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Add link to Philip Hand's website as it contains many creative examples
1 fjp 44406 installation-guide (2007xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
2    
3 joeyh 44551 [ Frans Pop ]
4 fjp 44410 * Cleaned up definitions of some entities and removed unused ones.
5 fjp 44411 * Implement infrastructure that allows entities to be translated.
6 fjp 44422 Thanks to Miroslav Kure for providing the patch. Closes: #344048, #406515.
7 fjp 44534 * Disable Korean PDF/PS formats for builds for the website.
8 fjp 44406 * appendix/files: update information about mouse configuration, based on a
9     patch from Peter Samuelson (for which thanks). Closes: #406290.
10 fjp 44894 * boot-installer, appendix/preseed: document preseed/interactive parameter.
11 fjp 44406
12 joeyh 44551 [ Joey Hess ]
13     * Fix package name for installation-reports, and manual unfuzzy of all
14     translations. Closes: #408408
15 fjp 44406
16 fjp 45186 [ Frans Pop ]
17 fjp 45347 * welcome:
18     - make links to FSF and GNU more consistent (closes: #410317)
19     - we do not necessarily share the ideals of the FSF (closes: #410129)
20     Thanks to Francesco Poli for suggesting these changes.
21 fjp 45238 * using-d-i: guided partitioning now creates swap inside LVM.
22     Thanks to Francesco Poli. Closes: #411399.
23 fjp 45239 * Document installs over PPPoE. Based on a text proposed by Eddy Petrisor.
24     Closes: #408340.
25 fjp 45291 * installation-howto: update for the integration of base-config into D-I.
26 fjp 45349 * appendix/preseed:
27     - as exim no longer asks any questions during installations, there is no
28     real need to document it anymore
29     - add link to Philip Hand's website as it contains many creative examples
30 joeyh 44551
31 joeyh 45190 [ Joey Hess ]
32     * Document debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated.
33 fjp 45186
34 fjp 45349 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:49:53 +0100
35 joeyh 45190
36 fjp 44403 installation-guide (20070122) unstable; urgency=low
37 fjp 44392
38     * Enable Catalan, Brazillian, Korean and Spanish again.
39     * Enable new Hungarian translation.
40    
41 fjp 44403 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:41:57 +0100
42 fjp 44392
43 fjp 44224 installation-guide (20070115) unstable; urgency=low
44 fjp 39389
45 cjwatson 39390 [ Colin Watson ]
46     * Document new pkgsel/include setting.
47 cjwatson 41451 * Fix incorrect documentation on preseeding additional apt sources.
48 cjwatson 41452 * Fix typo in hppa hardware support documentation
49     (https://launchpad.net/bugs/55164).
50 cjwatson 41453 * Adjust chroot-install guide to take account of debootstrap being
51     Architecture: all now (https://launchpad.net/bugs/64765).
52 fjp 39389
53 fjp 39463 [ Frans Pop ]
54     * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall and Holger Wansing.
55 fjp 39465 Closes: #378404, #370484, #370425.
56 fjp 39463 * Update instructions on how to set module parameters for PLIP installation.
57     * Update chroot install instructions to use aptitude instead of apt-get.
58 fjp 39464 * Add /srv in overview of directory tree in partitioning appendix.
59 fjp 39531 * Update section on partitioning using LVM to reflect recent changes.
60 fjp 39552 * Apply various patches by or based on suggestions from Nathanael Nerode.
61 fjp 39898 Some of the bigger changes include:
62     - Update of processor support for the i386 architecture.
63     - Update information on setting up a RARP server.
64 fjp 39614 * Add variant for the AMD64 architecture. Closes: #305977.
65 fjp 39868 * Suppress warnings about missing IDs for sections and such.
66 fjp 39886 * Reorganize supported hardware table; i386 no longer has flavors.
67     * Document SMP-alternatives as one of the variants of SMP support.
68 fjp 39894 * Document how to shut down the system. Based on patch from Holger Levsen.
69     Closes: #248067.
70 fjp 39389
71 fjp 39583 [ Miroslav Kure ]
72     * Update information about booting with encrypted partitions.
73     Closes: #378651.
74    
75 joeyh 39932 [ Joey Hess ]
76     * Update preseeding docs to document listing more than one disk for
77     partman-auto/disk and grub-installer/bootdev
78 fjp 39463
79 fjp 40073 [ Changwoo Ryu ]
80     * Add support for Korean PDF output. Requires latex-hangul-ucs-hlatex.
81     Closes: #381657.
82 joeyh 39932
83 joeyh 40459 [ David Härdeman ]
84 fjp 40542 * Update preseeding documentation for partman-auto.
85 fjp 40073
86 fjp 40542 [ Frans Pop ]
87     * Correct error for alpha netboot installations. Thanks to Aurélien Géröme.
88     Closes: #386591.
89 fjp 40811 * Correct number of release arches. Thanks to Holger Wansing. Closes: #384321.
90 fjp 43573 * Minor corrections suggested by Malcolm Parsons. Closes: #388138.
91 fjp 40875 * Document new boot parameters theme and directfb/hw-accel.
92 fjp 40980 * Remove now obsolete distinction between classic and common kpkg.
93     * Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.17.
94 fjp 41499 * Set default value for manual_release in build wrapper scripts.
95 fjp 41551 * Add new section in preseeding appendix on partman-auto-raid. Not included
96     in preseed text file as it is still somewhat experimental.
97 fjp 41585 * Document changes in guided partitioning and added encrypted LVM support.
98 fjp 41836 * Disable m68k for official builds as it is not a release architecture.
99 fjp 42357 * buildweb.sh: use 'mv -f' to avoid errors during builds on the webserver.
100 fjp 43573 * Minor corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall. Closes: #394413, #394471.
101 fjp 42300 * Update task sizes as per D-I RC1.
102 fjp 42301 * New troubleshooting section on how to deal with CD-ROM related problems.
103 fjp 42485 * Document how to pass parameters to kernel modules on boot.
104 fjp 42551 * Document how to install KDE instead of Gnome in the section on pkgsel.
105 joeyh 40459
106 joeyh 41808 [ Joey Hess ]
107     * Update for recent floppy changes.
108 joeyh 41850 * Remove hardcoded paths to executables in buildone.sh.
109     * Set HOME to a temporary directory before running w3m, to avoid it
110     trying to write to a home directory that may not exist on the buildds.
111     (See #393641)
112 joeyh 42283 * Update the installation report template to match current one in
113     installation-report.
114 fjp 40542
115 philh 42295 [ Philip Hands ]
116 fjp 42296 * Clarify how -- affects which parameters end up in the target system's
117     bootloader's command line.
118 joeyh 41808
119 joeyh 42364 [ Joey Hess ]
120     * Applied Phil's auto mode documentation patch, edited it, and moved
121     some things around for clarity. Closes: #395910
122 joeyh 42370 * Document auto=true boot parameter.
123 philh 42295
124 fjp 42824 [ Frans Pop ]
125     * Add condition "g-i" for arches that support the graphical installer.
126     * Document mouse/left boot parameter.
127 fjp 43258 * Explain usage of "owner" prefix when setting values for debconf variables
128 fjp 42982 intended for the target system at the boot prompt.
129     * Give some examples of preseeding questions from the boot prompt.
130     * Document how to install the KDE desktop environment instead of GNOME.
131     * Don't list unsupported frontends in boot parameters section.
132 fjp 43259 * Minor corrections suggested by Tapio Lehtonen. Closes: #397790.
133     * Minor corrections suggested by Holger Wansing. Closes: #397974.
134 joeyh 42364
135 tbm 43030 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
136     * Mention that RiscPC support is incomplete.
137 tbm 43031 * Mention Intel IOP32x support.
138 tbm 43032 * Talk about ixp4xx rather than the more specific nslu2.
139 tbm 43030
140 fjp 43495 [ Frans Pop ]
141 fjp 43531 * Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.18.
142 fjp 43576 * Minor corrections and some rewrites based on suggestions from
143     Clytie Siddall. Closes: #367861, #380588.
144 fjp 43696 * Update Sparc specific information and document common installation issues
145     for Sparc. Many thanks to Jurij Smakov for reviewing the Sparc manual and
146     for his overview of issues.
147 fjp 43730 * Etch ships with X.Org 7.1.
148 fjp 43735 * Update number of developers, packages and mailing lists.
149     * General revision of minimum hardware requirements throughout the manual.
150     * Update of installed/download size of tasks.
151 fjp 43782 * Document the graphical installer, including the main known issues.
152 fjp 44232 * Avoid generating XML files multiple times for translations using PO files
153     when using build.sh or buildweb.sh sripts.
154 fjp 43610 * bookinfo:
155     - Add note for m68k that it is not a release architecture for Etch.
156 fjp 43573 * hardware:
157     - Remove ancient section on parity RAM. Closes: #403035.
158     - Update documenation for Sparc, based on patch by Jurij Smakov.
159     Closes: #389516.
160     - PowerPC/APUS is currently not supported; removed from hardware table.
161 fjp 43640 - Remove sun4cd (sparc32) from and add sun4v (sparc64) in hardware table.
162 fjp 43624 - Rewrite of NIC support, document wireless support (for selected arches)
163     and explain issues surrounding drivers that require firmware.
164 fjp 43696 * preparing:
165     - Clean out ancient hardware issues.
166 fjp 43527 * boot-installer/parameters:
167 fjp 43658 - Document anna/choose_modules and mirror/protocol boot parameters.
168     - Use a clearer way to list the short form of parameters.
169 fjp 43906 - Document new option to blacklist kernel modules.
170 fjp 43499 * boot-installer/trouble:
171 fjp 43498 - Fix reference to Save debug logs menu option.
172     Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402439.
173     - Add a note that installation reports will be published.
174 fjp 43559 * install-methods:
175     - All architectures that support TFTP booting also support DCHP, so remove
176     the "supports-dhcp" condition.
177     - According to the text, Alpha supports BOOTP.
178     - Use dhcp3-server for examples rather than dhcp (version 2).
179     - tftpd-hpa does not use /tftpboot by default; allow for this in examples.
180     Closes: #342076.
181 fjp 43603 * using-d-i:
182     - Extend description of lowmem installs based on a patch suggested by
183     Holger Wansing. Closes: #400263.
184 fjp 43573 * boot-new:
185     - Remove reference to apt guide (not installed by default) and obsolete
186     debian-guide. Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402492.
187     - As lynx is no longer installed, suggest w3m as text based browser.
188     - Explain how to browse /usr/share/doc/ using a graphical web browser.
189     - Mention documentation packages.
190     - Clarify what happens on first boot and how to get help to in case of
191     problems.
192 fjp 43500 * post-install:
193     - Remove section on reactivating Windows; the installer should detect it
194     automatically after all. Closes: #402437.
195 fjp 43623 - Add extended section on email configuration (moved from using-d-i as
196     exim4 now configures for "local mail only" by default). Closes: #402857.
197 fjp 43525 * appendix/preseed:
198 fjp 43526 - Clarifications based on comments from Tapio Lehtonen and Holger Wansing.
199     Closes: #397923.
200 fjp 43564 * appendix/chroot-install:
201     - Changes suggested in review by Wiktor Wandachowicz. Closes: #394929.
202 fjp 42824
203 fjp 44224 [ Frans Pop ]
204     * Prepare for release. This release is mostly for testing purposes, the real
205     release targeted at Etch will be next week.
206 fjp 44232 * Add and enable amd64 architecture.
207     * Update control file for dropped m68k and added amd64 architectures.
208 fjp 44224 * Disable Catalan, Korean, Spanish and Brazillian translations as they are
209     not yet complete.
210     * Enable Finnish translation.
211 fjp 43495
212 fjp 44232 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:10:16 +0100
213 fjp 44224
214 fjp 39376 installation-guide (20060726) unstable; urgency=low
215 fjp 36729
216 fjp 36730 [ Joey Hess ]
217     * Update kernel building section to conditionalise some more 2.4 kernel
218     stuff.
219     * Suggest passing --initrd to make-kpkg since the docs say nothing about
220     compiling disk drivers into the kernel.
221 fjp 36805 * Document new passwd/root-login setting.
222     * Booting a USB stick via a boot floppy is not supported by current
223     installer images.
224     * Update preseeding docs to use task names, not short descriptions, since
225     that will work now and is more convenient for preseeding.
226     * Document the kde-desktop and gnome-desktop subtasks.
227 fjp 36729
228 fjp 36732 [ Frans Pop ]
229     * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall.
230 fjp 36758 * chroot-install:
231     - add /etc/hosts to be created for network configuration (closes: #364517)
232     - make kernel/linux-image variable (closes: #345482)
233     * Document -- command line option for passing parameters to boot loader
234     configuration (closes: #309889).
235 fjp 36805 * Switch Finnish from XML-based to PO-based translation.
236 fjp 36858 * Bring numbering and layout of GPL more in line with original. With thanks
237     to Holger Wansing.
238 fjp 36879 * Add functionality to include optional paragraphs in translations.
239     Initially two have been defined:
240     - a paragraph in bookinfo for information about the translation;
241     - a note in appendix/gpl.xml required with unofficial GPL translations.
242 fjp 36729
243 joeyh 37224 [ Joey Hess ]
244     * Document new preseed/run setting.
245 joeyh 37253 * Prebaseconfig renamed to finish-install, which changes some documentation,
246     and. notably, renames one of the xml files.
247 joeyh 37295 * hd-media size changed to 256 mb.
248 joeyh 38231 * Document new aliases added in preseed 1.17 for common debconf boot
249     parameters: fb, url, file, locale, interface.
250 fjp 36732
251 fjp 38406 [ Frans Pop ]
252     * Document guided partitioning using LVM and update partitioning section.
253 joeyh 37224
254 tbm 38776 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
255     * The RiscPC flavour is now known as "rpc" rather than "riscpc".
256 tbm 38777 * As of 2.6, r4k-ip22 also rupports r5k machines do the r5k-ip22 flavour
257     has been dropped.
258 tbm 38776
259 h01ger-guest 38779 [ Holger Levsen ]
260 fjp 38869 * Added the remaining suggestions about nubus and non-powerpc macs
261 fjp 38786 (closes: #364546).
262 fjp 38869 * Restructured the chapter about powerpc supported hardware, moved
263 fjp 38786 unsupported machines to the end.
264     * Updated the information about existing kernel flavours.
265 h01ger-guest 38779
266 fjp 38869 [ Miroslav Kure ]
267     * Document installation to encrypted partitions (partman-crypto).
268 fjp 39376 * Update XOrg to 7.0.
269 fjp 38406
270 fjp 39093 [ Frans Pop ]
271     * Etch has been assigned version 4.0.
272 fjp 39096 * Update kernel versions to 2.6.16.
273 fjp 39252 * Base languages to be built for website on list of release languages.
274 fjp 39376 * arm, mips and mipsel switched to 2.6 kernels.
275     * Enable Brazillian Portuguese and Vietnamese translation for release.
276     * Disable Greek translation as it is too incomplete.
277 fjp 38869
278 fjp 39376 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:27:52 +0200
279 fjp 39093
280 fjp 36727 installation-guide (20060427) unstable; urgency=low
281 fjp 33700
282 joeyh 33719 [ Joey Hess ]
283     * Update preseeding docs for base-config removal.
284     * Add documentation of how to change apt-setup security source with
285     preseeding.
286     * Remove the sarge preseeding docs.
287     * Remove mentions of base-config and move base-config stuff to elsewhere.
288 fjp 33725 * Add documentation of apt-setup, user-setup, clock-setup, tzsetup, and
289 joeyh 33719 pkgsel.
290     * Change some references to tty3 (messages) to instead refer to tty4
291     (syslog).
292     * Change references to /var/log/debian-installer to just /var/log/installer.
293     * Remove docs for baseconfig-udeb; going away with base-config.
294     * Removed various bits of sarge cruft when it made things easier.
295 fjp 33700
296 fjp 33725 [ Frans Pop ]
297     * Change default build to Etch.
298     * Remove all Sarge specific content and make Etch specific content default.
299     * Delete some obsolete entities.
300 fjp 33772 * Change references from package d-i-manual to package installation-guide.
301 fjp 36012 * Explicitly specify XML declaration as required by openjade 1.4devel1-15
302     (closes: #360241).
303 fjp 34721 * Update appendix on chroot installs:
304     - mention that debootstrap also requires basic Unix/Linux commands;
305     - comment out link to outdated rpm packages of debootstrap.
306 fjp 33700
307 cjwatson 33885 [ Colin Watson ]
308 cjwatson 33886 * Add a few more supports-floppy-boot and bootable-usb conditionals to
309     make it easier to turn all this off in rebuilds of the manual.
310 cjwatson 33887 * Etch uses X.Org 6.9, and xserver-xorg instead of xserver-xfree86.
311 cjwatson 33890 * Document how to pick a particular interface with
312     netcfg/choose_interface, including how to do this before reading a
313     preseed file.
314 cjwatson 33893 * Remove obsolete substvar.
315 cjwatson 33940 * Build-depend on libhtml-parser-perl for build/preseed.pl.
316 cjwatson 33885
317 joeyh 34168 [ Joey Hess ]
318     * Add docs about preseeding a fallback to a static IP if dhcp fails.
319 joeyh 34719 * Update copyright date.
320 joeyh 35031 * It's possible to use preseeding to set up LVM now, so remove stuff about
321     it not working.
322 joeyh 35032 * Document DHCP preseeding. Note that this documents it as of netcfg 1.24
323     and preseed 1.13.
324 fjp 34713
325 tbm 35300 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
326     * Bring ARM up to date with reality: remove unsupported flavours, add
327     NSLU2.
328 tbm 35301 * Fix Netwinder/CATS download location.
329 tbm 35307 * Improve the Netwinder TFTP boot instructions.
330 tbm 35308 * The Netwinder firmware is no longer available due to license problems.
331 tbm 35302 * Mention NSLU2 download location.
332 tbm 35309 * Describe how to flash the installer image onto the NSLU2.
333 tbm 35310 * Describe how to boot a Cobalt machine.
334 tbm 35300
335 fjp 36007 [ Frans Pop ]
336     * Document new option to preseed additional apt sources for target system.
337 fjp 36204 * Document how to create a preconfiguration file.
338 fjp 36727 * Enable Catalan, Italian and Swedish translations for release.
339     * Disable Brazillian Portuguese translation as it is too incomplete.
340 joeyh 36167
341 fjp 36727 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:00:32 +0200
342    
343 fjp 33677 installation-guide (20060102) unstable; urgency=low
344 fjp 31851
345 joeyh 32251 [ Frans Pop ]
346 fjp 31851 * Fix build error caused by description for s390. Closes: #337382.
347 fjp 33676 * Update kernel package names and kernel versions per architecture.
348 fjp 32424 * Move documentation on preseeding to separate appendix for etch.
349     * Use new, more flexible perl script to extract example preseed file from
350     new appendix.
351 fjp 32665 * Set proper POT-Creation-Date when generating new POT files.
352 fjp 33605 * New translations started: Polish, Swedish, Vietnamese.
353     * First release of Greek and Korean translations.
354 fjp 33680 * Exclude Traditional Chinese translation as it was not updated.
355 fjp 33676 * Switch release name to Etch (3.1+δ).
356 fjp 31851
357 joeyh 32251 [ Joey Hess ]
358     * Update installation report template and instructions for etch.
359 fjp 31851
360 fjp 33680 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 18:44:59 +0100
361 joeyh 32251
362 fjp 31686 installation-guide (20051025) unstable; urgency=low
363 fjp 31625
364     * Mention in copyright that full GPL is included in the manual.
365     Closes: #334925
366     * Register installed documents with doc-base.
367 fjp 31686 * Minor updates in English text and translations.
368 fjp 31625
369 fjp 31686 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:37:25 +0200
370 fjp 31625
371 fjp 31509 installation-guide (20051019) unstable; urgency=low
372 joeyh 31240
373 fjp 31432 [ Joey Hess ]
374 joeyh 31240 * Split off from the debian-installer source package.
375 fjp 31249 See the changelog for debian-installer for older changelog entries.
376 joeyh 31240
377 fjp 31432 [ Frans Pop ]
378     * Change over to building arch all packages in section doc. Build separate
379     packages for each arch containing all translations.
380 fjp 31435 * Change package name to installation-guide.
381 fjp 31433 * Include translations already available on official website.
382 fjp 31432
383 fjp 31435 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:12:35 +0200

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