testing floppies for powerpc (miboot)

2006-09-20 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:31:37AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 12:38:28PM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > Result failed, disk ejected very early, even no red cross displayed. > > > > http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc/daily/build_powerpc_flop

Re: boot from ethernet with imac g3

2006-06-02 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 11:39:01AM +0200, Giulio Canevari wrote: > In data 31/05/2006 23:03 Hans Ekbrand ha scritto: > >On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:53:50PM +0200, Giulio Canevari wrote: [This is about an installation on a box with a broken CD, and non working nic-configuration in the

Re: boot from ethernet with imac g3

2006-05-31 Thread Hans Ekbrand
mac, i can cat/head and so on the raw content, but i am unable to mount > it. Actually it has a vfat fs on top. As implied above business flavour mean B:1, and you seem to want B:2. I suspect that will not work. For it to work, use a kernel+initrd from the hd-install flavor of d-i. I'm CC:i

Workarond [was Re: unsuccessful installation on oldworld powermac apple 6400/180]

2004-10-28 Thread Hans Ekbrand
o have for more recent kernels. As far as I understand, you "only" need ide-disk compiled in the kernel to get it working (on ide-systems). I have no clue if the diskspace on the boot-floppy is enough for that on 2.4 or 2.6 series. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL

unsuccessful installation on oldworld powermac apple 6400/180

2004-10-26 Thread Hans Ekbrand
nd regards, -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Never trust a message that appears to come from me but is not signed with GPG! It is most likely SPAM or a VIRUS sent by someone who has my adress and got infected. My public key, ID 7050614E, is available from the HKP

Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine

2003-12-14 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 02:42:40AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 06:18:15PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > | OK, so I got a copy of debian-installer CVS and tried to create the > | netboot initrd. After installing some needed packages I was struck by >

Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine

2003-12-12 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:36:56AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:01:46PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:00:26PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've just attempted a debian

Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine

2003-12-12 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:26:24AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:01:46PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > | I have tried to do that but was unsuccessful. Could you describe how > | you got it working (what files you used to boot with, if you had to >

Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine

2003-12-10 Thread Hans Ekbrand
the nic :-( The documentation for netbooting has always been poor in Debian. If I actually learn how to do it I might try to improve the documentation. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Netinst feedback

2003-11-17 Thread Hans Ekbrand
ated. If your problems with Woody were with the installation of base system just ignore this post. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: net booting

2003-11-10 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:51:50AM +0100, Jeremie Koenig wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:23:58AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > Since none of the older computers can read CD-RW discs, I am > > interested in trying to net boot (dhcp, tftp and nfs (or a large > >

net booting

2003-11-09 Thread Hans Ekbrand
large initrd)) them instead. However, with the new installation system it is not obvious to me how to do it. Is it, or will it be, supported? -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

unsuccessful installation report

2003-11-04 Thread Hans Ekbrand
file: No such file or directory Anna's postinst exited with status: 2048" After that, whatever alternative I choose, I get the same error message again. Please respect my mail-followup-to headers, I am not subscribed to the list. Kind regards, -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociol