Bug#1036565: marked as done (debian-installer-12-netboot-amd64: Installers needed b43 ucode16_mimo.fw, had to eth0 net install + manual firmware-b43-installer, MacBookPro5,5)

2023-05-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 25 May 2023 19:09:49 +0200 with message-id <20230525170949.z4c4pso36gqbl...@mraw.org> and subject line Re: Bug#1036565: debian-installer-12-netboot-amd64: Installers needed b43 ucode16_mimo.fw, had to eth0 net install + manual firmware-b43-installer, MacBookPro5

Bug#1036565: debian-installer-12-netboot-amd64: Installers needed b43 ucode16_mimo.fw, had to eth0 net install + manual firmware-b43-installer, MacBookPro5,5

2023-05-25 Thread Fan Naibed
May 24, 2023 at 9:37 PM, "Cyril Brulebois" wrote: > > Fan Naibed (2023-05-24): > > > > > May 23, 2023 at 3:17 AM, "Cyril Brulebois" wrote: > > How would this work? firmware-b43-installer is just a downloader, > > so for it to do anything, you need to have a working connection in > > the

Bug#1036565: debian-installer-12-netboot-amd64: Installers needed b43 ucode16_mimo.fw, had to eth0 net install + manual firmware-b43-installer, MacBookPro5,5

2023-05-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Fan Naibed (2023-05-24): > May 23, 2023 at 3:17 AM, "Cyril Brulebois" wrote: > > How would this work? firmware-b43-installer is just a downloader, > > so for it to do anything, you need to have a working connection in > > the first place. It's basically an empty shell, with its postinst > >

Bug#1036565: debian-installer-12-netboot-amd64: Installers needed b43 ucode16_mimo.fw, had to eth0 net install + manual firmware-b43-installer, MacBookPro5,5

2023-05-24 Thread Fan Naibed
May 23, 2023 at 3:17 AM, "Cyril Brulebois" wrote: > > Fan Naibed (2023-05-22): > > > > > Package: debian-installer-12-netboot-amd64 > > > > Tried to install with live installer on USB stick, plain installer on USB > > stick, then net installer on USB stick > > > > None of those are

Bug#1036565: debian-installer-12-netboot-amd64: Installers needed b43 ucode16_mimo.fw, had to eth0 net install + manual firmware-b43-installer, MacBookPro5,5

2023-05-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Fan Naibed (2023-05-22): > Package: debian-installer-12-netboot-amd64 > Tried to install with live installer on USB stick, plain installer on USB > stick, then net installer on USB stick None of those are relatd to debian-installer-12-netboot-amd64, which ships files to boot the installer

Bug#1036565: debian-installer-12-netboot-amd64: Installers needed b43 ucode16_mimo.fw, had to eth0 net install + manual firmware-b43-installer, MacBookPro5,5

2023-05-22 Thread Fan Naibed
Package: debian-installer-12-netboot-amd64 Severity: normal Tags: d-i X-Debbugs-Cc: oregano+deb...@disroot.org Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Tried to install with live installer on USB stick, plain installer on USB stick, then net installer on USB stick * What exactly

Re: Install Manual

2021-09-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 02:32:13AM +0300, mh2 drake wrote: > Hi i want to help with project I can't do better than to copy and quote Paul Wise about how to contribute to Debian documentation in general and the how to help link at the end. The install manual will also be mainteined in a

Install Manual

2021-09-10 Thread mh2 drake
Hi i want to help with project

Install Manual

2015-02-20 Thread Navi Cendejas

Bug#656939: marked as done (www.debian.org: install manual section 3.4.1 unknown command MAKEDEV)

2012-08-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:00:06 + with message-id e1t5jwe-0001km...@franck.debian.org and subject line Bug#656939: fixed in installation-guide 20120826 has caused the Debian Bug report #656939, regarding www.debian.org: install manual section 3.4.1 unknown command MAKEDEV

Re: install manual

2012-03-20 Thread Christian PERRIER
, starting to work on the install manual l10n doesn't depend on i18n.debian.net signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: install manual

2012-03-19 Thread Christian PERRIER
in the section XML-based translations. Problem is that ettin.org returns a 404 on pub/debian/dimstats/* and that is too bad. Hmmm, that's probably very outdated info...:-( Possibly the page is outdated and I have not come round to checking the svn checkout of the install manual. I'm

Re: install manual

2012-03-19 Thread Bernard Zijlstra
Hello Christian and Dutch localization team, On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 07:10 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: Yeah. The Dutch translation of the install manual was managed by...the install manual main maintainer, and former Debian Installer release manager, namely Frans Pop, who passed in August

Re: install manual

2012-03-19 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
ettin.org in the section XML-based translations. Problem is that ettin.org returns a 404 on pub/debian/dimstats/* and that is too bad. Possibly the page is outdated and I have not come round to checking the svn checkout of the install manual. I'm interested in helping out with the Dutch

install manual

2012-03-18 Thread Bernard Zijlstra
/* and that is too bad. Possibly the page is outdated and I have not come round to checking the svn checkout of the install manual. I'm interested in helping out with the Dutch translation, as I'm a Dutch native speaker and I saw that 102 pages still need translation if that number is accurate

Bug#656939: www.debian.org: install manual section 3.4.1 unknown command MAKEDEV

2012-01-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
David Prévot, le Sun 22 Jan 2012 20:21:37 -0400, a écrit : Le 22/01/2012 20:03, Markus Hiereth a écrit : Among the three options to make device files two were of no use for my system. MAKEDEV is unknown to me and my old system (openSUSE). Wouldn't it make sense to mention mknod? That would

Re: Bug#656939: www.debian.org: install manual section 3.4.1 unknown command MAKEDEV

2012-01-22 Thread David Prévot
reassign 656939 installation-guide thanks. Le 22/01/2012 20:03, Markus Hiereth a écrit : Package: www.debian.org Severity: minor Respective: manual file www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apds03.html Chapter D.3.4.1. Among the three options to make device files two were of no use

Processed: Re: Bug#656939: www.debian.org: install manual section 3.4.1 unknown command MAKEDEV

2012-01-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 656939 installation-guide Bug #656939 [www.debian.org] www.debian.org: install manual section 3.4.1 unknown command MAKEDEV Bug reassigned from package 'www.debian.org' to 'installation-guide'. thanks. Stopping processing here. Please

Install Manual

2010-11-12 Thread Daniel Takashi
I would like to help with translations. How do I proceed? Wish some guidance. thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Request to Join Project debian-installer (translation of the install manual to Indonesian)

2010-11-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
Izharul Haq has requested to join your project. You can approve this request here: https://alioth.debian.org/project/admin/users.php?group_id=30260 Comments by the user: I want to help in translating documents http://di.alioth.debian.org/manual/ into Indonesian, is this place?

Re: Install Manual

2010-11-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Daniel Takashi (daniel.taka...@gmail.com): I would like to help with translations. How do I proceed? Wish some guidance. What language do you intend to work on? (cc'ing you as I don't know if you're subscribed to the list. No need to CC me as I am subscribed) signature.asc

Install Manual

2010-04-10 Thread Ken Ward
What disk are needed to do a install for a Game PC in this case or a firewall , server??? I am intrested for now in the Game Box and don,t want to DL 5 DVD's when 1 or 2 will do, I know Wine has to put on it and dosbox (I don't remeber the exact name). I hope ASUS has Linux Drivers then I

Install Manual

2009-10-07 Thread Randy Myers
--but I've too many buddies that already know how to reach me via current account. Would installing Install Manual give me the source(s) needed to use command line to get things done? Or, is there a book that would help with command line for everything in LINUX? Your support in this matter is greatly

Re: Install Manual

2009-10-07 Thread Don Wright
On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:36:02 -0400, Randy Myers r.my...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I'm new to LINUX, but am working hard to eliminate Windows 100%. The problem I run into is installing open source packages. For example, Adobe Flash Player 10 (several bookmarks require it) and Pidgin does not

Re: tarball of html version of install manual?

2006-10-13 Thread Eddy Petrișor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 02:15:10AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 07 October 2006 02:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to download the entire html to read offline. You can install the debian package that

tarball of html version of install manual?

2006-10-06 Thread dtutty
Hello, I'm on a slow (though flat-rate) dial-up link. From what I can find, to read the installer manual, I can either download the pdf or txt format or view the html on line. I would like to download the entire html to read offline. Is this possible? Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: tarball of html version of install manual?

2006-10-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 07 October 2006 02:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm on a slow (though flat-rate) dial-up link. From what I can find, to read the installer manual, I can either download the pdf or txt format or view the html on line. I would like to download the entire html to read offline. Is

Re: tarball of html version of install manual?

2006-10-06 Thread dtutty
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 02:15:10AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 07 October 2006 02:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to download the entire html to read offline. You can install the debian package that contains the installation guide. This contains all three formats and

Install Manual

2006-04-10 Thread Franziska Schröder
Hallo, ich würde gerne bei Übersetzungen helfen. Ich benutze Debian zu Hause und würde mich freuen, es unterstützen zu können. Außderdem bin ich gelernte Fremdsprachenkorrespondentin und würde so gerne mein Englisch auf aktuellem Stand halten. Ich freue mich schon auf eine Antwort. Gruß

Re: Install Manual

2006-04-10 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Franziska Schröder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hallo, ich würde gerne bei Übersetzungen helfen. Ich benutze Debian zu Hause und würde mich freuen, es unterstützen zu können. Außderdem bin ich gelernte Fremdsprachenkorrespondentin und würde so gerne mein Englisch auf aktuellem Stand

Re: Install Manual

2006-04-10 Thread Jens Seidel
everything on this list (and in German :-). Dein Betreff enthält Install Manual, willst du dich darauf beschränken, oder bist du auch anderem gegenüber offen? Das Handbuch wird zur Zeit von Holger Wansing betreut und ist zu 94% komplett. Siehe auch http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/. Mhm, ich finde es

Re: Updating the install manual info at the ddp web pages

2005-01-12 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 07:12:06PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 10 January 2005 11:35, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: I've added this information but restructured it a bit. It should be available in the next webwml run so please verify it in 6-8 hours. Thanks for doing the

Re: Updating the install manual info at the ddp web pages

2005-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 10 January 2005 11:35, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: I've added this information but restructured it a bit. It should be available in the next webwml run so please verify it in 6-8 hours. Thanks for doing the update Javier. I see you left the info for Woody's manual. I can

Re: Updating the install manual info at the ddp web pages

2005-01-10 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 10:47:13PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2005 00:10, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: The information at http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#install seems rather outdated. Perhaps someone could prepare an updated entry? (This hasn't to be a direct patch for

Re: Updating the install manual info at the ddp web pages

2005-01-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 02 January 2005 00:10, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: The information at http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#install seems rather outdated. Perhaps someone could prepare an updated entry? (This hasn't to be a direct patch for the WML, the text and links would suffice) Thanks for

Re: Updating the install manual info at the ddp web pages

2005-01-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 09 January 2005 22:47, Frans Pop wrote: PROPOSED NEW TEXT == Debian Installation Manual I just see that it would be better to use Debian Installation Guide here. pgpz58YhkAiKF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Updating the install manual info at the ddp web pages

2005-01-01 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
Hi. The information at http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#install seems rather outdated. Perhaps someone could prepare an updated entry? (This hasn't to be a direct patch for the WML, the text and links would suffice) Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.djpig.de/

install manual

2004-11-12 Thread Alex Owen
This page has the Install Manual in text, pdf and html formats in many languages... take your pick! (you probably want one of the pdf versions!) http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: install manual

2004-11-12 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 12 November 2004 04:31, John Toliver wrote: I just recently purchased a copy of Debian to experiment with as an OS. I would like to know if their were a downloadable copy of the installation manual I could have as opposed to spidering

Re: install manual

2004-11-12 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2004-11-11 22:31:21, schrieb John Toliver: Hello, I just recently purchased a copy of Debian to experiment with as an OS. I would like to know if their were a downloadable copy of the installation manual I could have as opposed to spidering the manual from the website? It is on the CD

install manual

2004-11-11 Thread John Toliver
Hello, I just recently purchased a copy of Debian to experiment with as an OS. I would like to know if their were a downloadable copy of the installation manual I could have as opposed to spidering the manual from the website? thank you in advance John T. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Fw: install manual

2004-11-11 Thread John Toliver
Hello, I just recently purchased a copy of Debian to experiment with as an OS. I would like to know if their were a downloadable copy of the installation manual I could have as opposed to spidering the manual from the website? thank you in advance John T. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#251813: Sarge install manual not available in an obvious place

2004-05-30 Thread John Gilmore
Package: debian-installer-manual Version: sarge The web pages at www.debian.org have links along the left margin for Documentation. Unfortunately, all those links lead to stable rather than testing documentation, with no option provided to get to the testing documents. If you actually want

Bug#251813: Sarge install manual not available in an obvious place

2004-05-30 Thread John Gilmore
One additional comment. The document itself, in section 1.6, Getting the Newest Version of This Document, gives this URL, which does not work: http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/powerpc/install That location is called the official Install Manual pages by the link. John

Re: Install manual language codes

2003-11-12 Thread Denis Barbier
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:03:27PM +, Gleydson Mazioli da Silva wrote: Hi, I've started to translate the Sarge install manual for Brazilian language, and I'would like to know about if will still be used the language ou country code to specify the main doc languages. Eg. pt_BR instead

Section 3.7.5.1 of Install Manual

2003-10-22 Thread Coffey, James A
Hi, I had some difficulties trying to install a kernel using your crossover procedure. The fix I found was that (at least in Red Hat Linux) proc should be mounted with a filesytem of none NOT proc. Once I did this the kernel installed and everything was good. Thanks for the document though,

Re: Section 3.7.5.1 of Install Manual

2003-10-22 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:28:49PM +1000, Coffey, James A wrote: Hi, I had some difficulties trying to install a kernel using your crossover procedure. The fix I found was that (at least in Red Hat Linux) proc should be mounted with a filesytem of none NOT proc. Once I did this the

Install manual for sarge --few questions

2003-09-02 Thread Miroslav Kure
. If I understand it correctly, there are no build tools for d-i doc (yet)? Will these be available for woody? 3. I've found that in d-i version of install manual entities are used much less (E.g. lot of debian;s are now handwritten, as are urls). Isn't it step back (e.g. abandoning

Re: [install manual] Some comments about doc/manual/ files

2003-06-15 Thread Chris Tillman
here are some comments and questions about doc/manual/ files: * The trailing dollar in $Id$ keyword is almost always lacking Ah, that's what it is. Thanks. * Many files have no $Id$ keyword I'll fix those too. * When applying validate.sh.patch, one can validate a single file,

[install manual] Some comments about doc/manual/ files

2003-06-13 Thread Denis Barbier
Hi, here are some comments and questions about doc/manual/ files: * The trailing dollar in $Id$ keyword is almost always lacking * Many files have no $Id$ keyword * When applying validate.sh.patch, one can validate a single file, but it must be run in the file directory, e.g. $ cd

Additions to install manual - partitioning tools

2002-11-23 Thread V.K.Vallinayagam
I found the GNU tool parted, very useful for partitioning. May be u can mention this in installation manual. I used this tool to partition a firewire drive .I did on a linux based system. Regards V.K.Vallinayagam [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Comment on install manual

2002-05-06 Thread Guido Guenther
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 12:55:55PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: [..snip..] The rest of the install went smoothly. There was a slight catch in that the indy would only use the BOOTP server as TFTP server and ignored the bootserver option, but some network sniffing revealed that pretty

Re: Comment on install manual

2002-05-06 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Guido Guenther wrote: next-server tftp.foo.bar; Where is that one documented? It does not seem to be in dhcp-options(5). Wichert. -- _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] This space intentionally left occupied \ | [EMAIL

Re: Comment on install manual

2002-05-03 Thread Guido Guenther
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:07:39PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Section 6.3.1 mentions you can create a SGI disk label from the fdisk expert menu, but when I had x in fdisk it tells me `Sorry, not experts menu for SPI partition tables available'. Somethings feels fishy here.. SPI has it's

Re: Comment on install manual

2002-05-03 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:22:16AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: SPI has it's own disklabel - cool :) If your disk has a SGI disklabel already, the expert menu is not available(for whatever reason, I'll file a wishlist bug against util-linux - it should at least allow to recreate the

Re: Comment on install manual

2002-05-03 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Guido Guenther wrote: SPI has it's own disklabel - cool :) Doh, that should have been SGI as well of course :) If your disk has a SGI disklabel already, the expert menu is not available That sounds a bit silly.. (for whatever reason, I'll file a wishlist bug against util-linux

Comment on install manual

2002-05-02 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Section 6.3.1 mentions you can create a SGI disk label from the fdisk expert menu, but when I had x in fdisk it tells me `Sorry, not experts menu for SPI partition tables available'. Somethings feels fishy here.. Wichert. -- _

Re: French install manual not building

2001-12-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 02:25:31PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: saspconvert: fr/boot-new.sgml:166 (input line 4708): identifier `boot-dev-select-sun' is undefined make[3]: *** [install.fr.txt] Error 1 Everything else up to that point worked, so I'm assuming it's really a problem in

French install manual not building

2001-12-26 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, saspconvert: fr/boot-new.sgml:166 (input line 4708): identifier `boot-dev-select-sun' is undefined make[3]: *** [install.fr.txt] Error 1 Everything else up to that point worked, so I'm assuming it's really a problem in that file... someone should look into it :) Please CC: responses. --

Bug#123571: marked as done (Addition for PPC install manual)

2001-12-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Addition for PPC install manual Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2r4 Hi, I wrote up the step-by-step details

Bug#123571: Addition for PPC install manual

2001-12-11 Thread frankm
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2r4 Hi, I wrote up the step-by-step details of getting Debian to boot on a PowerMac that didn't want to load the rescue floppy (it would load for a while, then eject the floppy and boot from the harddrive). Anyways, I thought the BootX docs were kind of sparse,

Bug#122407: boot-floppies: [ppc] iBook instructions should be install manual

2001-12-10 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:15:54PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: If you see anything I missed, let me know. The patch for my doc changes is below. I haven't had time to dig out a copy of the Woody install manual (sheer laziness on my part) but the main thing I was looking for from the page

Bug#122407: boot-floppies: [ppc] iBook instructions should be install manual

2001-12-10 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 07:10:34PM +, Mark Brown wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:15:54PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: If you see anything I missed, let me know. The patch for my doc changes is below. I haven't had time to dig out a copy of the Woody install manual (sheer laziness

Bug#122407: marked as done (boot-floppies: [ppc] iBook instructions should be install manual)

2001-12-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 10 Dec 2001 19:28:55 -0700 with message-id 20011210192855.C208@Obsession and subject line Bug#122407: boot-floppies: [ppc] iBook instructions should be install manual has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has

Install manual CD/DVD

2001-12-10 Thread Claus Hindsgaul
Hi debian-cd I have corrected the info on flavors booting off the different CDs in the Woody Installation Manual. There may be other changes. E.g. DVDs are mentioned nowhere in the manual. Would someone from debain-cd like to go through and edit the relevant parts of the install manual

Documentation: from fdisk man page; Is this in the install manual?

2001-12-07 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
This is important information and I wonder if it is mentioned in the installation manual (for Intel arch)? If not, it should be, IMO. quote If possible, fdisk will obtain the disk geometry automati- cally. This is not necessarily the physical disk geometry (indeed,

Bug#122407: boot-floppies: [ppc] iBook instructions should be install manual

2001-12-04 Thread Chris Tillman
from a little PPC experience I have to agree with this. Branden's iBook page would make a very good addition to the installation manual - there's a bunch of stuff I wouldn't have picked up from the manual as it stands in there (in general, I find the install manual doesn't cover how do I boot

Bug#122407: boot-floppies: [ppc] iBook instructions should be install manual

2001-12-04 Thread Mark Brown
iBook page would make a very good addition to the installation manual - there's a bunch of stuff I wouldn't have picked up from the manual as it stands in there (in general, I find the install manual doesn't cover how do I boot this ?@!* machine into the installer questions at all well). The page

[Patch] Install Manual Touch-up: refreshed

2001-09-05 Thread Chris Tillman
Attached is a patch for some touch-up on the woody install manual. This revision includes changes per E Benson on the list. Notable changes: Removed reference to install.txt for powermac (incorporated content into the manual in hardware and rescue-boot). install.txt for powermac itself should

Re: [Patch] Install Manual Touch-up: refreshed

2001-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:49:10PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: + p +Nubus systems are not currently supported by debian/powerpc. The +monolithic Linux/PPC kernel architecture does not have support for +these machines; instead, one must use the MkLinux Mach microkernel, +which Debian does

Re: [Patch] Install Manual Touch-up

2001-08-28 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 06:19:09PM +, Chris Tillman wrote: + p +Nubus systems are not currently supported by debian/powerpc. The +monolithic (LinuxPPC) kernel architecture does not have support for the proper term is PPC/Linux or Linux/PPC. LinuxPPC is a corporation and a

Re: [Patch] Install Manual Touch-up

2001-08-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 06:19:09PM +, Chris Tillman wrote: + p +Nubus systems are not currently supported by debian/powerpc. The +monolithic (LinuxPPC) kernel architecture does not have support for the proper term is PPC/Linux or Linux/PPC. LinuxPPC is a corporation and a unsupported

[Patch] Install Manual Touch-up

2001-08-26 Thread Chris Tillman
Attached is a patch for some touch-up on the woody install manual. Notable changes: Removed reference to install.txt for powermac (incorporated content into the manual in hardware and rescue-boot). install.txt for powermac itself should be removed also. Fixed up list of whats to come

Re: Tip for install manual? (Re: [PLUG] Debian Linux on a SunBlade 100)

2001-08-21 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Adam == Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam All this is already in the install manual, actually. Ah, ok. Good. But if it was not, you'd want to know about that. Hello, everyone. How are you all these days? I've got a job now. Working hard on getting things ready

Tip for install manual? (Re: [PLUG] Debian Linux on a SunBlade 100)

2001-08-16 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
In [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Stafford == Stafford A Rau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul == Paul Heinlein [EMAIL PROTECTED] had written: Paul [ re installing Debian sid on a SunBlade 100 ] Paul 3. Then there's some tricky renaming or symlinking that has to be Paul done. The Sun's PROM

Install manual...

2001-07-13 Thread Dominique Petitprez
Hello As you would this, I write this message only for say that I organise the install manual of debian 2.2. I am using word. I would have a manual correctly printed for going in holidays in a few days. I would to read this manual -during my holidays- before installing debian 2.2 Hope to read

Re: Install manual...

2001-07-13 Thread David Kimdon
Hi Dominique, Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:09:58PM +0200 wrote: Hello As you would this, I write this message only for say that I organise the install manual of debian 2.2. Are you looking for the manual? It is at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/#new-inst I am using word. What word? I

Re: Install manual...

2001-07-13 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:35:42PM -0700, David Kimdon wrote: I am using word. What word? He probably means MS Word, the famous cra^H^H^Heditor. As far as I know install manual is available only in plain text, HTML and PDF formats. If you want to print it, use the PDF format - it's best

Re: Install Manual Updates Phase 2

2001-07-03 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Quite honestly, there are only two cases that I see are all that valid: (a) if you're a single user, single disk workstation, just make one partition for swap, and one big one for everything else (b) if you're a server, than you bettah split out /tmp, /var, /usr, possibly /var/mail, yadda

Re: Install Manual Updates Phase 2

2001-07-03 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 06:59:26PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Quite honestly, there are only two cases that I see are all that valid: (a) if you're a single user, single disk workstation, just make one partition for swap, and one big one for everything else (b) if you're a server,

Re: Install Manual Updates Phase 2

2001-07-03 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 06:59:26PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Quite honestly, there are only two cases that I see are all that valid: (a) if you're a single user, single disk workstation, just make one partition for swap, and one big one for everything else (b) if you're a server,

Re: Install Manual Updates Phase 2

2001-07-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:17:13PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: + sectRecommended Partitioning Scheme +p +As described above, you should definitely have a separate smaller root +partition, and a larger file/usr/file partition, if you have the +space. For examples, see below. For

Re: Install Manual Updates Phase 2

2001-07-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:14:24AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: if your going to split off /usr you need to split off /var /tmp and /home as well. How so? Many systems work fine with /var, /tmp and even /home on the root partition. People who are installing servers will have their own

Re: Install manual organization

2001-06-22 Thread siward
it, as is suggested by sectiontitle Getting Debian. Both thoughts are based on following notion : this document is intended to be used as an install manual, and its structure should be derived from that purpose. it should let readers, who are going to exposed to a giant amount of new

Re: Install manual organization

2001-06-22 Thread Filip Van Raemdonck
Hi, Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 9 (new chapter) Task and Package Installation 7.28 Package Installation: Simple or Advanced 7.29 Simple Package Selection -- The Task Installer 7.30 Advanced Package Selection with dselect (new) Package Installation from the Command Line

Re: Install manual organization

2001-06-22 Thread Chris Tillman
Hi, Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 7.30 Advanced Package Selection with dselect (new) Package Installation from the Command Line I suppose this is about using apt to install packages, right? Perhaps there should be a small note in there that apt can't handle Recommends: and

Re: Install manual organization

2001-06-22 Thread Chris Tillman
Anyhow, I think it might be wise to throw patches up here for comment prior to committing them. That's my plan. Chapter 2 went by last week, in case you missed it: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0106/msg00788.html Alternatively, I can make a CVS branch for your work and we can merge

Re: Install manual organization

2001-06-21 Thread Chris Tillman
Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's my thinking about re-organization the manual along the lines you proposed. We'll need much less space to talk about installation source options without a base tarball or floppies. god knows that might come back, you know :) Well with the

Re: Install manual organization

2001-06-21 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, perhaps you could copy me with the Sysadmin Hints on Debian Linux, I wasn't around then. Sure Attached. 9 Technical Information on the Debian Installer Thanks for working on this, Chris. I'm enjoying it, hope the output has

Re: Install manual organization

2001-06-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 03:02:19AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: 4.5 Example Partitioning delete - 4.6 Partitioning Prior to Installation (we recommend using Debian partitioning tools) Not always true! See the discussion Ethan and I had. See my comments above. We should have a

Install manual organization

2001-06-14 Thread Chris Tillman
Here's my thinking about re-organization the manual along the lines you proposed. We'll need much less space to talk about installation source options without a base tarball or floppies. Installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 For PowerPC Contents 1 Welcome to Debian 1.1 What is Debian? 1.2 What

Re: Install manual organization

2001-06-14 Thread Chris Tillman
3 Before Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Backups 3.2 Information You Will Need (was 4.2) Planning Use of the System 3.3 Pre-installation Hardware and Operating System Setup (was 5.1) Overview of the Installation Process add here: Pre-Partitioning to Support Dual Booting -- create

Re: Install manual organization

2001-06-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3 Before Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Backups 3.2 Information You Will Need (was 4.2) Planning Use of the System 3.3 Pre-installation Hardware and Operating System Setup (was 5.1) Overview of the Installation Process add here:

Re: Install manual organization

2001-06-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:44:16AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: 3 Before Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Backups 3.2 Information You Will Need (was 4.2) Planning Use of the System 3.3 Pre-installation Hardware and Operating System Setup (was 5.1) Overview of the Installation Process

Re: Install manual organization

2001-06-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 03:37:01PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Yes... It would be great if we had more info for people who are installing debian but wanna retain their existing OS. I admit the boot-loader configuration stuff isn't likely to solve that (well, if we use grub on i386, that

Re: install manual todo

2001-06-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm up for getting started ... sounds like a good plan to me. Any inputs are welcome! I'd be happy to review work that you've done, of course... -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onshored.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

install manual todo

2001-06-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
FYI, my rough thoughts on the install manual todo: - we should merge chapters ch-inst-methods and ch-rescue-boot; don't focus on describing everything, but rather traverse it by the installation method. Basically, merge ch-inst-methods into ch-rescue-boot. - Description

Re: install manual todo

2001-06-12 Thread Chris Tillman
FYI, my rough thoughts on the install manual todo: - we should merge chapters ch-inst-methods and ch-rescue-boot; don't focus on describing everything, but rather traverse it by the installation method. Basically, merge ch-inst-methods into ch-rescue-boot. - Description

Bug#93069: install manual refers to outdated license location

2001-04-05 Thread Matt Kraai
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A The installation manual refers to /usr/doc/copyright as the directory in which the GPL can be found. The following patch fixes it to point to /usr/share/common-licenses instead (and updates all the translations as well). Matt Index:

pdf install manual

2001-01-24 Thread Joseph A. Price, Ph.D.
The pdf version of the install manual 2.2 Intel x86 has very long path/filenames on pages 33-39 that run off the page so that you can not read the names of the files. Joseph A. Price III, Ph.D. Department of Pathology, OSU-COM W. 17th St. Tulsa OK 74107 Ph: 918-561-8231 FAX 918-699

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