We had a discussion during DebConf about di-netboot-assistant.
Here are the ideas we gathered
Verifying netboot image signatures
---
netboot images for Debian are already signed by Release file
1. check SHA256SUM only
2. download the
Hello,
While it was a good idea to report the bug here so other users are aware
of the problem, the best way to solve this issue is to submit the
false positive to the anti-virus editor.
Do you know if the problem still occurs?
(IMHO, one should not use an anti-virus which editor don't let me
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 08:42 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 19 November 2009, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
I'll test it. If that work, would it be ok to modify the default netboot
images ?
I have tested multiple initrd with pxelinux, using
initrd=initrd.gz,extra.cpio.gz
and that works
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 20:08 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
On Tuesday 17 November 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
Wouldn't it be simpler to just allow a user to specify the image on the
command line using a new command? Something like:
di-netboot-assistant custom --name=mybuild filename
The name
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 18:59 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
On Tuesday 27 October 2009, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
Allow preseeding using TFTP (reqested by Otavio)
---
3. Or is it possible to pass multiple initrd= to a given Kernel?
I have investigated this situation a little
Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 06:20 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
On Friday 16 October 2009, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
I have finally resolved and merged a bunch of patch I had for
di-netboot-assistant.
[..]
I have worked on some patch to clean-up the code, and fix buggy
package
On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 06:20 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
On Friday 16 October 2009, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
I have finally resolved and merged a bunch of patch I had for
di-netboot-assistant.
[..]
I don't think experimental is the right choice here. I doubt you would get
anybody to actually
to STDOUT, not STDERR (Closes:#493426,
Thanks to Chris Lamb)
* Default PROMPT to 0 in pxelinux.HEAD (Closes:#493548, Thanks to
Chris Lamb)
* Bump standards to 3.8.3
* Fetch daily images from d-i.debian.org
-- Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:40:20 +0200
Hello,
Someone posted this warning on the the wiki:
http://wiki.debian.org/Xen?action=diffrev2=90rev1=89
I suppose it would be nice to replace the line:
disk = ['phy:hda1,xvda,w']
with something safer in the sample file(s):
Hello,
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 13:01 -0800, Praveen A wrote:
2009/2/18 Eric Doviak e...@doviak.net:
For people who are new to GNU/Linux and are simply trying to install Debian
on a home desktop, I wrote an Illustrated Guide to Installing Debian
GNU/Linux.[3]
Some comments,
Now openjdk is
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 10:32 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
I'll probably add an option like
FIRMWARE_IN_INITRD=(none|all|$firmwarename)
(but I would rather default to all).
I'd default to 'none'.
I wasn't clear that all means all
Hello,
I have just noticed Marco d'Itris note on
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/NetbootFirmware
Do you think it would be a problem if di-netboot-assistant was
concatenating all local firmware, to the init.rd files?
Are we likely to hit some size limit?
I'll probably add an option
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 22:57 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 04:41:16PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 05:32:48PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
I intend to do the following changes to linux-2.6:
* Change i386/686(-bigmem) to include generic
Hello,
I would like to fire-up a brainstorming for netboot images in Squeeze.
As far as I can say, there are two typical architecture:
* Move to .deb images
* Generalize and structure the .tar.gz files
Moving toward .deb images
=
Probably raises some problems:
* Are the
On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 17:47 +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
Official events have to be submitted in the Pentabarf interface before
Wednesday if I'm not mistaken.
Would it be ok if I submit D-I Work Sessions for during DebCamp? How
long and how many do we want in that case?
Does someone want to
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 09:37 +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
Colin Watson wrote:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:49:58PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
Now that the lenny release is over, I think it's time for all of us
to gather and discuss what the D-I team currently is and what should
be done for
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 13:01 +0100, hlf wrote:
Curently, in wiki.debian.org, there are about one hundred pages begining
with DebianInstaller.
I think the structure should be different.
I can do the renaming of the pages
(and modify also the pages which link to thoses pages)
I make a
On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 23:31 +0900, John wrote:
I'm running Windows Virtual Server on Windows Server 2003 on and HP
DC5950, Athlon 4550B CPU running in IA32. It's not clear to me whether
it has hardware virtualisation, I thought all recent AMD CPUs do, but
virtual PC (which got removed when
Package: debootstrap
Version: 0.3.3.2etch1
Severity: normal
Hi,
I have installed a lenny VM under etch using xen-create-image
(package:xen-tools). It uses debootstrap to install the guest system.
The symlink /dev/fd wasn't created during the installation.
I am not sure which package
Hello,
Luca Favatella wrote:
[please cc me when replying as I am not subscribed to the debian-boot
mailing list]
[..]
Initially I tried to use tftpd-hpa, as recommended in [d-i manual]
(we recommend tftpd-hpa).
From the same guide, I read
Debian packages will in general set this up
Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 11:19 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
The Debian-CD Team has built the images based on RC2 installer and
I'd like to ask for some tests before we finally announce the release.
The images are available at
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 11:19 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
The Debian-CD Team has built the images based on RC2 installer and
I'd like to ask for some tests before we finally announce the release.
The images are available at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/.lenny_bibble/
Please send
reassign 513080 xserver-xorg-video-intel
--
Hi,
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 08:37 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
The T400 is very well supported out of the Box, eventhough it's very
recent model (BTW, the R400 and T500 should quite be similar).
(SATA runs in AHCI, Xorg video driver, event brightness
Package: installation-reports
Version: 2.38
Severity: normal
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: network
Image version:
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/netboot.tar.gz
(Lenny's daily) 20090123-10:05
Date: 2009-01-23
Machine: Lenovo Thinkpad T400 (w/ intel graphics)
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 23:06 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
If I understand correctly, the idea is to be able to be able to switch
*easily* between standard and expert mode during the installation.
This is a nice.
Hmm. Have you tried booting
Hello Frans,
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 12:06 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
Over the past months I've been working on a new component that allows to
change settings for the installer. [..]
What I will say is:
* it completely changes the concept of expert mode
If I understand correctly, the idea is
Hello Chris,
[CC'ing debian-boot in case some other people are interested]
For DebConf8, it seems that you planned to give a talk about hardware
compatibility (according to penta).
That's also something I am planning to work on [for Squeeze], and I
wonder if you still plan to work on that?
As
Hi,
For the record, there's a windows frontend to assist creating usb
bootable pendrives. it's looks nice, probably compatible with our images
(not tested), and it's GPL.
Thanks for the anonymous who posted that on the wiki.
Franklin
[1] https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liveusb-creator/
Hi,
[My two cents tips below]
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 23:32 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
Now that everybody has had a chance to take a look at the patches and try
out the test images (ahem...) we should decide how to use the new options
and what it will mean for the images we make available for
[drop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 03:05 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
(Follow-up to http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2008/11/msg00048.html.)
I have done quite a bit of additional development since that previous mail
and things are now much nicer and implemented a lot cleaner.
Hi,
On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 11:56 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
I just linked the log of the D-I team meeting that happened yesterday,
on the Meetings wiki page:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Meetings
Sorry for missing Saturday's meeting.
bubulle Next issue also has been well
On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 01:16 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
Steve and I have been brainstorming a bit about this and it looks like
we'll be going for a combined light desktop CD after all, containing
packages needed for both Xfce and LXDE desktop tasks.
However, debian-cd will also support building
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 08:40 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
wiki page with nice tables (one per section) and for each entry have
room for a name and a backup name?
This works fine and makes quite easy to find who does what.
Here's a first
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 12:55 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
(Switching to #505243 as that is the BR about the direct boot issue.)
Hi Philip,
On Tuesday 18 November 2008, Philip Hands wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 01:51:37PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
If others want to give it a try:
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 13:17 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 17 November 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote:
I'm not in the position to decide about the inclusion of that into the
Installation Guide but I believe it would be a problem due the
translation. I think we should keep two patches in a
Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 17 November 2008, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
The attached patch enables syslinux help text menu features to
display the following help text when the help menu entry is selected:
Display help screens; type 'menu' at boot prompt to return to this
menu
This patch also fix
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 22:16 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 17 November 2008, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
Strangely enough VirtualBox now suddenly no longer tries to boot the
amd64 image (as I mentioned in #505243), but correctly selects i386
when I hit enter from the help screen boot prompt
Here's a proposed addition to the non-regression checklist.
qemu
qemu-system_x86-64
kvm (32bits)
virtualbox/linux (32bits)
virtualbox/linux (64bits)
virtualbox/windows (32bits)
vmware
virtualPC (32bits)
hyperV (32bits)
And maybe a hint like:
Those test should be made using GTK 'netinst CD', and
The attached patch enables syslinux help text menu features to display
the following help text when the help menu entry is selected:
Display help screens; type 'menu' at boot prompt to return to
this menu
This patch also fix another bug (previously, if someone pressed [tab]
then edit a
On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 05:35 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Quoting Kenshi Muto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
After this patch is applied, 'make build_netboot' will build boot.img.gz
in dest/netboot/ directory for i386 and amd64 with both text and gtk
Added a few topics marked with +.
Also in many places, I suggest to s/Maintain/\0 and Coordinate/g
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 19:50 +, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
Reorganized in 3 main topics: [..]
Added a few topics marked with +.
- Mensagem Original-
De: Christian Perrier [EMAIL
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 16:23 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
On Tuesday 11 November 2008, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
Here's a proper patch against SVN repository:
I'll try to build a CD, and test it tomorrow on some computers at work.
I'm afraid that IMO this patch is not a very good idea.
First
Package: syslinux
Version: 2:3.71+dfsg-5
Severity: normal
The module ifcpu64.c32 doesn't work as expected under virtualbox.
If we build a simple test image with the script below.
* virtualbox will always try to run the entry a64, where as qemu and
qemu-system-x86_64 works as expected.
*
Package: syslinux
Version: 2:3.71+dfsg-5
Severity: normal
In the attached example (built with the script below), the idea is to
automatically
load vesamenu from isolinux.cfg. Then it is possible to quit the vesa menu (to
use
the F1 and F2 help screen. If one press Enter, default or default64
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 07:51 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting Frank Lin PIAT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I have a concern regarding the multiarch CD :
syslinux/isolinux boots the amd-64 installer directly (i.e it doesn't
show the menu).
I suspect that it isn't the desired behavior. I've
tag 505243 +patch
thanks
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 19:45 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 07:51 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting Frank Lin PIAT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I have a concern regarding the multiarch CD :
syslinux/isolinux boots the amd-64 installer directly
Hello,
Here's a suggested improvement for the installation manual.
(even though I know it's too late for Lenny).
Franklin
Index: build/entities/urls.ent
===
--- build/entities/urls.ent (revision 56613)
+++ build/entities/urls.ent
Package: installation-reports
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version: multiarch lenny-pre-rc1 (2008-11-xx)
Date: 2008-11-10
Machine: NEC Powermate VL360
Processor: AMD64
Memory: 1GB
Partitions: see below
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/.lenny_rc1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-CD-1.iso
Date: 2009-11-10
Machine: Qemu/KVM
Partitions:
df -Tl
FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used
package: partman-crypto-dm
I wanted to install a system with dm-crypt. So, I have created some
partitions and a non-encrypted partition for /boot.
By mistake,I've mixed-up swap and /boot: I defined /boot on an encrypted
partition. DI told me that was wrong, so I reconfigured the encrypted
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version: cdimage/.lenny_rc1 (2008-11-05)
Date: 2008-11-09
Machine: Thinkpad T61
Partitions:
df -Tl:
FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 ext3
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: netboot
Image version: testing gtk netboot image ; 20091029
Date: 2009-11-09
Machine: Lenovo Thinkpad T61
Partitions: df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred
FilesystemType 1K-blocks
On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 15:40 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
Boot method: CD
Image version: cdimage/.lenny_rc1 (2008-11-05)
As mentioned in the bug tile, the CD was the i386/amd64/ppc multiarch.
* This system was installed using multiarch CD.
amd64 was properly selected automatically
Package: installation-reports
Followup-For: Bug #505106
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD (multiarch i386,amd64,ppc)
Image version: cdimage/.lenny_rc1 ... multiarch 2008-11-05
Date: 2008-11-09
Machine: Thinkpad A22e
Partitions: {single partition}
Base System Installation Checklist:
Boot method: CD
Image version: cdimage/.lenny_rc1.../debian-testing-i386-CD-1.iso
BUILT 2008-10-29
Date: 2008-11-09
Machine: Qemu
Partitions:
df -Tl
FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/xfce-root
ext3 3563904 1488112
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 13:54 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
The Debian-CD Team has prepared a testing set of images[1] of RC1 for us
to give it a try. If all goes well we should release Debian Installer
RC1 in Monday.
1. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/.lenny_rc1/
I have tested root on
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 17:22 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 13:54 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
The Debian-CD Team has prepared a testing set of images[1] of RC1 for us
to give it a try. If all goes well we should release Debian Installer
RC1 in Monday.
1. http
Hello,
Here's an update for my previous report.
Newer kernel (maybe 2.6.24, and 2.6.26) reveals a bug in VirtualPC,
where it fails to boot with the error message An unrecoverable
processor error has been encountered. The virtual machine will reset
now.
This bug only occurs on the installed
Package: clock-setup
Followup-For: Bug #485064
I have just tested this hwclock bug on a Thinkpad T61, using the
DI build : 5.0 (lenny) - installer build 20081023-09:05
which uses clock-setup 0.97, kernel 2.6.26, and
util-linux 2.13.1.1-1.
The problem didn't show up.
Franklin
-- System
Package: installation-reports
Followup-For: Bug #495726
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: network
Image version: joey's daily image.
Date: 2008-08-25
Machine: Lenovo Thinkpad T61 (intel graphic card and Wifi)
Partitions: /manual/
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error
Hello,
When a firmware is missing, DI now prompts for a device with that
firmware. (great, I love that feature!).
If I understand the situation correctly, the fact that one introduces a
usb key causes that key to be enumerated before the sata hard disk,
which causes grub to write an incorrect
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 22:01 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
On Saturday 25 October 2008, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 06:01:42PM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
If I understand the situation correctly, the fact that one introduces
a usb key causes that key to be enumerated before
Hello,
By the way, could you update the Installation Guide (at [1]).
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 09:47 +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-10-22 21:16]:
The continued postponing of RC1 is hurting D-I and Debian in general!
Again, I'm totally with Frans on this.
Package: installation-reports
Version: 2.38
Severity: normal
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: network/PXE
Image version:
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/gtk/netboot.tar.gz
Date:
Machine: IBM Thinkpad T43 (type 2373)
Partitions: manual
Base System Installation
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