Re: dumb question du jour : installer images or netbootable files?

2018-05-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 05/11/2018 04:59 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 05/11/2018 10:47 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:     I managed to get an older Netra type system in a rack and hooked up serial to the console and the usual process. At this point I am curious about where the very latest network bootable inst

broken link for Debian SPARC Port at https://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/

2018-05-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
No idea who watches the pages at "debian.org" however the sentence : See the Install Manual for information on supported systems, hardware, and how to install Debian. link is https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/ Well that link goes no where. Page not found. Nice 404 error page. dc

Re: dumb question du jour : installer images or netbootable files?

2018-05-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 05/11/2018 04:59 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 05/11/2018 10:47 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:     I managed to get an older Netra type system in a rack and hooked up serial to the console and the usual process. At this point I am curious about where the very latest network bootable inst

Re: Bug#824449: firefox: FTBFS on sparc64 due to wrong platform definitions

2018-05-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 08:49:41PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > With Firefox 60.0 ESR now in experimental, most of the sparc64-related patches > are now part of the upstream source. > > The only patches we actually need are the one to fix skia on big-endian > targets > (I am

Re: Bug#824449: firefox: FTBFS on sparc64 due to wrong platform definitions

2018-05-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 05/11/2018 11:20 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: >> The only patches we actually need are the one to fix skia on big-endian >> targets >> (I am currently in the process of upstreaming this one) and one tiny patch >> to fix an alignment issue on sparc64. > > For the record, the latter was explicitly rej

Re: dumb question du jour : installer images or netbootable files?

2018-05-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 05/11/2018 10:47 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >     I managed to get an older Netra type system in a rack and hooked up > serial to the console and the usual process. At this point I am curious > about where the very latest network bootable install media may be? They are inside the debian-installer

dumb question du jour : installer images or netbootable files?

2018-05-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
Sparc types : I managed to get an older Netra type system in a rack and hooked up serial to the console and the usual process. At this point I am curious about where the very latest network bootable install media may be? As an aside, the last time I even tried linux on sparc was Red Hat zoo

Re: Bug#824449: firefox: FTBFS on sparc64 due to wrong platform definitions

2018-05-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! With Firefox 60.0 ESR now in experimental, most of the sparc64-related patches are now part of the upstream source. The only patches we actually need are the one to fix skia on big-endian targets (I am currently in the process of upstreaming this one) and one tiny patch to fix an alignment i