Re: manual install

2001-05-16 Thread Peter Cordes
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:50:24AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > That's consistent with what I've found so far. I can boot the box into > single user > mode but it'll hang trying to initialize inetd if I try a normal boot. The > network is > broken when I do get the box up so I'm guessing that

Re: ReiserFS on blank hard drive

2001-05-16 Thread Peter Cordes
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:35:03AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > because /var and /tmp have no business being on the root partition. > they should be seperate partitions (or if you use 2.4 kernels /tmp > should perhaps be tmpfs. anyone have any docs/info on advantages of > this?) ext2 is probabl

Kernel 2.4.4 "wrong magic"

2001-05-16 Thread Jason Healy
Today I obtained kernel-image-2.4.4-1 from the unstable tree. I installed it, updated my yaboot.conf to point to the new kernel, and gave it a reboot. When the machine gets going, it starts to boot the kernel, and then dies, unable to mount the root filesystem. It says "wrong magic" and then pan

Re: Xf86free died: how to go back to 4.0.2-7

2001-05-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
Kimmo Lehtonen wrote: > > I have a Apple Powerbook G3 Wallstreet (Ati 3D Rage LT Pro) and running > Debian/testing. > I had X 4.0.2. working fine with accelerated ati-driver there but decided to > upgrade to 4.0.3 (a moment of ultimate boredom and stupidity) and now the > ati-driver does not work

Xf86free died: how to go back to 4.0.2-7

2001-05-16 Thread Kimmo Lehtonen
I have a Apple Powerbook G3 Wallstreet (Ati 3D Rage LT Pro) and running Debian/testing. I had X 4.0.2. working fine with accelerated ati-driver there but decided to upgrade to 4.0.3 (a moment of ultimate boredom and stupidity) and now the ati-driver does not work any more. I can get fbdev running s

Re: manual install

2001-05-16 Thread Andrew D Dixon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:36:30PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Yes, you can do that. > > > > > > There is a script in /sbin (I think) called unconfigured.sh > > > that you want to hack. > > > > That's just a script that prints out

Re: Executing shell scripts on the linux server from the mac-side.

2001-05-16 Thread Steven Hanley
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:42:28AM +0200, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote: > Hmm… is there a thing in the sisterhood of crontab that can trigger scripts on changes in for example number of files in a folder? the problem is that I have these scripts running every 15 mins now… and I’d like them

Re: ReiserFS on blank hard drive

2001-05-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:38:18AM +0200, Just a friendly Jedi Knight wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:43:37PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > you are looking for more reliability and stability, that is not > > something you can really expect from any of the journalling > > filesystems quite

Re: Executing shell scripts on the linux server from the mac-side.

2001-05-16 Thread Gjermund Gusland Thorsen
Hmm… is there a thing in the sisterhood of crontab that can trigger scripts on changes in for example number of files in a folder? the problem is that I have these scripts running every 15 mins now… and I’d like them to run only when they have to. Gjermund On onsdag 16. mai 2001 11:40, Steven

Re: ReiserFS on blank hard drive

2001-05-16 Thread Just a friendly Jedi Knight
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:43:37PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > you are looking for more reliability and stability, that is not > something you can really expect from any of the journalling > filesystems quite yet. yes yes some people love to say IWFM, but > there are plenty of others with horr

Re: Executing shell scripts on the linux server from the mac-side.

2001-05-16 Thread Steven Hanley
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:26:41AM +0200, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote: > Eeh… I use ssh most the time and all those regular .sh are launched by > crontab, but I need to execute some scripts on a more pr opinion basis, and > it would be very convenient to put a .sh file in the same folder as to

Re: ReiserFS on blank hard drive

2001-05-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:47:45AM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: > On Wednesday 16 May 2001 01:43, Ethan Benson wrote: > > install both disks and use cpio. i never reinstall the OS for > > something as mundane as a disk upgrade. > > Well, I never opened my Pismo but I'd think that there

Re: Executing shell scripts on the linux server from the mac-side.

2001-05-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:26:41AM +0200, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote: > Eeh… I use ssh most the time and all those regular .sh are launched by > crontab, but I need to execute some scripts on a more pr opinion basis, and > it would be very convenient to put a .sh file in the same folder as to

Re: ReiserFS on blank hard drive

2001-05-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: > I already have /usr as a separate partition. But how do you teach apt to > remount it read-write and then read-only again? > Why make / 64 MB big when making /tmp and /var as a separate partition? Both > could find place on that partition...

Re: ReiserFS on blank hard drive

2001-05-16 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
On Wednesday 16 May 2001 01:43, Ethan Benson wrote: > install both disks and use cpio. i never reinstall the OS for > something as mundane as a disk upgrade. Well, I never opened my Pismo but I'd think that there is only one IDE connector... Anyone have experience with that? > fixing bugs takes

Re: Executing shell scripts on the linux server from the mac-side.

2001-05-16 Thread Gjermund Gusland Thorsen
Eeh… I use ssh most the time and all those regular .sh are launched by crontab, but I need to execute some scripts on a more pr opinion basis, and it would be very convenient to put a .sh file in the same folder as to where I’d like the task to be performed. Security risk or no? I’m only using

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-16 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:36:58PM +, Duncan Gibb wrote: > On 15-May-01, Alan Buxey wrote: > > AB> certainly boot-programs (such as the APUS/AF-booter (by Mr Duncan ) > AB> need MUI libraries, but the plain boothack/bootstrap for APUS just > AB> needs powerpc.library, which is in ROM > > Even

Re: Why can't yaboot work with oldworld as first stage?

2001-05-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:18:34PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > > no. oldworld OpenFirmware does nothing more then activate the > > hardware MacOSROM, this is on a ROM chip and has nothing to do with > > any sort of disk media. > > > > It obviously does more, or quik wouldn't work ;) in its

Re: debian-powerpc: g4 powerbook and writeable CD/DVD

2001-05-16 Thread Stefan Kluth
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Brendan J Simon wrote: > I'm going to buy a G4 PowerBook :) :) :) :) :) good for you (and Apple). > I currently run Debian Linux/PPC Testing with kernel 2.4.2 on my G3 > PowerBook :) :) :) > I want to buy a writeable CD or DVD drive so I can backup and also boot > the mach