Package: installation-reports
Version: daily snapshot 23 october
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
d-i sucks. officially. i spent 6 hours trying to install stuff.
in-between the kernel oopsing and partman driving me fucking nuts, i had
errors from various mirrors until i gre
Package: installation-reports
Version: daily (second week of september, 2004)
Severity: normal
Debian-installer-version:
uname -a: never got there
Date: second week of september, 2004
Method: how: via floppies
Machine: powermac 7500
Processor: 604e
Memory: 168 MB
Root Device: scsi
Root Size/part
Le Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 19:01:58 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit:
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:10:59AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Anyway, please test and give feedback, before i upload, so we can have
> > > all these powerpc subarch
Le Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:12:49 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:09:22AM +0000, simon raven wrote:
> > Le Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:20:29 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit:
> > >
> > > So you volunteer to work on yaboot2, and have answered Ethan's
Le Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:42:18 -0400, Normand Leclerc a écrit:
> Hi,
>
>
> I know that edulinux.org of Sherbrooke University has it, but I
> wondered about the upcomming new Debian.
>
> Also any ideas as to why there is the same name for edulinux based on RPM from
> mandrake and .deb ? Is the
Le Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:35:55 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:01:18AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > >
> > no, the long version but without the submatch.
>
> Notice that kernel-image packages are currently powerpc-pmac, powerpc-chrp,
> powerpc-chrp-rs6k, powerpc-prep
Le Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 12:20:07 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit:
>
> Ok, so for oldworld pmac d-i support, we really only need to fix the
> initial booting stuff, and the bootloader/kernel installation step.
that's pretty much it.
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
>
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Le Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:29:43 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:12:56AM +0000, simon raven wrote:
> > Le Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 23:52:58 -0800, Ethan Benson a écrit:
> > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:16:52AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > >
>
Le Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:33:44 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:23:31AM +0000, simon raven wrote:
>
> Better participate and make sure that that it works, much more
> constructive that way. Also, i was refering about the person (maybe you,
> i don'
Le Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:49:16 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit:
>
> The most funny was the guy telling us to use yaboot2 and that d-i was
> just crap.
who said? and if you're referring to me, that's not what i said. i said
quik was, not d-i. and besides i have no personal experience with d-i,
seems
Le Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 23:52:58 -0800, Ethan Benson a écrit:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:16:52AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
>
>
> also .coff kernels don't even work until 2.4.23 (maybe).
ask ben herrenschmidt about that actually. seems that they do work.
>
> yup, nobody cares about doing inst
Le Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:16:52 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit:
>
> Ah, and yes, Herbert has asked about that, and most probably, there will
> be no 2.2.x kernels in sarge, so if you have problems with 2.4.x on your
> subarch, please document it, try to provide fixes or anything, don't be
> silent ab
Le Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 20:20:56 -0400, Dan Weber a écrit:
> Apparently its builtin into the debian-installer cvs.
> run make TYPE=bootfloppy initrd
> from the build dir and that should work.
>
> Im going to review it later tonight.
> > simon
> >
k, i'll take a look at too, i have some free ti
Le Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 16:26:50 -0700, Matt Kraai a écrit:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:06:03PM -0400, Dan Weber wrote:
> > I have begun to work on getting oldworld to boot. Basically the idea is
> > to take two floppies, one with the kernel and the other with the initrd
> > if we can fit and have
Le Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 16:37:03 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit:
> [Eric Côté]
> > that OldWorld PPC sub-arch will not be supported directly in the new
> > installer.
>
> OK. I leave that decision to you. Thanks for letting us know, so we
> can avoid worrying about that architecture. If you
Le Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 21:12:48 -0400, Dan Weber a écrit:
> Well my intentions were to tell the bootloader to wait until it has all of
> it into memory. However this may cause a requirement of 8mb <
i see. so it'S be something like:
"load stuff -> call to load other stuff -> etc. -> boot" ?
> I
Le Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 19:58:43 -0500, Steve Langasek a écrit:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 11:39:15PM +0000, simon raven wrote:
>
> The point I think people here have been trying to get across to you is
> that dropping OldWorld support was *not* a design decision. To date,
ah ok. th
Le Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 20:29:22 -0400, Dan Weber a écrit:
> Ok thanks. That was useful. With no possible way of kickstarting a cd can
> be a bad thing. What about an ultra stripped kernel for 2.4 or 2.6 that
> fits on a boot floppy. Then having it search for other boot disks and then
> we can
Le Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 19:45:37 -0400, dan a écrit:
> Ok I think I see the overall picture now. Basically 2.2 and the old bf24 are
> the only kernels small enough to fit on a floppy. Booting from cds is not
> an option because that requires a proprietary bootloader. Are the following
> situation
Le Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 00:32:35 +0100, Matthew Garrett a écrit:
> Simon Raven wrote:
>
> > just because you haven't been able to use and install on one machine
> > correctly doesn't mean that they're all like that... (i can troll too
> > you know ;). some
Le Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 19:26:10 -0400, Dan Weber a écrit:
>
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 11:13:30PM +, simon raven wrote:
> > > I have some that can be used for testing, but don't understand all
> > > that might be needed to make it work. Two things ri
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:42:22PM -0400, dan wrote:
> > No simon is right on this one. Thie issue is that devfs has no support for
> > old world macs. We all know devfs is crap too. My solution would be to
> > remove devfs from the entire installer and try another system maybe using
> > MAKED
> I have some that can be used for testing, but don't understand all
> that might be needed to make it work. Two things right off the bat,
> though:
>
> 1) Oldworlds need proprietary code to boot CDs, and normally need to
> install from a 1.44 floppy, but the standard 2.4 image doesn't fit; and
Le Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 11:54:58 -0500, Steve Langasek a écrit:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:31:27PM +0000, simon raven wrote:
>
>
> The only person I know has *decided* that Debian won't support OldWorld
> PPC in sarge is you. I'm sure that (as with all things aro
Le Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 15:54:40 +0200, Thorsten Sauter a écrit:
> * simon raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-27 15:31]:
> | that OldWorld PPC sub-arch will not be supported directly in the new
> | installer.
>
> maybe you can tell us, what is needed to support oldworld
LET IT BE KNOWN:
that OldWorld PPC sub-arch will not be supported directly in the new
installer.
i think this sucks.
1) there are plenty of still functional oldworld machines out there
2) i think it shows an utter lack of consideration for recycling, re-use
of older hardware and the environment
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