Bug#244696: debian-installer: netcfg 0.64 fails to build

2004-04-19 Thread Pip Oomen
Hehe... that shows I am too used to CVS. Ran "svn up" and got the changed version, which does just seem to rollback the previous change though ;) Mvh, Pepijn. Per Olofsson wrote: "svn diff" only shows the difference between your working copy and what's in your .svn/text-base directories. You

Bug#244696: debian-installer: netcfg 0.64 fails to build

2004-04-19 Thread Pip Oomen
I just ran a "svn diff" against the repository and still find just a single parameter to the di_exec call on line 105. Are you sure the fix was checked in? Regards, Pepijn. This is fixed in subversion, and I guess it was being built from subversion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: netbooting imac, docs not ok..

2004-04-19 Thread Pip Oomen
I today tried the alternative way of configuring the DHCP server, i.e. using vendor options, and that seemed to do the trick also. The segment that needs to be added to dhcpd.conf is: # some "keep apple happy" voodoo option vendor-class-identifier "AAPLBSDPC"; option vendor-encapsulated-options

Bug#244696: debian-installer: netcfg 0.64 fails to build

2004-04-19 Thread Pip Oomen
Package: debian-installer Severity: serious Tags: sid Justification: no longer builds from source When building netcfg udeb, it fails with: netcfg-common.c: In function `netcfg_activate_dhcp': netcfg-common.c:1102: error: too few arguments to function `di_exec' -- System Information: Debian Rele

Bug#244394: FWD: eject-udeb

2004-04-19 Thread Pip Oomen
Note that I was/am building my own installer images and thus got the error about not finding eject-udeb when using the most recent checkout on Saturday. Guess I got the changed pkg-list before the udeb made it to my local mirror. Wether or not the eject-udeb is included in netboot is more of a

Re: Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-18 Thread Pip Oomen
sary udebs and debs then. How can I tell if partman-newworld is used? Regards, Pepijn. Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 09:34:35PM +0200, Pip Oomen wrote: I am willing to give this a go in the coming week. How do I pull in the partman-newworld package into the netboot initrd image? J

Re: Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-18 Thread Pip Oomen
I am willing to give this a go in the coming week. How do I pull in the partman-newworld package into the netboot initrd image? Just add it to the list and all set? Or is there something else to take care of to make it do its magic? I am now building all udebs (debian-installer/packages) and re

Bug#244394: debian-installer: build_powerpc_netboot fails with E: Couldn't find package

2004-04-18 Thread Pip Oomen
Package: debian-installer Severity: serious Tags: sid patch Justification: no longer builds from source Building from repository. The eject-udeb package is missing from the packages repository and not available at my local apt source. Also, it seems a bit silly to have eject-udeb included in a ne

Re: netbooting imac, docs not ok..

2004-04-17 Thread Pip Oomen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>I did get dhcpd.conf (DHCP v3) configured (w/o patching, just >>examining the patch >>and using available docs and the site-option-space, similar to >>somehting I needed for booting using Intel PXE) > What patch? This is great, other people have had the same problem! Yo

Bug#244104: Installation report for Apple Xserve rev. 2

2004-04-16 Thread Pip Oomen
Sven Luther wrote: 2. Config network (DHCP) succeeds, but fails to create proper /etc/resolv.conf. This is fixed now. Which package did this bug originate from? Bug#? Since I am now building my own installer it would be nice to double-check wether I am using the fixed version and if the fix act

Re: netbooting imac, docs not ok..

2004-04-16 Thread Pip Oomen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Something went wrong here, I managed to get yaboot loaded as usual, > but when the kernel was being transfered it just hanged. I tried > 3 times and it always hanged at the same packet. That's when I sat > down to write this mail about how I got netbooting working, and >

Bug#244104: Installation report for Apple Xserve rev. 2

2004-04-16 Thread Pip Oomen
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: self-built (unstable) netboot image, checked out 2004-04-16, 06:00 CET uname -a: Linux ganymedes 2.4.25-powerpc #1 ven avr 2 22:32:38 CEST 2004 ppc GNU/Linux Date: 2004-04-16, 11:15 CET Method: netboot, using i386/DHCPd V3 + oldworld tftpd

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-04-05 Thread Pip Oomen
An initial test I performed today, with the nighlty from April 4th, seems to find the harddisk OK. I'll look into further details/problems tomorrow and report back with an installation report. Regards, Pepijn. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Building ISO image

2004-03-31 Thread Pip Oomen
To be able to roll my own kernel for getting the install for Xserve to work, I now got Debian Woody (upgraded to Sarge with some required packages from Sid) running on an oldworld PPC Mac (9500) and succeeded in building debian-installer images for PPC. However, I can not find any documentation

Create bootable CD with custom kernel

2004-03-29 Thread Pip Oomen
I am currently trying to get Debian running on an Apple Xserve G4/133DP, but, as discussed with Sven Luther, it turns out the current pmac kernel does not include the correct IDE driver. While the change in the kernel makes its way into the nightlies, I was wondering if it is possible to build

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-29 Thread Pip Oomen
Sven Luther wrote: Researching the 'missing driver' a bit further, it actually looks like the config option that is needed is: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW=y This driver supports the Promise Ultra 100 TX2 [PDC20268], which seems to be the IDE device to which the harddisks are attached. So, what

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-27 Thread Pip Oomen
Researching the 'missing driver' a bit further, it actually looks like the config option that is needed is: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW=y This driver supports the Promise Ultra 100 TX2 [PDC20268], which seems to be the IDE device to which the harddisks are attached. So, what is the status on t

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-27 Thread Pip Oomen
How about CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_PROMISE ? Is that driver included in the kernel for the installer ? [ ref: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/debian-powerpc-200309/msg00045.html ] Regards, Pepijn. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-26 Thread Pip Oomen
Sven Luther wrote: Do you have RAID on that machine's disk ? This may be one of the problems. RAID is supported on the machine, but not used. The nightly of march 25th has the same problem as the nightly from the 22th, i.e. it boots correctly, but the debian-installer never presents its 'initial

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-25 Thread Pip Oomen
After a lot of hassle, I was able to use Apple's System Profiler to dump some info on the machine to a text file and copy that file to my desktop: Hardware Overview: Machine speed: 1.333 Ghz Bus speed: 167 MHz Number of processors: 2 L2 cache size: 256K (times 2) L3 cache size: 2MB (times 2

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-25 Thread Pip Oomen
Sven Luther wrote: I have a Apple XServe on which I would love to install Debian, but with the last attempt (nightly build from march 9th) it failed the recognition of the IDE drives (missing IDE modules), and thus I could not get to the partitioning of the system. Mmm, do you have any kind of

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-23 Thread Pip Oomen
(continuing on list) Ok. I am downloading the nightly build (march 22nd) of the netinst image now and will report back afterwards. Kind regards, Pepijn Oomen. Sven Luther wrote: The best would be for you to do an installation report, which you can find at : http://www.debian.org/devel/deb