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Re: boot-floppy short-term status

Stephen R Marenka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been building and testing powerpc (and occassionally i386). > I'd be willing to take responsibility for powerpc, but I'm not a > dd. I can build the powerpc thing if needed. > If anyone out there is willing to sponsor me ... oh well. > I ha

Re: additional information ad 'which NIC runs under linux/ppc?'

I'm using a Netgear FA310TX card in my mac without problems. In fact, it runs quite well. This card has no MacOS drivers, I just decided to see if it'd work in linux. The NIC the KN (or whatever it's called) models 110 and 111 that are shipped with external used by pacbell, are also tulip based car

Re: netcard probs

hmm, my 7220/200 has a tulip in it, however as this is a somewhat different machine to a lot of the others at the time it may not mean anything. See You Steve -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wibble.net/~sjh/ Look Up In The Sky Is it a bird? No Is it a plane? No

Re: XFree86 trouble

On Tuesday 29 May 2001 05:43, Lenticchia Emiliano wrote: > -Messaggio originale- > Da: Lenticchia Emiliano > Inviato: martedì 29 maggio 2001 09.08 > A: 'Michel Dänzer' > Oggetto: XFree86 trouble > > > I need to run Open Office on my Debian PPC dist 2.2R0 and XFree86 40.b for > Permedia2 Vid

Re: Specific literature/HOWTOs? .. and a comment

On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:49:19PM +0200, Georg Koss wrote: > > > Look at http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson > Basically you have to create a boot-partitio with the "type" bootstrap with > mac-fdisk -C. Search also the archives of this list they are of great value! type Apple_Bootstrap case and pr

Re: MacOS floppy creation

On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:04:53AM -0500, Craig S. Cottingham wrote: > On Tuesday, May 29, 2001, at 09:00 , Ethan Benson wrote: > > > i wonder what level of hardware access you can get from macperl under > > macos... might be a quick way to implement a simple dd without having > > to learn about t

Re: Specific literature/HOWTOs? .. and a comment

Hello! I'm new as well but doing it since halfe a year, so lets try: On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 06:03:13PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > we managed yesterday to install potato base (2.2 r3) on a really > stubborn slot-in iMac. Several things still need to be fixed. Congrets! > > Po

Re: getting the gnome

Hello! On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 05:44:15PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > Georg Koss wrote: > > > I'd like to get the gnome with woody. If I try with dselect I can't find the > > task-gnome stuff. So how to do? > > apt-cache search task-gnome There was no answer > > apt-get install task-gnome-des

Re: Upgrading libc6 problem

Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Vinod Kurup wrote: > > > I just did an apt-get upgrade on my unstable powerpc machine and it > > upgraded libc6. > > > > shortly thereafter, I started getting this message in my syslog: > > > > May 28 22:10:05 localhost inetd[2673]: getpwnam: mail: No such user > > > > An

Re: Upgrading libc6 problem

Vinod Kurup wrote: > > On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 05:22:00PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > Vinod Kurup wrote: > > > > > I just did an apt-get upgrade on my unstable powerpc machine and it > > > upgraded libc6. > > > > > > shortly thereafter, I started getting this message in my syslog: > > > > > >

Re: Upgrading libc6 problem

On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 05:22:00PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > Vinod Kurup wrote: > > > I just did an apt-get upgrade on my unstable powerpc machine and it > > upgraded libc6. > > > > shortly thereafter, I started getting this message in my syslog: > > > > May 28 22:10:05 localhost inetd[2673]

Re: basic installation on 7200/75 (sucess)

morten wrote: > > On 29-May-2001 Adam Goode wrote: > > On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 05:58:07AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > >> On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:38:03PM +0200, morten wrote: > >> > There are, of course, another problem... > >> > I do dhcp to get the ip adress, and that works, but when it has g

Re: Raw I/O doesn't work

On Tue, 29 May 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > I can't get raw i/o to work on my titanium, running unstable and benh > kernel. I have the latest util-linux package and the latest everything > else as well. When I try to make a raw device for my DVD player, I issue > the command "raw /dev/raw0 /de

Re: basic installation on 7200/75 (sucess)

On 29-May-2001 Adam Goode wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 05:58:07AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: >> On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:38:03PM +0200, morten wrote: >> > There are, of course, another problem... >> > I do dhcp to get the ip adress, and that works, but when it has gotten its >> > IP >> > adr

Re: netcard probs

On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 07:08:56PM +0200, morten wrote: > hi > I have just installed potato (after a lot of trouble...) on my 7200/75, but > the > network part doesn't work. > I found that I don't have a netcard module installed. Does anyone know which > net-module I'm supposed to load. I use the

netcard probs

hi I have just installed potato (after a lot of trouble...) on my 7200/75, but the network part doesn't work. I found that I don't have a netcard module installed. Does anyone know which net-module I'm supposed to load. I use the nic which is on the motherboard, so I hope it is a standard nic. mor

Re: MacOS floppy creation

On Tuesday, May 29, 2001, at 09:00 , Ethan Benson wrote: i wonder what level of hardware access you can get from macperl under macos... might be a quick way to implement a simple dd without having to learn about the crufty macos APIs. Not low-level enough, is my gut feeling. I don't recall see

Specific literature/HOWTOs? .. and a comment

Hi, we managed yesterday to install potato base (2.2 r3) on a really stubborn slot-in iMac. Several things still need to be fixed. Possibly the questions are answered in a FAQ doc or a HOWTO. In that case (or perhaps for other cases) please just tell me the best PPC/Mac specific URLs to look at

Raw I/O doesn't work

I can't get raw i/o to work on my titanium, running unstable and benh kernel. I have the latest util-linux package and the latest everything else as well. When I try to make a raw device for my DVD player, I issue the command "raw /dev/raw0 /dev/hdc", and I simply get the usage message. Even "raw

Re: additional information ad 'which NIC runs under linux/ppc?'

On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 08:55:38AM +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote: > hello again, > > the yellow dog people e.g. state that the DEC 21041 ('Tulip') [c @ > http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/hardware/devices.shtml ] runs > for them -- does this mean that the 21143 does not? If you're waiting to

Re: useable NICs under debian//ppc, booting G4 mac

On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 07:47:06AM +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote: > hello, > > i am relatively new to debian (i used it a few years ago on x86...) > 'cos i moved from SuSE to debian (now guess why ;) > > i do have a few machines at home: > > one pre-gbit g4 (1gig of ram, two ata-discs) > > one pm

Re: Problems with limited numbers of partitions

Ethan Benson wrote: eh? since when do ibooks use scsi disks? in linux ide disks may have up to 63 partitions. MacOS your only limit is the number of file descriptors available, eventually if you have so many HFS partitions mounted (each with all that desktopdb crap open) you run out of fil

Re: Upgrading libc6 problem

Vinod Kurup wrote: > I just did an apt-get upgrade on my unstable powerpc machine and it > upgraded libc6. > > shortly thereafter, I started getting this message in my syslog: > > May 28 22:10:05 localhost inetd[2673]: getpwnam: mail: No such user > > And my mail stopped being delivered. Thanks

Upgrading libc6 problem

Hi all, I just did an apt-get upgrade on my unstable powerpc machine and it upgraded libc6. shortly thereafter, I started getting this message in my syslog: May 28 22:10:05 localhost inetd[2673]: getpwnam: mail: No such user And my mail stopped being delivered. Thanks to the magic of google, I

Re: basic installation on 7200/75 (sucess)

On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 05:58:07AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:38:03PM +0200, morten wrote: > > There are, of course, another problem... > > I do dhcp to get the ip adress, and that works, but when it has gotten its > > IP > > adress it stops communicating with the outs

Re: MacOS floppy creation

On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 08:43:47AM -0500, Craig S. Cottingham wrote: > On Tuesday, May 29, 2001, at 01:52 , Ethan Benson wrote: > > >> -- MacPerl has some modules for both MacBinary and BinHex in > >> Mac::Conversions. But MacPerl would have to be installed. > > > > is MacPerl Free? though thats

Re: basic installation on 7200/75 (sucess)

On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:38:03PM +0200, morten wrote: > I was suggested to look at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc-0105/msg00325.html > which solved the problem. > > Thanks to all for your advice. > > I see the difference being > # ofpath /dev/sda > /bandit/gc/53c94/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: MacOS floppy creation

On Tuesday, May 29, 2001, at 01:52 , Ethan Benson wrote: -- MacPerl has some modules for both MacBinary and BinHex in Mac::Conversions. But MacPerl would have to be installed. is MacPerl Free? though thats a rather bloated way to go. Yes. From : "MacPerl is freely

Re: basic installation on 7200/75 (sucess)

On 22-May-2001 morten wrote: >>> I'm installaing on a powerpc 7200/75 >>> I'm installing debian potato using a network installation >>> I install everything and just before rebooting I do... >>> >>> # ofpath /dev/sda >>> /bandit/gc/53c94/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>> >>> I change /target/etc/quik.conf

XFree86 trouble

-Messaggio originale- Da: Lenticchia Emiliano Inviato: martedì 29 maggio 2001 09.08 A: 'Michel Dänzer' Oggetto: XFree86 trouble I need to run Open Office on my Debian PPC dist 2.2R0 and XFree86 40.b for Permedia2 Video Card but some libs are missing come libXaw.7.0, have try to install

Re: French Keyboard

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (jean-michel jim jm daix) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Sorry , I¹m French ! > > I have download the non-us Debian CD 1 and choose to use the French Keyboard > (EXT2) during the install. > > Well, my problem is that it seems that the map of the keyboard is wron

Re: which mouse protocol?

"David J. Roundy" wrote: > This should be correct if you're using the new input layer (probably the > case). I have no idea how the emulate 3 buttons works. This is from my /etc/sysctl.conf (needs sysctl from the procps package to work, otherwise you have to echo > /proc/...): # mouse button em

ybin 1.2 and BSD booting

Hi, to those wondering about dual booting NetBSD, ybin 1.2 now supports `bsd=' where is either a /dev node or OF device name. this should be set to either the NetBSD bootstrap partition, or ybin's bootstrap partition. if you set it to ybin's bootstrap partition you will need to copy yourself

Re: French Keyboard

On Mon, 28 May 2001, jean-michel jim jm daix wrote: > Sorry , I¹m French ! ca arrive a des gens tres bien ... ;-)) > > Well, my problem is that it seems that the map of the keyboard is wrong. > It¹s ok, it¹s AZERTY instead of QWERTY but the french Q give me à A too. > I¹ve got 2 [A] and no [Q], a

additional information ad 'which NIC runs under linux/ppc?'

hello again, the yellow dog people e.g. state that the DEC 21041 ('Tulip') [c @ http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/hardware/devices.shtml ] runs for them -- does this mean that the 21143 does not? tia, -- msg, timo "The Windows PC: still the ugliest, costliest, most debilitating industri

Re: MacOS floppy creation

On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:07:52PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > Since boot-floppies are EOL, it probably doesn't make sense to pursue this > any further. OTOH, will we have the same problem in DI? Will there still be > binary format boot floppy images? yes, you have to boot somehow. and bootable

Re: MacOS floppy creation

> > Regarding the licensing for a little frob thingie on the CD to make > things easier, I recommend you simply place whatever AppleScript > snippets under the public domain, it's very simple and small and easy. > > Regarding putting things on the CDs at all, please take it up with the > Debian-CD

useable NICs under debian//ppc, booting G4 mac

hello, i am relatively new to debian (i used it a few years ago on x86...) 'cos i moved from SuSE to debian (now guess why ;) i do have a few machines at home: one pre-gbit g4 (1gig of ram, two ata-discs) one pm 8200/120 (64meg, one 1gig scsi hd and one 4gb scsi hd, additional smc 9432tx 'e