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Document how to pass parameters to kernel modules on boot
1 installation-guide (2006xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
2
3 [ Colin Watson ]
4 * Document new pkgsel/include setting.
5 * Fix incorrect documentation on preseeding additional apt sources.
6 * Fix typo in hppa hardware support documentation
7 (https://launchpad.net/bugs/55164).
8 * Adjust chroot-install guide to take account of debootstrap being
9 Architecture: all now (https://launchpad.net/bugs/64765).
10
11 [ Frans Pop ]
12 * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall and Holger Wansing.
13 Closes: #378404, #370484, #370425.
14 * Update instructions on how to set module parameters for PLIP installation.
15 * Update chroot install instructions to use aptitude instead of apt-get.
16 * Add /srv in overview of directory tree in partitioning appendix.
17 * Update section on partitioning using LVM to reflect recent changes.
18 * Apply various patches by or based on suggestions from Nathanael Nerode.
19 Some of the bigger changes include:
20 - Update of processor support for the i386 architecture.
21 - Update information on setting up a RARP server.
22 * Add variant for the AMD64 architecture. Closes: #305977.
23 * Suppress warnings about missing IDs for sections and such.
24 * Reorganize supported hardware table; i386 no longer has flavors.
25 * Document SMP-alternatives as one of the variants of SMP support.
26 * Document how to shut down the system. Based on patch from Holger Levsen.
27 Closes: #248067.
28
29 [ Miroslav Kure ]
30 * Update information about booting with encrypted partitions.
31 Closes: #378651.
32
33 [ Joey Hess ]
34 * Update preseeding docs to document listing more than one disk for
35 partman-auto/disk and grub-installer/bootdev
36
37 [ Changwoo Ryu ]
38 * Add support for Korean PDF output. Requires latex-hangul-ucs-hlatex.
39 Closes: #381657.
40
41 [ David Härdeman ]
42 * Update preseeding documentation for partman-auto.
43
44 [ Frans Pop ]
45 * Correct error for alpha netboot installations. Thanks to Aurélien Géröme.
46 Closes: #386591.
47 * Correct number of release arches. Thanks to Holger Wansing. Closes: #384321.
48 * Minor corrections reported by Malcolm Parsons. Closes: #388138.
49 * Document new boot parameters theme and directfb/hw-accel.
50 * Remove now obsolete distinction between classic and common kpkg.
51 * Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.17.
52 * Set default value for manual_release in build wrapper scripts.
53 * Add new section in preseeding appendix on partman-auto-raid. Not included
54 in preseed text file as it is still somewhat experimental.
55 * Document changes in guided partitioning and added encrypted LVM support.
56 * Disable m68k for official builds as it is not a release architecture.
57 * buildweb.sh: use 'mv -f' to avoid errors during builds on the webserver.
58 * Minor corrections reported by Clytie Siddall. Closes: #394413, #394471.
59 * Update task sizes as per D-I RC1.
60 * New troubleshooting section on how to deal with CD-ROM related problems.
61 * Document how to pass parameters to kernel modules on boot.
62
63 [ Joey Hess ]
64 * Update for recent floppy changes.
65 * Remove hardcoded paths to executables in buildone.sh.
66 * Set HOME to a temporary directory before running w3m, to avoid it
67 trying to write to a home directory that may not exist on the buildds.
68 (See #393641)
69 * Update the installation report template to match current one in
70 installation-report.
71
72 [ Philip Hands ]
73 * Clarify how -- affects which parameters end up in the target system's
74 bootloader's command line.
75
76 [ Joey Hess ]
77 * Applied Phil's auto mode documentation patch, edited it, and moved
78 some things around for clarity. Closes: #395910
79 * Document auto=true boot parameter.
80
81 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Sat, 4 Nov 2006 12:56:26 +0100
82
83 installation-guide (20060726) unstable; urgency=low
84
85 [ Joey Hess ]
86 * Update kernel building section to conditionalise some more 2.4 kernel
87 stuff.
88 * Suggest passing --initrd to make-kpkg since the docs say nothing about
89 compiling disk drivers into the kernel.
90 * Document new passwd/root-login setting.
91 * Booting a USB stick via a boot floppy is not supported by current
92 installer images.
93 * Update preseeding docs to use task names, not short descriptions, since
94 that will work now and is more convenient for preseeding.
95 * Document the kde-desktop and gnome-desktop subtasks.
96
97 [ Frans Pop ]
98 * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall.
99 * chroot-install:
100 - add /etc/hosts to be created for network configuration (closes: #364517)
101 - make kernel/linux-image variable (closes: #345482)
102 * Document -- command line option for passing parameters to boot loader
103 configuration (closes: #309889).
104 * Switch Finnish from XML-based to PO-based translation.
105 * Bring numbering and layout of GPL more in line with original. With thanks
106 to Holger Wansing.
107 * Add functionality to include optional paragraphs in translations.
108 Initially two have been defined:
109 - a paragraph in bookinfo for information about the translation;
110 - a note in appendix/gpl.xml required with unofficial GPL translations.
111
112 [ Joey Hess ]
113 * Document new preseed/run setting.
114 * Prebaseconfig renamed to finish-install, which changes some documentation,
115 and. notably, renames one of the xml files.
116 * hd-media size changed to 256 mb.
117 * Document new aliases added in preseed 1.17 for common debconf boot
118 parameters: fb, url, file, locale, interface.
119
120 [ Frans Pop ]
121 * Document guided partitioning using LVM and update partitioning section.
122
123 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
124 * The RiscPC flavour is now known as "rpc" rather than "riscpc".
125 * As of 2.6, r4k-ip22 also rupports r5k machines do the r5k-ip22 flavour
126 has been dropped.
127
128 [ Holger Levsen ]
129 * Added the remaining suggestions about nubus and non-powerpc macs
130 (closes: #364546).
131 * Restructured the chapter about powerpc supported hardware, moved
132 unsupported machines to the end.
133 * Updated the information about existing kernel flavours.
134
135 [ Miroslav Kure ]
136 * Document installation to encrypted partitions (partman-crypto).
137 * Update XOrg to 7.0.
138
139 [ Frans Pop ]
140 * Etch has been assigned version 4.0.
141 * Update kernel versions to 2.6.16.
142 * Base languages to be built for website on list of release languages.
143 * arm, mips and mipsel switched to 2.6 kernels.
144 * Enable Brazillian Portuguese and Vietnamese translation for release.
145 * Disable Greek translation as it is too incomplete.
146
147 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:27:52 +0200
148
149 installation-guide (20060427) unstable; urgency=low
150
151 [ Joey Hess ]
152 * Update preseeding docs for base-config removal.
153 * Add documentation of how to change apt-setup security source with
154 preseeding.
155 * Remove the sarge preseeding docs.
156 * Remove mentions of base-config and move base-config stuff to elsewhere.
157 * Add documentation of apt-setup, user-setup, clock-setup, tzsetup, and
158 pkgsel.
159 * Change some references to tty3 (messages) to instead refer to tty4
160 (syslog).
161 * Change references to /var/log/debian-installer to just /var/log/installer.
162 * Remove docs for baseconfig-udeb; going away with base-config.
163 * Removed various bits of sarge cruft when it made things easier.
164
165 [ Frans Pop ]
166 * Change default build to Etch.
167 * Remove all Sarge specific content and make Etch specific content default.
168 * Delete some obsolete entities.
169 * Change references from package d-i-manual to package installation-guide.
170 * Explicitly specify XML declaration as required by openjade 1.4devel1-15
171 (closes: #360241).
172 * Update appendix on chroot installs:
173 - mention that debootstrap also requires basic Unix/Linux commands;
174 - comment out link to outdated rpm packages of debootstrap.
175
176 [ Colin Watson ]
177 * Add a few more supports-floppy-boot and bootable-usb conditionals to
178 make it easier to turn all this off in rebuilds of the manual.
179 * Etch uses X.Org 6.9, and xserver-xorg instead of xserver-xfree86.
180 * Document how to pick a particular interface with
181 netcfg/choose_interface, including how to do this before reading a
182 preseed file.
183 * Remove obsolete substvar.
184 * Build-depend on libhtml-parser-perl for build/preseed.pl.
185
186 [ Joey Hess ]
187 * Add docs about preseeding a fallback to a static IP if dhcp fails.
188 * Update copyright date.
189 * It's possible to use preseeding to set up LVM now, so remove stuff about
190 it not working.
191 * Document DHCP preseeding. Note that this documents it as of netcfg 1.24
192 and preseed 1.13.
193
194 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
195 * Bring ARM up to date with reality: remove unsupported flavours, add
196 NSLU2.
197 * Fix Netwinder/CATS download location.
198 * Improve the Netwinder TFTP boot instructions.
199 * The Netwinder firmware is no longer available due to license problems.
200 * Mention NSLU2 download location.
201 * Describe how to flash the installer image onto the NSLU2.
202 * Describe how to boot a Cobalt machine.
203
204 [ Frans Pop ]
205 * Document new option to preseed additional apt sources for target system.
206 * Document how to create a preconfiguration file.
207 * Enable Catalan, Italian and Swedish translations for release.
208 * Disable Brazillian Portuguese translation as it is too incomplete.
209
210 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:00:32 +0200
211
212 installation-guide (20060102) unstable; urgency=low
213
214 [ Frans Pop ]
215 * Fix build error caused by description for s390. Closes: #337382.
216 * Update kernel package names and kernel versions per architecture.
217 * Move documentation on preseeding to separate appendix for etch.
218 * Use new, more flexible perl script to extract example preseed file from
219 new appendix.
220 * Set proper POT-Creation-Date when generating new POT files.
221 * New translations started: Polish, Swedish, Vietnamese.
222 * First release of Greek and Korean translations.
223 * Exclude Traditional Chinese translation as it was not updated.
224 * Switch release name to Etch (3.1+δ).
225
226 [ Joey Hess ]
227 * Update installation report template and instructions for etch.
228
229 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 18:44:59 +0100
230
231 installation-guide (20051025) unstable; urgency=low
232
233 * Mention in copyright that full GPL is included in the manual.
234 Closes: #334925
235 * Register installed documents with doc-base.
236 * Minor updates in English text and translations.
237
238 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:37:25 +0200
239
240 installation-guide (20051019) unstable; urgency=low
241
242 [ Joey Hess ]
243 * Split off from the debian-installer source package.
244 See the changelog for debian-installer for older changelog entries.
245
246 [ Frans Pop ]
247 * Change over to building arch all packages in section doc. Build separate
248 packages for each arch containing all translations.
249 * Change package name to installation-guide.
250 * Include translations already available on official website.
251
252 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:12:35 +0200

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