Debian installer partitioner confused by USB memory stick

2008-05-28 Thread Seth LaForge
I just installed Debian 4.0r3 on a Linksys NSLU2 (arm-based tiny NAS box), installing the root filesystem onto a 256MB USB flash thumb drive. I ran into an annoying Debian installer issue where the installer appears to try to use the device for the entire thumb drive (rather than a partition), but

[RFC] Adding a 686-bigmem netboot image for PAE/Xen (was: Structural changes needed for switch to 2.6.25 kernels)

2008-05-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 02:14 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Now seems like a good time to remind you that I would like to add > -686-bigmem kernel udebs to the mix to support running D-I under PAE > Xen. I don't see any real objection to adding only a netb

Re: Structural changes needed for switch to 2.6.25 kernels

2008-05-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > If there are no comments I'll commit in about 2 days. After acks from Otavio, Joey and Max I have committed my changes. This means that now porters can start checking for changes in modules. As I said in the last mail, I'm going to leave that to other

Re: New speakup-udeb component

2008-05-28 Thread Otavio Salvador
Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> another could be that they should not be included for all installation >> methods) > > The scripts by themselves should be fine. The problem is more about > room. Speakup modules need a total of 160KB. If that's fine with any > installation medium, t

Re: New speakup-udeb component

2008-05-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > I thought about putting the scripts (attached to this mail) in a > separate speakup-udeb package because it makes the integration to > the debian installer extremely simple: just add speakup-deb to > installer/build/pkg-list/something/somearchs.cfg

Bug#483469: tasksel: errors during D-I installation

2008-05-28 Thread Frans Pop
Package: tasksel Version: 2.74 During an installation today I noticed the following errors in the syslog: in-target: "my" variable @deps masks earlier declaration in same scope at /usr/bin/tasksel line 535. in-target: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/tasksel line 529. in-target

Re: New speakup-udeb component

2008-05-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Ok, I'm the culprit, I should have talked about it with debian-boot. I thought about putting the scripts (attached to this mail) in a separate speakup-udeb package because it makes the integration to the debian installer extremely simple: just add speakup-deb to installer/build/pkg-list/so

Re: Problems netbooting with 4.0r3 DVDs

2008-05-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Brent Baccala wrote: > It was looking for a Release.gpg file that didn't exist, but even after I > copied the one from the website, it still wouldn't take it. Of course that won't work. The signature file won't match the contents of the DVD! Try booting the installer wi

Problems netbooting with 4.0r3 DVDs

2008-05-28 Thread Brent Baccala
Hi - I had some trouble installing the latest stable Debian 4.0r3 on an Intel Pentium platform, though it was a non-standard install. I downloaded the 3 ISO DVD images, put them on a local web server, and loopback mounted them to where I could get at them from an http: URL. I then downloaded net

Re: Missing glyphs

2008-05-28 Thread Jamil Ahmed
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Davide Viti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jamil, > > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:49:13AM +0600, Jamil Ahmed wrote: >> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Davide Viti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 09:39:57AM +0200, Davide Viti wrote: >> >> >

Re: suboptimal cat usage

2008-05-28 Thread Philip Hands
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 05:15:04PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Philip Hands wrote: > > I thought I'd have a look through the d-i code for instances of: > > > > cat ... | > > > > to see if I could find any code with room for improvement, and came up > > with the attached patc

Re: d-i status wrt i386 & amd64 EFI machines

2008-05-28 Thread Julien BLACHE
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, >> Which brings us to the core of the issue. Installing rEFIt means: >> - copying rEFIt to the EFI system partition (first partition on the >>disk, FAT32, ca. 200 MB on Apple machines) > > This may also require changes in partman, especially in guided

Re: d-i status wrt i386 & amd64 EFI machines

2008-05-28 Thread Julien BLACHE
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > Note that we also have a combined i386/amd64/powerpc CD. We'd need to check > that EFI support can coexist with that, or else somehow exclude it from > that image. Shouldn't be a problem at first glance; maybe the EFI boot image will need to be the fi

New speakup-udeb component

2008-05-28 Thread Frans Pop
(No need to CC me on replies. Thx.) Hi Mario, Samuel, others, The FTP-masters alerted us to the fact that you uploaded a new D-I component to the archive: speakup-udeb. We have an agreement with them that they check with us before approving packages with new udebs. It seems that this is only a

Re: wpasupplicant udeb

2008-05-28 Thread Kel Modderman
On Wednesday 28 May 2008 20:59:15 Frans Pop wrote: > Note: please do not upload yet. > One thing I'm not yet certain of is what priority the udeb should have and > how it should be loaded. This will need some discussion. Just for completeness, I have adapted the patch to allow possibility for kfr

Re: wpasupplicant udeb

2008-05-28 Thread Kel Modderman
On Wednesday 28 May 2008 20:59:15 Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 26 May 2008, Kel Modderman wrote: > > Trying to associate with 00:13:10:41:7e:1f (SSID='kelnet' freq=2412 MHz) > > Associated with 00:13:10:41:7e:1f > > WPA: Key negotiation completed with 00:13:10:41:7e:1f [PTK=TKIP GTK=TKIP] > > CTRL-

Bug#482854: marked as done (debian installation report)

2008-05-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: d-i status wrt i386 & amd64 EFI machines

2008-05-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 25 May 2008, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Yes, it seems we can add EFI support to the current CD images and > don't need additional CD images. Adding an alternative El Torito boot > image is enough. The firmware is required by the spec to ignore legacy > boot entries. The Apple firmware present

Re: d-i status wrt i386 & amd64 EFI machines

2008-05-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 25 May 2008, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Which brings us to the core of the issue. Installing rEFIt means: > - copying rEFIt to the EFI system partition (first partition on the >disk, FAT32, ca. 200 MB on Apple machines) This may also require changes in partman, especially in guided part

Bug#483047: marked as done (installation-report: missing modules)

2008-05-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 28 May 2008 12:49:55 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Re: Bug#483047: installation-report: missing modules has caused the Debian Bug report #483047, regarding installation-report: missing modules to be marked as done. This means that you claim tha

Re: wpasupplicant udeb

2008-05-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 26 May 2008, Kel Modderman wrote: > Trying to associate with 00:13:10:41:7e:1f (SSID='kelnet' freq=2412 MHz) > Associated with 00:13:10:41:7e:1f > WPA: Key negotiation completed with 00:13:10:41:7e:1f [PTK=TKIP GTK=TKIP] > CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:13:10:41:7e:1f completed (

Beta2 ready for testing (was: debian-installer source upload scheduled for 05/22/2008 and updated timeline)

2008-05-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 22 May 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Date What happens > > May 22, 2008 debian-installer is uploaded > May 26, 2008 daily images are changed to use lenny installer > May 28, 2008 test of images starts Weekly buil