Bug#934072: OpenRD images are gone

Short story: Works a treat! Longer story: Details will have to wait (it's 3AM right now) but to keep it short -- I put the two uI* files (ignored the .dtb file) onto an ext2 partition of a USB stick. Followed the instructions on Martin's page, and successfully installed back to the

Bug#934072: OpenRD images are gone

On Wed, Jun 22, 2022, at 7:27 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> (If it builds, can you upload the images somewhere so Rick can test >> them?) > > Sure, that was the plan all along. > > https://people.debian.org/~kibi/openrd4bullseye/ has the tarball after a > full debian-installer build (it'll stay

Bug#934072: OpenRD images are gone

/boot/arm/armel-kirkwood-u-boot-image-config >> is obviously fine) >> >> I don't have an OpenRD anymore but I can probably find someone if >> testing is required. > > I became aware recently that this was never fixed. Rick Thomas has > two OpenRD (Ultimate and Client

Re: Should /boot be ext2, instead of ext4?

Would it be possible to make uboot (and/or any of the other non-grub boot loaders) load grub, which then would load and configure the kernel from an ext4 or LVM partition? Rick

Bug#982270: installation-reports: Installing Debian Bullseye on Cubox-i4 - installer finds no ethernet

Package: installation-reports Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of

Re: Installing Debian Bullseye on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive... No ethernet detected

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, at 7:18 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, at 1:03 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: > > On https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > > you should look under the daily snapshots. > > For armhf that would be > > https://

Re: Installing Debian Bullseye on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive... No ethernet detected

Hi! On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, at 1:03 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: > On https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > you should look under the daily snapshots. > For armhf that would be > https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/netboot/SD-card-images/ I downloaded the two-part image from

Installing Debian Bullseye on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive... "No kernel modules found"

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021, at 6:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > Next thing to test -- can I install bullseye the same way? So I tried installing bullseye from [1] which, incidentally is dated Dec 2, 2020. Isn't this kinda old for a "current" Bullseye? It booted and the installer star

Re: Installing Debian Buster on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive.

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021, at 12:08 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2021, at 11:15 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > On 2021-01-27, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > I'm trying to install Debian Buster [1] on my Cubox-i4P with an eSATA > > > drive. Everything seems to be f

Re: Installing Debian Buster on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021, at 11:15 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2021-01-27, Rick Thomas wrote: > > I'm trying to install Debian Buster [1] on my Cubox-i4P with an eSATA > > drive. Everything seems to be fine, but when it comes time to reboot, > > it boots into the install

Installing Debian Buster on Cubox-i4 with eSATA drive.

I'm trying to install Debian Buster [1] on my Cubox-i4P with an eSATA drive. Everything seems to be fine, but when it comes time to reboot, it boots into the installer again, rather than the installed system. Here's what I did, and what I observed: *) I downloaded the two parts of the SDcard

Bug#958649: installation-reports: On PowerMac G4 Debian-Ports installer fails to find PATA disks unless a USB drive is also present

Package: installation-reports Followup-For: Bug #958649 I forgot to include the partion information... Her it is: rbthomas@grey:~$ sudo mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda ; lsblk /dev/sda #type name length base ( size ) system /dev/sda1

Bug#958649: installation-reports: On PowerMac G4 Debian-Ports installer fails to find PATA disks unless a USB drive is also present

Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2020-04-19/debian-10.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso Date: Apr 22 18:44 PDT Machine: PowerMac G4 Silver "PowerMac 3,5" Partitions: Base System

Bug#958527: installation-reports: Successful install of Debian Ports on PowerMac G5

Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2020-04-19/debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso Date: Machine: PowerMac G5 "PowerMac7,3" Partitions: rbthomas@kmac:~$ df -Tl | grep -v tmpfs

Re: Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

t;mac" support with 10.3 ? On Mon, Feb 10, 2020, at 3:17 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > For a friend... > > Does there exist a Buster Debian amd64 installer for mac with non-free > firmware? > > He has a been given a 2006 vintage quad core MacPro1,1 > > https://everym

Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

For a friend... Does there exist a Buster Debian amd64 installer for mac with non-free firmware? He has a been given a 2006 vintage quad core MacPro1,1 https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-quad-3.0-specs.html That he'd like to get Linux running on. A live image for the

Re: Dropping haveged from the installer

Does this mean that haveged is no longer needed on armhf hosts that are running kernels later than 5.3.9 ? I notice my armhf (Cubox) host on Debian Testing that the haveged daemon does not start. > root@cube:~# uname -a > Linux cube 5.4.0-3-armmp #1 SMP Debian 5.4.13-1 (2020-01-19) armv7l

Bug#934040: tasksel: doesn't provide transitional package for task-print-server

I second this recommendation! Rick > On Aug 6, 2019, at 4:25 AM, Raphaël Halimi wrote: > > Package: tasksel > Version: 3.54 > > Hi, > > Following #696658, task-print-server was renamed to task-print-service. > > Running "apt-get dist-upgrade" on current Sid tries to remove >

Re: Volume group not found after install

> On Aug 9, 2019, at 9:00 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Hi, > > Steve McIntyre (2019-08-09): >> Not sure, immediately. This is going to take some effort to debug >> interactively, most likely. Can you get in using rescue mode from >> the installer? >> >> I'd be looking to check that the

Re: Volume group not found after install

> On Aug 7, 2019, at 2:09 PM, fRANz wrote: > > Hi all, > I'm trying to install debian testing on X1 Carbon 7th Gen on NVMe local disk. > I'm using debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso downloaded some days ago: > > sha256 190d3ccfc9d04ad64b3d7f031d03e8d14cf13ad3857add9eab653c8f96ed4ff0 >

Re: Installer can't find network interface on Intel NUC BOXNUC8i3BEH1

> On Feb 13, 2019, at 6:51 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > >> On Feb 13, 2019, at 5:47 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2019-02-13 at 16:17 -0500, Laurent Dumont wrote: >>> I'm not sure if it's the exact same case but I had the same issue wit

Re: Installer can't find network interface on Intel NUC BOXNUC8i3BEH1

> On Feb 13, 2019, at 5:47 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Wed, 2019-02-13 at 16:17 -0500, Laurent Dumont wrote: >> I'm not sure if it's the exact same case but I had the same issue with a >> more recent motherboard. Debian failed to detect the network card with the >> E1000 drivers. >> >> I

Installer can't find network interface on Intel NUC BOXNUC8i3BEH1

I recently bought an intel NUC BOXNUC8i3BEH1. You can see a description of the product at Newegg: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856102213 I’m trying to install Debian Stretch on it debian-9.7.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and (later) firmware-9.6.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso I

Re: Debian Installer Buster Alpha 4 release

> On Dec 15, 2018, at 2:26 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Hardware support changes > > > * debian-installer: >- [armel] Disable OpenRD targets, no longer present in u-boot. Does this mean that my OpenRD hardware will no longer be supported in Buster? What about

Bug#615646: [installation-guide] How do I know which CD has the package I need?

On Jul 28, 2018, at 10:50 PM, Holger Wansing wrote: > +Also, keep in mind: if the CDs/DVDs you are using don't contain some packages > +you need, you can always install that packages afterwards from your running > +new Debian system (after the installation has finished). If you need to know, >

Bug#615646: [installation-guide] How do I know which CD has the package I need?

On Jul 28, 2018, at 10:44 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: > > Robert Cymbala wrote: >> QUESTION: >> I burned the first fifteen (15) CD's and GNU/Emacs, which I want to >> install, >> is not on them. How do I find out which CDs I need to burn? (There are 37 >> more in

Re: Links to buster release notes don't work

er, which isn't released yet > > So no information on releasenotes > > Buster will be released on 2019 and these pages will be updated then. > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 10:07 AM Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> >> On webpage >>https://www.debian.org/releases/bus

Links to buster release notes don't work

On webpage https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/releasenotes There are a bunch of links that are claimed to be for draft release notes for Buster. Unfortunately, all of them wind up at “Page not found”. Is this deliberate? Or is it possibly a result of some recent change of servers,

Re: Error trying to update powerpc64 Jessie machine.

just comment out the security.debian.org line in my sources.list? Thanks, Rick On Jun 28, 2018, at 5:22 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Rick, > > This has little to do with the installer team (debian-boot@), and it > isn't (really) a powerpc-specific issue either. > > Rick T

Error trying to update powerpc64 Jessie machine.

Hi! For the last couple of days, my PowerPC64 machine, running Debian Jessie, has been getting this error message when I try to do “apt update”: > W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/jessie/updates/InRelease > Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-powerpc/Packages' in

Bug#901332: d-i: Offer to shut down / power off instead of reboot at the end

On Jun 12, 2018, at 8:56 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> So, please, at the end, where it tells the reboot message, add >> a third button that shuts down / powers off the system instead >> of rebooting. > > Still, I do agree that this would be useful in general. Especially if it could be

Bug#854822: marked as done (installation-report: U-boot not correctly installed when partitioning with "Guided - use entire disk")

Great! Is there an installer image somewhere I can test this with on my Cubox-i4x4 ? Thanks! Rick On Jul 15, 2017, at 3:21 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Your message dated Sat, 15 Jul 2017 22:17:18 + > with message-id

Bug#854822: installation-report: U-boot not correctly installed when partitioning with "Guided - use entire disk"

On Feb 10, 2017, at 12:43 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Karsten Merker (2017-02-10): >> when using the "Guided - use entire disk" option, partman by >> default clobbers the boot sector and the area after it (where >> u-boot is located) to make sure

Bug#834974: Info received (installation-reports: Stretch 9.0.0 on Cubox-i4Pro fails to boot after install)

Oooops! syslog is mode 600, and I wasn’t root when I created the cpio archive. Here is is syslog.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data Sorry! Rick On Jun 24, 2017, at 2:23 PM, Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi again, > > Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com&g

Bug#834974: Info received (installation-reports: Stretch 9.0.0 on Cubox-i4Pro fails to boot after install)

On Jun 24, 2017, at 8:41 AM, Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi Rick, > > Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> (2017-06-23): >> I re-installed u-boot on the uSDcard. And with that, it booted up a >> treat. >> >> So somehow the u-bo

Bug#834974: Info received (installation-reports: Stretch 9.0.0 on Cubox-i4Pro fails to boot after install)

I re-installed u-boot on the uSDcard. And with that, it booted up a treat. So somehow the u-boot binary on the uSDcard is getting clobbered in the installation process. Rick

Bug#834974: installation-reports: Stretch 9.0.0 on Cubox-i4Pro fails to boot after install

Package: installation-reports Followup-For: Bug #834974 Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I was attempting a test installation of the new Stretch release. * What exactly did you do (or not do)

Bug#842040: Please add https support

On Nov 18, 2016, at 10:22 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Philipp Kern [2016-11-18 17:19]: >>> Thanks for the CC. I just added wget-udeb and it adds 345 KB, >>> which breaks the orion5x-qnap image. However, this image is really >>> quite a special case and

Bug#834974: Installation Report: Stretch Alpha 7 on Cubox-i4pro

On Sep 4, 2016, at 3:12 AM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote: >> On Sep 2, 2016, at 5:12 PM, Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> wrote: >> >>> I'd be curious if you re-install and delete each partition individually >>> and re-create manua

Bug#834974: Installation Report: Stretch Alpha 7 on Cubox-i4pro

> On Sep 2, 2016, at 6:33 PM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > On Sep 2, 2016, at 4:40 PM, Gunnar Wolf <gw...@debian.org> wrote: > >> Can somebody confirm whether the Jessie >> installer actually works reliably on this machine? (that is, w

Bug#834974: Installation Report: Stretch Alpha 7 on Cubox-i4pro

On Sep 2, 2016, at 6:30 PM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote: > > On Sep 2, 2016, at 5:12 PM, Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> wrote: > >> I'd be curious if you re-install and delete each partition individually >> and re-create manually vs. u

Bug#834974: Installation Report: Stretch Alpha 7 on Cubox-i4pro

On Sep 2, 2016, at 4:40 PM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Can somebody confirm whether the Jessie > installer actually works reliably on this machine? (that is, whether > it's always been broken or we have a regression) I’ll give that a try as well over the weekend. Let you know what

Bug#834974: Installation Report: Stretch Alpha 7 on Cubox-i4pro

On Sep 2, 2016, at 5:12 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > I'd be curious if you re-install and delete each partition individually > and re-create manually vs. using one of the auto-partitioning methods. I’ll give this a try over the weekend and report back what I find. Is it

Bug#834974: Installation Report: Stretch Alpha 7 on Cubox-i4pro

For what it’s worth, I just tried booting with an HDMI monitor connected to see if the silence on the serial-port was just a matter of console messages being directed to the HDMI video port instead. Still no go. Silence all-round. Rick > On Aug 22, 2016, at 9:15 PM, Rick Thomas <

Bug#834974: Installation Report: Stretch Alpha 7 on Cubox-i4pro

I can confirm this problem. I just got thru running a “stretch” install on my test Cuboxi4Pro with ingredients from: > wget > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/partition.img.gz > wget >

Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

On Aug 15, 2016, at 3:03 AM, Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> wrote: > Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> writes: > >> On Aug 14, 2016, at 7:37 PM, Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> wrote: >> >>> Also, I'm not sure whether we have any input methods w

Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

On Aug 14, 2016, at 7:37 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Also, I'm not sure whether we have any input methods which might be > confused by ^A being “eaten” by screen. Does anyone know? Yes… That’s a problem if you’re used to using “screen” as a terminal emulator to access the

Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

On Aug 7, 2016, at 11:08 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > > I think the solution below is a middle ground, which I guess it can be > accepted by everyone. > - Keep screen-udeb in "common" for everyone, but don't start it > automatically on i386/amd64. > - Create a new

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On May 21, 2016, at 3:05 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: >> I didn’t try disconnecting, letting it run for a while un-attended, then >> reconnecting because I didn’t have a clear idea of how to do that. >> Specifically, what happens if I type ctl-A ctl-D? Do I get

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On May 21, 2016, at 3:05 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: >> First observation is that the way I normally do installations on this >> machine (I keep it around for exactly this kind of testing, so I do a fair >> number of installations on it) is to run screen as a terminal

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On May 9, 2016, at 8:30 AM, Roger Shimizu <rogershim...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote: >> Thanks, Roger! >> >> I’ll give it a try on one of my sheevaplug boxes. >> >> As I understand i

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On May 8, 2016, at 10:50 AM, Roger Shimizu <rogershim...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 4:13 AM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote: >> On Mon, May 2, 2016, at 10:01 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: >>> On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Rick Thomas <rbt

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On Mon, May 2, 2016, at 10:01 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote: > > When I’m installing Debian on one of the serial-console-only boxes, such as > > the SheevaPlug or OpenRD, I usually use the “ne

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On Apr 29, 2016, at 7:38 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > Dear Rick, > > Thanks for your interest in GNU/screen support for D-I activity! > > > I called for review because I want to confirm that those changes are > necessary. > > For example, I know for it's necessary to

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On Apr 24, 2016, at 9:00 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > - ask users of all ARCHs related to check whether the GNU/screen is > working well under d-i environment. Maybe need to add a wiki to track > things efficiently. > > What do you think of my plan? > Any suggestion is

Re: Access to repos blocked

On Mar 6, 2016, at 11:12 PM, MH wrote: > Debian Jessie > > Recently ran into a problem with aptitude. I get the following message: > > E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found > > Since I am not using ANY HTTPS repos, I should not be getting the

Re: [RFC] screen/tmux support for network-console

On Feb 25, 2016, at 5:12 AM, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2016-02-19 17:00, Roger Shimizu wrote: >> I have a new idea on d-i/network-console: multi-console support >> (screen/tmux). > > To be honest: This would be incredibly exciting for serial console as well. > > Kind regards

Re: Kernel version for stretch

On Feb 2, 2016, at 11:28 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 02:23:06PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Niels Thykier (2016-02-02): >>> @Kernel+d-i - What is your take on the following: >>> >>> * How long will it take to have the new

Bug#809932: installation-reports: Successful install of Debian Stretch on Sheevaplug

On Jan 7, 2016, at 7:25 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > So it sounds like you had: > - standard > - SSH server > - print server > >> tmpfs tmpfs 102788 348102440 1% /run >> /dev/sda2 ext4 2065152 1878636 61896 97% / > > I'm surprised it

Bug#793426: Debian 8.1 - missing separate /usr in guided encrypted LVM partitioning scheme

On Jan 7, 2016, at 9:07 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Patryk Hanckowiak [2015-07-24 00:58]: >> The guided LVM encrypted partitioning layout does not create a separate /usr >> partition and creates a 8-10 GB / (root) partition. This happens in both >>

Bug#809932: installation-reports: Successful install of Debian Stretch on Sheevaplug

Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, First, I upgraded U-boot on the machine to version "2014.10+dfsg1-5" Second, I downloaded uImage and uInitrd from https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armel/daily/kirkwood/netboot/marvell/sheevaplug/ and put them on a USB stick

Re: network-console on armhf

Hi martin, On Jan 3, 2016, at 2:41 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > And is anyone using network-console on > armhf yet? (Just wondering if I can make changes without breaking > things) I have two Cubox-i4pro (armhf) machines that I installed jessie on recently using network

Re: network-console on armhf

On Jan 3, 2016, at 6:11 PM, Martin Michlmayr <t...@cyrius.com> wrote: > * Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> [2016-01-03 18:06]: >>> And is anyone using network-console on armhf yet? (Just wondering >>> if I can make changes without breaking things) >> >

Re: Jigdo (was "Putting It All On a Stick")

It would be kinda cool if the installer could deal with multiple DVDs at once: Allow people with two or more optical drives to put DVD-1 in one of them and DVD-2 in the second (and so on, if necessary/possible) and have the installation “just work” with no swapping of disks in drives. Then

debian mirror redirector - wish list suggestion...

Hi! Thanks for the redirector. It’s an awesome piece of work! I have a suggestion that might benefit a small percentage of your users (myself included) but should (I think!) be fairly easy/cheap to implement… Here’s my situation: I get IPv4 service from my local ISP (Wave Broadband). They

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

On May 8, 2014, at 8:01 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 05 May 2014, Rick Thomas wrote: Bottom line: It doesn't align to 1MiB boundaries. It doesn't even align to 4KiB boundaries. I think we can do better than that! AFAIK, we do for i686 and amd64, unless

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

On May 4, 2014, at 1:14 AM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: On Apr 27, 2014, at 2:54 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sb, 26 apr 14, 20:24:12, Rick Thomas wrote: With more and more disks being manufactured with Advanced format (4096-byte physical-sectors

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

On Apr 27, 2014, at 2:54 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sb, 26 apr 14, 20:24:12, Rick Thomas wrote: With more and more disks being manufactured with Advanced format (4096-byte physical-sectors) I'm wondering how I can tell the Debian-installer partitioner to align

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

On May 4, 2014, at 1:24 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: [...] So I ask again: Aside from doing the partitioning manually, myself, is there any way to get the installer's partitioner to respect the new

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

On May 4, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote: * Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com [2014-05-04 01:14 -0700]: [...] root@bigal:~# mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda /dev/sda #type name length base ( size ) system /dev/sda1

Bug#735260: installation-reports: Jessie Netinst for PowerPC-64 creates will not boot after installation -- but works for PowerPC-32

Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: Debian GNU/Linux testing Jessie - Official Snapshot powerpc NETINST Binary-1 20140108-22:14 Date: Jan 13, 2014 Machine: PowerPC MacPro G5 Partitions: sudo mac-fdisk -l

Re: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

my brain for a couple of weeks. On Dec 15, 2013, at 12:57 AM, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/12/13 13:26, Rick Thomas wrote: Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh server during the installation? Yes. I'd like to be able

Bug#728936: Bug#731939: debian-installer: USB input not functioning during install

Manfred and Jason, It would help a lot if each of you please reply-all to this with the output of (as root -- and with the USB keyboard and mouse plugged in to the machine) lsusb -v and lsmod That may help tell what USB/HCI driver is needed for your devices. Thanks! Rick

Bug#715408: Bug#731939: debian-installer: USB input not functioning during install

On Dec 11, 2013, at 5:06 AM, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Jason Young doom...@gmail.com (2013-12-11): Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I booted the amd64 netinstall disc for debian jessie, and at first I thought that it was frozen because neither the

Bug#728936: Fwd: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

! On Sat, 12/7/13, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Subject: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC? To: Installer List Debian debian-boot@lists.debian.org Cc: PowerPC List Debian debian-powe...@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, December 7, 2013, 10:30 PM

Bug#728936: Fwd: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

I'm guessing the keyboard that worked is not USB??? Rick On Dec 8, 2013, at 11:09 PM, Dan DeVoto dand1...@yahoo.com wrote: I can confirm this bug. The keyboard is functional on the first boot screen, but when it gets to the Choose a language screen, the keyboard no longer works. I

Bug#728936: Fwd: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

Begin forwarded message: I can confirm that the Dec 8 version of netinst for debian testing (Jesie) loads with a request for 'select a language' but does not respond to my usb Dynex keyboard on a ydl powerstation. Best wishes, Robert

Re: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

On Dec 9, 2013, at 7:55 AM, Gabriel Paubert paub...@iram.es wrote: On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 11:16:29PM -0800, Dan DeVoto wrote: Confirmed on my Powerbook5,6 and PowerMac3,1. The Dec. 8th nightly still has this bug. Though the keyboard on my G3 iBook (Powerbook4,3) works fine, so Team G3!

Bug#728936: Bug#715408: possibly duplicate: Bug#728936: Debian testing installer does not dectect USB keyboard

On Dec 9, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Manfred, I tried to reproduce the problem on my Laptop (i3-2330M) with a Logitech USB keyboard, that Windows 7 reports as: HID\VID_046DPID_C312\726B80A520 For me the external keyboard worked

Re: Bug#715408: possibly duplicate: Bug#728936: Debian testing installer does not dectect USB keyboard

On Dec 9, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Rick, On 09.12.2013 22:19, Rick Thomas wrote: As noted in bugreport 728936, I tried this with a recent amd64 netinst daily. It works fine. The problem only appears on PowerPC hardware. I also have

Bug#715408: possibly duplicate: Bug#728936: Debian testing installer does not dectect USB keyboard

Hi Manfred, It's the Jessie (testing) daily build installer we're having trouble with. What you got was the Wheezy release (v7.2). An understandable mistake. Please download from here:

Bug#728936: tried amd64 netinst sid daily-build. Problem not found on amd

I just tried the amd64 daily-builds netinst CD. I did not have this problem. The USB keyboard was recognized and functioned as expected. So what's it about PowerPC ??? Rick /cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/ debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso 2013-12-08 04:49 213M --

Fwd: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

Begin forwarded message: From: Robert Hagan robertha...@gmail.com Date: December 7, 2013 11:52:39 PM PST To: Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com Subject: Re: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC? I have had success but I am using an old 'YDL Power Station

Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh server during the installation? I'd like to be able to ssh/slogin/scp to the installation process so I can retrieve log files and otherwise snoop the process when the keyboard/mouse are frozen. This is part of my pursuit of

Re: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

Thanks for responding, Scott! On Dec 8, 2013, at 6:57 PM, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/12/13 13:26, Rick Thomas wrote: Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh server during the installation? Yes - at least with the i386

Re: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

On Dec 8, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: Le Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 06:26:33PM -0800, Rick Thomas a écrit : Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh server during the installation? I'd like to be able to ssh/slogin/scp to the installation

Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

Bug#728936 is preventing me from installing/testing Jessie on any of me PowerMac test machines. Has anyone succeeded in installing from a daily- or weekly- build netinst CD on a PowerMac in the last couple of months? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#728936: Problem also present in Weekly build CD

Same problem in CD downloaded from: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-cd/ debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso 2013-11-18 07:54 254M Hope this helps… Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#728936: installation-reports: still present on PowerPC netinst as of 2013/11/24 Followup-For: Bug #728936 Package: installation-reports

Dear Maintainer, when it got to the chose language screen, there was no response to the keyboard or the mouse. See below for details... -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: /cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd Date: 2013/11/25 approximately 01:00 UTC

Jessie PowerPC installer doesn't see USB keyboard on PowerPC Mac machines

Hi, all! I just downloaded the powerpc netinst installer from /cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso 2013-11-24 23:02 257M I checked the md5 and sha1 sums, and burned it to CD. All went well. But when I booted it (on two different

Re: New partman-basicfilesystems debconf templates

On Jul 26, 2013, at 11:23 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Hello Milan, I noticed that you added new templates to partman-basicfilesystems for the following: * Warn if bootable partition is not ext2 on Pegasos machines. Closes: #717511 I'll turn these templates to translatable (they are

Re: New partman-basicfilesystems debconf templates

On Jul 27, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jul 26, 2013, at 11:23 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: ... We already have such a template, but it says on the first PRIMARY partition. Would it be wrong to add this primary word to the templates you added? ... The word primary refers

Re: How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

On Jul 4, 2013, at 7:13 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: On Jul 3, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Can somebody point me at some docs or packages I could use to create a customized CD/DVD/BD image for installing Debian PowerPC? I'd like to create a 32GB

Re: How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

On Jul 3, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Can somebody point me at some docs or packages I could use to create a customized CD/DVD/BD image for installing Debian PowerPC? I'd like to create a 32GB (or larger?) USB memory stick that can be used to do a complete

How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

Can somebody point me at some docs or packages I could use to create a customized CD/DVD/BD image for installing Debian PowerPC? I'd like to create a 32GB (or larger?) USB memory stick that can be used to do a complete installation of PowerPC Debian (Wheezy right now, but into the

How to tell the configure apt part of installer about DVDs that exist only as .iso files on a USB stick?

Here's the situation... I want to try installing without internet access. I have excellent internet access at home, but there are enough folks on the users list who don't enjoy that privilege. I'd like to be able to help them with useful answers. Hence my questions... I've jigdo'ed a

Re: How to tell the configure apt part of installer about DVDs that exist only as .iso files on a USB stick?

Rick Thomas wrote: Here's the situation... I want to try installing without internet access. I have excellent internet access at home, but there are enough folks on the users list who don't enjoy that privilege. I'd like to be able to help them with useful answers. Hence my questions

Re: Choice of Desktop environment at install time using netinst CD.

=your choice Details are discussed in the installer manual at URL Enjoy! Rick On Mar 7, 2013, at 11:55 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: OK, Sounds great! I'll give it a try on a couple of old Macs over the weekend. Enjoy! Rick On Mar 7, 2013, at 12:16 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Mar 05

Re: Choice of Desktop environment at install time using netinst CD.

OK, Sounds great! I'll give it a try on a couple of old Macs over the weekend. Enjoy! Rick On Mar 7, 2013, at 12:16 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 12:49:54AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: # cat /proc/cmdline # in the F2 console during the installation ro ramdisk_size

Re: Choice of Desktop environment at install time using netinst CD.

On Mar 3, 2013, at 5:07 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 01:46:06PM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: On Mar 3, 2013, at 7:03 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: Gah. Looking further, at the moment I don't see how (if at all) the powerpc boot stuff passes through any of the kernel boot

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