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Re: [D-I] Please test Debian Installer with console-setup



On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 09:28:05PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 02:53:42PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is expected because the installer doesn't have setfont utility (but 
> > > if the d-i team decides to put there setfont, then no change in 
> > > console-setup is required in order to make all consoles configured).
> > 
> > Really? kbd-udeb contains setfont. What has the d-i team done to stop
> > kbd-udeb from being present? console-setup-udeb depends on kbd-udeb so I
> > don't see what the problem could be here.
> 
> Hmm.  I have forgotten this.  Then I don't know why the font was not 
> loaded on the text consoles.

This was because setfont can not load compressed fonts without gzip. I 
changed console-setup-fonts-udeb to include uncompressed fonts. 
Console-setup-fonts-udeb is not required so if the space is tight it can 
be dropped.

Anton Zinoviev


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