Please review announcement of upcoming release of Debian 4.0r4 etch-and-a-half

Hi! Attached you'll find the current draft for the announcement of etch-and-a-half. Please review it; current schedule for it to be send out is tomorrow. I'll make the most up to date version available at http://people.debian.org/~tolimar/tmp/ ; patches for the wml-file (which is used to

Re: Please review announcement of upcoming release of Debian 4.0r4 etch-and-a-half

Hi Chris! Chris Lamb schrieb: Mostly null grammar changes. I also replaced the reference to update against ftp.debian.org to update against a Debian mirror as using ftp.debian.org as a mirror is deprecated. Ah, good point. Many thanks! Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc

Re: Please review announcement of upcoming release of Debian 4.0r4 etch-and-a-half

Hi! Alexander Reichle-Schmehl schrieb: [..] Frans, could you please pay special attention to the paragraph about d-i? Frans, everything okay? I didn't got anything from you, yet. Attached is the current state with an changed part about the debian-installer. Please comment *now* we can't

Bug#502999: installation-report: successfull instalaltion report

Package: installation-reports Version: 2.35 Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-LennyBeta2-i386-netinst.iso Date: 2008-10-16 16:14 CEST Machine: seflmade i386 based PC Partitions: df -Tl

Re: Bug#542113: RM: atari-bootstrap -- RoRA; m68k only

tags 542113 +moreinfo thanks Hi! * Adam D. Barratt a...@adam-barratt.org.uk [090817 23:39]: Please remove atari-bootstrap from unstable. It only produces binary packages for m68k so is redundant now that the architecture is no longer in unstable. atarai-bootstrap is a build-dependency for

Re: Bug#542113: RM: atari-bootstrap -- RoRA; m68k only

Hi! * Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl [090831 11:28]: No objection. The dependency is arch-specific, so removing the package will not affect D-I for other arches. We will keep the build dependency (and other m68k-specific dependencies) because AFAIK the m68k porters still build D-I from their

Re: Suggestion: Change the link names on http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/

Hi! * Gerfried Fuchs rho...@deb.at [091127 11:43]: One suggestion that is pretty easy to implement and also should be helpful straight ahead: Why not make amd64 and i386 appear in *bold* letters? Would it be to much to ask to replace the single amd64 with amd64 / Intel EM64-T (or however

Problems with installation from usb-stick / preseeding grub installation device

Hi! I'm preseeding d-i boot to install lenny on several (identical) boxes we just got. Since I'm still in the play with the preseed file and see what's possible-phase I'm often changing the preseeding file, so I boot from usb-stick. So far it works splendid, many thanks. However, I have a

Draft for lenny release announcement

[ Sorry for the cross post; just trying to make sure everyone is aware of the current state ] Hi! Attached you'll find the current draft of the announcement for the lenny release. Based upon the announcement for the last release it's far from ready :( Especially the second and third

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

Hi! Christian Perrier schrieb: Given that it might be hard to explain what *exactly* win32-loader is doing, I think it could be safer to drop this new feature from the announcement. Did so when the discussion started waiting for a consensus. Seems we reached it ;) Best regards,

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

[ readding debian-boot since the discussion is going to their topic ] Hi! Justin B Rye schrieb: [ several improvements ] Applied. If that last sentence is trying to say without having to boot from it (with the assumption that my BIOS wasn't set up to boot from removable media by default

Re: Unneeded packages being installed

Hi! Frans Pop schrieb: Sorry if this issue was already discussed and if this is not a problem, but when installing a basic Debian system (only the minimal system, without selecting anything when tasksel appears), I see that some packages are installed but don't see to be needed. For example

Re: Bug#628998: RM: genext2fs -- RoQA; orphaned, low popcon

Hi d-i people! * Moritz Muehlenhoff j...@debian.org [110602 23:26]: please remove genext2fs. It's orphaned and there's been no upstream release since 2007. Also, it seems fairly limited (#562999) We've got the request to remove genext2fs, which appears to be used by you: # Broken

Bug#639728: Dell Latitude E6520: bad fstab entry, unsupported network controller

Hi! Am 29.08.2011 20:10, schrieb Michael Gold: I had to connect an ethernet dongle because the onboard network port wasn't detected by the installer; the onboard port worked after upgrading to unstable. FWIW: I have the very same notebook (but the version without the nvidia card, only the

Bug#605562: installation-report: Installation from usb stick lead, to unbootable system (und unbootable usb stick)

Hi! * Joachim Schleicher joac...@dormettingen.de [110103 14:06]: ~ # chroot /target grub-mkdevicemap --no-floppy -m - (hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk_Cruzer_Blade_20053349610A41A2F01B-0:0 (hd1) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-FUJITSU_M1623TAU_08316741 ~ # readlink -f $(chroot /target grub-mkdevicemap

DPN, rt, d-i

Hi! You might wonder, when the next issue of the Debian Project News will be released. Well, to be honest, I can't answer that question. In theory, it is finished and could be frozen and reviewed; however, rumour has it, that a) the release team will soonish send new Bits from and b)

Re: Announcing d-i betas / rcs properly

Hi! Am 12.01.2011 15:20, schrieb Paul Wise: I guess from here we should contact the debian-boot list about announcing the d-i squeeze RC? Let's do it then :) While introducing Paul Wise as our newest member of the press team, we came to discuss the announcements of d-i betas/rcs. We all

Re: Announcing d-i betas / rcs properly

Hi! Am 13.01.2011 03:33, schrieb Paul Wise: In the meantime RC1 was announced on d-d-a. I've taken the liberty of condensing it and rewriting it for a wider audience, any thoughts? Partly my fault; right when otavio found the time to contact me, I kind of fell of the net (and then fell into

Re: Announcing d-i betas / rcs properly

Hi again! Am 13.01.2011 10:05, schrieb Alexander Reichle-Schmehl: Some major improvements of the Squeeze installer over the Debian 5.0 (Lenny) installer include ...FIXME... Maybe we can extract that from the first alpha1 announcement? I'll check that. That was easy: Found http

Re: Announcing d-i betas / rcs properly

[ adding -l10n-english to the CCs ] Hi! Am 13.01.2011 10:13, schrieb Alexander Reichle-Schmehl: If no one says otherwise, I'll prepare it that way, and will send it out in about two hours. The complete announcement is now available at svn+ssh://svn.alioth.debian.org/svn/publicity

Re: Announcing d-i betas / rcs properly

Hi! Am 13.01.2011 20:52, schrieb Holger Wansing: The complete announcement is now available at svn+ssh://svn.alioth.debian.org/svn/publicity/announcements/en/2011/2011-01-13-debian-installer-rc1.wml. - other media and everything you else you will need are available at the + other media and

Please review content squeeze release announement

[ m-f-t set to the publicity list; please respect that ] Hi! In the past days, we drafted an announcement text for the upcoming squeeze release. I think it is now matured enough, to get the _content_ reviewed by the involved teams. The current timelime to work on the draft is as follows: *

Re: Please review content squeeze release announement

Hi! * Alexander Reichle-Schmehl toli...@debian.org [110202 10:43]: In the past days, we drafted an announcement text for the upcoming squeeze release. I think it is now matured enough, to get the _content_ reviewed by the involved teams. BTW: You can find it at svn+ssh

Re: Bug#385919: bogl: requesting removal

tags 385919 + moreinfo thanks Hi! * Lucas Nussbaum lu...@debian.org [110220 08:41]: The bogl package has been orphaned for a long time, and nobody has been willing to take it over. I am therefore requesting its removal from Debian. There are some packages, which would need to be fixed,

Babelbox updated for squeeze

Hi! I ported the Babelbox to work with Squeeze (grub2 and gdm3). I already updated http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/BabelBox and uploaded the babelbox.tar.gz to my people.d.o page. Feel free to put that back to the d-i webpage and change the link back. Attached is the complete diff

Re: Babelbox updated for squeeze

Hi! * Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org [110226 14:27]: 2) Sometimes the virtual monitor was turned off during the installation due to inactivity. [..] DPMS and/or gnome-power-manager come to mind? Sorry, should have been clearer: It happens, while the debian-installer runs, not after

Re: Babelbox updated for squeeze

Hi! Am 26.02.2011 15:21, schrieb Christian PERRIER: uploaded the babelbox.tar.gz to my people.d.o page. Feel free to put that back to the d-i webpage and change the link back. Done. Danke, Alex... Not yet perfect. During last week, I found some bugs, but due I didn't had the opportunity to

Re: Babelbox updated for squeeze

Hi! Am 07.03.2011 17:17, schrieb Holger Levsen: 2) Sometimes a Brazilian Portuguese dictionary get's installed and asked a question not yet preseeded. Funnily, that seems to happen for more languages, than Brazilian, as I saw the question asked in some language using Cyrillic letters. You

Re: Babelbox updated for squeeze

Hi! Am 07.03.2011 19:06, schrieb Christian PERRIER: The marathi-desktop has ttf-devanagari-fonts in Key: while the two others only have it in Packages-list. So, depending on the support used for the babelbox install, if ttf-devanagari-fonts was missing or not installable, that may explain

Re: Babelbox updated for squeeze

Hi! Am 07.03.2011 19:25, schrieb Christian PERRIER: I also forwarded your mail to debian-dug...@lists.debian.org (the mailing list for Indic languages users). Ah, very good. Thanks! Best regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Bug#620499: RM: palo -- RoQA; hppa being removed

tags 620499 +moreinfo thanks Hi! * Moritz Muehlenhoff j...@debian.org [110402 11:53]: Please remove palo. hppa is being removed from unstable. Yes it's going to be removed, but it isn't yet. So guess we can wait a little bit, till it's moved. Also, I'd like to see the following resolved

Re: Bug#620499: RM: palo -- RoQA; hppa being removed

Hi! Am 11.04.2011 09:32, schrieb Schumacher, Bernd: I have just uploaded bootcd 3.25 without hppa support. (it has been a very long time since I have tested bootcd-hppa last time and I think nobody is using it anymore) Could somebody delete already uploaded versions of bootcd-hppa in sid ?

Re: Thank you so much for breaking d-i!

Hi! On 15.07.2012 14:59, Cyril Brulebois wrote: thanks to the totally uncoordinated switch from module-init-tools to kmod, d-i is badly broken. We're in freeze, neither debian-boot or debian-release were contacted, that's a huge success! Please unfuck this. And make sure you contact

Re: Bug#681285: RM: module-init-tools -- ROM; replaced by kmod

Hi! Could you please confirm that it is now save to remove module-init-tools now that #683790 has been solved? Just trying not to break anything again ;) Best regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Status of g-i / showing x11 based g-i prototype at CeBIT

Hi! Short version: May / should we show kibi's prototype of an x11 based installer at the upcoming CeBIT? Long version: A couple of days ago we got to know that Debian may be present again at this years CeBIT (taking place in 10 days). We got to know it quite short handed, and needed to

Re: Getting d-i to find firmware on the CD generated by debian-cd

Hi! * Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com [100609 14:16]: * how to describe them in the README on the disc. For now I've added: This disc includes non-free firmware files to make installation easier on some systems. See http://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for more details. but

Re: floppy install

Hi! Am 25.06.2010 06:32, schrieb Christian PERRIER: There are no more floppy install disks as things no longer fit on them for quite a while now. Sorry for this. Documentation that still points them should be updated. I just applied the following: -toc-add-entry name=verysmallTiny CDs,

Bug#605562: installation-report: Installation from usb stick lead to unbootable system (und unbootable usb stick)

Package: installation-reports Version: 2.43 Severity: serious Tags: d-i Justification: Renders System unusable -- Package-specific info: Boot method: USB stick Image version: beta1 AMD64 Date: 2010-11-29 Machine: Dell Precision T3400 Partitions: FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used

Bug#605562: installation-report: Installation from usb stick lead to unbootable system (und unbootable usb stick)

Hi Gaudenz! Am 01.12.2010 11:57, schrieb Gaudenz Steinlin: I booted from usb stick (which was presented as /dev/sda) on a hardware raid (/dev/sdb). After the system was successfully installed, the bootloader was installed to the mbr of /dev/sda (the usb stick), not my hard disc (/dev/sdb).

Bug#605562: installation-report: Installation from usb stick lead to unbootable system (und unbootable usb stick)

Hi! Am 01.12.2010 14:59, schrieb Gaudenz Steinlin: The most reliable test is to do a complete reinstall to an empty partition. This would leave your existing installation intact. Okay, I'll try to do that tomorrow, when I got a new disc. Best regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#605562: installation-report: Installation from usb stick lead to unbootable system (und unbootable usb stick)

reopen 605562 severity 605562 important thanks Hi again! * Gaudenz Steinlin gaud...@debian.org [101201 11:57]: I booted from usb stick (which was presented as /dev/sda) on a hardware raid (/dev/sdb). After the system was successfully installed, the bootloader was installed to the mbr of

Bug#605562: installation-report: Installation from usb stick lead to unbootable system (und unbootable usb stick)

Hi! Am 02.12.2010 11:36, schrieb Alexander Reichle-Schmehl: I saved the contents of /var/log/installer after the installation, but need to recover mu original system for now to do some work. Ähh... Sorry. It seems it wasn't a good idea to tar /var/log/installer to /tmp. So I don't have

Bug#605562: installation-report: Installation from usb stick lead to unbootable system (und unbootable usb stick)

Hi! * Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu [101217 17:36]: I saved the contents of /var/log/installer after the installation, but need to recover mu original system for now to do some work. Ähh... Sorry. It seems it wasn't a good idea to tar /var/log/installer to /tmp. So I don't have the logs

Bug#989510: debian-installer: Successfull installation

Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD-ROM Image version: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Date: 2021-06-05 Machine: KVM based virtual server Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6230 CPU @ 2.10GHz, 4 Cores