Re: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

2010-12-18 Thread Gary Driggs
On Dec 18, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Brian Morris wrote: > My main gripe as I have said before here is that there are no G4-Altivec > optimized binary packages Debian based to be found anywhere. I was working on a G5 optimized 64 bit binary of GNU Icecat (their own take on Iceweasel) but encountered so

Re: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

2010-12-18 Thread Brian Morris
Ubuntu although "community supported" works well. At least, I have installed 10.0LTS on a couple ancient G3 powermacs with LXDE desktop from server install cd. The reason I did is because wifi support was broke on the laptop in Debian Lenny but worked in Ubuntu. I know Ubuntu is sort of the consum

Re: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

2010-12-18 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 09:01:12PM +0100, nello martuscielli wrote: > only Debian and Gentoo, are you sure? Yeah, and YDL and probably many more, eventhough I doubt they also support 10 other architectures. Sorry if I hurt someone's feelings, but I only think "mainstream" distros. Cheers, -- .

Re: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

2010-12-18 Thread nello martuscielli
2010/12/18 Aurélien GÉRÔME : _cut.. > > Basically, Yaboot upstream maintainers are IBM folks.  Knowning that, > take into account that IBM pSeries only come with official RedHat > support and that RedHat no longer cares about any other machines > than pSeries (for reference, see the dropped hfsuti

Re: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

2010-12-18 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
Hi Xavier, On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 04:44:22PM +0100, Xavier Grave wrote: > I have tested the > unofficial-debian-squeeze-powerpc-netinst-1-yaboot-1.3.16.iso on the > power6 I have at hand. First of all : no more "two passes behaviour", > ehea module OK. > > Reboot worked perfectly. Thanks to all

Re: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

2010-12-18 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
Hi Benjamin, On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 08:14:48AM +0100, Benjamin Cama wrote: > Very nice to have an almost official iso! Sure. > Le mardi 14 décembre 2010 à 04:22 +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME a écrit : > > * yaboot-installer_1.1.19; > > Does this include the amiga partition map renumbering fix? (I'm