installation-guide (201501XX) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium [ Samuel Thibault ] * Rephrase documentation of grub-installer/bootdev to make it clear that it has to be specified. document that it can be preseeded with "default". * Update preseed grub-style partition name from grub1 style (hd0,0) to grub2 style (hd0,1). * Avoid security issues while making an encrypted root password for a preseed file. Closes: #775718. [ Stuart Prescott ] * Advise users not to use unetbootin * Suggest win32diskimager as an alternativee to unetbootin * Explicitly list the netinst, CD-1 and DVD-1 images as "which image should I use" is a FAQ. -- Samuel Thibault Sun, 04 Jan 2015 00:05:14 +0100 installation-guide (20141230) unstable; urgency=medium [ Karsten Merker ] * List the armel MV78xx0 platform as no longer supported in Jessie (support was removed with linux-image 3.16.2-1) and remove the mv78xx0 flavor from the architecture table. * List the armel ixp4xx platform as (again) supported in Jessie. Support for it has been reenabled with kernel 3.16. * List the Wandboard Quad as supported armhf platform (based on installation report #773127). * Add a "Booting from a USB stick in u-boot" subsection in the "Booting the Installer on ARM" section. [ Ben Hutchings ] * Warn that one must copy hybrid images on whole USB sticks, not just a partition. Closes: #762024. [ Samuel Thibault ] * Fix preseed name: netcfg/link_detection_timeout -> netcfg/link_wait_timeout. Thanks Julien Cristau for noticing. * Update brltty URLs and version. * Update preseeding of desktops and list of desktops. * Add arm64 and ppc64el manual builds. * Update tasks installation sizes. * It is now possible to choose the installed desktop, and the default is now Gnome on x86. Closes: #764026. * Fix documentation for -- after it was turned into --- for fixing #764675. * Explicit that console=ttyS0,something has to be put after ---. Closes: #764677. [ Baptiste Jammet ] * Update installation-guide for no separated /usr. Closes: #772461. -- Samuel Thibault Tue, 30 Dec 2014 22:26:53 +0100 installation-guide (20140916) unstable; urgency=low [ Martin Michlmayr ] * Remove information about Cobalt devices. [ Samuel Thibault ] * Reference the DEBIAN_FRONTEND parameter in the accessibility section. * Do not document a "d-i keymap" alias, it does not work, only the bootcommand keymap alias works. * Emphasize about the issue of language/keyboard being by default asked before disk and network preseeding. * Mention where filesystems are mounted for preseed commands. * Fix setting up ssh access now that root with password is disabled by default. Closes: #756065. * Add support for "any" and "x86" magics in preseed.pl. Closes: #758476. * Update linux-x86 lowmem limits. * Add arch-parallel build support. * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5 (no change). [ Karsten Merker ] * Update and extend the "Supported Hardware" section for armel and armhf: - update the architecture/subarch/flavor table - add general information about armel and armhf - add information about platform-specific and multiplatform kernels - update the platform support status * Disable the "Booting the SS4000-E" section as it describes hardware which is not supported in Jessie anymore (Intel iop32-based NAS). * Disable the references to the Thecus N2100 and the GLAN Tank in the "Where to Find Installation Images" section. Both are Intel iop32-based systems which are not supported in Jessie anymore. * Add an "ARM firmware", a "Setting the ethernet MAC address in u-boot" and a "Kernel/Initrd/Device-Tree relocation issues in u-boot" subsection in the "Pre-Installation Hardware and Operating System Setup" section. * Add a "Boot image formats" and a "TFTP-booting in u-boot" subsection in the "Booting the Installer on ARM" section. * Add location information for the armmp flavor to the "Where to Find Installation Images" section. * Add a "Making the system bootable with flash-kernel" subsection to the "Making Your System Bootable" section for arm platforms. * Remove ia64, s390 and sparc from the supported architecture list for Jessie. * Update several common entities for Jessie. * Reword the "Installing Additional Software" section to make it easier to change the default desktop environment in the installation guide. * Remove outdated reference to booting from floppy disks in the "Booting from CD-ROM" section. * Add a "Systems with UEFI firmware" subsection and a "Disabling the Windows 8 'fast boot' feature" subsection in the "Pre-Installation Hardware and Operating System Setup" section. [ Cyril Brulebois ] * Drop installation-guide-ia64 package (commented out). * Target release is now jessie. [ Colin Watson ] * Remove mention of partman's ability to copy data between partitions, since that relies on libparted's filesystem-handling code which is being removed. [ Holger Wansing ] * Drop s390, ia64 and sparc from control / archlist files for Jessie (means dropping installation-guide-s390 and installation-guide-sparc packages) * Update manual for graphical installer being the default installer under i386 and amd64 for Jessie. * Move contents of 'Graphical installer' appendix to regular parts of the manual. * Remove references of loop-AES (no longer supported by the installer). -- Samuel Thibault Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:39:53 +0200 installation-guide (20131009) unstable; urgency=low [ Samuel Thibault ] * Add /run directory to the tree summary. * Document that we need to update the disk size figure in the boot help text too. * Drop texlive-lang-finnish build-dep: Finnish is currently disabled. * Replace texlive-lang-swedish build-dep with texlive-lang-european for hyphenation support, thanks Ansgar Burchardt for the hint. * Drop texlive-lang-vietnamese build-dep, now provided by texlive-lang-other. Closes: #709759. * chroot installation: - Advise to mount /proc before running MAKEDEV generic. Closes: #725398. - Advise to install ncurses-term for unusual TERM values. Closes: #725400. * rules: Add build-arch and build-indep targets. * control: Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no changes). [ Holger Wansing ] * Removal of references to 'volatile'. -- Samuel Thibault Wed, 09 Oct 2013 00:30:38 +0200 installation-guide (20130503) unstable; urgency=low [ Vincent McIntyre ] * Clearly distinguish between auto boot label and auto=true kernel parameter. [ Samuel Thibault ] * Add some details about serial console boot parameter. * Rework the auto wording. * Default fs is ext4, not ext3. Thanks Regid Ichira for the report. * Apply killall.sh -> kill-all-dhcp renaming, thanks Yoshito Komatsu for the report. Closes: #705819. * Switch from dhcp3-server to isc-dhcp-server, thanks Salvatore Bonaccorso for the report.Closes: #706103. * Stop advising to use init 1 to restart servers. Thanks Regid Ichira for the report. * Make it clear that dark theme is about colors. [ Jakub Wilk ] * Fix some typos. Closes: #705311. [ Milan Kupcevic ] * How to boot YDL Powerstation from factory default CD/DVD drive. * Update list of supported PowerPC machines. -- Samuel Thibault Fri, 03 May 2013 23:22:25 +0200 installation-guide (20130408) unstable; urgency=low [ Samuel Thibault ] * Document IPv6 preseeding. Thanks Vincent McIntyre for the suggestion. * Rename disable_dhcp into disable_autoconfig, the former is now deprecated. * Document that IPv6 autoconfiguration is disabled along DHCP. * Disable outdated Catalan and Finnish translations. * Update installation sizes. * Document that the mirror host name actually has to be a URL base for now. * Suffix web documents with http lang ids rather than locale lang ids, for working content-language negociation. * Fix space typo reported by Enrico Zini. * Fix spurious syncs reported by Enrico Zini. * Fix Linux kernel package version, reported by Enrico Zini. * /etc/adjtime is not automatically built by debootstrap any more, document how to create it. [ Milan Kupcevic ] * Debian-installer partition table editing tool not compatible with MacOS 9. Closes: #604134. -- Cyril Brulebois Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:25:20 +0200 installation-guide (20130208) unstable; urgency=low [ Brian Potkin ] * Remove references to businesscard images, which are no more. * Document how to get back from help to menu. * Improve documentation about kernel modules needing firmwares, including how to look for “firmware” in dmesg's output. Closes: #695403. * Improve documentation about user accounts: move it to the right place and explain how setting an empty root password leads to sudo being installed. Closes: #692314. * Explain how to include firmware or packages on a USB stick built by hand. * Explain one can use a USB stick while having booted another way. Closes: #692309. [ Salvatore Bonaccorso ] * Fix typo in network configuration preseed example snipped Closes: #691164 [ Samuel Thibault ] * Update lowmem, disk usage, package numbers, lists number values. * Fix po detection. * Fix bogus URLs, thanks Brian Potkin for the hint. Closes: #692310. * Document speakup shortcuts for speed and volume. * Add wiki URL for installed system accessibility. * Provide more details on software speech synthesis support. [ Holger Wansing ] * Fix location of UTC vs local timezone configuration. Closes: #699297. -- Samuel Thibault Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:02:17 +0100 installation-guide (20121010) unstable; urgency=low * Replace \n with spaces from getfromlist output in buildweb.sh. Closes: #690065. -- Samuel Thibault Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:51:53 +0200 installation-guide (20121008) unstable; urgency=low [ Samuel Thibault ] * debian/rules: Fix suite name. * preseed: Add authorized_keys url preseed example, thanks Charles Plessy for the patch. Closes: #684629. * official-cdrom: Add link to CD FAQ. Thanks Holger Wansing and Richard Owlett for the heads-up. Closes: #280348, #309568. * Add language-parallel build support. * Update figures. * Remove outdated keyboard configuration bits. * Update preseed aliases. * Document that only basic keymap variants are available for preseeding. Closes: #682857. * Advise virtualization+serial users into using screen to fix glitches. Closes: #689548. [ Simon Guinot ] * Document support for LaCie NASes. Closes: #686128 [ Karsten Merker ] * Various small removals / updates / amendments in the chapters 2,3 and 5, most of them concerning outdated information. * Extended the "Devices Requiring Firmware" section. * Rewrote large parts of the "Avoid Proprietary or Closed Hardware" section. * Rewrote the "Hardware Compatibility" section. * Amended the "Network Settings" section. * Rewrote the "Pre-Partitioning for Multi-Boot Systems" section to bring it up to date with the current d-i features and make it easier to read for beginners. * Rewrote the "Pre-Installation Hardware and Operating System Setup" section to bring it up to date for modern hardware. * Amended the "Official Debian GNU/Linux CD/DVD-ROM Sets" section (CD1 without network mirror too small for a full GNOME/KDE install). * Added a note that for some devices firmware may not be necessary, even though a firmware prompt is displayed. Closes: #687454 * Reworked the "Configuring the Network" section, added information regarding IPv6 support. * Added a "Choosing a network mirror" section, added information regarding IPv6 connectivity of debian mirrors and information about ftp.ipv6.debian.org and http.debian.net. -- Samuel Thibault Mon, 08 Oct 2012 22:38:08 +0200 installation-guide (20120826) unstable; urgency=low [ Samuel Thibault ] * Reference the French translation of the brltty manual in fr. * Disable G-I on kfreebsd-*. * Document booting d-i from grub2. Closes: #612165. * Mention preseeding as an alternative for accessibility. * Document that the text installer is selected by default. * Avoid referencing BRLTTY manual chapter precise numbers. Closes: #580508. * Make it clear that it's the ISO file which needs to be copied to the USB key. * Update powerpc's copy of documentation for copying ISO file on USB keys. * Add software speech synthesis documentation. * Document SCSI partition raise to 255. Closes: Bug#644734. Thanks David Prévot. * Do not make users think that only "Graphical install" has speakup support, and not "64 bit graphical install" too. * Mention the 64bit variant installation options. * Update chroot manual into using grub2. * Document that installing makedev is needed to get MAKEDEV. Closes: #620881, #656939. * Document the availability of other apt sources, thanks Karl for the patch. Closes: Bug#608828. * Update xorg, brltty and speakup versions. * WPA/WPA2 is now available. Closes: #659648. * Use dd of= instead of cat >, to save users who use sudo. Advise to make sure the stick is unmounted. Closes: #660776. * Rename kbd-chooser component to console-setup. * Fix preseeding for keyboard-configuration. * Simply use cp instead of dd to prepare USB stick. * Remove heading / from pxelinux.0, it seems to pose problem with some implementations. Thanks Ulrich Krause for the report. * Document that flexible-built USB keys do not show the boot menu by default, and document how to enable it. Thanks Filipus Klutiero for the report. Closes: #666105. * Document that installing an MBR is needed to get a bootable USB key. * Add armhf, s390x architectures, comment hppa architecture. * Enable korean language. * Use base-system-size and task-desktop-lxde-inst instead of hardcoding install size in chroot method. * Advise to install ssh and set root passwd in chroot method, thanks Michael Stapelberg for the patch. Closes: #413649. * Remove PA-RISC architecture from documented supported list. * Add partman-lvm/confirm_nooverwrite to preseed example. Closes: #610282, #609704. * Update scripts and entities to wheezy name. * Add myself as uploader. [ Steve McIntyre ] * Make it clearer how we expect users to write CDs to USB sticks. Closes: #680650. [ Joey Hess ] * Fix typo in example preseed. Closes: #612631 [ Didier Raboud ] * Document win32-loader as a possible boot method. Closes: #444017. [ Colin Watson ] * The text frontend is available on most default install media. Adjust the Boot Parameters section to say so. * Update url-us-keymap. Thanks, Manfred Hampl; LP: #741134. * Document log_host and log_port. * Update link to installer/doc/devel/ to cope with the switch to git. [ Christian Perrier ] * Document preseed-md5 and keymap preseed aliases Closes: #621825, #621824, #681801 * Add VCS-Browser to debian/control. Closes: #636937 [ Martin Michlmayr ] * Update list of supported ARM devices. [ Miguel Figueiredo ] * Fix chroot install keyboard configuration. Closes: #634168. [ Julian Andres Klode ] * Use C.UTF-8 locale for chroot install. Closes: #634167. [ Joey Hess ] * Remove dead link to Phoenix large disk BIOS faq. Closes: #638268 * Add a pointer to the unofficial non-free CDs with firmware. * 1 gb USB key now needed for hd-media. Closes: #666090 [ Vincent McIntyre ] * Mention DEBCONF_DEBUG. Closes: #668572. [ Milan Kupcevic ] * Clarify how to boot PowerMacs from external Firewire and internal factory default CD/DVD drives. Closes: #378119. * Document how to boot Pegasos II from factory default CD/DVD drive. [ Nozomu Kurasawa ] * Fix xml file test. Closes: #684834. -- Samuel Thibault Sun, 26 Aug 2012 02:16:10 +0200 installation-guide (20110122) unstable; urgency=low [ Frans Pop ] * List myself as one of the main authors in the administrativa appendix. * Clarify IP addresses in example for booting SS4000-E (arm). Thanks to Miroslav Kure for the patch. * Add link to boot screen section in accessibility section. Closes: #579954. [ Martin Michlmayr ] * Update links for ARM images. [ Samuel Thibault ] * Update brltty version. * Document booting from DOS (Closes: Bug#518808). * Add non-Linux infrastructure to the build system. * Add kFreeBSD infrastructure. * Replace Linuxish bits with per-port entities. * Rephrase Hurd-specific paragraph explaining that Debian GNU/Hurd is not Linux. * Add a "What is Debian GNU/kFreeBSD" section. * Add the list of architectures supported by the kFreeBSD port. * Restrict "Board Devices" accessibility section to Linux. * Fix port URL for non-Linux ports. * Fix "hardware" part for non-Linux ports. Now needs fine-tune from BSD people. * Fix "boot-installer" part for non-Linux ports. Still needs extensive review from BSD people. * Fix "preparing", "using-d-i", "boot-new", "post-install", "howto", "preseed", "partitioning", and "random-bits" parts for non-Linux ports. * Factorize os-specific parameters in build/arch-options. * Rename debian entity to debian-gnu. Introduce new debian entity which just stands for "Debian". * Rename Mandrake into Mandriva (Closes: Bug#601308). * Update installation sizes for amd64 instead of i386. * Mention Windows 2003, Vista, and 7. * Fix graphical boot options. * Move user setup to before clock setup in "Using the Debian Installer" and "Automating the installation using preseeding". * Document dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration instead of kbd-config. * Add installation-guide-kfreebsd-{i386,amd64} packages. * Reference Debian Installer modules documentation from the preseed section (Closes: Bug#603159). * Move boot parameters subsections from inside the debian installer parameters section, to which they don't really belong. * Make subsection Installation Over the Network a direct child of Using Individual Components instead of hiding it in "Miscellaneous". * Rename 6.3.8 "Miscellaneous" into "Troubleshooting". * Fix default tftp directory from /var/lib/tftpboot to /srv/tftp, thanks Charles Plessy (Closes: Bug#606725). * Enable Spanish and Swedish translations (almost up-to-date). * Reword i386 and amd64 arch names to be consistent with the corresponding release-notes change: Intel x86 → 32-bit PC, AMD64 → 64-bit PC. * Add keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap preseed variable. (Closes: Bug#599772) [ Joey Hess ] * Update USB stick documentation to reflect isohybird mini.iso files, as generated by debian-installer >= 20100913. [ Christian Perrier ] * Remove obsolete reference to the replicator package Closes: #597983 [ Maximilian Attems ] * Remove obsolete reference to kernel-img.conf [ Colin Watson ] * Fix "/etc/init.d/dhcpd3-server" typo (should be /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server), and unfuzzy all translations (LP: #666726). [ Joey Hess ] * Updated USB stick documentation to describe the much simpler, more flexible, and likely more robust use of isohybrid images. All i386 and amd64 ISO images are now isohybrid. * Remove documentation of no longer supported grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy preseed. Closes: #610739 -- Christian Perrier Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:16:49 +0100 installation-guide (20100518) unstable; urgency=low [ Colin Watson ] * Note that partman-auto/init_automatically_partition is only honoured if partman-auto/method is not set. * Document the use of grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy to switch back to GRUB Legacy for those who need it. * Remove spurious quoting in network-console documentation, pointed out by Jonathan Amery. * partman now asks a slightly different (and less scary) confirmation question if it doesn't appear that any data is being overwritten. Document the associated preseeding changes. [ Frans Pop ] * Add missing hyphen in command "kbd-config". With thanks to Tapio Lehtonen. Closes: #545584. * Include a caution in the IA64 version of the manual against using IA64 for "normal" 64-bit Intel systems. * Disable the variant for the alpha architecture: it is being dropped as a release architecture for Squeeze. * When updating PO files, set them to a standard width of 79 (same as used for l10n-sync for D-I master PO files). * Document that Debian now installs Recommends by default and how to disable that. * x86 USB boot: two improvements suggested by Timo Juhani Lindfors and one by Samuel Thibault. Closes: #532437, #532440, #548534. * welcome: add a link to www.kernel.org and remove the no longer valid link to www.kerneltraffic.org. Closes: #331523. * Document new help functionality. * Update for changes in locale selection in localechooser 2.17 and 2.18: - selecting a different country is now always possible at high priority; - change in order of selection of additional locales and default locale; - selection of a preferred locale if a combination of language and country was selected for which no locale exists; - support for separate preseeding of language, country and locale. * Mention option to select UTC as time zone at medium/low priority. [ Martin Michlmayr ] * Mention more Kirkwood-based devices that are supported. * Document where to get Kirkwood installer images from. * Fix the preseeding example to say that allow_unauthenticated is a boolean (and not a string). [ Joey Hess ] * Reword section on installer's support of wireless. [ Steve Langasek ] * Update the appendix on chroot installs to not recommend mapping 127.0.0.1 to the hostname; use 127.0.1.1, the same as the installer itself does. [ Frans Pop ] * Update and extend information on preseeding partman. Based on a patch from Vincent McIntyre. Closes: #511053. * Use 'ip addr' instead of 'ifconfig' to get MAC address for RARP setup. * Update information on setting up a TFTP server. * As of Lenny syslinux no longer requires that the TFTP server supports the 'tsize' option (see #570273). With thanks to Ferenc Wagner. * Using D-I: add subsection intruducing supported partitioning options, including a list of supported file systems. * Disabling framebuffer on x86 now also requires passing 'vga=normal'. With thanks to Samuel Thibault. Closes: #577461. * Update for switch of G-I from DirectFB to X.Org. * Update kernel version to 2.6.32, number of Debian Developers and program versions. * Update URL for Debian mirror list. Closes: #579935. * Disable Korean, Portuguese (BR), Spanish and Swedish translations as they are incomplete. -- Frans Pop Tue, 18 May 2010 03:51:35 +0200 installation-guide (20090901) unstable; urgency=low [ Frans Pop ] * Switch over from Lenny to Squeeze. Current kernel is 2.6.29. * Change the Debian designation for the ARM architecture from arm to armel. The internal 'arch-spec' and file naming convention remains "arm" in order to avoid unnecessary changes and work for translators. * Mention that TERM= can be passed as boot parameter to set the terminal type for serial console installs. Based on a patch suggested by Samuel Thibault. Closes: #524666. * Update copyright for 2009. [ Martin Michlmayr ] * Updates for ARM (armel): - Remove sections about Netwinder/CATS, which are no longer supported. - Update the "supported hardware" table. - Add a section about Marvell's Kirkwood, which is now supported. * Updates for MIPS: - Show some sections on mipsel that apply there too. - Say that the Cobalt Qube 2700 (Qube1) is no longer supported. - Remove everything about the Broadcom SWARM and BigSur since we no longer support these devices in the installer. [ Colin Watson ] * Merge from Ubuntu: - Document partman/mount_style, which controls how filesystems are mounted. * Document pkgsel/include/install-recommends. * partman/confirm_write_new_label was renamed to partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label in r50363, December 2007. Adjust preseeding documentation to match. [ Frans Pop ] * Document installation of localization tasks. * Document the debian-installer/add-kernel-opts preconfiguration option. * Add links to website documenting braille keybindings. Thanks to Samuel Thibault for the patch. Closes: #534260. * Fix typo in chroot install appendix. Closes: #535494. * Improve bootp documentation. Thanks to Holger Wansing for the patch. Closes: #282614. * On s390 the system clock is not modified by the installer. [ Otavio Salvador ] * Document the netcfg/enable preseeding that allows for disabling the network configuration. Thanks to Anthony L. Awtrey for the patch. [ Frans Pop ] * Move most build dependencies to Build-Depends-Indep. -- Frans Pop Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:10:10 +0200 installation-guide (20090427) unstable; urgency=low [ Colin Watson ] * Document partman/early_command (added in partman-base 129). * Add note about preseeding ownership to preseed-seenflag section, since I had a user confused by this who hadn't found the note elsewhere explaining owners. * Use /dev/sda and /dev/sdb in the RAID preseeding example rather than /dev/discs/disc0/disc and /dev/discs/disc1/disc, since the latter devices no longer exist. * Document noshell boot parameter. See #504381. * Clarify behaviour of "auto" preseed alias. * Clarify that preseeding aliases are only aliases for question names, and that a value is always needed as well. * Apparently you can pass extra boot parameters to OpenBoot at the end of the 'boot' command. Document this as it has been known to cause some confusion. [ Frans Pop ] * Document preseeding of network-console now that its postinst can be relied on to be executed. * Update info on passing boot parameter for PPPoE. * Explain Standard system task. * Add LXDE desktop environment. * Mention option to select desktop environment from boot menu for x86 CDs. * Add task sizes for alternative desktop environments. * chroot install: 'tzconfig' is deprecated for 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata'. Closes: #520582. * Booting using LILO or GRUB: minor improvements. Closes: #519508. * Fix example how to generate md5-encoded password. Closes: #518018. * Fix missing tags in Japanese translation. Closes: #509372. * Improve script that extracts preconfiguration example file from appendix. [ Samuel Thibault ] * Document accessibility support. Closes: #509371. [ Frans Pop ] * (Re-)enable Vietnamese translation (not fully up-to-date). * Convert PO translations for Finnish, Korean and Vietnamese to XML using their last fully translated version. * Release update of the manual for Lenny. Six translations have not been updated: Brazilian, Catalan, Finnish, Korean, Spanish and Vietnamese. -- Frans Pop Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:23:30 +0200 installation-guide (20081208) unstable; urgency=low * Move documentation files to separate subdirectory doc. * Document how the manual is built for the Debian website. * Correct error spotted by Osamu Aoki: text web browser is w3m, not w3c. * Correct two minor errors in preconfiguration examples. With thanks to Andreas Beckmann for reporting them. Closes: #507544. * Add new script check-preseed to help translators check if their translation of the appendix about preseeding is complete/correct. * Re-enable Spanish translation. -- Frans Pop Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:50:48 +0100 installation-guide (20081113) unstable; urgency=medium [ Martin Michlmayr ] * Remove everything about DECstation since these machines are no longer supported. * Provide information about all iop32x and orion5x installation media. * Describe Orion and Versatile as supported platforms. * Fix the NSLU2 download link. * Describe MIPS Malta. * Document netcfg/get_gateway=none [ Frans Pop ] * Update copyright to 2008. * Update description of country selection in line with recent changes in localechooser. * Request output of lspci -knn in installation reports. * Apply patch from Frank Lichtenheld to improve netboot instructions for PowerPC. Closes: #275565. [ Joey Hess ] * Comment out partman-auto/disk setting in preseed since lenny d-i will automatically work w/o it if there's just 1 disk. Closes: #490287 * Document hw-detect/load_firmware. Closes: #493845 [ Ryan Niebur ] * Added documentation for RAID 6 and 10. [ Jérémy Bobbio ] * Explicitly mention that preseeded keymaps must be known to d-i. Closes: #493720 * Mention parman-md/device_remove_md in preseeding appendix. [ Frans Pop ] * Restructure supported hardware section. * Update of supported subarches/flavors for powerpc. * hardware-supported: - suppress m68k from arches table, unless building for m68k - show which subarches are supported by arm/armel - various minor updates and improvements * Remove section on X.Org preseeding as all descibed options are obsolete. * Document support in the installer for loading missing firmware. * Update partman preseeding: use Choices-C values instead of descriptions. * Correct short description of iso-scan. Closes: #501175. * PowerPC currently doesn't have hd-media images, so is not "bootable-usb". * There are no floppy images for i386 for Lenny; disable relevant sections. * Major rewrite of section about preparing a USB stick for booting the installer. Closes: #500206, #500283. * Update preconfiguration section for latest changes in the preseed udebs and clarify preseeding of language/country. * Remove duplicated text about using tasksel. Closes: #502773. * Update task sizes and nr. of packages per arch and current nr. of Debian Developers for Lenny. * (Re-)enable Catalan, Greek, Finnish, Japanese and Korean translations. * Disable Vietnamese translations as it is incomplete. -- Frans Pop Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:15:38 +0100 installation-guide (20080520) unstable; urgency=medium [ Frans Pop ] * Clarify console switching for the graphical installer. Thanks to Tim Richardson for the suggestion. [ Colin Watson ] * Spell "multiselect" correctly in apt-setup/services-select preseeding example. * Note that an empty preseed file is equivalent to a normal manual installation (thanks, Nathan Sutton). [ Robert Millan ] * Document how to start the installer from Windows. [ Frans Pop ] * Document installation using multiple CD/DVDs; update text about using a mirror in line with that. * Lenny will be version 5.0. * Warn about boot issues when using RAID on the root file system. * Update task selection section for changes in desktop task preseeding. * Fix double / in links, spotted by Stanislav Gromov. Closes: #472813. * Document new boot parameters to define mouse protocol and device (port) for the graphical installer. * Correct command to use to allow preseeding of netcfg when using a preconfiguration file downloaded from a server (preseed/url). Thanks to Durk Strooisma for the report and analysis. Closes: #476524. * Specify for which release the example preseed file is valid. * Document preseeding of grub password. * Update how to suppress the removal of existing LVM data using preseeding. * Update version of X11 used in Lenny. * Update kernel versions. * Update memory requirements for i386 and amd64. Elaborate on installing systems with less memory than the listed minimum. * Update known issues for graphical installer: entropy gathering for encrypted partitioning is now supported; localechooser now has nice columns but other components still need to be done. * Document finish-install/keep-consoles boot parameter and preseeding. * Define two new translatable entities: escapekey and tabkey. * Update task sizes, and number of packages and developers. * x86: update description of the boot screen for the new syslinux vesamenu. [ Joey Hess ] * Remove autopartkit from the module list. [ Frans Pop ] * Disable Catalan, Korean and Japanese translations as they are incomplete. * Upload with priority medium because of D-I Beta 2 release. -- Frans Pop Sat, 10 May 2008 17:59:43 +0200 installation-guide (20080211) unstable; urgency=low [ Martin Michlmayr ] * Remove all information about RiscPC because these machines are no longer supported. [ Joey Hess ] * Document the new tasksel/desktop preseed for lenny. [ Frans Pop ] * Add cm-super to build dependencies as that improves the quality of the Russian PDF version. * Suggest 'nousb' instead of debian-installer/probe/usb as USB modules are now loaded automatically. * Fix incorrect instruction for preseeding local repositories. Thanks to Rémi Demarthe. Closes: #420894. * Add translatable entities for Continue, Cancel and Go Back buttons. * Add build dependencies on texlive-lang-* packages for languages for which the manual has translations. * Document new boot parameters "lowmem" and "dmraid". * Document new location of graphical mini.iso images. * Document base-installer/kernel/image preseed. [ Joey Hess ] * Document new lilo-installer/skip preseed. * Document passwd/user-default-groups preseed. [ Colin Watson ] * Recommend preseeding mirror/country to "manual" rather than "enter information manually" (choose-mirror 2.17). * Remove text talking about devfs-style device names, which are no longer supported. * preparing/minimum-hardware-reqts.xml: Pluralise "gigabyte" consistently. [ Joey Hess ] * Document clock-setup/ntp. [ Frans Pop ] * Support for sparc32 has been discontinued for Lenny. This also means that booting from floppy is no longer supported for sparc. * Extend the documentation of apt-setup, especially the decision whether or not to use a network mirror. Document selection of services. * Document new apt-setup/services-select and related hostname preseeds. * Add some information about creating device files in the appendix on chroot installs; also add a note that the appendix only covers the basic steps of a chroot install. * Warn against installing Debian while another OS is hibernated. [ Joey Hess ] * Document how to preseed partman-auto to use only available disk, no matter what it's name is. * debian/rules: call dh_md5sums. * Document debian-installer/exit/halt preseed. [ Colin Watson ] * Clarify that you need to actually provide an autopartitioning method as well as preseeding the partman confirmation messages. [ Frans Pop ] * Make copyright refer explicitly to GPL version 2 as that is the version included in the appendix; add reference to /usr/share/common-licenses to make Lintian happy. * Rename doc-base.TEMPLATE to TEMPLATE.doc-base to avoid its inclusion in the package for the first architecture. Closes: #416304. * Modify language codes that include a country for the doc-base document ID so they only contain valid characters. * Remove the PDF section in doc-base files if PDF format is not built for a language. * Update standards version to 3.7.3; no changes needed. * Patch from Changwoo Ryu to replace Hangul-ucs with ko.tex fonts for Korean PDF version of the manual. Closes: #457137. * using-d-i: - move clock-setup, tzsetup and user-setup to reflect their changed position in the installation procedure - mention that clock-setup will now attempt to set the system time from a time server - split clock-setup as part is now executed during finish-install - add instructions on how a different time zone from the one(s) that match the selected location can be set (as that is a FAQ) - improve readability of partman section by using separate subsections for guided and manual partitioning - network-console: add information about dropped connections and how to avoid that (closes: #458154); add footnote with command to remove a host from the known_hosts file * howto, preseed: update for reordering of the installation procedure. * Change build dependency on gs-common to ghostscript. * Use --previous when updating PO files so translators can see the changes in a string. [ Colin Watson ] * Use &releasename; rather than hardcoding etch in sources.list recommendation for chroot installs. Closes: #458459. [ Frans Pop ] * Make UTF-8 the default encoding for the text version for all languages that still used ISO-8859-1. * Korean text version changed to UTF-8 on request of Changwoo Ryu. * Japanese text version changed to UTF-8 on request of KURASAWA Nozomu. * Enable PDF for Korean for website builds. * Disable Finnish, Hungarian and Spanish for this release as they have not been updated. -- Frans Pop Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:35:22 +0100 installation-guide (20070319) unstable; urgency=low [ Frans Pop ] * Cleaned up definitions of some entities and removed unused ones. * Implement infrastructure that allows entities to be translated. Thanks to Miroslav Kure for providing the patch. Closes: #344048, #406515. * Disable Korean PDF/PS formats for builds for the website. * appendix/files: update information about mouse configuration, based on a patch from Peter Samuelson (for which thanks). Closes: #406290. * boot-installer, appendix/preseed: document preseed/interactive parameter. [ Joey Hess ] * Fix package name for installation-reports, and manual unfuzzy of all translations. Closes: #408408 [ Frans Pop ] * welcome: - make links to FSF and GNU more consistent (closes: #410317) - we do not necessarily share the ideals of the FSF (closes: #410129) Thanks to Francesco Poli for suggesting these changes. * using-d-i: guided partitioning now creates swap inside LVM. Thanks to Francesco Poli. Closes: #411399. * Document installs over PPPoE. Based on a text proposed by Eddy Petrisor. Closes: #408340. * installation-howto: update for the integration of base-config into D-I. * appendix/preseed: - as exim no longer asks any questions during installations, there is no real need to document it anymore - add link to Philip Hand's website as it contains many creative examples - document how to select the ftp protocol during mirror selection - document how to install from CD/DVD only (and not use a network mirror) * Update base/standard system and task sizes. [ Joey Hess ] * Document debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated. [ Wouter Verhelst ] * Update mac68k installation after notes from Finn Thain, upstream mac68k kernel hacker. [ Frans Pop ] * Replace entity in example-preseed.txt file. Thanks to Geert Stappers for spotting the error. Closes: #413257. -- Frans Pop Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:00:12 +0100 installation-guide (20070122) unstable; urgency=low * Enable Catalan, Brazillian, Korean and Spanish again. * Enable new Hungarian translation. -- Frans Pop Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:41:57 +0100 installation-guide (20070115) unstable; urgency=low [ Colin Watson ] * Document new pkgsel/include setting. * Fix incorrect documentation on preseeding additional apt sources. * Fix typo in hppa hardware support documentation (https://launchpad.net/bugs/55164). * Adjust chroot-install guide to take account of debootstrap being Architecture: all now (https://launchpad.net/bugs/64765). [ Frans Pop ] * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall and Holger Wansing. Closes: #378404, #370484, #370425. * Update instructions on how to set module parameters for PLIP installation. * Update chroot install instructions to use aptitude instead of apt-get. * Add /srv in overview of directory tree in partitioning appendix. * Update section on partitioning using LVM to reflect recent changes. * Apply various patches by or based on suggestions from Nathanael Nerode. Some of the bigger changes include: - Update of processor support for the i386 architecture. - Update information on setting up a RARP server. * Add variant for the AMD64 architecture. Closes: #305977. * Suppress warnings about missing IDs for sections and such. * Reorganize supported hardware table; i386 no longer has flavors. * Document SMP-alternatives as one of the variants of SMP support. * Document how to shut down the system. Based on patch from Holger Levsen. Closes: #248067. [ Miroslav Kure ] * Update information about booting with encrypted partitions. Closes: #378651. [ Joey Hess ] * Update preseeding docs to document listing more than one disk for partman-auto/disk and grub-installer/bootdev [ Changwoo Ryu ] * Add support for Korean PDF output. Requires latex-hangul-ucs-hlatex. Closes: #381657. [ David Härdeman ] * Update preseeding documentation for partman-auto. [ Frans Pop ] * Correct error for alpha netboot installations. Thanks to Aurélien Géröme. Closes: #386591. * Correct number of release arches. Thanks to Holger Wansing. Closes: #384321. * Minor corrections suggested by Malcolm Parsons. Closes: #388138. * Document new boot parameters theme and directfb/hw-accel. * Remove now obsolete distinction between classic and common kpkg. * Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.17. * Set default value for manual_release in build wrapper scripts. * Add new section in preseeding appendix on partman-auto-raid. Not included in preseed text file as it is still somewhat experimental. * Document changes in guided partitioning and added encrypted LVM support. * Disable m68k for official builds as it is not a release architecture. * buildweb.sh: use 'mv -f' to avoid errors during builds on the webserver. * Minor corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall. Closes: #394413, #394471. * Update task sizes as per D-I RC1. * New troubleshooting section on how to deal with CD-ROM related problems. * Document how to pass parameters to kernel modules on boot. * Document how to install KDE instead of Gnome in the section on pkgsel. [ Joey Hess ] * Update for recent floppy changes. * Remove hardcoded paths to executables in buildone.sh. * Set HOME to a temporary directory before running w3m, to avoid it trying to write to a home directory that may not exist on the buildds. (See #393641) * Update the installation report template to match current one in installation-report. [ Philip Hands ] * Clarify how -- affects which parameters end up in the target system's bootloader's command line. [ Joey Hess ] * Applied Phil's auto mode documentation patch, edited it, and moved some things around for clarity. Closes: #395910 * Document auto=true boot parameter. [ Frans Pop ] * Add condition "g-i" for arches that support the graphical installer. * Document mouse/left boot parameter. * Explain usage of "owner" prefix when setting values for debconf variables intended for the target system at the boot prompt. * Give some examples of preseeding questions from the boot prompt. * Document how to install the KDE desktop environment instead of GNOME. * Don't list unsupported frontends in boot parameters section. * Minor corrections suggested by Tapio Lehtonen. Closes: #397790. * Minor corrections suggested by Holger Wansing. Closes: #397974. [ Martin Michlmayr ] * Mention that RiscPC support is incomplete. * Mention Intel IOP32x support. * Talk about ixp4xx rather than the more specific nslu2. [ Frans Pop ] * Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.18. * Minor corrections and some rewrites based on suggestions from Clytie Siddall. Closes: #367861, #380588. * Update Sparc specific information and document common installation issues for Sparc. Many thanks to Jurij Smakov for reviewing the Sparc manual and for his overview of issues. * Etch ships with X.Org 7.1. * Update number of developers, packages and mailing lists. * General revision of minimum hardware requirements throughout the manual. * Update of installed/download size of tasks. * Document the graphical installer, including the main known issues. * Avoid generating XML files multiple times for translations using PO files when using build.sh or buildweb.sh sripts. * bookinfo: - Add note for m68k that it is not a release architecture for Etch. * hardware: - Remove ancient section on parity RAM. Closes: #403035. - Update documenation for Sparc, based on patch by Jurij Smakov. Closes: #389516. - PowerPC/APUS is currently not supported; removed from hardware table. - Remove sun4cd (sparc32) from and add sun4v (sparc64) in hardware table. - Rewrite of NIC support, document wireless support (for selected arches) and explain issues surrounding drivers that require firmware. * preparing: - Clean out ancient hardware issues. * boot-installer/parameters: - Document anna/choose_modules and mirror/protocol boot parameters. - Use a clearer way to list the short form of parameters. - Document new option to blacklist kernel modules. * boot-installer/trouble: - Fix reference to Save debug logs menu option. Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402439. - Add a note that installation reports will be published. * install-methods: - All architectures that support TFTP booting also support DCHP, so remove the "supports-dhcp" condition. - According to the text, Alpha supports BOOTP. - Use dhcp3-server for examples rather than dhcp (version 2). - tftpd-hpa does not use /tftpboot by default; allow for this in examples. Closes: #342076. * using-d-i: - Extend description of lowmem installs based on a patch suggested by Holger Wansing. Closes: #400263. * boot-new: - Remove reference to apt guide (not installed by default) and obsolete debian-guide. Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402492. - As lynx is no longer installed, suggest w3m as text based browser. - Explain how to browse /usr/share/doc/ using a graphical web browser. - Mention documentation packages. - Clarify what happens on first boot and how to get help to in case of problems. * post-install: - Remove section on reactivating Windows; the installer should detect it automatically after all. Closes: #402437. - Add extended section on email configuration (moved from using-d-i as exim4 now configures for "local mail only" by default). Closes: #402857. * appendix/preseed: - Clarifications based on comments from Tapio Lehtonen and Holger Wansing. Closes: #397923. * appendix/chroot-install: - Changes suggested in review by Wiktor Wandachowicz. Closes: #394929. [ Frans Pop ] * Prepare for release. This release is mostly for testing purposes, the real release targeted at Etch will be next week. * Add and enable amd64 architecture. * Update control file for dropped m68k and added amd64 architectures. * Disable Catalan, Korean, Spanish and Brazillian translations as they are not yet complete. * Enable Finnish translation. -- Frans Pop Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:10:16 +0100 installation-guide (20060726) unstable; urgency=low [ Joey Hess ] * Update kernel building section to conditionalise some more 2.4 kernel stuff. * Suggest passing --initrd to make-kpkg since the docs say nothing about compiling disk drivers into the kernel. * Document new passwd/root-login setting. * Booting a USB stick via a boot floppy is not supported by current installer images. * Update preseeding docs to use task names, not short descriptions, since that will work now and is more convenient for preseeding. * Document the kde-desktop and gnome-desktop subtasks. [ Frans Pop ] * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall. * chroot-install: - add /etc/hosts to be created for network configuration (closes: #364517) - make kernel/linux-image variable (closes: #345482) * Document -- command line option for passing parameters to boot loader configuration (closes: #309889). * Switch Finnish from XML-based to PO-based translation. * Bring numbering and layout of GPL more in line with original. With thanks to Holger Wansing. * Add functionality to include optional paragraphs in translations. Initially two have been defined: - a paragraph in bookinfo for information about the translation; - a note in appendix/gpl.xml required with unofficial GPL translations. [ Joey Hess ] * Document new preseed/run setting. * Prebaseconfig renamed to finish-install, which changes some documentation, and. notably, renames one of the xml files. * hd-media size changed to 256 mb. * Document new aliases added in preseed 1.17 for common debconf boot parameters: fb, url, file, locale, interface. [ Frans Pop ] * Document guided partitioning using LVM and update partitioning section. [ Martin Michlmayr ] * The RiscPC flavour is now known as "rpc" rather than "riscpc". * As of 2.6, r4k-ip22 also rupports r5k machines do the r5k-ip22 flavour has been dropped. [ Holger Levsen ] * Added the remaining suggestions about nubus and non-powerpc macs (closes: #364546). * Restructured the chapter about powerpc supported hardware, moved unsupported machines to the end. * Updated the information about existing kernel flavours. [ Miroslav Kure ] * Document installation to encrypted partitions (partman-crypto). * Update XOrg to 7.0. [ Frans Pop ] * Etch has been assigned version 4.0. * Update kernel versions to 2.6.16. * Base languages to be built for website on list of release languages. * arm, mips and mipsel switched to 2.6 kernels. * Enable Brazillian Portuguese and Vietnamese translation for release. * Disable Greek translation as it is too incomplete. -- Frans Pop Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:27:52 +0200 installation-guide (20060427) unstable; urgency=low [ Joey Hess ] * Update preseeding docs for base-config removal. * Add documentation of how to change apt-setup security source with preseeding. * Remove the sarge preseeding docs. * Remove mentions of base-config and move base-config stuff to elsewhere. * Add documentation of apt-setup, user-setup, clock-setup, tzsetup, and pkgsel. * Change some references to tty3 (messages) to instead refer to tty4 (syslog). * Change references to /var/log/debian-installer to just /var/log/installer. * Remove docs for baseconfig-udeb; going away with base-config. * Removed various bits of sarge cruft when it made things easier. [ Frans Pop ] * Change default build to Etch. * Remove all Sarge specific content and make Etch specific content default. * Delete some obsolete entities. * Change references from package d-i-manual to package installation-guide. * Explicitly specify XML declaration as required by openjade 1.4devel1-15 (closes: #360241). * Update appendix on chroot installs: - mention that debootstrap also requires basic Unix/Linux commands; - comment out link to outdated rpm packages of debootstrap. [ Colin Watson ] * Add a few more supports-floppy-boot and bootable-usb conditionals to make it easier to turn all this off in rebuilds of the manual. * Etch uses X.Org 6.9, and xserver-xorg instead of xserver-xfree86. * Document how to pick a particular interface with netcfg/choose_interface, including how to do this before reading a preseed file. * Remove obsolete substvar. * Build-depend on libhtml-parser-perl for build/preseed.pl. [ Joey Hess ] * Add docs about preseeding a fallback to a static IP if dhcp fails. * Update copyright date. * It's possible to use preseeding to set up LVM now, so remove stuff about it not working. * Document DHCP preseeding. Note that this documents it as of netcfg 1.24 and preseed 1.13. [ Martin Michlmayr ] * Bring ARM up to date with reality: remove unsupported flavours, add NSLU2. * Fix Netwinder/CATS download location. * Improve the Netwinder TFTP boot instructions. * The Netwinder firmware is no longer available due to license problems. * Mention NSLU2 download location. * Describe how to flash the installer image onto the NSLU2. * Describe how to boot a Cobalt machine. [ Frans Pop ] * Document new option to preseed additional apt sources for target system. * Document how to create a preconfiguration file. * Enable Catalan, Italian and Swedish translations for release. * Disable Brazillian Portuguese translation as it is too incomplete. -- Frans Pop Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:00:32 +0200 installation-guide (20060102) unstable; urgency=low [ Frans Pop ] * Fix build error caused by description for s390. Closes: #337382. * Update kernel package names and kernel versions per architecture. * Move documentation on preseeding to separate appendix for etch. * Use new, more flexible perl script to extract example preseed file from new appendix. * Set proper POT-Creation-Date when generating new POT files. * New translations started: Polish, Swedish, Vietnamese. * First release of Greek and Korean translations. * Exclude Traditional Chinese translation as it was not updated. * Switch release name to Etch (3.1+δ). [ Joey Hess ] * Update installation report template and instructions for etch. -- Frans Pop Mon, 2 Jan 2006 18:44:59 +0100 installation-guide (20051025) unstable; urgency=low * Mention in copyright that full GPL is included in the manual. Closes: #334925 * Register installed documents with doc-base. * Minor updates in English text and translations. -- Frans Pop Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:37:25 +0200 installation-guide (20051019) unstable; urgency=low [ Joey Hess ] * Split off from the debian-installer source package. See the changelog for debian-installer for older changelog entries. [ Frans Pop ] * Change over to building arch all packages in section doc. Build separate packages for each arch containing all translations. * Change package name to installation-guide. * Include translations already available on official website. -- Frans Pop Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:12:35 +0200