Bug#771485: installation-reports: Installation disk scan hangs at 81% with LVM inside crypt partition

2014-11-29 Thread markermoniker
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Dear Maintainer, While attempting to set up a system with an LVM inside an encrypted partition, the installer hangs while re-scanning the disks at 81%. I had similar, but less thoroughly documented issues trying to work around it with a

Bug#771467: First boot after installation fails on Macbooks with 32-bit EFI

2014-11-29 Thread Holger Levsen
control: reassign -1 grub-installer On Samstag, 29. November 2014, Teemu Ikonen wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: important > > The i386 version of d-i installs GRUB to the EFI partition at the end > of the installation process. The files installed are > /EFI/debian/grub.efi and grub

Processed: Re: Bug#771467: First boot after installation fails on Macbooks with 32-bit EFI

2014-11-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > reassign -1 grub-installer Bug #771467 [debian-installer] First boot after installation fails on Macbooks with 32-bit EFI Bug reassigned from package 'debian-installer' to 'grub-installer'. Ignoring request to alter found versions of bug #771467 to the same values

Bug#771467: First boot after installation fails on Macbooks with 32-bit EFI

2014-11-29 Thread Teemu Ikonen
Package: debian-installer Severity: important Hi, The i386 version of d-i installs GRUB to the EFI partition at the end of the installation process. The files installed are /EFI/debian/grub.efi and grubia32.efi. Intel Macbooks from 2006-2007 (Macbook1,1 and Macbook2,1) have a somewhat peculiar EF

Bug#771465: i386 hd-media image does not boot on Macbooks with 32-bit EFI

2014-11-29 Thread Teemu Ikonen
Package: debian-installer Severity: important Hi, I recently installed jessie on a 2007 intel Macbook by booting d-i from a USB drive. Getting the installer to start required quite a bit of hand tuning. The Macbook versions Macbook1,1 and Macbook2,1 from 2006-2007 require a 32-bit EFI bootloader

Bug#769996: debian-installer: Possible help text for win32diskimager users

2014-11-29 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
[...] > I'm not sure how comfortable I feel with including instructions for > Windows-based stuff in to the installation guide. Maybe people more > used to dealing with the manual will voice their opinions here. IMHO it's a very good idea to add instructions to those who came from a non-Debian OS

Bug#769996: debian-installer: Possible help text for win32diskimager users

2014-11-29 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: > > > [ Maybe this could better be added to the Debian website under ] > > [ http://www-staging.debian.org/CD/faq/index#write-usb ] > > [ instead of adding it to the installer manual ?

Re: base system size

2014-11-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 12:13:52PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Santiago Vila, le Sat 29 Nov 2014 10:49:43 +0100, a écrit : > > Maybe wget is too bloated for the base system? > > Having a wget available has been quite convenient to me several times > to easily transfer a file. We could however

Re: d-i installation manual bits for arm64 and ppc64el

2014-11-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I can only repeat what I have posted a couple of months ago: we do need documentation in the manual about the arm64 and ppc64el new architectures. Samuel Thibault, le Tue 16 Sep 2014 14:11:01 +0200, a écrit : > One of the things that needs to get added for arm64 and ppc64el is the > instal

Re: base system size

2014-11-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Santiago Vila, le Sat 29 Nov 2014 10:49:43 +0100, a écrit : > Maybe wget is too bloated for the base system? Having a wget available has been quite convenient to me several times to easily transfer a file. We could however in the future consider packaging another, lightweight wget. > OTOH, 277 to

Re: base system size

2014-11-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 02:48:12AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Now that perl is out of the base system again, I've had a look at the > figures of a base system install. We're ~80Mib bigger, from 277MiB to > 360MiB: > > - aptitude is not installed by default any more -> -18MiB > - grub got 12Mi