On 25/08/12 22:20, Steven Chamberlain wrote: [...] > I already suspected that grub-probe is having trouble with msdos > extended partitions, at least with ZFS. [...] msdos extended partitions are apparently very special. Alas, I run XP, and need five partitions on that disk, so I don't really have a choice. This is UFS, FWIW. [...] > That's extremely great. Did you not have to create an > /etc/X11/xorg.conf? I though HAL bug #683833 would have stopped Xorg > from starting otherwise? > > Just curious, but which desktop environment are you running? apt-get install wmaker xorg. I did need to reboot to make the mouse work. I think when hal got installed it didn't start up properly. I didn't test accelerated graphics, but it certainly didn't behave like software-only. [...] > OpenJDK 7 can build on Wheezy, if you have powerful enough hardware, it > just takes half a day. [...] > I'll also have to try building chromium-browser, as I think only libv8 > support was missing before, and I pretty much got that working (but not > in time for the freeze). Maybe we'll have this for wheezy-backports too. Are these likely to appear in sid soon? As this is just a test install I'm not tied to wheezy, and I'd be interested in giving them a try. -- ┌─── dg@cowlark.com ───── http://www.cowlark.com ───── │ │ life←{ ↑1 ⍵∨.^3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵ } │ --- Conway's Game Of Life, in one line of APL
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