Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-28 Thread nick black
Steve McIntyre left as an exercise for the reader: > 100% true - expect people are busy, rather than hostile! :-) i must have come across as far more disappointed than i felt -- i meant "hoped" in the literal sense, of "did not expect, but thought plausible and welcome" =]. no, this has been an

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Nick! On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 12:47:11PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Hi nick, > >[ cc += debian-boot@ ] > >nick black (2021-09-27): >> Marc Haber left as an exercise for the reader: >> > But maybe an alternative? I find the partitioning step one of the >> > most error-prone and hard-to-use

Re: Bug#995235: debian-installer-11-netboot-arm64: debian installer live and firmware fail on empty machine

2021-09-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 12:30:09PM +, r wrote: > Package: debian-installer-11-netboot-arm64 > Severity: important > > Dear Reader, > > 0 The troubles happen on a new and empty machine (specially bought for Debian) > : > - Intel Core i3-10100 > - Gigabyte B560 HD3 > - Kingston Fury beast 16

Bug#995235: debian-installer-11-netboot-arm64: debian installer live and firmware fail on empty machine

2021-09-28 Thread r
Package: debian-installer-11-netboot-arm64 Severity: important Dear Reader, 0 The troubles happen on a new and empty machine (specially bought for Debian) : - Intel Core i3-10100 - Gigabyte B560 HD3 - Kingston Fury beast 16 Go - Crucial P2 M.2 PCIe NVMe 500 Go (SSD) 1 I download

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 12:22:18PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 9/28/21 12:13, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > IOW, chill out, nobody's going to kill off partman unless there's > > something that's *actually* better than partman. > > Just some comments after reading after this [1]

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi nick, [ cc += debian-boot@ ] nick black (2021-09-27): > Marc Haber left as an exercise for the reader: > > But maybe an alternative? I find the partitioning step one of the > > most error-prone and hard-to-use parts of non-trivial Debian > > installations. > > so overall, i've got to say

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 9/28/21 12:13, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > IOW, chill out, nobody's going to kill off partman unless there's > something that's *actually* better than partman. Just some comments after reading after this [1] because I honestly find it unfair the way I am being cornered here. First of all,

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 03:18:48PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > On Sep 27, 2021, at 2:25 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > Even if that interpretation would work as an excuse to never do > > anything, and I'm not really sure it does, this specification has been > > published

Bug#603444: marked as done (debian-policy: clarifications in appendix b.4 of debian install guide)

2021-09-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 28 Sep 2021 09:10:19 +0200 with message-id <20210928091019.8a67045d6437e2b690ba0...@mailbox.org> and subject line Re: #603444: clarifications in appendix b.4 of debian install guide has caused the Debian Bug report #603444, regarding debian-policy: clarifications in

Re: #603444: clarifications in appendix b.4 of debian install guide

2021-09-28 Thread Holger Wansing
Gregory Nowak wrote: > 1. Section b.4.3 states: > > "Use the following settings if you wish to make use of the network-console > # component for remote installation over SSH. This only makes sense if you > # intend to perform the remainder of the installation manually." > > Where can one find