netbooting is the correct way on those, and the only tested way.
And the CDs are supposed to boot on the RS6000?
They should, but there seems to be some issue that need investigating. I fixed
something (missing icon) recently, so the daily builds and beta2 should be
better than sarge.
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:53:30AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
Solution is to fix partman-prep, and see if yaboot-installer behaves
then, or
to see if the excessive ramdisk size created by initramfs-tools caused
the
compressed kernel + builtin initrd to cause trouble with
Solution is to fix partman-prep, and see if yaboot-installer behaves
then, or
to see if the excessive ramdisk size created by initramfs-tools caused the
compressed kernel + builtin initrd to cause trouble with the OFs
installer.
My bet would be on the latter. That should be
That would be interesting, since the B50 is exactly what those corean guys
have all this trouble dealing with.
Odd. We installed from a floppy using the woody netinstall CDs by just
following the instructions found at
http://www.kutilek.de/technik/debian-rs6k.en.php
You reqlise
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:26:27PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
That would be interesting, since the B50 is exactly what those corean
guys
have all this trouble dealing with.
Odd. We installed from a floppy using the woody netinstall CDs by just
following the instructions
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 04:35:53PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
FWIW, I've got a bunch of old Macs here (including Nubus), and one RS/6000
B50 that can be used for testing CD booting if necessary.
That would be interesting, since the B50 is exactly what those corean guys
have all this
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 03:20:41PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
Well, nice to hear it's not the hardware that's holding things up. Now we
just need to find someone to volunteer to take over from you. Anyone?
FWIW (I forget if the relevant thread was CCed here), I've volunteered,
and the
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:35:27AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 03:20:41PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
Well, nice to hear it's not the hardware that's holding things up. Now we
just need to find someone to volunteer to take over from you. Anyone?
FWIW (I
FWIW, I've got a bunch of old Macs here (including Nubus), and one RS/6000
B50 that can be used for testing CD booting if necessary.
That would be interesting, since the B50 is exactly what those corean guys
have all this trouble dealing with.
Odd. We installed from a floppy using the
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 03:20:41PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
Well, nice to hear it's not the hardware that's holding things up. Now we
just need to find someone to volunteer to take over from you. Anyone?
FWIW (I forget if the relevant thread was CCed here), I've volunteered,
and the
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 02:20:11AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
There is no problem with initramfs-tools, just a problem with the
maintainer of the ppc port who is too quick to jump to conclusions again.
Since the debian-installer team clearly stated that debian would be better off
without me,
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:16:12AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 02:20:11AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
There is no problem with initramfs-tools, just a problem with the
maintainer of the ppc port who is too quick to jump to conclusions again.
Since the
If the d-i team does not get their act together WRT daily builds, I can
offer to set up a 233 MHz G3 with accounts for d-i. Ditto for someone to
build kernels.
The real problem is not the machine, they can even use an account on the IBM
donated quad-power5 at augsbourg if needed. The real
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
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 12:10:56PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
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).
Please file a bug report, and don't just post here. I have been asked to take
a few
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
On Sunday 26 March 2006 23:21, Sven Luther wrote:
Ok, but initramfs-tools is there, and is the default now anyway, so it
should work. There is clearly a bug in initramfs-tools about this
issue, so file a bug report against it, or ask maks on irc
(#debian-kernel on irc.oftc.net).
No, this is a
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 02:20:11AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
There is no problem with initramfs-tools, just a problem with the
maintainer of the ppc port who is too quick to jump to conclusions again.
Since the debian-installer team clearly stated that debian would be better off
without me, and
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