On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 04:35:22PM +0200, J? Fahlke wrote: > Am Sa, 25. Sep 2004, 10:14:07 +0200 schrieb Geert Stappers: > > When http://www.stappers.nl/gst/dists/unstable/main/installer-sparc/current/images/sparc64/netboot/ > > has boot.img newer as 21 september, then I was able to update it from here[1]. > > I tested that. > The short story: the menu now comes up in the plain framebuffer (no bogl). Does that mean: * OK, now it works as documented. or * Sorry, still the original problem. Please, be explicite about it. It both cases create new fresh bugreport which tells about the framebuffer/bogl/console/whatever problems and close this bugreport and his twin brother 2.6. The fresh bugreport is for keeping the patch from being lost and the closing is for cleaning. > I then got some problems with partman, RAID > and LVM, which I have reported in another installation report > (#273343). > > I noticed that the default value of debian-installer/framebuffer is > "false", so unless you set it to "true" on the kernel commandline, you > won't get chineese and arabian characters. I don't know whether that > default is architecture specific or not, and if it is even sensible to > set it to false per default on sparc. This needs some more thinking. I get arabic characters when I install on a Ultra 5 with onboard graphics. Anyway, I hope that you install with RAID and can build debian-installer. > Jö. Cheers Geert Stappers
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