Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-23 Thread James Bond
Hi Adrian, ok, works till you select a "non default" option in "Select and Install software". I selected "Debian desktop environment" it fails. Well after finishing the installation manually I also tried mplayer etc and it looks like the binary files are not available to apt-get. Debian could

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

2021-09-23 Thread James Bond
Hi Adrian, thanks a lot will instantly give it a try on the Ultra 10. Cheers Iggi Am 23.09.21, 11:25 schrieb "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" : Hi! I have just built and uploaded updated Debian Ports installation images. These images contain an updated apt-setup package which fixes

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-21

2021-09-22 Thread James Bond
Hi Adrian, thanks for the heads up. I will wait for the new image. Cheers Iggi Am 22.09.21, 14:22 schrieb "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" : Hi! On 9/22/21 13:59, James Bond wrote: > May this also lead to not be able (due to an unfished "apt" setup) that

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-21

2021-09-22 Thread James Bond
Thanks Adrian. May this also lead to not be able (due to an unfished "apt" setup) that tasksel does not work either? Looks like the sources.list only has the cdrom entries Cheers Iggi Am 22.09.21, 13:51 schrieb "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" : Hi Iggi! On 9/22/

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-21

2021-09-22 Thread James Bond
Hi Adrian, so I gave it directly a try on my Ultra 10 (512MB RAM, 440 MHz, stock PGX24 onboard) and a 20 GB IDE. CD boots fine (less errors than the 10.0 netinst with regards to RTC etc). Installation works till the point where the configuration of the package manager takes place which leads

Re: Bullseye planned on sparc64?

2021-08-29 Thread James Bond
ached some screenshots. https://ibb.co/swrxBvV https://ibb.co/TBQTDkc Cheers Iggi Am 27.08.21, 20:20 schrieb "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" : > On Aug 27, 2021, at 8:03 PM, James Bond wrote: > > Strange thing, yes, I had /boot with a size of 512MB (as I had in the

Re: Bullseye planned on sparc64?

2021-08-27 Thread James Bond
:02 schrieb "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" : > On Aug 25, 2021, at 10:18 PM, James Bond wrote: > > 1). The Intenso CDRs are crap. I burnt a new disc and this one started Grub Yes, good quality CD-Rs are important. > 2). Before retrying to reinsta

Re: PGX64 driver issue - was: Re: Bullseye planned on sparc64?

2021-08-27 Thread James Bond
Hi Riccardo, ok, so where could we "hire" a graphics driver developer that would be willing (will get paid) to support the SPARC community? At least with a "decent" X support we can do most of the things. And the more people can use it on SPARC we may attract more people to return to the

Re: Bullseye planned on sparc64?

2021-08-25 Thread James Bond
00 that are within the big box blades. Cheers Iggi Am 24.08.21, 15:33 schrieb "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" : Hello James On 8/24/21 3:31 PM, James Bond wrote: > tested on Sun Blade 1500/2500 (both silver) with an XVR-1200. > > The "older" image

Re: Bullseye planned on sparc64?

2021-08-24 Thread James Bond
Hi Adrian, sorry for the confusion (James Bond is not my real name, just used for gmail __) Ignacio aka Iggi is my name. Ok, I am back tomorrow in my retro office and will dump what happens after the "boot cdrom" command .. but as I said there is not much more than what I wrote wi

Re: Bullseye planned on sparc64?

2021-08-24 Thread James Bond
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" : Hello Iggi! On 8/23/21 10:51 PM, James Bond wrote: > Sorry for the late reply but I managed to test today and the most > recent snapshot I downloaded does not even manage to boot grub. > > Fails with not finding kernel/unix.

Re: Bullseye planned on sparc64?

2021-08-23 Thread James Bond
21 8:41 AM, James Bond wrote: > Well at the moment the 10.0 installer (debian-10.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso dated 2018) > does not work on machines with XVR-1200 installed. On both the SB1500 and SB2500 > (both with equipped with XVR-1200) the installer produces a frizzy screen

Re: Bullseye planned on sparc64?

2021-08-23 Thread James Bond
Would also „fund“ a DRM developer if we get someone willing to do so. Cheers Iggi Von: Phillip Stevens Datum: Mittwoch, 18. August 2021 um 02:57 An: James Bond Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz , "debian-sparc@lists.debian.org" Betreff: Re: Bullseye planned on sparc64? Yes, I'd

Re: Bullseye planned on sparc64?

2021-08-17 Thread James Bond
i! On 8/17/21 8:41 AM, James Bond wrote: > Well at the moment the 10.0 installer (debian-10.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso dated 2018) > does not work on machines with XVR-1200 installed. On both the SB1500 and SB2500 > (both with equipped with XVR-1200) the installer pro

Re: Bullseye planned on sparc64?

2021-08-17 Thread James Bond
the installer switches the text mode (initial language setup) and changing screen mode (1024 up to 1920) did not solve the problem. Cheers Iggi Von: Connor McLaughlan Datum: Dienstag, 17. August 2021 um 00:14 An: James Bond Cc: "debian-sparc@lists.debian.org" Betreff: Re: Q: Bullse

Q: Bullseye planned on sparc64?

2021-08-14 Thread James Bond
Dear all, As I do have several Blades 150/1500(silver)/2500(silver)/2500(red) I would kindly offer to test on them if you need my help. Graphic cards currently in use are XVR-100 (B150) and XVR-1200 (B1500/2500). Cheers Iggi