Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released

2009-12-07 Thread Lars Nooden
Karl Goetz wrote: Save the contents of /var/log/installer/, and its worth having a look at tty4, which will have better error messages when things Go Wrong. tty4 is where I transcribed the error message from earlier. I've tried a few ways to install the beta. Below are the logs from the

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released

2009-12-06 Thread Lars Nooden
Robert Millan wrote: metad beta1 is released, now for i386 and amd64 as well as mipsel: http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-metad/installer/3.0~beta1/ For a future version of gNewSense, would it make sense to use apt-p2p for the installation as a means of recovering gracefully from

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released

2009-12-06 Thread Lars Nooden
Karl Goetz wrote: If someone is netinstalling its assumed their connection can handle it. switching to something !=wget means a delta we havce to carry in our installer. is it worth it? I don't know. How small does it have to be and who are we trying to reach? Having mirrors will help, I'm

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released

2009-12-06 Thread Lars Nooden
Robert Millan wrote: metad beta1 is released, now for i386 and amd64 as well as mipsel: http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-metad/installer/3.0~beta1/ I put the initrd.gz and vmlinux from the netboot for mipsel at the url above onto a usb stick and gave it a try on a yeelong (lemote) The

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released

2009-12-06 Thread Karl Goetz
On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:55:38 +0200 Lars Nooden lars.cura...@gmail.com wrote: Robert Millan wrote: metad beta1 is released, now for i386 and amd64 as well as mipsel: http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-metad/installer/3.0~beta1/ I put the initrd.gz and vmlinux from the netboot for

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released

2009-12-06 Thread Karl Goetz
On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:36:24 +0200 Lars Nooden lars.cura...@gmail.com wrote: Karl Goetz wrote: If someone is netinstalling its assumed their connection can handle it. switching to something !=wget means a delta we havce to carry in our installer. is it worth it? I don't know. How

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released

2009-12-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 09:58:25PM +0200, Lars Nooden wrote: Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 09:23:35PM +0200, Lars Nooden wrote: and see that it gets as far as asking for an HTTP proxy but won't ask for a repository. That's intentional. Someone has to check which mirrors

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released

2009-12-05 Thread Karl Goetz
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:58:25 +0200 Lars Nooden lars.cura...@gmail.com wrote: Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 09:23:35PM +0200, Lars Nooden wrote: and see that it gets as far as asking for an HTTP proxy but won't ask for a repository. That's intentional. Someone has to

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released

2009-12-04 Thread Karl Goetz
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 22:07:39 +0100 Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com wrote: Hi, metad beta1 is released, now for i386 and amd64 as well as mipsel: http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-metad/installer/3.0~beta1/ This beta release is very preliminar and not intended to be heavily

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released

2009-12-04 Thread Karl Goetz
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:08:37 -0500 Ted Smith ted...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 22:58 +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote: - Applications - System Tools - New Login in a Window pops up a window Cannot start new display. The X server failed. Perhaps it is not configured well. This

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released

2009-12-04 Thread Karl Goetz
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:58:48 +0100 Sam Geeraerts sam...@elmundolibre.be wrote: Robert Millan schreef: Hi, metad beta1 is released, now for i386 and amd64 as well as mipsel: http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-metad/installer/3.0~beta1/ This beta release is very preliminar

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released

2009-12-04 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: - System - Admin - Software Sources doesn't start. We'll probably need some files for gNS in /usr/share/python-apt/templates/. - System - Admin - Update Manager: same thing. Could you run it from a term to see what output it provides? thanks, kk See attachment.

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released

2009-12-04 Thread Lars Nooden
Karl Goetz wrote: And incase someones interested, this involves keeping PPC hardware available, and on a high bandwidth connection. Karl, what models are currently on the market and which one(s) would be most useful? There are a lot of different definitions for high bandwidth connections.

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released

2009-12-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 10:58:48PM +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote: - Applications - System Tools - New Login in a Window pops up a window Cannot start new display. The X server failed. Perhaps it is not configured well. Could you file a bug about this in Savannah? - System - Admin - Network

[Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released

2009-12-03 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, metad beta1 is released, now for i386 and amd64 as well as mipsel: http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-metad/installer/3.0~beta1/ This beta release is very preliminar and not intended to be heavily publicised. It is only intended for members of the gNewSense community to help testing

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released

2009-12-03 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Robert Millan schreef: Hi, metad beta1 is released, now for i386 and amd64 as well as mipsel: http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-metad/installer/3.0~beta1/ This beta release is very preliminar and not intended to be heavily publicised. It is only intended for members of the gNewSense

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released

2009-12-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 10:58:48PM +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote: My basic use test was to just see if every entry in the Gnome menus starts properly. My findings: - Gnash SWF viewer doesn't do anything. It doesn't do anything in deltah either, so I guess this is normal. It's not, see

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] metad beta1 released

2009-12-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 05:08:37PM -0500, Ted Smith wrote: I can dig up the launchpad entry if it's necessary; I think Ubuntu ended up just removing the menu entry, though. Please do. It can be useful to figure out how to disable it. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data