Re: potato r3 is out, includes working boot floppies (was: Re: new potato boot-floppies)
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:53:47AM -0700, Tovar wrote: > > For people who care about powerpc stuff > > > [snip] > > > > http://www.netfall.com/powerpc > > > > Download the file boot-floppy-oldworld.img > > > > just to let people know, potato r3 has been released yesterday, and > with it comes fixed boot floppies that work on OldWorld again. > > you do not need the above unofficial image any longer, instead use the > 2.2.23 boot floppies in potato r3. I tried the new installation floppy on a G3 powermac with ADB keyboard. The good point is that, it does allow you to issue the enter command and install the root floppy image. The bad point is that network install (nfs/network) is broken. Worse, I when I insert the floppy for taken form powermac directory driver-1.img, it request me a different floppy... Any idea? -- __ / ` Eric Valette - Canon CRF /-- __ o _. Canon Development Europe Team Leader (___, / (_(_(__ Rue de la touche lambert 35517 Cesson-Sevigne Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)2 99 87 68 91 Fax: +33 (0)2 99 84 11 30 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crf.canon.fr
Mising Package on debian PPC
Package: gs Version: 5.10-9 Package: cvs Version: 1.10.7-4 --- Deselect output --- Obsolete/local Required packages in section base *** Req base libreadlineg 2.1-19 q Obsolete/local Optional packages q qqq Obsolete/local Optional packages in section devel qqq *** Opt develcvs 1.10.7-4 qqq Obsolete/local Optional packages in section graphics qqq *** Opt graphics libungif3g 3.0-2.4 qqq Obsolete/local Optional packages in section text qqq *** Opt text gs 5.10-9 *** Opt text gv 3.5.8-15 qqq Obsolete/local Optional packages in section web qqq *** Opt web apache 1.3.9-12 *** Opt web apache-commo 1.3.9-12 q Obsolete/local Extra packages q qqq Obsolete/local Extra packages in section utils qqq *** Xtr utilskbd 0.99-8 -- __ / ` Eric Valette - Canon CRF /-- __ o _. Canon Development Europe Team Leader (___, / (_(_(__ Rue de la touche lambert 35517 Cesson-Sevigne Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)2 99 87 68 91 Fax: +33 (0)2 99 84 11 30 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crf.canon.fr
Debian 2.2 Installer kernel image for MCP750
If someone give me an FTP access somewhere, I can upload a linux+ramdisk image enabling to install potato on motorola MCP750 via PPCBUG. kernel = 2.2.17pre9 + MCP750 specific patches... -- __ / ` Eric Valette - Canon CRF /-- __ o _. Canon Development Europe Team Leader (___, / (_(_(__ Rue de la touche lambert 35517 Cesson-Sevigne Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)2 99 87 68 91 Fax: +33 (0)2 99 84 11 30 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crf.canon.fr
Bug in powerpc version of pdksh
Linux ppc2target 2.1.129 #112 Mon Dec 7 20:42:22 CET 1998 ppc unknown debian slink powerpc version. package pdksh version 5.2.13 The distibuted binary crash at initialization due to bogus use of sys_siglist variable that is initialized with zero value. To fix the problem the folowing patch to config.h (yes I know it is dynamically generated but you should be able to report it in config.h.in). $ diff config.h~ config.h 149c149 < #define HAVE_SYS_SIGLIST 1 --- > -- __ / ` Eric Valette /-- __ o _. Canon CRF (___, / (_(_(__ Rue de la touche lambert 35517 Cesson-Sevigne Cedex FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)2 99 87 68 91 Fax: +33 (0)2 99 84 11 30 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
