Bug#774987: xfce cd lacks gnome-keyring, so network-manager cannot connect to many networks

2015-01-09 Thread Joey Hess
Package: debian-cd Severity: normal gnome-keyring is a recommend of network-manager-gnome. While network-manager-gnome is included on the xfce CD, gnome-keyring is not. It should be. I noticed this when installing stable, but testing appears to also have the problem. An install from the xfce CD

Re: desktop media size

2014-09-24 Thread Joey Hess
Steven Chamberlain wrote: I tried to get some figures on kfreebsd-amd64 (where XFCE is still the default for now) using the tools from debian-cd.git, hacked to generate a jessie CD-1 packagelist without a full mirror available. If these results are correct, it looks rather promising: *

Re: desktop media size

2014-09-24 Thread Joey Hess
Adding cinnamon to gnome looks to add around 20 mb of debs. Maybe something like: debian-8.0.0-amd64-CD-1.iso debian-8.0.0-amd64-CD-2.iso [etc] debian-8.0.0-amd64-xfce+lxde+mate-CD.iso - debian-8.0.0-amd64-CD-1.iso debian-8.0.0-amd65-light-desktop-CD.iso -

Re: desktop media size

2014-09-24 Thread Joey Hess
Actually, I agree that making CD-1 not default to the regular default desktop is confusing, so instead: debian-8.0.0-amd64-CD-1.iso debian-8.0.0-amd64-CD-2.iso [etc] debian-8.0.0-amd64-xfce+lxde+mate-CD.iso debian-8.0.0-amd65-light-desktop-CD.iso - debian-8.0.0-amd64-xfce+lxde+mate-CD.iso

Bug#762613: use /usr/lib/tasksel/default_desktop to find per-arch default

2014-09-23 Thread Joey Hess
Package: debian-cd Severity: normal tools/boot/jessie/common.sh looks for the first desktop task in the Recommends of task-desktop to get the default. That will still work, but it would be better if it sourced /usr/lib/tasksel/default_desktop and passed an architecture name to

Bug#762487: desktop selection changes

2014-09-22 Thread Joey Hess
2001 From: Joey Hess j...@kitenet.net Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:14:47 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] adapt desktop handling for tasksel/d-i changes tasksel now allows selecting the desktop, and d-i has dropped the boot menu desktop selection. This patch attempts to update debian-cd for these changes, removing

Re: new tasksel

2014-09-09 Thread Joey Hess
Steven Chamberlain wrote: Init system? ... sysvinit ... upstart ... OpenRC Note that my email was meant to alert people who need to do work to do it, not to solicit way-down-the-slippery-slope suggestions that can be rejected out of hand by looking at the description of TASKsel. -- see shy

Re: new tasksel

2014-09-09 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Is there any scope/space for this: essentially only a tiny step up from what you'd get by installing using a netinst without a mirror? Un-select everything in tasksel. (Also, this thread is not about random suggestions or user support.) -- see shy jo

new tasksel

2014-09-07 Thread Joey Hess
I have made some significant changes to tasksel, that will need changes elsewhere. I plan to upload this to unstable pretty soon, feedback permitting. Some of the more popular desktop environments are individually selectable in tasksel, in a little sub-menu. (Of course that's displayed

desktop media size

2014-09-05 Thread Joey Hess
I'd like to get a statement from the CD team for this page -- https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktop/Requalification/Jessie Which asks, for each desktop: Does the desktop fit on the media (CD(?), DVD, usb) we want to be able to contain a complete desktop environment? --- My feeling as a somewhat

Re: Bug#485586: debian-installer: Default to graphical install

2014-08-19 Thread Joey Hess
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Now, the ideal would be to use syslinux' ifcpu/ifcpu64 c32 modules to determine the menu order depending on the machine (see [0]): no 64 bit option on 32 bit machines, hidden or down the menu 32 bit option on 64 bit-capable machines. This used to be the case via

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Joey Hess
Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: I actually think having no default desktop would be just fine, instead having the current 3-4 desktop installation media. Then anyone can pick the DE she likes. I recently spent some time installing community computer labs in rural Brazil. Internet bandwidth was nearly

Re: Bug#712696: debian-installer: Add Cinnamon and Mate as alternative DEs.

2014-03-13 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: I'm not sure we want to support every desktop environment out there… but I guess tasks might not hurt, so punting that to tasksel. And adding debian-cd@ to the loop, to get some feelings about whether new images would sound like a vaguely sane idea (I'm really not sure).

Re: Plan of action for Secure Boot support

2013-08-13 Thread Joey Hess
Cyril Brulebois wrote: (Sorry, I'm new to all this) do you mean (1) the regular linux image packages are getting a signature added, and we're using those like we do today, or (2) that we'll have additional linux image packages with the signatures to be used instead of the usual linux image

Re: Tasks and CD sizes again

2012-08-01 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: I'm thinking we should possibly drop one of these deps in the loop between task-$DESKTOP-desktop and task-desktop. Joey, what do you think? I think that the dependencies need to remain circular, and as tasksel has no maintainer scripts, it avoids the well-known problems

Re: Dropping businesscard ISO images?!?

2012-07-15 Thread Joey Hess
Francesco Poli wrote: I used the network boot method once to install Debian onto a headless box (running d-i over the serial console was fun!), but can the network boot ISO image be used also when booting from removable media (such as CDROM, USB stick, ...)? Yes. -- see shy jo -- To

Re: Tweaking tasks

2012-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: Following up from the thread about lack of space... A couple of weeks back I rewrote the task support in debian-cd to deal with the change from tasks-in-Packages to task meta-packages. After a lot of local testing, today is the first time the weeklies have been built

Re: Tweaking tasks

2012-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: No, not yet at least. To be honest, I've had a lot of pressure to just add all the Recommends anyway recently to match what people would install by default. That's what I've done so far. It's complicated. Sometimes we drop a package from a direct Recommends in a task-*

Bug#672941: cdrom: There is neither XFCE (nor LXDE) in Wheezy xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso

2012-05-19 Thread Joey Hess
Fab wrote: I'm referring to the iso file created in 2012-05-07 http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing- amd64-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso I expected to find XFCE and LXDE packages in this iso. debian-cd is currently failing to put the new task-* task packages on all

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: Indeed, I have seen that pattern before, although I think it was because people are used to get CDs, not DVDs (ie, just a matter of habit). Another reason is that it's more likely for a throwaway USB key to be in the 1-2 gb range than the 5 gb range.

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-13 Thread Joey Hess
Neil Williams wrote: supporting only the smaller/lighter desktop environments is exactly what comes out of accepting that the first two options just won't be acceptable. Changing compression is only putting off the inevitable. There's *no* reason to think that GNOME or KDE are going to get

pointers to http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/

2011-08-28 Thread Joey Hess
There seem to be few pointers to the non-free firmware CDs. While I don't want to oversell them (they should not be used by default), I have added a link in the installation manual's firmware section. Would it also make sense to add a link to http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/ -- see shy jo

Re: Renaming xm-debian.cfg to just debian.cfg

2011-08-15 Thread Joey Hess
Ian Campbell wrote: Or do I need to worry about non-daily/weekly builds too? I suppose that if an alpha/beta release is made there will necessarily be a d-i upload first (with this change)? Yes, debian-installer will be uploaded before any such release. Patches to both are attached, I can

tasksel changes

2011-08-06 Thread Joey Hess
tools/update_tasks has been broken by tasksel being changed to use task packages. from README.tasksel: The general sequence in which packages are added for complete images is: 1) Packages required by Debian Installer 2) Packages required to install the base system (debootstrap) 3) Any

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-25 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: I've noticed a problem recently in the archive when building CDs, aggravated to a certain extent by the newer source formats. Some of the filenames in the archive are getting *very* long, and this is causing issues. As a matter of course, we build CDs with RockRidge and

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-25 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: There are uses I've heard about, including (apparently quite common) using CDs and DVDs to seed a mirror on a Windows server. If I had to chose between that working, and not needing to worry about filename lengths, I'd choose the latter. Is it possible to provide Joliet

Re: Debian testing installer BUG

2011-03-01 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:14:38AM -0300, Joao Gustavo Cabral wrote: Dear Comrades, I would like to notify the following BUG at the base system install step: DEBOOTSRAP ERROR: RELEASE FILE NOT VALID. Hi Joao, Known bug, should be fixed soon. So, there was a

Re: Debian testing installer BUG

2011-03-01 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:14:38AM -0300, Joao Gustavo Cabral wrote: Dear Comrades, I would like to notify the following BUG at the base system install step: DEBOOTSRAP ERROR: RELEASE FILE NOT VALID. Hi Joao, Known bug, should be fixed

task packages support in debian-cd

2011-03-01 Thread Joey Hess
I mailed about this before, but I can be a bit more concrete now since a tasksel using task packages is in BYHAND waiting to get into experimental. These task packages each Depend on what used to be called the Key packages of a task. And they tend to Recommend a lot of other packages. So, it

Re: task packages support in debian-cd

2011-03-01 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: Right, so you mean #1 above. My initial way would be something like #1, basically because it's easiest to code, BUT: the normal dependency following code will only place the task package *itself* on the CD iff all of the Depends and Recommends have already been placed

Re: Bug#612074: debian-cd: provide iso image aligned on usb thumb drive size

2011-02-24 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: Then I'm going to make DVD#1 limit to 4GB for amd64, i386 and the amd64/i386 m-a DVD. Then it'll fit on a 4GB stick too, and I think that's useful. The rest of the set will still fill up to the normal 4.7GB DVD size, as there's no point to keeping to that limit on later

Re: Debian installer build: failed or old builds

2011-02-10 Thread Joey Hess
Christian PERRIER wrote: * FAILED BUILD: armel Feb 09 22:18 joey@box build_iop32x_network-console_ss4000e http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/armel/images/daily/build_iop32x_network-console_ss4000e.log These do fail because of: Ign http://cdn.debian.net

Bug#609334: 50mirror treats bluray as if CD size

2011-01-08 Thread Joey Hess
Package: apt-setup Version: 1:0.52 Severity: normal Tag: patch This is one of the problems sledge alluded to in http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2010/12/msg00562.html When installing from bluray, the cd_type is full_cd, and so the user will be prompted at high priority using incorrect text

Re: lack of gnome on squeeze CD #1

2010-12-05 Thread Joey Hess
Josselin Mouette wrote: Where can that list be found? It looks correct, but different from the one in tasksel. That is the Key packages from the gnome-desktop and desktop tasks in tasksel. So one of the solutions would be to ditch Recommends. I was wrong about recommends being included

Re: lack of gnome on squeeze CD #1

2010-12-05 Thread Joey Hess
Josselin Mouette wrote: This would need to be tested, but 1+2 without recommends sounds like the good thing to add. We could remove the mail client (evolution) if it turns out too big, nowadays the media player looks more important. I'm testing 1+2 in tasksel 2.87 and we can move the list back

lack of gnome on squeeze CD #1

2010-12-03 Thread Joey Hess
The squeeze CD #1 [a], which is probably still one of the most commonly mass-produced Debian CDs, no longer contains the Gnome desktop environment, or any self-contained working desktop environment. I believe the multiarch CD [b] also lacks a DE. I wanted to bring this to the attention of the

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-17 Thread Joey Hess
George Danchev wrote: Therefore I exchanged several mails with Thomas (xorriso upstream, also CC'ed) about adding such functionality to xorriso and here is how it currently looks like: All looks very sane. * the image file (this could be the requested second firmware partition) as

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: That itself is a minor pain, but not enough to make me complain about a useful feature. The *more* difficult thing is trying to make iso-hybrid work with jigdo: we make the .iso and .jigdo files directly in the same invocation of genisoimage, so anything we do to

Bug#475243: Do we still need to think about adding acpi?

2010-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: Looks like nobody ever made this change; is it still relevant? I think so yes, hw-detect will still try install acpi. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-13 Thread Joey Hess
I've done some investigation of using isohybrid on an iso image (d-i alpha1 i386 netinst) to allow it to be booted from USB stick. Basically, postprocess the image with isohybrid, and write it direct to the usb stick. On the single machine I tried it on, that booted ok without any tweaking of

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-13 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: So ideally, debian-cd would add a small second partition to the iso file's partition table, and tack on a FAT filesystem. This could probably be done by running fdisk on the iso file after isohybrid. I've attached a patch with a script, which I am checking into d-i for now

Constantly Usable Testing BoF @ DebConf10

2010-08-01 Thread Joey Hess
I'd like to invite d-i and debian-cd members who are attending DebConf to the Constantly Usable Testing BoF, Tuesday at 10:30. http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/681.en.html The purpose of the BoF is to finally explore whether it would make sense to implement the Constantly Usable

Re: Getting d-i to find firmware on the CD generated by debian-cd

2010-03-16 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Holger Levsen wrote: On Dienstag, 16. März 2010, Frans Pop wrote: An additional issue with non-free firmware is that including it in the way you propose would (I think) mean it will get loaded without any prompting of the user, which may in

testing firmware image out of date

2010-03-09 Thread Joey Hess
The firmware bundle at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/testing/current/ contains firmware files from lenny. inflating: atmel-firmware_1.3-4_all.deb inflating: firmware-bnx2_0.14+lenny2_all.deb inflating: firmware-bnx2x_0.14+lenny2_all.deb inflating:

Re: testing firmware image out of date

2010-03-09 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: No, the build is correct. Just the symlink for testing needed updating from lenny to squeeze. any chance of automating that symlink? I'd expect this has prevented wifi from working during install for many users. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#543256: tasksel maintainer's perspective

2009-08-27 Thread Joey Hess
I don't appreciate the confrontational tone Frans is using in this thread, and so will not be continuing to follow it. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#543256: tasksel maintainer's perspective

2009-08-26 Thread Joey Hess
So, that change was made in tasksel three months ago, near to the start what was, AFAIK at the time, a 1.5 year release cycle. This was done in full knowledge that enabling recommends would take some time to sort out, including getting debian-cd to disable NORECOMMENDS and maybe handle recommends

Bug#536312: task overrides for stable appear to be updated when unstable changes - no network-manager etc in default debian 5.0r2 install

2009-07-08 Thread Joey Hess
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: grave Tags: d-i The Task field overrides for stable are supposed to be based on the task data contained in the tasksel in stable. However, they seem to be being based on those in unstable, which results in newly installed 5.0r2 systems missing important packages

Re: Bug#532515: handling of Recommends (was: on making decisions vs letting things happen)

2009-07-06 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: I don't think policy for Recommends is wrong, but I do feel it results to a hell of a lot of packages getting installed that are not actually needed/wanted in practice. We have a whole release cycle to sort this out now. IMO the special handling of Recommends in D-I so

reassign 493173 to debian-cd

2008-07-31 Thread Joey Hess
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.34 reassign 493173 debian-cd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: syslinux vesamenu

2008-04-30 Thread Joey Hess
Otavio Salvador wrote: I'd like to know when Joey plans to commit it. Joey? I've been holding off for review. Now that we're happy with it except for some minor string changes and reorganisation (which should be doable without a lot of pain, I think, although there are certian types of

Re: syslinux vesamenu

2008-04-13 Thread Joey Hess
I've finished and tested the debian-cd patch for using vesamenu. Did notice one problem. When the vesamenu is used, default64 does not behave the same as it normally does in syslinux. Rather than setting the default that's used then enter is pressed, it makes syslinux *immediately* start booting

Re: syslinux vesamenu

2008-04-13 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: What I'd like to see is just the basic choices selectable from the menu, and a prompt for advanced usage. One option to do this could be: Last month syslinux got submenu support for vesamenu, so its now doable.. Here's an example image with menu items for text and gtk:

Re: syslinux vesamenu

2008-04-11 Thread Joey Hess
Jérémy Bobbio wrote: After fetching your SVN branch, updating the kernel version, and using qemu 9.1 from unstable, the menu looks good, and no framebuffer problems where to be found. Both with or without -std-vga. I think it would be a good addition for Etch. Maybe post-beta2, though.

Bug#475243: 100% successful install on Fujitsu 2110 lifebook

2008-04-09 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: IIRC you once said that maybe we should not install acpi at all as it's not really needed (only acpid is). On that basis I've always thought that is was OK to install it if available and not if, eh, not. It's true that it's not really needed. However, I think we should make

Bug#475243: 100% successful install on Fujitsu 2110 lifebook

2008-04-09 Thread Joey Hess
Also, when apt-install is fixed to complain about queued items that fail to install, won't it start complaining about acpi if it's not on the netinst? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-16 Thread Joey Hess
2. Is it worth producing all the CDs/DVDs/whatever for all the architectures? AFAIK no supported armel machines boot from CD or DVD. For arm, you can apparently boot a netwinder from a parallel port CD drive, but armel doesn't support netwinders. So there's very little point in having any

Bug#443991: installation-reports

2007-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
Marek Grabowski wrote: This is my output: apt-install: Reading package lists... apt-install: Building dependecy tree... apt-install: E: Couldn't find package dmraid main-menu[1136]: WARNING **: Configuring 'bootstrap-base' failed with error code 1 The netinst iso was missing the dmraid

Re: tasksel and creating tasks

2007-08-21 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be appreciated if someone could tell me where to find some information or documentation regarding working with tasksel and creating tasks for selection after installation. Have you read its README? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Reasonable maximum package size ?

2007-06-05 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: Debug packages: (369MB) (not arch:all) 53959746 boson-dbg 55430908 icedove-dbg 56274922 koffice-dbg 59787420 iceape-dbg 86404478 libgl1-mesa-dri-dbg These seem to be built with separated debugging symbols. They could probably still be reduced in

Re: netinst, businesscard, and media sizes

2007-04-19 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: True, that would be an option. Do you only mean the k7 kernel, or also the 64-bits kernel, or even the xen/vserver kernels? The k7 kernel is the main thing that is missing imho. The bigmem and xen kernels would be useful if base-installer somehow installed them in the future.

Re: netinst, businesscard, and media sizes

2007-04-18 Thread Joey Hess
Matt Taggart: I have been told (by Steve Langasek) that the netinst image sizes are whatever it takes to do net install, to be used on a regular CD but kept as small as possible for download purposes. The netinst images are all pretty close to the 185mb mini-CD size, archsize free

Re: Artwork for Etch completed

2007-04-17 Thread Joey Hess
Ulrich Hansen wrote: My series of CD-/DVD-covers for Debian Etch is now completed. You can find them at: http://ulihansen.kicks-ass.net/etch License is the GNU GPL, the source is available as editable Gimp XFC and I included a description how to adapt the artwork to individual

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-17 Thread Joey Hess
I've been looking around the CD vendors. Ideally, I'd like to buy: * netinst (in an actual mini-iso form factor) * businesscard (in an actual businesscard form factor) * multiarch DVD * multiarch CD I have not been able to find any of these for etch. Haven't checked _all_ the US vendors yet, but

Re: [PATCH] make multi-arch CD/DVD images more visible

2007-03-06 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Millan wrote: What kind of people do you have in mind ? Users of other architectures should have a clear idea of what they're looking for. People for whom a ~500mb netinst is not the best choice of installation medium, for one. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: [PATCH] make multi-arch CD/DVD images more visible

2007-03-05 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: + liMulti-arch CD/DVD image for PC or Mac (i386 / amd64 / powerpc)br + table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 + trtdDownload via HTTP:nbsp;/tdtd[a href=http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/multi-arch/iso-cd/;CD/a] [a

Re: Bug#410418: installation-reports: Successful installation on HP Omnibook 6000

2007-02-11 Thread Joey Hess
Geoff Simmons wrote: Sure, please find it attached. Ok well, you have a cdrom: line with contrib in it, so the installer did the right thing in adding the security.debian.org contrib lines. OTOH, it's sorta weird that the cdrom had a contrib component on it. Apparently for some reason our

Re: Netinst or Regular inst with USB HID support?

2007-02-08 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Loftis wrote: Right now I'm having a pretty big issue attempting to install etch onto some intel blades because Debian doesn't' include USB HID support on the installation CD images. Has anyone created either netinst discs or the like which will work with a legacy free system? Eh?

Re: A first test report on multiarch DVD

2007-01-16 Thread Joey Hess
Giuseppe Sacco wrote: The DVD version shown when pressing F1 at the boot prompt is Debian testing M-A 1 20070102-08:25; d-i 2006110. I have a couple of questions regarding this DVD, even if I will retry this install tomorrow after updating my image with jigdo to the new version dated

confused by recent debian-cd changes

2005-01-02 Thread Joey Hess
Before I throw anymore pennies down the well that is debian-cd, let me make sure I understand how it's supposed to work vs. how people seem to want it to work based on recent modifications. How it's supposed to work: - tasks/base-sarge is regenerated periodically by the code fragement given

Re: confused by recent debian-cd changes

2005-01-02 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: How it seems to really work: - tasks/base-sarge is never updated for new versions of debootstrap in recent memory, but things like filesutils, fileutils, and arcboot are manually added to it, ignoring the comments at the top of the file. Ouch. In that case we

Re: Bug#283137: Problem when booting from second CD

2004-11-29 Thread Joey Hess
Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: Proably because there are no udebs at all, let alone kernel udebs, on the second CD. So I'm reassigning this to debian-cd; if the second full CD is intended to be bootable, it needs to have the d-i udebs on it. :-??? Does this seem reasonable? I mean, isn't

Re: Bug#283137: Problem when booting from second CD

2004-11-26 Thread Joey Hess
reassign 283137 debian-cd thanks Margarita Manterola wrote: This report was done with RC2 CDs, downloaded via bittorrent Known by my will to do weird things, this time I tried booting from the second CD, instead of the first. It listed only linux and expert as booting methods, so I chose

time for another debian-cd release?

2004-10-20 Thread Joey Hess
There are several changes in debian-cd CVS that are needed to work with current d-i, and I doubt d-i will be changing any more before release. So perhaps it's a good time to upload a new version of debian-cd? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Red screen - possible cause?

2004-10-01 Thread Joey Hess
Mariusz Matuszek wrote: Mariusz Matuszek wrote: I was installing 'linux26' using the installer daily build from 25th (or 26th) Sept. on my Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. I experienced the 'red screen' at one stage of installation (package consistency check) and got rid of it by burning

status of d-i kernel transition

2004-09-24 Thread Joey Hess
An update of the table of kernel versions. This time I've added a column for debian-cd, which reflects the kernel(s) that go on the netinst (from the debian-installer+kernel file). Quite a mess there, the rest of the updates to the new kernel are done, except for hppa and apus. I've still not

Re: ia64 boot???

2004-09-10 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: Using latest debian-cd CVS I can't make a bootable IA64 DVD: + cp /mirror/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-ia64/current/images/cdrom/boot.img . cp: cannot stat `/mirror/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-ia64/current/images/cdrom/boot.img': No such file or directory

Re: Testing of Sarge RC1

2004-08-18 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Glines wrote: The release boots just fine from a CD-ROM but when it gets to detect and mount CD-ROM it fails to detect the cd-rom it just booted from. Well, this rather begs the question of what kind of CD drive you booted from, doesn't it? (And if it's say, scsi, what controller card

Re: No SARGE jigdos this week?

2004-08-16 Thread Joey Hess
Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: No SARGE jigdos this week? IIRC they're not being built while some updates are done to the build system. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#262043: cdimage.debian.org: I am using the daily sarge iso images to create a local mirror. Instalation fails attempting to partition a disk

2004-07-29 Thread Joey Hess
reassign 262043 partman retitle 262043 does not behave well if no disk is detected tag 262043 d-i severity 262043 normal thanks This is because the netinst CD image is not designed to be a usable debian mirror. In lacks udebs for all the disk drive modules that are compiled into the CD initrds,

CVS access

2004-07-02 Thread Joey Hess
Am I right that debian-cd CVS is still only available to DD's after the compromise and later CVS holes? I cannot seem to do an anonymous checkout anymore. This is hard for non-DDs who want to get a current debian-cd CVS checkout to work from. I think debian-cd should move to alioth, so its CVS

Re: revising the first cd contents...

2004-06-26 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Cheney wrote: kde-core is enough to get KDE running, it includes arts/kdelibs/kdebase, but it doesn't include any of the other official KDE packages. It does include basic apps like kate, konqueror and konsole. The kde package installs the full official KDE release, but doesn't include

Re: revising the first cd contents...

2004-06-24 Thread Joey Hess
. The target should be to have really the packages we and our users want on the first cd, for example, Joey Hess wanted the desktop task to be available, but this task depends on both x-window-system-core, kde and gnome. Testing on a newly base installed bachine, tells me that installing

Re: revising the first cd contents...

2004-06-24 Thread Joey Hess
Josselin Mouette wrote: The gnome metapackage is for an overblown desktop with all options. The official GNOME release is in the gnome-desktop-environment package. To get numbers, maybe you should look at sid as there are some changes with GNOME 2.6. Ok, I'll make tasksel only require

Re: revising the first cd contents...

2004-06-24 Thread Joey Hess
I wrote: Maybe part of the problem is that the standard system takes 459 MB on the CD. I've had problems in this area with preparing debian-edu CDs as well; once the standard system is included, there is just not much space left on the CD for interesting stuff. I didn't think standard was

Re: Bug#253033: installation-reports

2004-06-08 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: Hmmm. That wasn't very successful. Netcfg loaded fine off the CD, but only after I loaded it by hand. The 3c59x driver for the network card in the test machine just didn't get loaded. Looking at the *nic* .udebs on the image, they seem quite old (9th May); is that

Re: Bug#253033: installation-reports

2004-06-07 Thread Joey Hess
Peter Yellman wrote: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/cd/jigdo-area/i386/sarge-i386-1.jigdo Multiple attempts -- at least 5. Tried linux, expert, linux26, expert26. Never offered the opportunity to configure network. Tried with 2 different NICs - a common Macronix, and an

Re: Bug#253033: installation-reports

2004-06-07 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: I must have blinked and missed these. If you can give me a list of which files are needed, or a pointer as to how to work it out I'll get onto this later today for you. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2004/05/msg00036.html -- see shy jo signature.asc

Re: Bug#253033: installation-reports

2004-06-07 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: See http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2004/05/msg00036.html When was the last time you checked? Looking at the jigdo file for the latest sarge image #1: I have not tried it since I wrote the above mail. I'll download it tonight and try it tomorrow. -- see shy jo

Re: Bug#253033: installation-reports

2004-06-07 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: Hmmm. That wasn't very successful. Netcfg loaded fine off the CD, but only after I loaded it by hand. The 3c59x driver for the network card in the test machine just didn't get loaded. Looking at the *nic* .udebs on the image, they seem quite old (9th May); is that

Re: Bug#251008: recent netboot on sparc64 requires larger ramdisk

2004-05-26 Thread Joey Hess
Geert Stappers wrote: Package: debian-installer-manual Severity: minor Tags: d-i Hello D.I.S.T., My first 'boot net' with beta4 on Sparc64 went fine. Todays 'boot net' with 2005-05-26 from p.d.o./~jbailey failed, the reserved RAMdisk was to small. I had to type boot net linux

Re: Bug#251008: recent netboot on sparc64 requires larger ramdisk

2004-05-26 Thread Joey Hess
Thomas Poindessous wrote: My first 'boot net' with beta4 on Sparc64 went fine. Todays 'boot net' with 2005-05-26 from p.d.o./~jbailey failed, the reserved RAMdisk was to small. I had to type boot net linux ramdisk_size=8192 Does it make sense to add it to the manual

Re: Removing unofficial testing images links from CD/

2004-05-13 Thread Joey Hess
Richard Atterer wrote: So, my own opinion is: We cannot just remove the full testing CD images right now, so let's start producing full debian-installer CD and DVD sets! I'm not sure how easy it would be for you (debian-installer folks) to produce .jigdos for these kinds of images These

Re: install from full CD

2004-05-07 Thread Joey Hess
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: While preparing a fix for the /media issue in discover1 I thought about removing this feature from discover1. IMO there are 2 good reasons to do this: 1) discover (Version 2) does not have this feature, so it will go away in the long run. 2) I doubt that it is really

install from full CD

2004-05-06 Thread Joey Hess
Package: installation-reports I did an install from CD using last weekend's full CD build, downloaded with jigdo. There's a possibility this build could be included in beta4, but given the problems I found, I doubt it. The first problem was network configuration. It was not done, since netcfg is

2.6 kernels and CDs

2004-04-18 Thread Joey Hess
d-i is at the point where we can run the installer under a 2.6 kernel and do successful installs, at least some of the time, on i386. This will probably be important for certian hardware that is not well supported by 2.4. I think the thing to do, at least on full debian CDs will be to do as we

Re: netinst daily iso bug ?

2004-04-15 Thread Joey Hess
Arnaud wrote: I am using sarge-i386-netinst.iso downloaded from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/i386/20040414/ today and it is failling with the error message on the base installation stage : no installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources. The current defaut

Re: Bug#242337: module-init-tools-udeb breaks 2.4.x debian-installer, MUST be optional priority

2004-04-05 Thread Joey Hess
Raphael Hertzog wrote: I don't think that anything needs to be fixed in debian-cd, you'd better correct everything on ftpmaster's side. Mm, ok. I'll talk to the ftpmasters about this. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

FWD: Re: testing and no release schedule

2004-03-28 Thread Joey Hess
IIRC this is the powerpc CD he's referring to. - Forwarded message from Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 29 Mar 2004 02:32:51 +0200 To: Thiemo Seufer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: testing and no release

Contents-i386.gz files

2004-03-24 Thread Joey Hess
About 1/5th of the sarge businesscard image, and a fair bit of the netinst iso are taken up by the Contents-i386.gz files. I propose that these be dropped from these smaller images. As I understand it, the reason to include the Contents files is so users with a full CD set, who are on limited

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