Re: What should be on a rescue CD ? (was Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1)

2008-09-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-08-28 14:41:38, schrieb Mark Allums: > Consider something akin to pico/nano as well. Something very small and > lightweight and easy to use. Something for the "near misses" in the > experience department: someone who is able to install and run Debian > (mostly) but still is a bit green

Re: What should be on a rescue CD ? (was Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1)

2008-09-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Ian, Is "Midnight Commander" on the Rescue-CD? I have gotten (from the net) some Rescue-CDs laking "mc" which I use daily on any of my systems... > What hex editor(s) should it have ? How important is it to have > python, tcl, ruby or other scripting languages ? Which ONE version > of Em

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-09 Thread Daniel Baumann
David López Zajara (Er_Maqui) wrote: > I've tested the lenny live CD on MBP (SantaRosa model),and i have this > problem. I'm booting with rEFIt. sorry for the late answer: the problem is know, and already fixed. expect newer builds with a fixed syslinux version soon. -- Address:Daniel Ba

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-07 Thread David López Zajara (Er_Maqui)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've tested the lenny live CD on MBP (SantaRosa model),and i have this problem. I'm booting with rEFIt. The integrated keyboard doesn't work, and USB too. But, with knoppix 5.0 (debian-based) i doesn't have these problem (uses syslinux too). On Sat,

Re: What should be on a rescue CD ? (was Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1)

2008-09-07 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:58:42AM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Ian Jackson wrote: > > The current list (which I haven't added even my suggestions to yet) > > is at > > http://git.debian.net/?p=live-helper.git;a=blob;f=lists/rescue > > (I am told - I can't check right now because alioth seems t

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-06 Thread peter green
I have tried the amd64-version on a Lenovo R61 as well as on my Macbook. Maybe I should try the i386 on the Macbook because it did not boot properly and I could not use the keyboard. someone already reported this (it's a problem with syslinux), but i have almost no to no hope that this will get

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Martin Smith wrote: > Just tried the i386 on my intel mini, no dice, keyboard not functioning > but, in startup disc in system preferences it is shown as foreign os and > allows booting, it gets to the splash screen no problem, if you could > get the keyboard to work it would probably go fine. tha

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-09-01 Thread Martin Smith
Johann Spies wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 03:31:23AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, Daniel Baumann wrote: Daniel Baumann wrote: Nevertheless, we do need your help to find more bugs and improve the live systems, so please try them out. particulary interesting would be to get report

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michal Suchanek wrote: > Are such networking modules included in the d-l CDs? nope. for the prebuild images, different flavours (iso, usb-hdd, net) do not differ regarding the package selection (and can be easily checked by comparing the *.packages files). > Would including these packages suffic

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Paul Wise wrote: > You have wireless hardware that requires non-free firmware to be > installed on the wifi chip. You need to enable the non-free section > and install the non-free firmware-iwlwifi package. This isn't specific > to debian-live. crap.. i've already answered those mails above (see l

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-01 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 01/09/2008, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On the R61 I could not get my wifi working. The Fn-F8 key also did > > not work. I did not test it fully. Here is an some of the > > output of dmesg: > > in order to use wifi, you need the necessary firmware (firmware-iwlwifi > i

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-09-01 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 03:31:23AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > Daniel Baumann wrote: >> Daniel Baumann wrote: >>> Nevertheless, we do need your help to find more bugs and improve the >>> live systems, so please try them out. >> >> particulary interesting would be to get reports fr

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Daniel Baumann wrote: > Do you want feedback on these lists? I have tried the bugreport > system, but that seems to work with packages. How do I submit > bugreports on the debian-live-cd? either by filing it against live-helper; or by sending a mail to the mailinglist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). > I ha

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-09-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the R61 I could not get my wifi working. > Here is an some of the output of dmesg: > [ 64.897496] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection > driver for Linux, 1.2.23ks You have wireless hardware t

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-08-31 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, Daniel Baumann wrote: Daniel Baumann wrote: Nevertheless, we do need your help to find more bugs and improve the live systems, so please try them out. particulary interesting would be to get reports from people with Intel-based Apple hardware (both notebooks and desktops). I hav

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-08-28 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Daniel Baumann: > s. keeling wrote: > > On a Gateway Sempron (32 bit) laptop ... > > > > Where's dhcp? Laptop has builtin ethernet (Marvell Tech. 88E8036) > > which etch handles well. Woops, sorry, Zenwalk (slackware downstream) handles it well. It appears to be handled by sky2 ke

Re: What should be on a rescue CD ? (was Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1)

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
Ian Jackson wrote: > The current list (which I haven't added even my suggestions to yet) > is at > http://git.debian.net/?p=live-helper.git;a=blob;f=lists/rescue > (I am told - I can't check right now because alioth seems to be down) for the records: git.debian.net is not alioth, and it (g.d.n)

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
Didier Raboud wrote: > Why not building a multi-arch LiveDVD ? there's absolutely no reason not to build those; it's just a lack of time/manpower.. care to send a patch against live-helper? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What should be on a rescue CD ? (was Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1)

2008-08-28 Thread Mark Allums
Ian Jackson wrote: Which ONE version of Emacs ? Both nvi _and_ elvis ? Consider something akin to pico/nano as well. Something very small and lightweight and easy to use. Something for the "near misses" in the experience department: someone who is able to install and run Debian (mostly)

What should be on a rescue CD ? (was Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1)

2008-08-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Daniel Baumann writes ("Debian Live Lenny Beta1"): > * The rescue flavour, containing system rescue and forensic related > packages, is missing in this beta release. I've spoken to Daniel and the main question here is determining the right list of packages for the res

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-08-28 Thread Didier Raboud
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Baumann wrote: > Debian Live Lenny Beta1 > === > > The Debian Live team[0] is pleased to announce the first beta of Debian > Lenny's Live images. Hi, I wonder if multi-arches LiveCD's are pla

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
s. keeling wrote: > On a Gateway Sempron (32 bit) laptop ... > > Where's dhcp? Laptop has builtin ethernet (Marvell Tech. 88E8036) > which etch handles well. I see it also has BCM4318 802.11g wifi > (which I don't use). debian-live images do automatically dhcp on detected network cards. i'm not

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-08-27 Thread s. keeling
AIL PROTECTED]>: > > Debian Live Lenny Beta1 > === > > The Debian Live team[0] is pleased to announce the first beta of Debian > Lenny's Live images. > > Although we missed releasing images for Etch along with the installer > images, we ar

Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1

2008-08-27 Thread Daniel Baumann
Daniel Baumann wrote: > Nevertheless, we do need your help to find more bugs and improve the > live systems, so please try them out. particulary interesting would be to get reports from people with Intel-based Apple hardware (both notebooks and desktops). Regards, Daniel -- Address:Dani