Re: PowerPC bootdisks for potato release.

2000-02-16 Thread Brad Midgley
an important caveat: for all 3 booters in my cd image (bootx, yaboot, miboot) i specify root=1 in the kernel arguments. you'll probably want to remove that. (specifying root allows /linuxrc to be executed; the value '1' is used by linuxrc to determine that real-root-dev is backward endian, and lin

Re: More on Powerbook G3 install

2000-02-16 Thread Joel Klecker
At 01:03 -0600 2000-02-16, Jefferson Provost wrote: >On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >> I posted a URL to them not long ago: >> >> http://www.them.org/~drow/boot-floppies-1/ >> >> These are a bit old; I know for a fact the keyboard stuff is still >> broken on them. I'll try to make a

Re: Using Wintel to get PowerPC code

2000-02-16 Thread Josh Kuperman
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 06:34:33PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Josh Kuperman wrote: [lots of stuff deleted] > Can you use PPP from Debian? One of the nicest surprises for me in Debian is > that pon worked out-of-box, which I couldn't say about either of the PPP > utilities which came with L

miBoot and MPW

2000-02-16 Thread james
I'm currently beginning to experiment with miBoot. The first thing I noticed is that it comes with a binary CodeWarrior project file, which isn't readable by MPW nor can I figure out how to derive build instructions from it. It looks like I'm going to end up having to figure out everything, inclu

Mac-on-Linux

2000-02-16 Thread SIGWALT Frank
Dear Linux fans, There's a documentation (new release) for Mac-on-Linux Users at : http://www.ifrance.com/macpower/ Sincerely, Frank. " Faisons vivre nos différences "

Re: spontaneous reboot?

2000-02-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >has anyone else ever experienced spontaneous reboots like this? I have >only seen it when booting kernels with bootX but that occurs very >early in the boot process. I boot with yaboot 0.5. > >is there any other possible explanation?

Re: More on Powerbook G3 install

2000-02-16 Thread Jefferson Provost
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 03:19:36PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 04:39:21AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > And when *are* we going to see a set of 2.2.x floppies for ppc anyway? > > I posted a URL to them not long ago

Re: PowerPC bootdisks for potato release.

2000-02-16 Thread Brad Midgley
> I am beginning to think that the better option is a boot CD and a > second ISO format CD which is not bootable, once your booted you > remove the boot CD and use the binary CDs which are in ISO format. I > > sounds like a plan to me, comments? if you'd like, you can use the image i've been wor

Re: More on Powerbook G3 install

2000-02-16 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 03:19:36PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 04:39:21AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > am i the only one who thinks `archetecture not supported' should come > > with a `I don't care' button? (yeah yeah one of these days i'll start > > mucking with the

Re: PowerPC bootdisks for potato release.

2000-02-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 04:24:22PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The other possibility is the 'hybrid' ISO/HFS format -- will Macs boot that > or is it a no-go? > > The nice thing about this is that you'd be able to see the files on the CD > from MacOS and Linux equally without having to have

spontaneous reboot?

2000-02-16 Thread Ethan Benson
hi, I think i have just experienced a spontaneous reboot of my BlueG3 running 2.2.15pre3 from Ben's tree... the machine has been up for about 4 - 6 days (not sure) and this morning when i got up it was sitting in my OF bootmenu (which does not timeout) I cannot find anything in the logs that woul

tik / gaim wierdness

2000-02-16 Thread Logan Hall
Ok.. i have most things working now. but tik/gaim won't connect to aol. They say they are connecting but that they are waiting for reply, and that reply appears to never come. I didn't have this problem with linuxPPC, is the toc servers just having problems right now or is this somethign wrong w

Re: PowerPC bootdisks for potato release.

2000-02-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 08:23:56PM -0800, Brad Midgley wrote: > > The other possibility is the 'hybrid' ISO/HFS format -- will Macs boot that > > or is it a no-go? > > my experience is that new world macs' OF will see the iso side and fail to > boot because the iso driver is so poor. i haven't tri

Re: PowerPC bootdisks for potato release.

2000-02-16 Thread Brad Midgley
> The other possibility is the 'hybrid' ISO/HFS format -- will Macs boot that > or is it a no-go? my experience is that new world macs' OF will see the iso side and fail to boot because the iso driver is so poor. i haven't tried this recently with yaboot though. if there's a way to tell OF to try

Re: the G4 works great, trouble with usb mouse though

2000-02-16 Thread Alexander Guy
> i just finished intalling debian on a G4 and as im setting up > Xpmac, i realize that i have no /dev/usbmouse. when i try to > make it with MAKEDEV, it just doesnt work. it says that it > doesnt know how to make a usb device. ah! how do i make the > device? mknod /dev/usbmouse c 10 32