On Sunday 14 February 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> 1. dh-di needed for build of partman-base is not pulled in as a
> result of 'apt-get build-dep debian-installer', probably should be?
No: base-installer is a separate source package and thus has its own build
deps. I just forgot to include a step
On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:04:05PM +, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> > My main concern is whether it affects installer in any adverse way, so
> > if you could arrange for an installer image to be built with the
> > modified parted, we could do som
brian m. carlson wrote:
> Or it could be documented in the release notes that users of
> those machines will need to blacklist dmfe manually.
It already is documented in the installation guide.
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Brian Thompson wrote:
> Maybe the solution is somewhere in the middle... Seems the ideal
> situation would be for the dmfe kernel module to be built and installed
> on sparc by default but not enabled/mapped. That way someone
> who does want to use it would only have to make some minor text
> file
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> I've just tried booting a Lenny CD on an E4500 and after the
> language/keyboard dialogue I get "No common CD-ROM drive was detected".
>
> I can see the modules sr_mod, cdrom, sun_esp, esp_scsi,
> scsi_transport_spi, scsi_mod and sunhme are loaded, cat /proc/scsi/scsi
>
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> [...] but what I don't know is why the
> installer is setting it to the default 24 for hardware that doesn't have
> that capability.
Just for the record: debian-installer is not responsible for that. The
X.Org configuration is created by the X.Org packages themselves.
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Am I doing something spectacularly dumb or is there a reason why
> debian-testing-sparc-kde-cd-1.iso installs Gnome on SPARC with no trace
> of KDE?
The cause is that the boot parameter 'desktop=kde' was not added at CD
build time. Unfortunately debian-cd does not have
reassign 509202 linux-2.6 2.6.26-12
thanks
Reassigning to the kernel team and informing Sparc porters.
Original report contains full log with kernel oopses.
Cheers,
FJP
On Wednesday 07 January 2009, Adrian Knoth wrote:
> When trying to boot the debian sparc kernels
> linux-image-2.6.26-1-spa
> I guess this is not a Sparc specific problem, but how do I get the
> Installer to access the mirror via FTP rather than HTTP?
In expert mode or using preseeding you can specifiy the protocol to use.
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> > I guess I better then download it today!
>
> Relax, the temporary rootskel_1.72+localudeb
> will replaced with rootskel_1.72
For that it would have been much better if the name
rootskel_1.72~localudeb had been used.
> > Unfortunately, the daily build on
> > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/
On Saturday 13 December 2008, Klaus Klein wrote:
> > What is the output of the command 'console-type' in the debug shell?
>
> serial
That's good.
> I did two _full_ logs.
> One with 'install BOOT_DEBUG=3' which leads to the problem.
> One with 'install console=/dev/ttyS0 BOOT_DEBUG=3" which lets
On Friday 12 December 2008, Klaus Klein wrote:
> Nop, the daily build shows still the same problem.
>
> The 'solution' to use "install console=/dev/ttyS0,9600", descripted in
> one email (msg575187) in regards to Bug#501561, provides at least a
> workaround to install Lenny.
Please try booting wit
Klaus Klein wrote:
> Therefore, I connected my Laptop via the usual null modem cable to the
> AXi, put the just downloaded lenny netinst CD (tesing lenny - official
> rc sparc netinst binary 1 20081104) in the drive and started minicom
> (VT102, 9600,8N1).
>
> I can boot the AXi (boot cdrom) and a
A.Madesani wrote:
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
> Driver "keyboard"
Does it help if you replace keyboard by kbd?
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On Wednesday 13 August 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
> There is a tarball with firmware available at [1]. Just untar that onto
> either a floppy or a USB key, either in the root dir or a subdir
> called /firmware.
>
> After that it just worked for me for my wire
Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> Frans Pop wrote:
>> Daily built images of the installer for Lenny now include support for
>> installing firmware. It would be great if you could test that.
>
> Ok, I tried with one of those images and indeed it asks for external
> media.
>
>
Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> I'm having problems installing Lenny (also Etch) on a sun blade 1000.
> During installation the disks are not recognized.
>
> This is know problem as the firmware is in non-free.
Daily built images of the installer for Lenny now include support for
installing firmware. It w
Howard Eisenberger wrote:
> I just came across this message and didn't see a response.
> Did you find a fix?
>
>> X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90
Are you running Debian? 1.4.0 is not a current version in either testing
or unstable.
>> Current Operating System: Linux ULTRA5 2.6.24-1-sparc64-smp #1 SMP T
On Sunday 13 July 2008, Chris Newport wrote:
> An underlying issue here is that the soc.c and socal.c drivers are not
> maintained and have not worked since 2.2.x
> This means that the disk packs ( 3 drawers of 10 disks each ) usually
> found on these machines will not work.
In that case I would s
n-boot list if you're interested.
Cheers,
Frans Pop
(member of D-I team)
[1] Current versions of the installer are available from:
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
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Builds fine here for sparc.
Warnings (same for regular and -smp kernels):
/home/fjp/projects/source/l-m-e/linux-modules-extra-2.6-2.6.25/debian/build/build_sparc_none_sparc64_speakup/speakup_keypc.c:
In function ‘synth_immediate’:
/home/fjp/projects/source/l-m-e/linux-modules-extra-2.6-2.6.25/de
David Miller wrote:
> The following looks suspicious:
> Apr 12 07:11:58 hw-detect: Missing modules 'esp (ESP SCSI), usb-storage
> (USB storage)
>
> The esp_scsi module seems to have been loaded, but the sun_esp module
> did not. This is probably what the problem is.
Correct. We made a mistake wh
On Tuesday 17 June 2008, Dennis Boone wrote:
> Yesterday I successfully booted from my modified netinst CD, manually
> loaded the sun_esp and esp_scsi modules, and the installer could then
> detect the CD-ROM drive. I could see that drive and the SCSI hard disk
> in /proc/scsi/scsi.
Nice.
> As a
reassign 485961 linux-kernel-di-sparc-2.6 1.24
tags 485961 pending
thanks
On Sunday 15 June 2008, Dennis Boone wrote:
> > Hmm. There is also a sun_esp module, which depends on esp_scsi. I
> > wonder if that's the missing link here.
> >
>
> I'll try this and see what happens. The catch would ap
On Thursday 12 June 2008, Dennis Boone wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> The installer boots fine, and allows me to set keyboard, country
> locale, but cannot detect the CD-ROM
> (/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/SUNW,[EMAIL PROTECTED],880/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:f)
> drive to continue the
> installation.
> +SUNW
On Tuesday 10 June 2008, David Miller wrote:
> From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:03:53 +0200
>
> > Cheetah error trap taken afsr[001008000500] afar
> > [07f90080] TPC[553f94] TNPC[553f98] O7[554274]
> > TSTATE[9980001606]
have follow-ups)
Alexander Vlasov wrote:
> Frans Pop planet.nl> writes:
>> You could also try booting with BOOT_DEBUG=3. That will give you a
>> debug shell at the earliest possible point. If the crash still happens,
>> it's definitely a kernel or hardware issue.
>
&
Alexander Vlasov wrote:
> I tried installer with debian-installer/framebuffer=false, but seems it
> still uses framebuffer.
Just fb=false should work as well.
You could also try booting with BOOT_DEBUG=3. That will give you a debug
shell at the earliest possible point. If the crash still happens
Alexander Vlasov wrote:
> I just downloaded netinst image from
>http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/sparc/iso-cd/
> and tried to boot my Ultra45 (2xSltraSparc IIIi, 2G RAM, 2xSATA drives).
> Booting hangs at the very early stage, right after initrd loading, with
> scree
Your mail is sadly lacking in any real info that could be used to actually
help you forward.
For what it's worth, I have an U10 myself with an ATI 3D Rage [0] on which
most Debian releases since Sarge have been successfully installed.
William Andrew Lawrence wrote:
> I have an Ultra 10 that can
Nick Schmalenberger wrote:
> I thought the esp scsi driver was supposed to be fixed in 2.6.23 or
> 2.6.24, but on my Ultra/1 it isn't working with todays daily build of
> the netboot installer. Attached are the debug logs. Has anybody had this
> working? Thanks.
I have a IDE-based Ultra10 myself,
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 23:35, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The daily built images of the installer for sparc [1] have kernel
> > 2.6.20. I don't know if the rewrite happened before or after that
> > release, but it is somewhat
(Please do _not_ CC people who obviously read the mailing list!)
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 22:56, Chris Andrew wrote:
> That's interesting. Do you know where I can download an ISO that has
> the re-written module? I prefer debian, but at the moment, any linux
> would do.
The daily built images of
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 17:58, Chris Andrew wrote:
> All my CD's boot fine, it really look like a module isn't being loaded.
> As I say, Sarg loads fine. The installer starts, and then hangs when
> doing hardware detection for modules.
Possibly this is covered by the errata for the Etch installe
On Sunday 15 July 2007 03:53, Austin Denyer wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:08:57 -0700, Steven Ringwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I, for one, will be sorry to see it go, as I actively use my SS10's
> > and 20's. Anyone know of any other Linux distros out there that
> > support the Sparc32 architect
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kernel udeb status
==
Because I had to test the changes below anyway, I have done what I guess
will be my last massbuild and upload of kernel/module udebs.
All arches are now at 2.6.21-2, with the following exceptions:
- sparc: at 2.6.20 because
07 18:31
From: Frans Pop <...>
To: Alan Cox <...>
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 14:15, you wrote:
> The main thing to know is simply "does it work". Generally speaking
> you'll get either total failure or success.
Initially I compiled the driver into the kernel and b
On Monday 02 July 2007 14:21, Emanuele Rocca wrote:
> The "output to the wrong screen" issue is well known, here's last
> upstream comment: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.sparc/7659
Thanks for the link. Does that address both the "ATI + creator3D" case and
the "only ATI" case?
What a
On Monday 02 July 2007 13:44, jim watson wrote:
> On my Sunblade100 this is fixed in debian unstable 2.6.21-1 but
> video=atyfb:off is still needed anyway to avoid those red dots.
Hmm. I seem to be having dejavu experiences in this thread...
Is anybody currently trying to work with the upstream k
On Sunday 01 July 2007 16:14, Nigel Horne wrote:
> Joachim Reichel wrote:
> > I would like to investigate whether my package cgal is vulnerable to
> > bug #431230 on mips, mipsel and sparc. I'm not a DD (so I can't use
> > any official porter machines), but my key 153FF940 is signed by a DD.
> > I
On Tuesday 12 June 2007 22:17, Eric Rapilly wrote:
> Hi there; For my Debian on sun, I need some informations, because I'm
> not familiar with debian;
> 1 ° how to setup a fixed IP address ?
> 2° how to indicate the IP address of the gateway, which I use to go on
> internet
Note that this question
On Sunday 13 May 2007 09:43, jim wrote:
> Searching this list for "video=atyfb:off" suggests the advice should
> just mention the symptom is the boot stops after "Booting Linux...".
> Then it is not necessary to mention the hardware, although it seems
> mainly reported for sunblade 100 & 150, but w
On Friday 01 June 2007 20:26, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> Now it is closed, but I feel it should not be as this is
> not definitive a solution, as Lenny will probably still have the same
> problem.
I agree that it is not definitive, but it is a basically an upstream
kernel problem and not an installe
On Friday 01 June 2007 16:34, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> The first important problem is that it tries to use the "dmfe" kernel
> module for the NICs, and it doesn't work at all, while "tulip" does.
The installation guide documents this issue and a way to work around it.
http://www.debian.org/releases
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 16:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The main reason is the fact that sparc32 support is no longer being
> > maintained upstream for the kernel [2]. A result of that is that the
> > 2.6.21 kernel is currently broken, which forces the issue.
>
> It seems obvious that someone wi
On Monday 21 May 2007 21:49, Martin Habets wrote:
> FYI, 2.6.21 is rock solid on my SS20 here. Do you consider it broken
> just because of some cdrom issues? Or is there more?
I don't have more details than this:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2007/05/msg00305.html
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On Monday 21 May 2007 16:48, Talecki Michał wrote:
> Now it says:
> "No disk drive was detected"
Are there any messages in the output of dmesg that show whether the disk
was detected or possibly any errors?
Possibly it will show that the disk driver requires firmware. Loading
firmware is current
work on optimizing
support for sparc64.
Given the current problems with sparc32 in the 2.6.21 kernel, the final
decision on this will be made before the end of this month.
Frans Pop
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2007/04/msg00044.html
[2] http://marc.info/?l=linux-sparc&a
On Friday 18 May 2007 14:05, Bastian Blank wrote:
> I have to acknowledge the message from Dave[1]. Until there is a new
> kernel upstream it may be possible to compile it but it is impossible
> to fix real problems.
Yes, I completely agree with that.
However, when you casually propose to _depreca
(Resending as I forgot to change the subject. Sorry about that.)
On Friday 18 May 2007 12:18, Bastian Blank wrote:
> I'd like to schedule the linux-2.6 2.6.21-[23] upload for today.
>
> Fixes:
[...]
> - sparc32 deprecation? No fix yet for the cmpxchg problem.
This would have a serious implication
On Friday 18 May 2007 12:18, Bastian Blank wrote:
> I'd like to schedule the linux-2.6 2.6.21-[23] upload for today.
>
> Fixes:
[...]
> - sparc32 deprecation? No fix yet for the cmpxchg problem.
This would have a serious implication for Debian Installer as we'd also
have to drop support for sparc
On Friday 11 May 2007 17:13, Emanuele Rocca wrote:
> * Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [2007-05-11 17:12 +0200]:
> > On Friday 11 May 2007 17:06, H C Pumphrey wrote:
> > > This link talks about having two cards. But on some hardware
> > > (SunBlade 100 for exam
On Friday 11 May 2007 17:06, H C Pumphrey wrote:
> Frans Pop wrote:
> > On Friday 11 May 2007 11:48, Pravin Jeeanah wrote:
> >> I am trying to netboot an etch install on a sparc
> >> ultra1. When I issue the boot net command at the OBP
> >> prompt the sys
On Friday 11 May 2007 11:48, Pravin Jeeanah wrote:
> I am trying to netboot an etch install on a sparc
> ultra1. When I issue the boot net command at the OBP
> prompt the system downloads the install kernel and
> boot directly after the message ...remapping kernel.
http://www.debian.org/releases/e
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 23:10, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text was needed because the newt frontend doesn't show
> up and because the Sun screen doesn't show well in a Unicode locale.
What's the output of 'cat /proc/fb' after booting the installer?
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On Sunday 29 April 2007 09:49, gavin duley wrote:
> Could anyone suggest what the problem is, and maybe what I could do to
> fix it?
1) File a bug report against yaird; the problem is there
2) Use initramfs-tools in the mean time
Cheers,
FJP
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On Friday 27 April 2007 05:33, Ivan Kabaivanov wrote:
> I need to create my own sparc-bootable CD and where better to learn
> than from debian-sparc. What's the script that creates the debian
> sparc cds and where do I find it so I can study it?
All Debian CDs are built using the "debian-cd" pack
Hello D-I porters,
Most architectures should now be able to switch to 2.6.20 for D-I (except
for arm, hppa and m68k). i386 and amd64 have already been switched.
Over the past two weeks Joey has done the needed work for i386 and amd64
(and necessary updates in kernel-wedge), but we've waited wit
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 10:35, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> This makes no sense to me. I suppose it's possible that the new udev
> has had some hand in renaming the device but it still seems odd.
Check /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules for that.
I doubt udev has anything to do with the
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 09:01, BERTRAND Joël wrote:
> Thus dropped sparc32 arch will be a big strategic error for Debian.
You and others seem to be missing the point of this discussion and
proposal. This is not about Debian _wanting_ to drop sparc32, but about a
total lack of upstream s
On Sunday 15 April 2007 23:56, Robert Reif wrote:
> davem has considered combining sparc and sparc64 kernel trees like s390
> and ppc did and i386/x86_64 are considering doing. This would go a
> long way in keeping the two architectures from diverging further and
> help sparc32 stability. I know
On Sunday 15 April 2007 23:22, Robert Reif wrote:
> Jurij Smakov wrote:
> >* Nearly complete lack of upstream support. David Miller, current
> > upstream maintainer of sparc64 has expressed his thoughts on the
> > topic in [0], triggering the discussion about dropping sparc32
> > support in Auro
On Sunday 15 April 2007 22:23, maximilian attems wrote:
> i'd like to have sbus udev module loading solved :)
Here are the important bits from a discussion on that subject from
#debian-boot earlier today.
trave11er: We also need to investigate why kernel/udev don't load
sbus modules yet.
I su
On Sunday 15 April 2007 16:31, Robert Reif wrote:
> I have been unable to do a net install for the last few days.
>
> I get the following error (hand copied):
>
> apt-install: Setting up initramfs-tools (0.85g)
> main-menu[1764]: (process:17153):
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-installer.postinst: eval:
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 17:19, Josip Rodin wrote:
> But there is no problem with silo-installer, it's partman that needs to
> take care of this. I checked the partman-md bug list, and found
> #411756, where I've now concurred.
No, the bit that does the check in partman is part of silo-installer
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 16:46, Josip Rodin wrote:
> If software RAID wasn't supposed to be used on the SILO boot device at
> all, then this code wouldn't be here.
Please file a BR against silo-installer with a summary of this thread.
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On Sunday 01 April 2007 15:24, Josip Rodin wrote:
> But... that's not actually supposed to be necessary. Quoting:
[...]
> | The first partition has to be ext3 or fd, not swap because swap
> | writes from first block and avoid silo block. If swap begins on the
> | cylinder 1, openprom cannot boot (t
On Sunday 01 April 2007 14:18, Josip Rodin wrote:
> I couldn't help but notice that there is no support for software RAID
> arrays in the sparc installer.
It _is_ supported, but the option "Use as RAID" will not be shown if the
current partition starts on sector 0 of the disk because that would
On Sunday 01 April 2007 12:38, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Do I have to write a bug report, if I can commit to debian-doc CVS? :)
No, feel free. Finding a good place for it may be tricky though as it
affects both installs and installed systems.
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On Sunday 01 April 2007 11:47, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 02:05:54PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> > > > Same thing here (Blade 2000). Rebooting the machine from Solaris
> > > > and choosing to boot Linux doesn't work
> > >
> > > I now tried to boot from cdrom after a full pow
Package: release-notes
Severity: important
The issue reported below should be documented. It may hit other
architectures that have a special bus without sysfs support too, most
notably hppa.
Drivers that are known to be affected are:
hppa: lasi700, zalon7xx
sparc: esp, qlogicpti
-- Fo
On Sunday 25 March 2007 20:58, BERTRAND Joël wrote:
> "has been fixed" ? I have tried to build mysql with _all_ gcc release
> between 3.3 and 4.1 without any success. Where have you seen that this
> bug was fixed ?
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=334339;msg=66
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On Sunday 25 March 2007 20:02, BERTRAND Joël wrote:
> See bug #334339 (wontfix).
IMO the "wontfix" tag is not correct. There should at least be an
explanation by the maintainer _why_ he considers this an issue that is
does not need to be fixed.
Removing the ta
On Sunday 25 March 2007 19:18, BERTRAND Joël wrote:
> I use for a long time mysql server on several sparc64 workstations
> running debian testing. I have to rebuild mysql when I need to upgrade
> these systems. Endeed, due to a bug in gcc, I have to rebuild the
> debian package, and after con
(BCC to d-ports)
For all architectures, except for m68k, installer and CD/DVD images of
what is going to be D-I RC2 are now available for testing. RC2 is
scheduled to be the D-I release shipped with Etch.
Netboot, floppy and hd-media images are available from:
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/di
On Saturday 03 March 2007 20:26, Per Larsson wrote:
> Any hints on how to solve this ?
Yes, download a new image. This issue has already been solved.
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On Saturday 03 March 2007 19:14, Stuart Brady wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 07:11:39PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > No, firefox = iceweasel; firebird = icedove (at least, AFAIK).
>
> firefox = iceweasel, thunderbird = icedove. :-)
Oh, well. I stand corrected.
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On Saturday 03 March 2007 19:04, Martin Marques wrote:
> Frans Pop escribió:
> > On Saturday 03 March 2007 16:00, Daniel Smolik wrote:
> >> have anybody experience why is not Firebird in repository for SPARC
> >> ?
> >
> > Look for icedove. Same thing.
On Saturday 03 March 2007 16:00, Daniel Smolik wrote:
> have anybody experience why is not Firebird in repository for SPARC ?
Look for icedove. Same thing.
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On Friday 02 March 2007 15:37, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> R3 is unable to load any network driver.
r3 was known to be broken:
http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/debian-installer/index.en.html#errata
r4 was verified to work again.
Note that issues with Sarge installations for Sparc are unlikely
On Friday 02 March 2007 12:05, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Unfortunately whatever underlies the "Detecting discs and all other
> hardware" message grinds to a halt with a flashing cursor at the bottom
> left of a blank screen... work continues but is there a trace anywhere
> that shows what's going
On Thursday 01 March 2007 15:24, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> This is purely for information in case nobody else has checked
> recently. I'm not complaining, I'm not expecting anybody to fix things.
> OTOH since Sarge is the last Debian likely to be qualified for 32-bit
> SPARC it's a pity usability
Hi all,
As you've probably noticed, what's intended to be the final kernel for
Etch has been uploaded yesterday.
I'm currently building and uploading the kernel udebs for all arches
(except arm and m68k for which images are not yet available). I'll also
upload new loop-aes module udebs for Spa
On Thursday 22 February 2007 19:03, Daniel Smolik wrote:
> You can boot machine over net this is way that I prefer. To OK prompt
> type boot net prepare RARP and tftp server and download image from
>
> ftp://ftp.debian.cz/pub/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-sparc/current
>/images/sparc64/netboot/
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 01:25, Emanuele Rocca wrote:
> I've tried using reiserfs for the root partition, but silo doesn't work
> with filesystems which are not ext3/ext2/ufs; it would be very cool
> IMHO to warn the user about that if he tries to use something different
> from ext3/ext2. I kn
On Monday 19 February 2007 22:31, Daniel Smolik wrote:
> > At the moment testing the daily builds [1] of the installer would be
> > very useful. Please file an installation report [1] for each type of
> > machine.
>
> Yes I can do this but I prefer install over net. Because this image is
> small an
On Monday 19 February 2007 22:01, Daniel Smolik wrote:
> I have requested 2x E450, 1xE250, 1x SS5 and 1x Ultra5 all machines
> have for playing. On all I run Debian Sid. I would like help with
> testing.
That's excellent. Testing installations with Debian Installer periodically
is very useful. So
On Thursday 01 February 2007 09:08, Robert Waldner wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/a# gunzip 25147 blocks
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/a# find . -name esp\*
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/a#
>
> No esp.ko :(
That is expected. Reason is that the sysfs support in the esp driver is
not complete enough yet fo
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 12:04, Karl Goetz wrote:
> When would we be expecting updated installer images?
We're making the switch today.
If there are no problems, tomorrows *daily built* images for all arches
should use the new kernel.
Cheers,
FJP
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On Monday 29 January 2007 07:18, Karl Goetz wrote:
> I downloaded the daily intall image on 27th this month, my time (+10~),
> and It failed to install (installer failed to start) on my SunBlade
> 100. I dont have sarge or etch debs yet (i should get them in a few
> days), but unless my daily is ju
On Sunday 31 December 2006 11:41, Chris Newport wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Frans Pop wrote:
> >> 3.5.1 mentions the 1GB magic boundary -- silo will sometimes refuse
> >> to boot the kernel, if it is physically located beyond the 1GB from
> >> the start of the disk
OK. Here is the list of issues that are still open.
Some help from the community with some of these would be much appreciated,
Cheers,
FJP
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 06:41, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> Chapter 2.4 - "Purchasing Hardware Specifically for GNU/Linux". This
> is probably not useful.
Agree,
Hi Jurij,
Thanks a lot for taking the time to go through the whole manual.
I've gone through the issues and fixed a number of them; quite a few had
already been fixed by changes since your review.
There are also a few issues in this mail that are not yet fixed, but that
could be fixed really ea
On Saturday 30 December 2006 20:38, Jim Watson wrote:
> My SunBlade 100 boots 2.6.18 OK from internal disk drive with
> video=atyfb:off. (This was not required with 2.6.16)
> As mentioned in the thread, net boot may be required - at least I
> have not seen any reports of success with CDROM.
Just t
On Saturday 30 December 2006 13:23, Holger Wansing wrote:
> This doesn't help on Sun Blade 100 machines (while it does on
> Blade 150 systems).
>
> Any suggestions on this?
I have no idea what video cards are in a Sun Blade 100. If it is something
other than an ATI card, you may need a different
Hello porters,
I've just announced the schedule [1] for the release of the Installation
Guide to be included with the Etch release.
That schedule leaves room for bigger updates until Dec 31 and for minor
ones until Jan 7. This means that if you have any updates you'd like to
get in for your po
(BCCed to d-ports)
Hello,
We received a BR that the list of porters for PowerPC on the Organization
webpage [1] was outdated. However, this seems to be true for most ports.
Please reply to debian-www@lists.debian.org with an updated list of active
porters for your port after discussing changes
On Saturday 16 December 2006 17:58, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> Since you are the only person who reported such a problem so far, I
> feel that severity is a bit too high, so I'm dropping it to
> 'important' for now. I'm also CC'ing this message to the debian-sparc
> mailing list to ask whether anybody e
On Thursday 14 December 2006 19:47, Donatas Ciuksys wrote:
> Trying to do "aptitude dist-upgrade" got this output (listed below).
> Changing debian mirror server and clearing apt cache did not helped -
> *.deb files in cache should be OK. Any ideas?
This does not belong on the d-sparc list. Please
On Monday 11 December 2006 05:28, John wrote:
> Both these messages occur on my headless and keyboardless Ultra1
> (router) . Its connected through serial port A to Minicom running on an
> old laptop.
>
> Q. How do I correct the boot process to stop this happening, please?
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