Bug#379067: closed by Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: Processed: Re: Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc, lspci)

2006-07-24 Thread Rick Thomas
Debian Bugs database) From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: July 24, 2006 11:41:36 AM EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Processed: Re: Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc, lspci lspci is present in current daily builds. Closing this bug. -- see shy jo Well ac

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 23 July 2006 08:53, Rick Thomas wrote: > So there seems to be a difference between "tasksel" and "aptitude" in > their behavior on a missing CDrom. In an earlier part of this > report I said that "aptitude" had hung. I believe now that it was > actually "tasksel" that hung. Sorry for

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 22, 2006, at 6:11 AM, Jens Seidel wrote: On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 05:59:02AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: so it hung. (Does hanging if the CD is not inserted count as a bug?) It depends on the kind of "hanging". If APT just asks you to insert a special CD I think this is OK and expected.

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 22 July 2006 11:59, Rick Thomas wrote: > Hmmm... Does it matter that I first did a "bare bones" install ( by > un-checking the default "desktop" task)? Then when I later went back > to pick up something that is normally installed as part of the > Desktop task, it tried to go to the CD

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 22 July 2006 13:10, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 05:59:02AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > so it hung. (Does hanging if the CD is not inserted count as a bug?) > > If it did not ask you to insert it, yes. It may not be an apt error though, but a kernel driver issue.

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 05:59:02AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > so it hung. (Does hanging if the CD is not inserted count as a bug?) If it did not ask you to insert it, yes. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-22 Thread Jens Seidel
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 05:59:02AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jul 22, 2006, at 4:45 AM, Jens Seidel wrote: > >There are at least two ways to add a CD to APT: > > 1) By using apt-cdrom which adds a deb cdrom:[...] stanza to > >sources.list > > 2) By accessing a mounted CD: "deb file:/mnt/etc

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 22, 2006, at 4:45 AM, Jens Seidel wrote: Hi Rick, On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 03:55:28AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Hmmm... That doesn't square with my recent experience. I've had aptitude hang on me a couple of times with messages saying (approximately -- from memory) "can't read cdrom".

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-22 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Rick, On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 03:55:28AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > Hmmm... That doesn't square with my recent experience. I've had > aptitude hang on me a couple of times with messages saying > (approximately -- from memory) "can't read cdrom". If you want, I > can explore this behavi

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-22 Thread Eddy Petrisor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Thomas wrote: > But, it does *not* make sense for a businesscard or netinst install. > For either of those, you must have reasonable network access to have any > chance of succeeding. Making people keep their install CD around > forever (or unti

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-22 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 04:09:23PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > PS: For the record -- this bug report mentions a couple other > problems -- Neither of these installs encountered the problem with > the missing "etc/mkinitramfs" directory. And both of them were > missing the "lspci" command

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 22, 2006, at 3:01 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 11:19:06PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 21 July 2006 22:09, Rick Thomas wrote: Putting the install CDrom into sources.list makes sense when you are installing from a full CD (or DVD) set, because there's a large

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 11:19:06PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 21 July 2006 22:09, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Putting the install CDrom into sources.list makes sense when you are > > installing from a full CD (or DVD) set, because there's a large > > amount of significant information on them, *

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 21 July 2006 22:09, Rick Thomas wrote: > Putting the install CDrom into sources.list makes sense when you are > installing from a full CD (or DVD) set, because there's a large > amount of significant information on them, *and* the main reason why > you might want to install that way is be

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 21, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jul 21, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Eddy Petrişor wrote: I call BS :-D ! Joke aside, this i from a system installed on Monday via a buisnesscard CD: ... snipped... I don't see any CD source. Maybe you were talking about netinst? ... "Curio

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 21, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Eddy Petrişor wrote: I call BS :-D ! Joke aside, this i from a system installed on Monday via a buisnesscard CD: ... snipped... I don't see any CD source. Maybe you were talking about netinst? ... "Curiouser and curioser!", cried Alice. I'll try aga

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 21 July 2006 01:24, Rick Thomas wrote: > Index of /cdimage/daily-builds/etch_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd As I explained in response to your other mail, you should not use etch_d-i, but daily images as linked from the project homepage. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-21 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 21/07/06, Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jul 21, 2006, at 4:37 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 09:13:51PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Some testing also noted that /etc/apt/sources.list includes the >> install CD as a source. I don't think this is a good idea

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 21, 2006, at 4:37 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 09:13:51PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Some testing also noted that /etc/apt/sources.list includes the install CD as a source. I don't think this is a good idea -- it means that I have to hang onto the install CD and pu

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc, lspci

2006-07-21 Thread Geert Stappers
clone 379067 -1 retitle -1 lspic is missing thanks mate On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 09:28:50PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jul 20, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > 2) However, strangely, the "lspci" command seems to be missing > >from the installed system. I *was* able to get it (

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 09:13:51PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > Some testing also noted that /etc/apt/sources.list includes the > install CD as a source. I don't think this is a good idea -- it > means that I have to hang onto the install CD and put it in the drive > every time I want to apt-

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 20, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: 2) However, strangely, the "lspci" command seems to be missing from the installed system. I *was* able to get it (as part of the "pciutils" package) from the mirror via aptitude. So it's not missing completely. Interestingly... I had or

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 20, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [o] Detect network card:[o] Configure network: [o] Detect CD: [o] Load installer modules: [o] De

Bug#379067: couple of minor glitches in install of powerpc

2006-07-20 Thread Rick Thomas
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