Holger Levsen wrote:
I tried lot's of floppy images floating around lately but must have
missed the ones that work ;-) Unfortunately ~wouter seems to have given
up on the floppy building part (assumption made on the fact that there
is netboot, cdrom, mini-iso, etc. but no floppy images). Anyway
Hi,
On Monday 25 December 2006 06:40, Christian Müller wrote:
> I've just successfully tested the --boot d-i set of files-- @
> http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc/20061224-03:00/powerpc/cdrom/
>
> method: BootX under MacOS9, video=ofonly
> machine: Beige G3 desktop model, openfirmware ve
Christian Müller wrote:
I've just successfully tested the --boot d-i set of files-- @
http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc/20061224-03:00/powerpc/cdrom/
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which image have you used to boot: vmlinux or vmlinuz-chr
Christian Müller wrote:
I've just successfully tested the --boot d-i set of files-- @
http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc/20061224-03:00/powerpc/cdrom/
method: BootX under MacOS9, video=ofonly
machine: Beige G3 desktop model, openfirmware version 2.4
Sorry for the split post..
It'
Holger Levsen wrote:
I think I have the needed wiki-skilz and created a table on
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/PowerPC/OldWorld - but I haven't
included real data yet... (also the table columns need to be improved...)
It's Christmas ;-) .. Happy Holidays
I've just successfully tes
Moin,
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 21:05, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > listing the working reports and not working ones, or something.
> > Then give out
> > a call for testers of the last daily-builds.
> That would be a good idea. Unfortunately I don't have the time or
> the HTML skills to do such a t
On Dec 20, 2006, at 7:17 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Well, i think what would be interesting is maybe to have a wiki
page, listing
a cross table of all tested models, and the different boot methods,
and
listing the working reports and not working ones, or something.
Then give out
a call for te
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 07:05:46AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Hi Sven,
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:16 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> >What is really needed is for confirmation with the current kernels
> >that :
> >
> > 1) miboot booting works (or not).
> >
> > 2) bootx booting works (or not).
>
Hi Sven,
On Dec 20, 2006, at 2:16 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
What is really needed is for confirmation with the current kernels
that :
1) miboot booting works (or not).
2) bootx booting works (or not).
3) quik booting works (or not).
Rick, you have been rather active in this, could i a
Hi,
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 07:43, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Not to put words into his mouth, but I think that is what Holger is
> saying. For the purpose the Sarge floppyset serves, it's enough to
> have just a 2.4 kernel for the installer.
Yes.
> Holger seems to reply "Why bother?"
I rather
Hi,
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 00:25, Rick Thomas wrote:
> There are plenty of OldWorld Macs out there (I own 6 of them) that
> would benefit from a kernel 2.6 bootable Sarge floppy-set.
How?`Are you really sure the 2.4 floppies don't work with them?
What I forgot to say in my mail yesterday,
Hi,
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 04:09, John Schmidt wrote:
> I have an oldworld ppc that can't boot from cdrom that would benefit from
> sarge miboot floppies.
download them from http://layer-acht.org/d-i-miboot/
regards,
Holger
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On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 01:43:23AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Actually, you (and I) *can* boot our oldworld PowerMacs from the 2.4
> miboot floppyset. And we can install Sarge from there. We can even
> use it to install a 2.6.8 kernel.
>
> Not to put words into his mouth, but I think that i
On Dec 19, 2006, at 10:09 PM, John Schmidt wrote:
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 07:54, Holger Levsen wrote:
Hi,
On Saturday 16 December 2006 00:52, Sven Luther wrote:
But why? People can install with 2.4 just fine and then later
upgrade
to 2.6, so why do the work and backport it?
Because e
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 07:54, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Saturday 16 December 2006 00:52, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > But why? People can install with 2.4 just fine and then later upgrade
> > > to 2.6, so why do the work and backport it?
> >
> > Because even when using 2.4 floppies, they w
On Dec 19, 2006, at 9:54 AM, Holger Levsen wrote:
Hi,
On Saturday 16 December 2006 00:52, Sven Luther wrote:
But why? People can install with 2.4 just fine and then later
upgrade to
2.6, so why do the work and backport it?
Because even when using 2.4 floppies, they will install the 2.6.8
Hi,
On Saturday 16 December 2006 00:52, Sven Luther wrote:
> > But why? People can install with 2.4 just fine and then later upgrade to
> > 2.6, so why do the work and backport it?
> Because even when using 2.4 floppies, they will install the 2.6.8 kernels,
> so it is best to have the same kernel
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 11:21:53PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Friday 15 December 2006 21:37, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Notice that the 2.6 sarge d-i image had a bug which was later fixed in the
> > etch/sid version. It has to do with calling mkvmlinuz i think, instead of
> > simply gzi
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 11:21:53PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Friday 15 December 2006 21:37, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Notice that the 2.6 sarge d-i image had a bug which was later fixed in the
> > etch/sid version. It has to do with calling mkvmlinuz i think, instead of
> > simply gzi
Hi,
On Friday 15 December 2006 21:37, Sven Luther wrote:
> Notice that the 2.6 sarge d-i image had a bug which was later fixed in the
> etch/sid version. It has to do with calling mkvmlinuz i think, instead of
> simply gzipping it by hand.
>
> Holger, can you backport the little change from the s
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 01:42:03PM -0200, Lucas Rossi wrote:
>
>
> Citando Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >Hi Lucas,
> >
> >On Friday 15 December 2006 15:32, you wrote:
> >> As I said,
> >
> >you didn't (until now) ;)
>
> Sorry, you probably didn't read my very fisrt mail, that e
Citando Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi Lucas,
On Friday 15 December 2006 15:32, you wrote:
As I said,
you didn't (until now) ;)
Sorry, you probably didn't read my very fisrt mail, that exposed
the problem...
the computer just spits out the disks,
you tried the 2.
Hi Lucas,
On Friday 15 December 2006 15:32, you wrote:
>As I said,
you didn't (until now) ;)
>the computer just spits out the disks,
you tried the 2.4 and 2.6 ones?
> I would think that it's a problem with my
> computer, but I was able to boot from an old Debian disk, I think it
> wa
As I said, the computer just spits out the disks, because it
probably can't boot. I would think that it's a problem with my
computer, but I was able to boot from an old Debian disk, I think it
was woody.
There's no error message, nothing...and since I'm kind of a
beginner I can't help you w
Hi Lucas,
On Friday 15 December 2006 13:30, Lucas Rossi wrote:
>Unfortunately the images didn't work, man...I just tested here...
:-( Thanks for telling though.
Can you say what didn't work / where it failed how? Would probably help to fix
it :)
regards,
Holger
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Unfortunately the images didn't work, man...I just tested here...
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Regards,
Lucas Rossi
Citando Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi,
The miboot enabled d-i sarge floppies for oldworld powerpc are now
available again, you can find them at
http://layer-acht.org/d-i-miboot/
When/if
Hi,
The miboot enabled d-i sarge floppies for oldworld powerpc are now
available again, you can find them at http://layer-acht.org/d-i-miboot/
When/if :) I become a DD, I'll move them to people.d.o and leave a note on
my webserver..
I'll keep them available until lenny (!) is released at l
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