errata for Debian Installer Beta2
Hi all,
as several issues were fixed for the beta2 release the errata must be updated
accordingly.
Here goes a patch do drop several fixed issues.
Feel free to point more issues to add/remove.
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Melhores cumprimentos/Best regards,
Miguel Figueiredo
http://www.DebianPT.org
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? 20101124.diff
? 20101201.patch
? 20101205.patch
Index: errata.wml
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RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/devel/debian-installer/errata.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.148
diff -u -r1.148 errata.wml
--- errata.wml 4 Dec 2010 23:01:11 -0000 1.148
+++ errata.wml 5 Dec 2010 14:16:05 -0000
@@ -11,14 +11,6 @@
</p>
<dl class="gloss">
- <dt>No activity on screen during package installation (VirtualBox)</dt>
- <dd>While on the downloading/installing packages step there's no
- activity on screen and the progress bar usually shown doesn't appear.
- On VT4 it is possible to see the progress of the installation.
- At the moment this has been confirmed only on VirtualBox's virtual machines.<br />
- See <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/603021";>#603021</a> and <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/604239";>#604239</a>.
- </dd>
-
<dt>Makes incompatible partition table with MacOS 9</dt>
<dd>It was reported that the partitioning tool in the installer makes
the partition table unrecognizable by MacOS 9 which no longer boots.
@@ -28,29 +20,6 @@
See <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/604134";>#604134</a>.
</dd>
- <dt>Firmware not loaded when expected</dt>
- <dd>There are reports of non-working network due to drivers that
- request firmware when the link is brought up but the installer
- expects it to be done when the module is loaded.
- This was corrected in hw-detect 1.82 at the moment available only in
- daily builds.<br />
- See <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/537502";>#537502</a>.
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Missing Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters in "Select
- your location" list</dt>
- <dd>ttf-cjk-compact lacks some Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters
- for Graphical Installer, caused by misconfigured update tool.<br />
- See <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/603685";>#603685</a>.
- </dd>
-
- <dt>Manual partitioning fails if Turkish language selected</dt>
- <dd>
- While installing with Turkish language changing a default value on
- manual partitioning makes the partitioning fail.<br />
- See <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/603459";>#603459</a>.
- </dd>
-
<dt>Partitioning fails on kFreeBSD</dt>
<dd>
There are reports of failing partitioning on kFreeBSD.
@@ -61,14 +30,6 @@
<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/602129";>#602129</a>.
</dd>
- <dt>Hibernation doesn't work with swap on lvm</dt>
- <dd>
- Resuming from hibernation doesn't work if swap is on lvm. initramfs
- doesn't recognize the uuid of the swap partition on
- /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume.
- See <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/568877";>#568877</a>.
- </dd>
-
<dt>Network/Graphic/Storage card doesn't work properly</dt>
<dd>
There is several hardware, notably network cards, graphic cards and
@@ -89,17 +50,6 @@
See <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/519254";>#519254</a>.
</dd>
- <dt>os-prober causes data corruption if filesystem is being
- used by another host</dt>
- <dd>
- os-prober causes data corruption on setups where filesystems are
- already mounted on other hosts. This issue has been identified on
- a SAN setup and on a virtual machine that uses an existing logical
- volume.
- See <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/599203";>#599203</a> and
- <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/556739";>#556739</a>.
- </dd>
-
<dt>Failed to install on powerpc NewWorld with added disk controller</dt>
<dd>
yaboot: failed to install boot loader with addon Promise card
@@ -138,14 +88,6 @@
<tt>echo 4096 65536 65536 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem</tt>
</dd>
- <dt>Country names not properly sorted in English</dt>
- <dd>
- During mirror selection the list of country name is sorted by
- country codes instead of country names, which can make it difficult
- to find some countries on the list. This only affects installations
- in English.
- </dd>
-
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<dt>i386: more than 32 mb of memory is needed to install</dt>
<dd>
@@ -156,12 +98,6 @@
</dd>
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- <dt>Some USB keyboards may not work</dt>
- <dd>
- Some USB keyboards, like the Genius Comfy KB 16e, don't work with
- current kernel.
- See <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/588742";>#588742</a>.
- </dd>
<dt>i386: few issues</dt>
<dd>
The i386 port has some known issues in this release:
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