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* Make copyright refer explicitly to GPL version 2 as that is the version we
  include in the appendix; add reference to /usr/share/common-licenses to
  make Lintian happy.
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 * Extend the documentation of apt-setup, especially the decision whether or
42 not to use a network mirror. Document selection of services.
43 * Document new apt-setup/services-select and related hostname preseeds.
44 * Add some information about creating device files in the appendix on chroot
45 installs; also add a note that the appendix only covers the basic steps
46 of a chroot install.
47 * Warn against installing Debian while another OS is hibernated.
48
49 [ Joey Hess ]
50 * Document how to preseed partman-auto to use only available disk, no matter
51 what it's name is.
52 * debian/rules: call dh_md5sums.
53 * Document debian-installer/exit/halt preseed.
54
55 [ Colin Watson ]
56 * Clarify that you need to actually provide an autopartitioning method as
57 well as preseeding the partman confirmation messages.
58
59 [ Frans Pop ]
60 * Make copyright refer explicitly to GPL version 2 as that is the version we
61 include in the appendix; add reference to /usr/share/common-licenses to
62 make Lintian happy.
63
64 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:53:56 +0100
65
66 installation-guide (20070319) unstable; urgency=low
67
68 [ Frans Pop ]
69 * Cleaned up definitions of some entities and removed unused ones.
70 * Implement infrastructure that allows entities to be translated.
71 Thanks to Miroslav Kure for providing the patch. Closes: #344048, #406515.
72 * Disable Korean PDF/PS formats for builds for the website.
73 * appendix/files: update information about mouse configuration, based on a
74 patch from Peter Samuelson (for which thanks). Closes: #406290.
75 * boot-installer, appendix/preseed: document preseed/interactive parameter.
76
77 [ Joey Hess ]
78 * Fix package name for installation-reports, and manual unfuzzy of all
79 translations. Closes: #408408
80
81 [ Frans Pop ]
82 * welcome:
83 - make links to FSF and GNU more consistent (closes: #410317)
84 - we do not necessarily share the ideals of the FSF (closes: #410129)
85 Thanks to Francesco Poli for suggesting these changes.
86 * using-d-i: guided partitioning now creates swap inside LVM.
87 Thanks to Francesco Poli. Closes: #411399.
88 * Document installs over PPPoE. Based on a text proposed by Eddy Petrisor.
89 Closes: #408340.
90 * installation-howto: update for the integration of base-config into D-I.
91 * appendix/preseed:
92 - as exim no longer asks any questions during installations, there is no
93 real need to document it anymore
94 - add link to Philip Hand's website as it contains many creative examples
95 - document how to select the ftp protocol during mirror selection
96 - document how to install from CD/DVD only (and not use a network mirror)
97 * Update base/standard system and task sizes.
98
99 [ Joey Hess ]
100 * Document debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated.
101
102 [ Wouter Verhelst ]
103 * Update mac68k installation after notes from Finn Thain, upstream mac68k
104 kernel hacker.
105
106 [ Frans Pop ]
107 * Replace entity in example-preseed.txt file. Thanks to Geert Stappers for
108 spotting the error. Closes: #413257.
109
110 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:00:12 +0100
111
112 installation-guide (20070122) unstable; urgency=low
113
114 * Enable Catalan, Brazillian, Korean and Spanish again.
115 * Enable new Hungarian translation.
116
117 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:41:57 +0100
118
119 installation-guide (20070115) unstable; urgency=low
120
121 [ Colin Watson ]
122 * Document new pkgsel/include setting.
123 * Fix incorrect documentation on preseeding additional apt sources.
124 * Fix typo in hppa hardware support documentation
125 (https://launchpad.net/bugs/55164).
126 * Adjust chroot-install guide to take account of debootstrap being
127 Architecture: all now (https://launchpad.net/bugs/64765).
128
129 [ Frans Pop ]
130 * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall and Holger Wansing.
131 Closes: #378404, #370484, #370425.
132 * Update instructions on how to set module parameters for PLIP installation.
133 * Update chroot install instructions to use aptitude instead of apt-get.
134 * Add /srv in overview of directory tree in partitioning appendix.
135 * Update section on partitioning using LVM to reflect recent changes.
136 * Apply various patches by or based on suggestions from Nathanael Nerode.
137 Some of the bigger changes include:
138 - Update of processor support for the i386 architecture.
139 - Update information on setting up a RARP server.
140 * Add variant for the AMD64 architecture. Closes: #305977.
141 * Suppress warnings about missing IDs for sections and such.
142 * Reorganize supported hardware table; i386 no longer has flavors.
143 * Document SMP-alternatives as one of the variants of SMP support.
144 * Document how to shut down the system. Based on patch from Holger Levsen.
145 Closes: #248067.
146
147 [ Miroslav Kure ]
148 * Update information about booting with encrypted partitions.
149 Closes: #378651.
150
151 [ Joey Hess ]
152 * Update preseeding docs to document listing more than one disk for
153 partman-auto/disk and grub-installer/bootdev
154
155 [ Changwoo Ryu ]
156 * Add support for Korean PDF output. Requires latex-hangul-ucs-hlatex.
157 Closes: #381657.
158
159 [ David Härdeman ]
160 * Update preseeding documentation for partman-auto.
161
162 [ Frans Pop ]
163 * Correct error for alpha netboot installations. Thanks to Aurélien Géröme.
164 Closes: #386591.
165 * Correct number of release arches. Thanks to Holger Wansing. Closes: #384321.
166 * Minor corrections suggested by Malcolm Parsons. Closes: #388138.
167 * Document new boot parameters theme and directfb/hw-accel.
168 * Remove now obsolete distinction between classic and common kpkg.
169 * Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.17.
170 * Set default value for manual_release in build wrapper scripts.
171 * Add new section in preseeding appendix on partman-auto-raid. Not included
172 in preseed text file as it is still somewhat experimental.
173 * Document changes in guided partitioning and added encrypted LVM support.
174 * Disable m68k for official builds as it is not a release architecture.
175 * buildweb.sh: use 'mv -f' to avoid errors during builds on the webserver.
176 * Minor corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall. Closes: #394413, #394471.
177 * Update task sizes as per D-I RC1.
178 * New troubleshooting section on how to deal with CD-ROM related problems.
179 * Document how to pass parameters to kernel modules on boot.
180 * Document how to install KDE instead of Gnome in the section on pkgsel.
181
182 [ Joey Hess ]
183 * Update for recent floppy changes.
184 * Remove hardcoded paths to executables in buildone.sh.
185 * Set HOME to a temporary directory before running w3m, to avoid it
186 trying to write to a home directory that may not exist on the buildds.
187 (See #393641)
188 * Update the installation report template to match current one in
189 installation-report.
190
191 [ Philip Hands ]
192 * Clarify how -- affects which parameters end up in the target system's
193 bootloader's command line.
194
195 [ Joey Hess ]
196 * Applied Phil's auto mode documentation patch, edited it, and moved
197 some things around for clarity. Closes: #395910
198 * Document auto=true boot parameter.
199
200 [ Frans Pop ]
201 * Add condition "g-i" for arches that support the graphical installer.
202 * Document mouse/left boot parameter.
203 * Explain usage of "owner" prefix when setting values for debconf variables
204 intended for the target system at the boot prompt.
205 * Give some examples of preseeding questions from the boot prompt.
206 * Document how to install the KDE desktop environment instead of GNOME.
207 * Don't list unsupported frontends in boot parameters section.
208 * Minor corrections suggested by Tapio Lehtonen. Closes: #397790.
209 * Minor corrections suggested by Holger Wansing. Closes: #397974.
210
211 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
212 * Mention that RiscPC support is incomplete.
213 * Mention Intel IOP32x support.
214 * Talk about ixp4xx rather than the more specific nslu2.
215
216 [ Frans Pop ]
217 * Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.18.
218 * Minor corrections and some rewrites based on suggestions from
219 Clytie Siddall. Closes: #367861, #380588.
220 * Update Sparc specific information and document common installation issues
221 for Sparc. Many thanks to Jurij Smakov for reviewing the Sparc manual and
222 for his overview of issues.
223 * Etch ships with X.Org 7.1.
224 * Update number of developers, packages and mailing lists.
225 * General revision of minimum hardware requirements throughout the manual.
226 * Update of installed/download size of tasks.
227 * Document the graphical installer, including the main known issues.
228 * Avoid generating XML files multiple times for translations using PO files
229 when using build.sh or buildweb.sh sripts.
230 * bookinfo:
231 - Add note for m68k that it is not a release architecture for Etch.
232 * hardware:
233 - Remove ancient section on parity RAM. Closes: #403035.
234 - Update documenation for Sparc, based on patch by Jurij Smakov.
235 Closes: #389516.
236 - PowerPC/APUS is currently not supported; removed from hardware table.
237 - Remove sun4cd (sparc32) from and add sun4v (sparc64) in hardware table.
238 - Rewrite of NIC support, document wireless support (for selected arches)
239 and explain issues surrounding drivers that require firmware.
240 * preparing:
241 - Clean out ancient hardware issues.
242 * boot-installer/parameters:
243 - Document anna/choose_modules and mirror/protocol boot parameters.
244 - Use a clearer way to list the short form of parameters.
245 - Document new option to blacklist kernel modules.
246 * boot-installer/trouble:
247 - Fix reference to Save debug logs menu option.
248 Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402439.
249 - Add a note that installation reports will be published.
250 * install-methods:
251 - All architectures that support TFTP booting also support DCHP, so remove
252 the "supports-dhcp" condition.
253 - According to the text, Alpha supports BOOTP.
254 - Use dhcp3-server for examples rather than dhcp (version 2).
255 - tftpd-hpa does not use /tftpboot by default; allow for this in examples.
256 Closes: #342076.
257 * using-d-i:
258 - Extend description of lowmem installs based on a patch suggested by
259 Holger Wansing. Closes: #400263.
260 * boot-new:
261 - Remove reference to apt guide (not installed by default) and obsolete
262 debian-guide. Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402492.
263 - As lynx is no longer installed, suggest w3m as text based browser.
264 - Explain how to browse /usr/share/doc/ using a graphical web browser.
265 - Mention documentation packages.
266 - Clarify what happens on first boot and how to get help to in case of
267 problems.
268 * post-install:
269 - Remove section on reactivating Windows; the installer should detect it
270 automatically after all. Closes: #402437.
271 - Add extended section on email configuration (moved from using-d-i as
272 exim4 now configures for "local mail only" by default). Closes: #402857.
273 * appendix/preseed:
274 - Clarifications based on comments from Tapio Lehtonen and Holger Wansing.
275 Closes: #397923.
276 * appendix/chroot-install:
277 - Changes suggested in review by Wiktor Wandachowicz. Closes: #394929.
278
279 [ Frans Pop ]
280 * Prepare for release. This release is mostly for testing purposes, the real
281 release targeted at Etch will be next week.
282 * Add and enable amd64 architecture.
283 * Update control file for dropped m68k and added amd64 architectures.
284 * Disable Catalan, Korean, Spanish and Brazillian translations as they are
285 not yet complete.
286 * Enable Finnish translation.
287
288 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:10:16 +0100
289
290 installation-guide (20060726) unstable; urgency=low
291
292 [ Joey Hess ]
293 * Update kernel building section to conditionalise some more 2.4 kernel
294 stuff.
295 * Suggest passing --initrd to make-kpkg since the docs say nothing about
296 compiling disk drivers into the kernel.
297 * Document new passwd/root-login setting.
298 * Booting a USB stick via a boot floppy is not supported by current
299 installer images.
300 * Update preseeding docs to use task names, not short descriptions, since
301 that will work now and is more convenient for preseeding.
302 * Document the kde-desktop and gnome-desktop subtasks.
303
304 [ Frans Pop ]
305 * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall.
306 * chroot-install:
307 - add /etc/hosts to be created for network configuration (closes: #364517)
308 - make kernel/linux-image variable (closes: #345482)
309 * Document -- command line option for passing parameters to boot loader
310 configuration (closes: #309889).
311 * Switch Finnish from XML-based to PO-based translation.
312 * Bring numbering and layout of GPL more in line with original. With thanks
313 to Holger Wansing.
314 * Add functionality to include optional paragraphs in translations.
315 Initially two have been defined:
316 - a paragraph in bookinfo for information about the translation;
317 - a note in appendix/gpl.xml required with unofficial GPL translations.
318
319 [ Joey Hess ]
320 * Document new preseed/run setting.
321 * Prebaseconfig renamed to finish-install, which changes some documentation,
322 and. notably, renames one of the xml files.
323 * hd-media size changed to 256 mb.
324 * Document new aliases added in preseed 1.17 for common debconf boot
325 parameters: fb, url, file, locale, interface.
326
327 [ Frans Pop ]
328 * Document guided partitioning using LVM and update partitioning section.
329
330 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
331 * The RiscPC flavour is now known as "rpc" rather than "riscpc".
332 * As of 2.6, r4k-ip22 also rupports r5k machines do the r5k-ip22 flavour
333 has been dropped.
334
335 [ Holger Levsen ]
336 * Added the remaining suggestions about nubus and non-powerpc macs
337 (closes: #364546).
338 * Restructured the chapter about powerpc supported hardware, moved
339 unsupported machines to the end.
340 * Updated the information about existing kernel flavours.
341
342 [ Miroslav Kure ]
343 * Document installation to encrypted partitions (partman-crypto).
344 * Update XOrg to 7.0.
345
346 [ Frans Pop ]
347 * Etch has been assigned version 4.0.
348 * Update kernel versions to 2.6.16.
349 * Base languages to be built for website on list of release languages.
350 * arm, mips and mipsel switched to 2.6 kernels.
351 * Enable Brazillian Portuguese and Vietnamese translation for release.
352 * Disable Greek translation as it is too incomplete.
353
354 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:27:52 +0200
355
356 installation-guide (20060427) unstable; urgency=low
357
358 [ Joey Hess ]
359 * Update preseeding docs for base-config removal.
360 * Add documentation of how to change apt-setup security source with
361 preseeding.
362 * Remove the sarge preseeding docs.
363 * Remove mentions of base-config and move base-config stuff to elsewhere.
364 * Add documentation of apt-setup, user-setup, clock-setup, tzsetup, and
365 pkgsel.
366 * Change some references to tty3 (messages) to instead refer to tty4
367 (syslog).
368 * Change references to /var/log/debian-installer to just /var/log/installer.
369 * Remove docs for baseconfig-udeb; going away with base-config.
370 * Removed various bits of sarge cruft when it made things easier.
371
372 [ Frans Pop ]
373 * Change default build to Etch.
374 * Remove all Sarge specific content and make Etch specific content default.
375 * Delete some obsolete entities.
376 * Change references from package d-i-manual to package installation-guide.
377 * Explicitly specify XML declaration as required by openjade 1.4devel1-15
378 (closes: #360241).
379 * Update appendix on chroot installs:
380 - mention that debootstrap also requires basic Unix/Linux commands;
381 - comment out link to outdated rpm packages of debootstrap.
382
383 [ Colin Watson ]
384 * Add a few more supports-floppy-boot and bootable-usb conditionals to
385 make it easier to turn all this off in rebuilds of the manual.
386 * Etch uses X.Org 6.9, and xserver-xorg instead of xserver-xfree86.
387 * Document how to pick a particular interface with
388 netcfg/choose_interface, including how to do this before reading a
389 preseed file.
390 * Remove obsolete substvar.
391 * Build-depend on libhtml-parser-perl for build/preseed.pl.
392
393 [ Joey Hess ]
394 * Add docs about preseeding a fallback to a static IP if dhcp fails.
395 * Update copyright date.
396 * It's possible to use preseeding to set up LVM now, so remove stuff about
397 it not working.
398 * Document DHCP preseeding. Note that this documents it as of netcfg 1.24
399 and preseed 1.13.
400
401 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
402 * Bring ARM up to date with reality: remove unsupported flavours, add
403 NSLU2.
404 * Fix Netwinder/CATS download location.
405 * Improve the Netwinder TFTP boot instructions.
406 * The Netwinder firmware is no longer available due to license problems.
407 * Mention NSLU2 download location.
408 * Describe how to flash the installer image onto the NSLU2.
409 * Describe how to boot a Cobalt machine.
410
411 [ Frans Pop ]
412 * Document new option to preseed additional apt sources for target system.
413 * Document how to create a preconfiguration file.
414 * Enable Catalan, Italian and Swedish translations for release.
415 * Disable Brazillian Portuguese translation as it is too incomplete.
416
417 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:00:32 +0200
418
419 installation-guide (20060102) unstable; urgency=low
420
421 [ Frans Pop ]
422 * Fix build error caused by description for s390. Closes: #337382.
423 * Update kernel package names and kernel versions per architecture.
424 * Move documentation on preseeding to separate appendix for etch.
425 * Use new, more flexible perl script to extract example preseed file from
426 new appendix.
427 * Set proper POT-Creation-Date when generating new POT files.
428 * New translations started: Polish, Swedish, Vietnamese.
429 * First release of Greek and Korean translations.
430 * Exclude Traditional Chinese translation as it was not updated.
431 * Switch release name to Etch (3.1+δ).
432
433 [ Joey Hess ]
434 * Update installation report template and instructions for etch.
435
436 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 18:44:59 +0100
437
438 installation-guide (20051025) unstable; urgency=low
439
440 * Mention in copyright that full GPL is included in the manual.
441 Closes: #334925
442 * Register installed documents with doc-base.
443 * Minor updates in English text and translations.
444
445 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:37:25 +0200
446
447 installation-guide (20051019) unstable; urgency=low
448
449 [ Joey Hess ]
450 * Split off from the debian-installer source package.
451 See the changelog for debian-installer for older changelog entries.
452
453 [ Frans Pop ]
454 * Change over to building arch all packages in section doc. Build separate
455 packages for each arch containing all translations.
456 * Change package name to installation-guide.
457 * Include translations already available on official website.
458
459 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:12:35 +0200

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