Re: serial port screw up

1999-07-27 Thread Jeramy Smith
Ah, I thought you meant hardware upgrade, My apologies. - Original Message - From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jeramy B Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian GNU/Linux PPC ; Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 3:27 AM Subject: Re: serial port screw up > On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Jera

Re: Problems with Debian-based minimal rootfs

1999-07-27 Thread Matt Porter
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:05:38PM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: > My guess would be that the NSS modules aren't on your rootfs. > Particularly /lib/libnss_files* and /etc/nsswitch.conf. That was it! I just had to modify nsswitch.conf to use only file

Linux on IBM RS/6000 43P - Help!

1999-07-27 Thread Alberto Varesio
Hallo, I'm trying to get in touch with someone that HAS done this. I know there should be at least one out there! I also know many are trying ... let's build some sort of community. I'm trying to install Linux on an IBM RS/6000 model 43P @ 100Mhz. I've been able to install LinuxPPC R4. Now I want

Re: serial port screw up

1999-07-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Jeramy B Smith wrote: > What was your upgrade? Possible resource conflict? When the kernel talks to apt-get update & upgrade, of course :-) > the conflicting device you get garbage maybe? > > - Original Message - > From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: D

Re: Problems with Debian-based minimal rootfs

1999-07-27 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:05:38PM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: > Hi, > > I am building a minimal rootfs that will loads as a large ramdisk when > booting some nodes on a clustered system. I'm basically pulling pieces by > hand from a working PowerPC potato system as each node is PowerPC-based. > I

Problems with Debian-based minimal rootfs

1999-07-27 Thread Matt Porter
Hi, I am building a minimal rootfs that will loads as a large ramdisk when booting some nodes on a clustered system. I'm basically pulling pieces by hand from a working PowerPC potato system as each node is PowerPC-based. I only have the need to allow serial login and networking (rshd etc) so I'v