Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
clude *-hurd-i386/ --exclude *-mipsel/ >--exclude *-powerpc/ --exclude *-arm/ Seems like explicitly including rather than explicitly excluding would be more robust ... [Mail follow-up set to debian-user only.] -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: powerpc d-i daily ISOs are back but broken. (was: one week out of date. )

2006-09-15 Thread Colin Watson
; <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds... > > Maybe something wrong with the initrd? Or the new 2.6.17 kernel? Actually it was a debian-cd bug. Should be fixed now, thanks (and thanks to Frans for noticing the problem after I'd given up in puzzlement upon fin

Re: Debian for PS3?

2008-02-23 Thread Colin Watson
uilt-in Linux kernel. We had to compromise somewhat due to the current kernel and the kboot code we had available not being friends.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian for PS3?

2008-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
[Hmm, let's use my Ubuntu hat for this mail ...] On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 03:45:28PM +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 01:51:39PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > I am interested to know what specifically you think is wrong with > > Ubuntu's PS3 packagi

Re: rar command

2003-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
the "source package" contains compiled i386 binaries. I think you're out of luck for this on powerpc. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: share partition between macosx and debian

2003-10-14 Thread Colin Watson
it. I'd be interested in hearing how it goes: I'm planning to do exactly the same thing when my PowerBook G4 15" arrives early next month, and will be trying out debian-installer and perhaps an LVM install. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds

2003-10-15 Thread Colin Watson
the installer from some of the floppy-disk size constraints which previously plagued it. > Oh, BTW, how exactly is a udeb different from a regular deb package? udebs don't have to follow policy. For instance, they don't contain documentation or man pages for reasons of space. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help required for preventing kdm/gdm/xdm from starting

2003-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
kernel alias is > "linux" type "linux 2". > You'll end up at a console. Runlevel 2 is the default runlevel so 'linux 2' won't make any difference. Runlevel 1, yes. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT - worm problem

2003-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:29:04AM -0500, Joshua Narins wrote: > Isn't there some smart debian person who could figure out where this > is coming from? An awful lot of random infected Windows machines, I strongly suspect. There Is No Cabal. Cheers, -- C

Re: prerequisites for debian-installer image upload

2003-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
running an autobuilder, but I do have a freshly installed powerpc system, so I've been playing build-monkey for Joey's fixes on IRC today. The situation's improving. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: prerequisites for debian-installer image upload

2003-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:25:02PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:24:26PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > debian-powerpc: > > > > My plan is to only have the debian-installer package list i386 and > > powerpc as its architectures at first, and a

Re: X on tibook 15" 1.25Ghz [was: Re: [ppc-new_tibook-15"] install report 2003-11-05]

2003-11-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:25:25PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 13:01:25 + > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If this is a new aluminium PowerBook, the folks on #debianppc informed > > me that I had to run 2.6 in order for X to work

Re: gnome still not working properly on powerpc/testing

2003-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
components ahave > started trickling down to testing, so, who knows, maybe we'll have the > full 2.4 in Sarge before the big Debian 3.1 release. That looks likely, yes. There are a number of things we need to update that now require it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome still not working properly on powerpc/testing

2003-11-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 07:21:04PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:48:18PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > I recommend it. However, it looks like Gnome 2.4 components have > > > started tr

Re: XFree86 on Albook 15"?

2003-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
it ran perfectly on my 15" AlBook. Hope that helps ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree86 on Albook 15"?

2003-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:13:35PM +1030, Ryan Verner wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 20:01, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:33:34PM +0930, Ryan Verner wrote: > > > Any other tips, XFree86 related or not, from other Albook users would > > >

Re: kernel-package hooks transition

2005-12-24 Thread Colin Watson
ngs for other languages (see the changelog entry for debconf 0.3.74). My impression is that these days maintainer scripts are much better about not mixing up debconf interaction with normal use of stdout, and so it's still possible that the fd 3 hack will be removed some day. -- Colin Watson

Re: kernel-package hooks transition

2005-12-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:43:19AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:30:26PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Notice that the debconf helper scripts provide stdout on &3, so any > >

Re: kernel-package hooks transition

2005-12-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:51:00AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:30:26PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Notice that the debconf helper scripts provide stdout on &3, so any > >

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 da

Re: d-i daily build fails when building initrd (PowerMac7,3)

2006-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
volunteered, and the relevant bits of code have been switched over to look at my daily builds. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-04-07 Thread Colin Watson
be able to use it. All sounds very plausible, due to the switch to udev. I'm happy to install a workaround in mountfloppy for this, but I have no idea how to detect from userspace that swim3 is being used and that the device should therefore be created. Can anyone help? -- Colin Watson

Re: dates of ppc daily builds old? WAS: request clarification on sbp2 and tg3

2006-04-27 Thread Colin Watson
comment out the broken bits in debian-cd for the time being, although that will probably break chrp and prep which would not be good, so I hope I won't need to. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Colin Watson
ed it was a problem until aj drew my attention to it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:17:26PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:34:00PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:39:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > The debian installer netinst and businesscard images are now broken since &g

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Colin Watson
ays ago, and I was just emerging from under a different pile of work so I had some time to look at it anyway. Failures in the d-i build logs don't go unnoticed, although I agree that this one took longer to fix than it should have done. -- Colin Watson [EMAI

Re: dates of ppc daily builds old? WAS: request clarification on sbp2 and tg3

2006-04-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:57:34PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:31:36PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > I've upgraded to current unstable now and will upload all the bits as > > soon as I can; I'm suffering from ISP routing brokenness today whi

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 05:07:07PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:16:15PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > debian-cd changes I committed over the last hour or two. I hadn't been > > paying attention to CD build logs; I'll know to do so in the future.

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-04-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 01:24:56AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:15:10AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:44:37AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > the d-i isos are broken, and had i not been there, they will probably have >

New miboot-enabled d-i daily builds set up

2006-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
le to test them myself. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

powerpc daily sid_d-i CD builds working again

2006-05-03 Thread Colin Watson
Hi, FYI, the daily sid_d-i CD builds are working again for powerpc. Sorry for the long hiatus here! Among other things, those of you with tg3 network cards should be able to use these. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: powerpc daily sid_d-i CD builds working again

2006-05-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 08:58:06PM +0300, Eddy Petrişor wrote: > On 5/3/06, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >FYI, the daily sid_d-i CD builds are working again for powerpc. Sorry > >for the long hiatus here! Among other things, those of you with tg3 > >network

catdoc

2001-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
eport about catdoc 0.91.4-5 on powerpc.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: segfault in mozilla-browser-0.9.4-3 postinst

2001-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
t in the middle? > > Real UNIX systems don't do that anymore. Do feel free to resize your terminal before running 'man' and watch the man page resize itself. Also, last I looked, groff was less brain-dead about justification than that. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Help with #123015 on cooledit

2001-12-28 Thread Colin Watson
to accept ssh X forwarding I can't do any significant amount of debugging. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

groff 1.15.2-3 upload needed for stable

2002-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
Apparently groff 1.15.2-3 is going to be accepted for Debian 2.2r5. I've built it for i386 and sparc, but I'd appreciate it if the other four stable architectures could also build this version. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: groff 1.15.2-3 upload needed for stable

2002-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
stable | source, alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc groff | 1.15.2-3 | proposed-updates | source, i386 -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pgp5i build needed on alpha, arm, powerpc

2002-02-05 Thread Colin Watson
5.0-5 | testing | powerpc pgp5i | 5.0-5 | unstable | powerpc pgp5i | 5.0-7 | testing | source, alpha, arm, i386, sparc pgp5i | 5.0-7 | unstable | alpha, arm pgp5i | 5.0-8 | unstable | source, i386, m68k, s390 Thanks, -- Co

Re: Slow Man

2002-04-03 Thread Colin Watson
or almost a full second at each > _newselect() call (the below occurs 21 times for a nonexistent man page): This looks like it might be #137908. I'd appreciate help on this - it seems to be powerpc-specific. -- Colin Watson (man-db maintainer) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Slow Man

2002-04-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 05:16:40AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 10:40:06PM -0500, Brian Victor wrote: > > My "man" command takes an inordinately long time to run: > > > > %time man foo > > No manual entry for foo > > man foo

Re: Slow Man

2002-04-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 07:37:44AM -0500, Brian Victor wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 05:34:27AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > >I've tried it on a powerpc now (thanks, Adam Conrad) and couldn't > >reproduce the problem there either. In fact, on that machine I don't

Re: woody + apropos

2002-05-14 Thread Colin Watson
is installed setuid, any user can just run mandb, no need for root privileges ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: woody + apropos

2002-05-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:25:52AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:11:39PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > It still might be worth a bug; the postinst only builds the database > > on fresh installs if man-db is not installed setuid. I don't > > u

Re: woody + apropos

2002-05-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:54:46PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:34:37AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > I've just remembered why things are done that way in the first place. > > See #100616, which caused problems for the boot-floppies. I'll see

Re: Slow Man

2002-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
ropriate for man, I've implemented a workaround that manually ignores any zero-length databases. If /var/cache/man/oldlocal/index.bt is still zero-length, then you can work around this for now by just removing it. Sorry for the delay in figuring this out. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: Yaboot - does yaboot support splash?

2005-05-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 09:56:14PM +0300, Eddy Petrisor wrote: > It would be nice if yaboot supported splash. > Does it? Not the isolinux kind of splash image that I believe you're asking about, no. > If not, is there anybody working on this? Not to my knowledge. Cheers, --

Re: Yaboot - does yaboot support splash?

2005-05-20 Thread Colin Watson
as I can gather from IRC conversation). I believe the question was about displaying an image at the yaboot prompt itself, which would need to be implemented in yaboot itself and isn't. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: grub 2?

2005-05-20 Thread Colin Watson
trying to load an initrd. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Yaboot - does yaboot support splash?

2005-05-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 04:32:12PM +0300, Eddy Petrisor wrote: > On 5/20/05, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:52:26PM -0700, Brian Benson wrote: > > > I've used both bootsplash and gensplash on my ibook. Yaboot just > &g

Re: NPTL and glibc (on Sid)

2004-06-05 Thread Colin Watson
to argue). I understood that we needed gcc 3.4 in order to get powerpc TLS support? That doesn't seem like a no-brainer from a release management perspective to me, but maybe I was misinformed ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: configuring sound

2004-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:37:34AM +0900, Sean Schertell wrote: > Hmm... ya got me.  Anyone else know where the list of mirrors is? http://www.debian.org/mirror/list Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get install smtpd fails

2004-06-08 Thread Colin Watson
ory That's a bug in smtpd; please file it. ld-linux.so.2 is not called that on all architectures. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New iBook and debian install

2004-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
debian-installer? (http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PowerPC sarge installation error

2004-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
directions I gave in http://bugs.debian.org/252425? Use nano as the editor, and note that you must make the change between the time when man-db is extracted and when it's configured (watch tty3 for the dpkg output so that you know when to do this). Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: System won't boot

2004-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
ection, and then mess around on tty2. That way, you could mount the target root filesystem and see what kernel it has on it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel panic

2004-06-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:44:58AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: > As we are to deal with the question: how to make a kernel including the > initrd ? mkvmlinuz -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing on a dual G5

2004-06-23 Thread Colin Watson
x27;t be in the "sarge_d-i" == "daily" builds yet. Either of the images in http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/20040622/ ought to work. Installation reports, successful or otherwise, gratefully appreciated. Please make sure you say from exactly which URL you downloaded the image. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing on a dual G5

2004-06-23 Thread Colin Watson
n the archive do include an SMP kernel, which we currently aren't using. Is it safe to use this for all power4 systems? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing on a dual G5

2004-06-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 07:17:33AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:05:39PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Can you try booting with install-power4-2.6? > > > > The 2.6.6 kernel image builds in the archive do include an SMP kernel, > > which we cu

Re: Installing on a dual G5

2004-06-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 05:54:40PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Colin Watson writes: > > Either of the images in > > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/20040622/ > > ought to work. > > > > Installation reports, successful or otherwis

Re: iBook G4 install turning into a nightmare

2004-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
s only the default post-first-reboot if you booted the installer with video=ofonly. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux no longer bootable after mac os upgrade

2004-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
Hold down Cmd-Opt-O-F while the system boots, then at the OpenFirmware prompt type 'boot hd:9,\\yaboot' (assuming that yaboot is installed on /dev/hda9; if not, adjust as appropriate). Then boot into Linux as usual and run ybin. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to report on G5

2004-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
terday and I checked in a fix. I've just uploaded usb-discover 0.18 which should fix this when it makes it into CD images. > install-power4 leads to the floppy problem. That was a problem with the initrd builds. It should be fixed now, so the next sid_d-i build should have it fixed. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to report on G5

2004-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 10:20:38AM -0700, Brian wrote: > --- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is therm_pm72 essential to the installation? > > Technically no. But in my opinion, yes!! As Jens said, it's built into the 2.6 kernels. I assume nothing special

Re: PowerPC sarge installation error

2004-06-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:33:18PM -0600, Nick Golder wrote: > On 2004-06-11 20:17 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 09:10:23AM -0600, Nick Golder wrote: > > > I am using Test Candidate 1 for PowerPC and am installing on a Power Mac > > > G4 350M

Re: Screen is worthless, other ideas ?? [Was] Cut and Paste on an iMac

2004-06-29 Thread Colin Watson
uppose ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Loading therm_* modules in d-i on Macs

2004-06-30 Thread Colin Watson
go stable); more complex. Do any kernel hackers have an opinion here? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel selection: powerpc, power4 or power3?

2004-06-30 Thread Colin Watson
7;t compatible in the way that -386, -686, etc. are. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-06-30 Thread Colin Watson
r some time and in my experience work well. > Ah, and i am seriously considering dropping support for apus from the > kernels (and thus debian-installer). Amen! -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-06-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 03:52:40PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:32:43PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > worth noting that no release candidate version of d-i has yet had > > working support for 2.6 on powerpc (test candidate 1 would have done but > > r

Re: How to configure yaboot for initrd?

2004-06-30 Thread Colin Watson
otloader for initrd. I went to google, but couldn't find > anything that made sense to me. Can anyone tell me how to do this? > Thanks. Use stanzas like this: image=/vmlinux label=Linux read-only initrd=/initrd.img -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-05 Thread Colin Watson
formats all the > partitions that need it, checks the swap, and then locks up completely. Can you see what it's doing using 'ps x'? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-05 Thread Colin Watson
try the sid_d-i image dated 20040707 when it appears, I'd appreciate it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:19:24AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 10:30:49PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 05:28:26AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > > > Older 2.6 installs fail with the serial driver problem, and while > > > th

Re: Bootstrap partition with beta4 installer

2004-07-08 Thread Colin Watson
dern builds are fixed. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on a 2.5 Ghz G5 - liquid cooling system

2004-07-08 Thread Colin Watson
temperature." quotation from [1]) > > Now, if the cooling system is controlled by the os and not by the > hardware itself, won't there be some obstacles on getting debian or any > other distribution working on that machine? Isn't this what the therm_pm72 module takes care

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-09 Thread Colin Watson
rnel issue somehow. > > Is there some way to kinda single-step through d-i? Stick sleeps throughout the partman scripts? :-) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?

2004-07-10 Thread Colin Watson
talled the 2.7 kernel which has the same problem and to > make things worse, typing old now causes the 2.6.6 kernel to boot and > panic. Say your 2.4 kernel was on partition 11, path /boot/vmlinux-2.4.25-powerpc; now type 'hd:11,/boot/vmlinux-2.4.25-powerpc' at yaboot. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?

2004-07-10 Thread Colin Watson
oh! Ah, an initrd kernel - unfortunately yaboot can't boot initrd kernels unless properly configured in yaboot.conf, so that explains why my suggestion didn't work. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: three different sets of daily ISOs -- what's the difference?

2004-07-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 02:02:25PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > The daily and sarge_d-i images are identical. The daily symlink was recently switched back to point to sid_d-i. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-11 Thread Colin Watson
t/vmlinuz-prep.initrd http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/netboot/2.6/vmlinuz-prep.initrd -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 04:40:22PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 09:30:02AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/daily/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd > > Isn't that direct

Re: Booting installer on RS/6000 43p-140

2004-07-19 Thread Colin Watson
es. > Token Ring: olympic In nic-extra-modules. Should it be moved to nic-modules so that it's in the initrd? I know very little about Token Ring support. > SCSI: sym2, IPR (I think its only in 2.6 unfortunately) Already in scsi-modules. > IDE:AMD74XX Apparently no

Re: How to configure yaboot for initrd? I need help...

2004-07-21 Thread Colin Watson
> yaboot.conf ? image=/vmlinux label=Linux read-only initrd=/initrd.img -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which installation on Pmac 867 single-cpu?

2004-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
to 3.0r2; see <http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#update-cd>. > 5) I've subscribed to this list, but is there any way to get the emails in a > digest format??? I get 100 emails min. a day already :( There are digest versions of some Debian lists, but

Re: Installing sarge

2004-07-29 Thread Colin Watson
ers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing sarge

2004-07-30 Thread Colin Watson
X partition at boot > time, whereas I also have an OS9 partition on hdb. There's supposed to be a probe for this. Does "/System Folder/System" exist on the Mac OS 9 filesystem, and is it HFS? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing Sarge

2004-08-02 Thread Colin Watson
ions and renamed the boot partition from untitled > to bootstrap. The code that produces the message in question doesn't look at the partition name. There was a bug that broke it, but I fixed that recently. If it's still broken in partman-newworld 10,

Re: Sarge Framebuffer problem witn performa 5400/160

2004-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
rectify this Have you tried video=ofonly? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-06 Thread Colin Watson
r > Linux? Yes, it will, although for yaboot rather than GRUB, as previously mentioned. (The rest has already been answered, I think.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: G5 XServe

2004-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
_init > > > Then it freezes. Does debian install on the G5 XServe? Do I need to > do special things to make it work? The PPC32 2.6.7 kernel doesn't support the XServe G5. Here's a kernel patch that worked for us (also sent upstr

Re: G5 XServe

2004-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:24:21AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 10:40:19PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > The PPC32 2.6.7 kernel doesn't support the XServe G5. Here's a kernel > > patch that worked for us (also sent upstream): > > > >

Re: No HFS driver, and "change install priority" menu option missing -- and other bugs found while testing 2.4 boot floppies on OldWorld PowerMac

2004-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
ed to install a > udeb, making the "root" floppy even more crowded.] We're killing root-2; it wasn't a good idea to introduce it without good support for loading it, and everything fits on root and net-drivers if you juggle things around a bit

Re: No HFS driver, and "change install priority" menu option missing -- and other bugs found while testing 2.4 boot floppies on OldWorld PowerMac

2004-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 03:19:20PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Saturday, September 25, 2004, at 04:13 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 01:50:34AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > >>ROOT-2) The "root-2" floppy is a bunch of "udeb"s for all t

Re: Sarge on OldWorld Mac - No root device

2004-09-28 Thread Colin Watson
However, I believe that Sarge d-i has, as one of it's goals, to > support both 2.4 and 2.6 on PowerPC architecture. Does anybody > else on the list know for sure? Yes. In any case, the hw-detect patch has already been uploaded so the discussion is moot, although mac-io device tables would certainly be very nice to have post-sarge so that we don't have to kludge /etc/modules and can rely on hotplug instead. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: please test new quik with initrd-support (was: Re: getting quik into sarge?

2004-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
k over the .diff.gz to see the changes from upstream. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: please test new quik with initrd-support (was: Re: getting quik into sarge?

2004-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
h modifying quik-installer to match then. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fwd: Debian installer: partman-prep

2004-12-23 Thread Colin Watson
I'll make it do something more sensible based on that. [M-F-T: -boot and -powerpc, as this is getting a bit specialised for -devel.] Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fwd: Debian installer: partman-prep

2004-12-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:52:16AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:04:27AM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > Just looked at the new version. It has changed in base-installer 1.14. > > Ignore me ;-) > > It's moved to a different file (kernel/po

Re: Fwd: Debian installer: partman-prep

2004-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 12:43:10PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:19:19PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > Am Freitag, 24. Dezember 2004 01:52 schrieb Colin Watson: > > > It's moved to a different file (kernel/powerpc.sh), but the code is >

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