Partitioning disks without losing data.

I have instaled Debian Pototo on an old Pentium 133MHz PCI machine to use primarily as a firewall/gateway for our internet.  It has two 2GB drives.  hda has a 32MB swap partition and the rest of the disk is the root partition.  I use all of hdb as the /home mount.  Both hard drives are configur

Re: PowerPC potato bugs page

Adam, Okay! After spending quite a while writing a Perl script to manipulate the complete contents of the bug tracking system (hopefully that will be useful in the future, as well), here are two lists of bugs. List 1 is a list of bugs that I've filed or sent additional information to the BTS ab

Re: Potato on RS/6000 F50 four-way

On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 10:07:34AM -0500, Matthew Davis wrote: > I've also been trying to get a decent window manager installed for X. I > would prefer KDE, but when I try to "apt-get install kdebase", I am told > that kdebase has a broken dependency for "rman" (reverse man pages > builder I belie

PowerPC potato bugs page

Greetings, I am putting together a page with bugs in potato on the PPC platform, and would appreciate any feedback. It includes: * A (stock) 2.2.15 kernel package and split out pieces, built with config-2.2.17 run through make oldconfig, for those of us on oldworlds. * Patches to

Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition

On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 03:43:16PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Peter Teichman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:23:22AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I've compiled everything in Helix Code and Evolution, but still 2 > > packages won't > > > be included: >

Potato on RS/6000 F50 four-way

Hello all. I have successfully installed Debian 2.2 Potato on an IBM F50 with 4 cpus. Unfortunatly, I need to recompile the kernel to support SMP, and among other things, MSDOS filesystem. I have had a rough time trying to get a kernel to compile (using source for 2.2.17) and I was hoping maybe

Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition

Quoting Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I like sftp - the source should be in woody. > > If only it had some of the more advanced features of ncftp or lftp... Hum, should do the job, anything can be better than scp anyway (I don't think that any sane people have been using that). Thank

Re: Debian on an iBook - colourdepth

>I am using vmlinux-2.2.17pre10-ben2 > (http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/>) >and XFree 4.0.1 from the instructions here: > http://penguinppc.org/usr/xf4/> (- updated yesterday!) >and can now report success in 8, 15 and 24 bitdepths on a tangerine >iBook. > >Apple doesn't seem to say what HorizSync a

Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > > I would need a pointer to an "ftp over ssh" program, or any good program > > > to easily upload this stuff to sourceforge.net as it doesn't have a > > > normal ftp... > > > > scp? (man scp) > > I know scp (heh). I meant something more like an ncftp or something

Re: Debian on an iBook - colourdepth

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:42:16 +0200, Olivier Abad wrote: > However, I can't change the color depth with fbset : it says I don't > have enough video ram (I tried 16, 24 and 32 bpp). Specifying > video=atyfb:800x600-32 in yaboot prompt didn't work either. > And the X server is unuseable : the displ

Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition

Quoting Tuomas Kuosmanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:23:22AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted to > say the following: > > > I would need a pointer to an "ftp over ssh" program, or any good > program to > > easily upload this stuff to sourceforge.net as it doesn't have a > nor

Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition

Quoting Peter Teichman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:23:22AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've compiled everything in Helix Code and Evolution, but still 2 > packages won't > > be included: > > > - gtk-themes, because of the Stone engine being already compiled for > x8

Re: Debian on an iBook - colourdepth

On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 03:01:31PM +0200, Adam Sjøgren wrote: > Hi! > > > I just installed Debian on my shining new iBook - as soon as I > (re)discovered the initrd=-option, the install went smooth. > > I've only got one major outstanding issue: > > I can only start X with 8-bit colourd

Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition

On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:23:22AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've compiled everything in Helix Code and Evolution, but still 2 packages > won't > be included: > - gtk-themes, because of the Stone engine being already compiled for x86 in > the > source package. Sigh, I thought I had fi

Re: nvram

On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:14:28PM +0200, Claus Enneper wanted to say the following: > please, could someone give me the major/minor of /dev/nvram? % file /dev/nvram /dev/nvram: character special (10/144) That is what I have. Tuomas -- .---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] .|\,/| [EMAIL

Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition

On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:23:22AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted to say the following: > I would need a pointer to an "ftp over ssh" program, or any good program to > easily upload this stuff to sourceforge.net as it doesn't have a normal ftp... scp? (man scp) Tuomas -- .---> [EMAIL PROT

Re: Java development on debian ppc

On Friday 30 June 2000, at 8 h 34, the keyboard of Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kaffe's debian/control file says: > > Architecture: i386 m68k powerpc sparc arm hurd-i386 > > so it should build out-of-the-box on a PowerPC ('apt-get --compile source > kaffe', if the ".deb" i

nvram

please, could someone give me the major/minor of /dev/nvram? TIA -- Yours, ce pgpRTLZfhkkpV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: PowerBook 3400 modem

>: > >: > Is the internal modem supported? >: >: No. You might try a PC card (PCMCIA) modem. Let me know if you find >: one that works. the PCMCIA HOWTO mentions that all should work. I know that the TDK DF2814 goes well with 33.600 perhaps you have to play with this file: 11:[EMAIL PRO

Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition

On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:23:22AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi again, > > Second report, > > I've compiled everything in Helix Code and Evolution, but still 2 packages > won't > be included: > - gtk-themes, because of the Stone engine being already compiled for x86 in > the > source

Helix GNOME, report of compilation, 2nd edition

Hi again, Second report, I've compiled everything in Helix Code and Evolution, but still 2 packages won't be included: - gtk-themes, because of the Stone engine being already compiled for x86 in the source package. - Abiword, I really couldn't get it to compile. - gnumeric and gnome-iconedit u

Re: kernel-2.2.17pre11 boots without display on G4

* Daniel Jacobowitz | | Could you get the package at | | and see if that works for you? It worked fine, thanks. >From dmesg: aty128fb: detected XCLK=0x36d6, ref_div=0x23 aty128fb: Rage128 Pro PF (AGP) [chip rev 0

Re: Helix GNOME, report of compilation

On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 02:26:02PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Also i guess there are some package in helix that are not yet in > > debian/woody, > > am i right in thinking this ? and if yes, what are they ? > Well, I couldn't find any of the updated .deb you're talking about... Please