installation-guide (2006xxxx) UNRELEASED; 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. -- Frans Pop Sat, 29 Apr 2006 21:42:35 +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appendix on chroot installs: - mention that debootstrap also requires basic Unix/Linux commands; - comment out link to outdated rpm packages of debootstrap.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. [ Frans Pop ] * 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