Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-09 Thread Finn Thain
On Sun, 9 Jun 2019, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > On 6/9/19 8:07 PM, Finn Thain wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Jun 2019, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > > ... > >> > >> Please see Centris-650.txt, attached. I suspect SCSI requires an > >> initrd with this kernel. It would probably work with a > >> non-installati

Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-09 Thread userm57
On 6/9/19 8:07 PM, Finn Thain wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jun 2019, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > ... >> >> Please see Centris-650.txt, attached. I suspect SCSI requires an initrd >> with this kernel. It would probably work with a non-installation >> initrd. >> > > Right. You'd need a post-installation ini

Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-09 Thread Finn Thain
On Sun, 9 Jun 2019, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > > >> After one of the failures, I tried booting into the new system. > >> Booting using the kernel from the CD didn't work -- there was a > >> two-minute pause, which ended in a kernel panic after not finding a > >> root filesystem (or any SCSI de

Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-09 Thread userm57
On 6/9/19 6:11 PM, Finn Thain wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jun 2019, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > ... > > Note that 2 GB of swap is excessive. If the system needs that much swap > then it will have effectively locked up anyway because writing and reading > that much storage at 0.5 MBps takes hours (not incl

Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-09 Thread Finn Thain
On Sun, 9 Jun 2019, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > The mailing list seems to have munged my message, adding extra question > marks. I'm not sure why, maybe because my mail client formatted the > message in HTML instead of plain text (sorry about that). > Probably something to do with Thunderbird

Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-09 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 03:25:41PM -0600, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi Christian, > > On 6/9/19 3:09 PM, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > ... > > > > I haven't booted an m68k machine in a while, so I am not too qualified to > > comment on the current setup. I am impressed by the effort you put i

Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-09 Thread userm57
Hi Christian, On 6/9/19 3:09 PM, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > ... > > I haven't booted an m68k machine in a while, so I am not too qualified to > comment on the current setup. I am impressed by the effort you put in, it > seems you are very close to a working system. Yes, thanks. I believe I

Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-09 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 02:16:19PM -0600, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > The mailing list seems to have munged my message, adding extra question > marks. I'm not sure why, maybe because my mail client formatted the > message in HTML instead of plain text (sorry about that). > > Anyway, here it is

Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-09 Thread userm57
The mailing list seems to have munged my message, adding extra question marks. I'm not sure why, maybe because my mail client formatted the message in HTML instead of plain text (sorry about that). Anyway, here it is again, hopefully this will be more readable. And BTW, I'm not complaining about

Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation

2019-06-09 Thread userm57
Hello, I'm trying to install "http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-05-24/debian-10.0-m68k-NETINST-1.iso" on a Centris 650 (136 MB, 4 GB root partition, 2 GB swap partition).?? My plan was to install and configure everything on the 650 (including replacing