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installation-guide (2007xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
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* Cleaned up definitions of some entities and removed unused ones.
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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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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:20:41 +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.
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* Mention Intel IOP32x support.
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* Talk about ixp4xx rather than the more specific nslu2.
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[ Frans Pop ]
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* Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.18.
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* Minor corrections and some rewrites based on suggestions from
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Clytie Siddall. Closes: #367861, #380588.
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* Update Sparc specific information and document common installation issues
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for Sparc. Many thanks to Jurij Smakov for reviewing the Sparc manual and
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for his overview of issues.
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* Etch ships with X.Org 7.1.
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* Update number of developers, packages and mailing lists.
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* General revision of minimum hardware requirements throughout the manual.
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* Update of installed/download size of tasks.
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* Document the graphical installer, including the main known issues.
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* Avoid generating XML files multiple times for translations using PO files
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when using build.sh or buildweb.sh sripts.
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* bookinfo:
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- Add note for m68k that it is not a release architecture for Etch.
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* hardware:
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- Remove ancient section on parity RAM. Closes: #403035.
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- Update documenation for Sparc, based on patch by Jurij Smakov.
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Closes: #389516.
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- PowerPC/APUS is currently not supported; removed from hardware table.
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- Remove sun4cd (sparc32) from and add sun4v (sparc64) in hardware table.
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- Rewrite of NIC support, document wireless support (for selected arches)
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and explain issues surrounding drivers that require firmware.
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* preparing:
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- Clean out ancient hardware issues.
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* boot-installer/parameters:
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- Document anna/choose_modules and mirror/protocol boot parameters.
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- Use a clearer way to list the short form of parameters.
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- Document new option to blacklist kernel modules.
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* boot-installer/trouble:
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- Fix reference to Save debug logs menu option.
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Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402439.
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- Add a note that installation reports will be published.
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* install-methods:
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- All architectures that support TFTP booting also support DCHP, so remove
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the "supports-dhcp" condition.
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- According to the text, Alpha supports BOOTP.
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- Use dhcp3-server for examples rather than dhcp (version 2).
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- tftpd-hpa does not use /tftpboot by default; allow for this in examples.
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Closes: #342076.
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* using-d-i:
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- Extend description of lowmem installs based on a patch suggested by
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Holger Wansing. Closes: #400263.
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* boot-new:
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- Remove reference to apt guide (not installed by default) and obsolete
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debian-guide. Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402492.
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- As lynx is no longer installed, suggest w3m as text based browser.
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- Explain how to browse /usr/share/doc/ using a graphical web browser.
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- Mention documentation packages.
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- Clarify what happens on first boot and how to get help to in case of
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problems.
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* post-install:
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- Remove section on reactivating Windows; the installer should detect it
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automatically after all. Closes: #402437.
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- Add extended section on email configuration (moved from using-d-i as
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exim4 now configures for "local mail only" by default). Closes: #402857.
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* appendix/preseed:
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- Clarifications based on comments from Tapio Lehtonen and Holger Wansing.
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Closes: #397923.
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* appendix/chroot-install:
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- Changes suggested in review by Wiktor Wandachowicz. Closes: #394929.
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[ Frans Pop ]
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* Prepare for release. This release is mostly for testing purposes, the real
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release targeted at Etch will be next week.
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* Add and enable amd64 architecture.
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* Update control file for dropped m68k and added amd64 architectures.
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* Disable Catalan, Korean, Spanish and Brazillian translations as they are
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not yet complete.
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* Enable Finnish translation.
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:10:16 +0100
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installation-guide (20060726) unstable; urgency=low
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[ Joey Hess ]
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* Update kernel building section to conditionalise some more 2.4 kernel
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stuff.
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* Suggest passing --initrd to make-kpkg since the docs say nothing about
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compiling disk drivers into the kernel.
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* Document new passwd/root-login setting.
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* Booting a USB stick via a boot floppy is not supported by current
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installer images.
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* Update preseeding docs to use task names, not short descriptions, since
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that will work now and is more convenient for preseeding.
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* Document the kde-desktop and gnome-desktop subtasks.
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[ Frans Pop ]
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* Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall.
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* chroot-install:
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- add /etc/hosts to be created for network configuration (closes: #364517)
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- make kernel/linux-image variable (closes: #345482)
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* Document -- command line option for passing parameters to boot loader
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configuration (closes: #309889).
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* Switch Finnish from XML-based to PO-based translation.
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* Bring numbering and layout of GPL more in line with original. With thanks
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to Holger Wansing.
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* Add functionality to include optional paragraphs in translations.
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Initially two have been defined:
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- a paragraph in bookinfo for information about the translation;
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- a note in appendix/gpl.xml required with unofficial GPL translations.
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[ Joey Hess ]
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* Document new preseed/run setting.
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* Prebaseconfig renamed to finish-install, which changes some documentation,
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and. notably, renames one of the xml files.
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* hd-media size changed to 256 mb.
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* Document new aliases added in preseed 1.17 for common debconf boot
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parameters: fb, url, file, locale, interface.
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[ Frans Pop ]
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* Document guided partitioning using LVM and update partitioning section.
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[ Martin Michlmayr ]
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* The RiscPC flavour is now known as "rpc" rather than "riscpc".
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* As of 2.6, r4k-ip22 also rupports r5k machines do the r5k-ip22 flavour
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has been dropped.
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[ Holger Levsen ]
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* Added the remaining suggestions about nubus and non-powerpc macs
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(closes: #364546).
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* Restructured the chapter about powerpc supported hardware, moved
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unsupported machines to the end.
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* Updated the information about existing kernel flavours.
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[ Miroslav Kure ]
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* Document installation to encrypted partitions (partman-crypto).
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* Update XOrg to 7.0.
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[ Frans Pop ]
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* Etch has been assigned version 4.0.
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* Update kernel versions to 2.6.16.
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* Base languages to be built for website on list of release languages.
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* arm, mips and mipsel switched to 2.6 kernels.
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* Enable Brazillian Portuguese and Vietnamese translation for release.
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* Disable Greek translation as it is too incomplete.
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:27:52 +0200
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installation-guide (20060427) unstable; urgency=low
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[ Joey Hess ]
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* Update preseeding docs for base-config removal.
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* Add documentation of how to change apt-setup security source with
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preseeding.
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* Remove the sarge preseeding docs.
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* Remove mentions of base-config and move base-config stuff to elsewhere.
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* Add documentation of apt-setup, user-setup, clock-setup, tzsetup, and
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pkgsel.
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* Change some references to tty3 (messages) to instead refer to tty4
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(syslog).
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* Change references to /var/log/debian-installer to just /var/log/installer.
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* Remove docs for baseconfig-udeb; going away with base-config.
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* Removed various bits of sarge cruft when it made things easier.
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[ Frans Pop ]
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* Change default build to Etch.
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* Remove all Sarge specific content and make Etch specific content default.
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* Delete some obsolete entities.
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* Change references from package d-i-manual to package installation-guide.
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* Explicitly specify XML declaration as required by openjade 1.4devel1-15
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(closes: #360241).
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* Update appendix on chroot installs:
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- mention that debootstrap also requires basic Unix/Linux commands;
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- comment out link to outdated rpm packages of debootstrap.
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[ Colin Watson ]
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* Add a few more supports-floppy-boot and bootable-usb conditionals to
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make it easier to turn all this off in rebuilds of the manual.
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* Etch uses X.Org 6.9, and xserver-xorg instead of xserver-xfree86.
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* Document how to pick a particular interface with
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netcfg/choose_interface, including how to do this before reading a
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preseed file.
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* Remove obsolete substvar.
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* Build-depend on libhtml-parser-perl for build/preseed.pl.
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[ Joey Hess ]
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* Add docs about preseeding a fallback to a static IP if dhcp fails.
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* Update copyright date.
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* It's possible to use preseeding to set up LVM now, so remove stuff about
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it not working.
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* Document DHCP preseeding. Note that this documents it as of netcfg 1.24
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and preseed 1.13.
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[ Martin Michlmayr ]
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* Bring ARM up to date with reality: remove unsupported flavours, add
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NSLU2.
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* Fix Netwinder/CATS download location.
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* Improve the Netwinder TFTP boot instructions.
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* The Netwinder firmware is no longer available due to license problems.
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* Mention NSLU2 download location.
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* Describe how to flash the installer image onto the NSLU2.
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* Describe how to boot a Cobalt machine.
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[ Frans Pop ]
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* Document new option to preseed additional apt sources for target system.
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* Document how to create a preconfiguration file.
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* Enable Catalan, Italian and Swedish translations for release.
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* Disable Brazillian Portuguese translation as it is too incomplete.
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:00:32 +0200
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installation-guide (20060102) unstable; urgency=low
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[ Frans Pop ]
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* Fix build error caused by description for s390. Closes: #337382.
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* Update kernel package names and kernel versions per architecture.
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* Move documentation on preseeding to separate appendix for etch.
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* Use new, more flexible perl script to extract example preseed file from
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new appendix.
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* Set proper POT-Creation-Date when generating new POT files.
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* New translations started: Polish, Swedish, Vietnamese.
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* First release of Greek and Korean translations.
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* Exclude Traditional Chinese translation as it was not updated.
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* Switch release name to Etch (3.1+δ).
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[ Joey Hess ]
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* Update installation report template and instructions for etch.
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 18:44:59 +0100
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installation-guide (20051025) unstable; urgency=low
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* Mention in copyright that full GPL is included in the manual.
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Closes: #334925
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* Register installed documents with doc-base.
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* Minor updates in English text and translations.
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:37:25 +0200
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installation-guide (20051019) unstable; urgency=low
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[ Joey Hess ]
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* Split off from the debian-installer source package.
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See the changelog for debian-installer for older changelog entries.
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[ Frans Pop ]
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* Change over to building arch all packages in section doc. Build separate
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packages for each arch containing all translations.
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* Change package name to installation-guide.
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* Include translations already available on official website.
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:12:35 +0200
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