Re: debian installer network console

2024-02-24 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Hi Andy! On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 5:58 PM Andy Smith wrote: > HI Matt, > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 05:40:31PM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > > Does anyone know how to switch to a different virtual console (tty) over > a > > network console on a debian install? > > I haven't tested this but when

Re: debian installer network console

2024-02-24 Thread Andy Smith
HI Matt, On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 05:40:31PM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > Does anyone know how to switch to a different virtual console (tty) over a > network console on a debian install? I haven't tested this but when doing an install over serial console, the installer runs in GNU Screen so it

Re: Debian installer refuses to setup IP address if gateway is no in the same subnet

2023-10-31 Thread Henning Follmann
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 04:15:30PM +0300, Mihamina RKTMB wrote: > > On 10/31/23 15:35, Henning Follmann wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 06:17:18PM +0300, Mihamina RKTMB wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I rent a dedicated server where I installed an hypervisor and purchased > > > failover publi

Re: Debian installer refuses to setup IP address if gateway is no in the same subnet

2023-10-31 Thread Mihamina RKTMB
On 10/31/23 16:46, Dan Ritter wrote: Mihamina RKTMB wrote: On 10/31/23 01:18, Dan Ritter wrote: Mihamina RKTMB wrote: But isn't there a way to make the Debian installer accept that the gateway is not in the subnet of the set IP address? No. [OVH docs reference omitted] You asked a quest

Re: Debian installer refuses to setup IP address if gateway is no in the same subnet

2023-10-31 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 11:13:04AM +0100, Marco M. wrote: > > Maybe you need to help the installer along, and set the default route > > for the machine? Perhaps using an alternate virtual terminal, like > > FN+F5. I believe the command is `route add default gw {IP-ADDRESS} > > {INTERFA

Re: Debian installer refuses to setup IP address if gateway is no in the same subnet

2023-10-31 Thread Dan Ritter
Mihamina RKTMB wrote: > > On 10/31/23 01:18, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Mihamina RKTMB wrote: > > > But isn't there a way to make the Debian installer accept that the gateway > > > is not in the subnet of the set IP address? > > No. [OVH docs reference omitted] You asked a question, you got the an

Re: Debian installer refuses to setup IP address if gateway is no in the same subnet

2023-10-31 Thread Mihamina RKTMB
On 10/31/23 15:35, Henning Follmann wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 06:17:18PM +0300, Mihamina RKTMB wrote: Hi all, I rent a dedicated server where I installed an hypervisor and purchased failover public IPv4 IPs routed to that server. Of course not! Some host _on_your_subnet_ must be respon

Re: Debian installer refuses to setup IP address if gateway is no in the same subnet

2023-10-31 Thread Mihamina RKTMB
On 10/31/23 01:18, Dan Ritter wrote: Mihamina RKTMB wrote: Hi all, I rent a dedicated server where I installed an hypervisor and purchased failover public IPv4 IPs routed to that server. When configuring the Debian VMs to use those failover IPs, I have to - set the address to /32: "ip addr

Re: Debian installer refuses to setup IP address if gateway is no in the same subnet

2023-10-31 Thread Marco M.
Am 31.10.2023 um 08:35:48 Uhr schrieb Henning Follmann: > Of course not! Some host _on_your_subnet_ must be responsible for > forwarding the packages. It is possible to define another specific direct connected route to your router and use that with source addresses that are not on the same subnet

Re: Debian installer refuses to setup IP address if gateway is no in the same subnet

2023-10-31 Thread Henning Follmann
On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 06:17:18PM +0300, Mihamina RKTMB wrote: > Hi all, > > I rent a dedicated server where I installed an hypervisor and purchased > failover public IPv4 IPs routed to that server. > Of course not! Some host _on_your_subnet_ must be responsible for forwarding the packages. And

Re: Debian installer refuses to setup IP address if gateway is no in the same subnet

2023-10-31 Thread Marco M.
Am 30.10.2023 um 18:07:20 Uhr schrieb Jeffrey Walton: > It should not matter, if I recall correctly. Anything the machine does > not know how to route goes out on the default interface. That should > be the 0.0.0.0 entry in the routing table. Although, that entry must be there and the via IP must

Re: Debian installer refuses to setup IP address if gateway is no in the same subnet

2023-10-30 Thread Dan Ritter
Mihamina RKTMB wrote: > Hi all, > > I rent a dedicated server where I installed an hypervisor and purchased > failover public IPv4 IPs routed to that server. > > When configuring the Debian VMs to use those failover IPs, I have to > > - set the address to /32: "ip addr add $IP/32 dev eth0" > >

Re: Debian installer refuses to setup IP address if gateway is no in the same subnet

2023-10-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 5:53 PM Mihamina RKTMB wrote: > > I rent a dedicated server where I installed an hypervisor and purchased > failover public IPv4 IPs routed to that server. > > When configuring the Debian VMs to use those failover IPs, I have to > > - set the address to /32: "ip addr add $I

Re: Debian installer preseed fails

2023-08-22 Thread Ceppo
On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 02:34:20PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > I think you also want: > > d-i hw-detect/firmware-lookup string never Maybe a dumb question, but doesn't it prevent free firmware from being installed too? -- Ceppo

Re: Debian installer preseed fails

2023-08-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 20 Aug 2023 15:02 +0200, from ce...@oziosi.org (Ceppo): > d-i hw-detect/load_firmware boolean false > d-i apt-setup/non-free-firmware boolean false > d-i apt-setup/non-free boolean false > d-i apt-setup/contrib boolean false > > but package intel-microcode from non-free-firmware

Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver

2023-03-22 Thread David Wright
On Tue 21 Feb 2023 at 14:36:21 (-0800), Van Snyder wrote: > On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 22:45 +0100, Mario Marietto wrote: > > If I dont get wrong,nvidia created one single driver which works for > > every gpu or almost ? it means that if I install the 525 driver for > > my RTX 2080 ti will it work also

Re: Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:36:11 + Brian wrote: > That still leaves the first problem. How do you fancy running > everything from a USB stick? Not really, but that might work. Thanks. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/

Re: Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-13 Thread Brian
On Mon 13 Mar 2023 at 10:18:37 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 14:58:08 + > Brian wrote: > > > It is what d-i sees the partition as that is important and you > > do know in advance. That's problem 1. Problem 2 is that the hard > > disk partitions are probably ext4. At the

Re: Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-13 Thread Mario Marietto
Hello to every Debian user. I've just installed Debian 11 and I see that it is affected by the bug explained here : https://bugs.launchpad.net/oem-priority/+bug/1842320 I see that the bug has been fixed on Ubuntu. Do you confirm that,to fix it,I just need to install the package "grub-efi-amd64_2

Re: Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 14:58:08 + Brian wrote: > It is what d-i sees the partition as that is important and you > do know in advance. That's problem 1. Problem 2 is that the hard > disk partitions are probably ext4. At the opening stage of d-i > I do not think ext4 drivers are available. Both p

Re: Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-13 Thread Brian
On Mon 13 Mar 2023 at 08:01:51 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 08:19:26 +0100 > wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 04:08:28PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > > I can specify the path to the preseed file when booting Debian > > > Installer (d-i). Is there any way to tell it

Re: Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 08:19:26 +0100 wrote: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 04:08:28PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > I can specify the path to the preseed file when booting Debian > > Installer (d-i). Is there any way to tell it that the preseed file > > is on device X, say /dev/sdb1? > > You mean:

Re: Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-13 Thread tomas
On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 04:08:28PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > I can specify the path to the preseed file when booting Debian Installer > (d-i). Is there any way to tell it that the preseed file is on device > X, say /dev/sdb1? You mean: the file is as raw data on the device? Or whithin a file

Re: Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-12 Thread Luna Jernberg
*forwards to debian-boot * On 3/13/23, john doe wrote: > On 3/12/23 23:08, Charles Curley wrote: >> I can specify the path to the preseed file when booting Debian Installer >> (d-i). Is there any way to tell it that the preseed file is on device >> X, say /dev/sdb1? >> >> > > This is not an answe

Re: Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-12 Thread john doe
On 3/12/23 23:08, Charles Curley wrote: I can specify the path to the preseed file when booting Debian Installer (d-i). Is there any way to tell it that the preseed file is on device X, say /dev/sdb1? This is not an answer to your question and this is more appropreate for debian-boot. I'll

Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver

2023-02-22 Thread Felix Miata
Jeremy Hendricks composed on 2023-02-22 16:02 (UTC-0500): > I think I know why. > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_600_series > They made Kepler and Fermi variants of the GT 630. The nvidia driver > probably wrongly assumes it’s Kepler. > Van Snyder composed on 2023-02-22 13:01 (UTC-0800)

Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver

2023-02-22 Thread Jeremy Hendricks
I think I know why. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_600_series They made Kepler and Fermi variants of the GT 630. The nvidia driver probably wrongly assumes it’s Kepler. On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 4:01 PM Van Snyder wrote: > On Wed, 2023-02-22 at 15:43 -0500, Jeremy Hendricks wrote: > > Va

Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver

2023-02-22 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2023-02-22 at 15:43 -0500, Jeremy Hendricks wrote: > Van, what is the specific GPU you have? I know it’s GF108 but what is > the actual model? # nvidia-detect 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 630] [10de:0f00] (rev a1) > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2023

Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver

2023-02-22 Thread Jeremy Hendricks
Van, what is the specific GPU you have? I know it’s GF108 but what is the actual model? On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 3:33 PM Van Snyder wrote: > On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 23:27 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > > On 2/21/23 23:16, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 22:41 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov

Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver

2023-02-22 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 23:27 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > On 2/21/23 23:16, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 22:41 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > > > On 2/21/23 22:13, Van Snyder wrote: > > > > I have an NVidia GF108 video card. It works just fine, so I > > > > don't see a > > > >

Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver

2023-02-21 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 22:45 +0100, Mario Marietto wrote: > If I dont get wrong,nvidia created one single driver which works for > every gpu or almost ? it means that if I install the 525 driver for > my RTX 2080 ti will it work also for my old gpu,GTX 1060 ?  The 470 driver that the Debian install

Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver

2023-02-21 Thread Mario Marietto
its not easy for me,because I have those GPUs on a single system. The OS that im running is freebsd and I tried to virtualize debian 11 with bhyve (hypervisor for freebsd). Well,debian accept the 2080 ti and I can use it within debian guest,but the 1060 does not work. it is not initialized. I tried

Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver

2023-02-21 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 2/21/23 23:45, Mario Marietto wrote: If I dont get wrong,nvidia created one single driver which works for every gpu or almost ? it means that if I install the 525 driver for my RTX 2080 ti will it work also for my old gpu,GTX 1060 ? AFIK, NVidia offers different driver generations and my

Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver

2023-02-21 Thread Mario Marietto
If I dont get wrong,nvidia created one single driver which works for every gpu or almost ? it means that if I install the 525 driver for my RTX 2080 ti will it work also for my old gpu,GTX 1060 ? Il mar 21 feb 2023, 22:28 Georgi Naplatanov ha scritto: > On 2/21/23 23:16, Van Snyder wrote: > > On

Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver

2023-02-21 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 2/21/23 23:16, Van Snyder wrote: On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 22:41 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 2/21/23 22:13, Van Snyder wrote: I have an NVidia GF108 video card. It works just fine, so I don't see a reason to replace it. It needs the nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver. But when I installed Debia

Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver

2023-02-21 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 22:41 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > On 2/21/23 22:13, Van Snyder wrote: > > I have an NVidia GF108 video card. It works just fine, so I don't > > see a > > reason to replace it. > > > > It needs the nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver. > > > > But when I installed Debian 11, it

Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver

2023-02-21 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 2/21/23 22:13, Van Snyder wrote: I have an NVidia GF108 video card. It works just fine, so I don't see a reason to replace it. It needs the nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver. But when I installed Debian 11, it chose the 470 driver, which doesn't work with GF108. Maybe that was caused by selecti

Re: Debian installer with a newer kernel

2022-04-14 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2022-04-14 at 11:18 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I think it would be great to provide such a (semi-)official support > > for > > backported kernels in the installer again. There is probably a > > significant number of users which use testing, just because they > > can't > > install sta

Re: Debian installer with a newer kernel

2022-04-14 Thread Christian Britz
Thank you for your good hints, Andrew. My approach is different. I am in the lucky position that the question is of theoretical interest to me this time only, in the past I had cases where I had to use testing, because the kernel of the installer was too old to support basic functions of my hardwa

Re: Debian installer with a newer kernel

2022-04-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 11:16:00AM +0200, Christian Britz wrote: > Hello dear Debianists, > > if a new system has at least basic hardware support by the kernel > provided by the Debian installer, you can solve many hardware problems > by installing a newer kernel from backports after the system se

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-18 Thread Felix Natter
Many Thanks for the very helpful reply, Reco! -- Felix Natter debian/rules!

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-18 Thread Felix Natter
Thanks Sven! -- Felix Natter debian/rules!

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-18 Thread Felix Natter
Many Thanks for the very helpful reply Andy! -- Felix Natter debian/rules!

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-18 Thread Felix Natter
Darac Marjal writes: > On 11/09/2021 17:55, Felix Natter wrote: >> hello fellow Debian users, >> >> I have an SSD for the root filesystem, and two HDDs using RAID1 for >> /storage running Debian10. Now I need a plan B in case the upgrade >> fails. > > Just want to check that you've not missed som

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-18 Thread Felix Natter
hi Andrei, Andrei POPESCU writes: thank you for your answer. > On Sb, 11 sep 21, 18:55:56, Felix Natter wrote: >> hello fellow Debian users, >> >> I have an SSD for the root filesystem, and two HDDs using RAID1 for >> /storage running Debian10. Now I need a plan B in case the upgrade >> fails.

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-12 Thread Darac Marjal
On 11/09/2021 17:55, Felix Natter wrote: > hello fellow Debian users, > > I have an SSD for the root filesystem, and two HDDs using RAID1 for > /storage running Debian10. Now I need a plan B in case the upgrade > fails. Just want to check that you've not missed something obvious here. You don't *

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-12 Thread David Christensen
On 9/11/21 9:55 AM, Felix Natter wrote: hello fellow Debian users, I have an SSD for the root filesystem, and two HDDs using RAID1 for /storage running Debian10. Now I need a plan B in case the upgrade fails. So I made an experiment with a VM and rougly the same setup (disk-wise), and found out

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 11 sep 21, 18:55:56, Felix Natter wrote: > hello fellow Debian users, > > I have an SSD for the root filesystem, and two HDDs using RAID1 for > /storage running Debian10. Now I need a plan B in case the upgrade > fails. > > So I made an experiment with a VM and rougly the same setup (disk-

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Felix Natter wrote: > My question is: How does d-i know how the individual HDDs were combined > into a RAID1? For all that "sudo fdisk -l" shows, the disks are > "Linux raid autodetect". For all I see, it could be a RAIDX, X!=1 or > two different RAIDs Are there RAID headers on the partition

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-11 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 06:55:56PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > My question is: How does d-i know how the individual HDDs were combined > into a RAID1? mdraid stores its metadata on each drive that belongs to the RAID. Whenever it's the beginning of the drive, or the end of it - depen

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 06:55:56PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > How does d-i know how the individual HDDs were combined into a > RAID1? d-i doesn't as such. In Linux MD, member devices contain metadata to allow assembly by udev. You can examine the data on an MD member device like this: $

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 2 release

2021-06-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Curley (2021-06-14): > On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 23:26:22 +0200 > Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > See the errata[2] for details and a full list of known issues. > > You might want to include 980271 in the errata. See > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=980271#15 for the > gist of

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 2 release

2021-06-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 23:26:22 +0200 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > See the errata[2] for details and a full list of known issues. You might want to include 980271 in the errata. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=980271#15 for the gist of it. Thanks! -- Does anybody read signature

Re: Debian installer puts GRUB on main disk without asking

2020-03-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
n.org > Subject: Re: Debian installer puts GRUB on main disk without asking > Resent-Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 17:30:49 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 08:19:11AM +, Toni Casueps wrote: > > > Later at the boot loader p

Re: Debian installer puts GRUB on main disk without asking

2020-03-05 Thread Brian
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 08:19:11AM +, Toni Casueps wrote: > Later at the boot loader part, it didn't ask if/where to install GRUB. With an expert installation I have never know d-i not to ask. -- Brian

Re: Debian Installer Bug -Wifi driver not installed

2019-11-09 Thread 황병희
Peter Ehlert writes: > SOLVED Thank You Very Much, Peter^^^ (because that is very important part in installing i think) Sincerely, -- ^고맙습니다 _地平天成_ 감사합니다_^))//

Re: Debian Installer Bug -Wifi driver not installed

2019-11-09 Thread Peter Ehlert
SOLVED add this to /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf per bug #835553 [device] wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no That worked for me with a Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370 Wireless Adapter on Debian Stretch. Thank you very much. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842422#40

Re: Debian Installer Bug -Wifi driver not installed

2019-11-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sat, 9 Nov 2019, Peter Ehlert wrote: > Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 13:28:02 > From: Peter Ehlert > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Debian Installer Bug -Wifi driver not installed > Resent-Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 18:45:09 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-use

Re: Debian Installer Bug -Wifi driver not installed

2019-11-09 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 11/9/19 9:25 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 06:16:17 -0800 Peter Ehlert wrote: I have a desktop computer running Debian Buster Mate that I want to move to a different location and use Wifi. Using a cheap USB dongle NetworkManager Applet detects the device, lets me select fro

Re: Debian Installer Bug -Wifi driver not installed

2019-11-09 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 06:16:17 -0800 Peter Ehlert wrote: > I have a desktop computer running Debian Buster Mate that I want to move > to a different location and use Wifi. > Using a cheap USB dongle NetworkManager Applet detects the device, lets > me select from available networks, accepts passwor

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-10-25 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 10/25/19 7:44 AM, Wayne Sallee wrote:  Original Message  *Subject: *  Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke *From: * Wayne Sallee *To: * Debian-user *CC: * *Date: *  2019-10-23  10:37 AM  Original Message  *Subject: *  Re

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-10-25 Thread Wayne Sallee
 Original Message  *Subject: *  Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke *From: * Wayne Sallee *To: * Debian-user *CC: * *Date: *  2019-10-23  10:37 AM  Original

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-10-23 Thread Christopher David Howie
On 10/23/2019 10:37 AM, Wayne Sallee wrote: > Select "Partition disk" > > You will then see a number of options; one being guided partitioning, > but no option for manual partition. What? This screen _is_ the manual partition editor! The "guided" option is displayed here so you can go back and

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-10-23 Thread Wayne Sallee
 Original Message  *Subject: *  Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke *From: * Christopher David Howie *To: * Debian-user *CC: * *Date: *  2019-10-22  12:43 PM On 10/13/19 6:56 PM, Wayne Sallee wrote: The non-graphical needs work too: There&#

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-10-22 Thread Christopher David Howie
On 10/13/19 6:56 PM, Wayne Sallee wrote: > The non-graphical needs work too: > There's no manual partitioning option without going first to guided > partitioning This is patently false. Every Debian setup I have done in the last ten years I've done with manual partitioning in the text-mode install

Re: debian-installer: long delay in language selection step after add console=tty0 as the kernel arg in pxe cfg file

2019-10-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Xihuan Yang wrote: > Package: debian-installer You are probably writing to the wrong list. We are just the merry users. Consider to write to debian-b...@lists.debian.org Archives: https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/ Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-10-20 Thread Reco
Hi. Posting HTML mail here is considered bad manners. Please configure your e-mail client appropriately. Also, please refrain from top-posting, this is a maillist, not your typical enterprisey spamfest. On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 08:00:13AM -0400, Wayne Sallee wrote: > I like Virtual Box on

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-10-20 Thread Wayne Sallee
Sallee wa...@waynesallee.com http://www.WayneSallee.com  Original Message  *Subject: *  Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke *From: * Peter Ehlert *To: * Wayne Sallee , Debian-user *CC: * *Date

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-10-15 Thread Peter Ehlert
@Linux-Fan thanks for the screenshots, they are very helpful. In my opinion the Debian installer is awesome, best in the business. it is very powerful, but intimidating... that was the main reason I used the derivatives until just the last few years. But to be honest we (users) need to work on

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-10-14 Thread Paul Duncan
ed virtualbox; no need to burn any CD or USB. > > 8ec21625aadaddec8ba0de0ff915db03 debian-live-10.1.0-amd64-mate.iso > ab54364f4e066bba8d2010b5f8c0daad debian-live-9.2.0-amd64-mate.iso > > > Wayne Sallee > wa...@waynesallee.com > http://www.WayneSallee.com > > Original

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-10-14 Thread Linux-Fan
Wayne Sallee writes: The non-graphical needs work too: Hi, so here it's non-graphical... There's no manual partitioning option without going first to guided partitioning, so if you don't like the way it wants to partition the drive, and you look for manual parition, that option is not avail

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-10-14 Thread Peter Ehlert
ssage  *Subject: *  Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke *From: * Peter Ehlert *To: * Debian-user *CC: * *Date: *  2019-10-14  09:51 AM I am no expert but I am more than willing to follow along. Perhaps you have found a bug. I don't have an optical drive, I use USB

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-10-14 Thread Wayne Sallee
 Original Message  *Subject: *  Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke *From: * Peter Ehlert *To: * Debian-user *CC: * *Date: *  2019-10-14  09:51 AM I am no expert but I am more than

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-10-14 Thread Peter Ehlert
he partition" and see if it works. Done setting up the partition Double clicking did not do anything. Continue Let's go back and try double clicking again. Back Whoa What are we doing back at the main menue. I'm tired of this. Goodby. I'm using the non-graphical version from

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-10-13 Thread Wayne Sallee
d of this. Goodby. I'm using the non-graphical version from now on. Wayne Sallee wa...@waynesallee.com http://www.WayneSallee.com  Original Message  *Subject: *  Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke *F

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-10-02 Thread Peter Ehlert
ome kind of results" , "in circles" etc. please explain Yes, it is a bit intimidating the first few times around, but pleas help us out. Wayne Sallee wa...@waynesallee.com http://www.WayneSallee.com  Original Message ---- *Subject: *  Re: Debian Installer,

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-10-01 Thread Wayne Sallee
http://www.WayneSallee.com  Original Message  *Subject: *  Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke *From: * Linux-fan *To: * Debian-user *CC: * *Date: *  2019-9-29  11:51 AM Wayne Sallee w

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-09-30 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 29/09/2019 21:32, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Sun, 29 Sep, 2019 at 10:56:54 -0400, Wayne Sallee wrote: >> Debian really needs to work on the manual partitioning part of the >> installation. >> >> It's absolutely pathetic. >> >> Wayne Sallee >> wa...@waynesallee.com >> http://www.WayneSallee.com >>

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-09-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 29 Sep, 2019 at 10:56:54 -0400, Wayne Sallee wrote: > Debian really needs to work on the manual partitioning part of the > installation. > > It's absolutely pathetic. > > Wayne Sallee > wa...@waynesallee.com > http://www.WayneSallee.com > Thank you for your contribution. I look forward

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-09-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Wayne Sallee wrote: > Debian really needs to work on the manual partitioning part of the > installation. > > It's absolutely pathetic. Do you have specific suggestions for improvement? -dsr-

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-09-29 Thread Linux-Fan
ely-executed task. [Note that I am not N. Dobigeon, just /my/ opinion on what the Debian Partitioning tool and its merits are in case it might help to find out what exactly is wrong about the partitioning step and how it can be improved...] YMMV Linux-Fan *Subject: *  Re: Debian Installer, Manu

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-09-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 10:56:54 -0400 Wayne Sallee wrote: > Debian really needs to work on the manual partitioning part of the > installation. > > It's absolutely pathetic. Some more detail would be useful. For example,how would you do it better? Code submissions would be welcome. -- Does anybo

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-09-29 Thread Wayne Sallee
What partitioning tool are you talking about? Wayne Sallee wa...@waynesallee.com http://www.WayneSallee.com  Original Message  *Subject: *  Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke *From

Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke

2019-09-29 Thread Nicolas DOBIGEON
Your mail is a joke, I think debian partitionning tool is the best i tried. It's your taste but don't tell it's a joke. Le 29/09/2019 à 16:56, Wayne Sallee a écrit : Debian really needs to work on the manual partitioning part of the installation. It's absolutely pathetic. Wayne Sallee wa...@w

Re: Debian installer pXE booting qemu for Windows

2019-09-25 Thread john doe
Hi Reco, On 9/25/2019 9:51 AM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 08:49:29AM +0200, john doe wrote: >>> Put in into pxelinux.cfg/default file, into "append" clause. >>> Something like that: >>> >>> kernel linux >>> append initrd=initrd.gz url=tftp://10.0.2.2/preseed.cfg >>

Re: Debian installer pXE booting qemu for Windows

2019-09-25 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 08:49:29AM +0200, john doe wrote: > > Put in into pxelinux.cfg/default file, into "append" clause. > > Something like that: > > > > kernel linux > > append initrd=initrd.gz url=tftp://10.0.2.2/preseed.cfg > > > > Looks like it is working but why is it w

Re: Debian installer pXE booting qemu for Windows

2019-09-24 Thread john doe
On 9/25/2019 8:17 AM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 07:52:32AM +0200, john doe wrote: >>> Looks like moving debian-installer/pxelinux.cfg to the root of the tftp >>> directory, get me to the Debian installer prompt where I can choose to >>> install/resque Debian. >>> >>> It lo

Re: Debian installer pXE booting qemu for Windows

2019-09-24 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 07:52:32AM +0200, john doe wrote: > > Looks like moving debian-installer/pxelinux.cfg to the root of the tftp > > directory, get me to the Debian installer prompt where I can choose to > > install/resque Debian. > > > > It looks also like symlink created on Wind

Re: Debian installer pXE booting qemu for Windows

2019-09-24 Thread john doe
On 9/22/2019 8:40 PM, john doe wrote: > On 9/22/2019 8:26 PM, Reco wrote: >> Hi. >> >> On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 08:16:42PM +0200, john doe wrote: >>> Hi there Reco, >>> >>> On 9/22/2019 7:46 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 07:35:18PM +0200, john doe wrote: > I

Re: Debian installer pXE booting qemu for Windows

2019-09-22 Thread john doe
On 9/22/2019 8:26 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 08:16:42PM +0200, john doe wrote: >> Hi there Reco, >> >> On 9/22/2019 7:46 PM, Reco wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 07:35:18PM +0200, john doe wrote: I want to Install Debian 10.1 using PXE as a guest

Re: Debian installer pXE booting qemu for Windows

2019-09-22 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 08:16:42PM +0200, john doe wrote: > Hi there Reco, > > On 9/22/2019 7:46 PM, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 07:35:18PM +0200, john doe wrote: > >> I want to Install Debian 10.1 using PXE as a guest using Qemu. > >> I have downloaded the

Re: Debian installer pXE booting qemu for Windows

2019-09-22 Thread john doe
Hi there Reco, On 9/22/2019 7:46 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 07:35:18PM +0200, john doe wrote: >> I want to Install Debian 10.1 using PXE as a guest using Qemu. >> I have downloaded the netboot.tar.gz, extracted it and use the following >> command: >> >> ... -boot n -ne

Re: Debian installer pXE booting qemu for Windows

2019-09-22 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 07:35:18PM +0200, john doe wrote: > I want to Install Debian 10.1 using PXE as a guest using Qemu. > I have downloaded the netboot.tar.gz, extracted it and use the following > command: > > ... -boot n -net user,tftp=,bootfile=pxelinux.0 > > "Failed to load ldl

Re: debian-installer: call to update translations - looking for new translators

2018-07-08 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Holger Wansing wrote: > [ Sorry for cross-posting ] > > > Hi, > > I'm currently trying to get translations updated for our debian-installer for > Buster. > For several languages the translation has some work to do, and there is no > translator active for those languages (or they really ne

Re: Debian installer not finding free space

2017-06-17 Thread David Christensen
On 06/16/2017 08:12 AM, David DLC wrote: I have a backup of my files and documents, but not the C: drive. I don't have my installation disk either, so I am trying to find a fix online. Try this: http://www.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03572829.pdf Using the HP Recovery partition to recover a minimized

Re: Debian installer not finding free space

2017-06-16 Thread David DLC
On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 12:38 AM, David Christensen < dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > Messing with partitions involves the risk of breaking your system. But, > breaking and fixing your system is part of the FOSS hobby. > > > Do you have a backup of the Windows C:\ file system? > > I have a ba

Re: Debian installer not finding free space

2017-06-15 Thread David Christensen
On 06/15/2017 09:13 AM, David DLC wrote: So it seems I messed something up. After using the recovery console yesterday, my computer will not start up. When booting it, I get the "repairing disk errors" message. It has been like this all night, and I can't get in. I've been attempting to repair th

Re: Debian installer not finding free space

2017-06-15 Thread David Christensen
On 06/15/2017 07:15 AM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 14 Jun 2017 at 21:43:43 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: ... by convention (de facto standard?), partitions have monotonically increasing sector numbers -- e.g. the First and Last LBA's of partition 4 must be greater than the LBA's for partitio

Re: Debian installer not finding free space

2017-06-15 Thread David DLC
So it seems I messed something up. After using the recovery console yesterday, my computer will not start up. When booting it, I get the "repairing disk errors" message. It has been like this all night, and I can't get in. I've been attempting to repair the computer, but I will let you guys know ho

Re: Debian installer not finding free space

2017-06-15 Thread David Wright
On Wed 14 Jun 2017 at 21:43:43 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 06/14/2017 07:00 PM, David DLC wrote: > >http://imgur.com/a/o83Qd > > It looks like your 500GB drive uses the GPT partitioning scheme, and the > Windows C:\ file system corresponds to partition Number 4. You also > have partiti

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