Re: preparations for 2.6.7-3

2004-07-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:39:40AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > Jens, will you upload powerpc 2.6.7-3 too ? -2 will not be buildable > > because of the asfs patch move i believe ? > > That's okay, the asfs patch moved

Bug#258207: netcfg should check for validity of hostname given by the DHCP server.

2004-07-08 Thread Sven Luther
in the dialog ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-powerpc Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#257478: installation-report: PowerMac G4

2004-07-09 Thread Sven Luther
"medialess" install > concept. Why not contribute to the installation manual instead ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installing SATA modules

2004-07-10 Thread Sven Luther
place to build the debian-installer initrd. I don't think there are any woody backport of those, altough you could try for them, or even try to install the unstable packages in your woody system, but you would need initrd-tools and module-init-tools at least to make it work. Hope this is helpfu

Re: installing SATA modules

2004-07-10 Thread Sven Luther
hat is suitable for your system. If the > kernel-version contains SATA support, the SATA kernel modules will probably > be part of that package. > > Alternatively, you could build your own kernel from the kernel-source package > (take a look at the package 'kernel-package'). Don&#x

Re: installing SATA modules

2004-07-10 Thread Sven Luther
, and get rid of this libc6 dependency, no idea about initrd-tools and what the state of those packages are in woody. Check them with apt-cache show or something such. That said, you could as well upgrade to sarge by now if you have a fast internet connection. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-11 Thread Sven Luther
l module does, and the parallel module should. Christoph, could you have a look at that when you have some time ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-11 Thread Sven Luther
the powerpc flavour is probably only luck, so fixing the kernel driver in the powerpc specific patch would be a better work around, until the legacy driver problem is solved in the 2.7+ kernel trees. Those would be the serial driver, which is already fixed, the parallel one, the floppy driver, the

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-11 Thread Sven Luther
ems to > be gone. Well, feel free to contribute to the debian-installer installation manual a prep specific part, i would help you as best i can on this. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: three different sets of daily ISOs -- what's the difference?

2004-07-11 Thread Sven Luther
e netboot ones, you get a choice of installing either the sarge or sid .debs (or woody, but that is probably irremediably broken right now). I never tested, but maybe the business card isos, since they hold all the .udebs, allow also to chose between sid and sarge. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 04:04:13PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > >On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 07:00:21PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > >>Hello, > >>for helping d-i I got an 43p-140 (IBM RS/6000). Since there are no > >>

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:40:38PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > >On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 04:04:13PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: > >>Sven Luther wrote: > >>>http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/daily/po

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 04:40:22PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 09:30:02AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 07:00:21PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > Is it possible, to boot d-i on this prep-machine? And if so, which > &g

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-12 Thread Sven Luther
x graphic card, which would be problematic here since you removed it in 2.6.7-3, as this is a popular graphic card by older powerpc hardware, as it was well supported back then. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

blacklisting modules ...

2004-07-12 Thread Sven Luther
of them, unload the ones you don't need and > >rebuild the initrd. > > >Mmm. Not an exactly nice solution, but we need to work on something > >better. > > >CCing debian-kernel, as this discussion needs to be followed on there. > > >Friendly, > &g

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:40:38PM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: > [snip] > > >>>>I get stuck to "Now booting kernel..." with both cd and netboot > >>>&g

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:56:23AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > Sven Luther said: > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: > >> Mmmh, i did try netboot. But kernel gets stuck to "Now booting kernel > >> too..." > > > >

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:30:35AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > Sven Luther said: > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:56:23AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > >> Since every single RS6000 "offical" ethernet card that I've ever seen > >> uses pcnet32, I'

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-13 Thread Sven Luther
his ok? Which programs are best suited for serial console, or is > there a good howto? The most HOWTOs I read simply say "point your > terminal ...". Try minicom. > I tried both 2.4 and 2.6 from Svens repository, downloaded this > morning. Ok, cool. But apparently it didn&#x

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:19:28PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello, > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:18:57PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Try minicom. > > I did this. I get: > Welcome to minicom 1.83.1 > > OPTIONS: History Buffer, F-key Macros, Search History Buff

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:46:54PM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > Sven Luther said: > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:06:23PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > >> Hello, > >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: > >> > Helge, did you have h

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-15 Thread Sven Luther
rpc kernel upload, but he left to vacations, or short offlineness, i don't remember, without checking them in, so we have to wait for his return. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with PowerPC-PREP

2004-07-15 Thread Sven Luther
problem. Please try the 2.6 install, and confirm that this problem is not present there. powerpc 2.4 kernels are being phased out in favor of the better supported 2.6 kernels. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Installer IRC meeting on Saturday 17 July at 20:00 UTC

2004-07-15 Thread Sven Luther
y to make the 2.6 installer the default, and have the 2.4 one be moved to the 2.4 subdir ? As i remember, the last thing blocking this was discover2, right ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

powerpc status and missing 2.6.7 .udebs and .debs in sarge.

2004-07-16 Thread Sven Luther
.udebs and sarge .deb. => broken because there are no 2.6 kernels .debs on the CD. Mmm, i wonder, maybe the businesscard iso should be able to work, will try it out. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: powerpc status and missing 2.6.7 .udebs and .debs in sarge.

2004-07-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:38:38AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Hello, > > As of today, all installs of the 2.6 powerpc d-i fail. > > netboot with sid .udebs and .debs > > => broken due to ppp/libpcap0.8 mess. > > netboot with sarge .udebs and .debs >

Re: powerpc status and missing 2.6.7 .udebs and .debs in sarge.

2004-07-16 Thread Sven Luther
tall bootloader" step. This may have also bypassed the problems > that Sven is noticing...? What kernel did it install ? 2.6.7 or 2.4.25 ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: powerpc status and missing 2.6.7 .udebs and .debs in sarge.

2004-07-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:45:38AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 11:07, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 10:55:36AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: > > > H... > > > > > > I have had a different experience. > > > >

Status of PowerPC Debian Installer.

2003-05-31 Thread Sven Luther
general and on powerpc in particular. I will try reading the mailing list archive, and i just subscribed to the list, so i will get some idea of this, but if someone feels like giving me a quick status report or something, it would be kind. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Suggestions needed for gtk frontend for cdebconf

2003-07-07 Thread Sven Luther
fb_serialmouse.so: 9kb > > /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86: 1500kb Notice that you could also use XDirectFB on top of libdirectfb. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New d-i debcamp in a few months?

2003-07-30 Thread Sven Luther
. I had already planned to visit the Oldenburg meeting, so this would be fine for me. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: d-i and iBooks

2003-07-31 Thread Sven Luther
eport that it results in too big a kernel udeb or something such (Bug#197460 that is). Also, i guess the kernel package contains actually two kernels, the powermac vmlinux, and the compressed vmlinux.coff older macs use. It is probable i will also add the compressed vmlinuz CHRP box uses, but i think they need to have the initrd embedded or something such. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: d-i and iBooks

2003-08-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:01:18PM +0200, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > > Hi Sven, > > * Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-31 12:12]: > | BTW, do you use (or not) the kernels i produce with the > | kernel-patch-2.4.21-powerpc package ? I have an (older from before i

Re: d-i and iBooks

2003-08-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 08:06:56PM +0200, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > * Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-01 08:40]: > | Ok, and you are using the generated udeb, right ? The udeb which right > | now seems to contain only the vmlinux used for new pmacs and yaboot, > |

Re: d-i and iBooks

2003-08-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 04:13:02PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Sven Luther schrieb: > > >On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 08:06:56PM +0200, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > > > > > >> > >>I guess thats the best solution to put all needed images in one udeb.

Re: (powerpc) kernel udebs (was Re: d-i and iBooks)

2003-08-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 04:37:59PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Sven Luther schrieb: > > >On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 04:13:02PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > > > >>We will need some additional logic in the makefile. You have to list > >>all the p

Re: d-i debcamp in Oldenburg 2003-09-25 to 2003-09-28

2003-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
to Stuttgart and > back plus some of what he pays for gas. I will be coming from strasbourg. Not sure if i go by car or by train, but if i go by car, you can come with me, i could pick you up at kalrsruhe or something such. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Status for reiser support in d-i (was: reiser support in debian-installer)

2003-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
t (); With support for creation, copying and resizing for most of those (never tested though) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debian installer on ppc/pegasos

2003-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
nit, try a init= option" kind of message. I have tried the to use the init=/linuxrc parameter that Gaudenz Steinlin suggested in his July 4 response to Rolf Brudeseth, but to not much avail. Any hint on how to go on ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Status for reiser support in d-i (was: reiser support in debian-installer)

2003-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 04:31:06PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Sven Luther] > > Sorry to respond late to this, but is the reiserfs support in parted not > > enough for our use, and is debian-installer not supposed (in the long > > term) to switch to useing a libpart

Re: d-i debcamp in Oldenburg 2003-09-25 to 2003-09-28

2003-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 05:16:52PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:09:11AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > &

Re: debian installer on ppc/pegasos

2003-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:18:45AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 04:29:23PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > I am trying to build debian-installer to boot on my pegasos box (ppc of > > chrp lineage). I created the cdrom.initrd image, and included it in my > &g

Re: debian installer on ppc/pegasos

2003-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:40:58AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 06:19:42PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:18:45AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 04:29:23PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > &g

building boot-floppies in a dchroot ?

2003-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
build] Error 2 Is there some counterindication to using chroot in a dchroot or something such, or maybe a known problem in the woody boot-floppies or something such ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian installer on ppc/pegasos

2003-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 12:56:06PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 07:53:29PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > And the initrd argument needs to be relative to this root partition ? > > For yaboot, I think it uses the device and partition variables. > I&#

Re: debian installer on ppc/pegasos

2003-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 03:26:13PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:53:49PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 12:56:06PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 07:53:29PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > And t

Re: building boot-floppies in a dchroot ?

2003-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 03:10:13PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:48:41PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > I am trying to build the woody boot-floppies in a debian dchroot, but > > this fails with : > > > > I: doing library reduction with > &g

Re: building boot-floppies in a dchroot ?

2003-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:08:56AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:48:41PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to build the woody boot-floppies in a debian dchroot, but > > this fails with : > > >

Re: building boot-floppies in a dchroot ?

2003-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 06:52:31PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:48:41PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to build the woody boot-floppies in a debian dchroot, but > > this fails with : > > > > I: doin

Re: debian installer on ppc/pegasos

2003-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 04:29:23PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to build debian-installer to boot on my pegasos box (ppc of > chrp lineage). I created the cdrom.initrd image, and included it in my > zImage.chrp kernel, which i try to boot. > > Th

Re: [Fwd: Re: Status for reiser support in d-i]

2003-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
staller, say it to me. I'm author of reiserfs > support in parted and progsreiserfs and will try to fix it as soon as > possible. A, ok, so no need for me to look into this. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fwd: Re: Status for reiser support in d-i]

2003-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:54:40AM +0400, Yury Umanets wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 11:49, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:32:56AM +0400, Yury Umanets wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > What I can say. Reiserfs support in parted is good

Re: [Fwd: Re: Status for reiser support in d-i]

2003-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
h if doing another interface, will need to be rewritten or separated. As such, i think the real code in parted should be moved either in libparted or another library, and different people should write spearate interfaces for it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: building boot-floppies in a dchroot ?

2003-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 06:52:31PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:48:41PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to build the woody boot-floppies in a debian dchroot, but > > this fails with : > > > > I: doin

Re: [Fwd: Re: Status for reiser support in d-i]

2003-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:44:48PM +0400, Yury Umanets wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:40, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:04:06PM +0400, Yury Umanets wrote: > > > > > > but there should be no problem at least to use > > > > &

Re: [Fwd: Re: Status for reiser support in d-i]

2003-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:01:32PM +0400, Yury Umanets wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:54, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:44:48PM +0400, Yury Umanets wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:40, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at

Re: [Fwd: Re: Status for reiser support in d-i]

2003-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
gt; > > case -1: > > goto error_remove_partition;; > > } > > } else { > > ped_exception_leave_all (); > > } > > ped_partition_destroy (

Re: debian installer on ppc/pegasos

2003-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:50:18AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Sven Luther] > > Now, it is failing just after having mounted the root filesystem, > > telling me about being unable to open an initial console. > > Could it be devfs related? Is devfs mounted?

Re: Status for reiser support in d-i

2003-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
free supporting sourceforge. In truth, even parted would benefit from going to savanah or something. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian installer on ppc/pegasos

2003-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:50:18AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Sven Luther] > > Now, it is failing just after having mounted the root filesystem, > > telling me about being unable to open an initial console. > > Could it be devfs related? Is devfs mounted? N

Re: Status for reiser support in d-i

2003-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
e ago. It looks similar to cfdisk, but handles msdos > and efi partition tables via libparted. > > One problem with it is that as you make changes via the user interface, > they are committed to disk directly. You don't have an oppertunity to Same goes for parted i think. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: building boot-floppies in a dchroot ?

2003-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:55:35AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:14:47AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 06:52:31PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:48:41PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > >

Re: debian installer on ppc/pegasos

2003-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:50:18AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Sven Luther] > > Now, it is failing just after having mounted the root filesystem, > > telling me about being unable to open an initial console. > > Could it be devfs related? Is devfs mounted

Re: debian installer on ppc/pegasos

2003-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 07:50:00PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Sven Luther] > > BTW, do you need only devfs or also the automount option ? > > I believe it need both. Then why is it not booting ? The kernel boots, loads the cdrom.initrd image, mounts it as root

Re: Status for reiser support in d-i

2003-08-26 Thread Sven Luther
s, and will not start to hack libparted. I am already working on this, and would like to continue doing this kind of stuff during the oldenburg mini-debcamp. I need to finish my amiga partitioning support stuff first, and get debian-installer to boot on my pegasos first. Friendly, Sven Luther -

Re: debian installer on ppc/pegasos

2003-08-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:09:19AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Sven Luther] > > Then why is it not booting ? > > > > The kernel boots, loads the cdrom.initrd image, mounts it as root, > > mounts the devfs filesystem, and hangs. > > Perhaps you see the

Re: building boot-floppies in a dchroot ?

2003-08-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 06:20:51PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 06:54:24PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:55:35AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:14:47AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > >

Re: debian installer on ppc/pegasos

2003-08-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:41:06AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:16:07AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:09:19AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > > [Sven Luther] > > > > Then why is it not booting ? > >

Re: debian installer on ppc/pegasos

2003-08-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:27:59PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:44:45PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:41:06AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:16:07AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > >

Re: debian installer on ppc/pegasos

2003-08-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:19:57AM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:44:45PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:41:06AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:16:07AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > >

Re: debian installer on ppc/pegasos

2003-08-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 04:02:11PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Sven Luther] > > Has anyone compiled a working initrd since the 206531 bug was found > > ? What was the latest libc6/mklibs/d-i versions/date which were > > sucessfully working ? > > My las

Re: debian installer on ppc/pegasos

2003-08-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 04:59:27PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Sven Luther] > > You mean it will be available this evening or tomorrow, don't you ? > > No, it is already in CVS. I tested if from there. :) Ok, i will test it then, altough i am not sure i will have t

Re: debian installer on ppc/pegasos

2003-08-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 04:02:11PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Sven Luther] > > Has anyone compiled a working initrd since the 206531 bug was found > > ? What was the latest libc6/mklibs/d-i versions/date which were > > sucessfully working ? > > My las

Re: debian installer on ppc/pegasos

2003-08-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 06:03:33PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 15:53, Sven Luther wrote: > > You mean [mklibs 0.1.12] will be available this evening or tomorrow, don't you ? > > The code is in CVS, and the package is in queue/accepted. It will be in

Re: debian installer on ppc/pegasos

2003-08-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 06:57:52PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 18:16, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 06:03:33PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 15:53, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > You mean [mklibs

Re: debian installer on ppc/pegasos

2003-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 04:02:11PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Sven Luther] > > Has anyone compiled a working initrd since the 206531 bug was found > > ? What was the latest libc6/mklibs/d-i versions/date which were > > sucessfully working ? > > My las

howto build the 'business card' iso ?

2003-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
build said businescard iso. Maybe it needs the debian-cd package or something such ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: howto build the 'business card' iso ?

2003-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:28:42PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello, > > > > Continuing the saga of trying to use debian-installer on the pegasos, i > > would like to try out the scenario install from CD

Re: Cannot boot sarge distribution

2003-08-30 Thread Sven Luther
most of the stuff built-in, and d-i complained loudly about all those missing modules. I suppose that some people may want to build kernels later on which are uniquely suited to their machine, and use it with the d-i initrd images, because the standard kernels don't work. Would it be a good idea to have d-i also work in these cases ? Or am i missing something ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: howto build the 'business card' iso ?

2003-08-30 Thread Sven Luther
odules udebs ?) and which has to be embedded in the kernel. Or are the kernel driver module udebs used in stage 2 only ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#210007: The package description does not follow Debian policy

2003-09-09 Thread Sven Luther
feeling that Javier did mass bug reporting against all packages with oneliner descriptions. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#211623: partitioner: SRM-aware selection script needed for Alpha

2003-09-19 Thread Sven Luther
h is a first try at a script for partitioner to use when we're > installing on an alpha. SRM magic patterned after the srm-reader udeb, > and has not yet been tested. Would parted also work ? Not as per see, since parted is not really user friendly, but when using a (graphical) libpa

Re: simpler installer ?

2003-09-19 Thread Sven Luther
eleased" software. I wonder if doing a woody boot-floppies install, and just changing the apt sources.list to point to sarge/sid before following up with the install process should be a possibility. I remember having done so some month ago, without major problems, but time has passed sinc

Bug#211623: partitioner: SRM-aware selection script needed for Alpha

2003-09-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 10:08:28AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:47:04PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:40:51PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Package: partitioner > > > Version: 0.07 > > > Tags: d-i

Bug#211623: partitioner: SRM-aware selection script needed for Alpha

2003-09-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 10:35:02AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 05:12:54PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 10:08:28AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:47:04PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > &

Re: reverting PowerPC kernel to 2.4.21

2003-10-01 Thread Sven Luther
. Especially for the kernel, you have to wait two times, one for the kernel-source tree to enter the archive, and a second for the real package. BTW, did you check if the last libparted i gave to you also broke binary compatibility, i don't think so, but i need to look at it if not. Friend

Re: updated powerpc debian-installer builds

2003-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
This means the new uploaded > kernel 2.4.22 included unix sockets compiled in. (Sven when we can > expect th upload? :-)) As said, i uploaded on sunday morning, it is now only a matter of the ftp-master aproving it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new installer

2003-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
nd whatever it is needed. 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 about it and then complain when it is too l

Re: new installer

2003-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
following > situations possible. Boot from floppy -> Quik -> use quik to start up > Cdrom, or boot from floppy -> yaboot2 -> use yaboot2 to kickstart cd. So you have managed to boot a system with yaboot2 ? I didn't think it was all that advanced to do something usefull yet.

Re: rename "floppy" image to "rootfloppy"

2003-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
her arches that can fit on one > floppy (are there any?) could continue to use the floppy image name. I guess the oldpmac powerpc subarch is also in this case. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: d-i - subarchitecture stuff

2003-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
have sub-sub arches (pmac is divided in oldpmac and newpmac, chrp is chrp, chrp-rs6k, or chrp-pegasos). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
> (ia64 is an exception, as parted is the only thing that can create GPT > partition tables). Mmm, so now i know what the GPT partition tables are :)) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

2003-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
ould not be in the list of > architectures for that package, IMO. Nothing is stopping you from creating a partition table of any strange type you want on any architecture, as long as the kernel is able to read them, it should be no problem. Sure, you may not be able to boot from them, but this d

Re: reverting PowerPC kernel to 2.4.21

2003-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
ded. Please don't, asking an ftp-master to approve the 2.4.22 kernels sitting in the NEW queue quickly would be a better solution. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new installer

2003-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:52:58PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:16:52AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Notice that when i asked about this on debian-powerpc, i was told that > > the 2.4 kernel could be made to fit on 1.44 floppy disks. In fact, if

Re: Does the d-i pppd support ADSL-USB Modems ?

2003-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
ts), and not pppoe, i don't know if this could easily be added or not. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reverting PowerPC kernel to 2.4.21

2003-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:27:59AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:56:31AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 02:38:49AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > > > Howdy, > > > > > > The PowerPC images do not build because they tr

Re: new installer

2003-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:33:53AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:19:58AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > a .coff kernel won't autoboot, the user would have to manually get > > > into OpenFirmware and boot it explicity. > > > > Ok

Re: reverting PowerPC kernel to 2.4.21

2003-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:22:11AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:29:54AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:27:59AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:56:31AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > On W

Re: new installer

2003-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:40:11AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:49:16AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:33:53AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:19:58AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > &

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