On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Ron Brooks
wrote:
Hi, I joined this group hoping for a solution so here's the
problem. I
have a Powermac G5 1.6 single processor that I've tried many times to
install Debian. The install goes fine...but on reboot up comes the
black bootstrap screen which ask
Folks,
It's been almost a month and no movement on this problem.
Help?
Rick
On May 24, 2010, at 11:59 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Bug#580455 will soon make Squeeze un-installable on PowerMac
hardware due to the need to switch to UUID's for identifying the
boot and root par
This is reported as Debian bug #587290 -- please followup to the bug
report.
The generated /etc/yaboot.conf contains lines
append="root=UUID ro"
for partitions that have their /etc/fstab root line using "UUID=... " .
This makes it impossible to boot into those partitions:
the boot p
On Jun 30, 2010, at 5:39 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 19:00 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote:
Le lundi 28 juin 2010 à 12:13 +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit :
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 01:21 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote:
I wanted to help for a problem with the buildd but Frans Pop told
I'm willing to give it a try on some of my test machines.
How do I go about installing/testing Grub2 ?
Thanks!
Rick
On Jul 13, 2010, at 8:54 PM, Rogério Brito wrote:
Also, it would be very nice if we had reports from people that tried
to use
GRUB2 on powerpc.
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On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Gary wrote:
You wrote:
Is there a way to install Debian without any OS installed? From
all I've read, it seems like
MacOSX needs to be installed before Debian can be installed. Is
this still true?'
Only if you plan on multi-booting between OS X and Debian.
Just to be absolutely clear, the "NewWorld bootblock" partition I am
talking about, and I assume Gary is talking about, is the /dev/hda2
partition in the following display, with type "Apple_Bootstrap". This
is quite distinct from the "/boot" directory in your root partition.
It is only
On Jul 15, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Gary wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Just to be absolutely clear, the "NewWorld bootblock" partition I
am talking
about, and I assume Gary is talking about, is the /dev/hda2
partition in the
following display,
On Jul 15, 2010, at 7:43 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jul 15, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Gary wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Just to be absolutely clear, the "NewWorld bootblock" partition I
am talking
about, and I assume Gary is talking about, is the /dev/hda2
On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:49 PM, Rogério Brito wrote:
Did you happen to try playing with GRUB2 here?
Sorry, no. Not enough time right now. Maybe over the weekend...
Enjoy!
Rick
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On Jul 19, 2010, at 1:13 PM, Gary wrote:
The problem occurs when letting the partitioner use the whole disk
with guided partitioning. Honestly, though, the last time I tried to
install testing (this weekend) I gave up out of frustration and used
the stable install disc since its advanced option
Gary wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
PS: I'll also see if I can confirm your problem with whole-disk guided
partitioning, and report on that too. Have you considered filing a bug
report?
Yes. Is there a set of log files that I should include?
I'm about half-way thru an ins
On Jul 20, 2010, at 1:51 AM, Gary Driggs wrote:
On Jul 19, 2010, at 7:41 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I'm about half-way thru an install on my Blue&White G3 ...
I don't know what caused your problem but I can't reproduce it.
I'd recommend trying it with a new businesscar
At this point, Debian squeeze is un-installable on NewWorld PowerPC
Macs due to yaboot's failure to adapt to the use of UUID= and LABEL=
format in /etc/fstab.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589701
I have provided a partial fix in Debian bug#580455 but I have not
g
As part of the transition to udev, Debian is changing to using LABEL=
and UUID= instead of /dev/ in fstab and anywhere else absolute
device names are used. This is because udev causes device names of
the form /dev/ to be non-deterministic (dependent on the order
that devices power up at
Hi!
The convention on Debian mailing lists is to post new information at
the bottom. (It would not be my personal choice, but... "When in
Rome, do as the Romans...")
I've re-arranged the parts of this as if that convention had been
followed, then added my own comments at the end.
Rick
On Jul 25, 2010, at 11:23 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
A third possibilty, though remote, is that the iso was improperly
built. I'll verify that myself and get back to you.
I downloaded and burned the iso. I verified the MD5 and compared the
burned CD with the ISO. All went well. T
Comments interleaved below...
On Jul 21, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Rogério Brito wrote:
Hi there, people.
On Jul 21 2010, Rick Thomas wrote:
Unfortunately, there are lots of places that still expect absolute
device names. Ybin is one of them.
I've got a patch that fixes this (at least it fix
On Jul 26, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Chris Reich wrote:
I've seen this problem before myself and have never resolved it.
It's also been reported elsewhere without resolution. I watch this
thread anxiously awaiting a fix.
All my best - Chris Reich; Rochester, New York twittername:
chrisreich
On Jul 27, 2010, at 4:48 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Rick Thomas
wrote:
On Jul 25, 2010, at 11:23 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
A third possibilty, though remote, is that the iso was improperly
built.
I'll verify that myself and get back to you.
On Jul 27, 2010, at 5:20 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
Have you tried booting the problematical CD on a different PowerPC
Mac?
Does it at least boot there?
No other PowerPC around ...
If you are willing to let us know the city or area you live in,
perhaps there is someone on the list wh
Well, at least we can be pretty sure it's a G4 Mac Mini (-;
Also, we learn that (at least Apple thinks) that its DVD drive is
capable of reading (and writing) CD-RW and DVD-RW media.
I'll admit, I'm stumped. I don't have any more suggestions...
Sorry!
Rick
On Jul 27, 2010, at 5:20 PM,
On Jul 27, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
I forgot to mention that using the 'C' holding solution with this
cd-rom I can now see a icon of the finder within a blue folder, then
move to a question mark in a blue folder icon, then again the finder
icon...
After a couple of second, it
On Jul 28, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
Excerpts from Rick Thomas's message of Mon Jul 26 00:47:21 -0400 2010:
On Jul 21, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Rogério Brito wrote:
On Jul 21 2010, Rick Thomas wrote:
The second half is that whatever part of the installer that builds
the
in
On Jul 29, 2010, at 12:53 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
It would be nice if you could submit a bug report about this. And even
nicer if you could debug it or at least find out which package fucks
up with yaboot.conf. This really should not happen.
I did some work on this tonight. I'll be submi
ul 29, 2010, at 4:47 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jul 29, 2010, at 12:53 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
It would be nice if you could submit a bug report about this. And
even
nicer if you could debug it or at least find out which package fucks
up with yaboot.conf. This really should not happen.
On Jul 30, 2010, at 6:56 AM, Christian Simo wrote:
Dear Team!
I currently virtualize with vmware,
Please how can I run Debian for PPC on Intel or How can I emulate
Intel to support PPC OS
Thanks in advance
The interesting question is what "flavor" of PowerPC? There are
NewWorld Macs
Cool!
thanks
Rick
On Jul 30, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Gary wrote:
I've only used the x86 version of QEMU but it's supposed to emulate
ARM as well as PPC. But it looks like PearPC is still around as well
as PSIM. I forgot all about PSIM -- its docs say they try to emulate
OpenFIrmware. q.v.
http://ww
On Aug 6, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Neil McGovern wrote:
RC bugs
===
For the release, we need to get rid of all release critical bugs.
Please
don't hesitate, pick any bug from
http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php?bydist=squeeze and fix it. Or
send in a
patch in case there is none yet. And o
Now that everyone is back home from DebConf, I'll try one more time.
When I first posted it I got crickets...
Rick
On Aug 6, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Aug 6, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Neil McGovern wrote:
RC bugs
===
For the release, we need to get rid of all re
Hi,
I've written a patch to ybin that fixes this problem, and posted them
to the debian-powerpc list and the yaboot-users list, but nobody seems
to be interested enough to pick it up and get it into the yaboot
package.
I've given up trying to get this problem fixed.
Rick
On Sep 9, 2010,
Joseph,
I've looked over your rewrite of ofpath, and I must say that I'm
impressed. The code is clear, straightforward, and easy to follow.
There may still be bugs (I'm not enough of a Linux kernel or Open
Firmware guru to tell if it crosses all the "t"s and dots all the
"i"s) but if th
I have a variety of PowerPC Macs, ranging from a couple of OldWorld
"beige" 300MHz G3 machines to a dual-processor 2GHz G4 (No G5
hardware, sadly). All of them can be diverted from their production
uses for long enough to run an installation or a simple set of tests.
As with Zsombor, I don
Comments in-line below...
On Sep 18, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 15:44 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote:
Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 15:12 +0200, Benjamin Cama a écrit :
You mentioned that linux-base may modify /etc/yaboot.conf. I think
it
might be the culprit for
Benjamin Cama wrote:
Hi,
I just found by looking around that yabootconfig, the script used by the
yaboot package (very important distinction) to generate /etc/yaboot.conf
actually _knows_ how to handle LABEL and UUID; see
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debootloaders/trunk/yaboot/ybin/yabootconfig .
On Sep 19, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Benjamin Cama wrote:
Hi,
First, let me say that I'm glad to ear from you ! I think that other
will agree too.
Let me add my thanks and "welcome back" as well!
Le vendredi 17 septembre 2010 à 22:05 +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME a
écrit :
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 0
Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 01:48 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote:
[...]
I could change linux-base.postinst to avoid adding space between name,
'=' and value when updating the configuration but it seems simple enough
to make ybin accept that too.
Yes, it's simple. And I thin
Hi Benjamin,
First, let me apologize for the confusing non-specificity of my bug
reports to you and everyone else who is following this (and related)
bug(s). The only excuse I can offer is that at the time I was
submitting them, I wasn't sure what was causing the symptoms I was
seeing.
I lack experience in both). It basically an up-to-
date
yaboot (1.3.16) + debian modifications from 1.3.13a (some were already
integrated upstream) + Rogério Brito's debian packaging enhancements
+
some patches (namely Rick Thomas' quotes and spaces fix for latest
linux-base, and the
On Sep 29, 2010, at 12:12 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
On 09/28/2010 07:26 PM, Benjamin Cama wrote:
Well, even if you didn't mention it explicitly, it was listed in the
lspci dump since the beginning and nobody saw it until now. And one
may
also find it disturbing that a piece of software does
Hi Milan,
So the interesting question is this:
What do we have to do to tweak ofpath and make it handle properly all
(or some) of those other OF-aware controllers?
Can you help us on that?
Thanks!
Rick
On Sep 29, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
On 09/29/2010 12:44 AM, Rick
Hi,
I don't know why it stopped working (did you accidentally zap the PRAM?)
But as a solution to the problem of wasting CD-R's, you can buy a CD-
RW and use it (I got a 5-pack and rotate thru them -- so I always have
4 backups)
Rick
On Oct 27, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
We
these fixes in an "official"
daily image soon? How soon?
On Dec 9, 2010, at 2:45 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I just tried it on my G4 PowerMac. It worked about the same as for
Milan.
I don't have any Darwin or MacOS partitions, but my other Debian
partition got two entries, both
I just tried it on my G4 PowerMac. It worked about the same as for
Milan.
I don't have any Darwin or MacOS partitions, but my other Debian
partition got two entries, both called "Debian" (one for the main
vmlinux and the other for the vmlinux.old)
Let me know if you want any details...
Congratulation all!
I'm thrilled to say that I installed this on my test PowerMac G4
running Sid. It seems to work.
Maybe there's a future for PowerPC in Debian after all! I was worried
for a while there.
When can we expect a daily installer iso with it?
Rick
On Dec 11, 2010, at 9:22
On 12/13/10 22:22, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
Hi,
I just made 2 unofficial CDs available[1]. Each has a sha512sum
signed by my GPG key[2].
One includes yaboot_1.3.13a-1squeeze1 and the other one includes
yaboot_1.3.16-2.
Both include packages with needed PowerPC fixes for Squeeze:
* linux-k
Hi Risto,
I don't use audio/visual stuff on my Linux machines much so think of me
as a newbie in that area.
I understand the business about blacklisting things and putting other
things into /etc/modules. I've done that for other projects.
But I'm having trouble figuring out what "headphone
: OO
DRC: OO
DRC Range: 63
On 12/17/10 04:55, Risto Suominen wrote:
2010/12/17, Rick Thomas:
But I'm having trouble figuring out what "headphone detection" is and
what it's supposed to be good for?
The idea is to play the sound through the headphones if they are
plugged-in
Sorry, I hit send too soon.
This is with the blacklist for snd-aoa and snd-powermac installed in
/etc/modules.
I'll report in a few minutes on what happens with the blacklist reversed.
Rick
On 12/19/10 12:12, Rick Thomas wrote:
With your patch installed and my external speakers (I
I don't know if it's important, but it's worth noting that the following
messages appear in syslog:
Dec 19 11:53:12 dillserver kernel: [ 21.442851] snd_rawmidi: disagrees
about version of symbol snd_info_register
Dec 19 11:53:12 dillserver kernel: [ 21.455570] snd_rawmidi: Unknown
symbol s
With the blacklist reversed (see below for output of lsmod)
With the external speakers plugged in, the grateful dead have left the
theater (no sound).
Running alsamixer showed:
Card: SoundByLayout
Chip: SoundByLayout
Master: OO 80<>80
Headphone: MM
Headphone D: OO
Headphone D: OO
Speakers: MM
A
On Dec 19, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
Excerpts from Rick Thomas's message of Son Dez 19 18:26:04 +0100 2010:
Dec 19 11:53:12 dillserver kernel: [ 21.442851] snd_rawmidi:
disagrees
about version of symbol snd_info_register
Dec 19 11:53:12 dillserver kernel: [ 21.455570] snd
On 12/19/10 16:35, Risto Suominen wrote:
Thank you, Rick,
With the external speakers plugged in, the grateful dead have left the
theater (no sound).
No amount of plugging or unplugging or manually typing M to any of the
controls gives any sound -- either thru the built-in speaker or the
e
I'd like to setup a PowerMac to run diskless. (I know, disks are
cheap -- this is just for fun. Also, it's a dry-run for a non-powerPC
system that really does need to run diskless that I have been asked to
set up for Work.)
I know I'll need to provide a dhcp and tftp server (I'm plannin
On Feb 11, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Benjamin Cama wrote:
Hi Rick,
Le dimanche 06 février 2011 à 23:44 -0500, Rick Thomas a écrit :
I'd like to setup a PowerMac to run diskless.
[…]
Questions:
I think almost all your questions are answered in a message by me to
Patrick Boutet one month ago :
On 2/11/2011 5:58 PM, Patrick Boutet wrote:
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Feb 11, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Benjamin Cama wrote:
Hi Rick,
Le dimanche 06 février 2011 à 23:44 -0500, Rick Thomas a écrit :
I'd like to setup a PowerMac to run diskless.
[…]
Ques
Anybody notice that the current PowerPC sid_d-i businesscard installed
CD refuses to finish the booting process on a PowerMac?
See bug report #617469 for details.
I verified the md5 checksum. That's OK.
I verified the CD against the ISO when I burned it. That's OK.
I've tried this CD (and
Joey Hess said:
Rick Thomas wrote:
Well, in the mean-time, there's no way to test new d-i businesscard
or netinst CDs beyond the disk partition step. Or, to put it more
bluntly: Testing grinds to a halt until this is fixed.
Use http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/cu
I just bought and installed a StarTech PCI420USB card for use in my
PowerMac G4 AGP Graphics running Debian Lenny.
It's a PCI card that has 4 external USB 2.0 ports and one internal port.
When I try to plug a hub or a USB flash stick into it, I get the
following messages in syslog:
kerne
On Apr 20, 2011, at 6:46 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
The StarTech sales page says it works with Linux (and MacOS, and
Windows, for what that's worth) but that probably means RedHat and
x86, not Debian and PowerPC.
Anybody got any clues?
Thanks!
Rick
In case it matters, StarTech&
Hi Risto,
I was thinking the same sort of thing myself, but I don't have the
driver expertise to test it -- unless you can give me some hints.
I assume I need to blacklist some module(s) (add entries to /etc/
modprobe.d/blacklist ? ) but which ones?
Besides blacklisting, is there something
Thanks, Risto.
I'll give those a try and report back.
And I want to say a public "Thanks!" as well for all your work on
PowerPC Debian. I, for one, appreciate it.
Rick
On Apr 21, 2011, at 5:38 AM, Risto Suominen wrote:
Hi Rick,
ehci-hcd can take three parameters:
log2_irq_thresh (0-6)
I just downloaded and burned Businesscard and Netinst CDs from
Daily build #1 for powerpc, using installer build from wheezy
These images will install the testing version of Debian, currently
Wheezy.
See the top-level daily directory for more information about the
daily builds.
This bu
We still have this problem. Three weeks later.
On 07/04/11 01:37, Rick Thomas wrote:
I just downloaded and burned Businesscard and Netinst CDs from
Daily build #1 for powerpc, using installer build from wheezy
These images will install the testing version of Debian, currently
Wheezy
e's a
different image I should try, please let me know.
Rick
PS: The corresponding sid d-i install CD is even worse. It has
problems with choosing a language and can't get far enough to check
for kernel modules.
On Jul 27, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Wed,
Hi Jeroen,
I read the PowerPC list -- what there is of it these days. But I
didn't have anything helpful to add about your battery, so I didn't
comment. Sigh! /-:
Rick
On Jul 27, 2011, at 4:10 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
Is anyone reading the powerpc list?
I sent a question about pmu_
Hi Otavio,
On Jul 28, 2011, at 7:40 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 13:35, Rick Thomas wrote:
...
PS: The corresponding sid d-i install CD is even worse. It has
problems
with choosing a language and can't get far enough to check for kernel
modules.
Please ge
OK,
I downloaded
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-businesscard.iso
> Daily build #5 for powerpc, using installer build from sid
> These images will install the testing version of Debian, currently
> Wheezy.
> ...
>
Hi David, Hi Colin,
On Jul 29, 2011, at 12:35 PM, David Ricar wrote:
On 07/29/2011 08:18 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
After booting the CD, there were a lot of messages that scrolled by
too
fast to get details, but all of them seemed to have something to do
with
missing some UTF8
OK.
I'll try again on Monday or Tuesday (busy weekend coming up).
Rick
On Jul 29, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 20:59, Rick Thomas wrote:
Colin, do you have any idea when your fix will be available for
testing?
Can you let me know when it happens?
On Jul 28, 2011, at 7:35 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Hi Otavio,
On Jul 27, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 08:41, Rick Thomas
wrote: We still have this problem. Three weeks later.
Did you check current image? We got many issues fixed and would be
nice to
hen it can't find any
bootable media. It's much cruder and lot more pixelated.
Tomorrow I'll try again. I'll see if I can get some log files by
booting the CD in rescue mode.
Rick
On Jul 29, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
OK.
I'll try again on Monday or
On Aug 1, 2011, at 4:15 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
In contrast to Jeroen's report that "Wheezy installation went fine
on G3 Mac"...
I just tried the sid_d-i "testing" daily businesscard. (details of
exactly which iso are available on request)
Install went with
Does this patch (from the yaboot-devel mailinglist) help with this bug?
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636269
Is there some way I can help test it?
"[PATCH 1/2] Support sysfs in ofpath"
http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/yaboot-devel/2011-August/000382.html
a
I tried again today. I installed Sid from the Sid_d-i PowerPC daily
businesscard. Same problem.
Here's what I installed:
Daily build #1 for powerpc, using installer build from sid
...
This build finished at Wed Aug 10 03:24:48 UTC 2011.
...
debian-testing-powerpc-businesscard.iso 10-Aug-2011
On Aug 11, 2011, at 2:25 AM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
* Milan Kupcevic [110806 08:45 -0400]:
This problem is PowerMac specific. We have to compile in pata-macio
(libata) instead of ide-pmac (deprecated ide) driver into kernel.
Yaboot has to be fixed first to support pata-macio.
1.3.16-3
On Aug 11, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
> On 08/11/2011 12:16 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>>
>> Does anybody know what's holding up getting this fix into the main-line
>> Debian PowerPC kernels?
>>
>
> Nothing. It will just take some time. Next
Sure did...
See bug #636269.
Enjoy!
Rick
On Aug 13, 2011, at 7:52 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:15, Rick Thomas wrote:
Install went without a hitch until it came time to reboot into the
newly
installed system.
Did you try to install a more recent image? If don&#
On Aug 11, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
> On 08/11/2011 12:16 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>>
>> Does anybody know what's holding up getting this fix into the main-line
>> Debian PowerPC kernels?
>>
>
> Nothing. It will just take some time. Next
Forwarding this to the debian-powerpc list.
Rick
On Mar 23, 2012, at 5:16 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:36:54AM -0400, Chad Linthicum wrote:
Hello, I followed the Appendix A HowTo for installing Debian on
powerpc machines. I got all the way to the part where it sa
I'm forwarding this to the debian-powerpc list, where there are some
folks who may have experience with your problem.
Rick
On Mar 23, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Chad Linthicum wrote:
Hello, I followed the Appendix A HowTo for installing Debian on
powerpc machines. I got all the way to the part wh
On Jun 24, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
Hi there,
Has anyone seen this sort of messages before:
http://people.debian.org/~malat/dmesg_macminig4.txt
The system is a:
$ uname -a
Linux macminig4 2.6.32-5-powerpc #1 Sun May 6 03:39:01 UTC 2012 ppc
GNU/Linux
Is my hard drive
On Jun 27, 2012, at 10:15 PM, deleteme wrote:
Just installed Squeeze (debian-6.0.4-powerpc-netinst.iso) on a
working New World iBook G3, and everything went smoothly until the
first boot up of the new system. After displaying the typical
sequence of line-by-line boot progress, the log-in s
On Jul 4, 2012, at 3:02 PM, David Adcock wrote:
Also I recently purchased a (used) G5-2.3GHz-2Core. Probably MANY
of these
units will be coming on the market as leases expire, etc. An
earlier post
appears to be completely correct: Debian on the 64-bit architecture
does not
seem to be wel
Begin forwarded message:
Resent-From: debian-u...@lists.debian.org
From: Michael Aldridge
Date: August 14, 2012 6:05:29 PM PDT
To: debian-u...@lists.debian.org
Subject: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg
After deciding that the official OS was becoming too slow for this
aging hardware, and App
On Aug 15, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Michael Aldridge wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Rick Thomas
wrote:
Resent-From: debian-u...@lists.debian.org
From: Michael Aldridge
Date: August 14, 2012 6:05:29 PM PDT
To: debian-u...@lists.debian.org
Subject: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg
After
On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote:
okay, I understand now; although, there is a slight problem with
doing that, I have no other linux machines handy with disk drives.
Is there a way of doing that from the mac terminal?
If you just put the CD in the CD drive with MacOS-
On Aug 15, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Rick Thomas
wrote:
On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote:
okay, I understand now; although, there is a slight problem with
doing that, I have no other linux machines handy with disk
I just downloaded and burned the PowerPC Netinst CD and did an install
with it.
Specifically,
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso
Daily build #3 for powerpc, using installer build from sid
This build fi
See my suggestions at the bottom of this report...
On Aug 20, 2012, at 9:40 AM, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
In case it matters: The computer's CD drive is broken and it cannot
AFAIK boot from USB media, so I downloaded the files and instructed
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:15 PM, P.Carter wrote:
>
I have tried 6.05 however it ran very slow it was
> crawling. And firefox was super slow...
> Imac specs:
> 333-400 mhz 128mb ram rage 128 video cards,
> 6gb harddrive. slot loader.
It sounds like your problem is the very small RAM on this m
Here are my notes from recently installing Wheezy on a couple of G4
Power-Mac machines, including a G4 "mini".
Comments are welcome!
Rick
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Your details may vary, such as the device name assigned to your
USB-stick by t
On Aug 4, 2012, at 10:22 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
On 08/04/2012 12:41 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 05:56:54PM -0400, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
This is a Debian installation ${MEDIA_TYPE},
built on ${BUILD_DATE}.
+
Enter one of the following options to begin:
-install 3
On Aug 29, 2012, at 4:25 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I just tried booting a PowerMac G4 with the Wheezy installer image
"built on 20120826-03:23" (details of where I downloaded it from,
etc available on request).
The G4 is a 32-bit machine, but it seems to be offering me the
cho
On Aug 18, 2012, at 2:02 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I just downloaded and burned the PowerPC Netinst CD and did an
install with it.
Specifically,
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso
Daily build #3 for powerpc
On Aug 29, 2012, at 11:04 PM, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
On 08/29/2012 07:58 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Aug 29, 2012, at 4:25 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I just tried booting a PowerMac G4 with the Wheezy installer image
"built on 20120826-03:23" (details of where I downloaded it f
On 08/30/12 06:57, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
On 08/30/2012 03:00 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Regardless, I'm trying to write a comprehensive set of notes on booting
Apple PowerMacs from USB drives, and it would be nice to have this part
fully documented.
Is there something I can tell people to
On Sep 17, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 07:25:27PM -0400, Logan Brown wrote:
I would never recommend attempting a dist upgrade to unstable. I've
tried it twice in the past, and both times led to reinstalling the
from scratch. Dependencies get mixed up, and
I have a temporary need to install Lenny on a PowerMac G4 so I can run
some tests on a "fresh" installation for a user who is unable (for
various reasons) to upgrade to Squeeze at this time.
When I run the netinst installer CD all seems well until it wants to
setup sources.list. Then it
On Feb 11, 2013, at 6:51 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Hi folks,
I've uploaded d-i 20130211, and the relevant bits (like mini.iso and
other things) should soon be available on the mirrors, under
dists/sid/main/installer-$arch; for example:
http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer
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