RE: QUIK on the 7200

2000-07-09 Thread Matt Reynolds
> -Original Message- > From: Kevin Puetz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 2:34 PM > To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: QUIK on the 7200 > > I would also like to mention that OF-booting becomes significantly more > practical (ie, reliable) on oldwor

Re: Trying to boot a PowerMac 4400/200

2000-07-09 Thread Chris Baker
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 07:00:41PM -0500, Uwe Muench wrote: > > > [BootX_1.2.2.sit] > > > Can you download it under linuxppc? If you have hfsutils installed, > > > you can unpack sit files under linux right onto your hfs partition. > > > > Yes, I

Re: Trying to boot a PowerMac 4400/200

2000-07-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 07:00:41PM -0500, Uwe Muench wrote: > [BootX_1.2.2.sit] > > Can you download it under linuxppc? If you have hfsutils installed, > > you can unpack sit files under linux right onto your hfs partition. > > Yes, I can, but: > > How do I unpack sit files under linux?

Re: Trying to boot a PowerMac 4400/200

2000-07-09 Thread Uwe Muench
Hello, thanks for the quick answer... [ disk trouble with root disk ...] > You might try a few different floppies. Floppies are notoriously > unreliable. Yeah; I tried 5 different floppies for the root image... And after they failed, I tested them as boot-floppy and there they worked... Putt

Re: Trying to boot a PowerMac 4400/200

2000-07-09 Thread Chris Baker
Uwe Muench <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I'm trying to switch from some old LinuxPPC version to Debian. My > PowerMac 4400/200 seems to be more broken than even normal ones, > though... > > First I created boot disks (with 'dd' on a well-working > Debian-Intel-PC). The first disk wor

Trying to boot a PowerMac 4400/200

2000-07-09 Thread Uwe Muench
Hello, I'm trying to switch from some old LinuxPPC version to Debian. My PowerMac 4400/200 seems to be more broken than even normal ones, though... First I created boot disks (with 'dd' on a well-working Debian-Intel-PC). The first disk works fine (it boots with the Penguin icon, then boots Li

Re: compiling kernel

2000-07-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 07:59:48AM -0500, Josh wrote: > I did everything as instructed, then at 'make vmlinux' got the following > message, rather quickly (I repeated with newly unpacked source and got the > same): > > In file included from /usr/include/errno.h:36 > from s

Re: CALL FOR HELP : debian boot floppies 2.2.15 on apus still not ok.

2000-07-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 10:24:36PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > $ mount -r -t vfat -o loop=/dev/loop0 resceu.bin /mnt > > > > And see if it can be mounted ... > > It works if I omit the '=/dev/loop0' , and now on the second try (after > getting back to the installer main menu) df shows /dev/lo

Re: CALL FOR HELP : debian boot floppies 2.2.15 on apus still not ok.

2000-07-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
Sven LUTHER wrote: > Everything works fine, but when i come to the step where i would normally do > : > > * install os kernel & modules > > i give the corrct place in the requester, and dbootstrap tries to loop mount > the rescue.bin image to fetch the kernel and the modules, and fail. Confir

compr. image [Re: Paul's 2.2.15 does not boot a 7200]

2000-07-09 Thread Claus Enneper
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 08:55:25PM +0200, Michel Dänzer: >: Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >: >: > I see no reason why they wouldn't work with quick/yaboot since the >: > decompressor is embedded in the boot image as well. Hence the boot loader >is >: > not aware that there's any compression. >

Re: Paul's 2.2.15 does not boot a 7200

2000-07-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > I see no reason why they wouldn't work with quick/yaboot since the > decompressor is embedded in the boot image as well. Hence the boot loader is > not aware that there's any compression. So it should also work on my Pismo? What target should I use for a compressed ker

Re: compiling kernel

2000-07-09 Thread Josh
I did everything as instructed, then at 'make vmlinux' got the following message, rather quickly (I repeated with newly unpacked source and got the same): In file included from /usr/include/errno.h:36 from scripts/split-include.c:26 /usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errn

Re: compiling kernel

2000-07-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:35:52PM -0500, Josh wrote: > Cool, I'll try this. Is there a reason for not doing the whole thing as > root? > When I compiled the first time, I could not do the'make mrproper' except as > root (some weird stuff happened, but I don't remember exactly what). But I > have