Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Rick_Thomas
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 19:27, Joey Hess wrote: > Russell Hires wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Thursday 26 August 2004 14:42, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Russell Hires wrote: > > > > Then that's horribly broken. I tried to use the initrd.gz file just like > > > >

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Joey Hess
Russell Hires wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 26 August 2004 14:42, Joey Hess wrote: > > Russell Hires wrote: > > > Then that's horribly broken. I tried to use the initrd.gz file just like > > > it is as a ramdisk, and I got a panic for no suitable filesyst

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Russell Hires
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 26 August 2004 14:42, Joey Hess wrote: > Russell Hires wrote: > > Then that's horribly broken. I tried to use the initrd.gz file just like > > it is as a ramdisk, and I got a panic for no suitable filesystem. I tried > > it ungzipped, and s

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Joey Hess
Russell Hires wrote: > Then that's horribly broken. I tried to use the initrd.gz file just like it is > as a ramdisk, and I got a panic for no suitable filesystem. I tried it > ungzipped, and same thing... Perhaps you need to pass a ramdisk_size= to the kernel? -- see shy jo signature.asc De

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:58:43AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Okay...so what do I do with the initrd.gz file? > > > > > > > > > I don't have a clue. I can't use it as a ramdisk...is there a ramdisk > > > that I'd use? > > > > BootX, from t

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Russell Hires
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > Okay...so what do I do with the initrd.gz file? > > > > > > I don't have a clue. I can't use it as a ramdisk...is there a ramdisk > > that I'd use? > > BootX, from the report of others, never seen it myself, has support for > specifying both a kern

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:44:47AM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > >Oh, nice, so this will fix the floppies by tomorrow all by themselves ? > > Unless there's some other problem with the d-i stuff involved, yes, I > should think. And of course you have to update your build enviro

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 08:24:31AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:41:28AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > > > I noticed that near the end, the script does an e2fsck of the > > "root.img" file. This seems to indicate that the image is > > completely hosed, and e2fsck res

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Joshua Kwan
Sven Luther wrote: Oh, nice, so this will fix the floppies by tomorrow all by themselves ? Unless there's some other problem with the d-i stuff involved, yes, I should think. And of course you have to update your build environment from unstable. -- Joshua Kwan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:48:25PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rick Thomas wrote: > | I noticed that near the end, the script does an e2fsck of the > | "root.img" file. This seems to indicate that the image is completely > | hosed, and e2fsck re

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-25 Thread Joshua Kwan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Thomas wrote: | I noticed that near the end, the script does an e2fsck of the | "root.img" file. This seems to indicate that the image is completely | hosed, and e2fsck responds by (essentially) resetting it to an empty | ext2 filesystem. This ex

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Sven Luther wrote: > > the .coff booting is probably the > only free alternative, but i am told requesting a debian oldworld user to get > the serial console working is not acceptable. Only unacceptable in the sense that Open Firmware is dramatically different between machine types. Apple dev

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:41:28AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > Sven Luther wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:22:38AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 06:59, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > > > > > Any ideas why these daily builds are broken every day? > > > > I just

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:22:38AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 06:59, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > > > Any ideas why these daily builds are broken every day? > > I just tried the 2.4 floppy images. What Wouter says is correct. I'm > > going to go

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 07:17:43PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > There are actually three ways to boot the oldworld pmacs : > > > > o Using BootX you just need the vmlinux and initrd.gz from : > > > > 2.6 : > > http://people.debian.org/~l

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:22:38AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: > On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 06:59, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:11:49AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > o Using the miboot floppies from : > > > > > > 2.6 : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/p

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-25 Thread Rick_Thomas
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 06:59, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:11:49AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > o Using the miboot floppies from : > > > > 2.6 : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy > > (currently broken) > > 2.4 : http://people.debia

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-25 Thread Russell Hires
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > There are actually three ways to boot the oldworld pmacs : > > o Using BootX you just need the vmlinux and initrd.gz from : > > 2.6 : > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/netboot/ 2.4 : > http://people.debian.org/~luther/

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-25 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:11:49AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > o Using the miboot floppies from : > > 2.6 : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy > (currently broken) > 2.4 : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc-small/floppy Has anyone be

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:06:42AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello all... > > I just would like to say that I'm annoyed with the way that you have the > installer instructions set up: they refer to woody stuff rather than the > updated inf

Re: powerpc install

2001-08-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:20:46AM -0400, Mikhail Kruk wrote: > http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/powerpc/install.en.html#contents > > In particular: > http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/powerpc/ch-init-config.en.html#s7.17 > > It seems from reading this that the line > nvsetenv `ofpath /