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installation-guide (2006xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low |
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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* Fix "boot-installer" part for non-Linux ports. Still needs extensive |
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review from BSD people. |
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* Fix "preparing", "using-d-i", "boot-new", "post-install", "howto", |
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"preseed", "partitioning", and "random-bits" parts for non-Linux ports. |
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* Factorize os-specific parameters in build/arch-options. |
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* Rename debian entity to debian-gnu. Introduce new debian entity which just |
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stands for "Debian". |
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* Rename Mandrake into Mandriva (Closes: Bug#601308). |
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* Update installation sizes. |
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* Mention Windows 2003, Vista, and 7. |
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* Fix graphical boot options. |
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* Move user setup to before clock setup in "Using the Debian Installer" and |
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"Automating the installation using preseeding". |
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* Document dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration instead of kbd-config. |
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* Add installation-guide-kfreebsd-{i386,amd64} packages. |
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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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[ Christian Perrier ] |
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* Remove obsolete reference to the replicator package |
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Closes: #597983 |
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[ Maximilian Attems ] |
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* Remove obsolete reference to kernel-img.conf |
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[ Colin Watson ] |
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* Fix "/etc/init.d/dhcpd3-server" typo (should be |
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/etc/init.d/dhcp3-server), and unfuzzy all translations (LP: #666726). |
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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 ] |
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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. |
| 387 |
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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. |
| 389 |
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* Document new apt-setup/services-select and related hostname preseeds. |
| 390 |
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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. |
| 393 |
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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. |
| 398 |
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* debian/rules: call dh_md5sums. |
| 399 |
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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 |
| 408 |
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make Lintian happy. |
| 409 |
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* Rename doc-base.TEMPLATE to TEMPLATE.doc-base to avoid its inclusion in |
| 410 |
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the package for the first architecture. Closes: #416304. |
| 411 |
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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. |
| 413 |
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* Remove the PDF section in doc-base files if PDF format is not built for a |
| 414 |
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language. |
| 415 |
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* Update standards version to 3.7.3; no changes needed. |
| 416 |
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* Patch from Changwoo Ryu to replace Hangul-ucs with ko.tex fonts for Korean |
| 417 |
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PDF version of the manual. Closes: #457137. |
| 418 |
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* using-d-i: |
| 419 |
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- move clock-setup, tzsetup and user-setup to reflect their changed |
| 420 |
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position in the installation procedure |
| 421 |
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- mention that clock-setup will now attempt to set the system time from a |
| 422 |
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time server |
| 423 |
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- split clock-setup as part is now executed during finish-install |
| 424 |
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- add instructions on how a different time zone from the one(s) that match |
| 425 |
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the selected location can be set (as that is a FAQ) |
| 426 |
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- improve readability of partman section by using separate subsections for |
| 427 |
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guided and manual partitioning |
| 428 |
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- network-console: add information about dropped connections and how to |
| 429 |
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avoid that (closes: #458154); add footnote with command to remove a host |
| 430 |
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from the known_hosts file |
| 431 |
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* howto, preseed: update for reordering of the installation procedure. |
| 432 |
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* Change build dependency on gs-common to ghostscript. |
| 433 |
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* Use --previous when updating PO files so translators can see the changes |
| 434 |
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in a string. |
| 435 |
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|
| 436 |
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[ Colin Watson ] |
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* Use &releasename; rather than hardcoding etch in sources.list |
| 438 |
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recommendation for chroot installs. Closes: #458459. |
| 439 |
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|
| 440 |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Make UTF-8 the default encoding for the text version for all languages |
| 442 |
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that still used ISO-8859-1. |
| 443 |
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* Korean text version changed to UTF-8 on request of Changwoo Ryu. |
| 444 |
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* Japanese text version changed to UTF-8 on request of KURASAWA Nozomu. |
| 445 |
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* Enable PDF for Korean for website builds. |
| 446 |
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* Disable Finnish, Hungarian and Spanish for this release as they have not |
| 447 |
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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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|
| 453 |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
| 454 |
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* Cleaned up definitions of some entities and removed unused ones. |
| 455 |
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* Implement infrastructure that allows entities to be translated. |
| 456 |
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Thanks to Miroslav Kure for providing the patch. Closes: #344048, #406515. |
| 457 |
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* Disable Korean PDF/PS formats for builds for the website. |
| 458 |
|
* appendix/files: update information about mouse configuration, based on a |
| 459 |
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patch from Peter Samuelson (for which thanks). Closes: #406290. |
| 460 |
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* boot-installer, appendix/preseed: document preseed/interactive parameter. |
| 461 |
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|
| 462 |
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[ Joey Hess ] |
| 463 |
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* Fix package name for installation-reports, and manual unfuzzy of all |
| 464 |
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translations. Closes: #408408 |
| 465 |
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|
| 466 |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* welcome: |
| 468 |
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- make links to FSF and GNU more consistent (closes: #410317) |
| 469 |
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- we do not necessarily share the ideals of the FSF (closes: #410129) |
| 470 |
|
Thanks to Francesco Poli for suggesting these changes. |
| 471 |
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* using-d-i: guided partitioning now creates swap inside LVM. |
| 472 |
|
Thanks to Francesco Poli. Closes: #411399. |
| 473 |
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* Document installs over PPPoE. Based on a text proposed by Eddy Petrisor. |
| 474 |
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Closes: #408340. |
| 475 |
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* installation-howto: update for the integration of base-config into D-I. |
| 476 |
|
* appendix/preseed: |
| 477 |
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- as exim no longer asks any questions during installations, there is no |
| 478 |
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real need to document it anymore |
| 479 |
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- add link to Philip Hand's website as it contains many creative examples |
| 480 |
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- document how to select the ftp protocol during mirror selection |
| 481 |
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- document how to install from CD/DVD only (and not use a network mirror) |
| 482 |
|
* Update base/standard system and task sizes. |
| 483 |
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|
| 484 |
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[ Joey Hess ] |
| 485 |
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* Document debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated. |
| 486 |
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|
| 487 |
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[ Wouter Verhelst ] |
| 488 |
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* Update mac68k installation after notes from Finn Thain, upstream mac68k |
| 489 |
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kernel hacker. |
| 490 |
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|
| 491 |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
| 492 |
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* Replace entity in example-preseed.txt file. Thanks to Geert Stappers for |
| 493 |
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spotting the error. Closes: #413257. |
| 494 |
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|
| 495 |
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:00:12 +0100 |
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| 497 |
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installation-guide (20070122) unstable; urgency=low |
| 498 |
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|
| 499 |
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* Enable Catalan, Brazillian, Korean and Spanish again. |
| 500 |
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* Enable new Hungarian translation. |
| 501 |
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|
| 502 |
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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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|
| 506 |
[ Colin Watson ] |
[ Colin Watson ] |
| 507 |
* Document new pkgsel/include setting. |
* Document new pkgsel/include setting. |
| 548 |
* Correct error for alpha netboot installations. Thanks to Aurélien Géröme. |
* Correct error for alpha netboot installations. Thanks to Aurélien Géröme. |
| 549 |
Closes: #386591. |
Closes: #386591. |
| 550 |
* Correct number of release arches. Thanks to Holger Wansing. Closes: #384321. |
* Correct number of release arches. Thanks to Holger Wansing. Closes: #384321. |
| 551 |
* Minor corrections reported by Malcolm Parsons. Closes: #388138. |
* Minor corrections suggested by Malcolm Parsons. Closes: #388138. |
| 552 |
* Document new boot parameters theme and directfb/hw-accel. |
* Document new boot parameters theme and directfb/hw-accel. |
| 553 |
* Remove now obsolete distinction between classic and common kpkg. |
* Remove now obsolete distinction between classic and common kpkg. |
| 554 |
* Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.17. |
* Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.17. |
| 555 |
* Set default value for manual_release in build wrapper scripts. |
* Set default value for manual_release in build wrapper scripts. |
| 556 |
* Add new section in preseeding appendix on partman-auto-raid. Not included |
* Add new section in preseeding appendix on partman-auto-raid. Not included |
| 557 |
in preseed text file as it is still somewhat experimental. |
in preseed text file as it is still somewhat experimental. |
| 558 |
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* Document changes in guided partitioning and added encrypted LVM support. |
| 559 |
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* Disable m68k for official builds as it is not a release architecture. |
| 560 |
|
* buildweb.sh: use 'mv -f' to avoid errors during builds on the webserver. |
| 561 |
|
* Minor corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall. Closes: #394413, #394471. |
| 562 |
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* Update task sizes as per D-I RC1. |
| 563 |
|
* New troubleshooting section on how to deal with CD-ROM related problems. |
| 564 |
|
* Document how to pass parameters to kernel modules on boot. |
| 565 |
|
* Document how to install KDE instead of Gnome in the section on pkgsel. |
| 566 |
|
|
| 567 |
|
[ Joey Hess ] |
| 568 |
|
* Update for recent floppy changes. |
| 569 |
|
* Remove hardcoded paths to executables in buildone.sh. |
| 570 |
|
* Set HOME to a temporary directory before running w3m, to avoid it |
| 571 |
|
trying to write to a home directory that may not exist on the buildds. |
| 572 |
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(See #393641) |
| 573 |
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* Update the installation report template to match current one in |
| 574 |
|
installation-report. |
| 575 |
|
|
| 576 |
|
[ Philip Hands ] |
| 577 |
|
* Clarify how -- affects which parameters end up in the target system's |
| 578 |
|
bootloader's command line. |
| 579 |
|
|
| 580 |
|
[ Joey Hess ] |
| 581 |
|
* Applied Phil's auto mode documentation patch, edited it, and moved |
| 582 |
|
some things around for clarity. Closes: #395910 |
| 583 |
|
* Document auto=true boot parameter. |
| 584 |
|
|
| 585 |
|
[ Frans Pop ] |
| 586 |
|
* Add condition "g-i" for arches that support the graphical installer. |
| 587 |
|
* Document mouse/left boot parameter. |
| 588 |
|
* Explain usage of "owner" prefix when setting values for debconf variables |
| 589 |
|
intended for the target system at the boot prompt. |
| 590 |
|
* Give some examples of preseeding questions from the boot prompt. |
| 591 |
|
* Document how to install the KDE desktop environment instead of GNOME. |
| 592 |
|
* Don't list unsupported frontends in boot parameters section. |
| 593 |
|
* Minor corrections suggested by Tapio Lehtonen. Closes: #397790. |
| 594 |
|
* Minor corrections suggested by Holger Wansing. Closes: #397974. |
| 595 |
|
|
| 596 |
|
[ Martin Michlmayr ] |
| 597 |
|
* Mention that RiscPC support is incomplete. |
| 598 |
|
* Mention Intel IOP32x support. |
| 599 |
|
* Talk about ixp4xx rather than the more specific nslu2. |
| 600 |
|
|
| 601 |
|
[ Frans Pop ] |
| 602 |
|
* Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.18. |
| 603 |
|
* Minor corrections and some rewrites based on suggestions from |
| 604 |
|
Clytie Siddall. Closes: #367861, #380588. |
| 605 |
|
* Update Sparc specific information and document common installation issues |
| 606 |
|
for Sparc. Many thanks to Jurij Smakov for reviewing the Sparc manual and |
| 607 |
|
for his overview of issues. |
| 608 |
|
* Etch ships with X.Org 7.1. |
| 609 |
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* Update number of developers, packages and mailing lists. |
| 610 |
|
* General revision of minimum hardware requirements throughout the manual. |
| 611 |
|
* Update of installed/download size of tasks. |
| 612 |
|
* Document the graphical installer, including the main known issues. |
| 613 |
|
* Avoid generating XML files multiple times for translations using PO files |
| 614 |
|
when using build.sh or buildweb.sh sripts. |
| 615 |
|
* bookinfo: |
| 616 |
|
- Add note for m68k that it is not a release architecture for Etch. |
| 617 |
|
* hardware: |
| 618 |
|
- Remove ancient section on parity RAM. Closes: #403035. |
| 619 |
|
- Update documenation for Sparc, based on patch by Jurij Smakov. |
| 620 |
|
Closes: #389516. |
| 621 |
|
- PowerPC/APUS is currently not supported; removed from hardware table. |
| 622 |
|
- Remove sun4cd (sparc32) from and add sun4v (sparc64) in hardware table. |
| 623 |
|
- Rewrite of NIC support, document wireless support (for selected arches) |
| 624 |
|
and explain issues surrounding drivers that require firmware. |
| 625 |
|
* preparing: |
| 626 |
|
- Clean out ancient hardware issues. |
| 627 |
|
* boot-installer/parameters: |
| 628 |
|
- Document anna/choose_modules and mirror/protocol boot parameters. |
| 629 |
|
- Use a clearer way to list the short form of parameters. |
| 630 |
|
- Document new option to blacklist kernel modules. |
| 631 |
|
* boot-installer/trouble: |
| 632 |
|
- Fix reference to Save debug logs menu option. |
| 633 |
|
Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402439. |
| 634 |
|
- Add a note that installation reports will be published. |
| 635 |
|
* install-methods: |
| 636 |
|
- All architectures that support TFTP booting also support DCHP, so remove |
| 637 |
|
the "supports-dhcp" condition. |
| 638 |
|
- According to the text, Alpha supports BOOTP. |
| 639 |
|
- Use dhcp3-server for examples rather than dhcp (version 2). |
| 640 |
|
- tftpd-hpa does not use /tftpboot by default; allow for this in examples. |
| 641 |
|
Closes: #342076. |
| 642 |
|
* using-d-i: |
| 643 |
|
- Extend description of lowmem installs based on a patch suggested by |
| 644 |
|
Holger Wansing. Closes: #400263. |
| 645 |
|
* boot-new: |
| 646 |
|
- Remove reference to apt guide (not installed by default) and obsolete |
| 647 |
|
debian-guide. Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402492. |
| 648 |
|
- As lynx is no longer installed, suggest w3m as text based browser. |
| 649 |
|
- Explain how to browse /usr/share/doc/ using a graphical web browser. |
| 650 |
|
- Mention documentation packages. |
| 651 |
|
- Clarify what happens on first boot and how to get help to in case of |
| 652 |
|
problems. |
| 653 |
|
* post-install: |
| 654 |
|
- Remove section on reactivating Windows; the installer should detect it |
| 655 |
|
automatically after all. Closes: #402437. |
| 656 |
|
- Add extended section on email configuration (moved from using-d-i as |
| 657 |
|
exim4 now configures for "local mail only" by default). Closes: #402857. |
| 658 |
|
* appendix/preseed: |
| 659 |
|
- Clarifications based on comments from Tapio Lehtonen and Holger Wansing. |
| 660 |
|
Closes: #397923. |
| 661 |
|
* appendix/chroot-install: |
| 662 |
|
- Changes suggested in review by Wiktor Wandachowicz. Closes: #394929. |
| 663 |
|
|
| 664 |
|
[ Frans Pop ] |
| 665 |
|
* Prepare for release. This release is mostly for testing purposes, the real |
| 666 |
|
release targeted at Etch will be next week. |
| 667 |
|
* Add and enable amd64 architecture. |
| 668 |
|
* Update control file for dropped m68k and added amd64 architectures. |
| 669 |
|
* Disable Catalan, Korean, Spanish and Brazillian translations as they are |
| 670 |
|
not yet complete. |
| 671 |
|
* Enable Finnish translation. |
| 672 |
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|
| 673 |
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:03:18 +0200 |
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:10:16 +0100 |
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