Building kernels (Re: Contents of /boot and /etc/yaboot.conf)

2005-01-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> That's not quite what I meant: given that not building in Chris> initrd means that one *must* have the right filesystems Chris> [] Chris> Then again, I subscribe to the "first do no harm" Chris> philosophy of

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2005-01-20 Thread Mauro
Hello everyone, I've used debian-ppc off and on for about two years now. This is the first I've never really participated in the debian community as most of my experimenting was from reading (and some irc). About the firewire support, RC2 has firewire enabled by default as my firewire burner is d

Re: Contents of /boot and /etc/yaboot.conf

2005-01-20 Thread Chris Doherty
Shyamal Prasad wrote: Well, most people I've run into think that not having the initrd built by default is "sensible." There is (was? its been a while) a certain class of Linux users who immediately recompile the kernel so they build all that they need into the kernel and not have any modules. Th

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2005-01-20 Thread Mauro
Hello everyone, I've used debian-ppc off and on for about two years now. This is the first I've never really participated in the debian community as most of my experimenting was from reading (and some irc). About the firewire support, RC2 has firewire enabled by default as my firewire burner is d

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread ToPu
On 20-Jan-2005 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Done. I uninstalled quik, installed another kernel: > kernel-iamge-2.4.27-powerpc-pmac. And the latter booted fine. the > > Whatever: At least I have now a hopefully firewire enabled Linux > kernel here ... You should be able to load the modules ohci1

Re: Contents of /boot and /etc/yaboot.conf

2005-01-20 Thread Chris Doherty
Shyamal Prasad wrote: Well, most people I've run into think that not having the initrd built by default is "sensible." There is (was? its been a while) a certain class of Linux users who immediately recompile the kernel so they build all that they need into the kernel and not have any modules. They

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2005-01-20 Thread modelle
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Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread ToPu
On 20-Jan-2005 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Done. I uninstalled quik, installed another kernel: > kernel-iamge-2.4.27-powerpc-pmac. And the latter booted fine. the > > Whatever: At least I have now a hopefully firewire enabled Linux > kernel here ... You should be able to load the modules ohci1

Re: Floppy disks

2005-01-20 Thread david
Curtis Vaughan wrote: I want install Debian on a PowerMac I recently acquired. Unfortunately, I have to make floppies apparently, but I can't seem to find any instructions on exactly how to go about making floppies. Could someone give me some advice here? Curtis If you use bootx the proce

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2005-01-20 Thread modelle
Stasera mia sorella mi ha invitata a cena e preparo gli involtini primavera... Speriamo bene chè oggi non è giornata: ho fatto un colloquio di lavoro e vogliono assumermi :-(! Lavorare si deve, ma sul fatto che nobiliti... ho seri dubbi! Lo so, sono una ragazza assurda... Se hai delle belle immag

Floppy disks

2005-01-20 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I want install Debian on a PowerMac I recently acquired. Unfortunately, I have to make floppies apparently, but I can't seem to find any instructions on exactly how to go about making floppies. Could someone give me some advice here? Curtis

Re: Contents of /boot and /etc/yaboot.conf

2005-01-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> I didn't use the --initrd options (or the added-patches Chris> options, either) to make-kpkg. I made the mistake of Chris> assuming that the defaults would be sensible. I'm Well, most people I've run into think that no

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Wolfgang" == Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wolfgang> The details: The hard disk broke on a PowerBook G4 Wolfgang> (TitaniumIV). The repair service already installed a new Wolfgang> disk to this machine. I need access to the old disk: The Wolfgang> repair servic

Re: Floppy disks

2005-01-20 Thread david
Curtis Vaughan wrote: I want install Debian on a PowerMac I recently acquired. Unfortunately, I have to make floppies apparently, but I can't seem to find any instructions on exactly how to go about making floppies. Could someone give me some advice here? Curtis If you use bootx the process is

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:27:23PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > Done. I uninstalled quik, installed another kernel: > kernel-iamge-2.4.27-powerpc-pmac. And the latter booted fine. the ^ Typo ... :) .. should read: kernel-image-2.4.27-powerpc-pmac. Sorry Wolfgang > previous

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:11:16PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: [ ... ] > > But I just installed a new kernel: > kernel-image-2.4.27-power4-pmac (correct for Titanium IV ? ... ) > > When trying to boot 2.4.27 I get this (I think that's still the Open > Firmware stage where t

Floppy disks

2005-01-20 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I want install Debian on a PowerMac I recently acquired. Unfortunately, I have to make floppies apparently, but I can't seem to find any instructions on exactly how to go about making floppies. Could someone give me some advice here? Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

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Re: Contents of /boot and /etc/yaboot.conf

2005-01-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> I didn't use the --initrd options (or the added-patches Chris> options, either) to make-kpkg. I made the mistake of Chris> assuming that the defaults would be sensible. I'm Well, most people I've run into think that no

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Wolfgang" == Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wolfgang> The details: The hard disk broke on a PowerBook G4 Wolfgang> (TitaniumIV). The repair service already installed a new Wolfgang> disk to this machine. I need access to the old disk: The Wolfgang> repair servic

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi. Thanks a lot to all those responding so far ... On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:26:05AM -0600, vinai wrote: > Wolfgang, > > In the interests of time, I would recommend your trying the ext2 VFS > extension for Mac OS X, which can be found at: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/ > >

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:27:23PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > Done. I uninstalled quik, installed another kernel: > kernel-iamge-2.4.27-powerpc-pmac. And the latter booted fine. the ^ Typo ... :) .. should read: kernel-image-2.4.27-powerpc-pmac. Sorry Wolfgang > previous

Re: Power on powerbook G4

2005-01-20 Thread Simon Valiquette
Guillaume Florey wrote: Hi all, I have one question about the behaviour of the battery on my powerbook G4: When the battery is full, and the electricity cable is still plug-in, does this damage the battery ? I heard that when the battery full is, you have to unplug the cable and wait before pl

Re: Power on powerbook G4

2005-01-20 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:33:36 +0100 Guillaume Florey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I have one question about the behaviour of the battery on my powerbook G4: > When the battery is full, and the electricity cable is still plug-in, does > this damage the battery ? I heard that when the batt

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:11:16PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: [ ... ] > > But I just installed a new kernel: > kernel-image-2.4.27-power4-pmac (correct for Titanium IV ? ... ) > > When trying to boot 2.4.27 I get this (I think that's still the Open > Firmware stage where t

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2005-01-20 Thread Mbondville
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Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Eddy Petrisor
If (the proposed solution by vinai does not work or) you insist on using linux to get your data you could download the gnoppix (ubuntu) beta live image and start from there. is possible that you will have the harddisk's icon on the desktop, so you won't have to worry about /dev/whatever :) I used

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread vinai
Wolfgang, In the interests of time, I would recommend your trying the ext2 VFS extension for Mac OS X, which can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/ I've been using a powerbook drive in a firewire case on my Pismo PB for the better part of the last 2 years. This software i

Re: Disable startup jingle on PowerBook G4?

2005-01-20 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:01:24PM +0100, Pander wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to disable the stpid Apple startup jingle on a PowerBook > G4? Some setting in OpenFirmware? You can use nvsetvol from powerpc-utils to turn down the volume (to 0 if you don't want to hear it at all) Sjoerd -

Re: Disable startup jingle on PowerBook G4?

2005-01-20 Thread Martin Lohmeier
Pander wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to disable the stpid Apple startup jingle on a PowerBook G4? Some setting in OpenFirmware? Thanks, Pander Hi, install the package powerpc-utils and add the following line to your /etc/init.d/halt and /etc/init.d/reboot: nvsetvol 0 When you shut d

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi. Thanks a lot to all those responding so far ... On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:26:05AM -0600, vinai wrote: > Wolfgang, > > In the interests of time, I would recommend your trying the ext2 VFS > extension for Mac OS X, which can be found at: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/ > >

Disable startup jingle on PowerBook G4?

2005-01-20 Thread Pander
Hi all, Is it possible to disable the stpid Apple startup jingle on a PowerBook G4? Some setting in OpenFirmware? Thanks, Pander

Re: Power on powerbook G4

2005-01-20 Thread Simon Valiquette
Guillaume Florey wrote: Hi all, I have one question about the behaviour of the battery on my powerbook G4: When the battery is full, and the electricity cable is still plug-in, does this damage the battery ? I heard that when the battery full is, you have to unplug the cable and wait before plug

PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi All Sorry for asking here instead of browsing Google: But I have not even 24 hours to rescue some configs from a broken hard disk. Data, i.e. Linux configs, that are lost forever if I don't find some way to access them in the next few hours on the old disk. I can't keep the old disk, as Apple,

Re: Power on powerbook G4

2005-01-20 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:33:36 +0100 Guillaume Florey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I have one question about the behaviour of the battery on my powerbook G4: > When the battery is full, and the electricity cable is still plug-in, does > this damage the battery ? I heard that when the batt

OldWorld almost dead no booting?

2005-01-20 Thread Mauricio Hernandez Z.
I have a WallStreet OldWorld (1999, first term), 350 MHz, 4,5GB, 256 MB, dual boot MacOS9 and Debian 3.1, kernel 2.6.9 (Yaboot). After using it with no problems for about a year (for office stuff, MoinMoin access to friends, etc. I turned it on/off many times, but also left it on for a week someti

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2005-01-20 Thread Mbondville
Can you please tell me how to contact acupuncturist Bruce Mandelbaum who was recently on your show to talk about acupuncture as an alternative to cosmetic surgery? I am interested in getting more information. Thank you, Mary Hatt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Eddy Petrisor
If (the proposed solution by vinai does not work or) you insist on using linux to get your data you could download the gnoppix (ubuntu) beta live image and start from there. is possible that you will have the harddisk's icon on the desktop, so you won't have to worry about /dev/whatever :) I used

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread vinai
Wolfgang, In the interests of time, I would recommend your trying the ext2 VFS extension for Mac OS X, which can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/ I've been using a powerbook drive in a firewire case on my Pismo PB for the better part of the last 2 years. This software i

Re: cdrecord a bootable cd

2005-01-20 Thread William Xuuu
"Mauricio Hernandez Z." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] >> Block size=512, Number of Blocks=58605120 >> DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 >> >> -- >> William > > Hmmm, so you mean you installed your system using that very ISO? Yes, exactly. One of my friends burnt that for me using nero in Windows

Re: Disable startup jingle on PowerBook G4?

2005-01-20 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:01:24PM +0100, Pander wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to disable the stpid Apple startup jingle on a PowerBook > G4? Some setting in OpenFirmware? You can use nvsetvol from powerpc-utils to turn down the volume (to 0 if you don't want to hear it at all) Sjoerd -

Re: Disable startup jingle on PowerBook G4?

2005-01-20 Thread Martin Lohmeier
Pander wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to disable the stpid Apple startup jingle on a PowerBook G4? Some setting in OpenFirmware? Thanks, Pander Hi, install the package powerpc-utils and add the following line to your /etc/init.d/halt and /etc/init.d/reboot: nvsetvol 0 When you shut down / reboo

Re: Getting 7500 w/ G3 upgrade card to boot w/ quik

2005-01-20 Thread SR, ESC
Le mar 2005-01-18 a 17:55:40 -0500, Sean Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: > > I have a 7500 with a G3 upgrade card (Sonnet Crescendo G3/PCI 250Mhz 512K > cache) that I'm having trouble getting to boot w/ quik. I can run the > boot / root disks just fine, but after installing quik and rebooting t

Disable startup jingle on PowerBook G4?

2005-01-20 Thread Pander
Hi all, Is it possible to disable the stpid Apple startup jingle on a PowerBook G4? Some setting in OpenFirmware? Thanks, Pander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi All Sorry for asking here instead of browsing Google: But I have not even 24 hours to rescue some configs from a broken hard disk. Data, i.e. Linux configs, that are lost forever if I don't find some way to access them in the next few hours on the old disk. I can't keep the old disk, as Apple,

OldWorld almost dead no booting?

2005-01-20 Thread Mauricio Hernandez Z.
I have a WallStreet OldWorld (1999, first term), 350 MHz, 4,5GB, 256 MB, dual boot MacOS9 and Debian 3.1, kernel 2.6.9 (Yaboot). After using it with no problems for about a year (for office stuff, MoinMoin access to friends, etc. I turned it on/off many times, but also left it on for a week someti

Re: cdrecord a bootable cd

2005-01-20 Thread William Xuuu
"Mauricio Hernandez Z." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] >> Block size=512, Number of Blocks=58605120 >> DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 >> >> -- >> William > > Hmmm, so you mean you installed your system using that very ISO? Yes, exactly. One of my friends burnt that for me using nero in Windows

Re: Getting 7500 w/ G3 upgrade card to boot w/ quik

2005-01-20 Thread SR, ESC
Le mar 2005-01-18 a 17:55:40 -0500, Sean Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: > > I have a 7500 with a G3 upgrade card (Sonnet Crescendo G3/PCI 250Mhz 512K > cache) that I'm having trouble getting to boot w/ quik. I can run the > boot / root disks just fine, but after installing quik and rebooting t

Re: ibook2.2's thermal control dilemma

2005-01-20 Thread Cedric Pradalier
According to Benjamin Herrenschmidt, on Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:47:12 +1100, >On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 22:49 +0100, Luca Bigliardi - shammash wrote: > >> Ben does not like this patch. He also has explained why but i didn't >> understood (the problem is my little tech skill :) ). > >If Cedric who wrote th

Re: mounting msdos flash cards

2005-01-20 Thread Kiko Piris
On 19/01/2005 at 13:48 -0800, Adam Done wrote: > That worked perfectly. Now I noticed that depending on what is pluged > in first and or at start up such as a firewire drive or the compact > flash card, the first one probed gets sda. So in my fstab file I set > things for sda or sde which is lis

Power on powerbook G4

2005-01-20 Thread Guillaume Florey
Hi all, I have one question about the behaviour of the battery on my powerbook G4: When the battery is full, and the electricity cable is still plug-in, does this damage the battery ? I heard that when the battery full is, you have to unplug the cable and wait before plug-in, till the battery em

Re: cdrecord a bootable cd

2005-01-20 Thread William Xuuu
"Mauricio Hernandez Z." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > William Xuuu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Anybody knows how to burn a bootable cd using cdrecord ? With a simple >> command `cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 boot.iso' , i'm able to burn a cd with >> exact same data in boot.iso, but i can

Re: ibook2.2's thermal control dilemma

2005-01-20 Thread Cedric Pradalier
According to Benjamin Herrenschmidt, on Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:47:12 +1100, >On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 22:49 +0100, Luca Bigliardi - shammash wrote: > >> Ben does not like this patch. He also has explained why but i didn't >> understood (the problem is my little tech skill :) ). > >If Cedric who wrote th

Re: mounting msdos flash cards

2005-01-20 Thread Kiko Piris
On 19/01/2005 at 13:48 -0800, Adam Done wrote: > That worked perfectly. Now I noticed that depending on what is pluged > in first and or at start up such as a firewire drive or the compact > flash card, the first one probed gets sda. So in my fstab file I set > things for sda or sde which is lis

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Power on powerbook G4

2005-01-20 Thread Guillaume Florey
Hi all, I have one question about the behaviour of the battery on my powerbook G4: When the battery is full, and the electricity cable is still plug-in, does this damage the battery ? I heard that when the battery full is, you have to unplug the cable and wait before plug-in, till the battery em

Re: cdrecord a bootable cd

2005-01-20 Thread William Xuuu
"Mauricio Hernandez Z." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > William Xuuu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Anybody knows how to burn a bootable cd using cdrecord ? With a simple >> command `cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 boot.iso' , i'm able to burn a cd with >> exact same data in boot.iso, but i can

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