Package: installation-guide
In line 18 is a key combination with spaces between the
keycap.../keycap tags.
This leeds to an output like this:
Command -Option -o -f
but should be
Command-Option-o-f
So the complete key combination has to be in one line, without any
spaces.
Patch attached.
Package: installation-guide
In file ../en/appendix/preseed.xml line 1028:
Note that only RAID 0 and RAID 1 have been tested by the
developers of the component. RAID 5 is untested. Advanced
RAID setup with degraded arrays or spare devices has only
been tested
Package: installation-guide
In file ../hardware/network-cards.xml line 106:
If there is no other NIC you can use during the
installation, it is still possible to install debian;
using a full CD-ROM or DVD image. Use the same procedure as
described above for NICs
Package: installation-guide
In ../install-methods/boot-usb-files.xml there are
some parts for powerpc (phrase arch=powerpc.../phrase
or para arch=powerpc.../para), but in conditions
powerpc is configured to be not bootable
from usb.
So the parts for powerpc are never visible ATM.
Kind regards
Hi,
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:38:54 +0100 daka wrote:
Also, if I buy an external USB Wifi can anyone suggest a model that works
well with Debian (out of the box... and reasonably cheap).
Thanks
I have an C54RU from Conceptronic. Works fine, the driver is
included in the vanilla kernel (since
Hi,
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 12:38:54 +0100 Christian Perrier wrote:
Attached is the proposed text for the announcement for the D-I RC1
release.
At the end of that file:
p
We do need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, so please
try it. Installer CDs, other media and
Hi,
On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:54:20 -0200 Otavio Salvador wrote:
1. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/.lenny_rc1/
Please give them a try and report any problem to us (in debian-boot
mailing list).
I tried a rc1 netinst cd on my good old 32MB lowmem machine,
a Toshiba Satellite laptop:
No
Hi,
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:53:01 +0100 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
wrote:
Some systems (especially laptops) that have a native resolution that is not
a 4:3 ratio (i.e. not for example 800x600 or 1024x768) may have a blank
display after the installer has been booted. In that case adding the
Hi,
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:08:35 +0100 Holger Wansing wrote:
I tried a rc1 netinst cd on my good old 32MB lowmem machine,
a Toshiba Satellite laptop:
No problems!
Today I wanted to try the lxde desktop on that machine. Machine ist
running, only standard system task was installed
Hi,
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:21:48 +0100 Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting Holger Wansing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Shouldn't host command be installed with the standard system task?
The standard system task is not a task per se. This is just the
installation of all packages with priority
Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist
Please include host command on netinst cds (and probably on
businesscard cds).
Having it, would make it easily possible, to install additional
packages from a mirror after installation.
And:
network configuration is an essential part of install
Hi,
On Thu, 25 May 2006 18:58:13 +0200 Patrick Cornelißen wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Comments/Problems:
There are some missing translations in the installer for the german
language.
I was not able to enter my name correctly because the ß (szlig; in
html) is not acessible
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:54:01 +0200 Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
my mailes are being bounced back, could someone forward my previous mail
(the one i'm replyng to ) to bjorn?
thank
Attilio
Done.
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On Sun, 28 May 2006 11:41:25 +0200 Davide Viti wrote:
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:06:22PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
Additional info:
ö + ä + ü doesn't work in both installers
(with correct layout chosen; read further)
AND
in g-i the wrong keyboard layout is chosen for de: z
Hello all,
I tried the g-i from [1] and found an possible issue:
try to use the gtkdfb 2.9 g-i without a mouse! It's possible, yes,
but it's not that easy; you can switch with TAB between the buttons
and lists, but you cannot see what button is the active one.
AND
In the traditional d-i and in
Hello,
On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:27:06 +0200 B. Janssen wrote:
Hi Holger, hi Attilio,
i just performed an Etch installation on the original machine, albeit on
another partition.
I have noticed some unrelated problems mainly concerned with the
localization (i'm a freelance translator and
Hi Holger, hi all
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 22:55:35 +0200 Holger Levsen wrote:
Hi Holger,
I guess the typo part of this bug can be closed by now, right?
Correct!
Do you know if the cdrom checker has been made more visible ?
#. Type: boolean
#. Description
#: ../cdrom-retriever.templates:4
mail to list:
From: Tom May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Holger Wansing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Bug#375178: Unsuccessful install of testing i386
Date: 25 Jun 2006 10:53:13 -0700
User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7
Thanks Holger. Here's some more hopefully constructive feedback.
Some
mail he sent to me PM:
From: Tom May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Holger Wansing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Bug#375178: Unsuccessful install of testing i386
Date: 25 Jun 2006 10:53:13 -0700
User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7
Thanks Holger. Here's some more hopefully constructive
Hi,
I already mentioned this earlier, but got not much response:
wouldn't it be great, to have the manual available during
installation, i.e. on the third console?
Imagine people having only one machine, so cannot install and read
manual in parallel.
Holger
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On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:12:44 +0200 Geert Stappers wrote:
Consider the next few lines rude.
Done.
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under Debian GNU/LINUX 3.1 »Sarge«
http://counter.li.org/, Registered LinuxUser #311290
--- partman-crypto.xml 2006-07-09 21:21:07.0 +0200
+++ partman-crypto.xml.workingcopy 2006-07-18
16:29:09.0 +0200
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
/parapara
-First, let's have a look at available options available when you
+First, let's have a look at the options available when you
Hello,
I downloaded a pre-beta3 netinst cd 03.08.2006 and as far as I could
see it went mostly fine; only the CD-ROM integrity check doesn't
complete successfully.
I then noticed that this was already mentioned in this bugreport,
so some more info here:
it seems that not the mentioned file
I wanted to mention that this is not only a problem of Czech.
It also happens i.e. in de and thus likely in other languages,
too.
Holger
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Created with Sylpheed 2.2.2
under Debian GNU/LINUX 3.1 »Sarge«
which is described in #247260 is fixed. It tells from messed up
characters in the messages of the installer (NOT in input fields,
when you type). Umlauts in the installers messages are ok (in d-i
and g-i and on console).
Thanks
Holger Wansing
Package: installation-guide
Severity: whishlist
Hi,
now that amd64 is officially supported that makes an amount
of 12 architectures - the manual says 11
(../hardware/hardware-supported.xml line 29).
This could also be solved by using an entity...
Best
Holger
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On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 01:27:22 +0200 Philipp Kern wrote:
But I tried to verify the CD, which
somehow failed because of wrong MD5 checksums.
Known issue. Is already fixed in latest daily builds
(tried 24.08.06, is ok).
Your CD is likely not corrupted.
Holger
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Hello,
sorry for the delay (vacation).
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:47:06 +0200 Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
Holger Wansing wrote:
usability/cosmetically issues in daily builds 24.08.06
graphical installer:
- partman: go to Manually edit partition table:
within this menu (and not sure maybe
Hi,
there is a problem with this recommendation:
how big the root partition has to be, depends on which underlying
directories are on a separate partition or not:
what if you have a everything on one partition partitioning
scheme...
So, there should be something like this:
The root partition
As this is not really a problem or error, this report should
be closed.
(The only thing man could do is, to comment out the corresponding
chapters and add a note, that they are left for the case, that
MILO support returns back):
+ !-- The following paragraphs are about MILO support, which was
+
Hi,
As it is now, it seems to be a bit misleading: it makes the reader
think that the only way to losslessly repartition a hard disk with
VFAT filesystems is the good old fips...
Well, the section is about tools that can be run *in a DOS/Windows
environment*.
Does that apply to parted
Hi,
On Sunday 24 September 2006 18:46, Joey Hess wrote:
Boot the installer with the additional parameter:
tasksel/first=kde-desktop
This is documented in the installation manual.
tasksel/first=kde-desktop is only mentioned in the chapter about
automated installation (preseed.xml), see
Proposal patch attached.
Holger
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Registered LinuxUser #311290 - http://counter.li.org/
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Package: installation-guide
Tags: patch
In the d-i manual for powerpc I found (Chapter 4.4.1):
Download and unstuff the BootX distribution, available from
http://penguinppc.org/projects/bootx/, or in the
dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac directory on
Hello,
I have tested booting testing/squeeze from MS-DOS and here are some
improvements/updates to the d-i manual documentation on this.
Please consider to use the patch attached here.
Holger
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Created with Sylpheed 2.5.0
Package: installation-reports
On a daily built netinst installer image from 25.09.2009:
Starting the graphical installer from the menu (error is the
same, normal installation or expert install):
The graphical user interface does not start, there is an error
that occures again and again:
Additional investigation:
I have a daily build netinst image lying around from 03.09.2009.
With this, the graphical installer starts fine.
The first part of the error message
(unknown: 1027): Gdk-CRITICAL -- gdk_drawable_set_colormap
assertion `cmap == NULL ||
Hi,
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote:
Without additional information I see no reason to change the current text.
In what circumstances would it be better to use a swap file over a swap
partition and why?
Maybe only change the text a bit, to add a short information, that
in some situations
Hi,
Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org wrote:
As one can see on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SpamClean,
this effort initiated by Frans back in April is lagging.
Last 3 months of debian-boot archives have been reviewed by 3 persons
only (Frans, Giacomo Catenazzi and me) and are
Note, that this problem was already reported at 27 Sep 2009
as #548589.
Holger
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Registered LinuxUser #311290 - http://counter.li.org/
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Hello,
the footline of the installer was changed (due to the new
inline help function).
Since then, there are to different footlines now.
The new one (with help) looks like this in german po file:
msgid F1 for help; Tab moves; Space selects; Enter activates buttons
msgstr
F1 Hilfe Tab
Hi,
Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote:
I reported Bug #352758 -- installation: etch installer fails to
detect/configure PC card NIC -- c. four years ago and was wondering if
there were any new developments.
A comment to this bugreport told you, that this is a firmware issue.
Support for
Package: tasksel
Severity: wishlist
Attached you will find the updated german program translation
for tasksel.
Greetings
Holger
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under the NEW DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 5.0.0 - L E N N Y
Hi,
Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote:
A comment to this bugreport told you, that this is a firmware issue.
Sorry, I have little familiarity with the bug reporting system and I did
no see this comment. Where can read the comments?
I don't see any comments at:
Hi,
Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 03:58:03PM EST, Holger Wansing wrote:
To investigate, if this problem still exists in the recent installer
and to help fixing it (if it still exists), you could try a daily
build of the installer for squeeze:
http
Hi,
Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 08:43:59AM EST, Frans Pop wrote:
On Sunday 17 January 2010, Holger Wansing wrote:
Could you try to find out if the firmware is non-free?
Could it be included in the debian-archive?
In unstable it looks to be included
Package: installation-guide
Severity: normal
modules mdcfg and lvmcfg where renamed to partman-md and
partman-lvm, but d-i manual still mentions the old names in
../using-d-i/using-d-i.xml and
../using-d-i/modules/mdcfg.xml.
Kind regards
Holger
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Hi,
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:21:32 +0100 Frans Pop wrote:
Concept versions of the release notes and errata are available from
http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/RC2/. Comments welcome.
I know you ment comments regarding the release notes itself,
but nevertheless:
I tried the dark-theme for
Hi,
[German speaking person intends to get Linux on here new pc.
Will try to assist.]
On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 18:55:12 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Heute entdeckte ich im Netz unter
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/de.i386/pr01.html
Ihren Ratgeber zur Installation von Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:49:44 +0200 Xavi wrote:
Package: Debian CD and Debian Netinstall CD
Version: 4.0
I'ts not exactly a bug, but I've searched for the new version of the Floppy
disks images so I can launch my installation on an older machine but I
wasn't success at all. Are them not
Hello,
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:14:54 +0200 Holger Levsen wrote:
2) What's the reasoning behind not including it in the default debian-
archive-keyring package? Is it not recommended that everyone use
volatile for the things like security and spam updates that it provides?
volatile is not
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:13:49 +0200 Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
We had a report in the past about a wrong german keymap, but in that
case, IIRC, the user was unaware he was using the standard german
keyboard instead of the swiss flavour he really wanted (or something
like that).
Exactly,
Hi,
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:33:55 +0200 Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
I'm aware we had problems like that before, but we addressed them by
switching to linux_input before.
Moreover i wonder why this bug doesn't show up when booting with
expertgui, as Holger reported.
I'm sorry, I have to
This still doesn't work.
Shouldn't this be fixed?
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Kind regards
Holger
==
Created with Sylpheed 2.3.0
under THE NEW DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 4.0 »Etch«
http://counter.li.org/, Registered LinuxUser #311290
Try out OpenGL
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:21:58 +0200 Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
This is #373253: as listed in the GuiToDo [1] wiki page, the solution is
Hmm, #373253 is about amd64.
I have an i386 machine with the same error.
I think this worked with etch r0 here.
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Kind regards
Holger
Hello,
recently there was added a chapter to the manual about the
win32-loader. There is a paragraph which is a bit curious IMHO.
And:
At the end of that chapter is a blank line in the source.
If it is intended to create a real blank line there,
there are some paragraph tags (/parapara)
Hi,
I filed a installation report bug, but it didn't make it to the
list:
please see
472487 (installationreport: low memory install lenny beta1: Problems)
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Kind regards
Holger
==
Created with Sylpheed 2.3.0
under THE NEW
Hello,
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:14:12 +0200 Frans Pop wrote:
Comments/Problems:
1. when trying to start graphical installer on a low memory system,
fallback to text-based installer does not work, system hangs for
ever.
With 32MB internal memory, you're basically asking your system to do
Hello,
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 16:44:37 +0200 Frans Pop wrote:
Yes. Auto-detecting the cdrom drive works this way.
OK. That at least identifies the problem, though reverting that change would
not solve all problems as initramfs-tools would still need to be made to
load the driver.
What we
Hi,
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:58:39 +0200 Frans Pop wrote:
Could you try to manually add the patch below to /bin/hw-detect, right at
the beginning of the installation (while the language selection dialog is
displayed)?
Yes, the patch does the job! CD-ROM drive is automatically detected.
It's
Hello,
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:26:29 +0200 Frans Pop wrote:
I'll upload the new version of hw-detect some time today. Could you maybe
try a full installation using a daily image in a few days? That's mainly to
check that the ide-generic module is also loaded for the installed system.
I did a
Hello,
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:17:15 +0200 Frans Pop wrote:
BTW: I noticed a curious behaviour (not sure if this is an problem)
in the installation (this was the same in lenny beta1 install,
don't know why I didn't reported it in the intial report):
after installing the base system it came
Hi,
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:17:15 +0200 Frans Pop wrote:
This is definitely a bug. It means that apt-install failed. From the log it
looks like the problem is in the mirror generator. What choices did you
make there?
I cannot reproduce this. Could you perhaps run the installation again
Hi,
I did a test installation with the i386 netinst image (sorry,
only lowmem install), and it went completely fine. Logs attached.
Only one note: on the F1 help screen the disc reports beeing
a debian 5.0 installation medium. This should be something like
4.0 rX, right?
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Kind regards
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: floppy image built on 20080227
Image version:
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/
installer-i386/current/images/
Date: 11.05.2008 12:00
Machine: Laptop Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS + Compaq Armada 7800
+ selfbuilt machine
Just found out, that this problem was already existing in Etch,
and was assumed to be solved for Lenny (see #415992).
But with actual syslinux in testing (2:3.63+dfsg-1), the problem is
there, again.
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Kind regards
Holger
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Package: installation-guide
A word generated out of a translated entity has different
formatting than one generated from the default translation
in common.ent.
Example:
When I have no line for the entity escapekey; in my
de.ent (l10n entites) file, the output is
Esc written in bold font
Package: installation-guide
The new chapter about the next generation boot-screen
contains this:
--
If you wish or need to add any boot parameters for either the
installer or the kernel, press tabkey;. This will display the
default
On Sun, 18 May 2008 16:58:03 +0200 Miroslav Kure wrote:
When I _have_ a line for this entity, let's say
!ENTITY escapekey guibuttonEsc-Taste/guibutton
in my de.ent, the output is
Esc-Taste _but_written_in_standard_font, _not_bold_
Is it because the original (English)
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: businesscard cd image daily built from 20080521
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/
arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/
Date: 21.05.2008 23:00
Machine: Laptop Gericom Masterpiece
Processor: Pentium 4 / 2GHz
Memory: 512MB
Hello,
On Thu, 22 May 2008 16:21:19 +0200 Frans Pop wrote:
and the logs say, that keymap de_DE was loaded, but umlauts did not work
(äöü) and also the ß. This all works fine in text mode installer.
Additionally Shift + 3 didn't worked correctly: in graphical installer
output was 3, in
Hi,
On Sat, 24 May 2008 18:57:53 +0200 Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 12:11:23PM +0430, Armin ranjbar wrote:
Does DI support memtest? is there any plan to support this in future?
Could you describe exactly the kind of memtest support you are
thinking about?
To have an option
Package: installation-guide
Typo in localechooser:
--- localechooser.xml 2008-05-31 14:37:18.0 +0200
+++ localechooser-workingcopy.xml 2008-06-01 08:37:52.0 +0200
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
/footnote, you will be shown a list of only those countries. To select a
country that
Hello,
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:06:04 -0400 Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't know whether to file a qemu or a kernel bug here. Would someone
like to test this image in another emulator? (Or real floppy drive if there
are any actually left).
http://kitenet.net/~joey/tmp/boot.img
I
Hi,
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:09:26 +0200 Manfred wrote:
Hallo zurück,
zunächst erst einmal danke, für die doch recht zeitnahe und deutsche
Antwort!
Manfred:
Die deutschsprachige Antwort auf deinen Fehlerbericht war eine
Einzelaktion von mir, sie kam nicht vom Debian-Installer-Team
und keiner
Package: installation-guide
Severity: wishlist
I would recommend to change the entity, that provides the
link to the manual on the WebSVN-Server, so that outstanding
persons can find the manual easier.
The entity now shows to the root directory, while the manual
resides in /trunk/manual:
( in
Hi,
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:58:36 +0200 Christian Perrier wrote:
During my holidays, I'm attempting to convert the French translation
of the installation guide to French.
Would it be possible to also change the german manual from xml
to po?
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Kind regards
Holger
Package: installation-guide
Severity: minor
In the new section about preseeding ntp functionality
(../appendix/preseed.xml) the given server example is
ntp.example.com, which is not an valid ntp-server.
I recommend to change to 1.debian.pool.ntp.org or
similar.
Kind regards
Holger
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Package: installation-guide
Severity: minor
In the gpl section we have a link pointing to the
original english text of the gpl (on FSF site).
This link now points to gpl v3 text.
Since we currently use gpl v2, the link (entity
url-gnu-copyleft) should be changed to
Hi,
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:35:18 +0200 Frans Pop wrote:
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 18:52, Holger Wansing wrote:
Would it be possible to also change the german manual from xml
to po?
Of course. Here are the steps to do it correctly.
Thanks for the instructions. I got it well so far, but I
On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 08:18:35 +0200 Christian Perrier wrote:
Unless faw (Felipe Augusto van de Wiel, now in charge of the
installation guide) objects, I think it is OK for you to commit the
needed fix.
Ok, if noone objects during the next two weeks, I will commit
attached patch.
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Kind
Hi,
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:44:37 +0200 Frans Pop wrote:
Op 31-07-2007 om 18:48 schreef Holger Wansing:
( in ../manual/build/entities/urls.ent )
- !ENTITY url-d-i-websvn http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/d-i/;;
+ !ENTITY url-d-i-websvn
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/d-i/trunk/manual;;
Seems
Hello,
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:56:18 -0400 Joey Hess wrote:
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:09:12AM -0700, Manning wrote:
I have found debian-40r1-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso at:
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r1/i386/iso-cd/
to be unbootable on a tested machine.
I can boot this image
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Hi,
today I tried to perform a test installation on an old
Toshiba laptop Satellite 320CDS (low memory install, netinst cd,
daily build from 17. Sept. 2007).
The system is lacking any network hardware, so I have to skip
the steps Detect network
Hi,
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:34:54 -0400 Joey Hess wrote:
Using a netinst CD on a machine without a network is not very much
recommended since it leaves you with a base system and no way to add
whatever software you need, except for using a second CD.
Yes, that's correct. I primarily saw this
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: Full Etch DVD Image with internet connection active
while installing
Image version: 4.0 (installer build 20070308etch1)
Date: 23.09.2007 19:00
Machine: Laptop from german distributor Vobis
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor
Good evening,
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:34:54 -0400 Joey Hess wrote:
Holger Wansing wrote:
today I tried to perform a test installation on an old
Toshiba laptop Satellite 320CDS (low memory install, netinst cd,
daily build from 17. Sept. 2007).
The system is lacking any network hardware
Hi,
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:35:45 +0200 Frans Pop wrote:
I've done a fairly large update (r49837) of the section on apt-setup to
better document the current functionality and especially to help users with
the question whether they should select a network mirror or not.
A review of and
Package: installation-guide
Severity: normal
Today I installed etch on a IBM Thinkpad where Windows
XP is already installed on, and I want to keep it for
some time.
Thus I want to use the feature to let d-i split the
only partition, which is on the system now, into two
partitions (aka reduce the
Hello,
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:22:49 +0100 Geert Stappers wrote:
What I understand from it:
| There was a XFCE CDROM installed,
| but there was no XFCE on it.
| It has GNOME, but that is too heavy for the hardware
Yes, that's a mostly correct translation.
There report misses where the
Hi,
while updating preseed.xml file to german, I read:
+# Controls whether to use NTP to set the clock during the install
+d-i clock-setup/ntp boolean true
+# NTP server to use. The default is almost always fine here.
+#d-i clock-setup/ntp-server ntp.example.com
Hmm, it says, the default is
Hi,
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:07:19 +0100 Frans Pop wrote:
Hmm, it says, the default is almost fine, but when I try to use
that server (set NTPSERVERS=ntp.example.com
in /etc/defaults/ntpdate), it comes to
That is because the default is not the same as the _example_ in the preseed
file.
Hi,
for your information:
there was no build of daily netinst or businescard cds since
16.01.2008.
If this is no error: sorry for the noise.
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Kind regards
Holger
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Created with Sylpheed 2.3.0
under THE NEW DEBIAN GNU/LINUX
Hi,
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:03:45 +0100 Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 24 January 2008, Holger Wansing wrote:
for your information:
there was no build of daily netinst or businescard cds since
16.01.2008.
Looks like the server is out of disk space after the Lenny and Sarge builds
we did
Hello,
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 22:07:54 +0100 Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nothing wrong. The last upload of netcfg was on Jan 14, so any changes made
_after_ that date will not yet be included in current images.
Ah, ok, thanks. I wasn't aware of that.
Holger
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Hello,
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:17:27 +0100 Tim Richardson wrote:
in most systems, and if you are not installing over serial console, the
easiest method is to switch to the second virtual console by pressing
Left Alt-F2[18] (on a Mac keyboard, Option-F2). Use Left Alt-F1 to
switch back to
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 01:15:30 +0100 Frans Pop wrote:
You may not believe this, but we have actually come up with that idea
ourselves in the past, but no one has implemented it yet.
Indeed, I believed that this is not really a new idea, but a
forgotten feature.
Please provide a patch.
Please
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 00:55:15 +0100 Holger Wansing wrote:
In the graphical installer, whe don't have such footline at all.
But it would be much easier there, because of higher resolution and
thus beeing able to display more characters on one line. So:
Tab moves between items; Space selects
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:30:47 +0100 Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
Could you submit a bug against cdebconf as a wishlist?
That would avoid to loose track of this in the feature.
Done, #465514
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Kind regards
Holger
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Package: cdebconf
Severity: wishlist
In the text installer, there is a line at the bottom of
the screen
Tab moves between items; Space selects; Enter
activates buttons
Please add such line to the graphical installer, too.
Due to higher resolution of the display, it should also
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