Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-11 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi Gaudenz, Le lundi 11 octobre 2010 à 09:41 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin a écrit : > Did you only modify the yaboot package or did you modify > yaboot-installer as well? I only modified the yaboot package. From what I gathered regarding this update, yaboot-installer will need a small change too for P

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental in

2010-10-11 Thread zsombibi
Hello all Thanks Benjamin, 2010.10.11. 0:21 Benjamin Cama : any nobody else will want to help us if we don't try to do things in a more organized way. We already had no help from the di team about this new yaboot release, let's hope that by making things the "right way" we'll get more help.

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Benjamin Excerpts from Benjamin Cama's message of Mon Okt 11 00:21:23 +0200 2010: > That's where I am asking for help from the d-i team: how could we test > this new package from a d-i install disc ? Is there an easier and more > "officially-compliant" way, so that we can report bugs without d

Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-10 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi Zsombor, First, my apologies for being so slow to answer. And thank you for the custom installer you built. I am very thankfull for your enthusiasm, but I would like to point out some thing that you're doing wrong. I am saying that not to deter anyone to do anything, but to try to be more orga

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release

2010-09-29 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Benjamin Cama wrote: > BTW, yaboot-installer will have to be fixed regarding amiga partition > table numbering : it has been fixed upstream, and there's no need for a > workaround anymore. (well, just reading from the patch; I don't have > such a machine t

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release

2010-09-29 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le mercredi 29 septembre 2010 à 00:24 -0400, Rick Thomas a écrit : > Cool! Thanks. > Now, how do we test it? Well, for now I was only thinking about testing it outside the installer… > Can somebody from the installer group help us figure out how to get > this code into the installer envi

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release

2010-09-28 Thread Rick Thomas
Cool! Now, how do we test it? Can somebody from the installer group help us figure out how to get this code into the installer environment? Is it as simple as putting the .deb on a USB stick and breaking out to the -F2 VT at some point in the install and do a "dpkg -i" ? Or is it going t