I also found that yesterday's weekly xfce installation CD didn't recognize either of the ethernet cards on my G4 PowerMac (digital audio).
Tom On Jul 20, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi there, Rick. > > On Jul 20 2010, Rick Thomas wrote: >> At this point, Debian squeeze is un-installable on NewWorld PowerPC >> Macs due to yaboot's failure to adapt to the use of UUID= and LABEL= >> format in /etc/fstab. >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589701 > > This is bad. I will try to see what I can do to test the installation on > a new ppc (the bad thing is that, as I told before, my newworld > ppc---an iBook G3---is moribund). > >> I have provided a partial fix in Debian bug#580455 but I have not >> gotten any feedback from the developers. > > I look into that with a little more care after I get some sleep. Perhaps > a non-maintainer upload of yaboot is in order. > > <off-topic> > BTW, I will be in NYC for this year's DebConf (well, assuming that the > plane doesn't crash/fall/etc :-)) and I hope to work on some of the > issues that are annoying us. If you can attend, that would be superb > (and, of course, getting to know more people would be really nice). > </off-topic> > > > Regards, > > -- > Rogério Brito : rbr...@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 > http://rb.doesntexist.org : Packages for LaTeX : algorithms.berlios.de > DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
