On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:07:01AM +0200, Robert Jordens wrote:
No, the dfsbuild packages modified to build the powerpc version, (the
source package of the -rj* versions) ?
The Source is under Arch:
http://people.debian.org/~jordens/tla/debian/2004/
dfsbuild--jordens--0.5
If you want
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[Wed, 09 Jun 2004] John Goerzen wrote:
Robert and I sync up trees frequently. If you're working on PowerPC
stuff, it makes sense for you to use Robert's tree. (Robert, do please
drop me an e-mail if you notice I haven't synced with you for awhile and
there's stuff to go in.)
Sure.
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[Tue, 08 Jun 2004] Sven Luther wrote:
should work, right? How is /usr/lib/kernel-image-version generated?
It is contained in the kernel-image, together with the modules and the
kernel, so you just get them at the same time. Eventually, you unpack
the kernel-imahe somewhere, and use
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:07:01AM +0200, Robert Jordens wrote:
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[Tue, 08 Jun 2004] Sven Luther wrote:
should work, right? How is /usr/lib/kernel-image-version generated?
It is contained in the kernel-image, together with the modules and the
kernel, so you just get them at the
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 09:32:10PM +0200, Robert Jordens wrote:
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[Sat, 05 Jun 2004] Sven Luther wrote:
And finally, i have 0.6.4-rj3, and it refuses to boot on my ibook,
either by using the c key or by launching yaboot from the OF. IT speaks
about MAC-PART or something such not
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 06:40:12AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
Bad, bad, bad. You are doing boot cd:,\boot\yaboot from OF, right?
(its not \install as on regular debian cds).
Yeah, directly copied from your other mail. I had trouble finding the
back-/ at first, as it seems to be inexistant
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:06:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
reimplementation using the discover database), as the debian-installer
does.
Well, the purposes of DFS and of debian-installer are a little
different.
DFS explicitly does *not* do hardware autodetection on boot, though it
prints out
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[Mon, 07 Jun 2004] John Goerzen wrote:
DFS explicitly does *not* do hardware autodetection on boot, though it
prints out a message on boot telling the user how to run discover or
hotplug. The reason is that, as a recovery tool, you may not want to
attempt this discovery (and that
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[Mon, 07 Jun 2004] John Goerzen wrote:
Yes. I agree! In fact, that's why I started the project. I guess it's
a little confusing to use DFS to refer both to the standard DFS ISOs
and to the build system.
dfsbuild is already very far along that path, with the sets of packages
(save
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:49:02PM +0200, Robert Jordens wrote:
DFS kernels also omit things that are not necessary for
installation/repair work. For instance, sound and video4linux are
completely disabled. The DFS kernels are here to give people a live,
working system to use to repair
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:58:02AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
dfsbuild is already very far along that path, with the sets of packages
(save for the base system) fully configurable, kernels configurable too,
etc.
I should add that I view dfsbuild as a far more useful tool than the
custom
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 06:13:56PM +0200, Robert Jordens wrote:
[Mon, 07 Jun 2004] John Goerzen wrote:
I should add that I view dfsbuild as a far more useful tool than the
custom remastering hack that Knoppix uses. dfsbuild is scriptable and
does its entire job without any user
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[Sat, 05 Jun 2004] Sven Luther wrote:
Robert, could you please add the code to generate the non pmac images
also ? You need :
1) access to the vmlinux kernel (i suppose you get it from the
kernel-image-2.6.6-powerpc, right ?).
2) access to the initrd.
3) access to
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:27:27AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:06:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
reimplementation using the discover database), as the debian-installer
does.
Well, the purposes of DFS and of debian-installer are a little
different.
DFS
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:25:01AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 06:13:56PM +0200, Robert Jordens wrote:
[Mon, 07 Jun 2004] John Goerzen wrote:
I should add that I view dfsbuild as a far more useful tool than the
custom remastering hack that Knoppix uses. dfsbuild
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 07:06:38PM +0200, Robert Jordens wrote:
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[Sat, 05 Jun 2004] Sven Luther wrote:
Robert, could you please add the code to generate the non pmac images
also ? You need :
1) access to the vmlinux kernel (i suppose you get it from the
Hello!
[Sat, 05 Jun 2004] Sven Luther wrote:
And finally, i have 0.6.4-rj3, and it refuses to boot on my ibook,
either by using the c key or by launching yaboot from the OF. IT speaks
about MAC-PART or something such not finding a filesystem.
Bad, bad, bad. You are doing boot cd:,\boot\yaboot
I have downloaded the ppc iso today.
So far I can report that the disk fails to boot the following devices
New World G3 Pismo Powerbook
New World G3 Imac
Old World 9600 ppc
The disk appear as a valid HFS standard disk on a MacOS desktop however
I can't provide any more info about the boot
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 01:23:35AM +0200, Robert Jordens wrote:
Hello!
John Goerzen and I have made Debian From Scratch (DFS) available for
PowerPC machines. You would do us a big favour if you could test this
first image and give suggestions. I only have my Powerbook G4 Alu
available as
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 04:39:23PM +1000, david howe wrote:
I have downloaded the ppc iso today.
So far I can report that the disk fails to boot the following devices
New World G3 Pismo Powerbook
New World G3 Imac
Old World 9600 ppc
The disk appear as a valid HFS standard disk on a MacOS
Hello!
[Sat, 05 Jun 2004] david howe wrote:
So far I can report that the disk fails to boot the following devices
New World G3 Pismo Powerbook
New World G3 Imac
Old World 9600 ppc
The disk appear as a valid HFS standard disk on a MacOS desktop however
I can't provide any more info about
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 10:58:25AM +0200, Robert Jordens wrote:
Hello!
[Sat, 05 Jun 2004] david howe wrote:
So far I can report that the disk fails to boot the following devices
New World G3 Pismo Powerbook
New World G3 Imac
Old World 9600 ppc
The disk appear as a valid HFS
fwiw
This pismo boots the debian #1 cd with the c option.
d
On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 18:58, Robert Jordens wrote:
Hello!
[Sat, 05 Jun 2004] david howe wrote:
So far I can report that the disk fails to boot the following devices
New World G3 Pismo Powerbook
New World G3 Imac
Old World
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 04:36:00PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 10:58:25AM +0200, Robert Jordens wrote:
[Sat, 05 Jun 2004] Sven Luther wrote:
Also, i doubt it will work out of the box on old world, Robert, what is
the kernel size, and could you include a miboot image
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 10:38:35AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote:
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 04:36:00PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 10:58:25AM +0200, Robert Jordens wrote:
[Sat, 05 Jun 2004] Sven Luther wrote:
Also, i doubt it will work out of the box on old world, Robert,
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[Sat, 05 Jun 2004] Sven Luther wrote:
Well, you mean it only refuses to boot when you insert the disk and old
the 'c' key ? Does yaboot show up ? I guess not, is the iso HFS blessed
or some other magic ?
It doesnt boot into yaboot with just c on my PowerBook5,2 G4 Alu
either. I have
Hello!
John Goerzen and I have made Debian From Scratch (DFS) available for
PowerPC machines. You would do us a big favour if you could test this
first image and give suggestions. I only have my Powerbook G4 Alu
available as victim.
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