Hi,
While trying to install Wheezy on a Dell XPS 13 Laptop (no ethernet, USB
boot, only iwlwifi based WLAN) I ran into a problem where DI would not
find the non-free firmware on a second USB until I manually mounted the
second device on /media
Basically, it seems to be the problem reported in
Cyril == Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org writes:
Cyril Hello, Shyamal Prasad shya...@member.fsf.org (02/01/2013):
This was apparently fixed here
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694082
I'm presuming this fix is not in b4. Could some one confirm
Hi folks,
I've been away from my computer for a few months, but decided to give
the latest d-i netinstall daily build a spin today (March 26).
Besides the obvious known problem (default mirror) I find that a
powerpc64 install on a PowerMac7,3 (Dual 2Ghz G5) fails when trying to
install the
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
(X-Debbugs-CC to debian-kernel at Sven Luther's request, perhaps this
should have been filed against initramfs-tools directly)
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: powerpc net-inst daily build (March 26, 2006)
uname -a: did not complete
Sven == Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sven Please file an installation report, CCed to
Sven [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sure thing: #359164 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=359164
I am presuming some one with a better understanding of the issue can
reassign it to the
fjp This is not an initramfs-tools problem, but the result of
fjp powerpc daily d-i builds, for which Sven himself is
fjp responsible, failing for the last
fjp few days.
Just for the record, I tried d-i rc2 and it worked like a charm
(except for a constant set of error windows
Package: installation-reports
This is purely for the record - no problems to report on a
straightforward installation. Until this daily build one thing or the
other always broke ;-)
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Netinst daily build 20050117
uname -a: Linux test 2.6.8-power4 #1 Sat
Colin == Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Colin On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 04:14:35PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad
Colin wrote:
Also, the test case kernel/tests/powerpc/g5.cpuinfo is for a
PowerMac7,2 (970). There is not test for a 970FX PowerMac7,3.
Colin Please provide
Package: debian-installer-manual
Version: 20050117
Tags: patch
Currently there is no standard way to identify partitions on Apple
PowerMac hardware (i.e. a method accepted by all Linux distributions).
There was a discussion on debian-boot about this, see the thread at
Sven == Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sven Strange. Do we need to fix base-installer, which may
Sven recognize the powermac as a pmac, and thus chose a powerpc
Sven kernel ? I don't think so, i suppose Colin Watson did the
Sven right thing about this.
Well, I started
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 20010114 Netinst Daily Build
uname -a: Default install fails (see below), expert mode
requires 2.6.8-power4
Date: January 15, 2005 1700 PST
Method: Boot off CD, used install-power4 kernel,
used
Sven == Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sven On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:50:48PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad
Sven wrote:
I created a partition with type Linux_LVM and name LVM_Test
using mac-fdisk. I put an ext3 file system on the partition so
I could fsck/mount
Sven == Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sven On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 09:54:14PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad
Sven wrote:
1) PowerMac does not currently have Partition types for
Linux. Today we are just using an Apple defined type
(Apple_UNIX_SVR2) which is safe
Michael == Michael Schmitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael s/MockOS/MacOS/g
Michael to anything but Apple_Bootstrap, Apple_HFS,
Michael Apple_UNIX_SVR2 or Apple_Free. If you're sure (or just
Michael reasonably confident) Linux_LVM will be ignored by
Michael
Sven == Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sven On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:21:35PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad
Sven wrote:
Okay. I suppose this (powermac lvm for d-i) might not happen
by the time Sarge releases. I'd be happy to take a look at it,
but I might not have
Sven == Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sven No, lvm could be added to partman in no time, but Colin
Sven Watson voted against this, and rightly so, since he claimed
Sven that we should not use a quick hack, but come to a consensus
Sven on the way of doing this with both
Hi,
I was using d-i daily build for powerpc (Jan 4, 2005) to install on an
Apple Dual G5 (PowerMac7,3).
I find that the LVM menu items in the installer do not work in a
manner very similar to what is described in this bug report (though
this report is for a x86 machine).
Basically I cannot
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-power4-di
Version: 0.73
Severity: important
The d-i installer (both rc2 and the Dec 19, 2004 daily build of the
busines card ISO) does not boot a Dual CPU (2.0 Ghz) G5 Power
Macintosh. I was advised to file a bug against the kernel-image (on
asking on debian-powerpc),
Shyamal The issue I wanted to highlight was that a bf 3.0.19
Shyamal based netinst ISO works great on this
Shyamal machine(http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst) with all
Shyamal the syslinux features (I can choose a kernel, hit F3 for
Shyamal help, etc.).
Ummm...I may be
Anthony == Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anthony Seriously: everyone reading this mail, burn a copy of
Anthony Raphael's test image on a CD and try booting it in any
Anthony computers you have handy. If it doesn't work on a machine
Anthony where a potato CD does
Mike On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:38:00AM -0500, Shyamal Prasad
Mike wrote:
It failed to boot an IBM Aptiva 2161-C8E desktop with a
1/19/1997 BIOS. This 166Mhz Pentium box has been my trusty
machine for 5 years, and boots the potato r3 CD and also
another woody netinst
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