Re: Is there a How-to for moving a Debian NSLU2 install from one disk to another?

2008-05-06 Thread Peter Teichmann
ng tar instead. > > > > Thanks! > > Just to follow up on this issue for people coming after me, having the > same problem. > For some reason cp doesn't copy all the files. There was some random > mismatch between the two drives after using cp. > tar did the

Re: armel boxes for Debian

2008-02-21 Thread Peter Teichmann
Am Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2008 09:18:35 schrieb Florian Weimer: > Based on the numbers, I'd guess that the box hasn't got enough RAM. Are > you sure it's CPU-bound? > > > Based on these xulrunner build times, we'd need an arm box that's 4x as > > fast as the current one to be "competitive": > > >

Re: requalification of arm as etch release architecture

2005-10-10 Thread Peter Teichmann
y internet gateway machine at home (and usually has 95% cpu time free...). But how can I add myself as user? I am a potential Debian developer as well ... but which obstacles have to be overcome for this (besides technical qualification which I hope is not a problem)? Peter Teichmann -- To UNSU

Re: FP transition

2005-10-01 Thread Peter Teichmann
a hardfloat ABI, but now it is quite practical for transition to a softfloat ABI because it does not require a change. But unfortunately FP return values are presently passed in the floating-point register F0, and should be passed in r0 or r0/r1 for the softfloat ABI. How do you plan to solve th

Re: RiscPC !dInstall

2005-05-08 Thread Peter Teichmann
e get a detailed description which archives you downloaded from where, how you unpacked them, where you possibly installed parts of them, and which file/application you try to execute? Without that, it is very difficult to guess what your problem is. Peter Teichmann

2.6 kernel for the RiscPC?

2005-05-04 Thread Peter Teichmann
more people benefit from that. How is it possible to let this find it's way into Debian as a kernel package? Peter Teichmann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: System time runs very slow on RiscPC

2005-04-21 Thread Peter Teichmann
Am Donnerstag, 21. April 2005 21:31 schrieb David Joy: > On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Peter Teichmann wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 21. April 2005 01:46 schrieb David Joy: > >> On an entirely unrelated note, do you know if it is possible to get DMA > >> working on a RiscP

Re: System time runs very slow on RiscPC

2005-04-21 Thread Peter Teichmann
Am Donnerstag, 21. April 2005 01:46 schrieb David Joy: > On an entirely unrelated note, do you know if it is possible to get DMA > working on a RiscPC? In which context? Peter Teichmann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: System time runs very slow on RiscPC

2005-04-20 Thread Peter Teichmann
ything I can do about it? Could you have a look with hdparm if the unmaskirq flag is set for your harddisk/cdrom? If not, this could be the cause because it might be that timer interrupts are lost during disk transfers. You can try to set the flag then and see if it helps. Peter Teichm

Re: seeking d-i build system

2005-02-16 Thread Peter Teichmann
does not cause too much network traffic (say max. 1GB per month). Peter Teichmann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netwinder floating point

2005-01-10 Thread Peter Teichmann
a library function which does the work by hand. Peter Teichmann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netwinder floating point

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Teichmann
hing that made a difference was FastFPE. Maybe it is because it is written in perl (or something else?) and uses floating point numbers generally, even if they are not needed. But on virtually any other processor you do not notice that. Peter Teichmann

Re: netwinder floating point

2005-01-06 Thread Peter Teichmann
ports, errors will just persist. Thanks, Peter Teichmann

Re: XFree86 4.3 Working for ARM?

2004-12-17 Thread Peter Teichmann
t the latest. But it is there. Peter Teichmann

Re: problem with X and keyboard

2004-11-30 Thread Peter Teichmann
/var/log/XFree86.log). Sometimes it starts. This behaviour can also be caused by general stability problems of your system (memory timing, power supply) or a bug in a kernel driver, possibly the framebuffer driver. Peter Teichmann

Re: problem with X and keyboard

2004-11-25 Thread Peter Teichmann
en I press the 'm' > button on the screen write 'm' and after print all the other characters > as I press the 'Caps_Lock' button. > > There is a stable X version for ARM? > How can I configure the keyboard in the right way? On which kind of machine did you try it? Peter Teichmann

Re: Netwinder install - which method

2004-11-10 Thread Peter Teichmann
. I did not find out yet what the problem is. Maybe this can help you. Peter Teichmann

Re: [ARM] bast d-i install attempt

2004-10-12 Thread Peter Teichmann
Am Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2004 07:01 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Peter Teichmann wrote: > > It seems that this is a problem with kernel 2.4.27-bast. I just > > created a bug report (Bug#274517). I was, however, able to do a > > network install ... > > Do you mind posting

Re: [ARM] bast d-i install attempt

2004-10-02 Thread Peter Teichmann
It seems that this is a problem with kernel 2.4.27-bast. I just created a bug report (Bug#274517). I was, however, able to do a network install using kernel and initrd from: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-arm/rc1/images/bast/netboot/ Peter Teichmann

Re: Floating point instruction sets of ARM in Debian Linux.

2004-06-24 Thread Peter Teichmann
The quoted instructions are from FPA/FPE. Unfortunately I do not know a good source of information about it. I usually used the ARM7500FE documentation, but it seems that it is not available at www.arm.com anymore. I could email it on request. Peter Teichmann Am Donnerstag, 24. Juni 2004 18

Re: Debian-Installer beta 4 released for 9 architectures

2004-05-13 Thread Peter Teichmann
Am Donnerstag, 13. Mai 2004 21:45 schrieb Peter Naulls: > Ye olde keymap problem. Same on b-f (although you can skip it). I > think this can probably be fixed easily enough. I would suggest to use a 2.6 kernel. On my RiscPC, 2.6.0-rmk2 together with all the patches I submitted to rmk's patch sy

Re: Debian-Installer beta 4 released for 9 architectures

2004-05-13 Thread Peter Teichmann
refer this anyway) but there is no possibility to do so. * The d-i documentation for arm is buggy. It suggests that there is a zip archive /debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-arm/current/dinstall.zip. This is not existing. Peter Teichmann

Re: Debian-Installer beta 4 released for 9 architectures

2004-05-13 Thread Peter Teichmann
ader in d-i, just a kernel and an initrd image. So I took the one from b-f. But maybe they just did not know about the new linloader? How do I get the linloader source from CVS? Peter Teichmann

Re: Debian-Installer beta 4 released for 9 architectures

2004-05-13 Thread Peter Teichmann
Am Donnerstag, 13. Mai 2004 10:46 schrieb Peter Naulls: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Peter Teichmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems to be a problem with linloader (0.35). I tried Russel King's old > > trusty !Linux (3.38). Now booti

Re: Debian-Installer beta 4 released for 9 architectures

2004-05-12 Thread Peter Teichmann
-/16M -/64M boots the kernel but does not find initrd: 16M/8M 64M/64M everything works: 16M/- 64M/- Maybe I will habe a look at the linloader source later. Peter Teichmann

Re: Debian-Installer beta 4 released for 9 architectures

2004-05-12 Thread Peter Teichmann
Am Donnerstag, 13. Mai 2004 01:15 schrieb David Meggy: > On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 15:48, Peter Teichmann wrote: > > linloader initrd= root=/dev/ram > > > > It said (after the usual stuff): > > > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 1:00 > > You

Re: Debian-Installer beta 4 released for 9 architectures

2004-05-12 Thread Peter Teichmann
erlan 600 I started the kernel via linloader: linloader initrd= root=/dev/ram It said (after the usual stuff): Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 1:00 How are the kernel and the initrd to be used? What am I doing wrong? Does the kernel maybe lack initrd support? Peter Teichmann

Re: Debian-Installer beta 4 released for 9 architectures

2004-05-04 Thread Peter Teichmann
e arm linux kernel mailing list, especially message http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2003-August/016671.html Peter Teichmann

Re: Debian testing/unstable on RiscPC ?

2004-01-29 Thread Peter Teichmann
do that (if I have to do that manually I will probably become mad). I ask because in principle my RiscPC has nothing demanding to do and could well do that. Peter Teichmann

Re: Debian testing/unstable on RiscPC ?

2004-01-29 Thread Peter Teichmann
ant and standard packages could be recompiled more or less instantly ;-) Have a nice evening, Peter Teichmann

Re: Debian testing/unstable on RiscPC ?

2004-01-29 Thread Peter Teichmann
: "swp 26bit fastmult", and does not report "half". It does, however, advertise the processor architecture as "v4l". I should probably generate a patch. Peter Teichmann

Re: Debian testing/unstable on RiscPC ?

2004-01-28 Thread Peter Teichmann
had the some problems with it, and fixed it by combining several versions. Personally, I would not like to maintain an unofficial port for v3. So I will make an offer: If Debian will keep support for v3, I will care about debian-installer for the RiscPC. If someone can give me assistance from t

Debian testing/unstable on RiscPC ?

2004-01-25 Thread Peter Teichmann
. I am wondering if I am doing something wrong, or if this is really a bug. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Peter Teichmann