Re: Debian Jessie mirrors

2019-05-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Pshemek! On 5/4/19 12:29 AM, Przemysław Buczkowski wrote: > I tried to update it today but it seems that powerpc Jessie packages were > removed from all the official Debian mirrors; Yes, all the mirror for Debian Jessie (powerpc) content has been removed from the main mirrors. > quick sea

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-04-20

2019-05-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Rick! On 5/3/19 11:40 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > I’ll be happy to test grub-ofpathname (and any other open-firmware > path-deduction programs) on my collection of G4 and G5 hardware, but I’ll > need some guidance as to what kinds of tests you want done and where to get > the programs to tes

Curious why the PowerMac G5 quad needs a monitor to boot

2019-05-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
Seems like very strange behavior but if I try to boot the G5 headless it just roars the fans and sits there dead. No idea why. ppc64$ ppc64$ uname -a Linux hydra 5.0.11-genunix #1 SMP Fri May 3 21:37:21 UTC 2019 ppc64 GNU/Linux ppc64$ uname -rm 5.0.11-genunix ppc64 ppc64$ -- Dennis Clarke

Re: Debian Jessie mirrors

2019-05-03 Thread Jeffrey Townsend
There are no more updates for Jessie. While it has been removed from the mirrors you can still pull it from the Debian archive. On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 15:38 Przemysław Buczkowski wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm running an old Mac Mini G4 as a shell/web server for my high school > class. > > I tried

Debian ports Sid release file not valid yet?!

2019-05-03 Thread Alex McKeever
Why is this even happening? I’m running a slightly modified install on my eMac here because the 4 series kernel doesn’t work with it (CRT is blank). I am running the older 3.13 series kernel and am at a roadblock in installing software. I am running the 10.0 Minimal install with the aforemention

Debian Jessie mirrors

2019-05-03 Thread Przemysław Buczkowski
Hello all, I'm running an old Mac Mini G4 as a shell/web server for my high school class. I tried to update it today but it seems that powerpc Jessie packages were removed from all the official Debian mirrors; quick search shows that the packages were retained only on some unofficial mirrors

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-04-20

2019-05-03 Thread Rick Thomas
> On May 2, 2019, at 9:56 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > Btw, are there any news regarding tests with grub-ofpathname? Otherwise > I would start working on these in the weekend after hopefully finishing > switching d-i/debian-cd over to GRUB for powerpc/ppc64. I’ll be happy to te

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-04-20

2019-05-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/3/19 2:08 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On May 3, 2019, at 7:35 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: That's true for all code, if the interface you use changes, you have to adapt your code. reformat : If it were C code, for example, an API break would actually cause the dependenc