On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 06:13 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
I understand the size constraints. But isn't that the reason why
we added the root-2 floppy? Would adding hfs and/or hfsplus kick
us over the edge into root-3 land?
We could indeed add it to root-2, but i would prefer to get the
On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 06:45 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 06:30:48PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 06:13 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
I understand the size constraints. But isn't that the reason why
we added the root-2 floppy? Would adding
Package: installation-reports
In addition to the already noted problems with 2.4 PowerPC boot
floppies, I have two requests for modules to be included on the
root or root-2:
1) The change installation priority menu item should be available
*very* early in the install process. Best would be
Package: installation-reports
I tried the PowerMac install floppy set from the 18th
Index of /~luther/d-i/images/2004-09-18/powerpc/floppy-2.4
NameLast modified Size Description
Sven Luther wrote:
Oh, and btw, I'm just installing my oldworld 4400/200 mac with d-i and the
daily built 2.4-floppy images (with root.img and root-2.img) and it seems to
work fine - right now. I'll keep you informed in another mail.
BTW, as of tomorrows build, the 2.6 images should
On Friday, September 17, 2004, at 01:00 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 09:42:09AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote:
[Lots of stuff about what's where in a beige G3 ...]
Bottom line, Sven, what pieces of information about the G3 do you
need from me?
Enjoy!
Rick
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On Friday, September 17, 2004, at 03:55 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 02:31:09AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Meanwhile, back at the 2.4 ranch...
The 2.4 boot floppy read, switched to text mode, asked for root,
which read, asked for language (English), then gave me a blue
screen
On Friday, September 17, 2004, at 03:12 PM, Joey Hess wrote:
Russell Hires wrote:
I'm just poking around on my G3/266 and I'm noticing that I don't
have a
/dev/modem, or any tty that links to it. Does the d-i create such a
device only if you say that you want to install via ppp? This
could be a
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 09:55:17AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
Definitively a bug in discover, could you fill a bug report
against discover1
with your lspci and lspci -n output ?
You won't get much help out of lspci. These are not PCI devices.
The macio
chip shows up as one huge PCI device, and
PROTECTED]:~$
Enjoy!
Rick
On Monday, September 13, 2004, at 06:36 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:45:00AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Note 1:
This machine has a SCSI Zip drive is on the apple
mesh scsi controller. Before the discover disks
phase, I had to go
Thanks!
I await the fix with baited breath... (Like the cat beside the
mouse hole. -8)
Enjoy!
Rick
On Monday, September 13, 2004, at 07:49 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
reassign 271419 hw-detect
tags 271419 pending
thanks
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 07:15:17AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
The following
On Friday, September 10, 2004, at 05:04 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
The ofonlyboot has not changed. It reads and inverts the colors
of the tuxmac, but never switches to text-mode screen from the
inverted color tuxmac.
The boot floppy reads and switches to the text screen then asks
for the root
On Thursday, September 9, 2004, at 01:23 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:45:29PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Ummm... The contents of
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy-2.4/
haven't changed in the last few days. Is the build process stalled
Then it's probably not a hardware problem.
On Sunday, September 12, 2004, at 06:00 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 05:10:53AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 03:06, Sven Luther wrote:
Here is the error in my log :
powerpc/netboot/2.4/vmlinuz-chrp.initrd
Package: installation-reports
powerpc BootX 20040911 businesscard OldWorld PowerMac
See Note 2
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the
image
Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current
Name Last
Package: installation-reports
powerpc BootX 20040911 businesscard OldWorld PowerMac
See note 3
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the
image
Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current
Name Last
Package: installation-reports
powerpc BootX 20040911 businesscard OldWorld PowerMac
See Note 1 below...
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the
image
Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current
Name
Package: installation-reports
powerpc BootX 20040911 businesscard OldWorld PowerMac
see note 5
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the
image
Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current
Name Last
Package: installation-reports
powerpc BootX 20040911 businesscard OldWorld PowerMac
See note 4
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the
image
Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current
Name Last
Package: installation-reports
powerpc BootX 20040911 businesscard OldWorld PowerMac
see note 6
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the
image
Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current
Name Last
Package: installation-reports
powerpc BootX 20040911 businesscard OldWorld PowerMac
See note 7
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the
image
Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current
Name Last
On Saturday, September 11, 2004, at 07:11 AM, Russell Hires wrote:
P.S. jokingWhen are you finally going to start work on the
manual?/joking
All joking aside... That is an important task! But I kinda figured it
was less important than getting the software working at all on
oldworld
hardware,
On Thursday, September 9, 2004, at 12:45 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 09:18 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 05:18 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Please try again with todays floppies,
and if it doesn't fix the problem, we need to investigate what
On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 09:18 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 05:18 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Please try again with todays floppies,
and if it doesn't fix the problem, we need to investigate what
driver is
missing or something.
I'll try the new floppies tonight
On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 05:18 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:17:55AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
Package: installation-reports
powerpc boot-floppy 20040906 OldWorld PowerMac
...
Then I tried the boot floppy. It gave me the tuxmac and made
reading noises.
Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 06 September 2004 19:53, Joey Hess wrote:
AfAIK hwclock output never includes the timezone.
I'm afraid it does.
On a system installed with LANG=en_US (on which I based my report):
# hwclock --show --localtime | awk '{NF-=2; print $0}'
Mon 06 Sep 2004
On Monday, September 6, 2004, at 11:00 PM, Joey Hess wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
Apparently, it looks at the LANG environment variable...
LANG=C /sbin/hwclock --show --localtime
gives
Tue Sep 7 02:22:16 2004 -0.463550 seconds
but
LANG=en_US /sbin/hwclock --show --localtime
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, at 04:45 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Ok, try out :
http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot/floppy-2.6-2004.09.01
I have checked the ofonlyboot, boot and root floppies.
I tried this -- the usual 30 seconds or so of floppy noises
followed by Red X for both the boot and
Joey Hess wrote:
Can you mail the /var/log/debian-installer/syslog and messages to this
The complete set of logs and other system info from that install are
available at:
http://rcthomas.org:7879/~rbthomas/logfiles/install-6500/
I can mail them to the bug if you like, but why
Joey Hess wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
http://rcthomas.org:7879/~rbthomas/logfiles/install-6500/
Permissions prevent me from reading the syslog.
Fixed. Sorry!
Rick
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Sven,
It's 2:15 AM, and I've got a meeting tomorrow at work, so I won't
be able to test these tonight. I'll try to get to them tomorrow
(9/1) in the evening (US East Coast time).
Please do me a favor and loop-mount the images to see if they have
all the expected pieces and the pieces are of
On Monday, August 30, 2004, at 04:41 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 08:23:28AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:58:34AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Sven Luther wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
Is it possible the objcopy is corrupting it?
This is indeed a possibility.
I
On Sunday, August 29, 2004, at 04:31 AM, Rick_Thomas wrote:
I tried the new 2.4 PowerMac floppys today. Now I get the Red X on
the 2.4 boot floppy as well.
I did an experiment...
I mounted the 2.4 boot floppy and extracted the zImage file,
uncompressed it, and compared it to the
Sven Luther wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
Is it possible the objcopy is corrupting it?
This is indeed a possibility.
I will disable this again for the 2.4 floppies, and we will see tomorrow what
happens.
That said, the 2.6 floppies are too big to work with miboot without the
objcopy -O
Rick_Thomas wrote:
Well... on the beige G3, I booted into Open Firmware with the
ofonlyboot floppy in the drive. The G3 comes up with console
input/output being keyboard/screen. From another Mac running MacOS-9, I
connected with MacKermit to the G3's modem port (which is normally
Sven Luther wrote:
the .coff booting is probably the
only free alternative, but i am told requesting a debian oldworld user to get
the serial console working is not acceptable.
Only unacceptable in the sense that Open Firmware is dramatically different between
machine types. Apple
Sven Luther wrote:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:22:38AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 06:59, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
Any ideas why these daily builds are broken every day?
I just tried the 2.4 floppy images. What Wouter says is correct. I'm
going to go over the
On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 05:00 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
happy floppy disk reading noises. However, the noises eventually
stopped and a red X appeared over the TuxMac. Then nothing. I
had to
manually eject the floppy from the drive.
What we need would be a way to get a log of it or
On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 02:19 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Rikard Borg wrote:
I'm one of those out there waiting with a 7200 box at home.
Rikard Borg
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Did the work-around I sent you help any? Have you got that 7200
box working yet?
Enjoy!
Rick
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On Friday, August 13, 2004, at 09:53 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Can you please retry the miboot boot floppies tomorrow ? I fixed the
daily-builds to rebuild the actual miboot floppies.
Now, the only problem remaining would be the root floppy being too
big, and
the actual 2.6 kernel based miboot
On Monday, August 16, 2004, at 03:18 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Thanks Rick for testing it. I will build 2.6.8 miboot kernels
today, could you
possibly give it a try to see if it boots this evening or
something such ?
Sure. Expect my report at about the same time tomorrow that I
posted today's.
Package: installation-reports
I retrieved the floppy images at
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc-small/floppy/
so I could try out a floppy-boot install from them.
I got never even got off the ground...
1) The boot.img' floppy seems to have nothing on it but the
On Wednesday, August 11, 2004, at 05:45 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:25:48AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
# We'd like to use miboot, but it isn't in the archive yet ...
#miboot -c ./tmp/powerpc-small_floppy_boot/miboot.conf
# ... so instead we do some grungy HFS hacking.
I wonder
On Wednesday, August 11, 2004, at 05:25 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 01:57:22AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Package: installation-reports
I retrieved the floppy images at
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc-
small/floppy/
so I could try out a floppy
Evilpig wrote:
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:35:27 +0100, Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's not in the lspci output because it's not a PCI card.
I thought I'd fixed this one, so I'd like the reporter to show me the
output of the following two commands, which you should be able to
On Monday, August 9, 2004, at 03:55 PM, Rick_Thomas wrote:
OK, as I said, output of lspci and lspci -n will be sent tonight,
when I
can get my hands on the machine in question.
Here is the output of lspci ; lspci -n
Hope it helps!
BTW, I manually did modprobe ohci1394 ; modprobe sbp2 just before
On Tuesday, August 10, 2004, at 04:04 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Ok, so we do it by hand. I wonder though what newworld pmac box he
has that
doesn't work, apple usually reused the same componnent in various
boxes, and
thus it should usually work.
Well, it's a PowerMac G4 733 MHz. The case is grey.
Install MacOS-9. Then use the BootX boot-loader. (or 8.5 or 8.6,
if 9 won't run on the S-900. I've never seen one of those, so I
don't know what will run on it and what wont. I'm told that BootX
even works with MacOS 7.5, if your machine can run it and you have
a floppy drive to install it
Package: installation-reports
powerpc businesscard RC1 NewWorld PowerMac
INSTALL REPORT
Synopsis:
Partition hard drives fails to see FireWire disk on powerpc
NewWorld (G4) PowerMac on RC1 businesscard install.
You folks are probably tired of seeing OldWorld PowerPC bug reports
from me,
Rikard Borg wrote:
Hi
Rick Thomas Wrote:
Any one of these three bugs will render debian-installer unusable for
anyone with anything but a plain vanilla hardware or networking
environment who doesn't have help from a competant System
Administrator, or have such skills personally
Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 03:52:20AM +1000, James Mills wrote:
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 06:36:42PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
[Please keep further questions on the mailing list, if you would.]
Shit. Does this list not have an explicit Reply-To header to the mailing
Joey Hess wrote:
At this point the only delay is waiting for the autobuilders, which are
overloaded from all the other uploads surrounding the sarge release, to
catch up and build the d-i images. In the past 24 hours, we've gotten
builds for hppa, ia64, s390, and sparc, plus a manual build
OOOps... I accidentally hit send when I meant to hit save... Here's the complete
message as I intended it to be!
Rick
Joey Hess wrote:
At this point the only delay is waiting for the autobuilders, which are
overloaded from all the other uploads surrounding the sarge release, to
catch up
Joey Hess wrote:
The test
checklist in installer/doc/checklist is still missing many entries and
the more complete it is the better I'd feel about calling this release
rc1 instead of beta5.
If you'll send me a pointer (URL?) to the test checklist, I'll try to make sure that
it gets as done
On Thursday, July 29, 2004, at 05:42 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Wednesday, July 28, 2004, at 04:27 PM, Joshua Kwan wrote:
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 03:40:30PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Please, somebody, give it a try and let me know I'm not going
crazy. It doesn't take very long to get to the point
Thanks for the prompt reply!
On Sunday, August 1, 2004, at 01:55 PM, Joshua Kwan wrote:
If you do not CC [EMAIL PROTECTED], nobody except me will see
this.
I did that.
Would somebody please try this out on an i386? (DNSserver
address != Gateway address) And let me know if it breaks non-DHCP
On Friday, July 30, 2004, at 05:34 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:24:54AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Package: installation-reports
powerpc 20040724 businesscard
OldWorld PowerMac kernel-2.6
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
sid_d-i/powerpc/20040724/sarge-powerpc
Thanks for the reminder.
You can close this bug report. The ask for floppy driver module
twice (and not fined it at all bug is still present, but I've
mentioned it in other bug reports that reference more current CD
images, so there's no need for this one.
Enjoy!
Rick
On Friday, July 30,
On Wednesday, July 28, 2004, at 04:27 PM, Joshua Kwan wrote:
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 03:40:30PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Please, somebody, give it a try and let me know I'm not going
crazy. It doesn't take very long to get to the point where this
bug manifests itself, and you don't ever get
Package: installation-reports
powerpc businesscard 20040729 OldWorld PowerMac
INSTALL REPORT
Synopsis:
Partition hard drives fails on powerpc OldWorld PowerMac on
20040729 businesscard install.
Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the
image
Package: installation-reports
powerpc 20040724 businesscard
OldWorld PowerMac kernel-2.6
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
sid_d-i/powerpc/20040724/sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso
Comments/Problems:
The powerpc 2.6 kernel on the 20040724 businesscard CD is missing
drivers (modules or
Is this problem only on OldWorld PowerMac's? Or am I just the only
person in the world who wants to configure his network interface
without DHCP? If this is happening on i386, it would be a show
stopper!
Please, somebody, give it a try and let me know I'm not going
crazy. It doesn't take
On Monday, July 26, 2004, at 09:25 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 02:00:46AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
The powerpc 2.6 kernel version of the d-i is missing drivers (modules
or built-in) for Mac floppy disks and SCSI CD-ROM drives.
I've added the floppy modules.
Thanks!
Installing
On Monday, July 26, 2004, at 04:53 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 02:17:46PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Monday, July 26, 2004, at 09:25 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 02:00:46AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
Installing on a PowerMac/6500 with a TEAC SCSI CD-RW drive
I don't know if this is relevant, but some IDE controllers only
recognize the first 128 GB(binary) = 137*10^9 bytes.
Is it possible that your controller has two modes? Windows uses one
mode that recognizes the whole disk, and Linux uses the other
(compatibility?) mode that only recognizes the
on
the list knows?) That would be worth a try.
I know it's possible to use disks larger than 137 GB with Linux --
I'm doing it!
Rick
On Monday, July 19, 2004, at 08:33 PM, Sara Falamaki wrote:
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 04:15:36PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
I don't know if this is relevant, but some IDE
Sven,
You didn't ask for my opinion, but here it is anyway...
As a user, I think splitting netinst/businesscard into separate 2.4
and 2.6 isos is a wonderful idea. The fewer unneeded Megabytes I
have to download and burn before I can get started installing the
better! I usually know whether
Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:45:38AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 11:07, Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 10:55:36AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
Last night I downloaded and installed on my test-machine [beige G3
mini-tower (OldWorld)]
There are three (seemingly) different sets of daily ISOs at
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040710/
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-
i/powerpc/20040710/
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/20040710/
Can anybody explain
Package: installation-reports
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Debian-installer-version:
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uname -a: didn't get far enough to get this...
Date: early AM EDT Saturday, July 12, 2004
Method: How did you install?
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040711/sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso
uname -a: didn't get far enough to get this...
Date: early AM EDT Saturday, July 12, 2004
Method: How did you install?
Rick Thomas wrote:
Joey Hess wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
Last night I tried installing both 2.4 and 2.6 on my OldWorld Beige G3.
(using the sarge netinst daily CD from 2004/07/07) Neither worked, but
for different reasons.
I've sent installation reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED
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http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040708/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso
uname -a: didn't get far enough to get this...
Date: early AM EDT Saturday, July 10, 2004
Method: How did you install? What
Package: installation-reports
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uname -a: Linux debian 2.4.25-powerpc #1 mer avr 14 15:38:38 CEST 2004
ppc GNU/Linux
Date: 11 PM EDT July 9, 2004
Method: How
On Saturday, July 10, 2004, at 07:33 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 03:46:29AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Everything went like clockwork except that it tried to install the
quik bootloader. IT's not supposed to do that for OldWorld
machines, is it? This is a beige G3 minitower
powerpc
===
In unstable, 2.4 and 2.6 both work fine on newworld pmac. 2.4 oldworld
pmac is unbootable, but then again it always has been.
It is reasonable to move for a 2.6 powerpc kernel for sarge, for all
currently supported architectures, the support for those is
better, and
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uname -a: didn't get far enough to get this...
Date: 11 PM EDT July 9, 2004
Method: How did you install? What did you boot
Joey Hess wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
Last night I tried installing both 2.4 and 2.6 on my OldWorld Beige G3.
(using the sarge netinst daily CD from 2004/07/07) Neither worked, but
for different reasons.
I've sent installation reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but they
haven't yet shown
Reset (zap) the PRAM. Turn the power off, then turn it on with the
Command-Option-P-R keys (all of them) held down. Hold the keys
down til it bongs a couple of times, then release and it should
boot normally from floppy.
Rick
On Sunday, June 13, 2004, at 05:51 AM, matt-land.com wrote:
On
On Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 01:47 AM, Joey Hess wrote:
Note that if you hit the go back button at the hostname question,
you'll
get to the main menu, and hitting enter will let you choose how to
configure it.
Thanks! That solves my problem.
However, we still need to get some way to set the
Sven Luther wrote:
snip
Still, i wonder were the right place would be for this .udeb :
1) in the cdrom iinitrd to have access to it as soon as possible ?
(it doesn't seem to appear though in the first stage of
debian-installer's main menu, don't know why though).
2) have
I'll give it a try this evening (US/Eastern time zone)
Enjoy!
Rick
Matt Kraai wrote:
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 04:04:13AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
1) It automatically ejected the boot floppy when asking for the root
floppy. Thanks for that, whoever put that patch in. However, when
Holger Levsen wrote:
snip
I would like to start hacking a quik-installer (for oldworld powerpc) now, but
I am a little unsure how to test it on my own: Since my only oldworld system
to develop with is a pmac4400 at the moment I have to boot if from floppies.
Then I'll usually insert the
Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 12:28:11AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
tags 243166 moreinfo help
thanks
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 03:52:44PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
A .udeb package would allow to eject the cdrom during the install. Would
be particularly usefull
On Sunday, April 11, 2004, at 01:56 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Ok.
Now wee need to see why this happens. It seems that nobody was able to
make it work with the boot floppies built by me, is that exact ?
Only by
those built by Jeremie. We need to find out why. Jeremie, did you
modify
the kernel
Hi!
See comments interleaved below...
Rick
Malte Cornils wrote:
Hi Rick,
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:37:21AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Errors like that are usually symptomatic of a dirty/dusty floppy drive.
In particular, if the boot floppy is ejected, it means that the
firmware
Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:37:21AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Malte,
Rick, does this mean that the daily build floppies work for you now ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
Yes. It reads all the floppies and launches d-i as expected.
I still have problems with d-i once
Frans Pop wrote:
On Friday 09 April 2004 20:40, you wrote:
Booting off of floppy, there is no way to invoke ...PRIORITY=medium
mode. It just does the default.
Are you sure?
You have to enter 'linux DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium'
Frans
This is OldWorld PowerMac.
Booting off of floppy
Malte,
Errors like that are usually symptomatic of a dirty/dusty floppy drive.
In particular, if the boot floppy is ejected, it means that the
firmware got an error trying to read it, or couldn't find the magic
numbers in the magic places that it was expecting from a real-live
Macintosh boot
Frans Pop wrote:
Hello Rick,
Are you still planning to work on the manual for Macs?
If so, could you take a look at the text below, snip
Yes I am. I got side-tracked for a while in testing d-i on old-world Macs.
Thanks for the words. I'll take a look at it this weekend.
Enjoy!
Rick
I just had an interesting conversation with an Apple developer
(Apple employee) regarding the legal status of the boot sector for
oldworld Macs.
He pointed out that Darwin runs (and boots) on (at least) the beige
G3, and that's oldworld. I don't know anything about Darwin except
that it's
On Monday, April 5, 2004, at 07:12 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 04:29:14PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Subject: installation-reports: OldWorld PowerMac install (sarge)
dies trying to install bootloader
The installer should automatically recognize the OldWorld
subarchitecture
Package: boot-floppy
Severity: normal
Subject: boot-floppy: no way to do expert mode boot from floppy on
OldWorld PowerMac (at least)
On OldWorld PowerPC Macintoshes there is no way for a user to do
an expert mode boot starting from the boot floppys.
I suppose theoretically that one can do
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Subject: installation-reports: OldWorld PowerMac install (sarge)
dies trying to install bootloader
On OldWorld PowerPC Macs the yaboot bootloader doesn't work.
Without resorting to expert mode (DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium or better)
there is no way to
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
Date: daily for powerpc for March 30, 2004.
Image from:
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/powerpc/20040330/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso
uname -a:
Linux debian 2.4.25-powerpc #1 ven mar
Sven Luther wrote:
Another solution would be for base-installer to install the -powerpc
kernel on your box too, since the main reason to use the -powerpc-small
kernel is so that it will fit on a floppy with miboot.
Would it be possible to restrict use of -powerpc-small kernel to just
On Thursday, April 1, 2004, at 05:57 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
another mail, same topic:
Is there support for setting open firmware values in
debian-installer at
the
moment ?
Not yet, but you are welcome to provide patches.
We'll see, I will try to setup a d-i build this weekend or next
week
Sven Luther wrote:
I would also vote for : ESC abort current action if possible and drop
back in the main menu (at possibly a lower priority). If abortion is not
possible, you simply do the drop back at the earliest possible
convenience.
Sorry, was not talking about the help
On Tuesday, March 30, 2004, at 10:47 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:01:49PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
Scripsit Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 10:56:21PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
Google macintosh boot block turns up official Apple information
Hi Simon,
Can you give a blow-by-blow installation procedure for installing debian
on oldworld Macs without BootX? I've done it for woody with BootX -- I
haven't figured out how to do woody without BootX. Unfortunately, sarge
has completely eluded me so far -- with or without BootX.
Thanks!
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