Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a Province of China?

2004-04-05 Thread Stefan Tibus
Anthony Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone with half a brain can see what moronic thing the `Taiwan, Province of China' is. It's the _only_ `editorial comment' in the entire list (all other comma-separated entries are simple prefixes which when used result in each country's full

Bug#240047: counter-intuitive dialog when installer sub-process fails

2004-03-25 Thread Stefan Tibus
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 20040315 20040323 (gluck.debian.org) uname -a: Linux (none) 2.4.25-1.386 #1 Tue Feb 24 08:11:13 EST 2004 i686 unknown (for installer 200403015) Date: 2004-03-24 Method: Booting from CD (netinst.iso) Machine: PC compatible

Re: Partitioner LVM issues

2004-03-23 Thread Stefan Tibus
I suppose that the following has happened. Your original configuration contains active LVM volumes. This means that the kernel is using /dev/hda4 and as a result the kernel is unable to reread the partition table. If I am right, the following should work: 1. Before you repartition, go

Re: suggestion: something to add!

2004-03-22 Thread Stefan Tibus
However, it may be likely that the DHCP/non-DHCP thing comes again into discussion. I may even predict some reviews with comments like Debian mimics Microsoft Windows and decides that DHCP is the standard...:-) Hence, I suggest we consider adding a special boot parameter for thisĀ :

Bug#238653: debian-installer network config evms

2004-03-21 Thread Stefan Tibus
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 21:41:37 +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-18 16:11]: Is the d-i kernel really lacking device-mapper? Well it's the stock debian kernel. No idea. dm-mod is included in the md-modules udeb. That's true, the kernel (2.4.25-1-386) coming

Bug#238653: debian-installer network config evms

2004-03-18 Thread Stefan Tibus
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:17:38 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:05:43AM +0100, Stefan Tibus wrote: - The evms-udeb links /lib/libevms-2.3.so.0 to libevms.so instead of libevms-2.3.so.0.0. Furthermore libncurses(5?) is missing and the EVMS module for debian-installer

Re: better bootloader drive selection

2004-03-18 Thread Stefan Tibus
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:32:47 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: I wonder if we could somehow integrate selection of what drive/partition to install a boot sector on into partman. Partman currently can be used to mark a partition as bootable or not. Maybe this is a good indicaton of whether a boot loader

Some bugs in sarge-i386-netinst.iso 20040314

2004-03-16 Thread Stefan Tibus
Hello, I found the following problems when trying to install from sarge-i386-netinst.iso dated 20040314: - in network configuration leaving the gateway address empty results in an error message malformed IP address instead of just disabling teh default route - /lib/libevms-2.3.so.0 is linked