Re: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

2013-12-08 Thread Dan DeVoto
Confirmed on my Powerbook5,6 and PowerMac3,1. The Dec. 8th nightly still has this bug. Though the keyboard on my G3 iBook (Powerbook4,3) works fine, so Team G3! On Sat, 12/7/13, Rick Thomas wrote: Subject: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in ins

Bug#728936: Fwd: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

2013-12-08 Thread Dan DeVoto
I can confirm this bug. The keyboard is functional on the first boot screen, but when it gets to the "Choose a language" screen, the keyboard no longer works. I tested this on a Powerbook5,6 (with its built-in keyboard) and a PowerMac3,1 (with an external Macally keyboard). Interestingly, the

Re: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2013-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 8, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 06:26:33PM -0800, Rick Thomas a écrit : >> >> Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh server during >> the installation? I'd like to be able to ssh/slogin/scp to the installation >> process so I

Re: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2013-12-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 06:26:33PM -0800, Rick Thomas a écrit : > > Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh server during > the installation? I'd like to be able to ssh/slogin/scp to the installation > process so I can retrieve log files and otherwise snoop the process whe

Re: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2013-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks for responding, Scott! On Dec 8, 2013, at 6:57 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 09/12/13 13:26, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh >> server during the installation? > > > Yes - at least with the i386 and AMD64 installs > >> I'd

Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2013-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh server during the installation? I'd like to be able to ssh/slogin/scp to the installation process so I can retrieve log files and otherwise snoop the process when the keyboard/mouse are frozen. This is part of my pursuit of Bug#7

Bug#731720: installation-reports: Debian Wheezy installer damages partition table

2013-12-08 Thread Mikulas Patocka
Package: installation-reports Severity: critical Tags: d-i Justification: breaks unrelated software Dear Maintainer, After installing Debian Wheezy, partition table is corrupted. The OS/2 system, that is also installed on the computer, reports partition corruption. The disk is INTEL SSDSC2CW180A3

Re: kfreebsd-10 in d-i

2013-12-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steven Chamberlain (2013-12-08): > Yes, please. And now for the record, kfreebsd-10 is being uploaded to > sid; we'd like to enable it in d-i if there are no other objections. I'll try and get d-i uploaded in december. Depend how it goes on the buildds, I might perform another upload to get it

Re: kfreebsd-10 in d-i

2013-12-08 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 08/12/13 22:35, Robert Millan wrote: > On 08/12/2013 19:44, Steven Chamberlain wrote: >> I don't know if/when this is going ahead. We haven't heard yet from >> anyone else on -bsd@ as to whether they approve of this plan. > > You mean enabling it in d-i when it reaches testing? FWIW I have > n

Re: kfreebsd-10 in d-i

2013-12-08 Thread Robert Millan
On 08/12/2013 19:44, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > I don't know if/when this is going ahead. We haven't heard yet from > anyone else on -bsd@ as to whether they approve of this plan. You mean enabling it in d-i when it reaches testing? FWIW I have no objection. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: kfreebsd-10 in d-i

2013-12-08 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 08/12/13 18:29, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > I'm slightly sad to learn about this so incidentally, just because I > happen to still be subscribed to -bsd@. Sorry I didn't mention it here, but I meant that someone (or if they don't, then I) would notify -boot@ when kfreebsd-10 is being uploaded to s

kfreebsd-10 in d-i (was: kfreebsd-10)

2013-12-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steven Chamberlain (2013-12-08): > I would have said that I prefer we wait for RC1 (in case of security > bugs, and having to fix them quickly if it migrated to testing already). > Now that RC1 has been tagged in releng branch, I'm all in favour of > this going into sid/testing. With Robert's pa

Re: Bug(just a typo in manpage) in the package "installation-report"

2013-12-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Matteo Zambelli (2013-12-08): > Hi, i just found a small typo in the manpage of the command "report-hw", > contained in the package "installation-report". > > It says: > "This hardware summary is aimed at diagnosing problems with hardware > autodection" > It should be: > "This hardware summary is

Bug(just a typo in manpage) in the package "installation-report"

2013-12-08 Thread Matteo Zambelli
Hi, i just found a small typo in the manpage of the command "report-hw", contained in the package "installation-report". It says: "This hardware summary is aimed at diagnosing problems with hardware autodection" It should be: "This hardware summary is aimed at diagnosing problems with hardware aut

Fwd: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

2013-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks, Robert. I'm forwarding this to the bug, so it becomes part of the record. When did you try your successful install on the YDL? Have you tried it in the last couple of weeks? Come to think of it: You don't have to actually install anything to test this... If you have a couple of

Bug#728936: tried amd64 netinst sid daily-build. Problem not found on amd

2013-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
I just tried the amd64 daily-builds netinst CD. I did not have this problem. The USB keyboard was recognized and functioned as expected. So what's it about PowerPC ??? Rick /cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/ debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso 2013-12-08 04:49 213M --