Re: howto netboot powerpc

2005-01-13 Thread Barry Hawkins
on that in debian-powerpc; I haven't done but I saw reference to it some time ago. BTW, thanks for the great Subversion article on O'Reilly and dh_make. Best regards, - -- Barry Hawkins All Things Computed site: www.alltc.com weblog: www.yepthatsme.com Registered Linux User #368650 -BEGIN PGP

Anonymous access to d-i on subversion

2004-10-22 Thread Barry Hawkins
the issue. [0] - http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/svn [1] - http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/03/msg05136.html [2] - http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/08/msg8.html Thanks, - -- Barry Hawkins All Things Computed site: www.alltc.com weblog: www.yepthatsme.com Registered Linux

Re: Anonymous access to d-i on subversion

2004-10-22 Thread Barry Hawkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frans Pop wrote: | On Friday 22 October 2004 19:20, Barry Hawkins wrote: | |[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/svn$ svn co svn://svn.debian.org/d-i/trunk |debian-installer svn: No repository found in |'svn://svn.debian.org/d-i/trunk' | | | This is because SVN for d-i

Bug#275603: TiBook G4 500MHz install-powerpc success

2004-10-11 Thread Barry Hawkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 10, 2004, at 3:25 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Barry Hawkins wrote: This is the same machine and install image used on the following installation reports: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=275421 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin

Bug#275421: Install fails after kernel selection; initrd-tools dependency not met

2004-10-09 Thread Barry Hawkins
Reinstall attempted and failed. Performed install using 'expert-powerpc' option as before but chose debian.mirrors.pair.com instead of ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu. All error messages were identical. This is peculiar since the same unit with the same snapshot installed fine using

Bug#275421: Install fails after kernel selection; initrd-tools dependency not met

2004-10-08 Thread Barry Hawkins
Debian-installer-version: Daily business card snapshot from 10/06/2004 from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/powerpc/20041006/ uname -a: Linux finn 2.6.8-powerpc #1 Tue Sep 14 00:15:52 CEST 2004 ppc unknown Date: 10/07/2004 20:45 Method: Boot from CD by holding down C key after

Bug#275427: Install halts with debootstrap exit error

2004-10-08 Thread Barry Hawkins
Machine: Apple Titanium PowerBook G4 500MHz Processor: PowerPC G4 500MHz Memory: 512MB Sorry for the error. -- Barry Hawkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#275421: Install fails after kernel selection; initrd-tools dependency not met

2004-10-08 Thread Barry Hawkins
Memory: 512MB Last one, I promise. -- Barry Hawkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#275421: Install fails after kernel selection; initrd-tools dependency not met

2004-10-08 Thread Barry Hawkins
Last bit of missing info: Output of lspci and lspci -n: :00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth AGP :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02) 0001:01:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth PCI 0001:01:17.0 ff00: Apple

Bug#275603: TiBook G4 500MHz install-powerpc success

2004-10-08 Thread Barry Hawkins
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Daily business card snapshot from 10/06/2004 from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/powerpc/20041006/ uname -a: Linux finn 2.6.8-powerpc #1 Tue Sep 14 00:15:52 CEST 2004 ppc GNU/Linux Date: 10/08/2004 23:45 Method: Boot from CD

Bug#275427: Install halts with debootstrap exit error

2004-10-08 Thread Barry Hawkins
Last bit of missing info: Output of lspci and lspci -n: :00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth AGP :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02) 0001:01:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth PCI 0001:01:17.0 ff00: Apple

Bug#275421: Install fails after kernel selection; initrd-tools dependency not met

2004-10-07 Thread Barry Hawkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Daily snapshot from 10/06/2004 from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/powerpc/20041006/ uname -a: The result of running uname -a on a shell prompt Date: 10/07/2004 19:15 Method: Boot

Bug#275427: Install halts with debootstrap exit error

2004-10-07 Thread Barry Hawkins
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Daily business card snapshot from 10/06/2004 from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/powerpc/20041006/ uname -a: Linux finn 2.6.8-powerpc #1 Tue Sep 14 00:15:52 CEST 2004 ppc unknown Date: 10/07/2004 20:45 Method: Boot from CD by

Re: New Debian Boot logo proposals

2004-03-05 Thread Barry Hawkins
Number two, for the same reasons previously stated. On Mar 5, 2004, at 11:42 AM, Alessandro Polverini wrote: Hello, we have prepared three new proposals of the new boot logo for the Sarge installer. You can find screenshots, previews and RLE encoded pictures at: http://nibbles.it/debian/

Re: Bug#235044: No installable kernel found w/20040226 sarge bus. card daily

2004-03-03 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Mar 3, 2004, at 2:41 AM, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:01:09PM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote: On Feb 27, 2004, at 12:14 AM, Barry Hawkins wrote: Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/ powerpc/20040226/sarge-powerpc

Re: Bug#235044: No installable kernel found w/20040226 sarge bus. card daily

2004-03-03 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Mar 3, 2004, at 10:11 AM, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:00:57AM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote: On Mar 3, 2004, at 2:41 AM, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:01:09PM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote: On Feb 27, 2004, at 12:14 AM, Barry Hawkins wrote: Package: installation

Bug#234681: Cannot select keyboard type and layout with powerpc bus. card iso

2004-03-03 Thread Barry Hawkins
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: March 03, 2004 - http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/powerpc/current/sarge- powerpc-businesscard.iso uname -a: N/A, install could not complete Date: 03/03/2004, 17:0 EST Method: Boot from CD holding down C key after chime,

Bug#234681: Cannot select keyboard type and layout with powerpc bus. card iso

2004-03-02 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Feb 27, 2004, at 12:21 AM, Barry Hawkins wrote: On Feb 25, 2004, at 12:23 AM, Barry Hawkins wrote: Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: February 24, 2004 - http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/powerpc/20040223/sarge- powerpc-businesscard.iso uname -a: N

Bug#235044: No installable kernel found w/20040226 sarge bus. card daily

2004-03-02 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Feb 27, 2004, at 12:14 AM, Barry Hawkins wrote: Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/ powerpc/20040226/sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso uname -a: N/A, install fails Date: 02/26/2004, 23:30 EST Method: Booted to CD-ROM by holding

Re: Base system installation error

2004-03-01 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Mar 1, 2004, at 10:10 AM, Johannes Behr wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 15:14, Geert Stappers wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 02:38:44PM +0100, Johannes Behr wrote: Hi, When did you do that? Just today. I used two different german mirrors (ftp.de.debian.org and ftp.tiscalie.de) I did read here

Re: Base system installation error

2004-03-01 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Mar 1, 2004, at 2:45 PM, Johannes Behr wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 16:36, Barry Hawkins wrote: On Mar 1, 2004, at 10:10 AM, Johannes Behr wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 15:14, Geert Stappers wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 02:38:44PM +0100, Johannes Behr wrote: Hi, When did you do that? Just

Bug#235044: No installable kernel found w/20040226 sarge bus. card daily

2004-02-26 Thread Barry Hawkins
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/ powerpc/20040226/sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso uname -a: N/A, install fails Date: 02/26/2004, 23:30 EST Method: Booted to CD-ROM by holding down C after chime, using debian.mirrors.pair.com

Bug#234681: Cannot select keyboard type and layout with powerpc bus. card iso

2004-02-26 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Feb 25, 2004, at 12:23 AM, Barry Hawkins wrote: Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: February 24, 2004 - http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/powerpc/20040223/sarge- powerpc-businesscard.iso uname -a: N/A, install could not complete Date: 02/24/2004, 20:30 EST

Bug#227055: This bug can be closed

2004-02-26 Thread Barry Hawkins
I came across this bug report as still open while searching on bugs.debian.org. Both the DHCP problem and the boot from CD problems have been cleared up. Sorry for the delay; I thought it had already been closed by someone. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: boot logo vote

2004-02-24 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Feb 24, 2004, at 8:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I vote for the first image on http://sloth.voxel.net/~joshk/d-i-logos/ with the sixth image as runner-up. Me for the 3rd one, I think it shows a debian futuristic, something that seems to be projected to the future. Good idea to express the

Bug#233294: installation report - tar: Unrecognised file type

2004-02-24 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Feb 19, 2004, at 3:46 AM, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:39:02AM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 08:04:49AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:46:53AM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: BusyBox tar cannot handle archives built with the latest version of

Bug#233294: installation report - tar: Unrecognised file type

2004-02-24 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Feb 24, 2004, at 3:53 PM, Glenn McGrath wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:28:50 -0500 Barry Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the status on this bug? I tried to install again on 02/22 and still got the failure at perl-base, even using the 02/21 daily. I don't understand

Bug#234681: Cannot select keyboard type and layout with powerpc bus. card iso

2004-02-24 Thread Barry Hawkins
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: February 24, 2004 - http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/powerpc/20040223/sarge- powerpc-businesscard.iso uname -a: N/A, install could not complete Date: 02/24/2004, 20:30 EST Method: Boot from CD holding down C key after chime,

Re: Installing Debian using debian-sarge-netinst.iso (powerpc)

2004-02-23 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Feb 23, 2004, at 1:45 AM, Derrik Pates wrote: sebyte wrote: I have partitioned my hard drive, (using Apple's Disk Utility), as follows: As was mentioned in another reply, you shouldn't try to do the partitioning through Apple's Disk Utility. IMHO, it's terrible, not to mention it wastes big

Re: Installing Debian using debian-sarge-netinst.iso (powerpc)

2004-02-23 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Feb 22, 2004, at 5:26 PM, Seb Tennant wrote: [...] Did you burn your .iso image in OS X? If so, how did you do it so that it would boot from your computer? Yes I did burn my .iso image to disk in OS X. I used Roxio's Toast Titanium. I'm not sure why, but Toast often works where Disk

Re: tar and busybox

2004-02-22 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Feb 21, 2004, at 4:37 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Sven Luther wrote: In the meantime, d-i is totally unusable, so it is a rather urgent matter. I've done several installs with the Feb 19th netinst CD, and no problems were seen. Is something keeping the CD working despite this breakage? Waldi, when

Re: I am having problems installing sarge testing from floppies

2004-02-22 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Feb 21, 2004, at 6:14 PM, David Williams wrote:   I went to http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ and downloaded the boot,root and network drivers floppies.   I am using these to install sarge testing  ...  installed on it and I already have the 6Gb ext2 partition ready to install

Bug#233294: installation report - tar: Unrecognised file type

2004-02-18 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Feb 18, 2004, at 3:43 AM, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:54:43PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:23:50PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:51:59 -0500 George Kumengi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything works fine until I get a Base system

Bug#233294: installation report - tar: Unrecognised file type

2004-02-18 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Feb 18, 2004, at 10:37 AM, Eric Bus wrote: I experienced this same error last night using the sarge businesscard daily from 02/16/2004, and the package was perl-base. The error behaved exactly the same when I tried the mirror at ftp.us.debian.org using ftp and again when I tried the

Bug#225861: no way to back out to main menu

2004-01-13 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Jan 1, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Package: netcfg Severity: normal I'm at high priority, and dhcp fails. The dialog lets me retry dhcp, or go into static config, but does not offer a way to back out to the main menu. It should. Similarly, if I go on to the first page of static config,

Bug#227055: Debian Installer failure on 15 PowerBook G4

2004-01-11 Thread Barry Hawkins
Package: installation-reports Version: Debian Installer Sarge Business Card daily build, see below INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: January 09, 2004 daily of sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso at http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/powerpc/daily/ uname

Reading debootstrap.log on a failed install using ash

2003-12-30 Thread Barry Hawkins
List, I have purchased a 1GHz 15 PowerBook G4 that I am trying to run an installation for using the sarge business card install. The date of my iso is November 19th. I haven't seen any news of the old location for those being back up, so I am still trying to use this one. My installation

Re: Reading debootstrap.log on a failed install using ash

2003-12-30 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Dec 30, 2003, at 10:25 AM, Joey Hess wrote: Barry Hawkins wrote: List, I have purchased a 1GHz 15 PowerBook G4 that I am trying to run an installation for using the sarge business card install. The date of my iso is November 19th. I haven't seen any news of the old location for those being