Re: installer help screen (Was: Re: installation-guide: simplify RAM/disk space requirements)

2023-08-24 Thread Holger Wansing
imum_memory=780 > > > > > > i386:minimum_memory_strict=285 > > > i386:minimum_memory=485 > > > > Looking at this values (the current ones from lowmem), we have 350MB for > > amd64 and 285MB for i386. > > The installer help screen F2 has the 285MB value (grabbed fro

Re: installer help screen (Was: Re: installation-guide: simplify RAM/disk space requirements)

2023-08-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
ooking at this values (the current ones from lowmem), we have 350MB for > amd64 and 285MB for i386. > The installer help screen F2 has the 285MB value (grabbed from i386 ?) even > on > the amd64 image. > > Should this be sync'ed somehow? They need to be updated when u

installer help screen (Was: Re: installation-guide: simplify RAM/disk space requirements)

2023-08-23 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, a follow-up on this regarding installer help screen: Holger Wansing wrote (Tue, 8 Aug 2023 00:06:14 +0200): > amd64:minimum_memory_strict=350 > amd64:minimum_memory=780 > > arm64:minimum_memory_strict=245 > arm64:minimum_memory=260 > > armel:mini

Bug#1031828: marked as done (debootstrap: Please document --usr-merge option in --help output)

2023-07-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 15 Jul 2023 12:34:04 + with message-id and subject line Bug#1031828: fixed in debootstrap 1.0.128+nmu3 has caused the Debian Bug report #1031828, regarding debootstrap: Please document --usr-merge option in --help output to be marked as done. This means that you claim

Processed: Re: Bug#1031828: debootstrap: Please document --usr-merge option in --help output

2023-07-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tags -1 + patch Bug #1031828 [debootstrap] debootstrap: Please document --usr-merge option in --help output Added tag(s) patch. > forwarded -1 > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debootstrap/-/merge_requests/94 Bug #1031828 [debootstrap] debootstra

Bug#1031828: debootstrap: Please document --usr-merge option in --help output

2023-07-09 Thread Simon McVittie
option which already exists? The option is named --[no-]merged-usr, not --usr-merge, as documented in debootstrap(8). I've sent a merge request to add it to --help as well. > It will certainly be > needed when creating chroots for trixie from bookworm See also https://salsa.debian.o

Re: Please help me out with how to customize a Debian 11 ISO

2023-06-16 Thread jose . r . r
ed the ISO source into an ISO file, and tried to install it onto a virtual machine. Of course, I failed again. There is an error, "Initramfs unpacking failed: no cpio magic". I know actions taken to substitute for the default kernel are senseless, but I have no idea about wher

Please help me out with how to customize a Debian 11 ISO

2023-06-15 Thread Qi Hou
ll it onto a virtual machine. Of course, I failed again. There is an error, "Initramfs unpacking failed: no cpio magic". I know actions taken to substitute for the default kernel are senseless, but I have no idea about where I should go. If you could give some advice to help

Bug#1033193: marked as done (debian-installer help screen: url to doc page)

2023-03-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 31 Mar 2023 22:19:11 + with message-id and subject line Bug#1033193: fixed in debian-installer 20230401 has caused the Debian Bug report #1033193, regarding debian-installer help screen: url to doc page to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem

Bug#1033193: debian-installer help screen: url to doc page

2023-03-19 Thread Holger Wansing
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist On the F2 help page, we currently have ... See the Installation Guide or the FAQ for more information; both documents are available at the Debian web site, http://www.debian.org/ Please mention the exact URL where to find

Processed: debootstrap: Please document --usr-merge option in --help output

2023-02-23 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
[debootstrap] debootstrap: The buildd profile does not enable usr-merge by default on bookworm and later Removed tag(s) patch. > retitle 1031828 debootstrap: Please document --usr-merge option in --help > output Bug #1031828 [debootstrap] debootstrap: The buildd profile does not enable

Bug#1031828: debootstrap: Please document --usr-merge option in --help output

2023-02-23 Thread Santiago Vila
severity 1031828 normal tags 1031828 - patch retitle 1031828 debootstrap: Please document --usr-merge option in --help output thanks El 24/2/23 a las 0:12, Luca Boccassi escribió: Please see: https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2022/09/msg5.html Ok, did read, but also too long, and that

Re: Need help to install gnucobol

2023-02-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Amine, Amine Derk (2023-02-04): > I'm trying to use debian for the first time. and I'm not able to install > Gnucobol. > > aderkaoua@LAPTOP-6B841S0M:~$ sudo apt-get install gnucobol > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading state information... Done > *E: Un

Need help to install gnucobol

2023-02-04 Thread Amine Derk
Hello, I'm trying to use debian for the first time. and I'm not able to install Gnucobol. aderkaoua@LAPTOP-6B841S0M:~$ sudo apt-get install gnucobol Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done *E: Unable to locate package gnucobol* *please adv

Re: Help with installing debian

2021-09-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 08:28:46PM +0530, Rohan J. Tilwani wrote: > Hello there, > I am facing a serious issues installing the "Bullseye" version of debian. > Especially with Disks. I would be glad if you help me out. I am trying to > install live+nonfree latest version of d

Help with installing debian

2021-09-23 Thread Rohan J. Tilwani
Hello there, I am facing a serious issues installing the "Bullseye" version of debian. Especially with Disks. I would be glad if you help me out. I am trying to install live+nonfree latest version of debian. Initially i get error that says SM bus busy. After I boot into live environm

Re: Need help debootstrapping Ubuntu impish

2021-09-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 03:50:39PM +, Joshua Peisach wrote: > Hello Boot team, > > I'm coming after asking for help from the live-team. The issue was narrowed > to debootstrap. I'm trying to build an impish image for Ubuntu Cinnamon > Remix, and I'm having

Need help debootstrapping Ubuntu impish

2021-09-04 Thread Joshua Peisach
Hello Boot team, I'm coming after asking for help from the live-team. The issue was narrowed to debootstrap. I'm trying to build an impish image for Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix, and I'm having issues with the base packages. Last time I had an issue was with pinetab/pine64 stuff, and

Re: Bug#991969: D-I: news for Bullseye: help with firmware installation

2021-08-07 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Am 7. August 2021 09:01:56 MESZ schrieb "McIntyre, Vincent (S&A, Marsfield)" : >On Sat, Aug 07, 2021 at 07:40:52AM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: >>+ >>+ More and more, peripheral devices require firmware to be loaded as >>+ part of the hardware initializat

Re: Bug#991969: D-I: news for Bullseye: help with firmware installation

2021-08-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Justin B Rye (2021-08-07): > (I'm surprised that we can't link to ch06s04.html without the .en and > have it automatically handle translations. Anyone know a way of doing > that?) I'm quite confident this works: https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/ch06s04#completing-installed-syste

Re: Bug#991969: D-I: news for Bullseye: help with firmware installation

2021-08-07 Thread Justin B Rye
Paul Gevers wrote: > Before pushing, I hope to see comments from Justin. > > Paul > +Help with installation of firmware > + > + More and more, peripheral devices require firmware to be loaded as > + part of the hardware initialization. To help deal with this problem, &

Re: Bug#991969: D-I: news for Bullseye: help with firmware installation

2021-08-07 Thread McIntyre, Vincent (S&A, Marsfield)
d d-i firmware note > >Closes: #991969 >--- > en/installing.dbk | 43 ++- > 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > >diff --git a/en/installing.dbk b/en/installing.dbk >index 7a7e0674..10396c60 100644 >--- a/en/installing.dbk >+++

Re: Bug#991969: D-I: news for Bullseye: help with firmware installation

2021-08-06 Thread Paul Gevers
++ b/en/installing.dbk @@ -44,21 +44,46 @@ for the &releasename; beta and RC releases available from the Debian Installer's news history. - + +Help with installation of firmware + + More and more, peripheral devices require firmware to be loaded as + part of the hardware initializa

D-I: news for Bullseye: help with firmware installation

2021-08-06 Thread Holger Wansing
he &releasename; beta and RC releases available from the Debian Installer's news history. - - - - +Help with installation of firmware - +More and more, peripheral devices require firmware to be loaded as part of the +hardware initialization. To help deal with this problem

Re: DebianInstaller Help Request

2021-07-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hello Marcus, Marcus L. Thompson (2021-07-21): > I need help locating the following information: > > * what processes are called during the "remove-live-packages" routine >which is invoked at the end of the installation process for Debian >10; and > * wher

DebianInstaller Help Request

2021-07-21 Thread Marcus L. Thompson
Good day. I need help locating the following information: * what processes are called during the "remove-live-packages" routine which is invoked at the end of the installation process for Debian 10; and * where the relevant configuration file(s) for this aspect of the i

Re: Pine64 RockPro64 Support, image generation help offer

2020-07-25 Thread Holger Wansing
rams on this order: > > > > update-initramfs -u > > > > flash-kernel > > > > > > After a reboot the board is now working ! > > > > > > Now i would like to write u-boot on SPI flash instead of using sdcard to > > boot and faci

Re: Pine64 RockPro64 Support, image generation help offer

2020-07-24 Thread Geert Stappers
ests/21/diffs > > To /etc/flash-kernel/db > > > - Using programs on this order: > > update-initramfs -u > > flash-kernel > > > After a reboot the board is now working ! > > > Now i would like to write u-boot on SPI flash instead of using sdcard

Bug#782593: marked as done (debian-installer: F10 help screen is actually available under F11)

2019-11-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 6 Nov 2019 21:14:01 +0100 with message-id <20191106211401.e8f597b51ef99b4cfada1...@mailbox.org> and subject line Bug #782593 debian-installer: F10 help screen is actually available under F11 has caused the Debian Bug report #782593, regarding debian-installer: F1

Bug #782593 debian-installer: F10 help screen is actually available under F11

2019-11-06 Thread Holger Wansing
Holger Wansing (2014-10-05): > Additionally, the help page for copyrights and warranties is no longer at F10 > (as it should be, according to the overview found on F1), it has moved to F11. Just tested, and this is fixed. so closing this bug. Holger -- Holger Wansing PGP-Finge

Re: Grub, UEFI Secure Boot and netboot - help!

2019-06-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 04:35:33PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 04:15:22PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> The prefix variable is very much a single value, yes. It's used and >> dereferenced all over the place inside grub as a single const char >> *. Not something I'm abo

Re: Grub, UEFI Secure Boot and netboot - help!

2019-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 04:15:22PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 02:32:23PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >On Mon, 2019-06-10 at 03:37 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> Any other suggestions on what we could do? Let me know what you > >> think... > > > >Is signing an extra,

Re: Grub, UEFI Secure Boot and netboot - help!

2019-06-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Ian, On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 02:32:23PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >On Mon, 2019-06-10 at 03:37 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Any other suggestions on what we could do? Let me know what you >> think... > >Is signing an extra, d-i specific, grubnetXX.efi image out of the >question? Oh, that's

Re: Grub, UEFI Secure Boot and netboot - help!

2019-06-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 11:17:52AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >Hi Steve! > >On 6/10/19 4:37 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> 1. Update the docs to mention this - this is a new thing needed to >> get netboot working with Buster. It's *currently* inconsistent, >> as ia64 and armh

Re: Grub, UEFI Secure Boot and netboot - help!

2019-06-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 11:08:35AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: >On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 03:37:41AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: ... >> I can see a couple of options here, but I'm not sure either of them >> are good. Comments would be most welcome! >> >> 1. Update the docs to mention this -

Re: Grub, UEFI Secure Boot and netboot - help!

2019-06-10 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2019-06-10 at 03:37 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Any other suggestions on what we could do? Let me know what you > think... Is signing an extra, d-i specific, grubnetXX.efi image out of the question? Is the hard coded prefix a single prefix or is there a possibility of searching a list?

Re: Grub, UEFI Secure Boot and netboot - help!

2019-06-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Steve! On 6/10/19 4:37 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > 1. Update the docs to mention this - this is a new thing needed to > get netboot working with Buster. It's *currently* inconsistent, > as ia64 and armhf (as non-SB arches) are still using the old > prefix setting. For the sake

Re: Grub, UEFI Secure Boot and netboot - help!

2019-06-10 Thread Domenico Andreoli
I apologize for the signature mess, I removed the offending key resulting from some sbuild setup I attempted some time ago. Dom -- 3B10 0CA1 8674 ACBA B4FE FCD2 CE5B CF17 9960 DE13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Grub, UEFI Secure Boot and netboot - help!

2019-06-10 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 03:37:41AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hey folks, Hi, > > We have a bit of a problem with PXE booting Grub in Buster, as shown > in #928750: > > * On all supported arches, we *used* to generate a Grub netboot image >inside d-i, with a prefix setting of >"debi

Grub, UEFI Secure Boot and netboot - help!

2019-06-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey folks, We have a bit of a problem with PXE booting Grub in Buster, as shown in #928750: * On all supported arches, we *used* to generate a Grub netboot image inside d-i, with a prefix setting of "debian-installer/$arch/grub". The prefix is important, as it's how Grub finds its confi

Re: Bug#927376: haveged: please ship haveged-udeb to help solve entropy starvation in debian-installer

2019-04-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Jérémy Bobbio (2019-04-18): > Go ahead. I trust you to do the right thing! Thanks for the vote of confidence! I've double checked again, and that still looks satisfactory inside d-i; just uploaded 1.9.1-7 which should be hitting NEW in a moment. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.or

Bug#927376: haveged: please ship haveged-udeb to help solve entropy starvation in debian-installer

2019-04-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Source: haveged Version: 1.9.1-6 Severity: important Tags: d-i patch [ debian-boot@ and 923675@ x-d-cc'd ] Hi haveged maintainers, As time passes, we encounter more and more entropy starvation issues in d-i; this includes UUID generation for fontconfig (#898468, worked around by computing the ca

Help needed: outstanding Debian live bugs

2019-04-17 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi all (crossposting to debian-boot) We're neck-deep in a bunch of time-critical tasks, so I'm reaching out to anyone who has some time to look into and ideally fix these bugs: * amdgpu configuration problem: https://bugs.debian.org/927219 * stale /etc/fstab left behind during build: https:

Bug#301278: marked as done (Help page needs improvement)

2019-01-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 11 Jan 2019 23:32:20 +0100 with message-id <20190111233220.78b6fb516edb54bc0ffea...@mailbox.org> and subject line [d-i partitioning] Help page needs improvement has caused the Debian Bug report #301278, regarding Help page needs improvement to be marked as done. This

[d-i partitioning] Help page needs improvement

2019-01-11 Thread Holger Wansing
Thomas Hood wrote: > I just installed sarge d-i rc3 and was mostly pleased with the experience. > However, the help page for the partitioner was written in poor English. > > I realize that I should submit a patch but that will require that I do > some research first and I want

Bug#758984: marked as done (graphical installer: in some languages partitioning help does not fit into the screen)

2019-01-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 6 Jan 2019 11:24:34 +0100 with message-id <20190106112434.4195d54439baed958cd2b...@mailbox.org> and subject line graphical installer: in some languages partitioning help does not fit into the screen has caused the Debian Bug report #758984, regarding graphical ins

graphical installer: in some languages partitioning help does not fit into the screen

2019-01-06 Thread Holger Wansing
This has been fixed by shortening the text contents, thanks to translators. https://tracker.debian.org/news/1011757/accepted-partman-target-111-source-into-unstable/ So closing this bug (forgot to mention in changelog) -- Holger Wansing PGP-Finterprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87C

Bug#871835: systemd-setup-machine-id leaving mount behind? (was "Bug#871835: Call for help: review patches for debootstrap")

2018-06-12 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Antonio sorry for the late reply... Am 13.06.2018 um 01:20 schrieb Michael Biebl: > Am 22.04.2018 um 15:09 schrieb Antonio Terceiro: > >> # findmnt | grep machine-id >> ├─/root/patched2/etc/machine-id >> /dev/mapper/lemur--vg-root[/root/patched2/run/machine-id] ext4

Bug#871835: systemd-setup-machine-id leaving mount behind? (was "Bug#871835: Call for help: review patches for debootstrap")

2018-06-12 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Am 22.04.2018 um 15:09 schrieb Antonio Terceiro: > # findmnt | grep machine-id > ├─/root/patched2/etc/machine-id > /dev/mapper/lemur--vg-root[/root/patched2/run/machine-id] ext4 > ro,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered > > This explains the crash in mko

Bug#871835: systemd-setup-machine-id leaving mount behind? (was "Bug#871835: Call for help: review patches for debootstrap")

2018-04-22 Thread Antonio Terceiro
Dear systemd team: the context here is a patch set for debootstrap that, while using a local apt cache, makes debootstrap complete in 2/3 of the time, compared to the version currently in unstable. see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=871835 for details On Sat, 21 Apr 2018 20:30:

Bug#871835: Call for help: review patches for debootstrap

2018-04-21 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:42:43 +0900 Hideki Yamane wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:06:22 +0200 > Clément Hermann wrote: > > I had a look today. It looks good to me, at first glance I had concerns > > (like using hash keys in boolean context without the exists function), > > but everytime I

Bug#871835: Call for help: review patches for debootstrap

2018-04-16 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:06:22 +0200 Clément Hermann wrote: > I had a look today. It looks good to me, at first glance I had concerns > (like using hash keys in boolean context without the exists function), > but everytime I checked further, it looked fine in context. That for the > perl part.

Bug#871835: Call for help: review patches for debootstrap

2018-04-11 Thread Clément Hermann
Hi, On 06/04/2018 04:01, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Hi Perl people, > > Could you help us to check patches for embedded Perl code in debootstrap? > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=871835 > > It would improve to make debootstrap faster a lot, but we also

Processed: Re: Bug#826709: Doesn't mention --foreign in help output

2018-04-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tags -1 +pending Bug #826709 [debootstrap] debootstrap: fail early when debootstrapping foreign arches whose binaries cannot be run Added tag(s) pending. -- 826709: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826709 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@b

Bug#826709: Doesn't mention --foreign in help output

2018-04-05 Thread Hideki Yamane
control: tags -1 +pending On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 01:28:07 +0200 Adam Borowski wrote: > Thus, I'm attaching three patches: > 1. run in_target /bin/true before anything else in the second stage > 2. check arch-test if installed > 3. Recommend: arch-test Looks good, many thanks! :) -- Regards, Hi

Bug#826709: Doesn't mention --foreign in help output

2018-04-05 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 03:27:58PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2018 at 11:24:14AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > > > > + if [ "$HOST_ARCH" = "amd64" ] && [ "$ARCH" = "i386" ] ; > > > then > > > + # i386 binary can be run on amd64 host > > > > It is a ba

Bug#693219: Bug#826709: Doesn't mention --foreign in help output

2018-04-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2018-04-02 at 15:27 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2018 at 11:24:14AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > CCing the maintainer of arch-test who will probably have some input. > > > > On Sun, 2018-04-01 at 11:32 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > > > > + if [ "$HOST_ARCH"

Bug#693219: Bug#826709: Doesn't mention --foreign in help output

2018-04-02 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Apr 01, 2018 at 11:24:14AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > CCing the maintainer of arch-test who will probably have some input. > > On Sun, 2018-04-01 at 11:32 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > > + if [ "$HOST_ARCH" = "amd64" ] && [ "$ARCH" = "i386" ] ; then > > + # i3

Bug#693219: Bug#826709: Doesn't mention --foreign in help output

2018-03-31 Thread Paul Wise
CCing the maintainer of arch-test who will probably have some input. On Sun, 2018-04-01 at 11:32 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > + if [ "$HOST_ARCH" = "amd64" ] && [ "$ARCH" = "i386" ] ; then > + # i386 binary can be run on amd64 host It is a bad idea to hard-code this

Processed: Re: Doesn't mention --foreign in help output

2018-03-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tags -1 +patch Bug #826709 [debootstrap] debootstrap: fail early when debootstrapping foreign arches whose binaries cannot be run Added tag(s) patch. -- 826709: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826709 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.

Processed: Re: Doesn't mention --foreign in help output

2018-03-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tags -1 +patch Bug #693219 [debootstrap] Doesn't mention --foreign or --second-stage in help output Bug #806342 [debootstrap] Doesn't mention --foreign or --second-stage in help output Added tag(s) patch. Added tag(s) patch. -- 693219: https://bu

Bug#888515: debian-installer: UEFI boot menu (grub) misses the help screen

2018-03-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, on mar. 06 mars 2018 19:13:45 +0100, wrote: > Samuel Thibault, on lun. 05 févr. 2018 10:31:40 +0100, wrote: > > I have reported the feature request to http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53065 > > Here is an answer: > > “ > the solution which is available atm is: > > set pager=1 > cat

Bug#888515: debian-installer: UEFI boot menu (grub) misses the help screen

2018-03-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Samuel Thibault, on lun. 05 févr. 2018 10:31:40 +0100, wrote: > I have reported the feature request to http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53065 Here is an answer: “ the solution which is available atm is: set pager=1 cat ($root)/boot/grub/MESSAGE.txt unset pager echo -n "-- Press ESC or wait

Processed: Re: Bug#888515: debian-installer: UEFI boot menu (grub) misses the help screen

2018-02-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > clone -1 -2 Bug #888515 [debian-installer] debian-installer: UEFI boot menu (grub) misses the help screen Bug 888515 cloned as bug 889643 > block -1 by -2 Bug #888515 [debian-installer] debian-installer: UEFI boot menu (grub) misses the help screen 888515 w

Bug#888515: debian-installer: UEFI boot menu (grub) misses the help screen

2018-02-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: clone -1 -2 Control: block -1 by -2 Control: retitle -2 Add support for help screen Control: reassign -2 grub Control: forwarded -2 http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53065 Hello, I have reported the feature request to http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53065 Samuel

Bug#888515: debian-installer: UEFI boot menu (grub) misses the help screen

2018-01-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 02:13:30PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 05:16:38PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> Hello Grub maintainers, any idea about this? > >Is this too much of a hack: > > This is what I suggested to Samuel in irc earlier today, in fact. It's a bit gros

Bug#888515: debian-installer: UEFI boot menu (grub) misses the help screen

2018-01-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 05:16:38PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello Grub maintainers, any idea about this? Is this too much of a hack: menuentry ' ' {true} menuentry 'Help:' {true} submenu ' Prerequesites for installing Debian.' { menuentry &#x

Bug#888515: debian-installer: UEFI boot menu (grub) misses the help screen

2018-01-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello Grub maintainers, any idea about this? Samuel - Forwarded message from Steve McIntyre - From: Steve McIntyre To: Samuel Thibault , 888...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#888515: debian-installer: UEFI boot menu (grub) misses the help screen Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 16:12:46

Bug#888515: debian-installer: UEFI boot menu (grub) misses the help screen

2018-01-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 05:03:07PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: >Package: debian-installer >Version: 20171204 >Severity: normal > >Hello, > >When booting with syslinux, one has some boot-menu help screens which >document some convenient kernel parameters (e.g. to avo

Bug#888515: debian-installer: UEFI boot menu (grub) misses the help screen

2018-01-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: debian-installer Version: 20171204 Severity: normal Hello, When booting with syslinux, one has some boot-menu help screens which document some convenient kernel parameters (e.g. to avoid bugs like Bug#888513). That help is not available in the grub menu used for UEFI booting, it should

Re: Help building debian-installer for arm64

2018-01-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 11:27 +0100, Loys Ollivier wrote: [...] > I reported the wrong message. The one I get is this one: > "ABI is not completely versioned! Refusing to continue." > which looks like an error message. The scripts returns error 1 and it > stops there after printing out a long list o

Re: Help building debian-installer for arm64

2018-01-17 Thread Loys Ollivier
On 17/01/2018 01:36, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2018-01-16 at 20:47 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 05:35:28PM +0100, Loys Ollivier wrote: >> >> [building kernel package with udebs] >>> Unfortunately when I run the last command to build the package. It fails >>> after

Re: Help building debian-installer for arm64

2018-01-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2018-01-16 at 20:47 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 05:35:28PM +0100, Loys Ollivier wrote: > > [building kernel package with udebs] > > Unfortunately when I run the last command to build the package. It fails > > after building the kernel + modules with the error mes

Re: Help building debian-installer for arm64

2018-01-16 Thread Loys Ollivier
ly and boot from it. Thanks for >> the help with that. The problem is, my kernel is still missing some >> modules. >> >>> Regarding the kernel udebs: those are created by the Debian >>> kernel package. A package built with "make deb-pkg" from within >&g

Re: Help building debian-installer for arm64

2018-01-12 Thread Loys Ollivier
Hello Karsten, Thanks for the help, On 26/12/2017 22:05, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 05:13:26PM +0100, Loys Ollivier wrote: > >> I would like to build a custom debian-installer. The reason being, this >> arm64 platform has a custom PHY that I need to enabl

Re: Re: Help building debian-installer for arm64

2018-01-09 Thread Hermann Lauer
Hello, On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 09:43:32AM +0100, Loys Ollivier wrote: > > If you only want debian on one (or a few) special system ... there are > > other ways to get debian > > on such a system up. The way I used sometimes as describe above is to build > > the normal > > kernel package (needed

Re: Help building debian-installer for arm64

2018-01-09 Thread Loys Ollivier
nn's answer. I suspect there is a >> critical gap in my reading. >From what I understood you'd like to "default/force" some of the choices during the installation process ? My intent is different, but maybe while building the installer you can use a configuration file or

Re: Re: Help building debian-installer for arm64

2018-01-08 Thread Hermann Lauer
Hello Richard, On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 06:52:20AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > I would like to build a custom debian-installer. The reason being, this > > > > arm64 platform has a custom PHY that I need to enable in the kernel to > > > > get > > > > network access. > I've been follow

Re: Help building debian-installer for arm64

2018-01-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/08/2018 04:49 AM, Hermann Lauer wrote: Hello, On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 05:13:26PM +0100, Loys Ollivier wrote: I would like to build a custom debian-installer. The reason being, this arm64 platform has a custom PHY that I need to enable in the kernel to get network access. I built the ke

Re: Re: Help building debian-installer for arm64

2018-01-08 Thread Hermann Lauer
Hello, > On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 05:13:26PM +0100, Loys Ollivier wrote: > > > I would like to build a custom debian-installer. The reason being, this > > arm64 platform has a custom PHY that I need to enable in the kernel to get > > network access. > > > > I built the kernel and version is: > >

Re: Requesting for help

2017-12-29 Thread eamanu15 .
Thanks! El vie., 29 de dic. de 2017 a la(s) 20:06, Andrew M.A. Cater < amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk> escribió: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 07:56:58PM +, eamanu15 . wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > Sorry if this is not the correct mailing list, but maybe you ca

Re: Requesting for help

2017-12-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 07:56:58PM +, eamanu15 . wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Sorry if this is not the correct mailing list, but maybe you can help me. > > I have a Lenovo laptop with Windows10 native and UEFI. I read (really a > friend) on various forums and tell that D

Re: Requesting for help

2017-12-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/29/2017 01:56 PM, eamanu15 . wrote: Hello everybody, Sorry if this is not the correct mailing list, but maybe you can help me. I have a Lenovo laptop with Windows10 native and UEFI. I read (really a friend) on various forums and tell that Debian installation is difficult on systems with

Requesting for help

2017-12-29 Thread eamanu15 .
Hello everybody, Sorry if this is not the correct mailing list, but maybe you can help me. I have a Lenovo laptop with Windows10 native and UEFI. I read (really a friend) on various forums and tell that Debian installation is difficult on systems with UEFI. That is correct? Thanks! Regards

Help building debian-installer for arm64

2017-12-26 Thread Loys Ollivier
>From that kernel deb package. How can I build the debian installer ? The documentation mentions udeb files that I don't have. Also, I don't know how to specify the target arch: arm64. I checked out the debian-installer source code. Thanks a lot for the help, -- Loys OLLIVIER

Can you help me?

2017-10-20 Thread Paul Harold
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Bug#873462: fontdiff might help

2017-09-29 Thread Bobby de Vos
I wonder if fontdiff [1] might help compare renders. The existing tool would not be usable for this bug, as it compares two fonts (probably two different versions of the same font is the intended usage). But it does the comparison using two generated image files. So if you have two images (one

Bug#877200: help users identify unknown keyboard layouts

2017-09-29 Thread Daniel Pocock
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist The installer currently asks the user to select their keyboard layout from a list. Sometimes the user or person doing the installation doesn't know the name/country for their keyboard layout. It would be useful to offer some type of keyboard identific

Re: debian-installer preparation for NanoPi M3 (arm64) please help

2017-07-30 Thread Ben Hildred
contain udeb packages with modules for my > kernel. It cannot contain, because I haven't access to your repository. Ah, good. If you want to add it to the repository debian mentors can probably help. However for testing setup your own repository. It only need s the changed packages and the new

Re: debian-installer preparation for NanoPi M3 (arm64) please help

2017-07-29 Thread Rafal
On 07/29/2017 10:15 PM, Ben Hildred wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Rafal > wrote: I'm trying to prepare Debian installer for NanoPi M3 board. This is an arm64 device. I have a custom kernel package (which contains drivers specific to the boa

Re: debian-installer preparation for NanoPi M3 (arm64) please help

2017-07-29 Thread Ben Hildred
On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Rafal wrote: > I'm trying to prepare Debian installer for NanoPi M3 board. This is an > arm64 device. I have a custom kernel package (which contains drivers > specific to the board) and I'm trying to build network debian-installer > (netboot) with a few additiona

debian-installer preparation for NanoPi M3 (arm64) please help

2017-07-29 Thread Rafal
I'm trying to prepare Debian installer for NanoPi M3 board. This is an arm64 device. I have a custom kernel package (which contains drivers specific to the board) and I'm trying to build network debian-installer (netboot) with a few additional local udeb's whose will install the custom kernel o

Thanks for your help

2017-07-28 Thread Mike Hosken
After some good help, I've managed to bend the stable debian-installer into compiling for the hppa arch. There were a few changes made to the config files and debian rules files to enable to an unofficial build based off my unofficial repo. I am very thankful for the constructive a

Bug#867103: display a short help when grub-installer is invoked from console

2017-07-03 Thread Xavier Brochard
Package: rescue Version: 1.141 Severity: wishlist Please display a short help when grub-installer is invoked from console. It would be useful in Rescue mode. Every debian-installer script should display, at the minimum, a list of available options in Rescue mode.

Bug#783351: marked as done (d-i manual: add warning and call for help on outdated translations)

2017-03-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 12 Mar 2017 14:50:09 + with message-id and subject line Bug#783351: fixed in installation-guide 20170312 has caused the Debian Bug report #783351, regarding d-i manual: add warning and call for help on outdated translations to be marked as done. This means that you

Processed: Re: Bug#857459: cannot scroll to bottom of help on partitioning screen

2017-03-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > reassign -1 debian-installer Bug #857459 [d-i.debian.org] cannot scroll to bottom of help on partitioning screen Bug reassigned from package 'd-i.debian.org' to 'debian-installer'. Ignoring request to alter found versions of bug #85

Bug#857459: cannot scroll to bottom of help on partitioning screen

2017-03-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: reassign -1 debian-installer 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson (2017-03-11): > Package: d-i.debian.org > Severity: wishlist > > Cannot scroll to bottom of 'help on partitioning' screen... too long... > no way to read all the way to the bottom. Reassigning to debian-installer

Bug#857459: cannot scroll to bottom of help on partitioning screen

2017-03-11 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: d-i.debian.org Severity: wishlist Cannot scroll to bottom of 'help on partitioning' screen... too long... no way to read all the way to the bottom.

Bug#783351: d-i manual: add warning and call for help on outdated translations

2017-02-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Holger Wansing, on mar. 14 févr. 2017 19:37:21 +0100, wrote: > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Holger Wansing, on Mon 13 Feb 2017 20:11:00 +0100, wrote: > > > New patch attached. > > > > Commited, thanks! > > I have synced the translations (trivial, since the sentence remains

Bug#783351: d-i manual: add warning and call for help on outdated translations

2017-02-14 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Holger Wansing, on Mon 13 Feb 2017 20:11:00 +0100, wrote: > > New patch attached. > > Commited, thanks! I have synced the translations (trivial, since the sentence remains in English). And I have added the new files in ../build/lang-options. (Weird, I h

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