Re: About the technology being used to build Debian Installer Manual

2007-07-14 Thread Pema Geyleg
Dear Christian, Many Thanks for the quick reply...It had been very helpful . Hmmm, interesting to learn that some activity occurs in Mongolia. Would you mind pointing these people to me in case they would be interested in working on Debian localization? I ll ask them to contact you in

Re: About the technology being used to build Debian Installer Manual

2007-07-14 Thread Christian Perrier
(cc'ing you just in case but answering to the mailing list only is fine) Here there are lots of team collaborating on it such as Bangladesh, Nepal, Mangolia etc... Hmmm, interesting to learn that some activity occurs in Mongolia. Would you mind pointing these people to me in case they would

Re: About the technology being used to build Debian Installer Manual

2007-07-14 Thread Christian Perrier
I would say just do things like the D-I installation manual but tht makes a short answer.:) Yes I agree with you on this... I just wanted to know the technical aspect of how the D-I installation manual are created. Hope this helps... Well, on that specific topic, the best is probably

Re: Next online d-i meeting: Wed 25th July, 19:00 UTC?

2007-07-14 Thread Christian Perrier
We can use the wiki in the meantime to collectively work out an agenda [2] for the meeting. Please also register yourselves as attendees so that we can get a rough picture of who will attend the meeting. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Meetings/Coordination signature.asc

DirectFB 1.0 needed to fix a memory leak in gtk/dfb

2007-07-14 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Hi I'd like to know if any progress was recently made towards packaging DirectFB 1.0. DirectFB 1.0, among many improvements and fixes over version 0.9.25 like better touchpad support, provides a new method (DFBWindow::DetachEventBuffer () ) which is needed by a patch which was recently

Bug#433073: Please disable DirectFB's window backend buffer

2007-07-14 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
package: rootskel-gtk severity: wishlist tags: patch DirectFB allows to set [1] the way the desktop window buffering mechanism works by disabling the backend buffer. The result, in my experiments, was saving some some hundreds KB of memory with no noticeable drawbacks. I propose to apply the

Processed: retitle 387512 to [etch-beta3] Only asks one time for GRUB password

2007-07-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.1 retitle 387512 [etch-beta3] Only asks one time for GRUB password Bug#387512: [etch-beta3] Only asks on time for GRUB password Changed Bug title to `[etch-beta3] Only asks one time for

d-i Customization

2007-07-14 Thread Craig Block
I haven't played with Debian since Woody and I'd like to say how excellent I feel the current (stable) installer is. It seems very polished. I'm glad I can still use the newt interface, hehe, guess I'm old fashioned. I like that it's so accesible to customization and I hope the plan is to keep

Gardul viu - minune!!!

2007-07-14 Thread Gard viu
GARDUL VIU-MINUNE!!! Creste rapid (1.20-1.80 m/an)!!! E incredibil de nepretentios!!! (atât în privinta solului cât si a îngrijirii) E incredibil de ieftin!!! Capacitate de umbrire excelenta! Capacitate antipraf de un grad înalt! Este o planta foioasa, de culoare verde viu, cu frunze mici

Re: Next online d-i meeting: Wed 25th July, 19:00 UTC?

2007-07-14 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:03:47PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: Hi! A few weeks ago in Edinburgh, members of the debian-installer team discussed about getting back the habit of having monthly online meetings [1]. Here is a proposition for the next IRC meeting: Wednesday, 25th of July, 19:00

Re: Next online d-i meeting: Wed 25th July, 19:00 UTC?

2007-07-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 14 July 2007 13:52, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: May I suggest Saturday 28 July at 20:00 UTC. Saturdays at 20:00 UTC was the most common date for d-i meetings during 2004 and 2005. That's not entirely true: - we alternated between Wednesdays and Saturdays - most of those meetings

Re: d-i Customization

2007-07-14 Thread Otavio Salvador
Craig Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The documentation in the Wiki says that I should be able to exclude udebs using ./.disk/udeb_exclude. I was dissapointed to find that doesn't seem to work. I can exclude udebs by removing their entries in the the status and Package files, but I don't

Processing of linux-kernel-di-mips-2.6_0.18_mips.changes

2007-07-14 Thread Archive Administrator
linux-kernel-di-mips-2.6_0.18_mips.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: linux-kernel-di-mips-2.6_0.18.dsc linux-kernel-di-mips-2.6_0.18.tar.gz kernel-image-2.6.21-2-r4k-ip22-di_0.18_mips.udeb ppp-modules-2.6.21-2-r4k-ip22-di_0.18_mips.udeb

linux-kernel-di-mips-2.6_0.18_mips.changes ACCEPTED

2007-07-14 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: cdrom-core-modules-2.6.21-2-sb1-bcm91250a-di_0.18_mips.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-mips-2.6/cdrom-core-modules-2.6.21-2-sb1-bcm91250a-di_0.18_mips.udeb cdrom-core-modules-2.6.21-2-sb1a-bcm91480b-di_0.18_mips.udeb to

Bug#433109: installation-reports: Successful installation on Thecus N2100

2007-07-14 Thread Geoff Simmons
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: Netboot (via replacement firmware) Image version: http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-arm/rc2/images/iop32x/netboot/n2100.bin Date: Sat Jul 14 15:00:00 EST 2007 Machine: Thecus N2100

Bug#433109: marked as done (installation-reports: Successful installation on Thecus N2100)

2007-07-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:15:46 +0200 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#433109: installation-reports: Successful installation on Thecus N2100 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.

Re: Requesting new udebs (was: Bug#430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb)

2007-07-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 09:33:40PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 13 July 2007 09:44, Robert Millan wrote: Ok, but please let's not make a big fuss of this. The udebs were just added to the archive, not to D-I. And you also added them to all CD images... Doesn't extra priority move

Re: Regarding: Bug 430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb

2007-07-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:17:32PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: About the udebs, I agree that would be better to have a message on Debian Boot mailing list about them, before asking for them to be build but I also think that noone need to know about that. We ought write it on Developers

Re: Bug#430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb

2007-07-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 09:21:06PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 13 July 2007 09:54, Robert Millan wrote: I'd like to request that the gnu-fdisk and gnu-cfdisk packages be added to^W^Wkept in the D-I section of the Debian archive. There is a small use case in which this is useful:

Re: D-I switched to dhcp3-client

2007-07-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 08:59:37PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: We do still plan to keep looking for a smaller alternative. You might be interested in: http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/soc-projects.html#tiny-dhcp I don't know the current status, but it might be worth keeping an eye on. -- Robert

Re: d-i Customization

2007-07-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 14 July 2007 12:03, Craig Block wrote: I'm attemping to set up a custom network d-i CD for a new computer. Nothing critical, just a machine I might want run Debian once in a while. I need the CD to boot with and install a newer kernel verison (for chipset/disk support).

Re: D-I switched to dhcp3-client

2007-07-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 14 July 2007 20:18, Robert Millan wrote: You might be interested in: http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/soc-projects.html#tiny-dhcp I don't know the current status, but it might be worth keeping an eye on. Thanks. I've added a link to that on

Bug#433073: Please disable DirectFB's window backend buffer

2007-07-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 14 July 2007 11:15, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: DirectFB allows to set [1] the way the desktop window buffering mechanism works by disabling the backend buffer. The result, in my experiments, was saving some some hundreds KB of memory with no noticeable drawbacks. I propose to apply

Re: About the technology being used to build Debian Installer Manual

2007-07-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 14 July 2007 08:14, Christian Perrier wrote: Yes I agree with you on this... I just wanted to know the technical aspect of how the D-I installation manual are created. Hope this helps... Well, on that specific topic, the best is probably looking in the manual/ directory in D-I

Re: Netcfg and allow-hotplug vs auto

2007-07-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 12 July 2007 20:59, Matheus Morais wrote: netcfg module is responsible to write /etc/network/interfaces at installation time right? Why use allow-hotplug instead auto in network configuration file? Mostly because it improves support for laptops which may not always be connected to

Bug#432787: marked as done (installation report of Thinkpad X60)

2007-07-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:33:35 +0200 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#432787: installation report of Thinkpad X60 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

Re: Netcfg and allow-hotplug vs auto

2007-07-14 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 12 July 2007 20:59, Matheus Morais wrote: netcfg module is responsible to write /etc/network/interfaces at installation time right? Why use allow-hotplug instead auto in network configuration file? Mostly because it improves support for

Bug#432589: Bug in netinst for Etch causes expert-installation to hang at tasksel

2007-07-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 10 July 2007 21:22, Jeroen Maris wrote: Comments/Problems: I have tried this installation five or six times now, and I have been able to reproduce a bug. When I boot the netinst-cd and use the `expert`-argument to do a fully customised installation, the installation fails at

Bug#432314: installation-report: LILO Installation Fails on Machine with 4 SATA Disks

2007-07-14 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 432314 lilo-installer 1.20 thanks On Monday 09 July 2007 13:12, Youssef Eldakar wrote: Installing on a machine with 4 SATA disks proceeds smoothly until it reaches the LILO boot loader installation. First of all a little side note. lilo is pretty much deprecated (grub is preferred

Processed: Re: Bug#432314: installation-report: LILO Installation Fails on Machine with 4 SATA Disks

2007-07-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 432314 lilo-installer 1.20 Bug#432314: installation-report: LILO Installation Fails on Machine with 4 SATA Disks Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `lilo-installer'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if

linux-kernel-di-arm-2.6_1.16_arm.changes ACCEPTED

2007-07-14 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: ata-modules-2.6.21-2-ixp4xx-di_1.16_arm.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-arm-2.6/ata-modules-2.6.21-2-ixp4xx-di_1.16_arm.udeb cdrom-core-modules-2.6.21-2-footbridge-di_1.16_arm.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-arm-2.6/cdrom-core-modules-2.6.21-2-footbridge-di_1.16_arm.udeb

linux-kernel-di-arm-2.6_1.15_arm.changes ACCEPTED

2007-07-14 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: ata-modules-2.6.21-2-ixp4xx-di_1.15_arm.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-arm-2.6/ata-modules-2.6.21-2-ixp4xx-di_1.15_arm.udeb cdrom-core-modules-2.6.21-2-footbridge-di_1.15_arm.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-arm-2.6/cdrom-core-modules-2.6.21-2-footbridge-di_1.15_arm.udeb

Bug#432314: Issue Similar to Bug #380416

2007-07-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 10 July 2007 08:14, Youssef Eldakar wrote: The issue is similar to bug #380416, I suppose. Hmm. If you also have messages similar to the following in the syslog, that could indeed be the case: main-menu[2214]: (process:1635): sfdisk: main-menu[2214]: (process:1635): cannot open

Re: d-i Customization

2007-07-14 Thread Craig Block
--- Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: udeb_{include,exclude} is meant to be used to instruct d-i to load or not something by default but d-i also loads a lot of modules that are standard or required. You can to change the set of d-i modules that're included on the CD changing the

Retiring the sparc32 port

2007-07-14 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hi, First of all, I would like to apologize for falling out of the loop for almost 4 months. My move and settling-in period took quite a bit longer than I expected. In the meantime there was no further progress on the decision about continued sparc32 support, so I would like to address it as

VMWare Workstation licences available for D-I development/testing

2007-07-14 Thread Frans Pop
Hi all, As you may or may not know, VMWare has kindly donated some licences for VMWare Workstation to the D-I team, to be used for development and testing of the installer. We currently need an upgrade of these licences from version 5 to version 6, mainly because version 5 does not work

Re: Bug#430023: please add gnu-fdisk-udeb and gnu-cfdisk-udeb

2007-07-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 14 July 2007 20:15, Robert Millan wrote: - we already have parted-udeb, which I expect _does_ support GPT In my use case, the person who was installing had to call me because he had to edit a GPT disk and didn't know how to handle parted. With my proposed solution, I would have