Bug#776313: marked as done (Installation manual should warn about the use of LVM partition types)

2018-09-23 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 23 Sep 2018 21:20:21 + with message-id and subject line Bug#776313: fixed in installation-guide 20180923 has caused the Debian Bug report #776313, regarding Installation manual should warn about the use of LVM partition types to be marked as done. This means that you

Bug#286180: marked as done (debian-installation-manual: manual could reflect debconf serverity level)

2018-08-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
act ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems --- Begin Message --- Package: debian-installation-manual Version: N/A Severity: wishlist Since it is possible to run debian installer at different debconf severity levels (and make versions of d-i that run in those levels by defaults) it would be cool if the

Bug#776313: [installation-guide] Installation manual should warn about the use of LVM partition types

2018-08-03 Thread Holger Wansing
Control: tags -1 + pending Holger Wansing wrote: > diff --git a/en/using-d-i/modules/partman-lvm.xml > b/en/using-d-i/modules/partman-lvm.xml > index 89b32b958..0f320ba21 100644 > --- a/en/using-d-i/modules/partman-lvm.xml > +++ b/en/using-d-i/modules/partman-lvm.xml > @@ -41,7 +41,17 @@ to be

Processed: Re: Bug#776313: [installation-guide] Installation manual should warn about the use of LVM partition types

2018-08-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tags -1 + pending Bug #776313 [installation-guide] Installation manual should warn about the use of LVM partition types Added tag(s) pending. -- 776313: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=776313 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact

Bug#776313: [installation-guide] Installation manual should warn about the use of LVM partition types

2018-07-31 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2018-07-29 at 08:22 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > [...] > > diff --git a/en/using-d-i/modules/partman-lvm.xml > > b/en/using-d-i/modules/partman-lvm.xml > > index 89b32b958..4a5378c0d 100644 > > --- a/en/using-d-i/modules/partman-lvm.xml > > +++

Bug#776313: [installation-guide] Installation manual should warn about the use of LVM partition types

2018-07-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2018-07-29 at 08:22 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: [...] > diff --git a/en/using-d-i/modules/partman-lvm.xml > b/en/using-d-i/modules/partman-lvm.xml > index 89b32b958..4a5378c0d 100644 > --- a/en/using-d-i/modules/partman-lvm.xml > +++ b/en/using-d-i/modules/partman-lvm.xml > @@ -41,7

Bug#776313: [installation-guide] Installation manual should warn about the use of LVM partition types

2018-07-29 Thread Holger Wansing
Drake Wilson wrote: > 1. The starting conditions: I've pared them down to two small disks, > tested in a QEMU+KVM virtual machine. Both have GPT partition > tables, per [[STARTING-TABLES]] below. Take note of disk 2, > partition 3, which is marked with an LVM type code

Bug#286178: marked as done (debian-installation-manual: md/lvm partitioning)

2018-07-23 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 24 Jul 2018 04:18:00 + with message-id <4389a799-dca1-7964-3243-c611e1f68...@solveig.org> and subject line Installer and install doc much improved in 15 years, yeah ! has caused the Debian Bug report #286178, regarding debian-installation-manual: md/lvm partit

Bug#784661: debian-installer: Installation manual should note Green Drive failure under Linux

2015-05-07 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Package: debian-installer Version: Head Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i patch Hi, Western Digital Green drives fail early under Linux due to excessive load/park cycling of the heads. This should be noted in the Installation Manual's hardware compatibility section. For more information on the

Bug#342572: marked as done (The installation manual does not do justice to the modular nature of d-i)

2015-05-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 04 May 2015 01:37:56 +0100 with message-id 1430699876.4113.130.ca...@decadent.org.uk and subject line Re: The installation manual does not do justice to the modular nature of d-i has caused the Debian Bug report #342572, regarding The installation manual does not do

Re: d-i installation manual bits for arm64 and ppc64el

2014-11-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
is the installation manual bits. For now I have just commited the basics, so you can $ debcheckout installation-guide $ cd installation-guide/build $ ./buildone arm64 en pdf $ ./buildone ppc64el en pdf to get it built. What porters need to do is to add information specific to their arch. For arm64

Re: Installation manual build failure....

2014-10-29 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote: I can't really understand that failure. Maybe someone can? - Forwarded message from Cron Daemon r...@dillon.debian.org - Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:02:17 + From: Cron Daemon r...@dillon.debian.org To: bubu...@dillon.debian.org,

Re: Installation manual build failure....

2014-10-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Holger Wansing li...@wansing-online.de (2014-10-29): Hi, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote: I can't really understand that failure. Maybe someone can? - Forwarded message from Cron Daemon r...@dillon.debian.org - Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:02:17 + From: Cron

Re: Installation manual build failure....

2014-10-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2014, Holger Wansing wrote: Unable to reproduce locally. Builds fine here. And there are also no build problems mentioned on jenkins. There are build problems on jenkins too, eg https://jenkins.debian.net/job/d- i_manual_de_html/69/console failed, despite I delete

Re: the the on a sentence on the installation manual

2014-09-20 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Miguel Figueiredo (el...@debianpt.org): Index: hardware/supported/arm.xml === --- hardware/supported/arm.xml(revisão 69344) +++ hardware/supported/arm.xml(cópia de trabalho) @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@

the the on a sentence on the installation manual

2014-09-19 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
Index: hardware/supported/arm.xml === --- hardware/supported/arm.xml (revisão 69344) +++ hardware/supported/arm.xml (cópia de trabalho) @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ listitempara The Intel IXP4xx processor series has been used in network

Re: the the on a sentence on the installation manual

2014-09-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 20:19 +0100, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: Index: hardware/supported/arm.xml === --- hardware/supported/arm.xml(revisão 69344) +++ hardware/supported/arm.xml(cópia de trabalho) @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@

Re: Installation manual upload?

2014-09-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Karsten Merker, le Sun 14 Sep 2014 20:37:12 +0200, a écrit : I currently have some small uncommitted changes to the english manual in my local working tree. Is it ok to do further commits for now or should I postpone them until after the package has been uploaded? It's now uploaded, you can

Re: Installation manual upload?

2014-09-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org (2014-09-16): Karsten Merker, le Sun 14 Sep 2014 20:37:12 +0200, a écrit : I currently have some small uncommitted changes to the english manual in my local working tree. Is it ok to do further commits for now or should I postpone them until after the

d-i installation manual bits for arm64 and ppc64el

2014-09-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, One of the things that needs to get added for arm64 and ppc64el is the installation manual bits. For now I have just commited the basics, so you can $ debcheckout installation-guide $ cd installation-guide/build $ ./buildone arm64 en pdf $ ./buildone ppc64el en pdf to get it built. What

Re: Installation manual upload?

2014-09-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Karsten Merker, le Sun 14 Sep 2014 20:37:12 +0200, a écrit : On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:13:33PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: last manual upload was 20131009 which is a while ago. Since we're closing in for a Jessie Beta 2 release, it'd be nice to have current svn uploaded soon. I'm not

Re: Installation manual upload?

2014-09-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le Sun 14 Sep 2014 19:13:33 +0200, a écrit : last manual upload was 20131009 which is a while ago. Since we're closing in for a Jessie Beta 2 release, it'd be nice to have current svn uploaded soon. I'm not sure whether some translations are pending though. Christian, what do

Re: Installation manual upload?

2014-09-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Le 15/09/2014 13:43, Samuel Thibault a écrit : Cyril Brulebois, le Sun 14 Sep 2014 19:13:33 +0200, a écrit : last manual upload was 20131009 which is a while ago. Since we're closing in for a Jessie Beta 2 release, it'd be nice to have current svn uploaded soon. I'm not sure whether some

Installation manual upload?

2014-09-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, last manual upload was 20131009 which is a while ago. Since we're closing in for a Jessie Beta 2 release, it'd be nice to have current svn uploaded soon. I'm not sure whether some translations are pending though. [ Cc-ing Samuel who is a regular uploaded. ] Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] installation-manual: Should it suggests to switch to run level 1 and back?

2013-04-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
users to just reboot, because those users able to recover without a reboot are unlikely to need the instructions in the installation manual. Indeed. I have changed the manual thusly. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] installation-manual: Should it suggests to switch to run level 1 and back?

2013-04-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Regid Ichira] 1. AM I right that strictly speaking, there are cases where the `easiest way' will not work? Yes. Any daemon started from within rcS.d/ will be killed by /etc/rc1.d/S01killprocs and not started again when switching to

Re: installation-manual: section 6.3.3.1: Isn't ext4 the default fs?

2013-04-19 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: Regid Ichira, le Thu 18 Apr 2013 17:01:18 +0300, a écrit : Isn't the default ext4? Indeed! I have fixed the manual and translations (yes, I know how ext3 and ext4 are translated in all languages ;) I am not sure here: Is that really true

Re: installation-manual: section 6.3.3.1: Isn't ext4 the default fs?

2013-04-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le Fri 19 Apr 2013 17:06:23 +0200, a écrit : Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: Regid Ichira, le Thu 18 Apr 2013 17:01:18 +0300, a écrit : Isn't the default ext4? Indeed! I have fixed the manual and translations (yes, I know how ext3 and ext4 are

installation-manual: section 6.3.3.1: Isn't ext4 the default fs?

2013-04-18 Thread Regid Ichira
From section 6.3.3.1 of the installation manual: The default file system selected in most cases is ext3; for /boot partitions ext2 will be selected by default when guided partitioning is used. Isn't the default ext4? I haven't examine the source. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: installation-manual: section 6.3.3.1: Isn't ext4 the default fs?

2013-04-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Regid Ichira, le Thu 18 Apr 2013 17:01:18 +0300, a écrit : Isn't the default ext4? Indeed! I have fixed the manual and translations (yes, I know how ext3 and ext4 are translated in all languages ;) Thanks, Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] installation-manual: Should it suggests to switch to run level 1 and back?

2013-04-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Petter Reinholdtsen, le Wed 17 Apr 2013 00:26:39 +0200, a écrit : 2. Should the installation manual be modified? Perhaps. :) Which way? Do you think we can still provide a recipe to manage to get the system booted, or should we forget about it and tell the user to just fix the issue

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] installation-manual: Should it suggests to switch to run level 1 and back?

2013-04-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
are unlikely to need the instructions in the installation manual. But I have not investigated the current status about the number of daemons started from rcS.d/. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] installation-manual: Should it suggests to switch to run level 1 and back?

2013-04-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
to move all daemon starting out of rcS.d/ and into rc[2-5].d/. There is a lot of work left to do before this is done. Luckily there isn't that that many daemons started from rcS.d/, so in many installations, switching to runlevel 1 and back will work. 2. Should the installation manual be modified

installation-manual: Should it suggests to switch to run level 1 and back?

2013-03-28 Thread Regid Ichira
the `easiest way' will not work? 2. Should the installation manual be modified? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130329012028.gc7...@nt1.in

Re: Is it a bad URL in the installation manual?

2013-03-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Regid Ichira, le Tue 26 Mar 2013 05:20:06 +0200, a écrit : http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s03.html.en#ftn.id593125 maps LUKS to http://luks.endorphin.org/ . $ host luks.endorphin.org Host luks.endorphin.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Is

Re: Is it a bad URL in the installation manual?

2013-03-26 Thread 江建勳
Yes, http://luks.endorphin.org/ is a bad URL. On 3/26/13, Regid Ichira regi...@nt1.in wrote: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s03.html.en#ftn.id593125 maps LUKS to http://luks.endorphin.org/ . $ host luks.endorphin.org Host luks.endorphin.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

Is it a bad URL in the installation manual?

2013-03-25 Thread Regid Ichira
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s03.html.en#ftn.id593125 maps LUKS to http://luks.endorphin.org/ . $ host luks.endorphin.org Host luks.endorphin.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUKS a better mapping? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#656940: marked as done (www.debian.org: installation manual in german, section D.3.5 wrong argument in command)

2012-08-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:10:24 +0200 with message-id 20120827121024.5279c398.li...@wansing-online.de and subject line #656940: installation manual in german, section D.3.5 wrong argument in command - closing has caused the Debian Bug report #656940, regarding www.debian.org

Re: Patch for installation-manual

2012-06-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steve McIntyre, le Tue 15 May 2012 18:01:57 +0100, a écrit : Let's make it clearer how we expect users to write CDs to USB sticks? Applied, thanks. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Patch for installation-manual

2012-05-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
Let's make it clearer how we expect users to write CDs to USB sticks? Index: en/install-methods/boot-usb-files.xml === --- en/install-methods/boot-usb-files.xml (revision 67598) +++ en/install-methods/boot-usb-files.xml

Bug#656940: installation manual in german, section D.3.5 wrong argument in command

2012-01-23 Thread Holger Wansing
Hello Markus, Markus Hiereth wrote: Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal file www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apds03.html.de Section D.3.5 To install the kernel image, the file name of the package is no argument accepted by aptitude. I think the file extension .deb should be

Re: Bug#656940: www.debian.org: installation manual in german, section D.3.5 wrong argument in command

2012-01-22 Thread David Prévot
reassign 656940 installation-guide thanks. Le 22/01/2012 20:18, Markus Hiereth a écrit : Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal file www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apds03.html.de Section D.3.5 To install the kernel image, the file name of the package is no argument accepted by

Processed: Re: Bug#656940: www.debian.org: installation manual in german, section D.3.5 wrong argument in command

2012-01-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 656940 installation-guide Bug #656940 [www.debian.org] www.debian.org: installation manual in german, section D.3.5 wrong argument in command Bug reassigned from package 'www.debian.org' to 'installation-guide'. thanks. Stopping

installation manual for USB stick is outdated

2011-04-27 Thread Pedro Larroy
Hi I'm trying to follow: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en But I suspect the manual is outdated since the installer gets stuck on the Detect and mount CD-ROM which is not detected. This should be working or the manual changed? Pedro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: installation manual for USB stick is outdated

2011-04-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 04/27/2011 10:42 AM, Pedro Larroy wrote: I'm trying to follow: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en But I suspect the manual is outdated since the installer gets stuck on the Detect and mount CD-ROM which is not detected. This should be working or the manual

Re: installation manual for USB stick is outdated

2011-04-27 Thread Pedro Larroy
Hi I just did cat .iso /dev/sde I used: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.1a/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.1a-amd64-CD-1.iso and http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.1a/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.1a-amd64-netinst.iso My usb stick seems vanilla mas storage device. Should I try with a

Re: installation manual for USB stick is outdated

2011-04-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 05:18:40PM +0200, Pedro Larroy wrote: I just did cat .iso /dev/sde I used: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.1a/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.1a-amd64-CD-1.iso and http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.1a/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.1a-amd64-netinst.iso My

Re: installation manual for USB stick is outdated

2011-04-27 Thread Pedro Larroy
Hi Lennart Did you actually manage to go through the installation process? In my case it boots fine also. Pedro. On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 05:18:40PM +0200, Pedro Larroy wrote: I just did cat .iso /dev/sde

Re: installation manual for USB stick is outdated

2011-04-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 08:38:51PM +0200, Pedro Larroy wrote: Did you actually manage to go through the installation process? In my case it boots fine also. Yes. Worked fine. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: installation manual for USB stick is outdated

2011-04-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Pedro Larroy, le Wed 27 Apr 2011 17:18:40 +0200, a écrit : I observed that the scsi disk is not detected even after modprobing usb-storage inside the debian installer shell. That's most probably the issue here. Is your USB host detected, at least? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Installation manual review for kFreeBSD needed!

2011-01-11 Thread Robert Millan
2010/11/18 Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org: Hello, The current kfreebsd version of the installation manual is lacking review: a lot of things have been fixed (e.g. Linux doesn't appear where it shouldn't), but quite a few things still need to be fixed, and we need kfreebsd-knowledgeable

Re: installation manual patch for isohybrid

2011-01-08 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes: Quoting Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org): I would like to apply this to the manual so that it does not fall out of sync with what is released. I hope translations will be maneagable; I tried to keep the new text small. Seems fine to me. Late for

installation manual patch for isohybrid

2011-01-07 Thread Joey Hess
I would like to apply this to the manual so that it does not fall out of sync with what is released. I hope translations will be maneagable; I tried to keep the new text small. -- see shy jo Index: debian/changelog === ---

Re: installation manual patch for isohybrid

2011-01-07 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org): I would like to apply this to the manual so that it does not fall out of sync with what is released. I hope translations will be maneagable; I tried to keep the new text small. Seems fine to me. Late for translations, for sure, but the few translators for

Re: Some kFreeBSD port of Installation manual

2010-09-05 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: Do the technical parts look fine (introducing linux-any vs others, etc)? Personally I think it suits well for what it intend to solve; I prefer if more people ack it before commiting. Christian? -- Otavio

Re: Some kFreeBSD port of Installation manual

2010-09-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
people ack it before commiting. Christian? Ack. I can't tell that I read everything carefully but I don't see why there should be a problem. I think that faw is monitoring the installation manual builds anyway... signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Some kFreeBSD port of Installation manual

2010-09-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
it suits well for what it intend to solve; I prefer if more people ack it before commiting. Christian? Ack. I can't tell that I read everything carefully but I don't see why there should be a problem. I think that faw is monitoring the installation manual builds anyway... Ok, I've

Re: Some kFreeBSD port of Installation manual

2010-09-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Do the technical parts look fine (introducing linux-any vs others, etc)? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Some kFreeBSD port of Installation manual

2010-08-24 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
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 of Debian is currently +only being developed for the i386 and amd64 architectures, although +ports to other architectures is possible.

Re: Some kFreeBSD port of Installation manual

2010-08-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
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 of Debian is currently +only being developed for the i386 and amd64

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

Some kFreeBSD port of Installation manual

2010-08-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, This is some beginning of kFreeBSD/Hurd ports of the Installation manual: basically, it does the following. - Add kfreebsd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64 and hurd-i386 archs (not automatically enabled for now). - Add any-i386, any-amd64, any-x86, kfreebsd-any and hurd-any pseudo-archs - Add

Re: Some kFreeBSD port of Installation manual

2010-08-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
I had forgoten to add the arch files, here is a fixed patch to be used instead. Samuel Index: build/entities/common.ent === --- build/entities/common.ent (révision 64519) +++ build/entities/common.ent (copie de travail) @@ -3,7

Installation manual: syslinux is no longer restricted to fat

2008-12-27 Thread ael
Package : installation-reports Documentation: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s03.html etc. Section 4.3: Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting. This section is out of date in that it suggests that it is necessary to create a FAT16 partition on the USB stick in order to

Bug#275565: marked as done (Corrections for the installation manual (netboot PPC). Missing yaboot-netboot.conf)

2008-11-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:47:14 + with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#275565: fixed in installation-guide 20081113 has caused the Debian Bug report #275565, regarding Corrections for the installation manual (netboot PPC). Missing yaboot-netboot.conf

Installation manual: searching firmware

2008-11-10 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, Here's a suggested improvement for the installation manual. (even though I know it's too late for Lenny). Franklin Index: build/entities/urls.ent === --- build/entities/urls.ent (revision 56613) +++ build/entities/urls.ent

Bug#389516: marked as done (Supported hardware chapter for installation manual)

2007-01-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:55:03 + with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#389516: fixed in installation-guide 20070115 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case

Bug#248067: marked as done (Installation manual says Ctrl-Alt-Del will shut down PPC system)

2007-01-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
understand it the installation code is different than in stable (woody).) The installation manual, chapter 9.2, says that you can press Ctrl-Alt-Del to shut down your system. This does not work on the PowerPC Apple PowerBook G4 (and probably not on many other architectures and implementations

Re: Proofreading the installation manual (English) - part 2

2007-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
Thanks again. I've fixed most of the errors, but don't really want to make the capitalization changes for HTTP, FTP and URL at the moment. Cheers, FJP pgpkdX4eUub6B.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Proofreading the installation manual (English) - part 2

2007-01-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Thanks again. I've fixed most of the errors, but don't really want to make the capitalization changes for HTTP, FTP and URL at the moment. I understand... I guess you keep track of issues I reported and you choose not to fix now, or should I file bug

Re: Proofreading the installation manual (English) - part 2

2007-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 07 January 2007 17:38, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Thanks again. I've fixed most of the errors, but don't really want to make the capitalization changes for HTTP, FTP and URL at the moment. I understand... I guess you keep track of issues I

Proofreading the installation manual (English) - part 3

2007-01-07 Thread Christian Perrier
I went down to 6.3.3 (Setting up the system). General We seem to lack consistent writing of file system. There are numerous occurrences of filesystem We also seem to lack consistency about mount point which is sometimes written as mountpoint ./boot-installer/trouble.xml:There

Proofreading the installation manual (English) - part 4

2007-01-07 Thread Christian Perrier
I completed the first six chapter.here are my final notes: General Consistency between bootloader and boot loader ./using-d-i/components.xml:After partitioning the installer asks a few more questions that will be Missing comma? After partitioning, the installer...

Proofreading the installation manual (English) - part 1

2007-01-06 Thread Christian Perrier
Please find below my notes while proofreading the installation manual (i386/English): In some cases, I have a doubt about correct use of English and there are great chances that I'm wrong..:-) ./hardware/supported-peripherals.xml:at all. This precludes its being used for free software, since

Re: Proofreading the installation manual (English) - part 1

2007-01-06 Thread Frans Pop
The ones not mentioned have been fixed. Thanks for the review. Cheers, FJP On Saturday 06 January 2007 13:08, Christian Perrier wrote: Capitalization of internet should be consistent. I would recommend using Internet Yes, but not something I really want to do right now in the soft

Re: Proofreading the installation manual (English) - part 2

2007-01-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 10:56:33PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: /boot-installer/x86.xml-requested. Insert the root floppy and press enterkey;, and the ./boot-installer/x86.xml:contents are loaded into memory. The installer program the contents IS loaded, no? No, contents is plural

Bug#389516: Supported hardware chapter for installation manual

2006-12-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 22:12, Geert Stappers wrote: in bugreport #305230 is this text | What memory configuration do you have? What CPU speed? If 4 | sticks, try removing 2. If 2, try moving to the other pair of | slots. (Mine had 4x32M, d-i worked with 2x32M in slots closest to

Bug#389516: Supported hardware chapter for installation manual

2006-12-27 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 08:36:03PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 26 December 2006 19:51, Geert Stappers wrote: Op 26-12-2006 om 03:44 schreef Frans Pop: Please check: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.sparc/ch02s01.html#sparc-cpus The information about memory banks and

Bug#389516: Supported hardware chapter for installation manual

2006-12-27 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 27-12-2006 om 10:57 schreef Jurij Smakov: On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 08:36:03PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Jurij, I guess this is about the following text. Should this be included again? sect3titleMemory Configuration/title para Some older Sun workstations, notably the Sun

Bug#389516: Supported hardware chapter for installation manual

2006-12-26 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 26-12-2006 om 03:44 schreef Frans Pop: Please check: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.sparc/ch02s01.html#sparc-cpus The information about memory banks and memory maps is gone, please include it again. Cheers Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#389516: Supported hardware chapter for installation manual

2006-12-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 19:51, Geert Stappers wrote: Op 26-12-2006 om 03:44 schreef Frans Pop: Please check: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.sparc/ch02s01.html#sparc-cpus The information about memory banks and memory maps is gone, please include it again. I'll leave that to the

Bug#389516: Supported hardware chapter for installation manual

2006-12-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 06:02, Jurij Smakov wrote: The attached file (sparc.xml) contains the description of supported sparc hardware. It is intended to replace en/hardware/supported.sparc.xml. Please review and apply. Finally committed after review. I've moved the graphics cards bit to

Bug#400967: installation-manual: E.2 Contributing to This Document - package for bug reports should be updated

2006-11-30 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Package: installation-manual Severity: minor Section E.2 reads that If you have problems or suggestions regarding this document, you should probably submit them as a bug report against the package debian-installer-manual. debian-installer-manual should be changed for installation-guide

Bug#400969: installation-manual: 6.3.1.5. Configuring Network - etherconf will not be in Etch

2006-11-30 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Package: installation-manual Severity: minor The note in section 6.3.1.5 ends with Alternatively, you can install etherconf, which will step you through your network setup. This should be removed, as etherconf is no longer in Etch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#400969: marked as done (installation-manual: 6.3.1.5. Configuring Network - etherconf will not be in Etch)

2006-11-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#400967: marked as done (installation-manual: E.2 Contributing to This Document - package for bug reports should be updated)

2006-11-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: Installation Manual Patches 3: Remove obsolete 2.4 references

2006-10-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 03 August 2006 03:29, Nathanael Nerode wrote: This patch consists of removal of obsolete mentions of 2.4 kernels. Keep the installation manual a readable length and all that. I've applied a few more of your suggested patches (from this mail and others), but not all. The section

Bug#389516: marked as done (Supported hardware chapter for installation manual)

2006-10-01 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#389516: Supported hardware chapter for installation manual

2006-09-25 Thread Jurij Smakov
Package: installation-guide-sparc Severity: wishlist Hi, The attached file (sparc.xml) contains the description of supported sparc hardware. It is intended to replace en/hardware/supported.sparc.xml. Please review and apply. Thanks, -- Jurij Smakov

Re: Installation Manual Patch 2: Fix obsolete URL

2006-08-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 03 August 2006 03:27, Nathanael Nerode wrote: url=http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/index.ht mlzSeries page at the developerWorks/ulink. In short, G5, Multiprise Hmm. That link is bad too. Guess you meant:

Re: Installation Manual Patches 4: RARP cleanup

2006-08-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 03 August 2006 04:05, Nathanael Nerode wrote: This cleans up the details in the RARP section, while making it slightly more informative (particularly in the presumably common Linux 2.4/2.6 case), and making it shorter, and putting the more likely case first. :-) Committed. I've

Re: Installation Manual Patches #5: i386 supported architecture update

2006-08-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 03 August 2006 05:10, Nathanael Nerode wrote: This mainly updates the information to reflect that real-i386 support is gone. In addition I added a reassuring line for people who might be intimidated by the bus information, and a couple of other similar things. I think I got the

Re: Patches to the installation manual 1: Appendix

2006-08-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 03 August 2006 05:58, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Frans Pop wrote: You are completely correct... Prompted by your mail and while applying your patch, I had a few ideas and I'd like to propose a slightly different patch which is based on your changes. Please let us know what

Patches to the installation manual 1: Appendix

2006-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
This fixes up some bad usage of English in the appendix. I'm betting translators have done better than this on the whole Changes put in the public domain. Index: appendix/files.xml === --- appendix/files.xml (revision 39542)

Re: Patches to the installation manual 1: Appendix

2006-08-02 Thread Frans Pop
(CCing as I'm not sure if you're subscribed.) On Thursday 03 August 2006 02:53, Nathanael Nerode wrote: This fixes up some bad usage of English in the appendix. I'm betting translators have done better than this on the whole You are completely correct... Prompted by your mail and while

Installation Manual Patch 2: Fix obsolete URL

2006-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
For s390. Public domain. Index: supported/s390.xml === --- supported/s390.xml (revision 39542) +++ supported/s390.xml (working copy) @@ -10,8 +10,7 @@ ulink url=http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/pubs/pdfs/redbooks/sg246264.pdf; Linux

Installation Manual Patches 3: Remove obsolete 2.4 references

2006-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
This patch consists of removal of obsolete mentions of 2.4 kernels. Keep the installation manual a readable length and all that. I put the changes in the public domain. Index: appendix/preseed.xml === --- appendix/preseed.xml

Installation Manual Patches 4: RARP cleanup

2006-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
This cleans up the details in the RARP section, while making it slightly more informative (particularly in the presumably common Linux 2.4/2.6 case), and making it shorter, and putting the more likely case first. :-) I put all changes in the public domain. Index: rarp.xml

Installation Manual Patches #5: i386 supported architecture update

2006-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
This mainly updates the information to reflect that real-i386 support is gone. In addition I added a reassuring line for people who might be intimidated by the bus information, and a couple of other similar things. I think I got the important stuff up front so that it's not too intimidating to

Installation manual patches #6: remove more 2.4 obsolescence

2006-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Just deletion of stuff which is so not relevant to etch. Index: howto/installation-howto.xml === --- howto/installation-howto.xml(revision 39542) +++ howto/installation-howto.xml(working copy) @@ -213,17 +213,7 @@

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