Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-26 Thread Christian Müller
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

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-25 Thread Holger Levsen
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

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-25 Thread gio
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/ X-Copyrighted-Material: Please visit http://www.email.it/ita/privacy.html which image have you used to boot: vmlinux or vmlinuz-chr

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-24 Thread Christian Müller
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'

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-24 Thread Christian Müller
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

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-21 Thread Holger Levsen
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

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-20 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
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). >

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-20 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-20 Thread Holger Levsen
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

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-20 Thread Holger Levsen
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,

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-20 Thread Holger Levsen
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 pgp1HPYA1i1ja.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-19 Thread Sven Luther
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

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-19 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-19 Thread John Schmidt
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

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-19 Thread Rick Thomas
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

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-19 Thread Holger Levsen
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

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
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

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
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

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Holger Levsen
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

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
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

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Lucas Rossi
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.

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Holger Levsen
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

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Lucas Rossi
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

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Holger Levsen
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 pgpIWfpOpCm0y.pgp

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Lucas Rossi
Unfortunately the images didn't work, man...I just tested here... =/ 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

miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Holger Levsen
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