Richard Owlett wrote:
OK, it is a hot button issue with me as I'm on dialup. Causes me to
wait until DVD's are available from vendors.
I don't understand how having or not having DVD isos on the Debian ftp
site affects you. You say you are on dialup. You are not going to be
able to download
Phillip Susi wrote:
After patching debootstrap to add eatmydata to the required list,
and activate it during the second stage install, the time to
construct the chroot dropped from 10m to 2m. This should also make
installing new systems MUCH faster.
I have also been suffering with the much
Phillip Susi wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
# time debootstrap wheezy testinstall
http://localmirror/ftp.us.debian.org/debian ... real2m58.577s
user0m49.639s sys 0m8.749s
Wow, that's pretty fast.
2m58s was the slow time. 1m4.819s was the fast time. :-)
I was testing on a server
Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Also, is there anyone aware of any reasons against switching to
graphical installer by default?
Can I at least say that I don't like the mouse installer and much
prefer the standard keyboard one?
I don't have any issues with it. I just don't like it.
Bob
I see somewhat strange behavior on the display when the installer gets
to the part about setting up the clock and contacting the ntp server.
The progress bar says 0%, then 3%, then 0%, then 3%, then 0%, then 3%,
back and forth several times for the space of many seconds before it
eventually
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
This is really an upgrade report. I am upgrading from Squeeze to
Wheezy.
I am trying to support a site running Debian with many systems with an
ASUS F1A75-M LE motherboard. This hardware runs the Squeeze Linux
2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel without
Package: debian-installer
Severity: important
I am testing Wheezy. Good deal! However I am running into some
differences from Squeeze that are causing problems. Here is the
first. I can't preseed the keyboard with Wheezy. Works fine with
Squeeze. But Wheezy stops and asks the keyboard
Samuel Thibault wrote:
Bob Proulx, le Fri 16 Nov 2012 18:43:19 -0700, a écrit :
I am specifying console-keymaps-at/keymap=us locale=en_US on the
command line but it is being ignored.
See the updated preseed documentation: use keymap=us instead.
That did work. Therefore I am happy
Steve Langasek wrote:
Michael Biebl wrote:
To me it looks like there is broad consensus that a separate /usr
partition should be considered deprecated and this option removed from
the installer.
There isn't. There's just a broad consensus among those who are talking
about changing
Package: os-prober
Version: 1.49
Severity: wishlist
Since os-prober is run by default when grub is updated upon a kernel
upgrade it causes a lot of noise to appear to the syslog. Since
scanning the syslog for errors is good practice it means that there is
more information to scan through and to
reassign 443979 linux-image-2.6-486
retitle 443979 Linux boot hangs on AMD Geode GX systems
thanks
I am reassigning this to the kernel package. It isn't an installer
problem. Hoping that this will get different exposure and that
someone reading it will have some insight into the problem.
Bob
Regarding the failure to load Debian 2.6 kernels on a Geode system...
Geert Stappers wrote:
Op 09-03-2008 om 21:32 schreef Frans Pop:
This is obviously not so much an installer issues, but more a kernel issue.
Agreed. But finding this report I decided to add to it. Feel free to
reassign
Steven Tupper wrote:
Machine: ETX-LX-800 R10 board on an mini ITX base board
Processor: AMD Geode GX MMX 500MHz
Memory: 256MB + 8MB graphics
Comments/Problems:
I run up the system and it boots to the cd which runs the Debian
installer app. I get the splash screen with the 'F1 or enter'
Frans Pop wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
In the middle of the installation the installation failed (red
background screen) with a printer configuration failed message. I do
not have a printer attached to the machine. I think a lot of machines
will be without a printer attached. I think
Rajkumar S wrote:
I am installing debian on a embedded machine with a 96 mb disk on
module. The network install is working but there isn't enough space for
installation to complete. the /target gets filled up. Since this is
for a firewall device we can trim down the size of base install. I
Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
Are you sure it isn't a DFE-530TX+, which uses the rtl8139.o module?
The rtl8139 is Donald Becker's driver. A fine driver. But not
shipped with Linux. You probably meant the 8139too driver, a forking
of the code, which is shipped with Linux. Either should work fine if
Max wrote:
I have HP 9000/809/k100.
Ooo! A K-class. That was big iron in its day.
When my box boot from Debian 3.0r1 hppa CD ( Interact with IPL (Y or
N)? Y ), i've got message Cannot find ENTRY TEST Status= -4 and
WARN 80F5 on LCD panel status. What is that means? What do I do?
Adam DiCarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-09 09:59:14 -0600]:
As for the issue of the shipped EEPro, are you using the bf2.4 to boot
with or no? This seems like an issue with the stable kernel-source-*
package.
It would seem like an issue for upstream more than for a downstream
package.
Having
Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-09 11:58:02 +0200]:
which kernel version do you have installed? can you boot it using
linux root=/dev/hda1 initrd= from the cdrom boot prompt?
Second that question since I know it is not possible to boot some dual
processor machines with the 2.2
[Petter Reinholdtsen]
[Bob Proulx]
Finally the CD package distribution is not so nice yet. I often see
people say that CD #1 is all that 99% of the population needs. But
having done a CD installation in the last week I disagree.
Currently making my own Debian-based distribution, I
This is the stumbling block that discourages many people from using
Debian. There's a lot of development going on in 'improving' Debian
but there doesn't seem to be any movement on improving the installation
process.
I think there is actually a lot of work going on there. But as has
been
I'm trying to install Debian 3.0 on my system but I cannot install the base
system.
[...]
If your machine has a network connection, you might have better luck with
a network install.
Agreed. If possible to do so then I highly recommend the network
install.
[Chris Tillman]
You know, the official installer is really not that bad!
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
That depends on your point of view. For new Linux users, it is
really, _really_, bad. For more experienced Linux users, it is very
flexible and powerful, but not easy, convenient and fast.
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