Re: ia64 install report

[Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 07:58:57PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > b) At some point during loading the installer modules, it spews a load
> > of text over the screen, such as:
> > 
> >  Unknown localized field:
> >  Description-fr.ISO-8859-15: Aucune partition de dmarrage dtecte
> > 
> > That doesn't seem to cause a problem though.

I ran a text mode install and logged the console:

[ 46.6%][ 46.6%] Unpacking e2fsprogs-udeb
[ 48.3%][ 48.3%] Retrieving libblkid1-udeb
[ 50.0%][ 50.0%] Unpacking libblkid1-udeb
[ 51.7%][ 51.7%] Retrieving libuuid1-udeb
[ 53.4%][ 53.4%] Unpacking libuuid1-udeb
[ 55.2%][ 55.2%] Retrieving elilo-installer
[ 56.9%][ 56.9%] Unpacking elilo-installer
Unknown localized field:
Description-cs.ISO-8859-2: Oblast pro instalaci zavadìèe:
Unknown localized field:
Description-da.ISO-8859-1: Partition at installere opstartsindlæseren på:
Unknown localized field:
Description-fr.ISO-8859-15: Partition où sera installé le chargeur de démarrage :
Unknown localized field:
Description-hu.ISO-8859-2: A rendszerbetöltõ erre a partícióra kerül:
Unknown localized field:
Description-ja.EUC-JP: ¥Ö¡¼¥È¥í¡¼¥À¤ò¥¤¥ó¥¹¥È¡¼¥ë¤¹¤ë¥Ñ¡¼¥Æ¥£¥·¥ç¥ó:
Unknown localized field:
Description-pt_BR.ISO-8859-1: Partição a ser usada para a instalação do carregador de inicialização :
Unknown localized field:
Description-cs.ISO-8859-2: Nebyly detekovány ¾ádné oblasti
Unknown localized field:
Description-da.ISO-8859-1: Fandt ingen opstartspartitioner
Unknown localized field:
Description-fr.ISO-8859-15: Aucune partition de démarrage détectée
Unknown localized field:
Description-hu.ISO-8859-2: Rendszerbetöltõ partíció felderítése sikertelen
Unknown localized field:
Description-ja.EUC-JP: ¥Ö¡¼¥È¥Ñ¡¼¥Æ¥£¥·¥ç¥ó¤¬¸¡½Ð¤µ¤ì¤Þ¤»¤ó¤Ç¤·¤¿
Unknown localized field:
Description-pt_BR.ISO-8859-1: Nenhuma partição de inicialização (boot) detectada.
[ 58.6%][ 58.6%] Retrieving userdevfs
...
...


I then extracted the templates files from base-installer and elilo-installer
to see if there were any obvious differences:

base-installer:

Template: base-installer/debootstrap-failed
Type: error
Description: Failed to install the base system
 The base system installation into /target/ failed.
 .
 Please check /target/var/log/debootstrap.log and
 /target/var/log/debootstrap.err.log for the details.
Description-bg.UTF-8: Ð~SÑ~@еÑ~Hка пÑ~@и инÑ~AÑ~BалиÑ~@анеÑ~Bо на оÑ~AновнаÑ~Bа Ñ~AиÑ~AÑ~Bема
 Ð~XнÑ~AÑ~BалиÑ~@анеÑ~Bо на оÑ~AновнаÑ~Bа Ñ~AиÑ~AÑ~Bема в
 /target/ завÑ~JÑ~@Ñ~Hи неÑ~CÑ~AпеÑ~Hно.
 .
 Ð~\олÑ~O пÑ~@овеÑ~@еÑ~Bе /target/var/log/debootstrap.log и
 /target/var/log/debootstrap.err.log за подÑ~@обноÑ~AÑ~Bи.
...
...

elilo-installer:

Template: elilo-installer/bootpart
Type: select
Choices: ${BOOTPARTS}
Description: Partition for boot loader installation:
 Partitions currently available in your system are listed.
 Please choose the one you want elilo to use to boot Debian.
Description-cs.ISO-8859-2: Oblast pro instalaci zavadìèe:
 Vypsány jsou v¹echy dostupné oblasti v systému. Vyberte tu, kterou má
 elilo pou¾ít k zavedení Debianu.
...
...


The obvious difference to me is that in base-installer, all the
Description names are Description-*.UTF-8, while in elilo-installer they
are all .ISO-8859-2, or EUC-JP, or whatever.


I then built a new elilo-installer from head, and its templates file
uses UTF-8, so I conclude that we should build/upload a new
elilo-installer.  So far as beta2 is concerned, I tried an install in
French, and all was well, except the one dialog from elilo was in
English.  I guess we can live with that for now.

Richard