Installer could not detect the SATA hard drive that was connected through
a Promise SATA150 TX4 PCI interface card (non-RAID). At the partitioning
step, no hard drives were available. Still working on a way to get Debian
to see my drive... Promise provides driver source code but my old drive
Quoting Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 10:03:36PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
- Templates for network-console.
Done.
I made a few rewrites for style consistency with the rest of d-i (very
few needed). You (Bastian or Colin) took care of using the same
formulation
Quoting Martin Michlmayr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
When was this known to be working on the Sid d-i images? I tried
installed Debian on a Vaio with a firewire CD/DVD drive, and the Sid d-i
It's a new feature (end of May).
Probably later because ddetect, which includes the needed changes, has
Quoting Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I submitted a bug report #252211 concerning SATA support (as well as
screen corruption when changing consoles), and I also see bug report
#254071 which looks similar. So far I haven't got any response.
D-i team is a bit crowded with install reports and
CTRL-A, or CTRL-Q? (CTRL-Q being the opposite of CTRL-S, and what I
guessed at DebConf when this happened to us)
I don't remember..:-)
When we finally found the magic key, we were using a french
installation with a US keyboard, or the oppositeand all of us
remember that A and Q are
Well, consider it confirmed that sid_d-i is doing bidi and shaping for
powerpc already. :) (Confirmation of the readability will have to be
left to someone else. :)
And the official images are now here after we finally managed to have
a daily sid_d-i build to be done:
Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Pushing languagechooser needs pushing countrychooser and lowmem at the
same time
Does lowmem need to go in at the same time, or just before?
In the same time.
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After very hard and deep work by Steve Langasek (using preliminary
work from Shlomi Loubaton), the Debian Installer team is proud to
announce that right-to-left (RTL) languages such as Arabic, Hebrew,
Farsi (Persian) and several others (usually called BiDi support) are
now supported by the first
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Is there some table available that lists primary currency for a country?
Not afaik
Funnily, I indeed begin to wonder whether we still need these @euro
variants.
When comparing fr_FR and [EMAIL PROTECTED] I only see the comment about
Charset to be
Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
(comparing fr_FR and [EMAIL PROTECTED] more generally all @euro
variants of locales)
So there's no difference in the actual charset that each is pointed to,
the only difference is in a comment about the charset?
Yes, as far as I understand. [EMAIL
Unfortunately, something seems to have broken recently, and
the currently generated access floppy images do not boot anymore.
The boot floppy starts to load normally, and after some time, SYSLINUX reports:
Boot failed: Please change disks and press any key to continue.
After some
Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Just to confirm, there are a fair number of translations available for
languagechooser, and the reason for the full countrychooser list was
that I was testing Arabic, which doesn't have a shortlist yet. :)
Which I currently do not understand really.
If eacute is replaced by its Unicode notation U+00E9 in keymap
file, everything works fine now. But this keymap cannot be used
when keyboard is in ASCII mode, The only solution is to have two
keymaps, one for ASCII mode and the other one for UTF-8 mode.
OK, thanks a lot Denis for this
Hmmm, I'm unable to reproduce this bug. Could you send the
/var/lib/dpkg/info/base-config.templates file to the bug log (if you
suspect your MUA may alter its encoding, please gzip it before sending
it)?
Which debconf interface do you use (I guess this is of no importance
but just want to check
Package: base-config
Version: 2.31
Severity: normal
When using the netinst CD, the HTTP or FTP proxy is never prompted to the
user, even at low priority.
Thus, when apt-config comes for, for instance getting the security updates,
no proxy is setup and if one is needed for reaching the outside
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Which I currently do not understand really. I suspect this is because
all countries that are likely to be displayed in this short list do
not have their name translated in Arabic but I'm unsure
No, this is because countrychooser does not have
Quoting Francesco P. Lovergine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:40:13AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
Hmmm, I'm unable to reproduce this bug. Could you send the
/var/lib/dpkg/info/base-config.templates file to the bug log (if you
suspect your MUA may alter its encoding
Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Even though there are different locale variants available for historical
reasons, I think there is no reason we need to support more than one
variant for each locale in new installs. So a simple mapping list in
countrychooser should be sufficient.
Quoting Andre Felipe Machado ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Hello,
I tried to install with the following image:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/tc1/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
Could you try with
tags 255651 patch
thanks
The attached patch should allow apt-setup asking about a proxy is no
proxy has been setup yet.
This patch is *untested*.
627a628,635
# Ask about a proxy if no proxy is yet defined.
if [ -z $http_proxy ]; then
if [
Quoting Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 06:14:47PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
The attached patch should allow apt-setup asking about a proxy is no
proxy has been setup yet.
This patch is *untested*.
The patch has no context, so will break as soon
Quoting Ben Bonfil ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Hi,
I would like to help you translate the debian-installer to hebrew.
I never translated any software before but I know C/C++.
If you can refer me to a decent guide or just explain me I would be glad
to start working on it.
First of all, you need to
Daily builds being back for i386 netinst, I restarted my systematic
tests
Tests in languages other than en or fr of course do not include
proofreading. These are blind tests focusing on bad display errors,
charset problems and final test of encoding things on the installed
systems.
Below, the
Quoting Alexander Nyberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I've tried to learn the system much enough to figure out this
stuff by myself, but it's unfortunately difficult to even understand
which the normal order of run of the packages/ is, I would appreciate
some introductary developer/bugfixer
Quoting wlinks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I believe I need to burn all 4 .iso files in 1 cd, right?
Which 4 ISO ?
You need bruning only ONE ISO.
First of all, choose the ISO most appropriate for your need, between
tc1 and sarge_d-i or sid_d-i daily builds (OK, the d-i page is
currentrly
The subject says it all. When someone reports some hardware being
unsupported, and given (s)he gives uses the output of lspci -v,
which package should we assign the bug report to?
discover-data?
kernel-image-x-di?
other?
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Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Although this case is fairly exceptional, I have assigned severity important
until it has been determined whether having e.g. only the first partitions
the same size on two disks would also result in generating the same ID.
tags 255758 pending
thanks
Quoting Piarres Beobide Egaña ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Package: discover1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: l10n, d-i, patch
Here atached debconf template translation update for basque.
Plese commit when you can.
Commited
Quoting Ognyan Kulev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Osamu Aoki wrote:
http://people.debian.org/~osamu/hackdi
It would be great if it's linked from
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
I asked it to Matt
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I'm currently feeling that the way we currently point
users to the various builds on the d-i main page
(http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer) is not optimal.
Basically, we have 3 sections here:
-beta4
-tc1
-daily builds
The daily builds section links to a dedicated page
Quoting Andre Felipe Machado ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Hello,
This time I tried with this iso file:
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/i386/current/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
Unfortunately, things went worse.
OK, I think it's time to get details about the hardware.
Could you please post
Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
But as udebs are pushed into testing, what we need more and more of is
people testing sarge_d-i so that we know if it works, and can decide
when we're ready to cut tc2. I'm not sure about other archs, but at
least on alpha, the last remaining
Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
OK ar_EG 2.4 (but no RTL in 2nd-stage...not d-i related)
It is d-i related, to the extent that libfribidi0 will need to be
OK. In my opinion, this was not directly d-i related as this is not a
thing (getting bidified slang in testing) that the
Quoting Otavio Salvador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
+Template: base-installer/progress/preparing
+Type: text
+_Description: Preparing to install the Debian base system
Will this be a progress dialog title, or information?
If this is a title, we'd better use Preparation of the Debian base
system
Could someone with enough hardware support skills have a look at
#255388?
This seems obviously to be a lack of hardware support problem. There
are, I guess all needed informations here, but I'm unable to analyse
myself (and for instance assign this to discover1-data of
kernel-image-di).
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Quoting Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
reassign 254754 grub-installer
thanks
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 07:23:26AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
GRUB maintainer(s), comments?
Of course, if grub-installer misuses menu.lst and such possibility
already exists, please reassign
lspci is unavailable. I looked for it on the ramdisk and on the cdrom
(which was mounted already) but I guess it gets installed later... after
the hard drive is detected.
That's an interesting problem. Most often, people coming with new
hardware we need lspci output for have another Linux
Quoting Alexander Wirt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Release Candidate 1 (downloaded 23.06.04)
Wasn't this Test Candidate 1 ? There is no Release Candidate at
this time..:-)
Where did you download this image (just to be sure as
Quoting Michael Bonert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Debian-installer-version:
22 June 2004
$ md5sum sarge-i386-netinst.iso
5db3c8d500380d664c748356910a6d2e sarge-i386-netinst.iso
For the record, this is 20040622 sid_d-i
There appears to be some problem
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Strangely, this page mentions sid_d-i as the daily builds while the
main installer page link in Daily builds points to
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/ which has
*sarge_d-i* builds
Maybe you have an old version of the builds
A standard VmWare test with fr_FR on 20040623 sarge_d-i netinst did
not show any specific issue.
The line drawing problem is definitely away in sarge_d-i for fr_FR and
all other Latin installs
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to the /usr/shorewall/ directory?
I suggest you report this as a bug against the shorewall package and
deal it with the maintainer.
Michael
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting Michael Bonert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Debian-installer-version
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Standard fr+FR install in VmWare OK with sid_d-i 20040623 netinst
(this was a 2.4 install)
Add to this a successful 2.6 en+CA install
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A standard VmWare test with fr_FR on 20040623 sarge_d-i netinst did
not show any specific issue.
2.4 kernel
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Why don't you indent the non-dummy titles? Then the dummy one won't look to
the user as a real option.
That could be a possibility, yes. This is even maybe what is done
currently (it's a bit of time since I did a dual boot test of d-i)
The user report here insisted on an option which was
Quoting Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
If eacute is replaced by its Unicode notation U+00E9 in keymap
file, everything works fine now. But this keymap cannot be used
Uh, I confirm, it work with:
keycode 3 = U+00E9 +two tildeEacute
alt
But now keyboard is in UTF-8 mode, so bytes are passed to the kernel
without conversion, and 0x00 0xe9 is sent instead of its UTF-8
representation 0xc3 0xa9.
If eacute is replaced by its Unicode notation U+00E9 in keymap
file, everything works fine now. But this keymap cannot be used
when
reassign 251550 console-tools,kbd
thanks
(not sure if it's better assigning the bug to the two packages...or
clone it and assign one copy each)
Quoting Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
This is a solution. IMO a better one is to patch loadkeys as explained
in my previous post. Here is a
tags 256174 pending
thanks
Quoting George Papamichelakis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Package: discover1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch l10n
please find attached the updated file with the Greek
translation
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Standard Bulgarian install in VmWare OK with sid_d-i 20040624 netinst
As usual, the OK is for a base system install up to the login:
prompt with all default choices
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A standard VmWare test with ja_JP kernel 2.4 on 20040624 sarge_d-i netinst did
not show any specific issue.
No display problem at 2nd-stage there also.
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Now that Joey pointed me to recent changes in the main d-i page, I
think that one is clear enough and no major change is needed to it.
The daily builds page may be completed, though and this is the place
we can intriduce Vince McIntyre suggestions I received last week-end
and talked about at the
Currently, we probably all know that choosing a non US keyboard during
Debian Installer and then installing X, all this at high debconf
priority (with X configuration debconf questions about keyboard *not*
asked) will end with a strange system where the user has chosen, say a
french
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
There are some typos. Other than that, one problem is that it doesn't
really talk about anything other than CD images.
H, I see.
It seems (at least this is my feeling) that most testers use CD images
so the page reflects this.
I'm not very familiar
Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
[Christian Perrier]
As a way to circumvent this, I propose that we pre-seed
xserver-xfree86 settings about keyboard, mostly
xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/keyboard/model and
xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/keyboard/layout
Environment: VmWare
Platform : i386
Kernel : 2.4
Locale : da_DK
Image : businesscard
Priority : high
Result : OK
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Environment: VmWare
Platform : i386
Kernel : 2.4
Locale : ar_EG
Image : businesscard
Priority : high
Result : OK
PS : Errors would have probably happen at medium priority (#256405)
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Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Some experimentation and it looks like the problem is just with showing
the current d-i main menu, localised to Arabic. I can reproduce the same
problem by booting in expert mode, selecting Arabic, and pressing enter;
when it tries to draw the main menu
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
I booted today's sid_d-i build from a usb stick. At the language
chooser, I chose the nice new Arabic choice, and then at countrychooser,
it was at the full list of contries, and I realized I din't
I have a special album from my Debconf4 album, which shows what
happened around Debian Installer at Debconf4.
If you're curious of seeingd-i people at work, please point your
browsers to the following URL.
http://www.perrier.eu.org/gallery/d-i_debconf4
Of course, you may also visit other
Package: discover1
Severity: normal
I just had a USB hard disk for a moment and wanted to test d-i on it.
Unfortunately, d-i did not autoload the usb-uhci module, which is needed for
my USB chipset to be detected (and the hard disk detected subsquently).
After modprobe usb-uhci in the 2nd
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
HeIlo
I have Asus A7N8X-E motherboard with sil SATA and only disk IBM 80GB SATA. I
haven?t instaled debian yet. Debian instalating program can?t detedt my disk. where
can I get module for my SATA or how can I use newer kernel for instalation
People using VmWare 4.x for Debian Installer tests may want to upgrade
to the latest 4.5.2 version, which is now available for a few days.
It offers a quite useful Boot Menu option in the virtual BIOS which
prevents switchig the boot order in the BIOS settings for switching
from a CD boot to a HD
Unfortunately, d-i did not autoload the usb-uhci module, which is needed for
my USB chipset to be detected (and the hard disk detected subsquently).
After modprobe usb-uhci in the 2nd console, all went well, and the HD
detection found the disk, which partman saw as well.
So, I first
Environment: VmWare
Platform : i386
Kernel : 2.4
Locale : fr_FR
Image : netinst
Priority : high
Result : OK
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Quoting Jordi Mallach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Package: discover1
Severity: wishlist
Attached are the Catalan translations for the program and debconf
templates.
The debconf translation does not fit templates.pot. Attached is your
file after msgmerge with templates.pot. Can you please update?
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Several fixes have gone into testing, but I still have these issues listed as
important and unresolved in testing:
- some broken m68k images (fix: mke2fs fix needed; UNKNOWN)
Yep ? The IRC meeting lead to nothing on that topic.
- broken sparc64
Quoting Jordi Mallach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Package: discover1
Severity: wishlist
Attached are the Catalan translations for the program and debconf
templates.
The programs translation is also slightly outdated. Attached is the
file to be updated
ca.po
Description: application/gettext
Quoting Karl Hegbloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Package: base-config
Version: 2.29
Severity: normal
Used d-i 2004/06/28 to install in a VMware. All good, up until base-
Which image exactly? Which locale? I'm doing detailed tests of both
sarge_d-i and sid_d-i images and this well known problem
Quoting Karl Hegbloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
It's the sarge netinst snapshot from 2004/06/28, US English.
Which kernel ? 2.4 or 2.6 ?
2.6. I notice that the d-i CD uses 2.6.5, but the base-installer put in
2.6.6-1-386.
Uh
My last test in such conditions (sarge_d-i, 2.6, en_US) was
Environment: VmWare
Platform : i386
Kernel : 2.4
Locale : fi_FI
Image : netinst
Priority : high
Result : OK
Comment : Finnish is really really hard to understand..:-). But the
translation showed no special glitch (no too long screen and
so on). Of
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
goes with a release. We're currently 75% of the way through such a
release cycle for rc1, past the string freeze, past a lot of testing and
^^
That is partly true. For instance, if the netcfg joshk
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From: Debian Bug Tracking System [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bug#251550 acknowledged by developer
(Bug#251231: fixed in console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-53)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 29 Jun
Sadly speaking, I was able to reproduce (and fixed) this bug again.
Here is the exact test info:
Environment: VmWare
Platform:i386
Kernel: 2.6.6
Locale: en_US
Image: sarge_netinst
Date:2004/06/28
Reproduced here also with sarge_d-i images from 20040629
Quoting Free Ekanayaka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
How do I extract the detected information for setting, say, the
XkbLayout and XkbModel entries of XF86Config-4?
Check the thread named Pre-seeding XFree settings for keyboard in
Debian Installer in this mailing list...a few days ago (and still
Environment: VmWare
Platform : i386
Kernel : 2.6
Locale : en_US fr_FR
Image : netinst
Priority : high
Result : OK
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Environment: VmWare
Platform : i386
Kernel : 2.6
Locale : en_US
Image : netinst
Priority : high
Result : The line drawing problems with 2.6 installs in stage 2
are back : #256766
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tags 256989 pending
thanks
Quoting George Papamichelakis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Package: discover1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch l10n
unfuzied 1 string
...:-)
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Environment: VmWare
Platform : i386
Kernel : 2.6
Locale : en_US fr_FR
Image : netinst
Priority : high
Result : OK
Not quite OK.
Debconf priority is medium in 2nd stage while I am sure I did nothing
which shoudl have
Package: base-config
Version: 2.32
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
During a standard run of Debian Installer 20040629 (and very probably
20040628 also), base-config main menu appears while it shouldn't as the
debconf priority should be high.
As a first analysis, this seems to be due to debconf
reassign 257036 prebaseconfig
merge 257036 257027
thanks
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Package: base-config
Version: 2.32
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
Merging these bugs
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Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
There are some typos. Other than that, one problem is that it doesn't
really talk about anything other than CD images.
Well, I had a look at thisbut indeed the current
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/builds is also about CD
images only.
Quoting Debian Installer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Accepted:
kbd-chooser_0.55.dsc
to pool/main/k/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser_0.55.dsc
This new kbd-chooser version incorporates patches for fixing the
keyboard handling in Unicode environment. #251550 : the installer
seems to freeze when entering high
reassign 257124 console-data
severity 257124 wishlist
thanks
Quoting Geert Stappers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
In debian-installer I leave language to English.
For locale settings I select Europe and then Netherlands.
kbd-chooser does see that I have an USB keyboard
but defaults on American
This breaks keyboard handling: unicode keymaps (ua-utf, consoel-cyrillic
unicode keymaps) does not work (I can enter only ASCII symbols).
And, after recompiling a mini.iso with this new kbd-chooser and
testing it with fr_FR, I cofnirm that the kayboard freeze bug is
still here...
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Quoting Recai Oktas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* Denis Barbier [2004-07-01 22:26:25+0200]
[Eugeniy Meshcheryakov]
This breaks keyboard handling: unicode keymaps (ua-utf,
consoel-cyrillic unicode keymaps) does not work (I can enter only
ASCII symbols).
My bad, here is a patch (it was
I'm afraid that sid is diverging too far from sarge for it to be easy to
keep maintaining sarge (we're at the point of needing relativly untested
backports of some packages to be put into sarge to fix bugs), and that
nobody is testing sarge's d-i, or paying much attention to it at all.
Well,
Environment: VmWare
Platform : i386
Kernel : 2.6
Locale : fr_FR
Image : netinst
Priority : high
Result : NOT OK. Debconf priority at 2nd stage is medium
Known bug, fixed in prebaseconfig but not included in CD
images yet
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Environment: VmWare
Platform : i386
Kernel : 2.6
Locale : fr_FR
Image : netinst
Priority : high
Result : OK. No line drawing problems in 2nd stage
PS : this is a *standard* test with all default choices in a specific
environment. Some other untested here stuff may be
Quoting Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
6. A colleague was unhappy about the 'ar' support, because it goes
left-to-right and the letters are detached from each other, which
seems to be unnormal for 'ar'.
I thought this was fixed in sid_d-i, for instance.
In first stage only at
Quoting W. Borgert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
1. Method 'linux26': Hangs during PC card phase. Had to switch off.
2. Method 'linux26 hw-detect/pcmcia=off (or so)': Did not detect the
ethernet device (Broadcom 570x Gigabit). No idea which driver to use
from the list, so rebooted.
3.
boot net foo debian-installer/framebuffer=false
If I omitted the framebuffer directive, I would never see the language
selection screen. Including the framebuffer directive made things proceed
normally.
I guess the lines for non Latin languages were a bit screwed, then ?
Environment: VmWare
Platform : i386
Kernel : 2.6
Locale : en_US
Image : netinst
Priority : high
Result : NOT OK. Incorrect charset for screen display and thus
the now famous line drawing problem
This problem seems, here, to happen only for default
Environment: VmWare
Platform : i386
Kernel : 2.4
Locale : ar_EG
Image : netinst
Priority : high
Result : OK. Pretty strange, the debconf priority bug is not here
anymore. Well, maybe my earlier test was less careful
2nd stage Arabic is still not
Quoting Maciej Wachowiec ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
D-i worked fine for me, although:
- when interrupted (ie. when I choose to cancel, while creating new user, or press
CTRL^C while downloading packages), d-i falls back to the expert mode
That is supposed to be a feature, indeed (the mode is not
Package: base-config
Version: 2.33
Severity: minor
When executing a shell in base-config (happend to me accidentally...:-)), a
small error message shows up before getting the shell:
./menu/shell: line 8: export: '/root': not a valid identifier
I suspect some bashism somewhere (?)
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Choose-mirror handling of the mirror country list currently has a few
drawbacks which may be enhanced:
-the Choices list in templates is built from the mirror countries
mentioned in Mirrors.masterlist. This file is fetched at build time
and the debconf template is then modified on the fly to
Quoting Recai Oktas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Could you review and test them?
Not before tomorrow evening probably
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Quoting Karl Hegbloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Testing on real hardware would be better in such cases, but this
requires far more time by burning CD images, for instance.and of
course, this also requires hardware.
Net-booting d-i works fairly well.
But also required some
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