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Sorry! I don't know which package creates the /etc/papersize file,
so I'm submitting this as Package: installation-reports.
During the install process, I selected the C locale early on.
Later, when asked, I indicated I have a US-English keyboard. I also
On Jul 22, 2006, at 3:01 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 11:19:06PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
On Friday 21 July 2006 22:09, Rick Thomas wrote:
Putting the install CDrom into sources.list makes sense when you are
installing from a full CD (or DVD) set, because there's a large
On Jul 22, 2006, at 4:45 AM, Jens Seidel wrote:
Hi Rick,
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 03:55:28AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Hmmm... That doesn't square with my recent experience. I've had
aptitude hang on me a couple of times with messages saying
(approximately -- from memory) can't read cdrom
On Jul 21, 2006, at 4:37 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 09:13:51PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Some testing also noted that /etc/apt/sources.list includes the
install CD as a source. I don't think this is a good idea -- it
means that I have to hang onto the install CD
On Jul 21, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
I call BS :-D !
Joke aside, this i from a system installed on Monday via a
buisnesscard CD:
... sources.list snipped...
I don't see any CD source.
Maybe you were talking about netinst?
... Curiouser and curioser!, cried Alice.
On Jul 21, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jul 21, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
I call BS :-D !
Joke aside, this i from a system installed on Monday via a
buisnesscard CD:
... sources.list snipped...
I don't see any CD source.
Maybe you were talking about netinst
I'm curious... On the cdimage.d.o server there seem to be two
parallel series of daily-build debian-installer cd images. They are
clearly different, but why?
Enjoy!
Rick
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On Jul 20, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [o]
Detect network card:[o]
Configure network: [o]
Detect CD: [o]
Load installer modules: [o
On Jul 20, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
2) However, strangely, the lspci command seems to be missing
from the installed system. I *was* able to get it (as part of the
pciutils package) from the mirror via aptitude. So it's not
missing completely.
Interestingly... I had
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BootX and netinst CD (see below)
I also tried using the businesscard CD witht he same results
Image version: Full URL to image you downloaded is best
On Jul 15, 2006, at 4:21 AM, Holger Levsen wrote:
Hi,
On Friday 14 July 2006 14:55, Rick Thomas wrote:
This bug (258545) can be closed as wont fix. It's not reasonable
(or possible -- I think) to do what I wanted and what your revised
bug title asks for.
We can detect hfs-partitions
On Jul 15, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-15 01:48]:
Yeah, ntpdate will do the job, and it's a good bit smaller than the
full ntp-simple package.
The alternative you were thinking of *may* be chrony.
Maybe, although it seems that ntpdate
NTP is something I know a bit about.
Yeah, ntpdate will do the job, and it's a good bit smaller than the
full ntp-simple package.
The alternative you were thinking of *may* be chrony.
Both implement enough of the network time protocol (NTP) to do what
you want.
However, keep in mind that
On Jul 13, 2006, at 1:46 AM, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
I downgraded the bug report on the kernel, but then I realized you
might not be using the kernel I thought. Did you install 2.6.15 or
2.6.16? 2.6.16 is the one that has the issues.
I'm using the 2.6.15 kernel.
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On Jul 13, 2006, at 1:46 AM, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
I downgraded the bug report on the kernel, but then I realized you
might not be using the kernel I thought. Did you install 2.6.15 or
2.6.16? 2.6.16 is the one that has the issues.
The installer installed a 2.6.15 kernel, as mentioned
On Jul 13, 2006, at 3:34 AM, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
Yes, I have filed bug report #375035. The kernel panics claiming that
it can't find the root device, but the evidence is that it doesn't
even *try* to use the initramfs before it does this. (no freeing
memory message, for instance).
As I
On Jul 13, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Daniel wrote:
Do you have any message numbers? Remember I've only started with
powerpc debian recently, so I'm not one of the 'everyone' that
'should
be aware of it'. Also, if you're saying that new powerpc users
should
be aware that
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On Jul 13, 2006, at 1:24 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 06:46:02PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 13 July 2006 18:20, Sven Luther wrote:
initrd-tools used to be knoweldgeable about the root device, while
initramfs-tools doesn't and you have
On Jul 13, 2006, at 6:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:07:51PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
Ok, so, do you have any roadmap for adding floppy support to
quick ? And will
quick allow to get cdrom support on oldworld machines ?
Code exists. Needs debugging though
On Jul 12, 2006, at 12:06 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jul 11, 2006, at 6:10 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 23:43, Rick Thomas wrote:
Interestingly enough, I just tried this with the corresponding
BusinessCard image and it worked just fine.
Could it be that the first time you
For what it's worth, I just succeeded in installing Etch using the
July 10th daily businesscard image on my Beige G3 (OldWorld
PowerMac) test machine. I started with the July 11th miBoot floppys
from Wouter. I skipped the quik installation step because I need to
use BootX as my eventual
On Jul 10, 2006, at 9:18 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
and ideas you had during the initial install.
Tasksel died refusing with it's last breath to install untrusted
packages.
Earlier
On Jul 11, 2006, at 6:10 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 23:43, Rick Thomas wrote:
Interestingly enough, I just tried this with the corresponding
BusinessCard image and it worked just fine.
Could it be that the first time you tried during a mirror sync?
That could
maybe
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On Jul 1, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Saturday 01 July 2006 17:53, Frans Pop wrote:
I've drawn some conclusions for myself based on this data, but am
curious what others think.
Here's one of the ideas I had to reduce the current memory
requirements of
the installer.
Instead of
On Jun 28, 2006, at 7:17 AM, Holger Levsen wrote:
Hi Rick,
partitioning works now, sarge has been released, can we close this
bug? :-)
regards,
Holger
Makes sense to me.
Thanks!
Rick
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I just attempted to install the debian powerpc daily businesscard iso
from June 24 on my OldWorld beige G3 test machine, and got the same
error.
There's been some discussion of a set of patches that prevented this
but got dropped from the 2.6.15 kernel. Is
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 14:24 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
I can confirm this problem (finish install doesn't finish the
install - just flashes the screen and returns to the main menu) when
installing on a PowerMac G4.
I saw it when installing directly from the June 12 jigdo DVD. I
I can confirm this problem (finish install doesn't finish the
install - just flashes the screen and returns to the main menu) when
installing on a PowerMac G4.
I saw it when installing directly from the June 12 jigdo DVD. I
haven't had a chance to try the June 19th jigdo DVD just yet.
On Jun 20, 2006, at 10:06 AM, Viti Davide wrote:
Note: I feel much anger in your writing...
Yes, your message did piss me off very much indeed.
Is it just me? It sure seems like there's a lot of this going around.
Chill out folks! We're all in this because we think it's *fun*. If
it
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I just wrote:
Ops! Typo!
The 2.6.8 in the (hand-typed) quotation above is actually 2.6.15-1
Since this is likely to invalidate all debugging efforts up to now,
I'm awaiting further instructions on what to do to provide additional
information.
I've added to the logfiles website the
Package: debian-installer
Severity: Important
This is a failed Installation report for etch daily 2006/06/05 on
oldworld PowerPC Mac (beige g3)
Installing from the Debian testing etch daily 2006/06/05 netinst
image on a beige G3 oldworld PowerPC Mac, using the BootX bootloader
from
On Jun 6, 2006, at 3:46 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Rick, can you send us a list of the dpkg -l of this system, and
check exactly
what did happen during the kernel installation. If you can provide
us all the
logs of the installation, or can do another one, it would be welcome.
Friendly,
Sven
On Jun 6, 2006, at 6:18 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jun 6, 2006, at 3:46 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Rick, can you send us a list of the dpkg -l of this system, and
check exactly
what did happen during the kernel installation. If you can provide
us all the
logs of the installation, or can do
On Jun 6, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
(removing all irrelevant CCs; please respect the reply-to)
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 12:18, Rick Thomas wrote:
OK, they are here:
http://www.rcthomas.org/~rbthomas/logfiles/
As there is absolutely no mention of 2.6.8 in this installation
On Jun 6, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 06:29:10PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
It's an oldworld Mac (beige G3) and I use MacOS-9/BootX as the
bootloader, so I skipped the install quik bootloader step during
the install (used continue without bootloader). That's
On Jun 6, 2006, at 3:46 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
reassign 370418 base-installer
thanks
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:46:02AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
reassign 370418 initramfs-tools
thanks
On Monday 05 June 2006 09:13, Rick Thomas wrote:
Begin: Mounting root file system ... ...
Begin: Running
Package: debian-installer
Installing from the Debian testing beta2 netinst image on a beige G3
oldworld PowerPC Mac, using the BootX bootloader from MacOS9...
Everything went just fine until it came time to reboot. (copied by
hand from the screen, so forgive any inaccuracies!):
Begin:
Good! It looks like whatever it was got fixed.
Thanks!
Rick
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On Jun 4, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Black Dew wrote:
David Härdeman wrote:
I've tried to downgrade busybox, but that didn't help, and now I'm
running out of ideas...is anyone else seeing this?
The error message from wget is:
~ # wget http://www.debian.org
wget: www.debian.org: Unknown server error
Package: debian-installer
Interestingly enough, though I first discovered this on the powerpc
it's not unique to the powerpc -- the same thing seems to be
happening for i386.
Looking at the DebianInstaller/FAQ - Debian Wiki question 29 takes us
to:
Package: debian-installer
Severity: Important
I've been trying to test install the etch daily netinst CD on an
oldworld Mac (beige G3) and I can't get off first base because I
can't get the video to co-operate.
I'm using the BootX bootloader under MacOS-9.2.2
Before I begin describing my
On Apr 19, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 10:56, Geert Stappers wrote:
I do feel simpathy for Ales Dolecek and all other users that
end up with black screen and non-functional keyboard.
So do I.
And so do I. Moreover, Frans' reply was just plain rude. He
On Apr 18, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
The Realtek device is a 10/100 UTP interface, which was connected to
a 10Mb hub, which failed to work also.
It was not till I connected to a 10/100Mb hub that the network
started to work for the Debian install, so I suspect it was not
supporting
Take a look in
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/spellcheck/level1/latest/nozip/vi_all.txt
There's a line with 24 of them in it that looks like this:
- Việt\t\t\t\tAnh\t\t\tGiá trị giao
diện\t\tinterface
Hope that helps!
Rick
On Apr 17, 2006, at 9:58 PM, Clytie Siddall
I'll check it out next chance I get. It will probably be a week or two
before I get time to try it. If that's too long, I'd guess you can
close this issue out. I've installed several PPC machines (admittedly
all more modern than the PowerMac 6500/225 in question) since then and
don't
I'll check it out next chance I get. It will probably be a week or two
before I get time to try it. If that's too long, I'd guess you can
close this issue out. I've installed several PPC machines (admittedly
all more modern than the PowerMac 6500/225 in question) since then and
don't
On Mar 22, 2006, at 10:48 AM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 16:16, Matheus Morais wrote:
The d-i firsts steps of installation proccess are working well but in
choose-mirror part d-i cant find the local cdrom repository to start
copy files for the target.
choose-mirror is not
How about this:
Install to the hard disk, then after the first reboot, run a script
that copies the root partition to the compact flash and does the
necessary magic to make it boot from the flash. You can either leave
the root partition on the hard disk as an emergency backup, or reformat
On Mar 22, 2006, at 3:08 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 20:48, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Mar 22, 2006, at 10:48 AM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 16:16, Matheus Morais wrote:
The d-i firsts steps of installation proccess are working well but
in choose-mirror part
I've often wished there were such a task/configuration. It's useful
for servers that normally operate without a keyboard or screen -- so I
can ssh in and run things like xterm and a browser there when I need
to.
Rick
On Mar 16, 2006, at 12:06 PM, Christian Perrier wrote:
Standard
On Saturday, December 11, 2004, at 01:22 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 12:50:21AM -0500, Rick_Thomas wrote:
Ralf,
Are you willing/able to install a small MacOS (8 or 9, not X)
partition
on these machines? If so, you can use the BootX bootloader. If you
don't know about it, it's
On Nov 13, 2004, at 8:44 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:54:46PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
I got a chance to do an install from your mini.iso on a test machine.
It's a G4 350 MHz (AGP graphics). I'm not clear as to whether this
will install your test yaboot or not, but here's
wrote:
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:44:59PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:54:46PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
Then, for some reason I don't understand, it tried to install the
quik bootloader. This is definitely a NewWorld machine, so it
should
have known better -- I would
On Nov 15, 2004, at 12:41 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 12:29:09PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
I was going to wait until I could try it with a normal image. I
assume that this means I would not have encountered this problem then.
So should I submit a bug report against monolithic
On Nov 10, 2004, at 6:01 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 03:46:58AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
The new yaboot seems to work at least on one of my machines. I'll
try some others later.
Specifically, I tried it on my BlueWhite G3. I booted holding
down the C key (ADB keyboard
On Aug 11, 2004, at 3:44 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:12:49PM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
Here are a few practical suggestions:
Has anyone looked at inside Macintosh or some of the other early Mac
technical docs? I wonder if this code is, maybe, described there?
The real
On Nov 10, 2004, at 5:25 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 01:35:04PM -0700, Wade Berrier wrote:
I did have one idea: if you can boot a coff image from an hfs
partition, couldn't you have an hfs /boot partition on the harddrive
and
boot directly from open firmware? If I understand
On Nov 9, 2004, at 3:45 AM, Wade Berrier wrote:
One last thing I'm going to try is to replace the cmos battery. When I
boot into the woody install, the time is set to 1956. I'll set it, and
even still, the next reboot is 1956. I friend at work tipped me on
this
one. Maybe this will make it so
On Saturday, October 30, 2004, at 06:07 AM, Sebastiaan Molenaar wrote:
On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 06:54, Rick Thomas wrote:
snip /snip
ROM compatible disk and CD drivers. b) They can put up with the
vagaries of Open firmware and quik for their particular hardware.
snip /snip
Personally, I think
On Friday, October 29, 2004, at 04:53 PM, Brad Boyer wrote:
To support starting from just a Debian CD on all oldworld boxes as well
as install a bootable system, we need to do the following:
1) Write disk drivers for SCSI and IDE (both HD and CD-ROM)
2) License the patches from Apple (or somehow
On Thursday, October 28, 2004, at 12:50 PM, Brad Boyer wrote:
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:50:31AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
I may be mistaken, but I believe that snip...
Well, it's not really that simple. I'll try to explain as I go
along in the message. snip...
Thanks Brad! the extra detail
On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, at 07:44 AM, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:33:45AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
As I've said before, if you can afford the disk space (big IDE
disks are cheap) the boot loader that I suggest as being most
robust and flexible is MacOS
On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, at 11:04 AM, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 01:44:06PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:33:45AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
As I've said before, if you can afford the disk space (big IDE
disks are cheap) the boot loader
On Monday, October 25, 2004, at 01:48 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
Notice that if we manage to free miboot, a miboot kernel on a special
partition may be one solution for 2.6.8 kernels with initrd.
The situation may be worse than we thought. Take a look at Apple
Tech Note 1189 which is available at
On Tuesday, October 26, 2004, at 03:18 AM, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
After finishing the installation and rebooting, nothing happaned. The
monitor warned Check the signal cable.
Since the boot floppy worked alright, I would like to use it to
boot the final system, instead of booting from hard disk. Is
Glad to hear there's another one of us (the few, the proud!)
interested in helping test D-I on PowerMac hardware. What kind of
machine do you have?
Here are my suggestions:
Leave some free space (I allow about 10 GB) to install your test
Debian into. Plan to re-initialize this free space
On Thursday, October 21, 2004, at 11:23 AM, Duane Cottle wrote:
Hey all,
Trying to see what's on the 2.6 root.img, I've been unsuccessful
mounting it as loop or the actual floppy.
What filesystem type is it? I figured it was ext2, but mount says it's
not.
I've tried cramfs, hfs, hfsplus, but it's
On Oct 19, 2004, at 9:40 AM, Duane Cottle wrote:
So far, I've found a few possible options if I want to pass kernel
args w/ boot floppies on this box:
1) Make my own miboot image - maybe a bit off track as I'm trying to
test _these_ floppies; however, if I got that to work, my success might
help
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From: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat Oct 16, 2004 05:12:16 AM US/Eastern
To: Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Duane Cottle [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-
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Subject: Re
On Oct 15, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Duane Cottle wrote:
Hi all,
Sorry if this is the wrong list for this...
I have been testing daily sarge floppy install images from
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/
for a few weeks on OldWorld Macs.
That is, until October 8. Since then,
On Tuesday, October 5, 2004, at 08:11 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 07:57:20PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
The IDE controller that isn't working for Rick is driven by the
aec62xx
driver, off the PCI bus. This driver *is* in the appropriate udebs and
*is* being loaded in the floppy
On Wednesday, October 6, 2004, at 07:43 PM, Joey Hess wrote:
I guess the installation manual is still not fact checked or up to date
for some architectures, like alpha, while it's in rasonably good shape
for others, like i386 and powerpc. Since we're close to the cutoff
point
to being able to
On Oct 5, 2004, at 2:57 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 03:29:10PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
Mmm, i had a quick look, and it seems that your IDE controller
doesn't appear
in lspci output, so it is either not there, or not a pci device. In
any case,
maybe you should contact
On Oct 5, 2004, at 3:09 PM, Matt Bonner wrote:
I assume at this point, I have to wipe the disk and reinstall,
but if anyone knows of a way to resize the partitions, that would
be great.
That's what I would do in your circumstances. In any case, resizing a
partition (even when possible because
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Joey and/or Sven,
Please take a look at Bug#274814: (PowerPC 2.4 boot floppy doesn't
see my IDE hard disk) and reassign it to the appropriate folks (I'm
not familiar enough with who does what to do this myself) so that
there's at least a chance that it can be fixed before the initrd is
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On Saturday, October 2, 2004, at 11:02 PM, peter green wrote:
once i realised what the problem was i managed to fix it by
following the
instructions in the error but im pretty sure the error was not
visible for
long (this was a while ago)
in summary base config needs a waqy to avoid
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On Saturday, October 2, 2004, at 08:24 AM, Fabian Linzberger wrote:
detailed diagnosis:
floppy/boot.img:
bootloader seems to work fine, soon as the penguin logo and the linux
bootmessages should come up, display is completely garbled.
floppy/ofonlyboot.img:
bootloader seems to work fine, penguin
On Thursday, September 30, 2004, at 12:11 AM, Duane Cottle wrote:
Hi Rick,
Sure does. I spent five hours reading your posts since March today.
I take that as the highest of compliments. (-8) Thank you, sir!
It's
already saved me a lot of trouble testing this stuff. Been working with
boot floppies
On Wednesday, September 29, 2004, at 01:30 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
Hi,
However... There is one important thing missing from the boot
disks. Specifically, the System file is zero length. This is
true of both boot and ofonlyboot for both 2.4 and 2.6. It won't
boot that way.
Arg, again. I have to
On Wednesday, September 29, 2004, at 02:56 AM, Duane Cottle wrote:
Partition notes:
As I was playing around in the partitioner, I decided to delete the
32.2K partion #1 on the scsi drive called Apple. After the partitions
were displayed once again on the screen, I noticed a 32.2K hole on the
IDE
at 04:40:16PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
I've submitted several bug reports on this topic. The developers
know about it, and may fix it sometime. It's not as easy to fix as
it sounds, because the mesh controller is not on the regular PCI
bus, so the normal hardware discovery
Holger Levsen wrote:
conclusions
---
i think i should file the following bug reports, i will do this tonite if
there are no objections:
snip
- document the use of bootx in the manual (with link to mac os 7.5
installation disks)
Remember that MacOS 7.5 doesn't work on all
On Tuesday, September 28, 2004, at 07:19 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
Hi,
Remember that MacOS 7.5 doesn't work on all models of OldWorld Mac.
Folks should check the matrix on this Apple web page:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=8970
Oh no! ;-) But maybe that's got information for the
On Saturday, September 25, 2004, at 04:49 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
After my changes,
there's *loads* of room left for things. We were just being
inefficient,
that's all.
Well,
I just took a look at the latest floppy images. It looks like
everything that's there fits with room to spare -- in some
On Monday, September 27, 2004, at 04:40 PM, Joey Hess wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
I've submitted several bug reports on this topic. The developers
know about it, and may fix it sometime. It's not as easy to fix as
it sounds, because the mesh controller is not on the regular PCI
bus, so the normal
Hi Duane,
Did you install a 2.6 or 2.4 kernel? The 2.6 kernel requires an
initial ramdisk. The 2.4 kernel (usually) does not.
The kernel installer leaves a kernel and a tailored initrd in the
/boot partition. You need to copy them into the appropriate places
inside the MacOS System folder
On Sunday, September 26, 2004, at 08:34 AM, Duane Cottle wrote:
I'm going to start another thread concerning the fact that my scsi
hard drive wasn't detected during the entire installation.
You probably have a mesh SCSI controller. Almost all OldWorld
Apple machines had them.
Early on in the
On Saturday, September 25, 2004, at 04:13 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 01:50:34AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
ROOT-2) The root-2 floppy is a bunch of udebs for all the
components that wouldn't fit on root. [This is a good design,
but it requires that root have everything needed
On Saturday, September 25, 2004, at 04:49 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
Bringing things back into sync with other architectures is worth it on
its own, and reducing the number of floppies required for an
installation was one of the original goals of d-i. After my changes,
there's *loads* of room left
On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 06:13 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
I wrote:
I understand the size constraints. But isn't that the reason why
we added the root-2 floppy? Would adding hfs and/or hfsplus kick
us over the edge into root-3 land?
We could indeed add it to root-2, but i would prefer to
On Friday, September 24, 2004, at 09:17 AM, Gregory Seidman wrote:
In fact, I can attest to using an ordinary Mac printer cable between my
Oldworld Mac running Linux and my dual G4 with a Keyspan adapter and
running MacOS X. I use minicom on the Mac and have set up quik,
not BootX,
to allow me to
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the
image
Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current
Name Last modified Size
Description
I forgot to add:
Note 5:
Several times during the installation, I got an error message
telling me that some modules were not loaded because they could not
be found:
ide-mod, ide-probe-mod, ide-detect, ide-generic
Note 6:
I installed the same netinst CD on my beige G3 tower, using
BootX
On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 11:02 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:05:58PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Package: installation-reports
In addition to the already noted problems with 2.4 PowerPC boot
floppies, I have two requests for modules to be included on the
root or root-2
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