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1 installation-guide (2011xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
2
3 [ Samuel Thibault ]
4 * Reference the French translation of the brltty manual in fr.
5 * Disable G-I on kfreebsd-*.
6 * Document booting d-i from grub2. Closes: #612165.
7 * Mention preseeding as an alternative for accessibility.
8 * Document that the text installer is selected by default.
9 * Avoid referencing BRLTTY manual chapter precise numbers. Closes: #580508.
10 * Make it clear that it's the ISO file which needs to be copied to the USB key.
11 * Update powerpc's copy of documentation for copying ISO file on USB keys.
12 * Add software speech synthesis documentation.
13 * Document SCSI partition raise to 255. Closes: Bug#644734. Thanks David
14 Prévot.
15 * Do not make users think that only "Graphical install" has speakup support,
16 and not "64 bit graphical install" too.
17 * Mention the 64bit variant installation options.
18 * Update chroot manual into using grub2.
19 * Document that installing makedev is needed to get MAKEDEV.
20 Closes: #620881, #656939.
21 * Document the availability of other apt sources, thanks Karl for the
22 patch. Closes: Bug#608828.
23 * Update xorg, brltty and speakup versions.
24 * WPA/WPA2 is now available. Closes: #659648.
25 * Use dd of= instead of cat >, to save users who use sudo. Advise to make
26 sure the stick is unmounted. Closes: #660776.
27 * Rename kbd-chooser component to console-setup.
28 * Fix preseeding for keyboard-configuration.
29 * Simply use cp instead of dd to prepare USB stick.
30 * Remove heading / from pxelinux.0, it seems to pose problem with some
31 implementations. Thanks Ulrich Krause for the report.
32 * Document that flexible-built USB keys do not show the boot menu by
33 default, and document how to enable it. Thanks Filipus Klutiero for the
34 report. Closes: #666105.
35 * Document that installing an MBR is needed to get a bootable USB key.
36 * Add armhf, s390x architectures, comment hppa architecture.
37 * Enable korean language.
38 * Use base-system-size and task-desktop-lxde-inst instead of hardcoding
39 install size in chroot method.
40 * Advise to install ssh and set root passwd in chroot method, thanks Michael
41 Stapelberg for the patch. Closes: #413649.
42 * Remove PA-RISC architecture from documented supported list.
43
44 [ Steve McIntyre ]
45 * Make it clearer how we expect users to write CDs to USB sticks.
46 Closes: #680650.
47
48 [ Joey Hess ]
49 * Fix typo in example preseed. Closes: #612631
50
51 [ Didier Raboud ]
52 * Document win32-loader as a possible boot method. Closes: #444017.
53
54 [ Colin Watson ]
55 * The text frontend is available on most default install media. Adjust
56 the Boot Parameters section to say so.
57 * Update url-us-keymap. Thanks, Manfred Hampl; LP: #741134.
58 * Document log_host and log_port.
59 * Update link to installer/doc/devel/ to cope with the switch to git.
60
61 [ Christian Perrier ]
62 * Document preseed-md5 and keymap preseed aliases
63 Closes: #621825, #621824, #681801
64 * Add VCS-Browser to debian/control. Closes: #636937
65
66 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
67 * Update list of supported ARM devices.
68
69 [ Miguel Figueiredo ]
70 * Fix chroot install keyboard configuration. Closes: #634168.
71
72 [ Julian Andres Klode ]
73 * Use C.UTF-8 locale for chroot install. Closes: #634167.
74
75 [ Joey Hess ]
76 * Remove dead link to Phoenix large disk BIOS faq. Closes: #638268
77 * Add a pointer to the unofficial non-free CDs with firmware.
78 * 1 gb USB key now needed for hd-media. Closes: #666090
79
80 [ Vincent McIntyre ]
81 * Mention DEBCONF_DEBUG. Closes: #668572.
82
83 [ Milan Kupcevic ]
84 * Clarify how to boot PowerMacs from external Firewire and internal
85 factory default CD/DVD drives. Closes #378119.
86 * Document how to boot Pegasos II from factory default CD/DVD drive.
87
88 [ Nozomu Kurasawa ]
89 * Fix xml file test. Closes: #684834.
90
91 -- Milan Kupcevic <milan@physics.harvard.edu> Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:12:20 -0400
92
93 installation-guide (20110122) unstable; urgency=low
94
95 [ Frans Pop ]
96 * List myself as one of the main authors in the administrativa appendix.
97 * Clarify IP addresses in example for booting SS4000-E (arm). Thanks to
98 Miroslav Kure for the patch.
99 * Add link to boot screen section in accessibility section. Closes: #579954.
100
101 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
102 * Update links for ARM images.
103
104 [ Samuel Thibault ]
105 * Update brltty version.
106 * Document booting from DOS (Closes: Bug#518808).
107 * Add non-Linux infrastructure to the build system.
108 * Add kFreeBSD infrastructure.
109 * Replace Linuxish bits with per-port entities.
110 * Rephrase Hurd-specific paragraph explaining that Debian GNU/Hurd is not
111 Linux.
112 * Add a "What is Debian GNU/kFreeBSD" section.
113 * Add the list of architectures supported by the kFreeBSD port.
114 * Restrict "Board Devices" accessibility section to Linux.
115 * Fix port URL for non-Linux ports.
116 * Fix "hardware" part for non-Linux ports. Now needs fine-tune from BSD
117 people.
118 * Fix "boot-installer" part for non-Linux ports. Still needs extensive
119 review from BSD people.
120 * Fix "preparing", "using-d-i", "boot-new", "post-install", "howto",
121 "preseed", "partitioning", and "random-bits" parts for non-Linux ports.
122 * Factorize os-specific parameters in build/arch-options.
123 * Rename debian entity to debian-gnu. Introduce new debian entity which just
124 stands for "Debian".
125 * Rename Mandrake into Mandriva (Closes: Bug#601308).
126 * Update installation sizes for amd64 instead of i386.
127 * Mention Windows 2003, Vista, and 7.
128 * Fix graphical boot options.
129 * Move user setup to before clock setup in "Using the Debian Installer" and
130 "Automating the installation using preseeding".
131 * Document dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration instead of kbd-config.
132 * Add installation-guide-kfreebsd-{i386,amd64} packages.
133 * Reference Debian Installer modules documentation from the preseed section
134 (Closes: Bug#603159).
135 * Move boot parameters subsections from inside the debian installer parameters
136 section, to which they don't really belong.
137 * Make subsection Installation Over the Network a direct child of Using
138 Individual Components instead of hiding it in "Miscellaneous".
139 * Rename 6.3.8 "Miscellaneous" into "Troubleshooting".
140 * Fix default tftp directory from /var/lib/tftpboot to /srv/tftp, thanks
141 Charles Plessy (Closes: Bug#606725).
142 * Enable Spanish and Swedish translations (almost up-to-date).
143 * Reword i386 and amd64 arch names to be consistent with the corresponding
144 release-notes change: Intel x86 → 32-bit PC, AMD64 → 64-bit PC.
145 * Add keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap preseed variable.
146 (Closes: Bug#599772)
147
148 [ Joey Hess ]
149 * Update USB stick documentation to reflect isohybird mini.iso files,
150 as generated by debian-installer >= 20100913.
151
152 [ Christian Perrier ]
153 * Remove obsolete reference to the replicator package
154 Closes: #597983
155
156 [ Maximilian Attems ]
157 * Remove obsolete reference to kernel-img.conf
158
159 [ Colin Watson ]
160 * Fix "/etc/init.d/dhcpd3-server" typo (should be
161 /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server), and unfuzzy all translations (LP: #666726).
162
163 [ Joey Hess ]
164 * Updated USB stick documentation to describe the much simpler, more
165 flexible, and likely more robust use of isohybrid images. All i386
166 and amd64 ISO images are now isohybrid.
167 * Remove documentation of no longer supported
168 grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy preseed. Closes: #610739
169
170 -- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:16:49 +0100
171
172 installation-guide (20100518) unstable; urgency=low
173
174 [ Colin Watson ]
175 * Note that partman-auto/init_automatically_partition is only honoured if
176 partman-auto/method is not set.
177 * Document the use of grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy to
178 switch back to GRUB Legacy for those who need it.
179 * Remove spurious quoting in network-console documentation, pointed out by
180 Jonathan Amery.
181 * partman now asks a slightly different (and less scary) confirmation
182 question if it doesn't appear that any data is being overwritten.
183 Document the associated preseeding changes.
184
185 [ Frans Pop ]
186 * Add missing hyphen in command "kbd-config". With thanks to Tapio Lehtonen.
187 Closes: #545584.
188 * Include a caution in the IA64 version of the manual against using IA64
189 for "normal" 64-bit Intel systems.
190 * Disable the variant for the alpha architecture: it is being dropped as a
191 release architecture for Squeeze.
192 * When updating PO files, set them to a standard width of 79 (same as used
193 for l10n-sync for D-I master PO files).
194 * Document that Debian now installs Recommends by default and how to disable
195 that.
196 * x86 USB boot: two improvements suggested by Timo Juhani Lindfors and one
197 by Samuel Thibault. Closes: #532437, #532440, #548534.
198 * welcome: add a link to www.kernel.org and remove the no longer valid link
199 to www.kerneltraffic.org. Closes: #331523.
200 * Document new help functionality.
201 * Update for changes in locale selection in localechooser 2.17 and 2.18:
202 - selecting a different country is now always possible at high priority;
203 - change in order of selection of additional locales and default locale;
204 - selection of a preferred locale if a combination of language and country
205 was selected for which no locale exists;
206 - support for separate preseeding of language, country and locale.
207 * Mention option to select UTC as time zone at medium/low priority.
208
209 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
210 * Mention more Kirkwood-based devices that are supported.
211 * Document where to get Kirkwood installer images from.
212 * Fix the preseeding example to say that allow_unauthenticated is a
213 boolean (and not a string).
214
215 [ Joey Hess ]
216 * Reword section on installer's support of wireless.
217
218 [ Steve Langasek ]
219 * Update the appendix on chroot installs to not recommend mapping 127.0.0.1
220 to the hostname; use 127.0.1.1, the same as the installer itself does.
221
222 [ Frans Pop ]
223 * Update and extend information on preseeding partman. Based on a patch from
224 Vincent McIntyre. Closes: #511053.
225 * Use 'ip addr' instead of 'ifconfig' to get MAC address for RARP setup.
226 * Update information on setting up a TFTP server.
227 * As of Lenny syslinux no longer requires that the TFTP server supports the
228 'tsize' option (see #570273). With thanks to Ferenc Wagner.
229 * Using D-I: add subsection intruducing supported partitioning options,
230 including a list of supported file systems.
231 * Disabling framebuffer on x86 now also requires passing 'vga=normal'. With
232 thanks to Samuel Thibault. Closes: #577461.
233 * Update for switch of G-I from DirectFB to X.Org.
234 * Update kernel version to 2.6.32, number of Debian Developers and program
235 versions.
236 * Update URL for Debian mirror list. Closes: #579935.
237 * Disable Korean, Portuguese (BR), Spanish and Swedish translations as they
238 are incomplete.
239
240 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 18 May 2010 03:51:35 +0200
241
242 installation-guide (20090901) unstable; urgency=low
243
244 [ Frans Pop ]
245 * Switch over from Lenny to Squeeze. Current kernel is 2.6.29.
246 * Change the Debian designation for the ARM architecture from arm to armel.
247 The internal 'arch-spec' and file naming convention remains "arm" in order
248 to avoid unnecessary changes and work for translators.
249 * Mention that TERM= can be passed as boot parameter to set the terminal type
250 for serial console installs. Based on a patch suggested by Samuel Thibault.
251 Closes: #524666.
252 * Update copyright for 2009.
253
254 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
255 * Updates for ARM (armel):
256 - Remove sections about Netwinder/CATS, which are no longer supported.
257 - Update the "supported hardware" table.
258 - Add a section about Marvell's Kirkwood, which is now supported.
259 * Updates for MIPS:
260 - Show some sections on mipsel that apply there too.
261 - Say that the Cobalt Qube 2700 (Qube1) is no longer supported.
262 - Remove everything about the Broadcom SWARM and BigSur since we no
263 longer support these devices in the installer.
264
265 [ Colin Watson ]
266 * Merge from Ubuntu:
267 - Document partman/mount_style, which controls how filesystems are
268 mounted.
269 * Document pkgsel/include/install-recommends.
270 * partman/confirm_write_new_label was renamed to
271 partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label in r50363, December 2007.
272 Adjust preseeding documentation to match.
273
274 [ Frans Pop ]
275 * Document installation of localization tasks.
276 * Document the debian-installer/add-kernel-opts preconfiguration option.
277 * Add links to website documenting braille keybindings. Thanks to
278 Samuel Thibault for the patch. Closes: #534260.
279 * Fix typo in chroot install appendix. Closes: #535494.
280 * Improve bootp documentation. Thanks to Holger Wansing for the patch.
281 Closes: #282614.
282 * On s390 the system clock is not modified by the installer.
283
284 [ Otavio Salvador ]
285 * Document the netcfg/enable preseeding that allows for disabling the
286 network configuration. Thanks to Anthony L. Awtrey <tony@awtrey.com>
287 for the patch.
288
289 [ Frans Pop ]
290 * Move most build dependencies to Build-Depends-Indep.
291
292 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:10:10 +0200
293
294 installation-guide (20090427) unstable; urgency=low
295
296 [ Colin Watson ]
297 * Document partman/early_command (added in partman-base 129).
298 * Add note about preseeding ownership to preseed-seenflag section, since I
299 had a user confused by this who hadn't found the note elsewhere
300 explaining owners.
301 * Use /dev/sda and /dev/sdb in the RAID preseeding example rather than
302 /dev/discs/disc0/disc and /dev/discs/disc1/disc, since the latter
303 devices no longer exist.
304 * Document noshell boot parameter. See #504381.
305 * Clarify behaviour of "auto" preseed alias.
306 * Clarify that preseeding aliases are only aliases for question names, and
307 that a value is always needed as well.
308 * Apparently you can pass extra boot parameters to OpenBoot at the end of
309 the 'boot' command. Document this as it has been known to cause some
310 confusion.
311
312 [ Frans Pop ]
313 * Document preseeding of network-console now that its postinst can be
314 relied on to be executed.
315 * Update info on passing boot parameter for PPPoE.
316 * Explain Standard system task.
317 * Add LXDE desktop environment.
318 * Mention option to select desktop environment from boot menu for x86 CDs.
319 * Add task sizes for alternative desktop environments.
320 * chroot install: 'tzconfig' is deprecated for 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata'.
321 Closes: #520582.
322 * Booting using LILO or GRUB: minor improvements. Closes: #519508.
323 * Fix example how to generate md5-encoded password. Closes: #518018.
324 * Fix missing tags in Japanese translation. Closes: #509372.
325 * Improve script that extracts preconfiguration example file from appendix.
326
327 [ Samuel Thibault ]
328 * Document accessibility support. Closes: #509371.
329
330 [ Frans Pop ]
331 * (Re-)enable Vietnamese translation (not fully up-to-date).
332 * Convert PO translations for Finnish, Korean and Vietnamese to XML using
333 their last fully translated version.
334 * Release update of the manual for Lenny. Six translations have not been
335 updated: Brazilian, Catalan, Finnish, Korean, Spanish and Vietnamese.
336
337 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:23:30 +0200
338
339 installation-guide (20081208) unstable; urgency=low
340
341 * Move documentation files to separate subdirectory doc.
342 * Document how the manual is built for the Debian website.
343 * Correct error spotted by Osamu Aoki: text web browser is w3m, not w3c.
344 * Correct two minor errors in preconfiguration examples. With thanks to
345 Andreas Beckmann for reporting them. Closes: #507544.
346 * Add new script check-preseed to help translators check if their
347 translation of the appendix about preseeding is complete/correct.
348 * Re-enable Spanish translation.
349
350 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:50:48 +0100
351
352 installation-guide (20081113) unstable; urgency=medium
353
354 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
355 * Remove everything about DECstation since these machines are
356 no longer supported.
357 * Provide information about all iop32x and orion5x installation media.
358 * Describe Orion and Versatile as supported platforms.
359 * Fix the NSLU2 download link.
360 * Describe MIPS Malta.
361 * Document netcfg/get_gateway=none
362
363 [ Frans Pop ]
364 * Update copyright to 2008.
365 * Update description of country selection in line with recent changes in
366 localechooser.
367 * Request output of lspci -knn in installation reports.
368 * Apply patch from Frank Lichtenheld to improve netboot instructions for
369 PowerPC. Closes: #275565.
370
371 [ Joey Hess ]
372 * Comment out partman-auto/disk setting in preseed since lenny d-i will
373 automatically work w/o it if there's just 1 disk. Closes: #490287
374 * Document hw-detect/load_firmware. Closes: #493845
375
376 [ Ryan Niebur ]
377 * Added documentation for RAID 6 and 10.
378
379 [ Jérémy Bobbio ]
380 * Explicitly mention that preseeded keymaps must be known to d-i.
381 Closes: #493720
382 * Mention parman-md/device_remove_md in preseeding appendix.
383
384 [ Frans Pop ]
385 * Restructure supported hardware section.
386 * Update of supported subarches/flavors for powerpc.
387 * hardware-supported:
388 - suppress m68k from arches table, unless building for m68k
389 - show which subarches are supported by arm/armel
390 - various minor updates and improvements
391 * Remove section on X.Org preseeding as all descibed options are obsolete.
392 * Document support in the installer for loading missing firmware.
393 * Update partman preseeding: use Choices-C values instead of descriptions.
394 * Correct short description of iso-scan. Closes: #501175.
395 * PowerPC currently doesn't have hd-media images, so is not "bootable-usb".
396 * There are no floppy images for i386 for Lenny; disable relevant sections.
397 * Major rewrite of section about preparing a USB stick for booting the
398 installer. Closes: #500206, #500283.
399 * Update preconfiguration section for latest changes in the preseed udebs
400 and clarify preseeding of language/country.
401 * Remove duplicated text about using tasksel. Closes: #502773.
402 * Update task sizes and nr. of packages per arch and current nr. of Debian
403 Developers for Lenny.
404 * (Re-)enable Catalan, Greek, Finnish, Japanese and Korean translations.
405 * Disable Vietnamese translations as it is incomplete.
406
407 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:15:38 +0100
408
409 installation-guide (20080520) unstable; urgency=medium
410
411 [ Frans Pop ]
412 * Clarify console switching for the graphical installer.
413 Thanks to Tim Richardson for the suggestion.
414
415 [ Colin Watson ]
416 * Spell "multiselect" correctly in apt-setup/services-select preseeding
417 example.
418 * Note that an empty preseed file is equivalent to a normal manual
419 installation (thanks, Nathan Sutton).
420
421 [ Robert Millan ]
422 * Document how to start the installer from Windows.
423
424 [ Frans Pop ]
425 * Document installation using multiple CD/DVDs; update text about using a
426 mirror in line with that.
427 * Lenny will be version 5.0.
428 * Warn about boot issues when using RAID on the root file system.
429 * Update task selection section for changes in desktop task preseeding.
430 * Fix double / in links, spotted by Stanislav Gromov. Closes: #472813.
431 * Document new boot parameters to define mouse protocol and device (port)
432 for the graphical installer.
433 * Correct command to use to allow preseeding of netcfg when using a
434 preconfiguration file downloaded from a server (preseed/url).
435 Thanks to Durk Strooisma for the report and analysis. Closes: #476524.
436 * Specify for which release the example preseed file is valid.
437 * Document preseeding of grub password.
438 * Update how to suppress the removal of existing LVM data using preseeding.
439 * Update version of X11 used in Lenny.
440 * Update kernel versions.
441 * Update memory requirements for i386 and amd64. Elaborate on installing
442 systems with less memory than the listed minimum.
443 * Update known issues for graphical installer: entropy gathering for
444 encrypted partitioning is now supported; localechooser now has nice
445 columns but other components still need to be done.
446 * Document finish-install/keep-consoles boot parameter and preseeding.
447 * Define two new translatable entities: escapekey and tabkey.
448 * Update task sizes, and number of packages and developers.
449 * x86: update description of the boot screen for the new syslinux vesamenu.
450
451 [ Joey Hess ]
452 * Remove autopartkit from the module list.
453
454 [ Frans Pop ]
455 * Disable Catalan, Korean and Japanese translations as they are incomplete.
456 * Upload with priority medium because of D-I Beta 2 release.
457
458 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2008 17:59:43 +0200
459
460 installation-guide (20080211) unstable; urgency=low
461
462 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
463 * Remove all information about RiscPC because these machines are
464 no longer supported.
465
466 [ Joey Hess ]
467 * Document the new tasksel/desktop preseed for lenny.
468
469 [ Frans Pop ]
470 * Add cm-super to build dependencies as that improves the quality of the
471 Russian PDF version.
472 * Suggest 'nousb' instead of debian-installer/probe/usb as USB modules are
473 now loaded automatically.
474 * Fix incorrect instruction for preseeding local repositories.
475 Thanks to Rémi Demarthe. Closes: #420894.
476 * Add translatable entities for Continue, Cancel and Go Back buttons.
477 * Add build dependencies on texlive-lang-* packages for languages for which
478 the manual has translations.
479 * Document new boot parameters "lowmem" and "dmraid".
480 * Document new location of graphical mini.iso images.
481 * Document base-installer/kernel/image preseed.
482
483 [ Joey Hess ]
484 * Document new lilo-installer/skip preseed.
485 * Document passwd/user-default-groups preseed.
486
487 [ Colin Watson ]
488 * Recommend preseeding mirror/country to "manual" rather than "enter
489 information manually" (choose-mirror 2.17).
490 * Remove text talking about devfs-style device names, which are no longer
491 supported.
492 * preparing/minimum-hardware-reqts.xml: Pluralise "gigabyte" consistently.
493
494 [ Joey Hess ]
495 * Document clock-setup/ntp.
496
497 [ Frans Pop ]
498 * Support for sparc32 has been discontinued for Lenny. This also means that
499 booting from floppy is no longer supported for sparc.
500 * Extend the documentation of apt-setup, especially the decision whether or
501 not to use a network mirror. Document selection of services.
502 * Document new apt-setup/services-select and related hostname preseeds.
503 * Add some information about creating device files in the appendix on chroot
504 installs; also add a note that the appendix only covers the basic steps
505 of a chroot install.
506 * Warn against installing Debian while another OS is hibernated.
507
508 [ Joey Hess ]
509 * Document how to preseed partman-auto to use only available disk, no matter
510 what it's name is.
511 * debian/rules: call dh_md5sums.
512 * Document debian-installer/exit/halt preseed.
513
514 [ Colin Watson ]
515 * Clarify that you need to actually provide an autopartitioning method as
516 well as preseeding the partman confirmation messages.
517
518 [ Frans Pop ]
519 * Make copyright refer explicitly to GPL version 2 as that is the version
520 included in the appendix; add reference to /usr/share/common-licenses to
521 make Lintian happy.
522 * Rename doc-base.TEMPLATE to TEMPLATE.doc-base to avoid its inclusion in
523 the package for the first architecture. Closes: #416304.
524 * Modify language codes that include a country for the doc-base document ID
525 so they only contain valid characters.
526 * Remove the PDF section in doc-base files if PDF format is not built for a
527 language.
528 * Update standards version to 3.7.3; no changes needed.
529 * Patch from Changwoo Ryu to replace Hangul-ucs with ko.tex fonts for Korean
530 PDF version of the manual. Closes: #457137.
531 * using-d-i:
532 - move clock-setup, tzsetup and user-setup to reflect their changed
533 position in the installation procedure
534 - mention that clock-setup will now attempt to set the system time from a
535 time server
536 - split clock-setup as part is now executed during finish-install
537 - add instructions on how a different time zone from the one(s) that match
538 the selected location can be set (as that is a FAQ)
539 - improve readability of partman section by using separate subsections for
540 guided and manual partitioning
541 - network-console: add information about dropped connections and how to
542 avoid that (closes: #458154); add footnote with command to remove a host
543 from the known_hosts file
544 * howto, preseed: update for reordering of the installation procedure.
545 * Change build dependency on gs-common to ghostscript.
546 * Use --previous when updating PO files so translators can see the changes
547 in a string.
548
549 [ Colin Watson ]
550 * Use &releasename; rather than hardcoding etch in sources.list
551 recommendation for chroot installs. Closes: #458459.
552
553 [ Frans Pop ]
554 * Make UTF-8 the default encoding for the text version for all languages
555 that still used ISO-8859-1.
556 * Korean text version changed to UTF-8 on request of Changwoo Ryu.
557 * Japanese text version changed to UTF-8 on request of KURASAWA Nozomu.
558 * Enable PDF for Korean for website builds.
559 * Disable Finnish, Hungarian and Spanish for this release as they have not
560 been updated.
561
562 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:35:22 +0100
563
564 installation-guide (20070319) unstable; urgency=low
565
566 [ Frans Pop ]
567 * Cleaned up definitions of some entities and removed unused ones.
568 * Implement infrastructure that allows entities to be translated.
569 Thanks to Miroslav Kure for providing the patch. Closes: #344048, #406515.
570 * Disable Korean PDF/PS formats for builds for the website.
571 * appendix/files: update information about mouse configuration, based on a
572 patch from Peter Samuelson (for which thanks). Closes: #406290.
573 * boot-installer, appendix/preseed: document preseed/interactive parameter.
574
575 [ Joey Hess ]
576 * Fix package name for installation-reports, and manual unfuzzy of all
577 translations. Closes: #408408
578
579 [ Frans Pop ]
580 * welcome:
581 - make links to FSF and GNU more consistent (closes: #410317)
582 - we do not necessarily share the ideals of the FSF (closes: #410129)
583 Thanks to Francesco Poli for suggesting these changes.
584 * using-d-i: guided partitioning now creates swap inside LVM.
585 Thanks to Francesco Poli. Closes: #411399.
586 * Document installs over PPPoE. Based on a text proposed by Eddy Petrisor.
587 Closes: #408340.
588 * installation-howto: update for the integration of base-config into D-I.
589 * appendix/preseed:
590 - as exim no longer asks any questions during installations, there is no
591 real need to document it anymore
592 - add link to Philip Hand's website as it contains many creative examples
593 - document how to select the ftp protocol during mirror selection
594 - document how to install from CD/DVD only (and not use a network mirror)
595 * Update base/standard system and task sizes.
596
597 [ Joey Hess ]
598 * Document debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated.
599
600 [ Wouter Verhelst ]
601 * Update mac68k installation after notes from Finn Thain, upstream mac68k
602 kernel hacker.
603
604 [ Frans Pop ]
605 * Replace entity in example-preseed.txt file. Thanks to Geert Stappers for
606 spotting the error. Closes: #413257.
607
608 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:00:12 +0100
609
610 installation-guide (20070122) unstable; urgency=low
611
612 * Enable Catalan, Brazillian, Korean and Spanish again.
613 * Enable new Hungarian translation.
614
615 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:41:57 +0100
616
617 installation-guide (20070115) unstable; urgency=low
618
619 [ Colin Watson ]
620 * Document new pkgsel/include setting.
621 * Fix incorrect documentation on preseeding additional apt sources.
622 * Fix typo in hppa hardware support documentation
623 (https://launchpad.net/bugs/55164).
624 * Adjust chroot-install guide to take account of debootstrap being
625 Architecture: all now (https://launchpad.net/bugs/64765).
626
627 [ Frans Pop ]
628 * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall and Holger Wansing.
629 Closes: #378404, #370484, #370425.
630 * Update instructions on how to set module parameters for PLIP installation.
631 * Update chroot install instructions to use aptitude instead of apt-get.
632 * Add /srv in overview of directory tree in partitioning appendix.
633 * Update section on partitioning using LVM to reflect recent changes.
634 * Apply various patches by or based on suggestions from Nathanael Nerode.
635 Some of the bigger changes include:
636 - Update of processor support for the i386 architecture.
637 - Update information on setting up a RARP server.
638 * Add variant for the AMD64 architecture. Closes: #305977.
639 * Suppress warnings about missing IDs for sections and such.
640 * Reorganize supported hardware table; i386 no longer has flavors.
641 * Document SMP-alternatives as one of the variants of SMP support.
642 * Document how to shut down the system. Based on patch from Holger Levsen.
643 Closes: #248067.
644
645 [ Miroslav Kure ]
646 * Update information about booting with encrypted partitions.
647 Closes: #378651.
648
649 [ Joey Hess ]
650 * Update preseeding docs to document listing more than one disk for
651 partman-auto/disk and grub-installer/bootdev
652
653 [ Changwoo Ryu ]
654 * Add support for Korean PDF output. Requires latex-hangul-ucs-hlatex.
655 Closes: #381657.
656
657 [ David Härdeman ]
658 * Update preseeding documentation for partman-auto.
659
660 [ Frans Pop ]
661 * Correct error for alpha netboot installations. Thanks to Aurélien Géröme.
662 Closes: #386591.
663 * Correct number of release arches. Thanks to Holger Wansing. Closes: #384321.
664 * Minor corrections suggested by Malcolm Parsons. Closes: #388138.
665 * Document new boot parameters theme and directfb/hw-accel.
666 * Remove now obsolete distinction between classic and common kpkg.
667 * Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.17.
668 * Set default value for manual_release in build wrapper scripts.
669 * Add new section in preseeding appendix on partman-auto-raid. Not included
670 in preseed text file as it is still somewhat experimental.
671 * Document changes in guided partitioning and added encrypted LVM support.
672 * Disable m68k for official builds as it is not a release architecture.
673 * buildweb.sh: use 'mv -f' to avoid errors during builds on the webserver.
674 * Minor corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall. Closes: #394413, #394471.
675 * Update task sizes as per D-I RC1.
676 * New troubleshooting section on how to deal with CD-ROM related problems.
677 * Document how to pass parameters to kernel modules on boot.
678 * Document how to install KDE instead of Gnome in the section on pkgsel.
679
680 [ Joey Hess ]
681 * Update for recent floppy changes.
682 * Remove hardcoded paths to executables in buildone.sh.
683 * Set HOME to a temporary directory before running w3m, to avoid it
684 trying to write to a home directory that may not exist on the buildds.
685 (See #393641)
686 * Update the installation report template to match current one in
687 installation-report.
688
689 [ Philip Hands ]
690 * Clarify how -- affects which parameters end up in the target system's
691 bootloader's command line.
692
693 [ Joey Hess ]
694 * Applied Phil's auto mode documentation patch, edited it, and moved
695 some things around for clarity. Closes: #395910
696 * Document auto=true boot parameter.
697
698 [ Frans Pop ]
699 * Add condition "g-i" for arches that support the graphical installer.
700 * Document mouse/left boot parameter.
701 * Explain usage of "owner" prefix when setting values for debconf variables
702 intended for the target system at the boot prompt.
703 * Give some examples of preseeding questions from the boot prompt.
704 * Document how to install the KDE desktop environment instead of GNOME.
705 * Don't list unsupported frontends in boot parameters section.
706 * Minor corrections suggested by Tapio Lehtonen. Closes: #397790.
707 * Minor corrections suggested by Holger Wansing. Closes: #397974.
708
709 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
710 * Mention that RiscPC support is incomplete.
711 * Mention Intel IOP32x support.
712 * Talk about ixp4xx rather than the more specific nslu2.
713
714 [ Frans Pop ]
715 * Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.18.
716 * Minor corrections and some rewrites based on suggestions from
717 Clytie Siddall. Closes: #367861, #380588.
718 * Update Sparc specific information and document common installation issues
719 for Sparc. Many thanks to Jurij Smakov for reviewing the Sparc manual and
720 for his overview of issues.
721 * Etch ships with X.Org 7.1.
722 * Update number of developers, packages and mailing lists.
723 * General revision of minimum hardware requirements throughout the manual.
724 * Update of installed/download size of tasks.
725 * Document the graphical installer, including the main known issues.
726 * Avoid generating XML files multiple times for translations using PO files
727 when using build.sh or buildweb.sh sripts.
728 * bookinfo:
729 - Add note for m68k that it is not a release architecture for Etch.
730 * hardware:
731 - Remove ancient section on parity RAM. Closes: #403035.
732 - Update documenation for Sparc, based on patch by Jurij Smakov.
733 Closes: #389516.
734 - PowerPC/APUS is currently not supported; removed from hardware table.
735 - Remove sun4cd (sparc32) from and add sun4v (sparc64) in hardware table.
736 - Rewrite of NIC support, document wireless support (for selected arches)
737 and explain issues surrounding drivers that require firmware.
738 * preparing:
739 - Clean out ancient hardware issues.
740 * boot-installer/parameters:
741 - Document anna/choose_modules and mirror/protocol boot parameters.
742 - Use a clearer way to list the short form of parameters.
743 - Document new option to blacklist kernel modules.
744 * boot-installer/trouble:
745 - Fix reference to Save debug logs menu option.
746 Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402439.
747 - Add a note that installation reports will be published.
748 * install-methods:
749 - All architectures that support TFTP booting also support DCHP, so remove
750 the "supports-dhcp" condition.
751 - According to the text, Alpha supports BOOTP.
752 - Use dhcp3-server for examples rather than dhcp (version 2).
753 - tftpd-hpa does not use /tftpboot by default; allow for this in examples.
754 Closes: #342076.
755 * using-d-i:
756 - Extend description of lowmem installs based on a patch suggested by
757 Holger Wansing. Closes: #400263.
758 * boot-new:
759 - Remove reference to apt guide (not installed by default) and obsolete
760 debian-guide. Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402492.
761 - As lynx is no longer installed, suggest w3m as text based browser.
762 - Explain how to browse /usr/share/doc/ using a graphical web browser.
763 - Mention documentation packages.
764 - Clarify what happens on first boot and how to get help to in case of
765 problems.
766 * post-install:
767 - Remove section on reactivating Windows; the installer should detect it
768 automatically after all. Closes: #402437.
769 - Add extended section on email configuration (moved from using-d-i as
770 exim4 now configures for "local mail only" by default). Closes: #402857.
771 * appendix/preseed:
772 - Clarifications based on comments from Tapio Lehtonen and Holger Wansing.
773 Closes: #397923.
774 * appendix/chroot-install:
775 - Changes suggested in review by Wiktor Wandachowicz. Closes: #394929.
776
777 [ Frans Pop ]
778 * Prepare for release. This release is mostly for testing purposes, the real
779 release targeted at Etch will be next week.
780 * Add and enable amd64 architecture.
781 * Update control file for dropped m68k and added amd64 architectures.
782 * Disable Catalan, Korean, Spanish and Brazillian translations as they are
783 not yet complete.
784 * Enable Finnish translation.
785
786 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:10:16 +0100
787
788 installation-guide (20060726) unstable; urgency=low
789
790 [ Joey Hess ]
791 * Update kernel building section to conditionalise some more 2.4 kernel
792 stuff.
793 * Suggest passing --initrd to make-kpkg since the docs say nothing about
794 compiling disk drivers into the kernel.
795 * Document new passwd/root-login setting.
796 * Booting a USB stick via a boot floppy is not supported by current
797 installer images.
798 * Update preseeding docs to use task names, not short descriptions, since
799 that will work now and is more convenient for preseeding.
800 * Document the kde-desktop and gnome-desktop subtasks.
801
802 [ Frans Pop ]
803 * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall.
804 * chroot-install:
805 - add /etc/hosts to be created for network configuration (closes: #364517)
806 - make kernel/linux-image variable (closes: #345482)
807 * Document -- command line option for passing parameters to boot loader
808 configuration (closes: #309889).
809 * Switch Finnish from XML-based to PO-based translation.
810 * Bring numbering and layout of GPL more in line with original. With thanks
811 to Holger Wansing.
812 * Add functionality to include optional paragraphs in translations.
813 Initially two have been defined:
814 - a paragraph in bookinfo for information about the translation;
815 - a note in appendix/gpl.xml required with unofficial GPL translations.
816
817 [ Joey Hess ]
818 * Document new preseed/run setting.
819 * Prebaseconfig renamed to finish-install, which changes some documentation,
820 and. notably, renames one of the xml files.
821 * hd-media size changed to 256 mb.
822 * Document new aliases added in preseed 1.17 for common debconf boot
823 parameters: fb, url, file, locale, interface.
824
825 [ Frans Pop ]
826 * Document guided partitioning using LVM and update partitioning section.
827
828 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
829 * The RiscPC flavour is now known as "rpc" rather than "riscpc".
830 * As of 2.6, r4k-ip22 also rupports r5k machines do the r5k-ip22 flavour
831 has been dropped.
832
833 [ Holger Levsen ]
834 * Added the remaining suggestions about nubus and non-powerpc macs
835 (closes: #364546).
836 * Restructured the chapter about powerpc supported hardware, moved
837 unsupported machines to the end.
838 * Updated the information about existing kernel flavours.
839
840 [ Miroslav Kure ]
841 * Document installation to encrypted partitions (partman-crypto).
842 * Update XOrg to 7.0.
843
844 [ Frans Pop ]
845 * Etch has been assigned version 4.0.
846 * Update kernel versions to 2.6.16.
847 * Base languages to be built for website on list of release languages.
848 * arm, mips and mipsel switched to 2.6 kernels.
849 * Enable Brazillian Portuguese and Vietnamese translation for release.
850 * Disable Greek translation as it is too incomplete.
851
852 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:27:52 +0200
853
854 installation-guide (20060427) unstable; urgency=low
855
856 [ Joey Hess ]
857 * Update preseeding docs for base-config removal.
858 * Add documentation of how to change apt-setup security source with
859 preseeding.
860 * Remove the sarge preseeding docs.
861 * Remove mentions of base-config and move base-config stuff to elsewhere.
862 * Add documentation of apt-setup, user-setup, clock-setup, tzsetup, and
863 pkgsel.
864 * Change some references to tty3 (messages) to instead refer to tty4
865 (syslog).
866 * Change references to /var/log/debian-installer to just /var/log/installer.
867 * Remove docs for baseconfig-udeb; going away with base-config.
868 * Removed various bits of sarge cruft when it made things easier.
869
870 [ Frans Pop ]
871 * Change default build to Etch.
872 * Remove all Sarge specific content and make Etch specific content default.
873 * Delete some obsolete entities.
874 * Change references from package d-i-manual to package installation-guide.
875 * Explicitly specify XML declaration as required by openjade 1.4devel1-15
876 (closes: #360241).
877 * Update appendix on chroot installs:
878 - mention that debootstrap also requires basic Unix/Linux commands;
879 - comment out link to outdated rpm packages of debootstrap.
880
881 [ Colin Watson ]
882 * Add a few more supports-floppy-boot and bootable-usb conditionals to
883 make it easier to turn all this off in rebuilds of the manual.
884 * Etch uses X.Org 6.9, and xserver-xorg instead of xserver-xfree86.
885 * Document how to pick a particular interface with
886 netcfg/choose_interface, including how to do this before reading a
887 preseed file.
888 * Remove obsolete substvar.
889 * Build-depend on libhtml-parser-perl for build/preseed.pl.
890
891 [ Joey Hess ]
892 * Add docs about preseeding a fallback to a static IP if dhcp fails.
893 * Update copyright date.
894 * It's possible to use preseeding to set up LVM now, so remove stuff about
895 it not working.
896 * Document DHCP preseeding. Note that this documents it as of netcfg 1.24
897 and preseed 1.13.
898
899 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
900 * Bring ARM up to date with reality: remove unsupported flavours, add
901 NSLU2.
902 * Fix Netwinder/CATS download location.
903 * Improve the Netwinder TFTP boot instructions.
904 * The Netwinder firmware is no longer available due to license problems.
905 * Mention NSLU2 download location.
906 * Describe how to flash the installer image onto the NSLU2.
907 * Describe how to boot a Cobalt machine.
908
909 [ Frans Pop ]
910 * Document new option to preseed additional apt sources for target system.
911 * Document how to create a preconfiguration file.
912 * Enable Catalan, Italian and Swedish translations for release.
913 * Disable Brazillian Portuguese translation as it is too incomplete.
914
915 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:00:32 +0200
916
917 installation-guide (20060102) unstable; urgency=low
918
919 [ Frans Pop ]
920 * Fix build error caused by description for s390. Closes: #337382.
921 * Update kernel package names and kernel versions per architecture.
922 * Move documentation on preseeding to separate appendix for etch.
923 * Use new, more flexible perl script to extract example preseed file from
924 new appendix.
925 * Set proper POT-Creation-Date when generating new POT files.
926 * New translations started: Polish, Swedish, Vietnamese.
927 * First release of Greek and Korean translations.
928 * Exclude Traditional Chinese translation as it was not updated.
929 * Switch release name to Etch (3.1+δ).
930
931 [ Joey Hess ]
932 * Update installation report template and instructions for etch.
933
934 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 18:44:59 +0100
935
936 installation-guide (20051025) unstable; urgency=low
937
938 * Mention in copyright that full GPL is included in the manual.
939 Closes: #334925
940 * Register installed documents with doc-base.
941 * Minor updates in English text and translations.
942
943 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:37:25 +0200
944
945 installation-guide (20051019) unstable; urgency=low
946
947 [ Joey Hess ]
948 * Split off from the debian-installer source package.
949 See the changelog for debian-installer for older changelog entries.
950
951 [ Frans Pop ]
952 * Change over to building arch all packages in section doc. Build separate
953 packages for each arch containing all translations.
954 * Change package name to installation-guide.
955 * Include translations already available on official website.
956
957 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:12:35 +0200

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