Re: Installation of X on Debian-ppc

1998-11-22 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 09:56:13PM +, Georg Bauer wrote: > Hi! > > Any hints on above topic? I do have debian-ppc up and running (sort of), > most things run fine. But after installing xbase and xserver-fbdev, I > still don't have something like startx or xinit, and there is no > XF86config-sc

Re: apt 0.19 under debian-ppc

1998-11-22 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 09:58:04PM +, Georg Bauer wrote: > Hi! > > Above program makes trouble on my system: when updating the package cache, > the system segfaults. Any known reason or any idea where to look for a > solution? It is a bit awkward to install all packages by hand, if you are > u

Installation of X on Debian-ppc

1998-11-22 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! Any hints on above topic? I do have debian-ppc up and running (sort of), most things run fine. But after installing xbase and xserver-fbdev, I still don't have something like startx or xinit, and there is no XF86config-script. Is this in another package that I am just to stupid to find, or do

apt 0.19 under debian-ppc

1998-11-22 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! Above program makes trouble on my system: when updating the package cache, the system segfaults. Any known reason or any idea where to look for a solution? It is a bit awkward to install all packages by hand, if you are used to apt ;-) bye, Georg -- http://www.westfalen.de/hugo/

Re: VFS: Unable to mount...

1998-11-22 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 01:02:11PM -0500, kolbo wrote: > 5.next...quik -r /debian (*got warning, bootable partition before /dev/sda6) > > 6.i rebooted the system into macos, and tried using bootvars to boot...i set > my > boot dev to scsi-int/sda6...needless to say, it didn't boot (*note that i'm

VFS: Unable to mount...

1998-11-22 Thread kolbo
good day eh. i'll preface this message by saying that i'm relatively new to linux. i've been running linuxppc4.0 on a powermac 8600/300 for about 4 months. i've been reading up on debian, and it seems like a really good project (good goals...good implementation). however, i've been trying to insta

Info on installing debian ppc

1998-11-22 Thread Domenico Ventura
Excuse me, but I don't speak english very well. I have the files ramdisk.image.gz, base2_1.tgz and BootX; how can I install debian on my G3/233 ? Thanks to all, Domenico

Re: debian-powerpc in sid, slink or potato ?

1998-11-22 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 11:24:48PM -0500, Josh Huber wrote: > On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > > > i have seen that debian-ppc has been "frozen", that means that the > > > symlinks > > > from slink to sid has been moved to potato. > > > > Nope! Debian-PowerPc is not frozen. We wil

Re: debian-powerpc in sid, slink or potato ?

1998-11-22 Thread Josh Huber
On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > i have seen that debian-ppc has been "frozen", that means that the symlinks > > from slink to sid has been moved to potato. > > Nope! Debian-PowerPc is not frozen. We will release in April or May. > > > Set your mirror to 'unstable' and you have n