Re: EMILE package testers sought

2008-02-13 Thread Finn Thain
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:47:12PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > > What is /debian/boot? Is that part of the initrd? Or are you saying > > that /boot could be initialized as HFS during partitioning? Penguin > > can use a kernel on HFS of course -- I w

Re: EMILE package testers sought

2008-02-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:47:12PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > What is /debian/boot? Is that part of the initrd? Or are you saying that > /boot could be initialized as HFS during partitioning? Penguin can use a > kernel on HFS of course -- I wonder if emile can? > > If you make /boot HFS, the ker

Re: EMILE package testers sought

2008-02-05 Thread Eugen Paiuc
Finn Thain wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Eugen Paiuc wrote: What is /debian/boot? I boot in macos on /dev/hda8 , debian is in /dev/hda5 (/dev/hda6 = data /dev/hda7 = swap ) Originaly mac dont't show any linux partition, so for the user, linux is invisible. After useing emile macos

Re: EMILE package testers sought

2008-02-04 Thread Brad Boyer
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 02:52:21PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > But I remember using HFS+ for a linux root filesystem (around 2.6.22, I > was dual booting Mac OS X) and it ended up getting corrupted (a pity, > because it was certainly fast enough for the task). I don't know whether > the kernel go

Re: EMILE package testers sought

2008-02-04 Thread Finn Thain
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Eugen Paiuc wrote: > > > What is /debian/boot? > > I boot in macos on /dev/hda8 , debian is in /dev/hda5 (/dev/hda6 = data > /dev/hda7 = swap ) > > Originaly mac dont't show any linux partition, so for the user, linux is > invisible. > > After useing emile macos himself

Re: EMILE package testers sought

2008-02-04 Thread Eugen Paiuc
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Eugen Paiuc wrote: /Hi Wouter, /> Thanks. I've been working on getting the Centris 650 to work with 2.6, > but $WORK and FOSDEM organization intervened. Thanks for helping me > test; I'm uploading these packages as I write this. I thanks you and Laurent for emile package.

Re: EMILE package testers sought

2008-02-04 Thread Finn Thain
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:47:12PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > > If you make /boot HFS, the kernel is limited to a read-only mount, and > > so you'd need special tools to write to it: hfsprogs, hfsplus and/or > > hfsutils. So installing kernel debs isn't

Re: EMILE package testers sought

2008-02-04 Thread Brad Boyer
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:47:12PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > If you make /boot HFS, the kernel is limited to a read-only mount, and so > you'd need special tools to write to it: hfsprogs, hfsplus and/or > hfsutils. So installing kernel debs isn't going to be much easier. The 2.6 kernels should h

Re: EMILE package testers sought

2008-02-04 Thread Finn Thain
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Eugen Paiuc wrote: > /Hi Wouter, > /> Thanks. I've been working on getting the Centris 650 to work with 2.6, > > but $WORK and FOSDEM organization intervened. Thanks for helping me > > test; I'm uploading these packages as I write this. > > I thanks you and Laurent for emil

Re: EMILE package testers sought

2008-02-04 Thread Eugen Paiuc
/Hi Wouter, /> Thanks. I've been working on getting the Centris 650 to work with 2.6, > but $WORK and FOSDEM organization intervened. Thanks for helping me > test; I'm uploading these packages as I write this. I thanks you and Laurent for emile package. Now you may put emile on cd-roms from

Re: EMILE package testers sought

2008-02-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 11:52:31PM +0100, Eugen Paiuc wrote: > Eugen Paiuc wrote: >> > After upgrade to sid , I'll test emile 0.11-1 on the SCSI disk on a >> quadra 630 . > q630's password: > Linux localhost 2.6.24-1-mac #1 Fri Feb 1 00:14:53 CET 2008 m68k > $ dpkg -l | grep emile > ii emile

Re: EMILE package testers sought

2008-02-03 Thread Eugen Paiuc
Eugen Paiuc wrote: > After upgrade to sid , I'll test emile 0.11-1 on the SCSI disk on a quadra 630 . q630's password: Linux localhost 2.6.24-1-mac #1 Fri Feb 1 00:14:53 CET 2008 m68k $ dpkg -l | grep emile ii emile0.11-1 the Early Mac Image LoadEr ii emil

Re: EMILE package testers sought

2008-02-02 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 08:40:10AM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:05:42PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > > > > I had thought that all relevant patches made it into one debian kernel or > > another. > > I try to take whatever patches I find on Geerts page. Perhaps I

Re: EMILE package testers sought

2008-02-02 Thread Eugen Paiuc
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:05:42PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: I had thought that all relevant patches made it into one debian kernel or another. I try to take whatever patches I find on Geerts page. Perhaps I missed something or it is not listed there. I remember something about missing headers

Re: EMILE package testers sought

2008-02-01 Thread Finn Thain
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Wouter Verhelst wrote: [snip] > > > - A Quadra 950. Support for this machine has always been poor, so > > > I'm not really using it these days. Also, the emile build which is > > > in the archive today and which worked on my IIci didn't work on > > > the Quadra 950,

Re: EMILE package testers sought

2008-02-01 Thread Laurent Vivier
Le 1 févr. 08 à 20:20, Eugen Paiuc a écrit : Hi , I tested emile 0.11-1 on quadra 630, only for boot from harddisk, but he stop at first stage : showing the smile of the "mac-head", i do not know if it is of cause of ide harddisk , or faults in my handings regards, Hi, I've ne

Re: EMILE package testers sought

2008-02-01 Thread Eugen Paiuc
Hi , I tested emile 0.11-1 on quadra 630, only for boot from harddisk, but he stop at first stage : showing the smile of the "mac-head", i do not know if it is of cause of ide harddisk , or faults in my handings regards, --ee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: EMILE package testers sought

2008-01-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:05:42PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm having a bit of an issue: the EMILE packages have had RC bugs filed > > against them for a while now. They're small problems, but in order to be > > able to fix them,

Re: EMILE package testers sought

2008-01-28 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:05:42PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > > I had thought that all relevant patches made it into one debian kernel or > another. I try to take whatever patches I find on Geerts page. Perhaps I missed something or it is not listed there. I remember something about missing head

Re: EMILE package testers sought

2008-01-28 Thread Finn Thain
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a bit of an issue: the EMILE packages have had RC bugs filed > against them for a while now. They're small problems, but in order to be > able to fix them, I need something which I don't appear to have: a > machine able to run