Re: New kernel packages available - PLEASE test!

2000-02-09 Thread Joel Klecker
At 16:08 -0500 2000-02-09, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >There's a new ppc boot floppies in incoming if anyone wants to try >them. I really doubt they can be worse than what we have in the >archive now. The arch check is still broken. The first diff fixes that. The second diff uses the `fdisk' wrappe

random mol 603e kernel questions

2000-02-09 Thread pgf
Hi. I would like to run mac-on-linux, but I have a 603e and apparently need a specially patched kernel in order to run it. The patches that came with the mol package unfortunately don't apply to the kernel sources that are available for debian. For that matter, the last time I tried the kernel I c

Re: New kernel packages available - PLEASE test!

2000-02-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 05:09:00PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > err, maybe i misunderstood, but the kernel-image source package only contains > the patches, and will source depend on kernel-source-version to get the full > kernel. Ooops, you're right. I consider kernel-patch preferable to kernel-i

Re: mpg123 endianness

2000-02-09 Thread christian mock
> > From time to time (every few months) I play MP3 files. As you can probably > guess, it no longer works (again). It looks like every few months, someone > changes the code, because sometimes the mpg123 deb works fine, and sometimes > it > doesn't. > > Even --8bit gives the same noise, so it m

Re: Bug#57121: [Re: w3m]

2000-02-09 Thread Fumitoshi UKAI
Hi, At Tue, 08 Feb 2000 10:36:14 -0800, C.M. Connelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following message from Robert Ramiega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> contains > a patch to force w3m to use the libgc source that is included in the source > package. With this patch, w3m compiles and runs! Thank you

Re: dselect tutorial

2000-02-09 Thread Logan Hall
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 10:00:44AM -0700, Logan Hall wrote: > > Has dselect changed much? or am i safe getting the slink dselect tutorial? > > Also can any body tell me how dselect goes about installing the packages > > from > > the ftp site over ppp? Bec

Re: dselect tutorial

2000-02-09 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 10:00:44AM -0700, Logan Hall wrote: > Has dselect changed much? or am i safe getting the slink dselect tutorial? > Also can any body tell me how dselect goes about installing the packages from > the ftp site over ppp? Because i would like to let it run over night while i >

dselect tutorial

2000-02-09 Thread Logan Hall
Has dselect changed much? or am i safe getting the slink dselect tutorial? Also can any body tell me how dselect goes about installing the packages from the ftp site over ppp? Because i would like to let it run over night while i am sleeping (so i can get up for class tomarrow), but the tutorial m

Need Help installing on PowerMac downloading to PC

2000-02-09 Thread Josh Kuperman
At home I have a PowerMac 6500/300 with a CD, Modem and zip drive. At work I have a PC with a partial T1 connection, CD-RW and a zip drive. Because Potato looks to be the first official PowerMac supported release I can't really buy a CD until one is available. I was able to download most of the bas

swap partitions

2000-02-09 Thread Logan Hall
Hi- I now have the base system booting but the base installer appears to have not changed the base /etc/fstab to include my swap partitions. I activated them in the installer though. Could some body please send me a example line for a swap partition as i can not remember for the life of me what t

Re: confused by yaboot

2000-02-09 Thread Jason M Varner
John Murden wrote: > I have aquired yaboot, but for the life of me can not figure what it is that > I'm supposed to actually do with it. Any help would be MUCH appreciated... > > >> I'm having the same difficulties trying to install on an iBook running OS > >> 8.6. And I'm using BootX 1.2b3. > >

Re: New kernel packages available - PLEASE test!

2000-02-09 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 10:49:50AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 09:39:29AM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > > In working on the boot floppies code, I finally sat down and cleaned up > > > the > > > kernel packages for powerpc. I've made a set of > > > kernel-patch-2

Re: New kernel packages available - PLEASE test!

2000-02-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 09:39:29AM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > In working on the boot floppies code, I finally sat down and cleaned up the > > kernel packages for powerpc. I've made a set of kernel-patch-2.2.14-powerpc > > Why not the kernel-image-xxx package? kernel-patch is obsolete. The

Re: confused by yaboot

2000-02-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 08:42:49AM -0500, John Murden wrote: > I have aquired yaboot, but for the life of me can not figure what it is that > I'm supposed to actually do with it. Any help would be MUCH appreciated... /me really needs to write that yaboot howto... anyone have any motivation syrup?

Re: mpg123 endianness

2000-02-09 Thread Kevin Puetz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I just built the xmms source deb (from woody) and it plays MP3's > perfectly on my Powermac 7300, with the OSS drivers. Ciao, > Weird. Both the xmms from potato (0.9.5.1-4) and the one from woody > (1.0.1-1) sometimes work, and sometimes don't. Most of the times they > do

confused by yaboot

2000-02-09 Thread John Murden
I have aquired yaboot, but for the life of me can not figure what it is that I'm supposed to actually do with it. Any help would be MUCH appreciated... >> I'm having the same difficulties trying to install on an iBook running OS >> 8.6. And I'm using BootX 1.2b3. > > On the ibook, you should use

Re: mpg123 endianness

2000-02-09 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Renaud Dreyer wrote: > I just built the xmms source deb (from woody) and it plays MP3's > perfectly on my Powermac 7300, with the OSS drivers. Ciao, Weird. Both the xmms from potato (0.9.5.1-4) and the one from woody (1.0.1-1) sometimes work, and sometimes don't. Most of the ti

Re: mpg123 endianness

2000-02-09 Thread Renaud Dreyer
I just built the xmms source deb (from woody) and it plays MP3's perfectly on my Powermac 7300, with the OSS drivers. Ciao, Renaud > From time to time (every few months) I play MP3 files. As you can probably > guess, it no longer works (again). It looks like every few months, someone

SCSI: aborting...

2000-02-09 Thread Olivier Le Monnier
hi everyone ! working in french education, I had a Netscape Proxy working on AIX/PPC. I want to put a Squid/Debian GNU Linux on it. Got a boot.bin on a tftp server serving the image booting the PPC via the Open firmware v.1.2 RM 06. But Linux fails booting on this message : ncr53

mpg123 endianness

2000-02-09 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
>From time to time (every few months) I play MP3 files. As you can probably guess, it no longer works (again). It looks like every few months, someone changes the code, because sometimes the mpg123 deb works fine, and sometimes it doesn't. Even --8bit gives the same noise, so it must be mpg123 th

Re: booting the base system.

2000-02-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, Feb 8, 2000, Logan Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ok. I just installed the base system. i ran through the installer and did >everything except the install kernel and modules step. I manualy installed >the modules and System.map from my previous LinuxPPC install. But when i boot >the

telnet problem

2000-02-09 Thread GRAVE Xavier
Hi all, I'm trying to telnet to a ppc603e board (MVME 2301) and I get the following error : >telnet ipnpwpc3 >Trying 192.168.120.38... >Connected to ipnpwpc3. >Escape character is '^]'. >telnetd: getpty: Permission denied >. >Connection closed by foreign host. Did someone already meet this probl

Re: New kernel packages available - PLEASE test!

2000-02-09 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> In working on the boot floppies code, I finally sat down and cleaned up the > kernel packages for powerpc. I've made a set of kernel-patch-2.2.14-powerpc Why not the kernel-image-xxx package? kernel-patch is obsolete. The control with the kernel-image package is much better then with the kernel

VERY preliminary boot floppies available for testing

2000-02-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
... at http://www.them.org/~drow/boot-floppies-1 (or www.perl.sh, or drow.res.cmu.edu if my DNS is being evil). I don't want bug reports on these per se, but I thought I should get them out to be looked at. Keyboard handling is almost guaranteed to be broken; booting them is an indefinite procedu

Bug#57600: PowerPC port of tkstep8.0 has broken dependencies, and breaks many tk applications

2000-02-09 Thread Renaud Dreyer
Package: tkstep8.0 Version: 8.0p2-3.4 Severity: critical [I'm sending this again as I now realize the original report had no subject!] There's a problem in the powerpc port of the tkstep8.0_8.0p2-3.4 package: While libtkstep8.0.so from the i386 package is linked with all of its dependent librari

booting the base system.

2000-02-09 Thread Logan Hall
Ok. I just installed the base system. i ran through the installer and did everything except the install kernel and modules step. I manualy installed the modules and System.map from my previous LinuxPPC install. But when i boot the base system i run into trouble. It gets past the fsck but it lo

Re: booting from openfirmware

2000-02-09 Thread Nelson Abramson
Logan Hall wrote: > > You could probably use tome viewer (or whatever mosX version it would be) > > to just > > extract those files... > > Hmm.. now i just need to get the installer. I hope it comes with macos X > client because i can aford to buy that. > IIRC, there isn't going to be a client

Re: booting from openfirmware

2000-02-09 Thread Logan Hall
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Nelson Abramson wrote: > Logan Hall wrote: > > > > The Apple 875 card doesn't have OF drivers in it by default. But I > > > remember seeing an Apple-made flasher that adds those. I think it's > > > included in the MacOS X Server installer. > > > > Cool. Is there a way to inst

Re: booting from openfirmware

2000-02-09 Thread Nelson Abramson
Logan Hall wrote: > > The Apple 875 card doesn't have OF drivers in it by default. But I > > remember seeing an Apple-made flasher that adds those. I think it's > > included in the MacOS X Server installer. > > Cool. Is there a way to install it with out MacOS X server? Will it be > included wit

Re: New kernel packages available - PLEASE test!

2000-02-09 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
While you were at it were you able to make changes necessary to properly install on a PPC that just needs the kernel image dd'd to the PReP boot partition? Respectfully, Jeremy T. Bouse UnderGrid Network Services, LLC Daniel Jacobowitz was said to been seen saying

Re: booting from openfirmware

2000-02-09 Thread BenH
On Tue, Feb 8, 2000, Logan Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Cool. Is there a way to install it with out MacOS X server? Will it be >included with MacOS X Client do you think? I don't know.

Re: booting from openfirmware

2000-02-09 Thread Logan Hall
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2000, Logan Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I have run quik on my Linux partition and using some examples i found in the > >FAQ-O-MATIC i set my boot variables (i don't have them infront of me but this > >is as close as i can

New kernel packages available - PLEASE test!

2000-02-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
In working on the boot floppies code, I finally sat down and cleaned up the kernel packages for powerpc. I've made a set of kernel-patch-2.2.14-powerpc packages, with images for chrp, prep, and pmac (no common - I need to fix make-kpkg first, it won't build that subarch right now). I'd really app

Re: netboot-capable pmacs (was Re: booting from openfirmware)

2000-02-09 Thread BenH
On Tue, Feb 8, 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Since you've done some netbooting, i figured i'd ask ... do you know what >Mac models can be successfully booted from the network? Apple says only >NewWorld macs, but a) that's for OS X's NetBoot Server b) it's Apple, >they lie c) obviously there