Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-13 Thread John Winters
I've just sourced an Evesham re-badged Thecus 2100 and would like to upgrade it to a full Debian installation. I've previously done the same with an NSLU2, but am interested in the potential extra speed of the Thecus. Reading the lists it appears that the Debian installer is currently broken

Problem building libhdf4 on eabi/arml

2007-12-13 Thread Colin Tuckley
I'm trying to build libhdf4 for eabi/arml. The Build depends: line in debian/control is now (g77 changed to gfortran): gfortran, sharutils, libjpeg62-dev, zlib1g-dev, bison, flex, groff, autotools-dev all of which are installed. When building the source package it dies with the following: gcc

Re: Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-13 Thread Colin Tuckley
John Winters wrote: I've just sourced an Evesham re-badged Thecus 2100 and would like to upgrade it to a full Debian installation. I've previously done the same with an NSLU2, but am interested in the potential extra speed of the Thecus. I did this recently using the new ARM EABI/arml port,

Re: Problem building libhdf4 on eabi/arml

2007-12-13 Thread Wookey
On 2007-12-13 14:31 +, Colin Tuckley wrote: I'm trying to build libhdf4 for eabi/arml. This looks like it can't find a lib called df Does anybody know what this is/was and assuming it's something Fortran related what I should be using? packages.debian.org has a very ueseful files

Re: Problem building libhdf4 on eabi/arml

2007-12-13 Thread Colin Tuckley
Wookey wrote: so you may have a 'needs itself to build' issue (as libhdf4g seems to come from the libhdf4 source package), which will need some poking about to work out what to do about. (you could probably have guessed that from the error really :-) that 'df' was a giveaway :-) Argh, yes

Re: Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-13 Thread John Winters
Colin Tuckley wrote: John Winters wrote: I've just sourced an Evesham re-badged Thecus 2100 and would like to upgrade it to a full Debian installation. I've previously done the same with an NSLU2, but am interested in the potential extra speed of the Thecus. I did this recently using the new

Re: packages with different build-depends on arm than armel

2007-12-13 Thread Riku Voipio
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 12:34:14PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007, Joey Hess wrote: gst-plugins-base0.10 This seems to be a bug in type-handling as type-handling any linux-gnu linux used to list armel (as I can see in previous versions of the control file), but doesn't

Re: Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* John Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-13 14:13]: As I understand it, you select expert mode (or set the message priority to low) and then give the name of the right kernel to install at the relevant point, but I can't find documented anywhere what the name of the right kernel is. Can

Re: Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* John Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-13 16:43]: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/armel/images/daily/iop32x/netboot/n2100.bin disc OK, but then partman exits part way through starting up. It gets as far as 58% in its startup progress bar and just exits. I assume you used the URL above

Re: Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-13 Thread John Winters
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * John Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-13 16:43]: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/armel/images/daily/iop32x/netboot/n2100.bin disc OK, but then partman exits part way through starting up. It gets as far as 58% in its startup progress bar and just exits. [snip]