Dear all, There are two three queries I have but instead of bunching them together, would try to get solutions or pointers by spelling them individually.
Below is the first one - 1. Installation report on installation failure - At times when you are installing Debian either on too new hardware or too old, obsolete hardware, at times the installation fails invariably/probably due to a driver issue. The device I usually use to do are usb disk/s / thumbdrive as I find them to be more convenient as well as having better shelf-life than most cheap DVD's. Some good usb disks have lasted even four years and beyond as well. When the installation is a success, I know I could just run reportbug and put 'installation report' as the package and it would tell/share that the installation was a success. My query is how to save installation report and send it in the instance when the installation is a failure. I know that details of what worked or didn't is in the memory (RAM) but how to save it to usb disk/usb thumbdrive ? At times where I'm installing I do not have immediate access to the web to send it. Another use-case is to get the same data to study and see if I could figure out possible issue and resolve it locally and then send the same to the Debian BTS. I had read somewhere that one way to do it is if I have say an 8 or 16 GiB usb disk/hdd I could partition it, put the iso image on one partition and save the report on another partition . But how to do that remains a mystery ? There also may be other ways in which the installation report could be sent but how could that be done I'm unsure. I just saw https://bugs.debian.org/861123 but it's not immediately apparent whether he saved the report locally or not. Looking forward for pointers and strategy. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8
