Re: failed to test the graphical installer from local directory

2007-02-08 Thread Davide Viti
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:28:52PM +0100, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > Vern Sun wrote: > Given the great number of environmental variables involved, could you > please first check that the regular gtk miniiso boots on your system ? > > >>I think some more error output is needed; > >> > > > >I don

Re: failed to test the graphical installer from local directory

2007-02-08 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Vern Sun wrote: are you running debconf as root? I am not sure. I just follow the guide: ---8< -- #chrooting inside d-i/build/tmp/gtk-miniiso/tree/ sudo chroot ./ sh #creating all device files needed to access the framebuffer cd /dev mknod fb0 c 29 0 mknod tty c 5 0 mknod tty0 c 4 0 m

Re: failed to test the graphical installer from local directory

2007-02-08 Thread Vern Sun
> are you running debconf as root? > I am not sure. I just follow the guide: ---8< -- #chrooting inside d-i/build/tmp/gtk-miniiso/tree/ sudo chroot ./ sh #creating all device files needed to access the framebuffer cd /dev mknod fb0 c 29 0 mknod tty c 5 0 mknod tty0 c 4 0 mknod tty8 c 4 8

Re: failed to test the graphical installer from local directory

2007-02-08 Thread Vern Sun
Yes. I appended "video=vesa vga=791" to my kernel comand line. kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash video=vesa vga=791 I can run dfbterm fine on my system. Thanks. 2007/2/8, Attilio Fiandrotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Did you boot your host machine with

Re: failed to test the graphical installer from local directory

2007-02-08 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Vern Sun wrote: Yes. I appended "video=vesa vga=791" to my kernel comand line. kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash video=vesa vga=791 I can run dfbterm fine on my system. I think some more error output is needed; are you running debconf as root?

Re: failed to test the graphical installer from local directory

2007-02-08 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Did you boot your host machine with an active framebuffer device? Attilio Vern Sun wrote: I've tried to follow the instructions found here: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUIBuild, but I'm not winning. I've built the images. I have a problem starting the graphical installer. It does not

failed to test the graphical installer from local directory

2007-02-08 Thread Vern Sun
I've tried to follow the instructions found here: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUIBuild, but I'm not winning. I've built the images. I have a problem starting the graphical installer. It does not showed the interface after I giving the command: >export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk >debconf -f gtk