Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Geert Stappers wrote: Op 15-11-2006 om 17:18 schreef Olaf van der Spek: Hi, I've got the same problem. It'd be nice if there was a way to tell the installer to automatically choose a disk, especially in single-disk systems. Attached is a disk recipe that I used about a year ago. It allowed

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread David Härdeman
Dennis Hoppe said: 1. debian installer asks at which harddisk he should install debian etch. but i have only one harddisk at my server. ... d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/discs/disc0/disc On Wed, November 15, 2006 17:18, Olaf van der Spek said: I've got the same problem. Dennis,

Re: Deactivated languages

2006-11-16 Thread Jens Seidel
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:32:31PM +1030, Clytie Siddall wrote: On 15/11/2006, at 4:32 PM, Christian Perrier wrote: - Status of de-activated languages: long list of languages dropped ... This is sad. :( Indeed. I do not know any other Free software project which does this. It also violates

Bug#340007: Patch for this bug available

2006-11-16 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2006 11:02, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: ATM i don't see any definitive solution to this , but i have a small workaround: what about selecting default line and then scrolling instead of scrolling and then select default line (as it is now)? User would

Re: Deactivated languages

2006-11-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:37:52AM +0100, Jens Seidel wrote: I really, really cannot believe that it's OK to ignore useful und non-destructive work from people helping to partipiate in Debian. Maybe it't time to open a release critical bug report to this issue ... Which would be a histrionic

Bug#398902: Handler for MULTISELECT questions should not allow one to TAB tab to an option's label

2006-11-16 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb severity: minor When user selects a row and then presses RIGHT, the focus switches from the checkbox to the label: this should be avoided, as there is no point in this. cheers Attilio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Government Funding Available

2006-11-16 Thread cbookshop1
Press Release The American Grants and Loans Book is now available. This publication contains valuable information with more than 1500 financial programs, subsidies, scholarships, grants and loans offered by the United States federal government. It also includes over 700 financing programs

2.6.18 installer

2006-11-16 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Hello. Recently I received a server with Areca arc-1110 sata raid card; as far as I can see, it's only supported by 2.6.18 kernel. Can anyone point me to a Hdocument describing how to built custom install image with 2.6.18 kernel and/or prebuilt netboot/iso with 2.6.18 kernel? Thanks in advance.

Re: 2.6.18 installer

2006-11-16 Thread Marcin Giedz
Alexander Vlasov napisał(a): Hello. Hello, This is quit normal operation, however nowadays I'm stacked with such error: ALERT! /dev/ram does not exist during running new installer kernel but maybe you will fix it since NO ONE has answered my question :( 1) download debian installer

Re: 2.6.18 installer

2006-11-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 03:00:48PM +0200, Alexander Vlasov wrote: Hello. Recently I received a server with Areca arc-1110 sata raid card; as far as I can see, it's only supported by 2.6.18 kernel. Can anyone point me to a Hdocument describing how to built custom install image with 2.6.18

Bug#340007: Patch for this bug available

2006-11-16 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2006 11:02, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: ATM i don't see any definitive solution to this , but i have a small workaround: what about selecting default line and then scrolling instead of scrolling and then select default line (as it is now)? User would

Bug#398940: Package: installation-reports

2006-11-16 Thread Tarek Kilani
Package: installation-reports Boot method: From the CD Image version: 2 weeks ago and from debian.org (ETCH) Date: 15.11.2006 Machine: Selfmade Desktop PC Processor: Memory: Partitions: df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] =

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread Olaf van der Spek
David Härdeman wrote: Dennis Hoppe said: 1. debian installer asks at which harddisk he should install debian etch. but i have only one harddisk at my server. ... d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/discs/disc0/disc On Wed, November 15, 2006 17:18, Olaf van der Spek said: I've got the same

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Olaf van der Spek wrote: David Härdeman wrote: Dennis Hoppe said: 1. debian installer asks at which harddisk he should install debian etch. but i have only one harddisk at my server. ... d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/discs/disc0/disc On Wed, November 15, 2006 17:18, Olaf van der Spek

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread David Härdeman
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:50:11PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Olaf van der Spek wrote: David Härdeman wrote: Dennis, Olaf...could you try changing the partman-auto/disk entry to partman-auto/select_disk in your preseed files and see if that fixes things After adding that line d-i

Bug#395411: debian-installer: [daily 20061026] fails to set up route + fails to see mirrors

2006-11-16 Thread Jens Peter Secher
The problem with DHCP and routing is the same when I use the RC1 installer (i386 CD1). -- Jens Peter Secher _DD6A 05B0 174E BFB2 D4D9 B52E 0EE5 978A FE63 E8A1 jpsecher gmail com_ A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is

Re: D-I RC1 - release planning - update - full freeze

2006-11-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-10-28 03:06]: I've seen no reports for the following architectures, which is disappointing: alpha, arm, m68k, mips, mipsel Regarding mips, I just did an installation with rc1 on a SGI Indy and a SGI O2 via the serial console and they both worked fine. -

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread Olaf van der Spek
David Härdeman wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:50:11PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Olaf van der Spek wrote: David Härdeman wrote: Dennis, Olaf...could you try changing the partman-auto/disk entry to partman-auto/select_disk in your preseed files and see if that fixes things After

Bug#382983: d-i beta3 on SGI Indigo2 (IP22)

2006-11-16 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Julien BLACHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-08-14 15:19]: Image version: beta3 netinst Machine: SGI IP22 (Indigo2) The kernel on the beta3 CD seems to lack keyboard support, so installing using the console is rather hard :) This should be fixed in rc1. Can you please try?

Bug#382983: d-i beta3 on SGI Indigo2 (IP22)

2006-11-16 Thread Julien BLACHE
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi tbm, The kernel on the beta3 CD seems to lack keyboard support, so installing using the console is rather hard :) This should be fixed in rc1. Can you please try? I won't have physical access to the machine until the end of december, sorry. JB.

Bug#395411: On the inside of DHCP client

2006-11-16 Thread Jens Peter Secher
On 11/12/06, Geert Stappers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did the installer whine about no router during the logged session? Yes. As dhcpdump learn us that router information is provided, I currious about what in the file /var/lib/dhcp/leases.conf[1] is. /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases is empty

Re: [RFC] Detecting type of CD image and using that to make apt-setup smarter

2006-11-16 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: In debian-cd/tools/add_debs add something like (pseudocode): if [ $COMPLETE = 1 ]; then if [ $DEFBINSIZE -gt 1000]; then echo dvd .disk/cd_type else echo full_cd .disk/cd_type fi else echo not_complete .disk/cd_type fi I guess this heuristic

Re: Problem with upgrading kernel in d-i

2006-11-16 Thread Joey Hess
Marcin Giedz wrote: I really don't know if this is right group (if not give me a hint where to put that) to send my question but I will try. Yesterday I compiled new kernel for etch installer. I added new section in isolinux/isolinux.cfg pointing my new kernel and initrd. LABEL linux29

Processing of linux-kernel-di-arm-2.6_1.4_arm.changes

2006-11-16 Thread Archive Administrator
linux-kernel-di-arm-2.6_1.4_arm.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: linux-kernel-di-arm-2.6_1.4.dsc linux-kernel-di-arm-2.6_1.4.tar.gz kernel-image-2.6.18-2-footbridge-di_1.4_arm.udeb nic-modules-2.6.18-2-footbridge-di_1.4_arm.udeb

Bug#398813: hangs on checking APT mirror

2006-11-16 Thread Joey Hess
Rafal Maj wrote: I waited several minutes. tcp timeouts often exceed several minutes. Also, why did it restarted after kill -9 are you shure it was not stuck in infinite loop? It had moved on to the next wget for the next compnent. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: r42623 - in trunk/packages/rootskel: debian src-bootfloppy src-bootfloppy/bin

2006-11-16 Thread Joey Hess
sylvain ferriol wrote: include klibc-utils in src-rootskel. cpio binary and klibc-utils share the same klibc library + lib:/lib/klibc-*.so + sh:/usr/lib/klibc/bin/sh.shared \ + mount:/usr/lib/klibc/bin/mount \ + insmod:/usr/lib/klibc/bin/insmod \ +

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread Joey Hess
Olaf van der Spek wrote: It'd be nice if there was a way to tell the installer to automatically choose a disk, especially in single-disk systems. d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/discs/disc0/disc d-i partman-auto/method string regular Works fine for me. -- see shy jo

Processing of tasksel_2.58_i386.changes

2006-11-16 Thread Archive Administrator
tasksel_2.58_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: tasksel_2.58.dsc tasksel_2.58.tar.gz tasksel_2.58_all.deb tasksel-data_2.58_all.deb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#393728: partman-md patch to allow crypto-on-raid

2006-11-16 Thread Joey Hess
David Härdeman wrote: The attached patch changes partman-md to keep the settings of the md partitions when partman restarts which is enough to allow crypto-on-raid setups to work again, thus fixing #393728, #397872 and #398464. You forgot the attachment.. -- see shy jo signature.asc

Bug#398686: debian-installer: [ia64] partitioning screen rendering problem w/ serial console

2006-11-16 Thread Joey Hess
Bryan Stillwell wrote: *** Please type your report below this line *** When installing using the daily netinst tree for 2006-11-14, I'm having rendering issues during the partitioning stage of the installer. Check out the video below (playable with mplayer) that demonstrates the problem by

installer RC1 cannot mount ISO image on USB stick

2006-11-16 Thread Jens Peter Secher
I am trying to install Etch RC1 from a USB memory stick, but am not succeeding so far. I can boot the installer from the stick, but when the installer searches for an ISO image, it ends up telling me that it cannot use the ISO image on the stick. From the syslog: Nov 16 22:49:02 hw-detect:

tasksel_2.58_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2006-11-16 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: tasksel-data_2.58_all.deb to pool/main/t/tasksel/tasksel-data_2.58_all.deb tasksel_2.58.dsc to pool/main/t/tasksel/tasksel_2.58.dsc tasksel_2.58.tar.gz to pool/main/t/tasksel/tasksel_2.58.tar.gz tasksel_2.58_all.deb to pool/main/t/tasksel/tasksel_2.58_all.deb Override entries

linux-kernel-di-arm-2.6_1.4_arm.changes is NEW

2006-11-16 Thread Debian Installer
(new) cdrom-core-modules-2.6.18-2-footbridge-di_1.4_arm.udeb standard debian-installer CDROM support This package contains core CDROM support for the Linux kernel. (new) cdrom-core-modules-2.6.18-2-iop32x-di_1.4_arm.udeb standard debian-installer CDROM support This package contains core CDROM

Bug#305132: marked as done (Please add a british task to tasksel)

2006-11-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:35:12 -0800 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#305132: fixed in tasksel 2.58 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your

Bug#386244: marked as done (tasksel 'Desktop environment' task hangs)

2006-11-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:35:12 -0800 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#386244: fixed in tasksel 2.58 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your

Bug#381914: marked as done (please add the bluetooth package to the laptop task)

2006-11-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:35:12 -0800 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#381914: fixed in tasksel 2.58 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your

Re: Problem with upgrading kernel in d-i

2006-11-16 Thread Marcin Giedz
Joey Hess napisał(a): Marcin Giedz wrote: I really don't know if this is right group (if not give me a hint where to put that) to send my question but I will try. Yesterday I compiled new kernel for etch installer. I added new section in isolinux/isolinux.cfg pointing my new kernel and

Bug#393966: marked as done (tasksel: language task doesn't install)

2006-11-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:35:12 -0800 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#393966: fixed in tasksel 2.58 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your

Bug#398333: Automatic partition/disk selection

2006-11-16 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 16-11-2006 om 09:38 schreef Olaf van der Spek: Geert Stappers wrote: Attached is a disk recipe that I used about a year ago. It allowed me to do a complete automatic install. joke might=a bad joke a Hands free install /joke I'm curious if it still works. Where in the recipe do you

Bug#393630: marked as done (tasksel: Please update simplified Chinese tasks)

2006-11-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:35:12 -0800 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#393630: fixed in tasksel 2.58 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your

Bug#398702: marked as done (tasksel: [INTL:vi] Vietnamese program translation update)

2006-11-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:35:12 -0800 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#398702: fixed in tasksel 2.58 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your

Processing of linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.23_powerpc.changes

2006-11-16 Thread Archive Administrator
linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.23_powerpc.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.23.dsc linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.23.tar.gz kernel-image-2.6.18-2-powerpc-di_1.23_powerpc.udeb nic-modules-2.6.18-2-powerpc-di_1.23_powerpc.udeb

linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.23_powerpc.changes is NEW

2006-11-16 Thread Debian Installer
(new) affs-modules-2.6.18-2-powerpc-di_1.23_powerpc.udeb extra debian-installer Amiga filesystem support This package contains the Amiga filesystem module for the Linux kernel. (new) affs-modules-2.6.18-2-powerpc-miboot-di_1.23_powerpc.udeb extra debian-installer Amiga filesystem support This

Bug#398686: debian-installer: [ia64] partitioning screen rendering problem w/ serial console

2006-11-16 Thread Bryan Stillwell
Joey Hess wrote: This looks like a failure to display the NBSP characters added to partman items to ensure that each item in the select list is unique. It seems that rather than display a space character for the NBSP, it displays nothing. One possibility might be running the installer in a

Re: Deactivated languages

2006-11-16 Thread Joey Hess
Jens Seidel wrote: Indeed. I do not know any other Free software project which does this. Every project that uses po4a for eg, man pages, drops translations that are a certian percentage out of date. For example: po4a man/po4a/po4a.cfg Discard man/es/dh_gconf.pod (11 of 17 strings; only 64.7%

Re: Deactivated languages

2006-11-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:37:52AM +0100, Jens Seidel wrote: PS: Frans, in your last mail to this issue (many months ago) you just wrote that you do not want to reply to me until I calm down. This is not necessary. I'm really able to participate in serious discussions but the problem is there

Re: Deactivated languages

2006-11-16 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Jens Seidel wrote: [snip] PS: Frans, in your last mail to this issue (many months ago) you just wrote that you do not want to reply to me until I calm down. This is not necessary. I'm really able to participate in serious discussions but the problem is there there was *never* such an (public)

Re: Deactivated languages

2006-11-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:12:03PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:37:52AM +0100, Jens Seidel wrote: PS: Frans, in your last mail to this issue (many months ago) you just wrote that you do not want to reply to me until I calm down. This is not necessary. I'm really able

Bug#398342: installation-report: Raid6 and Raid10 missing from Software RAID setup. SATA disks mapped in wrong order.

2006-11-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I finally reached the Boot-loader installation the Grub installation failed. I tried to install it manually. But as I have disks 6 discs connected to boot the nv_sata (4disks) and the sata_sil (2 disks) and the order of those contollers are

Re: [RFC] Detecting type of CD image and using that to make apt-setup smarter

2006-11-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: joeyh, sledge, others, After working with d-cd a lot over the past week, I think I've come up with a solution that will allow us to detect if the user is installing from netinst CD, full CD or DVD. This would allow us to let apt-setup ask the use a

Re: D-I RC1 - release planning - update - full freeze

2006-11-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 16 November 2006 21:07, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-10-28 03:06]: I've seen no reports for the following architectures, which is disappointing: alpha, arm, m68k, mips, mipsel Regarding mips, I just did an installation with rc1 on a SGI Indy

Re: Deactivated languages

2006-11-16 Thread Christian Perrier
(Thiemo wrote this and I'll use it as a starting point for my mail) IIRC this discussion happed in 2004, before Frans took over from Joey. The consensus back then was that a partial translation is worst because it leads people not fluent in English to invest their time just to fall over a

Re: Deactivated languages

2006-11-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 03:35:58PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:12:03PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:37:52AM +0100, Jens Seidel wrote: PS: Frans, in your last mail to this issue (many months ago) you just wrote that you do not want to

Re: Deactivated languages

2006-11-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 07:02:18AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: The discussion between Frans and I has been hot from time to time because I happen to be a little bit less strict and I naturally feel disappointed when I have to put l10n work aside. But, anyway, our views converged and we

Re: Deactivated languages

2006-11-16 Thread Jens Seidel
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:07:26PM +, Thiemo Seufer wrote: IIRC this discussion happed in 2004, before Frans took over from Joey. The consensus back then was that a partial translation is worst because it leads people not fluent in English to invest their time just to fall over a obstacle