Bug#498568: Debian cannot be installed on bootable SD cards

2008-09-11 Thread Harald Welte
Package: debian-installer Version: 20080522 http://wiki.gpl-devices.org/wiki/Installing_Linux_on_booting_SD_card Recently, BIOS vendors have been starting to implement a 'boot from SD card' feature, much like they have added 'boot from USB memory stick' some years ago. The only SD-card host

Making the graphical installer the default (was: speakup enabled d-i?)

2008-09-11 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:31:25PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: I would still argue for adding speakup only to the G-I images and would even suggest removing brltty from the regular images. That would make the G-I images the graphical+accessibility installer. We could combine that with making

Re: speakup enabled d-i?

2008-09-11 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:48:23AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Frans Pop, le Wed 10 Sep 2008 11:38:21 +0200, a écrit : I would also seriously suggest to limit speakup to x86 and possibly powerpc (if someone will test it!). IIRC somebody already tried speakup on powerpc? I can probably

Re: [partman-crypto] Trying to understand crypto_do_wipe ( )

2008-09-11 Thread David Härdeman
On Tue, September 9, 2008 08:51, Oei, YC wrote: If I may ask one more question, slightly tangential, just to check if I get it now: when I'm setting up a new crypt-device manually, it should be ok to wipe the disk *after* setting up the crypt_device with the actual passphrase we will be using

Please unblock linux-2.6/2.6.26-5

2008-09-11 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks Please unblock linux-2.6/2.6.26-5. It includes a stable update and some other fixes. Bastian -- You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, The City on the Edge of Forever, stardate 3134.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Please unblock busybox/1:1.10.2-2

2008-09-11 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks Please unblock busybox/1:1.10.2-2. It fixes several regressions for updates from Etch. Bastian -- We Klingons believe as you do -- the sick should die. Only the strong should live. -- Kras, Friday's Child, stardate 3497.2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#498545: [LENNY BETA 2] installation-report

2008-09-11 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:58:51PM +0400, Gaydov Victor wrote: Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-LennyBeta2-i386-netinst.iso installation of grub or lilo to (hd1,0) was finished succesfull but loader wasn't updated. i've got (in both

Bug#498540: Installation-report: installer fails to detect wireless network adapter

2008-09-11 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
tags 498540 + moreinfo thanks On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:13:59AM +0200, svart wrote: [snip] We will need more informations to help you out or find the relevant bugs. Which version of the debian-installer did you use? If you have not, please use the daily built images. Cheers, -- Jérémy

Bug#498358: installation-report: Successful installation

2008-09-11 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 03:42:06PM +0200, Maximilian Gass wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 10:56:31PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: Could you elaborate on this? This might worth being mentioned in the installation guide, but we would need more precise informations. The option in question can

Lenny installer string freeze status 20080911

2008-09-11 Thread Christian Perrier
11 days left before the end of the string freeze NEW for today: Greek completed Norwegian Nynorsk completed Hungarian completed sublevels 1 and 2 Esperanto completed sublevels 1 and 2 NEW for yesterday: Nepali completed Khmer

Re: [RFC] Some updates to the installation guide

2008-09-11 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:13:15AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: Comments start with 'FJP:'. Thanks for your review. :) +++ b/manual/debian/changelog + * Explicitely mention than preseeded keymaps must be known to d-i. +Closes: #493720 FJP: 'Explicitly mention that' (2 errors) Fixed.

Re: How to update lowmem requirements?

2008-09-11 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 07:48:42PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: But it is unclear how to determine the max memory footprint. We do not actually determine the max memory footprint. […] Thanks for the explaination. I'd like to commit the attached

Re: Making the graphical installer the default

2008-09-11 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jérémy Bobbio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:31:25PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: I would still argue for adding speakup only to the G-I images and would even suggest removing brltty from the regular images. That would make the

Re: Please unblock busybox/1:1.10.2-2

2008-09-11 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi folks Please unblock busybox/1:1.10.2-2. It fixes several regressions for updates from Etch. No objection - -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R - -

Re: Please unblock linux-2.6/2.6.26-5

2008-09-11 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi folks Please unblock linux-2.6/2.6.26-5. It includes a stable update and some other fixes. No objection - -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R - -

Bug#498568: Debian cannot be installed on bootable SD cards

2008-09-11 Thread Frans Pop
Hello Harald, On Thursday 11 September 2008, Harald Welte wrote: The distribution installation initrd needs to 1. include and auto-load the sdhc.ko and sdhci_pci.ko kernel modules Including these modules is a trivial change. However, it does not make sense to do so until the installer

Re: How to update lowmem requirements?

2008-09-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 September 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: Thanks for the explaination. I'd like to commit the attached patch in order to keep this handy. Mostly fine. Suggest to leave a short pointer in the script to the README for instructions how to update the values. +In both case, you need to

Bug#498387: [INTL:zh_CN] simplified Chinese translation update for debian-installer

2008-09-11 Thread Deng Xiyue
在 2008-09-10三的 20:06 +0200,Christian Perrier写道: Quoting Deng Xiyue ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Carlos Liu and Ming Hua currently have commit access in D-I SVN but I would welcome adding you as well. That's great. My alioth account is this mail address. And I will commit updates with

Re: [RFC] Some updates to the installation guide

2008-09-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 September 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: +++ b/manual/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml -in IBM's PS/2 line), or VESA Local Bus (VLB, sometimes called the VL -bus). Essentially all personal computers sold in recent years use one -of these. +must use the ISA, EISA, PCI, PCIe.

Bug#498612: installation-reports: Acer Extensa 4420-5963 laptop, daily lenny netinst hangs on boot without acpi=off

2008-09-11 Thread David O'Toole
Package: installation-reports Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system (I was asked to file this with reportbug after posting on the debian-laptop mailing list, so some of this text is re-purposed.) A few days ago I purchased an Acer Extensa 4420-5963 laptop at retail for

Bug#498614: debian-installer: Invalid grub2 configuration generated after fresh lenny install

2008-09-11 Thread Alexander Prinsier
Package: debian-installer Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I did a fresh install of lenny today. I selected to use the experimental grub2 instead of legacy grub. After reboot I got the debian splash image in grub. Waited 5 seconds and then grub gave me some error message

Processed: Found a solution.

2008-09-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: close 243961 Bug#243961: boot-floppies: Netboot/floppyboot doesn't retrieve files over an ISA Proxy 'close' is deprecated; see http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#closing. Bug closed, send any further explanations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks

Bug#243961: Found a solution.

2008-09-11 Thread Raul Sanchez Siles
close 243961 thanks Hello: I think I've found the solution. I found that setting http_proxy environment variable like this: export http_proxy=http://ms-domain\\domainuser:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8080 made wget works from the debian-installer console. After this I, when I was asked about the debian

Bug#498614: extra information

2008-09-11 Thread Alexander Prinsier
I was able to find out more precisely what went wrong. I first tried booting into Windows, which executed set root=(hd0,0). That's the wrong partition, it should have been (hd0,1). So it failed booting, returning me to the menu. Then I selected debian, but it couldn't find the kernel because the

Processed: severity of 498612 is important

2008-09-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.35 severity 498612 important Bug#498612: installation-reports: Acer Extensa 4420-5963 laptop, daily lenny netinst hangs on boot without acpi=off Severity set to `important' from

Bug#498568: Debian cannot be installed on bootable SD cards

2008-09-11 Thread Joey Hess
fjp: Including these modules is a trivial change. However, it does not make sense to do so until the installer supports installing to an SD card. Until such time, adding them manually for testing purposes is trivial. If the modules were included on the hd-media image, it should allow booting

Re: speakup enabled d-i?

2008-09-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 10 September 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:06:57PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Index: build/boot/x86/f8.txt This would make this option appear in all images, even those where speakup is not available, wouldn't it? f8.txt should probably be amended in

Re: speakup enabled d-i?

2008-09-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 10 September 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: Frans Pop, le Wed 10 Sep 2008 13:59:22 +0200, a écrit : So we could commit this for now? You should add amd64 as well. Ah, right. Committed with one correction: when you add a line to a help screen, you've got to remove another

Bug#484700: busybox: chpasswd fails to set root password

2008-09-11 Thread Frans Pop
severity 484700 important tags 484700 unreproducible thanks As Ben Hutchings has also not been able to reproduce the bug on my arm (old ABI) system and as he mentioned on IRC (and I agree) that this issue is not RC for Debian as a whole anyway (it does not make the package unsuitable for

Processed: Bug#484700: busybox: chpasswd fails to set root password

2008-09-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: severity 484700 important Bug#484700: busybox: chpasswd fails to set root password Severity set to `important' from `serious' tags 484700 unreproducible Bug#484700: busybox: chpasswd fails to set root password There were no tags set. Tags added:

Re: Please unblock silo

2008-09-11 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: New version of silo incorporates two patches from upstream git tree needed to restore the ability to build silo against kernel headers 2.6.25 or newer (mostly adding missing *printf functions). This fixes RC bug #495860, diff to previous version is

Re: grub2 1.96+20080724-10

2008-09-11 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 11:16:06PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please consider approving grub2 1.96+20080724-10. debdiff attached. Unblocked. Thanks. I uploaded win32-loader 0.6.8 using the version of

Re: Please unblock linux-2.6/2.6.26-5

2008-09-11 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please unblock linux-2.6/2.6.26-5. Unblocked. Marc -- BOFH #445: Browser's cookie is corrupted -- someone's been nibbling on it. pgpjPAlkXJvDO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Please unblock busybox/1:1.10.2-2

2008-09-11 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please unblock busybox/1:1.10.2-2. Unblock. Marc -- BOFH #418: Sysadmins busy fighting SPAM. pgpuwGSs741HE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Please unblock silo

2008-09-11 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: New version of silo incorporates two patches from upstream git tree needed to restore the ability to build silo against kernel headers 2.6.25 or newer

Re: grub2 1.96+20080724-10

2008-09-11 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 11:16:06PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please consider approving grub2

Re: speakup enabled d-i?

2008-09-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Thu 11 Sep 2008 21:24:34 +0200, a écrit : I've done a quick test with the dummy speakup driver for i386/mini.iso and it seems to work fine. Ok, thanks! Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please unblock silo

2008-09-11 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: New version of silo incorporates two patches from upstream git tree needed to restore the ability to build silo against kernel headers 2.6.25 or newer (mostly

Re: grub2 1.96+20080724-10

2008-09-11 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 11:16:06PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please consider approving grub2 1.96+20080724-10.