booting, installing.. etc

1999-04-20 Thread Calle Lidström
Hey! I just wanted so say hey cause i just joined the list. Im a system manager living in sweden, working at a newsagency. Bsdi, freebsd, linuxppc, debian and solaris-bofh. :) I thought i should try out how debianppc i working.. Is there any good installation docs anywhere? /calle -- System Man

Re: My rs/6000

1999-04-20 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > And what about a IBM rs/6000 250? > Is possible to install Debian Linux in such machine? With XWindow? > I'm wondering because I have a lot of these machines here at school. > Thank you, Paulo Henrique No,

RE: Boot disks for PowerPC

1999-04-20 Thread Aaron Burt \(Volt Computer\)
> From: Hartmut Koptein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > The c-files should compile all cleanly. But i fails horribly for makeing > the floppy-images. The binaries are to big for 1440 floppies. FYI, over in LinuxPPC land, the assumption is 2880 floppies. I use TFTP instead. But 1.44 would be nice o

Re: Any suggestions for reviving a hosed bash?

1999-04-20 Thread luther sven
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 03:22:22PM +0300, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, luther sven wrote: > > >I experienced the same problem yesterday, and copying the old libreadlineg2 > >libs from my second root partition solved the problem. > >

Re: My rs/6000

1999-04-20 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
Jacopo Silva wrote: > > I have access to a IBM rs/6000 43P /140 and I cannot boot it in any way. I > tried tens of kernel images, but no results. > > Is there anyone that knows how to solve my problem? Is there anyone that > booted a linux kernel on the same machine? > > Thanks, > > Jacopo The

Re: Any suggestions for reviving a hosed bash?

1999-04-20 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, luther sven wrote: >I experienced the same problem yesterday, and copying the old libreadlineg2 >libs from my second root partition solved the problem. > >Are you saying that i can now safely install the new libreadlineg2 packages ? basica

Re: Any suggestions for reviving a hosed bash?

1999-04-20 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> Are you saying that i can now safely install the new libreadlineg2 packages ? No; extract the new bash with dpkg -x bashx.deb . and copy it to /bin. After that, you can update cleanly. Bye, Hartmut PS: is the apus.config ok ?

Re: Any suggestions for reviving a hosed bash?

1999-04-20 Thread luther sven
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 02:56:29PM +0300, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Mr. Christopher F. Miller wrote: > >On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:44:14PM -0800, Rob Clark wrote: > > > >I found the easiest way was to untar a new base2.tgz > >onto

Re: Thanks for the docs! (WAS -- Re: Boot disks for PowerPC)

1999-04-20 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> Might I suggest that before this doc gets used in any official sense a few > more eyeballs go over it and a few people do some testing and write a bit > more on what to do after the base system is setup. I wrote it from memory > and information off this list, I think it could use some work. > >

Re: Boot disks for PowerPC

1999-04-20 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> The machine is a PReP machine. I havent yet been able to do > anything significant with it because I have yet to finish installing the > cross-compiler that is required for compiling the boot-flopies package. > I'll let you know how things go. > > What is the pointerize package for?

My rs/6000

1999-04-20 Thread Jacopo Silva
I have access to a IBM rs/6000 43P /140 and I cannot boot it in any way. I tried tens of kernel images, but no results. Is there anyone that knows how to solve my problem? Is there anyone that booted a linux kernel on the same machine? Thanks, Jacopo

boot-floppies-apr-17.tar.gz

1999-04-20 Thread Matt Porter
I've getting real close to working PReP boot images now. It seems as though a lot of things are broken right now in this package. The biggest issue right now is that dbootstrap can't identify my architecture. In fact, parsefile() doesn't even seem to properly parse /proc/cpuinfo. How much has t