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installation-guide (2006XXXX) UNRELEASED; urgency=low |
installation-guide (2008xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low |
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[ Colin Watson ] |
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* Document partman/early_command (added in partman-base 129). |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Document preseeding of network-console now that its postinst can be |
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relied on to be executed. |
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 2008 06:52:19 +0100 |
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installation-guide (20081208) unstable; urgency=low |
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* Move documentation files to separate subdirectory doc. |
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* Document how the manual is built for the Debian website. |
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* Correct error spotted by Osamu Aoki: text web browser is w3m, not w3c. |
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* Correct two minor errors in preconfiguration examples. With thanks to |
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Andreas Beckmann for reporting them. Closes: #507544. |
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* Add new script check-preseed to help translators check if their |
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translation of the appendix about preseeding is complete/correct. |
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* Re-enable Spanish translation. |
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:50:48 +0100 |
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installation-guide (20081113) unstable; 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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* Update of supported subarches/flavors for powerpc. |
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* hardware-supported: |
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- suppress m68k from arches table, unless building for m68k |
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- show which subarches are supported by arm/armel |
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- various minor updates and improvements |
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* Remove section on X.Org preseeding as all descibed options are obsolete. |
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* Document support in the installer for loading missing firmware. |
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* Update partman preseeding: use Choices-C values instead of descriptions. |
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* Correct short description of iso-scan. Closes: #501175. |
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* PowerPC currently doesn't have hd-media images, so is not "bootable-usb". |
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* There are no floppy images for i386 for Lenny; disable relevant sections. |
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* Major rewrite of section about preparing a USB stick for booting the |
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installer. Closes: #500206, #500283. |
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* Update preconfiguration section for latest changes in the preseed udebs |
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and clarify preseeding of language/country. |
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* Remove duplicated text about using tasksel. Closes: #502773. |
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* Update task sizes and nr. of packages per arch and current nr. of Debian |
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Developers for Lenny. |
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* (Re-)enable Catalan, Greek, Finnish, Japanese and Korean translations. |
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* Disable Vietnamese translations as it is incomplete. |
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:15:38 +0100 |
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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 ] |
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* Document new pkgsel/include setting. |
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* Fix incorrect documentation on preseeding additional apt sources. |
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* Fix typo in hppa hardware support documentation |
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(https://launchpad.net/bugs/55164). |
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* Adjust chroot-install guide to take account of debootstrap being |
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Architecture: all now (https://launchpad.net/bugs/64765). |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall and Holger Wansing. |
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Closes: #378404, #370484, #370425. |
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* Update instructions on how to set module parameters for PLIP installation. |
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* Update chroot install instructions to use aptitude instead of apt-get. |
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* Add /srv in overview of directory tree in partitioning appendix. |
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* Update section on partitioning using LVM to reflect recent changes. |
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* Apply various patches by or based on suggestions from Nathanael Nerode. |
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Some of the bigger changes include: |
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- Update of processor support for the i386 architecture. |
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- Update information on setting up a RARP server. |
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* Add variant for the AMD64 architecture. Closes: #305977. |
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* Suppress warnings about missing IDs for sections and such. |
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* Reorganize supported hardware table; i386 no longer has flavors. |
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* Document SMP-alternatives as one of the variants of SMP support. |
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* Document how to shut down the system. Based on patch from Holger Levsen. |
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Closes: #248067. |
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[ Miroslav Kure ] |
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* Update information about booting with encrypted partitions. |
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Closes: #378651. |
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[ Joey Hess ] |
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* Update preseeding docs to document listing more than one disk for |
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partman-auto/disk and grub-installer/bootdev |
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[ Changwoo Ryu ] |
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* Add support for Korean PDF output. Requires latex-hangul-ucs-hlatex. |
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Closes: #381657. |
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[ David Härdeman ] |
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* Update preseeding documentation for partman-auto. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Correct error for alpha netboot installations. Thanks to Aurélien Géröme. |
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Closes: #386591. |
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* Correct number of release arches. Thanks to Holger Wansing. Closes: #384321. |
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* Minor corrections suggested by Malcolm Parsons. Closes: #388138. |
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* Document new boot parameters theme and directfb/hw-accel. |
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* Remove now obsolete distinction between classic and common kpkg. |
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* Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.17. |
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* 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. |
| 384 |
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* Mention Intel IOP32x support. |
| 385 |
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* Talk about ixp4xx rather than the more specific nslu2. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
| 388 |
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* Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.18. |
| 389 |
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* Minor corrections and some rewrites based on suggestions from |
| 390 |
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Clytie Siddall. Closes: #367861, #380588. |
| 391 |
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* Update Sparc specific information and document common installation issues |
| 392 |
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for Sparc. Many thanks to Jurij Smakov for reviewing the Sparc manual and |
| 393 |
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for his overview of issues. |
| 394 |
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* Etch ships with X.Org 7.1. |
| 395 |
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* Update number of developers, packages and mailing lists. |
| 396 |
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* General revision of minimum hardware requirements throughout the manual. |
| 397 |
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* Update of installed/download size of tasks. |
| 398 |
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* Document the graphical installer, including the main known issues. |
| 399 |
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* Avoid generating XML files multiple times for translations using PO files |
| 400 |
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when using build.sh or buildweb.sh sripts. |
| 401 |
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* bookinfo: |
| 402 |
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- Add note for m68k that it is not a release architecture for Etch. |
| 403 |
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* hardware: |
| 404 |
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- Remove ancient section on parity RAM. Closes: #403035. |
| 405 |
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- Update documenation for Sparc, based on patch by Jurij Smakov. |
| 406 |
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Closes: #389516. |
| 407 |
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- PowerPC/APUS is currently not supported; removed from hardware table. |
| 408 |
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- Remove sun4cd (sparc32) from and add sun4v (sparc64) in hardware table. |
| 409 |
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- Rewrite of NIC support, document wireless support (for selected arches) |
| 410 |
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and explain issues surrounding drivers that require firmware. |
| 411 |
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* preparing: |
| 412 |
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- Clean out ancient hardware issues. |
| 413 |
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* boot-installer/parameters: |
| 414 |
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- Document anna/choose_modules and mirror/protocol boot parameters. |
| 415 |
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- Use a clearer way to list the short form of parameters. |
| 416 |
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- Document new option to blacklist kernel modules. |
| 417 |
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* boot-installer/trouble: |
| 418 |
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- Fix reference to Save debug logs menu option. |
| 419 |
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Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402439. |
| 420 |
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- Add a note that installation reports will be published. |
| 421 |
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* install-methods: |
| 422 |
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- All architectures that support TFTP booting also support DCHP, so remove |
| 423 |
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the "supports-dhcp" condition. |
| 424 |
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- According to the text, Alpha supports BOOTP. |
| 425 |
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- Use dhcp3-server for examples rather than dhcp (version 2). |
| 426 |
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- tftpd-hpa does not use /tftpboot by default; allow for this in examples. |
| 427 |
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Closes: #342076. |
| 428 |
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* using-d-i: |
| 429 |
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- Extend description of lowmem installs based on a patch suggested by |
| 430 |
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Holger Wansing. Closes: #400263. |
| 431 |
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* boot-new: |
| 432 |
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- Remove reference to apt guide (not installed by default) and obsolete |
| 433 |
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debian-guide. Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402492. |
| 434 |
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- As lynx is no longer installed, suggest w3m as text based browser. |
| 435 |
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- Explain how to browse /usr/share/doc/ using a graphical web browser. |
| 436 |
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- Mention documentation packages. |
| 437 |
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- Clarify what happens on first boot and how to get help to in case of |
| 438 |
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problems. |
| 439 |
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* post-install: |
| 440 |
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- Remove section on reactivating Windows; the installer should detect it |
| 441 |
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automatically after all. Closes: #402437. |
| 442 |
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- Add extended section on email configuration (moved from using-d-i as |
| 443 |
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exim4 now configures for "local mail only" by default). Closes: #402857. |
| 444 |
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* appendix/preseed: |
| 445 |
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- Clarifications based on comments from Tapio Lehtonen and Holger Wansing. |
| 446 |
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Closes: #397923. |
| 447 |
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* appendix/chroot-install: |
| 448 |
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- Changes suggested in review by Wiktor Wandachowicz. Closes: #394929. |
| 449 |
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| 450 |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
| 451 |
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* Prepare for release. This release is mostly for testing purposes, the real |
| 452 |
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release targeted at Etch will be next week. |
| 453 |
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* Add and enable amd64 architecture. |
| 454 |
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* Update control file for dropped m68k and added amd64 architectures. |
| 455 |
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* Disable Catalan, Korean, Spanish and Brazillian translations as they are |
| 456 |
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not yet complete. |
| 457 |
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* Enable Finnish translation. |
| 458 |
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| 459 |
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:10:16 +0100 |
| 460 |
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| 461 |
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installation-guide (20060726) unstable; urgency=low |
| 462 |
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|
| 463 |
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[ Joey Hess ] |
| 464 |
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* Update kernel building section to conditionalise some more 2.4 kernel |
| 465 |
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stuff. |
| 466 |
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* Suggest passing --initrd to make-kpkg since the docs say nothing about |
| 467 |
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compiling disk drivers into the kernel. |
| 468 |
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* Document new passwd/root-login setting. |
| 469 |
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* Booting a USB stick via a boot floppy is not supported by current |
| 470 |
|
installer images. |
| 471 |
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* Update preseeding docs to use task names, not short descriptions, since |
| 472 |
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that will work now and is more convenient for preseeding. |
| 473 |
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* Document the kde-desktop and gnome-desktop subtasks. |
| 474 |
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|
| 475 |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
| 476 |
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* Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall. |
| 477 |
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* chroot-install: |
| 478 |
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- add /etc/hosts to be created for network configuration (closes: #364517) |
| 479 |
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- make kernel/linux-image variable (closes: #345482) |
| 480 |
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* Document -- command line option for passing parameters to boot loader |
| 481 |
|
configuration (closes: #309889). |
| 482 |
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* Switch Finnish from XML-based to PO-based translation. |
| 483 |
|
* Bring numbering and layout of GPL more in line with original. With thanks |
| 484 |
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to Holger Wansing. |
| 485 |
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* Add functionality to include optional paragraphs in translations. |
| 486 |
|
Initially two have been defined: |
| 487 |
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- a paragraph in bookinfo for information about the translation; |
| 488 |
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- a note in appendix/gpl.xml required with unofficial GPL translations. |
| 489 |
|
|
| 490 |
|
[ Joey Hess ] |
| 491 |
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* Document new preseed/run setting. |
| 492 |
|
* Prebaseconfig renamed to finish-install, which changes some documentation, |
| 493 |
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and. notably, renames one of the xml files. |
| 494 |
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* hd-media size changed to 256 mb. |
| 495 |
|
* Document new aliases added in preseed 1.17 for common debconf boot |
| 496 |
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parameters: fb, url, file, locale, interface. |
| 497 |
|
|
| 498 |
|
[ Frans Pop ] |
| 499 |
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* Document guided partitioning using LVM and update partitioning section. |
| 500 |
|
|
| 501 |
|
[ Martin Michlmayr ] |
| 502 |
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* The RiscPC flavour is now known as "rpc" rather than "riscpc". |
| 503 |
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* As of 2.6, r4k-ip22 also rupports r5k machines do the r5k-ip22 flavour |
| 504 |
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has been dropped. |
| 505 |
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|
| 506 |
|
[ Holger Levsen ] |
| 507 |
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* Added the remaining suggestions about nubus and non-powerpc macs |
| 508 |
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(closes: #364546). |
| 509 |
|
* Restructured the chapter about powerpc supported hardware, moved |
| 510 |
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unsupported machines to the end. |
| 511 |
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* Updated the information about existing kernel flavours. |
| 512 |
|
|
| 513 |
|
[ Miroslav Kure ] |
| 514 |
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* Document installation to encrypted partitions (partman-crypto). |
| 515 |
|
* Update XOrg to 7.0. |
| 516 |
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|
| 517 |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
| 518 |
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* Etch has been assigned version 4.0. |
| 519 |
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* Update kernel versions to 2.6.16. |
| 520 |
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* Base languages to be built for website on list of release languages. |
| 521 |
|
* arm, mips and mipsel switched to 2.6 kernels. |
| 522 |
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* Enable Brazillian Portuguese and Vietnamese translation for release. |
| 523 |
|
* Disable Greek translation as it is too incomplete. |
| 524 |
|
|
| 525 |
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:27:52 +0200 |
| 526 |
|
|
| 527 |
|
installation-guide (20060427) unstable; urgency=low |
| 528 |
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|
| 529 |
[ Joey Hess ] |
[ Joey Hess ] |
| 530 |
* Update preseeding docs for base-config removal. |
* Update preseeding docs for base-config removal. |
| 545 |
* Remove all Sarge specific content and make Etch specific content default. |
* Remove all Sarge specific content and make Etch specific content default. |
| 546 |
* Delete some obsolete entities. |
* Delete some obsolete entities. |
| 547 |
* Change references from package d-i-manual to package installation-guide. |
* Change references from package d-i-manual to package installation-guide. |
| 548 |
|
* Explicitly specify XML declaration as required by openjade 1.4devel1-15 |
| 549 |
|
(closes: #360241). |
| 550 |
* Update appendix on chroot installs: |
* Update appendix on chroot installs: |
| 551 |
- mention that debootstrap also requires basic Unix/Linux commands; |
- mention that debootstrap also requires basic Unix/Linux commands; |
| 552 |
- comment out link to outdated rpm packages of debootstrap. |
- comment out link to outdated rpm packages of debootstrap. |
| 569 |
* Document DHCP preseeding. Note that this documents it as of netcfg 1.24 |
* Document DHCP preseeding. Note that this documents it as of netcfg 1.24 |
| 570 |
and preseed 1.13. |
and preseed 1.13. |
| 571 |
|
|
| 572 |
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:46:06 -0500 |
[ Martin Michlmayr ] |
| 573 |
|
* Bring ARM up to date with reality: remove unsupported flavours, add |
| 574 |
|
NSLU2. |
| 575 |
|
* Fix Netwinder/CATS download location. |
| 576 |
|
* Improve the Netwinder TFTP boot instructions. |
| 577 |
|
* The Netwinder firmware is no longer available due to license problems. |
| 578 |
|
* Mention NSLU2 download location. |
| 579 |
|
* Describe how to flash the installer image onto the NSLU2. |
| 580 |
|
* Describe how to boot a Cobalt machine. |
| 581 |
|
|
| 582 |
|
[ Frans Pop ] |
| 583 |
|
* Document new option to preseed additional apt sources for target system. |
| 584 |
|
* Document how to create a preconfiguration file. |
| 585 |
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* Enable Catalan, Italian and Swedish translations for release. |
| 586 |
|
* Disable Brazillian Portuguese translation as it is too incomplete. |
| 587 |
|
|
| 588 |
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:00:32 +0200 |
| 589 |
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| 590 |
installation-guide (20060102) unstable; urgency=low |
installation-guide (20060102) unstable; urgency=low |
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