Re: stuck at Debian's text installer numerical Software Selection menu

2018-04-30 Thread john doe
On 4/30/2018 5:00 PM, john doe wrote: Hi Alan, On 4/30/2018 2:54 PM, Alan Tu wrote: John, I do enjoy giving back by documenting and reporting bugs. :) Is there some way, at least theoretically, that you know of to get the text installer to record the output and the responses it think its

Re: stuck at Debian's text installer numerical Software Selection menu

2018-04-30 Thread john doe
Hi Alan, On 4/30/2018 2:54 PM, Alan Tu wrote: John, I do enjoy giving back by documenting and reporting bugs. :) Is there some way, at least theoretically, that you know of to get the text installer to record the output and the responses it think its receiving? There's going to be an issue

Re: stuck at Debian's text installer numerical Software Selection menu

2018-04-30 Thread Alan Tu
John, I do enjoy giving back by documenting and reporting bugs. Is there some way, at least theoretically, that you know of to get the text installer to record the output and the responses it think its receiving? There's going to be an issue if the media is read-only and it can't write files,

Re: stuck at Debian's text installer numerical Software Selection menu

2018-04-30 Thread john doe
On 4/30/2018 12:01 PM, Alan Tu wrote: Thanks John for confirming how things are supposed to work, that helps because it narrows things down and I don't need to wonder what is the correct way. In MIPS it turns out choices 10 11 is the default. Problem averted/bypassed. We're not going to solve

Re: stuck at Debian's text installer numerical Software Selection menu

2018-04-30 Thread Alan Tu
Thanks John for confirming how things are supposed to work, that helps because it narrows things down and I don't need to wonder what is the correct way. In MIPS it turns out choices 10 11 is the default. Problem averted/bypassed. We're not going to solve it here, but its still weird. Entering 10

Re: stuck at Debian's text installer numerical Software Selection menu

2018-04-30 Thread john doe
On 4/30/2018 3:00 AM, Alan Tu wrote: Hi, I'm playing with Debian 9.4 stretch on other architectures via the QEMU emulator (eventually for security research.) I can't figure out how to handle the numerical software selection menu in the _text_ installer. I managed to install Debian x86 inside

stuck at Debian's text installer numerical Software Selection menu

2018-04-29 Thread Alan Tu
Hi, I'm playing with Debian 9.4 stretch on other architectures via the QEMU emulator (eventually for security research.) I can't figure out how to handle the numerical software selection menu in the _text_ installer. I managed to install Debian x86 inside QEMU, using the newt installer. However,