RE: Update Debian Ports installation images 2021-04-14

2021-08-22 Thread Carlos Milán Figueredo
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > Please note that there are two IDE drivers for the Gayle controller in > the 5.10.x kernel used in Debian unstable. The legacy IDE driver called > "gayle" and the new driver "pata_gayle". The legacy IDE drivers will be > dropped with the kernel 5.14 release [1]. > > So

Re: Update Debian Ports installation images 2021-04-14

2021-08-22 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 8/22/21 2:34 AM, Carlos Milán Figueredo wrote: >> Afterwards it proceeds to install the base system, but eventually hangs >> up in one of the "Retrieving x" packages, never going beyond 6% due >> to seek errors on the CD-ROM through A1200 Gayle IDE driver (I guess due >> to something

Re: Update Debian Ports installation images 2021-04-14

2021-08-22 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 8/21/21 4:47 AM, Carlos Milán Figueredo wrote: > I guess my best bet would be to try the hd-media initrd, but I tried to copy > the > ISO to a FAT16 partition in the Amiga RDB disk and the d-i was not able to > detect it. The hd-media installer can be found in the debian-installer-ima

Re: Update Debian Ports installation images 2021-04-14

2021-08-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Carlos Milán Figueredo: > I gave up with the hd-media initrd, so for the time being I don't know > how I could install the system on a real Amiga without preparing the > HDD on the PC via WinUAE. For people w/o a (Win)UAE license: Debian's kernels still (as of bullseye) have support for RDB parti

RE: Update Debian Ports installation images 2021-04-14

2021-08-21 Thread Carlos Milán Figueredo
More progress made :) > > It looks like it has something to do with the harddisk size. I did > > another test with a 2GB harddrive, 512 MB AFFS and the rest free. This > > time the partition tool was able to detect the partitions and create > > the new ones [2]. > > I was able to overcome the iss

RE: Update Debian Ports installation images 2021-04-14

2021-08-20 Thread Carlos Milán Figueredo
Hi again, I have some progress :) > It looks like it has something to do with the harddisk size. I did > another test with a 2GB harddrive, 512 MB AFFS and the rest free. This > time the partition tool was able to detect the partitions and create the > new ones [2]. I was able to overcome the is

RE: Update Debian Ports installation images 2021-04-14

2021-08-18 Thread Carlos Milán Figueredo
Hi Adrian, > You should let the installer partition your hard disk, just let the > Amiga create the the affs partitions. But in any case the installer should detect existing partitions, right? I don't want to delete my AmigaOS install on the AFFS partitions :) > $ cat /proc/partitions It prope

Re: Update Debian Ports installation images 2021-04-14

2021-08-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Carlos! On 8/18/21 3:09 AM, Carlos Milán Figueredo wrote: > First, thank you for the great work you do with the NetInst images for m68k, > I really appreciate the effort of keeping Linux alive on this architecture. You're welcome. > I should have on my hands shortly a 060 accelerator for m

RE: Update Debian Ports installation images 2021-04-14

2021-08-17 Thread Carlos Milán Figueredo
Hi Adrian, First, thank you for the great work you do with the NetInst images for m68k, I really appreciate the effort of keeping Linux alive on this architecture. I should have on my hands shortly a 060 accelerator for my Amiga 1200 that would allow me to test the image on real hardware. Meanw