On Dec 30, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
for some reason it decided
that the DNS domain was "example.org", not the one being
offered by DHCP.
For what it's worth:
Normal installs (on the console, not via SSH) on PowerPC Macs and
i386 PCs on this subnet, using this DHCP server, don't
* Rick Thomas [2008-12-31 02:23]:
> For what it's worth:
>
> Normal installs (on the console, not via SSH) on PowerPC Macs and i386 PCs
> on this subnet, using this DHCP server, don't have this problem. They
> pick up the local DNS domain from DHCP and run with it.
>
> HTH,
That's a great obse
* Rick Thomas [2008-12-30 19:12]:
> I originally wanted to try installing Lenny on an 8GB thumb drive.
> But it failed repeatedly during the "installing basic software"
> phase with the thumb drive going "read only". I suspected that
> the thumb drive was being driven harder than it's design spec
On Dec 31, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
ext2 instead of ext3 is a good idea... maybe this should be offered on
the NSLU2 by default as one option. On the other hand, it's also
fairly easy to use the default partition schema and then change ext3
to ext2 in the partitioner manually
* Rick Thomas [2008-12-31 17:02]:
>> noatime is a known wishlist that will be done after lenny, I guess.
>
> Does that mean that there's no way to specify it at install/partitioner
> time? Or that there's no way to specify it at all?
Okay, I was wrong. It's already possible to choose noatime a
* Rick Thomas [2008-12-30 19:12]:
> One thing worth mentioning though: I have a full-service
> DHCP on this subnet, so it got the network parameters from
> DHCP. This was successful, but for some reason it decided
> that the DNS domain was "example.org", not the one being
> offered by DHCP. The t
I'm getting ready to try this Friday.
What URL should I use to download the Debian Installer from?
Thanks!
Rick
On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* Rick Thomas [2008-12-30 19:12]:
One thing worth mentioning though: I have a full-service
DHCP on this subnet, so it got the
* Rick Thomas [2009-01-09 00:25]:
> I'm getting ready to try this Friday.
>
> What URL should I use to download the Debian Installer from?
http://www.slug-firmware.net/d-dls.php
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On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* Rick Thomas [2008-12-30 19:12]:
One thing worth mentioning though: I have a full-service
DHCP on this subnet, so it got the network parameters from
DHCP. This was successful, but for some reason it decided
that the DNS domain was "example
* Rick Thomas [2009-01-12 02:22]:
>> d-i netcfg/get_hostname string debian
>> d-i netcfg/get_domain string example.org
...
>> d-i netcfg/get_ipaddress string 192.168.1.177
>> d-i netcfg/get_netmask string 255.255.255.0
>> d-i netcfg/get_gateway string 192.168.1.254
>> d-i netcfg/get_nameservers st
* Rick Thomas [2009-01-12 10:13]:
>> If you send me a copy of your /dev/mtdblock1, I can verify whether you
>> set a domain name or not.
>
> Here you go.
Yep, no domain is set.
> Assuming that I did not set a domain back when I had the Linksys
> firmware installed... What can I do *now* to set
On Jan 12, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* Rick Thomas [2009-01-12 10:13]:
If you send me a copy of your /dev/mtdblock1, I can verify
whether you
set a domain name or not.
Here you go.
Yep, no domain is set.
Assuming that I did not set a domain back when I had the Linksys
* Rick Thomas [2009-01-12 19:46]:
> 1) What part of the current d-i documentation or d-i software needs to be
> modified so that normal folks don't make the same mistake I did.
I'm open to improving the docs, but so far I'm not sure there's
anything wrong with then...
> 2) Assume a user has a sl
* Martin Michlmayr [2009-01-13 08:23]:
> > 3) Is there any way to have d-i offer slug users the same kind of
> > network configuration options as are considered normal for users of
> > other systems? For example, it appears that there is room for some
> > user-definable data at the end of the fla
On Jan 13, 2009, at 2:58 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* Martin Michlmayr [2009-01-13 08:23]:
3) Is there any way to have d-i offer slug users the same kind of
network configuration options as are considered normal for users of
other systems? For example, it appears that there is room for some
On Jan 13, 2009, at 2:23 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
2) Assume a user has a slug they've been using with the Linksys
software for a while and wants to switch to Debian: What should
they do to make sure d-i gets their network configuration right
without having to resort to the fixups you descri
* Rick Thomas [2009-01-13 10:05]:
>> Sorry, I was wrong here. Yeah, this sounds like an interesting
>> approach.
>
> I don't think regenerating the image should be necessary. If "--payload"
Yes, as I said, I was wrong. You can just specify --payload with an
existing image when uploading to th
* Rick Thomas [2009-01-13 10:39]:
> I think explicitly mentioning "domain" as well as "hostname" and IP-
> address should be all that's required.
The hostname was mentioned already. I've added a reference to
"domain" now too.
Thanks.
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Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Rick Thomas [2009-01-13 10:05]:
>>> Sorry, I was wrong here. Yeah, this sounds like an interesting
>>> approach.
>> I don't think regenerating the image should be necessary. If "--payload"
>
> Yes, as I said, I was wrong. You can just specify --payload with an
> ex
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org:
> reassign 510271 oldsys-preseed
Bug#510271: installation-report: Lenny on a Slug - eventual success after a few
tries and some fixups
Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `oldsys-preseed'.
> retitle 510271 d
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