Re: Debian upgrade

2008-04-18 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 23:15:48 +0100, Richard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] > > I've tried that as you suggested, did an apt-get dist-upgrade > > it said it wanted a reboot, which I did and now its not talking. > > Both ping and ssh give no route to host :( > > Possibly time to read all th

Re: Debian upgrade

2008-04-18 Thread Richard
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:52:07 +0100 Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:02:31 +0100 > Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 22:35:28 +0100, Richard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:47:14 +0100 > > > Richard <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Puzzling difference between debian-arm and debian-i386 re growisofs

2008-04-18 Thread Tim Small
Barry Tennison wrote: Do you by any chance have an arm/lenny or arm/sid installation on which you could do the above steps-to-reproduce, with genisoimage v 1.7.1-1 ? I know the maintainer(s) would be much more interested if they know the bug is there in the sid version. And if it isn't, I WI

Re: debian/armel status update

2008-04-18 Thread Frans Pop
Joey Hess wrote: > Riku Voipio wrote: >> - Debian-installer lenny >> >> I'm not quite sure where we are with armel lenny d-i. Can someone >> fill me in? > > armel needs to be usable in testing before it can be released with a d-i > beta or release candidate. However, the daily built images work f

Re: Debian upgrade

2008-04-18 Thread Richard
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:02:31 +0100 Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 22:35:28 +0100, Richard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:47:14 +0100 > > Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I've now replaced my list with yours and its

Re: debian/armel status update

2008-04-18 Thread Joey Hess
Riku Voipio wrote: > - Debian-installer lenny > > I'm not quite sure where we are with armel lenny d-i. Can someone > fill me in? armel needs to be usable in testing before it can be released with a d-i beta or release candidate. However, the daily built images work fine, provided you install uns

Re: Puzzling difference between debian-arm and debian-i386 re growisofs

2008-04-18 Thread Barry Tennison
Tobias Frost wrote: Can you mount a DVD created on i386 on the NSLU? Maybe there is some endian-related issue? Good thinking! Many thanks. Not I think the final solution, but an extra insight onto things. (Please see end of post for a request!) I isolated (before your mail) the problem down t

debian/armel status update

2008-04-18 Thread Riku Voipio
Just a little mail to co-ordinate activities with armel port atm: - Buildd's 5 buildd's (all thecus n2100 based) running. I'm setting up the 6th while writing this. I'm optimistic that these should be enough for the time being. Testing-proposed-updates and testing-security building should start b

Re: Reinstalling debian on n2100

2008-04-18 Thread Kurt Pruenner
Tobias Frost wrote: >> Sorry to barge into this conversation, but I was wondering if you maybe >> could share a few tips about how to configure aptitude on an NSLU2 so >> it's not unbearably slow. > > The initial delay cannot be shortened by configuration. This are > apperantly jobs that have to b

Re: Puzzling difference between debian-arm and debian-i386 re growisofs

2008-04-18 Thread Tobias Frost
Can you mount a DVD created on i386 on the NSLU? Maybe there is some endian-related issue? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] LCD/TFT Displays

2008-04-18 Thread Tobias Frost
As I don't know your application, it could be that this is not suitablefor you, but for the smaller resoltions there are OLED Displays.  (rated for only 20k-hours; prospective 50k-hours end of this year. Therefore not suitable for always-on applications) Distributor is glynn.de. (I saw them at t

Re: Reinstalling debian on n2100

2008-04-18 Thread Tobias Frost
 > Sorry to barge into this conversation, but I was wondering if you maybe > could share a few tips about how to configure aptitude on an NSLU2 so > it's not unbearably slow. Well... I am not at the Box, so I cannot lookup my settings right now. However, here are some tricks I can remember. The

Re: Reinstalling debian on n2100

2008-04-18 Thread Kurt Pruenner
Barry Tennison wrote: > Tobias Frost wrote: > > As a suggestion, look into "aptitude". aptitude has the advantage, that > > it will show you what it does, and especially for a beginner it might be > > helpful to see the consquences / dependencies of some packages. Aptitude > > is a little slow on a

Re: Reinstalling debian on n2100

2008-04-18 Thread Barry Tennison
Tobias Frost wrote: Hi Andrew, everyone started at one point with linux, so keep up, as the learning curve is quite steep. As a suggestion, look into "aptitude". aptitude has the advantage, that it will show you what it does, and especially for a beginner it might be helpful to see the consqu