Bug#705971: debian-installer hangs when tty console in use (console-setup)

2013-04-23 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
snip What do you mean by a TTY console during the installation? Lowering the severity anyway as I don't think this is a bug (if one) that affects all installs. With all the install problems reports? I would certainly expect having to open up a shell to fix things to install MORE THAN

Bug#692309: installation-guide: 3.6.2. Boot Device Selection: Booting debian-installer from a USB stick

2012-11-05 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
i like anything that helps fresh meat install without hours of crap ! :) personaly i wish you could add this in contributions as working with a particular version of debian (an important aspect for dist. tars) and do so without allot of admin approval. thanks all, -- John Brian Potkin

Bug#669605: debootstrap can't install base-files and base-passwd

2012-04-23 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
hi i'm not a DM yea but the script installs awk/mawk before any depends and it gets in reguardless. try not calling out awk as depends since that is pre-scripted (it's to get dpkg running i think) why force didn't work i'm unsure Have Fun ! -- John Adrian Ban wrote: Package: debootstrap

Re: cdebconf 0.159

2012-04-10 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
It would be nice if it didnt Conflict: with debconf (debconf-2.0) because no one needs such problems early in install. Cant it run side-by-side debconf (ie, user can theoretically run either) ? It's easy to make side by side apps but i know: sometimes not. Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting

Bug#652672: busybox: modprobe does not handle builtins

2011-12-20 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
Put code in a kernel but don't want kernel params, sysctl, /proc, or /sysfs to wake it? Instead wishing modprobe will wake it ?? Sorry I interrupted :) - John Unlike the modprobe utility from module-init-tools, busybox' version fails for built-in modules: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#652672: busybox: modprobe does not handle builtins

2011-12-19 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
I hate to say anything no knowing the full story. I was just installing. The initrd.gz off netinst CD does has depmod. If you use it then your ext4 module loads right? Without depmod you could edit the modules.dep et al files with nano and that should work too, if I remember correctly. I

Re: Proposal: convert all udebs to xz compression

2011-11-20 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
How is alteration from .gz to .xz going to do anything but create new upgrade or boot issues? what bug number is it? - Is lzh/ma xz built already built-in (to kernel or glibs)? What if kernel or libs changes or isn't yet installed? Use bin? Won't this mean all