Re: A floppy driver in the debian installer kernel

2020-04-21 Thread jhcha54008
, JH Chatenet Le mardi 21 avril à 18h 59mn 43s (+0200), John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : > Hello! > > On 4/21/20 4:00 PM, jhcha54008 wrote: > > PS : it is the opportunity to thank you (and Samuel Thibault) for all your > > work on the alpha kernel and > > towards

A floppy driver in the debian installer kernel

2020-04-21 Thread jhcha54008
Hi Adrian and Michael, Indeed, it would be great to have a floppy driver at installation time. But it seems that the floppy-module udeb was removed. Would it be possible to ship it in the udeb kernel package instead, either built-in or as a module ? I wonder if one of the two following

Re: Bug#950192: Please remove build dep on aboot

2020-01-30 Thread jhcha54008
Hi Adrian, Nice that someone knowledgeable stepped in to salvage aboot. Thanks in advance ! May I ask if there is a git repository (in salsa ?) following the debian variation of aboot ? (and including the history as a bonus ?) Three RC bugs are listed for src:aboot, with at least partial

a home-made install CDROM with QLOGIC firmware [was : Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-11-22]

2019-11-29 Thread jhcha54008
Hi, I wonder if the (untested) simple recipe below would work. It would confirm that the missing QLOGIC firmware was indeed the culprit. I hope it will help ! Regards, JH Chatenet # download firmware-qlogic apt-get download firmware-qlogic # become root (to preserve rights) su - # install

pata drivers in the alpha installer

2019-05-08 Thread jhcha54008
Hi Adrian, I wonder if the line in the patch of bug #920353 [1] : pata-modules-${kernel:Version} would still be helpful. (I haven't tested since I submitted the bug report) I hope it will help ! Regards, JH Chatenet [1] : https://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2019/01/msg00020.html

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-04-09

2019-04-16 Thread jhcha54008
Hi, As far as I understand, it seems that booting a SCSI drive (disk, cdrom) on alpha needs a (non-free) firmware for the QLOGIC chip (see the thread following [1] for an example and the answer of Michael Cree) This firmware should be loaded somehow : embedded in the (tainted) kernel (as

Bug#920353: debian-installer configuration on alpha

2019-01-24 Thread jhcha54008
Package: debian-installer Version: 20190118 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch X-Debbugs-CC: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz , debian-alpha@lists.debian.org, debian-powe...@lists.debian.org Dear Maintainer, - The debian installer currently downloads udebs from the buster/testing suite - which doesn't

Re: Bug#805988: aboot : cross-compile aboot-base

2017-01-26 Thread jhcha54008
Le mercredi 18 janvier à 18h 54mn 10s (+0100), Santiago Vila a écrit : > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 06:38:44PM +0100, jhcha54008 wrote: > > > I wonder if the following solution would be accepted (see the two patches > > attached) : let the source package ship the tw

aboot : dpkg-buildpackage -A on amd64

2017-01-10 Thread jhcha54008
Hi, I was able to build aboot-base on amd64 without error (but with a lot of warnings) with the patch below and the two patches [1], [2] of #832491. The package built is not very useful as there are no binary files bootlx, net_aboot.nh and net_pad inside (#821332) I hope it will help

debian-ports and debootstrap : the way of custom mini-repositories

2014-06-25 Thread jhcha54008
Hi, We discussed previously on the list ([1]) the possibility of custom (home-made) mini-repositories : an excerpt of the archive at debian-ports with the bare minimum to use an unmodified version of debootstrap. The general opinion was that patching debootstrap for debian-ports would be

patching debootstrap for debian-ports

2014-06-12 Thread jhcha54008
Hi, Here is a new version ([1]) of a script to fit debootstrap to debian-ports. It makes use of both suites 'unstable' and 'unreleased' in the archive, and doesn't add to debootstrap dependency. See the attached README.debian-ports for usage : basically, copy the attached file 'debian-ports'

debootstrap and debian-ports

2013-12-18 Thread jhcha54008
Installation may fail because of missing dependencies. A consistent state of the archive (i.e. all required and important packages are compatible, and all their recursive dependencies are built and available) is needed for success - a condition less frequently fulfilled than in the main Debian

Re: debootstrap and debian-ports

2013-12-18 Thread jhcha54008
Thank you for your answer Le mercredi 18 décembre à 17h 26mn 40s (+), Thorsten Glaser a écrit : Michael Schmitz dixit: your finding that packages from both unstable and unreleased are needed is correct (along with the complication that some may not be availabe at any given time).

typo (was Re: debootstrap and debian-ports)

2013-12-18 Thread jhcha54008
Sorry, debian-ports archive key is http://ftp.debian-ports.org/archive/archive_2013.key and debian snapshots are http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/ (note the final /) J.-H. Chatenet -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

debootstrap and debian-ports

2013-12-17 Thread jhcha54008
Looking on the web for a recommended way of using debootstrap with debian-ports, I couldn't find a definitive answer. Here are my findings - may it help ? Perhaps someone wiser could comment and shed some light on the matter ? debootstrap and debian ports

debootstrap and debian-ports

2013-12-17 Thread jhcha54008
Sorry for the typo in the previous post : the reference should read http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2013/08/msg00108.html Here is a tentative implementation of a script for debootstrap as an illustration of the previous post (http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2013/12/msg00117.html).