Re: powermac boot floppies - Problems

> > What video card? None. Just PowerMac7200s > > You have a video card, it's just onboard. > I don't know which - > probably valkyriefb... no idea. > A cardless video card? Is that something like military intelligence? ;) Apple System Profiler was extremely terse on all my 7200s (75s & 120s

Orange Micro SCSI support

Does debian powerpc support Orange Micro SCSI cards? My LinuxPPC 2000 doesn't so i'm expecting a no 8-) Kevin

Re: powermac boot floppies - Problems

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 07:02:31PM -0700, joe ares wrote: > Table of Results > > *Apple Basic Color Monitor > 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x960, 1280x1024 > Color anomalies: type=red cursor=blue > boot continues > > %Apple Multiple Scan 15 Display 640x480, 832x624 >

powermac boot floppies - Problems

PowerMac Boot Floppies2.2.13 - Problems What I did Download from your favorite mirror /debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/2.2.13-2000-05-04/powermac/images-1.44/ boot-floppy-hfs.img root.bin rescue.bin driver-1.bin restore these files to floppy

Re: Problems with xemacs?

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 03:52:27PM -0500, Phil Fraering wrote: > > Hi. I've been using debian-ppc with woody preceeding frozen > in the apt-souces list; sometime rather recently xemacs stopped > working. Has anyone out there run into this before, or should > I go into detail? don't use woody just

Re: Debian CD-images

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 04:43:38PM -0700, David Brown wrote: > > Bronze keyboard G3 Powerbooks (Lombard) do not work with yaboot. There is > some kind of initialization issue with the framebuffer that hasn't been > resolved. Even though I don't like it, I'm stuck using BootX on my > powerbook.

Re: Debian CD-images

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 03:33:59PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > I will never understand thier obsession with BootX, they just won't > let it go... BootX won't work on AGP G4s (or at least extremely > poorly) it sorta works on others, but BootX is really not that > reliable on newworld macs, and is

Re: Debian CD-images

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 01:25:32PM -0700, C.M. Connelly wrote: > "EB" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >EB> the debian cds should boot Newworld powermacs and PReP >EB> (maybe) it would be nice to be able to boot oldworld macs >EB> too but that would require non-free Apple

Re: potato install

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 10:22:34AM -0600, Jeremiah Merkl wrote: > > > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 04:16:47PM -0600, Jeremiah Merkl wrote: > > > ...wow...that was slick. I did a network install, and only had one > > > problem. > > > > > > Installed on a G3-all-in-one 233MHz

Re: Debian CD-images

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 01:25:32PM -0700, C.M. Connelly wrote: > "EB" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >EB> the debian cds should boot Newworld powermacs and PReP >EB> (maybe) it would be nice to be able to boot oldworld macs >EB> too but that would require non-free Apple

Re: HTTP corruption during install?

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 07:49:03PM +0200, Michel Dnzer wrote: > Yes. I had also gotten errors with the Kernel & Modules first, but I guess I > had misconfigured the network. > > > What was worse for me was that I had to build gnome-core myself because > gnome-panel is version -1.0.1 in potato...

Re: Debian CD-images

On Mon, 15 May 2000, C.M. Connelly wrote: [snipped a lot] > ** Aside: LinuxPPC's Mac page, > , claims that G4s > should be able to boot with the newest version of BootX available > from Ben's site, . I thought > tha

Problems with xemacs?

Hi. I've been using debian-ppc with woody preceeding frozen in the apt-souces list; sometime rather recently xemacs stopped working. Has anyone out there run into this before, or should I go into detail? Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian CD-images

"EB" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EB> the debian cds should boot Newworld powermacs and PReP EB> (maybe) it would be nice to be able to boot oldworld macs EB> too but that would require non-free Apple CD drivers or a EB> custom written driver that acts as a boot loader

Re: HTTP corruption during install?

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > Trying to install Debian on a PowerBook G3, with boot-floppies 2.2.13, I > noticed that retrieving any file by HTTP yields an "error installing file > drivers.tgz" (or base2_2.tgz. "zcat THEFILE | tar tvf -" shows that it is > indeed corrupted. Using an HTTP proxy or n

Re: potato install

Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 04:16:47PM -0600, Jeremiah Merkl wrote: > > ...wow...that was slick. I did a network install, and only had one problem. > > > > Installed on a G3-all-in-one 233MHz, 96M ram, using BootX (will > > switch to yaboot soon). > > make sure you create a 800

Re: HTTP corruption during install?

On Monday 15 May 2000, at 10 h 56, the keyboard of Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you use ethernet or PPP? Ethernet, both with a local HTTP server (on the same Ethernet segment) and with a remote one.

Re: HTTP corruption during install?

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 04:36:38PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > [I suggest to discuss the matter on the debian-powerpc list, since I've not > been able to reproduce the problem on i386.] > > Trying to install Debian on a PowerBook G3, with boot-floppies 2.2.13, I > noticed that retriev

HTTP corruption during install?

[I suggest to discuss the matter on the debian-powerpc list, since I've not been able to reproduce the problem on i386.] Trying to install Debian on a PowerBook G3, with boot-floppies 2.2.13, I noticed that retrieving any file by HTTP yields an "error installing file drivers.tgz" (or base2_2.t

Re: Debian CD-images

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:14:35AM +0100, Björn Johansson wrote: > > I should be able to use these cd:s with Dselect, right? A friend of mine > burned a couple of cd:s with *a lot* of packages, so he burned down all > the packages directly from the ftp. Maybe the method with the big > files(ISO-im

Re: Debian CD-images

On 15-Maj-00, you wrote: > On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 11:11:41PM +0100, Björn Johansson wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I found some cd-images at: >> ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/ >> After I have burned the potato-powerpc-x.raw files to different cd:s, >> how do I proceed with the install

Re: newworld install docs

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 01:04:29AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > PS: What type should the swap partition be? > > Apple_SVR2_UNIX just like the others, use the `c' command and enter > `swap' when it asks for the partition name. `c' sets the partition > type automatically, `C' asks for the ty

Re: newworld install docs

On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 10:55:08AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > I have written some quick documentation for installing Debian on > > newworld PowerMacs, it is meant to fill the holes in the current > > debian install docs. I have already sent them to Dan but for the tim

Re: newworld install docs

Ethan Benson wrote: > I have written some quick documentation for installing Debian on > newworld PowerMacs, it is meant to fill the holes in the current > debian install docs. I have already sent them to Dan but for the time > being if anyone wants to see them now i have them posted at: > > htt

Re: how to report installed packages by size?

On Sun, 14 May 2000, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote: > I've done this with rpm, but I can't figure out how to use dpkg or apt or > some debian package tool to give me a list of installed packages along with > their installed size... I attached the script I wrote to do this. On my box it says:

newworld install docs

Hello, I have written some quick documentation for installing Debian on newworld PowerMacs, it is meant to fill the holes in the current debian install docs. I have already sent them to Dan but for the time being if anyone wants to see them now i have them posted at: http://www.alaska.net/~erben

Re: potato install

On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 08:42:57PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > As it turns out, this machine (at least mine, I don't know about all > > of them) is a little unique in that the internal HD is hdc, and the > > CD is hda. > > wierd, its funny i have yet to see a powermac that has hdc used, on my

smbfs dependency

Recent smbfs (2.0.7-1) for powerpc architecture has a dependency on cupsys which then has conflict with lprng. Package: smbfs Version: 2.0.7-1 Priority: optional Section: otherosfs Maintainer: Eloy A. Paris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Depends: netbase (>= 2.02), samba-common (= 2.0.7-1), cupsys (>> 1.0-0)