Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Fabian Jakobs
Am Freitag, 27. April 2001 15:33 schrieb Samuel Rydh: > >> Now I have it and I'm very impressed. Mol seems to be really fast and > >> stable but what is bothering me is, that I have to start it as root. In > >> an earlier version I could load the kernel modules in an init scrips and > >> was then a

Re: ppc prep boot

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:11:12PM -0500, Phillip Strauss wrote: > While formatting a drive today I just noticed the fs type of PPC PReP boot. > I am by no means a ybin/yaboot expert (in fact very far from it) so excuse > me if this question is just ridiculous. > Would this be a valid file system f

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 03:33:03PM +0200, Samuel Rydh wrote: > > The startmol script has a --loadonly option which does the trick > for you. Just add > > startmol --loadonly > > to the rc.local file. we don't wear red hats here, there is no such file on a debian system. please read /etc/

Re: ipmasq and rsh

2001-04-27 Thread Peter Cordes
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:35:04PM +0200, Arne Scheffler wrote: > I got a problem here. > I got an old mac which is the router to the internet. > On my other mac, I have to use cvs to get source. > I only can make a rsh connection to the cvs-server. > The problem is that rserver only permits connec

ipmasq and rsh

2001-04-27 Thread Arne Scheffler
I got a problem here. I got an old mac which is the router to the internet. On my other mac, I have to use cvs to get source. I only can make a rsh connection to the cvs-server. The problem is that rserver only permits connections on ports between 500 & 1000, but the masquerading changes the port t

ppc prep boot

2001-04-27 Thread Phillip Strauss
While formatting a drive today I just noticed the fs type of PPC PReP boot. I am by no means a ybin/yaboot expert (in fact very far from it) so excuse me if this question is just ridiculous. Would this be a valid file system for a bootstrap partition for my RS/6000? Phil

Re: Delete key?

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:28:33AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > AFAIK this is true on ADB systems. Only twice have I seen Ctrl-Cmd-Power > not restart an ADB Mac, and those were seriously fscked systems. And > there have been endless discussions on Mac server mailing lists about how > the

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Samuel Rydh
>> Now I have it and I'm very impressed. Mol seems to be really fast and stable >> but what is bothering me is, that I have to start it as root. In an earlier >> version I could load the kernel modules in an init scrips and was then able > to start mol as regular user. > >I found that loading 'mols

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Derrik Pates
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Fabian Jakobs wrote: > Now I have it and I'm very impressed. Mol seems to be really fast and stable > but what is bothering me is, that I have to start it as root. In an earlier > version I could load the kernel modules in an init scrips and was then able > to start mol as reg

Re: mol comments

2001-04-27 Thread Samuel Rydh
>Forget about it - just use 0.9.58, it supports the TiBook. Your diff works >almost smoothly with the newer source as well :-) > >Except from TiBook support, it seems the changes from 0.9.57 are: > >* More than one mol running at a time (doesn't work yet, though) Actually, multi-session support *i

Re: X 4.0.2 on Firewire iBook

2001-04-27 Thread Kin Chung
Brian Dunnette wrote: Okay... after much X-related frustration, I've upgraded my iBook to unstable. However, I still can't seem to get X to work (when I run 'startx', my screen goes blank except for a single Been there, done that... My experience suggests that you need to have a _useful_

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Fabian Jakobs
Am Donnerstag, 26. April 2001 18:30 schrieb Philippe Lelédy: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Fabian Jakobs wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 26. April 2001 11:17 schrieb Jens Schmalzing: > > > Hi, > > > > "Ihr Computer kann mit der Systemsoftware auf diesem Startvolume nicht > > starten. Installieren Sie bitte die

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Fabian Jakobs
> I had the same problem with trying to run Classic under MacOSX. I > looked in http://discussions.info.apple.com and found a link to the > following TechNote: > > http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n106277 > > It's a problem if you have MacOSX installed on UFS. Maybe the same fix > w

Re: Delete key?

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:38:27PM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: > > It appeared in this mailinglist a few ago. Somebody found out that > Shift-Fn-Ctrl + Command equals ctrlaltdel. It works on my Pismo. Even init > recognizes it such that my Pismo powers down when I press this key comi

Re: Delete key?

2001-04-27 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
On Friday 27 April 2001 09:36, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:34:01PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > I read in some documentation that the key combination for shutting down > > Linux in an orderly way, from any user account, is Ctrl-Alt-Delete. I > > figure the equivalent on the

Re: X 4.0.2 on Firewire iBook

2001-04-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
Brian Dunnette wrote: > > Okay... after much X-related frustration, I've upgraded my iBook to > unstable. Why not testing? Do you really need unstable (both have the same X currently)? > However, I still can't seem to get X to work (when I run 'startx', my > screen goes blank except for a single

Re: Delete key?

2001-04-27 Thread james
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:36:54PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > something else ive wondered, why can't control-command-power be > trapped by init and used as ctrlaltdel? is this hardwired in hardware > and untrappable by software? AFAIK this is true on ADB systems. Only twice have I seen Ctrl-C

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Ethan Benson writes: > in this case presuming you ask the user via debconf where thier > macos partition is and you manage to copy the ROM over yourself, and > be sure to remove it on package removal (--purge?) then /usr/lib/mol > would be fine. That's what I had in mind. As for the details

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:27:43AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Or make a Debian package of MacOS and put it in non-free? :-) as funny as that sounds its actually possible (not legally), though not very practical since it would be at least a 100MB package. mol works quite fine running

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:55:29AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > My first guess was /var, but since it is some sort of configuration setting, I > think it belongs in /etc. The idea is that you can backup your configuration > by > backing up /etc. Hmmm... this stil doesn't backup yout list

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > there is also the issue of MacOS upgrades, if MacOS is upgraded and > its ROM replaced it will crash the next time mol is run since it deals > with mismatched ROMs very poory. > > ultimatly the user just has to know about this and how to deal with it >

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:54:07AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Geert Uytterhoeven writes: > > > > IMO the default molrc should look for the rom in > > > /usr/local/lib/mol/something > > > Is that Debian compliant? I'd expect the rom to be in /etc/mol/. > > If I understand the FHS Se

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:32:24AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > IMO the default molrc should look for the rom in > > > /usr/local/lib/mol/something > > > > Is that Debian compliant? I'd expect the ro

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Geert Uytterhoeven writes: > > IMO the default molrc should look for the rom in > > /usr/local/lib/mol/something > Is that Debian compliant? I'd expect the rom to be in /etc/mol/. If I understand the FHS Section 4.4 correctly, putting the MacOS ROM image under /usr/lib/mol is fine. After a

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:32:24AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > IMO the default molrc should look for the rom in > > /usr/local/lib/mol/something > > Is that Debian compliant? I'd expect the rom to be in /etc/mol/. i don't know what policy reall

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > IMO the default molrc should look for the rom in /usr/local/lib/mol/something Is that Debian compliant? I'd expect the rom to be in /etc/mol/. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lot

X 4.0.2 on Firewire iBook

2001-04-27 Thread Brian Dunnette
Okay... after much X-related frustration, I've upgraded my iBook to unstable. However, I still can't seem to get X to work (when I run 'startx', my screen goes blank except for a single horizontal white line...) I realize this has been discussed before, but even after reading the archives, I'

Re: Delete key?

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:34:01PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > I read in some documentation that the key combination for shutting down > Linux in an orderly way, from any user account, is Ctrl-Alt-Delete. I figure > the equivalent on the iMac keyboard is Ctrl-Opt, but I wonder what > substitutes