installation-guide (20100518ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low
* Resynchronise with Debian. Remaining changes:
- Build only English (for now, until we figure out how to avoid trashing
translations quite so badly with Ubuntu branding etc.).
- Build only Ubuntu architectures (amd64, armel, i386, ia64, powerpc,
sparc).
- Extensive (although possibly incomplete) Ubuntu branding, adjustments
for our mirror layout, etc.
- Add "Ubuntu and Debian" and "What is Ubuntu?" section, text borrowed
from the Ubuntu web site. Disable the "What is Debian GNU/Linux?"
section.
- Direct installation reports to ubuntu-users for now.
- Adjust various memory and disk space requirements. Talk about the
default Ubuntu desktop and Ubuntu tasks rather than Debian tasks.
- Document mounting /sys in various places.
- Unset supports-floppy-boot for all our architectures.
- Add a few more supports-floppy-boot and bootable-usb conditionals.
- Document our root password and sudo arrangements.
- 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.
- Document Kickstart installations (currently only the basics, a
reference to Red Hat's documentation, and the differences from
Anaconda).
- Update keyboard preseeding documentation for console-setup.
- Update chroot-install guide for console-setup and language packs; add
a bit more advice about installing grub.
- Disable documentation of win32-loader.
- Document new simplified partman preseeding.
- Document mirror/udeb/components.
- Document apt-setup/security_path.
- Don't recommend passing http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu to
debootstrap.
- Document pkgsel/update-policy.
- Document preseeding user-setup's home directory encryption facility.
- Improve examples of tasksel/first preseeding to avoid mentioning
standard, which is installed by default.
- Document partman-auto-lvm/guided_size.
- Document scheme for preseeding the use of CC.archive.ubuntu.com
mirrors.
- Document pkgsel/updatedb.
- Document partman/default_filesystem.
- Document how to override the weak password check.
- Remove comments about automatic installation methods that have been
removed from Ubuntu.
- Remove documentation of
base-installer/kernel/linux/initramfs-generators; setting this to
anything other than the default will cause the installer to fail.
* Adjust list of armel architectures for Ubuntu.
* Bump kernelversion to 2.6.35.
* Bump release version and names for Maverick.
* Update Canonical's copyright years.
installation-guide (20100518) unstable; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* Note that partman-auto/init_automatically_partition is only honoured if
partman-auto/method is not set.
* Document the use of grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy to
switch back to GRUB Legacy for those who need it.
* Remove spurious quoting in network-console documentation, pointed out by
Jonathan Amery.
* partman now asks a slightly different (and less scary) confirmation
question if it doesn't appear that any data is being overwritten.
Document the associated preseeding changes.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Add missing hyphen in command "kbd-config". With thanks to Tapio Lehtonen.
Closes: #545584.
* Include a caution in the IA64 version of the manual against using IA64
for "normal" 64-bit Intel systems.
* Disable the variant for the alpha architecture: it is being dropped as a
release architecture for Squeeze.
* When updating PO files, set them to a standard width of 79 (same as used
for l10n-sync for D-I master PO files).
* Document that Debian now installs Recommends by default and how to disable
that.
* x86 USB boot: two improvements suggested by Timo Juhani Lindfors and one
by Samuel Thibault. Closes: #532437, #532440, #548534.
* welcome: add a link to www.kernel.org and remove the no longer valid link
to www.kerneltraffic.org. Closes: #331523.
* Document new help functionality.
* Update for changes in locale selection in localechooser 2.17 and 2.18:
- selecting a different country is now always possible at high priority;
- change in order of selection of additional locales and default locale;
- selection of a preferred locale if a combination of language and country
was selected for which no locale exists;
- support for separate preseeding of language, country and locale.
* Mention option to select UTC as time zone at medium/low priority.
[ Martin Michlmayr ]
* Mention more Kirkwood-based devices that are supported.
* Document where to get Kirkwood installer images from.
* Fix the preseeding example to say that allow_unauthenticated is a
boolean (and not a string).
[ Joey Hess ]
* Reword section on installer's support of wireless.
[ Steve Langasek ]
* Update the appendix on chroot installs to not recommend mapping 127.0.0.1
to the hostname; use 127.0.1.1, the same as the installer itself does.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Update and extend information on preseeding partman. Based on a patch from
Vincent McIntyre. Closes: #511053.
* Use 'ip addr' instead of 'ifconfig' to get MAC address for RARP setup.
* Update information on setting up a TFTP server.
* As of Lenny syslinux no longer requires that the TFTP server supports the
'tsize' option (see #570273). With thanks to Ferenc Wagner.
* Using D-I: add subsection intruducing supported partitioning options,
including a list of supported file systems.
* Disabling framebuffer on x86 now also requires passing 'vga=normal'. With
thanks to Samuel Thibault. Closes: #577461.
* Update for switch of G-I from DirectFB to X.Org.
* Update kernel version to 2.6.32, number of Debian Developers and program
versions.
* Update URL for Debian mirror list. Closes: #579935.
* Disable Korean, Portuguese (BR), Spanish and Swedish translations as they
are incomplete.
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 <email address hidden>
for the patch.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Move most build dependencies to Build-Depends-Indep.
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.
-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:28:30 +0100
