Re: Installer doesn't find the mirrors

2023-05-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > I believe you > > can't have both FAT as OF bootstrap partition **and** blessing. The only way would be that Apple had defined some protocol using the specified capabilities of FAT, by which blessing and other Apple-specific file properties can be expressed, and that

Re: Installer doesn't find the mirrors

2023-05-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > What's the alternative HFS+ tree of the ISO? Does it write a small HFS+ > filesystem onto the ISO image? Alternative trees are tradition in ISO 9660: Joliet, ISO 9660:1999, UDF. They can refer to the same data file content as the ISO 9660 tree, but have thei

Re: Installer doesn't find the mirrors

2023-05-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On Wed, 2023-05-10 at 10:03 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > > I just don't know how to bless a bootloader located on a FAT partition. > > I know that xorriso does it and it works on ISO9660 filesystems, but I > > don't understand how. > > xorriso attributes bles

Re: Installer doesn't find the mirrors

2023-05-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > I just don't know how to bless a bootloader located on a FAT partition. > I know that xorriso does it and it works on ISO9660 filesystems, but I > don't understand how. xorriso attributes blessing to an alternative HFS+ tree of the ISO. This HFS+ tree is advertise

Re: Installer doesn't find the mirrors

2023-05-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Stan! Apologies for the late reply! On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 12:35 -0600, Stan Johnson wrote: > On 5/2/23 7:24 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > ... > > > > The former issue could be resolved if someone could find out how to boot > > a PowerPC Mac from a FAT32 boot partition. It's suppose

Re: Installer doesn't find the mirrors

2023-05-02 Thread Stan Johnson
Hi Adrian, On 5/2/23 7:24 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > ... > > The former issue could be resolved if someone could find out how to boot > a PowerPC Mac from a FAT32 boot partition. It's supposed to work but I never > verified that. > > If someone could test that, I can implement that a

Re: Installer doesn't find the mirrors

2023-05-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Alex! On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 09:08 -0700, Alex Perez wrote: >  This does not appear to have happened (new images) > > Is it something you can automate, or quasi-automate? Unfortunately not. It requires some manual intervention at the moment, especially for the PowerPC images as I have to ma

Re: Installer doesn't find the mirrors

2023-04-30 Thread Alex Perez
This does not appear to have happened (new images) Is it something you can automate, or quasi-automate? On 4/9/2023 11:16:01 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Apr 10, 2023, at 4:54 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 6:38 PM Ken Cunningham > wrote: >> >> Your issue is

Re: Installer doesn't find the mirrors

2023-04-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Apr 10, 2023, at 4:54 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 6:38 PM Ken Cunningham > wrote: >> >> Your issue is in French, but it looks like the one I recently faced as well >> if I am reading it correctly. >> >> I fixed it using the information on this page: >> >> ht

Re: Installer doesn't find the mirrors

2023-04-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 6:38 PM Ken Cunningham wrote: > > Your issue is in French, but it looks like the one I recently faced as well > if I am reading it correctly. > > I fixed it using the information on this page: > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/75807/no-public-key-available-on-apt

Re: Installer doesn't find the mirrors

2023-04-09 Thread Ken Cunningham
Your issue is in French, but it looks like the one I recently faced as well if I am reading it correctly. I fixed it using the information on this page: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/75807/no-public-key-available-on-apt-get-update I hope this helps you too. Ken > On Apr 9, 2023

Re: Installer doesn't find the mirrors

2023-04-09 Thread David VANTYGHEM
Le 09/04/2023 à 23:09, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : Hello David! On Apr 9, 2023, at 10:02 PM, David VANTYGHEM wrote: If someone could help me please. I have no idea of the problem. Please provide the syslog file that is stored as /var/log/syslog during installation. It’s otherwise

Re: Installer doesn't find the mirrors

2023-04-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello David! > On Apr 9, 2023, at 10:02 PM, David VANTYGHEM > wrote: > > If someone could help me please. I have no idea of the problem. > Please provide the syslog file that is stored as /var/log/syslog during installation. It’s otherwise not possible to debug the problem. Adrian

Re: installer: apt-setup choose-mirror fails w/ error code 134

2019-06-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Harold! On 6/3/19 5:46 PM, Harold Grove wrote: > Thanks for putting this installer together. Unfortunately, I get an > 'invalid Architectures in Release file for sid' error. Attached are > the installer logs. >From your log file: Jun 3 14:54:39 choose-mirror[26217]: DEBUG: command: wget --no

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-06 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/06/2017 03:39 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Awesome, the window manager, crashes the system at times. Such crashes are what I'm used to with this machine even with an older previous Debian install - Debian 8, IIRC, and a different X, without awesome. But that crash might be a hardware issue:

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-06 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 19:51:47 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > [ ... ] > Awesome, the window manager, crashes the system at times. Such > crashes are what I'm used to with this machine even with an older > previous Debian install - Debian 8, IIRC, and a different X, > without awesome. But that cra

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 21:13:58 +0100 Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 08:37:24PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > [ ... ] > > Ok, thanks, I don't have the keyboard configuration file at hand, but > it was something like lv3:enter_switch in the keyboard options. Bingo!! That was

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-05 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 08:37:24PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:34:11 +0100 > Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:12:24 +0100 > > Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > > The latter one: mine is from ~2001: > > "Command (Apple) key followed by KP_

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:37:24 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:34:11 +0100 > Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:12:24 +0100 > > Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > > The latter one: mine is from ~2001: > > "Command (Apple) key followed by KP_Enter"

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:34:11 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:12:24 +0100 > Gabriel Paubert wrote: > [ ... ] > > The latter one: mine is from ~2001: > "Command (Apple) key followed by KP_Enter" > On this image it's the left one: > https://images.techhive.com/images/articl

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:12:24 +0100 Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 07:51:47PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 02:09:20 +0100 > > Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > [ ... ] > > Console: > > I didn't find any bar key ("|") there, which is a real PITA, and > > the

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-05 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 07:51:47PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 02:09:20 +0100 > Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 00:50:01 +0100 > > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > > On 12/04/2017 12:14 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > I have to r

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 02:09:20 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 00:50:01 +0100 > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > On 12/04/2017 12:14 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > I have to rebuild debian-installer to match the 4.14 kernel. The > > > current version of debi

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/04/2017 07:45 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: >> Looks good. But as I said, I don't know for how long Yaboot will >> be around as it's currently being replaced. > > No problem for me as long as GRUB will have some usable option to > boot a ppc installer from inside OF, as yaboot perfectly seem

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-04 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 11:11:07 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/04/2017 01:26 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > [ ] > >>> No wayland, under no circumstances. Please! .. :) > >> > >> Why not? Wayland actually uses *less* resources than X, much less. > >> [ ... ] > > > > The "l

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/04/2017 01:26 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > I forgot this - no idea whether it's important: > Yaboot (?) says after booting someth. like this: > "Warning: Bootstrap partition type is wrong: "Apple_HFS" > type should be "Apple_Bootstrap"" We're working on replacing Yaboot for

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-03 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 02:09:20 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > [ ... ] > > Aborting the install crashed - but that might be a hardware, not Aborting the install crashed - but that might be a hardware should say: Aborting the install crashed - but that might be a hardware issue Sorry Wolfgang --

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-03 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 00:50:01 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/04/2017 12:14 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I have to rebuild debian-installer to match the 4.14 kernel. The > > current version of debian-installer on the installation images is > > built against 4.13 but unsta

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-03 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Adrian, hi All On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 00:14:50 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Wolfgang! > > On 12/03/2017 11:59 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > "No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch > > between the kernel used by this version of the installer and the > >

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/04/2017 12:14 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I have to rebuild debian-installer to match the 4.14 kernel. The current > version of debian-installer on the installation images is built against > 4.13 but unstable has kernel 4.14. I will fix this tomorrow. I have done this now although

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Wolfgang! On 12/03/2017 11:59 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > "No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch > between the kernel used by this version of the installer and the kernel > version available in the archive. Thanks for the heads-up, I knew I would have forgotten so

Re: Installer initrd question

2005-09-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 03:29:27AM -0700, Michael Crawford wrote: > I need help understanding how to use the initrd that the installer > places in my /boot directory. I'm trying to install on an external > FireWire drive on a second-generation iBook. I'm trying to avoid > repartitioning my intern

Re: Installer problems on Beige PowerMac G3

2005-08-28 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 02:28:58PM +0200, Magnus Sandberg wrote: > Can I verify the quik installation, or run it manually an extra time by > entering the shell? Should I verify (with mac-fdisk) that some partition > has the boot-flag? It seams that OpenFirmware don't recognize any bootable > dis

Re: Installer problems on Beige PowerMac G3

2005-08-28 Thread Magnus Sandberg
SM: +46-70-205 81 84 | \---/ || || ooO Ooo - On 12th of August 2005 Holger Levsen wrote; - Subject: Re: Installer problems on Beige PowerMac G3 From: Holger Levs

Re: Installer problems on Beige PowerMac G3

2005-08-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 10 August 2005 17:56, Magnus Sandberg wrote: > I have some problems installing Debian Sarge on my OldWorld PowerMac. > I sent a bug report to the bugtracking system; > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/08/msg00288.html > > Does any one has any ideas regarding thies problems

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:36:13AM -0800, Joaquin Menchaca wrote: > Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > >Hi! > > > >Since I had access for some power4 and power5 System the last time and > >noticed that > >the debian installer didn't work on this hardware (a 64bit kernel > >seems to be needed), > >I did

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Joaquin Menchaca
Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Hi! Since I had access for some power4 and power5 System the last time and noticed that the debian installer didn't work on this hardware (a 64bit kernel seems to be needed), I did some integration on this and added a "pseries" target to the debian installer including

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:05:53PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > Am 20.12.2004 um 15:59 schrieb Sven Luther: > > [...] > > >Mmm, not sure about this, debian-boot@lists.debian.org would be the > >best place > >to ask about this. Did you try the network-console installation ? > > It's a bit hig

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 20.12.2004 um 15:59 schrieb Sven Luther: [...] Mmm, not sure about this, debian-boot@lists.debian.org would be the best place to ask about this. Did you try the network-console installation ? It's a bit high traffic there. I've asked some questions there, but never got answers, maybe th

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 20.12.2004 um 15:37 schrieb Sven Luther: [...] works fine. Besides this, only a 2.6.9+ makes sense because of the included virtualization features. The 2.6.8(.1) did not boot a p670 at all, while the p615 and new power5 machines did.o Yep, i am working on real 64bit kernels, but saddly la

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 03:47:41PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > I've subscribed to the list, if it's used or not. I'd like to > participate in the ppc64 > stuff, sure. All development takes place at the ppc64 project on alioth? Cool. Well, it is a matter of some dispute. The original ppc64 gu

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 20.12.2004 um 14:37 schrieb Sven Luther: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:19:06PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Am 20.12.2004 um 13:59 schrieb Sven Luther: On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Hi! Since I had access for some power4 and power5 System the last time

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 03:19:28PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > Am 20.12.2004 um 14:37 schrieb Sven Luther: > > >On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:19:06PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > >> > >>Am 20.12.2004 um 13:59 schrieb Sven Luther: > >> > >>>On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Cajus Pol

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:38:12AM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > Hi, > > > Why won't the 32bit power4 kernels boot on these machines ? They should, > > only > > the iseries really need a 64bit kernel. > > The 32bit kernel does not have the pseries LPAR interfaces and so will > not boot on

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi, > Why won't the 32bit power4 kernels boot on these machines ? They should, only > the iseries really need a 64bit kernel. The 32bit kernel does not have the pseries LPAR interfaces and so will not boot on a partitioned POWER4 box or any POWER5 box. Anton

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 20.12.2004 um 13:59 schrieb Sven Luther: On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Hi! Since I had access for some power4 and power5 System the last time and noticed that the debian installer didn't work on this hardware (a 64bit kernel seems to be needed), I did s

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:19:06PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > Am 20.12.2004 um 13:59 schrieb Sven Luther: > > >On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > >>Hi! > >> > >>Since I had access for some power4 and power5 System the last time and > >>noticed that > >>the d

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > Hi! > > Since I had access for some power4 and power5 System the last time and > noticed that > the debian installer didn't work on this hardware (a 64bit kernel seems > to be needed), > I did some integration on this and added a

Re: Installer showing way too much free space

2003-04-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
> On 11 Apr, this message from Chris Tillman echoed through cyberspace: > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:08:44PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> When I go to "Partition Hard Drive", from the 3.0 .iso image, the > >> default number of blocks is: > >> > >> > >> size of 'device' is 1073741825 blo

Re: Installer showing way too much free space

2003-04-20 Thread Mich Lanners
On 11 Apr, this message from Chris Tillman echoed through cyberspace: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:08:44PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> When I go to "Partition Hard Drive", from the 3.0 .iso image, the >> default number of blocks is: >> >> >> size of 'device' is 1073741825 blocks: >> >>

Re: Installer showing way too much free space

2003-04-12 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:08:44PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello - > > Powerbook G3 400 Pismo > > When I go to "Partition Hard Drive", from the 3.0 .iso image, the default > number of blocks is: > > > size of 'device' is 1073741825 blocks: > > > This suggests that I have 512.0G

Re: Installer doesn't see the drive on a dual 867

2002-11-13 Thread Pan
I was able to set a good yaboot.conf file and now I can boot. The only problem that remains is that I can only boot from Open Firmware. When the computer boots, I get the screen with my choices (the ones that are on the yaboot.conf: linux, osx, os9, cd and of. If I choose anything other than of

Re: Installer doesn't see the drive on a dual 867

2002-11-13 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Pan wrote: [ONCE AGAIN] please answer UNDER the previous post it's easier to read and please cut what's not usefull > Apparently the disk is /dev/hda for the installer, but it's ultra2 for > OF. yes > I have to reboot the machine, and if I go to the OF promp

Re: Installer doesn't see the drive on a dual 867

2002-11-12 Thread Simon Vallet
> When I reboot the system after this, I get a white screen... nothing > happens. I have to reboot the machine, and if I go to the OF prompt, I > can type 'boot ultra2:9,yaboot'. > > BUT, on the next screen, when I try to just hit enter (or type Linux and > then enter, doesn't matter) it says >

Re: Installer doesn't see the drive on a dual 867

2002-11-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 20:18, Pan wrote: > Ok... here's what I don't understand. > > Apparently the disk is /dev/hda for the installer, but it's ultra2 for > OF. > > I reinstalled everything, and then run this command: > > mkofboot --boot /dev/hda9 -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot --root \ > /

Re: Installer doesn't see the drive on a dual 867

2002-11-12 Thread Pan
Ok... here's what I don't understand. Apparently the disk is /dev/hda for the installer, but it's ultra2 for OF. I reinstalled everything, and then run this command: mkofboot --boot /dev/hda9 -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot --root \ /dev/hda11 --partition 11 It runs fine, and it creates the

Re: Installer doesn't see the drive on a dual 867

2002-11-12 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Pan wrote: > I tried swaping the drive to the ATA66 bus... but after doing so and being > able to install the base system, I get a white screen when I boot up. > > I can't even get to the Open Firmware prompt... and not even pressing > option gives me a list of available driv

Re: Installer doesn't see the drive on a dual 867

2002-11-12 Thread Pan
I tried swaping the drive to the ATA66 bus... but after doing so and being able to install the base system, I get a white screen when I boot up. I can't even get to the Open Firmware prompt... and not even pressing option gives me a list of available drives to boot from... Benja On Sat, Nov 09,

Re: Installer doesn't see the drive on a dual 867

2002-11-09 Thread Eric Deveaud
On 9 Nov 2002, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > but BenH recommend to not use the disk for important datas (as the whole > > system is) > > So far, I didn't get any report of problems with it though. OK, I'll open the box and try to put the main disk on the ATA100 bus, and tell you the results.

Re: Installer doesn't see the drive on a dual 867

2002-11-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> but BenH recommend to not use the disk for important datas (as the whole > system is) So far, I didn't get any report of problems with it though. Ben.

Re: Installer doesn't see the drive on a dual 867

2002-11-09 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Pan wrote: > I just got a new dual proc 867 and I wanted to install debian on it. done the same on a dual 1.25 > I downloaded one of the network install images and after burning it, I > rebooted the machine. It boots fine, but... it doesn't see hda... no > hard drive. > Any

Re: Installer doesn't see the drive on a dual 867

2002-11-08 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:36:16PM -0500, Pan wrote: > I just got a new dual proc 867 and I wanted to install debian on it. > > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? or if this is a know bug... There was some discussion on the list a while ago about this. The primary IDE channel on the new dual G4 mode

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:27:11AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > gzipping a gzipped file doesn't make it any smaller, so compressing before > making it part of the filesystem won't save space. The larger filesystem > created by leaving it uncompressed will be matched by the better > compressabili

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-11 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 09:34:50PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 04:41:59PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > >> > > >> nano-tiny -T15 -v /help.txt > > > > > > why not zcat /help.gz | more ? > > > > That would work, but I used tabs to make two columns; using the editor let

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 04:41:59PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > >> > >> nano-tiny -T15 -v /help.txt > > > > why not zcat /help.gz | more ? > > That would work, but I used tabs to make two columns; using the editor lets > me choose how much space for a tab so it's more readable and also gives

Re: Installer online help

2001-06-10 Thread Chris Tillman
>> >> nano-tiny -T15 -v /help.txt > > why not zcat /help.gz | more ? That would work, but I used tabs to make two columns; using the editor lets me choose how much space for a tab so it's more readable and also gives the novice an interface to use to search for keywords, and scroll back and fo

Re: installer

1999-03-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 03:05:30AM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > > How is the installer coming? Where are the current versions? > > > > Not very well, right now. Hopefully I'll be working on it tonight or > > tomorrow. > > Dan, sorry, but please make one step after the other. Is egcs, xfree

Re: installer

1999-03-07 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> How is the installer coming? Where are the current versions? > If you want really to work on this, i put then the newest soure on http://powerpc.debian.org/~koptein/boot-floppies.tar.gz But wait some minutes :-) Greetings, Hartmut

Re: installer

1999-03-07 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> > How is the installer coming? Where are the current versions? > > Not very well, right now. Hopefully I'll be working on it tonight or > tomorrow. Dan, sorry, but please make one step after the other. Is egcs, xfree and mozilla ready? You shouldn't start all projects and get noone out. Sor

Re: installer

1999-03-07 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > How is the installer coming? Where are the current versions? > > Not very well, right now. Hopefully I'll be working on it tonight or > tomorrow. If you don't mind, I'd like to snag the source, and see if I ca

Re: installer

1999-03-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 06:05:57PM -0700, Cort Dougan wrote: > How is the installer coming? Where are the current versions? > Not very well, right now. Hopefully I'll be working on it tonight or tomorrow. Dan /\ /\ | Danie