installation-guide (20230803) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium [ Holger Wansing ] * Finaly remove MS-DOS from the doc. * Unification regarding Windows versions. * Remove hint for unofficial builds, that d-i is still in beta state. * Adapt lowmem values for armel, ppc64el + s390x according to lowmem package. * Overhaul ram size / harddisk size requirements / recommendations for simplification and consistency. * Update recommended size for swap partitions. * Disable the build for mipsel (no longer a release arch). * Clean-up content for kfreebsd from the guide (has finally been removed from ports). * Bump release name to trixie. * Remove 'full CD images' / 'full CD set' from the manual; they are no longer built. * Update name of 'standard system utilities' task. * Remove outdated information regarding partitioning/disk geometry etc. * Disable the build for i386 (no longer supported by debian-installer). * Update list of partitioning schemes according to the new recipes in partman-auto. [ Samuel Thibault ] * Fix locale preseeding: Rather document to use a UTF-8 locale. (Closes: #1065570) * Document preseeding espeakup. [ Oliver Kellogg ] * Fix wrong word in GPL. [ Updated translations ] * Catalan by d * Czech by Anton and Tomas Koutek * Simplified Chinese by Boyuan Yang, Li Zelin, Xi Lu and Wenbin Lv * Traditional Chinese by Ricky From Hong Kong and yubike * Danish by Allan Nordhøy * Dutch by Frans Spiesschaert * German by Holger Wansing * Indonesian by Andika Triwidada * Italian by Luca Monducci * Japanese by Sadaharu Wakisaka * Kabyle by ButterflyOfFire * Korean by Changwoo Ryu * Norwegian Bokmål by Allan Nordhøy * Norwegian Nynorsk by S Bre * Portuguese by Miguel Figueiredo * Romanian by Remus-Gabriel Chelu * Swedish by Allan Nordhøy, bittin and Luna Jernberg * Spanish by gallegonovato * Ukranian by Serhii Horichenko, Hotripak, shukyo asura and Unnumbered Elephant -- Holger Wansing Thu, 03 Aug 2023 21:58:23 +0200 installation-guide (20230623) unstable; urgency=medium [ Vincent Danjean ] * Document power-of-two support in partman (See: #913431). [ Holger Wansing ] * Add Indonesian (as a recently added new translation) to langlist, to get this translation into the package. [ Updated translations ] * Dutch by Frans Spiesschaert -- Samuel Thibault Fri, 23 Jun 2023 01:16:33 +0200 installation-guide (20230508) unstable; urgency=medium [ Samuel Thibault ] * Update figures. Update text about root vs /usr, as the latter is now systematically in root. [ Holger Wansing ] * Document minimal required harddisc space as 4 gigabytes instead of 2 gigabytes. (Closes: #1032940) * Update chapter for preparing installation media. (Closes: #1033524) * simplify instructions for making bootable USB media * remove mentions of mini.iso image * remove mentions of loadlin * Remove chapter about booting the installer from Windows. Support for win32-loader has been removed from the installer. [ Chris Hofstaedtler ] * Remove dmraid (sata raid) from the doc; src:dmraid has dropped its udebs, and the experimental support from the installer was also removed. Closes: #1033535. [ New translations ] * Romanian by Remus-Gabriel Chelu, many thanks! [ Updated translations ] * Catalan by d * Greek by galaxico * Spanish by gallegonovato * French by Baptiste Jammet * German by Holger Wansing * Indonesian by Andika Triwidada * Italian by Luca Monducci * Korean by Changwoo Ryu * Dutch by Frans Spiesschaert * Portuguese by Miguel Figueiredo * Chinese (simplified) by Wenbin Lv -- Samuel Thibault Mon, 08 May 2023 22:47:33 +0200 installation-guide (20230215) unstable; urgency=medium [ Holger Wansing ] * Bump release name to bookworm. * Add translation files for Indonesian. * Clean-up of outdated/no longer used content: * remove docs for non-release archs (ia64, mips, hppa, sparc, powerpc); this includes docs for various bootloader installers. * Set Danish translation to up-to-date; thanks to Joe Hansen. * Add hint for inclusion of installation log files in bug template. * Encourage users to file installation reports in English. [ Samuel Thibault ] * Document changed behaviour for choice selection via arrow keys in text frontend. * rules: Leverage /usr/share/dpkg/pkg-info.mk to provide package information. * install-methods: Use archive-mirror entity. Closes: #1030002 [ Debian Janitor ] * Trim trailing whitespace. * Bump debhelper from old 12 to 13. * Update standards version to 4.6.0, no changes needed. [ Updated translations ] * Catalan by d * Danish by Joe Hansen * Spanish by eulalio and Luiz Carlos Lucasv * German by Holger Wansing * Italian by Luca Monducci * Korean by Changwoo Ryu * Dutch by Frans Spiesschaert * Portuguese by Miguel Figueiredo * Ukranian by Andrij Mizyk * Chinese (simplified) by Wenbin Lv and unstartdev [ New translation ] * Indonesian by Andika Triwidada - translation completed! Many thanks to Andika! [ Philip Hands ] * mention base64:// option for apt-setup/localN/key [ Cyril Brulebois ] * Update all firmware-related information, following the 2022 General Resolution about non-free firmware and all the changes that were implemented since then. Closes: #1030007 * buildone.sh: skip PDF generation for Greek (el), since xelatex fails. Closes: #1030433 * rules: Avoid “Fontconfig error: No writable cache directories” (seen during PDF generation) in chroots, by setting HOME to a writable location, inside the build tree. -- Cyril Brulebois Wed, 15 Feb 2023 21:54:41 +0100 installation-guide (20220129) unstable; urgency=medium [ Holger Wansing ] * Update supported devices in Bullseye for armel. * Include a note on how to change init system during install. Closes: #992034 * Add missing preseed line for apt-setup in example-preseed template. Closes: 992183 * Don't call 'Linux' an operating system, use 'GNU/Linux' instead. Closes: 993475 * Some clarifications on preseeding. Closes: #603444 * Preseeding: add a comment about automatic network configuration being the default method. Closes: #838948 * Document the new 'avoid the tasksel prompt' preseeding feature, introduced in pkgsel 0.69. * Overhaul of chapter 'Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting'. Closes: #604839, #988472, #408643. * Some corrections/optimizations in doc structure related to graphical installer. * Consistently use 'text-based' for the text installer (newt frontend) instead of 'character-based' or 'textual installer'. * Improve description of popcon functionality. * Remove mark for Spanish being an unsupported/outdated translation, thanks to eulalio. * Document how to preseed disabling of 'cdrom' sources.list entries for DVD/BD installation images. [ Samuel Thibault ] * Provide more details on the textual front-end keyboard shortcuts. * Fix partman-partitioning/choose_label type to select. [ Stéphane Blondon ] * Update CSS for notes, warnings and code block [ Updated translations ] * Catalan by d * Chinese (simplified) by 吕文彬 and Boyuan Yang * Dutch by Frans Spiesschaert * German by Holger Wansing * Italian by Luca Monducci * Japanese by Hideki Yamane * Portuguese by Miguel Figueiredo * Romanian by ionut eugen * Spanish by eulalio * Swedish by Luna Jernberg -- Samuel Thibault Sat, 29 Jan 2022 23:37:50 +0100 installation-guide (20210730) unstable; urgency=medium [ Holger Wansing ] * Remove outdated-translation mark for Japanese. [ Cyril Brulebois ] * Expand firmware-related documentation (Closes: #991627): - Mention rebooting into the installed system can result in a black screen or garbled display. - Mention possible workarounds (nomodeset, VT switching). - Mention an isenkram-based procedure to automatically install firmware packages from within the installed system. * Refresh README. [ Updated translations ] * Catalan by d * Japanese by YOSHINO Yoshihito * Chinese (simplified) by Boyuan Yang <073plan@gmail.com> -- Cyril Brulebois Fri, 30 Jul 2021 20:25:02 +0200 installation-guide (20210604+rebuild) unstable; urgency=medium * Re-upload to get built on buildd, no source change. -- Samuel Thibault Sat, 05 Jun 2021 00:44:37 +0200 installation-guide (20210604) unstable; urgency=medium [ Charles Curley ] * preseed: Document comments syntax. Closes: #985853 [ Samuel Thibault ] * Add note about the lowmem parameter in the memory requirement section. Closes: #987701 * Update lowmem levels for arm64, armhf, mipsel, mips64el. [ Updated translations ] * Dutch by Frans Spiesschaert * German by Holger Wansing -- Samuel Thibault Sun, 11 Apr 2021 22:02:59 +0200 installation-guide (20210305) unstable; urgency=medium [ Samuel Thibault ] * Bump debhelper compat to 12, no change in the resulting binary packages (Closes: Bug#965596) * control: Bump Standards-Version to 4.5.0 (no change). * Mention that minimum hardware requirements are for non-liveCD images (Closes: Bug#976255) * rules: Set FORCE_SOURCE_DATE to 1. * build/entities/urls.ent: Update brltty website URL. * build/entities/common.ent: Note for installation size to avoid installing qemu-user-agent. * build/entities/common.ent: Update numbers. * build/arch-options/{amd64,i386,hurd-i386}: Update minimum memory sizes. [ Holger Wansing ] * Some more UEFI updates. Closes: #905173 * Add some documentation about creation of partition tables, especially gpt. Closes: #644430, #691046. * Add chapter about verifying the integrity of installation images. Closes: #975331 * Fix supernumerous space after 'arch-title' entity. * Document the activation of the (experimental) graphical installer for arm64. * Update supported archs for bullseye. * Introduce entity for supported archs (use in appendix D.3). * Set Danish, Japanese, Kabyle and Russian translation to outdated. [ Steve McIntyre ] * We work with UEFI Secure Boot, let's say so. Closes: #919233 [ Updated translations ] * Catalan by d * Chinese (simplified) by Tao Wang, Liu Tao, Liao Junchao and Keen * Dutch by Frans Spiesschaert * French by Baptiste Jammet * German by Holger Wansing * Greek by galaxico * Italian by Luca Monducci * Norwegian Bokmål by Allan Nordhøy * Portuguese by Miguel Figueiredo * Spanish by Camaleón, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Peña and Vibo Lavida * Swedish by Luna Jernberg [ New translations ] * Translation effort started for Kabyle language: po files added. -- Samuel Thibault Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:19:17 +0100 installation-guide (20200715) unstable; urgency=medium [ Holger Wansing ] * Show a build version within the manual, parsed from debian/changelog. * Also add the '#_preseed_V1' header, when building the example-preseed.txt for the website, as it is already in the binary packages. * Fix gawk warnings about invalid regexp escapes with latest gawk version. Thanks to Mattia Rizzolo for the hint. * Correct filename syntax for PDF and TXT formats, when building for the website, to get valid filename suffixes. * Update view of boot screen (add dark theme installer menu). * Update copyright year to 2020. * Drop mips from built archs. * Remove docs on no-longer-existing 'print-server' task. * Update manual regarding the latest bootloader changings (removal of lilo + globally changing the term "Installing GRUB on a harddisk" into "Installing GRUB on the primary drive"). * Also mention Windows 10 fast-startup feature in-line with fast-boot from Windows 8. Closes: #939862 * Move advise for downloading netboot/hd-media files from chapter 5.1.5. to 4.4.1. where it belongs. And convert filenames into clickable links. Closes: #284760, #322694. * Add condition 'manual-usb-prep-supported' to display chapters for manual USB stick preparation in amd64 and i386 only (chapter was also active for arm64 before, but needs an overhaul first, to be useful). * Rephrase sentence about preparing USB storage devices (using GNU/Linux systems is recommended, but not strictly required). Closes: #837073 * Add a chapter to illustrate examples of boot prompt lines with preseeding options (an idea of Richard Owlett, thanks). * Add preseeding information about EFI partitions. Closes: #924290. * texlive-lang-chinese: Additional Build-Depends for PDF in CJK languages. Closes: #963450. [ Changwoo Ryu ] * Improve Korean pdf [ Updated translations ] * Catalan by Joan Montané * Dutch by Frans Spiesschaert * French by Baptiste Jammet * German by Holger Wansing * Greek by galaxico * Hungarian * Italian by Luca Monducci * Korean by Changwoo Ryu * Norwegian Bokmål by Allan Nordhøy * Norwegian Nynorsk by Yngve Spjeld-Landro * Portuguese by Miguel Figueiredo * Swedish by Mattias Münster, Leif-Jöran Olsson and Andreas Rönnquist * Spanish by Camaleón. Closes: #960085, #961204, #961339, #961340, #961502, #961341. [ Stéphane Blondon ] * Update html style to website style. Closes: #871730 -- Samuel Thibault Wed, 15 Jul 2020 22:42:02 +0200 installation-guide (20191229+rebuild1) unstable; urgency=medium * Re-upload to get built on buildd, no source change. Closes: #953783 -- Samuel Thibault Sat, 14 Mar 2020 00:25:15 +0100 installation-guide (20191229) unstable; urgency=medium [ Guilhem Moulin ] * Add link to a guide/document for encrypted /boot. Closes: #927165 [ Holger Wansing ] * Remove 'outdated translation' warning for Greek, is now fully translated. * Convert Czech translation from xml to po format. * Use tags for quotes. Closes: #929752 * Updating chapter for choosing a network mirror. Closes: #913389 * Updating chapter about setting up the e-mail system (exim4 is no longer installed by default). Closes: #930476 * Update for 'Recommended partitioning scheme' chapter. Closes: #927987 * Rename mdcfg into partman-md and lvmcfg into partman-lvm. Closes: #414194 * Remove mentions of floppy. Thanks to Miguel Figueiredo for the patch. Closes: #935069 * Change CD/DVD etc. into 'installation media' or 'installation image' as cover-term, where applicable. Closes: #794936 * Bump release name to bullseye. * Remove trailing whitespaces from changelog file, to fix lintian tag. * Update sources.list lines for security updates according to new notation. [ Moritz Muehlenhoff ] * Update doc for apt-setup/localX/key preseeding config. Closes: #932284 [ Samuel Thibault ] * Fix shortcut for high-contrast boot menu entry. * Bump minimum memory values: graphical installation needs 1GiB, and only the non-graphical installer can meet the no-desktop values. * rules: Use dh_prep instead of dh_clean -k. [ Updated translations ] * French by Baptiste Jammet * German by Holger Wansing * Greek by Emmanuel Galatoulas * Italian by Luca Monducci * Korean by Changwoo Ryu * Norwegian Bokmål by Allan Nordhøy * Portuguese by Miguel Figueiredo * Swedish by Mattias Münster * Spanish by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Peña and Robert Schneider * Dutch by Frans Spiesschaert -- Samuel Thibault Sun, 29 Dec 2019 22:14:34 +0100 # Older entries have been removed from this changelog. # To read the complete changelog use `apt changelog installation-guide-amd64`.