Re: d-i on ancient hardware

2006-07-09 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Adam Borowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Ok, let's continue with the text installer... 5. A question Choose a country, territory or area has Choose language on the dialog caption. What language, who, where? Especially as lowmem just gave me a message about continuing in English, this

pb in remastering netinstall CD

2006-07-09 Thread Jean-Baptiste BUTET
hi all :)I'm trying to make a netinstall CD with preseed file in initrd.So, what I've done : - a good preseed.cfg file ;) - modify initrd (for 2.6) and adding preseed.cfg file on its root then, I've replaced initrd.gz file on extract iso.Then, rebuild iso : mkisofs -o debian_ocs.iso -b

Bug#288452: closed by Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (prep method is now there, as 301668 documents this (and another prep-breakage in partman but still))

2006-07-09 Thread Sven Luther
reopen 288452 thanks On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 06:18:24PM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: From: Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: prep method is now there, as 301668 documents this (and another prep-breakage in partman but still) Date:

Processed: Re: Bug#288452 closed by Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (prep method is now there, as 301668 documents this (and another prep-breakage in partman but still))

2006-07-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reopen 288452 Bug#288452: [partman-prep] doesn't show the prep method on real prep, while it worked on chrp_pserie. Bug reopened, originator not changed. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking

Bug#377472: Package: installation-reports

2006-07-09 Thread Andreas Fromm
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso Date: 2006-07-01 ? Machine: self assembled Processor: Intel PIII, 750MHz Memory: 256Mb Partitions: FilesystemTypeSize Used

Bug#377486: installation-reports

2006-07-09 Thread Tung-Han Hsieh
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-binary-1.iso uname -a: Linux thhpc 2.6.15-1-em64t-p4 #2 Tue Mar 7 07:51:41 UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux Date: July 9, 2006, 15:00

Re: pb in remastering netinstall CD

2006-07-09 Thread Jean-Baptiste BUTET
AG :)Sorry for noise : After mounting iso, .disk file was not created. (pb in cp command).All works good with really all files in remastering :)Sorry.JB 2006/7/9, Jean-Baptiste BUTET [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi all :)I'm trying to make a netinstall CD with preseed file in initrd.So, what I've done :

Re: d-i on ancient hardware

2006-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 09 July 2006 05:08, Adam Borowski wrote: 3. [G-I]: On lowmem, it would be better to flat-out refuse to run the graphical installer; a blank screen is an ugly way to die. The graphical installer already automatically falls back to text mode if there is not sufficient memory to run it.

Re: d-i on ancient hardware

2006-07-09 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 09 July 2006 05:08, Adam Borowski wrote: 3. [G-I]: On lowmem, it would be better to flat-out refuse to run the graphical installer; a blank screen is an ugly way to die. The graphical installer already automatically falls back to text mode if there is not

Bug#248067: it's correct in the manual source but I cannot find it in the build manual...

2006-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 09 July 2006 01:49, Holger Levsen wrote: manual/en/post-install/shutdown.xml (in trunk) says, that on Macs the key-combination Control-Shift-Power shuts down the system (like ctrl-alt-del on i386/amd64), though I cannot find this in the html build of the manual That is because

Bug#286349: corrected patch for cdrom-retriever

2006-07-09 Thread Holger Levsen
reassign 286349 cdrom-retriever tag 286349 patch Hi, this is the clean and corrected patch with thanks and admiration to Steve and Frans for not only seeing the big things but also the little ones. You rock! regards, Holger Index: cdrom-retriever/debian/cdrom-retriever.templates

Processed: corrected patch for cdrom-retriever

2006-07-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 286349 cdrom-retriever Bug#286349: installation-report: successfully (only some comments on cd-rom and german typos) Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `cdrom-retriever'. tag 286349 patch Bug#286349: installation-report:

Processed: tag 364546 pending

2006-07-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: tag 364546 pending Bug#364546: Debian Installer Manual: hardware.po There were no tags set. Tags added: pending thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator,

Bug#288452: closed by Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (prep method is now there, as 301668 documents this (and another prep-breakage in partman but still))

2006-07-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 09 July 2006 09:02, Sven Luther wrote: #301668 documents that creating a prep partition still doesnt fully work (actually this needs to be checked if that bug is still open... oh well), but this certainly means that this bug, #288452, can be closed. Please

Bug#377504: installation-report: problem pick'n'mix, mostly RAID-related

2006-07-09 Thread Christian Pernegger
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.14 Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-businesscard.iso [2006-07-08, +/-1 because of TZ] Date: 2006-07-08 and 09,

Moving D-I translation status pages / New D-I levels organisation

2006-07-09 Thread Christian Perrier
As discussed last month [1], the distribution of packages among the so-called levels of Debian Installer translation has changed to better reflect the real priorities for translators. The new levels are now: level 1 --- All packages maintained in the D-I SVN tree level 2 --- All

Bug#377472: marked as done (Package: installation-reports)

2006-07-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 09 Jul 2006 17:00:04 +0200 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#377472: Package: installation-reports 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 it is

Re: Moving D-I translation status pages / New D-I levels organisation

2006-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 09 July 2006 16:59, Christian Perrier wrote: Please check everything on these status pages. Please also point me to places where the old status pages are referenced. I already modified the D-I i18n documentation [5]. Please add a link to the translation stats for the manual under

Bug#377486: installation-reports

2006-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 377486 debian-cd severity 377486 wishlist retitle 377486 Adding some development packages to first CD thanks On Sunday 09 July 2006 13:39, Tung-Han Hsieh wrote: Comments/Problems: Since it is quite often that the kernel and device drivers comes with the Linux distribution cannot

Processed: Re: Bug#377486: installation-reports

2006-07-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 377486 debian-cd Bug#377486: installation-reports Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `debian-cd'. severity 377486 wishlist Bug#377486: installation-reports Severity set to `wishlist' from `normal' retitle 377486 Adding

Bug#356939: Security fix for shadow in sarge (#356939)

2006-07-09 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Perrier wrote: As a consequence, I hereby ask the security team to DROP the processing of the 4.0.3-31sarge6 version you have. As you wish, packages deleted. Regards, Joey -- Testing? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up, it is perfect. Please always Cc

Bug#377510: Please add en-US and en-GB localization tasks

2006-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
Package: tasksel Version: 2.50 The following 6 packages are currently part of the basic desktop task, which forces them onto the first binary CD where they take up a total space of 24.5 MB (3.8% of the total CD): - myspell-en-gb - myspell-en-us - openoffice.org-help-en-gb -

[D-I Manual] Build log for en (09 Jul 2006) - ERRORS DURING BUILD

2006-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
A build of the Debian Installer Manual was triggered by an update to SVN. !!! There were errors during the build process. !!! Please check the log and correct the errors. Only architectures (if any) that were built correctly have been uploaded. A log of the build is available at: -

partman-lvm_41_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2006-07-09 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: partman-lvm_41.dsc to pool/main/p/partman-lvm/partman-lvm_41.dsc partman-lvm_41.tar.gz to pool/main/p/partman-lvm/partman-lvm_41.tar.gz partman-lvm_41_all.udeb to pool/main/p/partman-lvm/partman-lvm_41_all.udeb Announcing to debian-devel-changes@lists.debian.org Closing bugs:

Processing of partman-lvm_41_i386.changes

2006-07-09 Thread Archive Administrator
partman-lvm_41_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: partman-lvm_41.dsc partman-lvm_41.tar.gz partman-lvm_41_all.udeb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

[D-I Manual] Build log for en (09 Jul 2006)

2006-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
A build of the Debian Installer Manual was triggered by an update to SVN. There were no errors during the build process. The new version of the manual has been uploaded successfully. A log of the build is available at: - http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i_manual/log/en.log === It is possible to

Bug#329765: marked as done (debian-installer: missing NL at EOF)

2006-07-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 09 Jul 2006 09:02:08 -0700 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#329765: fixed in partman-lvm 41 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 it is now your

Bug#377391: marked as done (Extremely irritating libparted error message during LVM on RAID setup)

2006-07-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 09 Jul 2006 09:02:08 -0700 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#377391: fixed in partman-lvm 41 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 it is now your

Bug#377510: Please add en-US and en-GB localization tasks

2006-07-09 Thread Christian Perrier
The following 6 packages are currently part of the basic desktop task, which forces them onto the first binary CD where they take up a total space of 24.5 MB (3.8% of the total CD): - myspell-en-gb - myspell-en-us - openoffice.org-help-en-gb - openoffice.org-help-en-us -

Bug#283214: root cause

2006-07-09 Thread dann frazier
I root caused this issue a while back; details here: http://dannf.org/bloggf/tech/cciss-grub-real-fix.html -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#334402: install report: Compaq Evo

2006-07-09 Thread Matt Taggart
The Compaq Evo installation-report in #334402 seems like a successful installation report other than the system clock thing, which isn't a problem with other current installs right? Anything else still pending in this bug or can it be closed? -- Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Bug#307324: Installation problems with a Compaq Proliant and a Dell Latitude...

2006-07-09 Thread Matt Taggart
Carlo, Thanks for submitting the installation reports in, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=307324 Do you still have access to the hardware to test again? (HP ProLiant 1600, Dell Latitude D600, and the laptop you mention in the report) I believe the problems you reported

Bug#377510: Please add en-US and en-GB localization tasks

2006-07-09 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: The following 6 packages are currently part of the basic desktop task, which forces them onto the first binary CD where they take up a total space of 24.5 MB (3.8% of the total CD): - myspell-en-gb - myspell-en-us - openoffice.org-help-en-gb - openoffice.org-help-en-us -

Bug#305132: more for this task

2006-07-09 Thread Joey Hess
openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb openoffice.org-help-en-gb myspell-en-gb All these are being removed from the main desktop task now. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#305132: also..

2006-07-09 Thread Joey Hess
firefox-locale-en-gb -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Linux 2.6.16 for testing

2006-07-09 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks After some private discussion how to provide a kernel for the debian-installer beta3 release, there was the decision to upload linux-latest-2.6 which provides the necessary metapackages to testing-proposed-updates. This should be uploaded either tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. The

Bug#307324: duplicate installation-reports for HP Proliant 1600 and Dell Latitude D600

2006-07-09 Thread Matt Taggart
After more investigation, it looks like there are duplicate installation-reports filed by the submitter for the machines mentioned in the still open #307324. HP ProLiant 1600: broken in #304002 using d-i 20050323 and 20050318, closed HP ProLiant 1600: working in #304005 using d-i 20050318,

Bug#334402: marked as done (install report: Compaq Evo)

2006-07-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 09 Jul 2006 23:24:42 +0200 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#334402: install report: Compaq Evo 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 it is now

No kernel udeb updates needed for 2.6.16-16

2006-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
The latest upload of linux-2.6.16 has only two small changes affecting only powerpc and arm. Both changes were relevant for d-i. As all other architectures are basically unchanged and Etch will not release with 2.6.16-16 anyway, I feel it is not necessary to upload new kernel udebs. Except for

Re: mdadm heads-up: deprecating mdrun

2006-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 07 July 2006 23:30, Frans Pop wrote: Note that mdcfg.sh from the mdcfg udeb is only used in combination with _partconf_ and thus is not used during i386 installs which uses _partman_ (nor for most other architectures). This means there are no actual changes for a new installation,

Re: issue installing etch with daily build of d-i on x86 with advansys controller

2006-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 06 July 2006 07:30, Pancho Horrillo wrote: I just wanted to report the absence of this driver, and that, even if marked broken, it worked for me and others, so it is not unfashionable to activate it in linux-2.6.16, if only for the benefit of users of advansys SCSI controllers on

Processed: Re: Bug#377504: installation-report: problem pick'n'mix, mostly RAID-related

2006-07-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: clone 377504 -1 Bug#377504: installation-report: problem pick'n'mix, mostly RAID-related Bug 377504 cloned as bug 377553. reassign 377504 mdcfg Bug#377504: installation-report: problem pick'n'mix, mostly RAID-related Bug reassigned from package

Bug#377504: installation-report: problem pick'n'mix, mostly RAID-related

2006-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
clone 377504 -1 reassign 377504 mdcfg thanks Thank you for your elaborate report. I am cloning it to mdcfg for your comments regarding RAID setup. The other issues you mention are mostly known or non-issues in our opinion. See below for detailed responses. Cheers, FJP On Sunday 09 July 2006

Re: d-i on ancient hardware

2006-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
Hi Adam, Next time please file an installation report [1] instead of sending an email to the list. Thanks for your elaborate report though. Overall I'd say your installation was successful. [1] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s03.html#submit-bug Cheers, FJP On Sunday 09

Processed: Re: Processed: Re: Bug#377504: installation-report: problem pick'n'mix, mostly RAID-related

2006-07-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 377504 installation-reports Bug#377504: installation-report: problem pick'n'mix, mostly RAID-related Bug reassigned from package `mdcfg' to `installation-reports'. reassign 377553 mdcfg Bug#377553: installation-report: problem pick'n'mix,

Re: d-i on ancient hardware

2006-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 09 July 2006 14:42, Thiemo Seufer wrote: Well, the kernel (or the bootloader?) could check that and panic. Totally out of my league :-) I'd guess the kernel would be most logical as that would cover all architectures and installation/boot methods. If you want to follow up on that,

Re: Out of Range Signal Display error during boot-up.

2006-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
Hello, On Wednesday 05 July 2006 05:13, Vishwajit Bector wrote: Xorg display manager ran into problem during booting with this error : Out of Range signal. please set display setting to 1600X1200 @60 HZ and so on. Sounds like the installation itself went fine, which is always nice to hear.

Re: debian-cd and mips/arm

2006-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
(CCing Martin and Steve as they started this thread privately) Sorry I did not reply to this sooner, but I was kind of waiting to see if we would go forward with Beta3 or not... On Tuesday 04 July 2006 00:26, Martin Michlmayr wrote: arm/mips/mipsel definitely shouldn't have 2.4 kernels on

Bug#376770: installation-reports pleifrest etch

2006-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 22:59, Nicolas Fouquereau wrote: Comments/Problems: 1st: my wireless card has not detected and the driver sources are on the web... I would guess that the driver you need is either non-free in the Debian definition or has not yet been included in the official linux

Bug#334402: Compaq Evo Install

2006-07-09 Thread Robert Crocombe
Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: If the submitter disagrees, please let us know. No disagreement. More recent installations seem to have worked perfectly. Thanks. -- Robert Crocombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#375968: etch beta2 netboot fails on VIA VT310DP

2006-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 June 2006 11:37, Nick Phillips wrote: Comments/Problems: default install image (2.6) hangs during boot. last line of output is io scheduler cfq registered. install24 boots but USB keyboard is unusable to proceed further. Please retry using a daily built image. That has a more

Bug#375544: partman-auto-lvm: /boot partition is too large

2006-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 375544 partman-auto thanks This is not a partman-auto-lvm problem, but an issue in partman-auto where all the functionality to calculate partition sizes is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#376312: marked as done (Installation Report)

2006-07-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 10 Jul 2006 03:09:06 +0200 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#376312: Installation Report 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 it is now your

Bug#375402: [Fwd: Re: [directfb-dev] [Fwd: Bug#375402: g-i: weird touchpad behavior]]

2006-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
Claudio Ciccani wrote: I think the bug is in the evdev kernel module, not in DirectFB. I doubt it as the touchpad works fine under X. AFAIK the alps touchpad uses the same drivers as the synaptics touchpad, but it _does_ require some different settings. My guess is that DirectFB does not

Bug#375968: etch beta2 netboot fails on VIA VT310DP

2006-07-09 Thread Nick Phillips
On 10/07/2006, at 1:23 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 29 June 2006 11:37, Nick Phillips wrote: Comments/Problems: default install image (2.6) hangs during boot. last line of output is io scheduler cfq registered. install24 boots but USB keyboard is unusable to proceed further. Please

Bug#376068: reportbug installation-report

2006-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 30 June 2006 06:01, Sean Robinson wrote: Comments/Problems: The 2.6.15 kernel seems to have problems with 16-bit (PCMCIA) PC cards. My 3COM 3CCFEM556 B (3c574_cs chipset), which worked wonderfully under Sarge, with not come up in the installer automatically nor when issued ifup eth0

Bug#260649: marked as done (grub-installer: ask grub-installer/with_other_os at critical priority?)

2006-07-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 10 Jul 2006 03:37:14 +0200 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#260649: #260649: grub-installer: ask grub-installer/with_other_os at critical priority? has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem

Bug#375161: partman-lvm: check LV and VG names before trying to create them

2006-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 24 June 2006 00:13, David Härdeman wrote: The attached patch allows partman-lvm to check the names given for VG's and LV's before trying to create them. The checks have been derived from reading the lvm2 sources and bug #254630. Is there any way the two templates can be combined?

Bug#375156: marked as done (installation: wrong default keymap on Sun E250)

2006-07-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 10 Jul 2006 03:36:09 +0200 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#375156: installation: wrong default keymap on Sun E250 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