Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 24 February 2008, Grant Grundler wrote: Grant, do you happen to know a similar trick to detect 64-bit support even when the installer is running with a 32-bit kernel? Hrm...yes. I explain the trick and also some caveats on why I would rather leave this user selectable. OK. In

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-24 Thread Grant Grundler
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:07:03AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Grant Grundler wrote: Please, go in your installed system and use the installation-report script to send us a full installation report, that way we can get more information about how things went

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Grant Grundler wrote: Please, go in your installed system and use the installation-report script to send us a full installation report, that way we can get more information about how things went there. I'm not near the system for the next couple of days but

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-19 Thread Grant Grundler
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:54:22AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: ... And this is my installation report. I didn't see any other guidance on where/how to submit the installation reports. Please, go in your installed system and use the installation-report script to send us a full

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-18 Thread Otavio Salvador
Grant Grundler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... SMP would have been appropriate though. Installing SMP kernel is not a critical issue. Folks can easily figure out how to install an SMP kernel and SMP kernel might not be as stable for some configurations. So leaving that to the user is fine with

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 18 February 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: Grant Grundler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: e.g.: j6k:~# fgrep 0x00 /sys/bus/parisc/devices/*/hw_type /sys/bus/parisc/devices/32/hw_type:0x00 /sys/bus/parisc/devices/34/hw_type:0x00 I don't have access to get this data however today's

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 18 February 2008, Grant Grundler wrote: Runtime test for the hppa installer might be to scrounge in /sys/bus/parisc/devices for hw_type contains 0x00. e.g.: j6k:~# fgrep 0x00 /sys/bus/parisc/devices/*/hw_type /sys/bus/parisc/devices/32/hw_type:0x00

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-18 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 18 February 2008, Grant Grundler wrote: Runtime test for the hppa installer might be to scrounge in /sys/bus/parisc/devices for hw_type contains 0x00. e.g.: j6k:~# fgrep 0x00 /sys/bus/parisc/devices/*/hw_type

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 18 February 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: I did it just after answer his mail and was going to ask someone to test. Could you see the attached patch? I've about to commit a different solution where /var/numcpus is set in rootskel. Main reason is that that will work better with the

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 18 February 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: + if grep -q 0x00 /sys/bus/parisc/devices/*/hw_type; then You're only testing for the presence of _a_ processor here. You're not testing _how many_ there are. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-18 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 18 February 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: I did it just after answer his mail and was going to ask someone to test. Could you see the attached patch? I've about to commit a different solution where /var/numcpus is set in rootskel. Main reason is

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-17 Thread Grant Grundler
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:34:54PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: We're starting the work for D-I Beta1 release and we would like ask to everyone to test the installer as much as possible, especially in not so common architectures where we receive less general testing. Otavio, On Feb 9, I

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-14 Thread Gordon Farquharson
On Wed, Feb 6, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Gordon Farquharson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Installation on the Linksys NSLU2 will be broken until nslu2-utils 0.10+r71-14 [1] transitions into testing. This version of nslu2-utils is only required for DSFG installer images (i.e. no firmware) and for

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-12 Thread Brad Boyer
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 07:16:29AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 06:04:24PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 01:29:33PM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: Which initrd? cdrom and hd-media want a cd image. nativehd will download everything from the

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-12 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 06:04:24PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 01:29:33PM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:27:56AM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: I did download and try to boot the m68k build of this installer. The Which initrd? cdrom and

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 11 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: hppa The first part of the installation runs fine, but I'm running into a weird failure at the start of partman. The failure seems to be not in partman itself, but in main-menu. I'm fairly sure that partman-base.postinst is never even started. Of

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-11 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:27:56AM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 03:04:31PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Eugen Paiuc wrote: Good news , m68k is reentered in d-i ! Well, the building of the daily D-I images has never really been disabled as

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-11 Thread Brad Boyer
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 03:04:31PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Eugen Paiuc wrote: Good news , m68k is reentered in d-i ! Well, the building of the daily D-I images has never really been disabled as far as I know. But

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-11 Thread Brad Boyer
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 01:29:33PM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:27:56AM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: I did download and try to boot the m68k build of this installer. The Which initrd? cdrom and hd-media want a cd image. nativehd will download everything from the

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 04 February 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: We're starting the work for D-I Beta1 release and we would like ask to everyone to test the installer as much as possible, especially in not so common architectures where we receive less general testing. I have run netboot installation tests

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-06 Thread Gordon Farquharson
Hi All On Feb 4, 2008 3:34 PM, Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're starting the work for D-I Beta1 release and we would like ask to everyone to test the installer as much as possible, especially in not so common architectures where we receive less general testing. Installation on

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Just to mention that I've just tested the image with a USB braille device, and it just works great :) Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-05 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 03:04:31PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Eugen Paiuc wrote: Good news , m68k is reentered in d-i ! Well, the building of the daily D-I images has never really been disabled as far as I know. But

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Eugen Paiuc wrote: Good news , m68k is reentered in d-i ! Well, the building of the daily D-I images has never really been disabled as far as I know. But http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/m68k/iso -cd/ are forbidden for users

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Stephen R Marenka wrote: What's the procedure for that? At the moment, sid is pretty broken for installation (we're far behind), but no reason not to start the process. You need a local mirror and debian-cd. I have scripts I use to make things easier for both, feel

Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-04 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, We're starting the work for D-I Beta1 release and we would like ask to everyone to test the installer as much as possible, especially in not so common architectures where we receive less general testing. In the current timeline, we will stop

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-04 Thread Eugen Paiuc
Hi Good news , m68k is reentered in d-i ! But http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/m68k/iso-cd/ http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/m68k/jigdo-cd/ are forbidden for users (temporary I hope ). regards, --ee -- To