Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-05-03 Thread Michael Felt
And last little bit - what is the linux world thinking - spaces in file names? Good grief. (as well as very long names). root@jessie:/etc/NetworkManager# ls -l system* total 4 -rw--- 1 root root 260 May 1 22:44 Wired connection 1 On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Michael Felt wrote

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-05-03 Thread Michael Felt
MP Debian 3.16.7-ckt9-3 (2015-04-23) ppc64 GNU/Linux my two cents. On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 11:15 +0200, Michael Felt wrote: > [...] > > > BTW: I notice a slight difference in how 'login as root' works between > > whe

Re: Guide to getting ported?

2015-05-03 Thread Michael Felt
I probably do not know enough to write it well enough myself - mainly because I am unsure of your intended audience. If it is debian you may only be interested in porting between different linux versions - which could be 'tricky' in itself. However, I see you mention 'OpenBSD', and linuxisms. Why

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-05-02 Thread Michael Felt
yone (using passwords at least) is permitted. Thank you for the link - I shall copy my keys in (later) and report back. And secondly, for the link - for the changes history! Excellent! Michael On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Michael Felt wrote: > Maybe - last time I tried - I mistyped the log

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-05-02 Thread Michael Felt
different (in what way please) story on installing debian on PowerVM enabled systems? On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 11:15 +0200, Michael Felt wrote: > [...] > > > BTW: I notice a slight difference in how 'login as root' wor

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-05-02 Thread Michael Felt
By the way - I just looked at your installation instructions and I did not find anything about how to install in POWER Server environment, i.e., as a virtual machine (aka LPAR) on IBM POWER5 and later. The ppc64le using KVM will obviously be different, but people using powerpc (historically 32-bit