Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-19 Thread Bart Schuller
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 10:42:11PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:52:32AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > > > 1. Linux 2.6.0? > > Not released yet. Yes, it has a _lot_ of nice features, but it is beta > software.. It (or patches to 2.4.22) is also needed if you decide to

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 18 Nov 2003 12:27:55 +0100 > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Busybox or busybox-cvs? > > The patch was against the head of busybox's cvs a couple of months ago, > which equates aproximately to busybox-cvs-1.0-pre3. > > > If t

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-18 Thread Glenn McGrath
On 18 Nov 2003 12:27:55 +0100 Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Busybox or busybox-cvs? The patch was against the head of busybox's cvs a couple of months ago, which equates aproximately to busybox-cvs-1.0-pre3. > If the busybox-cvs maintainer isn't responsive contact upstream.

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:38:53 + > Paul Hedderly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The inclusion of mdadm would at least enable people to go into a shell > > and setup their MD devices. Then all you'd need to do is make sure > > some basic MD options a

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-18 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:38:53 + Paul Hedderly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The inclusion of mdadm would at least enable people to go into a shell > and setup their MD devices. Then all you'd need to do is make sure > some basic MD options are on in the kernel. I put together a raid patch for b

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-18 Thread Paul Hedderly
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:44:27AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Julian Mehnle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Brian May wrote: > > > I have tried debian-installer, and found it to be great! > > > > > > I just have three feature requests, if they aren't already supported: > > > [...] >

RE: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-17 Thread Julian Mehnle
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Just ditch the ataraid crap, the only use for it is to share raid arrays > with MS Windows. That was my point. So I can't ditch the ATARAID crap. Sorry.

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Julian Mehnle wrote: > Is "md RAID" (I don't know this one) compatible with ATARAID in regard of > the partition/storage layout on disks, i.e. can I use ATARAID drivers to > access "md RAID" disks and vice versa? I need this kind of compatibility > since I dual-boot Windows 2

RE: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-17 Thread Julian Mehnle
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Julian Mehnle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is "md RAID" (I don't know this one) compatible with ATARAID in > > regard of the partition/storage layout on disks, i.e. can I use > > ATARAID drivers to access "md RAID" disks and vice versa? I need > > this kind of comp

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Julian Mehnle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Julian Mehnle wrote: > > > That would be great! At least if it means ATARAID-style > > > software RAID. No opinion about LVM-style RAID. > > > > Yuck (if by ATARAID you mean those PoS contr

RE: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-17 Thread Julian Mehnle
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Julian Mehnle wrote: > > That would be great! At least if it means ATARAID-style > > software RAID. No opinion about LVM-style RAID. > > Yuck (if by ATARAID you mean those PoS controllers from, e.g., Promise > -- these are slow as a snail

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Julian Mehnle wrote: > That would be great! At least if it means ATARAID-style software RAID. No > opinion about LVM-style RAID. Yuck (if by ATARAID you mean those PoS controllers from, e.g., Promise -- these are slow as a snail compared to md software RAID), and Yuck for L

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Julian Mehnle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian May wrote: > > I have tried debian-installer, and found it to be great! > > > > I just have three feature requests, if they aren't already supported: > > [...] > > 3. Software raid support? > > That would be great! At least if it means ATARAID

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 2. Grub instead of Lilo? Look closer.. :-) Using GRUB is possible, though LILO is the default. You just need to lower the debconf priority just to get some more questions.and main-menu entries.

RE: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-16 Thread Julian Mehnle
Brian May wrote: > I have tried debian-installer, and found it to be great! > > I just have three feature requests, if they aren't already supported: > [...] > 3. Software raid support? That would be great! At least if it means ATARAID-style software RAID. No opinion about LVM-style RAID.

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-16 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:52:32AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:02:07AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >We are pleased to announce the first beta release of debian-installer, the > > >new

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-16 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:02:07AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >We are pleased to announce the first beta release of debian-installer, the > >new installation system for sarge. > > We want screenshots! I have tri

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-10 00:02]: > >We are pleased to announce the first beta release of > >debian-installer, the new installation system for sarge. > > We want screenshots! http://articles.linmagau.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticl

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:02:33PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > We are pleased to announce the first beta release of debian-installer, the > new installation system for sarge. This first beta is for the following > architectures only: > > * i386. > * PowerPC, with support for the subarchitectures

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-10 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-10 03:41]: | Can you point me to the ISO? I tried burning the sarge netinst twice | but was never successful at installing Debian with it. what does this mean? You're unable to burn the iso, the cdrom's are corrupt? Or perhaps your have found an new bug in the

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-09 Thread Joey Hess
Tom wrote: > Can you point me to the ISO? I tried burning the sarge netinst twice > but was never successful at installing Debian with it. It's the big bold[1] links on the d-i web site: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ -- see shy jo [1] links may not be big and bold signature

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-09 Thread Tom
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 02:31:55PM +1100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-09 21:17]: > > > >We are pleased to announce the first beta release of > > > debian-installer, the >new installation system for sarge. > > > > > > We want screenshots! > > > > Seconded

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-09 21:17]: > > >We are pleased to announce the first beta release of > > debian-installer, the >new installation system for sarge. > > > > We want screenshots! > > Seconded! Try that damn installer and see for yourself. ;-) And report bugs. -- Mart

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-09 Thread Graham Wilson
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:02:07AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >We are pleased to announce the first beta release of debian-installer, the > >new installation system for sarge. > > We want screenshots! Seconded!

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We are pleased to announce the first beta release of debian-installer, the >new installation system for sarge. We want screenshots! Mike.