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installation-guide (2006xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low |
installation-guide (2008xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium |
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[ Martin Michlmayr ] |
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* Remove everything about DECstation since these machines are |
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no longer supported. |
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* Provide information about all iop32x and orion5x installation media. |
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* Describe Orion and Versatile as supported platforms. |
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* Fix the NSLU2 download link. |
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* Describe MIPS Malta. |
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* Document netcfg/get_gateway=none |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Update copyright to 2008. |
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* Update description of country selection in line with recent changes in |
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localechooser. |
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* Request output of lspci -knn in installation reports. |
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* Apply patch from Frank Lichtenheld to improve netboot instructions for |
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PowerPC. Closes: #275565. |
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[ Joey Hess ] |
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* Comment out partman-auto/disk setting in preseed since lenny d-i will |
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automatically work w/o it if there's just 1 disk. Closes: #490287 |
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* Document hw-detect/load_firmware. Closes: #493845 |
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[ Ryan Niebur ] |
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* Added documentation for RAID 6 and 10. |
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[ Jérémy Bobbio ] |
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* Explicitly mention that preseeded keymaps must be known to d-i. |
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Closes: #493720 |
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* Mention parman-md/device_remove_md in preseeding appendix. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Restructure supported hardware section. |
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:04:50 +0200 |
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installation-guide (20080520) unstable; urgency=medium |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Clarify console switching for the graphical installer. |
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Thanks to Tim Richardson for the suggestion. |
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[ Colin Watson ] |
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* Spell "multiselect" correctly in apt-setup/services-select preseeding |
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example. |
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* Note that an empty preseed file is equivalent to a normal manual |
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installation (thanks, Nathan Sutton). |
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[ Robert Millan ] |
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* Document how to start the installer from Windows. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Document installation using multiple CD/DVDs; update text about using a |
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mirror in line with that. |
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* Lenny will be version 5.0. |
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* Warn about boot issues when using RAID on the root file system. |
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* Update task selection section for changes in desktop task preseeding. |
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* Fix double / in links, spotted by Stanislav Gromov. Closes: #472813. |
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* Document new boot parameters to define mouse protocol and device (port) |
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for the graphical installer. |
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* Correct command to use to allow preseeding of netcfg when using a |
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preconfiguration file downloaded from a server (preseed/url). |
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Thanks to Durk Strooisma for the report and analysis. Closes: #476524. |
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* Specify for which release the example preseed file is valid. |
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* Document preseeding of grub password. |
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* Update how to suppress the removal of existing LVM data using preseeding. |
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* Update version of X11 used in Lenny. |
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* Update kernel versions. |
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* Update memory requirements for i386 and amd64. Elaborate on installing |
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systems with less memory than the listed minimum. |
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* Update known issues for graphical installer: entropy gathering for |
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encrypted partitioning is now supported; localechooser now has nice |
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columns but other components still need to be done. |
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* Document finish-install/keep-consoles boot parameter and preseeding. |
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* Define two new translatable entities: escapekey and tabkey. |
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* Update task sizes, and number of packages and developers. |
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* x86: update description of the boot screen for the new syslinux vesamenu. |
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[ Joey Hess ] |
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* Remove autopartkit from the module list. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Disable Catalan, Korean and Japanese translations as they are incomplete. |
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* Upload with priority medium because of D-I Beta 2 release. |
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2008 17:59:43 +0200 |
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installation-guide (20080211) unstable; urgency=low |
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[ Martin Michlmayr ] |
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* Remove all information about RiscPC because these machines are |
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no longer supported. |
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[ Joey Hess ] |
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* Document the new tasksel/desktop preseed for lenny. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Add cm-super to build dependencies as that improves the quality of the |
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Russian PDF version. |
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* Suggest 'nousb' instead of debian-installer/probe/usb as USB modules are |
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now loaded automatically. |
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* Fix incorrect instruction for preseeding local repositories. |
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Thanks to Rémi Demarthe. Closes: #420894. |
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* Add translatable entities for Continue, Cancel and Go Back buttons. |
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* Add build dependencies on texlive-lang-* packages for languages for which |
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the manual has translations. |
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* Document new boot parameters "lowmem" and "dmraid". |
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* Document new location of graphical mini.iso images. |
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* Document base-installer/kernel/image preseed. |
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[ Joey Hess ] |
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* Document new lilo-installer/skip preseed. |
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* Document passwd/user-default-groups preseed. |
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[ Colin Watson ] |
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* Recommend preseeding mirror/country to "manual" rather than "enter |
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information manually" (choose-mirror 2.17). |
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* Remove text talking about devfs-style device names, which are no longer |
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supported. |
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* preparing/minimum-hardware-reqts.xml: Pluralise "gigabyte" consistently. |
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[ Joey Hess ] |
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* Document clock-setup/ntp. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Support for sparc32 has been discontinued for Lenny. This also means that |
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booting from floppy is no longer supported for sparc. |
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* Extend the documentation of apt-setup, especially the decision whether or |
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not to use a network mirror. Document selection of services. |
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* Document new apt-setup/services-select and related hostname preseeds. |
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* Add some information about creating device files in the appendix on chroot |
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installs; also add a note that the appendix only covers the basic steps |
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of a chroot install. |
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* Warn against installing Debian while another OS is hibernated. |
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[ Joey Hess ] |
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* Document how to preseed partman-auto to use only available disk, no matter |
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what it's name is. |
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* debian/rules: call dh_md5sums. |
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* Document debian-installer/exit/halt preseed. |
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[ Colin Watson ] |
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* Clarify that you need to actually provide an autopartitioning method as |
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well as preseeding the partman confirmation messages. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Make copyright refer explicitly to GPL version 2 as that is the version |
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included in the appendix; add reference to /usr/share/common-licenses to |
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make Lintian happy. |
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* Rename doc-base.TEMPLATE to TEMPLATE.doc-base to avoid its inclusion in |
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the package for the first architecture. Closes: #416304. |
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* Modify language codes that include a country for the doc-base document ID |
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so they only contain valid characters. |
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* Remove the PDF section in doc-base files if PDF format is not built for a |
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language. |
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* Update standards version to 3.7.3; no changes needed. |
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* Patch from Changwoo Ryu to replace Hangul-ucs with ko.tex fonts for Korean |
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PDF version of the manual. Closes: #457137. |
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* using-d-i: |
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- move clock-setup, tzsetup and user-setup to reflect their changed |
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position in the installation procedure |
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- mention that clock-setup will now attempt to set the system time from a |
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time server |
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- split clock-setup as part is now executed during finish-install |
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- add instructions on how a different time zone from the one(s) that match |
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the selected location can be set (as that is a FAQ) |
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- improve readability of partman section by using separate subsections for |
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guided and manual partitioning |
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- network-console: add information about dropped connections and how to |
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avoid that (closes: #458154); add footnote with command to remove a host |
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from the known_hosts file |
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* howto, preseed: update for reordering of the installation procedure. |
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* Change build dependency on gs-common to ghostscript. |
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* Use --previous when updating PO files so translators can see the changes |
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in a string. |
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[ Colin Watson ] |
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* Use &releasename; rather than hardcoding etch in sources.list |
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recommendation for chroot installs. Closes: #458459. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Make UTF-8 the default encoding for the text version for all languages |
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that still used ISO-8859-1. |
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* Korean text version changed to UTF-8 on request of Changwoo Ryu. |
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* Japanese text version changed to UTF-8 on request of KURASAWA Nozomu. |
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* Enable PDF for Korean for website builds. |
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* Disable Finnish, Hungarian and Spanish for this release as they have not |
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been updated. |
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:35:22 +0100 |
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installation-guide (20070319) unstable; urgency=low |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Cleaned up definitions of some entities and removed unused ones. |
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* Implement infrastructure that allows entities to be translated. |
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Thanks to Miroslav Kure for providing the patch. Closes: #344048, #406515. |
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* Disable Korean PDF/PS formats for builds for the website. |
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* appendix/files: update information about mouse configuration, based on a |
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patch from Peter Samuelson (for which thanks). Closes: #406290. |
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* boot-installer, appendix/preseed: document preseed/interactive parameter. |
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[ Joey Hess ] |
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* Fix package name for installation-reports, and manual unfuzzy of all |
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translations. Closes: #408408 |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* welcome: |
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- make links to FSF and GNU more consistent (closes: #410317) |
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- we do not necessarily share the ideals of the FSF (closes: #410129) |
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Thanks to Francesco Poli for suggesting these changes. |
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* using-d-i: guided partitioning now creates swap inside LVM. |
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Thanks to Francesco Poli. Closes: #411399. |
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* Document installs over PPPoE. Based on a text proposed by Eddy Petrisor. |
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Closes: #408340. |
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* installation-howto: update for the integration of base-config into D-I. |
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* appendix/preseed: |
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- as exim no longer asks any questions during installations, there is no |
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real need to document it anymore |
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- add link to Philip Hand's website as it contains many creative examples |
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- document how to select the ftp protocol during mirror selection |
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- document how to install from CD/DVD only (and not use a network mirror) |
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* Update base/standard system and task sizes. |
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[ Joey Hess ] |
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* Document debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated. |
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[ Wouter Verhelst ] |
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* Update mac68k installation after notes from Finn Thain, upstream mac68k |
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kernel hacker. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Replace entity in example-preseed.txt file. Thanks to Geert Stappers for |
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spotting the error. Closes: #413257. |
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:00:12 +0100 |
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installation-guide (20070122) unstable; urgency=low |
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* Enable Catalan, Brazillian, Korean and Spanish again. |
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* Enable new Hungarian translation. |
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:41:57 +0100 |
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installation-guide (20070115) unstable; urgency=low |
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[ Colin Watson ] |
[ Colin Watson ] |
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* Document new pkgsel/include setting. |
* Document new pkgsel/include setting. |
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* Correct error for alpha netboot installations. Thanks to Aurélien Géröme. |
* Correct error for alpha netboot installations. Thanks to Aurélien Géröme. |
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Closes: #386591. |
Closes: #386591. |
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* Correct number of release arches. Thanks to Holger Wansing. Closes: #384321. |
* Correct number of release arches. Thanks to Holger Wansing. Closes: #384321. |
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* Minor corrections reported by Malcolm Parsons. Closes: #388138. |
* Minor corrections suggested by Malcolm Parsons. Closes: #388138. |
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* Document new boot parameters theme and directfb/hw-accel. |
* Document new boot parameters theme and directfb/hw-accel. |
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* Remove now obsolete distinction between classic and common kpkg. |
* Remove now obsolete distinction between classic and common kpkg. |
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* Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.17. |
* Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.17. |
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* Set default value for manual_release in build wrapper scripts. |
* Set default value for manual_release in build wrapper scripts. |
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* Add new section in preseeding appendix on partman-auto-raid. Not included |
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in preseed text file as it is still somewhat experimental. |
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* Document changes in guided partitioning and added encrypted LVM support. |
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* Disable m68k for official builds as it is not a release architecture. |
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* buildweb.sh: use 'mv -f' to avoid errors during builds on the webserver. |
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* Minor corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall. Closes: #394413, #394471. |
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* Update task sizes as per D-I RC1. |
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* New troubleshooting section on how to deal with CD-ROM related problems. |
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* Document how to pass parameters to kernel modules on boot. |
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* Document how to install KDE instead of Gnome in the section on pkgsel. |
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[ Joey Hess ] |
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* Update for recent floppy changes. |
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* Remove hardcoded paths to executables in buildone.sh. |
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* Set HOME to a temporary directory before running w3m, to avoid it |
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trying to write to a home directory that may not exist on the buildds. |
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(See #393641) |
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* Update the installation report template to match current one in |
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installation-report. |
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[ Philip Hands ] |
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* Clarify how -- affects which parameters end up in the target system's |
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bootloader's command line. |
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[ Joey Hess ] |
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* Applied Phil's auto mode documentation patch, edited it, and moved |
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some things around for clarity. Closes: #395910 |
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* Document auto=true boot parameter. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Add condition "g-i" for arches that support the graphical installer. |
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* Document mouse/left boot parameter. |
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* Explain usage of "owner" prefix when setting values for debconf variables |
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intended for the target system at the boot prompt. |
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* Give some examples of preseeding questions from the boot prompt. |
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* Document how to install the KDE desktop environment instead of GNOME. |
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* Don't list unsupported frontends in boot parameters section. |
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* Minor corrections suggested by Tapio Lehtonen. Closes: #397790. |
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* Minor corrections suggested by Holger Wansing. Closes: #397974. |
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[ Martin Michlmayr ] |
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* Mention that RiscPC support is incomplete. |
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* Mention Intel IOP32x support. |
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* Talk about ixp4xx rather than the more specific nslu2. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.18. |
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* Minor corrections and some rewrites based on suggestions from |
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Clytie Siddall. Closes: #367861, #380588. |
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* Update Sparc specific information and document common installation issues |
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for Sparc. Many thanks to Jurij Smakov for reviewing the Sparc manual and |
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for his overview of issues. |
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* Etch ships with X.Org 7.1. |
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* Update number of developers, packages and mailing lists. |
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* General revision of minimum hardware requirements throughout the manual. |
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* Update of installed/download size of tasks. |
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* Document the graphical installer, including the main known issues. |
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* Avoid generating XML files multiple times for translations using PO files |
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when using build.sh or buildweb.sh sripts. |
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* bookinfo: |
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- Add note for m68k that it is not a release architecture for Etch. |
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* hardware: |
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- Remove ancient section on parity RAM. Closes: #403035. |
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- Update documenation for Sparc, based on patch by Jurij Smakov. |
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Closes: #389516. |
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- PowerPC/APUS is currently not supported; removed from hardware table. |
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- Remove sun4cd (sparc32) from and add sun4v (sparc64) in hardware table. |
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- Rewrite of NIC support, document wireless support (for selected arches) |
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and explain issues surrounding drivers that require firmware. |
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* preparing: |
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- Clean out ancient hardware issues. |
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* boot-installer/parameters: |
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- Document anna/choose_modules and mirror/protocol boot parameters. |
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- Use a clearer way to list the short form of parameters. |
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- Document new option to blacklist kernel modules. |
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* boot-installer/trouble: |
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- Fix reference to Save debug logs menu option. |
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Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402439. |
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- Add a note that installation reports will be published. |
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* install-methods: |
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- All architectures that support TFTP booting also support DCHP, so remove |
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the "supports-dhcp" condition. |
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- According to the text, Alpha supports BOOTP. |
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- Use dhcp3-server for examples rather than dhcp (version 2). |
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- tftpd-hpa does not use /tftpboot by default; allow for this in examples. |
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Closes: #342076. |
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* using-d-i: |
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- Extend description of lowmem installs based on a patch suggested by |
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Holger Wansing. Closes: #400263. |
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* boot-new: |
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- Remove reference to apt guide (not installed by default) and obsolete |
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debian-guide. Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402492. |
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- As lynx is no longer installed, suggest w3m as text based browser. |
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- Explain how to browse /usr/share/doc/ using a graphical web browser. |
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- Mention documentation packages. |
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- Clarify what happens on first boot and how to get help to in case of |
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problems. |
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* post-install: |
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- Remove section on reactivating Windows; the installer should detect it |
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automatically after all. Closes: #402437. |
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- Add extended section on email configuration (moved from using-d-i as |
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exim4 now configures for "local mail only" by default). Closes: #402857. |
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* appendix/preseed: |
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- Clarifications based on comments from Tapio Lehtonen and Holger Wansing. |
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Closes: #397923. |
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* appendix/chroot-install: |
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- Changes suggested in review by Wiktor Wandachowicz. Closes: #394929. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Prepare for release. This release is mostly for testing purposes, the real |
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release targeted at Etch will be next week. |
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* Add and enable amd64 architecture. |
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* Update control file for dropped m68k and added amd64 architectures. |
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* Disable Catalan, Korean, Spanish and Brazillian translations as they are |
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not yet complete. |
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* Enable Finnish translation. |
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