On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 05:44:22PM -0700, C.M. Connelly wrote:
> The quality of Debian's installer varies wildly; some parts seem
> polished and others seem like the kinds of hacks we might have
> seen five years ago. Debian's current installer isn't just likely
> to put off an iMac owner who want
Last week my partner and I performed a fresh install of Debian
potato onto a PowerTower Pro 225 (equivalent to an Apple PowerMac
9500). The good news is that the install worked, and was much
more hassle-free than the install process I went through for my
main machine (a PowerCenter 132; similar t
Use the installer's disk partition tool. Use the c
(lowercase) key to make all partitions and you MUST name
the swap partition "swap". I recommend that you make a
100 Mb swap partition and make the other 900 Mb, or the
rest of the drive. Just use c and everything will be
fine. It takes care of
Look in the mail archives for Ethan Benson's detail advice and howtos on
partitioning for PowerMacintosh's.
Since you only have a 1GB drive, I would not worry about creating seperate
partitions for /home, /etc, /var ... Just have one partition for everything.
If you intstall more drives later
I'm going to be installing Debian on a 1GB internal SCSI drive, and I'd like
some advice on partitioning. I have a version of drive setup that can make A/UX
partitions, or I can boot into the setup from BootX and use the partitioner
there. I know I need a swap partition (~64MB, right, since I ha
"C.M. Connelly" wrote:
> I spent a couple of hours a couple of weeks ago building a Perl
> script to extract some information about open PowerPC-related bugs
> from Debian's database and give me some text reports. Since then,
> I spent a bit more time setting it up to generate a nice HTML
> file.
Quoting Nelson Abramson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> > 2. What is a useable web-browser at the moment? I couldn't find a
> > working netscape.
>
> Mozilla, Netscape does work, it is a beast though, and sometimes doesn't
> like to
> cooperate. Lynx, etc.
It seems like
On 31 Jul, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 01:18:17PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Short howto to install Debian on a G4 400 from the internet without floppy.
>> With much help from the pages from Adam Sjogren
>> (http://www.koldfront.dk/staff/asjo/text/debian-ibook.html)
>>
>
Quoting "C.M. Connelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> (If you're wondering, I can't make the script run as a CGI because
> the data file is (at the moment) 4.2 MB. Since I have a total of
> 10 MB of space on that account, some of which is used for other
> purposes, that's not remotely practical.
Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > > Cool! Another 2000 bucks...
> > >
> > > More, probably. He spammed a lot of lists. Are you gonna fax him the list
> > > advertising policy?
> > >
> > Well, what is the procedure for that? Is the list-owner responsible for
> > billing?
>
> The list operator should sen
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