Daily Boot Floppy attempt on Beige G3

2004-09-29 Thread Duane Cottle
I did something I never thought today: I bought a couple boxes of floppies. deja vu I know this may be a bit redundant, but I wanted Sven L. and Rick T. to know I tried to use the PowerPC daily floppies from http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy-2.4/ http://people.d

Re: Bug#273986: Quasi-successful Installation - Sarge netinst rc1 on Beige G3

2004-09-29 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wednesday, September 29, 2004, at 02:56 AM, Duane Cottle wrote: Partition notes: As I was playing around in the partitioner, I decided to delete the 32.2K partion #1 on the scsi drive called Apple. After the partitions were displayed once again on the screen, I noticed a 32.2K hole on the

Re: No HFS driver, and "change install priority" menu option missing -- and other bugs found while testing 2.4 boot floppies on OldWorld PowerMac

2004-09-29 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wednesday, September 29, 2004, at 01:30 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, However... There is one important thing missing from the boot disks. Specifically, the "System" file is zero length. This is true of both boot and ofonlyboot for both 2.4 and 2.6. It won't boot that way. Arg, again. I

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Re: Running macosx/macos9 applications from linux

2004-09-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/09/04 19:41), Eduardo Trápani wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to run macosx or macos9 applications from Linux ppc? > > I just received a CD with an application that will run nicely on another > iMac FP with MacOSX, but even though I have MacOSX installed on mine, I've > only booted it on

Re: Running macosx/macos9 applications from linux

2004-09-29 Thread david
you can use mol (mac on linux) emulation. Works pretty well. http://www.maconlinux.org/ it has packages in testing (which i use) david On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 07:41, Eduardo Trápani wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to run macosx or macos9 applications from Linux ppc? > > I just received a CD wit

Re: Apt-installed kernel-image-2.6.8-power4 will not boot a PowerMac G4!!

2004-09-29 Thread Sebastian Tennant
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:00:16 +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sebastian Tennant writes: > >> No keyboard. Not even garbage. Cannot login :-/ > > May I venture the guess that you have a USB keyboard? Support for > those is modular, so you must make sure it gets loaded, either by > addi

Running macosx/macos9 applications from linux

2004-09-29 Thread Eduardo Trápani
Hi, Is there a way to run macosx or macos9 applications from Linux ppc? I just received a CD with an application that will run nicely on another iMac FP with MacOSX, but even though I have MacOSX installed on mine, I've only booted it once, to change the setting that says what to do when the p

internet slow with kernel 2.6

2004-09-29 Thread Martin Kuball
Hi! Since I switched from kernel 2.4 to 2.6 (2.6.7) I observed that surfing the internet (via dsl) has become painfully slow. The absolute speed does not seem to be affected. But each individual request (very noticable when a page has many images) seems to take ages to complete. Any idea about

Re: Apt-installed kernel-image-2.6.8-power4 will not boot a PowerMac G4!!

2004-09-29 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sebastian Tennant writes: > No keyboard. Not even garbage. Cannot login :-/ May I venture the guess that you have a USB keyboard? Support for those is modular, so you must make sure it gets loaded, either by adding it manually to /etc/modules or /etc/mkinitrd/modules, or by installing a h

Re: Apt-installed kernel-image-2.6.8-power4 will not boot a PowerMac G4!!

2004-09-29 Thread Sebastian Tennant
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:14:28 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (29/09/04 18:11), Sebastian Tennant wrote: >> I've been tracking testing with Ethan Benson's stable-ish 2.4.18-newpmac for >> several months now and discovered quite early on that any version of yaboot >> newer than the proposed-update

trying to find my airport card

2004-09-29 Thread Marc F Rios
Hi folks, I am using an ibook 800mhz G3, sid w/ 2.4.26 kernel found on ppckernel.org (the bitkeeper stable ibook kernel) problem: under the previous kernel, the laptop knew that eth1 was the airport card. Now, the kernel does not know where the card is. -airport module is installed, loaded -iwc

Re: Apt-installed kernel-image-2.6.8-power4 will not boot a PowerMac G4!!

2004-09-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/09/04 18:11), Sebastian Tennant wrote: > Nor would a self-compiled custom 2.6.6 stock Debian source! > > I've been tracking testing with Ethan Benson's stable-ish 2.4.18-newpmac for > several months now and discovered quite early on that any version of yaboot > newer than the proposed-updat

Re: Apt-installed kernel-image-2.6.8-power4 will not boot a PowerMac G4!!

2004-09-29 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, > Apt-installed kernel-image-2.6.8-power4 will not boot a PowerMac G4!! The -power4 flavour is for machines with POWER4 processors, such as the IBM pSeries and the Apple PowerMac G5. On a PowerMac G4, you need -powerpc. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et

Re: No HFS driver, and "change install priority" menu option missing -- and other bugs found while testing 2.4 boot floppies on OldWorld PowerMac

2004-09-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, > > However... There is one important thing missing from the boot > > disks. Specifically, the "System" file is zero length. This is > > true of both boot and ofonlyboot for both 2.4 and 2.6. It won't > > boot that way. > Arg, again. I have to checkup and see what is missing in the build pr

Apt-installed kernel-image-2.6.8-power4 will not boot a PowerMac G4!!

2004-09-29 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Nor would a self-compiled custom 2.6.6 stock Debian source! I've been tracking testing with Ethan Benson's stable-ish 2.4.18-newpmac for several months now and discovered quite early on that any version of yaboot newer than the proposed-update version, (I can't access the actual version number at

Re: Virtual Terminals busted?

2004-09-29 Thread Mark Ferry
Joshua Narins wrote (Re: Virtual Terminals busted?): Switching between them has worked for me, for at least a year. Now it doesn't. Any ideas? Quickly, I boot into 1, and startx into 7, and can only see 1 again, and only if I exit the window manager. The same problem here, running Gentoo on

Virtual Terminals busted?

2004-09-29 Thread Joshua Narins
Switching between them has worked for me, for at least a year. Now it doesn't. Any ideas? Quickly, I boot into 1, and startx into 7, and can only see 1 again, and only if I exit the window manager. Thanks in advance, Josh P.S. Is there a program that will put the screen to sleep if I slide t

Re: Disable trackpad while typing on alubook.

2004-09-29 Thread Alexander Clausen
Hi, On Mit, Sep 29, 2004 at 03:57:16 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a way to disable the trackpad while typing on a powerbook? > I've done a little hack in the kernel in order to achieve this, but maybe > there is already a way to do this in userspace. try http://honk.physik.uni-kon

Disable trackpad while typing on alubook.

2004-09-29 Thread joan
Hi all, Is there a way to disable the trackpad while typing on a powerbook? I've done a little hack in the kernel in order to achieve this, but maybe there is already a way to do this in userspace. Any points? TIA, Joan

Re: No HFS driver, and "change install priority" menu option missing -- and other bugs found while testing 2.4 boot floppies on OldWorld PowerMac

2004-09-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 01:25:22AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Saturday, September 25, 2004, at 04:49 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > > >After my changes, > >there's *loads* of room left for things. We were just being > >inefficient, > >that's all. > > Well, > > I just took a look at the latest

Re: window downgrade from 98 to 95

2004-09-29 Thread Arne Caspari
Reply to the mail from Khalid Hameed Khan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > how can i downgrade my window98 to 95 Sorry to say this, bit I really wonder how you managed to send a mail to this list... People here are talking about Linux on computers that are not even capable of running Windows. You are

Re: missing udev permissions

2004-09-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 25 September 2004 20:01, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:41:15PM -0500, Holger Levsen wrote: > > I believe the following devices are missing > > from /etc/udev/permissions.d/udev.permissions (udev, Version: 0.031-2, > > sarge install with kernel-image-powerpc-2.6.8)

Re: No HFS driver, and "change install priority" menu option missing -- and other bugs found while testing 2.4 boot floppies on OldWorld PowerMac

2004-09-29 Thread Rick Thomas
On Saturday, September 25, 2004, at 04:49 PM, Colin Watson wrote: After my changes, there's *loads* of room left for things. We were just being inefficient, that's all. Well, I just took a look at the latest floppy images. It looks like everything that's there fits with room to spare --