Base system stalls during boot

2001-11-26 Thread David Weingart
My system: PowerMac G4/400 PCI Graphics, 160 MB RAM, 2 internal IDE drives - 10 GB Western Digital and a 40 GB Maxtor. My problem: I'm trying to install Woody, so I downloaded the files needed to create an boot/install CD (as per http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html), intending to perf

Re: filesystem for shared disk

2001-11-26 Thread Anthony Lau
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:27:54PM +0100, Fabian Jakobs wrote: > Hi, > > I am planning to by a new HDD and would like to reserve one partition as > shared disk between MacOS 9/X and Linux. Is there a filesestem that is read- > and writable under both systems? How timely! I was just about to ask

Re: filesystem for shared disk

2001-11-26 Thread Anthony Lau
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:34:19PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > HFS (the standard variety). At least there's a kernel module, and it won't > crash each time you use it (there's a good chance of crashing the kernel > by copying large files or deleting directories with lots of files in them > IIRC

Re: Supported models

2001-11-26 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:30:28AM -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: > * Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011125 20:33]: > > Thanks everyone, it's updated now. Send any changes my way. > > Hi there! First, thank you very much for your efforts. I appreciate > being able to install Linux on my OldWorld

Re: French keymap on TiBook ?

2001-11-26 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:03:08PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 15:25, Lionel Bringuier wrote: > > > > > - if I use the standard console-tools, I get a wrong keymap (for > > > > > example > > > > > the '_' gives me a '=' ) > > > > Yes, I experencied the same. Looks like it i

Re: debian-powerpc: closer to solving sawfish crash on TiBook

2001-11-26 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 6:02 PM +1100 11/23/01, Brendan J Simon wrote: Some time ago I asked if anyone had problems with the sawfish window manager crashing on a TiBook (running testing). I have come some what closer to solving the problem. I removed esound and some gnome sound applets (the mixer) and now my mach

Re: filesystem for shared disk

2001-11-26 Thread Derrik Pates
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > vfat ~:^o Except to my knowledge, MacOS doesn't understand the VFAT LFN scheme. Also, what's the OF partition type string for a FAT filesystem? (I assume FAT16 only - does MacOS support FAT32 yet?) Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |

Re: Kernel crashing problems on oldworld

2001-11-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 08:44:31PM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > > Chris Tillman wrote: > > > Another interesting point is that I can run all the ncurses test > > > programs except worm, which crashes in a few seconds, but only when > > > the console it's running on is

Re: filesystem for shared disk

2001-11-26 Thread Andrew Sharp
Fabian Jakobs wrote: > > Hi, > > I am planning to by a new HDD and would like to reserve one partition as > shared disk between MacOS 9/X and Linux. Is there a filesestem that is read- > and writable under both systems? vfat ~:^o

Re: filesystem for shared disk

2001-11-26 Thread Michael Schmitz
> does HFS have any restrictions concerning partition size? HFS doesn't - MockOS might (at least 7.5.x wasn't happy with huge partitions IIRC; 1 GB should be fine though). Michael

Re: filesystem for shared disk

2001-11-26 Thread Rob Latham
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:27:54PM +0100, Fabian Jakobs wrote: > Hi, > > I am planning to by a new HDD and would like to reserve one partition as > shared disk between MacOS 9/X and Linux. Is there a filesestem that is read- > and writable under both systems? msdos if you can call it a file sy

Re: French keymap on TiBook ?

2001-11-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 15:25, Lionel Bringuier wrote: > > > > - if I use the standard console-tools, I get a wrong keymap (for example > > > > the '_' gives me a '=' ) > > > Yes, I experencied the same. Looks like it is mapped as a PC keyboard. > > > Pretty useless in most cases. > > With the 'Apple

Re: filesystem for shared disk

2001-11-26 Thread Fabian Jakobs
Am Montag, 26. November 2001 20:34 schrieb Michael Schmitz: > > I am planning to by a new HDD and would like to reserve one partition as > > shared disk between MacOS 9/X and Linux. Is there a filesestem that is > > read- and writable under both systems? > > HFS (the standard variety). At least the

Re: filesystem for shared disk

2001-11-26 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I am planning to by a new HDD and would like to reserve one partition as > shared disk between MacOS 9/X and Linux. Is there a filesestem that is read- > and writable under both systems? HFS (the standard variety). At least there's a kernel module, and it won't crash each time you use it (there'

Re: Supported models

2001-11-26 Thread Grant Bowman
* Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011125 20:33]: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 11:58:44AM +0200, Andreas W?st wrote: > > This would of course be a fine tool, though I am wondering why not to just > > put > > an up-to-date model list up to > > http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/install.en.html

filesystem for shared disk

2001-11-26 Thread Fabian Jakobs
Hi, I am planning to by a new HDD and would like to reserve one partition as shared disk between MacOS 9/X and Linux. Is there a filesestem that is read- and writable under both systems? mfg Fabian

Re: Switching to 2.4.12 found ADB keycodes (long)

2001-11-26 Thread Ali Bahar
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 05:50:10PM +0100, Michel D<81>nzer wrote: > If ADB keycodes are enabled in the kernel config, > keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes is 0 by default, meaning the keyboard > sends ADB keycodes. That's why we recommend disabling ADB keycodes > in > the kernel config altogether. Tha

Re: HFS+ status

2001-11-26 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Nov 26, John Hughes wrote: > The whole hpxx tool set and the funky way they work is because there > is no current support for mounting an hfs+ file system from within > the linux kernel? That's correct. There's no stable hfs+ driver for the Linux kernel, though the userland hfsplusutils seem

HFS+ status

2001-11-26 Thread John Hughes
I just wanted to confirm via list knowledge: There is no way to write to an HFS+ file system currently in linux? The whole hpxx tool set and the funky way they work is because there is no current support for mounting an hfs+ file system from within the linux kernel? Thanks John

Re: Switching to 2.4.12 found ADB keycodes (long)

2001-11-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 17:26, Ali Bahar wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:49:19PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 00:44, Ali Bahar wrote: > > > A kernel which doesn't support ADB keycodes has no choice but to use > > Linux keycodes. > > That's what I assumed. But then how

Re: Switching to 2.4.12 found ADB keycodes (long)

2001-11-26 Thread Ali Bahar
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:49:19PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 00:44, Ali Bahar wrote: > A kernel which doesn't support ADB keycodes has no choice but to use > Linux keycodes. That's what I assumed. But then how do you explain their apparent co-existance in ... > > Als

Re: yaboot fails on iBook 2001

2001-11-26 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 25/11/01, Siggi Langauf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian GNU/Linux from current powerpc images There are a number of useful ways of getting to install the base system: 1) CD (presently a problem?) 2) HFS partition on your hard drive 3) netboot Firstly, have you tried k

Re: French keymap on TiBook : SOLVED

2001-11-26 Thread franck routier
Well, humm, I've been tooo quick before sending the preceding message... Commenting out 'Option "XkbDisable" in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file solved my problem. Thanks again Franck le dim 25-11-2001 à 15:49, franck routier a écrit : > Hi, > > > > OK. I can provide the keymap I am currently

Re: French keymap on TiBook ?

2001-11-26 Thread franck routier
Hi, > OK. I can provide the keymap I am currently using if it may help (as a > matter of fact, for my French-keybaorded Icebook, it does :). > > However it is available from the web page mentioned before > (http://www.linux-france.org/article/materiel/mac/tc/kbd-mac-fr.tar.gz) > Ok, this one

Re: French keymap on TiBook ?

2001-11-26 Thread Lionel Bringuier
> > > - if I use the standard console-tools, I get a wrong keymap (for example > > > the '_' gives me a '=' ) > > Yes, I experencied the same. Looks like it is mapped as a PC keyboard. > > Pretty useless in most cases. > With the 'Apple USB' variant? It's really meant for all Apple keyboards. > If

Re: Switching to 2.4.12 found ADB keycodes (long)

2001-11-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 00:44, Ali Bahar wrote: > The only reference I see to keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes is in > linux/Documentation/Configure.help. That doc implies the sensible > association between CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES and > keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes. However, it never explicitly says th

Re: French keymap on TiBook ?

2001-11-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 08:32, Lionel Bringuier wrote: > On ven, nov 23, 2001 at 10:07:37 +, franck routier wrote: > > > - if I use the standard console-tools, I get a wrong keymap (for example > > the '_' gives me a '=' ) > Yes, I experencied the same. Looks like it is mapped as a PC keyboard.

Re: French keymap on TiBook ?

2001-11-26 Thread Lionel Bringuier
On ven, nov 23, 2001 at 10:07:37 +, franck routier wrote: > Did anyone manage to use a french keyboard TiBook under debian gnu Linux > ? Well, I don't have a TiBook, but an Ibook 2001 running Woody with Linux keycodes... and I suppose their keyboards are not very different. > - if I use the st