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- partman/confirm_write_new_label was renamed to
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partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label in r50363, December 2007.
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Adjust preseeding documentation to match (LP: #591199).
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-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:16:32 +0100
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* Resynchronise with Debian. Remaining changes:
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- Build only English (for now, until we figure out how to avoid trashing
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translations quite so badly with Ubuntu branding etc.).
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- Build only Ubuntu architectures (amd64, armel, i386, ia64, powerpc,
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- Extensive (although possibly incomplete) Ubuntu branding, adjustments
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for our mirror layout, etc.
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- Add "Ubuntu and Debian" and "What is Ubuntu?" section, text borrowed
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from the Ubuntu web site. Disable the "What is Debian GNU/Linux?"
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- Direct installation reports to ubuntu-users for now.
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- Adjust various memory and disk space requirements. Talk about the
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default Ubuntu desktop and Ubuntu tasks rather than Debian tasks.
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- Document mounting /sys in various places.
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- Unset supports-floppy-boot for all our architectures.
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- Add a few more supports-floppy-boot and bootable-usb conditionals.
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- Document our root password and sudo arrangements.
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- Document netboot-style USB images. Still mention the hd-media images,
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but they're downplayed since many USB sticks are too small for a full
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- Document Kickstart installations (currently only the basics, a
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reference to Red Hat's documentation, and the differences from
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- Update keyboard preseeding documentation for console-setup.
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- Update chroot-install guide for console-setup and language packs; add
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a bit more advice about installing grub.
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- Disable documentation of win32-loader.
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- Document new simplified partman preseeding.
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- Document mirror/udeb/components.
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- Document apt-setup/security_path.
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- Don't recommend passing http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu to
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- Document pkgsel/update-policy.
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- Document preseeding user-setup's home directory encryption facility.
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- Improve examples of tasksel/first preseeding to avoid mentioning
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standard, which is installed by default.
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- Document partman-auto-lvm/guided_size.
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- Document scheme for preseeding the use of CC.archive.ubuntu.com
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- Document pkgsel/updatedb.
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- Document partman/default_filesystem.
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- Document how to override the weak password check.
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- Remove comments about automatic installation methods that have been
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- Remove documentation of
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base-installer/kernel/linux/initramfs-generators; setting this to
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anything other than the default will cause the installer to fail.
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* Adjust list of armel architectures for Ubuntu.
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* Bump kernelversion to 2.6.35.
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* Bump release version and names for Maverick.
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* Update Canonical's copyright years.
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-- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:28:30 +0100
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* Note that partman-auto/init_automatically_partition is only honoured if
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partman-auto/method is not set.
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* Document the use of grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy to
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switch back to GRUB Legacy for those who need it.
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* Remove spurious quoting in network-console documentation, pointed out by
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* partman now asks a slightly different (and less scary) confirmation
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question if it doesn't appear that any data is being overwritten.
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Document the associated preseeding changes.
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* Add missing hyphen in command "kbd-config". With thanks to Tapio Lehtonen.
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* Include a caution in the IA64 version of the manual against using IA64
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for "normal" 64-bit Intel systems.
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* Disable the variant for the alpha architecture: it is being dropped as a
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release architecture for Squeeze.
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* When updating PO files, set them to a standard width of 79 (same as used
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for l10n-sync for D-I master PO files).
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* Document that Debian now installs Recommends by default and how to disable
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* x86 USB boot: two improvements suggested by Timo Juhani Lindfors and one
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by Samuel Thibault. Closes: #532437, #532440, #548534.
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* welcome: add a link to www.kernel.org and remove the no longer valid link
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to www.kerneltraffic.org. Closes: #331523.
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* Document new help functionality.
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* Update for changes in locale selection in localechooser 2.17 and 2.18:
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- selecting a different country is now always possible at high priority;
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- change in order of selection of additional locales and default locale;
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- selection of a preferred locale if a combination of language and country
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was selected for which no locale exists;
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- support for separate preseeding of language, country and locale.
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* Mention option to select UTC as time zone at medium/low priority.
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* Mention more Kirkwood-based devices that are supported.
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* Document where to get Kirkwood installer images from.
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* Fix the preseeding example to say that allow_unauthenticated is a
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boolean (and not a string).
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* Reword section on installer's support of wireless.
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* Update the appendix on chroot installs to not recommend mapping 127.0.0.1
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to the hostname; use 127.0.1.1, the same as the installer itself does.
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* Update and extend information on preseeding partman. Based on a patch from
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Vincent McIntyre. Closes: #511053.
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* Use 'ip addr' instead of 'ifconfig' to get MAC address for RARP setup.
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* Update information on setting up a TFTP server.
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* As of Lenny syslinux no longer requires that the TFTP server supports the
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'tsize' option (see #570273). With thanks to Ferenc Wagner.
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* Using D-I: add subsection intruducing supported partitioning options,
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including a list of supported file systems.
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* Disabling framebuffer on x86 now also requires passing 'vga=normal'. With
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thanks to Samuel Thibault. Closes: #577461.
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* Update for switch of G-I from DirectFB to X.Org.
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* Update kernel version to 2.6.32, number of Debian Developers and program
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* Update URL for Debian mirror list. Closes: #579935.
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* Disable Korean, Portuguese (BR), Spanish and Swedish translations as they
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 18 May 2010 03:51:35 +0200
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* Switch over from Lenny to Squeeze. Current kernel is 2.6.29.
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* Change the Debian designation for the ARM architecture from arm to armel.
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The internal 'arch-spec' and file naming convention remains "arm" in order
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to avoid unnecessary changes and work for translators.
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* Mention that TERM= can be passed as boot parameter to set the terminal type
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for serial console installs. Based on a patch suggested by Samuel Thibault.
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* Update copyright for 2009.
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* Updates for ARM (armel):
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- Remove sections about Netwinder/CATS, which are no longer supported.
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- Update the "supported hardware" table.
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- Add a section about Marvell's Kirkwood, which is now supported.
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- Show some sections on mipsel that apply there too.
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- Say that the Cobalt Qube 2700 (Qube1) is no longer supported.
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- Remove everything about the Broadcom SWARM and BigSur since we no
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longer support these devices in the installer.
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- Document partman/mount_style, which controls how filesystems are
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* Document pkgsel/include/install-recommends.
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* partman/confirm_write_new_label was renamed to
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Adjust preseeding documentation to match.
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* Document installation of localization tasks.
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* Document the debian-installer/add-kernel-opts preconfiguration option.
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* Add links to website documenting braille keybindings. Thanks to
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Samuel Thibault for the patch. Closes: #534260.
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* Fix typo in chroot install appendix. Closes: #535494.
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* Improve bootp documentation. Thanks to Holger Wansing for the patch.
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* On s390 the system clock is not modified by the installer.
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* Document the netcfg/enable preseeding that allows for disabling the
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network configuration. Thanks to Anthony L. Awtrey <tony@awtrey.com>
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* Move most build dependencies to Build-Depends-Indep.
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:10:10 +0200
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* Document partman/early_command (added in partman-base 129).
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* Add note about preseeding ownership to preseed-seenflag section, since I
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had a user confused by this who hadn't found the note elsewhere
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* Use /dev/sda and /dev/sdb in the RAID preseeding example rather than
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/dev/discs/disc0/disc and /dev/discs/disc1/disc, since the latter
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devices no longer exist.
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* Document noshell boot parameter. See #504381.
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* Clarify behaviour of "auto" preseed alias.
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* Clarify that preseeding aliases are only aliases for question names, and
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that a value is always needed as well.
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* Apparently you can pass extra boot parameters to OpenBoot at the end of
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the 'boot' command. Document this as it has been known to cause some
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* Document preseeding of network-console now that its postinst can be
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relied on to be executed.
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* Update info on passing boot parameter for PPPoE.
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* Explain Standard system task.
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* Add LXDE desktop environment.
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* Mention option to select desktop environment from boot menu for x86 CDs.
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* Add task sizes for alternative desktop environments.
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* chroot install: 'tzconfig' is deprecated for 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata'.
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* Booting using LILO or GRUB: minor improvements. Closes: #519508.
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* Fix example how to generate md5-encoded password. Closes: #518018.
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* Fix missing tags in Japanese translation. Closes: #509372.
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* Improve script that extracts preconfiguration example file from appendix.
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* Document accessibility support. Closes: #509371.
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* (Re-)enable Vietnamese translation (not fully up-to-date).
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* Convert PO translations for Finnish, Korean and Vietnamese to XML using
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their last fully translated version.
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* Release update of the manual for Lenny. Six translations have not been
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updated: Brazilian, Catalan, Finnish, Korean, Spanish and Vietnamese.
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:23:30 +0200
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