Re: d-i LVM bugs and sound [Re: Great Debian experience]

2014-03-20 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-03-19 22:31, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Ken Heard wrote: >> My latest experience was a new installation of Wheezy in a new >> box. It took me the entire month of January to get the OS and >> essential applications to the point

Re: d-i partion size defaults insufficient (was ... Re: upgrade problem)

2014-02-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/02/14 19:17, Roelof Wobben wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 14:25:47 +1100 >> From: scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: d-i partion size defaults insufficient (was

RE: d-i partion size defaults insufficient (was ... Re: upgrade problem)

2014-02-07 Thread Roelof Wobben
> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 14:25:47 +1100 > From: scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: d-i partion size defaults insufficient (was ... Re: upgrade > problem) > > On 07/02/14 14:07,

Re: d-i partion size defaults insufficient (was ... Re: upgrade problem)

2014-02-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/02/14 14:25, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 07/02/14 14:07, Chris Bannister wrote: >> CC'ing debian-boot >> >> Seems as though Roelof is now in space trouble. >> He says he followed the d-i's suggestions >> Thread starts here: >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/msg00269.html >> >> On

Re: d-i partion size defaults insufficient (was ... Re: upgrade problem)

2014-02-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/02/14 14:07, Chris Bannister wrote: > CC'ing debian-boot > > Seems as though Roelof is now in space trouble. > He says he followed the d-i's suggestions > Thread starts here: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/msg00269.html > > On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 01:08:39PM +, Roelof Wo

Re: d-i manual in convient format

2012-10-20 Thread Brian
On Sat 20 Oct 2012 at 10:17:19 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > >Download the text version. Edit to remove unwanted material, Convert to > >to html with txt2html. > > Chuckle. > My critical requirement was "single page". I mentioned "html" only > because all the Debian docs I've

Re: d-i manual in convient format

2012-10-20 Thread Richard Owlett
Brian wrote: On Sat 20 Oct 2012 at 07:28:27 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Brian wrote: About 460 KB. Not one page. But does it really matter? Yes, it matters. Otherwise I would have not specified "single page". If "one size fit all", we would all bow down at the altar of microsoft or canonic

Re: d-i manual in convient format

2012-10-20 Thread Brian
On Sat 20 Oct 2012 at 07:28:27 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > >About 460 KB. Not one page. But does it really matter? > > Yes, it matters. Otherwise I would have not specified "single page". > If "one size fit all", we would all bow down at the altar of > microsoft or canonical

Re: d-i manual in convient format

2012-10-20 Thread Richard Owlett
Brian wrote: On Fri 19 Oct 2012 at 12:53:22 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: In particular I am looking for "Appendix B. Automating the installation using preseeding" as a single html file. As I'm on dial-up, a local copy would be very convenient. wget -r -np -nH http://www.debian.org/releases/st

Re: d-i manual in convient format

2012-10-19 Thread Brian
On Fri 19 Oct 2012 at 12:53:22 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > In particular I am looking for "Appendix B. Automating the > installation using preseeding" as a single html file. > As I'm on dial-up, a local copy would be very convenient. wget -r -np -nH http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/a

Re: d-i fails to create a file system (squeeze kfreebsd amd64)

2011-02-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:13:24 +0100, ZeWaren / Erwan Martin wrote: (next time avoid sending html formatted messages ;-) (...) > Everything works well until I try to partition the hard drive. I get > a red screen with: > Failed to create a file system. > The ufs file system creatio

Re: d-i issues

2008-08-02 Thread Shachar Or
On Saturday 02 August 2008 18:23, Telemachus wrote: > On Fri Aug 01 2008 @ 10:20, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I downloaded the latest d-i: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/i386/i > >so-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso > > ^

Re: d-i issues

2008-08-02 Thread Telemachus
On Fri Aug 01 2008 @ 10:20, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded the latest d-i: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso ^^^ My recollection is that you can choose to install Sid directly

Re: d-i issues

2008-08-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Shachar Or wrote: On Saturday 02 August 2008 06:20, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I downloaded the latest d-i: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/i386/iso -cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso and used it to install a lenny system but only with what was in the iso.

Re: d-i issues

2008-08-02 Thread Shachar Or
On Saturday 02 August 2008 06:20, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded the latest d-i: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/i386/iso >-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso > > and used it to install a lenny system but only with what was in the iso. > > Ran int

Re: zsync is your friend (was Re: d-i dnld: many retries!)

2007-02-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Marcus Blumhagen wrote: After a look into the server's directory I noticed the .zsync files. So I installed zsync and gave it a shot: $ zsync http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso.zsync I aborted

Re: zsync is your friend (was Re: d-i dnld: many retries!)

2007-02-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Marcus Blumhagen wrote: After a look into the server's directory I noticed the .zsync files. So I installed zsync and gave it a shot: $ zsync http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso.zsync I aborted

Re: zsync is your friend (was Re: d-i dnld: many retries!)

2007-02-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Marcus Blumhagen wrote: After a look into the server's directory I noticed the .zsync files. So I installed zsync and gave it a shot: $ zsync http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso.zsync I aborted several times and it happil

zsync is your friend (was Re: d-i dnld: many retries!)

2007-02-07 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
After a look into the server's directory I noticed the .zsync files. So I installed zsync and gave it a shot: $ zsync http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso.zsync I aborted several times and it happily resumed afterwards. Re

Re: d-i dnld: many retries!

2007-02-07 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 06:30:28AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > [...] > i386 + netinst > [...] I just downloaded the daily build of i386 netinstall using wget and it worked for me, the MD5 check was OK. But I also have a faster connection (DSL). So this is not exactly comparable I think. > [.

Re: d-i dnld: many retries!

2007-02-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Marcus Blumhagen wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:22:28AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [...] Downloading RC1 and the dailybuild from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ [...] Which architecture did you choose? What kind of image (netinst, business card, floppy)? I could then dow

Re: d-i dnld: many retries!

2007-02-06 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:22:28AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > [...] > Downloading RC1 and the dailybuild from > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > [...] Which architecture did you choose? What kind of image (netinst, business card, floppy)? I could then download and check here

Re: d-i rc2: boot linux26 vs. default

2004-11-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joey Hess wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! I have problems with the Sarge d-i freezing on my system using the "linux26" boot option. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=277177 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278254 Yesterday tried rc2: same thing. Freezes at

Re: d-i rc2: boot linux26 vs. default

2004-11-25 Thread Joey Hess
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi Debian! > > I have problems with the Sarge d-i freezing on my system using the > "linux26" boot option. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=277177 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278254 > > Yesterday tried rc2: same thing. Freezes

Re: d-i problem

2004-10-28 Thread Joey Hess
Kerncore.Ma wrote: > I used d-i netboot to perform a network installer. But it could not > detect my hard disk then aborted. The mainboard is "i815" and has 2 > ATA hard disks. > > I found there two modules in "hd-media": > ide-core-modules-2.6.7-1-386-di 0.62 > ide-modules-2.6.7-1-386-di 0.62 > B

Re: [d-i] Hard drive not detected (4GB) on IBM Thinkpad 560X (resolved)

2004-06-29 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
On Monday 28 June 2004 22:23, Joey Hess wrote: > Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm stuck trying to network-install Debian Woody (in order to install > > 'Unstable') on an IBM Thinkpad 560X. > > > > I'm using the 'boot', 'root' and 'net-drivers' floppies found here on > > saturday 2004/

Re: [d-i] Hard drive not detected (4GB) on IBM Thinkpad 560X

2004-06-28 Thread Joey Hess
Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: > Hello, > > I'm stuck trying to network-install Debian Woody (in order to install > 'Unstable') on an IBM Thinkpad 560X. > > I'm using the 'boot', 'root' and 'net-drivers' floppies found here on saturday > 2004/6/26: > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/ins

Re: [d-i] Hard drive not detected (4GB) on IBM Thinkpad 560X (SOLVED)

2004-06-28 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
On Monday 28 June 2004 17:58, Ketil Froyn wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:28:27 +0200, Sylvain Vedrenne [...] > > I'm stuck trying to network-install Debian [...] > > on an IBM Thinkpad 560X. [...] > > partman says something like "here are the partitions on your hard drive" > > but there is noth

Re: [d-i] Hard drive not detected (4GB) on IBM Thinkpad 560X

2004-06-28 Thread Ketil Froyn
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:28:27 +0200, Sylvain Vedrenne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm stuck trying to network-install Debian Woody (in order to install > 'Unstable') on an IBM Thinkpad 560X. > > I'm using the 'boot', 'root' and 'net-drivers' floppies found here on saturday > 2004/6/

Re: [d-i] Hard drive not detected (4GB) on IBM Thinkpad 560X

2004-06-28 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
On Monday 28 June 2004 17:28, you wrote: > Hello, > > I'm stuck trying to network-install Debian Woody (in order to install > 'Unstable') on an IBM Thinkpad 560X. > > I'm using the 'boot', 'root' and 'net-drivers' floppies found here on > saturday 2004/6/26: > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/tes

Re: D-I Issue on partitioning. [Was: Re: Debian vs. other distros]

2004-06-02 Thread Joey Hess
Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > Thanx for the reply, but unfortunately... What you mention is exactly what > I did. This gave me a new screen which had only *one* option: whipe my > whole drive first before you partition manually. > > Sorry, I cannot describe the *exact* dialogs, I am doing this

Re: D-I Issue on partitioning. [Was: Re: Debian vs. other distros]

2004-06-02 Thread Kent West
Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: [issues about the new Debian Installer partitioning routine] When I downloaded/used the new Sarge installer about a week ago, I found that I hated partitioning routine, simply because it seemed to take so many keypresses and jumped from screen to screen. It worked

Re: D-I Issue on partitioning. [Was: Re: Debian vs. other distros]

2004-06-02 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Thanx for the reply, but unfortunately... What you mention is exactly what I did. This gave me a new screen which had only *one* option: whipe my whole drive first before you partition manually. Sorry, I cannot describe the *exact* dialogs, I am doing this from memory. But trust me, I was so amaze

Re: D-I to SATA (hda) but move to 2.6 kernel (sda) fails

2004-05-23 Thread Cristi Banciu
Graham Williams wrote: The current beta 4 debian-installer will install to SATA okay, but treats the disk as IDE (/dev/hda). In moving to kernel 2.6.6 from sid this uses SCSI (/dev/sda) and the reboot fails. Is there a migration path one needs to follow? You have to edit and modify /etc/fstab an

Re: D-I to SATA (hda) but move to 2.6 kernel (sda) fails

2004-05-22 Thread Nick Lidakis
Roberto Sanchez wrote: If you start out with your root FS on one device and later move it to another device, basically what you are doing, there are two things you need to do: 1. Tell the (new) kernel about the change 2. Update /etc/fstab. I'll elaborate a bit on #1. If you have booted 2.4.25 an

Re: D-I to SATA (hda) but move to 2.6 kernel (sda) fails

2004-05-22 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Graham Williams wrote: The current beta 4 debian-installer will install to SATA okay, but treats the disk as IDE (/dev/hda). In moving to kernel 2.6.6 from sid this uses SCSI (/dev/sda) and the reboot fails. Is there a migration path one needs to follow? If you start out with your root FS on one de

Re: D-I to SATA (hda) but move to 2.6 kernel (sda) fails

2004-05-22 Thread Graham Williams
Received Sat 22 May 2004 1:53pm +1000 from David Purton: > On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 08:59:14AM +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > > The current beta 4 debian-installer will install to SATA okay, but > > treats the disk as IDE (/dev/hda). In moving to kernel 2.6.6 from sid > > this uses SCSI (/dev/sda)

Re: D-I to SATA (hda) but move to 2.6 kernel (sda) fails

2004-05-21 Thread David Purton
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 08:59:14AM +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > The current beta 4 debian-installer will install to SATA okay, but > treats the disk as IDE (/dev/hda). In moving to kernel 2.6.6 from sid > this uses SCSI (/dev/sda) and the reboot fails. Is there a migration > path one needs to fo

Re: d-i

2003-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 10:48:49AM +, simon raven wrote: > i can't seem to find d-i list in the list of mailing lists on the > website, but regardless. debian-boot -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj