Re: Debian Etch on Samsung 164UX/BX Alpha

2007-12-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:52:06PM +0100, Wouter Rademaker wrote: When you have an other Alpha, you can try to compose a harddisk (or a set of harddisks) that can be booted on the Samsung 164UX/BX Alpha. A set of harddisks is maybe the easiest: You will need a harddisk with a fat-partition

Debian Etch on Samsung 164UX/BX Alpha

2007-12-06 Thread Roman Hirsch
Hello! I have Samsung 164UX/BX Alpha (ruffian) with old RedHat 6.2 on it. On all other computers i I have Debian. I want to install Debian on this alpha computer. There is one big problem: I found in the net that this alpha has only ARCBIOS (no SRM console :( ). And somthing like that on

Re: Debian Etch on Samsung 164UX/BX Alpha

2007-12-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 01:14:38PM +0100, Roman Hirsch wrote: I have Samsung 164UX/BX Alpha (ruffian) with old RedHat 6.2 on it. On all other computers i I have Debian. I want to install Debian on this alpha computer. There is one big problem: I found in the net that this alpha has only

Re: Debian Etch on Samsung 164UX/BX Alpha

2007-12-06 Thread Andreas Czerniak
Which is the URL to your web page ? I have a Ruffian too, but installed with SuSE 7.1 -- I would update to Debian too ;) -Andreas. Lennart Sorensen wrote: I will put up a web page with instructions if I ever get mine to work. -- Len Sorensen -- Andreas Czerniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] AMCS -

Re: Debian Etch on Samsung 164UX/BX Alpha

2007-12-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 05:04:10PM +0100, Andreas Czerniak wrote: Which is the URL to your web page ? I have a Ruffian too, but installed with SuSE 7.1 -- I would update to Debian too ;) I haven't made it yet since I haven't solved my install problem yet. :( So far only my PWS433a has debian

Re: Debian Etch on Samsung 164UX/BX Alpha

2007-12-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:52:06PM +0100, Wouter Rademaker wrote: When you have an other Alpha, you can try to compose a harddisk (or a set of harddisks) that can be booted on the Samsung 164UX/BX Alpha. A set of harddisks is maybe the easiest: You will need a harddisk with a fat-partition

Re: Debian Etch on Samsung 164UX/BX Alpha

2007-12-06 Thread Wouter Rademaker
# Lennart Sorensen sprak: On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 05:04:10PM +0100, Andreas Czerniak wrote: Which is the URL to your web page ? I have a Ruffian too, but installed with SuSE 7.1 -- I would update to Debian too ;) I haven't made it yet since I haven't solved my install problem yet. :(

Re: Debian Etch ....

2007-04-13 Thread Bob Tracy
Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 10:59:17PM -0700, Mike Campbell wrote: Um, I have 2.5-0exp3 from experimental installed: When I went to the experimental pool (via the packages.debian.org website) looking for a working libc6.1, I found glibc-2.3.999.2-11 (glibc-2.4 for all intents

RE: Debian Etch ....

2007-04-13 Thread Uwe Schindler
] -Original Message- From: Bob Tracy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 5:27 PM To: Steve Langasek Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian Etch Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 10:59:17PM -0700, Mike Campbell wrote: Um, I have 2.5-0exp3

Re: Debian Etch ....

2007-04-13 Thread Bob Tracy
Uwe Schindler wrote: There is a newer version of glibc in unstable now! With locales! I try it now. The experimental version works great (you can use the locales version from experimental even if it is newer). I'll look for the newer glibc version and give it a try: it wasn't showing up on

Re: Debian Etch ....

2007-04-13 Thread Bob Tracy
Got the 2.3.999.2-11 locales package built and installed. After doing a bit of battle with localedef and friends (to actually install a few locales), everything seems to be working fine. Unrelated to the above, I note with some sadness the passing of the stylish busy cursor I used to have with

Re: Debian Etch ....

2007-04-13 Thread Bob Tracy
Bob Tracy wrote: Unrelated to the above, I note with some sadness the passing of the stylish busy cursor I used to have with Sarge (the animated Mac-like dots in a circle)... Never mind. The upgrade broke the /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme symbolic link, which needed to point to

Re: Debian Etch ....

2007-04-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 10:59:17PM -0700, Mike Campbell wrote: Um, I have 2.5-0exp3 from experimental installed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l | grep libc6.1 ii libc6.1 2.5-0exp3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libc6.1-dbg

Re: Debian Etch ....

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Evans
Yeah, I don't see those packages in the glibc pool - have they been deleted (or am I just missing them?). I submitted the original bug in in August of 2005 - since Debian 4.0 still includes a 2.3.X series libc, why wasn't a patch to 2.3.6 included? ...tom Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Apr

RE: Debian Etch ....

2007-04-09 Thread Uwe Schindler
@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian Etch Yeah, I don't see those packages in the glibc pool - have they been deleted (or am I just missing them?). I submitted the original bug in in August of 2005 - since Debian 4.0 still includes a 2.3.X series libc, why wasn't a patch to 2.3.6 included

Re: Debian Etch ....

2007-04-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:53:25AM -0400, Tom Evans wrote: Yeah, I don't see those packages in the glibc pool - have they been deleted (or am I just missing them?). I submitted the original bug in in August of 2005 - since Debian 4.0 still includes a 2.3.X series libc, why wasn't a patch to

Re: Debian Etch ....

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Evans
I imagine that no one followed up on the bug because the it was marked as closed with the RESPONSE that 2.5-exp3 *is* the fix for #325600. That gave many of us the expectation that a 2.5 series glibc would make its way into testing and then to stable with the Etch release, I mean why else

Re: Debian Etch ....

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Evans
Regarding my comments about the not-cancel.h file, the separate architecture versions are in the NPTL area, so probably not an option. ...tom Tom Evans wrote: I imagine that no one followed up on the bug because the it was marked as closed with the RESPONSE that 2.5-exp3 *is* the fix

Debian Etch ....

2007-04-08 Thread Tom Evans
I noticed that I got Debian Etch today when I did a dist-upgrade. That is always nice - a few weird failures, etc - working on them. I noticed that there are some defunct mysql processes (or threads!?) hanging out - where is the experimental libc that fixes this? ...tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Debian Etch ....

2007-04-08 Thread Mike Campbell
Just add experimental to your sources.list . So Etch is now stable, yet it stil has a broken libc (what is it, over a year now?) - that makes me sad. Mike On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 11:15:09PM -0400, Tom Evans wrote: I noticed that I got Debian Etch today when I did a dist-upgrade

Re: Debian Etch ....

2007-04-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 11:15:09PM -0400, Tom Evans wrote: where is the experimental libc that fixes this? There isn't one, because so far glibc 2.5 doesn't build on alpha. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: Debian Etch ....

2007-04-08 Thread Mike Campbell
Um, I have 2.5-0exp3 from experimental installed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l | grep libc6.1 ii libc6.1 2.5-0exp3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libc6.1-dbg 2.5-0exp3 GNU C Library: