Bug#1056697: 12.2 Installation Report, Complete Failure of Network

On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 12:34:50PM -0600, David Hillman wrote: > > Package: installation-reports > > Boot method: USB stick > Image version: > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-12.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso > Date: 2023-November-23 11PM GMT > > Machine: Dell R720 >

Re: Add Feature Prevent Installing non-free-firmware in Noraml Mode (Like expert mode)

On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 09:27:16AM +, Modaresi Soft Hard wrote: > Hello. From Debian 12 onwards, proprietary drivers will be automatically > installed in normal mode. > > Can you make the installer ask questions in normal mode for installing > proprietary drivers? > (Like a check box with

Re: Bug#1040901: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages

On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 02:03:35AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > The current way does not work. See all the bug reports about > uninstallable packages and what not with dkms. > > To build modules against version x, you'll need to install version x of > the headers, not x-1 or x+1. This

Re: installation-guide: MS-DOS and Windows

On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 12:15:35PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > OK, that's better. Btw, while it's okay to remove references to MS-DOS, > please make sure that the > semantics of a sentence is not altered. For example, it's still valid to call > DOS partition labels > by their

Bug#1042563: installation-reports: installation OK, screen remains blank during boot and GDM Greeter

On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 01:08:13PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hi Axel! > > I'm a little confused here... > > You say the machine is a Thinkpad X230, but the attached cpuinfo says > you have an Atom CPU and the DMI data says it's an ASUSTeK Eee > PC. What hardware are we actually looking at

Re: Strange MBR CHS partition values created by debian-installer

On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 12:15:35AM +0300, ValdikSS wrote: > On 09.07.2023 00:02, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Nothing should be caring about C/H/S at all in the 21st century. Using > > C/H/S only allows you to access 515MB of disk [1]. *Everything* these > > days uses LBA instead. > > > > What makes

Re: Bug#1029843: live-boot: Devices Requiring Firmware: multiple requested files in single line overlapping / special characters

On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 12:22:02AM +0100, Pete Batard wrote: > Interesting; TIL. > > I guess I'm probably not the only person who thought DT was something that > was only cooked recently by Linux kernel maintainers, since that's when it > became mainstream for the majority of the x86/PC based

Re: Bug#1029843: live-boot: Devices Requiring Firmware: multiple requested files in single line overlapping / special characters

On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 06:16:52PM +0100, Pete Batard wrote: > Plus, UEFI has an official standard, and standards are (for the most part) a > good thing. IEEE-1275 is a standard too. > However, with what I have mentioned initially and the weight that Microsoft > has, the only way you're going to

Re: Bug#1033546: Debian installer / Network configuration

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 08:45:35PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 08:35:22AM +,  Christophe wrote: > > Configure network:      [E] > > > > Comments/Problems: > > > > This bug is present since many years. > > :-) > > > > Currently, tt's not possible to

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

On Mon, Oct 03, 2022 at 02:47:33PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Not even replace "stable/updates" with "stable-security" during the upgrade > from buster to bullseye ? Hmm I don't recall but I suppose it just wasn't very memorable to do it. At least it would have given an error fetching the

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 08:21:31PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Two things: > > 1. I'm worried what bugs we might expose by having packages be in two > components at once. > 2. I really don't like the idea of leaving two different > configurations in the wild; it'll confuse people and

Bug#1013678: installation-reports: honeycomb lx2: partial success, network and issues with raid/lvm/grub

On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 02:10:44PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Package: installation-reports > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: vagr...@debian.org > > Boot method: network > Image version: > https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm64/20220624-02:19/netboot/netboot.tar.gz > Date: 2022-06-24

Re: Debian 11.3.0 and Realtek RTL1882ec wireless adaptor

On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 08:46:16AM +0100, Dinny wrote: > Debian-live-11.3.0-amd64-mate.iso > Laptop Geoflex110 (latest model). > > Does not recognise Realtek RTL1882ec wireless adaptor. Did you mean RTL8821ec? I can't find info on an RTL1882ec. Either way you probably need the firmware-realtek

Re: Debian not bootable after installing Ubuntu

On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 12:19:50PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Hi, > > I'm emailing this list because I didn't know a more specific place to > report this bug. > > What I Did > -- > - I used GNOME Boxes 42 (from my Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host). > - I clicked + then Download an Operating

Re: debian-installer for Arm EBBR systems

On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 01:38:09PM +, Steve Capper wrote: > Hello, > We have an issue installing Debian on some EBBR (Embedded Base Boot > Requirements) based systems. Specifically, on EBBR platforms, UEFI > SetVariable() is not required at runtime[1] (it is, however, required for > boot

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 03:18:48PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Whether a tool that was developed new from scratch is automatically better is > not a given. The burden of proof is on the person trying to introduce the new > software, not on the people maintaining the current set of

Re: Installer annoyance - a bug?

On Sun, Jun 06, 2021 at 07:48:06AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > There is *functional/quality/?* difference between an install from a > physical CD/DVD and from an "equivalent" flash drive. > > I have a very atypical use case: > 1. internet is *not* available to support installation. > 2. my

Re: problem with GPT/UEFI in debian 11 / debian 10.9 installer

On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 08:24:59PM +0300, Alexandru Goia wrote: > Greetings ! > I tried to install debian 11 on my machine, but since it is a Dell > with UEFI and GPT, i have not succeded. Still, Ubuntu 2020.10 > went ok. Can you put in debian-installer the option to format/create > a EFI

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 05:35:19PM -0400, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > Pardon my ignorance. > I could not resist to answer to this proposal. > > I read this page: https://www.flamingspork.com/projects/libeatmydata/ > > It looks like it is not good idea to use it for critical information. > >

Bug#985853: debian-installer: Whitespace before a commented line in preseed file causes line to be parsed

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 09:45:17AM +1030, Andrew McDonnell wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Version: 20190702+deb10u8 > Severity: important > Tags: d-i > > In a preseed file I accidentally had a space before a comment character, which > caused my preseed to fail in unexpected ways. I could

Re: XFS file system creation fails (https://chuangtzu.ftp.acc.umu.se/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-testing-amd64-netinst.iso)

On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 07:33:36AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Two different libraries? It seems to be complaining about libinih, not > libnih. Yes libinih appears to be under active development. -- Len Sorensen

Bug#981115: please support multiple compose keys in keyboard-configuration

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 10:33:07PM +0100, Martin wrote: > On 2021-01-26 14:02, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > It is not that simple. > ... > > Simply manually putting in the config instead seems like a lot less work. > > Thanks for the investigation, Lenna

Bug#981115: please support multiple compose keys in keyboard-configuration

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 05:24:14PM +0100, Martin wrote: > Package: keyboard-configuration > Version: 1.200 > Severity: wishlist > > It is convenient to have compose keys for both hands, e.g. > capslock and ralt, similar to the two shift keys. > > When running > $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure

Bug#967896: Maybe this is related to this upstream kernel bug

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201813 looks pretty much the same. It sounds like it has been fixed in a newer kernel and/or firmware for the card, but I don't know what the chances of such changes being backported to the stable kernels are. -- Len Sorensen

Re: Does mdadm in the installer read its config file?

On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 04:56:34AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > TL;DR: the Debian installer uses an mdadm.conf located at > /tmp/mdadm.conf. > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 04:18:27PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > > I have confirmed that creating a new array from the d-i shell using > > mdadm

Re: NIC not detected, unable to install (weekly + daily mini-iso)

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:42:33PM +0200, Camaleón wrote: > Umm... this is an old netbook, the NIC adapter has always been working, > it's a very common chipset. > > Good point. > > While this is a 2 GiB RAM netbook, last time I checked only i386 and > -pae kernel were working, but I can try

Re: NIC not detected, unable to install (weekly + daily mini-iso)

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 07:45:42PM +0200, Camaleón wrote: > Hello, > > Tried the mini-iso image to install testing (i386), with both, daily and > weekly files. To my surprise, the installer was unable to detect the wired > NIC adapter and wifi required a non-free firmware that I was unable to >

Re: Debian 10.2 LinuxCenter Peterburg

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 09:34:22PM +1100, Hugh McMaster wrote: > Both of these work correctly. What I was actually thinking of was an > issue with `adduser sudo`. It now requires a reboot instead > of just logging out and in as a normal user. That makes no sense. It should not require a reboot,

Re: Debian 10.2 LinuxCenter Peterburg

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:36:07PM +1100, Hugh McMaster wrote: > Hallo Holger, > > On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 03:01, Holger Wansing wrote: > > I have just tested with an 10.3 netinst amd64 image, and it works as it > > should. > > So, you will need to give more information, in order to be able to

Re: Debian 10.2 LinuxCenter Peterburg

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 12:35:46AM +0300, Pichugin_EN wrote: > The root password is set during installation > > but after installation, the root password is not accepted It should work on the console. It should work for 'su -' It should not work for ssh and probably should not work to login to

Re: Booting Debian freezes on “[OK] Started GNOME Display Manager”

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 04:07:45PM +0300, Billy Andriamahazomandimby wrote: > Dear Debian Help, > Firstly, it is a pleasure to have an opportunity to write you this Email. > As a follow up of my Email from yesterday, I would like to send you > additional details regarding my problem in which I

Bug#942128: installation-guide-amd64: security apt resource

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 07:50:33PM +0200, Pavel Kosina wrote: > Package: installation-guide-amd64 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** > >* What led up to the situation? > In installation of debian 10,

Bug#935931: Re: Bug#935931: debian-installer: Reinstalling Debian on a current Debian installation without erasing or fomatting the home folder

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 12:51:33PM -0400, Daniel wrote: > Dear Lennart, > > I hope that when one opens a "whishlist bug" at least there is a chance to > have a confrontation. > > The main point I want to address is when you do a "smart installation" it is > supposed to perform a clean

Bug#935931: Re: Bug#935931: debian-installer: Reinstalling Debian on a current Debian installation without erasing or fomatting the home folder

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 11:27:29PM -0400, Daniel wrote: > Hi Nicholas, > > thanks for your reply, I really appreciated your constructive approach. > > I use Debian since 2007 and I did a lot of installation, I personally use a > FrankenDebian (testing with pinning toward SID and Experimental)

Re: Question about building a full bootable image using (Debian 7)

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 01:21:19PM +, g4jht wrote: > Hi, I am sending this to you guys in a sort of last resort desperation. >  As it only relates to Debian as that is my current build environment. > > Help Please. > > My problem how to build a bootable iso image file (not of Debian) > > I

Bug#929752: Changing quote signs in GPL allowed? [Was: Bug#929752: installation-guide: left quotes in gpl.xml are not correctly rendered in pdf ]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 08:30:56PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > I was about to commit these changes, however it came to my mind if such > changes to the GPL are allowed? > > At least the English variant of the GPL is 'official' and is not to be > changed, so what about changing the quoting

Re: Support for non-Debian distros

On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:09:20PM +0300, Nagakamira wrote: > Hi, I found certain distros which are using dpkg package manager as its > default package management system. There's about 2: UHU Linux and Ataraxia > Linux (and Yocto but .deb format can be used optionally). But they aren't > based on

Bug#929476: Debian 9 installation.

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 11:10:43AM +0200, mb wrote: > Package: installation-reports > > Boot method: USB pen drive prepared in Windows10 with RUFUS (MBR, GPT, iso, > dd: always same problem) or with UBUNTU 18 dd command > Image version: >

Re: Intel X553 NICs/ixgbe netinstall issues

On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 07:22:30AM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > Target systems have A2SDi-8C-HLN4F motherboards each with 4 no. Intel > x553 NICs. > > The stable netinstall ixgbe module does not load the interfaces, even > when modprobed by hand. > > Buster netinstall 20190429-03:57 works

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 07:13:21PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 02:58:36AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > >Package: debian-installer > > > >Guess what, seen with ASUS X370-A: > > Dan, you know better than this. A useful bug report needs much more > information. For a

Re: Installer - add BIOS boot partition?

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 05:55:50PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Ok - as long as I remember to install to both. There's no option to > install to both in one invocation, is there? Or a config file that > records which drives are/might be used for booting? Hmm, I recall having it give a checklist

Re: Installer - add BIOS boot partition?

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 02:31:22PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > That worked great, thanks. Though it seems the '1.0MB' free before my > first partition wasn't big enough (or not aligned right?) so I had to > start from scratch. > > Incidentally, could/should I have made that RAID1? I created

Re: Installer - add BIOS boot partition?

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:04:16PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just done most of an installation on a BIOS machine, with a pair of > new 4TB disks, which require GPT. > > Grub fails to install, which I possibly should have predicted - though I > thought di might have either

Bug#838503: debian-installer: mdadm should not start syncing RAID1 arrays at full speed during installation

On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 12:22:38AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > I've no idea why he things this is a regression. But this is something > we should probably change anyway - installing on RAID is pointlessly > slow here unless you know how to work around it. And it's been that > way since

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

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): > > > [...] > > Well 99.9% of installs don't have another linux on the system, >^ > I

Bug#905793: Why does the Installer formats given swap

On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 07:37:15PM +0200, John Landmesser wrote: > Package: debian-installer > > > is there a reason why the installer defaults to format given swap partition? > > I now know that you can opt out to format swap, but i don't understand that > formatting swap is default! > > I

Re: g++-8 and g++-7 installed, reproducing a FTBFS

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 05:51:37PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > Acknowledge. > > How to enforce that g++ is g++-8 ? > > If it is `apt-get source gcc-defaults && cd gcc-defaults && debuild -uc -us`, > please say so. Well g++ 1.178 on my system depends on g++-8 version 8.1.0-1 so I think that

Re: Boot Order

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 09:01:18PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > Why insert itself anywhere in the first place? The machine booted > before the installation. To start installing, the installation medium > is placed in a CD drive or USB port and the machine is rebooted. During > installation, other

Re: Boot Order

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 05:42:36PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > I would hate to have to do something because windows does it :-) > > No one's yet mentioned secure boot as a justification. AIUI some > manufacturers are making it so that you can't even disable secure boot. > How will you multi-boot

Re: Boot Order

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:18:00PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > Installing either stretch or buster via netinst results in changes to > the bios menu. Under "UEFI Boot Sources" the term "Hard Drive" is > replaced with "debian" and this entry is put first in the boot order. > > The PC is: >

Bug#888515: debian-installer: UEFI boot menu (grub) misses the help screen

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 05:16:38PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello Grub maintainers, any idea about this? Is this too much of a hack: menuentry ' ' {true} menuentry 'Help:' {true} submenu ' Prerequesites for installing Debian.' { menuentry 'PREREQUISITES FOR INSTALLING DEBIAN'

Bug#888513: huge graphical bug

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 04:21:08PM +0100, melissa M. wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Version: stable > Severity: grave > > hi maintainer, > > big graphical bug with the installer netinstall of Debian Stretch 9.3, but > also Testing and Sid. > > Ditto with the installer mini iso-Stretch 9.3

Re: Easier installer?

On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 12:26:58PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 11:56:35 +0100, Thomas Lange > > said: > > > JFTR, I just look at an openSuse Tumbleweed installation. They are > > using a world map for selecting the timezone.

Re: Easier installer?

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 09:20:36PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Implementing locale selection using a map also runs the risk of getting > your software banned in countries that disagree with where you put the > borders. Also tricky in the non-gui installer, which at least some systems have to

Re: Where can I find out more regarding debian-mac-testing-amd64-netinst.iso

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 08:51:08AM -0800, Colin Williams wrote: > It might be good to document that somewhere. Still haven't had any luck > with the installer but that's similar to all the other distros tried. https://wiki.debian.org/MacMiniIntel -- Len Sorensen

Re: Where can I find out more regarding debian-mac-testing-amd64-netinst.iso

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 06:26:33PM -0800, Colin Williams wrote: > Yes I fumbled the block partition information on top of the block device > but gave it another shot. sudo dd bs=4M > if=/home/colin/Downloads/debian-mac-testing-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/sde > and it still wasn't bootable. However

Bug#881626: busybox: enable telnetd

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 06:59:41PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > you are aware that this would only cause (these) people to switch away > from Debian, but not from telnet? I honestly believe they just haven't tried. As long as you indulge them, they will keep training new people with bad habits.

Bug#881626: busybox: enable telnetd

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 05:16:26PM +, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Package: busybox > Version: 1.27.2-1 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Dear Maintainers, > > Please consider enabling telnetd in the busybox package. A tiny and > trivial patch to set the config is attached inline. A rebuild

Re: bts reassign 878722 partman-auto

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 04:19:14PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > This is true, but I don't think it's a good reason not to implement a > mostly-reliable heuristic. > > If there are multiple disks, there are usually going to be just 2 of > them, one of which contains the installer. In any

Re: bts reassign 878722 partman-auto

On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 09:56:31PM +0100, Michael Kesper wrote: > Yes sure but why can't I correct it after the fact? > Even "rescanning disks" does not let you chose any other disks. > > Is there a way of chosing "first internal disk" then? > Imagine I want to create one installation medium for

Bug#849400: debian-installer: LUKS on rootfs and boot

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 01:47:52PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > DO NOT use a fat32 partition for /boot! > > It will appear to work, but the first upgrade of a package that > installs into /boot will fail because dpkg cannot create a hard link > there. Maybe /boot/efi was what was meant. --

Re: Problem when installing stretch with btrfs

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 06:04:16PM +0200, Pierre Couderc wrote: > Mmm, why ? is legacy mode a problem ? Well depends what you want to do. Generally legacy mode requires the disk be partitioned in DOS style partitions (MBR) which has a limit of 2TB disks, while UEFI requires GPT which does not

Re: Problem when installing stretch with btrfs

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 05:19:14PM +0200, Pierre Couderc wrote: > On 09/20/2017 04:38 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 04:32:06PM +0200, Pierre Couderc wrote: > > > On 09/20/2017 03:06 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > > What does fdisk show on sdb for you? > > > Normal results

Re: Run debootstrap twice

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 08:14:27PM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > And, also unfortunately, you don't say why it is not possible. Talk > about information underload! The assumption is that you have no files, so that debootstrap can extract debs, then when enough is there, it can redo the packages

Bug#870628: Please warn about slow starts on USB

On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 07:55:09PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > The gtk initrd is like 38MB, at USB 1.0 speed (1.5Mbps) that's almost > two minutes yes. I however wonder how old a computer needs to be to be > only 1.0... I have never seen a machine with only 1.0 USB that could boot from USB.

Bug#868994: text too small to read on text based installer on high resolution screen

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 11:30:26AM +1000, Jason Lewis wrote: > Package: installation-reports > > Boot method: usb stick > Image version: > http://saimei.ftp.acc.umu.se/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/9.0.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-9.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso > Date: 2017-07-20

Bug#824648: win32-loader: reproduced error (0xc000007b g2ldr.mbr)

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 10:40:30AM +0200, standard wrote: > Package: win32-loader > Followup-For: Bug #824648 > > I tried to install Debian (9.0) on a Tablet with Windows 10 Home. > * SSD-Harddrive with GPT > * 2 GB RAM > * 64 bit CPU > * UEFI-BIOS > > After restart I got the error 0xc07b

Bug#866085: At least it should be the option to not download

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 08:52:31AM +0200, Narcis Garcia wrote: > If you *will* be connected to the internet you *will* need to install > security updates; > Internet is not the only source for packages (). If someone > installs Debian on 3 computers (or repeats installation 3 times), it >

Re: Trouble stacking mdadm, multipath and lvm at boot

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 02:21:43PM -0400, E V wrote: > I'm trying to get mdadm to assemble an array on some multipath disks > at boot. System is a fresh install of stretch. By default it seems the > mdadm array auto assembles before the multipath devices are created > and thus doesn't use the dm-

Re: WiFi install

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:07:20PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > No, there are *unofficial* non-free versions of the live images > available too, for exactly this purpose. Oh that handy. -- Len Sorensen

Re: WiFi install

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 06:48:11PM -0700, Charles Chambers wrote: > Has anyone else tried to install 9.0 over WiFi yet? I have two laptops > that require the nonfree repositories for wifi drivers, but the live DVDs > for 8.x have issues with installing over WiFi. The official installer does not

Re: speech-enabled expert/rescue/autoinstall keyboard shortcuts

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 02:56:02AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > MENGUAL Jean-Philippe, on mer. 22 mars 2017 03:57:37 +0100, wrote: > > And what about affecting shift-s or ctrl-s to run tts in the rescue > > mode? > > That's not really simple to implement actually. One has to have a way to >

Re: partman - tmpfs?

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 04:15:23PM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hm, on Ubuntu 16.04: > > $ sudo systemctl enable tmp.mount > Failed to execute operation: No such file or directory Apparently a differnet issues caused it to be slightly changed. You now need: cp /usr/share/systemd/tmp.mount

Re: partman - tmpfs?

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 04:24:33PM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > I'd like to create a debian-installer partman recipe for unattended > installation of Ubuntu 16.04 systems, where tmpfs should be used for > /tmp. > > I tried having this in my preseed file: > > > d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe

Bug#855415: installation-reports: Debian-Testing fails to reboot after installation.

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 07:14:11PM +0100, Michael Siemmeister wrote: > Last week I tried to install Debian in a virtual-box. Currently I use > Debian 8.7 for running the virtual-box program. I managed to install > Debian stable without any problems. Then I cloned the virtual-box and > tried an

Re: Multibboot vanishes swap UUID

On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 04:18:32PM +0100, foo fighter wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have an issue with Debian multiboot environments which > reuse SWAP-partitions. As a default option, each installation > formats the SWAP partition (if SWAP partitions are used) as far > as I understand. This

Bug#815187: Similar problem

On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 11:33:02PM +1000, David wrote: > Hi. I'm a noob but I think I had a similar problem. > Legacy BIOS on laptop with 2 identical SATA disks. > Windows 7 on /dev/sda1. Installed jessie 8.7.1 from USB on /dev/sdb2 (swap > on sdb1) > Grub wanted to install to /dev/sda MBR but I

Re: Do I have to do anything to make sure ext4lazyinit works as being advertised ?

On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 02:27:39PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Basically the article's statement is wrong. > There is no such thing as explicit itable initialization IO bandwidth > restriction in MB/s. itable initialization rate is controlled by init_itable=N > see:

Re: Do I have to do anything to make sure ext4lazyinit works as being advertised ?

On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 04:53:34AM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > hmm From what little I understand, it always the slowest interface > that needs to be supported. > > And IIUC , in ext4lazyinit's case it is probably some of the MMC cards > due to which the 16 MB/S transmission is kept -

Re: Do I have to do anything to make sure ext4lazyinit works as being advertised ?

On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 12:46:48AM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Hi all, > > Warning - is a bit of a long read. > > >From what all I read and understood, ext4lazyinit simply makes you > start using the hdd without creating all the inodes for your system. > The only way that you know ext4lazyinit

Bug#852323: debian-installer: grub-installer not convert root= entry to UUID

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 04:03:06PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 06:43:27PM +0300, Andrey Jr. Melnikov wrote: > >Package: debian-installer > >Severity: important > >Tags: d-i > > > > > >Installation procedure of grub2 dont't transform root= entry from /dev/sd?? > >to UUID

Bug#261415: network installation always asks for proxy

On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 11:31:37PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > I do think we ought to attempt autodetection for this. As long as a > means exists for preseeders and expert installs to specify one anyway > (for optional caching proxies), autodetecting by default seems like a > good idea, to

Bug#851947: Debian 8.7.1 installation problem

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:25:37AM +0200, :-) wrote: > Package: installation-reports > > Boot method: UEFI from USB flash drive > Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/ > Date: 19.01.2017 > > Machine: HP ProBook 4540s > Processor: Intel Core i5-3230M > Memory:

Bug#851740: bug report installing 9.0 RC1

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 10:56:58AM +0100, bkk wrote: > Package: installation-reports > > Boot method: Installer bootet via USB > Image version: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/stretch_di_rc1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-stretch-DI-rc1-amd64-netinst.iso > Date: 2017-01-18 09:45 > > Machine:

Bug#851620: partman-md: doesn't warn about not being able to embed in the end

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 10:46:44PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Package: partman-md > Version: 77 > Severity: wishlist > > Hello, > > partman-md doesn't warn when disks to be used for RAID are partitioned > with GPT without a bios boot partition for embedding (and I haven't seen >

Re: stretch hd-media - boot error for USB-FDD on S5000PAL

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 11:56:41AM +0300, dbsubscr...@mail.ru wrote: > I use the server on S5000PAL. For remote reinstallation of system to me > it is necessary to choose in BIOS for USB disks the Force FDD mode. It > will allow to consider USB the separate device and allows to choose him > at

Bug#848929: installation-reports: no problem

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 11:28:27AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > interesting. Yes. > as another data point, for reproducible-builds we're running four i386 build > nodes on virtual amd64 hardware, with 36GB ram each, and at least building the > Debian archive works nicely. But are they amd64

Bug#848929: installation-reports: no problem

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:33:24PM +0100, Rudi Pfau wrote: > Package: installation-reports > Severity: normal > > > > -- Package-specific info: > > Boot method: network > Image version: Debian 8.6.0.i386 1 > Date: > > Machine: self build tower > - board: Asus X99-A II > - RAM: 32GB (4*8G)

Re: debootstrap InRelease file support

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 04:57:11PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > The fixed function that does the work in the new release is here: > > http://sources.debian.net/src/debootstrap/1.0.86/functions/#L529 > > as you can see, it's pure shell. I like it. :) -- Len Sorensen

Bug#842591: debootstrap-udeb: fails to validate InRelease (BADSIG)

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 04:18:55PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > No, the “certainly did” and “worked fine” bits are wrong. > > And that's not just me, we've had users report it, Philip Hands saw it > as well. So no it did *NOT* work (in the specific case where it actually > matters). Yes,

Re: debootstrap InRelease file support

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 04:06:43PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > I think a crucial point is that something's being documented in standards > doesn't mean it actually works in real life, everywhere, in all versions > of all implementations. (There's also the topic of possible differences in >

Re: debootstrap InRelease file support

On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 06:41:44PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > This doesn't look exactly right; feel free to look at #842591. I wonder why sed and tr don't work in d-i given I checked the options used are all supposed to be posix compliant, unless I missed something. > That's entirely

Bug#842591: debootstrap-udeb: fails to validate InRelease (BADSIG)

On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 05:28:57PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Package: debootstrap-udeb > Version: 1.0.85 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > The (re)addition of InRelease support broke debootstrap(-udeb) in a d-i > context. The sed|tr|sed dance doesn't kill the

Re: Booting Debian on NVMe Dirive with killer E2400 ethernet next to Impossible!!!!

On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 07:46:03PM -0700, Humberto Hassey wrote: > Finally got it to work!! here is the procedure, I hope it helps someone > else: > > Step 1 start the installation with the Debian DVD and go through it unitl > it sais Grub failed > > Step 2 in a separate USB memory and with a

Re: Booting Debian on NVMe Dirive with killer E2400 ethernet next to Impossible!!!!

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 03:49:45AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > That really ought to be fixed in jessie, if it doesn't require big > changes to grub (and whatever else).  I already did a stable update of > initramfs-tools to make it handle nvme devices properly. As far as I understood it, the

Re: Booting Debian on NVMe Dirive with killer E2400 ethernet next to Impossible!!!!

On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 01:43:49PM -0700, Humberto Hassey wrote: > Hello I am a Debian user and just bought a nice laptop from system 76, I > wiped ubuntu and proceed to install Debian, well it turns our that Debian > does not recognize my network card, and the Grub packed on the installer > does

Re: debootstrap InRelease file support

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 12:33:03AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Julien Cristau (2016-09-16): > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 20:35:12 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:12:02 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > > > > > > If you restore support

Bug#841236: installation-reports: After install of Debian 8.6, Debian won't boot probably due to problem with nvidia

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 08:59:35PM +0200, Remi Vanicat wrote: > Package: installation-reports > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > -- Package-specific info: > > Boot method: CD > Image version: >

Bug#841062: installation-reports

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:49:05AM +0200, Erwan Prioul wrote: > Package: installation-reports > > Boot method: ISO image > Image version: > http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/current/ppc64el/iso-cd/debian-testing-ppc64el-netinst.iso > Date: Mon Oct 17 00:44:56 2016 > >

Re: Install on Orange Pi Plus eMMC work but no reboot

On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 02:48:30PM +0200, Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote: > On some system, maybe. Not on the Orange Pi Plus Well I guess it is one of the exceptions. > Well, I understand the technical part. But from a user point, when he see > the Orange Pi Plus in the board list of the Debian

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