boot-floppy-hfs.img

2000-08-28 Thread John R. MacPhail
I want a physical rescue floppy. (I am relucant to depend on my Iomega Zip drive, as they appear to provide MacOS-only software for it. My CD drive is read-only, and somewhat unreliable.) Under Disk Copy (version 6.3.3), boot-floppy-hfs.img does yield a virtual floppy disk, which Apple's Finder

Network boot of RS/6000 CHRP systems

2000-08-28 Thread rolfb
I have booted an RS/6000 PREP system over the network with bootp using the boot.bin file image. What is the procedure for RS/6000 CHRP systems? I can find no boot.bin file on the Debian server in the following directory: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp

Re: 2.4.0-test6 ppp trouble

2000-08-28 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > The PPP trouble seemed due to a kernel/pppd version mismatch, and I've > > heard nothing to refute that. > > So ppp_2.4.0f-1_powerpc.deb doesn't work with 2.4.0-test kernels? I don't > believe this is the case, because the README.Debian mentions something about > 2.3.99-pre*. If there are si

Re: touble making Power Mac 7200 boot directly into Linux

2000-08-28 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 07:08:51PM +0200, Michael Lyngb?l wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble booting Linux on my Power Macintosh 7200/75. > > Installation of Debian 2.2 went fine (booting MacOS on an external disk > and using BootX to boot into Linux works fine). > > Right now I'm not able to b

touble making Power Mac 7200 boot directly into Linux

2000-08-28 Thread Michael Lyngbøl
Hi, I'm having trouble booting Linux on my Power Macintosh 7200/75. Installation of Debian 2.2 went fine (booting MacOS on an external disk and using BootX to boot into Linux works fine). Right now I'm not able to boot directly into Linux - I have to boot MacOS and then use BootX to get Linux ru

Re: 2.4.0-test6 ppp trouble

2000-08-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michael Schmitz wrote: > > ... Is there any chance to recover the original topic? > > Sorry, can you remind me what the original topic was? I thought we just > went off philosophizing on the principles of open source management ... > > The PPP trouble seemed due to a kernel/pppd version mismatch,

Re: 2.4.0-test6 ppp trouble

2000-08-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Adrian Cox wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Having five people maintaining five PPC trees and occasionally sending > > patches to > > Linus seems the wrong way to maintain an architecture, and an implicit > > resignation to the total worthlessness of any PPC material in the stock > > tree at

Re: 2.4.0-test6 ppp trouble

2000-08-28 Thread Michael Schmitz
> ... Is there any chance to recover the original topic? Sorry, can you remind me what the original topic was? I thought we just went off philosophizing on the principles of open source management ... The PPP trouble seemed due to a kernel/pppd version mismatch, and I've heard nothing to refute

Re: X and Mouse hangs my system

2000-08-28 Thread Arne Scheffler
- Original Message - From: "Olaf Grewe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 11:41 AM Subject: Re: X and Mouse hangs my system > Arne, > > for me worked the following: > > Make sure you have the appropriate protocol for the gdm-repeater. > This is usually done by gdm-con

Re: X and Mouse hangs my system

2000-08-28 Thread Olaf Grewe
Hi, i just installed debian2.2r0 at the weekend on my blue&white G3 Mac. Everything went fine except that the mouse in X is not working. If I don't move the mouse or hit a mousebutton I can change to a console, but if I move or hit a button the whole system hangs and my only chance to get off is t

X and Mouse hangs my system

2000-08-28 Thread Arne Scheffler
Hi, i just installed debian2.2r0 at the weekend on my blue&white G3 Mac. Everything went fine except that the mouse in X is not working. If I don't move the mouse or hit a mousebutton I can change to a console, but if I move or hit a button the whole system hangs and my only chance to get off is to

Re: 2.4.0-test6 ppp trouble

2000-08-28 Thread Sergio Brandano
... Is there any chance to recover the original topic? Sergio

Re: 2.4.0-test6 ppp trouble

2000-08-28 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > Maybe this is related to Eric Raymond's "curse of the gifted" post, and we > > > really > > > > What Eric Raymond? Never seen him on this list ... > > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/ That one... I was just wondering what he had contributed to the PPC kernel (you may color me heretic here).