Report from the first tests of d-i beta 1 candidate images

2012-07-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi -boot/-cd, Steve prepared candidate images for d-i beta 1, which I've started testing in virtual machines. Unfortunately the default desktop install (gnome) seems badly broken. So far, I didn't even manage to get a gdm3 prompt: #681830, #681837, #681855. http://bugs.debian.org/681830

Re: Report from the first tests of d-i beta 1 candidate images

2012-07-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le Tue 17 Jul 2012 11:37:50 +0200, a écrit : I think I'd rather avoid uploading a new d-i at this point, and just get new images built once the gnome bugs are fixed. Christian, maybe you could call for fixing the translations of the installation manual, so we can upload it to

debian-installer-netboot-images upgrade path ?

2012-07-17 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 6 juillet 2012 00.04:00, Didier Raboud a écrit : the installation paths are not version-specific: /usr/lib/debian-installer/images/amd64/… so I was about to add Replaces and Breaks against the -6.0- versions. But does this make sense? Would we not

Re: Report from the first tests of d-i beta 1 candidate images

2012-07-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (17/07/2012): some time to try kde/xfce/lxde/server installations, and possibly report some more bugs. Given the images are going to be re-built at some point, I think the pointer to the (known broken) images will be kept somewhere in #debian-boot's topic, to

Bug#641172: use expert-mode of D-I to opt for gpt

2012-07-17 Thread Martin Dauser
The Debian-Installer in expert-mode lets you choose between partitioning types, whereas in normal-mode it won't recognise the GUID Partition Table already made by Windows and shows the whole disk to be unused. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#681879: provide file:// url/uri packages/ download option alongside http:// and ftp://

2012-07-17 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Package: debian-installer Version: 20120716 testing Severity: wishlist When using expert-install, option is provided to get packages from a http:// or an ftp:// URL. file:// option should also be provided. This implies either command shell mounting, or some DI .udeb to provide a 'mount

Re: Report from the first tests of d-i beta 1 candidate images

2012-07-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 14:45 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (17/07/2012): some time to try kde/xfce/lxde/server installations, and possibly report some more bugs. Given the images are going to be re-built at some point, I think the pointer to the (known broken)

Bug#655841: data point

2012-07-17 Thread Per Olofsson
2012-07-16 04:43, Joey Hess skrev: As another data point, I am in an airport (CLT) and had to remove gnash since it failed to display the thing needed to get on free wifi. Of course without flash the site lets you right through. I guess that most of these things nowadays have to work without

Re: Report from the first tests of d-i beta 1 candidate images

2012-07-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
(Adding the bug, dropping -release.) Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk (17/07/2012): Installing from debian-wheezy-DI-b1-amd64-i386-netinst.iso in a Xen guest I get: ┌─┌┤ [!!] Configure the package manager ├┐┐ │ │

debootstrap fails on absence of deb-src lines

2012-07-17 Thread Hendrik Schaink
Hello everyone, I am unable to determine if this issue is related to debootstrap _or_ to udev so if you please could advise me that would be appreciated. When trying to install a Debian Squeeze DomU Xen client on a Debian Squeeze Dom0 Xen host (fresh install) using xen-tools and debootstrap,

Re: [GIT/PATCH] libdebian-installer: Add support for dreamplug

2012-07-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 17:35 -0600, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 16:37 -0600, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 00:33 +0200, Hector Oron wrote: Hello Ian, 2012/7/10 Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk: Martin tells me this is necessary for d-i to pick the correct

Re: Report from the first tests of d-i beta 1 candidate images

2012-07-17 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthiba...@debian.org): Cyril Brulebois, le Tue 17 Jul 2012 11:37:50 +0200, a écrit : I think I'd rather avoid uploading a new d-i at this point, and just get new images built once the gnome bugs are fixed. Christian, maybe you could call for fixing the translations