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* Document how to preseed partman-auto to use only available disk, no matter
  what it's name is.
1 installation-guide (2007xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
2
3 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
4 * Remove all information about RiscPC because these machines are
5 no longer supported.
6
7 [ Joey Hess ]
8 * Document the new tasksel/desktop preseed for lenny.
9
10 [ Frans Pop ]
11 * Add cm-super to build dependencies as that improves the quality of the
12 Russian PDF version.
13 * Suggest 'nousb' instead of debian-installer/probe/usb as USB modules are
14 now loaded automatically.
15 * Fix incorrect instruction for preseeding local repositories.
16 Thanks to Rémi Demarthe. Closes: #420894.
17 * Add translatable entities for Continue, Cancel and Go Back buttons.
18 * Add build dependencies on texlive-lang-* packages for languages for which
19 the manual has translations.
20 * Document new boot parameters "lowmem" and "dmraid".
21 * Document new location of graphical mini.iso images.
22 * Document base-installer/kernel/image preseed.
23
24 [ Joey Hess ]
25 * Document new lilo-installer/skip preseed.
26 * Document passwd/user-default-groups preseed.
27
28 [ Colin Watson ]
29 * Recommend preseeding mirror/country to "manual" rather than "enter
30 information manually" (choose-mirror 2.17).
31 * Remove text talking about devfs-style device names, which are no longer
32 supported.
33 * preparing/minimum-hardware-reqts.xml: Pluralise "gigabyte" consistently.
34
35 [ Joey Hess ]
36 * Document clock-setup/ntp.
37
38 [ Frans Pop ]
39 * Support for sparc32 has been discontinued for Lenny. This also means that
40 booting from floppy is no longer supported for sparc.
41 * Document new apt-setup/services-select and related hostname preseeds.
42
43 [ Joey Hess ]
44 * Document how to preseed partman-auto to use only available disk, no matter
45 what it's name is.
46
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:43:09 -0400
48
49 installation-guide (20070319) unstable; urgency=low
50
51 [ Frans Pop ]
52 * Cleaned up definitions of some entities and removed unused ones.
53 * Implement infrastructure that allows entities to be translated.
54 Thanks to Miroslav Kure for providing the patch. Closes: #344048, #406515.
55 * Disable Korean PDF/PS formats for builds for the website.
56 * appendix/files: update information about mouse configuration, based on a
57 patch from Peter Samuelson (for which thanks). Closes: #406290.
58 * boot-installer, appendix/preseed: document preseed/interactive parameter.
59
60 [ Joey Hess ]
61 * Fix package name for installation-reports, and manual unfuzzy of all
62 translations. Closes: #408408
63
64 [ Frans Pop ]
65 * welcome:
66 - make links to FSF and GNU more consistent (closes: #410317)
67 - we do not necessarily share the ideals of the FSF (closes: #410129)
68 Thanks to Francesco Poli for suggesting these changes.
69 * using-d-i: guided partitioning now creates swap inside LVM.
70 Thanks to Francesco Poli. Closes: #411399.
71 * Document installs over PPPoE. Based on a text proposed by Eddy Petrisor.
72 Closes: #408340.
73 * installation-howto: update for the integration of base-config into D-I.
74 * appendix/preseed:
75 - as exim no longer asks any questions during installations, there is no
76 real need to document it anymore
77 - add link to Philip Hand's website as it contains many creative examples
78 - document how to select the ftp protocol during mirror selection
79 - document how to install from CD/DVD only (and not use a network mirror)
80 * Update base/standard system and task sizes.
81
82 [ Joey Hess ]
83 * Document debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated.
84
85 [ Wouter Verhelst ]
86 * Update mac68k installation after notes from Finn Thain, upstream mac68k
87 kernel hacker.
88
89 [ Frans Pop ]
90 * Replace entity in example-preseed.txt file. Thanks to Geert Stappers for
91 spotting the error. Closes: #413257.
92
93 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:00:12 +0100
94
95 installation-guide (20070122) unstable; urgency=low
96
97 * Enable Catalan, Brazillian, Korean and Spanish again.
98 * Enable new Hungarian translation.
99
100 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:41:57 +0100
101
102 installation-guide (20070115) unstable; urgency=low
103
104 [ Colin Watson ]
105 * Document new pkgsel/include setting.
106 * Fix incorrect documentation on preseeding additional apt sources.
107 * Fix typo in hppa hardware support documentation
108 (https://launchpad.net/bugs/55164).
109 * Adjust chroot-install guide to take account of debootstrap being
110 Architecture: all now (https://launchpad.net/bugs/64765).
111
112 [ Frans Pop ]
113 * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall and Holger Wansing.
114 Closes: #378404, #370484, #370425.
115 * Update instructions on how to set module parameters for PLIP installation.
116 * Update chroot install instructions to use aptitude instead of apt-get.
117 * Add /srv in overview of directory tree in partitioning appendix.
118 * Update section on partitioning using LVM to reflect recent changes.
119 * Apply various patches by or based on suggestions from Nathanael Nerode.
120 Some of the bigger changes include:
121 - Update of processor support for the i386 architecture.
122 - Update information on setting up a RARP server.
123 * Add variant for the AMD64 architecture. Closes: #305977.
124 * Suppress warnings about missing IDs for sections and such.
125 * Reorganize supported hardware table; i386 no longer has flavors.
126 * Document SMP-alternatives as one of the variants of SMP support.
127 * Document how to shut down the system. Based on patch from Holger Levsen.
128 Closes: #248067.
129
130 [ Miroslav Kure ]
131 * Update information about booting with encrypted partitions.
132 Closes: #378651.
133
134 [ Joey Hess ]
135 * Update preseeding docs to document listing more than one disk for
136 partman-auto/disk and grub-installer/bootdev
137
138 [ Changwoo Ryu ]
139 * Add support for Korean PDF output. Requires latex-hangul-ucs-hlatex.
140 Closes: #381657.
141
142 [ David Härdeman ]
143 * Update preseeding documentation for partman-auto.
144
145 [ Frans Pop ]
146 * Correct error for alpha netboot installations. Thanks to Aurélien Géröme.
147 Closes: #386591.
148 * Correct number of release arches. Thanks to Holger Wansing. Closes: #384321.
149 * Minor corrections suggested by Malcolm Parsons. Closes: #388138.
150 * Document new boot parameters theme and directfb/hw-accel.
151 * Remove now obsolete distinction between classic and common kpkg.
152 * Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.17.
153 * Set default value for manual_release in build wrapper scripts.
154 * Add new section in preseeding appendix on partman-auto-raid. Not included
155 in preseed text file as it is still somewhat experimental.
156 * Document changes in guided partitioning and added encrypted LVM support.
157 * Disable m68k for official builds as it is not a release architecture.
158 * buildweb.sh: use 'mv -f' to avoid errors during builds on the webserver.
159 * Minor corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall. Closes: #394413, #394471.
160 * Update task sizes as per D-I RC1.
161 * New troubleshooting section on how to deal with CD-ROM related problems.
162 * Document how to pass parameters to kernel modules on boot.
163 * Document how to install KDE instead of Gnome in the section on pkgsel.
164
165 [ Joey Hess ]
166 * Update for recent floppy changes.
167 * Remove hardcoded paths to executables in buildone.sh.
168 * Set HOME to a temporary directory before running w3m, to avoid it
169 trying to write to a home directory that may not exist on the buildds.
170 (See #393641)
171 * Update the installation report template to match current one in
172 installation-report.
173
174 [ Philip Hands ]
175 * Clarify how -- affects which parameters end up in the target system's
176 bootloader's command line.
177
178 [ Joey Hess ]
179 * Applied Phil's auto mode documentation patch, edited it, and moved
180 some things around for clarity. Closes: #395910
181 * Document auto=true boot parameter.
182
183 [ Frans Pop ]
184 * Add condition "g-i" for arches that support the graphical installer.
185 * Document mouse/left boot parameter.
186 * Explain usage of "owner" prefix when setting values for debconf variables
187 intended for the target system at the boot prompt.
188 * Give some examples of preseeding questions from the boot prompt.
189 * Document how to install the KDE desktop environment instead of GNOME.
190 * Don't list unsupported frontends in boot parameters section.
191 * Minor corrections suggested by Tapio Lehtonen. Closes: #397790.
192 * Minor corrections suggested by Holger Wansing. Closes: #397974.
193
194 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
195 * Mention that RiscPC support is incomplete.
196 * Mention Intel IOP32x support.
197 * Talk about ixp4xx rather than the more specific nslu2.
198
199 [ Frans Pop ]
200 * Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.18.
201 * Minor corrections and some rewrites based on suggestions from
202 Clytie Siddall. Closes: #367861, #380588.
203 * Update Sparc specific information and document common installation issues
204 for Sparc. Many thanks to Jurij Smakov for reviewing the Sparc manual and
205 for his overview of issues.
206 * Etch ships with X.Org 7.1.
207 * Update number of developers, packages and mailing lists.
208 * General revision of minimum hardware requirements throughout the manual.
209 * Update of installed/download size of tasks.
210 * Document the graphical installer, including the main known issues.
211 * Avoid generating XML files multiple times for translations using PO files
212 when using build.sh or buildweb.sh sripts.
213 * bookinfo:
214 - Add note for m68k that it is not a release architecture for Etch.
215 * hardware:
216 - Remove ancient section on parity RAM. Closes: #403035.
217 - Update documenation for Sparc, based on patch by Jurij Smakov.
218 Closes: #389516.
219 - PowerPC/APUS is currently not supported; removed from hardware table.
220 - Remove sun4cd (sparc32) from and add sun4v (sparc64) in hardware table.
221 - Rewrite of NIC support, document wireless support (for selected arches)
222 and explain issues surrounding drivers that require firmware.
223 * preparing:
224 - Clean out ancient hardware issues.
225 * boot-installer/parameters:
226 - Document anna/choose_modules and mirror/protocol boot parameters.
227 - Use a clearer way to list the short form of parameters.
228 - Document new option to blacklist kernel modules.
229 * boot-installer/trouble:
230 - Fix reference to Save debug logs menu option.
231 Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402439.
232 - Add a note that installation reports will be published.
233 * install-methods:
234 - All architectures that support TFTP booting also support DCHP, so remove
235 the "supports-dhcp" condition.
236 - According to the text, Alpha supports BOOTP.
237 - Use dhcp3-server for examples rather than dhcp (version 2).
238 - tftpd-hpa does not use /tftpboot by default; allow for this in examples.
239 Closes: #342076.
240 * using-d-i:
241 - Extend description of lowmem installs based on a patch suggested by
242 Holger Wansing. Closes: #400263.
243 * boot-new:
244 - Remove reference to apt guide (not installed by default) and obsolete
245 debian-guide. Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402492.
246 - As lynx is no longer installed, suggest w3m as text based browser.
247 - Explain how to browse /usr/share/doc/ using a graphical web browser.
248 - Mention documentation packages.
249 - Clarify what happens on first boot and how to get help to in case of
250 problems.
251 * post-install:
252 - Remove section on reactivating Windows; the installer should detect it
253 automatically after all. Closes: #402437.
254 - Add extended section on email configuration (moved from using-d-i as
255 exim4 now configures for "local mail only" by default). Closes: #402857.
256 * appendix/preseed:
257 - Clarifications based on comments from Tapio Lehtonen and Holger Wansing.
258 Closes: #397923.
259 * appendix/chroot-install:
260 - Changes suggested in review by Wiktor Wandachowicz. Closes: #394929.
261
262 [ Frans Pop ]
263 * Prepare for release. This release is mostly for testing purposes, the real
264 release targeted at Etch will be next week.
265 * Add and enable amd64 architecture.
266 * Update control file for dropped m68k and added amd64 architectures.
267 * Disable Catalan, Korean, Spanish and Brazillian translations as they are
268 not yet complete.
269 * Enable Finnish translation.
270
271 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:10:16 +0100
272
273 installation-guide (20060726) unstable; urgency=low
274
275 [ Joey Hess ]
276 * Update kernel building section to conditionalise some more 2.4 kernel
277 stuff.
278 * Suggest passing --initrd to make-kpkg since the docs say nothing about
279 compiling disk drivers into the kernel.
280 * Document new passwd/root-login setting.
281 * Booting a USB stick via a boot floppy is not supported by current
282 installer images.
283 * Update preseeding docs to use task names, not short descriptions, since
284 that will work now and is more convenient for preseeding.
285 * Document the kde-desktop and gnome-desktop subtasks.
286
287 [ Frans Pop ]
288 * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall.
289 * chroot-install:
290 - add /etc/hosts to be created for network configuration (closes: #364517)
291 - make kernel/linux-image variable (closes: #345482)
292 * Document -- command line option for passing parameters to boot loader
293 configuration (closes: #309889).
294 * Switch Finnish from XML-based to PO-based translation.
295 * Bring numbering and layout of GPL more in line with original. With thanks
296 to Holger Wansing.
297 * Add functionality to include optional paragraphs in translations.
298 Initially two have been defined:
299 - a paragraph in bookinfo for information about the translation;
300 - a note in appendix/gpl.xml required with unofficial GPL translations.
301
302 [ Joey Hess ]
303 * Document new preseed/run setting.
304 * Prebaseconfig renamed to finish-install, which changes some documentation,
305 and. notably, renames one of the xml files.
306 * hd-media size changed to 256 mb.
307 * Document new aliases added in preseed 1.17 for common debconf boot
308 parameters: fb, url, file, locale, interface.
309
310 [ Frans Pop ]
311 * Document guided partitioning using LVM and update partitioning section.
312
313 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
314 * The RiscPC flavour is now known as "rpc" rather than "riscpc".
315 * As of 2.6, r4k-ip22 also rupports r5k machines do the r5k-ip22 flavour
316 has been dropped.
317
318 [ Holger Levsen ]
319 * Added the remaining suggestions about nubus and non-powerpc macs
320 (closes: #364546).
321 * Restructured the chapter about powerpc supported hardware, moved
322 unsupported machines to the end.
323 * Updated the information about existing kernel flavours.
324
325 [ Miroslav Kure ]
326 * Document installation to encrypted partitions (partman-crypto).
327 * Update XOrg to 7.0.
328
329 [ Frans Pop ]
330 * Etch has been assigned version 4.0.
331 * Update kernel versions to 2.6.16.
332 * Base languages to be built for website on list of release languages.
333 * arm, mips and mipsel switched to 2.6 kernels.
334 * Enable Brazillian Portuguese and Vietnamese translation for release.
335 * Disable Greek translation as it is too incomplete.
336
337 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:27:52 +0200
338
339 installation-guide (20060427) unstable; urgency=low
340
341 [ Joey Hess ]
342 * Update preseeding docs for base-config removal.
343 * Add documentation of how to change apt-setup security source with
344 preseeding.
345 * Remove the sarge preseeding docs.
346 * Remove mentions of base-config and move base-config stuff to elsewhere.
347 * Add documentation of apt-setup, user-setup, clock-setup, tzsetup, and
348 pkgsel.
349 * Change some references to tty3 (messages) to instead refer to tty4
350 (syslog).
351 * Change references to /var/log/debian-installer to just /var/log/installer.
352 * Remove docs for baseconfig-udeb; going away with base-config.
353 * Removed various bits of sarge cruft when it made things easier.
354
355 [ Frans Pop ]
356 * Change default build to Etch.
357 * Remove all Sarge specific content and make Etch specific content default.
358 * Delete some obsolete entities.
359 * Change references from package d-i-manual to package installation-guide.
360 * Explicitly specify XML declaration as required by openjade 1.4devel1-15
361 (closes: #360241).
362 * Update appendix on chroot installs:
363 - mention that debootstrap also requires basic Unix/Linux commands;
364 - comment out link to outdated rpm packages of debootstrap.
365
366 [ Colin Watson ]
367 * Add a few more supports-floppy-boot and bootable-usb conditionals to
368 make it easier to turn all this off in rebuilds of the manual.
369 * Etch uses X.Org 6.9, and xserver-xorg instead of xserver-xfree86.
370 * Document how to pick a particular interface with
371 netcfg/choose_interface, including how to do this before reading a
372 preseed file.
373 * Remove obsolete substvar.
374 * Build-depend on libhtml-parser-perl for build/preseed.pl.
375
376 [ Joey Hess ]
377 * Add docs about preseeding a fallback to a static IP if dhcp fails.
378 * Update copyright date.
379 * It's possible to use preseeding to set up LVM now, so remove stuff about
380 it not working.
381 * Document DHCP preseeding. Note that this documents it as of netcfg 1.24
382 and preseed 1.13.
383
384 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
385 * Bring ARM up to date with reality: remove unsupported flavours, add
386 NSLU2.
387 * Fix Netwinder/CATS download location.
388 * Improve the Netwinder TFTP boot instructions.
389 * The Netwinder firmware is no longer available due to license problems.
390 * Mention NSLU2 download location.
391 * Describe how to flash the installer image onto the NSLU2.
392 * Describe how to boot a Cobalt machine.
393
394 [ Frans Pop ]
395 * Document new option to preseed additional apt sources for target system.
396 * Document how to create a preconfiguration file.
397 * Enable Catalan, Italian and Swedish translations for release.
398 * Disable Brazillian Portuguese translation as it is too incomplete.
399
400 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:00:32 +0200
401
402 installation-guide (20060102) unstable; urgency=low
403
404 [ Frans Pop ]
405 * Fix build error caused by description for s390. Closes: #337382.
406 * Update kernel package names and kernel versions per architecture.
407 * Move documentation on preseeding to separate appendix for etch.
408 * Use new, more flexible perl script to extract example preseed file from
409 new appendix.
410 * Set proper POT-Creation-Date when generating new POT files.
411 * New translations started: Polish, Swedish, Vietnamese.
412 * First release of Greek and Korean translations.
413 * Exclude Traditional Chinese translation as it was not updated.
414 * Switch release name to Etch (3.1+δ).
415
416 [ Joey Hess ]
417 * Update installation report template and instructions for etch.
418
419 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 18:44:59 +0100
420
421 installation-guide (20051025) unstable; urgency=low
422
423 * Mention in copyright that full GPL is included in the manual.
424 Closes: #334925
425 * Register installed documents with doc-base.
426 * Minor updates in English text and translations.
427
428 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:37:25 +0200
429
430 installation-guide (20051019) unstable; urgency=low
431
432 [ Joey Hess ]
433 * Split off from the debian-installer source package.
434 See the changelog for debian-installer for older changelog entries.
435
436 [ Frans Pop ]
437 * Change over to building arch all packages in section doc. Build separate
438 packages for each arch containing all translations.
439 * Change package name to installation-guide.
440 * Include translations already available on official website.
441
442 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:12:35 +0200

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