc: Frank Carmickle; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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Subject: Re: RE/FW: Please stop sending me emails
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 09:48:14PM +0100, peter green wrote:
can someone please remove this guy from the list before his bloody
autoresponders drive us all
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Luther
Sent: 25 August 2004 09:13
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Subject: [coLinux-devel] Re: debian (sarge rc1) installer and colinux
(snapshot 20040710)
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 07:40:17PM +0100, peter green wrote:
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