Bug#1060903: Debian testing/trixie ISO fail to boot on Intel Core 2 Duo (64-bit) Dell Inspiron 1545
D-ROM, CD-RW, DVD, DVD+RW, DVD+/-RW, Hard Disk EMPTY Handle 0xDC00, DMI type 220, 22 bytes OEM-specific Type Header and Data: DC 16 00 DC 01 F0 00 00 02 F0 00 00 00 00 03 F0 04 F0 00 00 00 00 Handle 0xDD00, DMI type 221, 19 bytes OEM-specific Type Header and Data: DD 13 00 DD 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Handle 0xD400, DMI type 212, 37 bytes OEM-specific Type Header and Data: D4 25 00 D4 74 00 75 00 00 10 2D 2E 5C 00 78 BF 40 5D 00 78 BF 00 08 00 1D DF 00 03 00 1D DF 00 FF FF 00 00 00 Handle 0xD401, DMI type 212, 17 bytes OEM-specific Type Header and Data: D4 11 01 D4 74 00 75 00 03 40 49 4A FF FF 00 00 00 Handle 0xDE00, DMI type 222, 16 bytes OEM-specific Type Header and Data: DE 10 00 DE 01 02 FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 Handle 0x7F00, DMI type 127, 4 bytes End Of Table Note: Not a production machine, testing only. Regards Phil -- Playing the game for the games sake. Web: * Debian Wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/PhilWyett * Website: https://kathenas.org * Social Debian: https://pleroma.debian.social/kathenas/ * Social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathenasorg/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: debian Wheezy DVD-1: installer cannot find ethernet card (2012-6-7)
Further information: The card now lists (lspci) as Atheros AR8151 v2.0. I get the same problem with the most recent business-card size net install, downloaded and install attempted around 9PM New York time, Jun 11. (1 PM New Zealand time, Jun 12). A net-install that can't find the NIC is a little less than useful. :-) Anyone have a clue as to what's going on? Did I maybe catch the weekly build in a partially-complete state? Phil
debian Wheezy DVD-1: installer cannot find ethernet card (2012-6-7)
When trying to install debian-6.0.5-i386-DVD-1.iso I get the message "No Ether Net Card was Detected". It then asks me to select a driver. The ethernet card is there, and the Wheezy build from about 2 months ago finds it fine, as do all other installers I've tried. The card is: Atheros Communication Device 1083 (rev c0). It's the built-in on the motherboard (Asus board). Phil
Re: Some CD image torrents "not authorized for use".
* Mattias Wadenstein [2011-07-05 15:18 +0200]: > On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Phil! Gold wrote: > > >I'm trying to download a couple of CD images from the recent 6.0.2 release > >via BitTorrent, but they don't all appear to have been authorized on the > >tracker, bttracker.debian.org. > > > >* debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-i386-netinst.iso > > This one should work, the central seed has uploaded ~6 gigs worth of > this iso since the point release. I tried removing the torrent and readding it from the website, which worked. I guess the file had some change between when I downloaded it and when it was authorized on the tracker. > >* firmware-6.0.2.1-amd64-i386-netinst.iso > > This on the other hand is not part of the debian-cd set. What URL > are you getting it from? http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/6.0.2.1/multi-arch/bt-cd/firmware-6.0.2.1-amd64-i386-netinst.iso.torrent I also tried removing and readding this one, but the tracker continues to tell me it's not authorized. -- ...computer contrarian of the first order... / http://aperiodic.net/phil/ PGP: 026A27F2 print: D200 5BDB FC4B B24A 9248 9F7A 4322 2D22 026A 27F2 --- -- Beam me up, Scotty! It ate my phaser! --- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110705141315.gj15...@aperiodic.net
Some CD image torrents "not authorized for use".
I'm trying to download a couple of CD images from the recent 6.0.2 release via BitTorrent, but they don't all appear to have been authorized on the tracker, bttracker.debian.org. The ones I'm having trouble with are: * debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-i386-netinst.iso * firmware-6.0.2.1-amd64-i386-netinst.iso There may be others that are not authorized, but I was able to successfully download debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-CD-1.iso. -- ...computer contrarian of the first order... / http://aperiodic.net/phil/ PGP: 026A27F2 print: D200 5BDB FC4B B24A 9248 9F7A 4322 2D22 026A 27F2 --- -- I can find sense in lain, what the hell is WRONG with Katz? Don't answer. -- seen on #megazeux --- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110701145152.gh15...@aperiodic.net
Re: 3.0r2 images
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 05:05:00PM +0100, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: > Philip: Are you going to generate the 3.0r2 cd-images? If so, do you know > how, where and when? Yeah, I'm in the process of doing so now on open > If not, manty said that he can do them, he just suspects that you'll do > them better. Hm, not sure about that, given that the first attempt seems not to be generating any jigdos for some reason ... anyway, I'm on the case and should get some sort of results today. > Or perhaps someone else on this list feels both qualified and willing do > do this? > > Once I get a set of jigdos and then get them onto cdimage.d.o, I'll do the > isos and push-trigger stuff. Just need someone to do the steps before > that. Yeah --- I need to populate the snapshot on cdimage.d.o as well. I'll do that once I have jigdos. Cheers, Phil. -- Say no to software patents! http://petition.eurolinux.org/ |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd.http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
Re: 3.0r2 images
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 05:05:00PM +0100, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: > Philip: Are you going to generate the 3.0r2 cd-images? If so, do you know > how, where and when? Yeah, I'm in the process of doing so now on open > If not, manty said that he can do them, he just suspects that you'll do > them better. Hm, not sure about that, given that the first attempt seems not to be generating any jigdos for some reason ... anyway, I'm on the case and should get some sort of results today. > Or perhaps someone else on this list feels both qualified and willing do > do this? > > Once I get a set of jigdos and then get them onto cdimage.d.o, I'll do the > isos and push-trigger stuff. Just need someone to do the steps before > that. Yeah --- I need to populate the snapshot on cdimage.d.o as well. I'll do that once I have jigdos. Cheers, Phil. -- Say no to software patents! http://petition.eurolinux.org/ |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd.http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Fwd: Re: Demographic analysis of debian user's language (was Re:b-f one-liner needs translating]
It would be great if debian-cd could include these files somehow. p. --- Begin Message --- On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 10:33, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Perhaps if you put all the localisation data for each language into a > separate file that is searched for in the root directory of the > floppy, then people could download a localisation file separately and > copy it onto the floppy. It wouldn't then matter so much which > localisations are included with the standard floppy image. Also, it > would be possible to add and update localisations without rereleasing > the floppy image. The image on the root floppy disk is compressed, which will make it awkward for users to add extra files there. I've checked in some changes to the boot-floppies to allow extra language catalogs to be shipped on the CD. This is obviously no help to people who are booting from floppy disk, but it's probably better than nothing. For those on debian-boot, the drill is that dbootstrap searches for extra languages in /.xlp/messages.XX on the CD during program startup. Any catalogs it finds are copied into /etc from where LC will pick them up. The build process creates an archive xlp.tgz containing the catalogs for everything in $(langs), and i386-specials/mini-iso.sh knows how to put it onto the CD. p. --- End Message ---
Re: Bug#123948: can someone test the patch?
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 13:09, Eduard Bloch wrote: > A good compromise. I suggest two kinds of flags on the CD-ROM: > > .disk/kernel_installable > .disk/base_installable > > The first marks the disk containing kernel and modules, the second the > one with the basedebs. Sounds fine to me. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#123948: can someone test the patch?
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 11:56, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Maybe I got the wrong impression, but why do we do all this detection > and _force_ the user to use that Cd? The idea was to reduce the number of questions that the user gets asked. Debian's installer has long been notorious for forcing you to navigate through countless dialogue boxes, usually just accepting the defaults at every stage. This is tedious and potentially confusing for users. How about a compromise. If an attractive-looking CD is detected in the drive, pop up a single dialogue box at the beginning along the lines of "I see you have a Debian CD-ROM. Do you want to use this as the source medium for all the installation files?". If the user answers yes, behave as if they had booted with the "cdrom" argument and suppress all the media-selection menus; if they answer no, prompt as usual. Also, I am now coming round to the point of view that maybe this decision should be decoupled from the issue of whether the CD is "official" or not. Debian-cd folk, how about adding a new file called ".disk/installable" or some such, whose presence signals that boot-floppies should treat the CD as an install disk. That way people who are creating their own customised disks can make the decision for themselves rather than having to modify dbootstrap, second-guess its heuristics, or ask their users to supply boot arguments. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.2rev3 CDs (and status of cdimage.d.o)
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:43:03AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > BTW open.hands.com (a.k.a. cdimage.d.o, www.uk.d.o etc.) died rather > more effectively than expected, and is no longer getting past the LILO > "Loading Linux" bit. I should be able to sort this out before the > end of today (GMT), at which point I'll move /dev/hdc to /dev/hdg, > which should apparently side-step the issues with the VIA/Athlon combo. It seems that that was a mis-diagnosis, and what what actually happening was 2.4.3 not doing the right thing with serial consoles, combined with me being a bit dim, and not realising that that was why there was no output after the "Loading Linux". Doh! Anyway, the good news is that open is now up and running, using a 2.2.19 kernel, it's not generating the { DriveStatusError BadCRC } messages on hdc (that seem to be related to the problems it was having), and it's now running ext3, so should not end up failing to fsck if it does crash again. I've run debsums and rsync -c mirrors, without finding any corruption, so it looks like I'm ready to do a CD run. The only things I'm doing to the archive prior to making CDs, is deleting the bulkmail binaries, and adding a link for the mysql source. If there's something I'm missing, please tell me about it. Cheers, Phil. -- Say no to software patents! http://petition.eurolinux.org/ Alcove UK --- Liberating Software --- http://www.alcove.com/ Philip Hands. +44 (0)118 9545656 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hands.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uk.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mirrors, it is nice, but after a week no one is up to date
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:00:33AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 09:24:50AM +0200, Laurent LEVIER écrivait: > > Ok, so for guys waiting for ISO images, it would be great to have a > > simple script to create them. > > How what a good idea !! It's called debian-cd. :) However when you build > the CDs yourself you're not providing official debian CDs. > > BTW, Phil Hands has had some (hardware/kernel driver) troubles on the > computer on which he should have generated the images, that explains why > they are not yet available. > > > This way, at the moment when the distribution is made, it is 5 minutes > > to create the new ISO image... > > The script take more time than 5 minutes to run. For all architectures, on a reasonably quick machine, probably a minimum of 6 hours (that would need a quicker machine than I've got ;-), and that's assuming that the archive is in a clean state, which it currently is not. While it's true that open.hands.com has been crashing a lot recently, that is not the main reason I've not built images. I've actually succeeded in doing 2 & 2 halfs of CD production runs, between crashes, but the fact that the non-US/Contents file was broken, and that the package pool links for a few packages were wrong, means that the images were not 100% right, and while it might be OK to release the main archive with minor flaws, I'm of the oppinion that we should not release the CDs until all known fixable bugs are fixed, because downloading a load of CD images takes a long time, and if you then find that you're missing the one thing you were really intreested in, you're not going to be happy. When it comes to people that want to press CDs in quantity (which is the whole motivation behind the "official" CD images, after all) the reasons not to release are magnified yet further. If CD production were a trivial 5 minute thing, then I wouldn't bother with making official images. The fact is that it isn't, which is why it's worth doing them, and as long as I'm doing them you're going to have to put up with my anal "100% right, or not at all" attitude. If that's not to your liking, go ahead, get a copy of debian-cd and make your own --- it's not hard really. It takes a certain amount of attention to detail, and several hours, but it's not difficult. Cheers, Phil. -- Say no to software patents! http://petition.eurolinux.org/ Alcove UK --- Liberating Software --- http://www.alcove.com/ Philip Hands. +44 (0)118 9545656 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hands.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uk.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.2rev3 CDs (and status of cdimage.d.o)
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:15:03AM +1000, jason andrade wrote: > have debian addressed the alleged file corruption (ext2) issue that > i heard was present in 2.4.X uptil 2.4.3 ? Well, given that that seems to be what's been causing cdimage.debian.org grief recently (I stupidly upgraded to 2.4.3 to see if it would cure a DMA interrupt error I've been getting on the HPT366 controller) I'd say the answer to that question was probably "no". BTW open.hands.com (a.k.a. cdimage.d.o, www.uk.d.o etc.) died rather more effectively than expected, and is no longer getting past the LILO "Loading Linux" bit. I should be able to sort this out before the end of today (GMT), at which point I'll move /dev/hdc to /dev/hdg, which should apparently side-step the issues with the VIA/Athlon combo. Cheers, Phil. -- Say no to software patents! http://petition.eurolinux.org/ Alcove UK --- Liberating Software --- http://www.alcove.com/ Philip Hands. +44 (0)118 9545656 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hands.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uk.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
improved boot.bat
Package: debian-cd On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:43:58PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown) writes: > > > but that is not user-friendly at all. There should be a *single* unified > > .bat file at the top level, that prompts the user, with a brief > > explaination as to why there is a choice. > > That's probably true. Patches accepted. Obviously, we're not very > strong on DOS batch programming here. Well damn, you just did your annouce of new boot disks right before I was ready to send you the "patch" :-/ Anyways, I'm sending this to debian-boot, even though you originally replied to me in debian-devel, because I'm guessing this is the better place. Please note, however, that I am NOT subscribed to debian-boot. A few notes here: * I could care less about boot floppies: I boot directly from cdrom. * What follows is a suggested replacement for (debian 2.2) (/cdrom)/install/boot.bat which is a "boot from msdos" util script, not the default "boot from cdrom" script. I'm not sure where that is, otherwise I'd offer a suggestion for that, too. * BTW: http://www.nc5.infi.net/~wtnewton/batch/batguide.html @echo off rem Flush any write-cached disk blocks before we leave DOS. smartdrv /c echo Please choose a linux kernel now echo 1= standard kernel (2.2) echo 2= compact kernel (2.2) echo 3= SCSI kernel (2.2) echo 4= experimental support enabled (2.4.0) choice /c:1234 if errorlevel 4 goto FOUR if errorlevel 3 goto THREE if errorlevel 2 goto TWO if errorlevel 1 goto ONE echo doing default somehow and going to ONE goto ONE :ONE echo using standard kernel loadlin.exe linux root=/dev/ram ro initrd=root.bin :TWO echo using compact kernel loadlin.exe lincompt root=/dev/ram ro initrd=root.bin :THREE echo using SCSI kernel loadlin.exe linscsi root=/dev/ram ro initrd=root.bin :FOUR echo using eXperimental kernel loadlin.exe linXprmt root=/dev/ram ro initrd=root.bin extraopts=something rem I would have liked to use variables for options but DOS doesnt rem like having an equals-sign in a variable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>