ppc installation issues...

[P Kapat]

Hi,

Here are some of the issues that I faced while installing and
upgrading debian on my iBook G4: (if I am writing to the wrong list,
please let me know)

$ cat /proc/cpu
processor   : 0
cpu : 7447A, altivec supported
clock   : 1199.999000MHz
revision: 0.2 (pvr 8003 0102)
bogomips: 73.47
timebase: 18432000
platform: PowerMac
machine : PowerBook6,5
motherboard : PowerBook6,5 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh
detected as : 287 (iBook G4)
pmac flags  : 001b
L2 cache: 512K unified
pmac-generation : NewWorld

1. KDE as a desktop while installing Etch - there is no option to
install KDE as the desktop manger, instead of Gnome. Surprisingly, at
the tasksel stage of the installation process (even in "expert") mode
there is no mention that the "Desktop environment" is actually GNOME
and only GNOME!! Note that, I have tried the netinst, xfce-cd-1, and
kde-cd-1 discs from this page:
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r1/powerpc/iso-cd/ and each of
these installs Gnome (xfce does xfce though). More agonisingly, even
after adding "task=standar, laptop, kde-desktop" at the boot prompt of
the installer I end with a GNOME!! Why? What is the purpose of
*-kde-cd-1.iso? Why is there no simple option to choose between
Gnome/KDE at the tasksel stage?

OK, so even after repeated formats and installations, I end up with a
Gnome DM - fine, I'll change to kde later

2. I upgraded to unstable, using dist-upgrade, and the locale is
screwed To be fair to the Debian folks, I was surprised and
impressed to find that almost everything else worked fine, if not
better, after the dist-upgrade. Anyway as of now,  apt-get  gives
the a combination of the following two error:

perl warning: Please check that your locale settings
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US"
are installed on your system

==AND==

locale:cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: no such file or directory
locale:cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: no such file or directory
locale:cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: no such file or directory

As expected the locales package is broken... Is this the situation, or
is it because of my dist-upgrade? What is the fix?


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PK
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Re: ppc installation issues...

[Hans Ekbrand]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 03:33:32PM -0500, P Kapat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here are some of the issues that I faced while installing and
> upgrading debian on my iBook G4: (if I am writing to the wrong list,
> please let me know)

gnome and locale issues are not powerpc-specific, so the expertise on
those matters is more likely to be found on the debian-boot list (or
possibly debian-user, at least for the upgrading-to-unstable-problem).

So, I think it is your own best interest to post on those lists
instead.

Kind regards,

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Re: ppc installation issues...

[P Kapat]

Hi,

On 11/26/07, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 03:33:32PM -0500, P Kapat wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here are some of the issues that I faced while installing and
> > upgrading debian on my iBook G4: (if I am writing to the wrong list,
> > please let me know)
>
> gnome and locale issues are not powerpc-specific, so the expertise on
> those matters is more likely to be found on the debian-boot list (or
> possibly debian-user, at least for the upgrading-to-unstable-problem).
>
> So, I think it is your own best interest to post on those lists
> instead.

Thanks for the note Hans, I will keep that in mind. For now,
installing locale (the broken package was fixed) solved the perl
errors :)

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PK
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