Re: xfs install on powermac?

2002-10-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:57:03PM -0700, Evan Martin wrote: > I saw somewhere (was it this list?) that ext3 is what has been causing > my laptop's hard drive to spin up every few seconds after it has spun down. > > I'd like to reinstall with a better file system, but I read that Reiser > doesn'

Re: preparing for an install

2002-10-14 Thread Jim McLoughlin
I am preparing to install Debian on my dual-G4 system. I even have a spare partition I can put it on (I don't have any desire to get rid of MacOS or the various partitions I have made to deal with it). I was hoping to follow the instructions in http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html but it s

xfs install on powermac?

2002-10-14 Thread Evan Martin
I saw somewhere (was it this list?) that ext3 is what has been causing my laptop's hard drive to spin up every few seconds after it has spun down. I'd like to reinstall with a better file system, but I read that Reiser doesn't work with noflushd and XFS does. After much googling, it seems som

Re: preparing for an install

2002-10-14 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 14 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > The big problem I always had with that boot loader was the loong > wait while it searched for an Ethernet netboot image, if there is > none. I have the same problem. > I never really tried to use it to boot Linux; Well, it works with Lin

Re: preparing for an install

2002-10-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:47:56PM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > I am preparing to install Debian on my dual-G4 system. I even have a > spare partition I can put it on (I don't have any desire to get rid of > MacOS or the various partitions I have made to deal with it). I was > hoping to follow t

preparing for an install

2002-10-14 Thread Gregory Seidman
I am preparing to install Debian on my dual-G4 system. I even have a spare partition I can put it on (I don't have any desire to get rid of MacOS or the various partitions I have made to deal with it). I was hoping to follow the instructions in http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html but it se

Re: Woody Install Error

2002-10-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 03:42:18PM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I got my hands on a 400MHZ G4 and am trying to install Woody. > > I downloaded the netinstall CD's and began the install. I have done > this a bunch of times before on x86 and PPC, so I am no stranger to > the whole process. >

Re: Woody Install Error

2002-10-14 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 15:42, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > debootstrap exited with an error (return value 1)" Can you switch to the console with the debugging output of debootstrap (I think that's vt 4) and see if there is anything obvious there?

Re: bi-G4 1.25Ghz

2002-10-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 07:44:14PM +0200, Eric Deveaud wrote: > > Hi, > > Santa-claus comes today with this new machine. > I've asked him to add a SCSI card and a 73Gb SCSI disk, in order to put > linux. > > the SCSI card is an adaptec 29160N > > whille trying to boot on the debian-30r0-p

Re: Install debian on powerbook 3400c

2002-10-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 01:40:06AM +0200, Gilles Hooghe wrote: > As you did, I would like to install debian GNU/Linux on my laptop > powerbook 3400c. > > I have followed the instructions given by Debian.org for installation on > powerpc. But I'm stuck on one of the first steps. I've been to the Op

Re: I've messed up yaboot, it won't boot linux or OS X

2002-10-14 Thread Michael Heironimus
If you have an HFS partition you can probably drop a copy of yaboot and a yaboot.conf file on it and boot it from the Open Firmware prompt. "boot hd:##,yaboot", I think. You'll have to create a working yaboot.conf to do that, of course. That should get you in to Linux, where you can make your fixes

Re: I've messed up yaboot, it won't boot linux or OS X

2002-10-14 Thread Claas Langbehn
Hi. You could boot with an install CD and go to console 2 right away. Then you have got a terminal. You can mount your linux partition, edit /etc/yaboot.conf and rerun ybin. that worked here :) Bye, Claas

I've messed up yaboot, it won't boot linux or OS X

2002-10-14 Thread Harold Martin
Hello, After I installed Debian, I couldn't get yaboot to boot OS X and made some changes which then disabled me from getting Linux or OS X. I the tried to reset the firmware to boot OS X and skip the boot partition(hda2) but I couldn't get that to work. I held down the option key and was able

Re: bi-G4 1.25Ghz

2002-10-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > Hi, > >Santa-claus comes today with this new machine. >I've asked him to add a SCSI card and a 73Gb SCSI disk, in order to put >linux. > >the SCSI card is an adaptec 29160N Hrm... This machine isn't yet pefectly supported, it would help if I could have physical access to one of those for

Re: iBook2 (700Mhz-14") : XFree very *very* slow

2002-10-14 Thread Michael Zender
--- Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It should normally be fast, it certainly is here. > > Delays of several > seconds sounds like some sort of timeout (DNS?), or > i thought it too. But that's not the case: my startup files are normal. > > is there a lot of > disk activity, which c

Woody Install Error

2002-10-14 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I got my hands on a 400MHZ G4 and am trying to install Woody. I downloaded the netinstall CD's and began the install. I have done this a bunch of times before on x86 and PPC, so I am no stranger to the whole process. After the install process downloaded the base install, I get the following messa

GUADAGNARE DAVVERO, LEGGI E CAPIRAI !!!!!

2002-10-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FAI ATTENZIONE PERCHE' CON QUESTO SISTEMA GUADAGNI DAVVERO ! (se il messaggio vi e' arrivato piu volte scusate ma, …leggetelo…..) Vorresti Davvero Guadagnare con Internet? Bene, la prima cosa da fare è salvare su disco questa pagina per averla a portata di mano anche se il tuo PC no

Re: Short battery life on Powerbook Prismo

2002-10-14 Thread Michel Lanners
On 14 Oct, this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] echoed through cyberspace: > Damn. I'll go searching though, since in Japan, they seem to keep old > parts around. Hmmm.. > Any possibility of reconditioning the battery? Once upon a time, when I was sill using a Powerbook 520 under MacOS, there w

Printing with CUPS

2002-10-14 Thread John Lord
Hi folks, I have installed CUPS from Testing and am trying to get my Epson Stylus Photo 700 to print with it. It is connected to the parellel port as normal, but is not found. When I configure CUPS with the web i/f the location setting is localhost:port631, Class State is idle, accepting jobs

Re: Short battery life on Powerbook Prismo

2002-10-14 Thread Michael Flaig
Am Mon, 2002-10-14 um 03.09 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi all, > [...] > If anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. Hi! I had 2 battery packs in my pismo for the last 2 years. 3 - 4 month ago I got only 1 hour out of each ... instead of 4 hours each when they were new. I charded them

bi-G4 1.25Ghz

2002-10-14 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, Santa-claus comes today with this new machine. I've asked him to add a SCSI card and a 73Gb SCSI disk, in order to put linux. the SCSI card is an adaptec 29160N whille trying to boot on the debian-30r0-powerpc-binary-1, bad luck, neither the ata100 drive, neither the SCSI disk are s

missing list mail - test

2002-10-14 Thread Adam
Sorry for this test but I have been missing my mail for a week and I just want to see if this goes through.  I apologize for any inconvenience and rudeness. -Adam

zaurus on linux and powerpc

2002-10-14 Thread Adam
Has anyone developed drivers and the ability to sync the zaurus on the powerpc yet?  I have bee wanting to switch from my palm the the zaurus.  Thanks, -Adam

Re: chessy frickin keyboards.

2002-10-14 Thread Adam Lazur
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > i just broke my ibook2 keyboard, dropped something on it (LIGHTLY!) > and the shift key broke, anyone know where i could score a new shift > key so i dont have to buy the whole keyboard again? pbparts.com sells ibook kbd shift keys for $20. -- Adam L

Re: iBook2 (700Mhz-14") : XFree very *very* slow

2002-10-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 09:56, Michael Zender wrote: > > --- Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > > > One thing to be aware of is that our agpgart > > implementation leaks the > > memory it uses for AGP yet, so every time the DRM > > initializes AGP, you > > lose 8 MB of R

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Re: iBook2 (700Mhz-14") : XFree very *very* slow

2002-10-14 Thread Michael Zender
--- Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > One thing to be aware of is that our agpgart > implementation leaks the > memory it uses for AGP yet, so every time the DRM > initializes AGP, you > lose 8 MB of RAM (you can decrease that to 4 with > Option "AGPSize" > though) until the

chessy frickin keyboards.

2002-10-14 Thread magrini
hi, i just broke my ibook2 keyboard, dropped something on it (LIGHTLY!) and the shift key broke, anyone know where i could score a new shift key so i dont have to buy the whole keyboard again? thanks john