Bug#342053: once more without the mouse (part 2 -- linux-input disabled)

This time without the mouse connected, and with disabling "linux-input" ~# echo "disable-module=linux-input" >>/etc/directfbrc ~# export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk ~# debian-installer As usual, it crashed when it tried to initialize the graphical installer. Messages were substantially the same

Bug#389881: SCSI device renaming breaks install

On Sep 28, 2006, at 6:50 AM, Stephen Gran wrote: Either use udev rules to map the RAID array to a consistent device name, or use filesystem labels in fstab and menu.lst. Which is great if you know about the problem and can deal with it in advance. Just because it's listed in the errat

Re: Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

On Oct 1, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Sven Luther wrote: I have built the images, and tested it on radeon with the 9200SE, i confirm that disable-module=radeon is uncomented, and the bugs (white-on- white during selection, broken font in the console) are gone this way. I am uploading the images i bui

Re: Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

On Oct 2, 2006, at 3:34 AM, Sven Luther wrote: When I tried this mini.iso on a G4/533MHz "QuickSilver" tower with "ATY Rage128" graphics, I saw the white-on-white problem. So it's not gone away completely. Normal, your aty rage128 is not a radeon, and is thus using whatever driver is using

Re: Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Sven Luther wrote: I am building a new image, and uploading it, stay tuned. I tried the new image (from http://people.debian.org/~luther/g-i/ powerpc/gtk-miniiso/mini.iso dated 02-Oct-2006 05:07) on my PowerMac 3,5 with the Radeon video card. /proc/cpuinfo=

Re: Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

On Oct 3, 2006, at 4:10 AM, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Did you enter "export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk" or "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk" before running debian-installer? In the latter case, the DEBIAN_FRONTEND variable simply may not have been made visible to debconf, try again with "export ..." before

Bug#381875: loop-AES key generation requires tiresome typing

On Oct 10, 2006, at 3:39 PM, James Westby wrote: I had a couple of idea while I was typing to generate keys in this fashion. Here they are in no particular order. 1) Make a game that involves typing, Doesn't aptitude have a minesweeper game built in? Would that work? Rick -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: D-I RC1 - release planning - soft freeze for changes in SVN

On Oct 16, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Frans Pop wrote: Please start testing the installer for all architectures NOW All udebs with functional changes have now been uploaded, so this is an excellent time to test different architectures usin

Re: Debian Installer - Call for testing *this week*

On Oct 17, 2006, at 8:20 AM, Frans Pop wrote: - graphical installer, especially whether your mouse and touchpad work correctly Where is the latest mini.iso for the powerpc version of the graphical installer? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

cdimage.debian.org presents different faces for "ftp" and "http" access

Pointing my browser at redirects me to which contains Index of /cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd Icon

Fwd: cdimage.debian.org presents different faces for "ftp" and "http" access

Rick Thomas wrote: From: Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: October 25, 2006 8:44:01 PM EDT To: Installer Debian , debian- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: cdimage.debian.org presents different faces for "ftp" and "http" access Pointing my browser at <http

Bug#397649: install-report: NTP sync missing by default

On Nov 11, 2006, at 5:24 PM, Geert Stappers wrote: Op 08-11-2006 om 20:09 schreef Olaf van der Spek: Also, no NTP synchronization is available by default. I really think Debian should install. Maybe install but disable, although I'd prefer it to be enabled by default. The Debian-installer

Is cdimage.debian.org having trouble?

For the last few days, I've had great difficulty downloading from cdimage.debian.org (mostly daily installer images for testing). Bandwidth is highly erratic and overall very slow. I'm in New Jersey, USA. If that makes any difference. Does anybody know of a mirror for cdimage.d.o on this s

Bug#397649: install-report: NTP sync missing by default

On Nov 22, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Olaf van der Spek wrote: reopen 397649 thanks Could we have NTP by default? > But it would be a problem for the minority who have no or only > intermittent (e.g. dial-up) network access. Why would it be a problem? No network mean the "Network Time Protocol" won

Bug#397649: install-report: NTP sync missing by default

On Nov 22, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: No network mean the "Network Time Protocol" won't work. Intermittent network (e.g. dial-up) means that NTP goes for long periods with no connection to the external time servers. The ntpd daemon is (

Re: IMPORTANT: Significant changes to CD/DVD build setup

On Nov 23, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: 2) dinstall and the mirror pulse are now happening twice daily, which means we will get two daily build runs. *Right* now the second daily build will automatically overwrite the first each day, but I'm going to change the scripts o

Re: IMPORTANT: Significant changes to CD/DVD build setup

On Nov 23, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: The system as it's set up now will increment a build number for each build it does, resetting to 1 again as the day changes. Hopefully that will suffice for you...? That will work. Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#397649: install-report: NTP sync missing by default

On Nov 25, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 03:57:25PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: Installing ntp by default (making it have priority "standard") would be good for the many Debian users who have always-on network access. But it would be a problem for th

Re: signature invalid: BADSIG 010908312D230C5F Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2006)

On Dec 2, 2006, at 6:12 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Does anybody know why I'm getting this message when I do "aptitude update" W: GPG error: http://mirrors.usc.edu etch Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 010908312D230C5F Debian Archive Automatic Si

Re: signature invalid: BADSIG 010908312D230C5F Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2006)

On Dec 6, 2006, at 3:43 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: There seems to be some confusion between two different issues: 1) There is a new archive signing key for Etch. The Release files are currently signed with both the new and the old key. Apt is satisfied with the old signature, but it wil

Bug#402267: PowerPC Netinst CD "Invalid Release File"

Package: installation-reports Installing from the netinst CD on a PowerMac G4, I get the following error: [!!] Install the base system Debootstrap Error Invalid Release file: no entry for main/binary-powerpc/Packages. This is the netinst CD from: cdimage.debian.org:cdimage/daily-builds/sid_

Bug#402267: More info

Curiously enough, the netinst CD does appear to have the missing file... $ ls -l dists/etch/main/binary-powerpc/ total 688 -rwxr-xr-x 1 rbthomas rbthomas 209980 Dec 8 10:33 Packages -rwxr-xr-x 1 rbthomas rbthomas 131702 Dec 8 10:33 Packages.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 rbthomas rbthomas 8

Bug#402267: Not just powerpc -- x86 too [Re: Bug#402267: PowerPC Netinst CD "Invalid Release File"]

On Dec 9, 2006, at 1:01 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: Package: installation-reports Installing from the netinst CD on a PowerMac G4, I get the following error: [!!] Install the base system Debootstrap Error Invalid Release file: no entry for main/binary-powerpc/Packages. This is the netinst CD

Bug#402267: More info

On Dec 9, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Frans Pop wrote: Hi Rick, On Saturday 09 December 2006 07:49, Rick Thomas wrote: Curiously enough, the netinst CD does appear to have the missing file... Seems to me like the message is not about the presence of the file itself but rather that it is not

Bug#402547: debian-installer: OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot

Package: debian-installer Severity: normal After installing etch from a daily netinst CD (2006/12/10 20:42 UTC) on my beige G3 (OldWorld) PowerMac machine, the builtin ethernet interface is disabled. This box has two ethernet interfaces: eth0: D-Link RTL8139 eth1: builtin "bmac" on the mother

Bug#402547: debian-installer: OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot

On Dec 11, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 11 December 2006 09:26, Rick Thomas wrote: After installing etch from a daily netinst CD (2006/12/10 20:42 UTC) on my beige G3 (OldWorld) PowerMac machine, the builtin ethernet interface is disabled. [...] There is a strange and

Bug#402547: debian-installer: OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot

On Dec 11, 2006, at 4:31 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Frans Pop wrote: Joey: does this impact your decision to install networkmanager by default? It's a data point. I'd imagine that one can get networkmanager to deal with the interface by prodding it in the gui though. -- see shy jo In interes

Bug#402547: debian-installer: OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot

On Dec 11, 2006, at 5:39 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: In interesting image... (<-8) Can you be a little more specific about how to go about doing this? If networkmanager is running I assume you are logged into a desktop environment that has some kind of netowork manager app

Bug#402547: NetworkManager: Workaround for "OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot"

Package: networkmanager See bug number 402547 (originally filed against debian-installer) for previous discussion. The problem does seem to be that NetworkManager doesn't know what to do with the bmac interface, because it doesn't have carrier detect, so NetworkManager can't tell when it'

Bug#402547: Further details at Bug#403112

Further details at Bug#403112 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#402547: Processed: Re: Bug#403112: NetworkManager: Workaround for "OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot"

On Dec 14, 2006, at 5:05 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 403112 network-manager Bug#403112: NetworkManager: Workaround for "OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot" Warning: Unknow

Re: Minutes of #debian-boot meeting of 20040706 (was: Debian Installer IRCmeeting on Tuesday 07/06 20:00 UTC)

> powerpc > === > > In unstable, 2.4 and 2.6 both work fine on newworld pmac. 2.4 oldworld > pmac is unbootable, but then again it always has been. > > It is reasonable to move for a 2.6 powerpc kernel for sarge, for all > currently supported architectures, the support for those is > better,

Bug#258422: Kernel 2.6 OldWorld PowerMac netinst daily CD 2004/07/07 fails toinstall

Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040707/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso uname -a: didn't get far enough to get this... Date: 11 PM EDT July 9, 2004 Method: How did you install? What did you boot of

Re: Minutes of #debian-boot meeting of 20040706 (was: Debian Installer IRCmeeting on Tuesday 07/06 20:00 UTC)

Joey Hess wrote: > > Rick Thomas wrote: > > Last night I tried installing both 2.4 and 2.6 on my OldWorld Beige G3. > > (using the sarge netinst daily CD from 2004/07/07) Neither worked, but > > for different reasons. > > > > I've sent installat

Re: Minutes of #debian-boot meeting of 20040706 (was: Debian Installer IRCmeeting on Tuesday 07/06 20:00 UTC)

Rick Thomas wrote: > > Joey Hess wrote: > > > > Rick Thomas wrote: > > > Last night I tried installing both 2.4 and 2.6 on my OldWorld Beige G3. > > > (using the sarge netinst daily CD from 2004/07/07) Neither worked, but > > > for different reason

Bug#258541: Kernel 2.6 OldWorld PowerMac netinst daily CD 2004/07/08 fails toinstall

Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040708/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso uname -a: didn't get far enough to get this... Date: early AM EDT Saturday, July 10, 2004 Method: How did you install? What d

Bug#258545: OldWorld PowerMac netinst daily CD 2004/07/08 success (mostly)

Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040708/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux debian 2.4.25-powerpc #1 mer avr 14 15:38:38 CEST 2004 ppc GNU/Linux Date: 11 PM EDT July 9, 2004 Method: How

Bug#258545: OldWorld PowerMac netinst daily CD 2004/07/08 success (mostly)

On Saturday, July 10, 2004, at 07:33 AM, Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 03:46:29AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Everything went like clockwork except that it tried to install the quik bootloader. IT's not supposed to do that for OldWorld machines, is it? This is a beige G3 mini

three different sets of daily ISOs -- what's the difference?

There are three (seemingly) different sets of daily ISOs at http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040710/ http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d- i/powerpc/20040710/ http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/20040710/ Can anybody explain wh

Bug#258907: Kernel 2.6 OldWorld PowerMac businesscard daily CD 2004/07/11 fails initial reboot

Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040711/sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso uname -a: didn't get far enough to get this... Date: early AM EDT Saturday, July 12, 2004 Method: How did you install? W

Bug#258908: Kernel 2.6 OldWorld PowerMac sid_d-i businesscard daily CD 2004/07/11 fails installing "unstable"

Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040711/sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso uname -a: didn't get far enough to get this... Date: early AM EDT Saturday, July 12, 2004 Method: How did you install? W

Re: powerpc status and missing 2.6.7 .udebs and .debs in sarge.

Sven Luther wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:45:38AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 11:07, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 10:55:36AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: > > > > Last night I downloaded and installed on my test-machine [beige G3 > > > > mini-towe

Re: Powerpc netinst iso.

Sven, You didn't ask for my opinion, but here it is anyway... As a user, I think splitting netinst/businesscard into separate 2.4 and 2.6 isos is a wonderful idea. The fewer unneeded Megabytes I have to download and burn before I can get started installing the better! I usually know whether I'

Bug#260225: Sarge installer not recognising partition table for disk larger than 137GB

I don't know if this is relevant, but some IDE controllers only recognize the first 128 GB(binary) = 137*10^9 bytes. Is it possible that your controller has two modes? Windows uses one mode that recognizes the whole disk, and Linux uses the other (compatibility?) mode that only recognizes the fir

Bug#260225: Sarge installer not recognising partition table for disk larger than 137GB

e is -- maybe somebody on the list knows?) That would be worth a try. I know it's possible to use disks larger than 137 GB with Linux -- I'm doing it! Rick On Monday, July 19, 2004, at 08:33 PM, Sara Falamaki wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 04:15:36PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: I don'

Bug#261463: Missing drivers on powerpc 2.6 businesscard install

On Monday, July 26, 2004, at 09:25 AM, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 02:00:46AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: The powerpc 2.6 kernel version of the d-i is missing drivers (modules or built-in) for Mac floppy disks and SCSI CD-ROM drives. I've added the floppy modules. Thanks! Installing

Bug#261463: Missing drivers on powerpc 2.6 businesscard install

On Monday, July 26, 2004, at 04:53 PM, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 02:17:46PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Monday, July 26, 2004, at 09:25 AM, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 02:00:46AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: Installing on a PowerMac/6500 with a TEAC SCSI CD-RW drive

Is anyone else seeing this? -- Re: Bug#261460: Non-DHCP network config step of d-i is broken

Is this problem only on OldWorld PowerMac's? Or am I just the only person in the world who wants to configure his network interface without DHCP? If this is happening on i386, it would be a show stopper! Please, somebody, give it a try and let me know I'm not going crazy. It doesn't take very

Bug#261460: Is anyone else seeing this? -- Re: Bug#261460: Non-DHCP network config step of d-i is broken

On Wednesday, July 28, 2004, at 04:27 PM, Joshua Kwan wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 03:40:30PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Please, somebody, give it a try and let me know I'm not going crazy. It doesn't take very long to get to the point where this bug manifests itself, and you don

Bug#262198: "Partition hard drives" fails on powerpc OldWorld PowerMac in 20040729 businesscard install.

Package: installation-reports powerpc businesscard 20040729 OldWorld PowerMac INSTALL REPORT Synopsis: "Partition hard drives" fails on powerpc OldWorld PowerMac on 20040729 businesscard install. Debian-installer-version: sid_d-i/powerpc/20040729 uname -a: Linux debian

Bug#262201: PowerMac (OldWorld) - no driver for onboard SCSI

Package: installation-reports powerpc 20040724 businesscard OldWorld PowerMac kernel-2.6 INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: sid_d-i/powerpc/20040724/sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso Comments/Problems: The powerpc 2.6 kernel on the 20040724 businesscard CD is missing drivers (modules or

Bug#262201: PowerMac (OldWorld) - no driver for onboard SCSI

On Friday, July 30, 2004, at 05:34 AM, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:24:54AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Package: installation-reports powerpc 20040724 businesscard OldWorld PowerMac kernel-2.6 INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: sid_d-i/powerpc/20040724/sarge-powerpc

Bug#241516: partial success on Oldworld powermac

Thanks for the reminder. You can close this bug report. The "ask for floppy driver module twice (and not fined it at all" bug is still present, but I've mentioned it in other bug reports that reference more current CD images, so there's no need for this one. Enjoy! Rick On Friday, July 30, 200

Bug#261460: Is anyone else seeing this? -- Re: Bug#261460: Non-DHCP network config step of d-i is broken

On Thursday, July 29, 2004, at 05:42 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Wednesday, July 28, 2004, at 04:27 PM, Joshua Kwan wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 03:40:30PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Please, somebody, give it a try and let me know I'm not going crazy. It doesn't take very long to get to

Bug#261460: Is anyone else seeing this? -- Re: Bug#261460: Non-DHCP network config step of d-i is broken

Thanks for the prompt reply! On Sunday, August 1, 2004, at 01:55 PM, Joshua Kwan wrote: If you do not CC [EMAIL PROTECTED], nobody except me will see this. I did that. Would somebody please try this out on an i386? (DNSserver address != Gateway address) And let me know if it breaks non-DHCP netwo

Re: Introduction

Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 03:52:20AM +1000, James Mills wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 06:36:42PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > [Please keep further questions on the mailing list, if you would.] > > > > Shit. Does this list not have an explicit Reply-To header to the

Re: release status

Joey Hess wrote: > > At this point the only delay is waiting for the autobuilders, which are > overloaded from all the other uploads surrounding the sarge release, to > catch up and build the d-i images. In the past 24 hours, we've gotten > builds for hppa, ia64, s390, and sparc, plus a manual b

Re: release status

OOOps... I accidentally hit "send" when I meant to hit "save"... Here's the complete message as I intended it to be! Rick Joey Hess wrote: > > At this point the only delay is waiting for the autobuilders, which are > overloaded from all the other uploads surrounding the sarge release, to > catc

Re: release status (checklist)

Joey Hess wrote: > The test > checklist in installer/doc/checklist is still missing many entries and > the more complete it is the better I'd feel about calling this release > rc1 instead of beta5. If you'll send me a pointer (URL?) to the test checklist, I'll try to make sure that it gets as d

Re: Old world mac

Rikard Borg wrote: > > Hi > > Rick Thomas Wrote: > > > > >Any one of these three bugs will render debian-installer unusable for > >anyone with anything but a "plain vanilla" hardware or networking > >environment who doesn't have help

Bug#264492: NewWorld (G4) PowerPC d-i hardware detect does not see firewire disk

Package: installation-reports powerpc businesscard "RC1" NewWorld PowerMac INSTALL REPORT Synopsis: "Partition hard drives" fails to see FireWire disk on powerpc NewWorld (G4) PowerMac on RC1 businesscard install. You folks are probably tired of seeing OldWorld PowerPC bug reports from

Bug#264492: NewWorld (G4) PowerPC d-i hardware detect does not see firewire disk

On Monday, August 9, 2004, at 03:55 PM, Rick_Thomas wrote: OK, as I said, output of lspci and lspci -n will be sent tonight, when I can get my hands on the machine in question. Here is the output of "lspci ; lspci -n" Hope it helps! BTW, I manually did "modprobe ohci1394 ; modprobe sbp2" just befo

Bug#264492: NewWorld (G4) PowerPC d-i hardware detect does not see firewire disk

On Tuesday, August 10, 2004, at 04:04 AM, Sven Luther wrote: Ok, so we do it by hand. I wonder though what newworld pmac box he has that doesn't work, apple usually reused the same componnent in various boxes, and thus it should usually work. Well, it's a PowerMac G4 733 MHz. The case is grey.

Re: Old world mac

Install MacOS-9. Then use the BootX boot-loader. (or 8.5 or 8.6, if 9 won't run on the S-900. I've never seen one of those, so I don't know what will run on it and what wont. I'm told that BootX even works with MacOS 7.5, if your machine can run it and you have a floppy drive to install it f

Bug#264964: OldWorld PowerMac Debian-Install floppys

Package: installation-reports I retrieved the floppy images at http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc-small/floppy/ so I could try out a floppy-boot install from them. I got never even got off the ground... 1) The "boot.img' floppy seems to have nothing on it but the 'vm

Bug#264964: OldWorld PowerMac Debian-Install floppys

On Wednesday, August 11, 2004, at 05:45 AM, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:25:48AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: # We'd like to use miboot, but it isn't in the archive yet ... #miboot -c ./tmp/powerpc-small_floppy_boot/miboot.conf # ... so instead we do some grungy HFS hacking. I wonder

Bug#264964: OldWorld PowerMac Debian-Install floppys

On Wednesday, August 11, 2004, at 05:25 AM, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 01:57:22AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Package: installation-reports I retrieved the floppy images at http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc- small/floppy/ so I could try out a floppy

Bug#264963: Installation report for Apple Blue & White G3 400 from netinstall CD (powerpc, RC1)

Evilpig wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:35:27 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's not in the lspci output because it's not a PCI card. > > > > I thought I'd fixed this one, so I'd like the reporter to show me the > > output of the following two commands, which you should be

Bug#264964: OldWorld PowerMac Debian-Install floppys

On Friday, August 13, 2004, at 09:53 AM, Sven Luther wrote: Can you please retry the miboot boot floppies tomorrow ? I fixed the daily-builds to rebuild the actual miboot floppies. Now, the only problem remaining would be the root floppy being too big, and the actual 2.6 kernel based miboot floppi

Bug#264964: OldWorld PowerMac Debian-Install floppys

On Monday, August 16, 2004, at 03:18 AM, Sven Luther wrote: Thanks Rick for testing it. I will build 2.6.8 miboot kernels today, could you possibly give it a try to see if it boots this evening or something such ? Sure. Expect my report at about the same time tomorrow that I posted today's. i

Re: Old world mac

On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 02:19 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Rikard Borg wrote: I'm one of those out there waiting with a 7200 box at home. Rikard Borg -- Hi Rikard, Did the work-around I sent you help any? Have you got that 7200 box working yet? Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 05:00 AM, Sven Luther wrote: happy floppy disk reading noises. However, the noises eventually stopped and a red "X" appeared over the TuxMac. Then nothing. I had to manually eject the floppy from the drive. What we need would be a way to get a log of it or somet

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:08:23PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Can you make a boot floppy with a 2.4 kernel that installs a 2.6 > > kernel from the net/CD/whatever? > > Sure, but it is not nice. I think you have to fall back to lower priorit

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:08:23PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 05:00 AM, Sven Luther wrote: > > >I have a > > >suspsicion that the pmac floppies being modular maybe one of the > > >causes of > >

Re: Plea for help from PowerMac Open Firmware gurus -- Testing new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies

On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 12:08 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 05:00 AM, Sven Luther wrote: happy floppy disk reading noises. However, the noises eventually stopped and a red "X" appeared over the TuxMac. Then nothing. I had to manually eject

Re: PowerPC Install

Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:22:38AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 06:59, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > > > Any ideas why these daily builds are broken every day? > > I just tried the 2.4 floppy images. What Wouter says is correct. I'm > > going to go

Re: Plea for help from PowerMac Open Firmware gurus -- Testing newoldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies

Rick_Thomas wrote: > Well... on the beige G3, I booted into Open Firmware with the > "ofonlyboot" floppy in the drive. The G3 comes up with console > input/output being keyboard/screen. From another Mac running MacOS-9, I > connected with MacKermit to the G3's modem port (which is normally >

Re: PowerPC Install

Sven Luther wrote: > > the .coff booting is probably the > only free alternative, but i am told requesting a debian oldworld user to get > the serial console working is not acceptable. Only unacceptable in the sense that Open Firmware is dramatically different between machine types. Apple dev

Re: Debian Sarge on oldworld Powermac?

Reset (zap) the PRAM. Turn the power off, then turn it on with the Command-Option-P-R keys (all of them) held down. Hold the keys down til it bongs a couple of times, then release and it should boot normally from floppy. Rick On Sunday, June 13, 2004, at 05:51 AM, matt-land.com wrote: On Sun,

D-I Etch+1/2 CD images for non x86/x86-64 arch?

On Feb 7, 2008, at 8:24 PM, dann frazier wrote: Let me try and reiterate some points of your proposal to make sure I understand. The only install media for etchnhalf will be netinst cds. These cds will be limited to i386, amd64, and other archs for which a need is demonstrated. It sounds good

Re: Setting FSCKFIX=yes on certain machines

On Aug 14, 2008, at 4:50 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: We have to set FSCKFIX=yes in /etc/default/rcS on machines that don't have any I/O devices to follow the boot process, otherwise fsck might prompt the user to press a key and this is not possible. This is mostly needed on NAS devices. They

Re: [RFC] Consequences for official CD/DVD images for Lenny

On Dec 29, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Frans Pop wrote: Powerpc is very definitely losing its user base (just compare the number of macbooks (ppc based!) you see now at conferences with what you saw 3 or 4 years ago. Actually, "MacBook" is the name for the Intel-based Apple laptops. The PowerPC bas

Re: [RFC] Consequences for official CD/DVD images for Lenny

On Dec 30, 2008, at 6:52 AM, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:11:20AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: The regular powerpc DVD will switch from GNOME-based to all-desktop. The only thing missing is offering boot options to select different

Bug#510263: installation-report: installing Lenny on a slug - eventually successful after a few trys and some fixups

Package: installation-reports Version: 2.38 Severity: normal At first -- Package-specific info: Boot method: following instructions on http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/ Image version: http://www.slug-firmware.net/d-click.php?p=download%2Fdebian%2Fnslu2&f=debian-armel-5.0rc1.zip&l=d-license

Bug#510263: Please close this bug

This is an abortive attempt at an installation report. A full report was subsequently submitted. Sorry for the noise! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Detect already installed partitions.

On Dec 30, 2008, at 6:24 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 02:47:58PM +0530, Rabbul Nawaz wrote: Thanks for the quick respose. Installing libparted, and all its dependencies including all the libraries inside the rootfs environment would definetely increase the size of the

Re: [RFC] Consequences for official CD/DVD images for Lenny

On Dec 30, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Rick Thomas wrote: Given that all the necessary packages will be available on the DVD, doesn't it make more sense to do the selection in tasksel, rather than at boot-time? It would certainly be more convenient fo

Bug#510271: installation-report: Lenny on a Slug - eventual success after a few tries and some fixups

On Dec 30, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: for some reason it decided that the DNS domain was "example.org", not the one being offered by DHCP. For what it's worth: Normal installs (on the console, not via SSH) on PowerPC Macs and i386 PCs on this subnet, using t

Bug#510271: installation-report: Lenny on a Slug - eventual success after a few tries and some fixups

On Dec 31, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: ext2 instead of ext3 is a good idea... maybe this should be offered on the NSLU2 by default as one option. On the other hand, it's also fairly easy to use the default partition schema and then change ext3 to ext2 in the partitioner manually

Bug#510666: Installer run from USB stick should prefer iso image on stick over one on hard drive

On Jan 4, 2009, at 2:45 AM, Christian Perrier wrote: reassign 510666 iso-scan thanks Quoting Aenoch Lynn (aenoch_l...@yahoo.com): I wanted to try the USB install of lenny, so from a working lenny installation on my machine (which I intended to overwrite) I put the installer on a 2 GB USB thu

Bug#510271: installation-report: Lenny on a Slug - eventual success after a few tries and some fixups

I'm getting ready to try this Friday. What URL should I use to download the Debian Installer from? Thanks! Rick On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Rick Thomas [2008-12-30 19:12]: One thing worth mentioning though: I have a full-service DHCP on this subnet, so i

Bug#510271: installation-report: Lenny on a Slug - eventual success after a few tries and some fixups

On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Rick Thomas [2008-12-30 19:12]: One thing worth mentioning though: I have a full-service DHCP on this subnet, so it got the network parameters from DHCP. This was successful, but for some reason it decided that the DNS domain was

Bug#510271: installation-report: Lenny on a Slug - eventual success after a few tries and some fixups

On Jan 12, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Rick Thomas [2009-01-12 10:13]: If you send me a copy of your /dev/mtdblock1, I can verify whether you set a domain name or not. Here you go. Yep, no domain is set. Assuming that I did not set a domain back when I had the Linksys

Bug#510271: installation-report: Lenny on a Slug - eventual success after a few tries and some fixups

On Jan 13, 2009, at 2:58 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Martin Michlmayr [2009-01-13 08:23]: 3) Is there any way to have d-i offer slug users the same kind of network configuration options as are considered normal for users of other systems? For example, it appears that there is room for some

Bug#510271: installation-report: Lenny on a Slug - eventual success after a few tries and some fixups

On Jan 13, 2009, at 2:23 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: 2) Assume a user has a slug they've been using with the Linksys software for a while and wants to switch to Debian: What should they do to make sure d-i gets their network configuration right without having to resort to the fixups you descri

Re: Hardcoding of ext3 as partman's default filesystem

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:24:57AM +, Colin Watson wrote: How about a partman/default_filesystem template in partman-base, defaulting to ext3, and then a $default expansion in the filesystem field in partitioning recipes? That would make it a matter of a boot parameter to change the default

Bug#520711: installation-reports: The squeeze netinst doesn't find archive

I just tried the PowerPC squeeze businesscard install disk, with the same results. The CD was downloaded from the URL: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/testing/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ The boilerplate on that directory says: Daily build #3 for powerpc, using instal

Bug#520711: syslog from a failed install

syslog.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Bug#520711: installation-reports: The squeeze netinst doesn't find archive

On Mar 24, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: When I switch to the -F2 console and try to do a "wget", I get a segmentation fault. Please take a look on the syslog of the installer and if possible attach it to this

Bug#520711: installation-reports: The squeeze netinst doesn't find archive

On Mar 25, 2009, at 7:37 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Otavio Salvador (ota...@ossystems.com.br): On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: When I switch to the -F2 console and try to do a "wget",

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