Sergio Brandano wrote: > > Too bad, dear Michel. There is no way that I can read the DOC file.
That's why I also included it in ASCII. You're welcome. > The message included in clear text refers to yaboot as the solution of all > problems, but I am using BootX and installing yaboot sounds a little > extreme. Fine, getting things to work with BootX has also been covered several times here. > Thank you all, for your attempts to ask my questions regarding the specific > issue. I will install the programs I need in the MacOS partition and go > forward with it until the correct binaries are in place, and they will > hopefully work for the Lombard, one day in the third Millennium... Sorry, I don't follow you. > Regarding the other messages on apologies etc, I remember receiving a very > pacificatory message from what I assume was the moderator, for which I can > be blamed for reaction, and a certain other person can be blamed for > triggering my reaction in the first place, and a number of other people > confirming it. > Then I remember somebody apologising, and then myself accepting it. > Unfortunately I was (and I am still doing it, to a certain extent) I was > struggling with a broken system (that motivated my original request for > help) and a text e-mail client on another machine, so I really do not know > to who I was writing to in the first place, although my answers were > strictly related to the replied message. You didn't refer to anything. > I believe the mail client did the rest, by posting my reply to the right > person, and I apologise if this was not the case. It was addressed to me so I assumed you were talking to me. > I also remember sending a very explanatory message, where I explained what > is my own way to help. Although the mailing list archives are useful when > hunting for FAQs, and I do use them, it is not always easy to find what you > are looking for, and sometimes (like in my present case) it is not even > possible. I disagree. And even if it was true, just by reading this lists' posts in the last few months you should have gathered an idea of what is involved in getting X 4 to work on Lombards IMHO. > The way I proceed is to compile a web page with concrete help for those > problems I've managed to reduce to solutions. By "concrete" I mean something > along the line of "install the package X" including a version number if it > is necessary, with detailed instructions on how to configure and/or with > my own configuration files that are one click away. I am always improving > the page, and I am always available to reply to private requests of help. > This way of proceding has been proven quite successful in the last two > years; so successful that the page in question was scoring in the top five > of our sites for quite some time. Congratulations. I don't have time to compile such a page myself. Nor do I have the intention. My philosophy is to help people to learn help themselves. > I do not hunt for credits, I only hunt for happy people. Just like I do. Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and the DRI project
