Re: home fat32

2006-03-12 Thread Eerin Rosenström
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Gabriele Capannini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): hi, i have a problem with debian netinst when i try to create a partition /home with type fat32 : installation start to loop with the same question about new user account Hmmm, we should probably

Re: Install Problem Report

2006-03-12 Thread Warren Turkal
On Saturday 11 March 2006 09:22 pm, Dave Eppich wrote: Comments/Problems:Install went very smoothly until Video card selection, then it choked. I have a Diamond Stealth III s540 AGP card. There were no selections for this card in the setup screen. The system highlighted VESA for the driver.

D-I Etch Beta2 - Status update (5)

2006-03-12 Thread Frans Pop
Beta2 CDs created beautifully, website update prepared, so the release is ready. Except... Unfortunately the hint that was set for the latest version of initramfs-tools was of the wrong type so that did not make it into testing yesterday as planned. The current version in testing has a script

Bug#356480: NSLU2 installation report

2006-03-12 Thread Pepijn Oomen
Package: installation-reports Boot method: Network, RedBoot Image version: debian-etch-beta2-20060216 (incl. IXP firmware) Date: Sun Mar 12 10:41:04 CET 2006 Machine: Linksys NSLU2, overclocked Processor: XScale-IXP42x Family rev 1 (v51) Memory: 32Mb Partitions: Disk Drive: /dev/sda Sector 0:

Re: Further reduction of l10n sync commits

2006-03-12 Thread Christian Perrier
After the discussion, I conducted a few tests and they actually made me think more deeply about this part of the code. So, I finally come up with the attached patch. The philosophy is the following: When a package PO file would be modified when merged with the master file, then the file is

Bug#356480: NSLU2 installation report

2006-03-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Pepijn Oomen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-12 11:54]: - Terminal badly configured (TERM=linux, iTerm/MacOSX, console/Ubuntu), causing problems while reading windows (Ctrl-L helps) Odd. I know serial console looks slightly wrong but SSH should be fine. 12:34 tbm pepijn: did you install via

Re: tftp transport for preseed.cfg file

2006-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Warren Turkal wrote: Would support be added if I were to contribute it? If so, where are the other transports for the preseed.cfg via dhcp located? In the preseed package (network-preseed.postinst). I think that the major issue with enabling tftp in busybox would be space on the boot media.

Re: Adding cdebconf plugins to d-i svn?

2006-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Max Vozeler wrote: I wrote a cdebconf plugin (only newt for now) to help reading random data from /dev/random while showing a progressbar and allowing the user to type randomly at the keyboard to feed the kernel entropy pool (and so speed up reading from /dev/random). It's used in

Bug#356480: screendump

2006-03-12 Thread Pepijn Oomen

Bug#356480: NSLU2 installation report

2006-03-12 Thread Pepijn Oomen
When choosing 'Erase entire disk: SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 257.9 MB USB 2.0 Mobile Disk' under Guided partitioning, I am presented a dialog with the following information: Failed to partition the selected disk This probably happened because the selected disk or free space is too small to be

Processed: reassign 356454 to installation-reports

2006-03-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.8.14 reassign 356454 installation-reports Bug#356454: Install Problem Report Warning: Unknown package 'installations-reports' Bug reassigned from package `installations-reports' to

Re: Adding cdebconf plugins to d-i svn?

2006-03-12 Thread Max Vozeler
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 08:24:50AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Max Vozeler wrote: I wrote a cdebconf plugin (only newt for now) to help reading random data from /dev/random while showing a progressbar and allowing the user to type randomly at the keyboard to feed the kernel entropy pool (and

Bug#356480: NSLU2 installation report

2006-03-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
clone 356480 -1 reassign -1 partman-auto retitle -1 free space is too small error should say roughly what the minimum size has to be severity -1 wishlist reassign 356480 network-console retitle 356480 SSH output is garbled; possibly a TERM problem thanks * Pepijn Oomen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#356480: screendump

2006-03-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Colin, can you please take a look at #356480. Do you have any idea why the output of SSH might be garbled. I see this with serial console but SSH works without any problems for me. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Processed: Re: Bug#356480: NSLU2 installation report

2006-03-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: clone 356480 -1 Bug#356480: NSLU2 installation report Bug 356480 cloned as bug 356521. reassign -1 partman-auto Bug#356521: NSLU2 installation report Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `partman-auto'. retitle -1 free space is too

Re: Some thoughs and opinions about PartmanCrypto's future

2006-03-12 Thread Max Vozeler
Hi Yehoshua, On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 04:34:37AM +0200, Yehoshua (Shay) O'Hayon Suchar wrote: hey folks, I've working on partmancrypto today and I'd like to publish here things I've thought about, so I can get opinions and see how I advance from here. I'm planning to work on dm-crypt and

Re: [g-i] Re: TTF font for Georgian

2006-03-12 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 3/11/06, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 02:08, Eddy Petrişor wrote: AFAICT, that would be the range from 10A0-10FF [1]. For now, I'd propose to include the full range. Already done (see r35369) Although it is not enterly clear from the comments in the

Preseeded RAIDed installs

2006-03-12 Thread Simon Huggins
Right, after battling with shell I have managed to get preseeded RAIDed installs in a way which I hope is general enough that you will apply/let me apply to mainline d-i. The basic idea is to: - make partman-auto able to partition two disks according to a recipe (normally

Bug#356571: Package: installation-reports

2006-03-12 Thread Danny
Package: installation-reports Boot method:Network boot CDImage version: 12-March-2006 ftp.debian.org(of the etch distr)Date: 12-March-2006 Machine: Fujitsu-Siemmens Scaleo 600Processor: Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz HTMemory: 512MbPartitions: hda: [#1 Primary135.6Gb ntfs | #2 Primary 32.2Gb hfs+ | #3 Primary

Bug#356480: screendump

2006-03-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 12 March 2006 16:04, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Colin, can you please take a look at #356480. Do you have any idea why the output of SSH might be garbled. I see this with serial console but SSH works without any problems for me. The reason is probably that the terminal you run ssh

Bug#356571: Package: installation-reports

2006-03-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 12 March 2006 21:10, Danny wrote: Comments/Problems: Just after installing the basic system, after I select the kernel I want to use, it asks me wich program to build the boot initrd, and it don't matter wich one of the two that appear I choose, it tells me that the package is nos

Bug#356480: screendump

2006-03-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-12 23:34]: Colin, can you please take a look at #356480. Do you have any idea why the output of SSH might be garbled. I see this with serial console but SSH works without any problems for me. The reason is probably that the terminal you run ssh from

Bug#356480: screendump

2006-03-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 12 March 2006 23:58, you wrote: Oh yeah, that would make sense. Is there any way to detect this and use non-utf8 in d-i? No, d-i only supports UTF-8 AFAIK. You'll just have to generate a UTF-8 locale on the remote system and start the console you run SSh from using that.

Bug#356571: Fwd: Re: Bug#356571: Package: installation-reports

2006-03-12 Thread Frans Pop
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Bug#356571: Package: installation-reports Date: Sunday 12 March 2006 23:51 From: Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nope, I was trying to install etch, what I say is tat I was using sarge and wanted to upgrade my system

Bug#356480: screendump

2006-03-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-13 00:10]: You'll just have to generate a UTF-8 locale on the remote system and start the console you run SSh from using that. We may want to document this (if it isn't already). -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#356480: screendump

2006-03-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 13 March 2006 00:27, Martin Michlmayr wrote: We may want to document this (if it isn't already). http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s03.html#network-console -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#356480: marked as done (SSH output is garbled; possibly a TERM problem)

2006-03-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:50:49 + with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#356480: screendump has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your

[D-I Manual] Build log for en (13 Mar 2006)

2006-03-12 Thread Frans Pop
A build of the Debian Installer Manual was triggered by an update to SVN. There were no errors during the build process. The new version of the manual has been uploaded successfully. A log of the build is available at: - http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i_manual/log/en.log === It is possible to

Bug#213016: spending time with you

2006-03-12 Thread Charley
Dear frbiend, I found your picture on one of the websiates, can we talk to each other? I might be coming to ybour place in febw weeks. This wouald be a great opportunity to meet each other. Btw, I aam a woman. I am 25. Drop me a line at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Preseeded RAIDed installs

2006-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Simon Huggins wrote: Right, after battling with shell I have managed to get preseeded RAIDed installs in a way which I hope is general enough that you will apply/let me apply to mainline d-i. The basic idea is to: - make partman-auto able to partition two disks according to a

Re: Adding cdebconf plugins to d-i svn?

2006-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Max Vozeler wrote: My thought was that it might clutter the packages/ directory once there will be more plugins - and so perhaps it made sense to organise it similar to packages/partman and put each plugin into a subdirectory named after the package. Luckily, it's svn, so we can move it

Re: Workaround for ttf-freefont spacing issue (affects graphical debian-installer)

2006-03-12 Thread Christian Perrier
The patch includes a changelog entry for an NMU; feel free to adapt it if doing a maintainer upload. If this workaround works for the graphical installer, I plan to seek a sponsor for an NMU to the DELAYED queue. Please don't. I have taken ttf-freefont over and I'll hopefully upload it

Re: Bug#254113: Workaround for ttf-freefont spacing issue (affects graphical debian-installer)

2006-03-12 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Josh, On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 08:06:34PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: I've put source and binaries at http://freedesktop.org/~josh/ttf-freefont-spacing-problem/ . Could a graphical-installer developer please test the udeb with g-i and see if the spacing problem disappears? I've built a