Bug#728344: debootstrap does not report errors

2013-10-30 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.55 Severity: normal Hello. I get debootstrap failure without any diagnostic message (full output): # debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf --verbose wheezy . I: Retrieving Release I: Retrieving Release.gpg I: Checking Release signature I: Valid Release signature

Bug#721627: debian-installer: cannot install bootloader when multiple disks are present

2013-09-02 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: debian-installer Severity: important Hello, I am installing Debian Wheezy from a mini iso on an USB thumb drive (sda) to internal SATA harddisk (sdd). sdb and sdc are possibly non-existent floppies or something. When I get to installing grub the installer insists on installing to sda wh

Bug#712675: debian-installer: fails to install in-place using network installer hybrid iso booted from local harddisk

2013-06-18 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Hello, I tried installing on a machine with BIOS problems that only boots from local disk or network. I did not have network installer ready but had another live system on the local harddisk so I wrote the netinst iso hybrid image over it. I noticed a f

Bug#697488: debootstrap: wrong default mirror

2013-01-05 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.44 Severity: normal Hello, I tried to bootstrap a chroot and in the chroot that sources.list is pre-filled with the US mirror. Since the recommended mirrror is http://http.debian.net the default should perhaps reflect this. Thanks -- System Information: Debian

Bug#580340: debian-installer: Lenny fails to install on system with USB and SATA disks

2010-05-05 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal I installed Debian Lenny on a system with a SATA hardrive and a built-in USB card reader. As the card reader driver is loaded before the SATA drivers during installation and after SATA driver during boot the instaleed system fails to boot searching fo

Bug#576206: debian-installer: [ppc] does not work with serial console

2010-04-01 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 04/01/2010 06:03 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 01 April 2010, Michal Suchanek wrote: Changing the "-boot d" to "-boot c" gives access to the installed system with full serial support from the quik bootloader so I don't think this is the case. Can you

Bug#576206: debian-installer: [ppc] does not work with serial console

2010-04-01 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 04/01/2010 05:03 PM, Frans Pop wrote: tag 576206 moreinfo thanks On Thursday 01 April 2010, Michal Suchanek wrote: qemu-system-ppc -m 1024 -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=nomg -cdrom debian-504-powerpc-netinst.iso -boot d -nographic Sorry, part of the

Bug#576206: debian-installer: [ppc] does not work with serial console

2010-04-01 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal qemu-system-ppc -m 1024 -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=nomg -cdrom debian-504-powerpc-netinst.iso -boot d -nographic does not seem to do anything. Without -nographic a prompt on yellow screen appears where you can type something to

Bug#575914: debian-installer: cannot resize partitions after "guided partitioning" step

2010-03-30 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: debian-installer Version: 5.03 Severity: normal After the "guided partitioning" step the installer presents a screen where the partitions can be reviewed. However, the option to resize a partition is missing from the partition options menu. Partitions have to be deleted and re-created t

Bug#569057: console-setup: starting console-setup fails silently

2010-02-09 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: console-setup Version: 1.51 Severity: normal When starting console-setup from X the console is not configured but no error is printed. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (700, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (110, 'experiment

Re: Mad idea: grub-fuse

2009-09-07 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/7 Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko : > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Colin Watson wrote: >> os-prober mounts filesystems using Linux's filesystem drivers. This of >> course means that we have to go to special lengths to avoid replaying >> journals (we don't yet, but we should), we have to lo

Re: Mad idea: grub-fuse

2009-09-07 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/7 Colin Watson : > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:39:13PM +0800, Bean wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Colin Watson wrote: >> > The level of functionality provided by the existing filesystem modules >> > would be quite sufficient. >> >> Oh I see, you mean the other way around, using th

Re: [Fwd: Upcoming Lenny Point Release]

2009-06-15 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/6/5 Luk Claes : > Hi > > Forwarding this announcement as it might directly affect your team. > Don't hesitate to forward it further if you think that can be useful. > > Cheers > > Luk > Is it feasible to get httpfs into Debian still? I intended to look at it some time in the near future. AF

Re: Help testing syslinux

2008-09-12 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 09/09/2008, Michal Suchanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 09/09/2008, Chris Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michal Suchanek wrote: > > > > > However, the syslinux on the broken CD is also version 3.71. I wonder > > > what's goin

Re: Help testing syslinux

2008-09-09 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 09/09/2008, Chris Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michal Suchanek wrote: > > > However, the syslinux on the broken CD is also version 3.71. I wonder > > what's going on here. > > > You will have to be more precise; there are both broken and fixed.ver

Re: Help testing syslinux

2008-09-09 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 09/09/2008, Michal Suchanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 03/09/2008, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > upstream has fixed the qemu bug in syslinux (yay!), updated syslinux > > version has been uploaded to sid al

Re: Help testing syslinux

2008-09-09 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 03/09/2008, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > upstream has fixed the qemu bug in syslinux (yay!), updated syslinux > version has been uploaded to sid already. > Hello, The syslinux currently in Lenny does not work for me ( after displaying "or press Enter to" the screen sho

Re: Help testing syslinux

2008-09-04 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 03/09/2008, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > upstream has fixed the qemu bug in syslinux (yay!), updated syslinux > version has been uploaded to sid already. > > however, syslinux 3.71 does still have some regressions, therefore i've > uploaded to small (50mb) test images

Bug#484799: busybox: mount -f should not mount

2008-06-06 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: busybox Version: 1:1.9.2-3 Severity: normal The whole point of mount -f is to write to /etc/mtab I guess, at least it's how it is sometimes used when the filesystem is mounted by other means. As I read the code mount in busybox sets some flag when mtab is used but ignores the flag when

Bug#477354: debian-installer: fails to bootstrap because of missing gpgv

2008-04-22 Thread Michal Suchanek
On Apr 22, 2008, at 7:03 PM, Frans Pop wrote: Op 22-04-2008 om 17:41 schreef Michal Suchanek: The GUI installer works but the default one fails bootstrap and complains that there is missing gpgv which is needed to verify packages. I doubt that this is really a bug in the installer because

Bug#477354: debian-installer: fails to bootstrap because of missing gpgv

2008-04-22 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: debian-installer Version: 40r2 Severity: important I tried to install debian with this installer CD: debian-40r2-i386-businesscard.iso 03-Jan-2008 01:4332M The GUI installer works but the default one fails bootstrap and complains that there is missing gpgv which is needed to verify

Bug#411552: debian-installer: USB keyboard support

2008-04-22 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: debian-installer Version: 40r2 Followup-For: Bug #411552 There are many (older) PC BIOSes that do support USB keyboard but only in BIOS, not once an OS (like syslinux) is booted. Of course, Linux can use the keyboard with appropriate drivers but syslinux cannot. This applies to recent A

Re: Bug#417407: installing to a box with suspended system

2007-10-31 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 31/10/2007, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > I tried to use the installer on a box which had a Linux system > > suspended on one disk. As I noticed that os-prober mounts the > > partitions I did not try

Bug#417407: installing to a box with suspended system

2007-10-31 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, I tried to use the installer on a box which had a Linux system suspended on one disk. As I noticed that os-prober mounts the partitions I did not try to resume. According to the software suspend documentation this could cause serious data loss, especially since the filesystem loses consiste

Bug#435891: cannot select timezone during installation

2007-08-06 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: installation Severity: important Tags: l10n I tried installing with the new graphical installer. Just downloaded from the 'current' directory on a mirror. In the timezone selection I cannot select my timezone because it is not offered. Only US timezones are displayed in the dialog (p

Bug#435893: debian-installer: the graphic installer is too bright

2007-08-03 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor The new graphic installer is cool. However, I find the white background too bright to be comfortable. Compared to the text installer this is certainly a regression :) -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500,

Bug#408286: ignores errors during installation of arcboot

2007-01-24 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: arcboot-installer I tried installing Debian on a SGI O2. The mirror I selected did not have the arcboot and bvhtool packages for some reason. I could see errors in the fourth VT but the installer happily finished as if nothing happened. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit