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

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

2015-05-03 Thread Michael Felt
Maybe something else to add to the release notes - the new /etc/NetworkManager/* (I hate long names and caps - I know this is not UNIX, but one of the goals of UNIX was to keep things short, fewer key presses, and less output (the example given was IBM 'mainframe' that gave a page of text for a

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

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

2015-05-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
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 wheezy and jessie. On both systems I have enabled 'root login' for my initial tests. With wheezy I cannot login as root on the console, but can login using ssh.

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

2015-05-02 Thread Michael Felt
Just read the link re: PermitRoot --without-password My comment - typical developer string - because many people are looking for passwordless login for root, and from my UNIX background I would take --without-password very literally. I suspect what is intended is --no-password-auth-permitted,

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

2015-05-02 Thread Michael Felt
Maybe - last time I tried - I mistyped the login - because login from console is working for both - thanks for the reply. re: root login on sshd - guess I need to read more carefully. I know about the cipher changes starting with OpenSSH 6.7, but had not yet stumbled on anything extra blocking

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

2015-04-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 09:37:42PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: Hi, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 17:13:06 +0200, a écrit : +arch_porturl=ppc64el +arch_listname=ppc64el Please take care when updating these to be sure to understand

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

2015-04-13 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 09:37:42PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: Hi, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 17:13:06 +0200, a écrit : +arch_porturl=ppc64el +arch_listname=ppc64el

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

2015-04-13 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 17:13:06 +0200, a écrit : +arch_porturl=ppc64el +arch_listname=ppc64el Please take care when updating these to be sure to understand what they mean. http://www.debian.org/ports/ppc64el and

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

2015-04-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Wookey woo...@wookware.org (2015-04-13): OK. I've done this. I don't seem to have commit rights (should I?) Sendingen/hardware/supported/arm.xml Transmitting file data .svn: E13: Commit failed (details follow): svn: E13: Can't open file '/svn/d-i/db/txn-current-lock':

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

2015-04-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:26:51AM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: Well, bare metal has been mistakenly used to describe what I would call dedicated partition of single partition mode. People may call it bare metal, because there is no virtualized IO (in fact, there is the

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

2015-04-13 Thread Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 09:43:07PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 08:45:50PM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: When it comes to IBM latest servers, that are three options for platforms: OPAL (powernv in Linux), as PowerKVM guest, and PowerVM LPAR (both

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

2015-04-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Breno Leitao, le Mon 13 Apr 2015 10:04:29 -0300, a écrit : Sorry, I answered your email twice regarding this topic and never heard back. I answered it initially in 2014-11-29[1] and later in 2014-12-18[2]. In both cases I told about our patches to this repository. I'm not subscribed to the

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

2015-04-13 Thread Breno Leitao
Hi Samuel, On 04/10/2015 07:24 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Breno Leitao, le Fri 10 Apr 2015 17:44:01 -0300, a écrit : On 04/09/2015 01:13 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: Hello everybody, the release date for Jessie is near, but the installation-guide does not seem to contain any

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

2015-04-13 Thread Wookey
+++ Karsten Merker [2015-04-09 18:13 +0200]: Hello everybody, the release date for Jessie is near, but the installation-guide does not seem to contain any arm64/ppc64el-specific information yet. It would be nice if those who are familiar with those platforms could provide patches against

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

2015-04-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 06:13:50PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: Hello everybody, the release date for Jessie is near, but the installation-guide does not seem to contain any arm64/ppc64el-specific information yet. It would be nice if those who are familiar with those platforms could provide

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

2015-04-12 Thread Shawn Landden
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 08:45:50PM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: Sorry for jumping in. I would like the chance to complement and clarify some things about ppc64el platform. As Aurelien pointed

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

2015-04-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 08:45:50PM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: Sorry for jumping in. I would like the chance to complement and clarify some things about ppc64el platform. As Aurelien pointed out, when used in OPAL mode, the system will boot a system running petitboot, which

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

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Aurelien Jarno, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 22:08:44 +0200, a écrit : On 2015-04-12 20:22, Samuel Thibault wrote: Since petitboot runs inside a running linux kernel, that only shifts the problem of booting that linux kernel :) Petitboot is the default bootloader on this machine when configured to

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

2015-04-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 22:04 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 20:27:29 +0100, a écrit : On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 20:45 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 00:35:33 +0100, a écrit : On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 20:22 +0200, Holger Wansing

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

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 23:13:34 +0100, a écrit : I've fixed these values (I hope) for armhf, arm64, mips and mipsel based on the current kernel configurations. Thanks! Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

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

2015-04-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org (2015-04-12): Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 17:13:06 +0200, a écrit : All that contained in attached patch for review. The manual builds fine with it. Thanks, I have fixed a couple more things and commited it. Cyril, when should we upload an

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

2015-04-12 Thread Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 11:06:08PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Aurelien Jarno, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 22:08:44 +0200, a écrit : On 2015-04-12 20:22, Samuel Thibault wrote: Since petitboot runs inside a running linux kernel, that only shifts the problem of booting that linux kernel :)

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

2015-04-12 Thread Sandeep G.R
On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Sandeep G.R wrote: I have a sid PPC64 from http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports running on Freescale Powerpc. Is their PPC64(Big-Endian) for Jessie similarly? The PPC64 port didn't get

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

2015-04-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 07:16:50AM -0600, Sandeep G.R wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Sandeep G.R wrote: I have a sid PPC64 from http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports running on Freescale Powerpc. Is their

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

2015-04-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 20:45 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 00:35:33 +0100, a écrit : On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 20:22 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: supports-smp-sometimes - that generation of cpu will most likely fully support smp,

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

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 17:13:06 +0200, a écrit : +arch_porturl=ppc64el +arch_listname=ppc64el Please take care when updating these to be sure to understand what they mean. http://www.debian.org/ports/ppc64el and http://lists.debian.org/debian-ppc64el don't exist. Samuel -- To

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

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 21:20:37 +0200, a écrit : And: is there support for the graphical installer? As far as I can see, the images do not contain the graphical installer. See the documentation we have for powerpc: we generate only the mini GTK isos for it (on e.g.

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

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 00:35:33 +0100, a écrit : On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 20:22 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: supports-smp-sometimes - that generation of cpu will most likely fully support smp, right? [...] Yes. That's not the question here, see the bit of

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

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 20:36:22 +0200, a écrit : Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 20:22:49 +0200, a écrit : supports-floppy-boot - I think that arch has no floppy support Does ppc64el supports booting from a USB stick? More precisely, at the moment the only enabled documented

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

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 17:13:06 +0200, a écrit : All that contained in attached patch for review. The manual builds fine with it. Thanks, I have fixed a couple more things and commited it. Cyril, when should we upload an updated installation guide to be ready for RC3? Samuel --

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

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Mmm, the following looks like a useless addition: Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 17:13:06 +0200, a écrit : Index: en/boot-installer/powerpc.xml === --- en/boot-installer/powerpc.xml (Revision 69729) +++

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

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 20:22:49 +0200, a écrit : supports-floppy-boot - I think that arch has no floppy support Does ppc64el supports booting from a USB stick? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

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

2015-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 20:27:29 +0100, a écrit : On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 20:45 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 00:35:33 +0100, a écrit : On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 20:22 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: supports-smp-sometimes - that generation of cpu will

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

2015-04-12 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2015-04-12 20:22, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Mmm, the following looks like a useless addition: Holger Wansing, le Sat 11 Apr 2015 17:13:06 +0200, a écrit : Index: en/boot-installer/powerpc.xml === ---

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

2015-04-11 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Holger Wansing li...@wansing-online.de wrote: All that contained in attached patch for review. I forgot to mention the arch specific variables in build/arch-options/ppc64el. There are currently set: # Options below are assembled into one variable 'condition' # in the build

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

2015-04-11 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Holger Wansing li...@wansing-online.de wrote: Hi, Holger Wansing li...@wansing-online.de wrote: All that contained in attached patch for review. I forgot to mention the arch specific variables in build/arch-options/ppc64el. And: is there support for the graphical installer? As far

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

2015-04-11 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: Breno Leitao, le Fri 10 Apr 2015 17:44:01 -0300, a écrit : It is still on my github repository. Can you import it? Uh. I requested this very kind of information in september and november, why wasn't this work (done in december) ever

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

2015-04-11 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Holger Wansing li...@wansing-online.de wrote: Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: Breno Leitao, le Fri 10 Apr 2015 17:44:01 -0300, a écrit : It is still on my github repository. Can you import it? Uh. I requested this very kind of information in september and

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

2015-04-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 17:13 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: Hi, Holger Wansing li...@wansing-online.de wrote: Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: Breno Leitao, le Fri 10 Apr 2015 17:44:01 -0300, a écrit : It is still on my github repository. Can you import it? Uh. I

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

2015-04-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Sandeep G.R wrote: I have a sid PPC64 from http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports running on Freescale Powerpc. Is their PPC64(Big-Endian) for Jessie similarly? The PPC64 port didn't get added to jessie, if you want jessie you'll need to switch to ppc64el. If

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

2015-04-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 20:22 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: Hi, Holger Wansing li...@wansing-online.de wrote: All that contained in attached patch for review. I forgot to mention the arch specific variables in build/arch-options/ppc64el. There are currently set: # Options below

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

2015-04-10 Thread Breno Leitao
hi Karsten, On 04/09/2015 01:13 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: Hello everybody, the release date for Jessie is near, but the installation-guide does not seem to contain any arm64/ppc64el-specific information yet. We have created this installation guide, but unfortunatelly it was not integrated

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

2015-04-10 Thread Sandeep G.R
Hi Karsten, I have a sid PPC64 from http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports running on Freescale Powerpc. Is their PPC64(Big-Endian) for Jessie similarly? On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Breno Leitao bren...@br.ibm.com wrote: hi Karsten, On 04/09/2015 01:13 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: Hello

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

2015-04-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Breno Leitao, le Fri 10 Apr 2015 17:44:01 -0300, a écrit : On 04/09/2015 01:13 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: Hello everybody, the release date for Jessie is near, but the installation-guide does not seem to contain any arm64/ppc64el-specific information yet. We have created this

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

2015-04-10 Thread Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:24:58AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Breno Leitao, le Fri 10 Apr 2015 17:44:01 -0300, a écrit : On 04/09/2015 01:13 PM, Karsten Merker wrote: Hello everybody, the release date for Jessie is near, but the installation-guide does not seem to contain any