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installation-guide (2010xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
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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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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 18 May 2010 07:47:53 +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.
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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.
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* Document new apt-setup/services-select and related hostname preseeds.
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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.
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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.
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* debian/rules: call dh_md5sums.
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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
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make Lintian happy.
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* Rename doc-base.TEMPLATE to TEMPLATE.doc-base to avoid its inclusion in
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the package for the first architecture. Closes: #416304.
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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.
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* Remove the PDF section in doc-base files if PDF format is not built for a
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language.
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* Update standards version to 3.7.3; no changes needed.
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* Patch from Changwoo Ryu to replace Hangul-ucs with ko.tex fonts for Korean
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PDF version of the manual. Closes: #457137.
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* using-d-i:
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- move clock-setup, tzsetup and user-setup to reflect their changed
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position in the installation procedure
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- mention that clock-setup will now attempt to set the system time from a
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time server
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- split clock-setup as part is now executed during finish-install
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- add instructions on how a different time zone from the one(s) that match
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the selected location can be set (as that is a FAQ)
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- improve readability of partman section by using separate subsections for
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guided and manual partitioning
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- network-console: add information about dropped connections and how to
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avoid that (closes: #458154); add footnote with command to remove a host
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from the known_hosts file
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* howto, preseed: update for reordering of the installation procedure.
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* Change build dependency on gs-common to ghostscript.
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* Use --previous when updating PO files so translators can see the changes
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in a string.
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[ Colin Watson ]
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* Use &releasename; rather than hardcoding etch in sources.list
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recommendation for chroot installs. Closes: #458459.
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[ Frans Pop ]
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* Make UTF-8 the default encoding for the text version for all languages
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that still used ISO-8859-1.
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* Korean text version changed to UTF-8 on request of Changwoo Ryu.
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* Japanese text version changed to UTF-8 on request of KURASAWA Nozomu.
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* Enable PDF for Korean for website builds.
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* Disable Finnish, Hungarian and Spanish for this release as they have not
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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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[ Frans Pop ]
|
| 404 |
* Cleaned up definitions of some entities and removed unused ones.
|
| 405 |
* Implement infrastructure that allows entities to be translated.
|
| 406 |
Thanks to Miroslav Kure for providing the patch. Closes: #344048, #406515.
|
| 407 |
* Disable Korean PDF/PS formats for builds for the website.
|
| 408 |
* appendix/files: update information about mouse configuration, based on a
|
| 409 |
patch from Peter Samuelson (for which thanks). Closes: #406290.
|
| 410 |
* boot-installer, appendix/preseed: document preseed/interactive parameter.
|
| 411 |
|
| 412 |
[ Joey Hess ]
|
| 413 |
* Fix package name for installation-reports, and manual unfuzzy of all
|
| 414 |
translations. Closes: #408408
|
| 415 |
|
| 416 |
[ Frans Pop ]
|
| 417 |
* welcome:
|
| 418 |
- make links to FSF and GNU more consistent (closes: #410317)
|
| 419 |
- we do not necessarily share the ideals of the FSF (closes: #410129)
|
| 420 |
Thanks to Francesco Poli for suggesting these changes.
|
| 421 |
* using-d-i: guided partitioning now creates swap inside LVM.
|
| 422 |
Thanks to Francesco Poli. Closes: #411399.
|
| 423 |
* Document installs over PPPoE. Based on a text proposed by Eddy Petrisor.
|
| 424 |
Closes: #408340.
|
| 425 |
* installation-howto: update for the integration of base-config into D-I.
|
| 426 |
* appendix/preseed:
|
| 427 |
- as exim no longer asks any questions during installations, there is no
|
| 428 |
real need to document it anymore
|
| 429 |
- add link to Philip Hand's website as it contains many creative examples
|
| 430 |
- document how to select the ftp protocol during mirror selection
|
| 431 |
- document how to install from CD/DVD only (and not use a network mirror)
|
| 432 |
* Update base/standard system and task sizes.
|
| 433 |
|
| 434 |
[ Joey Hess ]
|
| 435 |
* Document debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated.
|
| 436 |
|
| 437 |
[ Wouter Verhelst ]
|
| 438 |
* Update mac68k installation after notes from Finn Thain, upstream mac68k
|
| 439 |
kernel hacker.
|
| 440 |
|
| 441 |
[ Frans Pop ]
|
| 442 |
* Replace entity in example-preseed.txt file. Thanks to Geert Stappers for
|
| 443 |
spotting the error. Closes: #413257.
|
| 444 |
|
| 445 |
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:00:12 +0100
|
| 446 |
|
| 447 |
installation-guide (20070122) unstable; urgency=low
|
| 448 |
|
| 449 |
* Enable Catalan, Brazillian, Korean and Spanish again.
|
| 450 |
* Enable new Hungarian translation.
|
| 451 |
|
| 452 |
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:41:57 +0100
|
| 453 |
|
| 454 |
installation-guide (20070115) unstable; urgency=low
|
| 455 |
|
| 456 |
[ Colin Watson ]
|
| 457 |
* Document new pkgsel/include setting.
|
| 458 |
* Fix incorrect documentation on preseeding additional apt sources.
|
| 459 |
* Fix typo in hppa hardware support documentation
|
| 460 |
(https://launchpad.net/bugs/55164).
|
| 461 |
* Adjust chroot-install guide to take account of debootstrap being
|
| 462 |
Architecture: all now (https://launchpad.net/bugs/64765).
|
| 463 |
|
| 464 |
[ Frans Pop ]
|
| 465 |
* Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall and Holger Wansing.
|
| 466 |
Closes: #378404, #370484, #370425.
|
| 467 |
* Update instructions on how to set module parameters for PLIP installation.
|
| 468 |
* Update chroot install instructions to use aptitude instead of apt-get.
|
| 469 |
* Add /srv in overview of directory tree in partitioning appendix.
|
| 470 |
* Update section on partitioning using LVM to reflect recent changes.
|
| 471 |
* Apply various patches by or based on suggestions from Nathanael Nerode.
|
| 472 |
Some of the bigger changes include:
|
| 473 |
- Update of processor support for the i386 architecture.
|
| 474 |
- Update information on setting up a RARP server.
|
| 475 |
* Add variant for the AMD64 architecture. Closes: #305977.
|
| 476 |
* Suppress warnings about missing IDs for sections and such.
|
| 477 |
* Reorganize supported hardware table; i386 no longer has flavors.
|
| 478 |
* Document SMP-alternatives as one of the variants of SMP support.
|
| 479 |
* Document how to shut down the system. Based on patch from Holger Levsen.
|
| 480 |
Closes: #248067.
|
| 481 |
|
| 482 |
[ Miroslav Kure ]
|
| 483 |
* Update information about booting with encrypted partitions.
|
| 484 |
Closes: #378651.
|
| 485 |
|
| 486 |
[ Joey Hess ]
|
| 487 |
* Update preseeding docs to document listing more than one disk for
|
| 488 |
partman-auto/disk and grub-installer/bootdev
|
| 489 |
|
| 490 |
[ Changwoo Ryu ]
|
| 491 |
* Add support for Korean PDF output. Requires latex-hangul-ucs-hlatex.
|
| 492 |
Closes: #381657.
|
| 493 |
|
| 494 |
[ David Härdeman ]
|
| 495 |
* Update preseeding documentation for partman-auto.
|
| 496 |
|
| 497 |
[ Frans Pop ]
|
| 498 |
* Correct error for alpha netboot installations. Thanks to Aurélien Géröme.
|
| 499 |
Closes: #386591.
|
| 500 |
* Correct number of release arches. Thanks to Holger Wansing. Closes: #384321.
|
| 501 |
* Minor corrections suggested by Malcolm Parsons. Closes: #388138.
|
| 502 |
* Document new boot parameters theme and directfb/hw-accel.
|
| 503 |
* Remove now obsolete distinction between classic and common kpkg.
|
| 504 |
* Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.17.
|
| 505 |
* Set default value for manual_release in build wrapper scripts.
|
| 506 |
* Add new section in preseeding appendix on partman-auto-raid. Not included
|
| 507 |
in preseed text file as it is still somewhat experimental.
|
| 508 |
* Document changes in guided partitioning and added encrypted LVM support.
|
| 509 |
* Disable m68k for official builds as it is not a release architecture.
|
| 510 |
* buildweb.sh: use 'mv -f' to avoid errors during builds on the webserver.
|
| 511 |
* Minor corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall. Closes: #394413, #394471.
|
| 512 |
* Update task sizes as per D-I RC1.
|
| 513 |
* New troubleshooting section on how to deal with CD-ROM related problems.
|
| 514 |
* Document how to pass parameters to kernel modules on boot.
|
| 515 |
* Document how to install KDE instead of Gnome in the section on pkgsel.
|
| 516 |
|
| 517 |
[ Joey Hess ]
|
| 518 |
* Update for recent floppy changes.
|
| 519 |
* Remove hardcoded paths to executables in buildone.sh.
|
| 520 |
* Set HOME to a temporary directory before running w3m, to avoid it
|
| 521 |
trying to write to a home directory that may not exist on the buildds.
|
| 522 |
(See #393641)
|
| 523 |
* Update the installation report template to match current one in
|
| 524 |
installation-report.
|
| 525 |
|
| 526 |
[ Philip Hands ]
|
| 527 |
* Clarify how -- affects which parameters end up in the target system's
|
| 528 |
bootloader's command line.
|
| 529 |
|
| 530 |
[ Joey Hess ]
|
| 531 |
* Applied Phil's auto mode documentation patch, edited it, and moved
|
| 532 |
some things around for clarity. Closes: #395910
|
| 533 |
* Document auto=true boot parameter.
|
| 534 |
|
| 535 |
[ Frans Pop ]
|
| 536 |
* Add condition "g-i" for arches that support the graphical installer.
|
| 537 |
* Document mouse/left boot parameter.
|
| 538 |
* Explain usage of "owner" prefix when setting values for debconf variables
|
| 539 |
intended for the target system at the boot prompt.
|
| 540 |
* Give some examples of preseeding questions from the boot prompt.
|
| 541 |
* Document how to install the KDE desktop environment instead of GNOME.
|
| 542 |
* Don't list unsupported frontends in boot parameters section.
|
| 543 |
* Minor corrections suggested by Tapio Lehtonen. Closes: #397790.
|
| 544 |
* Minor corrections suggested by Holger Wansing. Closes: #397974.
|
| 545 |
|
| 546 |
[ Martin Michlmayr ]
|
| 547 |
* Mention that RiscPC support is incomplete.
|
| 548 |
* Mention Intel IOP32x support.
|
| 549 |
* Talk about ixp4xx rather than the more specific nslu2.
|
| 550 |
|
| 551 |
[ Frans Pop ]
|
| 552 |
* Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.18.
|
| 553 |
* Minor corrections and some rewrites based on suggestions from
|
| 554 |
Clytie Siddall. Closes: #367861, #380588.
|
| 555 |
* Update Sparc specific information and document common installation issues
|
| 556 |
for Sparc. Many thanks to Jurij Smakov for reviewing the Sparc manual and
|
| 557 |
for his overview of issues.
|
| 558 |
* Etch ships with X.Org 7.1.
|
| 559 |
* Update number of developers, packages and mailing lists.
|
| 560 |
* General revision of minimum hardware requirements throughout the manual.
|
| 561 |
* Update of installed/download size of tasks.
|
| 562 |
* Document the graphical installer, including the main known issues.
|
| 563 |
* Avoid generating XML files multiple times for translations using PO files
|
| 564 |
when using build.sh or buildweb.sh sripts.
|
| 565 |
* bookinfo:
|
| 566 |
- Add note for m68k that it is not a release architecture for Etch.
|
| 567 |
* hardware:
|
| 568 |
- Remove ancient section on parity RAM. Closes: #403035.
|
| 569 |
- Update documenation for Sparc, based on patch by Jurij Smakov.
|
| 570 |
Closes: #389516.
|
| 571 |
- PowerPC/APUS is currently not supported; removed from hardware table.
|
| 572 |
- Remove sun4cd (sparc32) from and add sun4v (sparc64) in hardware table.
|
| 573 |
- Rewrite of NIC support, document wireless support (for selected arches)
|
| 574 |
and explain issues surrounding drivers that require firmware.
|
| 575 |
* preparing:
|
| 576 |
- Clean out ancient hardware issues.
|
| 577 |
* boot-installer/parameters:
|
| 578 |
- Document anna/choose_modules and mirror/protocol boot parameters.
|
| 579 |
- Use a clearer way to list the short form of parameters.
|
| 580 |
- Document new option to blacklist kernel modules.
|
| 581 |
* boot-installer/trouble:
|
| 582 |
- Fix reference to Save debug logs menu option.
|
| 583 |
Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402439.
|
| 584 |
- Add a note that installation reports will be published.
|
| 585 |
* install-methods:
|
| 586 |
- All architectures that support TFTP booting also support DCHP, so remove
|
| 587 |
the "supports-dhcp" condition.
|
| 588 |
- According to the text, Alpha supports BOOTP.
|
| 589 |
- Use dhcp3-server for examples rather than dhcp (version 2).
|
| 590 |
- tftpd-hpa does not use /tftpboot by default; allow for this in examples.
|
| 591 |
Closes: #342076.
|
| 592 |
* using-d-i:
|
| 593 |
- Extend description of lowmem installs based on a patch suggested by
|
| 594 |
Holger Wansing. Closes: #400263.
|
| 595 |
* boot-new:
|
| 596 |
- Remove reference to apt guide (not installed by default) and obsolete
|
| 597 |
debian-guide. Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402492.
|
| 598 |
- As lynx is no longer installed, suggest w3m as text based browser.
|
| 599 |
- Explain how to browse /usr/share/doc/ using a graphical web browser.
|
| 600 |
- Mention documentation packages.
|
| 601 |
- Clarify what happens on first boot and how to get help to in case of
|
| 602 |
problems.
|
| 603 |
* post-install:
|
| 604 |
- Remove section on reactivating Windows; the installer should detect it
|
| 605 |
automatically after all. Closes: #402437.
|
| 606 |
- Add extended section on email configuration (moved from using-d-i as
|
| 607 |
exim4 now configures for "local mail only" by default). Closes: #402857.
|
| 608 |
* appendix/preseed:
|
| 609 |
- Clarifications based on comments from Tapio Lehtonen and Holger Wansing.
|
| 610 |
Closes: #397923.
|
| 611 |
* appendix/chroot-install:
|
| 612 |
- Changes suggested in review by Wiktor Wandachowicz. Closes: #394929.
|
| 613 |
|
| 614 |
[ Frans Pop ]
|
| 615 |
* Prepare for release. This release is mostly for testing purposes, the real
|
| 616 |
release targeted at Etch will be next week.
|
| 617 |
* Add and enable amd64 architecture.
|
| 618 |
* Update control file for dropped m68k and added amd64 architectures.
|
| 619 |
* Disable Catalan, Korean, Spanish and Brazillian translations as they are
|
| 620 |
not yet complete.
|
| 621 |
* Enable Finnish translation.
|
| 622 |
|
| 623 |
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:10:16 +0100
|
| 624 |
|
| 625 |
installation-guide (20060726) unstable; urgency=low
|
| 626 |
|
| 627 |
[ Joey Hess ]
|
| 628 |
* Update kernel building section to conditionalise some more 2.4 kernel
|
| 629 |
stuff.
|
| 630 |
* Suggest passing --initrd to make-kpkg since the docs say nothing about
|
| 631 |
compiling disk drivers into the kernel.
|
| 632 |
* Document new passwd/root-login setting.
|
| 633 |
* Booting a USB stick via a boot floppy is not supported by current
|
| 634 |
installer images.
|
| 635 |
* Update preseeding docs to use task names, not short descriptions, since
|
| 636 |
that will work now and is more convenient for preseeding.
|
| 637 |
* Document the kde-desktop and gnome-desktop subtasks.
|
| 638 |
|
| 639 |
[ Frans Pop ]
|
| 640 |
* Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall.
|
| 641 |
* chroot-install:
|
| 642 |
- add /etc/hosts to be created for network configuration (closes: #364517)
|
| 643 |
- make kernel/linux-image variable (closes: #345482)
|
| 644 |
* Document -- command line option for passing parameters to boot loader
|
| 645 |
configuration (closes: #309889).
|
| 646 |
* Switch Finnish from XML-based to PO-based translation.
|
| 647 |
* Bring numbering and layout of GPL more in line with original. With thanks
|
| 648 |
to Holger Wansing.
|
| 649 |
* Add functionality to include optional paragraphs in translations.
|
| 650 |
Initially two have been defined:
|
| 651 |
- a paragraph in bookinfo for information about the translation;
|
| 652 |
- a note in appendix/gpl.xml required with unofficial GPL translations.
|
| 653 |
|
| 654 |
[ Joey Hess ]
|
| 655 |
* Document new preseed/run setting.
|
| 656 |
* Prebaseconfig renamed to finish-install, which changes some documentation,
|
| 657 |
and. notably, renames one of the xml files.
|
| 658 |
* hd-media size changed to 256 mb.
|
| 659 |
* Document new aliases added in preseed 1.17 for common debconf boot
|
| 660 |
parameters: fb, url, file, locale, interface.
|
| 661 |
|
| 662 |
[ Frans Pop ]
|
| 663 |
* Document guided partitioning using LVM and update partitioning section.
|
| 664 |
|
| 665 |
[ Martin Michlmayr ]
|
| 666 |
* The RiscPC flavour is now known as "rpc" rather than "riscpc".
|
| 667 |
* As of 2.6, r4k-ip22 also rupports r5k machines do the r5k-ip22 flavour
|
| 668 |
has been dropped.
|
| 669 |
|
| 670 |
[ Holger Levsen ]
|
| 671 |
* Added the remaining suggestions about nubus and non-powerpc macs
|
| 672 |
(closes: #364546).
|
| 673 |
* Restructured the chapter about powerpc supported hardware, moved
|
| 674 |
unsupported machines to the end.
|
| 675 |
* Updated the information about existing kernel flavours.
|
| 676 |
|
| 677 |
[ Miroslav Kure ]
|
| 678 |
* Document installation to encrypted partitions (partman-crypto).
|
| 679 |
* Update XOrg to 7.0.
|
| 680 |
|
| 681 |
[ Frans Pop ]
|
| 682 |
* Etch has been assigned version 4.0.
|
| 683 |
* Update kernel versions to 2.6.16.
|
| 684 |
* Base languages to be built for website on list of release languages.
|
| 685 |
* arm, mips and mipsel switched to 2.6 kernels.
|
| 686 |
* Enable Brazillian Portuguese and Vietnamese translation for release.
|
| 687 |
* Disable Greek translation as it is too incomplete.
|
| 688 |
|
| 689 |
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:27:52 +0200
|
| 690 |
|
| 691 |
installation-guide (20060427) unstable; urgency=low
|
| 692 |
|
| 693 |
[ Joey Hess ]
|
| 694 |
* Update preseeding docs for base-config removal.
|
| 695 |
* Add documentation of how to change apt-setup security source with
|
| 696 |
preseeding.
|
| 697 |
* Remove the sarge preseeding docs.
|
| 698 |
* Remove mentions of base-config and move base-config stuff to elsewhere.
|
| 699 |
* Add documentation of apt-setup, user-setup, clock-setup, tzsetup, and
|
| 700 |
pkgsel.
|
| 701 |
* Change some references to tty3 (messages) to instead refer to tty4
|
| 702 |
(syslog).
|
| 703 |
* Change references to /var/log/debian-installer to just /var/log/installer.
|
| 704 |
* Remove docs for baseconfig-udeb; going away with base-config.
|
| 705 |
* Removed various bits of sarge cruft when it made things easier.
|
| 706 |
|
| 707 |
[ Frans Pop ]
|
| 708 |
* Change default build to Etch.
|
| 709 |
* Remove all Sarge specific content and make Etch specific content default.
|
| 710 |
* Delete some obsolete entities.
|
| 711 |
* Change references from package d-i-manual to package installation-guide.
|
| 712 |
* Explicitly specify XML declaration as required by openjade 1.4devel1-15
|
| 713 |
(closes: #360241).
|
| 714 |
* Update appendix on chroot installs:
|
| 715 |
- mention that debootstrap also requires basic Unix/Linux commands;
|
| 716 |
- comment out link to outdated rpm packages of debootstrap.
|
| 717 |
|
| 718 |
[ Colin Watson ]
|
| 719 |
* Add a few more supports-floppy-boot and bootable-usb conditionals to
|
| 720 |
make it easier to turn all this off in rebuilds of the manual.
|
| 721 |
* Etch uses X.Org 6.9, and xserver-xorg instead of xserver-xfree86.
|
| 722 |
* Document how to pick a particular interface with
|
| 723 |
netcfg/choose_interface, including how to do this before reading a
|
| 724 |
preseed file.
|
| 725 |
* Remove obsolete substvar.
|
| 726 |
* Build-depend on libhtml-parser-perl for build/preseed.pl.
|
| 727 |
|
| 728 |
[ Joey Hess ]
|
| 729 |
* Add docs about preseeding a fallback to a static IP if dhcp fails.
|
| 730 |
* Update copyright date.
|
| 731 |
* It's possible to use preseeding to set up LVM now, so remove stuff about
|
| 732 |
it not working.
|
| 733 |
* Document DHCP preseeding. Note that this documents it as of netcfg 1.24
|
| 734 |
and preseed 1.13.
|
| 735 |
|
| 736 |
[ Martin Michlmayr ]
|
| 737 |
* Bring ARM up to date with reality: remove unsupported flavours, add
|
| 738 |
NSLU2.
|
| 739 |
* Fix Netwinder/CATS download location.
|
| 740 |
* Improve the Netwinder TFTP boot instructions.
|
| 741 |
* The Netwinder firmware is no longer available due to license problems.
|
| 742 |
* Mention NSLU2 download location.
|
| 743 |
* Describe how to flash the installer image onto the NSLU2.
|
| 744 |
* Describe how to boot a Cobalt machine.
|
| 745 |
|
| 746 |
[ Frans Pop ]
|
| 747 |
* Document new option to preseed additional apt sources for target system.
|
| 748 |
* Document how to create a preconfiguration file.
|
| 749 |
* Enable Catalan, Italian and Swedish translations for release.
|
| 750 |
* Disable Brazillian Portuguese translation as it is too incomplete.
|
| 751 |
|
| 752 |
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:00:32 +0200
|
| 753 |
|
| 754 |
installation-guide (20060102) unstable; urgency=low
|
| 755 |
|
| 756 |
[ Frans Pop ]
|
| 757 |
* Fix build error caused by description for s390. Closes: #337382.
|
| 758 |
* Update kernel package names and kernel versions per architecture.
|
| 759 |
* Move documentation on preseeding to separate appendix for etch.
|
| 760 |
* Use new, more flexible perl script to extract example preseed file from
|
| 761 |
new appendix.
|
| 762 |
* Set proper POT-Creation-Date when generating new POT files.
|
| 763 |
* New translations started: Polish, Swedish, Vietnamese.
|
| 764 |
* First release of Greek and Korean translations.
|
| 765 |
* Exclude Traditional Chinese translation as it was not updated.
|
| 766 |
* Switch release name to Etch (3.1+δ).
|
| 767 |
|
| 768 |
[ Joey Hess ]
|
| 769 |
* Update installation report template and instructions for etch.
|
| 770 |
|
| 771 |
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 18:44:59 +0100
|
| 772 |
|
| 773 |
installation-guide (20051025) unstable; urgency=low
|
| 774 |
|
| 775 |
* Mention in copyright that full GPL is included in the manual.
|
| 776 |
Closes: #334925
|
| 777 |
* Register installed documents with doc-base.
|
| 778 |
* Minor updates in English text and translations.
|
| 779 |
|
| 780 |
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:37:25 +0200
|
| 781 |
|
| 782 |
installation-guide (20051019) unstable; urgency=low
|
| 783 |
|
| 784 |
[ Joey Hess ]
|
| 785 |
* Split off from the debian-installer source package.
|
| 786 |
See the changelog for debian-installer for older changelog entries.
|
| 787 |
|
| 788 |
[ Frans Pop ]
|
| 789 |
* Change over to building arch all packages in section doc. Build separate
|
| 790 |
packages for each arch containing all translations.
|
| 791 |
* Change package name to installation-guide.
|
| 792 |
* Include translations already available on official website.
|
| 793 |
|
| 794 |
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:12:35 +0200
|