Re: installing debian on ppc

2001-12-06 Thread Anthony Lau
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:50:59AM +0100, Wicher W.O. Deddens wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian on a PPC 8500/150, 96 Mb, 2 Gb HD for > Webserving and Mailserving purposes. I downloaded CD1 for PowerPC, wrote > it to a > bootable disk, made a boot floppy and a root.bin floppy, made partitions

Re: yaboot vs MacOS 9.2.2

2001-12-06 Thread Laurent de Segur
Jack, I just updated to 9.2.2 for the heck of it (never boot into it anymore) and I don't see the problem that you just reported. My partition is of type Apple_Boostrap as the ya* doc recommends, and, as Chris mentioned, it doesn't mount under Mac OS. BTW, Ethan is the new maintainer for the

Re: yaboot vs MacOS 9.2.2

2001-12-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:11:51PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > Hello, >I think some of you folks may run into this problem if you have > upgraded to MacOS 9.2.2 and have a slave drive with a bootstrap > HFS partition along with root and swap ext2/3 partitions on that drive. > It appears that

yaboot vs MacOS 9.2.2

2001-12-06 Thread Jack Howarth
Hello, I think some of you folks may run into this problem if you have upgraded to MacOS 9.2.2 and have a slave drive with a bootstrap HFS partition along with root and swap ext2/3 partitions on that drive. It appears that starting with MacOS 9.2.2, the damn thing is deblessing the bootstrap fi

Re: Dual booting OSX and Debian on G3 beige

2001-12-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 04:45:38PM -0800, Thomas Powell wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:52:59AM +, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > > Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Partition 6 has never been the root partition. Partition 6 is my MacOS > > HFS partition with OSX installed on it. >

Re: XFree86 headers

2001-12-06 Thread Chu J Tan
Found it in xlib6g-dev Thanks - Original Message - From: "Chu J Tan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 6:17 PM Subject: XFree86 headers > Where can I find XFree86 headers and shared libraries? > I was trying to compile QT 3.0 and there were error messages saying

XFree86 headers

2001-12-06 Thread Chu J Tan
Where can I find XFree86 headers and shared libraries? I was trying to compile QT 3.0 and there were error messages saying Xlib.h, etc are missing. The strange part was that ./configure did not spew out any errors. I've checked with debian.org, which did not have anything for potato. Checking at

Re: Dual booting OSX and Debian on G3 beige

2001-12-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:52:59AM +, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What if I installed MacOSX behind Linux ? Would that help at all ? Yes, that's what's recommended for dealing with Mac OSX in the yaboot howto and install manuals. But you have to instal

Re: Problem installing Debian on B&W G3 Server

2001-12-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 05:34:51PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 17:11, Pan wrote: > > Sorry for the huge mail... I figured it out... too much RAM I guess. I > > took out 512 and the installer booted... > > Note that this is probably just a limitation of the install kernel (I

Re: Dual booting OSX and Debian on G3 beige

2001-12-06 Thread Thomas Powell
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:52:59AM +, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Partition 6 has never been the root partition. Partition 6 is my MacOS > HFS partition with OSX installed on it. > > > What's happening is what quik is warning you about when you run it.

Re: RS/6000 43P-140 install

2001-12-06 Thread Jens Kutilek
Am Mittwoch den, 5. Dezember 2001, um 09:48, schrieb Benny Siegert: 2.4 kernel. Do not even _try_ to use a 2.2 kernel with a RS/6000. It depends on the processor type. I've had a SuSE 6.x (kernel 2.2) running on a RS/6000 B50 (PPC 604r) for a year (now Debian potato, kernel 2.4). Have both of y

Re: m3mirror...

2001-12-06 Thread David N. Welton
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >I wonder what this is about anyway? Why doesn't it find an > >address? 'B' doesn't have one, but 'A' does, so why is it using > >'B'? > This error is harmless and has always been there. It's about the > second head of the M3, and it's just f

Re: 2.4.x kernel crashing

2001-12-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 01:00, Russell Hires wrote: > > > If that was the only problem... when you're in xmon, bad things have > > happened and everything is interrupted. Only when you exit xmon (by > > entering 'x') does the system continue to run. So there is no filesystem > > access in xmon. > Ty

Re: m3mirror...

2001-12-06 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 9:57 PM +0100 12/6/01, David N. Welton wrote: Just out of curiousity, would you mind sending an strace of a successful run to the list: attached. -- __ Eric: I want to live in a world where software doesn't suck // R

Re: m3mirror...

2001-12-06 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> >I have updated to the latest benh kernel and get this WRT to the video >> >system: > >> >aty128fb: Rage Mobility M3 (AGP) [chip rev 0x0] 8M 128-bit SDR SGRAM (1:1) >> >Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 >> >Registe

Re: m3mirror...

2001-12-06 Thread David N. Welton
Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >I have updated to the latest benh kernel and get this WRT to the video > >system: > >aty128fb: Rage Mobility M3 (AGP) [chip rev 0x0] 8M 128-bit SDR SGRAM (1:1) > >Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 > >Registered "ati

Re: m3mirror...

2001-12-06 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
I have updated to the latest benh kernel and get this WRT to the video system: aty128fb: Rage Mobility M3 (AGP) [chip rev 0x0] 8M 128-bit SDR SGRAM (1:1) Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 Registered "ati" backlight controller, level: 14/15 fb0: ATY Rage128 frame buffer devic

Re: m3mirror...

2001-12-06 Thread David N. Welton
"Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So, what kernel does one need to make this function on an older > > tibook? I have stock 2.4.14 (I use this computer for work and > > need relatively stable kernels). Would upgrading to .16 fix it? > m3mirror has always worked fine for my on Be

Re: mozilla on sid

2001-12-06 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 8:49 AM -0500 12/6/01, Jack Howarth wrote: I would be extremely interested to hear if anyone else has seen this behavior which seemed to develop in mozilla at the 0.9.6 release. Yes, I'm having the same problem with woody, but running the mozilla from sid. --

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Re: Antw: Re: RS/6000 43P-140 install

2001-12-06 Thread Shaun Kruger
I have been having some problems that sound very similar for my RS/6000. I havn't been able to get any of the debian disks to come up and provide me a root filesystem running dbootstrap. Before this, when putting the default CD in I was also getting SCSI errors with the 53C8xx driver. I found thr

Re: Problem installing Debian on B&W G3 Server

2001-12-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 17:11, Pan wrote: > Sorry for the huge mail... I figured it out... too much RAM I guess. I > took out 512 and the installer booted... Note that this is probably just a limitation of the install kernel (IIRC PPC kernels require CONFIG_HIGHMEM for more than around 700M of RAM),

Re: Problem installing Debian on B&W G3 Server

2001-12-06 Thread Pan
Sorry for the huge mail... I figured it out... too much RAM I guess. I took out 512 and the installer booted... Benja On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Pan wrote: > Hi > > I have a Blue&White G3 (Server) and I was trying to install debian on it. > > My OF version says Apple PowerMac1,1 1.1f4 BootROM built on

Re: iBook2 touch pad mouse

2001-12-06 Thread Josh Huber
Daniel Lamblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In order to solve this I downloaded the trackpad 0.1.0 rpm for > yellow dog linux, and used alien to install it on my system. Its > pretty minimal and there's probably a different way of getting the > same functionality these days (or else I expect it

Re: Antw: Re: RS/6000 43P-140 install

2001-12-06 Thread Kovacs Richard
Hi, On Thu Dec 6 09:18:48 2001 Benny Siegert wrote: > Nor do I :-). Seriously, I haven't got a kernel to fully boot yet. At > some time during my tests, I installed AIX. When I switch on the RS/6K I have a working kernel (2.4.15 with a ppc patch :)! But: What root floppy to use. I downloaded a

Re: debian (sid)

2001-12-06 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > I find that deb packages for potato are not really up to date. Eg. qt is in > > v2.0, kde is not available. > > potato is the stable release so the most recent packages don't always > get in there. you don't need to upgrade to sid though, you can upgrade s/not always/never/ (unlss they fix sec

mozilla on sid

2001-12-06 Thread Jack Howarth
Hello, Is anyone else having any problems runnng mozilla under debian ppc sid? In the last few 0.9.6 releases I have seen a variety of launch problems. Initially neither typing mozilla at a gnome console or using the mozilla dock menu item would successfully start up mozilla-bin. I found that I

Re: debian (sid)

2001-12-06 Thread arne scheffler
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 19:53, Chu J Tan wrote: > Can someone explain to me why is there the need to upgrade to sid which is > still in development? > I find that deb packages for potato are not really up to date. Eg. qt is in > v2.0, kde is not available. > Can I download the source for KDE

Re: Dual booting OSX and Debian on G3 beige

2001-12-06 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Running quik produces the following warning : > > Warning: prior partition (entry 6) is bootable > > Ah hah. You have run quik before, when partition 6 was the root > partition. Partition 6 has never been the root partition. Partition 6 is my MacOS

Antw: Re: RS/6000 43P-140 install

2001-12-06 Thread Benny Siegert
Hi! >>> Kovacs Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05.12.2001 20.29 Uhr >>> On Wed Dec 5 09:48:20 2001 Benny Siegert wrote: >> I also had exactly the same problem. For me, it worked when using a >> 2.4 kernel. Do not even _try_ to use a 2.2 kernel with a RS/6000. > > Forgive my writing to you again, but

Re: iBook2 touch pad mouse

2001-12-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 05:17, Daniel Lamblin wrote: > On Dec 5, John Hughes wrote: > > the track pad on my iBook2 has always been extremely sensitive and > > erratic. It jumps arround, and is nealy unuseable. What can I do about > > this? > > Although you're addressing the pointing ability of t

Problem installing Debian on B&W G3 Server

2001-12-06 Thread Pan
Hi I have a Blue&White G3 (Server) and I was trying to install debian on it. My OF version says Apple PowerMac1,1 1.1f4 BootROM built on 04/09/99 OF version 3.1.1 I tried everything I could imagine, everything that I could find online... This is the story... let's see if someone can help me. I