Re: Debian PPC Installation

2001-07-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 04:14:44PM -0500, samuel rose wrote: > I've got two machines. One is a PPC 7500 with an internal 1 Gb drive, > and an external 4 Gb scsi drive. I've also got a B&W G3 300mhz with a > 6Gb internal drive. > > On the Blue and White, I was hoping to buy external firewire drives

Re: serial printer

2001-07-08 Thread Philipp Kaeser
hej, > > I'm running debian 2.2r3 on a PowerMac 7300, and am > > trying to get an Apple LaserWriter Select 310 running > > on the serial port. > > [... blabla ...] > I'm pretty sure that's normally an Appletalk printer. You might search the > list archives, I think there's been some discussion in

Debian PPC Installation

2001-07-08 Thread samuel rose
I've got two machines. One is a PPC 7500 with an internal 1 Gb drive, and an external 4 Gb scsi drive. I've also got a B&W G3 300mhz with a 6Gb internal drive. On the Blue and White, I was hoping to buy external firewire drives to boot from, while leaving mac OS 9.0 on the internal drive. Does Deb

Re: serial printer

2001-07-08 Thread Chris Tillman
> hej, > > I'm running debian 2.2r3 on a PowerMac 7300, and am > trying to get an Apple LaserWriter Select 310 running > on the serial port. > > So far (after several freeze-up, kernel-compiles and > lots of time), the state is as follows: > - the serial port on the mac works (tested with a modem)

Re: Help with XFree86 V4.10 and Voodoo3

2001-07-08 Thread Anthony Lau
At 10:47 AM -0400 7/8/2001, Russell Hires wrote: Yeah, I had this problem myself until a helpful soul pointed me to: http://v.favrenicolin.free.fr/linuxppc/linuxppc-tdfx.php3 Unfortunately, the patch I got from here only works on the sources listed. At least, I haven't figured out how to patch an

Debian on PPC IBM Type 6015 / Nobis

2001-07-08 Thread chris
Hi @ll, did anybody suceed in setting up DEBIAN on this system (IBM Type 6015 / Nobis)? It seems to be very strange... :-( After having created sereval bootdisks the system 'boots up' an than dies whatever of without telling me where or why *grgrg* (hardware seems to be manufactured in 1994 / 95)

Re: new ibook (icebook) with debian ppc

2001-07-08 Thread David N. Welton
"Dhruva B. Reddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On a similar note, can anyone who has experience with Linux on a PPC > comment on software support? Unfortunately, I find myself running > closed-source apps (such as StarOffice). I have been toying with > the idea of buying a PowerBook G4. You co

Re: Help with XFree86 V4.10 and Voodoo3

2001-07-08 Thread Russell Hires
Yeah, I had this problem myself until a helpful soul pointed me to: http://v.favrenicolin.free.fr/linuxppc/linuxppc-tdfx.php3 Unfortunately, the patch I got from here only works on the sources listed. At least, I haven't figured out how to patch any other kernel... HTH Russell PS I can also se

serial printer

2001-07-08 Thread Philipp Kaeser
hej, I'm running debian 2.2r3 on a PowerMac 7300, and am trying to get an Apple LaserWriter Select 310 running on the serial port. So far (after several freeze-up, kernel-compiles and lots of time), the state is as follows: - the serial port on the mac works (tested with a modem) - the printer w

Re: reading linux from MacOs

2001-07-08 Thread Michel Lanners
On 7 Jul, this message from Ethan Benson echoed through cyberspace: >> subsequently mount a local HFS+ partition read/write, for access though >> MOL? > > yup, the MacOS in mol can read HFS+ just as it always could. as far > as macos cares all your partitions are giant floppy disks. all teh