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- Tags: debian, english. + Tags: bootsystem, debian, english. @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ with parallel booting enabled by default.

- Tags: debian, english, nuug. + Tags: bootsystem, debian, english, nuug. @@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ list of usertagged bugs related to this.

- Tags: debian, debian edu, english. + Tags: bootsystem, debian, debian edu, english. @@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ det jeg ser trykket på billetten og det jeg ser av tegn i magnetstripen. Håper det betyr at de bruker kryptografiske metoder for å gjøre det vanskelig å forfalske billetter.

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Den andre billetten er fra hurtigruta, der jeg mistenker at +

Den andre billetten er fra Hurtigruten, der jeg mistenker at strekkoden på fronten er mer brukt enn magnetstripen (det var i hvert fall den biten vi stakk inn i dørlåsen).

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+ More flexible firmware handling in debian-installer +
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+ 2010-05-22 21:30 +
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After a long break from debian-installer development, I finally +found time today to return to the project. Having to spend less time +working dependency based boot in debian, as it is almost complete now, +definitely helped freeing some time.

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A while back, I ran into a problem while working on Debian Edu. We +include some firmware packages on the Debian Edu CDs, those needed to +get disk and network controllers working. Without having these +firmware packages available during installation, it is impossible to +install Debian Edu on the given machine, and because our target group +are non-technical people, asking them to provide firmware packages on +an external medium is a support pain. Initially, I expected it to be +enough to include the firmware packages on the CD to get +debian-installer to find and use them. This proved to be wrong. +Next, I hoped it was enough to symlink the relevant firmware packages +to some useful location on the CD (tried /cdrom/ and +/cdrom/firmware/). This also proved to not work, and at this point I +found time to look at the debian-installer code to figure out what was +going to work.

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The firmware loading code is in the hw-detect package, and a closer +look revealed that it would only look for firmware packages outside +the installation media, so the CD was never checked for firmware +packages. It would only check USB sticks, floppies and other +"external" media devices. Today I changed it to also look in the +/cdrom/firmware/ directory on the mounted CD or DVD, which should +solve the problem I ran into with Debian edu. I also changed it to +look in /firmware/, to make sure the installer also find firmware +provided in the initrd when booting the installer via PXE, to allow us +to provide the same feature in the PXE setup included in Debian +Edu.

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To make sure firmware deb packages with a license questions are not +activated without asking if the license is accepted, I extended +hw-detect to look for preinst scripts in the firmware packages, and +run these before activating the firmware during installation. The +license question is asked using debconf in the preinst, so this should +solve the issue for the firmware packages I have looked at so far.

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If you want to discuss the details of these features, please +contact us on debian-boot@lists.debian.org.

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+ Parallellized boot seem to hold up well in Debian/testing +
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+ 2010-05-27 23:55 +
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A few days ago, parallel booting was enabled in Debian/testing. +The feature seem to hold up pretty well, but three fairly serious +issues are known and should be solved: + +

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All in all not many surprising issues, and all of them seem +solvable before Squeeze is released. In addition to these there are +some packages with bugs in their dependencies and run level settings, +which I expect will be fixed in a reasonable time span.

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If you report any problems with dependencies in init.d scripts to +the BTS, please usertag the report to get it to show up at +the +list of usertagged bugs related to this.

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Update: Correct bug number to file-rc issue.

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+ + + + Tags: bootsystem, debian, debian edu, english. + +
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