Hi,
On Saturday 18 September 2004 16:13, Frans Pop wrote:
For Oldenburg I would propose to work on the major problems that are still
there (like old-world Mac's, the boot-2 floppy) and on preparing the
I'll come to Oldenburg and bring my 4400/200 oldworld Powermac and floppies
with me.
But I
Hi Jens,
Well, having it automatically called on the subarches that need it.
You should be able to put it in the postinst_hook in
kernel-img.conf(5). If not, file a bug report, please.
Ok, we could get rid of quik-installer or yaboot-installer with that, but
bootloaders have their features
Hi,
Erase entire disk: ${DEVICE} message in partman-auto may show a
negative impact on a new user.
I fully agree; it even scares me. ;-)
Isn't it _meant_ to scare you? It does destroy data after all, making
the user think twice is a feature.
But there are enough warnings in
hi,
is it approximately correct to say that d-i support 39 languages, which are
used by 67% of the world's population as their primary language ?
(this was a number at debconf... ;)
thank regards,
Holger
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Hi,
when using todays build of the root.img found at
http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/current/powerpc-small/floppy/
in Choose country or area (Land oder Gebiet wählen) there is a little error
in the german sentence Ihrer Sprache
Hi,
btw, is this a good way to report translation errors or is there a better
way
the only thing I can add to Christian is that a severity minor would
be cool. :)
ok. Thanks for the suggestions.
Is X-debbugs-CC a mail-header or a BTS-command ?
But I think, on single spelling-mistakes, a
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Debian-installer-version: floppy images from
http://sprite.fr.eu.org/d-i-oldworld/floppy/
uname -a: Linux version 2.4.25-powerpc-small #1 ven mar 19 21:19:23 CET 2004
ppc GNU/Linux
Date: 2004-03-31, around noon. (and yesterday)
Method: boot-floopies, which were
Hi Sven,
Well, the previous were built by Jeremie Koenig, while the later were
built by me :) I don't know what date the previous were built, but the
later are daily builds, so they should be more uptodate.
Yeah, I know who built them ;-)
Why do you both provide them ? Because we are at
Hi,
Ok, a bit of history is in order here. Previously, old wolrd was not
thanks for the info!
You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version
2.4.25-powerpc-small)
This will not work unless you have configured your boot loader to use
initrd.
Yeah, ok i
Hi,
Really ? I use your kernel where the ide-drivers are build as modules so
I have to use an initrd. Should I really append root=/dev/bla to the
kernel command line and set this option in quik.conf ?
No, but maybe you should use initrd=/... rather than append=
I think quik can load
Hello all ;)
Would it be possible to restrict use of -powerpc-small kernel to just
the floppy with miboot?
Yeah, i am thinking of doing this, would be more reasonable for now.
me also thinks this is a good idea.
The
main idea was that it is better to use the same kernel for di as for
Good Morning ;)
by looking at the changelog I found that you fixed the kernel install problem
and this morning I found some new images at
http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/current/powerpc-small/floppy/
I tried to write the root.img on about 10 different
Hi,
Am Samstag, 3. April 2004 12:09 schrieb Sven Luther:
Jeremie, any idea what is going on here ? Can you build a new image set
on your box, and have Holger test it ?
that would be nice...
Could you try one of the older snapshots ? From :
Package: debian-installer
floppy images from
http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/current/powerpc-small/floppy/
at 2004-04-03, 10:00:00 CEST 2004
Since I couldn't get a working boot floppy from these images (no idea whether
the image is broken or I had just
Hello,
from the beta2 announcement: Support for systems with only 32 MB of memory
(i386 only). anybody ot an idea what the requirements for other archs (e.g.
powerpc) are ? I guess they should be roughly the same ?
The lowest I tested was 48mb which seemed fine.
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
For info, this is not the only case, so i suppose that debian-installer
is currently broken. I have had a report on pegasos for this, and just
saw Arturo report the same thing on irc on his x86 box.
You can try the just uploading version of the root floppy (2004.04.03),
or an earlier
Hi,
[Joey mentions the existence of a partman-palo package]
Ok. Is it advisable to create a partman-yaboot, partman-prep,
partman-pegasos package, or a single partman-powerpc which will hold all
the above subarches ?
either way, please don't forget quik or oldworld...
regards,
Hi,
You are welcome to provide information on the oldworld partitioning
requirement, especially those needed for quik.
Ok, what I know is:
1. no need for a NewWorld bootblock-partition as yaboot/newworld needs,
(Currently none gets created on my system.)
2. quik is very old (1998?) and
Hi,
Currenytly uploading 2004.04.04.
fine ;)
So, should 241847 be closed now and another one opened for getting thrown
back to the main menu ?
Yes, please.
Ok, I'll do that after I tried the new floppies. Can I close a bug or only d-i
developers ?
regards,
Holger
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or is it boot-floppies ?
Hi,
yeah, that's theoretics. but I tried 8 floppies (all new), writings them
once and reading (=booting) at least twice, none work. but after that,
when I used the old working boot floppy from jeremie, three of them
worked as
Hi,
Am Sonntag, 4. April 2004 14:31 schrieben Sie:
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 01:36:20PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
The 2004-04-04 installation is still ongoing, with 2004-04-03 I still had
the bug #241228 (You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image
(version 2.4.25-powerpc-small
Hi,
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 01:36:20PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
The 2004-04-04 installation is still ongoing, with 2004-04-03 I still
had the bug #241228 (You are attempting to install an initrd kernel
image (version 2.4.25-powerpc-small. This will not work unless you
have
Hi,
Björn's page is broken.
There is no automatic testing propigaton of udebs. Period. All
propigation happens when someone tells me a good reason to put a udeb
into testing, or when they are all copied from unstable as part of a
release.
Björn, I like the service and insight your pages
Hi,
from the beta2 announcement: Support for systems with only 32 MB of
memory (i386 only). anybody ot an idea what the requirements for other
archs (e.g. powerpc) are ? I guess they should be roughly the same ?
About 25 MB for mips.
Thanks.
Is it hopeless to try an install with 16mb on
Hi,
Is it hopeless to try an install with 16mb on ppc ? (I could _test_ it,
I don't have to do it ;)
What machine is that ? We could always try for a specially targeted
initrd for this kind of machines, one more should be no problem, and
since most of our package add support for almost
Hi,
step 2-9: (debian-installer)
I'm a bit suprised to see the user going through all the help in
such detail. This suggests that more online help later on would
be a good thing. We're getting that in the new version of
partman at least.
It also suggests that
Hi,
I apologize to Malte. You were right. I was wrong. The kernel on the
floppies seems to be broken.
Ok.
Now wee need to see why this happens. It seems that nobody was able to
make it work with the boot floppies built by me, is that exact ? Only by
those built by Jeremie.
I can
Hi,
[why Sven's boot-floppies don't boot while Jeremie's do]
Ok, we need to find out what is happeining here. Will we have a (or
more) oldworld machines at the Munich BSP ?
On saturday (the whole day) and sunday morning I can participate via IRC.
BTW, Jeremie, maybe you would be interested
Hello everybody,
I thought, it would be a good idea to tell you my motivations participating in
d-i work. One simple reason to help is to get sarge released ASAP! ;-)
Then, I'm also interested in fully automatic installations with FAI
(www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai or packages.d.o/fai),
Hi,
I'd be happy to make my scripts for building a d-i + base mirror
available if anyone really wants them. They aren't pretty but they work
(or at least they used to).
... and would be happy to get them ;-) if only as doc or inspiration
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
When d-i is working better for my hardware (which means oldworld and
newworld installs and boots without problems) I want to take parts of d-i
and integrate them into FAI replacing some scripts FAI uses. But I'm not
sure how to do this now: (how) can I install .udebs onto a normal
Hi, I wrote:
Does partman work with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive ? Then I'll only have
to find a way...
Ahh, my english ;) :(
I meant: I expect partman to work nicely with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
so I'll only have to...
;-)
regards,
Holger
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Hi Colin,
For what it's worth, if you have trouble, I think I can manage to put
together an untested quik-installer based on my experience with
yaboot-installer and on the existing code in boot-floppies, and punt it
over to you for testing.
I would be glad to take your offer. How do you mean
Hi Sven and everybody else,
Ok, cool, can you please test the floppy image i built at :
http://people.debian.org/~luther/boot.img
and tell me if it works ? I tested it here on a beige G3 pmac, but it
rejected the floppy, and since you had bad experience with old dusty
floppy drives, and
Hello,
as I don't have the time to dig into debian-installer to write a
quik-installer by myself, I would like to explain what I think is needed.
btw, isn't mkvmlinux (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/mkvmlinuz)
suitable to create boot floppies for oldworld ?! (I currently don't have
Hi,
I've split off an asian-root floppy with Asian language support, the
same way i386 did a month or so back. This gets us back down to 65994
bytes free.
Thanx Colin!
But there still seem to be some problems:
Hi,
not serious ;) but the order of the news items on
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/index.da.html
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/index.fr.html
and http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/index.de.html is wrong
and on
Hi,
Am Montag, 3. Mai 2004 22:32 schrieb Martin Michlmayr:
* philippe lhardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-05-03 21:30]:
Is there any documentation for partman, either user or developper ?
There is user development at
http://svn.debian.org/viewcvs/d-i/trunk/packages/partman/doc/
which is
Hi,
About the dead keys problem, I suggest that the default german
keyboard does not mention keine Tottasten at allafter all if usually
the default doesn't have dead keys, with mention this?). I even did
not find a Deutsch mit Tottasten flavour, anyway
I use nodeadkeys in my
Hi,
btw, isn't mkvmlinux
(http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/mkvmlinuz) suitable to create
boot floppies for oldworld ?! (I currently don't have a monitor for my
oldworld mac but I'll get one until the weekend.)
I'm in a similar situation and will try it soon; I only heard about
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version:
today, May 25th and on May, the 15th I installed sid with the oldworld
floppies. The URL was
http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/current/powerpc-small/floppy/
on the 15th and is
Hi,
On Thursday 10 July 2008 21:51, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
That's what Per did originally, but I recommended against it because
it's only needed on a single sub-arch. I said that it could be added
to kernel-wedge once other arches actually need it. YMMV.
I'd like to see it on i386 as well.
Hi Andrew,
http://layer-acht.org/d-i/preserving-partitions/ and
http://www.enricozini.org/2008/tips/d-i-conditional-partitioning.html might
be helpful for you.
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
debian-edu-install is blocked, because it contains a udeb, which is not used
by (Debians) debian-installer (atm). Please unblock it (even though it still
has to wait 2 more days...)
Thanks,
Holger
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Hi Santiago,
On Saturday 06 September 2008 11:52, Santiago Vila wrote:
reassign 498010 debian-installer
retitle 498010 mount point /selinux does not exist
debian-installer is only one way of installing Debian, so fixing this here
wont have the desired effect.
To support upgrades from older
Hi,
On Tuesday 21 October 2008 13:46, Glenn Saberton wrote:
I actually tend to agree that asking for an essid should be default
these days. Wifi use has grown a lot since the netcfg stuff was done,
and default to associating with any open AP is really a security risk.
Then again, some people
Hi,
I'm refraining from crossposting this to -release and -devel...
but I think this news get to go out!
On Thursday 06 November 2008 01:09, Otavio Salvador wrote:
Basically my TODO list, that I'm lacking time to do... and I
appreciate help with:
- check missing items in release
Hi,
On Wednesday 26 November 2008 15:50, Christian Perrier wrote:
Are these meetings minuted anywhere? (by which I probably mean are the
IRC logs available)
In the past they were...
meetbot is still idling in #debian-boot, you can use it, to create and
(automatically) publish logs and for
Hi Holger,
I guess the typo part of this bug can be closed by now, right?
Do you know if the cdrom checker has been made more visible ?
regards,
Holger :)
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Hi,
On Monday 12 June 2006 15:10, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
I think it sounds pretty cool. m68k would certainly benefit from it,
and other archs as well (think serverroom). And I also think it's cool! Nice
work.
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
I wanted to reply to this thread earlier, but I was busy with work and RL when
it started (and then escalated real fast). Now this got so much out of
control, that I cannot reply (publically) to this anymore, without spending
countless hours, which I dont have.
So I replied to Sven in
Hi Geert,
On Sunday 18 June 2006 16:58, Geert Stappers wrote:
My question is ( my worries are) : What to do next?
keep on working ?!
So could a d-i member say or confirm something like
it is free software, the good code will survive
yes, of course.
the short term problems are
Hi,
On Friday 16 June 2006 17:48, Andreas Jochens wrote:
a while ago I filed a few patches to the BTS to make d-i work on the
native 64-bit ppc64 port (http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org).
Frans Pop kindly asked me to collect all the necessary ppc64/d-i
related changes and to present a
Hi,
On Monday 19 June 2006 22:56, Sven Luther wrote:
In the end I gave up and stopped working on that approach. A few month
later I started again to work on the installer, but this time I tried to
create a separate native ppc64 d-i port. This turned out to be pretty
easy and the resulting
Hi,
On Friday 23 June 2006 18:01, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:42:59AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know. I think the best solution is to have the installer modify the
input-device and output-device variables to point to keyboard/screen.
I was thinking of doing
package: installation-report
Hi,
I tested the daily-build from
http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/d-i/powerpc-miboot/2006-06-21/powerpc/floppy/
on an oldworld powermac 4400 with lowmen (48mb IIRC) and noticed some problems
and a failed installation.
The etch floppies from
Hi Sven,
On Monday 26 June 2006 15:09, Sven Luther wrote:
This is not going to work, i have played nice, as Christian noted on
saturday during the meeting, but over this past week, i got at least 4
different humiliation attempts from Frans, which are not waranted. I don't
want to make a mess
Hi,
#369304 proposes to configure OF via quik.conf...
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
I cannot confirm your first bug, that is I can switch to another console and
back without problems. So I would say this was a temporary problem.
As you said, a seperate /boot partition is ok for quik, as long as it's on the
same disk as / - retitling the bug and assigning to
Hi,
On Saturday 24 June 2006 15:02, Holger Levsen wrote:
So my todo-list is:
1. close #345467 (root.img doesnt work)
done. Also closed #296782
2. clone this bug to have one as a reminder to have beta3 miboot images
somewhere - should I also reassign/usertag it?
I will retitle
Hi,
http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/d-i/powerpc-miboot/2006-06-21/powerpc/floppy/
works, so I close this bug.
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/d-i/powerpc-miboot/2006-06-21/powerpc/floppy/
works, so I close this bug.
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 18:24, Sven wrote:
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 03:02:27PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
My opinion on this, would be to not build the boot.img images, and have a
README in place explaining how to build it oneself, and provide the vmlinux
kernel, which is the one used
Hi Rick,
partitioning works now, sarge has been released, can we close this bug? :-)
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
from reading 237603 the issue seems to be fixed, 237612 is merged and
describes the same problem in the standard kernel, which I guess is also
fixed.
Carlos, can you confirm this? I'd like to close these bugs.
regards,
Holger
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/changelog
===
--- debian/changelog (Revision 38475)
+++ debian/changelog (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+quik-installer (0.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ [Holger Levsen]
+ * adjusted the partition checks to match with current quik
Hi,
On Thursday 29 June 2006 20:18, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 29 June 2006 19:03, Holger Levsen wrote:
I rewrote the checks a bit and attached the diff to trunk.
Please check the attached patch (cleaned up and with template changes).
Tested and works fine here. Also the templates look
: source powerpc
Version: 0.0.14
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Changed-By: Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description:
quik-installer - Install quik on a hard disk (udeb)
Closes: 321820
Changes:
quik-installer (0.0.14) unstable
Hey Geert,
On Sunday 02 July 2006 22:07, Geert Stappers wrote:
Done. Now you only need to find someone to build and upload...
:-)
many thanks for building and uploading and even putting my name in
changed-by :-) That was a nice surprise!
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
as asked four month ago, can this been closed now?
regards,
Holger
From: Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: partman fails to create a prep partition, and falsely complains
it is a ext3 partition.
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:20:58
Hi,
I did a test install last weekend with a daily build image and the powerpc
boot partition was created, so I close this bug.
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
this weekend I tested the net install daily build for powerpc and it booted
without problems on a imac G5. So I close this bug.
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
this weekend I tested the net install daily build for powerpc on an iMac G%.
Access to the cdrom and the harddrives was possible, sata_svw was loaded so I
close this bug.
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
I did a test install last weekend with a daily build image and the powerpc
boot partition was created, so I close this bug.
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
I did a test install on a imac G5 (not sure atm if single or dual cpu) and the
daily build network install cd booted without problems, though I had to
select the install64 kernel and not the install kernel.
So I believe this bug is fixed and will close it in a few days if I don't hear
Hi,
On Saturday 01 July 2006 17:53, Frans Pop wrote:
Main reason for the comparison was that the current lowmem level 1 is 45
MB and David's tests show that is not nearly enough anymore. So, we
either need to reduce memory usage or update the lowmem limits.
My ppc 4400 has 48mb of memory and
Hi,
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 14:22, Sven wrote:
4 month ago was my mothers funerals [...], i cannot say that i really took
good notice of stuff asked back then.
Sorry, I didn't think of that.
I suppose that you were able to fix #301668. Can this bug be closed
now?
Not that i know of, i
Hi David,
On Sunday 02 July 2006 03:39, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
I did some digging and it appears that the last working hd-media
install is from 2006-03-30, which is the last day the 2.6.15-1-powerpc
kernel was used. The odd thing is that the miBoot floppies, which used
the
Hi,
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 19:08, Frans Pop wrote:
However, for me the Gnome HIG are not necessarily authoritative for g-i.
Ack.
After all, g-i is not a Gnome application. It is a fully separate
application that happens to use the GTK libraries for one of its
frontends. Consistency between
Hi,
On Thursday 06 July 2006 09:18, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
Can you please file a important bug about this and tag it powerpc?
Will do.
Thank you.
BTW, there are some bugs open about requesting documentation how to
hd/netboot on powerpc - do you know if is this correctly documented
in
package: debian-installer-manual
severity: wishlist
Hi,
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/PowerPC/OldWorld/PreAlphaManualUpdates
should be reviewed and included in the documentation.
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
On Thursday 06 July 2006 10:52, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
Hmmm...I'll have to think about how to word it. On OldWold Mac the
only ways to boot the _installer_ at present are to use BootX or miBoot
floppies.
and netboot! :)
After the install is complete however quik is definitely the
Hi,
yaboot-installer_1.1.7 was uploaded three days ago and fixed #375505 and
#377098 which look quite similar to these bugs - could you please try again
with a new daily build from sid and see if the bug still exists?
From the changelog:
* Only write magicboot= line on NewWorld PowerMacs
Hi,
I've included the remaining suggestions in the powerpc manual
(en/hardware/supported/powerpc.xml) except for the last part about the Nubus
machines as I feel that information is not completly correct. It lists the
powermac 4400 as a nubus machine, which is wrong, which I know very well,
Hi,
manual/en/post-install/shutdown.xml (in trunk) says, that on Macs the
key-combination Control-Shift-Power shuts down the system (like ctrl-alt-del
on i386/amd64), though I cannot find this in the html build of the manual,
only in build/build.po/pot/post-install.pot.
Unfortunatly I dont
Hi,
#301668 documents that creating a prep partition still doesnt fully work
(actually this needs to be checked if that bug is still open... oh well), but
this certainly means that this bug, #288452, can be closed.
regards,
Holger
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reassign 376028 kdm
merge 376028 307532
thanks
Hi,
On Thursday 29 June 2006 21:20, Jeffrey B. Green wrote:
The installation went okay. The primary problems were with kde. I installed
it after rebooting into the new install. However, KDE when starting up a
session would cause the machine to
Hi,
On Monday 03 July 2006 14:30, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
Carlos, can you confirm this? I'd like to close these bugs.
The problem is that i don't have that computer with Linux anymore...
I think this bugs can and should be closed. I recently did an install on a g3
pismo, which also has
/quik-installer/debian/changelog (working copy)
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
quik-installer (0.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
+ .mine
+ [ Holger Levsen ]
+ * Adjusted the partition checks to match with current quik version.
+(Closes: #321820)
+ * If /boot is a seperate partition, quik.conf needs to reside
Hi,
as mkvmlinuz is now with version 22 even in testing and I do think this has
been installed on the buildds in the meantime, I really think this can be
closed. It also has been tagged moreinfo but no more info was given.
Comments?
regards,
Holger
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+ [ Holger Levsen ]
+ * point out that there is a cdrom-checker in the main-menu (Closes: #286349)
+
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cdrom-retriever (1.11) unstable; urgency=low
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Hi,
On Sunday 09 July 2006 09:02, Sven Luther wrote:
#301668 documents that creating a prep partition still doesnt fully work
(actually this needs to be checked if that bug is still open... oh well),
but this certainly means that this bug, #288452, can be closed.
Please
package: installation-reports
Hi,
on Saturday, July 1st, we also tested d-i on pismo notebook (also know as g3
firewire see
http://www.apple-history.com/body.php?page=gallerymodel=pg3sfirewireperforma=offsort=dateorder=ASC),
The 20060630mini.iso gui-started, crashed, looped. (The mouse
package: installation-reports
Hi,
on Saturday, July 1st, I tested d-i on an iMac G5
(http://www.apple-history.com/?page=gallerymodel=imac_g5performa=offsort=dateorder=ASC),
which has a PPC970FX cpu with 1.8 ghz. As the owner (he's a OSX fan...)
didn't really want to install linux on it, we
Hi,
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 13:03, Holger Levsen wrote:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
is off course completly wrong. I guess my fingers were to fast and just typed
cat /proc/cpuinfo instead of cat cpuinfo... :-/
processor : 0
cpu : PPC970FX, altivec
Hi,
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 12:48, Sven Luther wrote:
dfsg-free means to boot the installer on old world, the fact that the
only method available for sarge no longer works (BootX; which can't be
used on new world machiens) with 2.6.16 kernels, and that the 2.6.16+
kernels fail to boot on
Hi,
On Thursday 13 July 2006 04:20, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
I beg to differ. The manual for sarge didn't mention miboot floppies
at all (because they're non-free and apparently can't even be in
non-free). CD booting doesn't work on old world (requires non-free
apple boot code), and netboot
Hi,
On Thursday 13 July 2006 05:45, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
That is, not because I say so, but de facto, because it wouldn't have a
bootable kernel for old world. Last week I upgraded the appropriate
kernel bug (#375035) to grave (which makes it RC), which means the bug
will be fixed,
Hi,
On Thursday 13 July 2006 10:33, Holger Levsen wrote:
had no problems on the pismo to boot (an installed sid system) with 2.6.16
and quik.
for those who wonder what I've been smoking, it's just a lack of sleep ;-/
The pismo is newworld.
regards,
Holger :(
pgpBJiEZRuoFd.pgp
severity 288452 imporant
merge 288452 301668
thanks
On Monday 10 July 2006 19:56, Sven Luther wrote:
Do you think merging 301668 and 288452 is a good idea?
Yes, merging is the way to go in those cases.
I know :) Only from reading those two bug reports, I didn't know if this was
the case here
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