Re: Bug#564150: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 18, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 13:17 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jan 17, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Julian Hernandez Gomez wrote: The only powerpc computer that I have (PS3) is the one that I'm trying to install :( I think someone reported that there were

Re: Bug#564150: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 17, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Julian Hernandez Gomez wrote: The only powerpc computer that I have (PS3) is the one that I'm trying to install :( maybe Rick had other machines previously installed and he could run the cdebconf powerpc version. -- Julian. I do have such machines

Re: Bug#564150: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 15, 2010, at 5:00 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 16:23 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: This bug is still present in the Thu Jan 14 16:08:46 UTC 2010 businesscard CD downloaded from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ So

Bug#562575: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-14 Thread Rick Thomas
unimportant that resources cannot be spared to even *look* at a problem that renders the installer unusable on that hardware? Rick On Dec 28, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: This bug (562575) is still present in today's netinst CD. The businesscard installer boots and prints

Bug#564150: Segmentation fault on iBook

2010-01-07 Thread Rick Thomas
This is the same as bug #562575 Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-01-04 Thread Rick Thomas
Interestingly enough, this problem does not seem to be present in the i386 daily installer CDs. Just another datapoint... Rick On Dec 28, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: This bug (562575) is still present in today's netinst CD. The businesscard installer boots and prints the ususal

Re: install -- Debian install CD: netboot vs netinst vs businesscard

2010-01-01 Thread Rick Thomas
, anyone? On Jan 1, 2010, at 1:51 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Here's a datapoint... Today I did the same for the PowerPC version of the netboot/mini.iso (13 MB) and used it to install squeeze on my testing PowerMac G4. Worked a treat. And what's really cool is that the businesscard and netinst CD's

Re: install -- netboot vs netinst vs businesscard Debian installer CDs

2010-01-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 1, 2010, at 8:44 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On 2010-01-01 at 13:51:59 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: Here's a datapoint... Today I did the same for the PowerPC version of the netboot/mini.iso (13 MB) and used it to install squeeze on my testing PowerMac G4. Worked a treat. And what's

Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2009-12-28 Thread Rick Thomas
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 Segmentation fault and then it loops saying INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode

Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults

2009-12-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ Daily build #1 for powerpc, using installer build from sid

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

2009-12-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 17, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote: It may not be grave for the installer (indeed, you've already established at great length that it's not an installer problem at all) but that doesn't make it any the less grave for whatever

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

2009-12-17 Thread Rick Thomas
. And they won't get fixed if nobody brings them up in public. I'm just bringing them up so they can get fixed. I'm sorry if cross-posting it to debian-boot has offended you, Franz. Please accept my apology. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

2009-12-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 17, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote: I have listed several problems that exist in Sid and Squeeze, some of which prevent successful installation (even though there is nothing wrong with the installer). The problems in Sid

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

2009-12-17 Thread Rick Thomas
-- will be appreciated, of course. Season's greetings... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Problems with Debian PowerPC

2009-12-16 Thread Rick Thomas
dependency conflicts. Can anything be done about to fix this? What can I (as a user, non- developer, but willing tester) do to help? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

2009-12-16 Thread Rick Thomas
of the d-i team. But since it prevents Sid installs from working, I just thought you'd like to know. Happy Holidays... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Removal of cramfs support

2009-12-05 Thread Rick Thomas
floppies. Bastian Ambiguous pronoun: Which fs is currently in use for mips and powerpc floppies? cramfs or squashfs? If cramfs, won't removing it (cramfs) make those two installation modes unusable? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#261463: close

2009-11-22 Thread Rick Thomas
Please close this bug. It's no longer possible to do tests due to the hardware being decommissioned. Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: debian-installer for GNU/kFreeBSD

2009-10-14 Thread Rick Thomas
/Squeeze, unstable/Sid. Is this correct? If so, there remains the question of were the passive components (i.e. things being installed) of the installer CDs/DVDs/etc... are drawn from. Is there an established policy on any of this? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ

Bug#511287: debian-installer: Should have a task for installing KDE or XFCE instead of Gnome

2009-08-27 Thread Rick Thomas
the question, gnome is a good choice. There's probably something I don't understand that makes this impossible, but it's *got* to be better than the present stand-off, it seems to me. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#399840: Do we want an ssh-server task?

2009-08-13 Thread Rick Jones
Philip Hands wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 09:57:06AM -0700, Rick Jones wrote: In my case, 99 times out of ten it is a case of Sit at the console and do the install, when it completes walk back to my desk in another building, try to login and realize 'Damn, I didn't get an ssh server

Bug#399840: Do we want an ssh-server task?

2009-08-10 Thread Rick Jones
level. Were I dealing exclusively with Debian installs, perhaps my creaky wetware would become conditioned to the install isn't complete until you apt-get install openssh-server but I deal with three other distros and at least two other operating systems where this isn't an issue. rick jones

PowePC sid_d-i daily builds are not happening...

2009-05-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 24, 2009, at 2:39 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ says that This build finished at Mon May 18 22:27:07 UTC 2009. That's almost a week ago. I'd like to test a new sid installation on one of my Macs but until

linux-image-powerpc has the same broken dependency...

2009-04-25 Thread Rick Thomas
that should depend on it get automatically updated? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ppc64 port

2009-04-21 Thread Rick Thomas
? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: powerpc dailies back

2009-04-20 Thread Rick Thomas
in http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ all date from Fri Jan 23 03:30:35 UTC 2009. Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Best way to install a new session manager

2009-04-11 Thread Rick Thomas
? Is this in the manuals or wiki somewhere? If not, would it be a good idea to do that? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

powerpc testing install CDs out of date?

2009-04-11 Thread Rick Thomas
Since the iso's in http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ still date from January, I assume that the new hardware for building powerpc packages hasn't been installed yet. If there an expected time of arrival for this? Thanks! Rick

Bug#520711: installation-reports: The squeeze netinst doesn't find archive

2009-03-26 Thread Rick Thomas
that tell us about which package the bug belongs to? Thanks! Rick On Mar 26, 2009, at 2:34 AM, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Rick Thomas (rbthoma...@pobox.com): 2) Since this bug renders the install CDs (certainly buisnesscard, and for most practical purposes netinst) completely unusable

Bug#520442: amd64 netinst netcfg segfault daily build 03/19/2009

2009-03-26 Thread Rick Thomas
This is the same bug as #520711 Rick On Mar 19, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Stanley Pinchak wrote: Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:53

Bug#520711: same bug a #520442

2009-03-26 Thread Rick Thomas
This seems to be the same bug as #520442 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#520711: installation-reports: The squeeze netinst doesn't find archive

2009-03-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 25, 2009, at 7:37 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org wrote: Quoting Otavio Salvador (ota...@ossystems.com.br): On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Rick Thomas rbthoma...@pobox.com wrote: When I switch to the alt-F2 console

Bug#520711: installation-reports: The squeeze netinst doesn't find archive

2009-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
, with the same results. Hope this helps to analyze the bug... Rick On Mar 22, 2009, at 5:38 AM, Alexander V.Inyakin wrote: Package: installation-reports Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: debian-testing-i386

Bug#520711: syslog from a failed install

2009-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
syslog.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Bug#520711: installation-reports: The squeeze netinst doesn't find archive

2009-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 24, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Rick Thomas rbthoma...@pobox.com wrote: When I switch to the alt-F2 console and try to do a wget, I get a segmentation fault. Please take a look on the syslog of the installer and if possible attach

Re: Hardcoding of ext3 as partman's default filesystem

2009-01-28 Thread Rick Thomas
flexibility will probably not be possible. But at least, don't let the proposed changes close off the potential. Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#510271: installation-report: Lenny on a Slug - eventual success after a few tries and some fixups

2009-01-13 Thread Rick Thomas
manual or technical paper describing redboot? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#510271: installation-report: Lenny on a Slug - eventual success after a few tries and some fixups

2009-01-13 Thread Rick Thomas
makes it really easy for general users like me to join in the fun. I'm grateful. Enjoy! Rick PS: I'll leave it to you to close this bug if you think it's served its purpose. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#510271: installation-report: Lenny on a Slug - eventual success after a few tries and some fixups

2009-01-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 12, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Rick Thomas rbthoma...@pobox.com [2009-01-12 10:13]: If you send me a copy of your /dev/mtdblock1, I can verify whether you set a domain name or not. Here you go. Yep, no domain is set. Assuming that I did not set a domain back

Bug#510271: installation-report: Lenny on a Slug - eventual success after a few tries and some fixups

2009-01-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Rick Thomas rbtho...@slug.rcthomas.org [2008-12-30 19:12]: One thing worth mentioning though: I have a full-service DHCP on this subnet, so it got the network parameters from DHCP. This was successful, but for some reason it decided

Bug#510271: installation-report: Lenny on a Slug - eventual success after a few tries and some fixups

2009-01-08 Thread Rick Thomas
I'm getting ready to try this Friday. What URL should I use to download the Debian Installer from? Thanks! Rick On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Rick Thomas rbtho...@slug.rcthomas.org [2008-12-30 19:12]: One thing worth mentioning though: I have a full-service DHCP

Bug#510666: Installer run from USB stick should prefer iso image on stick over one on hard drive

2009-01-04 Thread Rick Thomas
once it is booted. Still, reassigning this bug report to the right D-I package. Thanks for your suggestion. If the installer has a choice of .iso images, shouldn't it ask which one(s) to use? (Obviously, this choice should be pre-seed-able...) Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#510271: installation-report: Lenny on a Slug - eventual success after a few tries and some fixups

2008-12-31 Thread Rick Thomas
of installations) in Stretch. Is that still true? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [RFC] Consequences for official CD/DVD images for Lenny

2008-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
. Or am I missing something? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#510263: installation-report: installing Lenny on a slug - eventually successful after a few trys and some fixups

2008-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.38 Severity: normal At first -- Package-specific info: Boot method: following instructions on http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/ Image version:

Bug#510263: Please close this bug

2008-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
This is an abortive attempt at an installation report. A full report was subsequently submitted. Sorry for the noise! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Detect already installed partitions.

2008-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
heuristics than to put up with the size of parted and friends... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [RFC] Consequences for official CD/DVD images for Lenny

2008-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 30, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Rick Thomas wrote: Given that all the necessary packages will be available on the DVD, doesn't it make more sense to do the selection in tasksel, rather than at boot-time? It would certainly be more convenient

Bug#510271: installation-report: Lenny on a Slug - eventual success after a few tries and some fixups

2008-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 30, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: for some reason it decided that the DNS domain was example.org, not the one being offered by DHCP. For what it's worth: Normal installs (on the console, not via SSH) on PowerPC Macs and i386 PCs on this subnet, using this DHCP server, don't

Re: [RFC] Consequences for official CD/DVD images for Lenny

2008-12-29 Thread Rick Thomas
separate DVD images if I need to. I can also afford to install from a Businesscard image and get what I need from a nearby mirror. So maybe you should be taking to somebody in India or Uganda about this. Anybody out there with limited Internet bandwidth want to comment? My two cents, Rick

Re: Setting FSCKFIX=yes on certain machines

2008-08-14 Thread Rick Thomas
when we have a more generic fix... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

D-I Etch+1/2 CD images for non x86/x86-64 arch?

2008-07-21 Thread Rick Thomas
a thought... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: i386 floppy status

2008-07-09 Thread Rick Thomas
a dirty floppy drive. Have you tried using a cleaning kit? Of course, if this is virtual hardware... (-: Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#487906: Lenny Beta2 on PowerPC - strange video mode after reboot

2008-06-26 Thread Rick Thomas
Rick Thomas wrote: Subject: Bug#487906: Lenny Beta2 on PowerPC - strange video mode after reboot snip :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr

Bug#487906: Lenny Beta2 on PowerPC - strange video mode after reboot

2008-06-24 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the image Lenny Beta2 for PowerPC KDE CD-1 uname -a: The result of running uname -a on a shell prompt Date: Date and time of the install June 24 19:35 EDT (US Eastern

Bug#482101: PPC Installer Init generated signal 4 kernel panic

2008-05-22 Thread Rick Thomas
I can not duplicate this on any of my Power Mac machines. It sounds like a hardware problem... Have you checked that all your RAMs are firmly seated in their sockets? Rick On May 20, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Chao Cao wrote: Package: installation-reports Problem: The installation CD

Re: Etch 1/2 CD images for test

2008-05-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 30, 2008, at 11:38 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 01 May 2008, Rick Thomas wrote: Would it be helpful if I did an Etch install then aptitude dist- upgrade on as many Mac architectures as I can? I don't have any non- Mac PowerPC machines, so I can't try the oddball kernel versions

Re: Etch 1/2 CD images for test

2008-04-30 Thread Rick Thomas
Is there any chance of producing an Etch+0.5 test image for PowerPC? I'd love to run it through my testing farm. Enjoy! Rick On Apr 30, 2008, at 3:34 AM, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Holger Wansing wrote: I did a test installation with the i386 netinst image (sorry, only

Re: Etch 1/2 CD images for test

2008-04-30 Thread Rick Thomas
OK. Would it be helpful if I did an Etch install then aptitude dist- upgrade on as many Mac architectures as I can? I don't have any non- Mac PowerPC machines, so I can't try the oddball kernel versions anyway. Is there anybody else out there who does? Rick On Apr 30, 2008, at 10:12 PM

Re: Errata updating for beta1

2008-03-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 17, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: +dtkernel oops during installer startup on ThinPad T41/dt You probably mean ThinkPad ? +dd +The problem looks to be kernel related but has not yet know to be fixed. This can not be parsed as an English language sentence.

Re: Errata updating for beta1

2008-03-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 18, 2008, at 3:19 PM, ardoRic wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: +dd +The problem looks to be kernel related but has not yet know to be fixed. Could you suggest a text for it? Basically

Re: Debian Installer Lenny Beta1

2008-03-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 17, 2008, at 1:04 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: Please use the website instead since there you find the documentation, errada and everything else that you will need there: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ The [17 Mar 2008] Debian Installer lenny beta 1 link on

Bug#470840: marked as done (debian-installer: Fails to install Grub on a RAID5 system)

2008-03-13 Thread Rick Thomas
to know, and not gone looking...) If it's not in the manual then it's a documentation bug, not a user error. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#470053: installation-report: obsolete kernel installed

2008-03-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 8, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2008, Rick Thomas wrote: Except that after the reboot synaptic (and aptitude, as well... I checked) immediately wanted to upgrade the kernel from what came with the install. That's called a security update... Cheers, FJP

Re: Status on arm, mips and mipsel

2008-02-10 Thread Rick Thomas
and after netcfg /etc/ hostname also contains the correct value. Martin, Does your DHCP server provide a DNS server? Without a DNS server the D-I wouldn't be able to deduce a host name... Just a thought, Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#463765: debian-installer: Installer offers to install grub bootloader on PowerPC. Why?

2008-02-02 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Using this businesscard install disk: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ Daily build #2 for powerpc, using installer build from sid These images will install the testing version of Debian, currently

Bug#463765: debian-installer: Installer offers to install grub bootloader on PowerPC. Why?

2008-02-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 2, 2008, at 11:39 PM, Nick Schmalenberger wrote: Grub does exist for powerpc, grub2 http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/grub2.html but as that page says it has an unsatisfiable dependency right now for powerpc so its broken. Has there been any progress on this since:

What's happening with the 3.1r7 install iso?

2008-01-06 Thread Rick Thomas
I hate to be a bore on this subject, but the Sarge 3.1r7 iso's still aren't available, as far as I can tell. And no word from anyone as to what the hold up is. Can anybody enlighten me? The 4.0r2 iso's are up now. Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#458663: Missing support for data.tar.bz2-based debs

2008-01-02 Thread Rick Thomas
different set of features on installed and d-i environments (from debootstrap POV). It could actually improve the space situation in the installer if it allowed some packages to be compressed smaller than their present size. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#458663: Missing support for data.tar.bz2-based debs

2008-01-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 2, 2008, at 9:47 PM, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:38:37PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jan 2, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:38:51PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Personally, I'd like to know what is the increase on space

Re: Bug#458154: Install of debian-4.0r2 on NSLU2

2008-01-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 1, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Del Merritt wrote: Geert Stappers wrote: Op 29-12-2007 om 13:30 schreef Del Merritt: Rick Thomas wrote: Also, make sure your ssh-client machine doesn't go to sleep while waiting... Thanks. I'm trying this out at the moment. Then again, I'm also here

Re: Install of debian-4.0r2 on NSLU2

2007-12-29 Thread Rick Thomas
Also, make sure your ssh-client machine doesn't go to sleep while waiting... Rick On Dec 29, 2007, at 12:50 AM, Del Merritt wrote: Earlier tonight I filed an install of debian-4.0r2 on a Linksys NSLU2 bug report to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; in a nutshell, if you don't happen to be in front

Re: Install of debian-4.0r2 on NSLU2

2007-12-28 Thread Rick Thomas
setting the ServerAliveInterval to a small non-zero value in your ~/.ssh/config file. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installer CDs for etch 4.0r2 and sarge 3.1r7 ?

2007-12-27 Thread Rick Thomas
Where can I find installer CD/DVD iso images for the newly announced etch 4.0r2 Same question for the yet-to-be-announced sarge 3.1r7 ? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help for Press Announcement r2 and r7

2007-12-25 Thread Rick Thomas
in the press release? Essentially the same comments apply to the Etch document as well. Rick

Debian-Boot mail list has a confusing name...

2007-12-22 Thread Rick Thomas
... Would it make sense to think about changing the name of the debian-boot list to something more descriptive of what it's really about? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#399840: plus one on an sshd install-time option

2007-11-20 Thread Rick Jones
it would indeed be _very_ nice to be able to put an sshd onto the system at install time - it would save me a great deal of trouble, especially when i have problems later with the serial console -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Issues building the g-i on PowerPC

2007-11-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 20, 2007, at 12:31 PM, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: On Nov 20, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: ok, i rebulit the iso with the correct libcairo-directfb2 udeb, you can find it in my ~: this time everything should be ok from the iso building POV

Re: Issues building the g-i on PowerPC

2007-11-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Hope this helps... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Issues building the g-i on PowerPC

2007-11-17 Thread Rick Thomas
red and flashed back and forth red with a black screen with the error message libgcc.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work Hope this helps! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#448871: Should give us the option of syncing time

2007-11-01 Thread Rick Thomas
Using ntp to set the time should be a short operation. If it takes a long time, the validity of the time that results is in question -- by virtue of the process[*] being used. Rick [*] For those who care, it works roughly like this: One or more polls are sent from the client to each

Bug#448871: Should give us the option of syncing time

2007-11-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 1, 2007, at 3:06 PM, Jim Paris wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: Using ntp to set the time should be a short operation. If it takes a long time, the validity of the time that results is in question -- by virtue of the process[*] being used. Unless it's slow becuase of something like

Bug#448871: Should give us the option of syncing time

2007-11-01 Thread Rick Thomas
have the option of which source of time to trust. Rick On Nov 1, 2007, at 4:02 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: Using ntp to set the time should be a short operation. If it takes a long time, the validity of the time that results is in question -- by virtue of the process[*] being

Bug#448871: Should give us the option of syncing time

2007-11-01 Thread Rick Thomas
of the original bug-report. I've learned some things, and that's good. Thank you, Joey, for forcing me to take a look at the source code -- always a useful exercise! But I'll stop now, as it's no longer contributing to fixing the bug in the original report. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#447610: Succesfull install on iBook G4

2007-10-23 Thread Rick Thomas
there are others as well. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: i.e or e.g

2007-10-01 Thread Rick Thomas
be a clearer choice of words from the point of view of translations. If there's room for it, that's what I'd use, personally. Rick PS: Thanks, Daniel, for the ancient history URL. It's cool! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#442437: debian-installer: installer keeps probing for non-existent floppy

2007-09-18 Thread Rick Thomas
device is theoretically possible, what's the use-case? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The d-i blocks on new hardware

2007-09-10 Thread Rick Thomas
on my testing bluewhite Mac G3. Thanks! Rick

Re: Empty daily build directories

2007-08-31 Thread Rick Thomas
PROTECTED]: :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `- Any idea when this will be fixed for PowerPC? Thanks! Rick

Re: rdate udeb

2007-07-22 Thread Rick Thomas
The rdate in etch does not recognize a -n option. When was it added? Rick On Jul 21, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Joey Hess wrote: I just remembered/realised that rdate can use ntp servers via rdate -n. Spiffy. No more issues finding a server then. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: floppies, a radical proposal

2007-06-01 Thread Rick Thomas
) Rick On Jun 1, 2007, at 8:34 AM, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 31 May 2007 20:47, peter green wrote: Since we already know the bios can read the users floppy drive (or they wouldn't have been booting off it) it would seem to make sense to load all the floppies BEFORE loading linux

Re: etch/volatile -- public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EC61E0B0BBE55AB3

2007-04-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 14, 2007, at 6:39 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:21:56PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Anybody know what the problem is here? Or how to fix it? W: GPG error: http://volatile.debian.org etch/volatile Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because

etch/volatile -- public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EC61E0B0BBE55AB3

2007-04-13 Thread Rick Thomas
these problems Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the future of the netinst image

2007-03-25 Thread Rick Thomas
. (B) If we still want to keep it around, we need to make it less astonishing by at least eliminating the curiosa listed above. The easiest way to do that, seems to be to have it do exactly what the businesscard image does, but more of it. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-15 Thread Rick Thomas
is currently *assumed* to be present and making them all use the new file. A library is probably needed that does the deciding of which format to use. Are there POSIX/LSB/etc ramifications? just a thought, Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#413814: installing Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 on a Power Macintosh G3 Server

2007-03-07 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Alex! Welcome to an elite minority of those of us who have got this to work! Below are a couple of hints from my own experience in doing this. Rick On Mar 7, 2007, at 5:21 AM, Alex Teclo wrote: Package: installation-reports Boot method: BootX Image version: Debian etch powerpc weekly

Re: Etch netinstaller has no eth0 in qemu

2007-03-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 5, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Something wrong with rsync? I think zsync can also be used. zsync works great. It doesn't work with DVD images -- something about files larger than 2GB (31 bit byte offsets). Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#411446: Clock not set correctly; MacOS9 not detected?

2007-03-01 Thread Rick Thomas
it by running my OS9 in UTC. Others are not so likely to appreciate that solution! Rick On Feb 28, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:53:16PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Note that Debian people tell me that OSx systems _are supposed_ to run with internal clock

Re: Bug#407460: USB ethernet interface renamed after installation on NSLU2 which causes the system to be inaccessible

2007-02-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 27, 2007, at 6:23 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Gordon Farquharson wrote: I tried a build of the installer from trunk (revision 45431) and nearly fell of my chair: Known problem at the top of DebianInstaller/Today in the wiki. I don't see any reference at all on the wiki to Gordon

Bug#410971: interactive aptitude wants to remove hfsutils and sudo after etch installation

2007-02-14 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation Severity: important After installation on a powerpc system (PowerMac BlueWhite G3) when aptitude is run in interactive (curses) mode, told to do update and finish any pending operations (g) command, it turns out that the hfsutils and sudo packages are marked for

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