Re: What should be on a rescue CD ? (was Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1)

2008-09-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Ian, Is Midnight Commander on the Rescue-CD? I have gotten (from the net) some Rescue-CDs laking mc which I use daily on any of my systems... What hex editor(s) should it have ? How important is it to have python, tcl, ruby or other scripting languages ? Which ONE version of Emacs ?

Re: What should be on a rescue CD ? (was Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1)

2008-09-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-08-28 14:41:38, schrieb Mark Allums: Consider something akin to pico/nano as well. Something very small and lightweight and easy to use. Something for the near misses in the experience department: someone who is able to install and run Debian (mostly) but still is a bit green/wet

Re: What should be on a rescue CD ? (was Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1)

2008-09-07 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:58:42AM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: Ian Jackson wrote: The current list (which I haven't added even my suggestions to yet) is at http://git.debian.net/?p=live-helper.git;a=blob;f=lists/rescue (I am told - I can't check right now because alioth seems to be

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-07 Thread David López Zajara (Er_Maqui)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've tested the lenny live CD on MBP (SantaRosa model),and i have this problem. I'm booting with rEFIt. The integrated keyboard doesn't work, and USB too. But, with knoppix 5.0 (debian-based) i doesn't have these problem (uses syslinux too). On Sat,

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-06 Thread peter green
I have tried the amd64-version on a Lenovo R61 as well as on my Macbook. Maybe I should try the i386 on the Macbook because it did not boot properly and I could not use the keyboard. someone already reported this (it's a problem with syslinux), but i have almost no to no hope that this will

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-09-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the R61 I could not get my wifi working. Here is an some of the output of dmesg: [ 64.897496] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.23ks You have wireless hardware that

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Daniel Baumann wrote: Do you want feedback on these lists? I have tried the bugreport system, but that seems to work with packages. How do I submit bugreports on the debian-live-cd? either by filing it against live-helper; or by sending a mail to the mailinglist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I have

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-09-01 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 03:31:23AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, Daniel Baumann wrote: Daniel Baumann wrote: Nevertheless, we do need your help to find more bugs and improve the live systems, so please try them out. particulary interesting would be to get reports from people with

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-01 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 01/09/2008, Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the R61 I could not get my wifi working. The Fn-F8 key also did not work. I did not test it fully. Here is an some of the output of dmesg: in order to use wifi, you need the necessary firmware (firmware-iwlwifi in your

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Paul Wise wrote: You have wireless hardware that requires non-free firmware to be installed on the wifi chip. You need to enable the non-free section and install the non-free firmware-iwlwifi package. This isn't specific to debian-live. crap.. i've already answered those mails above (see

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michal Suchanek wrote: Are such networking modules included in the d-l CDs? nope. for the prebuild images, different flavours (iso, usb-hdd, net) do not differ regarding the package selection (and can be easily checked by comparing the *.packages files). Would including these packages suffice

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-09-01 Thread Martin Smith
Johann Spies wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 03:31:23AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, Daniel Baumann wrote: Daniel Baumann wrote: Nevertheless, we do need your help to find more bugs and improve the live systems, so please try them out. particulary interesting would be to get

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Martin Smith wrote: Just tried the i386 on my intel mini, no dice, keyboard not functioning but, in startup disc in system preferences it is shown as foreign os and allows booting, it gets to the splash screen no problem, if you could get the keyboard to work it would probably go fine. thank

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-08-31 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, Daniel Baumann wrote: Daniel Baumann wrote: Nevertheless, we do need your help to find more bugs and improve the live systems, so please try them out. particulary interesting would be to get reports from people with Intel-based Apple hardware (both notebooks and desktops). I

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
s. keeling wrote: On a Gateway Sempron (32 bit) laptop ... Where's dhcp? Laptop has builtin ethernet (Marvell Tech. 88E8036) which etch handles well. I see it also has BCM4318 802.11g wifi (which I don't use). debian-live images do automatically dhcp on detected network cards. i'm not

What should be on a rescue CD ? (was Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1)

2008-08-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Daniel Baumann writes (Debian Live Lenny Beta1): * The rescue flavour, containing system rescue and forensic related packages, is missing in this beta release. I've spoken to Daniel and the main question here is determining the right list of packages for the rescue flavour. So

Re: What should be on a rescue CD ? (was Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1)

2008-08-28 Thread Mark Allums
Ian Jackson wrote: Which ONE version of Emacs ? Both nvi _and_ elvis ? Consider something akin to pico/nano as well. Something very small and lightweight and easy to use. Something for the near misses in the experience department: someone who is able to install and run Debian (mostly)

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
Didier Raboud wrote: Why not building a multi-arch LiveDVD ? there's absolutely no reason not to build those; it's just a lack of time/manpower.. care to send a patch against live-helper? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What should be on a rescue CD ? (was Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1)

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
Ian Jackson wrote: The current list (which I haven't added even my suggestions to yet) is at http://git.debian.net/?p=live-helper.git;a=blob;f=lists/rescue (I am told - I can't check right now because alioth seems to be down) for the records: git.debian.net is not alioth, and it (g.d.n) is

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-08-28 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Daniel Baumann: s. keeling wrote: On a Gateway Sempron (32 bit) laptop ... Where's dhcp? Laptop has builtin ethernet (Marvell Tech. 88E8036) which etch handles well. Woops, sorry, Zenwalk (slackware downstream) handles it well. It appears to be handled by sky2 kernel

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-08-27 Thread Daniel Baumann
Daniel Baumann wrote: Nevertheless, we do need your help to find more bugs and improve the live systems, so please try them out. particulary interesting would be to get reports from people with Intel-based Apple hardware (both notebooks and desktops). Regards, Daniel -- Address:

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-08-27 Thread s. keeling
]: Debian Live Lenny Beta1 === The Debian Live team[0] is pleased to announce the first beta of Debian Lenny's Live images. Although we missed releasing images for Etch along with the installer images, we are now prepared to release live images within the regular