Re: Bug#905793: Why does the Installer formats given swap

2018-08-10 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Am Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:00:31 -0400 schrieb lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen): > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 10:08:52AM +0200, Herbert Kaminski wrote: > > Am Thu, 9 Aug 2018 14:14:15 -0400 > > schrieb lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen): > > > &g

Re: Bug#905793: Why does the Installer formats given swap

2018-08-10 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Am Thu, 9 Aug 2018 14:14:15 -0400 schrieb lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen): > [...] > Well 99.9% of installs don't have another linux on the system, ^ Interesting. How did you get that figure? Regards, Herbert

Re: Debian on Qnap TS-109 P II: installation fails

2015-10-24 Thread Herbert Kaminski
ts are still found on ftp.de.debain.org, and security.debian.org still works too. Regards, Herbert -- Herbert Kaminski D-26122 Oldenburg

Bug#767474: Installation kFreeBSD-amd64, Kernel 10.1: OK, but still quirks

2014-11-05 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:41:51 +0100 Herbert Kaminski herbert.kamin...@gmx.de wrote: - in XFCE, all menu entries or buttons to shutdown, reboot etc are greyed, and the notification area in the panel is only a vertcal bar. On the same hardware, I installed linux/XFCE and then removed

Re: Bug#762762: Updating isc-dhcp udeb to dynamically link bind (was: Bug#762762: nmu fixing bind issues)

2014-10-31 Thread Herbert Kaminski
. Thanks. Just tested the netinst daily image as of 2014-10-31: dhcp now works again in the installer. Regards, Herbert -- Herbert Kaminski D-26122 Oldenburg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#767474: Installation kFreeBSD-amd64, Kernel 10.1: OK, but still quirks

2014-10-31 Thread Herbert Kaminski
. This is new with kernel 10.1. So, kFreeBSD on the desktop is usable after some manual intervention, if you do not use a NVidia graphics card. -- Herbert Kaminski D-26122 Oldenburg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Bug#762762: Updating isc-dhcp udeb to dynamically link bind

2014-10-31 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:44:25 +0300 Michael Tokarev m...@tls.msk.ru wrote: 31.10.2014 13:42, Herbert Kaminski wrote: Just tested the netinst daily image as of 2014-10-31: dhcp now works again in the installer. Is it on kfreebsd, or on linux kernel too? I wonder maybe we should switch

Re: Bug#762401: Installation kFreeBSD-amd64: OK with quirks

2014-10-27 Thread Herbert Kaminski
are the same in jessie and sid: 0.3.9~pre1.20080208-9. Regards, Herbert -- Herbert Kaminski D-26122 Oldenburg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#762401: Installation kFreeBSD-amd64: OK with quirks

2014-10-26 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 23:49:52 +0200 Herbert Kaminski herbert.kamin...@gmx.de wrote: After installing the daily build as of 2014-10-24 on very similar hardware, here is some additional info: Installation itself was OK, with some errors in the installed system: - grub-install did not recognize

Bug#766423: Installation-Report kFreeBSD daily build: no progress

2014-10-25 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 01:41:32 +0100 Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org wrote: Herbert Kaminski wrote: Had to switch to VT1 and log in as root, su in the XTerm was unsuccessful Well, this was the consequence of a different bug: the terminal in XFCE uses the US keyboard mapping, not DE

Bug#766423: Installation-Report kFreeBSD daily build: no progress

2014-10-22 Thread Herbert Kaminski
and that are not directly installation problems. So kernel 10.1 solved none of the problems for me. Regards, Herbert -- Herbert Kaminski +49-441-5090133 Memeler Str. 4 26122 Oldenburg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Bug#762401: Installation kFreeBSD-amd64: OK with quirks

2014-10-02 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 23:49:52 +0200 Herbert Kaminski herbert.kamin...@gmx.de wrote: - console (Alt-F1) used DE keymap, but no way to compose special characters like backslash or @ with AltGr+key Meanwhile, I tried many combinations in dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration. At last, I

Bug#762401: Installation kFreeBSD-amd64: OK with quirks

2014-09-24 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 14:08:07 +0100 Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org wrote: On 14:52, Herbert Kaminski wrote: Unfortunately, the output of aptitude search xserver-xorg-video does not show any xserver-xorg-video-nv or -noveau or anything else for NVidia. That's because

Bug#762401: Installation kFreeBSD-amd64: OK with quirks

2014-09-24 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 23:49:52 +0200 Herbert Kaminski herbert.kamin...@gmx.de wrote: - german keymap is mostly OK, except Y and Z are exchanged (as in US map) That turned out to be my own fault: I just selected the wrong entry from the list of german keyboard layouts (XFCE desktop). Regards

Bug#762401: Installation kFreeBSD-amd64: OK with quirks

2014-09-23 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:14:44 +0100 Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org wrote: On 23:49, Herbert Kaminski wrote: 00:12.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation C68 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] [10de:053e] (rev a2) - X server did not recognize optimal screen resolution

Bug#762590: Installation Report: linux-amd64 (daily) mostly OK

2014-09-23 Thread Herbert Kaminski
, mounting the ufs2 file system and copying the relevant parts of the grub.cfg on the BSD system into linux' 40_custom and running update-grub again. This way, I was able to boot into kFreeBSD. Regards, Herbert -- Herbert Kaminski D-26122 Oldenburg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ

Bug#762401: Installation kFreeBSD-amd64: OK with quirks

2014-09-21 Thread Herbert Kaminski
a NTFS bitmap. But I can mount the VFAT filesystem of an USB stick So, to be usable for day to ay work, kFreeBSD needs some polish -- Herbert Kaminski D-26122 Oldenburg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#709843: Partition PBR must always have an OS bootloader (grub)

2013-05-27 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Mon, 27 May 2013 13:15:50 -0400 Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: [...] Debian asks if you want to install to the MBR. DI asks if you want to install grub into the MBR of the disk or a partition, and if you select to install it into your Linux partition, it tells you

Bug#701488: Installation on Toshiba A100 notebook: complete success

2013-02-23 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports Boot method: Netinst iso dd'ed to USB stick Image version: wheezy RC1 Date: 22-FEB-2013 21:00 UTC Machine: Toshiba A100 notebook Processor: Intel Centrino Memory: 3GByte Partitions: guided partitioning - whole disk (1 TByte) Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): see

Bug#694582: installation report Beta-4

2012-11-28 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:43:49 + Brian Potkin claremont...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Before or just after configuring the keyboard get a terminal with ALT F2. 2. Then nano /bin/mountmedia/ 3. Find PARTITION_TYPE=$(blkid -p -s PART_ENTRY_TYPE $1 | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | cut

Bug#694582: installation report Beta-4

2012-11-27 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports Boot method: netinstall, dd'ed to USB stick, text mode Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta4/i386/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b4-i386-netinst.iso Date: 25-NOV-2012 20:00 GMT Machine: Toshiba Satellite A100 Processor: Intel Core2 duo Memory:

Bug#688869: grub-pc installation into a partition fails

2012-09-26 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports Boot method: netboot Image version: http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/i386/daily/netboot/debian-installer/i386/ Date: 2012-09-24 Machine: made from parts Processor: Atlon 64 Memory: 1 GByte Partitions: swap, /boot and /, and spre room for another OS Output of

Bug#686927: installation does not detect existing Lubuntu

2012-09-07 Thread Herbert Kaminski
to be the only problem of wheezy, at least for me. Thanks for your good work! Herbert -- Herbert Kaminski Dipl.Phys. Memeler Str. 4 26122 Oldenburg Fon: 0441-9558938 Fax: -9558939 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#684128: false advertising

2012-08-08 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 07:40:11 +0100 Roger Lynn ro...@rilynn.me.uk wrote: Absolutely agreed. I wouldn't hope to see this fixed for Wheezy - even just changing the wording of the text requires an enormous amount of work at this stage - it's just frustrating to see it apparently being dismissed

Re: Bug#650239: Hello?

2011-12-05 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 10:43:17 -0800 Pa Blum prr.4...@gmail.com wrote: Are you guys going to help me or ain't you? Not that I am one of you guys, but I can predict that if you do not tell them more precisely what you tried to install, they cannot help you. There is a nice template at:

Bug#610715: Acknowledgement (installation report rc1 : regression from beta 2)

2011-01-22 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On 21.01.2011 18:18, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Thank you for filing a new Bug report with Debian. ...but apparently the attachments were too big, so it never hit the mailing list. I resend this bug report without the attachments:

Bug#609388: Unsuccessful installation with squeeze beta2 installer and Realtek RTL8111DL

2011-01-09 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Stephen Conrad schrieb: Networking: Realtek RTL8111DL (integrated, wired) ... ...installer...requesting that rtl8168d-1.fw and rtl8168d-2.fw be provided I have successfully run several installation tests on a similar board with the RTL8111 chip onboard: output of lspci -nn: 02:00.0

Re: Bug#606055: Expert installer freezes when selecting Configure MD devices

2010-12-26 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Adam Nielsen schrieb: I configured all the partitions (mostly by accepting the existing software-RAID configuration and leaving it unchanged except for reformatting everything.) After this the main menu came up with Configure MD devices which I selected, and half an hour later it's still

Bug#608069: installing squeeze daily i386 netboot on LVM on RAID-1: minor grub problem

2010-12-26 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports Boot method: daily netboot image for i386, minimal install Image version: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/debian-installer/i386/ as of 25-DEC-2010 Date: 26-DEC-2010 Machine: made from parts, MoBo Asus A7V133 Processor: AMD Athlon 900

Re: Request for enhancement [Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze]

2010-12-20 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Rick Thomas schrieb: 2) if reformatting is necessary or desired, have the option (default) of preserving the UUID. This would be an useful option for all partitions, not only for swap, for people like me who dare to test DI in a spare partition of their normal workstation. cu Herbert --

Bug#605942: D-I Beta2 installation: problems solved!

2010-12-04 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports Boot method: Beta2 amd64 DVD, selected desktop KDE, text-mode installation Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/.squeeze_beta2/amd64/jigdo-dvd/debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1.jigdo Date: 04-DEC-2010 Machine: made from parts, MoBo Gigabyte Processor: AMD

Bug#600484: Installation report Squeeze Beta1 (RFT) : Grub2 Problems

2010-10-17 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports Boot method: Beta1 (RFT) i386 DVD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/.squeeze_beta1/i386/jigdo-dvd/debian-testing-i386-DVD-1.jigdo Date: 17-OCT-2010 Machine: made from parts, MoBo Gigabyte Processor: AMD Athlon64 X2 5050e 2.6 GHz Memory: 4 Gbyte RAM

Bug#572909: installation on lvm on raid: failed

2010-08-23 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Otavio Salvador schrieb: Herbert, can you reproduce it? We need more information and the syslog file of the installer (gzipped) so we can identify where it is failing. Sorry, the old files are gone, and I am just about to leave for a two weeks vacation. I will try to reproduce the bug when I

Bug#572909: installation on lvm on raid: failed

2010-03-07 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports Boot method: businesscard cd Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso Date: 06-MAR-2010 18:00 Machine: made from parts Processor: Athlon XP 1800+ Memory: 1GByte Partitions:

Bug#514165: D-I RC2 on amd64 - everything OK

2009-02-04 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports Boot method: amd-64 netinst CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_rc2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-Lenny-DI-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso Date: 2009-02-03 Machine: made from parts Processor: AMD Athlon64 X2 (5050e) Memory: 4GiByte Partitions: everything

Bug#513411: Installing daily amd-64: minor problem

2009-01-28 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports Boot method: amd-64 businesscard CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/ AMD64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-businesscard.iso Date: 2009-01-28 T 18:15 Machine: made from parts Processor: AMD Athlon64 X2 (5050e) Memory:

Bug#488498: Installation report lenny beta2: failed

2008-06-29 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports Boot method: netinst CD w. beta 2 of lenny Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-LennyBeta2-i386-netinst.iso Date: 28-JUN-2008 19:45 CEST Machine: made from parts Processor: AMD Sempron 1600 (64bit) Memory: 512 M

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Problems preseeding german keyboard.]

2006-12-05 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 08:44:29 +0100, Jens Seidel wrote: ...append line to preseed locale and keyboard settings in isolinux.cfg ... append debian-installer/locale=de_DE \ kbd-chooser/method=de-latin1-nodeadkeys \ file=/cdrom/preseed/install.seed \

Re: [directfb-dev] [g-i] Problems with linux_input module and SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad

2006-11-29 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:45:16 +0100, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: if you have a laptop could you give this iso a try and report how the touchpad works? (mini_synaptics_ville.iso) On a Dell Inspiron with Synaptics touchpad, it works pretty well (speed and tapping). regards Herbert -- To

Bug#286832: Sparc: missing characters

2004-12-22 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: sid daily netinst iso as of 2004-12-19 from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/sparc/current/ uname -a: forgot to look for this, did a new install already Date: 2004-12-21 23:30 CEST Method: typing 'boot

Bug#286832: Sparc: missing characters

2004-12-22 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:14:38 +0100, Herbert Kaminski wrote: Just noticed that tasksel seems to be gone. Bug? Feature? Could not reproduce this: on a new install with today's iso, tasksel was there again. cu Herbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#283294: rc2 on sparc64: workaround

2004-12-04 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 23:23:32 +0100, Herbert Kaminski wrote: Second stage fails with: error: Unable to switch charset mapping to ISO-8859-15 with terminal 'pseudo' warning: disabling unsupported locale '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Configuring the base system... and restarting second stage

Bug#283294: rc2 on sparc64: serial install broken (2nd stage)

2004-11-27 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: rc-2 uname -a: did not get that far Date: 2004-10-04 23:30 CEST Method: netinst iso, 'Linux' from serial console Machine: Sun Ultra5 Processor: 270 MHz Memory: 64 MByyte Root Device: /dev/hda Root Size/partition

Bug#283294: rc2 on sparc64: serial install broken (2nd stage)

2004-11-27 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 00:06:43 +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: (I think this was reported earlier, but I was unable to find this bug in the BTS) Mayby: Bug#263137: rootskel: serial console won't accept other languages Thanks for the hint! I checked it and, yes, that bug shows up too when I

Bug#282757: RC2 installation on i386: 2.4 fails, 2.6 succeeds

2004-11-24 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports Installed RC2 on a brand new computer from german computer chain VOBIS. While kernel 2.4 hangs while detecting the hard drive, 2.6 completes the installation without apparent problems. Debian-installer-version: businesscard iso of rc2 from

Bug#282757: RC2 installation on i386: 2.4 fails, 2.6 succeeds

2004-11-24 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:20:11 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Herbert Kaminski wrote: Installed RC2 on a brand new computer from german computer chain VOBIS. While kernel 2.4 hangs while detecting the hard drive, 2.6 completes the installation without apparent problems. Do you remember what kernel

Bug#282757: RC2 installation on i386: 2.4 fails, 2.6 succeeds

2004-11-24 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:11:14 +0100, Herbert Kaminski wrote: This box has a built-in multi-cardreader on USB. . [...] Could this be the real reason? 1. I just opened the box, pulled out the cable to the card reader and tied to reinstall 2.4: still hanging at the same point. 2. I tried my

Re: Booting and installing via Network (no floppy/CDROM available) - looking for pointers

2004-11-16 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:44:36 +0100, Ralph Seichter wrote: b) Using Apache to serve http://localserver.mydomain/debian/cd1/. I copied Sarge CD 1 to this local directory. ^^ Where did you get this from? As far as I know, there is no official Sarge CD set. Obviously, there is a

Re: Booting and installing via Network (no floppy/CDROM available) - looking for pointers

2004-11-15 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:02:16 +0100, Ralph Seichter wrote: Christian Perrier wrote: I'm suspecting some more general problem as there has been at least another report with hard disk not found recently. Maybe I made a mistake with my choice of the Installation Kernel? I have downloaded

Bug#276895: Sparc pre-rc2 netinst ISO won't boot on Ultra 1

2004-10-17 Thread Herbert Kaminski
like your's, Regards, Herbert Kaminski -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ultrasparc Sarge (Testing) InitRD

2004-10-16 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 04:34:16 -0700 (PDT), Bill Jones wrote: All daily CDs fail for various reasons. The closest, READ most successful is found at - ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-sparc/rc1/images/ However, during expert mode, while trying to select a Kernel to

Bug#276396: sparc64: second stage errors

2004-10-15 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:04:32 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Herbert Kaminski wrote: [...] 2. in tasksel, installing the desktop task fails (I did not find a log file with the details, but then I got no clue where to look for it); If you run tasksel install desktop at the command line, you

Bug#246999: fixed

2004-10-14 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Using the netboot files 'initrd.gz' and 'linux' as of 13-OCT-2004 from http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/debian-installer/i386/2.6/ worked fine: all bugs reported in 246999 are fixed. Found a different bug that I will report about separately. Herbert -- To

Bug#250668: bug #250668 fixed

2004-10-14 Thread Herbert Kaminski
actually, I have no longer access to that hardware, but the bugs were not specific to this notebook. On my own notebook, none of the bugs in this reports shows up. Herbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#243030: is fixed

2004-10-14 Thread Herbert Kaminski
That bug was fixed on 16. of April already, so I did not test again with today's ISO. Installing with only 16 MByte is really too much pain... Herbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#246220: BUG #246220 fixed

2004-10-14 Thread Herbert Kaminski
I cannot test this on sparc32, but on sparc64 with ISOs as of 2004-10-13, all bugs in this report are fixed Herbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#253064: Bug #253064 fixed

2004-10-14 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Both bugs in this report are long since fixed. Herbert P.S. I should find out how I can close my reported bugs myself.. :-] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#251538: no conclusive test

2004-10-14 Thread Herbert Kaminski
I tried to test installation on Sparc classic (sparc32) with the netinst iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/ as of 2004-10-14, but it stops booting after trying to load the initrd. Using the netboot images from

Bug#276396: sparc64: second stage errors

2004-10-13 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports Bug#274958 apparently is fixed in debian-installer 2004-10-12, but second stage shows some errors on my Sparc Ultra5: 1. after reboot, the installer complains about read-edid not being available; 2. in tasksel, installing the desktop task fails (I did not find a

Bug#275627: [sparc][netinst][20041007] failure: sun blade 100

2004-10-09 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 17:42:59 +1000 (EST), Vincent McIntyre wrote: Debian-installer-version: netinst 20041007 from I have seen a similar boot problem with my Ultra5 for several days. This was fixed with next day's (2004-10-08) businesscard iso. Later on, however, the installer is unable to mount

Re: Bug#274958: sparc64: current businesscard completely broken

2004-10-05 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 20:49:22 -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: looks like initrd is slightly too big? It sure is. We need some debian-cd firepower here. Manty, can you s/8192/16384/ in all the silo.conf files in debian-cd? I had a look into the silo.conf of that iso. I found no size statement for the

Re: Bug#274958: sparc64: current businesscard completely broken

2004-10-05 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Joshua, Herbert, do you have time to try the miniiso image? I just tried the 2.4 miniiso dated 04-OCT-2004 (only first stage), and it installs fine. Thank you for your help Herbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#274958: sparc64: current businesscard completely broken

2004-10-04 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/ dated 04-OCT-2004 uname -a: did not get that far Date: 2004-10-04 23:30 CEST Method: businesscard iso, just hitting 'ENTER' Machine: Sun Ultra5

Bug#274659: pre-rc2 i386: install OK, but red screen

2004-10-03 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: pre-rc2 sarge-i386-businesscard.iso uname -a: Linux alfred 2.6.6-1-k7 #1 Wed May 12 18:19:40 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 2-OCT-2004 16:00 Method: boot from CD, entering 'linux26', packages from ftp.de.debian.org

Bug#274447: pre-rc2 on sparc64: failure to detect cd

2004-10-01 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/pre-rc2/ dated 01-OCT-2004 uname -a: did not get that far Date: 2004-10-01 22:30 CEST Method: netinst iso (same with businesscard) Machine: Sun Ultra5

Bug#274447: correction...

2004-10-01 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Hi, correcting a minor error in the original report: uname -a: did not get that far uname -a: Linux (none) 2.4.27-1-sparc64 #1 Mon Aug 23 23:59:55 PDT 2004 sparc64 unknown Herbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: netbooting d-i on i386

2004-09-15 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 02:35:45 +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote: i read this http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s06.html and looked at the files here: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/current//images/netboot/ and it is not clear to me how the given files are

Bug#271671: daily businesscard on sparc64: minor bug

2004-09-14 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/ dated 13-SEP-2004 uname -a: Linux dyna06 2.4.26-sparc64 #1 Sun Jun 20 02:39:17 PDT 2004 sparc64 GNU/Linux Date: 2004-09-14 01:30 CEST Method:

Re: FireWire module issues, Bug #250600

2004-07-27 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:57:57 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: I've also went for the quick fix approach for now, and changed i386/amd64 2.6 to put it in nic-modules. I made kernel_specific/2.6/nic-modules pull in firewire-core-modules, which affects i386, amd64, and (some) powerpc, mostly the netboot

Bug#260109: SOLUTION = kde and gnome and any app 5 minutes start up each

2004-07-23 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 01:47:47 +, Andre Felipe Machado wrote: edit the /etc/network/interfaces include the 2 following lines: auto lo iface lo inet loopback [...] It should be included before the sarge release. Thats exactly what is in the file created during my test install yesterday

Re: Bug#260512: swap is turned OFF after disk formatting!

2004-07-23 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Hi Anton, ...this bug seams to be there since version 22 of partman-basicfilesystems (11 Apr 2004 !). If there was at least one bug report about this problem, I would fix it. On my desktop machine (512 MB of RAM), I am running sarge with KDE for weeks now without even noticing the lack of

Bug#260600: i386 Installation: network config problem

2004-07-21 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:14:12 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: On my system, ethernet is brought up by discover, while firewire is brought up by hotplug, and they run in that order, which is the same order the installer brings them up, so I get the same interfaces. Is your system doing something different,

Bug#260520: d-i: german translation + charset bugs

2004-07-20 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: sarge-i386-businesscard.iso 19-Jul-2004 14:31 40.2M downloaded 19-JUL-04 23:30 UTC from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/i386/current Method: 'linux26' network connection through local HTTP proxy to ftp.de.debian.org

Bug#257771: i386 netboot: 2.4 garbled, 2.6 broken

2004-07-09 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Hi, I downloaded initrd.gz and vmlinuz as of 08-JUL-04 and installed 2.6/unstable again. With the newer files, all bugs from the original report are fixed. During 2nd stage, the new keymap configuration screens are untranslated. In tasksel, choosing 'manual selection' and then leaving aptitude

Bug#257771: i386 netboot: 2.4 garbled, 2.6 broken

2004-07-09 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 19:26:03 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Herbert Kaminski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] loads and installs tons of packages including X. [...] Did you install in German. Yes indeed. [...] This bug has been reported to tasksel already. OK then please excuse the noise

Bug#257771: i386 netboot: 2.4 garbled, 2.6 broken

2004-07-07 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 06:53:47 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Herbert Kaminski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] Machine: plain vanilla i386 from parts Processor: AMD K6-2 500MHz Memory: 96MB Root Device: 40GB IDE /dev/hdb1 Root Size/partition table: 39GB ext3 on hdb1, 512 MB swap on hdb5

Re: d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 15:34:56 +0800, John wrote: Even if bandwidth didn't cause problems, the fact that it downloads so much junk means I can't install in 64 Mbytes. This must be a problem of your special setup. Using the files 'netboot.initrd.gz' and 'vmlinuz' from

Re: d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread Herbert Kaminski
correction to my mail just sent a few minutes ago: the files I download are vmlinuz and initrd.gz, not netboot.initrd.gz sorry ;-) Herbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#257771: i386 netboot: 2.4 garbled, 2.6 broken

2004-07-05 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: netboot from http://p.d.o/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot and http://p.d.o/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/2.6 downloaded 05-JUL-2004 at 22:00 UTC uname -a: The result of running uname -a on a shell prompt Date: 05-JUL-2004 Method: netboot,

Bug#257411: î386 daily build: sarge di OK, sid di fails: wrong kernel

2004-07-03 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: sarge_d-i and sid_di: sarge-i386-netinst.iso 01-Jul-2004 22:22 104M http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/current/ downloaded 2-JUL-04 14:30 UTC sarge-i386-businesscard.iso 02-Jul-2004 14:13 39.1M

Bug#257411: Re: Bug#257411: î38 6 daily build: sarge di OK, sid di fails: wrong kernel

2004-07-03 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 13:14:11 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 01:17:36PM +0200, Herbert Kaminski wrote: to install kernel 2.6.6-k7-smp, although /proc/cpuinfo clearly states K6 cpu. Consequently, after reboot the system resets as soon as the kernel is loaded. Could you please

Bug#255077: Installation Report i386: wrong kernel installed

2004-06-20 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 23:30:47 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: tags 255077 + moreinfo unreproducible thanks On Friday 18 June 2004 18:42, Herbert Kaminski wrote: Kernel 2.6.6 was selected, but 2.4.25 was installed, so in stage 2 no module was found, networking failed, installation could not finish

Bug#255077: cannot reproduce

2004-06-20 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 08:53:24 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have tried three times now with sid_d-i and it definitely works for me. However, I am using the CD-ROM as install medium. Trying with mirror download now... Let's ask the bug submitter

Bug#255077: Installation Report i386: wrong kernel installed

2004-06-19 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:28:30 +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Herbert Kaminski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-06-18 18:42]: Kernel 2.6.6 was selected, but 2.4.25 was installed, so in stage 2 no module was found, networking failed, installation could not finish. This *might* be because 2.6.6

Bug#253064: tc1 i18n: german translation errors

2004-06-18 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Hi Dennis, After the installation, the font on the textmode console was wrong too. On the whole console? Yes, all characters 7bit seem to be wrong: Umlaute, line drawing characters in midnight commander. So this problem is no translation error, but a wrong character set. Regards Herbert

Bug#255077: Installation Report i386: wrong kernel installed

2004-06-18 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: daily build: sarge-i386-netinst.iso 16-Jun-2004 14:26 106M downloaded 18-JUN-04 16:10 from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/i386/current/ uname -a: Linux dellnote 2.4.25-1-386 #1 Tue Feb 24 ... Date: 18-JUN-04 18:00

Bug#251538: SPARC32 fails to boot from CD

2004-05-28 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports on my Sparc Classic with only 16 MByte of RAM, sarge-sparc-businesscard.iso 28-May-2004 22:23 20.3M from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/ downloaded 29-MAY-2004 00:10 fails to boot. d-i's last words are:

Bug#250668: Installation report i386

2004-05-27 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Thu, 27 May 2004 13:33:29 -0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Herbert Kaminski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-05-24 14:27]: Other bugs: - the full name of the first user is requested twice in the mask This might be fixed; it's definitely a known problem. In sid-di, indeed it is fixed

Bug#250674: Installation report: i386 sid on second harddisk

2004-05-27 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Thu, 27 May 2004 13:32:26 -0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Herbert Kaminski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-05-24 14:47]: (1)OS-prober correctly recognized the linux on hda as SuSE 9.0 and the Win98 on hda and WinXP on hdc, but misinterpreted the OS/2 on hda as yet another Win98/ME/2000. However

Bug#250674: Installation report: i386 sid on second harddisk

2004-05-27 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Thu, 27 May 2004 18:10:25 -0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Herbert Kaminski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-05-27 22:17]: Well, if you see the abiguous partition type 10 (I believe) and cannot mount it as NTFS, then it is probably HPFS and that means OS/2. It Can Linux read HPFS partitions

Bug#250668: Installation report i386

2004-05-24 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 22-MAY-2004 from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/current/sarge-i386- netinst.iso uname -a: Linux debian 2.6.5-1-386 #2 Fri Apr 30 20:13:30 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 23-MAY-04 12:00 Method: boot from cdrom

Bug#250674: Installation report: i386 sid on second harddisk

2004-05-24 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: sarge-i386-businesscard.iso 22-May-2004 14:40 50.0M from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/i386/current/ , downloaded 23-MAY-2004 18:30 uname -a: Linux alfred 2.6.6-1-k7 #1 Wed May 12 18:19:40 EST 2004

Re: netboot installation SparcClassic broken? (next candidate: dhcp)

2004-04-22 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:38:02 +0200, Per Olofsson wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 08:58 +0200, Herbert Kaminski wrote: To be more precise: it boots correctly and starts installing. But choosing a mirror fails. [...] I think you need to specify a complete URL with busybox's wget. So it should

Re: Bug#244974: installation report: sparc ultra2 + SparcClassic

2004-04-21 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 01:31:25 +0200, Thomas Poindessous wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:57:02PM +0200, Herbert Kaminski wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:02:31 -0400, Todd Troxell wrote: Debian-installer-version: 4/20/2004 BETA 3 from: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing

netboot installation SparcClassic broken? (presumably wget)

2004-04-21 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 08:39:15 +0200, Herbert Kaminski wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 01:31:25 +0200, Thomas Poindessous wrote: You can also test with more recent image from : http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-sparc/ This problem should be fixed in last version. Indeed, the 32bit

Re: Bug#244974: installation report: sparc ultra2

2004-04-20 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:02:31 -0400, Todd Troxell wrote: Debian-installer-version: 4/20/2004 BETA 3 from: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-sparc/current/images/sparc64/netboot/ Presumably you will get a little further using the image from

Bug#244133: SPARC Classic installation SUCCESS!

2004-04-16 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: netinst ISO date: 09-APR-04 from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/current/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso modified so the silo.conf contains the right boot parameters Method: boot from cdrom, starting normal priority,

Re: FWD: Re: does anyone care about sparc CDs for sarge?

2004-04-12 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 19:18:09 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: - Forwarded message from Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [...] Here's the silo.conf that worked for me. Please place it in your [...] partition=1 timeout=600 message=/boot/debian.txt default=linux append=cdrom devfs=mount rw

Bug#243122: installation-reports: boot failure on sparc (ultra 10)

2004-04-11 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 16:30:19 +1000 (EST), Vincent McIntyre wrote: The installer cd boots ok, and gives me a welcome prompt. I hit return to start the installer. That's bound to fail currently... Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 ...entering 'linux root=/dev/rd/0 rw' at the

Bug#243030: Sparc Classic boot fails

2004-04-10 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: netinst ISO date: 09-APR-04 from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/current/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso Method: boot from cdrom Machine: SPARC Classic (sun4m) Processor: Memory: 16 MB typing 'boot cdrom' at the

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