Re: Booting of PPC Installation on PowerPC/Mac impossible?

2000-06-17 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 03:22:45PM -0700, Chris Baker wrote: > Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I installed Debian for the PowerMac on a PowerMac 9500. After completing > > the > > installation (dh_bootstrap), I wanted to make the system bootable directly > > from the hard disk,

Re: Booting of PPC Installation on PowerPC/Mac impossible?

2000-06-17 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 10:31:58PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Can anybody send me the man page of quik (I do not have an installed Debian > powerpc system) and quik.conf? Sure. . > > I've seen the example configuration at > http://www.debian.de/Lists-Archives/debi > an-powerpc-0004/msg0003

Re: Booting of PPC Installation on PowerPC/Mac impossible?

2000-06-17 Thread Chris Baker
Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed Debian for the PowerMac on a PowerMac 9500. After completing the > installation (dh_bootstrap), I wanted to make the system bootable directly > from the hard disk, but I learned Quik does not yet work for PowerMac. The I > wanted to make a

Re: Booting of PPC Installation on PowerPC/Mac impossible?

2000-06-17 Thread Rainer Dorsch
I used the latest boot floppies (2.2.15-2000-06-07) from potato (boot-floppy-hfs.img and root.bin). I donwloaded drivers and base.tgz from the net (worked perfectly, well I am not sure about sound, but at least network). But the last steps failed (boot from harddisk, make a boot floppy). Can a

Re: Booting of PPC Installation on PowerPC/Mac impossible?

2000-06-17 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
Um, what version of the installer are you using?? Quik certainly does work on powermacs, although you probably have to edit its config file by hand. There is documentation floating around about the process; someone with more free time needs to add it to the boot-floppies documentation. On Sat, J

Booting of PPC Installation on PowerPC/Mac impossible?

2000-06-17 Thread Rainer Dorsch
I installed Debian for the PowerMac on a PowerMac 9500. After completing the installation (dh_bootstrap), I wanted to make the system bootable directly from the hard disk, but I learned Quik does not yet work for PowerMac. The I wanted to make a boot floppy. But making boot floppies is also not

Re: Platinum palette weirdness

2000-06-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Josh Huber wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 06:14:00PM +0100, David Given wrote: > > I've finally managed to find a Mac <> VGA adaptor. After fiddling with the > > DIP > > switches I've finally managed to get this rather nice Belinea monitor > > running > > at 1152x870 in 8

Re: [phil@hands.com: new powerpc CDs at cdimage.debian.org]

2000-06-17 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Give these a shot, if you can - they're on cdimage.debian.org and will > probably be mirrored out and about pretty soon now. I would like to, but they can't be found on the mirrors (maybe they don't mirror