Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On May 21, 2016, at 3:05 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: >> I didn’t try disconnecting, letting it run for a while un-attended, then >> reconnecting because I didn’t have a clear idea of how to do that. >> Specifically, what happens if I type ctl-A ctl-D? Do I get

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On May 21, 2016, at 3:05 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: >> First observation is that the way I normally do installations on this >> machine (I keep it around for exactly this kind of testing, so I do a fair >> number of installations on it) is to run screen as a terminal

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

Dear Rick, Thanks for your testing report! On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Hi Roger, > > I got a chance to try it on my SheevaPlug. > > Executive summary: It worked as advertised and all the features you mentioned > seem to work (except I didn’t try

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On May 9, 2016, at 8:30 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Thanks, Roger! >> >> I’ll give it a try on one of my sheevaplug boxes. >> >> As I understand it, I will follow the instructions on Martin’s

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > Thanks, Roger! > > I’ll give it a try on one of my sheevaplug boxes. > > As I understand it, I will follow the instructions on Martin’s page at > https://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install/ > using the

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On May 8, 2016, at 10:50 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 4:13 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Mon, May 2, 2016, at 10:01 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: >>> On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: When

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 4:13 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2016, at 10:01 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> > When I’m installing Debian on one of the serial-console-only boxes, such >> > as the

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 1:59 AM, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi Roger, > > Roger Shimizu wrote: >> However, there's even no network-console (SSH) target for i386/amd64 yet [6]. > […] >> [6] >> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debian-installer.git/tree/build/config/i386 > > Maybe

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On Mon, May 2, 2016, at 10:01 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > When I’m installing Debian on one of the serial-console-only boxes, such as > > the SheevaPlug or OpenRD, I usually use the “network console” option that > >

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > When I’m installing Debian on one of the serial-console-only boxes, such as > the SheevaPlug or OpenRD, I usually use the “network console” option that > allows me to use ssh to login and run the Debian installer from

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

Hi Roger, Roger Shimizu wrote: > However, there's even no network-console (SSH) target for i386/amd64 yet [6]. […] > [6] > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debian-installer.git/tree/build/config/i386 Maybe that's the wrong place to look for. Because I'm very sure I used that feature already

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

Dear Ben, Axel, Philipp, Thanks so much for your comments! On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 3:28 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > For a rack-mounted server, it is usually possible to attach a > (switched) keyboard and monitor, but there is contention for those > resources and machine

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 05:12:25PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > Roger Shimizu wrote: > > For example, I know for it's necessary to have GNU/screen support for > > armel/armhf/arm64 platform; howover, for i386/amd64 PC, it usually > > have CRT/LCD and physical keyboard attached, so it's easily to

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

Hi Roger, Roger Shimizu wrote: > For example, I know for it's necessary to have GNU/screen support for > armel/armhf/arm64 platform; howover, for i386/amd64 PC, it usually > have CRT/LCD and physical keyboard attached, so it's easily to switch > console by Alt-F1 ~ F4 during debian installing.So

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On Apr 29, 2016, at 7:38 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > Dear Rick, > > Thanks for your interest in GNU/screen support for D-I activity! > > > I called for review because I want to confirm that those changes are > necessary. > > For example, I know for it's necessary to

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 23:38 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: > Dear Rick, > > Thanks for your interest in GNU/screen support for D-I activity! > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:17 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > > > On Apr 24, 2016, at 9:00 AM, Roger Shimizu

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

Dear Rick, Thanks for your interest in GNU/screen support for D-I activity! On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:17 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Apr 24, 2016, at 9:00 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > >> - ask users of all ARCHs related to check whether the

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On Apr 24, 2016, at 9:00 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > - ask users of all ARCHs related to check whether the GNU/screen is > working well under d-i environment. Maybe need to add a wiki to track > things efficiently. > > What do you think of my plan? > Any suggestion is

[RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

[Resend: change subject line to meet with current topic] [Add a few people ever expressed interest in GNU/screen for d-i work] On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Roger Shimizu [2016-04-12 00:48]: >> I was about to write a list

Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap

[Add a few people ever expressed interest in GNU/screen for d-i work] On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Roger Shimizu [2016-04-12 00:48]: >> I was about to write a list on pros and cons, but I only find pros, >> with some

Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap

* Roger Shimizu [2016-04-12 00:48]: > I was about to write a list on pros and cons, but I only find pros, > with some reasons/explanation. > > - Main purpose is to get ready for screen support, which surely cannot > fit into qnap's image. Sorry for being unclear: I have

Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap

Dear Martin, Thanks for your feedback! On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 8:43 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Roger Shimizu [2016-04-06 01:29]: >> Hope you can accept these changes this time, because you had some >> concern last time [3]. > > Unfortunately I

Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap

* Roger Shimizu [2016-04-06 01:29]: > Hope you can accept these changes this time, because you had some > concern last time [3]. Unfortunately I don't have time to review the changes right now. I'm happy with the creation of orion5x-tiny (or orion5x-qnap) if that helps

Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap

Dear Martin, As you know I'm preparing GNU/screen support for d-i. To be specific, I'm going to add screen-udeb and it's dependency libtinfo5-udeb into d-i's initrd, which will cost about 350kb. In this way, it will exceed the size limit of a few qnap devices. Maybe there's another better way,