Re: stuck "Loading second stage bootstrap"

2014-09-10 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 09/09/14 23:47, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ On 10/09/14 05:32, bruno evangelista wrote: > Yes, that last iso file at the bottom of that list you gave to me > installed almost the whole thing, I suppose. Great! So

Porting linuxinfo to ppc64el

2014-09-10 Thread larry
[2] And, since I haven't had access to a PPC machine for quite some time, maybe on some "plain" PPC as well? Linux Terpsicore 3.11-2-powerpc #1 Debian 3.11.10-1 (2013-12-04) One 7400, altivec supported PowerMac3,1 400MHz processor, 49.81 total bogomips, 1512M RAM System library 2.19.0 Linux T

Re: Porting linuxinfo to ppc64el

2014-09-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 08:41:21AM -0400, larry wrote: > [2] And, since I haven't had access to a PPC machine for quite some > time, maybe on some "plain" PPC as well? > > > Linux Terpsicore 3.11-2-powerpc #1 Debian 3.11.10-1 (2013-12-04) > One 7400, altivec supported PowerMac3,1 400MHz processor

Re: Fixing buildd issues on ppc64el

2014-09-10 Thread Rebecca Palmer
The next major offender seems to be cmake and I am confused about it. [...] cmake depends on missing: - cmake-data (= 2.8.12.2-1+b1) That's #760823 (the = means a dependency on a particular version, in this case one that never existed), which has already been fixed. The particular case of csoun

Re: Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2014-09-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 06:39:10PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Hi folks, > >I believe the existing debian-ports setup (as an exploder pointing to >all the different port lists) is not working well at all. It's a >confusing setup to many people, which leads to lots of cross-list >noise that's prob

Re: Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2014-09-10 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 06:39:10PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >Hi folks, > > > >I believe the existing debian-ports setup (as an exploder pointing to > >all the different port lists) is not working well at all. It's a > >confusing setup to many peop

Re: Porting linuxinfo to ppc64el

2014-09-10 Thread Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
Hi Helge, On 09/05/2014 02:44 PM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: I recently read [1] about the new Debian architecture ppc64el. Thanks for your interest :) Sorry, I missed replying earlier. I maintain a small tool "linuxinfo", which checks for the architecture and prints some system information. I

Re: Porting linuxinfo to ppc64el

2014-09-10 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Larry, On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 08:41:21AM -0400, larry wrote: > [2] And, since I haven't had access to a PPC machine for quite some > time, maybe on some "plain" PPC as well? > > > Linux Terpsicore 3.11-2-powerpc #1 Debian 3.11.10-1 (2013-12-04) > One 7400, altivec supported PowerMac3,1 400

Re: Porting linuxinfo to ppc64el

2014-09-10 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Lennart, On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 09:14:58AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 08:41:21AM -0400, larry wrote: > > [2] And, since I haven't had access to a PPC machine for quite some > > time, maybe on some "plain" PPC as well? > > > > > > Linux Terpsicore 3.11-2-powerp

Re: Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2014-09-10 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Alexander Wirt dixit: >Could you please (technically) summarize what needs to be done from >listmaster side? 1. Remove whatever debian-ports@l.d.o is right now 2. Create a new debian-ports@l.d.o mailing list which works just like the other regular lists 3. Announce the new debian-ports@l.d.

Re: Porting linuxinfo to ppc64el

2014-09-10 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Mauricio, On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 03:30:25PM -0300, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote: > On 09/05/2014 02:44 PM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > >I recently read [1] about the new Debian architecture ppc64el. > > Thanks for your interest :) Sorry, I missed replying earlier. No problem at all! > >

Re: Porting linuxinfo to ppc64el

2014-09-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 09:11:21PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Thanks for testing. Yes, I finally removed the wrong heuristic for the > memory some time ago. > > Regarding the bogomips: Could you send me the output for /proc/cpuinfo > for this machine? There is no bogomips in there. It is a

Re: Porting linuxinfo to ppc64el

2014-09-10 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Lennart, On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 03:50:59PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 09:11:21PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > Thanks for testing. Yes, I finally removed the wrong heuristic for the > > memory some time ago. > > > > Regarding the bogomips: Could you send m

Re: Porting linuxinfo to ppc64el

2014-09-10 Thread Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
Hi Helge, On 09/10/2014 04:14 PM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 03:30:25PM -0300, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote: It looks good; the only strange thing is 0 bogomips. Rest is fine: Could you send me the output of /proc/cpuinfo for this machine, maybe in both configurations

RE: stuck "Loading second stage bootstrap"

2014-09-10 Thread bruno evangelista
Hi Steve, Very kind of you to take the time to help me. Thank you for your suggestions. The thing is I am not a computer guy who understands what to do at some situations or what to write at the command prompt, and other things. I am not sure of what you meant. So, I have to ask you:

Re: stuck "Loading second stage bootstrap"

2014-09-10 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, On 10/09/14 21:02, bruno evangelista wrote: > You said: "use the Debian wheezy disc". Did you mean to use the CD > with the very same iso file I used to download Debian in my computer? No, the .iso I asked you to download yesterday, is a jessie install disc (pre-release, beta version). Y