installation-guide (20160121ubuntu2) xenial; urgency=medium * en/appendix/chroot-install.xml: Revert Ubuntu delta about setting UTC in /etc/default/rcS instead of /etc/adjtime. (LP: #1541532) -- Martin Pitt Thu, 04 Feb 2016 22:15:31 +0100 installation-guide (20160121ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=low * Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining changes: - Extensive (although possibly incomplete) Ubuntu branding, adjustments for our mirror layout, etc. - Build only English (for now, until we figure out how to avoid trashing translations quite so badly with Ubuntu branding etc.). - Drop build-dependency on poxml for now, since we don't ship any translations. - Add "Ubuntu and Debian" and "What is Ubuntu?" section, text borrowed from the Ubuntu web site. Disable the "What is Debian GNU/Linux?" section. - Build only Ubuntu architectures (amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x). - Direct installation reports to ubuntu-users for now. - Document mounting /sys in various places. - Update chroot-install guide for language packs; add a bit more advice about installing grub. - Document our root password and sudo arrangements. - Adjust various memory and disk space requirements. Talk about the default Ubuntu desktop and Ubuntu tasks rather than Debian tasks. - Document network-console/authorized_keys_url feature - Document mirror/udeb/components. - Document scheme for preseeding the use of CC.archive.ubuntu.com mirrors. - Document how to override the weak password check. - Document preseeding user-setup's home directory encryption facility. - Document new simplified partman preseeding. - Document partman-auto-lvm/guided_size. - Document partman/default_filesystem. - Document live-installer/net-image. - Improve examples of tasksel/first preseeding to avoid mentioning standard, which is installed by default. - Document pkgsel/update-policy. - Document pkgsel/updatedb. - Document apt-setup/security_path. - Disable documentation of win32-loader. - Document netboot-style USB images. Still mention the hd-media images, but they're downplayed since many USB sticks are too small for a full Ubuntu ISO image. - Retain delta for commented-out OldWorld Mac support because it's easier than reverting it; but at this point OldWorld Macs will almost certainly never be supported in Ubuntu or Debian. - Remove comments about automatic installation methods that have been removed from Ubuntu. - Document Kickstart installations. - Unset supports-floppy-boot for all our architectures. - Don't recommend passing http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu to debootstrap. - Document that i586 processors and i686 without cmov are no longer supported. - Translate '&debian;' and '&debian-gnu;' xml entities to 'Ubuntu', allowing us to significantly reduce the branding delta. - Bump names for xenial. - Bump kernelversion to 4.3. - Disable all the documentation of loadlin, not just half of it. - Never enable the "new-arch" status for any Ubuntu archs. - Set the archive url dynamically based on the architecture, to cover ports.u.c vs. archive.u.c. LP: #1391019. - Revert installation guide changes that say to use /etc/adjtime instead of etc/default/rcS; /etc/adjtime is evilbadwrong and not used in Ubuntu. - Don't include information about tasks that Ubuntu doesn't have. * Revert the Debian change to mark "graphical install" as the default, which is not a supported option on our d-i based images. -- Steve Langasek Mon, 25 Jan 2016 23:14:43 -0800 installation-guide (20160121) unstable; urgency=medium [ Martin Michlmayr ] * Update scripts and entities to stretch release. * Remove the DNS-323 from the list of supported Orion devices. * Remove IXP4xx from the list of supported armel platforms. * Remove references to platforms that were last supported in Debian 7. * Document armel devices and platforms for which support was dropped. * Update list of supported QNAP models. * Add "MX53 LOCO Board" as alternative name for the MX53 Quick Start Board (see #788782). * List Seagate FreeAgent DockStar as supported plug computer. * Convert supported Kirkwood devices to a list. * Added QNAP TS-109, TS-209, TS-409 and TS-409U as supporteded models again. [ Vincent McIntyre ] * Document discrepancy between halt and poweroff. Closes: #789652. [ Łukasz Stelmach ] * Update information on hashed passwords. Closes: #801810. [ Samuel Thibault ] * Document the fourth bootline parameter of brltty. * Document the zoom support. [ Matt Kraai ] * Fix Instructions for creating syslinux.cfg according to syslinux 5.00 change. Closes: #803267. [ Holger Wansing ] * Documenting that the graphical installer is now the default. [ Cyril Brulebois ] * Remove alternative build-dep on openjade1.3, thanks to Neil Roeth (Closes: #809523). -- Samuel Thibault Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:14:33 +0100 installation-guide (20150528ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=low * Merge from Debian unstable; LP: #887663. - fixes a wrong init script name for dhcpd. LP: #666726. - fixes a typo in the table of memory requirements. LP: #1030336. - drops obsolete mention of 2.6 kernels in keyboard preseeding. LP: #1000354. - fixes wrong make-kpkg example invocation. LP: #1019906. - fixes stale link to debian-installer subversion repo. LP: #1233732. * Remaining changes: - Extensive (although possibly incomplete) Ubuntu branding, adjustments for our mirror layout, etc. - Build only English (for now, until we figure out how to avoid trashing translations quite so badly with Ubuntu branding etc.). - Drop build-dependency on poxml for now, since we don't ship any translations. - Add "Ubuntu and Debian" and "What is Ubuntu?" section, text borrowed from the Ubuntu web site. Disable the "What is Debian GNU/Linux?" section. - Build only Ubuntu architectures (amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x). - Direct installation reports to ubuntu-users for now. - Document mounting /sys in various places. - Update chroot-install guide for language packs; add a bit more advice about installing grub. - Document our root password and sudo arrangements. - Adjust various memory and disk space requirements. Talk about the default Ubuntu desktop and Ubuntu tasks rather than Debian tasks. - Document network-console/authorized_keys_url feature - Document mirror/udeb/components. - Document scheme for preseeding the use of CC.archive.ubuntu.com mirrors. - Document how to override the weak password check. - Document preseeding user-setup's home directory encryption facility. - Document new simplified partman preseeding. - Document partman-auto-lvm/guided_size. - Document partman/default_filesystem. - Document live-installer/net-image. - Improve examples of tasksel/first preseeding to avoid mentioning standard, which is installed by default. - Document pkgsel/update-policy. - Document pkgsel/updatedb. - Document apt-setup/security_path. - Disable documentation of win32-loader. - Document netboot-style USB images. Still mention the hd-media images, but they're downplayed since many USB sticks are too small for a full Ubuntu ISO image. - Retain delta for commented-out OldWorld Mac support because it's easier than reverting it; but at this point OldWorld Macs will almost certainly never be supported in Ubuntu or Debian. - Remove comments about automatic installation methods that have been removed from Ubuntu. - Document Kickstart installations. - Unset supports-floppy-boot for all our architectures. - Don't recommend passing http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu to debootstrap. - Document that i586 processors and i686 without cmov are no longer supported. * Dropped changes, included in Debian: - Update keyboard preseeding documentation for console-setup. - Replace 'netcfg/disable_dhcp' with 'netcfg/disable_autoconfig' throughout. - Add a few more supports-floppy-boot and bootable-usb conditionals. - Remove some 2.6 kernel specifics. - Remove documentation of base-installer/kernel/linux/initramfs-generators - Update url-us-keymap - Replace 'console-setup' with 'keyboard-config' in preseeding. * Dropped changes: - Rename armel manual to armhf: there are both armel and armhf manuals in Debian, and the armel one contains information only relevant for non-armhf systems. - Documentation of X preseeding: hardware should now be automatically detected, and xserver-xorg no longer uses debconf. LP: #881984. - Don't suppress mention of using a CD as an archive even if the system doesn't boot from CD; this is very relevant for s390x, for instance. - Drop comment about Ubuntu desktop CDs, since this manual is not applicable to non-di images at all and we no longer have an Ubuntu alternate CD. - Drop unnecessary delta to debian/rules which causes e.g. preseed file to show the wrong target release name. LP: #1316242. * Translate '&debian;' and '&debian-gnu;' xml entities to 'Ubuntu', allowing us to significantly reduce the branding delta. * Bump names for xenial. * Bump kernelversion to 4.3. * Disable all the documentation of loadlin, not just half of it. * Never enable the "new-arch" status for any Ubuntu archs. * Set the archive url dynamically based on the architecture, to cover ports.u.c vs. archive.u.c. LP: #1391019. * Revert installation guide changes that say to use /etc/adjtime instead of /etc/default/rcS; /etc/adjtime is evilbadwrong and not used in Ubuntu. * Don't include information about tasks that Ubuntu doesn't have. -- Steve Langasek Thu, 17 Dec 2015 01:07:23 -0800 installation-guide (20150528) unstable; urgency=medium [ Samuel Thibault ] * Give to make-kpkg a "1.0.custom" revision instead of bogus "custom.1.0". Closes: #783613. * Add an example preseed entry for setting up multi-arch. Closes: #785165 . Thanks to Matthew Sweet for the patch. [ Christian Perrier ] * Fix kernel source compression extension in kernel-baking.xml [ Holger Wansing ] * Revert to documenting that the text installer is still the default installer. * Remove mention of kfreebsd as supported archs for Jessie -- Samuel Thibault Mon, 04 May 2015 00:13:28 +0200 installation-guide (20150423) unstable; urgency=medium * A few translation updates. [ Samuel Thibault ] * Make size needed on / an entity, and bump its max to 310. Thanks Paolo Cavallini for the report and Laura Arjona Reina for the investigation! -- Samuel Thibault Wed, 22 Apr 2015 22:24:35 +0200 installation-guide (20150417) unstable; urgency=medium [ Stéphane Blondon ] * Improve html table aspect. * Add missing "warning" icon. [ Karsten Merker ] * Add a "Debian-provided U-Boot (system firmware) images" subsection in the "Pre-Installation Hardware and Operating System Setup" section and add a link to the U-Boot images in the "Downloading Files from Debian Mirrors" section. * Add a "Using pre-built SD-card images with the installer" subsection in the "Booting the Installer on ARM" section. * Correct the number of supported architectures (arm64 and ppc64el are release architectures now). * Add a "Pre-built netboot tarball" subsection for armhf in the "Booting by TFTP" section. * Add a "Console configuration" subsection in the "Booting the Installer on ARM" section. * Add information that the IXP4xx platform support in Jessie is limited to dist-upgrades from Wheezy, that new installations are not supported for the IXP4xx platform and that kernel support for it will definitely be dropped in Stretch. * Add LinkSprite pcDuino3 to the list of supported armhf systems. * Change http.debian.net references to httpredir.debian.org. [ Holger Wansing ] * Add ppc64el bits. [ Wookey ] * Update the "Supported Hardware" section for arm64. [ Steve McIntyre ] * Update stats for number of packages per arch, number of DDs and number of mailing lists * Add mention of BD-ROM like CD/DVD * Lots of updates to documentation about EFI * Make USB boot a more prominent option for booting the installer on x86 * Remove the old hdX device names, switch to sdX for disks * Various fixes for arm* support * Loads of trivial translations. [ Samuel Thibault ] * Add missing "set -e" in build/Makefile to trap build failures. Closes: #782673. * Loads of trivial translations. * Fix moving the html images when destination already contains a built manual. Closes: #782765. -- Samuel Thibault Sat, 28 Mar 2015 10:10:34 +0100 installation-guide (20150323) unstable; urgency=medium [ Samuel Thibault ] * Rephrase documentation of grub-installer/bootdev to make it clear that it has to be specified. document that it can be preseeded with "default". * Update preseed grub-style partition name from grub1 style (hd0,0) to grub2 style (hd0,1). * Avoid security issues while making an encrypted root password for a preseed file. Closes: #775718. * Re-enable da language. [ Stuart Prescott ] * Advise users not to use unetbootin * Suggest win32diskimager as an alternativee to unetbootin * Explicitly list the netinst, CD-1 and DVD-1 images as "which image should I use" is a FAQ. [ Karsten Merker ] * Update the armhf platform support status. * Update the U-Boot USB boot command in the "Booting from a USB stick in U-Boot" section as required by newer U-Boot versions. [ Holger Wansing ] * Make year for copyright an entity. [ Stéphane Blondon ] * Add CSS for the html version. -- Samuel Thibault Sun, 04 Jan 2015 00:05:14 +0100 installation-guide (20141230) unstable; urgency=medium [ Karsten Merker ] * List the armel MV78xx0 platform as no longer supported in Jessie (support was removed with linux-image 3.16.2-1) and remove the mv78xx0 flavor from the architecture table. * List the armel ixp4xx platform as (again) supported in Jessie. Support for it has been reenabled with kernel 3.16. * List the Wandboard Quad as supported armhf platform (based on installation report #773127). * Add a "Booting from a USB stick in U-Boot" subsection in the "Booting the Installer on ARM" section. [ Ben Hutchings ] * Warn that one must copy hybrid images on whole USB sticks, not just a partition. Closes: #762024. [ Samuel Thibault ] * Fix preseed name: netcfg/link_detection_timeout -> netcfg/link_wait_timeout. Thanks Julien Cristau for noticing. * Update brltty URLs and version. * Update preseeding of desktops and list of desktops. * Add arm64 and ppc64el manual builds. * Update tasks installation sizes. * It is now possible to choose the installed desktop, and the default is now Gnome on x86. Closes: #764026. * Fix documentation for -- after it was turned into --- for fixing #764675. * Explicit that console=ttyS0,something has to be put after ---. Closes: #764677. [ Baptiste Jammet ] * Update installation-guide for no separated /usr. Closes: #772461. -- Samuel Thibault Tue, 30 Dec 2014 22:26:53 +0100 installation-guide (20140916) unstable; urgency=low [ Martin Michlmayr ] * Remove information about Cobalt devices. [ Samuel Thibault ] * Reference the DEBIAN_FRONTEND parameter in the accessibility section. * Do not document a "d-i keymap" alias, it does not work, only the bootcommand keymap alias works. * Emphasize about the issue of language/keyboard being by default asked before disk and network preseeding. * Mention where filesystems are mounted for preseed commands. * Fix setting up ssh access now that root with password is disabled by default. Closes: #756065. * Add support for "any" and "x86" magics in preseed.pl. Closes: #758476. * Update linux-x86 lowmem limits. * Add arch-parallel build support. * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5 (no change). [ Karsten Merker ] * Update and extend the "Supported Hardware" section for armel and armhf: - update the architecture/subarch/flavor table - add general information about armel and armhf - add information about platform-specific and multiplatform kernels - update the platform support status * Disable the "Booting the SS4000-E" section as it describes hardware which is not supported in Jessie anymore (Intel iop32-based NAS). * Disable the references to the Thecus N2100 and the GLAN Tank in the "Where to Find Installation Images" section. Both are Intel iop32-based systems which are not supported in Jessie anymore. * Add an "ARM firmware", a "Setting the ethernet MAC address in U-Boot" and a "Kernel/Initrd/Device-Tree relocation issues in U-Boot" subsection in the "Pre-Installation Hardware and Operating System Setup" section. * Add a "Boot image formats" and a "TFTP-booting in U-Boot" subsection in the "Booting the Installer on ARM" section. * Add location information for the armmp flavor to the "Where to Find Installation Images" section. * Add a "Making the system bootable with flash-kernel" subsection to the "Making Your System Bootable" section for arm platforms. * Remove ia64, s390 and sparc from the supported architecture list for Jessie. * Update several common entities for Jessie. * Reword the "Installing Additional Software" section to make it easier to change the default desktop environment in the installation guide. * Remove outdated reference to booting from floppy disks in the "Booting from CD-ROM" section. * Add a "Systems with UEFI firmware" subsection and a "Disabling the Windows 8 'fast boot' feature" subsection in the "Pre-Installation Hardware and Operating System Setup" section. [ Cyril Brulebois ] * Drop installation-guide-ia64 package (commented out). * Target release is now jessie. [ Colin Watson ] * Remove mention of partman's ability to copy data between partitions, since that relies on libparted's filesystem-handling code which is being removed. [ Holger Wansing ] * Drop s390, ia64 and sparc from control / archlist files for Jessie (means dropping installation-guide-s390 and installation-guide-sparc packages) * Update manual for graphical installer being the default installer under i386 and amd64 for Jessie. * Move contents of 'Graphical installer' appendix to regular parts of the manual. * Remove references of loop-AES (no longer supported by the installer). -- Samuel Thibault Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:39:53 +0200 # For older changelog entries, run 'apt-get changelog installation-guide-amd64'