Release timeline?
(Luk in d-d-a) >The missing bits > >Currently, the only extra piece we need to declare the Lenny puzzle >ready is a final version of the installer. The -boot people are about to >deliver a second release candidate, which will be final unless something >critical pops up. So, now, we're officially listed as the lenny release blockers..:-) From what I've collected, all missing bits for D-I RC2 to happen have been achieved and we just need to put our own set of puzzle pieces together. Otavio, do you have a release timeline? I guess that now, someone needs to build d-i, ask for the remaining udebs to enter testing (rootskel, rescue, cdebconf...), have the RC2 images built and do some testing. Having this happening before the upcoming week-end would be good though the time frame does not make it easy (many ppl wandering around for Christian Christmas holidays), so that tests can happen during the week-end (this is what we did for RC1). Please note that I'll be personnally unavailable from Dec 27th to Jan 2nd though my own contribution in that work can be mostly testing and that's "all". When D-I RC2 is released, I personnaly plan to focus on install reports so that we have a well-documented errata file (I suspect we might discover new errata entries) and maybe document some issues in the general release notes. We also probably need to contribute something for the upcoming lenny release announcement in order to give some focus on the Lenny installer new features when compared to the etch installer. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Creating usb boot pendrives
Hi, For the record, there's a windows frontend to assist creating usb bootable pendrives. it's looks nice, probably compatible with our images (not tested), and it's GPL. Thanks for the anonymous who posted that on the wiki. Franklin [1] https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liveusb-creator/ [2] http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/06/02/usb-centos-5-live-install-via-windows/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Proposed errata page
Christian Perrier writes: > Marvell disk controllers not fully supported > > Due to a pata_marwell module not begin properly autoloaded > on i386 and amd64 media, > peripherals driven by Marvell disk controllers are not detected. If > IDE is used in legacy mode with these controllers, it is needed > to pass 'ahci.blacklist=yes' to have the CD reader properly detected. > Then, when the installer boots, switch to console 2 (Alt+F2) and > run 'rmmod ahci; modprobe pata_marvel; modprobe ahci' before > continuing. > Better to instruct to not add ahci in blacklist but just use: modprobe -r ahci; modprobe pata_marvel ; modprobe ahci Rest looks OK -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R - E-mail: ota...@debian.org UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://otavio.ossystems.com.br - "Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
installation-guide 20081208 MIGRATED to testing
FYI: The status of the installation-guide source package in Debian's testing distribution has changed. Previous version: 20081113 Current version: 20081208 -- This email is automatically generated; the Debian Release Team is responsible. See http://release.debian.org/testing-watch/ for more information. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#494293: Reinstalling...
OK, I reinstalled from the daily debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso dated 13 December 2008 on my MacBook Pro 4,1 (Penryn), dual-booting with Mac OS X Leopard, using partitions /dev/sda3 and /dev/sda4 for root and swap, respectively. As before, installation went without any problem, with again the installer correctly detecting EFI/GPT and automatically installing Grub-2 (grub-pc): I opted for installing it to the MBR. Upon reboot, the rEFIt boot manager showed both Mac OS X and GNU/Linux icons, but selecting the latter gave a "boot media not found" message --- a known problem, since the MBR partition table must first be synchronized with GPT. On my wish-list is to have the installer do this (e.g. with the gptsync utility). In the event, I rebooted and used the Partition tool in the rEFIt menu, then rebooted once more, chose the GNU/Linux icon and lo! the Grub menu appeared and few seconds later the familiar Debian login screen. So, it appears that my earlier Grub problem has been solved, for which I thank the developers. -- Henk Koster "Behavioral axioms are right, but agents make mistakes." Attributed to L.J. Savage -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#418972: state of #418972
Hello Edson. Can you try to install Lenny Beta 2 or weekly images and report whether problem is still exists or not? -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C++ developer, Debian APT contributor signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Preparation of the release announcement
The proposed release announcement is available at: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/ReleaseAnnounce Please comment/edit/etc. I tried to sort out bug fixes and improvements (which were tracked in http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/LennyRC2Prep) as well as put in light the most annoying issue (RC bug on rescue about auto-assembling RAID arrays). -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Updates to the home page
When the time will come, the D-I home page
(http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer) will need changes to
reflect the publication of RC2.
Please find the proposed changes and the new page attached to this
mail.
This is basically s/RC1/RC2, that's all.
Please comment about possible additions, removals, etc.
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#use wml::debian::template title="Debian-Installer" NOHEADER="true"
#use wml::debian::recent_list
#include "$(ENGLISHDIR)/releases/info"
#include "$(ENGLISHDIR)/devel/debian-installer/images.data"
News
<:= get_recent_list('News/$(CUR_YEAR)', '2',
'$(ENGLISHDIR)/devel/debian-installer', '', '\d+\w*' ) :>
Older news
Installing with the Debian-Installer
For official Debian installation media and
information, see
the etch page.
To install Debian testing, we recommend you use
the lenny RC2 release of the installer, after checking its
errata. The following images are available for
lenny RC2:
netinst (generally 135-175 MB) CD images
businesscard (generally 20-50 MB) CD images
full CD/DVD sets
CD:
DVD:
full CD/DVD sets (via bittorrent)
CD:
DVD:
full CD/DVD sets (via jigdo)
CD:
DVD:
other images (netboot, USB stick, etc)
Or install the current weekly snapshot of Debian testing
which uses the same version of the installer as the last release:
full CD/DVD sets
CD:
DVD:
full CD/DVD sets (via bittorrent)
— only sufficiently seeded images are listed
CD:
# Not really enough time to get these seeded properly
# DVD:
full CD/DVD sets (via jigdo)
CD:
DVD:
If you'd like something newer to help us test a future release of the
installer, or because of hardware problems or other issues, try one of these
daily built images which contain the latest available version of
installer components.
netinst (generally 135-175 MB) and businesscard (generally 20-50 MB) CD images
netinst and businesscard CD images (via jigdo)
multi-arch CD images
other images (netboot, usb stick, floppy, etc)
If any of the hardware in your system requires firmware to be
loaded with the device driver, you can use one of the
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/";>\
tarballs of common firmware packages. Instructions how to use the tarballs
and general information about loading firmware during an installation can
be found in the Installation Guide (see Documentation below).
Notes
Before you download the daily built images, we suggest you check for
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Today";>known issues.
For CD and DVD images, an MD5SUMS file is available in the
same directory as the images.
For downloading full CD and DVD images the use of bittorrent or jigdo
is recommended.
The multi-arch CD images support i386/amd64/powerpc and
alpha/hppa/ia64; the installation is similar to installing
from a single architecture netinst image.
The multi-arch DVD image supports i386/amd64/powerpc; the
installation is similar to installing from a single architecture full
CD image; the DVD also includes the source for all included packages.
As m68k is currently not included in the testing suite, there
are no weekly snapshots for m68k.
After using the Debian-Installer, please send us an
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s03.html#submit-bug";>installation report,
even if there weren't any problems.
Documentation
If you read only one document before installing, read our
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apa.html";>Installation
Howto, a quick walkthrough of the installation process. Other useful
documentation includes:
Installation Guide:
http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/installmanual";>version for current release
—
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/";>development version
detailed installation instructions
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/FAQ";>Debian-Installer FAQ
and Debian-CD FAQ
common questions and answers
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller";>Debian-Installer Wiki
community maintained documentation
Contacting us
The http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/";>debian-boot
mailing list is the main forum for discussion and work on
Debian-Installer.
We also have an IRC channel, #debian-boot on irc.debian.org. This
channel is used mainly for development, but occasionally for support.
If you do not receive a response, try the mailing list instead.
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+++ index-new.wml 2008-12-14 09:03:10.101582490 +0100
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@
To install Debian testing, we recommend you use
-the lenny RC1 release of the installer, after checking its
+the lenny RC2 release of the installer, after checking its
errata. The following images are available for
-lenny RC1:
+lenny RC2:
netinst (generally 135-175 MB) CD images
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Proposed errata page
In preparation for the RC2 release, please find attached the proposed errata page. One should note that the Dzongkha display issue is still mentioned as we got no ACK from translators that using a 9pt. font size would be OK for them. -- #use wml::debian::template title="Debian-Installer errata" #use wml::debian::recent_list Errata for lenny release RC2 This is a list of known problems in the lenny RC2 release of Debian Installer. If you do not see your problem listed here, please send us an installation report describing the problem. Auto-assembly of RAID arrays in rescue mode can corrupt data Rescue mode should be used with great care when software RAID arrays were in use on the system to rescue. The rescue mode scripts automatically assemble arrays, which could lead to data corruption in the presence of invalid or obsolete RAID superblocks. Marvell disk controllers not fully supported Due to a pata_marwell module not begin properly autoloaded on i386 and amd64 media, peripherals driven by Marvell disk controllers are not detected. If IDE is used in legacy mode with these controllers, it is needed to pass 'ahci.blacklist=yes' to have the CD reader properly detected. Then, when the installer boots, switch to console 2 (Alt+F2) and run 'rmmod ahci; modprobe pata_marvel; modprobe ahci' before continuing. Corrupted display of messages in Dzongkha installs When the password chosen for root and its confirmations do not match, the display of screens that follow is garbled, during installs in Dzongkha language (broken display of italic font). Disk devices may change on reboot On systems with multiple disk controllers, the kernel/udev may assign a different device node on reboot of the system than was used during installation due to difference in load order of drivers. This can lead to failure to boot the system. In most cases this can be corrected by changing the bootloader configuration and /etc/fstab, possibly using the rescue mode of the installer. Note however that this problem may occur again on subsequent boots. Reboot problems when installing from a USB stick The former problem may also happen when installing from a USB stick. Temporarily keeping the USB stick in place will allow you to boot the installed system and correct the bootloader configuration file. See http://bugs.debian.org/506263";>#506263 for details about such workaround. Buggy routers may cause network problems If you experience network problems during the installation, this may be caused by a router somewhere between you and the Debian mirror that doesn't correctly handle window scaling. See http://bugs.debian.org/401435";>#401435 and this http://kerneltrap.org/node/6723";>kerneltrap article for details. You can work around this issue by disabling TCP window scaling. Activate a shell and enter the following command: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling For the installed system you should probably not completely disable TCP window scaling. The following command will set ranges for reading and writing that should work with almost any router: echo 4096 65536 65536 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem echo 4096 65536 65536 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem i386: no installation from floppy disk Due to an increase in the size of the 2.6.24 kernel, we are unable to provide installation images for installs from floppy disk. We expect to be able to support floppy installs again when the installer switches to the next kernel version. PowerPC: various issues The PowerPC port has several issues in this release: installation from floppy on OldWorld PowerMac is broken because no device node is created for the swim3 module and as miboot is not included the snd-powermac module is no longer loaded by default as it will lock up some systems; you will need to add it to /etc/modules manually Sparc: various issues The Sparc port has several issues in this release: Broken serial console support. In some situations (see http://bugs.debian.org/504721";>bug #504721 for details), the serial console used may not be properly re-opened and therefore become non responding. Passing 'console=ttyS0' (or whichever device the console is attached to) may we used as a workaround. fails to recognize ESP/FAS SCSI controller: installer images are missing the sun_esp kernel module which is needed to support CD and disc drives connected to an ESP or FAS controller. s390: unsupported features support for the DASD DIAG discipline is currently not available support for LCS network interfaces is no longer available signature.asc Description: Digital signature
