cdrom install report in vmware (net problems, otherwise OK!)

2003-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
Debian-installer-version: manty netinst CD, built today Method: cd install in vmware Machine: vmware Memory: 90 mb Root Device: 300 mb virtual scsi Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [E] Detect CD: [O]

Re: cdrom install report in vmware (net problems, otherwise OK!)

2003-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: It did not configure the network. netcfg is on the cd, but udeb_include is broken. I am working right now on fixing that (I broke it :-( ) Missing udeb_include on the cd. Manty has fixed this and updated the images. Base-config 2.0 is on there, but it somehow got the debconf

generally successful install report from usb keychain

2003-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
Debian-installer-version: today's (second build) netinst CD from manty's home dir Method: booting from a 128 mb usb keychain with hd-media initrd I built, and the d-i ISO on it Machine: LC2000 laptop from LinuxCertified, Inc. Processor: 2.66 Ghz P4 Memory: 516 mb Root Device: 36 gb IDE

Re: generally successful install report from usb keychain

2003-12-30 Thread Harald Dunkel
I used the current Sarge netinst CD to install Sid. It worked. But I am not sure whether aptitude is a good choice for d-i. Surely aptitude is a great tool, but sometimes it choses some pretty unlikely packets to resolve dependencies (e.g. xscreensaver recommends wordlist, which aptitude resolved

Re: generally successful install report from usb keychain

2003-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
Harald Dunkel wrote: I used the current Sarge netinst CD to install Sid. It worked. But I am not sure whether aptitude is a good choice for d-i. Surely aptitude is a great tool, but sometimes it choses some pretty unlikely packets to resolve dependencies (e.g. xscreensaver recommends

Re: aptitude, was: generally successful install report from usb keychain

2003-12-30 Thread Erich Waelde
Hello Harri, aptitude options dependency handling: unselect: install suggested packages automatically and unselect: install recommended packages automatically First thing I do :-) and the world looks nicer for me. Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: generally successful install report from usb keychain

2003-12-30 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 30.12.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 22:00: Some ugly things during boot: - discover decided I should have a i810_rng module, but this module failed to load with No such device. According to pci.lst these devices need the i810_rng module: 80862418bridge i810_rng

Install report (not successfull, 2nd image of 20031230, i386)

2003-12-30 Thread Erich Waelde
Hello all, I just pressed send and reload and there was a new netinst-image! Well, then just try this also. Debian-installer-version: 30-Dec-2003 11:11h netinst.iso 2nd build from http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/ just to be sure:

Re: generally successful install report from usb keychain

2003-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: I don't know where the dot comes from neither... I'm wondering where /etc/hostname comes from at all... The wired /etc/mailname comes from my totaly wrong fix for the mailname issue (prebaseconfig copied /etc/hosts to /target/etc/mailname). The patch I attached

Re: generally successful install report from usb keychain

2003-12-30 Thread Matt Kraai
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:23:44PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Am Die, den 30.12.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 22:00: What on earth? Taking a look at /etc/mailname, I see: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 debian. debian Something is _very_ broken here. FWIW, my /etc/hosts has the

Re: generally successful install report from usb keychain

2003-12-30 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mit, den 31.12.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 01:06: Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: I don't know where the dot comes from neither... I'm wondering where /etc/hostname comes from at all... The wired /etc/mailname comes from my totaly wrong fix for the mailname issue (prebaseconfig copied

Re: generally successful install report from usb keychain

2003-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Am Die, den 30.12.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 22:00: Some ugly things during boot: - discover decided I should have a i810_rng module, but this module failed to load with No such device. According to pci.lst these devices need the i810_rng module: 80862418

Re: generally successful install report from usb keychain

2003-12-30 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 04:00:24PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Total time to install Debian: 5 minutes 15 seconds Wow. :-) klogd: orinoco_cs: RequestIRQ: Resource in use Not sure what do to about that. I've googled around but have not found anything that has helped. FWIW I've seen this too. I

Re: generally successful install report from usb keychain

2003-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: I don't feel this is the right fix. /etc/hostname does not have the same format as /etc/hosts either! Instead, why not just make netcfg echo the hostname to /proc/sys/kernel/hostname. I belive that exim4's postinst will do the right thing if the hostname is actually set. We

pcmcia RequestIRQ problem (was Re: generally successful install report from usb keychain)

2003-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
Package: debian-installer Tags: d-i I wrote: klogd: orinoco_cs: RequestIRQ: Resource in use Not sure what do to about that. I've googled around but have not found anything that has helped. Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: FWIW I've seen this too. I never solved it, but AFAIK somebody I knew

Re: Install report (not successfull, 2nd image of 20031230, i386)

2003-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
Erich Waelde wrote: Debian-installer-version: 30-Dec-2003 11:11h netinst.iso 2nd build from http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/ just to be sure: md5sum sarge-i386-netinst-20031230.2.iso 8d88a368fc2225144b8592d75684

Bug#224996: INSTALL REPORT (more details)

2003-12-29 Thread Edoardo Panfili
All goes well until DHCP search (I don't have a DHCP) I do Configuare static network Chose a mirror: sarge Partition the hard drive: done the partition for the apple boot loader is /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/part2 Apple_Boot eXternal booter [EMAIL PROTECTED](8.5M)

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-29 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's the status of partman? Is that available for testing already? The packages can be used and finally there is support for i18n. I am going to have better connection to Internet on 6 Jan 2004. On this date I will put the packages on

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
Anton Zinoviev wrote: gives me acces to the repository (I am zinoviev AT debian org) I will be able to add partman to the official repository. I've added you, it might take up to an hour for the change to take effect and you'll need to request a missing password on alioth if you have not

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-28 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Manually HDD partitioning didn't work. cfdisk quit's with an error. Used automatic partitioning. cfdisk can not handle partition tables where the order of the logical partitions in the disk does not follow their numbers. For example when /dev/hda6 is phisicaly

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-28 00:40]: cfdisk can not handle partition tables where the order of the logical [...] What's the status of partman? Is that available for testing already? -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#222791: INSTALL REPORT - problems

2003-12-27 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: I saw this as well (the wait upon 75%), several times. I switched to F3 or F4 and it seemed that the kernel package was waiting for someone to press enter. Obviously this times after after a while, but it waits there for several seconds (hence the 75% wait). I wonder

Bug#220202: Install report: IDE floppy boot fails

2003-12-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Ben Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-11-11 12:05]: bootfloppy-image.img boots correctly, but at the Insert the second floppy or plug in a USB storage device prompt, pressing Return doesn't cause the second floppy to be found, and just repeats the prompt. According to Bug #221575 this should

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-26 Thread Robert
Joey Hess wrote: Robert wrote: Manually HDD partitioning didn't work. cfdisk quit's with an error. Used automatic partitioning. Any chance you can tell us what the error wis? Hmmm... I'am sorry but I can't remember the error message exactly. I know - not a very useful answer... As

Bug#225011: debian-installer install report

2003-12-26 Thread Tobias Boeger
So everything worked for you? No complaints or feeedback/suggestions at all? Did it really work with just 32MB of RAM? Yeah, everything worked perfectly. It seems a bit unresponsive/lagging at times (progress bars not moving for ~5min.), but if you are patient enough everything installs just

Bug#224996: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
retitle 224996 Cannot install initrd-tools, UHCI problems thanks * Edoardo Panfili [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-24 10:31]: Can't install the kernel image: console 3- ... Building Dependency Tree E: Cuoldn't find package initrd-tools

Bug#222791: INSTALL REPORT - problems

2003-12-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Gaudenz Steinlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-04 00:59]: 6) While installing the base system and kernel the progress bar stopped at 75%. I changed terminals during the base install if that had something to do with it. Made the background go red. hm, don't understand that... I saw this

Processed: Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: retitle 224996 Cannot install initrd-tools, UHCI problems Bug#224996: INSTALL REPORT Changed Bug title. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs

Bug#225011: debian-installer install report

2003-12-26 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: So everything worked for you? No complaints or feeedback/suggestions at all? Did it really work with just 32MB of RAM? Indeed we should have broken the 32 mb barrier with the most recent busybox build. Good to see confirmation. -- see shy jo signature.asc

INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-25 Thread Robert
INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://www.mmweg.rwth-aachen.de/~sebastian.ley/d-i/netinst-image-i386/daily-2003-11-19/ uname -a: Linux localhost 2.4.22-1-i386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux Date: Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 Method: CD-ROM (Sarge netinst image) Machine: Desktop PC

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-25 Thread Joey Hess
Robert wrote: Manually HDD partitioning didn't work. cfdisk quit's with an error. Used automatic partitioning. Any chance you can tell us what the error wis? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#224996: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-24 Thread Edoardo Panfili
Package: installation-reports Version: unknown INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: hhttp://www.soziologie.ch/~steinlin/d-i/powerpc/ 09-Nov-2003 uname -a: Linux (none) 2.4.22-powerpc #1 Sat Sep 27 06:55:23 CEST 2003 ppc unknown Date: 24 December 2003 Method: from cd, How did you

Bug#224996: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 10:31:31AM +0100, Edoardo Panfili wrote: I can't use ALT+f1 on the powerbook, if I use an external apple keyboard on USB all goes well. Have you tried Alt-Fn-F1 (pressed in that order)? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Bug#225011: debian-installer install report

2003-12-24 Thread Tobias Boeger
Package: installation-reports Version: N/A INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 2002-12-20 (http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/) uname -a: Linux localhost 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 i586 GNU/Linux Date: 2002-12-20 20:00 Method: bootfloppy-image.img - floppy

Re: Install report

2003-12-18 Thread Jukka Neppius
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jukka Neppius wrote: 1. No documents! The page http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ has a promising link to The Debian-Installer's INSTALLATION HOWTO. Unfortunately it does not give anything. I think you'll find that link is working now.

install report vmware/CD

2003-12-18 Thread Joey Hess
Method: CD install in vmware, from Manty's CD images, circa 16 Dec. Root Device: 300 mb IDE virtual disk Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard

Re: Install report

2003-12-15 Thread Jukka Neppius
/var For installation to succeed / should be big enough for everything without its own partition. Result was working system. Network and sound drivers were found automatically. Good deal, you should fill out the installation report template you'll find in /root, and file a proper install

Re: sarge INSTALL REPORT - how set IP hostname?

2003-12-15 Thread Sebastian Haase
Sebastian Haase wrote: It seems like it found my hardware fine: the Ethernet card works and DHCP gets automatically configured. BUT: I don't want DHCP - I am missing the question where I can specify my static IP. Also I always ended up with hostname being 'localhost'. You need to boot

Re: Install report

2003-12-14 Thread Joey Hess
find in /root, and file a proper install report with that template that includes the hardware you installed to so we can track it. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: sarge INSTALL REPORT - how set IP hostname?

2003-12-14 Thread Joey Hess
Sebastian Haase wrote: It seems like it found my hardware fine: the ethernet card works and DHCP gets automatically configured. BUT: I don't want DHCP - I am missing the question where I can specify my static IP. Also I always ended up with hostname being 'localhost'. You need to boot in

Install report

2003-12-12 Thread Jukka Neppius
Testing dists/sid/main/installer-i386/current - 20031113 1. No documents! The page http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ has a promising link to The Debian-Installer's INSTALLATION HOWTO. Unfortunately it does not give anything. 2. Guessing name of the first boot diskette was easy. 2.

sarge INSTALL REPORT - how set IP hostname?

2003-12-12 Thread Sebastian Haase
Hi, I have tried to install a fresh Debian system. We have a Intel Pentium-III here at the university. I tried it a few times. First time about the Friday when debian.og got hacked, last time I used the sarge ISO CD-1, dated Dec7,2003 from the ftp in hungary. It seems like it found my hardware

Bug#220477: more information needed on install report

2003-12-03 Thread Joey Hess
You reported: The only other problem I can remember is the timezone configuration. I picked Europe and then got a lot of cities/countries, but no Amsterdam. didn't really look like Europe at all. In the end I found out Amsterdam lies in Australia these days. ;-) I cannot reproduce this:

Bug#222791: INSTALL REPORT - problems

2003-12-03 Thread Jeff Williams
Package: installation-reports Version: beta1 INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: beta1 uname -a: Linux killbill 2.4.22-powerpc #1 Sat Sep 27 04:08:08 CEST 2003 ppc GNU/Linux Date: 2003-12-2 22:00 Method: Boot from 100 MB CD image, includes Debian base. DHCP Install from

Bug#222791: INSTALL REPORT - problems

2003-12-03 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
clone 222791 -1 -2 reassign -1 choose-mirror retitle -1 do not ask distribution on cdrom install reassign -2 partitioner retitle -2 umount partitions before partitioning Thanks Am Mit, den 03.12.2003 schrieb Jeff Williams um 12:04: Package: installation-reports Version: beta1 INSTALL

Processed: Re: Bug#222791: INSTALL REPORT - problems

2003-12-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: clone 222791 -1 -2 Bug#222791: INSTALL REPORT - problems Bug 222791 cloned as bugs 222843-222844. reassign -1 choose-mirror Bug#222843: INSTALL REPORT - problems Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `choose-mirror'. retitle -1 do

Re: install report

2003-12-01 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:01:25PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Before installing debs from the CD it displayed a new progress bar as it checked the size of each udeb. I'm not sure what this was (not cdrom-checker), and it should be a bit clearer what it's doing there. Sounds like the extra

Re: install report

2003-12-01 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:29:15AM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:01:25PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Before installing debs from the CD it displayed a new progress bar as it checked the size of each udeb. I'm not sure what this was (not cdrom-checker), and it

Re: install report

2003-12-01 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:27:21AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: I noticed that a blank blue screen appears also during fs making. For large disks this is quite annoying. Known bug, should be fixed for beta 2. We're a bit unsure as of how to do this best, though. :-) /* Steinar */ --

INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-01 Thread Robert Staudinger
INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 2003-11-29 http://www.soziologie.ch/~steinlin/d-i/powerpc/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.20-8d_owen_aty128 #1 Wed Jul 16 13:04:19 CEST 2003 ppc ppc ppc GNU/Linux Date: 2003-12-01 12:00 Method: Install from CD Boot off

Re: install report

2003-12-01 Thread Joey Hess
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: Sounds like the extra progress bar I added to debootstrap a while ago -- basically, what it does is fetching the size for each .deb so it can build up a proper progress bar later. Note that this was there earlier too, there just wasn't a progress bar for it (on a

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-12-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 01.12.2003 schrieb Robert Staudinger um 14:27: INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 2003-11-29 http://www.soziologie.ch/~steinlin/d-i/powerpc/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.20-8d_owen_aty128 #1 Wed Jul 16 13:04:19 CEST 2003 ppc ppc ppc

Re: install report

2003-12-01 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Mon, den 01.12.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 03:01: Network config found my card, but did not get a dhcp lease from vmware. Probably a problem with my vmware, but this let me experience the oh-so-pleasant path of dhcp failing after a long timeout, and main-menu running it again and again when I

install report

2003-11-30 Thread Joey Hess
Debian-installer-version: sarge-i386-netinst.iso from nov 19th Method: CD install in vmware Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] Configure keyboard: [E] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [?] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O]

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-11-20 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Pollock wrote: * The initial net install gave me no option but to download from ftp.au.debian.org, which from Australia is slooow :-( I forget what the bug behind that is, or whether it's being fixed. You can get access to the lists of mirrors by booting with DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium *

Bug#221638: Install report for debian-installer

2003-11-19 Thread redcane
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 2003-15-11 from debian-installer web page uname -a: Currently running win2k, haven't reinstalled debian yet. Date: 2003-18-11 8:00 Method: Boot from CD. LAN internet connection. Machine: Home Built Processor: Celeron 1.7Ghz

Re: Fwd: Install Report from a Linux newbie - some comments

2003-11-18 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:25:39PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: You upgraded to _sid_? Not too wise for a newbie. You may encounter serious non-newbie-fixable problems. Unfortunately there's no 'downgrade' command, so if you've already put some Well, actually you can, and I've done it on

Re: Install-report

2003-11-18 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 08:50, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Can you select some nic-extra-modules*.udeb package to be installed or are all the net modules allready poulled in? ??? No understand. Booting that Beta-1 to linux or cdrom freezes completely two seconds later, whichever parameters I

Re: Install Report from a Linux newbie - some comments

2003-11-18 Thread eric brown
--- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Replying with CC since I'm not sure if Eric is still subscribed. Eric: You might want to subscribe to debian-boot and repost your experience there; be sure to reference this thread by subject -boot

Re: Install-report

2003-11-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Uwe Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 08:50, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Can you select some nic-extra-modules*.udeb package to be installed or are all the net modules allready poulled in? ??? No understand. Main-menu has a menu item to install additional

Re: Fwd: Install Report from a Linux newbie - some comments

2003-11-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
eric brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- eric brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 09:06:21 -0800 (PST) From: eric brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Install Report from a Linux newbie - some comments To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I tough of posting my Linux

Re: Fwd: Install Report from a Linux newbie - some comments

2003-11-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:59:59PM -0800, eric brown wrote: --- eric brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 09:06:21 -0800 (PST) From: eric brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Install Report from a Linux newbie - some comments

Re: Install Report from a Linux newbie - some comments

2003-11-18 Thread eric brown
BTW, I've started working on a really basic linux-newbie help file. I'd appreciate any feedback you have; if you'd like I can email it. I have it posted at http://members.cox.net/toff1/ (Download the 'aclue' link in binary mode). -- I have tried your script. (Had some problems at the

INSTALL REPORT

2003-11-17 Thread Andrew Pollock
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: (the one advertised on debian-devel-announce) downloaded around November 8 uname -a: Linux localhost 2.4.22-1-686 #6 Sat Oct 4 14:09:08 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux Date: Mon Nov 17 21:46:48 EST 2003 Method: Sarge business card

Bug#220921: Acknowledgement (installation-reports: install-report)

2003-11-17 Thread Dmitry Baryshkov
Also some additional wish/bug/feature: During installation I selected to use Russian language. Then, after installation completed, the problem appeared: instead of cyrillic letters, I saw only something like OEEOA... (during d-i stage, Russian was OK). I recollected, that some time ago, such

Re: Install report

2003-11-17 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:05:33PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: Comments/Problems: On boot it asked for my language, i chose English (Australian), it changed the keymap to something that isnt qwerty, it should be a normal US keymap. Yeah I too experienced this with my last install and

Fwd: Install Report from a Linux newbie - some comments

2003-11-17 Thread eric brown
--- eric brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 09:06:21 -0800 (PST) From: eric brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Install Report from a Linux newbie - some comments To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I tough of posting my Linux experience as a complete Linux Unix newbie

Re: Install-report

2003-11-16 Thread Joey Hess
Uwe Dippel wrote: Configure network HW: [E] Comment: Really frustrated. Had before installed OpenBSD from a single floppy, network install, without problem. Now, from 110 MB the basic modules are reported missing. Puuh. Eh, by the way, I'm not clear about that ide-floppy thingy. There is

Re: Install-report

2003-11-16 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 05:33, Joey Hess wrote: To pick one problem, I cannot help you with whatever problem the installer had with using your network device unless you say what that device is. 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 04)

Re: Install-report

2003-11-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Uwe Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 05:33, Joey Hess wrote: On the third try it asks me for the module parameters of floppy and tells me that modules are missing: e100, orinoco_pci, ide-mod, ide-probe-mod and ide-floppy Which is pretty similar to mine here. As

Install-report

2003-11-15 Thread Uwe Dippel
Debian-installer-version: 09-11-2003 uname -a: ?? Date: 12-11-2003 Method: CDROM Machine: DELL Inspiron 8100 Processor: 686 (P 866) Memory: 256MB Root Device: [none] Root Size/partition table: [none] Output of lspci: Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] Configure

Bug#220990: INSTALL REPORT, mips (SGI Indy)

2003-11-15 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 2003-11-14, built from that days d-i CVS, plus some patches for mips uname -a: Linux littleindy 2.4.22 ..., kernel is from the udeb in unstable Date: 2003-11-15 Method: via netboot image, bootp/tftp, from a local partial mirror,

Re: Install report

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
Glenn McGrath wrote: I had two network cards, one was an ISA card, which prevented dhcp from working, powered down pulled out the ISA card. If this is the problem that two NICs can stop network setup from working, that is a known problem in the beta and is fixed in the daily builds. Loaded

INSTALL REPORT: LWN

2003-11-13 Thread Joey Hess
an improvement, and it looks to be very stable. Contrast with some review of the Progeny anaconda port in the same article, which is to say the least, not quite ready for prime-time. Unfortunatly no hardware details accompnyed the article, so this cannot be a proper install report. :-) -- see shy jo

Install report

2003-11-12 Thread Glenn McGrath
NSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: beta1 Date: 12-11-03 Method: net install from floppies, no proxied. Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] Configure network HW: [E] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [E] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard

Re: Install report

2003-11-12 Thread Thorsten Sauter
Hi Glenn, * Glenn McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-11-12 13:05]: [...] | When i was ready to configure and mount my partitions it wouldnt let me | back in, i tried changing debconf levels, i couldnt continue the install | any further as the next steps required a configured partition. [...]

ia64 install report

2003-11-08 Thread Richard Hirst
INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/ia64/daily/sarge-ia64-businesscard.iso Dated 07-Nov-2003 16:17 uname -a: Linux (none) 2.4.20-ia64 #1 Tue Oct 14 04:24:27 MDT 2003 ia64 unknown Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 11:40:08 + Method: cdrom boot

Re: ia64 install report

2003-11-08 Thread Joey Hess
Richard Hirst wrote: Manually modprobing eepro100 is because ia64 doesn't have e100.o atm, and discover-data got changed to specify e100 recently. Bug 219513 filed, new kernel expected soon. We could also add an ia64 hack to make it use eepro100 in that architecture instead. If e100 is

Install report for Sony Vaio PCG-5211

2003-11-08 Thread Rainer Dorsch
INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 08-Nov-2003, http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/ uname -a: Linux localhost 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 08-Nov-2003 Method: bootfloppy-image, floppy-image, net-drivers-image I booted from an USB

Re: ia64 install report

2003-11-08 Thread Richard Hirst
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:00:04PM +, Richard Hirst wrote: Had to boot with TERM_UTF8=no to avoid issue where bterm dies with SIGILL. Not yet investigated or filed bug. hadn't seen that before as I'd been testing netboot, which doesn't use bterm. Actually, I think bterm just hangs, when

Re: Install report for Sony Vaio PCG-5211

2003-11-08 Thread Joey Hess
Rainer Dorsch wrote: to insert the second floppy, but the laptop was basically dead at this point. mvrn from #debian-boot helped out: I booted with BOOT_DEBUG=3 and inserted the second boot floppy in the debugshell after hardware detection. Then it worked out very smooth. If I do not

Re: [ppc-new_tibook-15] install report 2003-11-05

2003-11-07 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
[Cc: debian-powerpc for the record! ;)] On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:56:24 -0500 Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arnaud Vandyck wrote: [...] I have a list of kernel. I chose 2.4.22 and it stay top this option... it's not possible to install yaboot. d-i wants me to install the kernel! Are

Re: [ppc-new_tibook-15] install report 2003-11-05

2003-11-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Arnaud Vandyck a écrit: [Cc: debian-powerpc for the record! ;)] Congratulations ! I'll spend sometimes to tune the system, then I got some java stuff to do (for Debian) so I'll unsubscribe at the moment. But feel free to contact me if you need some test on the powerbook. So, is XFree

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-11-07 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 03:18:13PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Andrew Pollock wrote: Config network: [E] You didn't explain what went wrong here. Did you actually perform this step in the installer, or did you not, and just not have a configured network post install? Sorry. If memory

Re: [ppc-new_tibook-15] install report 2003-11-05

2003-11-07 Thread Erik Andersen
On Fri Nov 07, 2003 at 09:54:43AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Arnaud Vandyck a écrit: [Cc: debian-powerpc for the record! ;)] Congratulations ! I was similarly able (with a bit of manual intervention) to install sarge on a Powerbook G4 15. I'll spend sometimes to tune the

Re: [ppc-new_tibook-15] install report 2003-11-05

2003-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 04:27:12AM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote: On Fri Nov 07, 2003 at 09:54:43AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arnaud Vandyck a écrit: I'll spend sometimes to tune the system, then I got some java stuff to do (for Debian) so I'll unsubscribe at the moment. But feel free to

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-11-07 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Pollock wrote: I'm pretty sure last time I tried, I also had the choice of grub or lilo. Today, it was lilo or nothing. Anyone know why it's not offering grub anymore? Any answer on this? Yes -- grub had a priority problem. This is now fixed (will be in the next rev of the

initrd-tools installation (was: Re: [ppc-new_tibook-15] install report 2003-11-05)

2003-11-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Don, den 06.11.2003 schrieb Arnaud Vandyck um 15:01: Wow! First, should it be possible to NOT install the network via DHCP? but ask: 1° dhcp; 2° static; 3° no network. Everything was good untill kernel installation... I have a list of kernel. I chose 2.4.22 and it stay top this

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-11-07 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:55:09AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Andrew Pollock wrote: I'm pretty sure last time I tried, I also had the choice of grub or lilo. Today, it was lilo or nothing. Anyone know why it's not offering grub anymore? Any answer on this? Yes -- grub had a

Re: INSTALL REPORT

2003-11-07 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Fre, den 07.11.2003 schrieb Andrew Pollock um 22:39: On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:55:09AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Andrew Pollock wrote: Someone should perhaps turn this into a wishlist bug report against the relevant package. I can never guess what the right relevant package is

Re: another vmware install report (100% success)

2003-11-07 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:35:41AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Debian-installer-version: sarge netinst iso from the 4th Machine: ye olde vmware Memory: 96 mb Root Device: 310 mb pseudo-ide Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] Configure network HW: [O] Config

[ppc-new_tibook-15] install report 2003-11-05

2003-11-06 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Wow! First, should it be possible to NOT install the network via DHCP? but ask: 1° dhcp; 2° static; 3° no network. Everything was good untill kernel installation... I have a list of kernel. I chose 2.4.22 and it stay top this option... it's not possible to install yaboot. d-i wants me to

another vmware install report (100% success)

2003-11-06 Thread Joey Hess
Debian-installer-version: sarge netinst iso from the 4th Machine: ye olde vmware Memory: 96 mb Root Device: 310 mb pseudo-ide Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer

install report: floppy boot for cdrom install (vmware)

2003-11-05 Thread Joey Hess
Debian-installer-version: 3 hand-built floppy images with packages I am committing now, plus 2 day-old netinst CD Machine: vmware Method: Simulating a machine that cannot boot from CD, I left the CD drive disconnected at boot, and booted from the rootfloppy, then

Re: [ppc] install report 2003-11-03 :'(

2003-11-04 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Zitat von Arnaud Vandyck [EMAIL PROTECTED]: With the default boot, no argument, booting, then, asking for the language, then the keyboard, then changing the debconf priority, then execute a shell, then reboot! oups! :'( With DEBCONF_PRIORITY=normal I got this menu:

Re: [ppc] install report 2003-11-03 :'(

2003-11-04 Thread Joey Hess
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: I had the same problem this morning while testing the latest image. I think it's related to changes Joey Hess made to anna. The newest anna has no longer a main-menu entry. These should be provided by the retrievers or a special load-installer udeb. This udeb is not

Re: [ppc] install report 2003-11-03 :'(

2003-11-04 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:49:58 -0500 Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's possible that I managed to break the daily build for a day, although I tried to time things to avoid this. Your package list should have the load-installer package on it; it does in current CVS as of 5 pm yesterday,

Re: [ppc] install report 2003-11-03 :'(

2003-11-04 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:49:58 -0500 Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it does in current CVS as of 5 pm yesterday, EST. I don't know how to build the netinstall iso for powerpc (without a powerpc running debian) so I wait for the images at:

Re: [ppc] install report 2003-11-03 :'(

2003-11-04 Thread Thorsten Sauter
Hi, * Arnaud Vandyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-11-04 17:36]: | On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:49:58 -0500 | Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | it does in current CVS as of 5 pm yesterday, EST. | | I don't know how to build the netinstall iso for powerpc (without a | powerpc running debian) so I wait

Re: [ppc] install report 2003-11-03 :'(

2003-11-04 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 18:50:44 +0100 Thorsten Sauter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hi, * Arnaud Vandyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-11-04 17:36]: | I don't know how to build the netinstall iso for powerpc (without a | powerpc running debian) so I wait for the images at: |

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