Re: RS/6000 43P-140 install?

2002-03-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 09:28:55AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > Does anyone have any ideas about getting Debian working on an RS/6000 > 43P-140? I > rescued one from a junk pile and though it'd make a decent enough Apache box. > At > first I thought it was a prep architechture

RS/6000 43P-140 install?

2002-03-04 Thread gavin . walker
Hi, Does anyone have any ideas about getting Debian working on an RS/6000 43P-140? I rescued one from a junk pile and though it'd make a decent enough Apache box. At first I thought it was a prep architechture machine, but the floppies didn't boot, so then I tried chrp, and those floppies didn't

Re: Quake binaries

2002-03-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Son, 2002-03-03 at 09:39, Patrick Klee wrote: > A while back, I ask you guys to hunt down quake-svga, quakeworld and > quake-x11 for debian powerpc. Not quakeforge. Happily, the person > packaging these items sent his URL. I lost it. So, if that person is > still on this list, Please

ppp problem with starmax 3000/200

2002-03-04 Thread John Web
I have been trying to install linux on a Starmax 3000/200, everything else works fine, but I could not make the ppp work (I tried both the debian and Linuxppc distribution). I checked the modem (external, orginaly macintosh oriented, but work with intel-based pc too) and script on my intel-based pc

Re: firewire hard drive

2002-03-04 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:18:21PM +0100, Herv? MATHIEU wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to install debian on a external firewire hard drive and to > boot it normaly ? I have a powerbook G4. (the openfirmware is updated). Boot is no problem, OF handles it pretty well. Linux, however, does not han

firewire hard drive

2002-03-04 Thread Hervé MATHIEU
Hi, is it possible to install debian on a external firewire hard drive and to boot it normaly ? I have a powerbook G4. (the openfirmware is updated). Thanks, Hervé

Re: hfs related crashes

2002-03-04 Thread nik gaffney
> > Do not use the HFS file system support in the kernel. If you want to > access HFS partitions, use the tools from the hfsutils package which > are stable and do not corrupt data. the problem with this is it doesnt integrate too well with the non hfsutil programs (expect perhaps thru the kio

Re: hfs related crashes

2002-03-04 Thread benh
> currently im having consistent (but erratic) problems reading from an hfs >partition using kmail. im not sure what the problem is, but quite often when >i try to access a mail folder which is symlinked to the hfs partition, i get >some nice blakc lines at the top of my screen + the system is comp

Re: hfs related crashes

2002-03-04 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, nik gaffney writes: > any ideas on how to improve this situation?+ Do not use the HFS file system support in the kernel. If you want to access HFS partitions, use the tools from the hfsutils package which are stable and do not corrupt data. If you want a partition that you can share betwee

Re: Newbie looking for Linux distro for PowerMac 8100/80

2002-03-04 Thread Derrik Pates
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:14:56AM -0500, David Roundy wrote: > I believe this machine is a nubus Mac, which isn't supported by the > standard linux kernel, only by the older mklinux kernel. You could > probably manage to use debian together with the mklinux kernel, but I doubt > it would be easy.

Re: Woody install docs and Nubus

2002-03-04 Thread Joel Stutman
Derrik - I had mkLinux up on my 7100/66 (about a year ago), it worked, but very buggy, and I didn't have time to play with it. From time to time I review the LINUX world to see what's happenning, and, last week, I found your note mentioning a way to get Woody up on your 6100, and spent the weeke

hfs related crashes

2002-03-04 Thread nik gaffney
hi, currently im having consistent (but erratic) problems reading from an hfs partition using kmail. im not sure what the problem is, but quite often when i try to access a mail folder which is symlinked to the hfs partition, i get some nice blakc lines at the top of my screen + the system is comp

Re: Newbie looking for Linux distro for PowerMac 8100/80

2002-03-04 Thread Charles Sebold
On 19 Adar 5762, Chris Tillman wrote: > No, it's a NuBus machine. But there was a message posted here last > week about the place to go, IIRC nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net or > something of the kind. That's the one. It's an old kernel but it works surprisingly well. -- Charles Sebold

Re: Newbie looking for Linux distro for PowerMac 8100/80

2002-03-04 Thread David Roundy
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:25:56PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > Hi List > > For reasons I won't go into, I've been trying to install MkLinux PR1 > on a 8100/80 for about a month - belatedly I get the distinct > impression that it has not been supported/developed for some time. > Needless to sa

Re: Antw: Re: Install a Debian in an E/30

2002-03-04 Thread Benny Siegert
>>> christian mock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02.03.2002 12.31 Uhr >>> > > Alas, I have lost most of the RS/6000 kernel files in a hard disk crash, > > so I do not have the config file for this kernel. The driver that fails is > > the one under CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2. The other 53C8XX drivers > > av

Re: help can't use the boot-floppies

2002-03-04 Thread jan
Chris Tillman wrote: The hfs-boot-floppy is not a linux boot floppy (please read the powerpc install manual). Instead of trying to boot it directly from OF, you just insert the floppy and start the Mac. That is true unless you have auto-boot? = no in OF. If so, then when OF shows, type bye