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installation-guide (2008xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium |
installation-guide (2010xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* List myself as one of the main authors in the administrativa appendix. |
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* Clarify IP addresses in example for booting SS4000-E (arm). Thanks to |
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Miroslav Kure for the patch. |
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* Add link to boot screen section in accessibility section. Closes: #579954. |
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[ Martin Michlmayr ] |
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* Update links for ARM images. |
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[ Samuel Thibault ] |
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* Update brltty version. |
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* Document booting from DOS (Closes: Bug#518808). |
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* Add non-Linux infrastructure to the build system. |
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* Add kFreeBSD infrastructure. |
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* Replace Linuxish bits with per-port entities. |
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* Rephrase Hurd-specific paragraph explaining that Debian GNU/Hurd is not |
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Linux. |
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* Add a "What is Debian GNU/kFreeBSD" section. |
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* Add the list of architectures supported by the kFreeBSD port. |
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* Restrict "Board Devices" accessibility section to Linux. |
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* Fix port URL for non-Linux ports. |
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* Fix hardware part for non-Linux ports. Now needs fine-tune from BSD |
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people. |
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[ Joey Hess ] |
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* Update USB stick documentation to reflect isohybird mini.iso files, |
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as generated by debian-installer >= 20100913. |
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-- Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:56:02 +0200 |
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installation-guide (20100518) unstable; urgency=low |
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[ Colin Watson ] |
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* Note that partman-auto/init_automatically_partition is only honoured if |
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partman-auto/method is not set. |
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* Document the use of grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy to |
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switch back to GRUB Legacy for those who need it. |
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* Remove spurious quoting in network-console documentation, pointed out by |
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Jonathan Amery. |
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* partman now asks a slightly different (and less scary) confirmation |
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question if it doesn't appear that any data is being overwritten. |
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Document the associated preseeding changes. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Add missing hyphen in command "kbd-config". With thanks to Tapio Lehtonen. |
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Closes: #545584. |
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* Include a caution in the IA64 version of the manual against using IA64 |
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for "normal" 64-bit Intel systems. |
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* Disable the variant for the alpha architecture: it is being dropped as a |
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release architecture for Squeeze. |
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* When updating PO files, set them to a standard width of 79 (same as used |
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for l10n-sync for D-I master PO files). |
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* Document that Debian now installs Recommends by default and how to disable |
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that. |
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* x86 USB boot: two improvements suggested by Timo Juhani Lindfors and one |
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by Samuel Thibault. Closes: #532437, #532440, #548534. |
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* welcome: add a link to www.kernel.org and remove the no longer valid link |
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to www.kerneltraffic.org. Closes: #331523. |
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* Document new help functionality. |
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* Update for changes in locale selection in localechooser 2.17 and 2.18: |
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- selecting a different country is now always possible at high priority; |
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- change in order of selection of additional locales and default locale; |
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- selection of a preferred locale if a combination of language and country |
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was selected for which no locale exists; |
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- support for separate preseeding of language, country and locale. |
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* Mention option to select UTC as time zone at medium/low priority. |
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[ Martin Michlmayr ] |
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* Mention more Kirkwood-based devices that are supported. |
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* Document where to get Kirkwood installer images from. |
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* Fix the preseeding example to say that allow_unauthenticated is a |
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boolean (and not a string). |
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[ Joey Hess ] |
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* Reword section on installer's support of wireless. |
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[ Steve Langasek ] |
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* Update the appendix on chroot installs to not recommend mapping 127.0.0.1 |
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to the hostname; use 127.0.1.1, the same as the installer itself does. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Update and extend information on preseeding partman. Based on a patch from |
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Vincent McIntyre. Closes: #511053. |
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* Use 'ip addr' instead of 'ifconfig' to get MAC address for RARP setup. |
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* Update information on setting up a TFTP server. |
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* As of Lenny syslinux no longer requires that the TFTP server supports the |
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'tsize' option (see #570273). With thanks to Ferenc Wagner. |
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* Using D-I: add subsection intruducing supported partitioning options, |
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including a list of supported file systems. |
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* Disabling framebuffer on x86 now also requires passing 'vga=normal'. With |
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thanks to Samuel Thibault. Closes: #577461. |
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* Update for switch of G-I from DirectFB to X.Org. |
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* Update kernel version to 2.6.32, number of Debian Developers and program |
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versions. |
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* Update URL for Debian mirror list. Closes: #579935. |
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* Disable Korean, Portuguese (BR), Spanish and Swedish translations as they |
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are incomplete. |
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 18 May 2010 03:51:35 +0200 |
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installation-guide (20090901) unstable; urgency=low |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Switch over from Lenny to Squeeze. Current kernel is 2.6.29. |
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* Change the Debian designation for the ARM architecture from arm to armel. |
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The internal 'arch-spec' and file naming convention remains "arm" in order |
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to avoid unnecessary changes and work for translators. |
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* Mention that TERM= can be passed as boot parameter to set the terminal type |
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for serial console installs. Based on a patch suggested by Samuel Thibault. |
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Closes: #524666. |
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* Update copyright for 2009. |
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[ Martin Michlmayr ] |
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* Updates for ARM (armel): |
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- Remove sections about Netwinder/CATS, which are no longer supported. |
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- Update the "supported hardware" table. |
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- Add a section about Marvell's Kirkwood, which is now supported. |
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* Updates for MIPS: |
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- Show some sections on mipsel that apply there too. |
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- Say that the Cobalt Qube 2700 (Qube1) is no longer supported. |
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- Remove everything about the Broadcom SWARM and BigSur since we no |
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longer support these devices in the installer. |
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[ Colin Watson ] |
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* Merge from Ubuntu: |
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- Document partman/mount_style, which controls how filesystems are |
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mounted. |
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* Document pkgsel/include/install-recommends. |
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* partman/confirm_write_new_label was renamed to |
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partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label in r50363, December 2007. |
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Adjust preseeding documentation to match. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Document installation of localization tasks. |
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* Document the debian-installer/add-kernel-opts preconfiguration option. |
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* Add links to website documenting braille keybindings. Thanks to |
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Samuel Thibault for the patch. Closes: #534260. |
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* Fix typo in chroot install appendix. Closes: #535494. |
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* Improve bootp documentation. Thanks to Holger Wansing for the patch. |
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Closes: #282614. |
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* On s390 the system clock is not modified by the installer. |
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[ Otavio Salvador ] |
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* Document the netcfg/enable preseeding that allows for disabling the |
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network configuration. Thanks to Anthony L. Awtrey <tony@awtrey.com> |
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for the patch. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Move most build dependencies to Build-Depends-Indep. |
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:10:10 +0200 |
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installation-guide (20090427) unstable; 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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* Add note about preseeding ownership to preseed-seenflag section, since I |
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had a user confused by this who hadn't found the note elsewhere |
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explaining owners. |
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* Use /dev/sda and /dev/sdb in the RAID preseeding example rather than |
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/dev/discs/disc0/disc and /dev/discs/disc1/disc, since the latter |
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devices no longer exist. |
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* Document noshell boot parameter. See #504381. |
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* Clarify behaviour of "auto" preseed alias. |
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* Clarify that preseeding aliases are only aliases for question names, and |
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that a value is always needed as well. |
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* Apparently you can pass extra boot parameters to OpenBoot at the end of |
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the 'boot' command. Document this as it has been known to cause some |
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confusion. |
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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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* Update info on passing boot parameter for PPPoE. |
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* Explain Standard system task. |
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* Add LXDE desktop environment. |
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* Mention option to select desktop environment from boot menu for x86 CDs. |
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* Add task sizes for alternative desktop environments. |
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* chroot install: 'tzconfig' is deprecated for 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata'. |
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Closes: #520582. |
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* Booting using LILO or GRUB: minor improvements. Closes: #519508. |
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* Fix example how to generate md5-encoded password. Closes: #518018. |
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* Fix missing tags in Japanese translation. Closes: #509372. |
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* Improve script that extracts preconfiguration example file from appendix. |
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[ Samuel Thibault ] |
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* Document accessibility support. Closes: #509371. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* (Re-)enable Vietnamese translation (not fully up-to-date). |
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* Convert PO translations for Finnish, Korean and Vietnamese to XML using |
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their last fully translated version. |
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* Release update of the manual for Lenny. Six translations have not been |
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updated: Brazilian, Catalan, Finnish, Korean, Spanish and Vietnamese. |
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:23:30 +0200 |
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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 ] |
[ Martin Michlmayr ] |
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* Remove everything about DECstation since these machines are |
* Remove everything about DECstation since these machines are |
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- show which subarches are supported by arm/armel |
- show which subarches are supported by arm/armel |
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- various minor updates and improvements |
- various minor updates and improvements |
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* Remove section on X.Org preseeding as all descibed options are obsolete. |
* 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> Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:25:46 +0200 |
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:15:38 +0100 |
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installation-guide (20080520) unstable; urgency=medium |
installation-guide (20080520) unstable; urgency=medium |
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