Re: burning cds on tibook with cdrdao?

2002-07-29 Thread Toby Sargeant
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 10:40:59PM +1000, Toby Sargeant wrote: > Has anyone had any luck? > (Just responding so that the archives reflect the full situation) Mea Culpa. I can happily report that cdrdao actually works just fine, and the problem lies in the fact that I incorrectly expected that t

Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - Success & boot-floppies/debian-installer

2002-07-29 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 18:11, Rolf Brudeseth wrote: > Well, I was finally able to get Woody installed on an IBM 44P-170 (Power3) > system. Cool! > I can document the steps if there is an interest. I booted via BOOTP/tftp, > downloaded the kernel, basedebs.tar and driver.tgz with wget, and got the

Re: AOL, PengAOL and Debian-PPC

2002-07-29 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 20:50, Falk Husemann wrote: > I tried to compile peng AOL to be able to use my AOL-Flatrate (no other > provider aviable here) but i failed becaue of an variabl '486'. I think > that means its only compilable on a x86 machine which I do not own. If it's something like -m4

Re: burning cds on tibook with cdrdao?

2002-07-29 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 14:40, Toby Sargeant wrote: > > I have the ide-scsi module working, cdrdao finds the drive, and although > it isn't listed as supported, using --driver generic-mmc seems to do the > right thing. > > The burnt CD has a good directory structure, but trying to read the > files

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2002-07-29 Thread Craig Morehouse
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Re: Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - Success & boot-floppies/debian-installer

2002-07-29 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
El lun, 29-07-2002 a las 18:11, Rolf Brudeseth escribió: > Well, I was finally able to get Woody installed on an IBM 44P-170 (Power3) > system. > > I can document the steps if there is an interest. I booted via BOOTP/tftp, > downloaded the kernel, basedebs.tar and driver.tgz with wget, and got the

Woody installation on IBM 44P-170 - Success & boot-floppies/debian-installer

2002-07-29 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
Well, I was finally able to get Woody installed on an IBM 44P-170 (Power3) system. I can document the steps if there is an interest. I booted via BOOTP/tftp, downloaded the kernel, basedebs.tar and driver.tgz with wget, and got the rest with dselect/apt. I do not think that 'boot-floppies' would

Re: Troubleshooting X server

2002-07-29 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 20:32, Michael Hackett wrote: > On 28 Jul 2002 14:26:01 +0200 > Michel D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If Option "NoAccel" > > helps, you can play with the "XaaNo..." options to isolate the > > offending acceleration function; the server lists the functions it > > uses in

re: problem with package locales on unstable

2002-07-29 Thread Jack Howarth
This problem installing locales-2.2.5-12 is due to a failure in the last build of glibc on powerpc. The origin of that problem was that a flaw in the glibc debian build scripts was being tickled by the new stricter fileutils in unstable. Other arches happened not to have the unstable version o

problem with package locales on unstable

2002-07-29 Thread Arlo le Rouge
Hi I have installed a Debian on my g4. I upgraded to "unstable" because I wanted to try some unstable packages not found in stable. When I try to install the locales package, apt tells me that it requires glibc-2.2.5-12, which is not available. I would like either to downgrade the system to testi

Re: Troubleshooting X server

2002-07-29 Thread Michael Hackett
On 28 Jul 2002 14:26:01 +0200 Michel D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That doesn't tell a lot. As Chris said, the server log should > > > contain more information, but you might have to start X directly > > > instead of via a display manager for it to be available. > > > > There was nothing in

Re: Slow disk performance (was: Re: install help 6400/200)

2002-07-29 Thread Rogerio Saran
Michael, thank you for the corrections. I have some comments may also be useful for those considering an old PowerMac as a Debian platform. Now I am building a Debian high performance server using an 8500 as the base system, and I hope the experience help people trying to use Debian on the Pow

Re: Newbie install problems - Please help

2002-07-29 Thread Brad Lipinski
> From: Melissa Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 06:54:19 -0500 > To: Brad Lipinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Newbie install problems - Please help > > On 7/25/02 at 3:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad Lipinski) wrote: > >> I have an Power Computing 210 with a G3 450Mhz u

burning cds on tibook with cdrdao?

2002-07-29 Thread Toby Sargeant
Has anyone had any luck? I have the ide-scsi module working, cdrdao finds the drive, and although it isn't listed as supported, using --driver generic-mmc seems to do the right thing. The burnt CD has a good directory structure, but trying to read the files results in I/O errors. the relevant de

Re: problems with woody quik on beige g3 300

2002-07-29 Thread Michel Lanners
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