On Nov 22, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
No network mean the Network Time Protocol won't work.
Intermittent network (e.g. dial-up) means that NTP goes for long
periods with no connection to the external time servers. The ntpd
daemon is (mostly) OK
Holger's success emboldened me to try it on a couple of my own
PowerMac machines.
It worked flawlessly on my G4 test machine.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ( lspci ; lspci -n ) | sort
:00:0b.0 0600: 106b:002d
:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 1.5 AGP
:00:10.0 0300:
version of python-central is installed on the system?
Rick Thomas writes:
Package: python2.5
Installing python2.5 on etch for powerpc is broken...
Specifically:
Linking and byte-compiling packages for runtime python2.5...
pycentral: pycentral rtinstall: installed runtime python2.5
Package: python2.5
Installing python2.5 on etch for powerpc is broken...
Specifically:
Linking and byte-compiling packages for runtime python2.5...
pycentral: pycentral rtinstall: installed runtime python2.5 not found
pycentral rtinstall: installed runtime python2.5 not found
dpkg:
On Nov 11, 2006, at 5:24 PM, Geert Stappers wrote:
Op 08-11-2006 om 20:09 schreef Olaf van der Spek:
Also, no NTP synchronization is available by default.
I really think Debian should install.
Maybe install but disable, although I'd prefer it to be enabled by
default.
The
On Oct 10, 2006, at 3:39 PM, James Westby wrote:
I had a couple of idea while I was typing to generate keys in this
fashion. Here they are in no particular order.
1) Make a game that involves typing,
Doesn't aptitude have a minesweeper game built in? Would that work?
Rick
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On Oct 3, 2006, at 9:25 AM, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
fbset exists as an udeb [1]: rick, you could boot textual, pull the
ppc version in the d-i using wget, unpack it with anna and run it.
Maybe fbset should become part of the g-i ?
Attilio
[1]
On Oct 3, 2006, at 4:10 AM, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
Did you enter export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk or DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk
before running debian-installer?
In the latter case, the DEBIAN_FRONTEND variable simply may not
have been made visible to debconf, try again with export ...
before
On Oct 1, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
I have built the images, and tested it on radeon with the 9200SE, i
confirm
that disable-module=radeon is uncomented, and the bugs (white-on-
white during
selection, broken font in the console) are gone this way.
I am uploading the images i
On Oct 2, 2006, at 3:34 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
When I tried this mini.iso on a G4/533MHz QuickSilver tower with
ATY Rage128 graphics, I saw the white-on-white problem. So it's
not gone away completely.
Normal, your aty rage128 is not a radeon, and is thus using
whatever driver is
using
On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
I am building a new image, and uploading it, stay tuned.
I tried the new image (from http://people.debian.org/~luther/g-i/
powerpc/gtk-miniiso/mini.iso dated 02-Oct-2006 05:07) on my PowerMac
3,5 with the Radeon video card.
/proc/cpuinfo=
On Sep 28, 2006, at 6:50 AM, Stephen Gran wrote:
Either use udev rules to map the RAID array to a consistent device
name,
or use filesystem labels in fstab and menu.lst.
Which is great if you know about the problem and can deal with it in
advance. Just because it's listed in the
OK,
I booted from the CD with install DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt
switched to the F2 console when the choose language screen came up.
The hardware info you wanted is:
~# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep motherboard
Motherboard: PowerMac3,5 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
~# cat /proc/fb
0 ATI Radeon QW
OK,
I booted from the CD with install DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt
switched to the F2 console when the choose language screen came up.
Then I did:
~# echo disable-module=radeon /etc/directfbrc
~# echo no-hardware /etc/directfbrc
~# export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk
~# debian-installer
It crashed when it
On Sep 27, 2006, at 7:03 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
(!) DirectFB/FBDev: No supported modes found in /etc/fb.modes and
current mode not supported!
(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Current mode's pixelformat: rgba 8/0, 8/0,
8/0, 0/0 (8bit)
For what it's worth, there is no file /etc/fb.modes in the initrc
This time without the mouse connected
~# echo disable-module=radeon /etc/directfbrc
~# echo no-hardware /etc/directfbrc
~# export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk
~# debian-installer
As usual, it crashed when it tried to initialize the graphical
installer.
Messages were substantially the same as
This time without the mouse connected, and with disabling linux-input
~# echo disable-module=linux-input /etc/directfbrc
~# export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk
~# debian-installer
As usual, it crashed when it tried to initialize the graphical
installer.
Messages were substantially the same as
On Sep 24, 2006, at 5:52 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 04:17:58AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Sep 23, 2006, at 6:13 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Also, about the console font corruption with radeonfb, i would be
interested
in feedback of if it is a powerpc only issue, or ppc
On Sep 26, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 04:01:15PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
OK. I have a G4 PowerMac with
:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon
RV200 QW [Radeon 7500]
Should work flawlessly with the current daily-builds
On Sep 22, 2006, at 4:18 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
Am Freitag, 22. September 2006 04:25 schrieb Rick Thomas:
But that information is not available in the if-up script.
There are ways to find it out. If you like, I'll do up and test a
sample.
Please.
Will do. I hope to get back
On Sep 23, 2006, at 6:13 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Also, about the console font corruption with radeonfb, i would be
interested
in feedback of if it is a powerpc only issue, or ppc stuff ?
No idea, i on no radeon boards :(
Someone else ?
I might have a NewWorld Mac with a radeon board...
On Sep 21, 2006, at 1:42 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
I was Poking around in /var/log/syslog recently. I noticed that
there was no log entry for ntpdate. Investigating a little, I found
that /etc/init.d/ntpdate (alias /etc/rcS.d/S51ntpdate) is called
before syslogd gets
On Sep 21, 2006, at 5:47 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
Again, check the package in unstable. That's the direction.
Thanks for the pointer.
I've looked at the ntpdate_4.2.2+dfsg.2-2 stuff now, and I have a
couple of comments on that.
The first is just an extension of this original
On Sep 21, 2006, at 9:00 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
So the logic in /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate needs to be a bit like
the login in the old /etc/init.d/ntpdate in that it knows whether
it's being called as part of system initialization or on-the-fly
after initialization
Package: ntpdate
I was Poking around in /var/log/syslog recently. I noticed that
there was no log entry for ntpdate. Investigating a little, I found
that /etc/init.d/ntpdate (alias /etc/rcS.d/S51ntpdate) is called
before syslogd gets started.
This is OK... The ntpdate call has to occur
Package: base
On Sep 18, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 18 September 2006 21:49, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Sep 18, 2006, at 10:17 AM, De Leeuw Guy wrote:
Frans Pop a écrit :
The d-i team is not responsible for what is part of the base
system and what is not.
Then who is? Where
Is there someone out there who will work with me to get a kernel that
boots to run debian-installer on my beige G3 PowerMac (OldWorld)
machine?
As I reported in Bug#382129 regarding the Linux-powerpc 2.6.16 kernel
not booting on my OldWorld test machine, I now find that the 2.6.17
kernel
On Sep 16, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 09:50:03AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
On Saturday 16 September 2006 09:09, Rick Thomas wrote:
Is there someone out there who will work with me to get a kernel
that
boots to run debian-installer on my beige G3 PowerMac
Hi Daniel,
Here's a strange one! I assume a bug-report is appropriate, and I'll
make one, but I'll need your help in figuring out which package to
report it against...
I have a machine (darkstar) running etch, which I use for testing
debian installer things. I did an aptitude update ;
On Sep 2, 2006, at 1:35 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I plan to do a non-network install (dvd-only) of the beta3 dvd
(which should get me to the condition I was in before the problems)
then add a network repo to sources.list (which should attempt to
update to the dfsg versions) and see what
I'm wondering if this is similar to the problem that is described in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/09/msg00090.html
Certainly the pattern of dependency/pre-dependency seems similar...
What happened was this:
I had installed ntpdate, ntp-simple and ntp packages at the 4.2.0a
Hi Daniel,
I'll see if I can reproduce the symptoms and keep a careful log.
What logs/outputs would you like to to collect?
Rick
On Sep 1, 2006, at 10:27 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote:
Do you have any information that would explain why it did this?
I'll
need more data to do anything
On Aug 25, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Christian Perrier wrote:
I am not sure, but in the graphical installer, we could add a
clock widget
somewhere from the start, and do clock setting pretty early one
(we probably
only need hwclock and a little menu thingy), it can even be done
before
think?
Thanks for sending along your script,
Harold
On 8/19/06, Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Aug 19, 2006, at 6:29 PM, Harold Johnson wrote:
In the meantime, I can continue using BootX -- not a real elegant
solution, IMHO, but it works.
Hi Harold,
What magic did you have
On Aug 18, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 03:19:18AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Has *anybody* had any success getting the Linux version 2.6.16-2-
powerpc (Debian 2.6.16-17) kernel to boot an OldWorld machine with
BootX? Or *any* kernel after 2.6.15?
I
Package: ntp
I just did an aptitude update/upgrade of an etch system. It resulted
in deleting ntp, ntp-simple, and ntp-server, leaving me without a
function ntp daemon.
Rick
Not the sort of behavior you ordinarily expect from a major appliance
- ghostbusters
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On Aug 18, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
Am Freitag, 18. August 2006 17:33 schrieb Rick Thomas:
I just did an aptitude
On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
What is PTBs? :)
Powers that be...
On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
stuff about free miboot...
Wow! great! I'm really glad somebody's working on that.
Do you think it will be ready for inclusion in etch at release time?
Rick
On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
Well, aside the issue of booting, the kernel runs just
fine and so does the user space... As you can look at
http://www.us.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata, I think
it is partially admitted in Oldworld powerpc boot floppies will not
Package: aptitude
I just did an aptitude update/upgrade of an etch system. It resulted
in deleting ntp, ntp-simple, and ntp-server, leaving me without a
functioning ntp daemon.
Rick
Not the sort of behavior you ordinarily expect from a major appliance
- ghostbusters
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On Aug 18, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:52:24PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
What is PTBs? :)
Powers that be...
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:44:23AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Perhaps the Debian PTBs
On Aug 18, 2006, at 6:43 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 12:18:23AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:58:07PM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:52:24PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote
I just tried the etch Beta3 kernel on my Beige G3 OldWorld PowerPC
Macintosh.
Same results as noted in the original bugreport by this number. It
hangs almost immediately. The picture of Tux never appears at the
top of the screen. See the original bug report for details.
Seriously,
Package: installation-reports
kernel and initrd from latest daily refuses to boot on OldWorld beige
G3 Mac
Hardware used is
PowerMac G3 (Gossamer)
this is an OldWorld powerpc Macintosh
Boot loader used is
MacOS-9.2 with the BootX extension.
Kernel version used is
I should have added that sarge boots and runs just fine on this
machine with BootX.
On Aug 9, 2006, at 2:05 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Package: installation-reports
kernel and initrd from latest daily refuses to boot on OldWorld
beige G3 Mac
Hardware used is
PowerMac G3 (Gossamer
Package: installation-reports
I recently did a businesscard install of the etch daily.
There were two unexpectedly long pauses in the later part of the
installation. I've seen these before, so they aren't just a fluke.
So I'm reporting them now.
The first was during Configuring
I booted my test beige G3 (oldworld) from the miboot floppies with
the July 30'th businesscard CD in the CDrom drive. I was also able
to do 'lspci' at keyboard selection time.
Rick
On Jul 31, 2006, at 6:04 AM, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
On 29/07/06, Geert Stappers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On
Thanks!
Rick
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Please close this bug. It's no longer relevant.
I believe it has been fixed in the released sarge installer.
Thanks!
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Interestingly enough, I get similar results when booting from the
miboot ofonlyboot floppy.
Even more interesting, when I use the miboot boot floppy the video
is slightly strange (some columns flicker) but usable for installation.
Rick
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Package: installation-reports
Note: This is not the same bug as #379120.
This bug report is about the condition after the reboot. It's not
about the time during installation -- before the reboot.
It seems that lspci is pulled in by the Desktop task. It's absent
after the reboot in a
On Jul 24, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 24 July 2006 07:17, Rick Thomas wrote:
During the install process, I selected the C locale early on.
Later, when asked, I indicated I have a US-English keyboard. I also
specified US-EastCoast timezone, and in general did everything I
On Jul 24, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
#379067: netinst CD should not be added to sources list of target
system,
which was filed against the apt-setup package.
It has been closed by Joey Hess [EMAIL
On Jul 24, 2006, at 4:14 PM, Christian Perrier wrote:
plan is to also support en_US.
I assume this means that if I do whatever magic is required to get
en_US locale, then I'll get letter in /etc/papersize. What if I
choose C locale?
This should be discussed with the localization-config
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 06:36 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
Far be it from me to make extra work for the localization-config
maintainer. And I agree with you that locales are exactly for the
purpose of setting things that depend on country and language. I
guess my problem is that
Package: installation-reports
Installation on (OldWorld) PowerMac beige G3 (Gossamer) using miBoot
floppies and netinst CDrom.
INSTALL REPORT
| Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the
image
|
| Debian etch daily powerpc netinst install CD iso dated 21-Jul-2006
On Jul 22, 2006, at 6:11 AM, Jens Seidel wrote:
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 05:59:02AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
so it hung. (Does hanging if the CD is not inserted count as a bug?)
It depends on the kind of hanging. If APT just asks you to insert a
special CD I think this is OK and expected
On Jul 23, 2006, at 6:58 AM, Geert Stappers wrote:
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 02:14:26AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Installation on (OldWorld) PowerMac beige G3 (Gossamer) using miBoot
floppies and netinst CDrom.
INSTALL REPORT
| Debian-installer-version
On Jul 23, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jul 23, 2006, at 6:58 AM, Geert Stappers wrote:
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 02:14:26AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Installation on (OldWorld) PowerMac beige G3 (Gossamer) using miBoot
floppies and netinst CDrom
Package: tasksel
==
In short, when the CD-drive is empty, but apt/sources.list contains a
'deb cdrom:', tasksel hangs and can not recover. In the same
situation aptitude responds gracefully by asking the user to insert
the missing CD -- with an option to ignore the CD
On Jul 23, 2006, at 10:08 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 24 July 2006 02:36, Rick Thomas wrote:
I have not yet tried using lspci on a system during installation. Do
you need that test done?
You should be able to simply check if the lspci output is present in
(IIRC) /var/log/installer
Package: installation-reports
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
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?
booted from daily businesscard CD
Image version: Full URL to image you downloaded is best
| Index of /cdimage/daily-builds/etch_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd
| Name
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
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?
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
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 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
Package: installation-reports
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 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
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
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?
Image version: Full URL to image you downloaded is best
Date: Date and time of the install
CD -- netinst
Index of /cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd
Name
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.
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?
Booted direct from daily netinst CD
Image version: Full URL to image you downloaded is best
Index of /cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd
Name
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:
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
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
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 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 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 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
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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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 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
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
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