Bug#851486: debian-installer: USB keyboard doesn't work on Banana Pi

I just tried to install Debian to a Banana Pi from the daily/netboot/SD-card-image installer (2018-10-28). The USB keyboard still doesn't work. After enabling the HDMI console output following instructions here https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Allwinner#Installing_from_an_SD_card_image

Bug#851486: debian-installer: USB keyboard doesn't work on Banana Pi

For some reason the necessary modules for USB HID or storage to work are not detected or installed on Banana Pi. They are present in the initrd though. I also tried the "Installing from a USB stick" method ( https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Allwinner#Installing_from_a_USB_stick ), but

Bug#854857: installation-reports: Guided partitioning fails to create ext2 filesystem on /boot

Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i -- Package-specific info: Boot method: SD-card Image version: http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/firmware.BananaPi.img.gz 27-Jan-2017 22:23 Date: 2017-02-09

Bug#771465: Please add UEFI boot files to i386 and amd64 netboot images

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > Do you mean mini.iso as in: > http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso > or something else? Hi Ian, Yes, that's the one, although I've tested with the i386 image. >

Bug#771465: Please add UEFI boot files to i386 and amd64 netboot images

retitle 768461 Please add UEFI boot files to i386 and amd64 netboot images severity 768461 normal tags 768461 patch thanks I recently had to reinstall jessie to my MacBook2,1 and found that the Debian 8.2 i386 netinst image now works out of the box even with the strange EFI implementation in this

Bug#779578: user-setup: Please install sudo when installing without root password

Package: user-setup Severity: normal Tags: d-i I installed jessie from the daily netinst image and did not enter a password for root. The end result was a working system without root access as sudo was not installed. The installer should make sure that sudo is installed, when the root password

Bug#779578: Re: Bug#779578: user-setup: Please install sudo when installing without root password

Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Err, installing sudo and making the first user a sudoer is what is supposed to happen in such a case. The existing /etc /home might have had some kind of influence on the net results. Indeed that seems to be the case. Looking at user-setup-apply, line

Bug#771465: i386 hd-media image does not boot on Macbooks with 32-bit EFI

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gaudenz Steinlin gaud...@debian.org wrote: Teemu Ikonen tpiko...@gmail.com writes: The Macbook versions Macbook1,1 and Macbook2,1 from 2006-2007 require a 32-bit EFI bootloader and thus do not work with amd64 version of d-i. On the other hand, the i386 hd-media

Bug#771465: i386 hd-media image does not boot on Macbooks with 32-bit EFI

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Teemu Ikonen tpiko...@gmail.com wrote: I made a USB stick with 32-bit EFI grub and kernel and initrd copied from amd64 netboot ISO. Grub naturally works ok, and interestingly, even the kernel boots but it does not find a working init. Ah, of course I mixed

Bug#771465: i386 hd-media image does not boot on Macbooks with 32-bit EFI

Package: debian-installer Severity: important Hi, I recently installed jessie on a 2007 intel Macbook by booting d-i from a USB drive. Getting the installer to start required quite a bit of hand tuning. The Macbook versions Macbook1,1 and Macbook2,1 from 2006-2007 require a 32-bit EFI

Bug#771467: First boot after installation fails on Macbooks with 32-bit EFI

Package: debian-installer Severity: important Hi, The i386 version of d-i installs GRUB to the EFI partition at the end of the installation process. The files installed are /EFI/debian/grub.efi and grubia32.efi. Intel Macbooks from 2006-2007 (Macbook1,1 and Macbook2,1) have a somewhat peculiar

Bug#768445: debootstrap: fails when called with --include=a,b,..

Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.64 Severity: normal debootstrap dies with an obscure error when called with the --include option which has more than a couple of packages: $ sudo /usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch=mips --foreign --no-resolve-deps \ --variant=minbase --verbose \

Bug#225344: base-config: aptitude dependency breaks debootstrap and pbuilder

Package: base-config Version: 2.03 Severity: normal Followup-For: Bug #225344 Hi, Note that this bug breaks debootstrap (aptitude is not installed, base-config can't be configured, debootstrap exits with an errorcode) and consequently pbuilder, which expects debootstrap to succeed. IMHO,

Re: cd-images with custom kernels

On 20/11/03 16:30, Joey Hess wrote: I've now successfully built a kernel-image .deb with a patched 2.4.22 kernel source, which should support the 3C940. Is there a howto or some other documentation on building d-i cdrom images with a custom kernel and modules? I tried to decipher the

cd-images with custom kernels

Hi all, I'd like to test debian-installer on a brand new PC with an ASUS A7V600 motherboard. This motherboard contains a 3Com 3C940 ethernet controller, which is not supported even in the mainstream stable kernels and thus my attempt at installing sarge with the Beta 1 debian-installer images