Re: [RFC] screen/tmux support for network-console

On Feb 25, 2016, at 5:12 AM, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2016-02-19 17:00, Roger Shimizu wrote: >> I have a new idea on d-i/network-console: multi-console support >> (screen/tmux). > > To be honest: This would be incredibly exciting for serial console as well. > > Kind regards > Philipp Kern In

Re: Access to repos blocked

On Mar 6, 2016, at 11:12 PM, MH wrote: > Debian Jessie > > Recently ran into a problem with aptitude. I get the following message: > > E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found > > Since I am not using ANY HTTPS repos, I should not be getting the above > error. > St

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On Apr 24, 2016, at 9:00 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > - ask users of all ARCHs related to check whether the GNU/screen is > working well under d-i environment. Maybe need to add a wiki to track > things efficiently. > > What do you think of my plan? > Any suggestion is appreciated. Thank you! I’

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On Apr 29, 2016, at 7:38 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > Dear Rick, > > Thanks for your interest in GNU/screen support for D-I activity! > > > I called for review because I want to confirm that those changes are > necessary. > > For example, I know for it's necessary to have GNU/screen support f

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On Mon, May 2, 2016, at 10:01 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > When I’m installing Debian on one of the serial-console-only boxes, such as > > the SheevaPlug or OpenRD, I usually use the “network console” option that > >

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On May 8, 2016, at 10:50 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 4:13 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Mon, May 2, 2016, at 10:01 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: >>> On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >>>> When I’m installing Debian on one of

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On May 9, 2016, at 8:30 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Thanks, Roger! >> >> I’ll give it a try on one of my sheevaplug boxes. >> >> As I understand it, I will follow the instructions on Martin’s page at &g

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On May 21, 2016, at 3:05 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: >> First observation is that the way I normally do installations on this >> machine (I keep it around for exactly this kind of testing, so I do a fair >> number of installations on it) is to run screen as a terminal emulator on a >> desktop ma

Re: [RFC] Call for review of GNU/screen support for D-I (was Re: Merge orion5x/kirkwood to flavour marvell and marvell-qnap)

On May 21, 2016, at 3:05 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: >> I didn’t try disconnecting, letting it run for a while un-attended, then >> reconnecting because I didn’t have a clear idea of how to do that. >> Specifically, what happens if I type ctl-A ctl-D? Do I get disconnected >> from just the one

Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

On Aug 7, 2016, at 11:08 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > > I think the solution below is a middle ground, which I guess it can be > accepted by everyone. > - Keep screen-udeb in "common" for everyone, but don't start it > automatically on i386/amd64. > - Create a new "MEDIUM_SUPPORTED" or new folder

Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

On Aug 14, 2016, at 7:37 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Also, I'm not sure whether we have any input methods which might be > confused by ^A being “eaten” by screen. Does anyone know? Yes… That’s a problem if you’re used to using “screen” as a terminal emulator to access the serial port on the t

Re: Screen support (was: Next d-i alpha release: late June)

On Aug 15, 2016, at 3:03 AM, Philip Hands wrote: > Rick Thomas writes: > >> On Aug 14, 2016, at 7:37 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> >>> Also, I'm not sure whether we have any input methods which might be >>> confused by ^A being “eaten” by scree

Bug#834974: Installation Report: Stretch Alpha 7 on Cubox-i4pro

I can confirm this problem. I just got thru running a “stretch” install on my test Cuboxi4Pro with ingredients from: > wget > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/partition.img.gz > wget > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists

Bug#834974: Installation Report: Stretch Alpha 7 on Cubox-i4pro

For what it’s worth, I just tried booting with an HDMI monitor connected to see if the silence on the serial-port was just a matter of console messages being directed to the HDMI video port instead. Still no go. Silence all-round. Rick > On Aug 22, 2016, at 9:15 PM, Rick Thomas wr

Bug#834974: Installation Report: Stretch Alpha 7 on Cubox-i4pro

On Sep 2, 2016, at 5:12 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > I'd be curious if you re-install and delete each partition individually > and re-create manually vs. using one of the auto-partitioning methods. I’ll give this a try over the weekend and report back what I find. Is it possible that the aut

Bug#834974: Installation Report: Stretch Alpha 7 on Cubox-i4pro

On Sep 2, 2016, at 4:40 PM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Can somebody confirm whether the Jessie > installer actually works reliably on this machine? (that is, whether > it's always been broken or we have a regression) I’ll give that a try as well over the weekend. Let you know what I find. Rick

Bug#834974: Installation Report: Stretch Alpha 7 on Cubox-i4pro

On Sep 2, 2016, at 6:30 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Sep 2, 2016, at 5:12 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > >> I'd be curious if you re-install and delete each partition individually >> and re-create manually vs. using one of the auto-partitioning methods. > &g

Bug#834974: Installation Report: Stretch Alpha 7 on Cubox-i4pro

> On Sep 2, 2016, at 6:33 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > On Sep 2, 2016, at 4:40 PM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > >> Can somebody confirm whether the Jessie >> installer actually works reliably on this machine? (that is, whether >> it's always been broken or we ha

Bug#834974: Installation Report: Stretch Alpha 7 on Cubox-i4pro

On Sep 4, 2016, at 3:12 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Sep 2, 2016, at 5:12 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> >>> I'd be curious if you re-install and delete each partition individually >>> and re-create manually vs. using one of the auto-partitioning methods. &

How to tell the "configure apt" part of installer about DVDs that exist only as ".iso" files on a USB stick?

Here's the situation... I want to try installing without internet access. I have excellent internet access at home, but there are enough folks on the users list who don't enjoy that privilege. I'd like to be able to help them with useful answers. Hence my questions... I've jigdo'ed a full

Re: How to tell the "configure apt" part of installer about DVDs that exist only as ".iso" files on a USB stick?

> Rick Thomas wrote: >> Here's the situation... >> >> I want to try installing without internet access. I have excellent >> internet access at home, but there are enough folks on the users list >> who don't enjoy that privilege. I'd like to be

How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

Can somebody point me at some docs or packages I could use to create a customized CD/DVD/BD image for installing Debian PowerPC? I'd like to create a 32GB (or larger?) USB memory stick that can be used to do a complete installation of PowerPC Debian (Wheezy right now, but into the future.

Re: How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

On Jul 3, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Can somebody point me at some docs or packages I could use to create a customized CD/DVD/BD image for installing Debian PowerPC? I'd like to create a 32GB (or larger?) USB memory stick that can be used to do a complete installati

Re: How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

On Jul 4, 2013, at 7:13 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jul 3, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Can somebody point me at some docs or packages I could use to create a customized CD/DVD/BD image for installing Debian PowerPC? I'd like to create a 32GB (or larger?) USB memory stick

Re: New partman-basicfilesystems debconf templates

On Jul 26, 2013, at 11:23 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Hello Milan, I noticed that you added new templates to partman-basicfilesystems for the following: * Warn if bootable partition is not ext2 on Pegasos machines. Closes: #717511 I'll turn these templates to translatable (they are not,

Re: New partman-basicfilesystems debconf templates

On Jul 27, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jul 26, 2013, at 11:23 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: ... We already have such a template, but it says "on the first PRIMARY partition". Would it be wrong to add this "primary" word to the templates you added? .

Bug#854822: marked as done (installation-report: U-boot not correctly installed when partitioning with "Guided - use entire disk")

Great! Is there an installer image somewhere I can test this with on my Cubox-i4x4 ? Thanks! Rick On Jul 15, 2017, at 3:21 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Your message dated Sat, 15 Jul 2017 22:17:18 + > with message-id > and subject line Bug#854822: fixed in partman-base 191+de

Bug#244394: FWD: eject-udeb

Sven Luther wrote: > > > Still, i wonder were the right place would be for this .udeb : > > 1) in the cdrom iinitrd to have access to it as soon as possible ? > (it doesn't seem to appear though in the first stage of > debian-installer's main menu, don't know why though). > > 2) h

Bug#244367: PowerPC install from boot floppy mostly successful - still some problems.

I'll give it a try this evening (US/Eastern time zone) Enjoy! Rick Matt Kraai wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 04:04:13AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: > > 1) It automatically ejected the boot floppy when asking for the root > > floppy. Thanks for that, whoever put that patch in. However, when

Bug#244099: your installation report

On Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 01:47 AM, Joey Hess wrote: Note that if you hit the go back button at the hostname question, you'll get to the main menu, and hitting enter will let you choose how to configure it. Thanks! That solves my problem. However, we still need to get some way to set the p

Re: Etch 1/2 CD images for test

Is there any chance of producing an "Etch+0.5" test image for PowerPC? I'd love to run it through my testing farm. Enjoy! Rick On Apr 30, 2008, at 3:34 AM, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Holger Wansing wrote: I did a test installation with the i386 netinst image (sorry, only

Re: Etch 1/2 CD images for test

r 30, 2008, at 10:12 PM, Frans Pop wrote: Hi Rick, On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Rick Thomas wrote: Is there any chance of producing an "Etch+0.5" test image for PowerPC? I'd love to run it through my testing farm. Technically I could, but I'm not sure that I want to. First,

Re: Etch 1/2 CD images for test

On Apr 30, 2008, at 11:38 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 01 May 2008, Rick Thomas wrote: Would it be helpful if I did an Etch install then "aptitude dist- upgrade" on as many Mac architectures as I can? I don't have any non- Mac PowerPC machines, so I can't tr

Bug#482101: PPC Installer Init generated signal 4 kernel panic

I can not duplicate this on any of my Power Mac machines. It sounds like a hardware problem... Have you checked that all your RAMs are firmly seated in their sockets? Rick On May 20, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Chao Cao wrote: Package: installation-reports Problem: The installation CD will not boo

Bug#487906: Lenny Beta2 on PowerPC - strange video mode after reboot

Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Lenny Beta2 for PowerPC KDE CD-1 uname -a: Date: June 24 19:35 EDT (US Eastern "daylight" time) Method: How did you install? What did you boot off? If network install, from where? Proxied?

Bug#487906: Lenny Beta2 on PowerPC - strange video mode after reboot

Rick Thomas wrote: Subject: Bug#487906: Lenny Beta2 on PowerPC - strange video mode after reboot :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr

Re: i386 floppy status

On Jul 9, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Frans Pop wrote: 1) Loading root floppy seems fragile For some reason the root floppy often fails to load, depending on which udebs are included (i.e. probably depending on size of the initrd). Only sometimes a floppy suddenly works. This sounds a lot like a di

D-I Etch+1/2 CD images for non x86/x86-64 arch?

On Feb 7, 2008, at 8:24 PM, dann frazier wrote: Let me try and reiterate some points of your proposal to make sure I understand. The only install media for etchnhalf will be netinst cds. These cds will be limited to i386, amd64, and other archs for which a need is demonstrated. It sounds good

Re: Setting FSCKFIX=yes on certain machines

On Aug 14, 2008, at 4:50 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: We have to set FSCKFIX=yes in /etc/default/rcS on machines that don't have any I/O devices to follow the boot process, otherwise fsck might prompt the user to press a key and this is not possible. This is mostly needed on NAS devices. They

Re: signature invalid: BADSIG 010908312D230C5F Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2006)

On Dec 2, 2006, at 6:12 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Does anybody know why I'm getting this message when I do "aptitude update" W: GPG error: http://mirrors.usc.edu etch Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 010908312D230C5F Debian Archive Automatic Si

Re: signature invalid: BADSIG 010908312D230C5F Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2006)

On Dec 6, 2006, at 3:43 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: There seems to be some confusion between two different issues: 1) There is a new archive signing key for Etch. The Release files are currently signed with both the new and the old key. Apt is satisfied with the old signature, but it wil

Bug#402267: PowerPC Netinst CD "Invalid Release File"

Package: installation-reports Installing from the netinst CD on a PowerMac G4, I get the following error: [!!] Install the base system Debootstrap Error Invalid Release file: no entry for main/binary-powerpc/Packages. This is the netinst CD from: cdimage.debian.org:cdimage/daily-builds/sid_

Bug#402267: More info

Curiously enough, the netinst CD does appear to have the missing file... $ ls -l dists/etch/main/binary-powerpc/ total 688 -rwxr-xr-x 1 rbthomas rbthomas 209980 Dec 8 10:33 Packages -rwxr-xr-x 1 rbthomas rbthomas 131702 Dec 8 10:33 Packages.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 rbthomas rbthomas 8

Bug#402267: Not just powerpc -- x86 too [Re: Bug#402267: PowerPC Netinst CD "Invalid Release File"]

On Dec 9, 2006, at 1:01 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: Package: installation-reports Installing from the netinst CD on a PowerMac G4, I get the following error: [!!] Install the base system Debootstrap Error Invalid Release file: no entry for main/binary-powerpc/Packages. This is the netinst CD

Bug#402267: More info

On Dec 9, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Frans Pop wrote: Hi Rick, On Saturday 09 December 2006 07:49, Rick Thomas wrote: Curiously enough, the netinst CD does appear to have the missing file... Seems to me like the message is not about the presence of the file itself but rather that it is not

Bug#402547: debian-installer: OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot

Package: debian-installer Severity: normal After installing etch from a daily netinst CD (2006/12/10 20:42 UTC) on my beige G3 (OldWorld) PowerMac machine, the builtin ethernet interface is disabled. This box has two ethernet interfaces: eth0: D-Link RTL8139 eth1: builtin "bmac" on the mother

Bug#402547: debian-installer: OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot

On Dec 11, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 11 December 2006 09:26, Rick Thomas wrote: After installing etch from a daily netinst CD (2006/12/10 20:42 UTC) on my beige G3 (OldWorld) PowerMac machine, the builtin ethernet interface is disabled. [...] There is a strange and

Bug#402547: debian-installer: OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot

On Dec 11, 2006, at 4:31 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Frans Pop wrote: Joey: does this impact your decision to install networkmanager by default? It's a data point. I'd imagine that one can get networkmanager to deal with the interface by prodding it in the gui though. -- see shy jo In interes

Bug#402547: debian-installer: OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot

On Dec 11, 2006, at 5:39 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: In interesting image... (<-8) Can you be a little more specific about how to go about doing this? If networkmanager is running I assume you are logged into a desktop environment that has some kind of netowork manager app

Bug#402547: NetworkManager: Workaround for "OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot"

Package: networkmanager See bug number 402547 (originally filed against debian-installer) for previous discussion. The problem does seem to be that NetworkManager doesn't know what to do with the bmac interface, because it doesn't have carrier detect, so NetworkManager can't tell when it'

Bug#402547: Further details at Bug#403112

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Bug#402547: Processed: Re: Bug#403112: NetworkManager: Workaround for "OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot"

On Dec 14, 2006, at 5:05 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 403112 network-manager Bug#403112: NetworkManager: Workaround for "OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot" Warning: Unknow

Is something wrong with CDIMAGE.debian.org daily builds?

The "latest" builds for all architectures are from Dec 15th. Is there a problem with the daily build process? Rick Index of /cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest Name Last modified Size Parent Directory - alpha/

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

On Dec 19, 2006, at 9:54 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Saturday 16 December 2006 00:52, Sven Luther wrote: But why? People can install with 2.4 just fine and then later upgrade to 2.6, so why do the work and backport it? Because even when using 2.4 floppies, they will install the 2.6.8

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

On Dec 19, 2006, at 10:09 PM, John Schmidt wrote: On Tuesday 19 December 2006 07:54, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Saturday 16 December 2006 00:52, Sven Luther wrote: But why? People can install with 2.4 just fine and then later upgrade to 2.6, so why do the work and backport it? Because e

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

Hi Sven, On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:16 AM, Sven Luther wrote: What is really needed is for confirmation with the current kernels that : 1) miboot booting works (or not). 2) bootx booting works (or not). 3) quik booting works (or not). Rick, you have been rather active in this, could i a

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

On Dec 20, 2006, at 7:17 AM, Sven Luther wrote: Well, i think what would be interesting is maybe to have a wiki page, listing a cross table of all tested models, and the different boot methods, and listing the working reports and not working ones, or something. Then give out a call for te

Re: kde/gnome/xfce media other than full CDs

On Dec 20, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Joey Hess wrote: peter green wrote: it has recently been announced that there will be seperate CDs for kde/gnome/xfce with different desktop tasks and package selections. but what is the plan for other means of installation (buisnesscard/netinst/floppies/netboot)?

Bug#403778: installation-report: sudo password not specified

On Dec 21, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Anyways, I didn't know that one has access to man pages during installation. Is that because I'm a newbie myself? So far as I know (and I've been using and administering Linux machines for 10 years, and UNIX machines for 20 years befo

Re: State of Debian-Installer

Howabout if somebody volunteered (Geert?) to, on (say) a weekly basis, cut and paste the latest of Franz' status reports from the debian-boot mailing list into the wiki page? would that work? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: 20061230-2 netinst powerpc iso

On Jan 1, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Ulrich Teichert wrote: Hi, [del] I'm still downloading the 20070101-1 build. This will take a while You may have been just too early. Please let us know if the new image still does not work and we'll investigate deeper. Sure, I just wanted to provide an u

Re: Powerstack II: installation success with some quirks

On Jan 4, 2007, at 1:28 PM, Frans Pop wrote: (CC to Colin for comments about disabling prep support on CDs.) On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:24, Ulrich Teichert wrote: after using the correct daily netboot image: cdimage.d.o:/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/20070103-2/powerpc/iso- cd/deb ian-te

Re: RFC: warn user about first accounts privs

On Jan 11, 2007, at 5:47 PM, dann frazier wrote: I'm curious if I'm the only experienced admin who didn't notice and is surprised. I didn't notice for a while, and I was surprised to find out. I've been sysadmining UNIX for 25 years, and Linux for 10. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Debian has failed us

It's sad to see d-i on powerpc, a major architectural variant, being eroded and neglected as a result of a few people who can't get past their own personal animosity to Sven. Whatever his merits or demerits -- and I'm not going to get drawn into a debate on that topic -- the powerpc arch

Re: Debian has failed us

On Jan 15, 2007, at 12:39 AM, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Rick Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It's sad to see d-i on powerpc, a major architectural variant, being eroded and neglected as a result of a few people who can't get past their own personal animosity to Sven. Whatever

Re: Debian has failed us

On Jan 16, 2007, at 8:46 PM, Mathew Binkley wrote: As I said earlier, there shouldn't be an arbitrary line between the installer and the packages. People aren't installing "Etch the installer" or "Etch the packages", they're installing "Etch the release". Test both parts simultaneously, a

Bug#408818: cool

On Jan 28, 2007, at 9:42 PM, Phill Thorpe wrote: On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 03:09 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 29 January 2007 02:41, Phill Thorpe wrote: I dont think that you read it correctly. This install did not detect my nic at first, it only detected my nic when I booted with: install i

Re: debian-installer ("auto" is confusing)

On Jan 31, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 31 January 2007 19:27, Robert Millan wrote: It just mirrors the same boot options offered by the official installer (except "rescue" which doesn't make much sense in this context). No, with official images "auto" is not really offe

Re: Errors on downloading d-i images

On Feb 7, 2007, at 2:47 PM, Geert Stappers wrote: Op 06-02-2007 om 11:50 schreef hugo vanwoerkom: 11:40:09 (8.04 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 2746856. Retrying. Do other people have this trouble? For what it's worth: It is the first report. I've had it in the past. Not so muc

Bug#410625: G3 B/W pcilynx firewire blues

On Feb 12, 2007, at 7:22 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 15:30 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: Maybe I should try the whole thing again and write down the details. Can you give me a URL for the linux ieee1394 mailing list? https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo

Bug#410971: interactive aptitude wants to remove hfsutils and sudo after etch installation

Package: installation Severity: important After installation on a powerpc system (PowerMac Blue&White G3) when aptitude is run in interactive (curses) mode, told to do update and finish any pending operations ("g") command, it turns out that the "hfsutils" and "sudo" packages are marked for d

Bug#410971: interactive aptitude wants to remove hfsutils and sudo after etch installation

On Feb 14, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 15 February 2007 01:10, Joey Hess wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: After installation on a powerpc system (PowerMac Blue&White G3) when aptitude is run in interactive (curses) mode, told to do update and finish any pending operations

Re: Bug#407460: USB ethernet interface renamed after installation on NSLU2 which causes the system to be inaccessible

On Feb 27, 2007, at 6:23 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Gordon Farquharson wrote: I tried a build of the installer from trunk (revision 45431) and nearly fell of my chair: Known problem at the top of DebianInstaller/Today in the wiki. I don't see any reference at all on the wiki to Gordon Farquharso

Bug#411446: Clock not set correctly; MacOS9 not detected?

So the problem is that (aside from the possibility that OS9 is not being recognized) if the other OS is OS9, the default for hardware clock should be "local time", but if the other OS is OS-X, the default for the hardware clock should be "UTC". Is that a correct assessment? I solve it

Re: Etch netinstaller has no eth0 in qemu

On Mar 5, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Something wrong with rsync? I think zsync can also be used. zsync works great. It doesn't work with DVD images -- something about files larger than 2GB (31 bit byte offsets). Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#413814: installing Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 on a Power Macintosh G3 Server

Hi Alex! Welcome to an elite minority of those of us who have got this to work! Below are a couple of hints from my own experience in doing this. Rick On Mar 7, 2007, at 5:21 AM, Alex Teclo wrote: Package: installation-reports Boot method: BootX Image version: Debian etch powerpc weekly bui

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

On Mar 15, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 17:44, Colin Watson wrote: Personally I also feel that all possible solutions effectively make /etc/fstab unreadable and unmaintainable. The approach we took in Ubuntu was to put comments above each UUID entry in /etc/fs

Re: the future of the netinst image

On Mar 25, 2007, at 7:10 AM, Geert Stappers wrote: Back to 'netinst' This image is one that does disappoint people often. What could be done to prevent that? I see two possibilities: (A) Eliminate it entirely (B) Treat it as an expanded "businesscard" image. Discussion: (A) I'm serious

Re: No HFS driver, and "change install priority" menu option missing -- and other bugs found while testing 2.4 boot floppies on OldWorld PowerMac

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 "udeb"s for all the components that wouldn't fit on "root". [This is a good design, but it r

Re: No HFS driver, and "change install priority" menu option missing -- and other bugs found while testing 2.4 boot floppies on OldWorld PowerMac

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 for

Re: Sarge on OldWorld Mac - No root device

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

Re: Sarge on OldWorld Mac - No root device

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 in

Re: floppy root.img sizes

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,

Bug#276826: PowerPC floppy root.img sizes

Package: debian-installer Begin forwarded message: 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- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sven Luther <[EMAI

Re: Sarge on OldWorld Mac - No root device

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

Re: Sarge on OldWorld Mac - No root device

p 27, 2004 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 norma

Re: oldworld-ppc: quik, initrd, bootx & manual (was Re: timeline for next month and next two releases)

Holger Levsen wrote: > > conclusions > --- > i think i should file the following bug reports, i will do this tonite if > there are no objections: > - 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

Re: oldworld-ppc: quik, initrd, bootx & manual (was Re: timeline for next month and next two releases)

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: Oh no! ;-) But maybe that's got information for the

Re: No HFS driver, and "change install priority" menu option missing -- and other bugs found while testing 2.4 boot floppies on OldWorld PowerMac

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

Re: No HFS driver, and "change install priority" menu option missing -- and other bugs found while testing 2.4 boot floppies on OldWorld PowerMac

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 t

Re: Bug#273986: Quasi-successful Installation - Sarge netinst rc1 on Beige G3

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

Re: Bug#273986: Quasi-successful Installation - Sarge netinst rc1 on Beige G3

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

Bug#274516: [powerpc] [pre-rc2] [floppy] oldworld ppc 7300 failure

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 l

Bug#274628: OldWorld PowerPC Mac using BootX and 2.4 kernel from pre-rc2 businesscard CD - mostly successful - a few surprises.

Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: pre-rc2 businesscard CD = Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/pre-rc2 Name Last modif

Bug#274615: Add CDROM fails due to broken symlink and no error notification

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 obliterating

Bug#274741: With two ethernets, installer looses which is "primary" across the reboot.

Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: === Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/pre-rc2 Name Last modified Size Description ---

Bug#274814: PowerPC 2.4 boot floppy doesn't see my IDE hard disk

Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Index of /~luther/d-i/images/2004-10-03/powerpc/floppy-2.4 NameLast modified Size Description _

Re: 3 days till freeze of initrd contents

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 frozen..

Re: 3 days till freeze of initrd contents

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 gaudenz

Re: How do I get around small / partition?

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 the

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