Hi Frans,
thanks for the detailed answer.
|--==> Frans Pop writes:
FP> On Wednesday 28 March 2007 11:31, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
>>That was always fine for me, but recently I was asked by a couple of
>>users if it is possible to make the d-i detect if a GRUB in
Hi all,
as far as I know the default behaviour of d-i when the user answers
yes to the question "Do you want to use GRUB as boot manager", is to
first search for other operating systems, generating the menu.lst file
accordingly, and then install is own instance of grub (possibly
overwr
Hi Frans,
thanks for your fast reply.
|--==> Frans Pop writes:
FP> On Monday 04 December 2006 14:02, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
>>both i386 and amd64 images of the latest daily builds will fail
>>booting (the BIOS try to boot from CDROM, but fails and skips it)
>>o
both i386 and amd64 images of the latest daily builds will fail
booting (the BIOS try to boot from CDROM, but fails and skips it)
on this CDROM:
scsi1 : sata_via
Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6V200E0Rev: VA11
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Vendor: TSST
|--==> Frans Pop writes:
FP> On Thursday 16 February 2006 16:35, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
>>how do I set yaird as default initramfs generator? I've looked to
>>base-installer.postinst and tried to preseed:
FP>
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i38
Hi,
how do I set yaird as default initramfs generator? I've looked to
base-installer.postinst and tried to preseed:
d-i base-installer/initramfs/generator select yaird
and to add yaird plus its dependences to .disk/base-include.
The yaird package is properly installed and the debconf value
|--==> Andreas Kuckartz writes:
AK> I tested the installation process an an Acer laptop using a CDROM
containing
AK> DeMuDi 1.2.1-rc1. I select the German language.
AK> A few observations:
AK> 1. My PCMCIA network device is not installed. I have seen a message that
module
AK> pcmcia_
|--==> Joey Hess writes:
JH> [1 ]
JH> free wrote:
>>Package: tasksel
>>Version: 2.15
>>Severity: grave
JH> Sorry, I think that's inflated, downgrading. I will try to fix the bug,
No problem, after filing the bug I realized that the priority was
actually to high.
JH> but noth
|--==> Joey Hess writes:
>>How do you fix this?
JH> AFAIK anna does not look in local, only main. Though the changelog for
JH> version 0.008 makes me wonder if it did before. This would probably need
JH> to be fixed in both anna and the retreivers and the retreiver protocol,
JH> though
Hi,
inorder to workaround bug #254996 I've prepared a custom
base-installer with a slightly modified postinst script.
The custom version of package resides in the "local" component of the
repository on the CD-ROM, that means it's Package entry is in:
/cdrom/dists/sarge/local/de
|--==> Joshua Kwan writes:
JK> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 10:38:32AM +0100, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
>>From netcfg-dhcp.templates:
>>
>>netcfg/dhcp_failed Template: netcfg/dhcp_failed
>>Type: note
>>
>>don't know how to handle type "no
|--==> Joey Hess writes:
JH> [1 ]
JH> Free Ekanayaka wrote:
>>it would be nice to be able to preseed the netcfg-dhcp behaviour in
>>case of failure (no dhcp server found).
>>
>>Currently it seems that netcfg-dhcp prompts the user asking whether he
Package: netcfg-dhcp
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
it would be nice to be able to preseed the netcfg-dhcp behaviour in
case of failure (no dhcp server found).
Currently it seems that netcfg-dhcp prompts the user asking whether he
wants to go on without dhcp. Is it possible to silently ignore the
|--==> Free Ekanayaka writes:
|--==> Denis Barbier writes:
DB> Package: tasksel
DB> Version: 2.14
DB> Followup-For: Bug #279085
DB> You wrote:
>>>Here is a little patch to support executable .desc files. This way one
>>>can dynamically create
|--==> Denis Barbier writes:
DB> Package: tasksel
DB> Version: 2.14
DB> Followup-For: Bug #279085
DB> You wrote:
>>Here is a little patch to support executable .desc files. This way one
>>can dynamically create the list of available tasks, for example
>>consulting an alternat
|--==> Fraser Campbell writes:
FC> Hi,
FC> I posted this to debian-user initially but realized this is probably a better
FC> list to post to ...
FC> I'm putting together a custom install cd and the first step seems to be
FC> getting a local mirror. I am trying to do that with debparti
|--==> Joey Hess writes:
JH> [1 ]
JH> Free Ekanayaka wrote:
>>Joey Hess wrote:
>>
>>> Free Ekanayaka wrote:
>>> > It would be nice to have a command line switch argument as:
>>> >
>>> > base-config menu
>
Joey Hess wrote:
> Free Ekanayaka wrote:
> > It would be nice to have a command line switch argument as:
> >
> > base-config menu
> >
> > to pop up the menu list first instead of the first menu item.
> >
> > This is useful if you want to configure s
|--==> Petter Reinholdtsen writes:
PR> [Free Ekanayaka]
>>Probably the right number would be 90, but it is currently used by
>>localization-config. Actually I think that also localization-config
>>should change its number, as the the keyboard layout
Package: xdebconfigurator
Version: 1.10
Severity: normal
I think xdebconfigurator should be run *after* pkgsel. This way
xdebconfigurator triggers itself if the xserver-common package (which
contains dexconf) was installed, and does nothing otherwise.
Probably the right number would be
Hi,
I'd like to use netcfg-dhcp but *not* netcfg-static.
I'm wondering which is the default behaviour of netcfg-dhcp in case of
failure.. Does it prompt the user for error? If so is there a way to
force it to silently go on even in case of failure? I'd like the
process to be non-interacti
Hi,
currently xdebconfigurator base-config menu item has number 76, while
pkgselhas 80. Isthere any particular reason for running
xdebconfigurator *before* tasksel?
Running it running it *after* would make it trigger itself basing on
the user choice (with or without X).
Cheers,
|--==> Joey Hess writes:
JH> [1 ]
JH> Free Ekanayaka wrote:
>>The patch works nicely :)
>>
>>For example I can hide the Desktop task with a couple of lines, in a
>>separate file:
>>
>>-- /usr/share/tasksel/00override.desc ---
|--==> Joey Hess writes:
JH> [1 ]
JH> Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>I thin we can drop the earlier info. More simple.
JH> This patch may do that, but I have not tested it.
The patch works nicely :)
For example I can hide the Desktop task with a couple of lines, in a
separate file:
-- /usr
|--==> Petter Reinholdtsen writes:
PR> [Free Ekanayaka]
>>what do you think about including xdebconfigurator support to the
>>finish item of base-config?
PR> The version of xdebconfigurator in unstable already have a base-config
PR> menu entry, and I believe it
|--==> Otavio Salvador writes:
OS> || On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 12:10:58 +0200
OS> || Free Ekanayaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
fe> Hi,
fe> what do you think about including xdebconfigurator support to the
fe> finish item of base-config?
OS> I don't
|--==> Paul Millar writes:
PM> [1 ]
PM> Hi all,
PM> I was going to submit a bug against passwd for this so it doesn't get lost in
PM> the wash.
Did you?
PM> On Tuesday 05 October 2004 09:51, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
>>what about automatic root pw s
Hi,
what do you think about including xdebconfigurator support to the
finish item of base-config?
We can use the code from debian-br-cdd and skolelinux, and trigger it
with an hidden debconf question like:
db_get debian-installer/xdebconfigurator || true
if [ "$RET" = "true]; then
...
Package: tasksel
Version: 2.13
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
I wrote a very simple test script which can handful for CDDs. It can
be installed, for example, in /usr/share/tasksel/tests/standard.
Cheers,
Free
#!/bin/sh
#
# Simple test script to automatically install/skip/mark/show tasks.
|--==> Joey Hess writes:
JH>* Joey Hess
JH> - Patch from Free Ekanayaka to fix a hardcoded "stable" in the path to the
JH>Packages file on the CD. Use $suite instead. Closes: #275020
Thanks. Just to be sure, will a seeding like:
d-i mirror/s
|--==> Otavio Salvador writes:
OS> || On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 19:22:33 -0400
OS> || Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
jh> Free Ekanayaka wrote:
>>>So what do you suggest me to do if I want to keep all the automatic
>>>language related tasks and
|--==> Joey Hess writes:
JH> [1 ]
JH> Free Ekanayaka wrote:
>>I propose to split the debian-tasks.desc file in several
>>parts:
>>
>>* lang-tasks.desc:for language related tasks which get
>>automatically installed or excluded
>>
|--==> Colin Watson writes:
CW> reassign 275020 cdrom-retriever
CW> thanks
CW> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 04:29:33PM +0200, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
>>Package: installer
>>Severity: important
>>Tags: patch
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>the i
|--==> Christian Perrier writes:
>>#passwd passwd/root-passwordpassword r00tme
>>#passwd passwd/root-password-again password r00tme
>>
>>has this been fixed?
CP> No, this is #271407. It's likely that no more update to shadow will
CP> happen unt
Hi,
what about automatic root pw setting?
In Joey's preseed.cfg [0] I reed:
# To preseed the root password, you have to put it in the clear in this
# file. That is not a very good idea, use caution!
# (XXX: In fact, this won't work, because passwd clears the settings
# before asking for a root p
Package: tasksel
Version: 2.12
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I propose to split the debian-tasks.desc file in several
parts:
* lang-tasks.desc:for language related tasks which get
automatically installed or excluded
* server-tasks.desc: for server related tasks (Mail ser
Package: tasksel
Version: 2.12
Severity: important
Hi,
I've tried to create a test task which is automatically marked for
installation and display (exit code 2 in the test script).
Here's the definition of the task, included in debian-task.descs:
Task: test
Section: test
Relevance: 7
Descri
Package: base-config
Version: 2.40.5
Severity: wishlist
It would be nice to have a command line switch argument as:
base-config menu
to pop up the menu list first instead of the first menu item.
This is useful if you want to configure single parts.
Cheers,
Free
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Hi,
this patch should let kernel packages like:
kernel-image-someversion-myflavour-somemachine
to be correctly selected.
E.g. this should let the installer choose the right demudi kernel
among:
kernel-image-2.4.25-1-multimedia-386
kernel-image-2.4.25-1-multimedia-586tsc
kernel-image-2.4.
Hi all,
AFAIR the laptop task has been removed from the tasksel list, with the
idea is to automate it's installation with a test in /usr/lib/tasksel/tests.
What's the status of such script? Is somebody working on it?
Cheers,
Free Ekanayaka
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|--==> "AZ" == Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AZ> Hi!
AZ> Initialy it defaulted to bytes so people had to write 200m for swap or
AZ> 6g for /usr. Changing bytes to megabytes was some progress but for
AZ> gigabytes we need more time. ;-)
:)
Maybe an explicit and visible ind
Opps, this was for debian-custom *not* for debian-boot.. sorry!
free
>>>>> On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 10:03:49 +0200, Free Ekanayaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>>>> On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 00:40:54 -0300, Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Ota
rge package + sid d-i + your local
Otavio>packages)
Otavio, these two new features are *great* :)
You know I'm already a happy user of debpartial-mirror, and I'll to
test this new version as soon as possible.
Thanks for this great work!
Cheers,
Free Ekanayaka
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ser configures only the
console-data package.
How do I extract the detected information for setting, say, the
XkbLayout and XkbModel entries of XF86Config-4?
cheers,
Free Ekanayaka
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>>>>> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:36:23 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Colin> On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 08:04:44AM +0200, Free Ekanayaka
Colin> wrote:
>> Package: base-installer Version: 0.082 Severity: wishlist
>>
>>
Package: base-installer
Version: 0.082
Severity: wishlist
It seems that the postinst code currently chooses the right
arch for a kernel only if the kernel packages are named like:
kernel-image-(2.4|2.6)-(386|586tsc|686|k6|..)
For custom made CDs with a possible local pool, holding custom
kernel
>>>>> On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:32:35 -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Joey> [1 ]
Joey> Free Ekanayaka wrote:
>> This way it would be easier for other packages to customise
>> base-config. For example a package could provide a custo
Package: base-config
Version: 2.21
Severity: wishlist
It would be useful to add a special suffix to the executable
files in /usr/lib/base-config/menu which will be considered
as menu entries.
For example we could have:
mta.cfg mta.mnu mta.tst
and then change the code in prep-menu accordingly:
Hi,
which is the cleaner way to change the title of the grub menu entry
generated by the first stage installation, just before the rebboot?
For example I'd like to turn "Debian GNU/Linux" in "aGNUla/DeMuDi"..
cheers,
free
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> On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:51:56 +0200, "W. Borgert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> Moreover it would be nice to have a tool which builds a minimum
>> Debian mirror with just the packages needed by debootstrap and
>> the most important udebs. I think that this way we could use
>> d
>>>>> On Thu, 20 May 2004 08:56:28 -0300, Andre Luis Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Andre> [1 ] Hi Free,
Andre> On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 01:50:03PM +0200, Free Ekanayaka
Andre> wrote:
>> Petter, thanks for your quick reply.
>>
&
27;d like to build the ISO out of a partial debian mirror
generated using apt-move plus the main/debian-installer tree.
Has anybody tried something like this?
bye,
free
>>>>> On Thu, 20 May 2004 10:58:03 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Petter>
Petter, thanks for your quick reply.
I'm new to the debian-cd package, but it looks quite simple to
use. I'll try to create a test iso in the next days and report you.
bye,
free
>>>>> On Thu, 20 May 2004 10:58:03 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTE
FAIK Skolelinux folks already went through this way, and my task
would be very similar.
Thanks,
Free Ekanayaka
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