Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

Btw, you can check /var/log/syslog from a second terminal (Alt+F2) to see if there are any error messages related to "choose-mirror". If you find something there, let us know. Adrian > On Apr 14, 2017, at 3:32 PM, Linux User #330250 > wrote: > >> Am 2017-04-14 um

Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

Hi, Linux User #330250 wrote: I use and used Debian on a G4 7450 CPU and I cannot see anything unusual concerning the CPU or bus speed. Everything seems to be initialized correctly, even thou with this new unstable build and kernel 4.9 a function called check_features triggers a CPU trap.

Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

Am 2017-04-14 um 17:58 schrieb Riccardo Mottola: How is booting with a G4 processor? Last time I tried I had issues with the initialization of the CPU that did run at half speed! I use and used Debian on a G4 7450 CPU and I cannot see anything unusual concerning the CPU or bus speed.

Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

Hi, Linux User #330250 wrote: To my understanding only NewWorld Macs are supported. But then, *all* NewWorld Macs are, and those are "old" too by now. This should include all Macs which are called "Power Mac" (before it was "Power Macintosh"). And AFAIK the last "Power Macintosh G3" was one

Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

Hi, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-grub/2015-03/msg00072.html NewWorld are supposed to work. So the question is: does anyone still has an OldWorld ? I have a couple, although I am running urrently debian only on "new world". I want to revive them though,

Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

No worries. Thanks again for the testing and feedback. Highly appreciated! > On Apr 14, 2017, at 5:21 PM, Linux User #330250 > wrote: > > Correction. > > Selection a mirror from menu item "Choose a mirror of the Debian archive" -- > above "Install the base system"

Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

Correction. Selection a mirror from menu item "Choose a mirror of the Debian archive" -- above "Install the base system" -- doesn't succeed. Never. Even after a base system is installed it failes. However, with the next item "Configure the package manager" again comes the question if I want

dmesg kernel trace and base system without less/man (WAS: Re: debian-installer now available in Ports)

BTW, I get this in dmesg output, on both the installer boot and when booting the installed -smp kernel. [4.767389] [ cut here ] [4.774668] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at /build/linux-dp17Ba/linux-4.9.18/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c:208 check_features+0x38/0x7c

Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

Am 2017-04-14 um 13:08 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: On 04/14/2017 12:00 PM, Linux User #330250 wrote: Am 2017-04-14 um 10:25 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: Yes, the choose-mirror package currently doesn't support unstable [1]. You can easily enter a normal mirror URL like

Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

On 04/14/2017 12:00 PM, Linux User #330250 wrote: > Am 2017-04-14 um 10:25 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: >> Yes, the choose-mirror package currently doesn't support unstable [1]. You >> can easily enter a normal >> mirror URL like "ftp.debian.org" and "debian/" as a sub-directory and it >>

Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

Am 2017-04-14 um 10:25 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: Yes, the choose-mirror package currently doesn't support unstable [1]. You can easily enter a normal mirror URL like "ftp.debian.org" and "debian/" as a sub-directory and it should work. Should I install again and try that or can we

Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

Am 2017-04-14 um 10:16 schrieb Mathieu Malaterre: On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Linux User #330250 wrote: One suggestion for further improvement: on an older installation I had used before powerpc was dropped (Debian 7.x, then testing) I was able to get grub2

Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

Am 2017-04-14 um 11:20 schrieb Mathieu Malaterre: Leaving it to the user is by far the best option ! I think so too. Having the choice between yaboot and GRUB2 makes the most sense. I think I am getting confused now, because on one page, we have Performa 4400, 54xx, 5500 listed as

Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

Am 2017-04-14 um 10:25 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: I used manual partitioning. This is the last Power Mac that is limited to LBA-28. I used a 250 GB IDE HDD, so I am above this limit. I am not sure if the automated partitioning will work around this? This probably applies to

Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

2017-04-14 12:20 UTC+03.00, Mathieu Malaterre : > > while (Performa)54xx,6400 is reported to have OF 2.0: > NewWorld machines have at least OF 3.0. Risto

Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 11:14 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 04/14/2017 11:05 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >>> Does anyone know how well supported GRUB on powerpc is? Does it support all >>> PPC Macs or only newer >>> ones, e >> >> OldWorld will not work:

Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

On 04/14/2017 11:05 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> Does anyone know how well supported GRUB on powerpc is? Does it support all >> PPC Macs or only newer >> ones, e > > OldWorld will not work: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-grub/2015-03/msg00072.html Yeah, I was actually about to

Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 10:25 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Does anyone know how well supported GRUB on powerpc is? Does it support all > PPC Macs or only newer > ones, e OldWorld will not work:

Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

Hello! On 04/14/2017 10:04 AM, Linux User #330250 wrote: > I burned a CD-R with it and tested booting it on my Power Mac G4 Quicksilver > (2001, Dual). > I chose "expert" at the prompt. All seems to be working. Great! > The graphics card is a Mac-flashed Nvidia GeForce 6200 (NV44A), connected

Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Linux User #330250 wrote: > One suggestion for further improvement: on an older installation I had used > before powerpc was dropped (Debian 7.x, then testing) I was able to get > grub2 running. It would be an idea to have grub2 as an

Re: debian-installer now available in Ports

Am 2017-04-13 um 09:09 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 04/12/2017 09:34 PM, Steven Chamberlain wrote: You can find the .iso images within each job's workspace e.g.: