Re: [SOLVED] Unbootable after kernel upgrade: Lilo can't load kernel

reopen 505609 reassign 505609 linux-2.6 affects 505609 lilo thanks Stephen Powell wrote: > The real question is, "Why didn't the map installer get run during > the kernel upgrade?" [...] > So is this a bug in the kernel maintainer scripts? Or is it a feature? > I don't know. I'll leave that up

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

On Thursday 27 May 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Because the question is "where?". The lilo approach is "inside the > filesystem", which can break. The grub approach is "right after MBR", > which needs room there. grub (legacy) can be installed in any partition. IIUC grub2 is limited to being i

Re: My warning about Lenny

(Moving this to the d-boot list. Please reply to that list only.) Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Joey Hess [2010-01-10 23:23]: > >> This is not the case in Debian 5.0. Nor was it the case with Debian 4.0. >> Debian 3.1 (2005) was the last one to do that. > > Interesting. Tasksel on my Squeeze box s

Re: My warning about Lenny

Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Andrzej Borucki [2010-01-10 19:58]: >> I am beginner in Linux. I install Debian 5.0.3 "Lenny". I have several >> warnings: - in install I can't choose Gnome or Kde > > "Graphical desktop environment" will install both, however you can go > without "Graphical desktop env

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

On Friday 18 December 2009, Philipp Kern wrote: > While I did not take care about the fallout due to time constraints on > my side, I did take a look at the meta-gnome2 migration back then. We > did not place any approval hint but it seems that the multiple arch:all > confused britney sufficiently

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

On Thursday 17 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 17 December 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Given that the package version clearly indicates it reached testing by > > way of testing-proposed-updates, I think it's unwise to assume this. > >  Cc:ing debia

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

On Thursday 17 December 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: > Given that the package version clearly indicates it reached testing by > way of testing-proposed-updates, I think it's unwise to assume this. >  Cc:ing debian-release for input on the uninstallability of gnome in > testing. You're right, I miss

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote: > It may not be "grave" for the installer (indeed, you've already > established at great length that it's not an installer problem at all) > but that doesn't make it any the less grave for whatever package it > does belong to. You've given me a few

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote: > > What problems exist in Squeeze? > > Here's the Squeeze problem (from my original posting in this thread): > >>> 3) When I install a "graphical desktop environment" with Squeeze > >>> using the above d-i images, I get a system that is missing almo

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote: > I have listed several problems that exist in Sid and Squeeze, some of   > which prevent successful installation (even though there is nothing   > wrong with the installer). The problems in Sid are not interesting as they will fix themselves. What

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rogério Brito wrote: > I will see with Otávio what can be done from the d-i side of it (I'm not > really up to d-i things, since I've been working with the main > distribution instead of with installers). But I can try to look at it. I already replied to the original

Re: Best way to install a new session manager

On Saturday 11 April 2009, Rick Thomas wrote: > After installing from the default CD (e.g. "businesscard") I'd like to > make other session managers than Gnome available. (e.g. xfce or kde). For i386 and amd64 you can now select a different desktop environment from the isolinux boot menu (with bu

Bits from the Debian CD team

4 DVD; also includes source packages All these variants are now available when using images from daily and weekly builds [3]. Cheers, Frans Pop [1] http://lxde.org/ [2] http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/ [3] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Is there a full list of debian installer (d-i) questions that can be used in a preseed file?

On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Chris Bannister wrote: > > I'm trying to find the equivalent for Debian Installer's preseeding > > questions (and Ubuntu too if possible). However the best I've found > > is http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs04.html.en > > This is a good howto, and enough

Fwd: [security] Incorrect file permissions due to (now fixed) perl 5.10 issue

For your information a copy of a message just also sent to the debian-devel-announce mailing list. -- Forwarded Message -- Likely affected: any unstable/testing system that has 'debsums' installed Possibly affected: any unstable/testing system Today a Debian Testing Security An

Fwd: Debian Installer lenny beta 2 released

f known issues. Our thanks to everybody who has contributed to this release. Installation CDs and DVDs, other media, errata, and everything else you'll need are available from our web site [4]. For the Debian Installer team, Frans Pop [1]http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort [2]http://www.de

Re: Installing testing on a premade volume

On Sunday 20 April 2008, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > It just seems like quite a silly thing, that we can boot to RAID, we can > boot to LVM, we can even boot over the network, but we can't manage to > boot to one cylinder of a disk drive. Feel free to file a wishlist bug report against partman

Re: Installing testing on a premade volume

No need to CC me; I obviously read the lists (well, one of them anyway). On Sunday 20 April 2008, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > Yes, but the problem is that the partition is /dev/hdd, not /dev/hdd1. Sounds to me like a mistake was made when the filesystem was created. It was apparently created

Re: Installing testing on a premade volume

On Saturday 19 April 2008, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > I've installed Debian many times, but this time I'm having an issue. > I've got Windows XP on /dev/hda1, and I have a pre-existing ext3 volume > with data I need on /dev/hdd. But I can't figure out a way to get the > installer to use /dev/h

Re: What's happening with the 3.1r7 install iso?

(Setting reply-to to the d-user list only) On Sunday 06 January 2008, Rick Thomas wrote: > I hate to be a bore on this subject, but the Sarge 3.1r7 iso's still > aren't available, as far as I can tell. And no word from anyone as > to what the hold up is. > > Can anybody enlighten me? For future

[Debian Installer] Experimental support for Serial ATA RAID (dmraid)

the Debian Installer team, Frans Pop [1] To confuse the general public, this is also referred to as ATA RAID, BIOS RAID, fake RAID and software RAID, as well as a number of vendor specific terms such as "Intel Matrix Storage". [2] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataRaid [3] http://

BTS subscription fixed

stem works again now. You will need to subscribe again for any subscriptions that were lost. You may also want to review the bug history in the BTS for those bug reports. We apologize for any inconvenience this issue may have caused. Frans Pop Debian Listmaster pgp0TIKNv3Pxp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian Installer etch RC1 released

On Tuesday 14 November 2006 14:58, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I understand that the line must be drawn somewhere. However, I am > concerned about Etch shipping with a 2.6.17 kernel because of Xen. > AIUI, Xen has issues with 2.6.17 kernels (at least those available from > backports). I run some

Debian Installer etch RC1 released

to this release. Special thanks to Sylvain Ferriol for his work on 2.6 based installation floppies for i386. Installation CDs, other media, detailed errata and everything else you'll need are available from our web site: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer For the Debian Installer team

Re: cdimage.debian.org presents different faces for "ftp" and "http" access

On Thursday 26 October 2006 02:44, Rick Thomas wrote: > Pointing my browser at > powerpc/iso-cd/> > redirects me to > powerpc/iso-cd/> [...] > Note the dif

Debian Installer etch beta 3 released

me in particular to Bastian Blank for his work to switch S/390 to a 2.6 kernel. Installation CDs, other media, detailed errata and everything else you'll need are available from our web site: <http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer> For the Debian Installer team, Frans Pop [1] ht

Re: Horrible performance: hdparm

On Wednesday 12 July 2006 00:11, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 19:01, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > What you *can* do that would be helpful (and really, this would be > > best fixed in the kernel as well) is to set -u 1 by default, but > > don't c

Re: Horrible performance: hdparm

On Tuesday 11 July 2006 19:01, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > What you *can* do that would be helpful (and really, this would be best > fixed in the kernel as well) is to set -u 1 by default, but don't > change -d (dma). Please file a wishlist bugreport against debian-installer if you really

Debian Installer etch beta 2 released

from our website. Installation CDs, other media, and everything else you'll need are available from our web site: <http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer> For the Debian Installer team, Frans Pop [1] http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/ pgpu3yBukVFH5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Boot Instal thru Loadlin and initrd image

On Tuesday 23 August 2005 15:13, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > The ramdisk_size is probably a bit higher than strictly needed. > > I would think the ramdisk size would have to be much higher. I know > 8192 wasn't enough when I made my last custom install cd. I started > using 16384 as far as I reca

Re: Boot Instal thru Loadlin and initrd image

On Tuesday 23 August 2005 00:43, Frans Pop wrote: > loadlin vmlinux /dev/ram rw root=/dev/ram initrd=initrd.gz ramdisk_size=1000 Always a stupid typo: vmlinux should of course be vmlinuz... > The ramdisk_size is probably a bit higher than strictly needed. pgpdkckExMFNn.pgp Descriptio

Re: Boot Instal thru Loadlin and initrd image

On Wednesday 17 August 2005 06:12, Avid LinuxHacker wrote: > A reply to my installation question in the users forum has raised a > concern that I am hoping someone here can resolve quickly. The > respondant to the loadlin & initrd boot/install question stated that it > is no longer possible to do

Re: OT - Unwanted mail

On Sunday 07 August 2005 01:26, Doofus wrote: > Would it be too much to ask for the spam filters to ditch anything with > "paypal" or "ebay" in the subject or body? Sometimes people will ask questions about hardware they want to buy / bought on ebay... pgpsxcgRbsyYL.pgp Description: PGP signatu

Re: adaptec 2610sa raid support in debian-installer (aacraid)

On Wednesday 08 June 2005 18:47, Simon wrote: > I'm hoping to install sarge on an HP box with one adaptec 2610sa raid > controller, but the latest debian-installer's aacraid module doesn't > recognize the 2610sa. The 2410sa, 2810sa and 21610sa are mentioned as > being supported on adaptec's site (a

Bug (proposed) - lockd_down: lockd failed to exit

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Below the contents of a bug report I plan to submit against sysvinit. The bug concerns an error message on console during poweroff when unmounting NFS-shares. Any comments/suggestions welcome. Frans Pop From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: please help - can't get Open Inventor demos to build - missing /make/ivcommondefs

In that case I guess you should submit a bugreport against the inventor-demo package. On Tuesday 25 March 2003 13:27, Lukas Latz wrote: > Hi list, > > Well, I guess running Open Inventor is sort of uncommon here.. > I got the missing files from SGI, meanwhile. > ..Put them where they appeared to

Re: PCI ATA card support

The standard kernel with debian 3 is version 2.2, but there is also a 'kernel flavour' available based on version 2.4. See http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#s-newinst for further information. Also, the kernel sources for version 2.4 are available as

Fwd: Re: apt sources.list problem

Just checked and there already is a bug filed against the apt package on this. See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=156739 FJP -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: apt sources.list problem Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:45:50 +0100 From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Changing X resulution (Ctrl-Alt-+/-), only using a command-line tool ???

Don't most laptops have an area of the keyboard that doubles as num keypad when you shift with the Fn key? Don't know if that works with Linux though. FJP On Tuesday 11 March 2003 14:37, Mark Janssen wrote: > Hi List. > > I know I can change the X11 resolution using the Ctrl-Alt-(Numerical+/-) >

Re: apt sources.list problem

No, seems like it is a bug in apt-cdrom. Same happens on my box with CD images downloaded with Jigdo from official Debian mirror. unstable is symlink to woody, so in the end it does not make any difference, but it is confusing (esp. to newbies). See also my earlier reply to this thread. FJP On

Re: wtf? (long and frustrated)

On Monday 10 March 2003 21:02, Kent West wrote: > It sounds like you're running XFree86 3.x; I think upgrading to 4.x > would be of benefit to you. Of course, the easiest way to do that is to > leave Woody behind and go for Sid or Testing. I run Sid on my > workstations (Stable/Woody on servers);

KDE: changing PATH for Konsole

Hello folks, I am using KDE from Woody (2.2.25) and can't figure out how to change the default PATH for Konsole. I would like have ~/bin added to $PATH when Konsole starts up, but where (and how) do I do that. I have the following in ~/.bash_profile, but that seems to be ignored by Konsole. <

Re: about matrix text editing

Very quick solution using awk. I know there are other (more pretty) ways, but this may get you started. cat | awk '$0 ~ /^.*\t.*\t111.*/' The regular expression matches: "111" So it looks for 111 in 3rd column separated by tabs (I included your column with a, b, c in a little test so I had

Re: Bad Debian (L.A.H.)

I'd like to appologise somewhat for my earlier reply. Speedreading I missed the fact that it was a quote from a book. Glad you think well of Debian. It seems to me that people reviewing Debian frequently make the mistake of looking only superficially and giving a negative opinion because they f

Re: buy or build computer?

Hello Peter, Sorry your Gateway died. I have the same machine, about same age and still running! Currently as internet gateway on my little network at home. Never had any problems with it. (knock wood.) About your question. I have thought of building my own machine too, but never got around to

Re: Bad Debian (L.A.H.)

If this is your attitude, I don't think you are going to get much help from this list. No, the Suse scripts probably won't work on Debian. Try to get a feel for how Debian is structured before you start making general remarks without specific arguments about it. I have been using Debian for 3

Re: Comments on security, Re: recover lost root password

Well said. On Sunday 09 March 2003 16:40, Joey Hess wrote: > Satish Iyer wrote: > >I am new user of Debian Gnu/Linux. > > Perhaps when you were installing Debian you didn't bother to read the > following message which was prominently displayed for you: > > problemBox(_("NOTE: The default LIL

Re: apt sources.list problem

I was confused by this as well at first. However, if you mount the cdrom and do 'ls -l dists', you get -r--r--r--1 root root 314 Dec 19 01:33 TRANS.TBL lr-xr-xr-x1 root root5 Dec 19 00:13 frozen -> woody dr-xr-xr-x3 root root 2048 Dec 19 00:14 p

OT: Patch for ide-tape driver

This might interest other Debian users who use the ide-tape driver. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: PATCH for ide-tape driver Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 00:00:24 +0100 From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been experiencing problems with this

Re: IPv6 DNS Queries

Check the following recent threads. Looks like you may have the same problem I was having. - Local address lookup - Exim - DNS problem - Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved >From the last thread: [snip] Woody versions of some Debian packages, like telnet, and, it seems, exim, *require* I

Re: Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

[snip] > > Are you going to file a bug on this? > > There doesn't seem to be much point in this. When I asked about > this on debian-ipv6 (the developers list) no less an authority > than Wichert Akkerman said that it was "a feature", not a bug. > > I assume he meant it ironically, so the problem

Re: Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

Congratulations and thanks! This solves my thread "EXIM - DNS problem" as well. I just added the extra lines for my hosts, and bingo, my nameserver doesn't get bothered by unqualified names anymore! Are you going to file a bug on this? Frans Pop On Thursday 26 September

Re: disable Screen saver

XFree86 has a default screen blanking function. In version 4.1 this is set with the BlankTime option in section Serverflags. See man XF86Config-4 for further info. Note that this value may be overruled by your windowmanager (or a screensaver if you had one installed). On Thursday 26 September 2

Re: Exim - DNS problem

See thread "Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved". On Monday 23 September 2002 19:39, Frans Pop wrote: > I'm having an annoying problem with exim every time "exim -q" is run by > cron. Exim then causes two DNS query's to my local nameserver, namel

Re: disable Screen saver

XFree86 has a default screen blanking function. In version 4.1 this is set with the BlankTime option in section Serverflags. See man XF86Config-4 for further info. Note that this value may be overruled by your windowmanager (or a screensaver if you had one installed). On Thursday 26 September 2

Re: Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

Congratulations and thanks! This solves my thread "EXIM - DNS problem" as well. I just added the extra lines for my hosts, and bingo, my nameserver doesn't get bothered by unqualified names anymore! Are you going to file a bug on this? Frans Pop On Thursday 26 September

Re: Exim - DNS problem

See thread "Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved". On Monday 23 September 2002 19:39, Frans Pop wrote: > I'm having an annoying problem with exim every time "exim -q" is run by > cron. Exim then causes two DNS query's to my local nameserver, namel

Re: Exim - DNS problem

gt; > and make sure that you don't have a SEARCH line for fjphome.nl > > That should do it . . . > > madmac > > On 23 Sep 2002, 19:39:46, Frans Pop wrote: > > I'm having an annoying problem with exim every time "exim -q" is run by > > cron. Exim

Exim - DNS problem

I'm having an annoying problem with exim every time "exim -q" is run by cron. Exim then causes two DNS query's to my local nameserver, namely for: - galadriel.fjphome.nl (the correct fully quallified name) - galadriel (unqualified!) The first query gets solved by my DNS, but the second does not