Hello,
Your graphic card can probably be managed by:
- Nvidia closed-source driver (including firmware):
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
- Nouveau open-source driver (automatically loaded by default for your
hardware) with a firmware you have to install (probably the
firmware-mi
> 'Starting Gnome manager'
> (or something to that effect). It then hangs with a black screen and a small
> blinking cursor on the top left corner.
> [...] Any suggestions?
Did you already try the "powerpc" architecture as alternative to "ppc64" ?
https:/
On Sun, May 9, 2021, 1:18 PM Pat Pathmanathan
wrote:
> I finally managed to install the following image on my iMac G5 :
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/
>
> https://saimei.ftp.acc.umu.se/cdimage/ports/current/debian-10.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso
>
> The installation went fine. Whe
Pat Pathmanathan composed on 2021-05-09 19:02 (UTC+0100):
> I finally managed to install the following image on my iMac G5 :
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/
> https://saimei.ftp.acc.umu.se/cdimage/ports/current/debian-10.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso
> The installation went fine. Wh
On Sonntag, 2. Mai 2021 13:29:47 -04 didier gaumet wrote:
> Le 02/05/2021 à 16:43, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
> > On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:38:21PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote:
> >> From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor
> >> is a>>
> >> powerpc64 Big Indian, not a power
Le 02/05/2021 à 19:29, didier gaumet a écrit :
(I have almost wrote "inglish")
sorry : "written"
There: absent-minded ;-)
Le 02/05/2021 à 16:43, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:38:21PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote:
From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor is a
powerpc64 Big Indian, not a powerpc64 Little Indian [...]
That's "Endian", not "Indian".
https://en.wikipedia.
On Sun, May 2, 2021, 11:51 AM Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On Sun May 2 08:17:13 2021 Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> > On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:38:21PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote:
> >
> >> From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor
> >> is a powerpc64 Big Indian, not a powerpc
On Sun May 2 08:17:13 2021 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:38:21PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote:
>
>> From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor
>> is a powerpc64 Big Indian, not a powerpc64 Little Indian [...]
>
> That's "Endian", not "Indian".
8080
Hi,
Pat Pathmanathan wrote:
> I am trying to install Debian 10.9 on the old iMac G5. I burned the
> 'debian-10.9.0-ppc64el-netinst.iso’ [..]
> I was
> able to install Ubuntu Mate 16.04 for powerpc without any problem.
Possibly you want Debian for "ppc64" or &
On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:38:21PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote:
> From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor is a
> powerpc64 Big Indian, not a powerpc64 Little Indian [...]
That's "Endian", not "Indian".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness
Hello,
From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor is a
powerpc64 Big Indian, not a powerpc64 Little Indian and nowadays the
rare Linux ditros that still propose a powerpc64 portage do it for Litte
Indian (ppc64el) as Debian do. So Debian is not compatible with your
h
recognise the CD as a bootable CD. I then did
> the same with the 'debian-bullseye-DI-rc1-ppc64el-DVD-1.iso’. Till the
> same problem. I was able to install Ubuntu Mate 16.04 for powerpc
> without any problem.
>
> Can you please help me to solve this problem?
>
Hi Pat
h
the 'debian-bullseye-DI-rc1-ppc64el-DVD-1.iso’. Till the same problem. I
was able to install Ubuntu Mate 16.04 for powerpc without any problem.
Can you please help me to solve this problem?
Kind regards
Pat
ast official PowerPC 32 release...
I do not remember: is it between Debian 7 and Debian 8 that firmware
inclusion in distros in general and in Debian in particular changed?
In the past some firmwares (non-free stuff) were installed with (or part
of) the linux kernel package and that changed w
I remember having no luck with getting a display on Debian 8.10 on my eMac
G4... had to go back to 7.11 to get a working system if I remember right.
Anyhow I am wondering why 8.10 doesn’t work like it should? It’s technically
the last official PowerPC 32 release...
Sent from Yahoo Mail for
> On Jul 29, 2016, at 7:45 PM, limpia wrote:
>
> But really, you would have to just try it. I do not think you will get very
> good results with the newest version of Debian, current stable, Jessie,...
> Perhaps Squeeze, or Wheezy, but I have my doubts.
My Raspberry Pi 3's do pretty well with
x27;d like to run Debian. It has a PowerPC 603e CPU, and a GT20 GPU.
>>
>> -Spencer :)
>>
>> _Be yourself, _
>> _nobody can tell you you're doing it wrong._
>> _-Snoopy_
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 5:11 AM, Eero Volotinen
>> wrote:
>&g
On 2016-07-29 19:12, Spencer Gordon wrote:
The Thinkpad 860 is from around 1995. I would be ok with Windows NT,
but I'd like to run Debian. It has a PowerPC 603e CPU, and a GT20 GPU.
-Spencer :)
_Be yourself, _
_nobody can tell you you're doing it wrong._
_-Snoopy_
On Fri, Jul 29,
The Thinkpad 860 is from around 1995. I would be ok with Windows NT, but
I'd like to run Debian. It has a PowerPC 603e CPU, and a GT20 GPU.
-Spencer :)
*Be yourself, *
*nobody can tell you you're doing it wrong.*
*-Snoopy*
On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 5:11 AM, Eero Volotinen
wrote:
&
How about running powerpc under kvm ;)
Eero
29.7.2016 3.54 ap. "Spencer Gordon" kirjoitti:
> Hello! I have been considering buying a used IBM Thinkpad 860 laptop for a
> while now, and I was wondering if anyone had tested the PowerPC version of
> Debian on this machine. I wo
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 07:36:39PM -0500, Spencer Gordon wrote:
> Hello! I have been considering buying a used IBM Thinkpad 860 laptop for a
> while now, and I was wondering if anyone had tested the PowerPC version of
> Debian on this machine. I would hope to install Debian, becaus
Hello! I have been considering buying a used IBM Thinkpad 860 laptop for a
while now, and I was wondering if anyone had tested the PowerPC version of
Debian on this machine. I would hope to install Debian, because I don't
really want to use Windows HT, OS/2 Warp, IBM AIX, or Sun Solaris.
T
On 24/07/15 12:24 PM, Nathaniel Nelson wrote:
Hello! I hope this is the proper way to seek Debian support, and that
I'm not making a mistake/emailing the wrong list/whatever.
I've never used Debian before, and I'm trying to install it on an old
Mac Mini with a PowerPC
Should have re-read before I posted.
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
> [...] but I've generally had the best success using the
> Mac OS 10 partitioning tool to set up the three Mac OS style
> partitions I use for debian, one for yaboot, one for the root
> partition, and one for
; I've never used Debian before, and I'm trying to install it on an old Mac
> Mini with a PowerPC G4 processor.
I'd suggest that you not do that, but I've been there, done that, so
it would be a bit hypocritical of me to do so.
If you have a spare AMD64 or x86 box, you'
Hello! I hope this is the proper way to seek Debian support, and that I'm
not making a mistake/emailing the wrong list/whatever.
I've never used Debian before, and I'm trying to install it on an old Mac
Mini with a PowerPC G4 processor. I downloaded the PowerPC iso file
(debia
on?
> > >
> > > Rick
> > >
> > > PS: Jessie on a powerpc64 (Apple MacPro dual G5) crashes randomly upon
> > > attempting to reboot.
> > > Anybody else noticing this?
> >
> > "Mailing Lists
> > The Debian PowerPC mailin
ndomly upon
> > attempting to reboot.
> > Anybody else noticing this?
>
> "Mailing Lists
> The Debian PowerPC mailing list is the proper place for questions,
> suggestions for improvements, or just for chat concerning PowerPC
> systems running Debian. The debian-user l
upon
> > attempting to reboot.
> > Anybody else noticing this?
>
> "Mailing Lists
> The Debian PowerPC mailing list is the proper place for questions,
> suggestions for improvements, or just for chat concerning PowerPC
> systems running Debian. The debian-user list is al
haven't
> tried it recently, though.
>
> Possibly a regression?
>
> Rick
>
> PS: Jessie on a powerpc64 (Apple MacPro dual G5) crashes randomly upon
> attempting to reboot.
> Anybody else noticing this?
"Mailing Lists
The Debian PowerPC mailing list is the prop
on a powerpc64 (Apple MacPro dual G5) crashes randomly upon
attempting to reboot.
Anybody else noticing this?
On Jun 6, 2014, at 10:24 AM, Tiziano CERETTO
wrote:
> I have the same problem now with weezy powerpc net installer on iMag g4 (the
> sunflower) 800Mhz...
> Do you or anyone sol
> But when I booted it (on two different G4 machines and a G5) when it got
> to the "chose language" screen, there was no response to the keyboard or
> the mouse.
>
> Anybody know what's up with that?
Hi, Rick,
The same thing occurred with my installation on two AMD64 computers with
wireless key
Hi, all!
I just downloaded the powerpc netinst installer from
/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd
debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso 2013-11-24 23:02 257M
I checked the md5 and sha1 sums, and burned it to CD. All went well.
But when I booted it (on two different G4
Csanyi Pal writes:
> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded on my powerpc Squeeze to Wheezy.
>
> Now when I want to install in aptitude interface mysql-server-5.5 I get
> one broken package:
>
> Some dependencies of libdbi-perl are not satisfied:
> libdbi-perl depends on perlapi-
Hi,
I just upgraded on my powerpc Squeeze to Wheezy.
Now when I want to install in aptitude interface mysql-server-5.5 I get
one broken package:
Some dependencies of libdbi-perl are not satisfied:
libdbi-perl depends on perlapi-5.10.1
(provided by perl-base 5.10.1-17squeeze3)
How can I go
On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 23:44 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
> MacPro G5 PowerPC
You might get easier help, if you'll mail to
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/
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Has anybody used the S/PDIF Toslink inputs on the Apple G5-PowerPC
MacPro hardware?
Does it work?
Are there any secrets I should know before I start?
I volunteer at a community radio station. They would like to record
and archive the digital audio stream just before it goes out on the
tempted to take a picture, but the machine had already
reset by the time I had found a camera. I am attempting to duplicate that
result now.
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Tek wrote:
> I had similar issues with hanging on boot about a month ago with
> powerpc and I believe that it
I had similar issues with hanging on boot about a month ago with
powerpc and I believe that it ended up being a corrupted boot ram
image. Would drop into a limited shell when it tried to switch to
mounting the root file systems and visually "hang". Sounds somewhat
similar, but I
ian*/.disk/info" (without the quotes)
Report what you see.
Rick
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.5 "Squeeze"- Official powerpc NETINST Binary -
1 20120512-20:49
OK. That says you are using the official "stable/Squeeze" netinst
iso, available from
http://cdimage.debian.
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.5 "Squeeze"- Official powerpc NETINST Binary - 1
20120512-20:49
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
&g
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-
wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>>>
>>> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>>>> From: Michael Aldridge
>>>> Date: August 14, 2012 6:05:29 PM PDT
>>>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>>>
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-user@lists.debian.org
From: Michael Aldridge
Date: August 14, 2012 6:05:29 PM PDT
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg
After
gt; *Date: *August 14, 2012 6:05:29 PM PDT
> *To: *debian-user@lists.debian.org
> *Subject: **PowerPC install stuck at dmesg*
>
> After deciding that the official OS was becoming too slow for this aging
> hardware, and Apple PowerBook G4 FW800 (not sure about the FW800, it could
> be t
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:06:09AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> First: try sending this to the "debian-powerpc" list. You may get
> more answers there...
>
> Second: I have a couple of G4 tower machines that work just fine,
> but unfortunately I d
Begin forwarded message:
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
From: Michael Aldridge
Date: August 14, 2012 6:05:29 PM PDT
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg
After deciding that the official OS was becoming too slow for this
aging hardware, and
After deciding that the official OS was becoming too slow for this aging
hardware, and Apple PowerBook G4 FW800 (not sure about the FW800, it could
be the one immediately following that model), I decided to install debian
and then a WM such as LXDE, to better use the hardware. I downloaded,
burned
On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:05:22 +0200, Dima Sorkin wrote:
> Hi.
> I have Debian/SID on iBook G4 (powerpc), updated on a weekly basis.
>
> Of the SIP programs I tried, only Twinkle succeeded to produce sound.
>
> Ekiga and LinPhone connect to 500 at ekiga-dot-net (test call
Hi.
I have Debian/SID on iBook G4 (powerpc), updated on a weekly basis.
Of the SIP programs I tried, only Twinkle succeeded to produce sound.
Ekiga and LinPhone connect to 500 at ekiga-dot-net (test call), with no sound.
Ekiga shows that no sound input stream is received from the ekiga server
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 09:29:06AM GMT, Jeff Gordon wrote:
> Hi, Folks --
>
> Along with my normal 'work' computer, I've also installed Debian on my old
> iBook laptop (PowerPC) where some different problems apply. Is there a
> separate list for Debian on PowerPC or
Am 06.01.2012 10:29, schrieb Jeff Gordon:
> Along with my normal 'work' computer, I've also installed Debian on my old
> iBook laptop (PowerPC) where some different problems apply. Is there a
> separate list for Debian on PowerPC or is this the one for that? (I check
Hi, Folks --
Along with my normal 'work' computer, I've also installed Debian on my old
iBook laptop (PowerPC) where some different problems apply. Is there a
separate list for Debian on PowerPC or is this the one for that? (I checked
the listing of mail lists at Debian, didn&#
On Tue, 17 May 2011 20:47:25 -0700, Alexander Lardner wrote:
> Plymouth (bootsplash screen) is only available for i386, I'm on an old
> PowerPC iMac. Is there an alternative (squeeze)? If not, is it possible
> to just show a static image over the boot screen, kind of like FreeBSD?
Hello,
Plymouth (bootsplash screen) is only available for i386, I'm on an old PowerPC
iMac. Is there an alternative (squeeze)? If not, is it possible to just show a
static image over the boot screen, kind of like FreeBSD?
Thanks!
-Alex
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Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I want to download Debian 5.0.5 DVD images for PowerPC. Unfortunately
>I am unable to find images for DVDs 2, 3, 4 and 5 - they seem to have
>disappeared from the servers but MD5SUMS file lists them...
>
>Are there any prob
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:04:37 +0100, Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta wrote:
> I want to download Debian 5.0.5 DVD images for PowerPC. Unfortunately I
> am unable to find images for DVDs 2, 3, 4 and 5 - they seem to have
> disappeared from the servers but MD5SUMS file lists them...
(...)
On 2010-08-31 22:04 +0200, Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta wrote:
> I want to download Debian 5.0.5 DVD images for PowerPC. Unfortunately
> I am unable to find images for DVDs 2, 3, 4 and 5 - they seem to have
> disappeared from the servers but MD5SUMS file lists them...
>
> Are the
Hello!
I want to download Debian 5.0.5 DVD images for PowerPC. Unfortunately
I am unable to find images for DVDs 2, 3, 4 and 5 - they seem to have
disappeared from the servers but MD5SUMS file lists them...
Are there any problems with the PowerPC images and Debian?
BTW, CD images are also
Alright!
Thank you for your help!
Cheers
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Christian Simo wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> and then,
>
> I got two U
Christian Simo wrote:
> 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
and then,
I got two Unix OS: Debian for PPC and AIX IBM for PPC.
My computer CPU is a Intel with Host OS Windows XP.
So, I don't know ho
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:03:55AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> The interesting question is what "flavor" of PowerPC? There are
> NewWorld Macs, OldWorld Macs, and a few flavors of IBM and embedded
> powerPC, each with their own boot firmware interface.
>
> I've ne
Christian Simo writes:
> Thank you for your response!
>
> I got two Unix OS: Debian for PPC and AIX IBM for PPC.
>
> My computer CPU is a Intel with Host OS Windows XP.
Since you're running Windows XP, try Qemu Manager:
http://www.davereyn.co.uk/download.htm
It's easy to install and includes a
Thank you for your response!
I got two Unix OS: Debian for PPC and AIX IBM for PPC.
My computer CPU is a Intel with Host OS Windows XP.
So, I don't know how to emulate this CPU to run these OS.
I'm new on PPC precesssor.
Thank you in advance!
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Dirk Neumann wro
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
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:56:32 -0700
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
A first thought:
qemu (contains qemu-system-ppc).
Dirk.
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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
I recently installed an AMD64 box from a sid_d-i businesscard CD in
"expert" mode.
It asked me some questions that I didn't remember seeing on my PowerPC
installations.
In particular, it asked me to chose a distribution (Lenny, Squeeze,
Sid) and whether
I wanted
as it is, is that I happen to
have access to a lot of old Mac PowerPC hardware that still runs well,
but nobody wants or needs it for production applications. I use it in
my spare time to test installation of Debian software (stable, testing
and unstable) and report what I find. As I gain
/packages.debian.org/sid/xserver-xorg-input-wacom> lists an older
version of the package for powerpc.
The build logs for the package speak a clear picture:
<https://buildd.debian.org/~luk/status/package.php?p=xf86-input-wacom&suite=unstable>
It failed on quite some architectures.
Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 23:44 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
My question is: How do I know which packages I'm likely to need, so I
can remove the rest?
Something like
grep _drv /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep -v input
should show you which video driver your X server is using.
Inte
On Jan 19, 2010, at 4:36 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 23:44 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
My question is: How do I know which packages I'm likely to need,
so I
can remove the rest?
Something like
grep _drv /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep -v input
should show you which video dri
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 23:44 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> My question is: How do I know which packages I'm likely to need, so I
> can remove the rest?
Something like
grep _drv /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep -v input
should show you which video driver your X server is using.
--
Earthling Michel
On Jan 18, 2010, at 11:55 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xserver-xorg-core: Conflicts: xserver-xorg-input-4 which is a
virtual package.
This means at least one of the xserver-xorg-video-* packages to be
installed hasn't been rebuilt against the new
go and it took over a month to resolve there (I don't know
> what happened, but one day it just went away...) If this is the same
> problem as the i386 one, you'd think that the solution that worked
> there would also have worked on PowerPC as well, and it would have
> b
On 2010-01-18 07:11 +0100, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Does anybody know what's causing this?
>
> Is there anything I can do?
Maybe. Hopefully.
>> dillserver:~# aptitude -Pv full-upgrade
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Reading extend
go and it took over a month to resolve there (I don't know
> what happened, but one day it just went away...) If this is the same
> problem as the i386 one, you'd think that the solution that worked
> there would also have worked on PowerPC as well, and it would have
> been fixed
one day it just went away...) If this is the same
problem as the i386 one, you'd think that the solution that worked
there would also have worked on PowerPC as well, and it would have
been fixed fairly quickly.
Thanks!
Rick
dillserver:~# aptitude -Pv full-upgrade
Reading
g/squeeze/gnome-core
For some reason the package was forced to testing even though it was
not
available on all architectures.
If that is the reason, then it means that Gnome is currently not
installable on all but 5 architectures. With powerpc probably the
only one
very many people will real
they seem to be working the issue -- or at least they have
provided some analysis that has been cross posted to a number of lists.
Besides those 3 individuals, you may also want to notify the Gnome, PowerPC,
and release teams; they should have at least one member on the respective
public disc
Frans Pop wrote:
> On Friday 18 December 2009, Philipp Kern wrote:
>> While I did not take care about the fallout due to time constraints on
>> my side, I did take a look at the meta-gnome2 migration back then. We
>> did not place any approval hint but it seems that the multiple arch:all
>> confus
I understand "normal churn" in testing and unstable, but these
problems have persisted for over a week.
Attached is the log of an attempt to do "aptitude full-upgrade" on my
Debian Squeeze PowerPC test machine.
Here's the part that first indicates there might be t
On Friday 18 December 2009, Philipp Kern wrote:
> While I did not take care about the fallout due to time constraints on
> my side, I did take a look at the meta-gnome2 migration back then. We
> did not place any approval hint but it seems that the multiple arch:all
> confused britney sufficiently
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 02:49:47PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > It's almost certain that both the relevant package maintainer and the
> > release team are already aware of this and that it has been a conscious
> > choice to accept the breakage.
> Given that the package version clearly indicat
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 17 December 2009, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Given that the package version clearly indicates it reached testing by
> > way of testing-proposed-updates, I think it's unwise to assume this.
> > Cc:ing debian-release for input on the uninst
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Given that the package version clearly indicates it reached testing by
> way of testing-proposed-updates, I think it's unwise to assume this.
> Cc:ing debian-release for input on the uninstallability of gnome in
> testing.
You're right, I miss
reason, then it means that Gnome is currently not
> installable on all but 5 architectures. With powerpc probably the only one
> very many people will really care about (though that's a steadily
> declining number).
> It's almost certain that both the relevant package maintaine
me reason the package was forced to testing even though it was not
available on all architectures.
If that is the reason, then it means that Gnome is currently not
installable on all but 5 architectures. With powerpc probably the only one
very many people will really care about (though that'
On Dec 17, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
(And please do not over-inflate the severity of bug reports: a desktop
environment not being installable does not make the installation
system
unusable.)
It may not be "grave" for the installer (indeed, you've already
established at great l
general problem resulting from the release team forcing through some
migration and thus (*temporarily*) breaking dependencies
- an architecture specific problem where the release team has decided to
ignore breakage on powerpc in order not to delay other arches
- an unknown issue
I've just chec
On Dec 17, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote:
I have listed several problems that exist in Sid and Squeeze, some of
which prevent successful installation (even though there is nothing
wrong with the installer).
The problems in Sid are not int
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I have listed several problems that exist in Sid and Squeeze, some of
> which prevent successful installation (even though there is nothing
> wrong with the installer).
The problems in Sid are not interesting as they will fix themselves.
What
On Dec 16, 2009, at 10:38 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
Again, there is *nothing* wrong with the installer here. We welcome
reports
of issues with installations of testing, but issues with sid are
seldom
caused by problems in the installer.
If you say so, I have to agree that there is *nothing* wr
lar architecture.
Again, there is *nothing* wrong with the installer here. We welcome reports
of issues with installations of testing, but issues with sid are seldom
caused by problems in the installer.
Note that additional help with the installer, especially for non-mainstream
arches like powerpc,
Hi there (reading from -powerpc).
On Dec 16 2009, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Debian on PowerPC seems to be in trouble...
I just purchased me a "new" (used, in fact) iBook G4 and this is the
first altivec-enabled box that I have. It is also a bit faster than my
other powerpc machines.
(BT
Debian on PowerPC seems to be in trouble...
1) The daily d-i CDImage for PowerPC hasn't been updated since Dec 12th.
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
2) Even if it were updated, it still would not be possible to install
Debian S
There is no linux-image-2.6.31-1 package in the Sid repo.
This means that when I try to install Sid from a current daily
Businesscard CD, it fails while installing the kernel.
linux-image-2.6-powerpc: Depends: linux-image-2.6.31-1-powerpc which
is a virtual package.
This may be a "
Rick Thomas wrote:
Installing squeeze on a G4 PowerMac from the "sid d-i" daily
"Businesscard" CD.
All seemed nominal during the install. But after the reboot,
the login screen did not appear. I was left sitting at a text
console. In fact, it appears that gdm and nearly all of the
gnome-de
Installing squeeze on a G4 PowerMac from the "sid d-i" daily
"Businesscard" CD.
All seemed nominal during the install. But after the reboot,
the login screen did not appear. I was left sitting at a text
console. In fact, it appears that gdm and nearly all of the
gnome-desktop-environment t
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