Re: Installing firmware and ISO images on CD/DVD

2021-02-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 7:28 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > On Feb 9, 2021, at 1:22 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I'd like to install the additional firmware required for PowerPC. It > > is briefly discussed at > >

Re: Color choices for the installer

2021-02-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 9:25 AM Steve McIntyre wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 06:21:52AM -0800, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > > >On 2/9/21 5:00 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, > >> > >> I think the installer's choice of red for the backgrou

Re: Color choices for the installer

2021-02-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 9:22 AM Peter Ehlert wrote: > > On 2/9/21 5:00 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I think the installer's choice of red for the background color can be > > improved. Red is a color associated with anger and aggression. Red a

Color choices for the installer

2021-02-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, I think the installer's choice of red for the background color can be improved. Red is a color associated with anger and aggression. Red as an accent would probably be OK, but the installer uses a wall of red. There's no need to increase anger and aggression when working with an

Installing firmware and ISO images on CD/DVD

2021-02-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, I'd like to install the additional firmware required for PowerPC. It is briefly discussed at https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/ch06s04.html.en. The problem I am having is, PowerMac's don't have an eject button. I can't eject the installer to add the firmware CD from

Unexpected reboot after powerpc install

2021-02-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, I was trying to follow John Paul Adrian Glaubitz instructions for installing Debian 10 on a PowerMac G5. The instructions are at https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2021/02/msg00011.html. The instructions say to forgo the reboot after installation and perform some extra steps.

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-09-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
>>> Is anybody else interested in helping? Thoughts/comments? >> >>Sorry to bump an old thread >> >>Please consider moving to Clang 3.8 or 4.0 as the LLVM front end for >>the platform. >> >>Clang 3.5 and 3.6 are no longer maintained. The bugs we are >>discovering and reporting are being closed

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-09-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
> There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some > other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, > similarly to what we did in the etch days. That's *basically* just > like a normal jessie release, but with a few key updates: > > * backports kernel > *

Bug#833072: Can't create armel chroot using debootstrap - Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-armel/Packages

2016-07-31 Thread Jeffrey Walton
>>Results from host computer: >> >>I: Running command: debootstrap --arch armel --foreign --keyring >>/usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg --variant=buildd >>--exclude=debfoster unstable debian-armel >>http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports >>I: Retrieving Release >>I: Retrieving

Bug#833072: Can't create armel chroot using debootstrap - Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-armel/Packages

2016-07-31 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.81 Severity: important The host computer is running Debian Sid, fully patched. Results from host computer: I: Running command: debootstrap --arch armel --foreign --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg --variant=buildd --exclude=debfoster

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
> There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some > other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, > similarly to what we did in the etch days. That's *basically* just > like a normal jessie release, but with a few key updates: > > * backports kernel > *

Bug#828052: Sparc and "Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-sparc/Packages"

2016-06-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.67 Severity: important I have a Debian 8.5 host on amd64/x86_64 with Testing enabled. I am attempting to setup a Sparc guest with Unstable enabled using the following command: qemu-debootstrap --arch=sparc --keyring

Bug#802546: /usr/sbin/debootstrap: 399: cd: can't cd to http://ftp.debian.org

2015-10-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.72 Severity: normal ** I'm trying to setup a ppc64 QEMU chroot. I'm not sure if PPC64 is available, but I usually get a different error when its not available. The following packages are already installed: qemu binfmt-support qemu-user-static

Bug#802546: /usr/sbin/debootstrap: 399: cd: can't cd to http://ftp.debian.org

2015-10-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@aikidev.net> wrote: > On 2015-10-20, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> # qemu-debootstrap --arch=ppc64 --keyring >> /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg --variant=buildd >> --exclude=debfoster debian-ppc64 h

Bug#799341: x32 and failure to install chroot environment due to mount failure

2015-09-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.72 Severity: important * I work with a free/open source project (http://www.cryptopp.com/). A Debian maintainer reported a failure for X32. I'm trying to get a test rig setup to duplicate the issue. I'm following Debian's X32Port wiki page

Bug#736126: Processed: Re: Bug#736126: /dev/random entropy depletion on a fresh install

2014-01-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: noloa...@gmail.com wrote: I installed Debian 7.3 x64 on a Core i5 laptop for some testing (real hardware, not a VM). When testing a program I wrote, I noticed it was not getting the full number of bytes requested from