2009
installation-guide (20090901) unstable; urgency=low
[ Frans Pop ]
* Switch over from Lenny to Squeeze. Current kernel is 2.6.29.
* Change the Debian designation for the ARM architecture from arm to armel.
The internal 'arch-spec' and file naming convention remains "arm" in order
to avoid unnecessary changes and work for translators.
* Mention that TERM= can be passed as boot parameter to set the terminal type
for serial console installs. Based on a patch suggested by Samuel Thibault.
Closes: #524666.
* Update copyright for 2009.
[ Martin Michlmayr ]
* Updates for ARM (armel):
- Remove sections about Netwinder/CATS, which are no longer supported.
- Update the "supported hardware" table.
- Add a section about Marvell's Kirkwood, which is now supported.
* Updates for MIPS:
- Show some sections on mipsel that apply there too.
- Say that the Cobalt Qube 2700 (Qube1) is no longer supported.
- Remove everything about the Broadcom SWARM and BigSur since we no
longer support these devices in the installer.
[ Colin Watson ]
* Merge from Ubuntu:
- Document partman/mount_style, which controls how filesystems are
mounted.
* Document pkgsel/include/install-recommends.
* partman/confirm_write_new_label was renamed to
partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label in r50363, December 2007.
Adjust preseeding documentation to match.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Document installation of localization tasks.
* Document the debian-installer/add-kernel-opts preconfiguration option.
* Add links to website documenting braille keybindings. Thanks to
Samuel Thibault for the patch. Closes: #534260.
* Fix typo in chroot install appendix. Closes: #535494.
* Improve bootp documentation. Thanks to Holger Wansing for the patch.
Closes: #282614.
* On s390 the system clock is not modified by the installer.
[ Otavio Salvador ]
* Document the netcfg/enable preseeding that allows for disabling the
network configuration. Thanks to Anthony L. Awtrey <tony@awtrey.com>
for the patch.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Move most build dependencies to Build-Depends-Indep.
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:10:10 +0200
installation-guide (20090427) unstable; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* Document partman/early_command (added in partman-base 129).
* Add note about preseeding ownership to preseed-seenflag section, since I
had a user confused by this who hadn't found the note elsewhere
explaining owners.
* Use /dev/sda and /dev/sdb in the RAID preseeding example rather than
/dev/discs/disc0/disc and /dev/discs/disc1/disc, since the latter
devices no longer exist.
* Document noshell boot parameter. See #504381.
* Clarify behaviour of "auto" preseed alias.
* Clarify that preseeding aliases are only aliases for question names, and
that a value is always needed as well.
* Apparently you can pass extra boot parameters to OpenBoot at the end of
the 'boot' command. Document this as it has been known to cause some
confusion.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Document preseeding of network-console now that its postinst can be
relied on to be executed.
* Update info on passing boot parameter for PPPoE.
* Explain Standard system task.
* Add LXDE desktop environment.
* Mention option to select desktop environment from boot menu for x86 CDs.
* Add task sizes for alternative desktop environments.
* chroot install: 'tzconfig' is deprecated for 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata'.
Closes: #520582.
* Booting using LILO or GRUB: minor improvements. Closes: #519508.
* Fix example how to generate md5-encoded password. Closes: #518018.
* Fix missing tags in Japanese translation. Closes: #509372.
* Improve script that extracts preconfiguration example file from appendix.
[ Samuel Thibault ]
* Document accessibility support. Closes: #509371.
[ Frans Pop ]
* (Re-)enable Vietnamese translation (not fully up-to-date).
* Convert PO translations for Finnish, Korean and Vietnamese to XML using
their last fully translated version.
* Release update of the manual for Lenny. Six translations have not been
updated: Brazilian, Catalan, Finnish, Korean, Spanish and Vietnamese.
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:23:30 +0200
2008
installation-guide (20081208) unstable; urgency=low
* Move documentation files to separate subdirectory doc.
* Document how the manual is built for the Debian website.
* Correct error spotted by Osamu Aoki: text web browser is w3m, not w3c.
* Correct two minor errors in preconfiguration examples. With thanks to
Andreas Beckmann for reporting them. Closes: #507544.
* Add new script check-preseed to help translators check if their
translation of the appendix about preseeding is complete/correct.
* Re-enable Spanish translation.
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:50:48 +0100
installation-guide (20081113) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Martin Michlmayr ]
* Remove everything about DECstation since these machines are
no longer supported.
* Provide information about all iop32x and orion5x installation media.
* Describe Orion and Versatile as supported platforms.
* Fix the NSLU2 download link.
* Describe MIPS Malta.
* Document netcfg/get_gateway=none
[ Frans Pop ]
* Update copyright to 2008.
* Update description of country selection in line with recent changes in
localechooser.
* Request output of lspci -knn in installation reports.
* Apply patch from Frank Lichtenheld to improve netboot instructions for
PowerPC. Closes: #275565.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Comment out partman-auto/disk setting in preseed since lenny d-i will
automatically work w/o it if there's just 1 disk. Closes: #490287
* Document hw-detect/load_firmware. Closes: #493845
[ Ryan Niebur ]
* Added documentation for RAID 6 and 10.
[ Jérémy Bobbio ]
* Explicitly mention that preseeded keymaps must be known to d-i.
Closes: #493720
* Mention parman-md/device_remove_md in preseeding appendix.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Restructure supported hardware section.
* Update of supported subarches/flavors for powerpc.
* hardware-supported:
- suppress m68k from arches table, unless building for m68k
- show which subarches are supported by arm/armel
- various minor updates and improvements
* Remove section on X.Org preseeding as all descibed options are obsolete.
* Document support in the installer for loading missing firmware.
* Update partman preseeding: use Choices-C values instead of descriptions.
* Correct short description of iso-scan. Closes: #501175.
* PowerPC currently doesn't have hd-media images, so is not "bootable-usb".
* There are no floppy images for i386 for Lenny; disable relevant sections.
* Major rewrite of section about preparing a USB stick for booting the
installer. Closes: #500206, #500283.
* Update preconfiguration section for latest changes in the preseed udebs
and clarify preseeding of language/country.
* Remove duplicated text about using tasksel. Closes: #502773.
* Update task sizes and nr. of packages per arch and current nr. of Debian
Developers for Lenny.
* (Re-)enable Catalan, Greek, Finnish, Japanese and Korean translations.
* Disable Vietnamese translations as it is incomplete.
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:15:38 +0100
installation-guide (20080520) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Frans Pop ]
* Clarify console switching for the graphical installer.
Thanks to Tim Richardson for the suggestion.
[ Colin Watson ]
* Spell "multiselect" correctly in apt-setup/services-select preseeding
example.
* Note that an empty preseed file is equivalent to a normal manual
installation (thanks, Nathan Sutton).
[ Robert Millan ]
* Document how to start the installer from Windows.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Document installation using multiple CD/DVDs; update text about using a
mirror in line with that.
* Lenny will be version 5.0.
* Warn about boot issues when using RAID on the root file system.
* Update task selection section for changes in desktop task preseeding.
* Fix double / in links, spotted by Stanislav Gromov. Closes: #472813.
* Document new boot parameters to define mouse protocol and device (port)
for the graphical installer.
* Correct command to use to allow preseeding of netcfg when using a
preconfiguration file downloaded from a server (preseed/url).
Thanks to Durk Strooisma for the report and analysis. Closes: #476524.
* Specify for which release the example preseed file is valid.
* Document preseeding of grub password.
* Update how to suppress the removal of existing LVM data using preseeding.
* Update version of X11 used in Lenny.
* Update kernel versions.
* Update memory requirements for i386 and amd64. Elaborate on installing
systems with less memory than the listed minimum.
* Update known issues for graphical installer: entropy gathering for
encrypted partitioning is now supported; localechooser now has nice
columns but other components still need to be done.
* Document finish-install/keep-consoles boot parameter and preseeding.
* Define two new translatable entities: escapekey and tabkey.
* Update task sizes, and number of packages and developers.
* x86: update description of the boot screen for the new syslinux vesamenu.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Remove autopartkit from the module list.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Disable Catalan, Korean and Japanese translations as they are incomplete.
* Upload with priority medium because of D-I Beta 2 release.
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2008 17:59:43 +0200
installation-guide (20080211) unstable; urgency=low
[ Martin Michlmayr ]
* Remove all information about RiscPC because these machines are
no longer supported.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Document the new tasksel/desktop preseed for lenny.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Add cm-super to build dependencies as that improves the quality of the
Russian PDF version.
* Suggest 'nousb' instead of debian-installer/probe/usb as USB modules are
now loaded automatically.
* Fix incorrect instruction for preseeding local repositories.
Thanks to Rémi Demarthe. Closes: #420894.
* Add translatable entities for Continue, Cancel and Go Back buttons.
* Add build dependencies on texlive-lang-* packages for languages for which
the manual has translations.
* Document new boot parameters "lowmem" and "dmraid".
* Document new location of graphical mini.iso images.
* Document base-installer/kernel/image preseed.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Document new lilo-installer/skip preseed.
* Document passwd/user-default-groups preseed.
[ Colin Watson ]
* Recommend preseeding mirror/country to "manual" rather than "enter
information manually" (choose-mirror 2.17).
* Remove text talking about devfs-style device names, which are no longer
supported.
* preparing/minimum-hardware-reqts.xml: Pluralise "gigabyte" consistently.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Document clock-setup/ntp.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Support for sparc32 has been discontinued for Lenny. This also means that
booting from floppy is no longer supported for sparc.
* Extend the documentation of apt-setup, especially the decision whether or
not to use a network mirror. Document selection of services.
* Document new apt-setup/services-select and related hostname preseeds.
* Add some information about creating device files in the appendix on chroot
installs; also add a note that the appendix only covers the basic steps
of a chroot install.
* Warn against installing Debian while another OS is hibernated.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Document how to preseed partman-auto to use only available disk, no matter
what it's name is.
* debian/rules: call dh_md5sums.
* Document debian-installer/exit/halt preseed.
[ Colin Watson ]
* Clarify that you need to actually provide an autopartitioning method as
well as preseeding the partman confirmation messages.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Make copyright refer explicitly to GPL version 2 as that is the version
included in the appendix; add reference to /usr/share/common-licenses to
make Lintian happy.
* Rename doc-base.TEMPLATE to TEMPLATE.doc-base to avoid its inclusion in
the package for the first architecture. Closes: #416304.
* Modify language codes that include a country for the doc-base document ID
so they only contain valid characters.
* Remove the PDF section in doc-base files if PDF format is not built for a
language.
* Update standards version to 3.7.3; no changes needed.
* Patch from Changwoo Ryu to replace Hangul-ucs with ko.tex fonts for Korean
PDF version of the manual. Closes: #457137.
* using-d-i:
- move clock-setup, tzsetup and user-setup to reflect their changed
position in the installation procedure
- mention that clock-setup will now attempt to set the system time from a
time server
- split clock-setup as part is now executed during finish-install
- add instructions on how a different time zone from the one(s) that match
the selected location can be set (as that is a FAQ)
- improve readability of partman section by using separate subsections for
guided and manual partitioning
- network-console: add information about dropped connections and how to
avoid that (closes: #458154); add footnote with command to remove a host
from the known_hosts file
* howto, preseed: update for reordering of the installation procedure.
* Change build dependency on gs-common to ghostscript.
* Use --previous when updating PO files so translators can see the changes
in a string.
[ Colin Watson ]
* Use &releasename; rather than hardcoding etch in sources.list
recommendation for chroot installs. Closes: #458459.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Make UTF-8 the default encoding for the text version for all languages
that still used ISO-8859-1.
* Korean text version changed to UTF-8 on request of Changwoo Ryu.
* Japanese text version changed to UTF-8 on request of KURASAWA Nozomu.
* Enable PDF for Korean for website builds.
* Disable Finnish, Hungarian and Spanish for this release as they have not
been updated.
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:35:22 +0100
2007
installation-guide (20070319) unstable; urgency=low
[ Frans Pop ]
* Cleaned up definitions of some entities and removed unused ones.
* Implement infrastructure that allows entities to be translated.
Thanks to Miroslav Kure for providing the patch. Closes: #344048, #406515.
* Disable Korean PDF/PS formats for builds for the website.
* appendix/files: update information about mouse configuration, based on a
patch from Peter Samuelson (for which thanks). Closes: #406290.
* boot-installer, appendix/preseed: document preseed/interactive parameter.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Fix package name for installation-reports, and manual unfuzzy of all
translations. Closes: #408408
[ Frans Pop ]
* welcome:
- make links to FSF and GNU more consistent (closes: #410317)
- we do not necessarily share the ideals of the FSF (closes: #410129)
Thanks to Francesco Poli for suggesting these changes.
* using-d-i: guided partitioning now creates swap inside LVM.
Thanks to Francesco Poli. Closes: #411399.
* Document installs over PPPoE. Based on a text proposed by Eddy Petrisor.
Closes: #408340.
* installation-howto: update for the integration of base-config into D-I.
* appendix/preseed:
- as exim no longer asks any questions during installations, there is no
real need to document it anymore
- add link to Philip Hand's website as it contains many creative examples
- document how to select the ftp protocol during mirror selection
- document how to install from CD/DVD only (and not use a network mirror)
* Update base/standard system and task sizes.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Document debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated.
[ Wouter Verhelst ]
* Update mac68k installation after notes from Finn Thain, upstream mac68k
kernel hacker.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Replace entity in example-preseed.txt file. Thanks to Geert Stappers for
spotting the error. Closes: #413257.
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:00:12 +0100
installation-guide (20070122) unstable; urgency=low
* Enable Catalan, Brazillian, Korean and Spanish again. * Enable new Hungarian translation.
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:41:57 +0100
installation-guide (20070115) unstable; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* Document new pkgsel/include setting.
* Fix incorrect documentation on preseeding additional apt sources.
* Fix typo in hppa hardware support documentation
(https://launchpad.net/bugs/55164).
* Adjust chroot-install guide to take account of debootstrap being
Architecture: all now (https://launchpad.net/bugs/64765).
[ Frans Pop ]
* Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall and Holger Wansing.
Closes: #378404, #370484, #370425.
* Update instructions on how to set module parameters for PLIP installation.
* Update chroot install instructions to use aptitude instead of apt-get.
* Add /srv in overview of directory tree in partitioning appendix.
* Update section on partitioning using LVM to reflect recent changes.
* Apply various patches by or based on suggestions from Nathanael Nerode.
Some of the bigger changes include:
- Update of processor support for the i386 architecture.
- Update information on setting up a RARP server.
* Add variant for the AMD64 architecture. Closes: #305977.
* Suppress warnings about missing IDs for sections and such.
* Reorganize supported hardware table; i386 no longer has flavors.
* Document SMP-alternatives as one of the variants of SMP support.
* Document how to shut down the system. Based on patch from Holger Levsen.
Closes: #248067.
[ Miroslav Kure ]
* Update information about booting with encrypted partitions.
Closes: #378651.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Update preseeding docs to document listing more than one disk for
partman-auto/disk and grub-installer/bootdev
[ Changwoo Ryu ]
* Add support for Korean PDF output. Requires latex-hangul-ucs-hlatex.
Closes: #381657.
[ David Härdeman ]
* Update preseeding documentation for partman-auto.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Correct error for alpha netboot installations. Thanks to Aurélien Géröme.
Closes: #386591.
* Correct number of release arches. Thanks to Holger Wansing. Closes: #384321.
* Minor corrections suggested by Malcolm Parsons. Closes: #388138.
* Document new boot parameters theme and directfb/hw-accel.
* Remove now obsolete distinction between classic and common kpkg.
* Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.17.
* Set default value for manual_release in build wrapper scripts.
* Add new section in preseeding appendix on partman-auto-raid. Not included
in preseed text file as it is still somewhat experimental.
* Document changes in guided partitioning and added encrypted LVM support.
* Disable m68k for official builds as it is not a release architecture.
* buildweb.sh: use 'mv -f' to avoid errors during builds on the webserver.
* Minor corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall. Closes: #394413, #394471.
* Update task sizes as per D-I RC1.
* New troubleshooting section on how to deal with CD-ROM related problems.
* Document how to pass parameters to kernel modules on boot.
* Document how to install KDE instead of Gnome in the section on pkgsel.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Update for recent floppy changes.
* Remove hardcoded paths to executables in buildone.sh.
* Set HOME to a temporary directory before running w3m, to avoid it
trying to write to a home directory that may not exist on the buildds.
(See #393641)
* Update the installation report template to match current one in
installation-report.
[ Philip Hands ]
* Clarify how -- affects which parameters end up in the target system's
bootloader's command line.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Applied Phil's auto mode documentation patch, edited it, and moved
some things around for clarity. Closes: #395910
* Document auto=true boot parameter.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Add condition "g-i" for arches that support the graphical installer.
* Document mouse/left boot parameter.
* Explain usage of "owner" prefix when setting values for debconf variables
intended for the target system at the boot prompt.
* Give some examples of preseeding questions from the boot prompt.
* Document how to install the KDE desktop environment instead of GNOME.
* Don't list unsupported frontends in boot parameters section.
* Minor corrections suggested by Tapio Lehtonen. Closes: #397790.
* Minor corrections suggested by Holger Wansing. Closes: #397974.
[ Martin Michlmayr ]
* Mention that RiscPC support is incomplete.
* Mention Intel IOP32x support.
* Talk about ixp4xx rather than the more specific nslu2.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.18.
* Minor corrections and some rewrites based on suggestions from
Clytie Siddall. Closes: #367861, #380588.
* Update Sparc specific information and document common installation issues
for Sparc. Many thanks to Jurij Smakov for reviewing the Sparc manual and
for his overview of issues.
* Etch ships with X.Org 7.1.
* Update number of developers, packages and mailing lists.
* General revision of minimum hardware requirements throughout the manual.
* Update of installed/download size of tasks.
* Document the graphical installer, including the main known issues.
* Avoid generating XML files multiple times for translations using PO files
when using build.sh or buildweb.sh sripts.
* bookinfo:
- Add note for m68k that it is not a release architecture for Etch.
* hardware:
- Remove ancient section on parity RAM. Closes: #403035.
- Update documenation for Sparc, based on patch by Jurij Smakov.
Closes: #389516.
- PowerPC/APUS is currently not supported; removed from hardware table.
- Remove sun4cd (sparc32) from and add sun4v (sparc64) in hardware table.
- Rewrite of NIC support, document wireless support (for selected arches)
and explain issues surrounding drivers that require firmware.
* preparing:
- Clean out ancient hardware issues.
* boot-installer/parameters:
- Document anna/choose_modules and mirror/protocol boot parameters.
- Use a clearer way to list the short form of parameters.
- Document new option to blacklist kernel modules.
* boot-installer/trouble:
- Fix reference to Save debug logs menu option.
Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402439.
- Add a note that installation reports will be published.
* install-methods:
- All architectures that support TFTP booting also support DCHP, so remove
the "supports-dhcp" condition.
- According to the text, Alpha supports BOOTP.
- Use dhcp3-server for examples rather than dhcp (version 2).
- tftpd-hpa does not use /tftpboot by default; allow for this in examples.
Closes: #342076.
* using-d-i:
- Extend description of lowmem installs based on a patch suggested by
Holger Wansing. Closes: #400263.
* boot-new:
- Remove reference to apt guide (not installed by default) and obsolete
debian-guide. Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402492.
- As lynx is no longer installed, suggest w3m as text based browser.
- Explain how to browse /usr/share/doc/ using a graphical web browser.
- Mention documentation packages.
- Clarify what happens on first boot and how to get help to in case of
problems.
* post-install:
- Remove section on reactivating Windows; the installer should detect it
automatically after all. Closes: #402437.
- Add extended section on email configuration (moved from using-d-i as
exim4 now configures for "local mail only" by default). Closes: #402857.
* appendix/preseed:
- Clarifications based on comments from Tapio Lehtonen and Holger Wansing.
Closes: #397923.
* appendix/chroot-install:
- Changes suggested in review by Wiktor Wandachowicz. Closes: #394929.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Prepare for release. This release is mostly for testing purposes, the real
release targeted at Etch will be next week.
* Add and enable amd64 architecture.
* Update control file for dropped m68k and added amd64 architectures.
* Disable Catalan, Korean, Spanish and Brazillian translations as they are
not yet complete.
* Enable Finnish translation.
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:10:16 +0100
2006
installation-guide (20060726) unstable; urgency=low
[ Joey Hess ]
* Update kernel building section to conditionalise some more 2.4 kernel
stuff.
* Suggest passing --initrd to make-kpkg since the docs say nothing about
compiling disk drivers into the kernel.
* Document new passwd/root-login setting.
* Booting a USB stick via a boot floppy is not supported by current
installer images.
* Update preseeding docs to use task names, not short descriptions, since
that will work now and is more convenient for preseeding.
* Document the kde-desktop and gnome-desktop subtasks.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall.
* chroot-install:
- add /etc/hosts to be created for network configuration (closes: #364517)
- make kernel/linux-image variable (closes: #345482)
* Document -- command line option for passing parameters to boot loader
configuration (closes: #309889).
* Switch Finnish from XML-based to PO-based translation.
* Bring numbering and layout of GPL more in line with original. With thanks
to Holger Wansing.
* Add functionality to include optional paragraphs in translations.
Initially two have been defined:
- a paragraph in bookinfo for information about the translation;
- a note in appendix/gpl.xml required with unofficial GPL translations.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Document new preseed/run setting.
* Prebaseconfig renamed to finish-install, which changes some documentation,
and. notably, renames one of the xml files.
* hd-media size changed to 256 mb.
* Document new aliases added in preseed 1.17 for common debconf boot
parameters: fb, url, file, locale, interface.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Document guided partitioning using LVM and update partitioning section.
[ Martin Michlmayr ]
* The RiscPC flavour is now known as "rpc" rather than "riscpc".
* As of 2.6, r4k-ip22 also rupports r5k machines do the r5k-ip22 flavour
has been dropped.
[ Holger Levsen ]
* Added the remaining suggestions about nubus and non-powerpc macs
(closes: #364546).
* Restructured the chapter about powerpc supported hardware, moved
unsupported machines to the end.
* Updated the information about existing kernel flavours.
[ Miroslav Kure ]
* Document installation to encrypted partitions (partman-crypto).
* Update XOrg to 7.0.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Etch has been assigned version 4.0.
* Update kernel versions to 2.6.16.
* Base languages to be built for website on list of release languages.
* arm, mips and mipsel switched to 2.6 kernels.
* Enable Brazillian Portuguese and Vietnamese translation for release.
* Disable Greek translation as it is too incomplete.
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:27:52 +0200
installation-guide (20060427) unstable; urgency=low
[ Joey Hess ]
* Update preseeding docs for base-config removal.
* Add documentation of how to change apt-setup security source with
preseeding.
* Remove the sarge preseeding docs.
* Remove mentions of base-config and move base-config stuff to elsewhere.
* Add documentation of apt-setup, user-setup, clock-setup, tzsetup, and
pkgsel.
* Change some references to tty3 (messages) to instead refer to tty4
(syslog).
* Change references to /var/log/debian-installer to just /var/log/installer.
* Remove docs for baseconfig-udeb; going away with base-config.
* Removed various bits of sarge cruft when it made things easier.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Change default build to Etch.
* Remove all Sarge specific content and make Etch specific content default.
* Delete some obsolete entities.
* Change references from package d-i-manual to package installation-guide.
* Explicitly specify XML declaration as required by openjade 1.4devel1-15
(closes: #360241).
* Update appendix on chroot installs:
- mention that debootstrap also requires basic Unix/Linux commands;
- comment out link to outdated rpm packages of debootstrap.
[ Colin Watson ]
* Add a few more supports-floppy-boot and bootable-usb conditionals to
make it easier to turn all this off in rebuilds of the manual.
* Etch uses X.Org 6.9, and xserver-xorg instead of xserver-xfree86.
* Document how to pick a particular interface with
netcfg/choose_interface, including how to do this before reading a
preseed file.
* Remove obsolete substvar.
* Build-depend on libhtml-parser-perl for build/preseed.pl.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Add docs about preseeding a fallback to a static IP if dhcp fails.
* Update copyright date.
* It's possible to use preseeding to set up LVM now, so remove stuff about
it not working.
* Document DHCP preseeding. Note that this documents it as of netcfg 1.24
and preseed 1.13.
[ Martin Michlmayr ]
* Bring ARM up to date with reality: remove unsupported flavours, add
NSLU2.
* Fix Netwinder/CATS download location.
* Improve the Netwinder TFTP boot instructions.
* The Netwinder firmware is no longer available due to license problems.
* Mention NSLU2 download location.
* Describe how to flash the installer image onto the NSLU2.
* Describe how to boot a Cobalt machine.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Document new option to preseed additional apt sources for target system.
* Document how to create a preconfiguration file.
* Enable Catalan, Italian and Swedish translations for release.
* Disable Brazillian Portuguese translation as it is too incomplete.
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:00:32 +0200
installation-guide (20060102) unstable; urgency=low
[ Frans Pop ] * Fix build error caused by description for s390. Closes: #337382. * Update kernel package names and kernel versions per architecture. * Move documentation on preseeding to separate appendix for etch. * Use new, more flexible perl script to extract example preseed file from new appendix. * Set proper POT-Creation-Date when generating new POT files. * New translations started: Polish, Swedish, Vietnamese. * First release of Greek and Korean translations. * Exclude Traditional Chinese translation as it was not updated. * Switch release name to Etch (3.1+δ). [ Joey Hess ] * Update installation report template and instructions for etch.
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 18:44:59 +0100
2005
installation-guide (20051025) unstable; urgency=low
* Mention in copyright that full GPL is included in the manual.
Closes: #334925
* Register installed documents with doc-base.
* Minor updates in English text and translations.
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:37:25 +0200
installation-guide (20051019) unstable; urgency=low
[ Joey Hess ]
* Split off from the debian-installer source package.
See the changelog for debian-installer for older changelog entries.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Change over to building arch all packages in section doc. Build separate
packages for each arch containing all translations.
* Change package name to installation-guide.
* Include translations already available on official website.
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:12:35 +0200