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Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro

Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2019 9:52 pm
by musa
musa wrote:
xeno74 wrote:
musa wrote: ps Do you know anything about the possibility of Gimp coming to fienix
Here you are: Fienix X5000 thread

— Christian
Thanks Christian
Hi Christian
Gimp 2.8..16-fienix is there now but libjasper libpng12 and libgegl is missing and gimp fail to install.
Package libjasper1 has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list

libpng12
Package libpng12-0 has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list

libgegl
libgegl-0.2-0:
Package libgegl-0.2-0 has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list

have you try install Gimp?
Peter

Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro

Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 8:30 am
by xeno74
Hi Peter,

Thanks a lot for reporting the Gimp package dependencies issue. :-)

I informed Casey about the Gimp package dependencies issue today and here is the answer:
caseycullen wrote:Thanks, I’m aware - I don’t have all of the dependencies packaged yet. Hopefully tomorrow.
Cheers,
Christian

Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro

Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 9:48 pm
by musa
xeno74 wrote:Hi Peter,

Thanks a lot for reporting the Gimp package dependencies issue. :-)

I informed Casey about the Gimp package dependencies issue today and here is the answer:
caseycullen wrote:Thanks, I’m aware - I don’t have all of the dependencies packaged yet. Hopefully tomorrow.
Cheers,
Christian
Thanks Cristian
I think Casey has done a fantastic job with Fienix.
Cheers

Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro

Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 6:19 am
by sundown
I bought the new Fienix usb stick hoping it would make for an easy install, but not to be.
I get a "usbdisk0:zImage-4.20 "file not found" error.
root=/dev/usbdrive, should 'usbdrive' be something else?
Also the install instructions say the stick should be in the top left usb port, but then I would have no keyboard so using another port.
I also see instructions to put the kernel on a CF card & may need the uncompressed kernel. would I just need the one vmlinux file?
I do have a live CD that boots from a CF card now, but no 3d & I want to support this new version.

Please, if you give me answers, just remember I'm still a linux dummy.

Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro

Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 7:55 am
by xeno74
Hi Sundown,
sundown wrote:I bought the new Fienix usb stick hoping it would make for an easy install, but not to be.
I get a "usbdisk0:zImage-4.20 "file not found" error.
I also odered the Fienix USB stick four days ago. I haven't received it yet. I think there are two partitions on this USB stick so "usbdisk0:zImage-4.20" can't work. Please try usbdisk0.0:zImage-4.20. I think the first partition has a FAT file system so you need -fatfs in your CFE command. I will modify the USB device to usbdisk0.0 in the installation instructions.
sundown wrote: root=/dev/usbdrive, should 'usbdrive' be something else?
Please try the following commands if you have one hard disk installed in your X1000.

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setenv bootargs "root=/dev/sdb2 rootdelay=5"

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boot -elf -noints -z -fatfs usbdisk0.0:zImage-4.20
Please try the following commands if you have two hard disks installed in your X1000.

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setenv bootargs "root=/dev/sdc2 rootdelay=5"

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boot -elf -noints -z -fatfs usbdisk0.0:zImage-4.20
sundown wrote: Also the install instructions say the stick should be in the top left usb port, but then I would have no keyboard so using another port.
To recognise a USB stick into a different USB-port, you always have to insert the USB device AFTER entering the CFE console.

Cheers,
Christian

Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro

Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 10:42 am
by sundown
usbdisk0.0 doesn't work, all the examples I see just have usbdisk0:
There are 2 partitions on the usb drive, fienix-boot which is fat formatted & FIENIX which is ext2.
Maybe another x1000 user that got a usb disk to boot can post his CFE command.

Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro

Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 5:43 pm
by musa
sundown wrote:usbdisk0.0 doesn't work, all the examples I see just have usbdisk0:
There are 2 partitions on the usb drive, fienix-boot which is fat formatted & FIENIX which is ext2.
Maybe another x1000 user that got a usb disk to boot can post his CFE command.

Hi My boot commands for my usb disk with 2 partisions (fat32 and ext4) are as follows.
setenv bootargs "root =/dev/sde2" (remember " ")
boot -elf -noints -z -fatfs usbdisk0: zimage-4.20

I have three hard drives sdb, sdc, sdb therefore my usbdisk will be called sde. Part 2 is then called sde2.
I boot to CFE write the first line and pres enter
inset usbdisk in the first usbbay in the top of the tower. (from the left)
write the second line and pres enter
boot into Fienix

Musa

Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro

Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 6:55 pm
by xeno74
sundown wrote:usbdisk0.0 doesn't work, all the examples I see just have usbdisk0:
There are 2 partitions on the usb drive, fienix-boot which is fat formatted & FIENIX which is ext2.
Maybe another x1000 user that got a usb disk to boot can post his CFE command.
I haven't received the Fienix USB stick from AOTL yet. When I received it then I will test it and report the results. Maybe I can help you better after testing the USB stick.

-- Christian

Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro

Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 7:11 pm
by xeno74
sundown wrote:usbdisk0.0 doesn't work, all the examples I see just have usbdisk0:
There are 2 partitions on the usb drive, fienix-boot which is fat formatted & FIENIX which is ext2.
Maybe another x1000 user that got a usb disk to boot can post his CFE command.
Please copy the new uncompressed kernel 4.20.17 (vmlinux-4.20) to the fienix-boot partition and boot it with the following commands:

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setenv bootargs "root=/dev/sdb2 rootdelay=5"

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boot -elf -noints -fatfs usbdisk0:vmlinux-4.20
How many hard disks are installed in your X1000?

-- Christian

Re: Fienix - New PowerPC Distro

Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 7:15 pm
by sundown
[quote="musa"]

Hi My boot commands for my usb disk with 2 partisions (fat32 and ext4) are as follows.
setenv bootargs "root =/dev/sde2" (remember " ")
boot -elf -noints -z -fatfs usbdisk0: zimage-4.20

I have three hard drives sdb, sdc, sdb therefore my usbdisk will be called sde. Part 2 is then called sde2.
I boot to CFE write the first line and pres enter
inset usbdisk in the first usbbay in the top of the tower. (from the left)
write the second line and pres enter
boot into Fienix

So the usb disk will only boot from the top left usb port. so how are you getting the keyboard to work to use linux?

I have 2 front usb ports that work with usb sticks & had a feeling that was the problem, may need to buy a cheap hub.
When the x1000 first started beta testing, some of the back usb ports didn't work, Steven got them working so I will
check them all to see if there is another "magic" port, never know :-)