Bug#269653: Old kbd-chooser bug on Oldworld Powermac: may someone try reproducing it?

2006-04-02 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#269653: Old kbd-chooser bug on Oldworld Powermac: may someone try reproducing it?

2006-04-01 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#357188: Package: installation-reports

2006-03-16 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Bug#344592: rsync sometimes does unnecessary copies - fixed in latest release from upstream

2005-12-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 23, 2005, at 5:37 PM, Paul Slootman wrote: tags 344592 = sarge thanks On Thu 22 Dec 2005, Rick Thomas wrote: Package: rsync Version: 2.6.4-6 Severity: normal Tags: patch I see no patches... Perhaps you wanted to tag it as sarge, as testing and unstable have had 2.6.6 since one day

Bug#344592: rsync sometimes does unnecessary copies - fixed in latest release from upstream

2005-12-23 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: rsync Version: 2.6.4-6 Severity: normal Tags: patch this bug is fixed in upstream release 2.6.5 (and presumably also in the latest upstream release, 2.6.6) from rsync.samba.org Quote from the changelog for 2.6.5 - Fixed a case where rsync would erroneously delete some files and

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

2005-08-16 Thread Rick Thomas
It's clear that, as a practical matter, Apple doesn't mind if people distribute the boot block which is coming directly from Apple and has a couple tens of m68k assembly instructions nobody could be bothered to reverse-engineer, because other Linux distributions provide it and Apple has not

Bug#317727: installation-reports

2005-07-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 12, 2005, at 6:45 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 11 July 2005 02:51, Josh wrote: Aptitude works well, but when installing a package after download, and it leaves the ncurses built screen, it doesn't clear the terminal, which creates garbage looking output. That should be solvable,

Bug#315393: Problems installing Sarge on OldWorld 7300/200 Mac

2005-06-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 22, 2005, at 6:45 AM, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: * The 7300/200 seems to not be able to boot off a CD-ROM, at least I failed to do that using http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/powerpc/iso-cd/debian -31r0a-powerpc-businesscard.iso Maybe I just used a wrong boot

Bug#315393: Problems installing Sarge on OldWorld 7300/200 Mac

2005-06-22 Thread Rick Thomas
There are freeness problems with the boot-loader program that goes on the PowerMac (OldWorld) floppies. So the working PowerMac Debian boot floppies are not well advertised [*]. They are buried away at http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/2005-06-20/powerpc/ Give that a

Bug#315308: (no subject) PowerMac Debian install boot floppies

2005-06-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 21, 2005, at 3:31 PM, Jacob Fugal wrote: Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: boot.img from http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-powerpc/ current//images/powerpc/floppy/ on 6-21-2005 uname -a: Never got that far (Debian 3.1 Sarge) Date:

Bug#310529: PowerPC Netinst RC3 CD is missing kernel-image-2.4.27-powerpc

2005-05-24 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the image Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/powerpc/rc3 Name Last modified Size Description Parent Directory 24-Mar-2005

Bug#293506: Debian sarge RC2 NewWorld PowerMac installation report

2005-02-03 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT = Executive Summary: All went well until it came time after the reboot to configure the software packages. After repeated failures, I tried choose packages manually (i.e. aptitude) and that went OK. This is OK

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