Re: arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-16 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:43:18AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 22:49 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey wrote: > > > > Also if anyone has expertise in language portin

Re: wanted debootstrap script for wheezey or later armel

2014-05-16 Thread RichardBown
On Fri, 16 May 2014 14:53:50 -0700 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:45:19PM +0100, peter green wrote: > > To do the second stage you have two options. Either you can do the > > second stage with user mode qemu or you can do it on the device. To > > do it with qemu you would d

Re: Debian on Synology Armada 370/XP NAS boxes

2014-05-16 Thread Alexander Pohl
On 15/05/14 12:47, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-05-14 at 19:16 +0200, Alexander Pohl wrote: Ideally, one would have to supply an u-boot version which has the Grub API enabled and then to chain load Grub from there, Ideally perhaps but in reality there are various issues with running grub on

Re: wanted debootstrap script for wheezey or later armel

2014-05-16 Thread RichardBown
On Fri, 16 May 2014 22:45:19 +0100 peter green wrote: > RichardBown wrote: > > Hi > > As this pogopig isn't playing on an install, I've mounted the USB > > HD on ~/debarm/work > > and trying to run > > sudo debootstrap --arch armel wheezey work/ > > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian > > > > E: No

Re: Debian on Synology Armada 370/XP NAS boxes

2014-05-16 Thread Alexander Pohl
On 16/05/14 19:57, drEagle wrote: On 16/05/2014 19:51, Alexander Pohl wrote: On 15/05/14 01:09, Paul Wise wrote: Have you attempted an install? The new Debian buildds/porterboxen have Marvell Armada 370/XP CPUs and are running linux-image-3.13-1-armmp-lpae with minimal config differences to whe

Re: wanted debootstrap script for wheezey or later armel

2014-05-16 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:45:19PM +0100, peter green wrote: > To do the second stage you have two options. Either you can do the second > stage with user mode qemu or you can do it on the device. To do it with qemu > you would do. > > apt-get install qemu-arm-static binfmt-support > cp /usr/bin/q

Re: will an armel install on a x86_64 machine bork ???

2014-05-16 Thread RichardBown
On Fri, 16 May 2014 16:32:10 -0500 Jason Young wrote: > Why are you using an armel disc for an x86_64 machine? You might do > well to download an image for x86_64 instead. In debian, it's called > amd64. > > As for what would happen, I don't know. I wouldn't try. > > > Very simply tying to lo

Re: wanted debootstrap script for wheezey or later armel

2014-05-16 Thread peter green
RichardBown wrote: Hi As this pogopig isn't playing on an install, I've mounted the USB HD on ~/debarm/work and trying to run sudo debootstrap --arch armel wheezey work/ http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian E: No such script: /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/wheezey As others have said you missp

Re: will an armel install on a x86_64 machine bork ???

2014-05-16 Thread Jason Young
Why are you using an armel disc for an x86_64 machine? You might do well to download an image for x86_64 instead. In debian, it's called amd64. As for what would happen, I don't know. I wouldn't try. On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 4:21 PM, RichardBown wrote: > Hi > If I use a install CD for ARMEL on

will an armel install on a x86_64 machine bork ???

2014-05-16 Thread RichardBown
Hi If I use a install CD for ARMEL on this machine, which is x86_64, will it write a OS on a drive thats plugged in, or will it see the wrong processor and bork out ??, thats of course if the deb installer will see USB drives that are plugged in. -- -- Best wishes /73 Richard Bown Email : rich...

Re: pogoplugV2

2014-05-16 Thread RichardBown
On Fri, 16 May 2014 18:23:46 +0100 RichardBown wrote: > Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 524283904 bytes > > > # Starting debootstrap installation > E: unrecognized or invalid option --no-check-gpg > > > Well I've tried and failed to install using the USB HD mounted on this machine, I

Re: wanted debootstrap script for wheezey or later armel

2014-05-16 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:39:09PM +0100, RichardBown wrote: > and trying to run > sudo debootstrap --arch armel wheezey work/ http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian > > E: No such script: /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/wheezey Try "wheezy" instead. :P live well, vagrant signature.asc Description

Re: wanted debootstrap script for wheezey or later armel

2014-05-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:39:09PM +0100, RichardBown wrote: >Hi >As this pogopig isn't playing on an install, I've mounted the USB HD on >~/debarm/work >and trying to run >sudo debootstrap --arch armel wheezey work/ http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian > >E: No such script: /usr/share/debootstrap/scr

wanted debootstrap script for wheezey or later armel

2014-05-16 Thread RichardBown
Hi As this pogopig isn't playing on an install, I've mounted the USB HD on ~/debarm/work and trying to run sudo debootstrap --arch armel wheezey work/ http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian E: No such script: /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/wheezey Which is understandable as the debootstrap package cha

Re: Debian on Synology Armada 370/XP NAS boxes

2014-05-16 Thread drEagle
On 16/05/2014 19:51, Alexander Pohl wrote: > On 15/05/14 01:09, Paul Wise wrote: >> Have you attempted an install? The new Debian buildds/porterboxen have >> Marvell Armada 370/XP CPUs and are running >> linux-image-3.13-1-armmp-lpae with minimal config differences to >> wheezy-backports. > Yes, I

Re: Debian on Synology Armada 370/XP NAS boxes

2014-05-16 Thread Alexander Pohl
On 15/05/14 01:09, Paul Wise wrote: Have you attempted an install? The new Debian buildds/porterboxen have Marvell Armada 370/XP CPUs and are running linux-image-3.13-1-armmp-lpae with minimal config differences to wheezy-backports. Yes, I tried to load many different kernel images but no luck. A

Re: pogoplugV2

2014-05-16 Thread RichardBown
On Fri, 16 May 2014 16:07:17 +0100 RichardBown wrote: > Hi Guys > Running Arch on my pogopig at the moment , using motion with a webcam. > It using a 8GB USB stick, I have, which I dont use, a 150GB HD in a > USB caddy. > Can I get Deb arm running on that, Arch is OK , but its got some > strange

pogoplugV2

2014-05-16 Thread RichardBown
Hi Guys Running Arch on my pogopig at the moment , using motion with a webcam. It using a 8GB USB stick, I have, which I dont use, a 150GB HD in a USB caddy. Can I get Deb arm running on that, Arch is OK , but its got some strange behaviour, and I'm reasonably familiar with Debian as I run Mint on

Re: [Pkg-pascal-devel] [Core] arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-16 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Forian, On 15-05-14 21:00, Florian Klämpfl wrote: > FPC has no working aarch64/arm64 backend yet, so trying to build it makes > currently no sense. There > is a demand for it, see http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=25042 but no > work happened within the > last year. I see in the bug rep

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-05-16 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2014-05-12 at 21:40 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2014-05-12 at 20:27 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 21:38 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > I think the best approach > > > would be to add generic to XB-Subarchitecture and handle it using the > > > db, leaving th