Package: debian-installer
Severity: Important
I've been trying to test install the etch daily netinst CD on an
oldworld Mac (beige G3) and I can't get off first base because I
can't get the video to co-operate.
I'm using the BootX bootloader under MacOS-9.2.2
Before I begin describing my
Package: debian-installer
Interestingly enough, though I first discovered this on the powerpc
it's not unique to the powerpc -- the same thing seems to be
happening for i386.
Looking at the DebianInstaller/FAQ - Debian Wiki question 29 takes us
to:
Package: debian-installer
Installing from the Debian testing beta2 netinst image on a beige G3
oldworld PowerPC Mac, using the BootX bootloader from MacOS9...
Everything went just fine until it came time to reboot. (copied by
hand from the screen, so forgive any inaccuracies!):
Begin:
Good! It looks like whatever it was got fixed.
Thanks!
Rick
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On Jun 4, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Black Dew wrote:
David Härdeman wrote:
I've tried to downgrade busybox, but that didn't help, and now I'm
running out of ideas...is anyone else seeing this?
The error message from wget is:
~ # wget http://www.debian.org
wget: www.debian.org: Unknown server error
Package: debian-installer
Severity: Important
This is a failed Installation report for etch daily 2006/06/05 on
oldworld PowerPC Mac (beige g3)
Installing from the Debian testing etch daily 2006/06/05 netinst
image on a beige G3 oldworld PowerPC Mac, using the BootX bootloader
from
On Jun 6, 2006, at 3:46 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Rick, can you send us a list of the dpkg -l of this system, and
check exactly
what did happen during the kernel installation. If you can provide
us all the
logs of the installation, or can do another one, it would be welcome.
Friendly,
Sven
On Jun 6, 2006, at 6:18 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jun 6, 2006, at 3:46 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Rick, can you send us a list of the dpkg -l of this system, and
check exactly
what did happen during the kernel installation. If you can provide
us all the
logs of the installation, or can do
On Jun 6, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
(removing all irrelevant CCs; please respect the reply-to)
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 12:18, Rick Thomas wrote:
OK, they are here:
http://www.rcthomas.org/~rbthomas/logfiles/
As there is absolutely no mention of 2.6.8 in this installation
On Jun 6, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 06:29:10PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
It's an oldworld Mac (beige G3) and I use MacOS-9/BootX as the
bootloader, so I skipped the install quik bootloader step during
the install (used continue without bootloader). That's
On Jun 6, 2006, at 3:46 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
reassign 370418 base-installer
thanks
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:46:02AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
reassign 370418 initramfs-tools
thanks
On Monday 05 June 2006 09:13, Rick Thomas wrote:
Begin: Mounting root file system ... ...
Begin: Running
I just wrote:
Ops! Typo!
The 2.6.8 in the (hand-typed) quotation above is actually 2.6.15-1
Since this is likely to invalidate all debugging efforts up to now,
I'm awaiting further instructions on what to do to provide additional
information.
I've added to the logfiles website the
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?
Booted direct from daily netinst CD
Image version: Full URL to image you downloaded is best
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Name
I can confirm this problem (finish install doesn't finish the
install - just flashes the screen and returns to the main menu) when
installing on a PowerMac G4.
I saw it when installing directly from the June 12 jigdo DVD. I
haven't had a chance to try the June 19th jigdo DVD just yet.
On Jun 20, 2006, at 10:06 AM, Viti Davide wrote:
Note: I feel much anger in your writing...
Yes, your message did piss me off very much indeed.
Is it just me? It sure seems like there's a lot of this going around.
Chill out folks! We're all in this because we think it's *fun*. If
it
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 14:24 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
I can confirm this problem (finish install doesn't finish the
install - just flashes the screen and returns to the main menu) when
installing on a PowerMac G4.
I saw it when installing directly from the June 12 jigdo DVD. I
Package: debian-installer
I just attempted to install the debian powerpc daily businesscard iso
from June 24 on my OldWorld beige G3 test machine, and got the same
error.
There's been some discussion of a set of patches that prevented this
but got dropped from the 2.6.15 kernel. Is
On Jun 28, 2006, at 7:17 AM, Holger Levsen wrote:
Hi Rick,
partitioning works now, sarge has been released, can we close this
bug? :-)
regards,
Holger
Makes sense to me.
Thanks!
Rick
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On Jul 1, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Saturday 01 July 2006 17:53, Frans Pop wrote:
I've drawn some conclusions for myself based on this data, but am
curious what others think.
Here's one of the ideas I had to reduce the current memory
requirements of
the installer.
Instead of
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Image version: Full URL to image you downloaded is best
Date: Date and time of the install
CD -- netinst
Index of /cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd
Name
On Jul 10, 2006, at 9:18 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
and ideas you had during the initial install.
Tasksel died refusing with it's last breath to install untrusted
packages.
Earlier
On Jul 11, 2006, at 6:10 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 23:43, Rick Thomas wrote:
Interestingly enough, I just tried this with the corresponding
BusinessCard image and it worked just fine.
Could it be that the first time you tried during a mirror sync?
That could
maybe
On Jul 12, 2006, at 12:06 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jul 11, 2006, at 6:10 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 23:43, Rick Thomas wrote:
Interestingly enough, I just tried this with the corresponding
BusinessCard image and it worked just fine.
Could it be that the first time you
For what it's worth, I just succeeded in installing Etch using the
July 10th daily businesscard image on my Beige G3 (OldWorld
PowerMac) test machine. I started with the July 11th miBoot floppys
from Wouter. I skipped the quik installation step because I need to
use BootX as my eventual
On Jul 13, 2006, at 1:46 AM, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
I downgraded the bug report on the kernel, but then I realized you
might not be using the kernel I thought. Did you install 2.6.15 or
2.6.16? 2.6.16 is the one that has the issues.
I'm using the 2.6.15 kernel.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
On Jul 13, 2006, at 1:46 AM, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
I downgraded the bug report on the kernel, but then I realized you
might not be using the kernel I thought. Did you install 2.6.15 or
2.6.16? 2.6.16 is the one that has the issues.
The installer installed a 2.6.15 kernel, as mentioned
On Jul 13, 2006, at 3:34 AM, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
Yes, I have filed bug report #375035. The kernel panics claiming that
it can't find the root device, but the evidence is that it doesn't
even *try* to use the initramfs before it does this. (no freeing
memory message, for instance).
As I
On Jul 13, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Daniel wrote:
Do you have any message numbers? Remember I've only started with
powerpc debian recently, so I'm not one of the 'everyone' that
'should
be aware of it'. Also, if you're saying that new powerpc users
should
be aware that
Package: installation-reports
On Jul 13, 2006, at 1:24 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 06:46:02PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 13 July 2006 18:20, Sven Luther wrote:
initrd-tools used to be knoweldgeable about the root device, while
initramfs-tools doesn't and you have
On Jul 13, 2006, at 6:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:07:51PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
Ok, so, do you have any roadmap for adding floppy support to
quick ? And will
quick allow to get cdrom support on oldworld machines ?
Code exists. Needs debugging though
NTP is something I know a bit about.
Yeah, ntpdate will do the job, and it's a good bit smaller than the
full ntp-simple package.
The alternative you were thinking of *may* be chrony.
Both implement enough of the network time protocol (NTP) to do what
you want.
However, keep in mind that
On Jul 15, 2006, at 4:21 AM, Holger Levsen wrote:
Hi,
On Friday 14 July 2006 14:55, Rick Thomas wrote:
This bug (258545) can be closed as wont fix. It's not reasonable
(or possible -- I think) to do what I wanted and what your revised
bug title asks for.
We can detect hfs-partitions
On Jul 15, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-15 01:48]:
Yeah, ntpdate will do the job, and it's a good bit smaller than the
full ntp-simple package.
The alternative you were thinking of *may* be chrony.
Maybe, although it seems that ntpdate
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?
BootX and netinst CD (see below)
I also tried using the businesscard CD witht he same results
Image version: Full URL to image you downloaded is best
I'm curious... On the cdimage.d.o server there seem to be two
parallel series of daily-build debian-installer cd images. They are
clearly different, but why?
Enjoy!
Rick
==
Index of /cdimage/daily-builds/etch_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd
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Boot method: How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?
booted from daily businesscard CD
Image version: Full URL to image you downloaded is best
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| Name
On Jul 20, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [o]
Detect network card:[o]
Configure network: [o]
Detect CD: [o]
Load installer modules: [o
On Jul 20, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
2) However, strangely, the lspci command seems to be missing
from the installed system. I *was* able to get it (as part of the
pciutils package) from the mirror via aptitude. So it's not
missing completely.
Interestingly... I had
On Jul 21, 2006, at 4:37 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 09:13:51PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Some testing also noted that /etc/apt/sources.list includes the
install CD as a source. I don't think this is a good idea -- it
means that I have to hang onto the install CD
On Jul 21, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
I call BS :-D !
Joke aside, this i from a system installed on Monday via a
buisnesscard CD:
... sources.list snipped...
I don't see any CD source.
Maybe you were talking about netinst?
... Curiouser and curioser!, cried Alice.
On Jul 21, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jul 21, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
I call BS :-D !
Joke aside, this i from a system installed on Monday via a
buisnesscard CD:
... sources.list snipped...
I don't see any CD source.
Maybe you were talking about netinst
On Jul 22, 2006, at 3:01 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 11:19:06PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
On Friday 21 July 2006 22:09, Rick Thomas wrote:
Putting the install CDrom into sources.list makes sense when you are
installing from a full CD (or DVD) set, because there's a large
On Jul 22, 2006, at 4:45 AM, Jens Seidel wrote:
Hi Rick,
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 03:55:28AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Hmmm... That doesn't square with my recent experience. I've had
aptitude hang on me a couple of times with messages saying
(approximately -- from memory) can't read cdrom
Package: installation-reports
Installation on (OldWorld) PowerMac beige G3 (Gossamer) using miBoot
floppies and netinst CDrom.
INSTALL REPORT
| Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the
image
|
| Debian etch daily powerpc netinst install CD iso dated 21-Jul-2006
On Jul 22, 2006, at 6:11 AM, Jens Seidel wrote:
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 05:59:02AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
so it hung. (Does hanging if the CD is not inserted count as a bug?)
It depends on the kind of hanging. If APT just asks you to insert a
special CD I think this is OK and expected
On Jul 23, 2006, at 6:58 AM, Geert Stappers wrote:
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 02:14:26AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Installation on (OldWorld) PowerMac beige G3 (Gossamer) using miBoot
floppies and netinst CDrom.
INSTALL REPORT
| Debian-installer-version
On Jul 23, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jul 23, 2006, at 6:58 AM, Geert Stappers wrote:
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 02:14:26AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Installation on (OldWorld) PowerMac beige G3 (Gossamer) using miBoot
floppies and netinst CDrom
Package: tasksel
==
In short, when the CD-drive is empty, but apt/sources.list contains a
'deb cdrom:', tasksel hangs and can not recover. In the same
situation aptitude responds gracefully by asking the user to insert
the missing CD -- with an option to ignore the CD
On Jul 23, 2006, at 10:08 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 24 July 2006 02:36, Rick Thomas wrote:
I have not yet tried using lspci on a system during installation. Do
you need that test done?
You should be able to simply check if the lspci output is present in
(IIRC) /var/log/installer
Package: installation-reports
Sorry! I don't know which package creates the /etc/papersize file,
so I'm submitting this as Package: installation-reports.
During the install process, I selected the C locale early on.
Later, when asked, I indicated I have a US-English keyboard. I also
On Jul 24, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 24 July 2006 07:17, Rick Thomas wrote:
During the install process, I selected the C locale early on.
Later, when asked, I indicated I have a US-English keyboard. I also
specified US-EastCoast timezone, and in general did everything I
On Jul 24, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
#379067: netinst CD should not be added to sources list of target
system,
which was filed against the apt-setup package.
It has been closed by Joey Hess [EMAIL
On Jul 24, 2006, at 4:14 PM, Christian Perrier wrote:
plan is to also support en_US.
I assume this means that if I do whatever magic is required to get
en_US locale, then I'll get letter in /etc/papersize. What if I
choose C locale?
This should be discussed with the localization-config
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 06:36 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
Far be it from me to make extra work for the localization-config
maintainer. And I agree with you that locales are exactly for the
purpose of setting things that depend on country and language. I
guess my problem is that
I booted my test beige G3 (oldworld) from the miboot floppies with
the July 30'th businesscard CD in the CDrom drive. I was also able
to do 'lspci' at keyboard selection time.
Rick
On Jul 31, 2006, at 6:04 AM, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
On 29/07/06, Geert Stappers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On
Thanks!
Rick
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Please close this bug. It's no longer relevant.
I believe it has been fixed in the released sarge installer.
Thanks!
Rick
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Package: installation-reports
Note: This is not the same bug as #379120.
This bug report is about the condition after the reboot. It's not
about the time during installation -- before the reboot.
It seems that lspci is pulled in by the Desktop task. It's absent
after the reboot in a
Package: installation-reports
I recently did a businesscard install of the etch daily.
There were two unexpectedly long pauses in the later part of the
installation. I've seen these before, so they aren't just a fluke.
So I'm reporting them now.
The first was during Configuring
Package: installation-reports
kernel and initrd from latest daily refuses to boot on OldWorld beige
G3 Mac
Hardware used is
PowerMac G3 (Gossamer)
this is an OldWorld powerpc Macintosh
Boot loader used is
MacOS-9.2 with the BootX extension.
Kernel version used is
I should have added that sarge boots and runs just fine on this
machine with BootX.
On Aug 9, 2006, at 2:05 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Package: installation-reports
kernel and initrd from latest daily refuses to boot on OldWorld
beige G3 Mac
Hardware used is
PowerMac G3 (Gossamer
Will this fix the problem of the kernel not booting on OldWorld
PowerPC Macintosh?
On Aug 11, 2006, at 5:12 AM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 10 August 2006 12:30, Frans Pop wrote:
- switch to 2.6.17 kernel udebs (long term 2.6.16 maintenance no
longer seems to be an option for the
I just tried the etch Beta3 kernel on my Beige G3 OldWorld PowerPC
Macintosh.
Same results as noted in the original bugreport by this number. It
hangs almost immediately. The picture of Tux never appears at the
top of the screen. See the original bug report for details.
Seriously,
On Aug 18, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 03:19:18AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Has *anybody* had any success getting the Linux version 2.6.16-2-
powerpc (Debian 2.6.16-17) kernel to boot an OldWorld machine with
BootX? Or *any* kernel after 2.6.15?
I
On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
What is PTBs? :)
Powers that be...
On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
Well, aside the issue of booting, the kernel runs just
fine and so does the user space... As you can look at
http://www.us.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata, I think
it is partially admitted in Oldworld powerpc boot floppies will not
On Aug 18, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:52:24PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
What is PTBs? :)
Powers that be...
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:44:23AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Perhaps the Debian PTBs
On Aug 18, 2006, at 6:43 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 12:18:23AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:58:07PM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:52:24PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote
On Aug 19, 2006, at 2:52 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 04:47:44PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
We mainly need to determine how we are going to use rdate:
- for all installations;
- only for some (sub)arches like nlsu;
- only if difference between system date/time and rdate
On Aug 19, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
Using DHCP will only tell you what the
DHCP admin's preferred timezone setting is, which won't necessarily
match
and also doesn't give you any idea whether the user wants the
system's clock
to be set in UTC or not.
The proposed RFC
On Aug 19, 2006, at 2:52 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 04:47:44PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
We mainly need to determine how we are going to use rdate:
- for all installations;
- only for some (sub)arches like nlsu;
- only if difference between system date/time and rdate
On Aug 20, 2006, at 12:05 AM, Steve Langasek wrote:
The proposed RFC allows the dhcp administrator to tailor the response
based on the MAC address of the client. Most won't, but it should be
possible if you want to.
I think you're missing the point that the maintainer of the newly-
think?
Thanks for sending along your script,
Harold
On 8/19/06, Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Aug 19, 2006, at 6:29 PM, Harold Johnson wrote:
In the meantime, I can continue using BootX -- not a real elegant
solution, IMHO, but it works.
Hi Harold,
What magic did you have
On Aug 25, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Christian Perrier wrote:
I am not sure, but in the graphical installer, we could add a
clock widget
somewhere from the start, and do clock setting pretty early one
(we probably
only need hwclock and a little menu thingy), it can even be done
before
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/
powerpc/iso-cd/
shows images from 2:14 AM August 31.
Is there something going on that is preventing the daily ISOs from
being posted?
Rick
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Recently, .zsync files started showing up in the daily cdimage
directory.
This is very nice. The zsync program is loads easier to use(*) than
jigdo, and provides almost as much savings in download time/bandwidth.
Would it be possible to add .zsync files to the weekly DVD image
and CD
On Sep 7, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Robert Millan wrote:
Hi,
As you might know, experimental grub2 support has been added to d-i
when using
the expert mode, but it is only yet available on i386/amd64.
I made this patch to enable grub2 for powerpc as well, but
unfortunately I can't
test it
On Sep 7, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Joey Hess wrote:
This won't be practical. They are just udebs, but they have complex
interdependencies and we can't expect users to pick the right set of
udebs to put on a driver floppy that both supports all the hardware
they
need to support and fit in its
On Sep 7, 2006, at 7:00 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I made this patch to enable grub2 for powerpc as well, but
unfortunately I can't
test it (no ppc hardware here). Would anyone like to try it?
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Hi Robert,
I'd love to test it. And I
The files in
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/
powerpc/iso-cd/
date from September 4th.
Just incase nobody's noticed...
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On Sep 12, 2006, at 3:06 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
The files in
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/
powerpc/iso-cd/
date from September 4th.
Just incase nobody's noticed...
Well... Now the files there are from September 13th, but the
businesscard ISO fails
On Sep 15, 2006, at 4:53 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 09:44:02PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
0Rebooting in 180 seconds...
Maybe something wrong with the initrd? Or the new 2.6.17 kernel?
Actually it was a debian-cd bug. Should be fixed now, thanks
Thanks!
When should
On Sep 15, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Friday 15 September 2006 19:02, Rick Thomas wrote:
When should I expect to be able to burn a working businesscard (or
netinst) CD?
The CD build starting in about 4 hours should have the changes. Not
sure
if it will be working :-)
Thanks
On Sep 15, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
The CD build starting in about 4 hours should have the changes.
Not sure
if it will be working :-)
I tried tonight's businesscard iso on an Apple PowerMac G4. It
booted and got into the installer. I walked it through its paces
without
Is there someone out there who will work with me to get a kernel that
boots to run debian-installer on my beige G3 PowerMac (OldWorld)
machine?
As I reported in Bug#382129 regarding the Linux-powerpc 2.6.16 kernel
not booting on my OldWorld test machine, I now find that the 2.6.17
kernel
On Sep 16, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 09:50:03AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
On Saturday 16 September 2006 09:09, Rick Thomas wrote:
Is there someone out there who will work with me to get a kernel
that
boots to run debian-installer on my beige G3 PowerMac
On Sep 18, 2006, at 10:17 AM, De Leeuw Guy wrote:
Frans Pop a écrit :
The d-i team is not responsible for what is part of the base
system and
what is not.
Then who is? Where should I send a bug report?
On Sep 16, 2006, at 3:16 AM, Frans Pop wrote:
When I switched to the alt-F2 console, it give me an unexpected
error message:
Known issue. Fixed in rootskel 1.37.
Any idea when that will make it into a daily businesscard iso?
Rick
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On Sep 18, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 18 September 2006 21:49, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Sep 18, 2006, at 10:17 AM, De Leeuw Guy wrote:
Frans Pop a écrit :
The d-i team is not responsible for what is part of the base
system and what is not.
Then who is? Where
On Sep 23, 2006, at 6:13 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Also, about the console font corruption with radeonfb, i would be
interested
in feedback of if it is a powerpc only issue, or ppc stuff ?
No idea, i on no radeon boards :(
Someone else ?
I might have a NewWorld Mac with a radeon board...
On Sep 24, 2006, at 5:52 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 04:17:58AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Sep 23, 2006, at 6:13 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Also, about the console font corruption with radeonfb, i would be
interested
in feedback of if it is a powerpc only issue, or ppc
On Sep 26, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 04:01:15PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
OK. I have a G4 PowerMac with
:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon
RV200 QW [Radeon 7500]
Should work flawlessly with the current daily-builds
OK,
I booted from the CD with install DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt
switched to the F2 console when the choose language screen came up.
The hardware info you wanted is:
~# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep motherboard
Motherboard: PowerMac3,5 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
~# cat /proc/fb
0 ATI Radeon QW
OK,
I booted from the CD with install DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt
switched to the F2 console when the choose language screen came up.
Then I did:
~# echo disable-module=radeon /etc/directfbrc
~# echo no-hardware /etc/directfbrc
~# export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk
~# debian-installer
It crashed when it
On Sep 27, 2006, at 7:03 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
(!) DirectFB/FBDev: No supported modes found in /etc/fb.modes and
current mode not supported!
(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Current mode's pixelformat: rgba 8/0, 8/0,
8/0, 0/0 (8bit)
For what it's worth, there is no file /etc/fb.modes in the initrc
This time without the mouse connected
~# echo disable-module=radeon /etc/directfbrc
~# echo no-hardware /etc/directfbrc
~# export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk
~# debian-installer
As usual, it crashed when it tried to initialize the graphical
installer.
Messages were substantially the same as
This time without the mouse connected, and with disabling linux-input
~# echo disable-module=linux-input /etc/directfbrc
~# export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk
~# debian-installer
As usual, it crashed when it tried to initialize the graphical
installer.
Messages were substantially the same as
On Sep 28, 2006, at 6:50 AM, Stephen Gran wrote:
Either use udev rules to map the RAID array to a consistent device
name,
or use filesystem labels in fstab and menu.lst.
Which is great if you know about the problem and can deal with it in
advance. Just because it's listed in the
On Aug 27, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 27 August 2009, Joey Hess wrote:
I'm very suprised to see syslinux menus being used to offer a choice
amoung desktop environments.
It was discussed extensively when the functionality was implemented.
Most people were happy to at
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