Re: PPC64 install && Firefox

2024-04-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
her text output might be of interest.) The same run with the DVD might show significant differences. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Kernel Panic 6.5.0-1 PPC

2023-10-11 Thread Rick Thomas
OK, I stand corrected! In any case, whatever the number, it seems to be fixed. And that's what's important! Rick On Wed, Oct 11, 2023, at 2:02 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Rick! > > On Wed, 2023-10-11 at 01:20 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >> I just did an upda

Re: Kernel Panic 6.5.0-1 PPC

2023-10-11 Thread Rick Thomas
Wow! I just did an update -> upgrade on my Power Mac G4 and noticed that it provides the new kernel version 6.5.0-2 . This appears to have fixed the panic-on-boot bug in version 6.5.0-1 . Big thanks for all your efforts! Rick

Re: Collaborating on the HFS code

2023-06-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
to derive equivalent code from published Apple specs. Thus the table generator functions.) Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Installer doesn't find the mirrors

2023-05-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
f Rock Ridge which can represent Apple file attributes: https://web.archive.org/web/2519225244/http://developer.apple.com/technotes/fl/fl_36.html Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Installer doesn't find the mirrors

2023-05-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
mmy x86 code is slightly different from the one of SYSLINUX. In Hex: 45 52 08 00 eb 02 ff ff 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 eb 49 24 12 0f 09 And as said, other than with Fedora ISOs, the HFS+ tree is not part of an inner image file but rather covers nearly the whole data content of the ISO. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Installer doesn't find the mirrors

2023-05-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
le.com/technotes/fl/fl_36.html No text snippet "bless" is to see there. I'm not experienced enough with Apple to tell whether blessing is among the "HFS finder flags". Whatever, this applies only to ISO 9660, not to FAT. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Tracking a bug on POWER10

2023-03-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
no POWER10. https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/ Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: hfsprogs depends on libssl1.1 which is obsolete

2022-05-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, May 30, 2022, at 3:46 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello Rick! > > On 5/30/22 12:24, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Sadly, it looks like this wasn't the only dependency on libssl1.1 . >> Apparently libsnmp40 also depends on it. > > Library transitions are

Re: hfsprogs depends on libssl1.1 which is obsolete

2022-05-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Fri, May 27, 2022, at 6:07 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > On 5/26/22 06:56, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> Am I missing something? >> >> hfsprogs needs to be rebuild against OpenSSL 3.0. I will take care of it. > > This has been done now. hfsprogs 540.1.linux3-5+port

Re: hfsprogs depends on libssl1.1 which is obsolete

2022-05-26 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, May 25, 2022, at 9:56 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > On 5/26/22 00:46, Rick Thomas wrote: >> The package libssl1.1 seems to have been removed from the powerpc/ppc64 >> archives. > > Yes, there is a transition going on towards OpenSSL 3.

hfsprogs depends on libssl1.1 which is obsolete

2022-05-25 Thread Rick Thomas
The package libssl1.1 seems to have been removed from the powerpc/ppc64 archives. However the package hfsprogs depends on it. hfsprogs is vital on powerpc/ppc34 . Am I missing something? Thanks! Rick

Re: systemd being pulled in during dist-upgrade

2022-02-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Try: # aptitude why systemd That may help answer the question. Rick On Sat, Feb 19, 2022, at 9:03 AM, Stan Johnson wrote: > Hello, > > On a PowerBook G3 Pismo, I just upgraded Debian SID: > # apt-get update > # apt-get upgrade > # apt-get dist-upgrade > > As part of the dist-upgrade (see below),

Re: Recipe for installing Debian on powerpc (G4, 32-bit) Mac? [failed installation -- looking for advice]

2021-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Dec 27, 2021, at 2:56 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > If you really want to help me, I suggest that you perform systematic tests > with said > image and collect the results and summarize expected behavior and actual > behavior > of the software. Also, please always save the log

Re: Recipe for installing Debian on powerpc (G4, 32-bit) Mac? [failed installation -- looking for advice]

2021-12-26 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sat, Dec 18, 2021, at 12:19 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello Rick! > ... > Why didn't you use any of the snapshots that you previously used and > that are known to work? ... > Use a different, known to work image. > OK, on Adrian's advice I used the NETINST iso from October 6, 2021

Re: Recipe for installing Debian on powerpc (G4, 32-bit) Mac? [failed installation -- looking for advice]

2021-12-17 Thread Rick Thomas
Installation report follows at end. On Wed, Dec 15, 2021, at 12:53 AM, Johannes Brakensiek wrote: > Am Dienstag, dem 14.12.2021 um 17:12 -0800 schrieb Rick Thomas: >> What is the URL for the latest Debian installer iso for a powerpc >> (32-bit, G4) macintosh? >> >> Is

Re: Recipe for installing Debian on powerpc (G4, 32-bit) Mac?

2021-12-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Dec 15, 2021, at 12:53 AM, Johannes Brakensiek wrote: > Am Dienstag, dem 14.12.2021 um 17:12 -0800 schrieb Rick Thomas: >> What is the URL for the latest Debian installer iso for a powerpc >> (32-bit, G4) macintosh? >> >> Is there anything I need to do (e.g.

Recipe for installing Debian on powerpc (G4, 32-bit) Mac?

2021-12-14 Thread Rick Thomas
What is the URL for the latest Debian installer iso for a powerpc (32-bit, G4) macintosh? Is there anything I need to do (e.g. manually add a few lines to sources.list after/during the install) other than the the normal installation process (i.e. same as I would use for an amd64 machine)? Is t

But not on ppc64 [Re: Aptitude Problem PPC 32-bit]

2021-10-13 Thread Rick Thomas
I do not see this problem on my PowerMac G5, however. Curiouser and curiouser... Rick On Mon, Oct 11, 2021, at 3:17 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2021, at 3:41 AM, Dan Whitehouse wrote: >> I've got a Powermac G4 running debian ppc32. >> I've noticed a pote

Re: Aptitude Problem PPC 32-bit

2021-10-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Oct 11, 2021, at 3:41 AM, Dan Whitehouse wrote: > I've got a Powermac G4 running debian ppc32. > I've noticed a potential issue with aptitude. > If I run "aptitude update" I notice it never seems to complete. > It'll use 18% or so of my RAM (which is about 450mb I believe) but no > CPU.

Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-21

2021-09-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Fri, Sep 24, 2021, at 12:47 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 11:30:26PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Hello! >> >> On 9/23/21 23:08, kristoffer...@tuta.io wrote: >> > I also made a fresh installation on another G4 (this time on Mini) with >> > mechanical HDD an

Re: Bug#989645: /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig: dpkg: error processing package linux-image-powerpc (--configure):

2021-06-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021, at 9:42 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 6/10/21 12:14 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > So the only remaining question is "why was hfsprogs not automatically > > install on a G5 PowerMac?" > > See: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc

Re: Bug#989645: /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig: dpkg: error processing package linux-image-powerpc (--configure):

2021-06-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021, at 2:58 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2021, at 2:41 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hello Rick! > > > > On 6/9/21 11:34 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > You're right that /boot/grub somehow has gotten read-on

Re: Bug#989645: /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig: dpkg: error processing package linux-image-powerpc (--configure):

2021-06-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021, at 2:41 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello Rick! > > On 6/9/21 11:34 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > You're right that /boot/grub somehow has gotten read-only. I didn't do that > > myself, so something else must have done that. Have

Bug#989645: /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig: dpkg: error processing package linux-image-powerpc (--configure):

2021-06-09 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: grub-common Version: 2.04-18 Severity: grave File: /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig Justification: renders package unusable X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de, rbtho...@pobox.com This is what happens when I attempt to do "aptitude full-upgrade" on my Power

G4 MDD report (finally) Re: Bug#741663: linux-image-3.13-1-powerpc-smp: therm_windtunnel does not load correctly

2021-04-30 Thread Rick Thomas
intensive task yet. Hope this helps! Rick On Tue, Apr 27, 2021, at 3:55 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2021, at 12:15 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:> > > On 4/27/21 8:54 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > I'll look around and see if I have any MDD (m

Re: Bug#741663: linux-image-3.13-1-powerpc-smp: therm_windtunnel does not load correctly

2021-04-29 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi William! On Thu, Apr 29, 2021, at 11:05 AM, William Bonnet wrote: > > The PowerMac G5 users on this list are kindly asked to confirm the bug > > has been fixed. Until then, I'll reopen it. > > I am running the latest version (5.10.0-6-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian > 5.10.28-1 (2021-04-09) sparc64)

Re: Bug#741663: linux-image-3.13-1-powerpc-smp: therm_windtunnel does not load correctly

2021-04-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tue, Apr 27, 2021, at 12:15 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:> > On 4/27/21 8:54 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > I'll look around and see if I have any MDD (mirror drive door -- the type > > in the > > original bugreport) machines. If so, I'll try to find

Re: Bug#741663: linux-image-3.13-1-powerpc-smp: therm_windtunnel does not load correctly

2021-04-26 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Apr 26, 2021, at 10:45 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/27/21 2:07 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > I've got the latest (Apr 17) running on my G5 right now. No problems. > > Rick, you should just confirm that this particular problem is fixed but I > assume

Re: Bug#741663: linux-image-3.13-1-powerpc-smp: therm_windtunnel does not load correctly

2021-04-26 Thread Rick Thomas
I've got the latest (Apr 17) running on my G5 right now. No problems. Rick rbthomas@kmac:~$ cat /proc/version Linux version 5.10.0-6-powerpc64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc-10 (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.35.2) #1 SMP Debian 5.10.28-1 (2021-04-

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021, at 7:16 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > I suspect that this difference is what's producing the "error: can't > open device" messages on the ppc64, and why they do not appear on the > amd64. If I did a manual partitioning install on the amd64 that

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021, at 4:26 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> This issue might not even specific to PowerMacs, so it > >> would make more > >> sense first to test this on x86 systems and report a bug against > >> src:grub2 or partman-lvm > >> if the issue shows there as well. > > >

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021, at 2:31 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I don't understand the hurry to > make everything > perfect at once. I'm sorry if it seems that way. That is not my intent. I'm just reporting what I see. It's definitely not mission critical. The machine still boots, jus

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, at 11:33 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/20/21 3:42 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > (1) Can we get rid of the seemingly unnecessary error message about not > > having a /boot partition? > > As I said, it's a known issue and I'm goi

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-19 Thread Rick Thomas
lations! (1) Can we get rid of the seemingly unnecessary error message about not having a /boot partition? (2) Are the messages necessary that complain about "can't open device" and "press any key to continue"? (3) If not, can we get rid of them? Big *thanks* for this

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16

2021-04-19 Thread Rick Thomas
I tried it this afternoon on my PowerMac G5 - PowerMac7,3. Works great! I used the default installation and "all in one partition" partitioning. Let me know if you would like me to try something else. Thanks so much for all your work! This is fantastic... Enjoy! Rick On Fri, Apr 16, 2021,

Re: Updated installer images 2021-04-16 🎉

2021-04-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021, at 5:30 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/16/21 1:57 PM, Johannes Brakensiek wrote: > > > > On 16 Apr 2021, at 13:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > >> But the image is blessed in HFS vocabulary. If you insert such a CD and > >> press the > >> key duri

Re: Package libnss3_3.60-1_ppc64.deb requires Power-7 hardware

2021-04-06 Thread Rick Thomas
Great news! Thanks very much for all your efforts, Adrian! When can we expect the next iteration on a grub-based installer DVD for the G5 Macs? I'm anxious to give it a try! Rick On Tue, Apr 6, 2021, at 2:09 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello Carsten! > > On 1/17/21 12:06 AM, Carst

Re: Some details on the bootloader installation for PowerMacs

2021-02-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021, at 4:43 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 7:05 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > > > On 2/6/21 7:25 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > On 2/5/21 9:21 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > >> The next step will be adding a hfsprogs-udeb

Works (with a small tweek) on ppc64! [Re: Workaround for installing Debian onto PowerMacs (2020-02-02 image)]

2021-02-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tue, Feb 2, 2021, at 4:22 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > For anyone wanting to install a current Debian unstable snapshot onto their > PowerMacs, I'm going to write down a short guide how to make sure GRUB > gets installed properly (in case the installation fails). > > Us

Re: Workaround for installing Debian onto PowerMacs (2020-02-02 image)

2021-02-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Feb 8, 2021, at 11:06 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > A small problem... > After install the machine reboots automatically. We are not given an > opportunity to stop the reboot. In fact, we are not even told a reboot > is going to happen. Maybe the installer needs a step that confirms the >

Re: Workaround for installing Debian onto PowerMacs (2020-02-02 image)

2021-02-07 Thread Rick Thomas
Having done the complete install (including the workaround steps) yesterday, and not wanting to spend the time to do it all again, I booted into rescue mode and executes a shell in the /target system. I had to manually mount /boot/grub from /dev/sa2 because the rescue mode didn't do it automati

Re: Workaround for installing Debian onto PowerMacs (2020-02-02 image)

2021-02-07 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sun, Feb 7, 2021, at 12:43 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 2/7/21 1:18 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > But when it rebooted, all I got was a folder icon with a blinking question > > mark. > > Did you verify that: > > - /ht@0,f200/pci@5/k2-sata-root@c/

Re: Workaround for installing Debian onto PowerMacs (2020-02-02 image) -- Works on 32-bit powerpc G4!

2021-02-07 Thread Rick Thomas
clock533.32MHz motherboard PowerMac3,4 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh detected as 69 (PowerMac G4 Silver) VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV250 [Radeon 9000 Series] (rev 01) > On Sat, Feb 6, 2021, at 8:59 PM, Christian Cal

Re: Workaround for installing Debian onto PowerMacs (2020-02-02 image) -- Works on 32-bit powerpc G4!

2021-02-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tue, Feb 2, 2021, at 4:22 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > For anyone wanting to install a current Debian unstable snapshot onto their > PowerMacs, I'm going to write down a short guide how to make sure GRUB > gets installed properly (in case the installation fails). > > Us

Re: Workaround for installing Debian onto PowerMacs (2020-02-02 image)

2021-02-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tue, Feb 2, 2021, at 4:22 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > For anyone wanting to install a current Debian unstable snapshot onto their > PowerMacs, I'm going to write down a short guide how to make sure GRUB > gets installed properly (in case the installation fails). > > Us

Re: Workaround for installing Debian onto PowerMacs (2020-02-02 image)

2021-02-03 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tue, Feb 2, 2021, at 4:57 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 2/3/21 1:44 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > So I tried this. I installed from the 2021-02-02 NETINST ppc64 on my G5 > > powermac. > > When it got to the end and wanted to reboot, I switched to the F2 console

Re: Workaround for installing Debian onto PowerMacs (2020-02-02 image)

2021-02-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tue, Feb 2, 2021, at 4:57 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 2/3/21 1:44 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > So I tried this. I installed from the 2021-02-02 NETINST ppc64 on my G5 > > powermac. > > When it got to the end and wanted to reboot, I switched to the F2

Re: Workaround for installing Debian onto PowerMacs (2020-02-02 image)

2021-02-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tue, Feb 2, 2021, at 4:22 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > For anyone wanting to install a current Debian unstable snapshot onto their > PowerMacs, I'm going to write down a short guide how to make sure GRUB > gets installed properly (in case the installation fails). > > Use e

Re: Tool for blessing HFS+ filesystems required

2021-02-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
obably tell how to find a file by name and how to obtain its "cat_id", which i guess is called "catalog node ID" in the specs. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: More debug infos - was: Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2021-01-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021, at 8:46 AM, Alex Perez wrote:> > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote on 1/4/2021 1:56 AM: > > My guess is that this issue can be worked around by zeroing the partition > > table of the system before installing Debian. > > > > Can someone give it a try? > I did so, zeroing out m

Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2020-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
You have vmlinux -> vmlinux-5.9.0-5-powerpc64 But there is no actual file named "vmlinux-5.9.0-5-powerpc64" in the directory. Maybe that's your problem? Rick On Wed, Dec 30, 2020, at 2:55 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi Mathieu, > > > On 12/30/20 10:22 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > Ther

Re: "Not installable" error on powerpc 32-bit

2020-11-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020, at 6:34 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello Alessandro! > > On 11/27/20 3:02 PM, Alessandro Gaggioli wrote: > > I am a user of the debian-ports repository and would like to ask for a > > reason > > as to why, when attempting to install a package such as "firefox" to

[PATCH] isofs: fix Oops with zisofs and large PAGE_SIZE

2020-11-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
e yielded poffset 0. But at that time the pages pointer has already moved beyond the end of the allocated array of page structs (which has only 1 element). Signed-off-by: Thomas Schmitt Tested-by: Anatoly Pugachev --- fs/isofs/compress.c | 33 ++--- 1 file changed, 26 in

Re: Are there still machines with PAGE_SHIFT 16 or larger ?

2020-11-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
d "pages" and to perform a write operation to a location that depends on their value. Now the question is how poffset became unaligned to 64 KiB. The best chance for that is at the very end of the file. Does dd, after umount and mount, yield bytes before the memory fault happens ? If so, how many. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Are there still machines with PAGE_SHIFT 16 or larger ?

2020-11-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
sitive to smaller glitches: dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1K count=161 | od -t x1 | \ sed -e 's/^[0-7]* //' -e 's/ //g' -e 's/.$//' | head -n -1 \ >/tmp/full_random Result: -rw-r--r-- 1 thomas thomas 329728 Nov 11 20:49 /tmp/full_random This file consists by

Re: Are there still machines with PAGE_SHIFT 16 or larger ?

2020-11-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
tachment content guidelines. o2si2723031wru.291 - gsmtp Just make the ISO on the little-endian machine and copy it to the big-endian one. Then it should really work ... i hope ... Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Are there still machines with PAGE_SHIFT 16 or larger ?

2020-11-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
). But a compelling reason for -EIO has still to be found. Whatever, first i need to see what your kernel gets to see. I.e. the ISO. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Are there still machines with PAGE_SHIFT 16 or larger ?

2020-11-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to answer my own question whether bytes were delivered: The strace shows that there were none. The first read of 32 KiB already fails. Hopefully a useful hint. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Are there still machines with PAGE_SHIFT 16 or larger ?

2020-11-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
a lot for doing it now. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: partman hanging - was: Re: hfsprogs: Removal of sys/sysctl.h

2020-11-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
program creates a fifo /var/lib/partman/infifo for receiving its commands. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Are there still machines with PAGE_SHIFT 16 or larger ?

2020-11-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
filesystem image by the fs/isofs driver of the Linux kernel. Probably this will not be the case for a user account on a public service. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Are there still machines with PAGE_SHIFT 16 or larger ?

2020-11-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
pile time macro, wherever i find it in the source. The page sizes in init_64.c are run-time values. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Are there still machines with PAGE_SHIFT 16 or larger ?

2020-11-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
in practice. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: hfsprogs: Removal of sys/sysctl.h

2020-11-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
mount: special device /dev/sr7 does not exist rather than mount: mounting /dev/sr0 on /cdrom faiked: No such device So, not regarding the s/failed/faiked/ discrepancy, what kind of mount program issued that message ? Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: hfsprogs: Removal of sys/sysctl.h

2020-11-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
om the 8th of > November in the meantime. So my example with dd bs=2048 count=160103 if=/dev/sr0 | sha512sum might need a count number other than 160103. Compute it freshly from the new ISO's file size. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: hfsprogs: Removal of sys/sysctl.h

2020-11-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
the size of the ISO ? The padding adds data which alter the checksum. Try: dd bs=2048 count=160103 if=/dev/sr0 | sha512sum Normally a hardware problem should cause an i/o error with dd. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: hfsprogs: Removal of sys/sysctl.h

2020-11-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
programmer who feels discriminated by ioctl(BLKRRPART) not working with /dev/sr. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: hfsprogs: Removal of sys/sysctl.h

2020-11-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
ility of sectors as data blocks [PATCH 3/3] sr: detect CD TAO Run-out blocks and correct device capacity if needed Currently based on 5.9-rc2. Works fine with various drives. Lengthy cover letter and commit messages. Like this mail. Sorry for that. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Installation media couldn't be mounted

2020-10-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
: 'Debian 10.0.0 ppc n' it is quite clear that the copy mode was plain "dd" and not unpacking. (xorriso will by default not touch /dev/ files which are not optical drives. The prefix "stdio:" tells it that the user is aware of the non-CD nature of the device.) Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Installation media couldn't be mounted

2020-10-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
single Apple partition (size 363802 KiB) with HFS (not HFS+), - APM block size is 512 (i.e. the HFS might be mountable by Linux). Can the installed system mount the 10.0.0 ISO from USB stick partition 1 ? Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Installation media couldn't be mounted

2020-10-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
6362 KiB. This size does not match the display from /proc/partitions either. The MBR partition begins at LBA 0. So the block addresses in the ISO 9660 should work with /dev/sdb and /dev/sdb1 alike. Well, /dev/sdb1 doesn't. ------- Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Looking for a PCI (not PCIe) card for (non-raid) SATA that is compatible with PowerMac G4

2020-07-17 Thread Rick Thomas
Or, if not with the firmware installed, where can I find instructions for installing the firmware? Thanks again, Rick On Fri, Jul 17, 2020, at 6:11 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > Sounds great! > > Now, where can I buy one of these cards -- hopefully with the new firmware > already inst

Re: Looking for a PCI (not PCIe) card for (non-raid) SATA that is compatible with PowerMac G4

2020-07-17 Thread Rick Thomas
G5 Quad working as the same phylosophy as i > described before. > The same is fo all card and device. GPU usb3 and so and so. > > Ciao > Gigi Burdo > > > > *Da:* Romain Dolbeau > *Inviato:* giovedì 16 luglio 2020 13:45 > *A:* Rick Thomas > *Cc:* PowerP

Looking for a PCI (not PCIe) card for (non-raid) SATA that is compatible with PowerMac G4

2020-07-15 Thread Rick Thomas
I have an old PowerMac G4 "Silver" (PowerMac3,4 533 MHz) running Debian Jessie, that I'd like to put a couple of SATA disks into. That means I need a SATA controller card that will fit in one of its PCI (not PCIe) slots. It also needs to be to be compatible with the PowerMac Open Firmware BIOS

Re: Debian live

2020-07-14 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks! I'll take a look. I'm an experienced sysadmin, but I'm not a developer; so I might need some help figuring this out. Can I email you (Elimar) for occasional hints? Rick On Sun, Jul 12, 2020, at 5:38 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Rick Thomas [2020-07-11 16:23

Re: Debian live

2020-07-11 Thread Rick Thomas
The more general-purpose the "live" system can be the better. Ideally, it should be possible to boot from the live CD/DVD, while at the same time having a specially formatted USB stick inserted which would provide "persistent" storage for the booted system -- leaving the disk drive(s) of the sy

Re: Installing Jessie on PowerMac G4 (32 bit) -- expired key

2020-06-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020, at 12:29 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 6/23/20 9:07 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > >> W: GPG error: http://archive.debian.org jessie Release: The following > >> signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1587841717 > > > > And it still isn

Re: Installing Jessie on PowerMac G4 (32 bit) -- expired key

2020-06-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020, at 11:36 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > If setting it in apt.conf doesn't work, try setting > "APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated "true";": > > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/74345/how-do-i-bypass-ignore-the-gpg-signature-checks-of-apt Well... that seems to work.

Re: Installing Jessie on PowerMac G4 (32 bit) -- expired key

2020-06-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020, at 11:36 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 6/23/20 8:27 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Unfortunately, as you can see, I still get the warning. > > > > I have a vague recollection of seeing something somewhere (I know -- I'm > > sorry I

Re: Installing Jessie on PowerMac G4 (32 bit) -- expired key

2020-06-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020, at 11:29 PM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > You might also want to try this: > https://linux-audit.com/how-to-solve-an-expired-key-keyexpired-with-apt/ > https://futurestud.io/tutorials/fix-ubuntu-debian-apt-get-keyexpired-the-following-signatures-were-invalid > https://www.reddit

Re: Installing Jessie on PowerMac G4 (32 bit) -- expired key

2020-06-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020, at 2:35 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello Rick! > > On 6/19/20 10:59 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > So my second question is: How do I get it to proceed automatically in spite > > of the expired key? > > You can set this optio

Re: Installing Jessie on PowerMac G4 (32 bit) -- expired key

2020-06-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020, at 12:18 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > Make it > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free > > Beste regards, > Jeroen Diederen Thanks. it looks like this now deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib I have no idea

Installing Jessie on PowerMac G4 (32 bit) -- expired key

2020-06-19 Thread Rick Thomas
I need to install Jessie powerpc (32-bit) on a G4 powermac. (And before you ask, yes it needs to be Jessie – just for a couple of months. Then I will be able to install Adrian’s Sid from Ports.) But I’m running up against some roadblocks. Any help will be greatly appreciated! When the installer

local source-code repository

2020-05-17 Thread Thomas Grzybowski
n't know what it is! Can someone help me create a local source code repository with reprepro, or is there a better way? Thank you, Thomas Grzybowski

Re: Obtaining private key

2020-05-16 Thread Thomas Grzybowski
Thank you, Now I understand. Tom ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, May 16, 2020 6:36 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 5/16/20 2:55 AM, Thomas Grzybowski wrote: > > > So, if I understand this correctly, I need a private key from a developer >

Obtaining private key

2020-05-15 Thread Thomas Grzybowski
e key from a developer in order to compile packages with this tool? (probably other tools as well). My question is: how do I obtain such a key? Does someone here volunteer a key or is there a process? Thanks much, Thomas Grzybowski

Re: Make Debian Sid cdimage download more obvious in official powerpc port page?

2020-05-15 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks for this! A useful history. But I think some links for the references would be very helpful. Rick On Fri, May 15, 2020, at 12:18 PM, jjhdiederen wrote: > I made a little progress. I edited the index.wml file in > webwml/english/ports/powerpc and made the corresponding html file. It > l

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

2020-05-15 Thread Thomas Grzybowski
Hi, I'm trying to compile some packages on my own, using the Debian dak (with postgresql) tool for the local repository. I had a bit of trouble installing dak, but got it working. Now, following the instructions in the READme, I see: import some developer keys. Either import from keyservers

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020, at 6:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > I will be submitting soon a separate bug report for the disk-drive > weirdness on the G4. (Any ideas on what's going on there?) Done. Bug#958649. Hope it helps! Rick

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020, at 1:35 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Note: The official way to report about a successful installation is using > "installation-reports", see [1]. This way, your report doesn't get lost. Done. Bug#958527 . This is only the report for the successful install on the G

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020, at 11:30 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2020-04-19/ Works great fresh out of the box on my PowerMac G5 "PowerMac7,3" -- Congratulations! Let me know if you want log files or other data from that installation. I then tr

Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

2020-04-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, at 9:18 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/20/20 6:02 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > > Yes, I forgot to checkout the mac-support branch. Here are the new results: > > > > root@lombard:/data/software/powerpc-utils# ./scripts/ofpathname --version > > ofpathname: Ve

Re: Repository address for netinst

2020-04-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Rick > > What about this? > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ jessie contrib main non-free > > Does it work for you? > > Cheers > > Il giorno dom 19 apr 2020 alle ore 11:35 Rick Thomas > ha scritto: >> __ >> Hi Gianluca, >> >> Colto

Re: Repository address for netinst

2020-04-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Gianluca, Colton (and I) want to use Jessie (Debian 8) because it is the last working Debian version that supports powerpc and ppc64. Unfortunately, the repo at http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ only has unreleased, unstable, and experimental. Nothing there that looks like it is usab

Re: ofpath vs ofpathname vs grub-ofpathname

2020-04-19 Thread Rick Thomas
No problem! It was a fun adventure tracking it down! (-; On Sun, Apr 19, 2020, at 1:41 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > On 19.04.20 10:36, Rick Thomas wrote: > > OK > > > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020, at 11:47 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > >> You need to use the `ofpathname`

Re: ofpath vs ofpathname vs grub-ofpathname

2020-04-19 Thread Rick Thomas
OK On Sat, Apr 18, 2020, at 11:47 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > Hi Rick, > > nice to hear from you! > > On 19.04.20 00:10, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020, at 1:58 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> You should test with ofpathname as well. &g

Re: ofpath vs ofpathname vs grub-ofpathname

2020-04-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020, at 1:58 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > You should test with ofpathname as well. OK, I will. Is there an updated version of ofpathname I should be using? If so how do I get it? Thanks! Rick

Re: ofpath vs ofpathname vs grub-ofpathname

2020-04-18 Thread Rick Thomas
OK here it is with the fixed ofpath... rbthomas@kmac:~/tmp/usr/sbin$ ./ofpath /dev/sda /ht@0,f200/pci@5/k2-sata-root@c/@0/@0 rbthomas@kmac:~/tmp/usr/sbin$ ./ofpath /dev/sdb /ht@0,f200/pci@5/k2-sata-root@c/@1/@0 rbthomas@kmac:~/tmp/usr/sbin$ ./ofpath /dev/sda1 /ht@0,f200/pci@5/k2-sata-r

Re: ofpath vs ofpathname vs grub-ofpathname

2020-04-17 Thread Rick Thomas
> > Now, the only test I would like to see is whether ofpath sees a difference > > between "sda" and "sdb" because apparently, Romain got identical paths > > with ofpathname for both his disks. Here's what I ge on my PowerMacc7,3 PCI-X machine It appears that ofpath gives the same answer for bot

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