PPC port

2010-03-22 Thread Jeroen Diederen
Hi list members, I am new here. I have been working with Linux and PPC for some time now and I think I have the ability to go a bit deeper now. I would like to start a Debian liveCD for PPC Apple computers. I don't know if someone else has already started working on this. If so, please let me kno

Re: PPC port

2010-03-22 Thread rosea grammostola
Jeroen Diederen wrote: Hi list members, I am new here. I have been working with Linux and PPC for some time now and I think I have the ability to go a bit deeper now. I would like to start a Debian liveCD for PPC Apple computers. I don't know if someone else has already started working on this.

Fwd: Re: PPC port

2010-03-22 Thread Jeroen Diederen
Their goal is Intel Macs... > Puredyne makes ubuntu live-cds with debian live live-helper. They aim to let their iso work on Mac... http://puredyne.goto10.org/ \r -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: PPC port

2010-03-22 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 22 March 2010 14:25, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > > Hi list members, > > I am new here. I have been working with Linux and PPC for some time now > and I think I have the ability to go a bit deeper now. I would like to > start a Debian liveCD for PPC Apple computers. I don't know if someone > else h

Re: PPC port

2010-03-22 Thread Daniel Baumann
live-helper supports ppc already since quite some time, official squeeze images are available here: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_live_alpha1/powerpc/ unofficial lenny images are available here: http://live.debian.net/cdimage/release/5.0.3-unofficial/powerpc/ what is outstanding tha

panic if module= is specified

2010-03-22 Thread Luigi Capriotti
My Kernel cmdline includes module=nvidia, where nvidia.module is in /live and contains two lines: filesystem.squashfs restrictedDrivers/nvidia.ext3 and /live/restrictedDrivers/nvidia.ext3 is a proper loopfile. This has always worked up until a recent change (I'm not able to pinpoint which one

Re: PPC port

2010-03-22 Thread Jeroen Diederen
Dear Daniel, Ok, I didn't know there were iso's available already for PPC. Thanks for the link! So basically, these iso's are for burning on CD. You want me to investigate USB and/or Netbooting. I don't have PS3, so I can't help on that. What is it what you like me to do ? Make the iso bootable o

Re: live.debian.netcdimage, Builds - Frequency

2010-03-22 Thread holli
hello, sorry for sending it again - but i subscribed to the list an my email did not show up so far and even not on the website.. - Original Message - From: holli To: debian-live@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 8:38 PM Subject: boot to ram failed of an installed system

Re: PPC port

2010-03-22 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 03/22/2010 06:40 PM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: What is it what you like me to do ? Make the iso bootable on USB or via the net ? Can you be a bit more precise ? I am willing to help. this is great, thanks in advance already. i have a ppc myself, but not much clue about what needs to be done an

Re: live.debian.netcdimage, Builds - Frequency

2010-03-22 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 21 March 2010 07:49, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 03/20/2010 11:55 PM, Brendan Sleight wrote: >> >>   2010-03-17: Debian Live Squeeze alpha1 >>   The first alpha images for the upcoming Debian Squeeze 6.0 release >> have been uploaded. >> >> Which sounds very exciting. > > i'm not finished writin

Re: PPC port

2010-03-22 Thread Jeroen Diederen
This is really accindental!! I was writing a manual on something very similar yesterday on my own website, have a look here: http://mac.linux.be/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=75 I am now trying to put the lxde-lenny.iso on a stick and see if I can boot it. Op 22/3/2010 schreef "Daniel Baumann" :

Re: live.debian.netcdimage, Builds - Frequency

2010-03-22 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 03/22/2010 08:03 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: Or rather why is there problem building 50G of images on ppc or sparc? because those machines are at home, and uploading with 1.5mbit/s sucks ;/ (the amd64 and i386 too, but those are easy to build on one of my remote servers). -- Address:

Re: live.debian.netcdimage, Builds - Frequency

2010-03-22 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 03/22/2010 07:55 PM, holli wrote: hello, sorry for sending it again - but i subscribed to the list an my email did not show up so far and even not on the website.. first, do not hijack threads; second, the version of live-initramfs in ubuntu is not supported, only the version in sid is.

Re: PPC port

2010-03-22 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 03/22/2010 08:14 PM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: This is really accindental!! I was writing a manual on something very similar yesterday on my own website, have a look here: http://mac.linux.be/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=75 just to be precise: powerpc cannot boot from vfat partitions, right? --

Re: PPC port

2010-03-22 Thread Jeroen Diederen
powerpc machines do boot from vfat, see here for example: http://sowerbutts.com/linux-mac-mini/#introduction Op 22/3/2010 schreef "Daniel Baumann" : >On 03/22/2010 08:14 PM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: >> This is really accindental!! I was writing a manual on something very >> similar yesterday on my

Re: PPC port

2010-03-22 Thread Jeroen Diederen
Well, not bad for a start! What I found out first of all is that you cannot just copy yaboot over from the iso. It won't boot with that. You need to create yaboot by using the technique as mentioned on my website. I downloaded debian-live-503-powerpc-lxde-desktop.iso and extracted the while imag

Re: PPC port

2010-03-22 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 03/22/2010 08:56 PM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: powerpc machines do boot from vfat, see here for example: http://sowerbutts.com/linux-mac-mini/#introduction i couldn't find any information about if powerpcs can boot from fat, nor that they can't, oiow, it doesn't say anything about booting from

Re: PPC port

2010-03-22 Thread Jeroen Diederen
About the i8042 failure I did some more research. It's a keyboard controller module, but this controller is not present on Macs. Gentoo advizes not to have this module in when compiling the kernel: Code Listing 3.16: IN from bad port 64 - Disable i8042 keyboard support Device Drivers - Input dev

Re: PPC port

2010-03-22 Thread Jeroen Diederen
>From that link: This table shows how I partitioned my 80GB internal disk. I decided to have an 8GB partition which I would format as FAT32. This allows me to easily and reliably share files between OS X and Linux, both of which have good FAT32 support but, at the time of writing, poor or incompl

Re: PPC port

2010-03-22 Thread Jeroen Diederen
>On 03/22/2010 08:56 PM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: >> powerpc machines do boot from vfat, see here for example: >> http://sowerbutts.com/linux-mac-mini/#introduction > >i couldn't find any information about if powerpcs can boot from fat, nor >that they can't, oiow, it doesn't say anything about booti

Re: PPC port

2010-03-22 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 22 March 2010 22:10, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > >>On 03/22/2010 08:56 PM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: >>> powerpc machines do boot from vfat, see here for example: >>> http://sowerbutts.com/linux-mac-mini/#introduction >> >>i couldn't find any information about if powerpcs can boot from fat, nor >>tha