Re: testing with powermac/oldworld (probs in miboot, debootstrap, kernel)

2001-06-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:03:17AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:29:41PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:20:41PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > > > powerpc-utils should still be fixed, that diversion needs to go away. > > > > > > Fil

Re: testing with powermac/oldworld (probs in miboot, debootstrap, kernel)

2001-06-08 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:29:41PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:20:41PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > > powerpc-utils should still be fixed, that diversion needs to go away. > > > > File a bug, I guess (oops, master's down). That doesn't prevent other > > packa

Re: testing with powermac/oldworld (probs in miboot, debootstrap, kernel)

2001-06-08 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:31:48PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Yes. I dont' think dbootstrap utils.c can run a command and capture > the output. I like Stephen's idea here. Please add more logger stuff > (do we have logger on root.bin?) to show the commands being run as > well. As you can

Re: testing with powermac/oldworld (probs in miboot, debootstrap, kernel)

2001-06-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:20:41PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > powerpc-utils should still be fixed, that diversion needs to go away. > > File a bug, I guess (oops, master's down). That doesn't prevent other > packages from having conffiles that want replacement does it? i did right b

Re: testing with powermac/oldworld (probs in miboot, debootstrap, kernel)

2001-06-07 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:49:33PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:00:33PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > I think I remember yellowdoglinux working on a graphical interface to > > miboot, I wonder if anything came of it? > > graphical interface != useful > > it alrea

Re: testing with powermac/oldworld (probs in miboot, debootstrap, kernel)

2001-06-07 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Stephen R Marenka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > run ofpath, read its stdout into a variable, send its stderr to > > syslog, check its return code, if its != 0 bail. then strip off the > > trailing newline from the ofdev variable and strcat a 0 onto it. then > > later we call nvsetenv boot-dev

Re: testing with powermac/oldworld (probs in miboot, debootstrap, kernel)

2001-06-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:00:33PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > I think I remember yellowdoglinux working on a graphical interface to > miboot, I wonder if anything came of it? graphical interface != useful it already has a graphical interface, its just a useless one that doesn't let you do

Re: testing with powermac/oldworld (probs in miboot, debootstrap, kernel)

2001-06-07 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:05:03PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:57:12AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > - had to edit the 'system' file on the miboot floppy with ResEdit > >to add video=3Datyfb:vmode:11 for my hardware > > > >Is there any workarund for this?

Re: testing with powermac/oldworld (probs in miboot, debootstrap, kernel)

2001-06-07 Thread Richard Hirst
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:18:40PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: > Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:57:12AM -0400 wrote: > > > > - during install base unable to install the 'sid' distribution, due > >to this error: > > > > dbootstrap: No such script: /usr/lib/dbootstrap/scripts/sid > > I'll fix.

Re: testing with powermac/oldworld (probs in miboot, debootstrap, kernel)

2001-06-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:57:12AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > - had to edit the 'system' file on the miboot floppy with ResEdit >to add video=atyfb:vmode:11 for my hardware > >Is there any workarund for this? Any way at all to set ker >args differently to cope with video hardw

Re: testing with powermac/oldworld (probs in miboot, debootstrap, kernel)

2001-06-06 Thread David Whedon
Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:57:12AM -0400 wrote: > > - during install base unable to install the 'sid' distribution, due >to this error: > > dbootstrap: No such script: /usr/lib/dbootstrap/scripts/sid I'll fix. David > > I'm going to check in a bit more to all this. > > -- > .Adam

testing with powermac/oldworld (probs in miboot, debootstrap, kernel)

2001-06-06 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Scenario: booting with 2.3.5 (built from cvs about 48 hrs ago) vintage 99 or 98 PowerBook g3 booting from miboot floppy additional floppy for root the rest done via HTTP Problems: - had to edit the 'system' file on the miboot floppy with ResEdit to add video=atyfb:vmode:11 for my