Re: Another Poor Documentation Rant

2000-08-02 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
OK, let's try this again. !!!RANTS DO NO GOOD!!! Patches are fine. Suggestions are welcome, although it's more than a little bit late for them. Rants do no one any good, and get short-tempered replies like this one is shaping up to be. The lack of documentation is a result of no one having tim

Another Poor Documentation Rant

2000-08-02 Thread Aaron Davies
I've gotten over hurdle mentioned in my last (almost ingnored) help request by copying the install data files to a ZIP disk. This, incidentally, is the kind of thing that needs to be on the powermac install page in big red text with a lot of tags: RESCUE DISK CANNOT READ HFS+! Also, is anyone p

Which RS/6000 servers work well with the Debian dist?

2000-08-02 Thread Joe Emenaker
IBM is going to be giving our college a few RS/6000 servers.   The tentative offer is that they're going to give us a 7024, a 7025, and a 7026. However, of each of these, there are as many as six different models with endings like "F50", "H70", etc. I'm figuring that some models probably

Re: YAIE: Debian on a PowerTower Pro

2000-08-02 Thread Aaron Davies
"C.M. Connelly" wrote: > Once you've chosen a partition to create (using the last > number listed, which is likely to be 4 on a Mac disk), pdisk > wants you to enter the starting block number, followed by > the number of blocks in the partition. An inexperienced > pe

Re: YAIE: Debian on a PowerTower Pro

2000-08-02 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Please remember what you're dealing with here. It's written by > volunteers, maintained by volunteers, polished by volunteers. As it > happens, the only person working on Power Mac installs was -me-, and I > only have one. Not to mention a full time course load at the time. Having pulled off

Re: powerpc build daemon vs apt-get -b source

2000-08-02 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 03:46:01PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Aug 02, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > Can someone here explain to me how the build daemon is supposed > > to work? Last week I was whining to our debian packager about > > the ppc guys being so slow to build new packages. He enli

Re: IDE-problems

2000-08-02 Thread Andre Berger
Claus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now it's 2.2.17pre13-ben2 hda: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2 hda: dma_intr: status=0x00 { } media bay 0 contains a floppy disk drive hda: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2 But no crashes with pmud so far. Andre

Re: powerpc build daemon vs apt-get -b source

2000-08-02 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Aug 02, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Can someone here explain to me how the build daemon is supposed > to work? Last week I was whining to our debian packager about > the ppc guys being so slow to build new packages. He enlightened > me saying that (in this case lilypond1.3) had been accepted in

powerpc build daemon vs apt-get -b source

2000-08-02 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Hi List, Can someone here explain to me how the build daemon is supposed to work? Last week I was whining to our debian packager about the ppc guys being so slow to build new packages. He enlightened me saying that (in this case lilypond1.3) had been accepted into woody overnight, and if I maybe

Re: Install Probs--Can't Find Install Files From Installer

2000-08-02 Thread micha
On 2 Aug, Aaron Davies wrote: > I've d/l'd base2_2.tgz and placed it in Macintosh Are you sure it's not an HFS+ partition like a formated OS 9 partition? Because it wil not work (I think) -- Width kind regards, Micha Kersloot KovoKs Automatiseringspartner

Install Probs--Can't Find Install Files From Installer

2000-08-02 Thread Aaron Davies
I've d/l'd base2_2.tgz and placed it in Macintosh HD:debian:dists:potato:main:disks-powerpc:current:, and I've d/l'd driver-1.bin, rescue.bin, and root.bin and placed them in Macintosh HD:debian:dists:potato:main:disks-powerpc:current:powermac:images-1.44:; Macintosh HD is dev/hda5. I'm install