Bug#365101: debian-installer: No support for initrd-based kernels (stable!)

Package: debian-installer Severity: normal When trying to use the installer build 20060318 to install "stable", the base-installation fails after selecting the kernel. While the kernel requires initrd-tools, only initramfs-tools and yaird are considered and base-installation fails. Installing a

Bug#365101: debian-installer: No support for initrd-based kernels (stable!)

Tags 365101 fixed Quoting Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 27 April 2006 18:19, Olaf Mandel wrote: -Snipp- > > Please try a current daily build. > Done, installing stable from a USB-stick to a i386 machine works with these versions: http://people.debian.org/~joe

Bug#276912: Failed exim4-daemon-light dependency

Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: So Okt 17 14:09:56 CEST 2004, http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc1/sarge-i386-businesscard.iso http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.

Bug#256815: Status

choices connected to the language... Olaf Mandel - -- Olaf Mandel eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.1 iQA/AwUBQXOzzpmn0sYzOYhIEQLv5ACgpmIbl5B3BzzWe8UomBWS1V1e1DwAoICj FpyK7Bd+f2kOV8eun9YGszvX =6KJ/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- smime.p7s Description

Bug#277080: Kernel not resyncing after partitioning

ource was in use. It should not habe been, though (partitioner was never run, booted "expert" entry). - -- Olaf Mandel eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.1 iQA/AwUBQXO255mn0sYzOYhIEQKcVQCfWEJuT5tXqQIe6kiAtKCmRJ6gwwsAnRdU 3vHcMtREPynLN

Bug#256815: INSTALL REPORT

Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/20040626/sarge-i386-businesscard.iso uname -a: Linux OlafTowr 2.6.6-1-686 #1 Wed May 12 14:57:57 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: So Jun 27 12:57:04 CEST 2004 Method: H

Bug#265868: root-on-LVM-on-RAID workarounds

Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Version RC1 on USB stick. Files: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/2004-08-09/hd-media/boot.img.gz http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc1/sarge-i386-businesscard.iso uname -a: Linux Olaf

Bug#266288: Install, Ok apart from german language problems

Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 17.08.2004, http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta4/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux PC03-153 2.4.25-1-386 #2 Wed Apr 14 19:38:08 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: Tue Aug 17 13:39:28 CEST 2004

Bug#656710: partman-crypto: Preseeding the passphrase

nel: Linux 2.6.32-5-486 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- Olaf Mandel <http://www.olaf.mandel.name/> PGP key: 1024D/33398848 2002-09-19 Fingerprint: 0E33 BEA6 1A71 9C5E 62BD FC0E 99A7 D2C6 3339 8848 --- partman-cr

Bug#656710: Merge with 530784

the previous patch, all partitions would get the same passphrase. Here, the first partition gets the preseeded passphrase and the user is prompted for all encrypted partitions after that. Best regards, Olaf Mandel -- Olaf Mandel <http://www.olaf.mandel.name/> PGP key: 1024D/3339884

Bug#656710: Found bug in lastpatch

Hi, there was actually (alt least one) problem with my previous patch: if the user typed in an empty first password, the question for the second password would never be presented again. The attached new patch (against the unpatched blockdev-keygen) should fix that. Best regards, Olaf -- Olaf

Bug#657218: kbd-chooser: keyboard not preseedable during automatic installation

anks, Olaf Mandel -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-486 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- Ol

Bug#656710: partman-crypto: Preseeding the passphrase

Am 21.01.2012 08:36, schrieb Christian PERRIER: > Quoting Olaf Mandel (o...@mandel.name): -Snipp- >> The passphrase should be preseedable for unattended installations. This >> is possible in the Ubuntu-version of this package since at least the end >> of March 2010 (40ubuntu2

Question on preseeding crypto partition

finding the solution and seeing that there are quite a few of those scripts (df says it is 1244 1K-blocks), I hope to get an answer from one of you :-) Thanks for reading till the end, Olaf Mandel -- Olaf Mandel <http://www.olaf.mandel.name/> PGP key: 1024D/33398848 2002

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

ault uses the sudo group) * On the other hand, adding a third group might be incompatible with other distros. My 2ct, Olaf Mandel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#792823: keyboard-configuration: keymap variant unsupported by debian-installer should be use for the installed system

settings: their values overwrite xkb-keymap in line 1235 of the script. My current workaround is to configure the installed system via preseed/late_command, using sed to edit /etc/default/keyboard in the target. But that is less than ideal... Thank you, Olaf Mandel -- System Information: Debian Re

Bug#687687: Cannot preseed ESSID

tags 687687 +patch thanks Package: netcfg Version: 1.143 Followup-For: Bug #687687 Dear Maintainer, problem still exists in Stretch. Preseeding either: d-i netcfg/wireless_show_essids select net-essid or: d-i netcfg/wireless_show_essids select manual d-i netcfg/wireless_essid string net-essid