On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:04:41 +0000 Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> wrote: > The behaviour of the Debian Installer for Lenny has changed since the > release candidates and features used to enable the installation of > Emdebian Grip are either broken or absent. OK, I've got some confirmation now, pre-seeding was removed from the installer at the last minute - en masse. Some problem with preseeding files being picked up on CD's. > I need people to explore > these options and report bugs so that things can be fixed for the first > stable update. We still need bug reports - against debian-installer - to try and get pre-seeding fixed and reintroduced. > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/02/msg00003.html > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases/PointReleases/5.0.1 > > I'm testing whether it is a problem in the boot.img.gz or the ISO. Still testing. > Two ways out of this: > > 1. People who have already installed without passing parameters on the > boot command line will end up with standard Debian 5.0 "lenny" including > a desktop (which will be GNOME if you use the automatic install) - which > can then be upgraded to Emdebian Grip 1.0: > > a) add the emdebian grip repository (or replace the debian one) > deb http://www.emdebian.org/grip lenny main > b) apt-get update > c) apt-get install grip-config > d) apt-get dist-upgrade This does work - some 400Mb freed after the first dist-upgrade, which actually removes some GNOME and OOo packages. > It is imperative that grip-config is installed immediately after the > update and before any attempt to run any apt-get upgrade or apt-get > dist-upgrade. This method can only work if you have room for standard > Debian 5.0 with GNOME, before removing it all - wasting time. Bad. A > manual install with no pre-seeding and a manual upgrade is a little > less bad in that the installer takes less time and there is less to > cleanup. Note: it does take a HUGE amount of time to do this on an Acer > Aspire 1 so I'm only going to test method 1 once. ;-) Taken half a day already. > 2. I am going to make the relevant images available on www.emdebian.org > for people to use my old (working) installers. This an unofficial > installer, things could go wrong so if there are bugs in the > early release people will have to keep this one for Emdebian and a > "genuine" one for Debian. Ugly. > > 3. Those who have tried to get the Lenny installer to actually work > should probably use method 2 to reinstall. Bad. > > 4. If anyone finds time to build new installation images for i386 and > armel with d-i fixed, www.emdebian.org will gladly host the resulting > images for you. Still means people have to carry two installers and > requires quite a lot of testing. > > So we have 2 Bad, 1 Ugly and no Good. :-( > > Testing continues and bug reports will follow. Those who have already tried Grip, please file bugs. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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