basic mac os newbie questions

I'm tring to install debian on my laptop here, but I don't have a floppy drive :/ I don't have linux working yet, I still have to get mac os on there so i can boot it. I have a disk image I need to mount, only the disk copy that comes with mac os 8.0 is too damn stupid to let me mount it because th

powerbook, 100% done!!!

thx to all!! now it is my time... coming soon "debian-on-powerbook-italian.HOWTO" :-) Ivan p.s. my 2 cents timidity works correctly using a buffer lesser than 2048, the default 8192 is too big and a lot of sound data are lost using -B n,8 in the command line works fine ( n buffers of 2

Re: hotmail plaintext

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 11:04:22AM -0400, Noah John wrote: > yes, it is VERY possible to turn off html in hotmail. in the compose > message page you just uncheck rich text format. Yep, but that only shows in Microsoft browsers... > > sorry for using hotmail in the first place, but i got in be4

Re: R_PPC_REL24 relocation out of range

> this code works on x86 so i believe it's a ppc-specific problem. using > -fPIC everywhere reduced the number of these errors but didn't eliminate > them. (i may try rebuilding libc6 with the recommended patch to see if it > helps) The symbol wasn't va_arg_type_violation so it's not what I suspec

Re: R_PPC_REL24 relocation out of range

this code works on x86 so i believe it's a ppc-specific problem. using -fPIC everywhere reduced the number of these errors but didn't eliminate them. (i may try rebuilding libc6 with the recommended patch to see if it helps) these are modules that are being loaded "manually" using dlopen: dlopen(

Re: Thanks Ibook - kernel sources

>Thaks for all. >I' ve just start with yaboot , I only change one line in my yaboot.conf >partition=4 >and run mkofboot >then I run ybin and OK.I can boot without cd. >More Problems: >I want to complile one kernel for the ibook, it's necesary one >patch?.I've compile much kernels for i386,but never

accelerated x on lombard powerbook g3

After researching the possibility of running xfree4 with accelerated graphics on my lombard powerbook (ati rage lt pro gfx chip) I discovered that the information available seems to be mostly linuxppc/yellowdog specific and it is also in fragments. Could somebody please summarise the options avail