Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-17 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Robert Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-14 15:23]: > Just a random question, but what is the average build time for a > generic kernel package for the current debian armel build system? Looking at buildd.debian.org it seems a typical kernel build (with 4 images) takes between 40:25:01 and 43:

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-14 Thread Marc Singer
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:01:42PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-13 09:37]: > > Could we build only a package with the source in the main kernel and > > have binary packages generated by other source packages > > build-depending on the source? This wou

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-14 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yuck, I don't really like this idea. > > Let's hope Marvell's fast development board will help... > -- Just a random question, but what is the average build time for a generic kernel package for the current debian arm

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-13 09:37]: > Could we build only a package with the source in the main kernel and > have binary packages generated by other source packages > build-depending on the source? This would allow building multiple > arm flavours in parallel and we wouldn't have

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-13 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:22:21PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > >> I actually read about the new Gumstix in LWN today which is also OMAP >> based. The Gumstix and Beagleboard definitely sound interesting. >> Maybe we can

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:22:21PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I actually read about the new Gumstix in LWN today which is also OMAP > based. The Gumstix and Beagleboard definitely sound interesting. > Maybe we can TI to donate some. It'd be good, yes. Though at the price of the beagleboar

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-13 13:00]: > > too long to build. So you'd have to come up with a good argument > > as to why we should add an OMAP kernel (e.g. how many users are > > there going to be; which devices use such a CPU, etc). > > The Beagleboard and other platforms derived

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:31:50PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > too long to build. So you'd have to come up with a good argument as > to why we should add an OMAP kernel (e.g. how many users are there > going to be; which devices use such a CPU, etc). The Beagleboard and other platforms deri

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-13 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > The fundamental problem we have on arm is that we have to restrict the > number of kernels we build because otherwise the kernel package takes > too long to build. So you'd have to come up with a good argument as > to why we should add an OMAP kernel

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Robert Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-12 18:16]: > Should have worded the question differently, how can i add a kernel > deb to make it easier for end users to use this device with debian. You could make an apt repository with the kernel and then pass an argument to debian-installer so that

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-12 Thread Robert Nelson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Robert Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-12 10:46]: >> Which reminds me, it's too late for lenny, but what's the best way to >> get this board's kernel added to lenny+1? > > The fundamental problem we have on arm is

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Robert Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-12 10:46]: > Which reminds me, it's too late for lenny, but what's the best way to > get this board's kernel added to lenny+1? The fundamental problem we have on arm is that we have to restrict the number of kernels we build because otherwise the kernel

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* John Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-12 19:47]: > The only thing I notice which is odd is that the system name has been > set to upper case. That's never happened before. Can you send me a copy of /dev/mtdblock1 (privately). What's the hostname that d-i used? -- Martin Michlmayr http://

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-12 Thread John Winters
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * John Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-09 07:47]: >> If I simply start the installation process I might end up with an >> NSLU2 using a network address which I don't know. >> >> Is there any way of reading the current flash settings (specifically >> the network settin

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-12 Thread Robert Nelson
-Martin The test RC release works great on the beagleboard (lenny unsupported, TI Omap3530 Cortex). For reference I use the versatile netboot image, a 2.6.27 kernel specific for omap, SD/MMC card, and usb-ethernet adapter. Install notes are here: http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardDebian (non qemu sec

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-11 Thread Tobias Frost
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 17:21 +0100, Oliver Kiddle wrote: > With the thecus, I won't have the > option of pressing Ctrl-Alt-Fx to get a shell. You can ssh in a second time and then exit the installer to get dropped to a shell. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-10 Thread Sivakumar . R . J
we are trying to install in NAND only, but now i come across embedian toolchain will support to create custom kernel and initrd. is it worthful? On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:12:55PM +0530, Sivakumar.R.J wrote: > >We are t

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-10 Thread Wookey
On 2008-11-07 15:17 +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > debian-installer rc1 is going to be announced officially next week. > However, the images for ARM are already available. I'm now looking > for people who are interested in testing these installer images. > > If you have a spare ARM machine or w

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-10 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* John Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-09 09:15]: > It worked for me but it was very slow, by a factor of ten. Yeah, debian-installer isn't really designed for machines like the NSLU2. There are in fact installers that run on the host system, such as the one for SLIND, but I don't think anyon

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-10 Thread Riku Voipio
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:12:55PM +0530, Sivakumar.R.J wrote: >We are trying to create initrd and zImage for our customized IMX31 armel >board ( in which we have tested debian chroot successfully). We need to >boot the debian from the redboot. Is it possible to boot the debian with >

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-10 Thread John Reiser
Sivakumar.R.J wrote: We are trying to create initrd and zImage for our customized IMX31 armel board ( in which we have tested debian chroot successfully). We need to boot the debian from the redboot. Is it possible to boot the debian with you provided initrd and kernel image. This initial RO

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-09 Thread Sivakumar . R . J
We are trying to create initrd and zImage for our customized IMX31 armel board ( in which we have tested debian chroot successfully). We need to boot the debian from the redboot. Is it possible to boot the debian with you provided initrd and kernel image. If not please provide me the information to

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-09 Thread John Reiser
debian-installer rc1 is going to be announced officially next week. However, the images for ARM are already available. ... http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/files/tmp/daily.img It worked for me but it was very slow, by a factor of ten. It took 3 hours and 15 minutes to install 278MB of Base sy

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* John Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-09 07:47]: > If I simply start the installation process I might end up with an > NSLU2 using a network address which I don't know. > > Is there any way of reading the current flash settings (specifically > the network settings) without re-installing the

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-09 Thread John Winters
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > debian-installer rc1 is going to be announced officially next week. > However, the images for ARM are already available. I'm now looking > for people who are interested in testing these installer images. > > If you have a spare ARM machine or want to reinstall your machi

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-08 Thread Gordon Farquharson
Hi Martin On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 07:17, Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > debian-installer rc1 is going to be announced officially next week. > However, the images for ARM are already available. I'm now looking > for people who are interested in testing these installer images. I test

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-07 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-07 21:47]: > > If you have a spare ARM machine or want to reinstall your machine for > > some reason (for example to move from arm to armel) > > Will lenny contain only armel or will there also be the old arm architecture? Yes, leny will support both a

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Fri 2008-11-07 11:34:19 -0500, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I cannot give you a guarantee but I successfully made a degraded > RAID1 with d-i recently. Simply specify a RAID1 with 2 disks but > then only assign one disk to it. I've also done this successfully with d-i recently (though not on arm

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-07 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Freitag, 7. November 2008 schrieb Martin Michlmayr: > If you have a spare ARM machine or want to reinstall your machine for > some reason (for example to move from arm to armel) Will lenny contain only armel or will there also be the old arm architecture? Are there advantages of armel over arm

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-07 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Oliver Kiddle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-07 17:21]: > In order to switch to armel, I plan to do exactly this. As I'm not > installing from the thecus firmware, do I just grab the initrd.gz and > vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-iop32x from here and then boot them via tftp and > redboot? Yes, exactly. > My ro

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-07 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > debian-installer rc1 is going to be announced officially next week. > However, the images for ARM are already available. I'm now looking > for people who are interested in testing these installer images. > > If you have a spare ARM machine or want to reinstall your machi

Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-07 Thread Martin Michlmayr
debian-installer rc1 is going to be announced officially next week. However, the images for ARM are already available. I'm now looking for people who are interested in testing these installer images. If you have a spare ARM machine or want to reinstall your machine for some reason (for example to