Re: d-i for wheezy on a Dreamplug, docs/recommended practice?

2013-03-22 Thread Leigh Brown
Hi Martin, On 2013-03-22 18:42, Martin Lucina wrote: [...] Futher: What is a user w/o a JTAG device to do? How is he/she supposed to run the installer? I don't think it's possible. The only other way to get a new distro on the device would be to write a pre-created image on to a MicroSD

Re: Debian and Ibm RS6000 7043-150

2004-09-01 Thread Leigh Brown
Sven Luther said: On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 03:57:40PM +0200, Nicolas Raspail wrote: Hi, I've a problem installing Debian on my 7043-150 (powerpc 604e, chrp I Are you sure that this is a chrp, and not a prep machine ? Just for the record the 7043-150 is definitely CHRP. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#260403: sarge install on powerpc RS/6000 7043-140 failed

2004-07-20 Thread Leigh Brown
the attached message for further details. Original Message Subject: Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140 From:Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Sun, July 18, 2004 9:52 am To: Leigh Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Sven

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-18 Thread Leigh Brown
Hi Sven, Sven Luther said: On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:56:23AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: Sven Luther said: On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: Mmmh, i did try netboot. But kernel gets stuck to Now booting kernel too... Well, but it makes debugging easier

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-18 Thread Leigh Brown
Sven Luther said: On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 09:09:49AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: Sven Luther said: On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:56:23AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: Sven Luther said: Could you please try netbooting http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-13 Thread Leigh Brown
Sven Luther said: On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: Mmmh, i did try netboot. But kernel gets stuck to Now booting kernel too... Well, but it makes debugging easier and quicker. Could you please try netbooting

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-13 Thread Leigh Brown
Sven Luther said: On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:56:23AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: Since every single RS6000 offical ethernet card that I've ever seen uses pcnet32, I'd say its important to include it in the initrd. Ok, mmm, you mean the pcnet32 driver is not in the debian-installer net drivers

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-13 Thread Leigh Brown
Sven Luther said: On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:06:23PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello, On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: Helge, did you have had more success than me on your RS/6000 ? If i succeed in installing Debian on this machine, i will have another PPC

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-13 Thread Leigh Brown
Geert Uytterhoeven said: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:46:54PM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: Sven Luther said: On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:06:23PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello, On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote

Re: Debian en RS/6000 44p 170

2004-05-12 Thread Leigh Brown
Elena Campos said: Me he bajado las imágenes de Debian para powerpc, en concreto para una máquina RS/6000, esta, tiene el sistema AIX instalado y la idea es montar Debian Linux. El caso es que no consigo arrancar con ninguno de los disquetes hechos con las imágenes que me he bajado, me sale

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/7025-F50 (PPC 604e, CHRP)

2004-03-22 Thread Leigh Brown
Martin Küchler said: Sven Luther wrote: I believe that we may create a PReP-bootloader-installer or something which would take care of moving the kernel to this partition. Not sure though how this would work out. A bit like what nobootloader does. No, wait... we really want to use yaboot.

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-23 Thread Leigh Brown
Geert Uytterhoeven said: My version of Open Firmware (from Firmworks) didn't like the yaboot loader and kept rebooting with the message `rebooting with the correct settings for this client program' (or something like that), until I disconnected the disk and it couldn't find the boot loader

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-23 Thread Leigh Brown
Geert Uytterhoeven said: On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Leigh Brown wrote: Geert Uytterhoeven said: My version of Open Firmware (from Firmworks) didn't like the yaboot loader and kept rebooting with the message `rebooting with the correct settings for this client program' (or something like

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-22 Thread Leigh Brown
Sven Luther said: On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:32:39AM -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 09:24, Sven Luther escribió: Yes, but ths is a more general d-i problem, i understand, and is not the question i asked here. Do you know if there are power3/power4 boxes which

Re: Install debian RS/6000 44P Model 170

2004-01-22 Thread Leigh Brown
Sven Luther said: On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:01:15PM -, Leigh Brown wrote: BTW I have a 7043-260 which is one of the older Power3 machines, I'll send the /proc/cpuinfo this evening when I get home. Ok, thanks. processor : 0 cpu : POWER3 (630) clock : 200MHz

Re: d-i and alternative filesystems

2003-12-08 Thread Leigh Brown
Bastian Blank said: On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:21:10PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: wrong. jfs is online resizable: The AIX JFS is online growable and shrinkable, the Linux one one growable. There are two AIX JFS filesystems, JFS1 (the original JFS filesystem) which is supported in all

Re: Proposed build system: PREP

2003-10-06 Thread Leigh Brown
Sven Luther said: Could you test the prep kernel at : http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22, and instruct us about : 1) The different method of booting from a prep system. 2) if there are auto-booting CDroms, or if you just have to enter the right value from the OF (in case

Re: Proposed build system: PREP

2003-10-06 Thread Leigh Brown
Sven Luther said: On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:43:59AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: Sven Luther said: Could you test the prep kernel at : http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22, and instruct us about : 1) The different method of booting from a prep system. 2

Re: Proposed build system: PREP

2003-10-06 Thread Leigh Brown
Gabriel Paubert said: I find it quite stupid to distinguish them from PreP only because they have a different host bridge (Raven/Falcon/Hawk). This said I wrote my own bootloader for them which never made it to the official tree for several reasons but mostly my fault (I'm very bad at pushing