On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 15:12 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Paul Wise wrote: > > The /etc/grub.d/30_otheros that was generated did not allow me to boot > > Windows. Simply changing (hd0,0) to (hd0,1) fixed this. Looks like grub2 > > uses 1-based partition indexes instead of 0-based ones like grub1 did. > > AFAIK we're still not installing grub2 by default, are we? Indeed, it was a specific choice I made while running d-i IIRC. > I see that you've already filed #473401 on grub-installer about this. Yes, nyu encouraged me to do so after I mentioned it to him on IRC when we were talking about the latest nsis and coLinux and Win32-related d-i stuff. > > Despite choosing the desktop task in the tasksel section and a gnome > > desktop in debian.exe, I didn't get a desktop login manager installed > > and a graphical login started up. Looking at the tasks in aptitude seems > > to show that gdm is only present in the Xfce desktop environment task. > > The gnome desktop task contains gnome-desktop-environment, which depends > on gdm. Without gnome-desktop-environment, you shouldn't have gnome at > all. So I don't understand what you're saying. Looks like I didn't get the gnome desktop task installed. I re-ran the installation, taking notes on what I clicked/chose and this time I did get gdm/gde installed. I guess last time I didn't choose the desktop environment task, thought I did though. I guess this was probably PEBCAK rather than anything else. There are some other minor issues below though: goodbye-microsoft.com install save debian.exe run debian.exe english language I agree to GPL (debian-installer loader 0.6.4) expert mode install debian graphical installer daily build don't care about known issues gnome desktop environment keyboard type is us no proxy boot.ini location: C:\boot.ini base url: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/gtk/debian-installer/i386 linux command line: video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=788 priority=low Install! Close OK (read the warning about rebooting) Yes, reboot! choose Debian Installer at the Windows XP boot menu wait for grub2 (seems slower than grub1) g-i comes up with the d-i main menu - choose language .... hmm, no mouse, lets continue with keyboard choose en_AU as an additional language - seems that en_AU.iso88591 got preseeded from debian.exe? pc-style keyboard don't start pcmcia use eth0 use dhcp hostname morrison (windows computer > doors > the doors > jim morrison > morrison) empty domain name mirror ftp.uwa.edu.au debian version: unstable add ntfs modules component (mouse config seems absent) use ntp for clock default ntp server load usb-storage don't start pcmcia manual partitioning format old Debian install and use ext3, mount point / use existing swap partition write changes to disks install the base system wait for a while default kernel (linux-image-2.6-k7 - isn't k7 depreciated or a dummy package?) default initramfs-tools shadow passwords allow root login don't create user account don't use non-free/contrib participate in popcon choose desktop environment and standard system tasks switch to console 4 to see what is getting downloaded - network is slow enough for this to work (yay Australia) ooh, selinux aha, gdm, gnome-desktop-environment! install grub2 instead of grub legacy clock isn't UTC reboot see debconf segfault on console just before the reboot happens get to nice blue grub2 splash - shouldn't the bootloader and d-i use consistent themes? notice windows is at the bottom and that it uses (hd0,0) instead of (hd0,1) boot debian hmm, no splashy gdm comes up - again theme consistency would be good hmm, root is not allowed to login (and I didn't create a user), I guess that is good hmm, serial mouse doesn't work fix gdm.conf from a VC login as root again the blue theme, perhaps d-i needs changing to use blue instead of read? notice some dummy/transitional packages installed -> mailx and netcat are not marked as autoinstalled, I guess tasksel installed those? > > Thirdly my mouse is a serial mouse and there didn't seem to be any > > obvious way to use it. The computer has a PS2 mouse port, but I don't > > have a PS2 mouse for this computer. It is on /dev/ttyS1 rather than S0 > > due to the positions of cables, usb sockets and stuff. > > Detecting serial mice tends to do bad things to serial UPSes and AFAIK > debian has never auto-detected them. You will need to manually configure X Very understandable. This is about the graphical installer rather than Xorg. I couldn't see any obvious way to configure d-i to use my serial mouse, nor any way to find out what mouse it was currently using. I'd also expect that if d-i could be configured to use a serial mouse, it would pre-seed Xorg to use it too, unfortunately the debconf questions about mice seem to have been removed from the Xorg setup, so I had to manually mess with /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Probably isn't worth supporting serial mice though, since the keyboard works, but perhaps the mouse cursor should be disabled when no working mouse is available. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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