Re: [manual] booting from USB

2010-09-14 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Miguel Figueiredo (el...@debianpt.org): Hi all, attached a patch and chapter page from the manual about preparing usb memory stick to install debian. I made some changes hoping this can be more clear to follow. Please review it and check if these changes are worth it. It seems

Re: Status of some daily D-I builds

2010-09-14 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org): Christian PERRIER wrote: On the other hand, I think that other daily builds done in Joey Hess' home are very safe. Obviously, Joey has proven over years how reliable he can be and I don't see urgency to change this. Aside from not being in the

Bug#596791: guide doesn't discuss dynamic disks or Windows LDM

2010-09-14 Thread Daniel Pocock
Package: installation-guide Windows LDM (Logical Disk Manager) and `dynamic disks' are a reality for anyone installing a dual boot machine, especially if Windows Vista or Windows 7 is already on the machine. The guide may need to be updated to touch on various issues: - choice of boot loader

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-14 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org): I've done some investigation of using isohybrid on an iso image (d-i alpha1 i386 netinst) to allow it to be booted from USB stick. Basically, postprocess the image with isohybrid, and write it direct to the usb stick. On the single machine I tried it on,

Bug#596762: installation-reports: installer failed to add winXP to grub2

2010-09-14 Thread Christian PERRIER
tags 596762 moreinfo thanks Quoting spamfang (spamfang1...@yahoo.de): Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i -- Package-specific info: Boot method: cd Image version:

Processed: Re: Bug#596762: installation-reports: installer failed to add winXP to grub2

2010-09-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tags 596762 moreinfo Bug #596762 [installation-reports] installation-reports: installer failed to add winXP to grub2 Added tag(s) moreinfo. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 596762:

Re: Status of some daily D-I builds

2010-09-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org (14/09/2010): What I would also like to have is a way to easily *monitor* these daily builds. I had that in mind at some point, but I'm currently busy with some upstream work. Feel free to poke me in some days if you didn't find a volunteer at that point.

Bug#581756: keyboard-configuration: XKBOPTIONS does not properly propagate to xserver-xorg

2010-09-14 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 23:16:35 +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 06:15:06PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: Triggering udev from keyboard-configuration doesn't really make sense (it's a layering violation; keyboard-configuration shouldn't need to know what the users

Processing of console-setup_1.56_amd64.changes

2010-09-14 Thread Archive Administrator
console-setup_1.56_amd64.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: console-setup_1.56.dsc console-setup_1.56.tar.gz keyboard-configuration_1.56_all.deb console-setup_1.56_all.deb console-setup-mini_1.56_all.deb bdf2psf_1.56_all.deb

Bug#246498: Do we really need to say hey, I'm rebooting when user press Ctrl-Alt-Suppr inside D-I?

2010-09-14 Thread Scott Robinson
Excerpts from Christian PERRIER's message of Tue Sep 14 03:25:47 +1000 2010: [...] I agree that nothing shows up. But that nothing shows up for a fraction of second, then the system reboots [...] But it isn't a fraction of a second on a lot of machines. (old machines, netbooks, embedded

console-setup_1.56_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2010-09-14 Thread Archive Administrator
Accepted: bdf2psf_1.56_all.deb to main/c/console-setup/bdf2psf_1.56_all.deb console-setup-amiga-ekmap_1.56_all.udeb to main/c/console-setup/console-setup-amiga-ekmap_1.56_all.udeb console-setup-ataritt-ekmap_1.56_all.udeb to main/c/console-setup/console-setup-ataritt-ekmap_1.56_all.udeb

Bug#575806: marked as done (console-setup-mini does not change fonts: had to install console-setup instead)

2010-09-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:02:18 + with message-id e1ovthg-0005gb...@franck.debian.org and subject line Bug#575806: fixed in console-setup 1.56 has caused the Debian Bug report #575806, regarding console-setup-mini does not change fonts: had to install console-setup instead to be

Bug#596547: marked as done (keyboard-configuration: upgrade from xorg.conf turns layout names to lowercase)

2010-09-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:02:18 + with message-id e1ovthg-0005gm...@franck.debian.org and subject line Bug#596547: fixed in console-setup 1.56 has caused the Debian Bug report #596547, regarding keyboard-configuration: upgrade from xorg.conf turns layout names to lowercase to be

Bug#594817: marked as done (console-setup should configure the widthheight of the console)

2010-09-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:02:18 + with message-id e1ovthg-0005gh...@franck.debian.org and subject line Bug#594817: fixed in console-setup 1.56 has caused the Debian Bug report #594817, regarding console-setup should configure the widthheight of the console to be marked as done.

Bug#581756: keyboard-configuration: XKBOPTIONS does not properly propagate to xserver-xorg

2010-09-14 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:18:44PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: Do you think it will be useful if keyboard-configuration provides a /etc/foo.d directory where the interested packages (console-setup, X) can install scripts to reconfigure the keyboard? It seems overkill to me, fwiw (I

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:44:35PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Joey Hess wrote: So ideally, debian-cd would add a small second partition to the iso file's partition table, and tack on a FAT filesystem. This could probably be done by running fdisk on the iso file after isohybrid. I've attached a

Bug#554196: marked as done ([console-setup] Generic German keyboard cannot be setup to use AltGr key)

2010-09-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:41:36 +0300 with message-id 20100914114135.gd5...@debian.lan and subject line Re: Bug#554196: [console-setup] Generic German keyboard cannot be setup to use AltGr key has caused the Debian Bug report #554196, regarding [console-setup] Generic German keyboard

Processing of libdebian-installer_0.76_i386.changes

2010-09-14 Thread Archive Administrator
libdebian-installer_0.76_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: libdebian-installer_0.76.dsc libdebian-installer_0.76.tar.gz libdebian-installer4_0.76_i386.deb libdebian-installer4-dev_0.76_i386.deb libdebian-installer4-udeb_0.76_i386.udeb

libdebian-installer_0.76_i386.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2010-09-14 Thread Archive Administrator
Accepted: libdebian-installer-extra4-udeb_0.76_i386.udeb to main/libd/libdebian-installer/libdebian-installer-extra4-udeb_0.76_i386.udeb libdebian-installer-extra4_0.76_i386.deb to main/libd/libdebian-installer/libdebian-installer-extra4_0.76_i386.deb libdebian-installer4-dev_0.76_i386.deb

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-14 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:44:35PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Joey Hess wrote: This would add 6 to 7 mb to iso images it's used on, I don't know how Steve feels about that. :) That itself is a minor pain, but not

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: That itself is a minor pain, but not enough to make me complain about a useful feature. The *more* difficult thing is trying to make iso-hybrid work with jigdo: we make the .iso and .jigdo files directly in the same invocation of genisoimage, so anything we do to

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
Christian PERRIER wrote: I would be OK to commit all this but we first need a confirmation that someone will be handling the work on the installation guide side: calling for translation updates, monitoring I-G builds and releasing the new installation guide. CC'ing Felipe who, I think, is

Processing of hw-detect_1.80_i386.changes

2010-09-14 Thread Archive Administrator
hw-detect_1.80_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: hw-detect_1.80.dsc hw-detect_1.80.tar.gz hw-detect_1.80_i386.udeb ethdetect_1.80_all.udeb disk-detect_1.80_all.udeb driver-injection-disk-detect_1.80_all.udeb archdetect_1.80_i386.udeb Greetings,

hw-detect_1.80_i386.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2010-09-14 Thread Archive Administrator
Accepted: archdetect_1.80_i386.udeb to main/h/hw-detect/archdetect_1.80_i386.udeb disk-detect_1.80_all.udeb to main/h/hw-detect/disk-detect_1.80_all.udeb driver-injection-disk-detect_1.80_all.udeb to main/h/hw-detect/driver-injection-disk-detect_1.80_all.udeb ethdetect_1.80_all.udeb to

Bug#246498: Do we really need to say hey, I'm rebooting when user press Ctrl-Alt-Suppr inside D-I?

2010-09-14 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Scott Robinson (sc...@quadhome.com): Excerpts from Christian PERRIER's message of Tue Sep 14 03:25:47 +1000 2010: [...] I agree that nothing shows up. But that nothing shows up for a fraction of second, then the system reboots [...] But it isn't a fraction of a second on a

Processed: Re: Bug#596877: The last netinstall iso's don't install grub

2010-09-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 596877 grub-installer Bug #596877 [debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso] The last netinstall iso's don't install grub Warning: Unknown package 'debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso' Bug reassigned from package 'debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso' to

Bug#596786: installation-reports: installer also couldn't find broadcom card

2010-09-14 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Miles Fidelman (mfidel...@ntcorp.com): Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i eth0 is intel board eth1 is broadcom card installer 1st asks for firmware (e100/d102e_ucode.bin) - download from debian.org per install instructions, put on usb stick, insert -

Bug#596787: installation-reports: grub legacy writes incorrect menu.lst when disks are RAIDed

2010-09-14 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Miles Fidelman (mfidel...@ntcorp.com): Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i system has two mirrored disks, /dev/md0 is boot, /dev/md2 is root selecting grub-legacy, and specifying either /dev/hda or (hd0) for installation results in a menu.lst file with

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-14 Thread George Danchev
Joey Hess writes: Steve McIntyre wrote: That itself is a minor pain, but not enough to make me complain about a useful feature. The *more* difficult thing is trying to make iso-hybrid work with jigdo: we make the .iso and .jigdo files directly in the same invocation of genisoimage, so

Bug#596787: installation-reports: grub legacy writes incorrect menu.lst when disks are RAIDed

2010-09-14 Thread mfidelman
Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Miles Fidelman (mfidel...@ntcorp.com): Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i system has two mirrored disks, /dev/md0 is boot, /dev/md2 is root selecting grub-legacy, and specifying either /dev/hda or (hd0) for installation results in

Bug#596889: flash-kernel: please add ARM-Versatile Express CA9x4 support

2010-09-14 Thread Matt Waddel
Package: flash-kernel Version: 2.13ubuntu17 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers lucid APT policy: (500, 'lucid') Architecture: armel (armv7l) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-1005-linaro-vexpress (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8,

Bug#596787: marked as done (installation-reports: grub legacy writes incorrect menu.lst when disks are RAIDed)

2010-09-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:39:24 +0200 with message-id 20100914203924.gq3...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org and subject line Re: Bug#596787: installation-reports: grub legacy writes incorrect menu.lst when disks are RAIDed has caused the Debian Bug report #596787, regarding

Bug#593235: flash-kernel-installer: Please add gta02 support

2010-09-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Thibaut Girka t...@sitedethib.com [2010-08-31 23:43]: If you're talking about the discussion in #503292, then yes, s3c24xx was decided. Ok, that's fine then. There is already basic (really basic, no display or even µSD) support in mainline kernel, and the name is GTA02. Ok. Why do you

Bug#249049: Healthcare/Business and many other marketing lists available

2010-09-14 Thread cowpoke Mcnamara
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Bug#596889: flash-kernel: please add ARM-Versatile Express CA9x4 support

2010-09-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Matt Waddel matt.wad...@linaro.org [2010-09-14 14:05]: -- The list of supported architectures seems pretty much alphabetical. So I put this one at the top. Hope that's OK. That's fine but you should also add support for the udeb, i.e. debian/flash-kernel-installer.isinstallable,

Bug#596907: installation-reports: mostly successful squeeze install from USB stick

2010-09-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
. == Installer lsb-release: == DISTRIB_ID=Debian DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Debian GNU/Linux installer DISTRIB_RELEASE=6.0 (squeeze) - installer build 20100914-16:04 X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=hd-media == Installer

Re: Bug#514654: debian-cd: [squeeze] include kbd on first CD rather than console-tools

2010-09-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:54:18PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 09:01:54PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Package: debian-cd Severity: wishlist For squeeze, we'll be changing d-i to install kbd rather than console-tools. Please make sure that kbd ends up on the first CD and

kFreeBSD Hardware support part of the Debian Installation Guide

2010-09-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I have commited (r64720) fixes and a bit of triaging for the kFreeBSD Hardware support part in the Debian Installation Guide: replacing Linux with kFreeBSD where it makes sense, dropping apparently Linux-specific sections, enabling what I know apply to kFreeBSD. There are however quite a

Re: kFreeBSD Hardware support part of the Debian Installation Guide

2010-09-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Wed 15 Sep 2010 02:11:45 +0200, a écrit : I have commited (r64720) fixes and a bit of triaging for the kFreeBSD Hardware support part in the Debian Installation Guide: replacing Linux with kFreeBSD where it makes sense, dropping apparently Linux-specific sections, enabling