On Jan 1, 2010, at 8:44 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
On 2010-01-01 at 13:51:59 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
Here's a datapoint...
Today I did the same for the PowerPC version of the netboot/mini.iso
(13 MB) and used it to install squeeze on my testing PowerMac G4.
Worked a treat.
And w
Interestingly enough, this problem does not seem to be present in the
i386 daily installer CDs.
Just another datapoint...
Rick
On Dec 28, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
This bug (562575) is still present in today's netinst CD.
The businesscard installer boots and prints the u
This is the same as bug #562575
Rick
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rPC simply so unimportant that resources cannot be spared to
even *look* at a problem that renders the installer unusable on that
hardware?
Rick
On Dec 28, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
This bug (562575) is still present in today's netinst CD.
The businesscard installer boots
On Jan 15, 2010, at 5:00 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 16:23 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
This bug is still present in the "Thu Jan 14 16:08:46 UTC 2010"
businesscard CD downloaded from
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/i
On Jan 17, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Julian Hernandez Gomez wrote:
The only powerpc computer that I have (PS3) is the one that I'm
trying to install :(
maybe Rick had other machines previously installed and he could run
the cdebconf powerpc version.
--
Julian.
I do have such machines, and I'd
On Jan 18, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 13:17 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jan 17, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Julian Hernandez Gomez wrote:
The only powerpc computer that I have (PS3) is the one that I'm
trying to install :(
I think someone reported that there
On Jan 19, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
I'd recommend grabbing cdebconf from the d-i svn repo and building a
few
test versions at various points between 0.145 and 0.146. Just
running
cdebconf-get from the built source tree may prove informative.
Ian.
Once again, I have the hardwa
On Jan 20, 2010, at 2:54 PM, S. Fishpaste wrote:
Help him out and move on for Gawd's sake!
Seriously, folks. Debian on PowerPC is in danger of not making it
into Squeeze unless somebody who knows more than I do about the
installer can help me (and a few others like me) figure out why it
st anything you want tested. But I can't diagnose it all by
myself. I'll need help.
Rick
Rick Thomas wrote:
This bug (562575) is still present in today's netinst CD.
The businesscard installer boots and prints the ususal flock of kernel
startup messages.
then it
an test anything you want tested. But I can't diagnose it all by
myself. I'll need help.
Rick
Rick Thomas wrote:
> This bug (562575) is still present in today's netinst CD.
>
>> The businesscard installer boots and prints the ususal flock of
kernel startup messages.
&g
Otavio Salvador wrote:
Hello,
The images using last uploaded debian-installer are available for
testing[1]; If all looks fine I'd like to call it "a release".
1. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_test1/
I'd like to ask people to run tests using those so we can decide about
releasing
On Jan 31, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Norberto Feliberty
wrote:
That's great to hear Hopefully this will get things rolling again
since I
see that the latest daily squeeze build has stopped on Jan 11.
This is also fixed now.
Wonderf
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jan 31, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Norberto Feliberty
wrote:
That's great to hear Hopefully this will get things rolling again since I
see that the latest daily squeeze
At Norberto's suggestion I did a side-by side comparison of the PowerPC
daily buisnesscard installer from the Sid d-i and the Squeeze d-i at
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/{squeeze,sid}_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
This build finished at Mon Feb 15 04:15:05 UTC 2010. (for S
On Feb 15, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Norberto Feliberty wrote:
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Subject: Bug present in Sid D-i
On Feb 15, 2010, at 10:05 PM, Norberto Feliberty wrote:
It used to have the drivers for the ps3 network card and it would
install but now it just fails at configuring network. I dont know
how to provide extra info from the logs or how to access them. Thanks.
I've never seen a PS3 so I don'
Hey folks,
Norberto is having trouble getting Debian to install on his PS3. It's
a bit out of my usual line, so any advice from somebody who has done
it will be much appreciated!
Thanks!
Rick
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On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:14 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
Hello,
The images with the blocking bugs has been built and are waiting for
last tests before announce.
Please look at: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/
If all goes fine I want to announce it on friday. So please, give i
On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
Hello,
Please test the images at
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/powerpc
Those are suppose to be OK; I want the confirmation to announce it.
I just completed a successful install using the DVD-1 from
http://cd
On Feb 18, 2010, at 12:00 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 18 February 2010, Ian Campbell wrote:
Please can somebody confirm which multi-arch netinst images I
should be
testing to ensure I am testing this alpha1 release?
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/squeeze_d-i/current/mu
On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:14 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
Hello,
The images with the blocking bugs has been built and are waiting for
last tests before announce.
Please look at: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/
If all goes fine I want to announce it on friday. So please, give i
Package: installation-reports
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: businesscard Sid_D-I CD
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
This build finished at Fri Mar 5 04:06:02 UTC
This problem does not occur on i386. It's specific to the PowerPC
installer.
(i386 sid d-i has other problems, but not any that are relevant to
this bug report)
Rick
On Mar 5, 2010, at 2:15 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
It booted, chose language and locale OK, found the CD,
loaded inst
I just tried the PowerPC squeeze businesscard install disk, with the
same results.
The CD was downloaded from the URL:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/testing/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
The boilerplate on that directory says:
Daily build #3 for powerpc, using instal
syslog.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data
On Mar 24, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Rick Thomas
wrote:
When I switch to the -F2 console and try to do a "wget", I get a
segmentation fault.
Please take a look on the syslog of the installer and if possible
attach it to this
On Mar 25, 2009, at 7:37 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Christian Perrier
wrote:
Quoting Otavio Salvador (ota...@ossystems.com.br):
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Rick Thomas
wrote:
When I switch to the -F2 console and try to do a "wget",
the squeeze d-i initrd.
What does that tell us about which package the bug belongs to?
Thanks!
Rick
On Mar 26, 2009, at 2:34 AM, Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting Rick Thomas (rbthoma...@pobox.com):
2) Since this bug renders the install CDs (certainly
"buisnesscard", and
for most
This is the same bug as #520711
Rick
On Mar 19, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Stanley Pinchak wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:53:4
This seems to be the same bug as #520442
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After installing from the default CD (e.g. "businesscard") I'd like to
make other session managers than Gnome available. (e.g. xfce or kde).
What's the best way to do that so as to get all packages installed the
same way they would have been had I used the associated install CD?
Is this i
Since the iso's in
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
still date from January, I assume that the new hardware for building
powerpc packages hasn't been installed yet.
If there an expected time of arrival for this?
Thanks!
Rick
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On Apr 20, 2009, at 7:50 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
As I type this, the first of the dailies built on country (my old
laptop) is being uploaded to people.debian.org
Cool! Thanks for the good work.
Can I assume that the following will soon be repaired if I'm patient?
namely, that the iso's
On Apr 21, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Tuesday 21 April 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
On Tuesday 21 April 2009, Wartan Hachaturow wrote:
While digging through d-i, I've noticed some signs of ppc64 port
(which was, as far as I remember, a heroic attempt to make a 64-bit
userland Debian por
This bug prevents an "expert" mode install from properly installing
Sid unless you chose a non-default kernel.
Instead of depending on linux-image-2.6.26-2-powerpc, in Sid, it
should depend on linux-image-2.6.29-1-powerpc, because 2.6.26-2
doesn't exist in Sid.
The 2.6.26 version may (I
On May 24, 2009, at 2:39 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
says that "This build finished at Mon May 18 22:27:07 UTC 2009."
That's almost a week ago. I'd like to test a new sid installation
on one
I just downloaded and burned Businesscard and Netinst CDs from
Daily build #1 for powerpc, using installer build from wheezy
These images will install the testing version of Debian, currently
Wheezy.
See the top-level daily directory for more information about the
daily builds.
This bu
We still have this problem. Three weeks later.
On 07/04/11 01:37, Rick Thomas wrote:
I just downloaded and burned Businesscard and Netinst CDs from
Daily build #1 for powerpc, using installer build from wheezy
These images will install the testing version of Debian, currently
Wheezy
e's a
different image I should try, please let me know.
Rick
PS: The corresponding sid d-i install CD is even worse. It has
problems with choosing a language and can't get far enough to check
for kernel modules.
On Jul 27, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Wed,
Hi Otavio,
On Jul 28, 2011, at 7:40 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 13:35, Rick Thomas wrote:
...
PS: The corresponding sid d-i install CD is even worse. It has
problems
with choosing a language and can't get far enough to check for kernel
modules.
Please ge
OK,
I downloaded
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-businesscard.iso
> Daily build #5 for powerpc, using installer build from sid
> These images will install the testing version of Debian, currently
> Wheezy.
> ...
>
Hi David, Hi Colin,
On Jul 29, 2011, at 12:35 PM, David Ricar wrote:
On 07/29/2011 08:18 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
After booting the CD, there were a lot of messages that scrolled by
too
fast to get details, but all of them seemed to have something to do
with
missing some UTF8
OK.
I'll try again on Monday or Tuesday (busy weekend coming up).
Rick
On Jul 29, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 20:59, Rick Thomas wrote:
Colin, do you have any idea when your fix will be available for
testing?
Can you let me know when it happens?
On Jul 28, 2011, at 7:35 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Hi Otavio,
On Jul 27, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 08:41, Rick Thomas
wrote: We still have this problem. Three weeks later.
Did you check current image? We got many issues fixed and would be
nice to
hen it can't find any
bootable media. It's much cruder and lot more pixelated.
Tomorrow I'll try again. I'll see if I can get some log files by
booting the CD in rescue mode.
Rick
On Jul 29, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
OK.
I'll try again on Monday or
Package: installation-reports
Boot method:
CD "expert" mode. Installed "unstable"
Image version:
| Daily build #7 for powerpc, using installer build from sid
| These images will install the testing version of Debian, currently Wheezy.
| See the top-level daily directory for more infor
On Aug 1, 2011, at 4:15 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
In contrast to Jeroen's report that "Wheezy installation went fine
on G3 Mac"...
I just tried the sid_d-i "testing" daily businesscard. (details of
exactly which iso are available on request)
Install went with
Yeah, Sorry! See Bug#636269.
Rick
On Aug 2, 2011, at 1:26 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
You did not add the log file.
On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 16:38 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Boot method:
CD "expert" mode. Installed "unstable"
Ima
Does this patch (from the yaboot-devel mailinglist) help with this bug?
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636269
Is there some way I can help test it?
"[PATCH 1/2] Support sysfs in ofpath"
http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/yaboot-devel/2011-August/000382.html
a
On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
Package: user-setup
Version: 1.40
Tags: patch
currently it is asked the fullname of the first user being created
during the
standard installation.
Lowering the priority, the question will be skipped and the standard
installation will be
Sure did...
See bug #636269.
Enjoy!
Rick
On Aug 13, 2011, at 7:52 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:15, Rick Thomas wrote:
Install went without a hitch until it came time to reboot into the
newly
installed system.
Did you try to install a more recent image? If don&#
Forwarding this to the debian-powerpc list.
Rick
On Mar 23, 2012, at 5:16 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:36:54AM -0400, Chad Linthicum wrote:
Hello, I followed the Appendix A HowTo for installing Debian on
powerpc machines. I got all the way to the part where it sa
Hi Matt,
I'll be happy to test it. I'd *love* to be able to do installs on an
IPv6-only network.
Where do I start? What do I have to do?
Rick
On Feb 23, 2011, at 11:37 PM, Matthew Palmer wrote:
I've just merged near-complete IPv6 support into netcfg master.
I've tested
it as hard as
On Mar 7, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 19:17 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com):
Package: installation-reports
Version: 2.44
Severity: grave
Tags: d-i
Justification: renders package unusable
That should be fixed once
Package: installation-reports
Version: 2.44
Severity: grave
Tags: d-i
Justification: renders package unusable
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version:
Businesscard iso from
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/current/powerpc/iso-cd/
Daily build #7 for powerp
Joey Hess wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
Well, in the mean-time, there's no way to test new d-i businesscard
or netinst CDs beyond the disk partition step. Or, to put it more
bluntly: Testing grinds to a halt until this is fixed.
Use http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/si
Anybody notice that the current PowerPC sid_d-i businesscard installed
CD refuses to finish the booting process on a PowerMac?
See bug report #617469 for details.
I verified the md5 checksum. That's OK.
I verified the CD against the ISO when I burned it. That's OK.
I've tried this CD (and
Joey Hess said:
Rick Thomas wrote:
Well, in the mean-time, there's no way to test new d-i businesscard
or netinst CDs beyond the disk partition step. Or, to put it more
bluntly: Testing grinds to a halt until this is fixed.
Use http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/cu
On Mar 23, 2011, at 2:15 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
I'm just not fond of "Australia/Sydney" presented as a choice, I'd
rather have "New South-Wales".
For what it's worth, the timezone database (as evidenced by, among
other things, the output of the "tzselect" command) is organized
most
On Mar 23, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Joey Hess wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
For what it's worth, the timezone database (as evidenced by, among
other things, the output of the "tzselect" command) is organized
mostly in terms of country/city rather than country/larger-
geographical-area.
On May 21, 2011, at 11:09 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
Since like many others you find UUIDs a huge jumbled pile of human
meaninglessness, then by all means create labels for all your fixed
devices, and modify your /etc/fstab accordingly. Many of us have
done so.
Wouldn't it be nice if the De
Hi Matt,
I just stumbled on your posting when I was searching for some other
IPv6 stuff in pursuit or IPv6 day actvivities.
See my comments after quote...
On Jan 30, 2011, at 6:54 PM, Matthew Palmer wrote:
I've put pre-built images for amd64 and i386 at
http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/ip
This bug is still present in the current (3/22) PowerPC sid d-i daily
businesscard install CD.
What needs to be done to get it fixed?
On Mar 5, 2010, at 2:15 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
It booted, chose language and locale OK, found the CD,
loaded installer parts from the CD...
Then when it
On Mar 24, 2010, at 10:13 AM, Benjamin Cama wrote:
OK. So, if it has not already been told (I didn't see much details
about
that in this BR) what steps should be taken for powerpc volunteers ?
Take care of the buildd ? Who is in charge of it at the moment ?
So how do we get this fixed? If
On Mar 24, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
For the "centralized" D-I
buildds (which includes powerpc) Luk Claes and Otavio Salvador are the
persons who set up the buildds and who are AFAIK the only people who
currently have the access required to maintain the buildds.
I've emailed Luk and
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i squeeze sid
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version: businesscard
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
Daily build #7 for powerpc, using installe
I recently installed an AMD64 box from a sid_d-i
businesscard CD in "expert" mode.
It asked me some questions that I didn't remember
seeing on my PowerPC installations.
In particular, it asked me to chose a distribution
(Lenny, Squeeze, Sid) and whether I wanted to use
non-free repositories.
I
On Jun 20, 2010, at 6:06 AM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Sunday 20 June 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* Otavio Salvador [2010-06-19 12:35]:
The following patch, which clears the cache after debootstrap and
then again at the end (after kernel/extra packages), works for me.
OK to apply?
Conceptuall
On Jun 30, 2010, at 5:39 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 19:00 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote:
Le lundi 28 juin 2010 à 12:13 +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit :
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 01:21 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote:
I wanted to help for a problem with the buildd but Frans Pop told
I'm willing to give it a try on some of my test machines.
How do I go about installing/testing Grub2 ?
Thanks!
Rick
On Jul 13, 2010, at 8:54 PM, Rogério Brito wrote:
Also, it would be very nice if we had reports from people that tried
to use
GRUB2 on powerpc.
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Begin forwarded message:
From: nello martuscielli
Date: July 20, 2010 9:34:08 PM EDT
To: Rick Thomas
Cc: PowerPC List Debian
Subject: Re: please take a look at Debian Bug#589701: installation-
reports: Install yaboot on a hard disk - Failed to install boot
loader
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010
Comments interleaved below...
On Jul 21, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Rogério Brito wrote:
Hi there, people.
On Jul 21 2010, Rick Thomas wrote:
Unfortunately, there are lots of places that still expect absolute
device names. Ybin is one of them.
I've got a patch that fixes this (at least it fix
On Jul 28, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
Excerpts from Rick Thomas's message of Mon Jul 26 00:47:21 -0400 2010:
On Jul 21, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Rogério Brito wrote:
On Jul 21 2010, Rick Thomas wrote:
The second half is that whatever part of the installer that builds
the
in
On Jul 29, 2010, at 12:53 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
It would be nice if you could submit a bug report about this. And even
nicer if you could debug it or at least find out which package fucks
up with yaboot.conf. This really should not happen.
I did some work on this tonight. I'll be submi
ul 29, 2010, at 4:47 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jul 29, 2010, at 12:53 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
It would be nice if you could submit a bug report about this. And
even
nicer if you could debug it or at least find out which package fucks
up with yaboot.conf. This really should not happen.
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
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 installa
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 in
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
i
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'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 remembe
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 remem
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 Siddal
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
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 m
On Oct 25, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Patrick Fitzmorris wrote:
(does anyone test the functionality of the ppc
netboot images anymore?)
Well, I try... I have a number of old PowerPC Macs that I keep just
for the purpose. I haven't tried network booting yet. Can you give
me some pointers on how
On Oct 25, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Patrick Fitzmorris wrote:
> [very clear instructions for booting the Debian installer (or, I guess almost
> anything else) via bootp/tftpd.]
Thanks, Patrick! That looks like a really interesting test. I'll give it a
try soon!
Rick
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On Oct 14, 2012, at 11:55 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Sep 24, 2012, at 6:26 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
Please file a separate debian-installer bug report for problems
related
to finding other OS's on LVM partitions.
Milan
OK, here it is: Bug#690515
I hope it's an easy fix. It
Hi Charles,
On Nov 11, 2012, at 4:56 AM, Charles Blair wrote:
Thanks again. I wish these issues had been
addressed either by the installer itself or by the
installation instructions. Tnere must be
many other unsophisticated users that
have encountered this problem.
You're welcome, of cour
Hi Stefano!
On Nov 10, 2012, at 4:50 AM, Stefano Canepa wrote:
Is some one else trying d-i on powerpc?
I'm glad to meet another PowerPC tester!
I've got a couple of old G4 PowerMac towers I keep around for testing
installs and interesting-looking apps.
Exactly which powerpc iso did you t
On Nov 12, 2012, at 9:49 PM, Charles Blair wrote:
Thanks again for your help. After many mis-steps,
most but not all my fault, I seem to have a working
system.
If you succeed in your experiments, one thing you can do to help the
next person is: write-up your experiences. If you follow the
I have a temporary need to install Lenny on a PowerMac G4 so I can run
some tests on a "fresh" installation for a user who is unable (for
various reasons) to upgrade to Squeeze at this time.
When I run the netinst installer CD all seems well until it wants to
setup sources.list. Then it
On Nov 29, 2012, at 4:00 AM, Herbert Kaminski wrote:
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 16:38:31 -0700
Rick Thomas wrote:
Rick,
I think this is the same as bug#684265, which I submitted a while
back for a PowerPC install using Beta1.
[...]
PS: Is anybody working on this bug? It would be a shame if
Hi Shawn!
Can you share the magic with those of us who have a similar problem of
how to get to the "enter manually" option?
Thanks!
Rick
On Dec 29, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Shawn Willden wrote:
NM. I found the "enter information manually" option. Sorry for
bugging.
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at
Shawn wrote:
Selection of the mirror to use is a two-step process, first you pick
your country, then you pick a mirror. On the country-selection screen
the top entry in the list allows manual entry of the mirror URL.
It would probably be nice to include it in both places, or maybe make
i
On Feb 11, 2013, at 6:51 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Hi folks,
I've uploaded d-i 20130211, and the relevant bits (like mini.iso and
other things) should soon be available on the mirrors, under
dists/sid/main/installer-$arch; for example:
http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installe
On Feb 11, 2013, at 7:38 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Rick Thomas (11/02/2013):
>> Most (all?) architectures other than powerpc seem to have the
>> 20130211 stuff. But the most recent stuff for powerpc is from
>> November 2012. Anybody know why?
>
> http://pack
With the amd64 netinst CD I have found a spot in the maze of helpful
"expert" options offered when the CD first boots that lets me choose
which Desktop Environment will be installed later on by tasksel. This
is really nice because it means I don't have to have a separate (and
much larger
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