> netbooting is the correct way on those, and the only tested way.
>
> > And the CDs are supposed to boot on the RS6000?
>
> They should, but there seems to be some issue that need investigating. I fixed
> something (missing icon) recently, so the daily builds and beta2 should be
> better than sarg
> > > Solution is to fix partman-prep, and see if yaboot-installer behaves
> > > then, or
> > > to see if the excessive ramdisk size created by initramfs-tools caused the
> > > compressed kernel + builtin initrd to cause trouble with the OFs
> > > installer.
> >
> > My bet would be on the latter.
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 08:53:30AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > > Solution is to fix partman-prep, and see if yaboot-installer behaves
> > > > then, or
> > > > to see if the excessive ramdisk size created by initramfs-tools caused
> > > > the
> > > > compressed kernel + builtin initrd to c
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:26:27PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > > That would be interesting, since the B50 is exactly what those corean
> > > > guys
> > > > have all this trouble dealing with.
> > >
> > > Odd. We installed from a floppy using the woody netinstall CDs by just
> > > following
> > > That would be interesting, since the B50 is exactly what those corean guys
> > > have all this trouble dealing with.
> >
> > Odd. We installed from a floppy using the woody netinstall CDs by just
> > following the instructions found at
> > http://www.kutilek.de/technik/debian-rs6k.en.php
>
>
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 04:35:53PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > FWIW, I've got a bunch of old Macs here (including Nubus), and one RS/6000
> > > B50 that can be used for testing CD booting if necessary.
> >
> > That would be interesting, since the B50 is exactly what those corean guys
> > ha
> > FWIW, I've got a bunch of old Macs here (including Nubus), and one RS/6000
> > B50 that can be used for testing CD booting if necessary.
>
> That would be interesting, since the B50 is exactly what those corean guys
> have all this trouble dealing with.
Odd. We installed from a floppy using th
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:35:27AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 03:20:41PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > Well, nice to hear it's not the hardware that's holding things up. Now we
> > > just need to find someone to volunteer to take over from you. Anyone?
> >
> > F
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 03:20:41PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > Well, nice to hear it's not the hardware that's holding things up. Now we
> > just need to find someone to volunteer to take over from you. Anyone?
>
> FWIW (I forget if the relevant thread was CCed here), I've volunteered,
> an
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 03:20:41PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> Well, nice to hear it's not the hardware that's holding things up. Now we
> just need to find someone to volunteer to take over from you. Anyone?
FWIW (I forget if the relevant thread was CCed here), I've volunteered,
and the relev
> > If the d-i team does not get their act together WRT daily builds, I can
> > offer to set up a 233 MHz G3 with accounts for d-i. Ditto for someone to
> > build kernels.
>
> The real problem is not the machine, they can even use an account on the IBM
> donated quad-power5 at augsbourg if needed.
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:16:12AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 02:20:11AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > There is no problem with initramfs-tools, just a problem with the
> > > maintainer of the ppc port who is too quick to jump to conclusions again.
> >
> > Since the d
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 02:20:11AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > There is no problem with initramfs-tools, just a problem with the
> > maintainer of the ppc port who is too quick to jump to conclusions again.
>
> Since the debian-installer team clearly stated that debian would be better off
> witho
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 02:20:11AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> There is no problem with initramfs-tools, just a problem with the
> maintainer of the ppc port who is too quick to jump to conclusions again.
Since the debian-installer team clearly stated that debian would be better off
without me, and
On Sunday 26 March 2006 23:21, Sven Luther wrote:
> Ok, but initramfs-tools is there, and is the default now anyway, so it
> should work. There is clearly a bug in initramfs-tools about this
> issue, so file a bug report against it, or ask maks on irc
> (#debian-kernel on irc.oftc.net).
No, this i
> "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> Please file an installation report, CCed to
Sven> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sure thing: #359164 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=359164
I am presuming some one with a better understanding of the issue can
reassign it
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 12:10:56PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've been away from my computer for a few months, but decided to give
> the latest d-i netinstall daily build a spin today (March 26).
Please file a bug report, and don't just post here. I have been asked to take
a fe
Hi folks,
I've been away from my computer for a few months, but decided to give
the latest d-i netinstall daily build a spin today (March 26).
Besides the obvious known problem (default mirror) I find that a
powerpc64 install on a PowerMac7,3 (Dual 2Ghz G5) fails when trying to
install the kerne
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