(Dropping some CCs.)
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Norberto Feliberty wrote:
> However maybe that has changed and will test a sid build and see if
> it can find the network drivers to install.
That will only work if you build your own images. If you can do that,
great!
The fact that the "official
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Rick Thomas wrote:
> So how do we get this fixed? If it really is a problem on the buildd,
> who *can* fix it? Is there a list somewhere of who is responsible for
> which buildd?
I've already provided that info a few times. For the "centralized" D-I
buildds (which in
reassign 549681 base-installer
severity 549681 normal
tag 549681 help
user debian-b...@lists.debian.org
usertag 549681 powerpc
thanks
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, maximilian attems wrote:
> > some OpenFirmware implementations, such as the one in the PegasosII,
> > have a 12 MB size limit on kernel
reassign 572869 yaboot 1.3.13a-1
clone 572869 -1
severity 572869 serious
reassign -1 yaboot-installer 1.1.15
block -1 by 572869
tag -1 help
thanks
Thanks for the report Branden.
On Sunday 07 March 2010, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> Installation worked beautifully with the major
On Thursday 18 February 2010, Julian Hernandez Gomez wrote:
> What is the contents of /proc/cpuinfo for a PS3?
>
> [cpuinfo]
>
> > Also, what is the output of 'archdetect' when run in a debug shell of
> > the installer?
>
> powerpc/ps3
Thanks. I've added support for kernel selection for ps3 in SV
On Thursday 18 February 2010, Norberto Feliberty wrote:
> The only problem I encountered
> was that it could not find the correct kernel to install therefore a
> kernel had to be manually installed after the installation completed.
What is the contents of /proc/cpuinfo for a PS3?
Also, what is th
On Friday 18 December 2009, Philipp Kern wrote:
> While I did not take care about the fallout due to time constraints on
> my side, I did take a look at the meta-gnome2 migration back then. We
> did not place any approval hint but it seems that the multiple arch:all
> confused britney sufficiently
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 17 December 2009, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Given that the package version clearly indicates it reached testing by
> > way of testing-proposed-updates, I think it's unwise to assume this.
> > Cc:ing debia
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Given that the package version clearly indicates it reached testing by
> way of testing-proposed-updates, I think it's unwise to assume this.
> Cc:ing debian-release for input on the uninstallability of gnome in
> testing.
You're right, I miss
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote:
> It may not be "grave" for the installer (indeed, you've already
> established at great length that it's not an installer problem at all)
> but that doesn't make it any the less grave for whatever package it
> does belong to. You've given me a few
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > What problems exist in Squeeze?
>
> Here's the Squeeze problem (from my original posting in this thread):
> >>> 3) When I install a "graphical desktop environment" with Squeeze
> >>> using the above d-i images, I get a system that is missing almo
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I have listed several problems that exist in Sid and Squeeze, some of
> which prevent successful installation (even though there is nothing
> wrong with the installer).
The problems in Sid are not interesting as they will fix themselves.
What
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rogério Brito wrote:
> I will see with Otávio what can be done from the d-i side of it (I'm not
> really up to d-i things, since I've been working with the main
> distribution instead of with installers). But I can try to look at it.
I already replied to the original
> Looks to me that the general state of builds is rather pathetic ATM:
Sorry. I should have just written "Looks like there are quite a few
problems with builds ATM". Does not change the facts or the likelyhood of
a successful upload/release any time soon though.
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de
On Sunday 25 October 2009, Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2009, at 10:03 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
> > Links to current images are available from:
> > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
> >
> > Cheers,
> > FJP
>
> Hmmm... If I follow that link, t
On Tuesday 20 May 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
> Although this is user error, I have no problem with documenting the
> correct partition types to use for various powerpc systems in the
> installation guide. However, since that is a nice mess (see below), this
> should be done by someone m
reassign 481844 installation-guide-powerpc
retitle 481844 Document disklabel type to use for various subarches and why
severity 481844 minor
tag 481844 help
thanks
> The supplied logs are with manual partitioning the disk,
> it seems that it is not sufficient with only a NewWorld
> boot partition
On Friday 07 March 2008, Ulrich Enslin wrote:
> Since you are going to update the code, can you also check that you are
> catering for a
> IBM RS6000 (7026-H70) and
> IBM pseries 630 (7028-6C4).
The second already was supported, but I've updated the patch to also catch
the first. As Olof suggeste
tags 469030 + pending
thanks
On Friday 07 March 2008, Ulrich Enslin wrote:
> Frans Pop wrote:
> > On Friday 07 March 2008, Ulrich Enslin wrote:
> >> Using the rescue I booted into a chroot of the
> >> installed system. Installed the correct 64 bit kernel with 'a
On Friday 07 March 2008, Ulrich Enslin wrote:
> Using the rescue I booted into a chroot of the
> installed system. Installed the correct 64 bit kernel with 'aptitude
> install linux-image-2.6-powerpc64' and that solved the problem.
>
> This does point to a bug in the installer though.
Yes, it does
On Thursday 06 March 2008, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> > Should the kernel not have a 64 somewhere in the name.
>
> Yes I think you have the wrong kernel installed. Try to install
> linux-image-2.6-powerpc64. Try "aptitude install
> linux-image-2.6-powerpc64" after booting into rescue mode and mounti
On Sunday 02 March 2008, Ulrich Enslin wrote:
> I installed debian 40r3 on a IBM Power 620 (7025-f0). The install was
> successful, but the system did not boot from the scsi disc, with the
> output shown below.
>
> Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.13
> Enter "help" to get some basic usage information
reassign libparted1.7-1 1.7.1-5.1
thanks
On Monday 05 November 2007, Charles Plessy wrote:
> I attached the hardware-summary to this mail to be more complete. My
> machine is a bi-G5 powermac with a new 500 Gb hard drive that contains a
> fresh OS X (10.4) installation and a lot of free space to d
On Monday 05 November 2007, Charles Plessy wrote:
> I have tested the latest daily install disk, Debian GNU/Linux testing
> "Lenny" - Official Snapshot powerpc BC Binary-1 20071104-10:21, and when
> it arrives to Partman, it does not manage to detect my partition table.
You do not say anything abo
(Reply-to set to debian-boot list)
kernel udeb status
==
Because I had to test the changes below anyway, I have done what I guess
will be my last massbuild and upload of kernel/module udebs.
All arches are now at 2.6.21-2, with the following exceptions:
- sparc: at 2.6.20 because
On Monday 02 July 2007 10:46, Peter Czanik wrote:
> I can't help you with coding, but I don't think, that testing the PPC
> installer once or twice a week on Pegasos PPC would be a problem for
> me.
That is an excellent offer. However, without somebody else from the
PowerPC community able to help
On Thursday 21 June 2007 16:21, Peter Czanik wrote:
> Installation fails right after the kernel is booted with the following
> message:
> /bin/sh: symbol lookup error: /lib/libc.so.6: undefined symbol:
> _rtld_global Kernel panic - not syncing: attembed to kill init!
With today's daily images, thi
On Saturday 02 June 2007 20:08, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Friday 01 June 2007 20:18, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Make sure you grab a copy of the miboot packages from
> > http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot, before they get erased.
>
> I have saved these for now in my new ~ on
(Dropping debian-cd as this is not really an issue for them.)
On Thursday 24 May 2007 12:09, Michal Semler wrote:
> Today I found serious error in powerpc netinst image, where I selected
> install64 to install 64bit kernel. Installation continues and finishes
> well, but system is unable to be boo
Hello D-I porters,
Most architectures should now be able to switch to 2.6.20 for D-I (except
for arm, hppa and m68k). i386 and amd64 have already been switched.
Over the past two weeks Joey has done the needed work for i386 and amd64
(and necessary updates in kernel-wedge), but we've waited wit
(BCC to d-ports)
For all architectures, except for m68k, installer and CD/DVD images of
what is going to be D-I RC2 are now available for testing. RC2 is
scheduled to be the D-I release shipped with Etch.
Netboot, floppy and hd-media images are available from:
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/di
Hi all,
As you've probably noticed, what's intended to be the final kernel for
Etch has been uploaded yesterday.
I'm currently building and uploading the kernel udebs for all arches
(except arm and m68k for which images are not yet available). I'll also
upload new loop-aes module udebs for Spa
On Friday 12 January 2007 03:54, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Yes, I've seen various mails/rants etc... and haven't wanted to take
> part of it neither in the past, but it looks like this has gone too
> far, and it's more and more looking like even perfectly good bug fixes
> that are needed for
On Thursday 11 January 2007 19:29, Mathew Binkley wrote:
> I did, by downloading the latest Debian Etch testing iso (which was
> regenerated on January 8, three days ago) and it failed at exactly the
> same place, with exactly the same error.
And we are supposed to guess that by telepathic means o
Allow me to correct myself on some minor points.
On Thursday 11 January 2007 19:18, Frans Pop wrote:
> The daily build Etch images have been using this udeb for a bit more
> than a month.
It was even a bit longer: installer images have included the module since
about Nov 20.
> The
On Thursday 11 January 2007 18:40, Mathew Binkley wrote:
> Our current cluster is divided between 840 Intel/AMD x86 processors,
> and 672 IBM PowerPC 970FX processors. To date, we have required
> different operating systems on each architecture because of poor OS
> support for the PowerPC's.
> Et
On Saturday 30 December 2006 14:24, Sven Luther wrote:
> I think both me and waldi qualify for this, i am unsure of the others,
List changed to only Waldi and Sven for now. Let us know if others need to
(re)added.
Cheers,
FJP
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Hello porters,
I've just announced the schedule [1] for the release of the Installation
Guide to be included with the Etch release.
That schedule leaves room for bigger updates until Dec 31 and for minor
ones until Jan 7. This means that if you have any updates you'd like to
get in for your po
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 08:32, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 11:40:02PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > We received a BR that the list of porters for PowerPC on the
> > Organization webpage [1] was outdated. However, this seems to be true
> > for most ports.
&g
(BCCed to d-ports)
Hello,
We received a BR that the list of porters for PowerPC on the Organization
webpage [1] was outdated. However, this seems to be true for most ports.
Please reply to debian-www@lists.debian.org with an updated list of active
porters for your port after discussing changes
On Monday 25 December 2006 22:55, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
> It occurs to me that the list of PowerPC porters is not up-to-date
> in the Debian's Organizational Structure page at [1].
>
> Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems that Daniel Jacobowitz and
> Hartmut Koptein are not active anymore. Marti
We are ready to make the switch to 2.6.18 for Debian Installer.
For most architectures the 2.6.18-6 (ABI -3) should now be available in
unstable.
Please update the kernel udebs for your architecture ASAP.
Cheers,
FJP
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than English, consider installing in
that language; note that one last round of translation updates is
still planned, but reports of issues are still appreciated
TIA,
Frans Pop
[1]http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s03.html#di-partition
[2]http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual
Things are finally starting to come together for RC1.
- We've found a good work-around for the bug in g-i where selected lines
in multi-select lists would not be shown. We need new versions of
some gtk packages for that, but these have now been uploaded.
Thanks especially to Loïc Minier for h
clone 391451 -1
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retitle -1 linux-2.6: [powerpc] Please enable the amd74xx driver
block 391451 with -1
thanks
> The on-board hard drive (40 GB Fujitsu MHT2040AS, 2.5", parallel ATA) is
> not detected. lspci shows the driver as an AMD 8111, but neither the
> kernel nor /lib/mo
On Friday 06 October 2006 17:49, Sven Luther wrote:
> Frans, can you comment ? I saw you commited this fix, but maybe you
> didn't upload it yet ? Or maybe there is another issue ?
I did not commit anything yet. Colin promised to look into the issue this
weekend based on the mail I sent him.
Che
On Friday 22 September 2006 16:39, Grant Grundler wrote:
> I didn't see anything for parisc (HPPA).
> I don't know of any problems with initramfs on parisc.
> but I don't expect any surprises from the kernel on that.
Maybe I was not clear enough on this. The original text was:
* type of initrd use
attention.
Have D-I porters actually read the mail?
Is it useful that I send such mails at all?
On Sunday 17 September 2006 14:28, Frans Pop wrote:
> Dear (d-i) porters,
>
> First mass upload of kernel udebs
> =
> Today I have uploaded kernel udeb u
(Reply-to set to debian-boot; please only add relevant port if needed.)
Dear (d-i) porters,
First mass upload of kernel udebs
=
Today I have uploaded kernel udeb updates to 2.6.17-9 _for all arches_.
This is the first time using the 'massbuild' [1] script I wrote r
On Saturday 16 September 2006 09:09, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Is there someone out there who will work with me to get a kernel that
> boots to run debian-installer on my beige G3 PowerMac (OldWorld)
> machine?
I'd like to see that happen.
> If not, I think it may be time to withdraw OldWorld PowerMac
On Saturday 16 September 2006 08:48, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I tried tonight's businesscard iso on an Apple PowerMac G4. It
> booted and got into the installer. I walked it through its paces
> without incident up to the disk partitioning step. I didn't have a
> free partition to put stuff into at t
On Friday 15 September 2006 19:02, Rick Thomas wrote:
> When should I expect to be able to burn a working businesscard (or
> netinst) CD?
The CD build starting in about 4 hours should have the changes. Not sure
if it will be working :-)
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On Thursday 14 September 2006 08:41, Sven Luther wrote:
> /me wonders who is in charge of this breakage right now ?
Well, at first glance it seems to me that this could be caused by the
change from cramfs to initramfs for which _you_ proposed the patches, so
I would normally guess _you_ to deal
for other installation methods:
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-/current/images/
Known issues:
- S/390 Beta 3 candidate images are broken; will be fixed with next upload
- Lowmem settings in Beta 3 images are not yet correct; see below
On Monday 24 July 2006 11:52, Frans P
(Please reply only to debian-boot; reply-to set accordingly; add other
recipients only selectively)
Now that linux-2.6.16 has safely landed in testing a few days ago, we can
really start working on the Beta 3 release of D-I. In fact, the migration
of most udebs to testing is already in progress
(Please reply only to d-boot; Reply-to set accordingly)
The latest upload of linux-2.6.16 is now (after today's mirror sync)
available for all architectures except arm.
As there were important changes, we should rebuild the kernel udebs
against 2.6.16-17 before starting the builds of debian-ins
(Please reply only to d-boot and optionally the relevant port list.)
Hello d-i porters,
Now that 2.6.16-15 kernels have been uploaded to unstable (using a
linux-2.6.16 source package), we can start thinking about the Etch Beta 3
release of D-I.
Currently all architectures, except for arm, have
, Frans Pop wrote:
> In more detail:
> 1) Upload new i386 kernel udebs for both 2.4 and 2.6 to s-p-u (I've
>already prepared a set)
> 2) Get these acked by SRM so they actually show up in s-p-u; s-p-u
> already has debian-installer sections, I'm not sure if the acceptance
&
On Sunday 14 May 2006 07:22, Frans Pop wrote:
> It's currently unsure if the keyboard will work correctly with AT
> keymaps as well as USB-MAC. I'll test that over the next days.
The current daily images now show the AT keymap list. I've tested this on
Frank Lichtenheld&
> d-i efforts and the port. I think this is a mistake on the technical
> side, Sven has experience and his estimations deserve a sound
> evaluation and a serious rebuttal. Of course he is not the only
> competent person, but this does not discredit his estimations.
>
> On Mon,
On Thursday 27 April 2006 13:39, Sven Luther wrote:
> maintainer, and removed my d-i commit rights, there is no way for me to
I revoked your commit rights immediately after your resignation from the
team because I felt (and I still do) that things had deteriorated so much
that the d-i team was b
r) and
we'd dearly like to see those worked on.
Cheers,
Frans Pop
P.S. This is the only mail I'm going to waste on this issue.
P.P.S. Note that the daily builds that Sven is still running should not be
used. Instead, please use the builds lined from [3].
P.P.P.S. Just for the record:
The reply below was only sent to the d-boot list; forwarding to d-powerpc
as I would guess Brian is not subscribed to d-boot.
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Re: Debian Installer PowerPC
Date: Wednesday 29 March 2006 10:12
From: Geert Stappers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-boo
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 03:00, Sven Luther wrote:
> altough seeing as it is a tedious process with little respect from the
> d-i team ...
I have on purpose avoided anything like this in my mail and will not go
into any past issues here. I only hope that anyone considering helping
out with d-
werPC
specific issues [2]. We'd very much like to see these resolved. There are
also some open issues for the new graphical version of the installer.
If you are interested, please contact us on the debian-boot list.
Cheers,
Frans Pop
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/03/ms
On Sunday 26 March 2006 23:21, Sven Luther wrote:
> Ok, but initramfs-tools is there, and is the default now anyway, so it
> should work. There is clearly a bug in initramfs-tools about this
> issue, so file a bug report against it, or ask maks on irc
> (#debian-kernel on irc.oftc.net).
No, this i
(This was supposed to be BCC'ed to d-ports...)
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: [D-I] Post-release notes
Date: Saturday 18 March 2006 03:25
From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
As the last action for the Beta 2 release, the links for
(already sent to d-boot)
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 13:52, Frans Pop wrote:
> I am very happy to announce that the debian-installer images targeted
> for Beta2 are now in testing (except AMD64) and that daily (etch_d-i)
> netinst and buisinesscard CD images using them are now available
I am very happy to announce that the debian-installer images targeted for
Beta2 are now in testing (except AMD64) and that daily (etch_d-i) netinst
and buisinesscard CD images using them are now available from [1].
These images use the 2.6.15-7 kernel.
Note: full CD images are not yet available,
On Friday 03 March 2006 23:30, Brad Boyer wrote:
> Are we still using devfs, or have we moved on to using udev?
The installer uses udev for current 2.6 kernels.
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On Sunday 26 February 2006 17:00, Brad Boyer wrote:
> This problem seems pretty simple. The driver floppy.ko is for normal PC
> style floppy controllers. Apple never did use such a beast in a Mac.
> The swim3 driver should handle the floppy drives for all PCI Macs that
> have internal floppy drives
I've made a complete mess of CD images for Beta2 so far as the result of a
wrong assumption. This means, as some installation reports and comments
have shown, that CD images linked from [1] have been broken since last
Friday.
The good news is that there are now good Beta2 netinst and businessca
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 10:13, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> I looked up the installation manual on using BootX after first stage
> installation, and it seems to suppose no initrd, which must fail AFAIK
> on recent debian kernels.
>
> Am I missing something here?
Unfortunately the PowerPC specific par
On Saturday 29 October 2005 21:51, Sven Luther wrote:
> And for each of them report exactly and in details what happened.
Please use this template for that:
http://www.us.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template
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On Wednesday 26 October 2005 07:40, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> Could some one please apply this patch to the PowerMac install page?
Committed. Thanks for your patch.
Cheers,
FJP
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On Saturday 27 August 2005 22:30, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> Patrick> The model 260 is most definitely a 7043-260 (aka
> Patrick> 43P-260).
> Based on the thread on debian-powerpc could you please commit this
> patch?
>
> This change should also be made to the install manual too. I can write
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 13:14, R Charles Flickinger wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> I cannot locate the files described in section 4.5.1 of the
> Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide to be placed in the BootX "Linux
> Kernels" folde:
> "Download linux.bin and ramdisk.image.gz from the disks-powerpc/
On Monday 22 August 2005 01:48, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> The patch below updates the powerpc install page to describe the
> status as in Sarge (i.e. it reflects the installation manual). Nothing
> controversial here (at least AFAIK ;-)
Committed. Could you check the result please? The new version s
Hello Shyamal,
On Monday 15 August 2005 01:47, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> Here is a proposed patch to index.wml that you might consider. A
> changelog would include
Thanks very much for this patch; your changes look sane to me.
Sorry for not replying earlier, but as the patch was a bit larger I want
On Monday 15 August 2005 21:02, Sven Luther wrote:
> As a result, the floppies present in sarge are entirely broken and will
> never work. Also the 2.6 floppies, even with miboot present never
> worked fiably, annd since we are doing away with the 2.4 kernels for
> etch, this means that the miboot
Hi,
Holger Wansing noted on the d-www list (see mail below) that the port
pages for PowerPC are in dire need of an update because they and the
links on them still refer to Woody and seem not to have been updated for
Sarge.
- http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/index.en.html
- http://www.debian
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On Wednesday 15 September 2004 18:01, Roland Wegmann wrote:
> Which debian package do I have to install so that Kmail is able to verify
> the signature of emails?
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On Sunday 11 July 2004 10:34, Rick Thomas wrote:
> There are three (seemingly) different sets of daily ISOs at
>
> http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040710/
>
> http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-
> i/powe
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