Re: Got xmcd running

1999-09-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously C.M. Connelly wrote: > After installing that (much harder than it might have been, since > debian/remove-tmp is not set executable by default), Bah, 2.5-2 was supposed to fix this, apparently I made a mistake somewhere. I'll upload 2.5-3 shortly. > Try clicking on *any* radio button wi

Re: RS/6000

1999-09-13 Thread James D. Freels
How do you get to the OF prompt on machines that do not support the F8 function key to do so??? >} something, then from the OF, do: boot floppy:,\ZIMAGE -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. |Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | A | |

Re: MVME2301 motorola board

1999-09-13 Thread Matt Porter
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, GRAVE Xavier wrote: > I have a diskless mvme2301 board (powerPC 603, pci based), and I would > like to try linux as an alternative to vxWorks. I've heard about a > possible version. Can somebody give me any information about this task ? See http://master.debian.org/~porter

Re: RS/6000

1999-09-13 Thread David Welton
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 02:58:07PM -0600, Cort Dougan wrote: > I think this machine is a prep, not a chrp so you would need to dd the > prep image onto the floppy. What kernel were you trying? I've never tried > the system on one of these machines. > } > The problem is that the machine doesn't s

Re: RS/6000

1999-09-13 Thread Cort Dougan
I think this machine is a prep, not a chrp so you would need to dd the prep image onto the floppy. What kernel were you trying? I've never tried the system on one of these machines. } > The problem is that the machine doesn't seem to recognize the zImage } > floppy as a valid boot disk. Multiple

Re: Linux (or other free OS) on RS/6000-MCA hardware

1999-09-13 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 11:42:16AM -0700, Eric Dobbs wrote: > >From http://www.crs4.it/HTML/crs4doc/crs4guide_9.html, describing some old > workstations of theirs: > > IBM 7012 mod. 320H > Desktop workstations ... with a multi-chip processor board called SGR 2532, > that is Second Generation Risc

Kernel hacking

1999-09-13 Thread David Welton
So I've been taking some random stabs at the kernel running on this thing (the RS6000), and I'm wondering what lists I should be on to get informed about what the status of things is, what is happening, etc.. I noticed, for instance, that 2.3.18 doesn't compile out of the box. Thanks, -- David N.

MVME2301 motorola board

1999-09-13 Thread GRAVE Xavier
Hi all, I have a diskless mvme2301 board (powerPC 603, pci based), and I would like to try linux as an alternative to vxWorks. I've heard about a possible version. Can somebody give me any information about this task ? Thanks in advance, xavier Xavier Grave [EMAIL PROTECTED] 33 (0) 1 69 15 79

Re: system working again...

1999-09-13 Thread Shuichi OONO
At Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:27:47 -0400 (EDT), Josh Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 4. while I'm at t, does anyone have any experience with using mule (japanese > in particular) with emacs, and getting japanese fonts set up with debian? are > there packages for this that I could use? For question

Re: system working again...

1999-09-13 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> Building Dependency Tree... > Package emacs has no available version, but exists in the database. > This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and > never uploaded, or that it is an obsolete package. > E: Package emacs has no installation candidate The database(s) depen

system working again...

1999-09-13 Thread Josh Huber
Hey guys, I got my system up and running again... the problem I was having was that he "currrent" base tar file is screwed, so I checked the list archive and found a message from matt porter saying exactly that -- the current .tgz was broken. Matt porter's .tgz file works much better: http://mas