Another option is the Fedora Media Writer
available at
https://fedoraproject.org/fmw/FedoraMediaWriter-win32-latest.exe
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Package: installation-guide
The installation guide does not help the users of Windows how to flash
the Debian ISO onto an USB stick.
In chapter '4.3. Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting' we just
assume people are using Linux.
Nowadays most Linux distributions (like tails) recommend th
19 Dec 2023 13:15:53 +0100, Philip Hands said:
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:58:39 +0100, Thomas Lange said:
>> BTW if one did that, would it still be possible to read the filesystem
>> if one were to burn it to a physical CD rather than write it to a USB
>> stick?
I can confirm this bug.
Using qemu/kvm with autopkgtests I have
keyboard-configuration 1.221 inside the testbed and the postinst
script of keyboard-configuration fails with
cat: '/sys/bus/usb/devices/*:*/bInterfaceClass': No such file or directory
cat: '/sys/bus/usb/devices/*:*/bInterfaceSubClass
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 13:15:53 +0100, Philip Hands said:
> This makes me think that we may be able to publish an image with a
> filesystem already appended to it, so that a blend could then create
> such a thing including a preseed file that configures their preferred
> sele
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2023 00:01:45 +0200, Cyril Brulebois said:
> That looks the search engine needs fixing then.
I guess the search engine will need a replacement by another tool.
That means a lot of work but currently noone is working on that.
> I'm not convinced at all; it's frequent t
Hi installer team,
I'm part of Debian's web team and I like to remove old outdated content.
The reason is that we have too may web pages (more that 63.000 wml
files) and our search engine is not able to present search results
order by date.
Currently I'm search for very old contents and I stumbl
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 12:37:37 +0100, Holger Wansing
> said:
>> debian-www team: what do you think about adding some more hint/warning
>> banners pointing to firmware-including installation images?
I really like to have a hint, but warning is a too negative word.
Having those non
> On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 20:42:22 +, Steve McIntyre
> said:
> Maybe. I'm surprised and maybe a little unhappy that it's in the
> rotation of "community" images. I don't think it belongs there..
Hi Steve,
I think it's a good idea to show more than only the Debian community
in th
> On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 20:03:22 +0100, Holger Wansing
> said:
> Should we mention it on the website a little bit more?
Yes. My plan is to mention it on a new download page. We will work
on a reorganisation of the download page.
> I gave it a try these days, and it looks like a g
I repeated my tests with debootstrap 1.0.106 on buster and everything
went OK. The directory that is generated using the original functions
file and the patched one are the same. Here are the debootstrap calls
I've tested so far:
debootstrap stretch
debootstrap --variant=minbase stretch
debootstra
> On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 23:12:21 +0100, Cyril Brulebois
> said:
> At least this one needs serious regression testing. Meaning setting up
> tests for various sets of options and architectures; and check what
> happens without and with this patch.
Currently I'm writing a script f
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:20:16 +1300, Alex King said:
> I need to install a stable system, but with a kernel from backports (or
> testing). I am using netboot.
Another solution is using a fully automatic installation image
created by the FAIme service which supports stretch with a
k
> On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 18:04:46 +, Mark Bettles
> said:
> As I am the most familiar with Debian, and I consider the ncurses based
installer to be the best at preseeding, so it makes sense to use that as a
> foundation for what I wish to create.
Maybe have a look at https://fa
> On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 02:22:33 -0400, "Raymond Burkholder"
> said:
> Is there a magic incantation for preseed files to install to a harddrive
> when usb is present?
This may be related to #882766.
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>>>>> On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:15:23 +0100, Thomas Lange
>>>>> said:
> ls -l /dev/disk/by-label gives
> Debian\x209.2.1\x20amd64\x20n -> ../../sr0
> This is a kvm virtual machine booting from CD.
Booting real hardware from USB stick with
After loading addition components, the CD is mounted and we can see
which device it is. I would guess that the additional components will
be loaded from the same device as we booted the installer.
Still have to check it when booting from USB.
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> On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 23:02:23 +0100, Cyril Brulebois
> said:
> I'm pretty sure I did mention I would like to avoid having to mount
> anything, so this is definitely a no-go.
I missed that, sorry.
ls -l /dev/disk/by-label gives
Debian\x209.2.1\x20amd64\x20n -> ../../sr0
This
The ISO images contain a directory .disk with some files.
# cat .disk/info
Debian GNU/Linux 9.2.1 "Stretch" - Official amd64 NETINST 20171013-13:07
Inside the d-i calling blkid /dev/sr0 outputs something like this:
/dev/sr0: UUID="2017-10-13-13-09-57-00" LABEL="Debian 9.2 amd n" TYPE="iso9660"
.
>>>>> On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 10:30:06 -0500, lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart
>>>>> Sorensen) said:
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 12:26:58PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
>> >>>>> On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 11:56:35 +0100, Thomas Lange
s
>>>>> On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 11:56:35 +0100, Thomas Lange
>>>>> said:
> JFTR, I just look at an openSuse Tumbleweed installation. They are
> using a world map for selecting the timezone.
And Linux Mint is showing a world map with timezones, but no country borders.
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JFTR, I just look at an openSuse Tumbleweed installation. They are
using a world map for selecting the timezone.
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> On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 21:20:36 +, Ben Hutchings
> said:
> Implementing locale selection using a map also runs the risk of getting
> your software banned in countries that disagree with where you put the
> borders.
Is this risk theoretical or real? Did this already happene
Hi list,
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 01:17:47PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> In Debian, using netinst, we have
.
.
> and that's it.
>
> That's a bit more items, but not by so much.
No, that's a lot more than other installers. IMO our installer is not
for beginners, it's for advanced users and for e
Here's another patch which makes debootstrap a little bit faster.
0009-in-this-part-we-only-need-the-package-name-and-prior.patch
Description: Binary data
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My last patch was broken. Here's a new working version.
0008-automatic-detect-if-grep-support-perl-regex.patch
Description: Binary data
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Here's the patch that automatically detects if grep supports the Perl
regex.
0008-automatic-detect-if-grep-support-perl-regex.patch
Description: Binary data
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I could also add a test, to check if grep supports -P. If not, don't
use it. Does a non-GNU grep use -P for other things?
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Here's another patch, that improves speed. It needs grep -P which is
not available in busybox. But I do not know if debootstrap is used in
a busybox enviroment.
The execution time is now
real0m39.141s
user0m38.924s
sys 0m2.980s
So the user time drops from 50 to under 40 seconds on a
I forget something. During the run of debootstrap, I observed via
repeated ps -efl calls that often perl is running for a longer
time. Then I tried to use strace to see which exec(ve) calls takes a
long time. But I didn't managed to find out, instead I saw read calls
taking long. So I decided to lo
> On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 18:28:33 +0200, Tiago Ilieve
> said:
> Do you mind to share how you identified those slower parts of the
> code? Have you used a profiler or a similar tool?
I didn't used a profiler. I just look at the code and saw that the
/var/lib/dpkg/available files is re
IMO we can close this bug, because this is nowadays implemented
(pretty similar) by qemu-debootstrap.
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I wonder why the sync was needed. I cannot find any info in the git
logs. It seems to be there for a long time. IMO this should be
removed, if noone can argue why it is needed.
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Package: debootstrap
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
I've wrote some patches, which speed up deboostrap a lot.
Changes are only made to /usr/share/debootstrap/functions, mostly in
the perl part, but also the number of lines that are proceeded by
perl are reduced via egrep.
Here are some time measur
>>>>> On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 18:52:04 +0100, Guido Günther said:
> Hi Thomas,
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 02:10:11PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
>> tags 788062 + pending
I just realized that the pending tag was set by me because of an error
in my workflow. I will
Package: installation-guide
Version: 20100518
Tags: patch
The chapter about automatic installations references several
non-existing packages. replicator, systemimager and autoinstall are
not part of Debian any more (autoinstall for e.g. since 2005).
This patch removes the outdated information and
Package: installation-guide
Please remove the reference to the pacakge replicator in the automatic
installation chapter. This packages does not exists any more.
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Package: partman
Version: 54
Severity: normal
partman does not need to depend on libdebian-installer4-dev
The executables inside partman can also be linked without using
libdebian-installer. So you can build this package not only for d-i,
but also for a normal system. I'm like to use parts of par
has no class concept to support mass
installations. Non interactive installations using di will be more a
system like starting di and insert a floppy which include some predefined
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Have a look at fai, the fully automatic installation for Debian. It a
network installation that is also working unattended. The host that
will be installed needs only a network card. You do not even need a
hard disk, if you want to install it as a diskless machine.
Have a look! Version 2.4 of fai
tion are available on the FAI homepage
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
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