Re: Migrating Debian from iMac G4 to iMac G5

2005-09-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:17:33AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Also, notice that it is my experience that linux/powerpc sbp2 (the firewire > > disk) mode is rather flakey on 2.6 kernels, when i tried that to backup my > > powerbook, i failed miserably. > > Cannot confirm this - on 2.6.8 and

Re: Migrating Debian from iMac G4 to iMac G5

2005-09-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:21:21PM -0300, Eduardo Trápani wrote: > >>Also, notice that it is my experience that linux/powerpc sbp2 (the > >>firewire > >>disk) mode is rather flakey on 2.6 kernels, when i tried that to backup my > >>powerbook, i failed miserably. > > > > > >Cannot confirm this - on

Re: Migrating Debian from iMac G4 to iMac G5

2005-09-07 Thread Eduardo Trápani
Also, notice that it is my experience that linux/powerpc sbp2 (the firewire disk) mode is rather flakey on 2.6 kernels, when i tried that to backup my powerbook, i failed miserably. Cannot confirm this - on 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 (old BenH BK trees), sbp2 and fw is rock solid. The only trick is to pl

Re: Migrating Debian from iMac G4 to iMac G5

2005-09-06 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Cannot confirm this - on 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 (old BenH BK trees), sbp2 and fw > > is rock solid. The only trick is to plug in the disk _after_ Linux has > > booted. > > Ah, ... i never did that i plugged it in from startup (and was running the > ubuntu live cd even). it is a 1Ghz tibook (last tibo

Re: Migrating Debian from iMac G4 to iMac G5

2005-09-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:19:40AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > Cannot confirm this - on 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 (old BenH BK trees), sbp2 and fw > > > is rock solid. The only trick is to plug in the disk _after_ Linux has > > > booted. > > > > Ah, ... i never did that i plugged it in from startup

Re: Migrating Debian from iMac G4 to iMac G5

2005-09-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:17:33AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Also, notice that it is my experience that linux/powerpc sbp2 (the firewire > > disk) mode is rather flakey on 2.6 kernels, when i tried that to backup my > > powerbook, i failed miserably. > > Cannot confirm this - on 2.6.8 and

Re: Migrating Debian from iMac G4 to iMac G5

2005-09-06 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Also, notice that it is my experience that linux/powerpc sbp2 (the firewire > disk) mode is rather flakey on 2.6 kernels, when i tried that to backup my > powerbook, i failed miserably. Cannot confirm this - on 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 (old BenH BK trees), sbp2 and fw is rock solid. The only trick is to

Re: Migrating Debian from iMac G4 to iMac G5

2005-09-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 02:31:28PM -0300, Eduardo Trápani wrote: > With your help I've been able to boot the new iMac G5 and start the > installer. > > Since I'm migrating from another Debian on a G4 I don't know if I should > install a whole new system or not. > > If I start the G4 in target m

Migrating Debian from iMac G4 to iMac G5

2005-09-05 Thread Eduardo Trápani
With your help I've been able to boot the new iMac G5 and start the installer. Since I'm migrating from another Debian on a G4 I don't know if I should install a whole new system or not. If I start the G4 in target mode, mount the firewire disk in the G5 and simply copy the whole filesystem(