Re: Amiga looking for an OS

2014-04-24 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Gayle Lee Fairless dixit: > Gentlemen, > >I was looking for the most current Debian build for an Amiga 2000HD > with a G-Force 030 board. Well, it also has a 386 bridgeboard, but I > guess that doesn't matter? I think so. An 030 may be a problem with current kernel

Amiga looking for an OS ( versus Re: hardware looking for a home)

2014-04-23 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
l the information. I found references to potato and etch. I'm aware that potato is earlier than etch. It looks like etch is available? I am able to download an iso file onto my Windows laptop and to burn a DVD. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Sincerely, (Mr.)

Re: etch-m68k netinst CD ?

2011-01-31 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/31/2011 2:55 AM, Laurent Vivier wrote: > Hi, > > thank you for this complete answer. > > I found the ISO here: > > http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/d-i/m68k/cds/daily/debian-etch-m68k-m68k-netinst.iso > > and did a bootable one here: > > ht

July 10th General Meeting program for Huntsville PC Users Group

2010-06-13 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Jul 10 Dan Satterfield will talk about weather models and the history of weather prediction using computers. Visitors Welcome. http://www.hpcug.com/ First Tuesday - Computer Aided Investing SIG 2:00-3:30 PM. Senior Center, 2200 Drake Ave. Second Tuesday - Hardware SIG 6:30 PM Grace Lutheran

Re: g++-4.4 failings

2010-04-25 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/25/2010 8:57 PM, fth...@telegraphics.com.au wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > >> [68080] is a Motorola microprocessor chip typically found in Amiga >> computers and others. > > Are you sur

Re: g++-4.4 failings

2010-04-25 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/25/2010 8:54 AM, Kolbjørn Barmen wrote: > On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > > Pardon my ignorance - what is m68080? > > -- kolla > > It is a Motorola microprocessor chip typically found in Amiga computers and others. I have a

Re: Etch install on A1200. Floating point exception

2008-06-04 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
However I'm unable to mount initrd using vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-amiga so using > > this older kernel for installation is not an option. > > Make me wonder if your controller isn't enabled or is a module in > 2.6.24, while being built-in in 2.6.18. Although from looking at the >

Re: Creating Amiga boot diskettes

2006-02-04 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:53:31PM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: How easy is it to upgrade the 68k sarge to a 2.6 kernel? I noticed on another Debian mailing list that 2.6.15 is being prepared for Amiga. Not quite right, I uploaded new kernel

Re: Creating Amiga boot diskettes

2006-02-02 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
mmand. I just recently got access to Martin Kroft's book The Debian System. I definitely intend to study that book! I'm interested in what Debian will do with the Ariadne Internet card, too. I may yet learn some networking! -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No

Re: Creating Amiga boot diskettes

2006-01-30 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
ave a few Apple II systems. Thanks for any reminders, hints, or encouragement! -- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Fri Jun 24 12:17:14 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Creating Amiga boot diskettes

2006-01-29 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
s! --Lance ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:37:28AM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: Is there a way to create an Amiga diskette that will boot into Amiga sarge installation CDROM's? I've lost my boot drive but could possibly boot into the CDROM's to inst

Creating Amiga boot diskettes

2006-01-17 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Is there a way to create an Amiga diskette that will boot into Amiga sarge installation CDROM's? I've lost my boot drive but could possibly boot into the CDROM's to install Debian GNU/Linux on an external SCSI drive, I hope. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Amiga and Sarge: any hope to booting off CDROMs

2005-10-11 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
edure see it? I'm typing on an unused computer at a group meeting so please pardon the off-the-top-of-the-head composition! I'm also interested in using a 2.6 kernel if I can. Thanks! (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- To UNSUBSC

Re: linux-image-2.6.12 (previously know as kernel-image)

2005-08-10 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
powering up. Unfortunately, it doesn't see the CDROM drive as a boot device! (I've been looking thru my manuals and Amiga 3.1 installation floppies for a way to boot off the CDROM drive. That's how I found the quick boot screen on power up.) Thank you for any tips and stuff that I&#x