Bug#268484: Installation report

2004-08-27 Thread peter green
sounds like it didn't pick up the default gateway what if anything does the route command output after the network is brought up -Original Message- From: Tim Douglas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 August 2004 01:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug#268484: Installation report

RE: RE/FW: Please stop sending me emails

2004-08-28 Thread peter green
may i ask why [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't go straight to the listmasters? -Original Message- From: Martin Schulze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 August 2004 08:08 To: Peter Green Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE/FW: Please stop sending me emails peter

RE: RE/FW: Please stop sending me emails

2004-08-28 Thread peter green
it may have been caused by admin action on his side during the height of the problem i sent a rather strongly worded email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about the issue and it may be that they have taken action to disable his broken mail system -Original Message- From: John Summerfield

is this a bug

2004-09-17 Thread peter green
debain installer seems unable to load net drivers from the second floppy drive is this a bug and if so where should it be reported -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: is this a bug

2004-09-17 Thread peter green
sounds like it the boot floppy was still in the first floppy drive at the time -Original Message- From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 September 2004 01:24 To: peter green Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: is this a bug peter green wrote: debain installer seems

bypassing partman

2004-09-17 Thread peter green
for various reasons i want to be able to use debian installer to install on a block device that is not a partition is there any way to bypass partman and set up the mappings between mountpoints and block devices manually? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

RE: bypassing partman

2004-09-23 Thread peter green
: bypassing partman On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 02:19:10AM +0100, peter green wrote: for various reasons i want to be able to use debian installer to install on a block device that is not a partition is there any way to bypass partman and set up the mappings between mountpoints and block

RE: bypassing partman

2004-09-23 Thread peter green
One way to cheat is to configure some partition sheme by partman and then to change it manualy acording to your needs. Then the system will know that partman is configured and will not restart it. this assumes that your system has block devices that patman recognises at all -- To

Re: Cant boot NSLU2 after successful installation

2008-07-19 Thread peter green
Mark Thommyppillai wrote: Is there anything else I could try? You could solder on a serial port so you can watch the boot process and see where it fails. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#492751: Lenny beta 2 dies on boot up

2008-07-28 Thread peter green
I have successfully loaded an earlier build of lenny on the same hardware. Checking Google, I found a long discussion of the problem at: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/949548 This suggests that the lenny beta 2 kernel may not work with my processor. Is this something

Bug#496981: win32-loader fails if a directory already exists who's name matches debian in windows case insenstive matching but not in grubs matching (Which I presume is case sensive)

2008-08-28 Thread peter green
package: win32-loader severity: important justification: renders the package unusable for some users. according to [EMAIL PROTECTED] win32-loader will use an existing directory that matches debian in the windows filesystem. Unfortunately grub's filename matching and windows are different

Re: Case sensitive path name in windows based installer

2008-08-28 Thread peter green
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run the windows based installer but after reboot grub won't boot and shown his prompt. After a little investigation I discovered grub was asked to look for image files to load from a debian directory in the Windows disk but they were in Debian directory instead.

Bug#497998: trying to install debian armel in qemu-system-arm fails to detect network

2008-09-05 Thread peter green
package: installation-reports Package: installation-reports Boot method: kernel and initrd passed to qemu on command line Image version: daily build downloaded on sat 6 sep 2008 from http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/armel/images/daily/versatile/netboot/ Date: sat 6 sep 2008 Machine:

nano doesn't work in shell launched from D-I menu

2008-10-14 Thread peter green
I wanted to make some small tweaks to the setup before rebooting at the end of the install so I could run the system using qemu in nographic mode after installing it using the graphical mode. So I backed out to the menu and selected the option to launch a shell, chrooted into the target and

Bug#363049: probably found the reason for this ...

2008-11-08 Thread peter green
The solution Sven has proposed can be improved, without all the mirror bloat, I think. The sane thing to do would be for debootstrap to default to what's in /etc/apt/sources.list when no mirror is given. This avoids the logistical nightmare of having to make and update $arch.ftp.debian.org

Re: [RFC] IMPORTANT: Cleaning l10n-sync damage from D-I SVN repository

2009-06-04 Thread peter green
3) The relevant versions are now no longer available anywhere [2]: they are no longer in the archive and we don't have a snapshot.d.n for that period. I don't think this statement is correct. snapshot.debian.net seems to have all dates up to and including 2009/03/28, that date is after

Bug#407460: USB ethernet interface renamed after installation on NSLU2 which causes the system to be inaccessible

2007-01-19 Thread peter green
However, when booting after the installation, the NPE driver seems to assume control of the interface name eth0, which causes something to rename the interface of the USB to ethernet adapter to eth1_rename. it sounds to me like the built in nic is getting detected first before the USB to

Bug#407696: add a guided partitioning option for resizing an existing partition

2007-01-20 Thread peter green
package: debian-installer currently to use guided partitioning on a system with no unpartitioned free space the user must go into manual partitioning, resize the existing partition and then go back out of manual partitioning and select guided using the largest free space, this is somewhat

Bug#407759: Set-up attempt failed.

2007-01-20 Thread peter green
The install did not find the CDROM drives. As a workarround you might like to try installing using the boot, root, net-drivers 1 and net-drivers 2 floppies.

Bug#407689: tasksel: Please consider adding a Development task for Etch

2007-01-22 Thread peter green
The problem with adding a development task has always been, and continues to be, that people do not use the same tools for development, and that there are no good defaults beyond basic C-style development tools. mind you a similar thing applies to say the file server task, there are at

Bug#408641: asks user to select disk to partition, even if there's only one disk

2007-01-27 Thread peter green
Partman (guided partitioning) will still ask the user to select which disk to partition, even if there's only one disk. personally i think its better that it asks consider the situation where a user has two drives but the one they want to use for debian is not detected. then they select the

Bug#410224: give the user the ability to answer conffile prompts during installation

2007-02-08 Thread peter green
package:debian-installer severity:wishlist conffile prompts should not happen during installation (unless of course the admin uses a vt to edit files manually), but sometimes they do due to bugs in packages or other issues. just freezing with the conffile prompt on another vt and worse no way

Bug#410218: etch RC1 release installation

2007-02-08 Thread peter green
-Original Message- From: Wojciech Zareba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 February 2007 16:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug#410218: etch RC1 release installation Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD netinst default install Image version:

RE: RFC auth patch

2007-02-15 Thread peter green
I think this is worth putting in because it's useful both when a key expires and you still need to use old installation media, and when installing from an unofficial, unsigned mirror, like the one the armel port is using. I haven't tested the code yet, but I will before I commit, if people

Bug#411552: please set a timeout in syslinux screen

2007-02-19 Thread peter green
That is obviously a problem, but so is d-i booting unexpectedly. D-I doesn't touch anything until told to does it? i don't really see how unexpectedly ending up at the first screen of the installer is any worse than unexpectedly ending up at the syslinux boot prompt, either way you just

Bug#411552: please set a timeout in syslinux screen

2007-02-20 Thread peter green
-Original Message- From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 February 2007 08:36 To: Robert Millan; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug#411552: please set a timeout in syslinux screen Here are some scenarios to consider: * Suppose that I'm blind. I put in the CD, reboot,

Bug#412249: please install resolvconf by default

2007-02-24 Thread peter green
Unfortunately, adding good DNS via network-admin doesn't archieve the same effect, because dhclient will overwrite /etc/resolv.conf whenever it's run the most obvious question would be why doesn't network-admin know this and do something about it? , which is going to be quite often if you

RE: Filesystem type survives formatting in debian installer?

2007-02-28 Thread peter green
oops forgot to send this to the list The problem does not relate to d-i per se. What's happening is that luks creates its header in the first bytes of the partition (so generally at bytes 0 - 300 or so). ext3 any some other file systems create their header at an offset of 2 blocks (or

RE: Filesystem type survives formatting in debian installer?

2007-02-28 Thread peter green
this sounds like a bug in mke2fs to me, it is not cleaning up the sectors before its header and as a result the partition gets misrecognised. I think it's there because some arches and some partitioning schemes actually have real data in the first sector which can't be overwritten or

Bug#412916: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-02-28 Thread peter green
I want to install the distribution debian for ia64 and when i restart de the PC with the bootable installation CD inside it does not work, the pc read from CD but the installation doesn't start. What can i do?. With the distribution for i386 it works perfectly. The core 2 duo is not an

RE: Filesystem type survives formatting in debian installer?

2007-03-01 Thread peter green
Looking for the signatures seem superflous, I was suggesting that because of the metion previously in the discussion that some systems apprently didn't like it being zero'd out, only nuking known problem partition signatures would be much less likely to cause other issues than nuking anything

Bug#412982: installation-reports: Enabling 'sudo' in installer skips setting root password and breaks desktop root tasks

2007-03-02 Thread peter green
reopen 412982 reassign 412982 gnome thanks The Gnome date/time applet asks for the root password. The user password doesn't work. this sounds like a gnome bug then, it really should be able to handle the case with the root account disabled but sudo availible.

Bug#413248: installation-reports: (etch) strangeness with non-ASCII-character filenames on vfat partition

2007-03-03 Thread peter green
It could also be that there really is an issue with the display of VFAT filenames if UTF-8 is used, but that would not be my first guess. Anyway, I doubt this would be an installer issue as there is no real way for the installer to determine the correct settings. VFAT stores filenames in

RE: Etch netinstaller has no eth0 in qemu

2007-03-05 Thread peter green
Be fscking intelligent and *leave* a download for everyone to pick it up, before you replace it. Leave older versions in separate directories and just change the link to it. Be fscking intelligent and try this: wget

Bug#413248: success with 'utf8' vfat mount option

2007-03-05 Thread peter green
AFAICT this option is relevant not only for vfat, but also for ntfs and iso9660, but _not_ for fat16. afaict it is not relavent for partitions mounted as dos (no long filenames) but it *is* relavent for fat12 and fat16 partitions mounted as vfat and using long filenames.

RE: (d-i) download improvements

2007-03-05 Thread peter green
This is a problem though, using symlinks for the downloads like this rather than just updating the links essentially means that any user who doesn't pay carefull attention to how things are done and has a long download containing resumes (e.g. a user who has a slow and unstable internet

RE: Etch netinstaller has no eth0 in qemu

2007-03-05 Thread peter green
Updating the links on a daily basis synchronised with CD builds is unfortunately not possible given the design of the Debian website. would it be possible soloution to make the links on the debian-installer page point to a page hosted on the cdimage server (and therefore able to updated by the

RE: [PATCH] make multi-arch CD/DVD images more visible

2007-03-05 Thread peter green
This has certainly appened, *but* I have only see it happen with downloads of Sarge images as amd64 are not mentioned on the sarge pages (because it was not a release arch). To the best of my recollection, I have never yet seen this happen with Etch images. me neither but from the posts

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-06 Thread peter green
I urge you to reconsider severity of this problem. There's another situation that makes it much worse: The correct solution is to make d-i use labels in fstab and to find the root file system. udev has not much to do with this. Which will enable a whole lot of other broken setups.

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread peter green
-Original Message- From: Marco d'Itri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 March 2007 11:05 To: Robert Millan [ackstorm] Cc: Mike Hommey; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-release@lists.debian.org Subject: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug On Mar 07, Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread peter green
by-uuid contains my two ext3 partitions but not my swap partition, it also seems like it may be vulnerable to becoming confused. Only if the admin is a moron and keeps around multiple file systems cloned with dd. are you calling it moronic to make a backup of a partition by dding to to a

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread peter green
I don't know how invasive those changes might be. AFAIK Ubuntu already does it (Colin?) and wouldn't be too hard to pick the changes from them but we would also need RM and Frans approval :( ubuntu already does what? there are four possible soloutions proposed aren't there (labels in fstab

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread peter green
I don't believe this should be changed for etch at this point in the release process, and that's speaking as someone who's run into this problem myself with SCSI device renumbering -- it's awkward and annoying to have to manually fiddle your boot config because a USB device is no longer

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-08 Thread peter green
UUIDs certainly have their disadvantages (verbosity being the main one), but they're a hell of a lot better than labels for automatic use like this. UUIDs are suitable for automatic generation while labels should only be set by the sysadmin. The fiasco with Red Hat's installer setting labels

Bug#413788: Daily Etch build fails to install on iMac G5 - Ethernet not detected

2007-03-09 Thread peter green
-Original Message- From: Mike Hore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 March 2007 01:40 To: Frans Pop Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug#413788: Daily Etch build fails to install on iMac G5 - Ethernet not detected Hi again Frans, On Thursday 08 March 2007 02:30, Mike Hore

Bug#407689: tasksel: Please consider adding a Development task for Etch

2007-03-10 Thread peter green
I've added module-assistant to forcd1. build-essential was already included. are the kernel headers for the standard debian kernels on CD1 as well? module assistant isn't going to be much use without those.

Bug#414683: d-i RC2 installation report

2007-03-14 Thread peter green
I am still not sure my failure was not due to a misconfigured network/router but the D-Link DI-524 used usually works fine for me. can you check if the default gateway is set and if there is something sane in resolv.conf within the installer environment? failing that try starting the

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-14 Thread peter green
Personally I also feel that all possible solutions effectively make /etc/fstab unreadable and unmaintainable. Maybe Debian should lead the way to make /etc/fstab a generated file (like e.g. modules.conf used to be). what is so bad about /dev/disk/by-path/pci-:00:07.1-ide-0:0-part1 ?

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-14 Thread peter green
That it's not a persistent means of identifying a filesystem. for most users fstab has always identified by rough position (e.g. hda=ide primary master), changing to a system based on partition IDs would mean a lot of relearning for admins (e.g. its no longer ok to backup a partition by

Bug#416115: pitfal: no mention of /etc/modules

2007-03-24 Thread peter green
There is no mention of updating /etc/modules. Without a network driver, or something else equally critical, you may find your remote dedicated box happily running while noone can ssh into it. afaict nowadays /etc/modules isn't really nessacery anymore and can even cause upgrade problems. If

Bug#415989: Debootstrap Warning : [...]/packages.gz was corrupt

2007-03-25 Thread peter green
PS: Is there a way to fix memory hardware issues ? if you can get the system working well enough to install and compile stuff (say by pulling out some of the memory) you can build a custom kernel with the badram patches. Then put the bad memory back in, run a memory test and use the

RE: the future of the netinst image

2007-03-26 Thread peter green
http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ A network install or netinst CD is a single CD which enables you to install the entire operating system. This single CD contains just the minimal amount of software to start the installation and fetch the remaining packages over the Internet. This is

Bug#419211: d-i fails in fetching Release.gpg in netboot install of etch r0

2007-04-16 Thread peter green
Of course, while this is the correct default behavior, it seems reasonable to me that we should allow users to override it with preseeding or the like, so that's IMHO a valid wishlist request. a related issue is if you have a cd not loaded through the CD mechanism for whatever reason and

RE: nano-udeb: Depends: libc6 (= 2.5)

2007-04-25 Thread peter green
-Original Message- From: Geert Stappers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 April 2007 22:15 To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: nano-udeb: Depends: libc6 (= 2.5) Op 21-04-2007 om 16:40 schreef Frans Pop: On Saturday 21 April 2007 09:13, Geert Stappers wrote: When

RE: floppies, a radical proposal

2007-05-31 Thread peter green
I wonder what program keeps track of all the data that comes from the floppies. For this to work it would be nessacery to modify the bootloader (iirc the floppies use syslinux) to read the extra floppies and do something with them (say append them to the end of the initrd and pass some kernel

Re: USB-floppy install problem

2007-06-11 Thread peter green
peter green wrote: Greg Flynn wrote: Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 11 June 2007 02:51, Greg Flynn wrote: I'm trying to install debian 4.0r0 via the floppy images. The laptop is a Averatec 3200 series laptop with AMD Athlon XP-m 2000+, 256MB RAM, a dead DVD-ROM/CD-RW (will not work at all

Bug#260970: stuck at low memory prompt

2004-07-22 Thread peter green
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: downloaded on 20040723 (image dated 22-Jul-2004) http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/ uname -a: The result of running uname -a on a shell prompt Date: 200407 Method: floppy boot planing to network install Machine: vmware

my first impressions of your installer

2004-07-24 Thread peter green
i was installing this in vmware using the daily snapshot floppies after getting round the low memory bug i mentioned a day or so ago (now apparently fixed) by giving the virtual machine more ram i progressed with the install without too many problems however i noticed the following 1: in the

RE: Cannot install any debian - no kernels support USB net cards?

2004-07-24 Thread peter green
i would use the full woody cd1 and deal with netwokring after install -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 July 2004 01:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cannot install any debian - no kernels support USB net cards? I'm not sure if this is a bug

RE: RE: Cannot install any debian - no kernels support USB net cards?

2004-07-25 Thread peter green
1. the module wasn't compiled into the default installed kernel 2. when I tried to add it - either as module or compiled in - the option was simply absent from the kernel config. what kernel source were you buiding from? i suggest you use the 2.4.26 source direct from kernel.org to build

RE: my first impressions of your installer

2004-07-25 Thread peter green
5: there was no mention of secuirty updates (is this because the secuirty updated for sarge aren't aranged yet?) This is also by design, and is because security updates are used by default. well it didn't put any security updates line in my sources.list 6: the timezone selection what

RE: my first impressions of your installer

2004-07-25 Thread peter green
-Original Message- From: Christian Perrier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 July 2004 22:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: my first impressions of your installer Quoting peter green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): im in england i selected english the language selection list makes

Bug#261887: 8139too and sis900 install bug

2004-07-28 Thread peter green
the woodyinstall kernels should only be used for installation at least in the case of the bf24 one they no longer get security updates (there is at leastlocal root exploit in the bf24 kernel unforutunately the fix for this caused module breakage which is why bf24 was not updated) either

RE: modconf maintainance - status and future?

2004-08-01 Thread peter green
i would leave the code old in the old repostry so the old history is preserved maybe add a notice there about the move though -Original Message- From: Frank Lichtenheld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Frank Lichtenheld Sent: 01 August 2004 23:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE:

2004-08-04 Thread peter green
can we keep messages to this list in english please -Original Message-From: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 04 August 2004 08:50To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: 3 ,, ,

RE: Boot problems with grub and 4GB+

2004-08-04 Thread peter green
or just default to lilo altogether unless there is some other major advantage to grub ofc -Original Message- From: Goswin von Brederlow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 August 2004 22:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Boot problems with grub and 4GB+ Hi, grub still has

RE: [Manual] installer-manual on the website (was: release plans for website?)

2004-08-05 Thread peter green
imho content negotiation should only be used for initial pages and there should be an easy way to choose language manually if content negotiation gets it wrong -Original Message- From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 August 2004 18:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

RE: Opinion about sarge install

2004-08-08 Thread peter green
It would probably be interesting and useful for the X packaging team to see a diff between the config that was generated from configuring X and the config you ultimately had to use to get X working. In my experience, provided you give the X configuration the right input, it does a reasonable

RE: X configuration (was Opinion about sarge install)

2004-08-08 Thread peter green
- From: Andrew Pollock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 August 2004 03:31 To: peter green Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Opinion about sarge install On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 11:56:00PM +0100, peter green wrote: It would probably be interesting and useful for the X

RE: LILO versus GRUB

2004-08-11 Thread peter green
unlike with redhat the installer is not generally used for upgrading just edit /etc/apt/sources.list then run apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade -Original Message- From: GEOFF BAGLEY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 August 2004 11:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LILO versus

RE: LILO versus GRUB

2004-08-11 Thread peter green
note upgrading with apt-get won't change your kernel if you wan't to use a new kernel then you should either install a kernel-image package explicitly or compile your own kernel from source I wish to use the new installer in order to make configuration of my various Ethernet NICs (on three

RE: LILO versus GRUB

2004-08-11 Thread peter green
of whether the sender was on the list or not -Original Message- From: Geoff Bagley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 August 2004 13:41 To: peter green Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LILO versus GRUB Many thanks Peter. By the way, I am getting two copies of each of your posts

stable/testing/unstable vs woody/sarge/sid

2004-08-14 Thread peter green
afaict the installer currently uses the first of theesee possibilities (stable/testing/unstable) in sources.list this means that when there is another release users will get automatically updated from one stable release to the next possiblly when they are really not expecting it it would seem

RE: [coLinux-devel] Re: debian (sarge rc1) installer and colinux (snapshot 20040710)

2004-08-26 Thread peter green
PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sven Luther Sent: 25 August 2004 09:13 To: peter green Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [coLinux-devel] Re: debian (sarge rc1) installer and colinux (snapshot 20040710) On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 07:40:17PM +0100, peter green wrote: cobd0 alias=hda

RE/FW: Please stop sending me emails

2004-08-27 Thread peter green
can someone please remove this guy from the list before his bloody autoresponders drive us all crazy -Original Message- From: Frank Carmickle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 August 2004 21:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Please stop sending me emails THIS IS AN

RE: [PROPOSAL] 2.4.27 as default 2.4 kernel for sarge

2004-08-27 Thread peter green
-Original Message- From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 August 2004 22:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] 2.4.27 as default 2.4 kernel for sarge Raphael Hertzog wrote: Quoting Joey Hess: 15. Get ftp-master to

RE: RE/FW: Please stop sending me emails

2004-08-27 Thread peter green
01:39 To: peter green Cc: Frank Carmickle; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE/FW: Please stop sending me emails On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 09:48:14PM +0100, peter green wrote: can someone please remove this guy from the list before his bloody autoresponders drive us all

Bug#475908: please support MBR+GPT hybrid partition tables

2008-04-13 Thread peter green
package: partman severity: wishlist On mutliboot intel based macs the normal partition table type is a MBR+GPT hybrid. Currently when used with such a partition table partman destroys the MBR parition table causing bootloader installation to fail and thus making installing debian on such

Bug#475908: please support MBR+GPT hybrid partition tables

2008-04-15 Thread peter green
Does libparted have support for that kind of partition table? it doesn't look like it (both parted and gparted also detect the partition table type as GPT). If not, it would have to be implemented there first. ok -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-16 Thread peter green
I am wondering if it is a good idea to remove lilo entirely. At the moment, lilo has been pulled from testing, and the code is in a shape Can either version of grub handle all the cases that lilo can? for example can either of them handle the situation where root is on lvm and there is

Re: lower priority for grub-installer/only_debian ?

2007-09-14 Thread peter green
Although, this needs proper documentation and warnings in the installer manual and future release notes: like Christian noted, this can be bad if os-prober fails to do its job. This is a bit like the issue of whether to prompt for which drive to use, IMO the risk if detection goes wrong is

Re: Criteria to activate languages in D-I?

2007-11-17 Thread peter green
Well, my reasoning was simple: if we drop a language, then the only solution for users is installing in English, right? Think of a user who speaks some minority language well and a major language other than english reasonablly but thier knowlage of english is very poor/nonexistant. Such a

Bug#452695: d-i manual: please add some more info about using defrag on windows partitions

2007-11-24 Thread peter green
While preparing this, I noticed that there is no hint in the manual, that in such cases man should use the defrag program to put all data on the ntfs partition together to one block. (defrag program is only mentioned in chapter about non-debian partitioning, but using defrag is also

Re: r50470 - trunk/packages/kbd-chooser/debian

2007-12-17 Thread peter green
But it would affect an 'aptitude reinstall' of the package. As the user did not _himself_ ask for a seen flag to be set here (as in the case of preseeding [2]), I did not consider this a very nice solution. The user has effectively seen the question, they were just asked it by d-i instead

RE: NTFS resize in partman

2004-09-29 Thread peter green
sarge release seems to be delayed indefinately by some issue with the testing-secuirty autobuilders noone seems to be reavealing just what is wrong with them though?! a little offtopic i know but does anyone know what is holding them up? -Original Message- From: Kenshi Muto

Bug#274615: Add CDROM fails due to broken symlink and no error notification

2004-10-02 Thread peter green
i had a similar problem once when installing sarge on vmware the vmware system crashed very dirtily during base config (this was nothing to do with debian it was an external usb hard drive on the windows side that decided to hang it has done this several times usring other things) anyway after

RE: Dropping 386 support

2004-10-03 Thread peter green
calling stuff i386 when it will not run natively on a 386 seems like asking for confustion to me why and when was this instruction emulation needed in the first place (that is why and when was the userland changed to need it) -Original Message- From: Adeodato Simó [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Dropping 386 support

2004-10-04 Thread peter green
: 04 October 2004 14:33 To: Peter Green Cc: Adeodato Simó; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dropping 386 support peter green wrote: calling stuff i386 when it will not run natively on a 386 seems like asking for confustion to me True, but we're way

Re: [RFC] Consequences for official CD/DVD images for Lenny

2008-12-03 Thread peter green
The i386/amd64/powerpc DVD is more problematic as having all desktops will completely fill the DVD leaving no room for other packages with a high popcon score. Proposal is therefore to drop powerpc support from this DVD. With only i386 and amd64 there is still room for the top ~2600 packages

missing floppy images

2006-10-28 Thread peter green
http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current/images/ floppy/ the net drivers and cd drivers are there but boot and root are missing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#395911: error mounting/creating filesystems windowswindow~1.log is 92k, but it has 41 clusters (164k)

2006-10-28 Thread peter green
windowswindow~1.log is 92k, but it has 41 clusters (164k) ERROR !!! Ignore Cancel dmesg -c on second console didnt showed anything relevant, only information that swap was mounted/added. Perhaps the fat system there was damaged before and debian tried to mount it? But if so then this

Bug#402482: tried to reproduce and failed.

2006-12-16 Thread peter green
i've tried to reproduce this bug but failed btw in the process of trying this i discovered that busybox --install doesn't seem to work either i had to manually copy busybox and make a symlink for this test. debian:~/busyboxinstall# cp /bin/busybox . debian:~/busyboxinstall# ln -s gunzip

Bug#403890: installation successfull with some manual work

2006-12-20 Thread peter green
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD boot with nothing extra typed at boot prompt Image version: Etch RC1 full CD 1 Date: Date and time of the install Machine: maxdata PC Processor: celeron D (at least according to the label on the front) Memory: 256MB Partitions: df -Tl

Bug#403890: oops forgot to finish off the report

2006-12-20 Thread peter green
it should have said and windows still booted fine afterwards.

kde/gnome/xfce media other than full CDs

2006-12-20 Thread peter green
it has recently been announced that there will be seperate CDs for kde/gnome/xfce with different desktop tasks and package selections. but what is the plan for other means of installation (buisnesscard/netinst/floppies/netboot)? will there be 3 seperate desktop tasks listed? will there be one

Bug#403890: installation successfull with some manual work

2006-12-20 Thread peter green
This was possible in export installs and this is still possible in expert installs. The behaviour has not changed with regard to that matter. i'm pretty sure i've never intentionally booted d-i in expert mode, and when i did a sarge install i'm pretty sure i managed to skip creating a

Bug#403890: installation successfull with some manual work

2006-12-20 Thread peter green
Not sure what was wrong here, but it does not seem like something we can fix in the installer. well ntfsfix cleared up the journal and made it work so it would presumablly be possible to do that, i dunno how safe ntfsfix is though. btw why do you ask for installation reports even on

Bug#377032: i'm thinking

2006-12-29 Thread peter green
wouldn't it be more sensible to combine the protocol, hostname, port (if such a question exists) and directory questions into a single request for a mirror url?

Bug#377032: i'm thinking

2006-12-29 Thread peter green
For experienced users, yes. For newbies, definitely not (IMNSHO). For them, the only really variable part they understand is the hostname, the rest is goobleycook. Feel free to try to convince me otherwise. imho there are only two classes of people who are likely to be using the manual

Bug#404972: Minor problems with Notebook HP nc 6000

2006-12-29 Thread peter green
In particular, it kept waiting at the fd0 lines, so what I think is that it had troubles with that. This notebook does NOT have a floppy drive, so I guess that the long wait is related to fd0 timing out. is this by any chance one of those laptops where the bios thinks there is a floppy

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