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. I need people to explore these options and report bugs so that things can be fixed for the first stable update. 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. 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 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. ;-) 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. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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