Re: PPC64 Image Installation Error

2019-02-02 Thread Noah Wolfe
I see. Thank you for the clarity. N On Sat, 2019-02-02 at 17:11 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > On Feb 2, 2019, at 1:25 PM, Noah Wolfe wrote: > > The matter is all the more compacted, of course, due to the fact it > > doesn't even have ifconfig OOTB, giving you few usable method

Re: PPC64 Image Installation Error

2019-02-02 Thread Noah Wolfe
Thanks, Rick. I'll need to do that one of these days. I suppose it would be wise. N On Sat, 2019-02-02 at 14:32 -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > > On Feb 2, 2019, at 8:11 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > sik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Feb 2, 2019, at 1:25 PM, Noah Wolfe > > w

Re: PPC64 Image Installation Error

2019-02-02 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Feb 2, 2019, at 8:11 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > > > On Feb 2, 2019, at 1:25 PM, Noah Wolfe wrote: >> The matter is all the more compacted, of course, due to the fact it doesn't >> even have ifconfig OOTB, giving you few usable methods to fix network errors. >> > > i

Re: PPC64 Image Installation Error

2019-02-02 Thread Noah Wolfe
Hi Adrian, On Sat, 2019-02-02 at 15:21 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > On 2/2/19 1:32 AM, Noah Wolfe wrote: > > > > After reinstalling the system due to an unresolvable networking > > error (A perfectly stable connection would drop without reason, > > something that did not

Re: PPC64 Image Installation Error

2019-02-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Feb 2, 2019, at 1:25 PM, Noah Wolfe wrote: > The matter is all the more compacted, of course, due to the fact it doesn't > even have ifconfig OOTB, giving you few usable methods to fix network errors. > ifconfig has been replaced by the “ip” command these days on most Linux distribution

Re: PPC64 Image Installation Error

2019-02-02 Thread Noah Wolfe
eat amount. > > From my experiences alone in the last few days, the ppc64 versions really put > the "unstable" in "Sid". > > In any case, please advise. Thank you. > > From: Noah Wolfe > Sent: Friday, February 1, 2019 2:08 PM > To: Rick Thomas &g

Re: PPC64 Image Installation Error

2019-02-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 2/2/19 1:32 AM, Noah Wolfe wrote: > After reinstalling the system due to an unresolvable networking error (A > perfectly stable connection would drop without reason, something that did not > happen in Ubuntu 16.04, at least after network-manager was installed. The > only fix was to de

Re: PPC64 Image Installation Error

2019-02-02 Thread Rick Thomas
installation time by a great amount. > > From my experiences alone in the last few days, the ppc64 versions really put > the "unstable" in "Sid". > > In any case, please advise. Thank you. > > From: Noah Wolfe > Sent: Friday, February 1, 2019 2:08

Re: PPC64 Image Installation Error

2019-02-01 Thread Noah Wolfe
e ppc64 versions really put >the "unstable" in "Sid". In any case, please advise. Thank you. From: Noah Wolfe Sent: Friday, February 1, 2019 2:08 PM To: Rick Thomas Cc: PowerPC List Debian; John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Subject: Re: PPC64 Image Ins

Re: PPC64 Image Installation Error

2019-02-01 Thread Noah Wolfe
Thanks, Rick. I got around this issue by simply making the /boot partition (sda2) 1 GB instead of 1 MB, and the / partition (sda3) doubled to 80 GB. Using this same method with a reinstall of Ubuntu Server 16.04 (which was giving me the same error when it was installed in partitions 6, 7, 8, an

Re: PPC64 Image Installation Error

2019-01-31 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Noah, Is it possible for you to temporarily replace the hard drive in your machine with one you don’t mind experimenting on? If so, after a clean installation onto the fresh hard disk, what you want to finish up your installation with is something that looks kind of like this: > root@msmini

Re: PPC64 Image Installation Error

2019-01-29 Thread Noah Wolfe
Hi Rick, I partitioned the first disk (1 TB)  in my machine like so: #1 32 KB Apple Partition Map #2 8 MB HFS NewWorld Boot Partition (mounted at /boot) - Designated to Ubuntu Server 16.04, which used up 313 KB, leaving 7.32 MB unused. #3 40 GB Ext4 System Partition (mounted at /) - Designated to

Re: PPC64 Image Installation Error

2019-01-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 1/29/19 1:20 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Your installation target is obviously too small, see the error message > about insufficient disk space. You need to use a larger hard disk or > partition. > > What is the size of the root partition you have set up? Correction: It's the /boot

Re: PPC64 Image Installation Error

2019-01-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Noah! On 1/29/19 8:19 AM, Noah Wolfe wrote: > Upon further inspection into virtual console 4 (Ctrl+Alt+F4), the last > remaining written installer activity is displayed, a particular point > of interest after the usual "Unpacking linux-image-4.19.0-2-powerpc64 > (4.19.16-1) ...", being: "dpkg:

Re: PPC64 Image Installation Error

2019-01-29 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Jan 28, 2019, at 11:19 PM, Noah Wolfe wrote: > > Hello. > > I'm running a Late 2005 Power Mac G5 (11,2), and although the regular > powerpc installer images may be fixed from most problems at this point > (going off of other people's posted experiences), the newest netinstall > ppc64 ima

PPC64 Image Installation Error

2019-01-29 Thread Noah Wolfe
Hello. I'm running a Late 2005 Power Mac G5 (11,2), and although the regular powerpc installer images may be fixed from most problems at this point (going off of other people's posted experiences), the newest netinstall ppc64 images from 2019-01-27 (http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2 019-01