Re: debian-installer for GNU/kFreeBSD

2009-10-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 14, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:23:57AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Note however that the daily image will still be based on sid, like other daily images, but will install testing instead. I believe other daily images are based on testing.

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: Removal of cramfs support

2009-12-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 5, 2009, at 10:47 AM, Bastian Blank wrote: Hi folks I intent to remove the cramfs support from the kernel and the cramfsprogs package. Current kernels supports squashfs, which is a far more advanced replacement. It is currently in use by the debian-installer for mips and the powerpc

Problems with Debian PowerPC

2009-12-16 Thread Rick Thomas
Debian on PowerPC seems to be in trouble... 1) The daily d-i CDImage for PowerPC hasn't been updated since Dec 12th. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ 2) Even if it were updated, it still would not be possible to install Debian Sid on

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

2009-12-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 16, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Frans Pop wrote: 2) Even if it were updated, it still would not be possible to install Debian Sid on PowerPC due to the lack of a linux-image package more up- to-date than 2.6.30. This problem has existed for several weeks. Why does that hinder installation?

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

2009-12-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 16, 2009, at 10:38 PM, Frans Pop wrote: Again, there is *nothing* wrong with the installer here. We welcome reports of issues with installations of testing, but issues with sid are seldom caused by problems in the installer. If you say so, I have to agree that there is *nothing*

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
On Dec 17, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Frans Pop wrote: (And please do not over-inflate the severity of bug reports: a desktop environment not being installable does not make the installation system unusable.) It may not be grave for the installer (indeed, you've already established at great

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, and

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]]

2010-01-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 19, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: I'd recommend grabbing cdebconf from the d-i svn repo and building a few test versions at various points between 0.145 and 0.146. Just running cdebconf-get from the built source tree may prove informative. Ian. Once again, I have the

Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 16, 2007, at 8:46 PM, Mathew Binkley wrote: As I said earlier, there shouldn't be an arbitrary line between the installer and the packages. People aren't installing Etch the installer or Etch the packages, they're installing Etch the release. Test both parts simultaneously, as a

Bug#408818: cool

2007-01-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 28, 2007, at 9:42 PM, Phill Thorpe wrote: On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 03:09 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 29 January 2007 02:41, Phill Thorpe wrote: I dont think that you read it correctly. This install did not detect my nic at first, it only detected my nic when I booted with: install

Re: debian-installer (auto is confusing)

2007-01-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 31, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 31 January 2007 19:27, Robert Millan wrote: It just mirrors the same boot options offered by the official installer (except rescue which doesn't make much sense in this context). No, with official images auto is not really offered

Re: Errors on downloading d-i images

2007-02-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 7, 2007, at 2:47 PM, Geert Stappers wrote: Op 06-02-2007 om 11:50 schreef hugo vanwoerkom: 11:40:09 (8.04 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 2746856. Retrying. snip/ Do other people have this trouble? For what it's worth: It is the first report. I've had it in the past. Not

Bug#410625: G3 B/W pcilynx firewire blues

2007-02-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 12, 2007, at 7:22 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 15:30 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: Maybe I should try the whole thing again and write down the details. Can you give me a URL for the linux ieee1394 mailing list? https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo

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

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

2007-02-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 14, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 15 February 2007 01:10, Joey Hess wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: 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

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

2007-03-01 Thread Rick Thomas
So the problem is that (aside from the possibility that OS9 is not being recognized) if the other OS is OS9, the default for hardware clock should be local time, but if the other OS is OS-X, the default for the hardware clock should be UTC. Is that a correct assessment? I solve it by

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#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

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 15, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 17:44, Colin Watson wrote: Personally I also feel that all possible solutions effectively make /etc/fstab unreadable and unmaintainable. The approach we took in Ubuntu was to put comments above each UUID entry in

Re: the future of the netinst image

2007-03-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 25, 2007, at 7:10 AM, Geert Stappers wrote: Back to 'netinst' This image is one that does disappoint people often. What could be done to prevent that? I see two possibilities: (A) Eliminate it entirely (B) Treat it as an expanded businesscard image. Discussion: (A) I'm serious.

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

2007-04-13 Thread Rick Thomas
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 the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EC61E0B0BBE55AB3 W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these

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

Re: floppies, a radical proposal

2007-06-01 Thread Rick Thomas
It would be really great if whatever solution results from this discussion were also applicable to other architectures than x86. My personal interest is in PowerPC (especially OldWorld PowerMacs) and I'm willing to help as much as I can with the testing process (I'm not a developer)

Re: Powerpc netinst iso.

2004-07-17 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#260225: Sarge installer not recognising partition table for disk larger than 137GB

2004-07-19 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#260225: Sarge installer not recognising partition table for disk larger than 137GB

2004-07-19 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#261463: Missing drivers on powerpc 2.6 businesscard install

2004-07-26 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#261463: Missing drivers on powerpc 2.6 businesscard install

2004-07-26 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Is anyone else seeing this? -- Re: Bug#261460: Non-DHCP network config step of d-i is broken

2004-07-28 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#261460: Is anyone else seeing this? -- Re: Bug#261460: Non-DHCP network config step of d-i is broken

2004-07-29 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#262198: Partition hard drives fails on powerpc OldWorld PowerMac in 20040729 businesscard install.

2004-07-29 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#262201: PowerMac (OldWorld) - no driver for onboard SCSI

2004-07-29 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#262201: PowerMac (OldWorld) - no driver for onboard SCSI

2004-07-30 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#241516: partial success on Oldworld powermac

2004-07-30 Thread Rick Thomas
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,

Bug#261460: Is anyone else seeing this? -- Re: Bug#261460: Non-DHCP network config step of d-i is broken

2004-08-01 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#261460: Is anyone else seeing this? -- Re: Bug#261460: Non-DHCP network config step of d-i is broken

2004-08-01 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Re: Introduction

2004-08-02 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Re: release status

2004-08-02 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Re: release status

2004-08-02 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Re: release status (checklist)

2004-08-02 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-05 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#264492: NewWorld (G4) PowerPC d-i hardware detect does not see firewire disk

2004-08-08 Thread Rick Thomas
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,

Bug#264492: NewWorld (G4) PowerPC d-i hardware detect does not see firewire disk

2004-08-10 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#264492: NewWorld (G4) PowerPC d-i hardware detect does not see firewire disk

2004-08-10 Thread Rick Thomas
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.

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-10 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#264964: OldWorld PowerMac Debian-Install floppys

2004-08-11 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#264964: OldWorld PowerMac Debian-Install floppys

2004-08-11 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#264964: OldWorld PowerMac Debian-Install floppys

2004-08-11 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#264963: Installation report for Apple Blue White G3 400 from netinstall CD (powerpc, RC1)

2004-08-11 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#264964: OldWorld PowerMac Debian-Install floppys

2004-08-16 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#264964: OldWorld PowerMac Debian-Install floppys

2004-08-16 Thread Rick Thomas
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.

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-17 Thread Rick Thomas
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 -- Hi Rikard, Did the work-around I sent you help any? Have you got that 7200 box working yet? Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-25 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Re: Plea for help from PowerMac Open Firmware gurus -- Testing newoldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies

2004-08-26 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Rick Thomas
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

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

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

2008-03-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 13, 2008, at 8:18 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: On Friday 14 March 2008, Andrea Lusuardi - uovobw wrote: I installed a debian stable system on a Pentium 4 machine with 4 320GB ide disks and the installation goes well, but when it comes to installing grub on the MBR i get an

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

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: 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
, Frans Pop wrote: Hi Rick, On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Rick Thomas wrote: Is there any chance of producing an Etch+0.5 test image for PowerPC? I'd love to run it through my testing farm. Technically I could, but I'm not sure that I want to. First, it is quite a lot of work because of all

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

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 will not

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#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

Re: i386 floppy status

2008-07-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 9, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Frans Pop wrote: 1) Loading root floppy seems fragile For some reason the root floppy often fails to load, depending on which udebs are included (i.e. probably depending on size of the initrd). Only sometimes a floppy suddenly works. This sounds a lot like a

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: Empty daily build directories

2007-08-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 31, 2007, at 5:23 AM, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:06:57PM +0300, George Chavdarov wrote: we try to download daily build netinst image to test new Serial ATA RAID support. But all there directories for amd64 and i386 are empty. How to download these images? i386

Re: The d-i blocks on new hardware

2007-09-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 8, 2007, at 7:17 AM, Jeremy Guitton wrote: Le vendredi 07 septembre 2007 à 19:00 +0200, Jérémy Bobbio a écrit : Please try the following image: http://people.debian.org/~lunar/debian-40r1+proposed-updates- amd64-netinst.iso It should solve the issue but as I am unable to

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

2007-09-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 17, 2007, at 12:42 AM, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Jerry Quinn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Christian Perrier wrote: The log doesn't show anything weird at all as far as I can see. When exactly were there floppy probes occurring? I was looking at lines like this and I assumed they were

Re: i.e or e.g

2007-10-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 1, 2007, at 2:07 AM, Daniel Nylander wrote: There was a new string in debian-installer today.. Please enter the device name of the partition or disk onto which LILO should be installed, i.e: /dev/hda or /dev/sda1. Shouldn't this be e.g instead of i.e? Actually, for example would be

Bug#447610: Succesfull install on iBook G4

2007-10-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 23, 2007, at 4:37 AM, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Geert Stappers wrote: Package: installation-reports Boot method: netinst CD Image version: lenny (installer build 20071016-02:06) Date: 2007-10-22 Machine: Apple iBook G4 Processor: PowerPC 7447A, altivec supported Memory: 1.2 Gigabyte

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 of

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
On Nov 1, 2007, at 7:02 PM, Joey Hess wrote: rdate, as used by the installer, uses SNTP. A... (again) This was added fairly recently. Interesting. The point remains. The uncertainty in the time from the server is proportional (or worse) to the network delay. Not with SNTP it

Re: Issues building the g-i on PowerPC

2007-11-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 16, 2007, at 8:44 AM, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Anyway, i was able to produce a dfb 1.0 based miniiso for powerpc [3]: it would be nice if someone could give it a try and report whether it works or not regards Attilio [3]

Re: Issues building the g-i on PowerPC

2007-11-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 18, 2007, at 5:23 AM, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Could you please try burning and booting the mini.iso image you find in my ~ in macswell once again Hi! I burned the mini.iso at -rw-r--r-- 1 attilio attilio 19826688 Nov 19 18:44 mini.iso When I booted it with expert, I got the

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

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

2007-12-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 21, 2007, at 5:58 PM, Frans Pop wrote: I'm afraid your questions are off-topic for the debian-boot list (which is the development list for debian-installer, not a list for boot issues). Suggest you try asking on the debian-user list instead. This is such a frequent mistake...

Re: Help for Press Announcement r2 and r7

2007-12-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 25, 2007, at 5:04 AM, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 25 December 2007, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: we will update 3.1 and 4.0 tomorrow and might need a bit of help for the press announcement. We currently don't have any extra text for regarding d-i in it. If you want any extra being

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: Install of debian-4.0r2 on NSLU2

2007-12-28 Thread Rick Thomas
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 of your ssh session when the 2+ hour install gets to the Configuring popularity-contest

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 of

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

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