Re: Wanted: Debian Installer PowerPC porter(s)

2006-03-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 05:11:05PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >#355220: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6: doesn't include tg3 modules, means > >Appple XServe G5 cannot netboot. > > > > Needs fixing, it is just adding the tg3 module to the di ke

Re: Wanted: Debian Installer PowerPC porter(s)

2006-03-29 Thread Otavio Salvador
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >#355220: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6: doesn't include tg3 modules, means >Appple XServe G5 cannot netboot. > > Needs fixing, it is just adding the tg3 module to the di kernel modules, and > reuploading. tg3 has the firmware issue, no? --

Re: Wanted: Debian Installer PowerPC porter(s)

2006-03-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 11:50:04AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:00:19AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > - various old-world issues, including the work to free miboot, and > > inclusion > > of the free miboot version into the official archive. Mmm, i hope Colin > >

Re: Wanted: Debian Installer PowerPC porter(s)

2006-03-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 11:50:04AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:00:19AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > - various old-world issues, including the work to free miboot, and > > inclusion > > of the free miboot version into the official archive. Mmm, i hope Colin > >

Re: Wanted: Debian Installer PowerPC porter(s)

2006-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:00:19AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > - various old-world issues, including the work to free miboot, and inclusion > of the free miboot version into the official archive. Mmm, i hope Colin > Watson doesn't forget to add miboot support to his daily builds, or >

Re: Wanted: Debian Installer PowerPC porter(s)

2006-03-29 Thread Frans Pop
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

Re: Wanted: Debian Installer PowerPC porter(s)

2006-03-28 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 3/29/06, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Sven Luther has recently announced [1] that he will no longer work on > PowerPC support in Debian Installer. Thanks for all your work. /me asks himself: mybe is time to switch back ARCH=i386 ?! Hopefuly, not. :-) -- Regards, EddyP =

Re: Wanted: Debian Installer PowerPC porter(s)

2006-03-28 Thread brian morris
hi - i am getting pretty worn out myself putting Debian on a new world mac for first time lately, a G4. i have thinking now it it is a hassle. i think the installer is over automated and that increase bug problems. for instance. a) the partitioning scheme and type i was given were not much at a

Re: Wanted: Debian Installer PowerPC porter(s)

2006-03-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:10:34AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > 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 pas

Re: Wanted: Debian Installer PowerPC porter(s)

2006-03-28 Thread Frans Pop
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-

Re: Wanted: Debian Installer PowerPC porter(s)

2006-03-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 02:38:53AM +0200, ee wrote: > Dean Hamstead wrote: > > >Although im not able to help in this regard i would like to express > >my thanks to sven for his work > > > I agree with Dean ! > > And I_ wish_ a _quik _return of Sven to debian (k-p, d-i ) team. Thanks to both of

Re: Wanted: Debian Installer PowerPC porter(s)

2006-03-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 02:04:58AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Hi all, > > Sven Luther has recently announced [1] that he will no longer work on > PowerPC support in Debian Installer. > > Colin Watson has already taken over the daily building of d-i images for > PowerPC, so working daily builds a

Re: Wanted: Debian Installer PowerPC porter(s)

2006-03-28 Thread ee
Dean Hamstead wrote: Although im not able to help in this regard i would like to express my thanks to sven for his work I agree with Dean ! And I_ wish_ a _quik _return of Sven to debian (k-p, d-i ) team. Regards, Eugen Paiuc Dean Frans Pop wrote: Hi all, Sven Luther has recently ann

Re: Wanted: Debian Installer PowerPC porter(s)

2006-03-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
Although im not able to help in this regard i would like to express my thanks to sven for his work Dean Frans Pop wrote: Hi all, Sven Luther has recently announced [1] that he will no longer work on PowerPC support in Debian Installer. Colin Watson has already taken over the daily building

Wanted: Debian Installer PowerPC porter(s)

2006-03-28 Thread Frans Pop
Hi all, Sven Luther has recently announced [1] that he will no longer work on PowerPC support in Debian Installer. Colin Watson has already taken over the daily building of d-i images for PowerPC, so working daily builds are available again. Colin is willing to do that long term, but if a new