Re: flashing fails due to size issue during upgrade

2011-02-21 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On 02/21/2011 11:22 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Jeffrey B. Green [2011-02-18 11:22]: One of my slugs is still in the process of upgrading but I noticed that during the setting up of the 2.6.32-5 kernel that the flashing failed due to (output message): I believe some other people are

Re: flashing fails due to size issue during upgrade

2011-02-21 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On 02/21/2011 11:18 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Jeffrey B. Green [2011-02-18 13:53]: # /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf # replace "most" with "dep" MODULES=dep Anyone out there know of any pitfalls in this approach?? I.e. are all the crucial modules included in th

Re: flashing fails due to size issue during upgrade

2011-02-18 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On 02/18/2011 11:48 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: On 02/18/2011 11:22 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: Hi everyone, [...snip prev msg...] [...snip...] Are all these drivers really necessary? By configureing the initramfs system, the size can be reduced, e.g. edit /etc/initramfs-tools

Re: flashing fails due to size issue during upgrade

2011-02-18 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On 02/18/2011 11:22 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: Hi everyone, [...snip prev msg...] After unpacking the initrd in order to look where the space is going, I see: du -sm * 2 bin 1 conf 1 etc 1 init 14 lib 2 sbin 1 scripts And working my way down I get

flashing fails due to size issue during upgrade

2011-02-18 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi everyone, One of my slugs is still in the process of upgrading but I noticed that during the setting up of the 2.6.32-5 kernel that the flashing failed due to (output message): Running update-initramfs. update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-ixp4xx Running flash-kernel. The

Re: "aptitude update/upgrade" not syncing properly for a squeeze upgrade

2011-02-09 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On 02/09/2011 08:33 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: [...snip...] Anyway, in a nutshell, I'm upgrading from a reprepro local repository that is currently up to date with the debian repositories. [...snip...] The reprepro Package list(s) seem to be the problem. Checking out the /v/l/dpkg/avai

"aptitude update/upgrade" not syncing properly for a squeeze upgrade

2011-02-09 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi, I'm posting to both lists since it seems to be relevant to both. The problem that I'm experiencing only seems to be happening on my armel (nslu2) systems. Squeeze upgrades to the i386 systems seem to be working properly. However, since aptitude is not (afaict) particularly an app targeted

Re: Re: arm to armel and the missing ingredients

2010-11-22 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Wookey writes on 22 Nov 2010 13:29:09 +: +++ Jeffrey Green [2010-11-22 06:12 -0500]: After making it to the other side of that river without a serial port upgrade on my slugs, I can comment on a few of the items not mentioned in the Debian Wiki Howto [1]. That's really useful info. Thak

Re: Step 6, or how to boot into single user mode on a nslu2

2010-10-26 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On 07/07/2010 01:36 PM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: Wookey writes: +++ Jeffrey B. Green [2010-07-07 10:00 -0400]: I have a couple of slugs both running debian arm and am now very much aware of the fact that squeeze has dropped arm from the distributions in favor of armel. The only migration

Re: Error while building EABI/oldABI compatible arm kernel

2010-09-30 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On 09/30/2010 10:09 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: In examining the type mentioned above, I see that it is defined as 6 bytes (actually 5 but I assume it aligns on a 2-byte boundary). So, the question is: how is the compiler (or linker) seeing the structure as having 8 byte entries? I&#

Error while building EABI/oldABI compatible arm kernel

2010-09-30 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi, In another exploration of migration avenues for us slug owners who still haven't moved to armel, I was attempting the debootstrap method suggested in: http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiHowto#BuildingEABIreadyKernel when I hit an error while building the kernel. It is: ... previous lines del

Re: Step 6, or how to boot into single user mode on a nslu2

2010-07-07 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Wookey writes: +++ Jeffrey B. Green [2010-07-07 10:00 -0400]: I have a couple of slugs both running debian arm and am now very much aware of the fact that squeeze has dropped arm from the distributions in favor of armel. The only migration procedure that I have discovered so far is the one on

Step 6, or how to boot into single user mode on a nslu2

2010-07-07 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
I have a couple of slugs both running debian arm and am now very much aware of the fact that squeeze has dropped arm from the distributions in favor of armel. The only migration procedure that I have discovered so far is the one on the ArmEabiHowto, e.g. the section "Migrating arm installation