Re: Yet another [cross] installer

2010-03-02 Thread Frans Pop
(Dropped private CCs) On Monday 01 March 2010, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: * the binary-only kernel we're working with, they haven't even bothered to put in ext2,3 or 4 ext4 is enabled. From dmesg: EXT4-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended EXT4 FS on mmcblk0p3,

Re: Yet another [cross] installer

2010-03-02 Thread Benjamin Henrion
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote: On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Hector Oron zu...@debian.org wrote: Hello,  hi hector, this is a timely message / issue to raise: it's very relevant for the (newly discovered) CT-PC89E arm netbook which a

CT-PC89E ARM netbook (was: Yet another [cross] installer)

2010-03-02 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Benjamin Henrion b...@udev.org wrote: Do you know where I can buy such device? cc'd to adam gill, he's the person with direct contact with the factory. [ the rest of this message is informational, for your benefit, ben, and also for anyone else who'd like one,

Re: Yet another [cross] installer

2010-03-02 Thread JLB
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Hector Oron wrote: Hello, Nowadays, the number of devices (non x86) is growing and growing. Lots of these devices have not upstream linux kernel support, which makes it a bit harder to maintain in the context of debian-installer. Also, afaict, debian-installer team does

Re: Yet another [cross] installer

2010-03-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:48:55AM -0500, JLB wrote: I have a suggestion. The best solution to the 'devices shipped with hard/impossible-to-change binary kernels' problem, as far as I can tell, would have to come not from the Debian team, but from the upstream kernel team. Namely, if

Re: Yet another [cross] installer

2010-03-02 Thread Will Murnane
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:48, JLB j...@twu.net wrote: Namely, if there was ALWAYS a way (which could not be turned off) to extract a kernel's configuration (in a format which could be plunked into /usr/src/linux and used to build new modules) from the running kernel, things would be much

Yet another [cross] installer

2010-03-01 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, Nowadays, the number of devices (non x86) is growing and growing. Lots of these devices have not upstream linux kernel support, which makes it a bit harder to maintain in the context of debian-installer. Also, afaict, debian-installer team does not like to add complexity to d-i, which I

Re: Yet another [cross] installer

2010-03-01 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Hector Oron zu...@debian.org wrote: Hello, hi hector, this is a timely message / issue to raise: it's very relevant for the (newly discovered) CT-PC89E arm netbook which a friend of mine found. Nowadays, the number of devices (non x86) is growing and growing.

Re: cross-installer

2006-06-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:29:38PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:45:00AM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: Hello, Holger Levsen wrote: which solution do you think is better? the cross-installer (isnt there one for amd64 already?) or the native installer

Re: cross-installer

2006-06-20 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:45:00AM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: Hello, Holger Levsen wrote: which solution do you think is better? the cross-installer (isnt there one for amd64 already?) or the native installer? There is currently no cross-installer for amd64 as far as I know

Re: cross-installer

2006-06-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) writes: On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:45:00AM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: Hello, Holger Levsen wrote: which solution do you think is better? the cross-installer (isnt there one for amd64 already?) or the native installer? There is currently no cross