Re: The question about which language we use in the first is good

2009-07-01 Thread Colin Watson
by hand - I derived ours from SuSE's and even that was a fair amount of effort). I'm not going to be at DebCamp for as long as I was hoping to be, for travel-with-family reasons, but perhaps we could have a look over it at the tail-end of DebCamp or at DebConf? -- Colin Watson

Re: The question about which language we use in the first is good

2009-07-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 02:14:07PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: Colin Watson wrote: If people would like to use gfxboot in Debian, perhaps the Ubuntu theme could be bodged into service for Debian (you really don't want to attempt to write one from scratch, trust me; when we say theme

Re: Online help

2009-07-02 Thread Colin Watson
I've committed this now. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#532515: on making decisions vs letting things happen

2009-07-06 Thread Colin Watson
to be consistent with the default configuration of apt than with how the base system is installed, though. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: [patch] libdebian-installer poll()

2009-07-09 Thread Colin Watson
POLLHUP))) +#else if (pollfds[i].revents POLLIN) +#endif This looks OK. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: MTD and UBI support in d-i

2009-07-09 Thread Colin Watson
. Connecting to the questions above, is it possible to use the infrastructure given by partman/parted_server but without any of it being written to device. Not to my knowledge; you'd be best advised to arrange for libparted to be smart enough not to do this for UBI devices, I think. -- Colin Watson

partman-md/mdcfg merge

2009-07-09 Thread Colin Watson
testing, but it could definitely use some more, and I plan to try to exercise it a bit more shortly, as best I can given limited resources (I'm just testing in virtual machines). Would anyone like to comment on the patch? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat

Re: partman-md/mdcfg merge

2009-07-13 Thread Colin Watson
Slight extra change needed to remove a check for /bin/mdcfg existing. Updated patch attached. Has anyone had a chance to look over this? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] === modified file 'choose_partition/md/choices' --- choose_partition/md

Re: partman-md/mdcfg merge

2009-07-14 Thread Colin Watson
I broke RAID0 creation due to a typo (log_output vs. log-output). Version 3 attached. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] === modified file 'choose_partition/md/choices' --- choose_partition/md/choices 2007-12-28 16:24:47 + +++ choose_partition/md

reassign 516347 to partman-auto

2009-07-14 Thread Colin Watson
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.35lenny3 reassign 516347 partman-auto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: partman-md/mdcfg merge

2009-07-15 Thread Colin Watson
Version 4 fixes unlocking of units on array deletion. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? :-) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] === modified file 'choose_partition/md/choices' --- choose_partition/md/choices 2007-12-28 16:24:47 + +++ choose_partition/md

Re: partman-md/mdcfg merge

2009-07-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 06:29:11PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com [2009.07.15.1805 +0200]: Version 4 fixes unlocking of units on array deletion. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? :-) Um, he's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's

Re: [patch] kfreebsd-i386 kernel udeb: fix ABI and fix dependency version

2009-07-17 Thread Colin Watson
to commit. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: partman-md/mdcfg merge

2009-07-17 Thread Colin Watson
It looks as if this is too difficult for people to test without it being in the archive, so in the absence of objections I've gone ahead and committed this. Let's see how it goes. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: partman-md/mdcfg merge

2009-07-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 06:52:51AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com [2009.07.17.2209 +0200]: It looks as if this is too difficult for people to test without it being in the archive, so in the absence of objections I've gone ahead and committed

Online help for partman-lvm

2009-07-22 Thread Colin Watson
you return to the main partition manager screen, logical volumes will be displayed in the same way as ordinary partitions, and should be treated as such. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ

Automatic partition setup in partman-{lvm,md,crypto}

2009-07-23 Thread Colin Watson
, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] === modified file 'choose_method/lvm/choices' --- choose_method/lvm/choices 2007-12-05 20:18:24 + +++ choose_method/lvm/choices 2009-07-13 21:40:14 + @@ -1,45 +1,11 @@ #!/bin/sh -. /lib/partman/lib/base.sh +. /lib

Re: Please build Debian uploads from a Debian system

2009-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
Architecture: any to avoid size increase. -- Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:58:07 +0200 Aurelien, I'd appreciate it if you could change the maintainer name in the changelog trailer when you upload something so that I don't incorrectly get blamed for problems. :-) Frans, please

Re: Online help for partman-lvm

2009-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
volumes) to form a... Both of these suggestions make sense to me, although partitions are devices too so I went for disk and partition devices. Committed; thanks for your review. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot

Re: Automatic partition setup in partman-{lvm,md,crypto}

2009-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:58:12PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: I was showing this to a few people at DebConf and people seemed generally in favour of the UI changes, so I thought I'd post it for wider comment here. Max tested this and found a few bugs, which we fixed between us. He suggested

Bug#538344: tzsetup: base-installer hook script returns error

2009-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
code 1 Apparently time/zone is empty. I assume that s390 installs have no localisation or something? Could you please attach the full syslog to make it easier to diagnose this? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot

Bug#538348: pkgsel/tasksel: can no longer determine free space for desktop task

2009-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
of the world catches up ... -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#537535: other missing utilities for debconf replacement

2009-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
and makes a start at the escape capability. It's dated 2007-12-31, so at this point I don't remember what state it was in. It'll be at least as useful in the BTS as in my working tree though! -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] Property changes on: src

Bug#538348: pkgsel/tasksel: can no longer determine free space for desktop task

2009-07-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 02:55:57PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 25 July 2009, Colin Watson wrote: Mm, yes, that's probable, although without that change it would presumably have been getting garbage data from /etc/mtab anyway. (df doesn't seem to fall back to /proc/mounts

Re: Automatic partition setup in partman-{lvm,md,crypto}

2009-07-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 01:47:52PM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:58:12PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Talking through this with Max Vozeler identified several problems that I'd still like to fix: * There are several common chunks of code that should be moved

Re: netbase: Fails to install if ifupdown is not available

2009-07-29 Thread Colin Watson
... [...] W: Failure while configuring base packages. I: Configuring netbase... I: Base system installed successfully. CCing -boot in case other people see this during testing and are confused, as I was. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#399840: Do we want an ssh-server task?

2009-08-09 Thread Colin Watson
server task would actually contain, making it bad from a usability PoV. We should really make tasksel able to display extended descriptions of tasks. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org

RFC: debhelper 7 conversions

2009-08-09 Thread Colin Watson
? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#543786: partman-auto-raid: having to name devices explicitly is clumsy

2009-08-26 Thread Colin Watson
I'll commit it next week or so if there are no objections. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Manual is in string freeze!

2009-08-27 Thread Colin Watson
on the list. Will reapply after release. Sorry, missed that. Please create a branch in a standard location so that commits can go somewhere rather than having to be queued up in various people's working copies. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org

Re: Manual is in string freeze!

2009-08-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:41:05PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:18:11PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: Rev 60476 - cjwatson (2 file(s) modified) Note that partman-auto/init_automatically_partition is only honoured if partman-auto/method is not set. I'm reverting

Bug#491376: recipe for BIOS-based boot on gpt

2009-08-28 Thread Colin Watson
second attached patch. (For now, this is hard to make work for automatic LVM partitioning; there's a comment in the source explaining why. I don't think we should allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good, though.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat

Bug#543786: partman-auto-raid: having to name devices explicitly is clumsy

2009-08-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 02:53:56PM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:09:47PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Attached is a patch which introduces new syntax, looking like this: Any comments? I think this is a noticeable improvement, so I'll commit it next week or so

Bug#470894: grub-installer: user parameters are not added to grub.cfg for grub2

2009-08-31 Thread Colin Watson
! $ROOT/boot/grub/$menu_file fi -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#491376: Request for string review: grub-installer BIOS boot partition check

2009-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
+3,7 @@ Priority: standard Maintainer: Debian Install System Team debian-boot@lists.debian.org Uploaders: Joey Hess jo...@debian.org, Otavio Salvador ota...@debian.org, Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com, Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de, Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org -Build-Depends: debhelper

Mad idea: grub-fuse

2009-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
or not this is a terrible idea, so I'm sending mail in case somebody thinks it's a good idea and wants to run with it. :-) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Mad idea: grub-fuse

2009-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
, the startup fs modules are still read-only, but after entering normal mode, users can switch to the fuse driver for more functionality. The level of functionality provided by the existing filesystem modules would be quite sufficient. -- Colin Watson [cjwat

Re: Status of gfxboot

2009-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
to write a theme from scratch, I'd be surprised if it weren't), please make sure that you share gfxboot-theme-ubuntu's revision control history. I can provide you with a git mirror of the bzr branch; just let me know where I should put it. -- Colin Watson [cjwat

Re: Mad idea: grub-fuse

2009-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
. (Yes, I know it's some work in GRUB, which is why this thread is labelled Mad idea.) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#544381: grub-pc: The os_prober does not include all the systems and entries are also not complete.

2009-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#552495: busybox-udeb: please enable dd conv=notrunc

2009-10-26 Thread Colin Watson
', but that's not enabled in busybox-udeb. Could you please set CONFIG_FEATURE_DD_IBS_OBS=y? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Not sure about recent change in tzsetup

2009-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
country in localechooser. This is only true if we use a very specific definition of wrong that doesn't really match users' requirements in many cases. Regards, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ

Re: Not sure about recent change in tzsetup

2009-11-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:01:09AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009, Colin Watson wrote: No it doesn't. If there's only one choice for the timezone, then you get a medium-priority question asking you to confirm your current time, as before. The only difference

Re: Not sure about recent change in tzsetup

2009-11-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 07:45:48AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009, Colin Watson wrote: This distinction is not relevant. If I am a speaker of British English living in Germany, the only way I can get the behaviour I want is to select language English, country United

Re: FTBFS of netcfg on s390 after debhelper v7 conversion

2009-11-13 Thread Colin Watson
on i386, and there aren't that many packages that do tricky architecture-specific things so they should be caught in the normal course of events. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Clues on partman hooks?

2009-12-13 Thread Colin Watson
to also prevent use of the standard recipes (since it does still seem natural for partman-auto to fall back to them), you could simply remove them; is this possible for you? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ

Bug#444453: E: Unimplemented function with large strings

2009-12-15 Thread Colin Watson
. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#399840: Bug#409338: ssh task in tasksel

2007-02-03 Thread Colin Watson
added to it since that's a security exposure that not everyone wants or needs. openssh-client and openssh-server were split in part to allow openssh-server *not* to be in the standard installation. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

RFC/lenny: /lib/partman/check.d

2007-02-23 Thread Colin Watson
skip_choose_partition=no done Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC/lenny: /lib/partman/check.d

2007-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:54:42PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 23 February 2007 16:27, Colin Watson wrote: I think it would make partman a bit easier to use if we added a check.d directory run before we ask the user to confirm changes and then run commit.d (only when preparing to exit

Bug#380226: NTFS (partition) not recreated correctly after resize:incorrect start sector

2007-03-07 Thread Colin Watson
not very relevant in the case of NTFS.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
would also need RM and Frans approval :( I thought you were talking about user workarounds. Well, Ubuntu uses fstab labels, No, it uses UUIDs. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -Nru /tmp/bRFBYZWEev/partman-target-46/finish.d/fstab_hd_entries /tmp/gRV1OOc9kY/partman-target-46ubuntu2/finish.d/fstab_hd_entries --- /tmp/bRFBYZWEev/partman-target-46/finish.d/fstab_hd_entries 2006-07-25 23:51:30.0

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
development said to me in person that in hindsight this was probably a mistake). We've already backed away from automatic use of labels once (http://bugs.debian.org/310754) so let's not have to do so again! -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] only in patch2

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
which traditional device name they corresponded to at the point of installation. Of course this can get out of date, but I don't think there's really any sensible way around that. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
and possibly its physical location are different. Thus I don't agree that by-id or by-path are good solutions to this problem; by-id even breaks where old-style IDE primary master-type identification would have worked fine. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#413855: Apple check is i386-specific

2007-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
to fix this up post-Etch by using the i386/mac and amd64/mac subarchitectures I introduced in libdebian-installer (also in post-Etch trunk). There are enough other glitches that I don't think it's worth trying to run around hoovering them all up for Etch at this point. -- Colin Watson

Re: r45997 - in trunk/packages/installation-report: debian finish-install.d

2007-03-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 04:51:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Colin Watson wrote: * Merge from Ubuntu: - Save /target/var/lib/dpkg/status to /target/var/log/installer/initial-status.gz; suggested by Jason Whitlark. I'm uncertian of what the benefits of doing this are, at least

Re: r46016 - in trunk/packages/main-menu: . debian

2007-03-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 01:50:14PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 23 March 2007 11:50, Colin Watson wrote: Log: * Restore previous default priority when selecting a menu item immediately after backing up to the main menu. Im not sure that this change is a good idea. Having

Re: r46016 - in trunk/packages/main-menu: . debian

2007-04-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:37:15PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 30 March 2007 19:55, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 01:50:14PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: For example, if you want to change the mirror protocol, or setup the sudo for the target system, or not create a user

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-19 Thread Colin Watson
: olympic In nic-extra-modules. Should it be moved to nic-modules so that it's in the initrd? I know very little about Token Ring support. SCSI: sym2, IPR (I think its only in 2.6 unfortunately) Already in scsi-modules. IDE:AMD74XX Apparently not built. -- Colin Watson

Re: Suggestion for choose-mirror

2004-07-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 06:26:20AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Colin Watson wrote: Since d-i uses debconf, most questions are pre-answerable like this. Where are the Qs and As documented? Unfortunately I suspect the answer right now might be the source code; look for templates files

Re: powerpc status and missing 2.6.7 .udebs and .debs in sarge.

2004-07-19 Thread Colin Watson
my release assistant hat: no, this is not release-critical. See http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: timeline for next release

2004-07-19 Thread Colin Watson
release being small, non-invasive tweaks for high-severity bugs. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#260154: PowerMac G3 (beige) sarge d-i Installation Report

2004-07-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 10:53:00PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: Install boot loader:[ ] No boot loader installed (using Bootx to boot) Glad to hear things largely went well. Is there any chance that you could test quik-installer, to see if it works? Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: powerpc status and missing 2.6.7 .udebs and .debs in sarge.

2004-07-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 05:36:05PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 01:13:47PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt. The requested URL /sarge_rc_policy.txt. was not found on this server. It was at the end of a sentence, so you might have

Bug#260303: base-config: hwclock | cut doesn't work in some locales

2004-07-19 Thread Colin Watson
filed bug #260272 asking for a proper option to hwclock so that this hack can be removed. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#260154: PowerMac G3 (beige) sarge d-i Installation Report

2004-07-19 Thread Colin Watson
). In the meantime, 2.6 is only usable with images from the daily or sid_d-i directories. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#260396: PowerMac G3 (beige) sarge d-i (18 July 2004) Installation Report using 2.6 kernel

2004-07-20 Thread Colin Watson
a driver for the ethernet card then I can test out all the other wonderful stuff ;) I messed around trying to detect the drivers from the tc1 CD but that didn't get me anywhere What kind of network card is it? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#260396: PowerMac G3 (beige) sarge d-i (18 July 2004) Installation Report using 2.6 kernel

2004-07-20 Thread Colin Watson
[Please keep the discussion CCed to the bug report; that way we don't lose things.] On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 02:16:54PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: On (20/07/04 13:12), Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 12:44:51PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: Configure network HW: [E] didn't

Bug#260396: PowerMac G3 (beige) sarge d-i (18 July2004) Installation Report

2004-07-20 Thread Colin Watson
in quik-installer. Fixing now. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#260396: PowerMac G3 (beige) sarge d-i (18 July 2004) Installation Report using 2.6 kernel

2004-07-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 03:44:18PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: On (20/07/04 15:14), Colin Watson wrote: OK, we can fix that. Just to confirm, can you show me the output of the following two commands on that system: ls -l /proc/device-tree$(cat /proc/device-tree/aliases/mac-io)/bmac

Bug#260649: grub-installer: ask grub-installer/with_other_os at critical priority?

2004-07-21 Thread Colin Watson
(i.e. Linux won't boot and your other partitions weren't detected by os-prober for some reason). Perhaps this should be asked at critical instead? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#260649: grub-installer: ask grub-installer/with_other_os at critical priority?

2004-07-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:57:32PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Colin Watson] Perhaps this should be asked at critical instead? I think dual boot scenarios should be considred special enough to expect people to run on priority high or lower if they want that to work. Critical should

Bug#260649: grub-installer: ask grub-installer/with_other_os at critical priority?

2004-07-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 11:08:50PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Colin Watson] I appreciate that dual-boot scenarios are special for debian-edu. However, I don't think they're special in the majority of installations. I do not know their relative frequency, but I do know that dual

Bug#260708: Acknowledgement (PowerMac G3 (beige) sarge d-i (20 July 2004) Installation Report installing quik)

2004-07-21 Thread Colin Watson
-initrd kernel quite happily. The problem here is that something is causing quik-installer to exit without saying why, and I'd like to know what. Also, I suspect you were looking for the kernel and initrd in /boot rather than /target/boot. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: Logs of Arabic install available

2004-07-22 Thread Colin Watson
. Is that relevant? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Logs of Arabic install available

2004-07-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 01:43:39PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Also Christian said ar_DZ, not just ar. Is that relevant? No, because $LANGUAGE here in languagechooser just contains the language code So why does the line above look like

Re: umount: /initrd/dev: Invalid argument

2004-07-23 Thread Colin Watson
be removed. Have all architectures stopped doing that? We should check debian-cd. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#261235: discover1-data: fix Apple ohci1394 ids

2004-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
ethernetsungem UniNorth 2 GMAC (Sun GEM) 106b0033unknown unknown UniNorth 2 ATA/100 106b0034unknown unknown UniNorth 2 AGP Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

FireWire module issues on powerpc, worked around

2004-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
changes my PowerBook gets all its interfaces in the right order both before and after the first reboot. Perhaps an i386 person with a FireWire-capable system could see if a similar change is needed there? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#261235: discover1-data: fix Apple ohci1394 ids

2004-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 02:32:20PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Colin Watson wrote: For some reason discover1 outside d-i detects and loads ohci1394 and eth1394 on my system (with 106b0031) while discover1 inside d-i doesn't, which leads to badness because Ethernet devices end up in a different

Re: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cannot_install_any_debian_-_no_kernels_support_USB_net_cards??=

2004-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
that came on the stable CD (1 or 2) has all the USB network cards deleted (their section in make menuconfig is empty, ditto in make config). They're marked experimental in 2.4. You'll need to turn on the Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers option. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Bug#249199: Flag usrquota/grpquota should check for quota support

2004-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
to create and mount a partition, though? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#261306: Also happens on PPC with yaboot

2004-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
, though. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#253640: USB drivers not loaded with 2.6 on powerpc

2004-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
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Bug#243193: installation report for G5

2004-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
didn't support the machine in question, so I think it should basically be OK on them now. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#239752: debian-installer: small typo in Norwegian translation

2004-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
, but in bokmål it should probably be komponenter, not kompenter. I think this has been fixed now, but I'm mailing the translators just to make sure. Bjørn, Håvard, could you check this? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#261371: install report: amd64 works ok

2004-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
needs to be educated here. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FireWire module issues on powerpc, worked around

2004-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 01:57:57PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Colin Watson wrote: To cope with this, I've moved eth1394 from firewire-core-modules to nic-modules in linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6, so that it isn't available until ethdetect runs. This is fairly simple for powerpc 2.6, as it turns

Bug#261450: MSDOS tools on the powerpc install CD?

2004-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
; however, at the moment debian-cd includes tools/ for all architectures, so it's not immediately easy to change. Reassigning for somebody to think about. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#261463: Missing drivers on powerpc 2.6 businesscard install

2004-07-26 Thread Colin Watson
the 2.4 kernel because the 2.6 kernel couldn't find a driver for the CD. Do you know which module you need for this CD-RW drive? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#261514: d-i Beta4 in iMac DV+ - several problems

2004-07-26 Thread Colin Watson
isntalled (which caused the init problem...) No, devfsd shouldn't be installed; don't mount devfs on reboot. You should be fine if you run through base-config properly. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#261463: Missing drivers on powerpc 2.6 businesscard install

2004-07-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 02:17:46PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Monday, July 26, 2004, at 09:25 AM, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 02:00:46AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: Installing on a PowerMac/6500 with a TEAC SCSI CD-RW drive, I had to use the 2.4 kernel because the 2.6 kernel

Bug#261766: OldWorld PowerPC d-i still some bugs left

2004-07-29 Thread Colin Watson
need to update its cvs version of debian-cd ? I did, a couple of days ago. As you say, debian-cd on gluck needs a cvs update of tools/boot/sarge/boot-powerpc. manty? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#262200: debian-installer: d-i downloads unneeded packages

2004-07-30 Thread Colin Watson
server to use. Wouldn't it be easier just to have a local mirror of the necessary udebs? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-installer beta-4 for ppc

2004-07-30 Thread Colin Watson
in partman-newworld triggered by a change in partman-target. I fixed it a day or two ago, so it should be trickling into CD builds now. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Introduction

2004-08-01 Thread Colin Watson
probably best to start sending patches first, and ask for direct access once a few of those have been accepted. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Introduction

2004-08-01 Thread Colin Watson
[Please keep this on the mailing list. It may be useful for other new contributors.] On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 02:46:22AM +1000, James Mills wrote: On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 05:39:55PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 03:58:05PM +1000, James Mills wrote: I do intend to get

Re: modconf maintainance - status and future?

2004-08-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 11:22:57PM +0100, peter green wrote: i would leave the code old in the old repostry so the old history is preserved That's what cvs2svn is for ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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