Is it as simple as appending something like "desktop=xfce" to the boot
command line?
If so, maybe it could be as simple as adding a couple of sentences to
the text in /install/boot.msg ...
I'll see if that works. If it does, I'll suggest some wording for the
message.
On Feb 26, 2013,
On Feb 27, 2013, at 3:25 AM, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
On 27/02/13 06:04, Rick Thomas wrote:
Is it as simple as appending something like "desktop=xfce" to the
boot
command line?
Actually yes, that should work; the install media for GNU/Hurd and
kFreeBSD are doing exactly th
On Feb 26, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
Basically, we put a lot of effort in for the isolinux-based x86 boot
menus to give the options here. I've added code to debian-cd to
convert those same menus into grub format for UEFI x86 booting. AFAIK
none of the other arches have that suppor
On Mar 3, 2013, at 7:03 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
Gah. Looking further, at the moment I don't see how (if at all) the
powerpc boot stuff passes through any of the kernel boot options to
specify a default task. Rick, what happens if you try with kde CD#1
right now? Does it actually do KDE, or d
On Mar 3, 2013, at 7:03 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 02:58:54PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 02:52:50PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 12:56:10AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
The following desktop environments are available
On Mar 3, 2013, at 5:07 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 01:46:06PM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Mar 3, 2013, at 7:03 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
Gah. Looking further, at the moment I don't see how (if at all) the
powerpc boot stuff passes through any of the kernel
OK,
Sounds great!
I'll give it a try on a couple of old Macs over the weekend.
Enjoy!
Rick
On Mar 7, 2013, at 12:16 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 12:49:54AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
# cat /proc/cmdline # in the F2 console during the installation
ro ramdisk
nome, kde, xfce and lxde. The default is gnome.
If you prefer a different one, append
"desktop="
Details are discussed in the installer manual at
Enjoy!
Rick
On Mar 7, 2013, at 11:55 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
OK,
Sounds great!
I'll give it a try on a couple of old Macs
I'll be happy to.
Do you specifically want the "mini.iso"? Or would "buisnesscard" do
just as well?
If I don't hear back I'll try both.
Enjoy!
Rick
On Sep 8, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
severity 553463 important
tags 553463 moreinfo
thanks
Sorry, Rick, for not coming ba
I lack experience in both). It basically an up-to-
date
yaboot (1.3.16) + debian modifications from 1.3.13a (some were already
integrated upstream) + Rogério Brito's debian packaging enhancements
+
some patches (namely Rick Thomas' quotes and spaces fix for latest
linux-base, and the
Holger,
Thanks for your helpful replies.
Can we keep this bug report open, as a way of tracking this issue in
the period before Wheezy release?
While I understand that the debate has passed and it's probably too
late to get the radical changes the OP requested, perhaps there's
still some
On Jun 19, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
For Wheezy, and for quite a time, the Call For Proposals [1] it's
open and the process will follow.
1 - http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes
Well, as I said,
I've decided that, unfortunately, I can't win that argument.
So I'm t
Package: installation-reports
Version: 2.47
Severity: grave
Tags: d-i
Justification: renders installer CD unusable
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version:
/cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso
(23-Jul-2012 07:59 635M)
Date: 2012/07/
I just downloaded and burned the PowerPC Netinst CD and did an install
with it.
Specifically,
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso
Daily build #3 for powerpc, using installer build from sid
This build fi
See my suggestions at the bottom of this report...
On Aug 20, 2012, at 9:40 AM, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
In case it matters: The computer's CD drive is broken and it cannot
AFAIK boot from USB media, so I downloaded the files and instructed
On Aug 18, 2012, at 2:02 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I just downloaded and burned the PowerPC Netinst CD and did an
install with it.
Specifically,
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso
Daily build #3 for powerpc
On Sep 2, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Sep 2, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
tags 686471 pending
thanks
On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 02:37:08PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Sep 2, 2012, at 1:31 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
I've not done anything like isohybrid for ppc a
On Sep 7, 2012, at 1:51 AM, Herbert Kaminski wrote:
Comments/Problems:
2. The installation did not detect the existing Lubuntu 10.04
and wanted to install grub into the master boot record (I did not
allow that).
3. the grub installer was unable to install grub into any partition of
the
On Sep 7, 2012, at 11:33 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com):
PS: Is anybody working on this bug? It would be a shame if it got
into beta2... I'd be happy to take a look and see if I could find
anything, but I don't know where to look. Can some
On Sep 9, 2012, at 6:35 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Feedback for this release
=
We need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, so
please
try it. Installer CDs, other media and everything else you will need
are
available at our web site[3].
I ju
On Sep 10, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Karsten Merker wrote:
I do not think that making the default desktop environment
dependent on the type of the installation medium would be a good
idea; that would cause much confusion IMHO.
This was discussed years ago, but (with some trepidation) I'd like to
b
On Sep 10, 2012, at 10:16 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com):
I'll be happy to provide installation log files to anyone who wants
them.
I'd also be happy to look at the relevant code and see if I can
figure out what's wrong, but I don'
On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I have not tried running os-prober from the -F2 console during
the install, to see if it gives different results. I'll do that and
report back. Any hints of things I should be looking out for?
Here's the stderr/stdout output when
On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:41 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com):
On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I have not tried running os-prober from the -F2 console
during the install, to see if it gives different results. I'll do
that and report
On 09/12/12 23:22, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:41 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com):
On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I have not tried running os-prober from the -F2 console
during the install, to see if it gives different
On 09/13/12 01:15, Rick Thomas wrote:
The "umount: can't umount..." error message went away, but the three 'no
such disk' messages remained. And grub install still objected because
there was only one OS...
I've attached the relevant section of /var/log/inst
On 09/13/12 01:15, Rick Thomas wrote:
On 09/12/12 23:22, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:41 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com):
On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I have not tried running os-prober from the -F2 console
during
On Sep 13, 2012, at 5:49 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
When I load the fuse module manually os-prober works fine.
Therefore solution for bug reports 684265, 686314, 686631, 687286 is
to
create fuse-modules udeb package. Patch is available here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=
On Sep 15, 2012, at 8:36 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 14:58 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
[...]
1) It seems likely that adding a udeb for fuse-modules will allow os-
prober to identify other Linux OS root partitions and get them added
to the boot-loader config file... But only
On Sep 24, 2012, at 6:26 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
Please file a separate debian-installer bug report for problems
related
to finding other OS's on LVM partitions.
Milan
Well... I tried it on a machine that was not using LVM, and got the
same results.
So the bug isn't fixed yet.
Ric
On Sep 24, 2012, at 6:26 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
Please file a separate debian-installer bug report for problems
related
to finding other OS's on LVM partitions.
Milan
OK, here it is: Bug#690515
I hope it's an easy fix. It would be a shame to see it get into
beta3...
Rick
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