Re: Can Debian run in IMacs?

1999-03-17 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Does LinuxPPC is Debian based? I think that it is RH based. :( Tanks, Paulo Henrique Quoting Lucio Rossi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Well there is a distribution of linux for PPC macintoshes. You can find more > info on it at http://www.linuxppc.org > They have a specific IMac i

IMacs and Debian. :)

1999-03-17 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, my teacher has an IMac and he is interested in installing Linux. As a happy PC and Sparc Debian user I'm wondering if Debian already run in IMac computers. Any hints? Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique

Re: installing Debian on iMac

1999-03-17 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 05:07:18PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > Not sure if this is a bad iDea ... I assume it is recommended to > install LinuxPPC first? Is the iMac network chip supported by the > LinuxPPC kernel? Installing LinuxPPC first is iffy; the transition is a little tricky, but since

installing Debian on iMac

1999-03-17 Thread Matthias Klose
Not sure if this is a bad iDea ... I assume it is recommended to install LinuxPPC first? Is the iMac network chip supported by the LinuxPPC kernel? Thanks, Matthias Another question: Currenty there are two HFS+ partitions on the disk. Is there a way to keep the first partition and delete the seco

stability of powerpc?

1999-03-17 Thread Jonathan P Tomer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i have a powerpc-notebook-using friend and i'd like to convince her to use debian. i noticed that the powerpc distribution is in sid, though... how functional is it? (also, will she be tracking unstable by definition of sid?) tia, - --phouchg "Reason

Re: kernel

1999-03-17 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Hartmut Koptein wrote: >The vger tree is much, much better! :-) So I hear all the time, I am considering moving to vger myself again (last I used vger was 2.1.24) but getting ~12MBs does not make my phone bill any happier looking forward t

Re: new glibc, egcs, etc.

1999-03-17 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 03:26:08PM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > What packages do you suggest I try dealing with? > > Please work on: > > - linpopup_0.9.5-1 (or newer) > This is an 'harddisk-eater' and needs an -fsigned-char in > the Makefile. > - libgnomeui.so > Must be rebuild

Re: kernel

1999-03-17 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> >> having recently switched to ppc, i have some questions. > >> > >> Is the standard "Linus" kernel supposed to compile ? > > > >No, the 'standard' kernel is currently broken for powerpc. > >2.2.0 and 2.2.1 compiles fine, but 2.2.2 and 2.2.3 are shittig! > > I had gotten the kernel source from

Re: kernel

1999-03-17 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Hartmut Koptein wrote: >> having recently switched to ppc, i have some questions. >> >> Is the standard "Linus" kernel supposed to compile ? > >No, the 'standard' kernel is currently broken for powerpc. >2.2.0 and 2.2.1 compiles fine, but 2.

Re: new glibc, egcs, etc.

1999-03-17 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Hartmut Koptein wrote: >A note for 'rebuilds': >Packages can be compiled and uploaded (without any changes) >also when there isn't a new version available. To do this you >add in debian/changelog an new entry and increment the >'debian' vers

Re: new glibc, egcs, etc.

1999-03-17 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > - linpopup_0.9.5-1 (or newer) >This is an 'harddisk-eater' and needs an -fsigned-char in >the Makefile. MY GOD! What is this program? 177 MBs for the readme_doc.h file? Something is REALLY wrong here. I will