Re: booting 8500 with blank disk (was Re: Unidentified subject!)

2000-03-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 03:43:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You can use dd with (the data fork of) a MacOS DiskCopy image, as long > as it was created as a read/write image (not sure if read-only works; > read-only compressed definitely doesn't). I've checked. You can also > use plain bi

Re: VERY preliminary boot floppies available for testing

2000-03-02 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 04:16:49PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Also: I was getting weird 'exec format errors' or some such when > trying to run executables on the hard drive chrooted. When I > tried running them non-chrooted, the kernel tried feeding binaries > to /bin/sh. And finally, by d

Re: VERY preliminary boot floppies available for testing

2000-03-02 Thread james
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 01:34:26PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Actually, the kernel and modules are both 2.2.15pre3. I just kept the > package version at 2.2.14 for simplicity. I see. Well, that explains why insmods weren't getting warnings. Busybox modprobe doesn't seem to notice or care

Re: booting 8500 with blank disk (was Re: Unidentified subject!)

2000-03-02 Thread james
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 12:15:23PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > I'm not sure you can use dd with a MacOS DiskCopy image, I think they > contain a header. Also, miBoot need to be configured via ResEdit on > MacOS. This will change, but the current version of miBoot was mostly > made for bo

Unidentified subject!

2000-03-02 Thread Kevin Puetz
Subject: Re: Mozilla M14 build candidate available In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Mar 2000 10:52:40 CST." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii sheesh, correction #2! I need to proofread bett

Re: VERY preliminary boot floppies available for testing

2000-03-02 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 01:29:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 02:37:40AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > Success reports welcomed but not expected. Failure reports only if they are > > particularly entertaining. Expect more in the days to come. > > I tried inst

Re: VERY preliminary boot floppies available for testing

2000-03-02 Thread james
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 02:37:40AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Success reports welcomed but not expected. Failure reports only if they are > particularly entertaining. Expect more in the days to come. I tried installing this, along with the root.bin from: http://web.espy.org/ftp/debian/r

Mozilla M14 build candidate available

2000-03-02 Thread Kevin Puetz
I messed up the subject last time I sent this out and at least one list bounced it - oops. Sorry about the extra posting to anyone who gets a dup Note: could the kind person who Cc'ed the MkLInux list for me before do so again? I'm not on that list and it doesn't let non-subscribers post...

Re: /etc/X11/Xmodmap re-revisited

2000-03-02 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > PReP takes a PS/2 keyboard > PowerMac takes an ADB keyboard > CHRP takes a PS/2 or ADB keyboard > APUS takes an Amiga keyboard And some PowerMac clones (those made by Power Computing) can also use PS/2 keyboards.

Re: initial xserver set up and Xclaim VR card - TV tuner

2000-03-02 Thread Josh Kuperman
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 05:46:08PM -0500, Nelson Abramson wrote: > Josh Kuperman wrote: > > I really can't tell if things are working or not because I haven't got > > X going. I installed xserver-common, xdm, and a lot of X stuff. I am > > booting through BootX. If I check the no video drivers box

Re: Cross Compiling x86 -> ppc ?

2000-03-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
Sven LUTHER wrote: > > I have installed binutils-multiarch and dpkg-cross, but haven't found > > actual cross compilers. > > beware, latest binutils-multiarch (at least on ppc) will not permit you to > build 2.2.10 kernels. Thanks, but I've only installed it on the Athlon (no intention to build

Unidentified subject!

2000-03-02 Thread Kevin Puetz
Subject: Mozilla M14 build candidate available Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Note: could the kind person who Cc'ed the MkLInux list for me before do so again? I'm not on that list and it doesn't let non-subscribers post... Mozilla M14 for Linux/PowerPC is n

Re: Storm Linux 2000

2000-03-02 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 01:35:50PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Sven LUTHER wrote: > > my question was more what do you provide more than what is already in > > debian ? > > Good frontend for apt (soon anyway, right now it's a better dselect), > graphical install, system administra

Re: /etc/X11/Xmodmap re-revisited

2000-03-02 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 01:36:07PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 06:00:16PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > [debian-x: I'm following up a thread on -powerpc] > > > > > > Actually, I've decided to do the sensible (?) thing

Re: /etc/X11/Xmodmap re-revisited

2000-03-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 06:00:16PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > [debian-x: I'm following up a thread on -powerpc] > > > > Actually, I've decided to do the sensible (?) thing and identify the > > keycodes by keyboard model rather than the machine archi

Re: Storm Linux 2000

2000-03-02 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Sven LUTHER wrote: > my question was more what do you provide more than what is already in debian ? Good frontend for apt (soon anyway, right now it's a better dselect), graphical install, system administration software. All stuff I want in woody :) > So what are the causes of problems

Re: /etc/X11/Xmodmap re-revisited

2000-03-02 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 12:38:09PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > If you use XF68_FBDev with XKB disabled, it will ask the kernel for the > mapping > keycode/keysym, and it'll work automagically with whatever type of keyboard > you > have. So user space programs do not have to know about a

Re: /etc/X11/Xmodmap re-revisited

2000-03-02 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 06:00:16PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > [debian-x: I'm following up a thread on -powerpc] > > Actually, I've decided to do the sensible (?) thing and identify the > keycodes by keyboard model rather than the machine architecture. One way > or another you can probably m

Re: Cross Compiling x86 -> ppc ?

2000-03-02 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 05:55:32PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > I have installed potato on both a PowerPC and Athlon machine. > > As the latter is about ten times better WRT disk space and compilation times, > it would be nice if I could cross-compile ppc stuff on it. Mainly kernels and > g

Re: /etc/X11/Xmodmap re-revisited

2000-03-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, Mar 2, 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So we need to have this fixed in a way or another. My idea is basically >> to extend the mecanism used for x86 to all archs instead of just failing >> compile, and leave the exceptional conversion to ADB keycodes for >> powermac

Re: Storm Linux 2000

2000-03-02 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 09:25:25PM -0800, Kevin Teague wrote: > > > A PowerPC version of Storm Linux would be the coolest, but I'm afraid we > > > don't have anything like that in the works right now. > > > > > > > What would be the problem with a powerpc version ? once potato ships, ppc > > will

Re: /etc/X11/Xmodmap re-revisited

2000-03-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, Mar 2, 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'll see with the maintainer if this can be changed to simply use PC > >> keycodes all the time on all archs _except_ when we are running on a > >> PowerMac (and this will be

Re: /etc/X11/Xmodmap re-revisited

2000-03-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, Mar 2, 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'll see with the maintainer if this can be changed to simply use PC >> keycodes all the time on all archs _except_ when we are running on a >> PowerMac (and this will be checked at runtime and not compile time). > >No!!! Been t

Re: /etc/X11/Xmodmap re-revisited

2000-03-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, BenH wrote: > On Wed, Mar 1, 2000, Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Actually, I've decided to do the sensible (?) thing and identify the > >keycodes by keyboard model rather than the machine architecture. One way > >or another you can probably manage to plug a PC

Re: /etc/X11/Xmodmap re-revisited

2000-03-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Tom Rini wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 06:00:16PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > [debian-x: I'm following up a thread on -powerpc] > > > > Actually, I've decided to do the sensible (?) thing and identify the > > keycodes by keyboard model rather than the machine architec

Re: Storm Linux 2000

2000-03-02 Thread Kevin Teague
> > A PowerPC version of Storm Linux would be the coolest, but I'm afraid we > > don't have anything like that in the works right now. > > > > What would be the problem with a powerpc version ? once potato ships, ppc will > be supported officially, so it should cost you nothing to ship a ppc versi

Re: Kerberos4KTH patch

2000-03-02 Thread Tom Rini
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 06:38:18PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > I noticed the kerberos4kth packages aren't in non-us for PPC or ARM. > I've attached a patch which makes it build and work (basically the same > as my old one), but the maintainer (Greg Stark) doesn't like it. His > objections: >

Re: /etc/X11/Xmodmap re-revisited

2000-03-02 Thread BenH
On Wed, Mar 1, 2000, Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Actually, I've decided to do the sensible (?) thing and identify the >keycodes by keyboard model rather than the machine architecture. One way >or another you can probably manage to plug a PC keyboard into just about >anything, so

Re: /etc/X11/Xmodmap re-revisited

2000-03-02 Thread Tom Rini
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 06:00:16PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > [debian-x: I'm following up a thread on -powerpc] > > Actually, I've decided to do the sensible (?) thing and identify the > keycodes by keyboard model rather than the machine architecture. One way > or another you can probably