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
On Feb 26, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
Basically, we put a lot of effort in for the isolinux-based x86 boot
menus to give the options here. I've added code to debian-cd to
convert those same menus into grub format for UEFI x86 booting. AFAIK
none of the other arches have that
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 options to
specify a default task. Rick, what happens if you try with kde CD#1
right now? Does it actually do KDE, or
On Mar 3, 2013, at 7:03 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 02:58:54PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 02:52:50PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 12:56:10AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
The following desktop environments are available
On Feb 27, 2013, at 3:25 AM, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
On 27/02/13 06:04, Rick Thomas wrote:
Is it as simple as appending something like desktop=xfce to the
boot
command line?
Actually yes, that should work; the install media for GNU/Hurd and
kFreeBSD are doing exactly this.
So I tried
Is it as simple as appending something like desktop=xfce to the boot
command line?
If so, maybe it could be as simple as adding a couple of sentences to
the text in /install/boot.msg ...
I'll see if that works. If it does, I'll suggest some wording for the
message.
On Feb 26, 2013,
With the amd64 netinst CD I have found a spot in the maze of helpful
expert options offered when the CD first boots that lets me choose
which Desktop Environment will be installed later on by tasksel. This
is really nice because it means I don't have to have a separate (and
much larger)
On Feb 11, 2013, at 7:38 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com (11/02/2013):
Most (all?) architectures other than powerpc seem to have the
20130211 stuff. But the most recent stuff for powerpc is from
November 2012. Anybody know why?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/d
On Feb 11, 2013, at 6:51 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Hi folks,
I've uploaded d-i 20130211, and the relevant bits (like mini.iso and
other things) should soon be available on the mirrors, under
dists/sid/main/installer-$arch; for example:
Shawn wrote:
Selection of the mirror to use is a two-step process, first you pick
your country, then you pick a mirror. On the country-selection screen
the top entry in the list allows manual entry of the mirror URL.
It would probably be nice to include it in both places, or maybe make
Hi Shawn!
Can you share the magic with those of us who have a similar problem of
how to get to the enter manually option?
Thanks!
Rick
On Dec 29, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Shawn Willden wrote:
NM. I found the enter information manually option. Sorry for
bugging.
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at
On Nov 29, 2012, at 4:00 AM, Herbert Kaminski wrote:
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 16:38:31 -0700
Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
Rick,
I think this is the same as bug#684265, which I submitted a while
back for a PowerPC install using Beta1.
[...]
PS: Is anybody working on this bug
I have a temporary need to install Lenny on a PowerMac G4 so I can run
some tests on a fresh installation for a user who is unable (for
various reasons) to upgrade to Squeeze at this time.
When I run the netinst installer CD all seems well until it wants to
setup sources.list. Then it
On Nov 12, 2012, at 9:49 PM, Charles Blair wrote:
Thanks again for your help. After many mis-steps,
most but not all my fault, I seem to have a working
system.
If you succeed in your experiments, one thing you can do to help the
next person is: write-up your experiences. If you follow
Hi Charles,
On Nov 11, 2012, at 4:56 AM, Charles Blair wrote:
Thanks again. I wish these issues had been
addressed either by the installer itself or by the
installation instructions. Tnere must be
many other unsophisticated users that
have encountered this problem.
You're welcome, of
Hi Stefano!
On Nov 10, 2012, at 4:50 AM, Stefano Canepa wrote:
Is some one else trying d-i on powerpc?
I'm glad to meet another PowerPC tester!
I've got a couple of old G4 PowerMac towers I keep around for testing
installs and interesting-looking apps.
Exactly which powerpc iso did you
On Oct 14, 2012, at 11:55 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Sep 24, 2012, at 6:26 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
Please file a separate debian-installer bug report for problems
related
to finding other OS's on LVM partitions.
Milan
OK, here it is: Bug#690515
I hope it's an easy fix. It would
On Oct 25, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Patrick Fitzmorris wrote:
[very clear instructions for booting the Debian installer (or, I guess almost
anything else) via bootp/tftpd.]
Thanks, Patrick! That looks like a really interesting test. I'll give it a
try soon!
Rick
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On Oct 25, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Patrick Fitzmorris wrote:
(does anyone test the functionality of the ppc
netboot images anymore?)
Well, I try... I have a number of old PowerPC Macs that I keep just
for the purpose. I haven't tried network booting yet. Can you give
me some pointers on
On Sep 24, 2012, at 6:26 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
Please file a separate debian-installer bug report for problems
related
to finding other OS's on LVM partitions.
Milan
OK, here it is: Bug#690515
I hope it's an easy fix. It would be a shame to see it get into
beta3...
Rick
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On Sep 24, 2012, at 6:26 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
Please file a separate debian-installer bug report for problems
related
to finding other OS's on LVM partitions.
Milan
Well... I tried it on a machine that was not using LVM, and got the
same results.
So the bug isn't fixed yet.
On Sep 15, 2012, at 8:36 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 14:58 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
[...]
1) It seems likely that adding a udeb for fuse-modules will allow os-
prober to identify other Linux OS root partitions and get them added
to the boot-loader config file... But only
On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:41 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com):
On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I have not tried running os-prober from the alt-F2 console
during the install, to see if it gives different results. I'll do
that and report back
On 09/12/12 23:22, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:41 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com):
On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I have not tried running os-prober from the alt-F2 console
during the install, to see if it gives
On 09/13/12 01:15, Rick Thomas wrote:
The umount: can't umount... error message went away, but the three 'no
such disk' messages remained. And grub install still objected because
there was only one OS...
I've attached the relevant section of /var/log/installer/syslog
It may be worth noting
On 09/13/12 01:15, Rick Thomas wrote:
On 09/12/12 23:22, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:41 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com):
On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I have not tried running os-prober from the alt-F2 console
On Sep 13, 2012, at 5:49 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
When I load the fuse module manually os-prober works fine.
Therefore solution for bug reports 684265, 686314, 686631, 687286 is
to
create fuse-modules udeb package. Patch is available here:
On Sep 10, 2012, at 10:16 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com):
I'll be happy to provide installation log files to anyone who wants
them.
I'd also be happy to look at the relevant code and see if I can
figure out what's wrong, but I don't know where to look
On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I have not tried running os-prober from the alt-F2 console during
the install, to see if it gives different results. I'll do that and
report back. Any hints of things I should be looking out for?
Here's the stderr/stdout output when os
On Sep 9, 2012, at 6:35 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Feedback for this release
=
We need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, so
please
try it. Installer CDs, other media and everything else you will need
are
available at our web site[3].
I
On Sep 10, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Karsten Merker wrote:
I do not think that making the default desktop environment
dependent on the type of the installation medium would be a good
idea; that would cause much confusion IMHO.
This was discussed years ago, but (with some trepidation) I'd like to
On Sep 7, 2012, at 11:33 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com):
PS: Is anybody working on this bug? It would be a shame if it got
into beta2... I'd be happy to take a look and see if I could find
anything, but I don't know where to look. Can somebody point
On Sep 2, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Sep 2, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
tags 686471 pending
thanks
On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 02:37:08PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Sep 2, 2012, at 1:31 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
I've not done anything like isohybrid for ppc at all
On Sep 7, 2012, at 1:51 AM, Herbert Kaminski wrote:
Comments/Problems:
2. The installation did not detect the existing Lubuntu 10.04
and wanted to install grub into the master boot record (I did not
allow that).
3. the grub installer was unable to install grub into any partition of
the
On Aug 18, 2012, at 2:02 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I just downloaded and burned the PowerPC Netinst CD and did an
install with it.
Specifically,
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso
Daily build #3 for powerpc
See my suggestions at the bottom of this report...
On Aug 20, 2012, at 9:40 AM, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
In case it matters: The computer's CD drive is broken and it cannot
AFAIK boot from USB media, so I downloaded the files and
I just downloaded and burned the PowerPC Netinst CD and did an install
with it.
Specifically,
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso
Daily build #3 for powerpc, using installer build from sid
This build
On Jun 19, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
For Wheezy, and for quite a time, the Call For Proposals [1] it's
open and the process will follow.
1 - http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes
Well, as I said,
I've decided that, unfortunately, I can't win that argument.
So I'm
Holger,
Thanks for your helpful replies.
Can we keep this bug report open, as a way of tracking this issue in
the period before Wheezy release?
While I understand that the debate has passed and it's probably too
late to get the radical changes the OP requested, perhaps there's
still
Forwarding this to the debian-powerpc list.
Rick
On Mar 23, 2012, at 5:16 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:36:54AM -0400, Chad Linthicum wrote:
Hello, I followed the Appendix A HowTo for installing Debian on
powerpc machines. I got all the way to the part where it
Sure did...
See bug #636269.
Enjoy!
Rick
On Aug 13, 2011, at 7:52 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:15, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
Install went without a hitch until it came time to reboot into the
newly
installed system.
Did you try to install a more
On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
Package: user-setup
Version: 1.40
Tags: patch
currently it is asked the fullname of the first user being created
during the
standard installation.
Lowering the priority, the question will be skipped and the standard
installation will
Does this patch (from the yaboot-devel mailinglist) help with this bug?
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636269
Is there some way I can help test it?
[PATCH 1/2] Support sysfs in ofpath
http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/yaboot-devel/2011-August/000382.html
Yeah, Sorry! See Bug#636269.
Rick
On Aug 2, 2011, at 1:26 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
You did not add the log file.
On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 16:38 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?
CD expert mode
cruder and lot more pixelated.
Tomorrow I'll try again. I'll see if I can get some log files by
booting the CD in rescue mode.
Rick
On Jul 29, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
OK.
I'll try again on Monday or Tuesday (busy weekend coming up).
Rick
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Package: installation-reports
Boot method: How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?
CD expert mode. Installed unstable
Image version: Full URL to image you downloaded is best
| Daily build #7 for powerpc, using installer build from sid
| These images will install the
On Aug 1, 2011, at 4:15 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
In contrast to Jeroen's report that Wheezy installation went fine
on G3 Mac...
I just tried the sid_d-i testing daily businesscard. (details of
exactly which iso are available on request)
Install went without a hitch until it came time
OK,
I downloaded
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-businesscard.iso
Daily build #5 for powerpc, using installer build from sid
These images will install the testing version of Debian, currently
Wheezy.
...
This
Hi David, Hi Colin,
On Jul 29, 2011, at 12:35 PM, David Ricar wrote:
On 07/29/2011 08:18 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
After booting the CD, there were a lot of messages that scrolled by
too
fast to get details, but all of them seemed to have something to do
with
missing some UTF8
OK.
I'll try again on Monday or Tuesday (busy weekend coming up).
Rick
On Jul 29, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 20:59, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
Colin, do you have any idea when your fix will be available for
testing?
Can you let me know
On Jul 28, 2011, at 7:35 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Hi Otavio,
On Jul 27, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 08:41, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com
wrote: We still have this problem. Three weeks later.
Did you check current image? We got many issues fixed
should try, please let me know.
Rick
PS: The corresponding sid d-i install CD is even worse. It has
problems with choosing a language and can't get far enough to check
for kernel modules.
On Jul 27, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 08:41, Rick Thomas rbtho
Hi Otavio,
On Jul 28, 2011, at 7:40 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 13:35, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
...
PS: The corresponding sid d-i install CD is even worse. It has
problems
with choosing a language and can't get far enough to check for kernel
modules
We still have this problem. Three weeks later.
On 07/04/11 01:37, Rick Thomas wrote:
I just downloaded and burned Businesscard and Netinst CDs from
Daily build #1 for powerpc, using installer build from wheezy
These images will install the testing version of Debian, currently
Wheezy
I just downloaded and burned Businesscard and Netinst CDs from
Daily build #1 for powerpc, using installer build from wheezy
These images will install the testing version of Debian, currently
Wheezy.
See the top-level daily directory for more information about the
daily builds.
This
Hi Matt,
I just stumbled on your posting when I was searching for some other
IPv6 stuff in pursuit or IPv6 day actvivities.
See my comments after quote...
On Jan 30, 2011, at 6:54 PM, Matthew Palmer wrote:
I've put pre-built images for amd64 and i386 at
On May 21, 2011, at 11:09 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
Since like many others you find UUIDs a huge jumbled pile of human
meaninglessness, then by all means create labels for all your fixed
devices, and modify your /etc/fstab accordingly. Many of us have
done so.
Wouldn't it be nice if the
On Mar 23, 2011, at 2:15 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
I'm just not fond of Australia/Sydney presented as a choice, I'd
rather have New South-Wales.
For what it's worth, the timezone database (as evidenced by, among
other things, the output of the tzselect command) is organized
mostly in
On Mar 23, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Joey Hess wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
For what it's worth, the timezone database (as evidenced by, among
other things, the output of the tzselect command) is organized
mostly in terms of country/city rather than country/larger-
geographical-area.
This is also
Joey Hess said:
Rick Thomas wrote:
Well, in the mean-time, there's no way to test new d-i businesscard
or netinst CDs beyond the disk partition step. Or, to put it more
bluntly: Testing grinds to a halt until this is fixed.
Use http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/current
Anybody notice that the current PowerPC sid_d-i businesscard installed
CD refuses to finish the booting process on a PowerMac?
See bug report #617469 for details.
I verified the md5 checksum. That's OK.
I verified the CD against the ISO when I burned it. That's OK.
I've tried this CD (and
Package: installation-reports
Version: 2.44
Severity: grave
Tags: d-i
Justification: renders package unusable
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version:
Businesscard iso from
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/current/powerpc/iso-cd/
Daily build #7 for
Joey Hess wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
Well, in the mean-time, there's no way to test new d-i businesscard
or netinst CDs beyond the disk partition step. Or, to put it more
bluntly: Testing grinds to a halt until this is fixed.
Use http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i
On Mar 7, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 19:17 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com):
Package: installation-reports
Version: 2.44
Severity: grave
Tags: d-i
Justification: renders package unusable
That should be fixed once
Hi Matt,
I'll be happy to test it. I'd *love* to be able to do installs on an
IPv6-only network.
Where do I start? What do I have to do?
Rick
On Feb 23, 2011, at 11:37 PM, Matthew Palmer wrote:
I've just merged near-complete IPv6 support into netcfg master.
I've tested
it as hard as
On Dec 20, 2010, at 3:07 AM, Herbert Kaminski wrote:
Rick Thomas schrieb:
2) if reformatting is necessary or desired, have the option
(default) of preserving the UUID.
This would be an useful option for all partitions, not only for swap,
for people like me who dare to test DI in a spare
On Dec 19, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
Caution: reformatting a swap partition with mkswap will change the
uuid unless the existing one is explicitly re-specified during
formatting.
Which raises a question that has been on my mind for a while...
The Debian Installer insists on
). It basically an up-to-
date
yaboot (1.3.16) + debian modifications from 1.3.13a (some were already
integrated upstream) + Rogério Brito's debian packaging enhancements
+
some patches (namely Rick Thomas' quotes and spaces fix for latest
linux-base, and the no /proc/ide fix (which IMHO fixes
I'll be happy to.
Do you specifically want the mini.iso? Or would buisnesscard do
just as well?
If I don't hear back I'll try both.
Enjoy!
Rick
On Sep 8, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
severity 553463 important
tags 553463 moreinfo
thanks
Sorry, Rick, for not coming back
AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jul 29, 2010, at 12:53 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
It would be nice if you could submit a bug report about this. And
even
nicer if you could debug it or at least find out which package fucks
up with yaboot.conf. This really should not happen.
I did some work
On Jul 29, 2010, at 12:53 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
It would be nice if you could submit a bug report about this. And even
nicer if you could debug it or at least find out which package fucks
up with yaboot.conf. This really should not happen.
I did some work on this tonight. I'll be
On Jul 28, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
Excerpts from Rick Thomas's message of Mon Jul 26 00:47:21 -0400 2010:
On Jul 21, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Rogério Brito wrote:
On Jul 21 2010, Rick Thomas wrote:
The second half is that whatever part of the installer that builds
the
initial
Comments interleaved below...
On Jul 21, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Rogério Brito wrote:
Hi there, people.
On Jul 21 2010, Rick Thomas wrote:
Unfortunately, there are lots of places that still expect absolute
device names. Ybin is one of them.
I've got a patch that fixes this (at least it fixes
These bugs have become extinct in the normal course of evolution.
They can be closed.
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Begin forwarded message:
From: nello martuscielli ppc.ad...@gmail.com
Date: July 20, 2010 9:34:08 PM EDT
To: Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com
Cc: PowerPC List Debian debian-powe...@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: please take a look at Debian Bug#589701: installation-
reports: Install yaboot
I'm willing to give it a try on some of my test machines.
How do I go about installing/testing Grub2 ?
Thanks!
Rick
On Jul 13, 2010, at 8:54 PM, Rogério Brito wrote:
Also, it would be very nice if we had reports from people that tried
to use
GRUB2 on powerpc.
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On Jun 30, 2010, at 5:39 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 19:00 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote:
Le lundi 28 juin 2010 à 12:13 +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit :
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 01:21 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote:
I wanted to help for a problem with the buildd but Frans Pop told
On Jun 20, 2010, at 6:06 AM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Sunday 20 June 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.br [2010-06-19 12:35]:
The following patch, which clears the cache after debootstrap and
then again at the end (after kernel/extra packages), works for me.
OK
I recently installed an AMD64 box from a sid_d-i
businesscard CD in expert mode.
It asked me some questions that I didn't remember
seeing on my PowerPC installations.
In particular, it asked me to chose a distribution
(Lenny, Squeeze, Sid) and whether I wanted to use
non-free repositories.
I
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i squeeze sid
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version: businesscard
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
Daily build #7 for powerpc, using
On Mar 24, 2010, at 10:13 AM, Benjamin Cama wrote:
OK. So, if it has not already been told (I didn't see much details
about
that in this BR) what steps should be taken for powerpc volunteers ?
Take care of the buildd ? Who is in charge of it at the moment ?
So how do we get this fixed? If
On Mar 24, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
For the centralized D-I
buildds (which includes powerpc) Luk Claes and Otavio Salvador are the
persons who set up the buildds and who are AFAIK the only people who
currently have the access required to maintain the buildds.
I've emailed Luk and
This bug is still present in the current (3/22) PowerPC sid d-i daily
businesscard install CD.
What needs to be done to get it fixed?
On Mar 5, 2010, at 2:15 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
It booted, chose language and locale OK, found the CD,
loaded installer parts from the CD...
Then when
This problem does not occur on i386. It's specific to the PowerPC
installer.
(i386 sid d-i has other problems, but not any that are relevant to
this bug report)
Rick
On Mar 5, 2010, at 2:15 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
It booted, chose language and locale OK, found the CD,
loaded installer
Package: installation-reports
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: businesscard Sid_D-I CD
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
This build finished at Fri Mar 5 04:06:02 UTC
On Feb 18, 2010, at 12:00 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 18 February 2010, Ian Campbell wrote:
Please can somebody confirm which multi-arch netinst images I
should be
testing to ensure I am testing this alpha1 release?
On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:14 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
Hello,
The images with the blocking bugs has been built and are waiting for
last tests before announce.
Please look at: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/
If all goes fine I want to announce it on friday. So please, give
On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:14 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
Hello,
The images with the blocking bugs has been built and are waiting for
last tests before announce.
Please look at: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/
If all goes fine I want to announce it on friday. So please, give
On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
Hello,
Please test the images at
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/powerpc
Those are suppose to be OK; I want the confirmation to announce it.
I just completed a successful install using the DVD-1 from
At Norberto's suggestion I did a side-by side comparison of the PowerPC
daily buisnesscard installer from the Sid d-i and the Squeeze d-i at
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/{squeeze,sid}_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
This build finished at Mon Feb 15 04:15:05 UTC 2010. (for
On Feb 15, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Norberto Feliberty wrote:
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From: Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com
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Subject: Bug
On Feb 15, 2010, at 10:05 PM, Norberto Feliberty wrote:
It used to have the drivers for the ps3 network card and it would
install but now it just fails at configuring network. I dont know
how to provide extra info from the logs or how to access them. Thanks.
I've never seen a PS3 so I
Hey folks,
Norberto is having trouble getting Debian to install on his PS3. It's
a bit out of my usual line, so any advice from somebody who has done
it will be much appreciated!
Thanks!
Rick
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On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
On Jan 31, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Norberto Feliberty
thegame4121...@msn.com wrote:
That's great to hear Hopefully this will get things rolling again since I
On Jan 31, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Norberto Feliberty
thegame4121...@msn.com wrote:
That's great to hear Hopefully this will get things rolling again
since I
see that the latest daily squeeze build has stopped on Jan 11.
This is
tested. But I can't diagnose it all by
myself. I'll need help.
Rick
Rick Thomas wrote:
This bug (562575) is still present in today's netinst CD.
The businesscard installer boots and prints the ususal flock of kernel
startup messages.
then it says:
Starting system log daemon
tested. But I can't diagnose it all by
myself. I'll need help.
Rick
Rick Thomas wrote:
This bug (562575) is still present in today's netinst CD.
The businesscard installer boots and prints the ususal flock of
kernel startup messages.
then it says:
Starting system log daemon
Otavio Salvador wrote:
Hello,
The images using last uploaded debian-installer are available for
testing[1]; If all looks fine I'd like to call it a release.
1. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_test1/
I'd like to ask people to run tests using those so we can decide about
releasing
On Jan 20, 2010, at 2:54 PM, S. Fishpaste wrote:
Help him out and move on for Gawd's sake!
Seriously, folks. Debian on PowerPC is in danger of not making it
into Squeeze unless somebody who knows more than I do about the
installer can help me (and a few others like me) figure out why it
On Jan 19, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
I'd recommend grabbing cdebconf from the d-i svn repo and building a
few
test versions at various points between 0.145 and 0.146. Just
running
cdebconf-get from the built source tree may prove informative.
Ian.
Once again, I have the
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