Re: debootstrapping m68k-coldfire

2008-03-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > Should support, but won't do so. In fact IT world became rather monocultural > when it comes down to architectures. MIPS is dead (except for embedded > systems), arm is embedded only, PowerPC is mostly dead with the exception of > some old PPCs and mai

Re: Uses for m68k Was: Re: debootstrapping m68k-coldfire

2008-03-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Michael Casadevall wrote: > I understand the points. That's why I have suggested creating a custom Debian > Distribution which focused on lighter-weight release for embedded and older > platforms. One thing I always liked about Ubuntu and its releases that you > could install an

Re: debootstrapping m68k-coldfire

2008-03-06 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:55:51AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > > Should support, but won't do so. In fact IT world became rather monocultural > > when it comes down to architectures. MIPS is dead (except for embedded > > systems), arm is embedde

Re: debootstrapping m68k-coldfire

2008-03-06 Thread Michael Casadevall
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:55:51AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: Should support, but won't do so. In fact IT world became rather monocultural when it comes down to architectures. MIPS is dead (except fo

Re: debootstrapping m68k-coldfire

2008-03-06 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 06:12:53AM -0500, Michael Casadevall wrote: > Couple of probles with N-F-Uing KDE/GNOME > While I don't have the numbers infront of me, I won't be suprised we'd > fall apart 90% of the archive required for release, and last I checked, > the Desktop Environment option in

[buildd] The system has no more ptys

2008-03-06 Thread Stephen R Marenka
When you see the error "The system has no more ptys," please check the chroot to see if /dev/pts is mounted. The following equivalent in your fstab should work. /dev/pts /srv/chroot/sid/dev/pts nonebind 0 0 I just added this for sid to crest and kullervo. If someone has a better solution

Re: [buildd] The system has no more ptys

2008-03-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > When you see the error "The system has no more ptys," please check the > chroot to see if /dev/pts is mounted. The following equivalent in your > fstab should work. > > /dev/pts /srv/chroot/sid/dev/pts nonebind 0 0 > > I just added this for

Re: [buildd] The system has no more ptys

2008-03-06 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 04:36:14PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > When you see the error "The system has no more ptys," please check the > > chroot to see if /dev/pts is mounted. The following equivalent in your > > fstab should work. > > > >

Re: [buildd] The system has no more ptys

2008-03-06 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:12:59AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > When you see the error "The system has no more ptys," please check the > chroot to see if /dev/pts is mounted. The following equivalent in your > fstab should work. > > /dev/pts /srv/chroot/sid/dev/pts nonebind 0 0 > >

Re: Planning for the future (was: debootstrapping m68k-coldfire)

2008-03-06 Thread Brian Morris
I would subscribe to an organizational mailing list if you could find a host for That. I also run debian on powerpc which as you may know is officially "embedded" now. I feel compelled to point out that embedded is not a euphemism for slow. the fastest consumer and engineering and research comput