buisnesscard sid_d-i in expert mode asks different questions on amd64 vs powerpc

2010-05-25 Thread Rick Thomas
I recently installed an AMD64 box from a sid_d-i businesscard CD in expert mode. It asked me some questions that I didn't remember seeing on my PowerPC installations. In particular, it asked me to chose a distribution (Lenny, Squeeze, Sid) and whether I wanted to use non-free repositories. I

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Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-25 Thread Harald Braumann
Hi, On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:39:52PM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: (4) Users need to test grub2 now. I've been using grub2 for quite some time now on several different systems with mixed success. On simple standard system -- one disk, one kernel in /boot, no fancy stuff -- it works quite

Processed: reassigning to os-prober

2010-05-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 580736 os-prober Bug #580736 [grub-pc] grub is not able to configure Fedora in a dual boot setup Bug reassigned from package 'grub-pc' to 'os-prober'. Bug No longer marked as found in versions grub2/1.98-1. -- Stopping processing here.

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Powell
Ferenc Wagner wrote: Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes: Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of the master boot record and outside of a partition ... You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect. Well, I tried extlinux last

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 25 May 2010 07:08:20 -0400 (EDT), Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: William Pitcock neno...@dereferenced.org wrote: This bug *can* be fixed, but not without a significant rewrite of the way that lilo's stage2 loader code works. Given that there is no active upstream and that the Debian

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-25 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:22:13AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] Speaking of documentation, that seems to be its main weakness. Documentation is sketchy and spread out over a number of different files. I would have had a hard time configuring it if it weren't for correct guesses based

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-25 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes: Ferenc Wagner wrote: Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com writes: Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of the master boot record and outside of a partition ... You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in

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Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 24 May 2010 17:29:54 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: (3) The need for special backup requirements will be used by the opponents of Linux at my place of employment to oppose further deployments of Linux, ... What about the carrot approach? Find an even

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-25 Thread Mark
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.comwrote: On Mon, 24 May 2010 17:29:54 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: (3) The need for special backup requirements will be used by the opponents of Linux at my place of employment to oppose further

Re: A notice to the Debian Installer team...

2010-05-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Nima Azarbayjany] Hi Petter, Hi. I have actually used the multi partman recipe.  My hard drive is 160G in size.  The space allocated to /usr was more than enough under Lenny.  I used to install both Gnome and KDE and lot more additional packages.  But now I have only Gnome with a very

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:51:11 -0400 (EDT), Mark mamar...@gmail.com On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.comwrote: On Mon, 24 May 2010 17:29:54 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: (3) The need for special backup requirements will be used by the

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 25 May 2010 12:03:17 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: You're missing the point. The main selling point to management is that Linux is free. No software is entirely without cost. Free Software is no exception. There are usually no up-front

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-25 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Harald Braumann ha...@unheit.net wrote on Tue, 25 May 2010: On simple standard system -- one disk, one kernel in /boot, no fancy stuff -- it works quite well. This is enough to use grub2 for new installing of Debian. On other systems it often breaks miserably. Updates leave my system

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-25 Thread owens
Original Message From: zlinux...@wowway.com To: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-u...@lists.debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2) Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 13:00:45 -0400 (EDT) On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:51:11

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:10:38 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: ... I installed the mbr package ... The extlinux package itself also contains an mbr.bin, which you can use (it's strong point is probably EBIOS support). So it does. Well, I've now installed extlinux'

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-25 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/26/2010 03:36 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: That works for now; but if a package upgrade for extlinux is ever downloaded, I'm afraid that new versions of the hook scripts will be copied into these directories which are marked executable, and my hand-made configuration file will get wiped