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- Etch ships with X.Org 7.1
- Fix some minor spacing problems
- Delete or update some obsoleted information
- General minor fixes
1 fjp 39389 installation-guide (2006xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
2    
3 cjwatson 39390 [ Colin Watson ]
4     * Document new pkgsel/include setting.
5 cjwatson 41451 * Fix incorrect documentation on preseeding additional apt sources.
6 cjwatson 41452 * Fix typo in hppa hardware support documentation
7     (https://launchpad.net/bugs/55164).
8 cjwatson 41453 * Adjust chroot-install guide to take account of debootstrap being
9     Architecture: all now (https://launchpad.net/bugs/64765).
10 fjp 39389
11 fjp 39463 [ Frans Pop ]
12     * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall and Holger Wansing.
13 fjp 39465 Closes: #378404, #370484, #370425.
14 fjp 39463 * Update instructions on how to set module parameters for PLIP installation.
15     * Update chroot install instructions to use aptitude instead of apt-get.
16 fjp 39464 * Add /srv in overview of directory tree in partitioning appendix.
17 fjp 39531 * Update section on partitioning using LVM to reflect recent changes.
18 fjp 39552 * Apply various patches by or based on suggestions from Nathanael Nerode.
19 fjp 39898 Some of the bigger changes include:
20     - Update of processor support for the i386 architecture.
21     - Update information on setting up a RARP server.
22 fjp 39614 * Add variant for the AMD64 architecture. Closes: #305977.
23 fjp 39868 * Suppress warnings about missing IDs for sections and such.
24 fjp 39886 * Reorganize supported hardware table; i386 no longer has flavors.
25     * Document SMP-alternatives as one of the variants of SMP support.
26 fjp 39894 * Document how to shut down the system. Based on patch from Holger Levsen.
27     Closes: #248067.
28 fjp 39389
29 fjp 39583 [ Miroslav Kure ]
30     * Update information about booting with encrypted partitions.
31     Closes: #378651.
32    
33 joeyh 39932 [ Joey Hess ]
34     * Update preseeding docs to document listing more than one disk for
35     partman-auto/disk and grub-installer/bootdev
36 fjp 39463
37 fjp 40073 [ Changwoo Ryu ]
38     * Add support for Korean PDF output. Requires latex-hangul-ucs-hlatex.
39     Closes: #381657.
40 joeyh 39932
41 joeyh 40459 [ David Härdeman ]
42 fjp 40542 * Update preseeding documentation for partman-auto.
43 fjp 40073
44 fjp 40542 [ Frans Pop ]
45     * Correct error for alpha netboot installations. Thanks to Aurélien Géröme.
46     Closes: #386591.
47 fjp 40811 * Correct number of release arches. Thanks to Holger Wansing. Closes: #384321.
48 fjp 43573 * Minor corrections suggested by Malcolm Parsons. Closes: #388138.
49 fjp 40875 * Document new boot parameters theme and directfb/hw-accel.
50 fjp 40980 * Remove now obsolete distinction between classic and common kpkg.
51     * Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.17.
52 fjp 41499 * Set default value for manual_release in build wrapper scripts.
53 fjp 41551 * Add new section in preseeding appendix on partman-auto-raid. Not included
54     in preseed text file as it is still somewhat experimental.
55 fjp 41585 * Document changes in guided partitioning and added encrypted LVM support.
56 fjp 41836 * Disable m68k for official builds as it is not a release architecture.
57 fjp 42357 * buildweb.sh: use 'mv -f' to avoid errors during builds on the webserver.
58 fjp 43573 * Minor corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall. Closes: #394413, #394471.
59 fjp 42300 * Update task sizes as per D-I RC1.
60 fjp 42301 * New troubleshooting section on how to deal with CD-ROM related problems.
61 fjp 42485 * Document how to pass parameters to kernel modules on boot.
62 fjp 42551 * Document how to install KDE instead of Gnome in the section on pkgsel.
63 joeyh 40459
64 joeyh 41808 [ Joey Hess ]
65     * Update for recent floppy changes.
66 joeyh 41850 * Remove hardcoded paths to executables in buildone.sh.
67     * Set HOME to a temporary directory before running w3m, to avoid it
68     trying to write to a home directory that may not exist on the buildds.
69     (See #393641)
70 joeyh 42283 * Update the installation report template to match current one in
71     installation-report.
72 fjp 40542
73 philh 42295 [ Philip Hands ]
74 fjp 42296 * Clarify how -- affects which parameters end up in the target system's
75     bootloader's command line.
76 joeyh 41808
77 joeyh 42364 [ Joey Hess ]
78     * Applied Phil's auto mode documentation patch, edited it, and moved
79     some things around for clarity. Closes: #395910
80 joeyh 42370 * Document auto=true boot parameter.
81 philh 42295
82 fjp 42824 [ Frans Pop ]
83     * Add condition "g-i" for arches that support the graphical installer.
84     * Document mouse/left boot parameter.
85 fjp 43258 * Explain usage of "owner" prefix when setting values for debconf variables
86 fjp 42982 intended for the target system at the boot prompt.
87     * Give some examples of preseeding questions from the boot prompt.
88     * Document how to install the KDE desktop environment instead of GNOME.
89     * Don't list unsupported frontends in boot parameters section.
90 fjp 43259 * Minor corrections suggested by Tapio Lehtonen. Closes: #397790.
91     * Minor corrections suggested by Holger Wansing. Closes: #397974.
92 joeyh 42364
93 tbm 43030 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
94     * Mention that RiscPC support is incomplete.
95 tbm 43031 * Mention Intel IOP32x support.
96 tbm 43032 * Talk about ixp4xx rather than the more specific nslu2.
97 tbm 43030
98 fjp 43495 [ Frans Pop ]
99 fjp 43531 * Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.18.
100 fjp 43576 * Minor corrections and some rewrites based on suggestions from
101     Clytie Siddall. Closes: #367861, #380588.
102 fjp 43696 * Update Sparc specific information and document common installation issues
103     for Sparc. Many thanks to Jurij Smakov for reviewing the Sparc manual and
104     for his overview of issues.
105 fjp 43730 * Etch ships with X.Org 7.1.
106 fjp 43610 * bookinfo:
107     - Add note for m68k that it is not a release architecture for Etch.
108 fjp 43573 * hardware:
109     - Remove ancient section on parity RAM. Closes: #403035.
110     - Update documenation for Sparc, based on patch by Jurij Smakov.
111     Closes: #389516.
112     - PowerPC/APUS is currently not supported; removed from hardware table.
113 fjp 43640 - Remove sun4cd (sparc32) from and add sun4v (sparc64) in hardware table.
114 fjp 43624 - Rewrite of NIC support, document wireless support (for selected arches)
115     and explain issues surrounding drivers that require firmware.
116 fjp 43696 * preparing:
117     - Clean out ancient hardware issues.
118 fjp 43527 * boot-installer/parameters:
119 fjp 43658 - Document anna/choose_modules and mirror/protocol boot parameters.
120     - Use a clearer way to list the short form of parameters.
121 fjp 43499 * boot-installer/trouble:
122 fjp 43498 - Fix reference to Save debug logs menu option.
123     Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402439.
124     - Add a note that installation reports will be published.
125 fjp 43559 * install-methods:
126     - All architectures that support TFTP booting also support DCHP, so remove
127     the "supports-dhcp" condition.
128     - According to the text, Alpha supports BOOTP.
129     - Use dhcp3-server for examples rather than dhcp (version 2).
130     - tftpd-hpa does not use /tftpboot by default; allow for this in examples.
131     Closes: #342076.
132 fjp 43603 * using-d-i:
133     - Extend description of lowmem installs based on a patch suggested by
134     Holger Wansing. Closes: #400263.
135 fjp 43573 * boot-new:
136     - Remove reference to apt guide (not installed by default) and obsolete
137     debian-guide. Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402492.
138     - As lynx is no longer installed, suggest w3m as text based browser.
139     - Explain how to browse /usr/share/doc/ using a graphical web browser.
140     - Mention documentation packages.
141     - Clarify what happens on first boot and how to get help to in case of
142     problems.
143 fjp 43500 * post-install:
144     - Remove section on reactivating Windows; the installer should detect it
145     automatically after all. Closes: #402437.
146 fjp 43623 - Add extended section on email configuration (moved from using-d-i as
147     exim4 now configures for "local mail only" by default). Closes: #402857.
148 fjp 43525 * appendix/preseed:
149 fjp 43526 - Clarifications based on comments from Tapio Lehtonen and Holger Wansing.
150     Closes: #397923.
151 fjp 43564 * appendix/chroot-install:
152     - Changes suggested in review by Wiktor Wandachowicz. Closes: #394929.
153 fjp 42824
154 fjp 43730 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:08:33 +0100
155 fjp 43495
156 fjp 39376 installation-guide (20060726) unstable; urgency=low
157 fjp 36729
158 fjp 36730 [ Joey Hess ]
159     * Update kernel building section to conditionalise some more 2.4 kernel
160     stuff.
161     * Suggest passing --initrd to make-kpkg since the docs say nothing about
162     compiling disk drivers into the kernel.
163 fjp 36805 * Document new passwd/root-login setting.
164     * Booting a USB stick via a boot floppy is not supported by current
165     installer images.
166     * Update preseeding docs to use task names, not short descriptions, since
167     that will work now and is more convenient for preseeding.
168     * Document the kde-desktop and gnome-desktop subtasks.
169 fjp 36729
170 fjp 36732 [ Frans Pop ]
171     * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall.
172 fjp 36758 * chroot-install:
173     - add /etc/hosts to be created for network configuration (closes: #364517)
174     - make kernel/linux-image variable (closes: #345482)
175     * Document -- command line option for passing parameters to boot loader
176     configuration (closes: #309889).
177 fjp 36805 * Switch Finnish from XML-based to PO-based translation.
178 fjp 36858 * Bring numbering and layout of GPL more in line with original. With thanks
179     to Holger Wansing.
180 fjp 36879 * Add functionality to include optional paragraphs in translations.
181     Initially two have been defined:
182     - a paragraph in bookinfo for information about the translation;
183     - a note in appendix/gpl.xml required with unofficial GPL translations.
184 fjp 36729
185 joeyh 37224 [ Joey Hess ]
186     * Document new preseed/run setting.
187 joeyh 37253 * Prebaseconfig renamed to finish-install, which changes some documentation,
188     and. notably, renames one of the xml files.
189 joeyh 37295 * hd-media size changed to 256 mb.
190 joeyh 38231 * Document new aliases added in preseed 1.17 for common debconf boot
191     parameters: fb, url, file, locale, interface.
192 fjp 36732
193 fjp 38406 [ Frans Pop ]
194     * Document guided partitioning using LVM and update partitioning section.
195 joeyh 37224
196 tbm 38776 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
197     * The RiscPC flavour is now known as "rpc" rather than "riscpc".
198 tbm 38777 * As of 2.6, r4k-ip22 also rupports r5k machines do the r5k-ip22 flavour
199     has been dropped.
200 tbm 38776
201 h01ger-guest 38779 [ Holger Levsen ]
202 fjp 38869 * Added the remaining suggestions about nubus and non-powerpc macs
203 fjp 38786 (closes: #364546).
204 fjp 38869 * Restructured the chapter about powerpc supported hardware, moved
205 fjp 38786 unsupported machines to the end.
206     * Updated the information about existing kernel flavours.
207 h01ger-guest 38779
208 fjp 38869 [ Miroslav Kure ]
209     * Document installation to encrypted partitions (partman-crypto).
210 fjp 39376 * Update XOrg to 7.0.
211 fjp 38406
212 fjp 39093 [ Frans Pop ]
213     * Etch has been assigned version 4.0.
214 fjp 39096 * Update kernel versions to 2.6.16.
215 fjp 39252 * Base languages to be built for website on list of release languages.
216 fjp 39376 * arm, mips and mipsel switched to 2.6 kernels.
217     * Enable Brazillian Portuguese and Vietnamese translation for release.
218     * Disable Greek translation as it is too incomplete.
219 fjp 38869
220 fjp 39376 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:27:52 +0200
221 fjp 39093
222 fjp 36727 installation-guide (20060427) unstable; urgency=low
223 fjp 33700
224 joeyh 33719 [ Joey Hess ]
225     * Update preseeding docs for base-config removal.
226     * Add documentation of how to change apt-setup security source with
227     preseeding.
228     * Remove the sarge preseeding docs.
229     * Remove mentions of base-config and move base-config stuff to elsewhere.
230 fjp 33725 * Add documentation of apt-setup, user-setup, clock-setup, tzsetup, and
231 joeyh 33719 pkgsel.
232     * Change some references to tty3 (messages) to instead refer to tty4
233     (syslog).
234     * Change references to /var/log/debian-installer to just /var/log/installer.
235     * Remove docs for baseconfig-udeb; going away with base-config.
236     * Removed various bits of sarge cruft when it made things easier.
237 fjp 33700
238 fjp 33725 [ Frans Pop ]
239     * Change default build to Etch.
240     * Remove all Sarge specific content and make Etch specific content default.
241     * Delete some obsolete entities.
242 fjp 33772 * Change references from package d-i-manual to package installation-guide.
243 fjp 36012 * Explicitly specify XML declaration as required by openjade 1.4devel1-15
244     (closes: #360241).
245 fjp 34721 * Update appendix on chroot installs:
246     - mention that debootstrap also requires basic Unix/Linux commands;
247     - comment out link to outdated rpm packages of debootstrap.
248 fjp 33700
249 cjwatson 33885 [ Colin Watson ]
250 cjwatson 33886 * Add a few more supports-floppy-boot and bootable-usb conditionals to
251     make it easier to turn all this off in rebuilds of the manual.
252 cjwatson 33887 * Etch uses X.Org 6.9, and xserver-xorg instead of xserver-xfree86.
253 cjwatson 33890 * Document how to pick a particular interface with
254     netcfg/choose_interface, including how to do this before reading a
255     preseed file.
256 cjwatson 33893 * Remove obsolete substvar.
257 cjwatson 33940 * Build-depend on libhtml-parser-perl for build/preseed.pl.
258 cjwatson 33885
259 joeyh 34168 [ Joey Hess ]
260     * Add docs about preseeding a fallback to a static IP if dhcp fails.
261 joeyh 34719 * Update copyright date.
262 joeyh 35031 * It's possible to use preseeding to set up LVM now, so remove stuff about
263     it not working.
264 joeyh 35032 * Document DHCP preseeding. Note that this documents it as of netcfg 1.24
265     and preseed 1.13.
266 fjp 34713
267 tbm 35300 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
268     * Bring ARM up to date with reality: remove unsupported flavours, add
269     NSLU2.
270 tbm 35301 * Fix Netwinder/CATS download location.
271 tbm 35307 * Improve the Netwinder TFTP boot instructions.
272 tbm 35308 * The Netwinder firmware is no longer available due to license problems.
273 tbm 35302 * Mention NSLU2 download location.
274 tbm 35309 * Describe how to flash the installer image onto the NSLU2.
275 tbm 35310 * Describe how to boot a Cobalt machine.
276 tbm 35300
277 fjp 36007 [ Frans Pop ]
278     * Document new option to preseed additional apt sources for target system.
279 fjp 36204 * Document how to create a preconfiguration file.
280 fjp 36727 * Enable Catalan, Italian and Swedish translations for release.
281     * Disable Brazillian Portuguese translation as it is too incomplete.
282 joeyh 36167
283 fjp 36727 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:00:32 +0200
284    
285 fjp 33677 installation-guide (20060102) unstable; urgency=low
286 fjp 31851
287 joeyh 32251 [ Frans Pop ]
288 fjp 31851 * Fix build error caused by description for s390. Closes: #337382.
289 fjp 33676 * Update kernel package names and kernel versions per architecture.
290 fjp 32424 * Move documentation on preseeding to separate appendix for etch.
291     * Use new, more flexible perl script to extract example preseed file from
292     new appendix.
293 fjp 32665 * Set proper POT-Creation-Date when generating new POT files.
294 fjp 33605 * New translations started: Polish, Swedish, Vietnamese.
295     * First release of Greek and Korean translations.
296 fjp 33680 * Exclude Traditional Chinese translation as it was not updated.
297 fjp 33676 * Switch release name to Etch (3.1+δ).
298 fjp 31851
299 joeyh 32251 [ Joey Hess ]
300     * Update installation report template and instructions for etch.
301 fjp 31851
302 fjp 33680 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 18:44:59 +0100
303 joeyh 32251
304 fjp 31686 installation-guide (20051025) unstable; urgency=low
305 fjp 31625
306     * Mention in copyright that full GPL is included in the manual.
307     Closes: #334925
308     * Register installed documents with doc-base.
309 fjp 31686 * Minor updates in English text and translations.
310 fjp 31625
311 fjp 31686 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:37:25 +0200
312 fjp 31625
313 fjp 31509 installation-guide (20051019) unstable; urgency=low
314 joeyh 31240
315 fjp 31432 [ Joey Hess ]
316 joeyh 31240 * Split off from the debian-installer source package.
317 fjp 31249 See the changelog for debian-installer for older changelog entries.
318 joeyh 31240
319 fjp 31432 [ Frans Pop ]
320     * Change over to building arch all packages in section doc. Build separate
321     packages for each arch containing all translations.
322 fjp 31435 * Change package name to installation-guide.
323 fjp 31433 * Include translations already available on official website.
324 fjp 31432
325 fjp 31435 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:12:35 +0200

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