Fw: Woody install docs and Nubus

[Joel Stutman]

----- Original Message ----- From: "Derrik Pates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Joel Stutman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:20 AM Subject: Re: Woody install docs and Nubus > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:45:13AM -0500, Joel Stutman wrote: > > I had mkLinux up on my 7100/66 (about a year ago), it worked, but very > > buggy, and I didn't have time to play with it.  From time to time I review > > the LINUX world to see what's happenning, and, last week,  I found your note > > mentioning a way to get Woody up on your 6100, and spent the weekend getting > > potato 2.2 r5 up using the ram disk mach kernel and 3 downloaded cd-images. > > I really wanted woody, but couldn't decide between the stable, unstable, > > etc. > > You don't have to make that choice right off the bat - initially, you > just install Potato (which is presently aka stable), and you can upgrade > to testing/frozen or unstable later. > > > Well, the result with potato is: > >     I don't have floppy drivers, > > You don't have floppy drivers where? In Linux? The kernel does have > support for the SWIM3 floppy controller. MacOS should as well. > > >     I don't have a printer driver for hp deskwriter driver, > > Hm. Don't know about this one. > > >     I can't get X working  because > >         I'm missing fbdev (graphics driver) in xF86config, and > >         I don't know what else yet. > > What video chipset is your 7100 outfitted with? I haven't had success > with X on the 6100s, but that seems to be due to deficiencies in the > ArielII framebuffer used in those systems. > I have the HPV nubus video card ".Built in VRAM Video" [Card ID 96 by Apple Computer] [version unavailable - probably 0.0] - This from Apple system [9.06] profiler.  Where can I find the chipset name?...By the way,  MKLinux's KDE worked (slow as molasses in the winter), but it worked.  In the install routine, I might have answered a question incorrectly....The installation documentation re powermacs is ugly.   Thanks, Derek, I am going to take your suggestion and re-install potato, and when I get to defining the dislay, I'll take some serious notes.   Joel > > Could you take a moment to send me the site name from which you obtained the > > install-disk-images?  I hope you have some sort of log as to what sites you > > went to and what you downloaded. > > http://nubus-pmac.sf.net has install images for Potato (kernel + ramdisk > image wrapped into one file). Just look under the "Kernels with > Installers" heading. > > -- > Derrik Pates      |   Sysadmin, Douglas School   |    #linuxOS on EFnet > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |     District (dsdk12.net)    |    #linuxOS on OPN