On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 02:47:57PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks! That worked perfectly. Now the Mac OS can leave my laptop for
> good. The cdrom install does have an installation flaw. The base
be sure to blow away all those lame driver partitions! it makes
things look soo much bette
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:42:56AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > Usage: nvsetenv variable value
>
> Cool. I'll try this a bit later, and contribute to the docs on this if I get
> a
> chance. Maybe even an ncurses front-end matching Boot Variables' functions,
> or
> debconf for quik? Oth
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 02:47:57PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks! That worked perfectly. Now the Mac OS can leave my laptop for
> good. The cdrom install does have an installation flaw. The base
> installed fine but when it came to run dselect 'apt' the system didn't
> see the cdrom. I h
On 5 Jun, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 02:06:36PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I am trying to boot an iBook with a bootable Debian PowerPC CD (image
>> date 5-30-00). When the CD stars, the yaboot message comes up fine. Then
>> as the operating systems starts to come up (at
Michael Schmitz wrote:
>
> > > I installed XFree4.0b...but it doesn`t work...
> > > after startx command it loads a bit and it freezes the whole system.
> > > You have to reboot and filesystem is corrupted..(I ran fsck 3 times :) )
> >
> > Do you use update/bdflush/whatever? I get lotsa lockups wh
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Ethan Benson wrote:
> > because there is no way to find out that
> > /dev/hda3 == /yucky/openfirmware/device/path/ata/@0:0
> >
> > this would require kernel modifications becuase the kernel does not
> > know either, and there is no reliable way to figur
Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:08:56AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > Ethan Benson wrote:
> >
> > > 2) why you don't WANT to use yaboot on oldworld hardware:
> > > [snip] first let us go over the main complaints about quik:
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > > b) oldworld macs (
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 07:12:50PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> I have been made aware of a product from www.keyspan.com which has 2
> mini-din8 connectors on it. An Apple reseller told me about it and I
> assume it is a USB based device. I can't remember the mini-din8
> electrical specs but I
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:08:56AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> > 2) why you don't WANT to use yaboot on oldworld hardware:
> > [snip] first let us go over the main complaints about quik:
> >
> > [snip]
> > b) oldworld macs (with very few exceptions) lack the a
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 06:42:45AM -0700, Brian Macy wrote:
>
> >From the FAQ it implies it would work. Last sentence implies you should
> switch to yaboot even if you do not have a NewWorld machine.
i have modifed that section to clarify it.
> This actually isn't true for the StarMax. And my
Ethan Benson wrote:
> 2) why you don't WANT to use yaboot on oldworld hardware:
> [snip] first let us go over the main complaints about quik:
>
> [snip]
> b) oldworld macs (with very few exceptions) lack the ability to
> interface with OF from the console, instead you must use a serial
>
Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> yaboot will not work on oldworld macs, that is why the documentation
> says it won't and does not tell you how to set it up ;-)
>
> this question seems to come up over and over and over and over again,
> for some reason alot of people want to make yaboot work on oldworld
>
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 09:10:24PM -0700, Brian Macy wrote:
> I'm trying to get my StarMax 4400 (OF 2.02) to like yaboot. Simply can't
> get it to work. Since it is not a "New World" Mac 90% of the
> documentation is not quite right.
yaboot will not work on oldworld macs, that is why the documenta
Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Brendan J Simon wrote:
> >
> > I have replaced an intel laptop with a new PowerBook (USB & Firewire).
> > I used to use minicom to to communicate with an embedded system and wish
> > to do the same with my PowerBook. The problem is that the PowerBook
> > does not have an RS
hi,
> The URL and filenames have changed a bit:
>
> http://n.ethz.ch/student/daenzerm/download/XFree86/
>
> This is 4.0b .
the linux-apus link has to be changed then.
> Good news for the Permedia2 people: DGA support is here. It's not tested
> though...
oh, I'm SUR that will be tested quite
Michel Lanners wrote:
>
> On 5 Jun, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through
> cyberspace:
> (about XF4)
> > Did you use my patch or did you fix the r128 driver yourself ? Also, did
> > you already submit the patch to xfree ? (I didn't submit mine yet, I was
> > planning to do so
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >The other important thing is support for the latest PowerBooks in the r128
> >driver.
>
> Did you use my patch or did you fix the r128 driver yourself ? Also, did
> you already submit the patch to xfree ?
Yep, I submitted the patch that is in my binaries, it basi
Brendan J Simon wrote:
>
> I have replaced an intel laptop with a new PowerBook (USB & Firewire).
> I used to use minicom to to communicate with an embedded system and wish
> to do the same with my PowerBook. The problem is that the PowerBook
> does not have an RS232 port.
> I assume there is som
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