Bug#251316: Debian installer install report

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2004-05-28 Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> > Hello, I am Ramiro from Valladolid Spain
[...]
> > The only remaining problems were again that some configuration screens 
> > were more than 80 columns width: the exim package and the 
> > tasksel/dselect/apt screen.
[...]
> About the exim4 configuration screen, this is a problem we also has
> with the french translation. You need to be very careful about the
> hard-formatted lines. I suggest you use podebconf-display-po from the
> po-debconf package for checking such stuff.

> As the only remaining problem here is with the exim4 spanish
> translation, I reassign this bug to exim4 with copy to the Spanish
> team.

Hello,
I've run the current es.po (from #251987) through podebconf-display-po
with readline and dialog frontend on 80x24, the only overlong line is
this one:

¿Mantener al mínimo el número de consultas de DNS (marcación bajo demanda)?

which is no prblem for dialogue, but pushes the prompt to the next
line for readline.

There a two questions where dialogue has to present long and short
description on separate screens ("Direcciones IP en las que recibir
conexiones SMTP entrantes:" and "¿Mantener al mínimo el número de
consultas de DNS (marcación bajo demanda)?") and the first screen
needs scrolling. - If you aim for perfection there is room to go, but
imho this is ok.
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Bug#251316: Debian installer install report

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2004-06-01 Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2004-05-28 Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > * Ramiro Aceves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-28 00:59]:
> > > The only remaining problems were again that some configuration screens 
> > > were more than 80 columns width: the exim package and the 
> > > tasksel/dselect/apt screen.

> > The image used was pretty new so maybe this still exists.
> > base-config/exim maintainers, can you please check?

> I have just received a fix for this issue in exim4 (#251987: exim4:
> Revised Spanish translation).

Bollocks, I mixed it up with the tr-update.
   cu andreas


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Bug#251825: Installing sarge PPC kernel with d-i fails with initrd warning

[Sven Luther]

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 06:59:50PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
> > > *** I'm beginning to think that the root of my problems is that the d-i
> > > team is building their own CD's, and never noticing the official CDs
> > > that the debian-cd team is building.  So the "official" CDs don't ever
> > > get tested by the d-i team.  Perhaps?  ***
> > 
> > The problem is a bit more complicated. There are CDs built out of sarge
> > and Cds built out of sid. and there is the daily built d-i and the one
> > uploaded to sarge, and ...
> > 
> > Actually, the best way to install is to use the beta4 CDs, and then use
> > whatever .deb source you like for the post reboot install.
> 
> Thanks!  It worked.
> 
> I just did a successful install using the "110MB" beta4 d-i netinst CD.
> It did a quick install of the base packages, installed a good kernel,
> and rebooted without trouble.  Then came an hour of downloading, and
> even more time of alternating between answering silly questions and
> waiting for silly questions to suddenly pop up.  The X server isn't
> working yet, but that isn't your problem.

Notice that you could have used your CD set for the rest of the install,
or even just the first CD you have already burned, so you will get
packages from there, and the rest from the net.

> So I guess there are two issues I'd still like to resolve with the d-i
> and debian-cd teams:
> 
>   *  The version of d-i that's on the debian-cd Sarge CD #1 doesn't
>  let you configure a network interface, or pick any network sources
>  of .debs, unless you run it in expert mode.  This makes problems
>  like "no working kernel on the boot CD" fatal, because it won't use
>  the net as a backup source of .debs.
> 
>   *  There seems to be no way to successfully install Sarge on a modern
>  Mac using the debian-cd CD's.  CD #1 doesn't include a working
>  kernel, and debian-installer never provides an option to change
>  CD's to let me insert a different CD that contains a working
>  kernel.
> 
> Since presumably the average user is going to install using the global
> debian-cd images, rather than by picking up a beta CD from the d-i
> project, these things should probably get fixed in the global images.

Yep, but this is probably going to happen once the debian-installer is
released in a few days/weeks.

> PS: Jens Schmalzing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> proposed that I just ignore Sarge.
> What's the point of having a testing distribution if nobody tests it
> and reports the bugs in it?  Also, I thought 'testing' was going to be
> more stable than the 'unstable' distribution.  If there really is no

This has proven to be wrong, often unstable is more stable on x86 at
least. On powerpc testing has the benefit of not suffering version skew
when a new package has a binary: all and a binary: any package, which
has not yet been recompiled on powerpc.

> actual point to Sarge, then rather than misleading newcomers to Debian
> with three distributions, the whole Debian project should just offer
> two: working but ancient (which in my case doesn't even support my
> hardware), and bleeding-edge.

Well, testing has proved to be more of a release management tool than a
real distribution, so it is still usefull.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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Bug#251823: d-i gives black screen Installing sarge beta4 and 20040530 on OldWorld Power Macs]

[Rick_Thomas]

Well... The black screen problem is solved.  Though I'm not completely
sure why it's necessary to do this...

I changed the BootX kernel arguments to 
video=atyfb:vmode:13,cmode:8
which uses 8-bit video mode.  (the "vmode:3" quoted below is a typo.  I
was, and still am, using vmode:13, which is 832x624 pixels mode)

After that it was all pretty much as expected.

Does anybody know why it wants 8-bit mode?

Rick


On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 03:18, Rick_Thomas wrote:
> Package: installation-reports
> 
> Hardware -- Macintosh Power PC Beige G3 minitower and Mac PowerPC 6500
> 
> Software -- businesscard installation CDs for "beta4" and "20040530"
>   downloaded from
> http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/powerpc/{beta4|20040530}/
>  
> 
> I boot using BootX (since the boot floppy approach won't work on
> OldWorld machines now that miBoot is in the doghouse for being
> politically incorrect)
> 
> I use BootX with kernel arguments "video=atyfb:vmode:3,cmode:16" and
> leaving the two check-boxes blank having to do with video modes. 
> This setup has worked for me in the past.
> 
> When I tell it to boot, I get the picture of Tux in the upper left part
> of the screen, and the rest of the screen is scrolling text from the
> kernel while it sets up the hardware.
> 
> Then the suddenly (about the time I'd expect to see the first
> questions from d-i) the screen goes black.
> 
> Option-f{234} keys will switch to the usual virtual tty screens, which
> show white text on a black background, pretty much as expected.  On the
> "f4" screen, the last couple of lines are:
> 
>   main-menu[236]: DEBUG: configure cdebconf-udeb, status: 2
>   frontend: Setting debconf/language to en
> 
> I get this behavior with both the Beta4 and the 20040530 "businesscard"
> install CDs.
> 
> I've also tried various other video settings (with and without the BootX
> video-mode checkboxes) to no avail.
> 
> I've tried setting DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium, and that didn't help either.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
> 



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Can't install using netboot

[Bao C. Ha]

Hello,

I can't seem to be able to install Sarge on a hard drive through netboot.
It is missing the IDE drivers and few other modules.  

Appeciate any suggestions/comments.
Bao
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Bug#251316: Spanish translation of templates has some display problems
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Re: [partman-auto] Usability review of a message

[Recai Oktas]

* Joey Hess [2004-06-01 00:55:23-0300]
> Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > * Recai Oktas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-01 06:39]:
> > > "Erase entire disk: ${DEVICE}" message in partman-auto may show a 
> > > negative impact on a new user.  I think the first step of a "guided 
> > > partioning" process should describe itself in a more positive or 
> > > charitable way :-)
> > 
> > I fully agree; it even scares me. ;-)
> 
> Isn't it _meant_ to scare you? It does destroy data after all, making
> the user think twice is a feature.

But there are enough warnings in later stages.  This is the introductory 
step which IMHO, should only welcome the user.  The alternative action
("manually edit") which is actually much more adventurous, appears to be
more innocent than this message.

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Bug#252000: debian-installer installation report

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Martin Michlmayr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> * Gary Whittaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-31 21:40]:
> > Initiated install from CD; get "choose language" screen (picked American
> > English); got choose country screen (picked US); then proceeds to load
> > modules to search for CD drive; get message "Failed to find and mount a
> > Debian CD-ROM, Do you want to try again" ; when I choose "Yes", it just
> > tries again with the same results
> 
> Can you boot with the linux26 option to see if kernel 2.6 finds the CD
> drive.  Can you try something like KNOPPIX and see if that works?
> Have you been able to use the CD in that machine under Linux before?

Details about the CD interface would also help. Some laptops have
IEEE1394 interfaces which are to be supported very soon...because I
happen to have one and brought it to Debconf.




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Re: [partman-auto] Usability review of a message

[Joey Hess]

Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Recai Oktas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-01 06:39]:
> > "Erase entire disk: ${DEVICE}" message in partman-auto may show a 
> > negative impact on a new user.  I think the first step of a "guided 
> > partioning" process should describe itself in a more positive or 
> > charitable way :-)
> 
> I fully agree; it even scares me. ;-)

Isn't it _meant_ to scare you? It does destroy data after all, making
the user think twice is a feature.

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Re: [partman-auto] Usability review of a message

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Recai Oktas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-01 06:39]:
> "Erase entire disk: ${DEVICE}" message in partman-auto may show a 
> negative impact on a new user.  I think the first step of a "guided 
> partioning" process should describe itself in a more positive or 
> charitable way :-)

I fully agree; it even scares me. ;-)
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[partman-auto] Usability review of a message

[Recai Oktas]

Hi,

"Erase entire disk: ${DEVICE}" message in partman-auto may show a 
negative impact on a new user.  I think the first step of a "guided 
partioning" process should describe itself in a more positive or 
charitable way :-)  Anyways, this thought could be found subjective, so 
I haven't converted it to a wishlist bug, before listening your thoughts 
/ feelings on the subject.  Comments?

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Bug#251986: Popularity contest installed after saying "No"

[Christian Perrier]

reassign 251986 popularity-contest
thanks

Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 01:12:35AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 
> > It's a bit disconcerting that saying "No" to the popcon participation
> > question results in it being installed anyway - I think that might cause
> > some amount of confusion.
> 
> FWIW, the question actually is being asked by the popcon package's own
> config script, which is giving users the option whether to participate

It is.

So, the question mostly turns out into "is popcon to be in the base
system".


So, whether this is fixed or not, this bug definitely belongs to
popcon:-)




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Bug#251957: discover1: [l10n] Brazilian Portuguese debconf template translation update

[Christian Perrier]

tags 251957 pending
thanks

Quoting Andre Luis Lopes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: discover1
> Version: 1.5-11
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch l10n sid
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Please consider applying the attached patch in order to bring discover's
> Brazilian Portuguese translation back to 100%.


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Sparc installation

[Margarita Manterola]

Hi!

I've just installed Debian on a Sparc32.  With no monitor.  I installed 
this using the serial console as output, and the netboot image as
installation method.

Some /proc/cpuinfo:

cpu : Texas Instruments, Inc. - MicroSparc
fpu : TI MicroSparc on chip FPU
promlib : Version 3 Revision 2
prom: 2.9
type: sun4m
ncpus probed: 1
ncpus active: 1
BogoMips: 49.76
MMU type: TI Tsunami
contexts: 64
nocache total   : 1048576
nocache used: 87808

And some free info:
 total   used   free sharedbuffers cached
Mem: 44400  27588  16812  0   2516  20160
-/+ buffers/cache:   4912  39488
Swap:   124608   1684 122924


This is my report, based mainly on the differences I found with the i386 
installations.  It might be that everything was just right, but it's just
different in Sparc.

About display
-

This installation had no blue screens, everything was black and white, and
just plain ASCII characters, but amazingly, there were BOLD characters!

It seems that it's deleting the screen twice, making it 
really slow on a minicom.  It clears the screen when the user
presses enter, and then clears it again just before displaying the
next screen.

Installation Steps
--

It didn't ask for language just country "based on your language choice".

It didn't ask for keyboard.

DHCP worked fine.

The "Free memory" step failed.

No guided partitioning option at the beginning of the partitioning.

It did appear afterwards, but did nothing but just show a 
"Manually edit the partition table" message

No xfs or jfs filesystems.

And then it took a LONG time to get everything installed. But it worked.

It rebooted properly.

Base config prompted me for keyboard. But keymap families had 
no names (no qwerty), I chose blindly.

Then came the usual timezone, users, apt, etc.

It took around 3 hours in total to install this weird thing, but the only 
real failure was the low memory option.  It seemed it worked anyway.

So: SUCCESS!!! We have an OK for netboot+Sparc32.

***

I have the full minicom log of all this if anyone cares to have a 
look at it.

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Bug#252010: Adding help would be helpful

[Margarita Manterola]

Package: partman
Severity: normal

So, we all know partman is really not easy for users.  If you pick any
of the auto options is OK, but if you have to do it manually it's really
hard.

So, it would be helpful to have some help that would allow the user to
know what is what.  Like what a "mount point" is, what the "bootable
flag" is for, and so on.

It makes no sense for this help to be on the previous screen, because
the user needs it when he/she is actually changing the partition.

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Bug#252000: debian-installer installation report

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Gary Whittaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-31 21:40]:
> Initiated install from CD; get "choose language" screen (picked American
> English); got choose country screen (picked US); then proceeds to load
> modules to search for CD drive; get message "Failed to find and mount a
> Debian CD-ROM, Do you want to try again" ; when I choose "Yes", it just
> tries again with the same results

Can you boot with the linux26 option to see if kernel 2.6 finds the CD
drive.  Can you try something like KNOPPIX and see if that works?
Have you been able to use the CD in that machine under Linux before?
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Bug#252000: debian-installer installation report

[Gary Whittaker]

Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 
uname -a: Date: 5/29, 30, & 31/04Method: From CD (sarge-i386-netinst)
Machine: IBM NetVista PIII 800 MHz 128M 
40GProcessor: Pentium 
3Memory:128 MbRoot Device: 
DNA - didn't get that farRoot 
Size/partition table: DNA - didn't get that 
farOutput of lspci: DNA - didn't get that far
 
Base System Installation Checklist:
 
Initial boot worked:    [O]Configure network HW:   [*] *this option not presented at this 
pointConfig network: 
[*] *this option not presented at this 
pointDetect 
CD:  
[E]Load installer modules: [ 
]Detect hard drives: [ ]Partition hard 
drives:  [ ]Create file systems:    [ ]Mount 
partitions:   [ ]Install base 
system:    [ ]Install boot loader:    [ 
]Reboot: 
[ ][O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try 
it
 
Comments/Problems:
Initiated install 
from CD; get "choose language" screen (picked American English); got choose 
country screen (picked US); then proceeds to load modules to search for CD 
drive; get message "Failed to find and mount 
a Debian CD-ROM, Do you want to try again" ; when I choose "Yes", it just tries 
again with the same results
 
I've tried it 
several times using CD created from sarge-i386-netinst.iso.  I've 
tried several builds, including the latest dated 20040530; the MD5SUM checked 
out.  I've even tried sid, which I think also uses the Beta4 
installer.  Same frustrating result each time.  Even though it boots 
from the CD and initiates the install, it can't detect and mount the same 
CD.
 
NOTE: I've used 
this same method (CD install from sarge-i386-netinst) on another PC with 
excellent results.  The other PC is also a P3 of similar vintage and 
endowments, but is NOT an IBM NetVista, it's a clone.
 
 

Bug#251825: Installing sarge PPC kernel with d-i fails with initrd warning

[John Gilmore]

> > *** I'm beginning to think that the root of my problems is that the d-i
> > team is building their own CD's, and never noticing the official CDs
> > that the debian-cd team is building.  So the "official" CDs don't ever
> > get tested by the d-i team.  Perhaps?  ***
> 
> The problem is a bit more complicated. There are CDs built out of sarge
> and Cds built out of sid. and there is the daily built d-i and the one
> uploaded to sarge, and ...
> 
> Actually, the best way to install is to use the beta4 CDs, and then use
> whatever .deb source you like for the post reboot install.

Thanks!  It worked.

I just did a successful install using the "110MB" beta4 d-i netinst CD.
It did a quick install of the base packages, installed a good kernel,
and rebooted without trouble.  Then came an hour of downloading, and
even more time of alternating between answering silly questions and
waiting for silly questions to suddenly pop up.  The X server isn't
working yet, but that isn't your problem.

So I guess there are two issues I'd still like to resolve with the d-i
and debian-cd teams:

  *  The version of d-i that's on the debian-cd Sarge CD #1 doesn't
 let you configure a network interface, or pick any network sources
 of .debs, unless you run it in expert mode.  This makes problems
 like "no working kernel on the boot CD" fatal, because it won't use
 the net as a backup source of .debs.

  *  There seems to be no way to successfully install Sarge on a modern
 Mac using the debian-cd CD's.  CD #1 doesn't include a working
 kernel, and debian-installer never provides an option to change
 CD's to let me insert a different CD that contains a working
 kernel.

Since presumably the average user is going to install using the global
debian-cd images, rather than by picking up a beta CD from the d-i
project, these things should probably get fixed in the global images.

John

PS: Jens Schmalzing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> proposed that I just ignore Sarge.
What's the point of having a testing distribution if nobody tests it
and reports the bugs in it?  Also, I thought 'testing' was going to be
more stable than the 'unstable' distribution.  If there really is no
actual point to Sarge, then rather than misleading newcomers to Debian
with three distributions, the whole Debian project should just offer
two: working but ancient (which in my case doesn't even support my
hardware), and bleeding-edge.


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Bug#251986: Popularity contest installed after saying "No"

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 01:12:35AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> It's a bit disconcerting that saying "No" to the popcon participation
> question results in it being installed anyway - I think that might cause
> some amount of confusion.

FWIW, the question actually is being asked by the popcon package's own
config script, which is giving users the option whether to participate
in the popcon.  There don't seem to be any interfaces, in base-config or
otherwise, that would let us ask such a debconf question to mark the
popcon package for installation.  Do you have any suggestions here?

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Re: Today's checklist

[Joey Hess]

Margarita Manterola wrote:
> Hello from the debconf4 d-i lab!
> 
> This is what I've checked today:
> 
> * Business card. en_AU. DHCP. linux. RAID
> 2 RAID partitions. 1 MD device. Formatted in ext3.  OK
> 
> * Business card. es_ES. DHCP. linux26. LVM
> 1 LVM partition. 1 VG. 3 LV.
> Formatted in reiserfs, xfs and jfs. OK
> 
> * Business card. es_AR. DHCP. expert26. Normal partitioning.
> Installing Lilo.OK
> 
> * Usbkeychain. linux26. gl_ES. DHCP. default values OK
> 
> * Usbkeychain. linux26. it_IT. DHCP. LVM
> 2 LVM partitions. 1 VG. 4 LV.
> Formatting in reiserfs, xfs, jfs and ext3.  OK
> 
> * Netboot installation on Noodles Laptop.
> P3 700. 192MB RAM. 20GB disk.
> Installing XFS partition with Lilo in the partition. FAILED.
> Installing LILO there would break the filesystem, so it's stalled.
> 
> But the installation could be booted because GRUB was installed
> in the master boot record and the other installation's / was
> in ext3.
> Finally worked.
> (netboot is OK, the problem is XFS)

Thanks for all the testing!

> I don't get why, but I have the Debian logo in the usbkeychain and not
> in the Business Card or Netinst CD...  I've tested this in two
> different machines with exactly the same results.

This seems to be a problem with the machines here; I wish we had someone
here who understood isolinux to look at it. It does not seem to be a
general problem with logos on the CDs.

> And is formatting jfs supposed to be SO slow? It's incredibly slow.

We fixed this last night, but it was too late for the test candidate.

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Bug#251986: Popularity contest installed after saying "No"

[Matthew Garrett]

Package: base-config
Version: 1.49
Severity: wishlist

It's a bit disconcerting that saying "No" to the popcon participation
question results in it being installed anyway - I think that might cause
some amount of confusion.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux vavatch 2.4.21-rc2-xfs #4 Fri May 9 21:41:45 BST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8

Versions of packages base-config depends on:
ii  adduser 3.51 Add and remove users and groups
ii  apt 0.6.21   Advanced front-end for dpkg
pn  aptitude Not found.
ii  bsdutils1:2.12-6 Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
ii  console-data2002.12.04dbs-25 Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fall
ii  debconf 1.3.22   Debian configuration management sy
ii  passwd  1:4.0.3-12   Change and administer password and
ii  tasksel 1.39 Tool for selecting tasks for insta



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Re: Sorted debconf lists (was Re: r14631 - in trunk/packages/countrychooser: . debian)

[Denis Barbier]

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:38:10PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
[...]
> I am testing the attached patch to sort short country list in
> countrychooser.  It can be adapted to choose-mirror, but its drawback
> is that generation of many locales may take some time on autobuilders
> (which is not a problem with countrychooser which needs fewer locales
> and is Arch: all).

Here is a sample script to show how choose-mirror could display sorted
translated country names.  This script has to be called after
debian/choose-mirror/DEBIAN/templates has been built, it patches this
file by adding some Indices-XX.UTF-8 lines, which tell cdebconf how
to sort these lists.  It is not finished yet (see the final comment)
but the last bit is quite easy to implement.
I won't be able to work on Debian stuff for several weeks, and so
cannot finalize this script myself.

The Bosnian translation is not sorted because this language has no UTF-8 
variant defined in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED, a bugreport against the
locales package should be filed to add it.

Denis


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Description: Bourne shell script

Re: RAID1 install fails

[Andrew Pollock]

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 12:50:25PM -0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * W. Borgert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-31 12:13]:
> > GRUB message on vt3:
> > /dev/md0 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
> > 
> > LILO:
> > An installation step failed. (...)
> > failing step is: Install the LILO boot loader on a hard disk.
> 
> I don't know how to get LILO and GRUB to boot from RAID.  I thought it
> might just work... anyone got a good idea?

Bulk hackery, that's how.

See http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/05/msg03665.html

This worked for me insofar as I got GRUB to install, but I didn't seem to
have a menu.lst, despite the above saying I should have. I had to do further
hackery at a grub prompt along the lines of:

root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz ro root=/dev/md0 md=0,/dev/foo,/dev/bar
initrd /initrd.img
boot

where /dev/foo (and optionally /dev/bar) were the members of my /dev/md0.
(Optional, as in my case, I was trying to build a degraded RAID1).
If you have an md1, add "1,/dev/baz,/dev/blaz" to the above incantation.

Once I managed to boot into the sucker, I recreated my initrd for good
measure, and ran update-grub, and it built a menu for me. It wasn't for the
faint of heart at all.

HTH

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Re: BroadCom net card (bcm4400 kernel module) and sarge installer

[Rua Haszard Morris]

From: Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rua Haszard Morris wrote:
> >> I have a BroadCom 4400 NIC that is not being detected, leading to
> >> DHCP failing, leading to no additional .debs being available...
> > tg3 module contains support for BroadCom net cards
Cheers - I am guessing that now I simply need to "load additional driver
modules" and select tg3 early in the installation.. correct?
Yes - assuming the Sarge installer doesn't find it for you.
Aha - I just tried doing that - there doesn't seem to be an option "load 
additional driver modules" (or anything like it) in the sarge installer. 
 Should there be?

I couldn't get to the list of modules that I'm used to seeing in the 
qoody installer; it tries to autodetect first.  When I manually chose it 
"Detect hardware" again, after the DHCP failed, i was able to choose 
from a 'list' of modules - but only the one it had detected apparently 
("Linux floppy") (which is funny because the machine has no floppy!).

Should I be emailing this to debian-boot as well? I think so... 
(conesquently there's a little summary above)

Thanks for the help so far, I'm not giving up ! (But I am about to 
install Knoppix in the meantime)

Cheers,
Rua HM.
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Bug#251974: Progress bars should include a Cancel

[Konstantinos Margaritis]

Package: cdebconf
Severity: minor

When in a progress bar, say while downloading packages from a network,
if my connection to the mirror becomes very slow and i decide to cancel 
the download and choose another mirror, I cannot because I cannot stop 
the process. A cancel button should be available and it should take the
user back to the previous menu.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25
Locale: LANG=el_GR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=el_GR.UTF-8


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Bug#236745: Debian-installer

[Jack Carroll]

On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 11:42:18AM -0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Jack Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-29 16:18]:
> > Regarding the lspci command, the AHA1542 is not a PCI board.  It's
> > an ISA, non-PNP board.  It does have a boot ROM, and floppy installers up to
> 
> Oh, right.  We don't support automatic detection of ISA cards.  So I'm
> afraid you'll have to load the manually manually.

That would be enough to stop a newbie cold.  I hope it's on the
to-do list.  The way Red Hat used to handle it was to always ask "Do you
have any SCSI devices?" before starting the partitioning program.  If the
answer was yes, it would ask for host adapter type, IO base address, and
IRQ.  If you want, I can run an old RH installer and describe the dialog in
more detail.


>  Does debian-installer give you a listing of modules to load during
> hardware detection?

No.  I didn't even find a clue to where I could manually interrogate
a list of available modules.




Here's the test report.

I downloaded new floppy images from the URL you gave and wrote them
to floppies.  Actually "/debian/" isn't part of the path.  I checked the
floppies against the images with diff; no errors reported.
The test ended when the program hung trying to partition /dev/sdb.

Target system: "jeeves", Pentium-133, 32 MB, on-board CS5436 VGA adapter, 1
IDE disk, 2 SCSI hard disks and a SCSI CD-ROM on an AHA-1542 ISA SCSI host
adapter, 1 Tulip Ethernet board and 2 PCI NE-2000 clones.  Machine is not
capable or booting from CD.  It can boot from floppy or hard disk.

Inserted boot floppy, powered up.
First two floppies read in.
Hit return to select default installation.  Didn't try using aha1542
parameters.
Installer selected "low memory" mode.
Followed "Load drivers from floppy" prompt with net drivers floppy,
as usual.
DHCP failed to get an address.  Manual IP configuration of Tulip
board succeeded.  Accepted default "ftp.debian.org".
"Loading components of Debian installer" hung at 84%, "Retrieving
prebase config".  It timed out.  Retry succeeded.  This behavior is typical;
every run with previous test versions of debian-installer did the same
thing, usually around 88%.
The partitioner started spontaneously, without offering to load any
SCSI modules.  Only the IDE drive was offered for partitioning.
Went to console #2 and commanded "modprobe aha1542".
Returned to console #1, hit "go back" and "detect hardware". 
Partitioned started up again, and all three hard disks were offered for
partitioning.
The partitioner operator interface took some getting used to.  It
would help if every menu item had a ">" in front of it, to identify it as a
menu item.  Configured partitioning as follows:

/dev/sda1   /boot   reiserfs
/dev/sda2   swap
/dev/sda3   /   reiserfs
/dev/sdb1   /varreiserfs
/dev/sdb2   /home   reiserfs

Console #1 reported creating file systems on /dev/sda1 and dev/sda3,
/then hung with the final message "Creating ext3 file system for var in
/partition #1 of SCSI1 (0,1,0) (sdb) 0%".

The final few messges on console #4 were:
syslog.warn klogd: SCSI device sda: 4201304 512-byte hdwr sectors (2151 MB)
syslog.info klogd: p1 p2 p3
syslog.notice klogd: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d0/0)
syslog.notice klogd: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d0/0)
syslog.notice klogd: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
syslog.warn klogd: VM: killing process parted_server


For diagnostic purposes, I booted the system into Libranet 2.7 from
the IDE disk and ran a few simple tests on the SCSI disks to make sure they
were still working.

mount -t reiserfs /dev/sda1 /h1
failed with "wrong fs type".  With ext3 it succeeded.
Same result with /dev/sda3.
mount -t reiserfs /dev/sdb1 /h5
succeeded.  Most likely left over from a previous install.
mount -t reiserfs /dev/sdb2 /h6
succeeded.
The latter two filesystems were empty.  Copying a couple of random
text files to them and reading back succeeded.
All these drives have been in use for a long time without known
problems.


Next, I booted the installer with
expert aha1542=0x330

Said "no" to "Start PC card services?" DHCP failed again.  Manual IP
config succeeded again.
Accepted default http://ftp.debian.org again.  Hung at the same
point. Retry succeeded again.
On the "Detect Hardware" screen, aha1542 was not listed.  Didn't see
any SCSI host adapter modules listed.  Issued modprobe aha1542 by hand
again.
Partitioner showed all partitions on all drives, and agreed with
results of mount tests under Libranet 2.7.
Set up /dev/sda same as before, but /dev/sdb "keep and use" instead
of "format".  Saw a message go pa

Bug#251973: cdebconf: newt.c does not compile with gcc 2.95

[guillaume pernot]

Package: cdebconf
Version: 0.65
Severity: normal

gcc gets in trouble with extra ';'

the attached patch fixes that.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.23-praksys
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
diff -ruN cdebconf-old/src/modules/frontend/newt/newt.c cdebconf/src/modules/frontend/newt/newt.c
--- cdebconf-old/src/modules/frontend/newt/newt.c	Tue May  4 22:55:26 2004
+++ cdebconf/src/modules/frontend/newt/newt.c	Tue Jun  1 00:08:45 2004
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@
 // buttons
 int extra = 3;
 int format_note = 0;
-char *full_description;;
+char *full_description;
 int ret;
 #ifdef HAVE_LIBTEXTWRAP
 int flags = 0;

Bug#251969: aboot-installer: should generate udeb in binary-arch

[Santiago Vila]

Package: aboot-installer
Version: 0.0.10
Tags: patch

The debian/control file for this package says Architecture: alpha, so
the binary should be generated by debian/rules binary-arch target, not
by binary-indep as it currently happens.

Patch follows:

diff -ru aboot-installer-0.0.10.orig/debian/rules aboot-installer-0.0.10/debian/rules
--- aboot-installer-0.0.10.orig/debian/rulesSat May  8 17:50:16 2004
+++ aboot-installer-0.0.10/debian/rules Mon May 31 23:58:00 2004
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@

 # Build architecture-independent files here.
 binary-indep: build install
+
+# Build architecture-dependent files here.
+binary-arch: build install
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_installdebconf
@@ -28,9 +31,6 @@
dh_installdeb
dh_gencontrol
dh_builddeb
-
-# Build architecture-dependent files here.
-binary-arch: build install

 binary: binary-indep binary-arch
 .PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install


Thanks.


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Bug#251825: Installing sarge PPC kernel with d-i fails with initrd warning

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 12:58:53PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
> Thank you for the help.
> > This is rather old. A lot of packages have been moved into testing since
> > then.
> 
> Wait -- a one-week-old CD is rather old?  It is the absolute very
> latest one available if you follow the recommended path from
> www.debian.org to get a CD for the "testing" release.

We're currently recommending that people test businesscard/netinst
images rather than the full CD images. Links to the daily builds are
available from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer.

The full images are indeed only generated weekly, since at the moment it
takes a lot of resources to generate them (although this is being worked
on).

Cheers,

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Bug#251940: Install on HP Omnibook XE3

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Jose M. Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-31 20:48]:
> The only problem found was when detecting the PCMCIA Ethernet card.
> The card uses the module pcnet_cs, but when loading this module from
> the list, the network device eth0 wasn't created, altough the module
> was loaded successfully.  This was solved by opening console and
> executing /etc/init.d/pcmcia stop and then /etc/init.d/pcmcia start.
> Then the module already loaded created the eth0 device. 

This has probably been fixed in the image from
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/

Can you try them and confirm?
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Bug#251825: Installing sarge PPC kernel with d-i fails with initrd warning

[Sven Luther]

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 01:38:23PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
> > > The latest PowerPC Sarge CD doesn't include a 2.4.25-powerpc-pmac kernel
> > > image.  (I've heard that a few weeks ago it was in exile on CD #9.)
> > > The closest this CD came was powerpc-small-pmac.
> > 
> > Well, then you either need to get it from the net, or you need CD #9.
> > the powerpc-small kernel is mostly only used for creating old world
> > miboot debian-installer floppies, and there is no reason it should be on
> > CD #1.
> 
> I'm hereby trying to cc the debian-cd team with this information...
> 
> (May 23 2004's Jigdo CD #1 of Sarge for PowerPC boots fine on modern
> Macintoshes, but it isn't able to install a kernel that will make the
> hard drive boot up, because the required powerpc-pmac kernel image is
> not on CD #1.  There seem to be tons of kernels on CD #1 -- for
> machines that nobody makes any more :-)

Well, this is being worked on with the 2.6 kernels.

> > That said, there has been no official sarge floppies for beta4,
> > which is a real shame.
> 
> Doesn't matter for modern Macs, since they don't have floppy drives anyway.

Err, i wanted to say CD set, naturally.

> > I would be interested myself with a powerpc DVD
> > set for it, but i hear that testing is currently too broken to create
> > such CD/DVD sets.
> 
> I can't test that for you; don't have a DVD-burner.

Yeah, still a two (or three with sources) CD set should be a great
distribution media.

> > Now, go to the debian-installer site, download the beta4 powerpc
> > netinst, and do the install from there, it should contain everything you
> > would need.
> 
> Aha.  I'll try it!
> 
> Two documentation notes: "The debian-installer site" is a loose term;

Err, i should have given you the full url, i think. But you did find it,
so ...

> Google found it, but navigation from www.debian.org did not.  I looked
> under "Debian Packages" and searched for anything that contained
> "debian-installer" or "installer".  Never did find it, just a bunch of
> libraries and things.  If there really is a package called
> "debian-installer", perhaps someone should tell the Packages page at
> www.debian.org about it.

Yep, altough i think it is linked from the devel corner.

> Second: the "beta4 powerpc netinst" is not any of the images that is
> visible on the debian-installer site -- at least the one Google found,
> which was
> 
>   http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
> 
> >From some poking around on other pages, it appears that by "netinst"
> you mean what the web page calls "110 MB CD image, with Debian base".
> If so, maybe the web page should be changed to include the word
> netinst on that line, e.g. "110 MB 'netinst' CD image, with Debian
> base".  (Indeed, the URL of the powerpc link on that line does include
> the string "netinst", but my first guess would have been the "netboot
> and other boot images" line since at least it says "net" right there
> in the heading.

Well, i should have used the full official name, and not the internal
codename, but then mine was not some kind of official documentation
effort.

> Also, that image is not 110MB any more -- it's up to 161MB.  And,

It is 110Mo on x86, but powerpc, like all risc, binaries are bigger, and
there are lot of kernels on it, so ...

> curiously, it's from a month ago - April 30.  Why would the "official

Which is the official date of the beta4 release.

> sarge Jigdo" release be a month behind the "cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i"
> release?  And why would a month-old net install CD work better than
> the latest full CD from only a week ago?

Because it has been tested, and that it includes everything needed to
bring up a base system. The problem is that there is no one full CD, but
that it is only part of a 7 (or 9 apparently) CD set.

> > > Yes.  When I start in non-expert mode, it won't let me bring up a
> > > network connection (even if I have the ethernet plugged in).  In an
> > 
> > This is a more worthy bug report. Did you already fill that bug report.
> 
> I filed it in THIS bug report, but I didn't file a separate bug report
> saying that the official jigdo install CD wasn't configuring my
> network interface.  So far when I file simple bug reports like that,
> (like [EMAIL PROTECTED]), some harried developer just closes them out
> inappropriately, without even bothering to verify them.

Well, a bug report is better when it has a title with the problem in it,
and debian-installer bug reports are better handled thansome other
packages.

> > > Somehow, the Sarge CD starts up with the right kernel ...
> > 
> > Where did you get that sarge CD from ?
> 
> >From www.debian.org, I clicked "Getting Debian / CD ISO images".  From
> there I clicked "Assemble images using jigdo" (the alternative of
> downloading full ISOs is disrecommended due to limited server
> capacity).  From there I got the "Official jigdo files for the
> 'testing' distribution on CD (all architectures, regenerated weekly)".
> >From

Bug#251957: discover1: [l10n] Brazilian Portuguese debconf template translation update

[Andre Luis Lopes]

Package: discover1
Version: 1.5-11
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch l10n sid

Hello,

Please consider applying the attached patch in order to bring discover's
Brazilian Portuguese translation back to 100%.

Regards,


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6
Locale: LANG=pt_BR, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR (ignored: LC_ALL set to pt_BR)
--- discover1_debian_po_pt_BR.po	2004-05-31 15:30:26.0 -0300
+++ pt_BR.po	2004-05-31 18:07:29.0 -0300
@@ -11,13 +11,12 @@
 #
 #Developers do not need to manually edit POT or PO files.
 #
-#, fuzzy
 msgid ""
 msgstr ""
-"Project-Id-Version: discover_1.5-1.4.3\n"
+"Project-Id-Version: discover\n"
 "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
 "POT-Creation-Date: 2004-05-04 14:13+0200\n"
-"PO-Revision-Date: 2003-12-26 HO:MI+ZONE\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: 2004-05-31 18:08-0300\n"
 "Last-Translator: André Luís Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\n"
 "Language-Team: Debian-BR Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\n"
 "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
@@ -74,7 +73,6 @@
 #. Type: string
 #. Description
 #: ../discover1.templates:19
-#, fuzzy
 msgid ""
 "Mounted filesystems accessible via CD-ROM (or compatible) devices can be "
 "placed just about anywhere in the filesystem hierarchy, but the standard "
@@ -83,9 +81,9 @@
 msgstr ""
 "Sistemas de arquivos montados acessíveis através de dispositivos de CD-ROM "
 "(ou dispositivos compatíveis) podem ser colocados em qualquer lugar na "
-"hierarquia do sistema de arquivos, mas é comum colocá-los no diretório raíz, "
-"sendo assim eles ficam disponíveis como, por exemplo, \"/cdrom0\", \"/cdrom1"
-"\" e assim consecutivamente."
+"hierarquia do sistema de arquivos, mas o padrão diz que eles devem ser "
+"colocados em /media, de forma que eles fiquem disponíveis como, por "
+"exemplo, \"/media/cdrom0\", \"/media/cdrom1\" e assim consecutivamente."
 
 #. Type: string
 #. Description
@@ -104,6 +102,8 @@
 "To stay compatible with earlier versions of discover the path entered here "
 "should end with a / (eg. /media/)."
 msgstr ""
+"Para permanecer compatível com versões anteriores do discover o caminho "
+"informado aqui deverá ser finalizado com uma / (por exemplo, /media/)."
 
 #. Type: note
 #. Description

Today's checklist

[Margarita Manterola]

Hello from the debconf4 d-i lab!

This is what I've checked today:

* Business card. en_AU. DHCP. linux. RAID
2 RAID partitions. 1 MD device. Formatted in ext3.  OK

* Business card. es_ES. DHCP. linux26. LVM
1 LVM partition. 1 VG. 3 LV.
Formatted in reiserfs, xfs and jfs. OK

* Business card. es_AR. DHCP. expert26. Normal partitioning.
Installing Lilo.OK

* Usbkeychain. linux26. gl_ES. DHCP. default values OK

* Usbkeychain. linux26. it_IT. DHCP. LVM
2 LVM partitions. 1 VG. 4 LV.
Formatting in reiserfs, xfs, jfs and ext3.  OK

* Netboot installation on Noodles Laptop.
P3 700. 192MB RAM. 20GB disk.
Installing XFS partition with Lilo in the partition. FAILED.
Installing LILO there would break the filesystem, so it's stalled.

But the installation could be booted because GRUB was installed
in the master boot record and the other installation's / was
in ext3.
Finally worked.
(netboot is OK, the problem is XFS)

+++ Comments +++

I don't get why, but I have the Debian logo in the usbkeychain and not
in the Business Card or Netinst CD...  I've tested this in two
different machines with exactly the same results.

And is formatting jfs supposed to be SO slow? It's incredibly slow.

Most things seem to be working alright.  Seems that still need to be fixed, 
or that have to be tested when they propagate from unstable:

* RAID in linux26.
* The uses of XFS in /.
* The console characters breaking in linux26.
* The default locale not being set when selecting en_US.

Things that I didn't test due to lack of resources here:

- Floppies ?? (could get no floppies around here)
- 32mb/48mb install. 
- pcmcia with linux26
- powerpc and sparc (I think there was someone testing sparc here).

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Bug#251825: Installing sarge PPC kernel with d-i fails with initrd warning

[John Gilmore]

> > The latest PowerPC Sarge CD doesn't include a 2.4.25-powerpc-pmac kernel
> > image.  (I've heard that a few weeks ago it was in exile on CD #9.)
> > The closest this CD came was powerpc-small-pmac.
> 
> Well, then you either need to get it from the net, or you need CD #9.
> the powerpc-small kernel is mostly only used for creating old world
> miboot debian-installer floppies, and there is no reason it should be on
> CD #1.

I'm hereby trying to cc the debian-cd team with this information...

(May 23 2004's Jigdo CD #1 of Sarge for PowerPC boots fine on modern
Macintoshes, but it isn't able to install a kernel that will make the
hard drive boot up, because the required powerpc-pmac kernel image is
not on CD #1.  There seem to be tons of kernels on CD #1 -- for
machines that nobody makes any more :-)

> That said, there has been no official sarge floppies for beta4,
> which is a real shame.

Doesn't matter for modern Macs, since they don't have floppy drives anyway.

> I would be interested myself with a powerpc DVD
> set for it, but i hear that testing is currently too broken to create
> such CD/DVD sets.

I can't test that for you; don't have a DVD-burner.

> Now, go to the debian-installer site, download the beta4 powerpc
> netinst, and do the install from there, it should contain everything you
> would need.

Aha.  I'll try it!

Two documentation notes: "The debian-installer site" is a loose term;
Google found it, but navigation from www.debian.org did not.  I looked
under "Debian Packages" and searched for anything that contained
"debian-installer" or "installer".  Never did find it, just a bunch of
libraries and things.  If there really is a package called
"debian-installer", perhaps someone should tell the Packages page at
www.debian.org about it.

Second: the "beta4 powerpc netinst" is not any of the images that is
visible on the debian-installer site -- at least the one Google found,
which was

  http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

>From some poking around on other pages, it appears that by "netinst"
you mean what the web page calls "110 MB CD image, with Debian base".
If so, maybe the web page should be changed to include the word
netinst on that line, e.g. "110 MB 'netinst' CD image, with Debian
base".  (Indeed, the URL of the powerpc link on that line does include
the string "netinst", but my first guess would have been the "netboot
and other boot images" line since at least it says "net" right there
in the heading.

Also, that image is not 110MB any more -- it's up to 161MB.  And,
curiously, it's from a month ago - April 30.  Why would the "official
sarge Jigdo" release be a month behind the "cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i"
release?  And why would a month-old net install CD work better than
the latest full CD from only a week ago?

> > Yes.  When I start in non-expert mode, it won't let me bring up a
> > network connection (even if I have the ethernet plugged in).  In an
> 
> This is a more worthy bug report. Did you already fill that bug report.

I filed it in THIS bug report, but I didn't file a separate bug report
saying that the official jigdo install CD wasn't configuring my
network interface.  So far when I file simple bug reports like that,
(like [EMAIL PROTECTED]), some harried developer just closes them out
inappropriately, without even bothering to verify them.

> > Somehow, the Sarge CD starts up with the right kernel ...
> 
> Where did you get that sarge CD from ?

>From www.debian.org, I clicked "Getting Debian / CD ISO images".  From
there I clicked "Assemble images using jigdo" (the alternative of
downloading full ISOs is disrecommended due to limited server
capacity).  From there I got the "Official jigdo files for the
'testing' distribution on CD (all architectures, regenerated weekly)".
>From that I got the sarge-powerpc-1.jigdo, timestamped 24-May-2004.
The release self-describes as 20040523.  I assembled the .iso with
jigdo from that, and burned it myself.

*** I'm beginning to think that the root of my problems is that the d-i
team is building their own CD's, and never noticing the official CDs
that the debian-cd team is building.  So the "official" CDs don't ever
get tested by the d-i team.  Perhaps?  ***

> Well, again, please use current information. 4.3.0 should have no
> problem on your hardware, but then everyone buying nvidia graphics
> deserves what he gets, 

If only I knew what "current information" meant.  There isn't even
a Sarge installation manual reachable from the Debian home page (yep,
I did report that bug separately -- bug#251813).

I think the speed of light, even through optical fibers, prevents me
from actually observing current information, even if www.debian.org
would point me to it :-).

I'll report back after trying the d-i netinst CD.

John


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Bug#250857: Fail to detect PCMCIA CD-ROM

[Per Olofsson]

On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 13:43 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> I believe the modules 'i82365', 'ide-cd', 'ide-cd' are all required for
> this CD drive; probably others.

And they all seem to be available. What if you try the installation
again like you did last time and grep for cardmgr in /var/log/syslog?
It should report what modules it tries to load, and also if it
succeeds or fails. You could also try looking in /dev to see if the
kernel thinks your CDROM is a hard drive or something.

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Bug#251944: Lilo+XFS do not work if installing on the partition.

[Margarita Manterola]

Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal

Hi!

I was with Noodles, testing the netboot installer on his laptop.  We
wanted to try something fancy, so we installed in a certain partition he
had free, formatting it in XFS.  The idea was not to touch the rest of
the installation that he had in his notebook.

So, we did format in xfs, thinking of booting with lilo instead of grub.
Now, I think I already said this, but since grub does not work with XFS
in /, it would be nice if the installer would NOT try to install grub in
/, and switch automatically to lilo.  Or at least, switch automatically
to the main menu.

Anyway, that's not the bug.  The bug is that when installed in the
partition (instead of the drive's MBR) lilo does not work with XFS
either, it fails because it would break the file system.  Apparently,
XFS does not leave space for lilo to be installed at the beginning of
the partition.

Actually, it didn't even fail.  It stalled, and we had to go to the
console, kill the present lilo, do it by hand, and that's how we saw the
error message.

So, uhm, I see no solution here except for not letting the user do this.
Or at least, failing instead of stalling, so that the user can go back
and decide what to do.


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Bug#251825: Sven Luther: Re: Installing sarge PPC kernel with d-i fails with initrd warning

[John Gilmore]

[Due to a typo in the cc list on my older mail, this reply from Sven
 didn't make it into the bugs database.  Forwarding.  --John]

Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 14:50:05 +0200
To: John Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installing sarge PPC kernel with d-i fails with initrd warning
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 03:53:33AM -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
> > > I booted the install CD in expert mode, and was able to progress
> > > through the installation until picking a kernel.  I picked the
> > > kernel-image-2.6.6-powerpc (I also tried 2.4.25-powerpc-small-pmac and
> > > got the same result).  It failed to install, producing these error
> > 
> > Well, the correct 2.4 kernel for your hardware would be
> > 2.4.25-powerpc-pmac. I assume that you have a new world pmac (that is,
> > more recent than the blue&white G3), altough you don4t give any info
> > about this.
> 
> The latest PowerPC Sarge CD doesn't include a 2.4.25-powerpc-pmac kernel
> image.  (I've heard that a few weeks ago it was in exile on CD #9.)
> The closest this CD came was powerpc-small-pmac.

Well, then you either need to get it from the net, or you need CD #9.
the powerpc-small kernel is mostly only used for creating old world
miboot debian-installer floppies, and there is no reason it should be on
CD #1. That said, there has been no official sarge floppies for beta4,
which is a real shame. I would be interested myself with a powerpc DVD
set for it, but i hear that testing is currently too broken to create
such CD/DVD sets.

Now, go to the debian-installer site, download the beta4 powerpc
netinst, and do the install from there, it should contain everything you
would need.

> I'm installing on a brand new PowerBook G4 12".  It's not the faster
> one that Apple just shipped; it's the one we got slightly cheaper
> right after they announced new ones :-).

A, the nvidia one.

> Is there a web page somewhere (or perhaps even something in the
> installation manual!) that says which kernels go with which pieces
> of PowerPC hardware?

Nope, but debian-installer should know about it. Get yourself the beta4
netinst iso, and you should be able to do a full base install from it,
and also to configure the network and pull the rest of the stuff from
there.

> > > ...and no documentation anywhere visible, about which of the dozen+
> > > kernels is even for which hardware!
> > 
> > It should be automatically selected, don't know what happened. Did you
> > start in expert mode or something ?
> 
> Yes.  When I start in non-expert mode, it won't let me bring up a
> network connection (even if I have the ethernet plugged in).  In an

This is a more worthy bug report. Did you already fill that bug report.
Notice that on my ibook G3 800, which i should get again tomorrow, i had
no such problems.

> earlier attempt at installing, I was able to install the right kernel
> by getting it over the net.
> 
> And when I start in non-expert mode, on this hardware the automatic
> picker picks kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-smp-prep.  Even if this was
> the right kernel (I doubt it is, it's a uniprocessor), that kernel
> install script dies with "Internal Error: (=D) is not a directory!",
> as reported tonight in bug#248067.

Bah. probably a base-installer bug then, i don't know what happens, my
ibook having been dead for over a month, i haven't done pmac installs
since then. But then again, please use the beta4, it should be working
better, i think.

> Somehow, the Sarge CD starts up with the right kernel (or with a

Where did you get that sarge CD from ?

> kernel that works for everybody).  If only the installer could just
> copy that damn CD kernel onto the hard drive, we'd be done.  The user
> is going to throw that one away and install a BenH kernel if he's been

And that would be stupid, since this kernel _IS_ a benh kernel, but then
the user will probably be reading a whole lot of outdated HOWTOs.

> googling even a little bit, so all he needs is ANY bootable kernel.
> Besides, I hear that there are even more interesting problems awaiting me
> once my machine is able to boot -- like, no X11 support and such.

Well, again, please use current information. 4.3.0 should have no
problem on your hardware, but then everyone buying nvidia graphics
deserves what he gets, and i have not followed on that all that much, so
i may be wrong.

> Thank you for your help.

No problem,

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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Bug#251940: Install on HP Omnibook XE3

[Jose M. Gomez]

Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 21/04/2004 http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta4/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: Linux noodles 2.6.3-1-386 #2 Tue Feb 24 20:20:23 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: 23 May 2004 09:00 AM GMT+1
Method: Installed using the netinstall cd iso. The installation was done connecting 
through a gateway computer connected to Internet using dial-up.

Machine: HP Omnibook XE3
Processor: Celeron 600Mhz
Memory: 128MB
Root Device: /dev/hda
Root Size/partition table: 

noodles:/home/joseg# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 7547 MB, 7547904000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 917 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
  Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   1  35  281106   a0  IBM Thinkpad hibernation
/dev/hda2   *  36 400 2931862+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3 401 894 3968055   83  Linux
/dev/hda4 895 917  184747+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5 895 917  184716   82  Linux swap
Output of lspci:
noodles:/home/joseg# lspci -v
:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
   Memory at f800 (32-bit, prefetchable)
   Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 1.0
:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) 
(prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
   Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 128
   Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
   Memory behind bridge: f000-f7ff
:00:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 0014
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
   Memory at 1000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
   Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176
   Memory window 0: 1040-107ff000 (prefetchable)
   Memory window 1: 1080-10bff000
   I/O window 0: 4000-40ff
   I/O window 1: 4400-44ff
   16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
:00:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 0014
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
   Memory at 10001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
   Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=09, sec-latency=176
   Memory window 0: 10c0-10fff000 (prefetchable)
   Memory window 1: 1100-113ff000
   I/O window 0: 4800-48ff
   I/O window 1: 4c00-4cff
   16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 
[Master])
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
   I/O ports at 1050 [size=16]
:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 
[UHCI])
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
   I/O ports at 1060 [size=32]
:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
   Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
:00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1988 Allegro-1 (rev 12)
   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 0012
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
   I/O ports at 1400
   Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
:00:08.1 Communication controller: ESS Technology ESS Modem (rev 12)
   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 0012
   Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5
   I/O ports at 1800
   Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
:01:01.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 11) 
(prog-if 00 [VGA])
   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 0014
   Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
   Memory at f000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
   Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
   Capabilities: [80] AGP version 1.0

Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked:[O]
Configure network HW:   [E]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD:  [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Create file systems:[O]
Mount partitions:   [O]
Install base system:[O]
Install boot loader:[O]
Reboot: [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
The only problem found was when detecting the PCMCIA Ethernet card. The card
uses the module pcnet_cs, but when loading this module from the list, the network
device eth0 wasn't created, altough the module was loaded successfully. This was solved 
by opening console and executing 
/etc/init.d/pcmcia stop and then /

Bug#251825: Installing sarge PPC kernel with d-i fails with initrd warning

[John Gilmore]

Thank you for the help.

> > Package: debian-installer
> > Version: sarge 20040523 CD
> 
> This is rather old. A lot of packages have been moved into testing since
> then.

Wait -- a one-week-old CD is rather old?  It is the absolute very
latest one available if you follow the recommended path from
www.debian.org to get a CD for the "testing" release.

Try it.  From Debian home page, click "Getting Debian / CD ISO
images".  From there, pick "Assemble images using jigdo".  From there,
pick "Official Images" or scroll down; then pick "Official jigdo files
for the 'testing' distribution on CD".  This led me to:

  http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/cd/jigdo-area/

which has a powerpc subdirectory, which was last updated 24-May-2004 and
contains sarge-powerpc-1.jigdo, which is how I built my CD.

(I will note that just a week ago this "official" URL didn't work, and
 you had to go to the "unofficial" jigdo area on gluck!  But this has
 been recently fixed.)

> This indicates an old version of rootskel. Please try a current image.

This *is* a current image.  Where would you find a "more current"
image of the testing release?  If there's a better place, don't tell
me -- tell the www.debian.org pages, because a lot of people must be
getting sent to the wrong place.

Thank you.

John



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Re: hw-detect and yenta_socket

[Per Olofsson]

On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 10:26 -0300, Joey Hess wrote:
> I'm unsure of the following code you recently added to he-detect:

It's not very nice, no.

> This is to load the bridge support so discover can scan for devices on the
> bridge?

Yes.

> Why only on 2.6?

Because the method used on 2.4 doesn't work on 2.6. For some reason,
there is a slight delay after loading yenta_socket until the cards can
be seen by discover. Conversely, the method used on 2.6 doesn't work
on 2.4 because we can't tell which network interfaces are provided by
Cardbus cards by looking in /sys.

If there was a way to easily look up a module in the discover data
given the PCI ID, this could be done in the same way on both kernel
versions. That would also remove the need for current "snapshot" hack,
and the yenta-loading code. Maybe I should consider adding this
functionality to discover.

> What is this magic number;

It is the PCI class number of Cardbus bridges.

> Isn't there a clean fix for this, such as running discover again after
> loading a brdige module?

Yes, that could be done. But we would still need a delay. Something
like:

run_discover
if ! expr $(uname -r) : "2.4.*" >/dev/null 2>&1 && \
   lsmod | grep -q ^yenta_socket; then
   sleep 3
   run_discover
fi

Assuming we had a function run_discover which ran discover and loaded
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Bug#248627: Debian Installer version 4 - Installation report

[Per Olofsson]

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 19:26 +0200, Thorsten Schaefer wrote:
> The kernel version is: 2.4.26-1-386.
> 
> Below is the content of /etc/network/interfaces:
[...]
> The Xircom Card I use is a REM56G-100 (10/100 Ethernet + Modem). According
> to the driver (xirc2ps_cs) it is a 16-bit card.

Okay, all this looks correct. The strange thing (which I first missed)
is that it didn't work the first time you booted but it did the second
time. What did you do after the first boot? Did you install any
tasks/packages from CD? Has the network card worked on all following
boots?

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Bug#251825: Installing sarge PPC kernel with d-i fails with initrd warning

[John Gilmore]

[Resending to bugs to correct typo in address.]

To: Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In-Reply-To: Message from Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
   of "Mon, 31 May 2004 11:53:35 +0200." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 03:53:33 -0700
From: John Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> > I booted the install CD in expert mode, and was able to progress
> > through the installation until picking a kernel.  I picked the
> > kernel-image-2.6.6-powerpc (I also tried 2.4.25-powerpc-small-pmac and
> > got the same result).  It failed to install, producing these error
> 
> Well, the correct 2.4 kernel for your hardware would be
> 2.4.25-powerpc-pmac. I assume that you have a new world pmac (that is,
> more recent than the blue&white G3), altough you don4t give any info
> about this.

The latest PowerPC Sarge CD doesn't include a 2.4.25-powerpc-pmac kernel
image.  (I've heard that a few weeks ago it was in exile on CD #9.)
The closest this CD came was powerpc-small-pmac.

I'm installing on a brand new PowerBook G4 12".  It's not the faster
one that Apple just shipped; it's the one we got slightly cheaper
right after they announced new ones :-).

Is there a web page somewhere (or perhaps even something in the
installation manual!) that says which kernels go with which pieces
of PowerPC hardware?

> > ...and no documentation anywhere visible, about which of the dozen+
> > kernels is even for which hardware!
> 
> It should be automatically selected, don't know what happened. Did you
> start in expert mode or something ?

Yes.  When I start in non-expert mode, it won't let me bring up a
network connection (even if I have the ethernet plugged in).  In an
earlier attempt at installing, I was able to install the right kernel
by getting it over the net.

And when I start in non-expert mode, on this hardware the automatic
picker picks kernel-image-2.4.25-powerpc-smp-prep.  Even if this was
the right kernel (I doubt it is, it's a uniprocessor), that kernel
install script dies with "Internal Error: (=D) is not a directory!",
as reported tonight in bug#248067.

Somehow, the Sarge CD starts up with the right kernel (or with a
kernel that works for everybody).  If only the installer could just
copy that damn CD kernel onto the hard drive, we'd be done.  The user
is going to throw that one away and install a BenH kernel if he's been
googling even a little bit, so all he needs is ANY bootable kernel.
Besides, I hear that there are even more interesting problems awaiting me
once my machine is able to boot -- like, no X11 support and such.

Thank you for your help.

John Gilmore


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Bug#238648: d-i beta3, modprobe tg3, netinst.iso

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Markus Haiml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-31 14:40]:
> The installer only detects my ide disks (/dev/hda, /dev/hdb)
> No SATA disks.

OK.

> I admit I am completely unfamiliar with sata or raid.
> 
> I tried SuSE 9.1.
> The hardware detection found the disk and I could partion, mount and use it.

Can you boot debian-installer and manually load the module with:

  modprobe sata_promise

Does debian-installer then see your disk?

Can you paste the output of
  lspci
  lspci -n

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Re: pppconfig: pppconfig simple i18n patch, templates.pot, and Japanese translation

[Kenshi Muto]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

Hi,

I've already sent you i18n patch about pppconfig, but it remains some messages.

Now, here is newest patch archive for pppconfig.

14328 2004-06-01 03:18:30 pppconfig.i18n.patch
1028 2004-06-01 03:30:22 rules.i18n.patch
20039 2004-06-01 03:14:49 po/templates.pot
33601 2004-06-01 03:16:02 po/ja.po

pppconfig.i18n.patch is a patch for pppconfig. This makes messages
ready for localization.
And this patch fixes '#251810: pppconfig: Spelling error' (two spell
errors) reported by Dennis.

rules.i18n.patch is a patch for debian/rules, for creating and
installing .mo files.

po/templates.pot is template file is generated by 'xgettext -L Perl pppconfig'.

po/ja.po is Japanese translation file.

As Christian said you, pppconfig is one of important package for
Sarge debian-installer. We wish to provide good localized installer to
users.
If you have no time to create/upload package, I can do NMU.

Thanks,
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Bug#251900: Install report

[Christian Perrier]

clone 251900 -1
reassign 251900 tasksel
reassign -1 gpm
retitle -1 GPM does not start after reboot following a Debian Installer installation
retitle 251900 Tasksel finnish translation has too wide lines
thanks

Quoting Tapio Lehtonen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> In "Debianin peruskokoonpanon asetukset" text is wider than 80
> characters so lines are cut at beginning and end. This is the screen
> where user chooses between tasksel, aptitude, dselect for installing
> more packages. I can provide screenshot if needed. 

Happen for several languages. You need to shorten down these lines in
the finnish translation.


> 
> In first virtual console I got error:
> 
> Info: Switching console charset mapping to ISO-8859-15
> set_kernel_font: Virheellinen argumentti
> The console is inactive, but virtual console 2 and other work.
> 
> Don't know yet why this is, I run Finnish locale. 
> 
> X Window did not start, I chose /dev/gpmdata as mouse device, but 
> gpm was not installed. I installed it by hand and did gpmconfig, then 
> restarting X worked. 
> 
> After shutdown and reboot I noticed name service is no longer
> working. The file /etc/resolv.conf is empty. I remember reading bugs
> related to this so maybe it is being repaired. 
> 
> Also mouse did not work after shutdown reboot, gpm is not running. If
> I start it with /etc/init.d/gpm start mouse works. Did not see why 
> it is not started at boot. 

I suggest filing a specific bug against the gpm pacakge




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Re: Please move some udebs to testing for me

[Bastian Blank]

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 09:40:47AM -0300, Gleydson Mazioli da Silva wrote:
> The LVM howto ask to remove the old snapshots, but I'm also not sure about what 
> could happen if 
> the old snapshots were not removed.

Bad things happens. LVM 2 missreads the LVs on a VG, which contains
snapshots.

Bastian

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Re: Please move some udebs to testing for me

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Gleydson Mazioli da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-21 09:40]:
> If isn't not added yet, the LVM 2.0 installer need to check if the
> system has a OLD lvm system installed on it. Because the old
> snapshots don't work with new LVM structure (all other things are
> backward compatible). So, if the LVM is requested and LVM 1.0 is
> found, is better to show a warning on screen for that
> incompatibility issue about snapshots from OLD LVM. 
> 
> The LVM howto ask to remove the old snapshots, but I'm also not sure
> about what could happen if the old snapshots were not removed.

Have you been able to find out what will happen to old snapshots when
we install LVM2?

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Bug#251905: Problems/workarounds for install to root on LVM on RAID

[Martin Michlmayr]

Package: lvmcfg

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From: Charles Steinkuehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems/workarounds for install to root on LVM on RAID
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 11:02:17 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I'm trying to install testing onto an x86 box with root on LVM on RAID1, 
and I ran into several issues with the latest daily image:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/20040526/sarge-i386-netinst.iso

First, the problems:

1) partman won't let you build an LVM on top of a RAID device

2) Kernel install portion of base install fails due to mkinitrd failure
2a) LVM tools missing
2b) Raidtools (actually mdadm) missing
2c) LVM entries in /dev missing on target
2d) initrd defaults to LVM1 instead of LVM2

3) Grub install fails when /boot is on a RAID1 device

Workarounds:

1) partman won't let you build an LVM on top of a RAID device
This is the easiest to fix...just switch over to the console and 
manually run pvcreate, etc. to build the LVM VG(s) & LV(s).  Once 
created, the logical volums are properly recognized by partman, allowing 
them to be formatted, mount points to be set, etc.

2) Kernel install portion of base install fails due to mkinitrd failure
2a) LVM tools missing
2b) Raidtools (actually mdadm) missing
Prior to installing the base system, switch to a console and edit 
/usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/sarge, adding the following modules to the 
base="..." line near the top of the file:
LVM Packages: binutils libdevmapper1.00 lvm-common lvm2
RAID Packages: mdadm

2c) LVM entries in /dev missing
Switch to a console and copy the entries from the install system to the 
target system:
cp -aR /dev/ /target/dev/
cp -aR /dev/mapper/* /target/dev/mapper/

2d) initrd defaults to LVM1 instead of LVM2
This is a nasty one, and oddly confusing.  If both LVM2 and LVM1 are 
present (as determined by the existance of appropriate kernel modules), 
LVM1 is selected.  This seems odd, since LVM2 can talk to LVM1 formatted 
volumes, but not the other way around.  Anyway, to fix this I did the 
following:
- Add initrd (plus dash and cramfsprogs dependencies) to base= line in 
sarge script (see 2a & 2b, above) prior to installing base system
- chroot to target system
- Prior to installing kernel, edit /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf and set 
root=/dev/hda1 (a dummy entry that allows mkinitrd to complete 
successfully, letting the install continue)
- Install kernel 2.4.26-1-386
- Move (or delete) /lib/modules/2.4.16-1-386/kernel/drivers/md/lvm-mod.o 
so mkinitrd won't find it and default to LVM1
- mount -t proc proc /proc
- verify /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf now lists root=probe (kernel 
install apparently causes config mods to be lost)
- run mkinitrd to replace currently broken root=/dev/hda1 image:
  mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.4.26-1-386 2.4.26-1-386
- umount /proc

3) Grub install fails when /boot is on a RAID1 device
Apparently, grub is trying to get 'smarter' about devices, but in the 
process is breaking functionality that used to work.  With /boot 
installed on a raid1 device (md0), grub-install and update-grub both 
fail dismally, reporting that /dev/md0 doesn't exist as a BIOS device 
(like that's a news flash!).
The stupid hack to get this to work is:
- Install grub from the debian installer menu (it will fail)
- Switch to a console and edit /boot/grub/device.map, replacing the 
(hd0) /dev/??? entry with (hd0) /dev/md0
- Re-run install grub from the debian installer menu (it will still 
fail, but get farther this time)
- Run update-grub from a console to create /boot/grub/menu.lst
- run grub and install grub to both HDD's:
  root (hd0,0)
  setup (hd0)
  setup (hd1)
- Continue w/o boot loader from the debian installer menu (you manually 
installed grub)

It's worth noting that grub from stable has no problems with /boot on a 
raid device (once installed).  I can see grub-install perhaps failing 
with /boot on a md device, but why in the world does update-grub even 
care where boot is?!?  All it needs to do is edit menu.lst...

NOTE: Your device numbers might be different.  Also, it's typically OK 
to install grub with root set to (hd0,0) on both hd0 and hd1, since if 
hd0 fails, hd1 will usually become hd0 with most BIOS's.


Reboot and cross your fingers

I can provide additional information, if needed or desired.

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Bug#242474: marked as done (discover1: Initial Hungarian translation of Debian-specific bits)

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Tags: l10n, patch

Translation of 11 strings into Hungarian (all concerning the automatic
handling by discover of CD-ROM symlinks and mount points).

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Re: new debian-installer images for sparc

[bounce-debian-boot=archive=jab . org]

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 03:28:37PM +0200, Frederik Dannemare wrote:
> I haven't been able to connect to http://june.voxel.net all day. Could 
> you please have a look at that, as I'd like to try out the .iso on an 
> Ultra-5 I have.

Try http://people.debian.org/~joshk/mini.iso. It should be up.

Although, since Ben said that the kernels still need to be smaller,
chances are it won't work..

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On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:35:17AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> The only way it's going to work is if the kernels are less than 3.4Megs
> uncompressed. This is probably fine for cd boots though.

ergh. I might be just getting in under the gun.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot$ zcat vmlinuz-2.4.26-sparc64 > vmlinux
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3523vmlinux

Or maybe not. But it's easy to trim the kernel images down, especially
for sparc64. I think.

> GOod thing is, I have time today for some sparc stuff. Well, that is, if
> I don't get my Harley Fatboy today. Even if I do, I will work in some
> debug time for this initrd problem :)

Cool!

Back to Biology...

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Bug#251902: installation-reports: 2nd stage problem with Linux 2.6.6

[Kenshi Muto]

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Hi,

I've already reported to kernel-source-2.6.6 as #251861, but I fill to
d-i for recoding.

vga16fb driver of current kernel-image-2.6.6-*-1 is completely broken.
When base-config loads vga16fb/fbcon, screen goes lock up (but OS and
network are working).

Kernel 2.6.6 is already in 'testing', and this problem puts grave
disaster to languages which use jfbterm, such as CJK.

Kernel 2.6.5 is OK.

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Bug#248791: installation-reports Beta4 Netinstaller, can't boot off hard drive, can't install packages from ethernet.

[Martin Michlmayr]

* rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-31 08:55]:
> Verizon ADSL.  The router handles the PPPoE foolishness.  All I need is 
> Ethernet and TCP/IP.  Static IP, Router is gateway, DNS from provider 
> and it all works.  The images I've tried support TCP/IP over ethernet 
> for the first part, but not on reboot.  It expects PPP, so far only the 

Right.  Just ignore that PPP question (answer "no").  Networking
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Bug#251900: Install report

[Tapio Lehtonen]

Package: installation-reports

INSTALL REPORT

Debian-installer-version: sarge-i386-netints.iso 2004-05-30
uname -a: Linux wally 2.6.6-1-386 #1 Wed May 12 13:19:06 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

Date: Mon May 31 18:07:29 EEST 2004
Method: Boot from CD. Rest from own Debian partial mirrod, 
debmirror run today

Machine: PC Clone, ASUS A7V MB
Processor: AMD Duron 750 MHz
Memory: 384M
Root Device: /dev/hda
Root Size/partition table:  Feel free to paste the full partition
  table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where.

Disk /dev/hda: 123.5 GB, 123522416640 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15017 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *   1   6   48163+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2   7  68  498015   83  Linux
/dev/hda3  69   1222697659135   83  Linux
/dev/hda4   12227   1501722418707+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Disk /dev/hdd: 10.2 GB, 10246053888 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19853 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdd1   1   1985310005880+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
wally:~# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#
proc/proc   procdefaults0   0
/dev/hda3   /   reiserfs defaults0   1
/dev/hda1   /boot   ext3defaults0   2
/dev/hda2   noneswapsw  0   0
/dev/hdc/media/cdrom0   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0   0
/dev/fd0/media/floppy0  autorw,user,noauto  0   0


Output of lspci and lspci -n:
wally:~# lspci
:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev
02)
:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
:00:04.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22)
:00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
:00:04.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller]
(rev 10)
:00:04.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller]
(rev 10)
:00:04.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30)
:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 74)
:00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08)
:00:0b.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 08)
:00:11.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20265 (rev 02)
:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX
400] (rev a1)
wally:~# lspci -n
:00:00.0 Class 0600: 1106:0305 (rev 02)
:00:01.0 Class 0604: 1106:8305
:00:04.0 Class 0601: 1106:0686 (rev 22)
:00:04.1 Class 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 10)
:00:04.2 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 10)
:00:04.3 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 10)
:00:04.4 Class 0680: 1106:3057 (rev 30)
:00:0a.0 Class 0200: 10b7:9200 (rev 74)
:00:0b.0 Class 0401: 1102:0002 (rev 08)
:00:0b.1 Class 0980: 1102:7002 (rev 08)
:00:11.0 Class 0180: 105a:0d30 (rev 02)
:01:00.0 Class 0300: 10de:0110 (rev a1)



Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot worked:[O]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD:  [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Create file systems:[O]
Mount partitions:   [O]
Install base system:[O]
Install boot loader:[O]
Reboot: [E]

Comments/Problems:

Disk partitioner was a bit confusing, had to do it a few times 
before I figured it out. I wanted to create my own partition 
setup. The default with all in one partition works OK. 

In "Debianin peruskokoonpanon asetukset" text is wider than 80
characters so lines are cut at beginning and end. This is the screen
where user chooses between tasksel, aptitude, dselect for installing
more packages. I can provide screenshot if needed. 

In first virtual console I got error:

Info: Switching console charset mapping to ISO-8859-15
set_kernel_font: Virheellinen argumentti
The console is inactive, but virtual console 2 and other work.

Don't know yet why this is, I run Finnish locale. 

X Window did not start, I chose /dev/gpmdata as mouse device, but 
gpm was not installed. I installed it by hand and did gpmconfig, then 
restarting X worked. 

After shutdown and reboot I noticed name service is no longer
working. The file /etc/resolv.conf is empty. I remember reading bugs
related to this so maybe it is being repaired. 

Also mouse did not work after shutdown reboot, gpm is not running. If
I start it with /etc/init.d/gp

Bug#248791: installation-reports Beta4 Netinstaller, can't boot off hard drive, can't install packages from ethernet.

[rick]

Martin,
Verizon ADSL.  The router handles the PPPoE foolishness.  All I need is 
Ethernet and TCP/IP.  Static IP, Router is gateway, DNS from provider 
and it all works.  The images I've tried support TCP/IP over ethernet 
for the first part, but not on reboot.  It expects PPP, so far only the 
full install has the ethernet packages needed to get ethernet working 
after the first reboot.  The fact that I have to use slackware to reboot 
beta4 is of course a completely different problem.

rick
Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-29 22:01]:
Which do you recommend?  Net install, business card install, full install?

I'd use the net inst image.

Neither PPP nor PPPOE, I have ADSL via ethernet to my router.  Static IP.

But how is ADSL configured?  Do you need PPP over Ethernet for it, or
is it done via another way?  Do you simply set your router address as
the gateway and then everything works?

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Bug#251550: Merge stuff

[Christian Perrier]

reassign 251231 cdebconf
severity 251231 important
severity 251550 important
merge 251231 251550
thanks

Obvioulsy , these two bugs are indeed the same one.

Evgunyi pointed that this is probably a
problem in the whiptail library when working in a UTF-8 environment.

I'm a bit reluctant at reassigning it to newt or whiptail until
someone is really sure it belongs to it. Please do if you're sure of this

I'm giving this an "important" severity as in case the user
inadvertently hits a "wrong" key, which is likely to happen on non-US
keyboards, the installer is *apparently* frozen. In fact, it is not,
but the way to get out of it is really tricky.

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Re: RAID1 install fails

[Martin Michlmayr]

* W. Borgert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-31 12:13]:
> GRUB message on vt3:
> /dev/md0 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
> 
> LILO:
> An installation step failed. (...)
> failing step is: Install the LILO boot loader on a hard disk.

I don't know how to get LILO and GRUB to boot from RAID.  I thought it
might just work... anyone got a good idea?

> Note 1: The progress bar "Starting up the partitioner" hangs
> at 55% ("Please wait...") while the RAIDs are synchronising.
> Because this can take several (e.g. 30) minutes, it would
> be nice to communicate that fact to the user.

Thanks, I'll file a bug.

> Note 2: With linux26 I get two errors: First the os-prober
> hangs (progress bar at 10%, I just killed the bastard),

This is known; use 2.4.
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Processed: Merge stuff

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Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

> reassign 251231 cdebconf
Bug#251231: freezes when entering an umlaut
Bug reassigned from package `choose-mirror' to `cdebconf'.

> severity 251231 important
Bug#251231: freezes when entering an umlaut
Severity set to `important'.

> severity 251550 important
Bug#251550: cdebconf: Appears to "hang" when typing high-ascii characters in string 
templates
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Bug#251550: cdebconf: Appears to "hang" when typing high-ascii characters in string 
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When booted in expert mode, it complaints about the "unavailable"
module for sungem (Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 GMAC) which is
a 10/100/1000Mbit Ethernet controller chip.  But despite the lack
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configure Internet access on it.

cat /proc/modules shows no sungem module, but ifconfig shows the
interface up and with a reasonable IP address.

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> When booted in expert mode, it complaints about the "unavailable"
> module for sungem (Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 GMAC) which is
> a 10/100/1000Mbit Ethernet controller chip.  But despite the lack
> of a module, the installer is able to find the chip, run DHCP, and
> configure Internet access on it.

 Linux kernel modules needed to drive some of your hardware are not
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Bug#238648: marked as done (d-i beta3, modprobe tg3, netinst.iso)

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etinst.iso>

uname -a: < >
Date: <2004-03-18 0800GMT>
Method: 

Machine: 
Processor: P4, 533, 2.4GHz
Memory: 2x512 DDR 333
Root Device: 
Root Size/partition table: < >

Output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Host =
Bridge (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset AGP =
Bridge (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #3) (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB2 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DB LPC Interface Controller (rev =
02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB Ultra ATA Storage Controller =
(rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio =
Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 If =
[Radeon 9000] (rev 01)
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 [Radeon =
9000] (Secondary) (rev 01)
02:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host =
Controller (rev 80)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5702 =
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)
02:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video =
Capture (rev 02)
02:0a.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture =
(rev 02)

Base System Installation Checklist:

Initial boot worked:[O]
Configure network HW:   [E]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD:  [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Create file systems:[ ]
Mount partitions:   [ ]
Install base system:[ ]
Install boot loader:[ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] =3D OK, [E] =3D Error (please elaborate below), [ ] =3D didn't try =
it

Comments/Problems:

d-i detects NIC and tries correct module tg3. However, "modprobe -v tg3" =
results in "no hardware found" with sarge-i386-netinst.iso (beta3).

tg3 works fine with Knoppix/SuSE/sarge-i386-businesscard.iso (beta3).
I could net-install with businesscard.
btw: bcm5700 also works fine.

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Bug#238648: d-i beta3, modprobe tg3, netinst.iso

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Markus Haiml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-31 14:06]:
> The 2.4 kernel works fine

OK.

> The 2.6 kernel does not have network modules.
> The output on the log-terminal (ALT-F4) is:
>  user.notice hw-detect: Missing module
>  'tg3' 'ide-scsi' 'ide-mod' 'ide-probe-mod' 'ide-detect' 'ide-floppy'

The tg3 driver has been removed in our 2.6 kernel, but will be put
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Bug#251892: 2004-05-30 fails with 2.6 kernel on PowerBook G4 (2.4 works fine)

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Debian-installer-version: 
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040530/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso

uname -a: Don't know
Date: Mo Mai 31 17:03:41 CEST 2004
Method: booted from CD, while 2.4 worked, trying install-2.6 fails
Machine: PowerBook G4

The Kernel loads, different messages scroll by, until it stops at:

Freeing unised kernel memory: 160k init 4k chgrp 32k prep
Setting up filesystems, please wait ...
unmount: /initrd: Invalid argument
cp: unable to link `/mnt/usr/share/discover/usb.lst': Operation not permitted
cp: unable to link `/mnt/var/log/messages': Operation not permitted
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
  <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds...


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Bug#239402: marked as done (installation-reports: [beta3] should ask again for proxy informations when download fails)

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uname -a: Linux neige 2.4.25-1-k7 #1 Tue Feb 24 14:2428 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: 22/03/2004 10h00 
Method: Network installation with (boot and root) floppies 
 If network install, from where?
ftp.belnet.be via http
 Proxied?
yes

  Machine: N/A
  Processor: Athlon 1.4
  Memory: 256MB
  Root Device: IDE hda (Western Digital WDC WD300BB-00CCB0)
  Root Size/partition table:
  
Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30020272128 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3649 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot  Start  EndBlocksId  System
   /dev/hda11  2550   20482843+ c   W95 FAT32 (LBA)
   /dev/hda22551   3650   8833766   5   Extended
   /dev/hda52551   2945   3172806   83  Linux root /
   /dev/hda62946   2970   20078182  Linux swap
   /dev/hda72971   3650   5460115+  83  Linux /home
   
hda{5,6,7} already formatted (and format was well recognized)

Output of lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP]
00:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
00:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
00:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ 
(rev 10)
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
00:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 18)
00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 18)
00:11.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 18)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G550 AGP (rev 01)


Base System Installation Checklist:

Initial boot worked:[O]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD:  [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Create file systems:[ ]
Mount partitions:   [O]
Install base system:[O]
Install boot loader:[O]
Reboot: [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't
try it

Comments/Problems:

Everything was OK during the installation, but the retrieving of the
package for the base system. I

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Package: debian-installer
Version: beta 3

I was trying debian-installer beta 3 in VMware W. 4.5.1,
Got ip from dhcp. There is no gateway in network.
If I choose wrong server as proxy and go back to main menu, no way to
change proxy server. "choose mirror" item dont work again.




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Hello,

this bug has been dealt with in the net-install CD, I downloaded on May
18th. So it can be closed (I don't think the situation has been reverted
since then :-) )

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Re: new debian-installer images for sparc

[Ben Collins]

On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 08:44:58PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Here is a mini-ISO image I cooked up with SILO rolled back to 1.3.2. Tom
> Callaway suggested that I try this because a lot of new stuff related to
> initrds changed in 1.4.x.
> 
> http://june.voxel.net/~joshk/mini.iso

The only way it's going to work is if the kernels are less than 3.4Megs
uncompressed. This is probably fine for cd boots though.

GOod thing is, I have time today for some sparc stuff. Well, that is, if
I don't get my Harley Fatboy today. Even if I do, I will work in some
debug time for this initrd problem :)

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My checklist up to now

[Margarita Manterola]

This is what I've been doing in the past two days.  Happily most of them
are success stories:

29/05:

* netinst in Spanish with DHCP and default valuesOK

* usbkeychain in Italian with DHCP and def. values   OK

* usbkeychain in English with DHCP and def. values   OK

* usbkeychain in Spanish with DHCP. Using LVMSeemed to work.
 Needs to be retested.

30/05:

* Business card in Portugues with DHCP and def. values.  OK

* Business card in English with linux26 and def. values  

Still has the console problem, supposedly fixed in unstable
by Kenshi, but still not in testing.  
Still has the not locale set when using en_US bug.
Rest of it OK.

* Business card in Catalan with DHCP. Using LVM.
1 LVM partition, with 3 volumes, all in ext3.   OK
* Usb keychain in Spanish with DHCP. Using LVM.
2 LVM partitions, with 4 volumes, jfs, xfs, reiserfs and ext3   OK.

* Business card in Spanish with DHCP, using linux26 and RAID
3 RAID partitions, with 1 MD device, formatted in Reiserfs.  
Stayed for TOO long looking for other OS, at grub-installer.
Stalled and **FAILED**.

* Business card in English, with DHCP, using linux26 and def. valuesOK
  (Redid this one, just to overwrite the previous one, and see what
  happened afterwards)

* Business card. Spanish Argentina. DHCP, linux26, RAID.
3 RAID partitions. 1 MD device, formatted in ext3.
Something is Segfaulting... TBM takes over.
(Apparently LVM detection segfaults when there's a RAID volume)

***

Plans for 31/05:

- Usbkeychain with linux26
- LVM with linux26
- RAID with linux
- Floppies ?
- Netboot ??? 

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So, if you want me to test some other specific thing, that you think
might be available at debconf, please tell me, and I'll test it.


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Bug#251825: Installing sarge PPC kernel with d-i fails with initrd warning

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 12:45:04AM -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
> Version: sarge 20040523 CD

This is rather old. A lot of packages have been moved into testing since
then.

> I booted the install CD in expert mode, and was able to progress
> through the installation until picking a kernel.  I picked the
> kernel-image-2.6.6-powerpc (I also tried 2.4.25-powerpc-small-pmac and
> got the same result).  It failed to install, producing these error
> messages:
> 
>   You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version 2.6.6-powerpc)
>   This will not work unless you have configured your boot loader to use
>   initrd. (An initrd image is a kernel image that expects to use an INITial
>   Ram Disk to mount a minimal root file system into RAM and use that for
>   booting).

This indicates an old version of rootskel. Please try a current image.

> I don't know whether the yaboot configuration stuff (which comes later
> in debian-installer) know how to handle an initrd 2.6 (or 2.4) kernel.

It does.

> There was no documentation in the manuals about whether or when it is
> appropriate to use 2.6 kernels in debian-installer...

The documentation needs a *big* round of updates, I'm afraid.

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Bug#238648: d-i beta3, modprobe tg3, netinst.iso

[Markus Haiml]

--On Montag, 24. Mai 2004 18:06 +0100 Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

* Haiml, Markus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-18 08:17]:
Machine: 
d-i detects NIC and tries correct module tg3. However, "modprobe -v
tg3" results in "no hardware found" with sarge-i386-netinst.iso
(beta3).
Can you try the daily image and check if this works?
I tried the Netinstall and Bsuinesscard image from 30.05.2004
The 2.4 kernel works fine
The 2.6 kernel does not have network modules.
The output on the log-terminal (ALT-F4) is:
 user.notice hw-detect: Missing module
 'tg3' 'ide-scsi' 'ide-mod' 'ide-probe-mod' 'ide-detect' 'ide-floppy'
In the shell (ALT-F2) there is no folder
/lib/modules/2.6.5-.../kernel/drivers/net
??
If not, can you
show me the output of the kernel when you load the tg3 module (this
will show what chip you have exactly).
BROADCOM Corporation NetXtreme BCM5702X Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)
best regards
Markus Haiml
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Re: partman "restart" (was: Installation on external USB...)

[Anton Zinoviev]

On 31.V.2004 at 12:04 (+) W. Borgert wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 02:26:01PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > Partman remembers that the partition has already been formatted and
> > doesn't format it for second time.  Instead of rebooting one could
> > change for example the file system from ext3 to reiserfs and then back
> > to ext3.  Alternatively one could also change temporary the method
> > (from "format" to "don't use" and then back to "format").
> 
> IIRC, if I do that, I have also to set the mount point as
> maybe mount options again, right?

No, the mount point and options are remembered forever. :-)

Anton Zinoviev


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Re: RAID1 install fails

[W. Borgert]

On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 08:50:31PM -0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> add a line "waypoint 5 install_extra" so this looks like:
> 
> waypoint 3  apt_update
> waypoint 5  install_extra
> waypoint 1  pick_kernel
> waypoint 10 install_kernel
> 
> This should work.

Yes, I get one step forward ("Muehsam ernaehrt sich das
Eichhoernchen") - now the installation of grub/lilo fails.

GRUB message on vt3:
/dev/md0 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.

LILO:
An installation step failed. (...)
failing step is: Install the LILO boot loader on a hard disk.

Both / on XFS and / on EXT3 give this error.

Note 1: The progress bar "Starting up the partitioner" hangs
at 55% ("Please wait...") while the RAIDs are synchronising.
Because this can take several (e.g. 30) minutes, it would
be nice to communicate that fact to the user.

Note 2: With linux26 I get two errors: First the os-prober
hangs (progress bar at 10%, I just killed the bastard),
after grub install fails fatally, I get an endless loop
"Trying to enable the frame buffer..." with a fancy flashing
screen.  Uhu, the 70s are back!

I'm going to try this again with 2.4.

Cheers, WB


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partman "restart" (was: Installation on external USB...)

[W. Borgert]

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 02:26:01PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> Partman remembers that the partition has already been formatted and
> doesn't format it for second time.  Instead of rebooting one could
> change for example the file system from ext3 to reiserfs and then back
> to ext3.  Alternatively one could also change temporary the method
> (from "format" to "don't use" and then back to "format").

IIRC, if I do that, I have also to set the mount point as
maybe mount options again, right?

> This is indeed not intuitive.  Probably at every start partman has to
> forget which partitions have been formated.

Please :-)


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Bug#230440: FWD: Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed

[Anton Zinoviev]

On 27.V.2004 at 13:55 (+0200) Yann Dirson wrote:
> 
> Then partition objects in memory should probably be initialized as
> having no fs on them, instead of looking up the disk. 

This is exactly what the newer versions of partman do.

> Or, maybe better, they could be initialized from disk only if the fs
> size matches (or maybe is smaller than) the new partition

This is necessary for partitions that exist on the disk but difficult
to implement because such checks depend on the file system, libparted
doesn't support them and no library packaged as udeb does.

Anton Zinoviev


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Bug#251846: busybox-cvs: debian/rules does clean before building

[David N. Welton]

Bastian Blank wrote:
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 12:28:07PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote:
This doesn't seem right to me.  If I want to build it, I want to build
it, not clean it.  There is a separate target for that.  This is
frustrating because I want to tweak something a abit and rebuild the
whole package.

busybox does not support building outside the source tree. Also the
dependency tracking is rather broken.
What do you mean 'outside the source tree'?  I'm building it like so:
fakeroot debian/rules binary-arch-udeb
and that works just fine.  I just don't want it to do a make clean every 
  time.  Maybe there should be another intermediate step so as to 
provide something that can be used to rebuild a particular .deb or 
.udeb?  That would be enough, I think.

BTW, another buglet:
lsmod.c's lsmod_main should read something like this:
...
#ifdef CONFIG_FEATURE_CHECK_TAINTED_MODULE
check_tainted();
#endif
...
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Re: Installation on external USB harddisk? [and other issues]

[Anton Zinoviev]

On 27.V.2004 at 16:19 (-0300) Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * W. Borgert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-26 17:58]:
> 
> > 1. If the installation failed at some point, one cannot do the
> >"install base system" step again - it fails.  Instead one has
> >not only to redo the partition step again, but one has to
> >remove(!) the partition and recreate them.  Otherwise cruft
> 
> Hmm, when you mark the partition as format and enter the partitioner
> again, is it not formated?

Partman remembers that the partition has already been formatted and
doesn't format it for second time.  Instead of rebooting one could
change for example the file system from ext3 to reiserfs and then back
to ext3.  Alternatively one could also change temporary the method
(from "format" to "don't use" and then back to "format").

This is indeed not intuitive.  Probably at every start partman has to
forget which partitions have been formated.

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Bug#251846: busybox-cvs: debian/rules does clean before building

[Bastian Blank]

tags 251846 wontfix
thanks

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 12:28:07PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote:
> This doesn't seem right to me.  If I want to build it, I want to build
> it, not clean it.  There is a separate target for that.  This is
> frustrating because I want to tweak something a abit and rebuild the
> whole package.

busybox does not support building outside the source tree. Also the
dependency tracking is rather broken.

Bastian

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[Anton Zinoviev]

On 31.V.2004 at 12:01 (+0200) Frans Pop wrote:
> 
> Maybe another option would be:
> 4. Do the check as now but suppress this particular error situation
>(i.e. don't show the error to the user)

This error is generated by (lib)parted, not directly by partman.  So
partman only knows that acording to (lib)parted there was some error in
the file system.  Not showing it means not showing any error.

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Bug#251835: Acknowledgement (Sarge netinst cd boot failure)

[Tapio Lehtonen]

I updated the motherboard BIOS, now the CD boots. Strange, Woody CD
did boot with the old BIOS, and all other bootable CDs I could find.

This Sarge CD is somehow different from the other boot CDs. Anyway,
the new BIOS fixed my problem, so I guess the Debian Installer is not
at fault.

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Bug#251846: busybox-cvs: debian/rules does clean before building

[David N. Welton]

Package: busybox-cvs
Severity: normal


build-arch-deb-stamp: config.status
  $(MAKE) clean

This doesn't seem right to me.  If I want to build it, I want to build
it, not clean it.  There is a separate target for that.  This is
frustrating because I want to tweak something a abit and rebuild the
whole package.

Aside from that though...busybox is too cool!  Thanks,
Dave

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Bug#250563: Bug#250550: Partitioning failure

[Anton Zinoviev]

On 23.V.2004 at 21:05 (+0200) Marcel Ammerlaan wrote:
> 
> The partioning is the result of some Partitionmagic resizing for the 
> pre-installed Windows XP and after that a SuSE 9 installation. Cfdisk
> cannot read the disk (Bad primary partition 3: Partition ends after 
> end-of-disk) but fdisk can.

Does parted recognise the partition table?

> The installer shows the disk as having no partitions at all, instead
> of giving an error message that it doesn't understand the disk.

So it shows the whole disk space as being "FREE SPACE"?  Or it shows a
line for the disk with no partitions below it?  If it is the last case
that the situation is the following: parted detects no partition table
on the disk.  There is no error in a disk with no partition table and
thats why partman didn't issue error message.

If parted doesn't recognise your partition table, please send a bug
report against parted.  Otherwise it would be nice if you could retry
the installation and send me /var/log/partman.

Anton Zinoviev


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Run automatically pppoeconf? [was: Bug#243543: /etc/network/interfaces now setup properly]

[Anton Zinoviev]

On 23.V.2004 at 10:55 (-0400) Christopher Martin wrote:
> 
> The installer now works very well. Since I use pppoeconf, after the 
> unsuccessful DHCP detect, I selected "no config at this time" and 
> proceeded with the rest of the install.

The last days I participated one local conference regarding the free
software.  People said to me that that pppoeconf is already installed
so the user only needs to go to another console and run pppoeconf by
hand.  I know nothing about pppoeocnf and I don't know if it is
possible to detect somehow that pppoe is used.

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Bug#251794: Installation report: partman problems (regression)

[Frans Pop]

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Package: installation-reports
Version: 20040530
Severity: important

Install performed to confirm/refute the problems with os-prober recognition
 of Windows partitions reported by Andree Leidenfrost.

INSTALL REPORT

Debian-installer-version: netinst CD i386 sarge_d-i 20040530
Method: Boot from CD (in hdc); DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium; en_US/Netherlands

Machine: NEC Direction
Processor: Pentium III (Coppermine)
Memory: 256 MB
Root Device: Spare IDE disk installed as hdb and used that for install

Root Size/partition table:
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct10 20 (unused for this install)
hdb: Maxtor 90430D3
hdc: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8100
hdd: PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-114

Disk /dev/hdb: 4311 MB, 4311982080 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 524 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot  Start  End   Blocks   Id  System  Mounted as
/dev/hda1   1216033+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2 513 2482 15824025f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3   *   3  512  4096575b  Win95 FAT32 /windows (ro)
/dev/hda5 513 1022  4096543+  83  Linux
/dev/hda61704 1716   104391   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda71717 1971  2048256b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda81972 2354  3076416b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda92355 2482  1028128+   b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda10   1023 1703  5470101   83  Linux

   Device Boot  Start  End   Blocks   Id  System  Mounted as
/dev/hdb1   1  135  1084356b  W95 FAT32   /dos (ro)
/dev/hdb2 136  524  3124642+   5  Extended
/dev/hdb5 136  176   3293016  FAT16
/dev/hdb6 481  500   160618+  83  Linux   /home
/dev/hdb7 501  524   192748+  82  Linux swap  swap
/dev/hdb8 177  358  1461883+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb9 359  480   979933+  83  Linux   /

Base System Installation Checklist:

Initial boot worked:[O]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network: [E]
Detect CD:  [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [E]
Create file systems:[O]
Mount partitions:   [O]
Install base system:[O]
Install boot loader:[E]
Reboot: [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Comments/Problems:

Network configuration
=
Note: installation with DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium
My system does not have PCMCIA support, but I accepted default at question to
start PCMCIA services.
I was next asked to enter resource ranges and entered again.
The question about resource ranges was asked again 2 times during the next
hw-config phases. This should be suppressed.

Partman
===
I selected /dev/hda3 (vfat, W2K) with keep existing data and was offered
/dos and /windows as mountpoints; selected /windows.
I next selected /dev/hdb1 (vfat, W98) with keep existing data, and was again
offered _both_ /dos and /windows.
Partman should not offer mountpoints that have already been taken.

After confirming all my selections, there was a very long blue screen without
progress bars; I think that was while the vfat partitions were mounted.

GRUB installer
==
I did two installs:
- - first default priority with nl_NL and _no_ windows partitions selected
  for mountpoints
- - second medium priority with en_US and _both_ windows partitions selected
  for mountpoints (as shown above)

Regression (both installs):
- - screen where summary of probed OS's are shown is not shown anymore
- - question 'do you want to install GRUB on MBR' is not shown anymore
(I think these were actually on one dialog that's gone missing.)

After first install, there were entries for both my W2K and W98 partitions in
/boot/grub/menu.lst.
After second install, there were _no_ entries for both these partitions.

Logs for second install are attached.

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Re: tenative timeline for rc1 release (and DebConf)

[Frans Pop]

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On Monday 31 May 2004 11:46, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> The function ped_file_system_check of libparted fails because parted
> lacks proper support for ext3 file systems.  So for now there are
> three options:
>
> 1. Do the check as now - issues silly errors from time to time
> 2. Do the check with fsck - fast if the file system is clearly
>umounted but otherwise slow and with no progress bar; needs to
>package fsck in some udeb
> 3. Mount unchecked file system

Maybe another option would be:
4. Do the check as now but suppress this particular error situation
   (i.e. don't show the error to the user)
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Re: tenative timeline for rc1 release (and DebConf)

[Bastian Blank]

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 12:46:57PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> The function ped_file_system_check of libparted fails because parted
> lacks proper support for ext3 file systems.  So for now there are
> three options:

What is the problem? It fails because the fs has some unknown flags
set?

Bastian

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Re: tenative timeline for rc1 release (and DebConf)

[Anton Zinoviev]

On 21.V.2004 at 23:27 (+0200) Frans Pop wrote:
> 
> This is an extremely silly error for a release candidate.

The function ped_file_system_check of libparted fails because parted
lacks proper support for ext3 file systems.  So for now there are
three options:

1. Do the check as now - issues silly errors from time to time
2. Do the check with fsck - fast if the file system is clearly
   umounted but otherwise slow and with no progress bar; needs to
   package fsck in some udeb
3. Mount unchecked file system

Anton Zinoviev


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Bug#251835: Sarge netinst cd boot failure

[Tapio Lehtonen]

Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: 30th May sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: 
Date: 2004-05-31
Method: Tried to boot from CD

Machine: PC Clone
Processor: AMD Duron 750 MHz
Memory: 384M
Root Device: IDE, /dev/hda
Root Size/partition table: 
Output of lspci:

Base System Installation Checklist:

Initial boot worked:[E]
Configure network HW:   [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD:  [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Create file systems:[ ]
Mount partitions:   [ ]
Install base system:[ ]
Install boot loader:[ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Comments/Problems:

The 30th May sarge-i386-netinst.iso is not recognized as a bootable CD
on my one i386 host. It prints 

  DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

Other bootable CD:s work on that host, and I did install Debian on it
using netboot.

Motherboard is ASUS A7V

Award Medallion BIOS v6.0

ASUS A7V ACPI BIOS Revision 1004C


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Bug#251827: PowerBook G4 "sungem" module warning is useless

[John Gilmore]

Package: debian-installer
Version: sarge 20040523 CD

When booted in expert mode, it complaints about the "unavailable"
module for sungem (Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 GMAC) which is
a 10/100/1000Mbit Ethernet controller chip.  But despite the lack
of a module, the installer is able to find the chip, run DHCP, and
configure Internet access on it.

cat /proc/modules shows no sungem module, but ifconfig shows the
interface up and with a reasonable IP address.

John


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Bug#251825: Installing sarge PPC kernel with d-i fails with initrd warning

[John Gilmore]

Package: debian-installer
Version: sarge 20040523 CD

I booted the install CD in expert mode, and was able to progress
through the installation until picking a kernel.  I picked the
kernel-image-2.6.6-powerpc (I also tried 2.4.25-powerpc-small-pmac and
got the same result).  It failed to install, producing these error
messages:

  You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version 2.6.6-powerpc)
  This will not work unless you have configured your boot loader to use
  initrd. (An initrd image is a kernel image that expects to use an INITial
  Ram Disk to mount a minimal root file system into RAM and use that for
  booting).

  I repeat, You need to configure your boot loader -- please read your
  bootloader documentation for details on how to add initrd images.

  If you have already done so, and you wish to get rid of this message,
  please put
`do_initrd = Yes'
  in /etc/kernel-img.conf. Note that this is optional, but if you do not,
  you'll continue to see this message whenever you install a kernel
  image using initrd.
  Do you want to stop now? [Y/n]OK, Aborting
  dpkg: error processing 
/derom/pool/main/k/kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.6/kernel-image/2.6.6-powerpc_2.6.6-2_powerpc.deb
 (--unpack):
   subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

I don't know whether the yaboot configuration stuff (which comes later
in debian-installer) know how to handle an initrd 2.6 (or 2.4) kernel.
There was no documentation in the manuals about whether or when it is
appropriate to use 2.6 kernels in debian-installer...

...and no documentation anywhere visible, about which of the dozen+
kernels is even for which hardware!

(I tried rebooting and reinstalling and editing that file, as it
suggested, but before the kernel install, the file doesn't exist; and
the failure happens very soon after you pick the kernel to install.)

John

PS:  I had tried to do this install in non-expert mode, but you can see
the results of that in bug#248067.  It picked the 2.4.25-powerpc-smp-prep
kernel (I don't know if that works on a PowerBook G4 -- it says it's for a
PrEP computer, which I've never heard of).  But then it didn't install
anyway, with a "(=D) is not a directory" error message.


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Debian-install beta4 ide drivers

[thierry]

HI,
I tried to install Sarge using 2 floppies + net drivers, but my hard disk is 
not seen, and my system says that necessary drivers ide-* are not available...
Did I missed something?
Ta,
Thierry


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Bug#251823: d-i gives black screen Installing sarge beta4 and 20040530 on OldWorld Power Macs]

[Rick_Thomas]

Package: installation-reports

Hardware -- Macintosh Power PC Beige G3 minitower and Mac PowerPC 6500

Software -- businesscard installation CDs for "beta4" and "20040530"
  downloaded from
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/powerpc/{beta4|20040530}/
 

I boot using BootX (since the boot floppy approach won't work on
OldWorld machines now that miBoot is in the doghouse for being
politically incorrect)

I use BootX with kernel arguments "video=atyfb:vmode:3,cmode:16" and
leaving the two check-boxes blank having to do with video modes. 
This setup has worked for me in the past.

When I tell it to boot, I get the picture of Tux in the upper left part
of the screen, and the rest of the screen is scrolling text from the
kernel while it sets up the hardware.

Then the suddenly (about the time I'd expect to see the first
questions from d-i) the screen goes black.

Option-f{234} keys will switch to the usual virtual tty screens, which
show white text on a black background, pretty much as expected.  On the
"f4" screen, the last couple of lines are:

main-menu[236]: DEBUG: configure cdebconf-udeb, status: 2
frontend: Setting debconf/language to en

I get this behavior with both the Beta4 and the 20040530 "businesscard"
install CDs.

I've also tried various other video settings (with and without the BootX
video-mode checkboxes) to no avail.

I've tried setting DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium, and that didn't help either.

Any suggestions?

Rick




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