Bug#175241: boot-floppies: fails to ask for NONUS cdrom
Package: boot-floppies Version: 20030103 Severity: normal I have just installed Woody onto two machines using cdrom images downloaded via jigdo. After selecting packages with dselect, I loaded cdroms as requested. Both times, apt-get printed an error about mailcrypt installation failing. Retrying didn't help. Finally, when prompted with Media Change: Please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ -Official i386 Binary-1 (20020718)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter I put in the binary-1NONUS disk instead. mailcrypt was then installed successfully. Apparently the NONUS part of the cdrom name is being dropped from the prompt. - Jim Van Zandt -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Kernel Version: Linux vanzandt-pc 2.4.18 #10 Thu Oct 3 07:41:18 EDT 2002 i686 unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: things I suggest testing in boot-floppies
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - in what ways is the install manual egregiously out of date? Note that the manual at http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/ is going to be more recent than the one in install-doc 3.0.22. Where are the current sources for the install manual and release notes? I.e. what a person should patch against. - Jim Van Zandt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian accessibility
Torsten Landschoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do we have a blind volunteer who can help with testing the new installer? I think we should add support for blind people while we are at redesigning the installer... I forwarded this note to the blinux (blind Linux) list, and got three volunteers. In a separate message, I have suggested they subscribe to debian-boot. - Jim Van Zandt From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 19:44:01 +0200 (CEST) X-Sender: anders@deathstar Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I AM ABLE FOR TESTING. Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello James! I can be your volunter of testing the debian installation or blind paiple. I to reinstall my debian so that would be a good trie for me. /Anders. X-Authentication-Warning: neil.ai: neil owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:23:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Neil Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "James R. Van Zandt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: accessibility of Debian installation disks In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi Jim, I might possibly be able to help do a bit of testing, provided it's not that intensive (i.e. that versions don't come along too often). Can't commit to being very timely though... One point in this message I thought worth resopnding too which you might want to pass on to the list: On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, James R. Van Zandt wrote: This touches on the second way a blind person could install Debian - prerecord some configuration info then auto-install. Red Hat's kickstart works this way - no need to go through one installation manually before auto-installations can start. Please keep this scenario in mind while designing the new installer. Two new goals? [snip] - - Document all installer variables so you can even install the first system without user interaction There's another great reason for implementing this feature: standardization. The only reason, so I was told, that the sysadmins here at U. of Toronto's Dept. of Comp. Sci. opted for RedHat is that they could use it's KickStart procedure to make sure that all their machines were configured identically--thus saving on administration and allowing for more file sharing on their NFS'd network. Cheers, Neil From: "Saqib Shaikh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:29:58 +0100 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: debian accessibility CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Priority: normal dear torstan i am a blind computer science student in the uk. i heard your request for a blind individual to help make debian more accessible. i am by all means prepared to do this. what must i do? please let me know. regards, saqib shaikh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: redesigning the debian installer
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Michael S. Fischer wrote: Serial console redirection needs to be available. We have hundreds of servers (with Intel L440GX+ motherboards with serial BIOS support) attached to Portmasters. These are headless boxes. Sure -- Debian has always supported installing from a serial console, and I hope it always will. Hmm. I beg to differ. I've been working on accessibility of Linux to blind users for some time. They can't use the video display, obviously. One installation approach is to use a serial console connected to a second PC with terminal emulator and a speech device. However, the Hamm and Slink i386 installation disks did not support serial console. The main problem was that the standard kernel did not have serial support compiled in. The serial device was in a module, and you had to get pretty far into the installation before it was installed. The last time I checked, the same was true of the potato install disks. I have not checked lately. Massimo Dal Zotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am only suggesting that it should be possible to do the debconf configuration in a separate step from the installation and store the debconf db for each machine on a floppy for later use. ... This is more or less what I've done in my hackish slink auto-installer. It doesn't use debconf and doesn't have a configuration interface but I can create profiles with a text-editor and load them for the installation. It has been used by people knowing only ms-windows to install a lot of machines in production environments. This touches on the second way a blind person could install Debian - prerecord some configuration info then auto-install. Red Hat's kickstart works this way - no need to go through one installation manually before auto-installations can start. Please keep this scenario in mind while designing the new installer. - Jim Van Zandt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [laerities_666@yahoo.com: Mounting CD-rom]
Michael Woodard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At the prompt, I type in mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hde /cdrom like the manual says, but it never works. ... I know I have to mount from /dev/hde because that's where the cdrom is hooked up to. Check your boot messages with something like dmesg | grep -i 'cd.*rom' and see if you get a line like hde: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache If some different device is mentioned, adjust your mount command accordingly. - Jim Van Zandt p.s. next time, paste the command and the response into your message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPPoE for base?
Ray Olszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PPPoE = PPP over Ethernet. It's the connection method icnreasingly being imposed on home DSL users by their ISPs (PacBell and Bell Atlantic are two big DSL providers inflicting it on their new customers). It may seem jury-rigged, but I have heard that PPPoE makes it possible for the customer to use an ISP other than his DSL provider. - Jim Van Zandt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
