Re: bye bye debian list!
[22.11.2001 ° 10:03 Uhr] Individual . . --> >Hello, >I'll keep this short since it will probably interest no one :-) >A few months ago I installed LinuxPPC, was not satisfied, and then >installed Debian, and was satisfied. A few weeks ago I installed Mac OS >X, having reformatted my partitions. I see it as the best of both >worlds, with a twist. and if you get teary eyed, reminicing. . you can always try fink (darwin port of the debian package mngmt system) http://fink.sf.net sure, it could do with a few more packages. but waiting for (working on!, contributing!) fink .debs defiantely beats waiting to pay apple for updates. nk ][] [ http://f0.am ] [ foundation of aperiodic mesmerism []] ]
installing on 8500
ive managed to install potato on an old 8500, with only a few hitches. thanks to the list archive, most of the quirks seems to have been documented, but i thought it might be usefull to shed a bit more light on the networking problems it seems to share with the 7200. install method. bootX + ramdisk from macOS on 2nd hd. network debian install. editing the partition table always resulted in a kernel panic after writing (dont know why), but a reboot showed the disk partitioned properly, so i continued. using dhcp to configure the network setting on eth0 caused networking to fail (this seems to be a problem with MACE. chip revision for the 8500 is 9.64). even if network was configured again manually using the dialog, it stil failed. the only way to get around this was to exit to shell, bring eth0 down + set networking up manually. (reset networking) ash# ifconfig eth0 down ash# route del default (substitute required ip numbers) ash# if config eth0 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 ash# route add default gw 192.168.1.1 (check changes worked) ash# ifconfig -a ash# route -n after installing and configuring the base system, i added testing to the apt-sources list + got xfree86 4.1 working with both the framebuffer and ati drivers, so kde runs quite smoothly. hope this is usefull. ][] [ http://f0.am ] [foundation of advanced multicellularity []] ]
Re: installing on 8500
[28.01.2002 ° 11:22 Uhr] Michael Schmitz --> >> > editing the partition table always resulted in a kernel panic after writing >> > (dont know why), but a reboot showed the disk partitioned properly, so i >> > continued. >> >> Michael Shmittz / Tom Rini would love to use your computer >> to track down this problem. (/cocks ear to listen :-) > >I don't know who you're talking about... :-) On the other hand, I would >like to get my hands on any of the problematic hardware for testing. I >begin to suspect it's something with the Debian installer kernels only. unfortunately,. its not my hardware. i set up debian on a friends machine, which ill have access till tomorrow. any 'tests' you could suggest? i can try a few things if needed, as long as there arent magnets involved! nk ][] [ http://f0.am ] [fluid organic appliance mesmerism []] ]
sharing moziila profiles
hi, ive been trying to share a single profile between mozillas running on macOS9 + debian. the motivaiton issimple enough, to be able to have access to the same email, bookmarks + so on, on both the mac, and debian side of the divide. so far, no luck. i have the profile accessable to mozilla 0.9.8 (sid) symlinked to a foilder on a hfs partition. on the mac side (using the same veriosn of moz) things get messy. ive tried making aliases, new profiles, edit the Application Registry (cryptic guesswork) and other chicken waving,.. .. nothing. im not even sure it is possible, but defiantely seems like it should be! any suggestions?? thanks, nik ][] [ http://f0.am ] [foundation of applied mysticism []] ]
