Re: g5 install

2005-09-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:57:14PM -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: > Hi! > > I want to install osX and debian on a g5 (just one > disk). > > The partition table can be similar to a tibook?: > > hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple > hda2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap > hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR

Re: fdisk vs gparted? (Modified by Kim Cascone)

2005-09-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:55:20PM -0700, Kim Cascone wrote: > below is a fdisk report from my son's G3 iMac DV which describes his > 4.7G Linux part as a 'NewWorld bootblock'...yet 'gparted' describes the > same part correctly as a 'ext3' fs -- which is what I formatted it as > in the Ubuntu in

how to boot back into Gnome?

2005-09-26 Thread Kim Cascone
Q: How to switch to Console mode in GNOME? 1. Read General Notes 2. To switch to Console mode Press 'Ctrl + Alt + F1' (F2 - F6) 3. To switch back to GNOME mode Press 'Ctrl + Alt + F7' Q: How to restart GNOME without rebooting computer? 1. Read General Notes 2. Save and close

Re: mounting a HFS drive on a Linux machine clobbers it?

2005-09-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 01:52:56PM -0700, Kim Cascone wrote: > > On Sep 26, 2005, at 1:37 PM, Brad Boyer wrote: > > >The partition map doesn't have separate types for HFS and HFS+. > but what is odd is that gparted (gnome partition editor) *does* seem to > make a distinction between HFS and HFS+

Re: mounting a HFS drive on a Linux machine clobbers it?

2005-09-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:55:20PM -0700, Kim Cascone wrote: > something interesting to note: > == > - gparted (gnome partition editor) describes my 9G OS X partition as > HFS+ > - fdisk describes the same part as a HFS Don't use fdisk, parted (and its derivative) is the way to go

Re: powerpc d-i daily builds reactivated, use 2.6.12 kernels

2005-09-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 10:59:50PM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 07:54:00PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > [...] > > > i managed to do a powerpc-miboot flavour build, which does fit on a miboot > > floppy. I would like (urgently) for folk to test it out, it is just a > > ke

libfreevec finally available!

2005-09-26 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hi everyone, I'd like to announce the public release of libfreevec, after a long period of development, frustration and a mix of success/failures stories. After many rewrites, I can finally present something that can at least be used with mostly good results. First, a short info: libfr

Re: Bug#322821: libpng12-0: new version breaks pdflatex

2005-09-26 Thread Albert Cahalan
> To sum things up: An update of libpng has caused tetex-bin (actually the > pdftex binary) to fail when including a png image. Since we (teTeX > maintainers) made no changes, we suspected that it's a change in libpng, > but there were no changes that could cause this, either. The gimp is current

Re: mounting a HFS drive on a Linux machine clobbers it?

2005-09-26 Thread Brad Boyer
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 01:52:56PM -0700, Kim Cascone wrote: > but what is odd is that gparted (gnome partition editor) *does* seem to > make a distinction between HFS and HFS+ -- so I assume it's looking at > the volume header? If it's accurate, it would have to do that. > how does one look at

Re: mounting a HFS drive on a Linux machine clobbers it?

2005-09-26 Thread Kim Cascone
On Sep 26, 2005, at 1:37 PM, Brad Boyer wrote: The partition map doesn't have separate types for HFS and HFS+. but what is odd is that gparted (gnome partition editor) *does* seem to make a distinction between HFS and HFS+ -- so I assume it's looking at the volume header? To tell the diff

Re: powerpc d-i daily builds reactivated, use 2.6.12 kernels

2005-09-26 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 07:54:00PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: [...] > i managed to do a powerpc-miboot flavour build, which does fit on a miboot > floppy. I would like (urgently) for folk to test it out, it is just a kernel, > i need to see if it boots, not much more for now, before i go ahead and

Re: mounting a HFS drive on a Linux machine clobbers it?

2005-09-26 Thread Kim Cascone
On Sep 26, 2005, at 1:37 PM, Brad Boyer wrote: The partition map doesn't have separate types for HFS and HFS+. but what is odd is that gparted (gnome partition editor) *does* seem to make a distinction between HFS and HFS+ -- so I assume it's looking at the volume header? To tell the diff

fdisk vs gparted? (Modified by Kim Cascone)

2005-09-26 Thread Kim Cascone
below is a fdisk report from my son's G3 iMac DV which describes his 4.7G Linux part as a 'NewWorld bootblock'...yet 'gparted' describes the same part correctly as a 'ext3' fs -- which is what I formatted it as in the Ubuntu install... ***does anyone else get similar discrepancies between fdis

Re: mounting a HFS drive on a Linux machine clobbers it?

2005-09-26 Thread Brad Boyer
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:55:20PM -0700, Kim Cascone wrote: > something interesting to note: > == > - gparted (gnome partition editor) describes my 9G OS X partition as > HFS+ > - fdisk describes the same part as a HFS > > also: > - fdisk describes my NewWorld boot part as 'NewWo

g5 install

2005-09-26 Thread Enrique Morfin
Hi! I want to install osX and debian on a g5 (just one disk). The partition table can be similar to a tibook?: hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple hda2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root hda5 Apple_HFS MacOS-X hda6

Re: miboot floppies

2005-09-26 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 03:39:01AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi, Hans. > > On Sep 14 2005, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:58:58 -0300 Rogério Brito wrote: > > > gzip -9 vmlinux > > > hmount /dev/fd0 > > > hcopy vmlinux.gz :zImage > > > humount /dev/fd0 > > > > I t

Re: mounting a HFS drive on a Linux machine clobbers it?

2005-09-26 Thread Kim Cascone
something interesting to note: == - gparted (gnome partition editor) describes my 9G OS X partition as HFS+ - fdisk describes the same part as a HFS also: - fdisk describes my NewWorld boot part as 'NewWorld bootblock' - gparted describes the same NewWorld bootblock part as a HF

Re: mounting a HFS drive on a Linux machine clobbers it?

2005-09-26 Thread Kim Cascone
On Sep 26, 2005, at 12:02 PM, Martin Habets wrote: So what is it? HFS or HFS+? Big difference for Linux cause different drivers are used (hfs and I think hfsplus). Not sure if OS X still recognizes a HFS drive. Maybe the partition table on the drive is no longer recognized. Wat do fdisk (in L

Re: 3rd sensor not shown (adt746x)

2005-09-26 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hello Johannes, Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 19:59 +, Joerg Sommer wrote: > >> Where is it? And for what is this sensor? > > The 'where' is answered by a printk in the module. And it isn't there > because it doesn't control a fan. Does "GPU ON DIE" contro

Re: Bug#322821: libpng12-0: new version breaks pdflatex

2005-09-26 Thread Frank Küster
Hi Powerpc people, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le lundi 26 septembre 2005 à 15:20 +0200, Frank Küster a écrit : >> > After discussing with the submitter, it looks like tetex-bin needs a >> > rebuild as well. A binary-only upload on powerpc should do the trick. >> >> I might out

Re: mounting a HFS drive on a Linux machine clobbers it?

2005-09-26 Thread Martin Habets
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 11:13:06AM -0700, Kim Cascone wrote: > no one seemed to have an answer for this one so I am posting it again: > When I booted into Linux with my 300G HFS+ formatted backup drive > hanging off the iMac the drive came up and I could see all the .dmg > backups on it... > but

mounting a HFS drive on a Linux machine clobbers it?

2005-09-26 Thread Kim Cascone
no one seemed to have an answer for this one so I am posting it again: When I booted into Linux with my 300G HFS+ formatted backup drive hanging off the iMac the drive came up and I could see all the .dmg backups on it... but when I rebooted into OS X the HFS drive came up as unrecognized...WTF

cd eject button

2005-09-26 Thread Kim Cascone
apologies in advance if this is a known issue and has been discussed here but... I have had a problem with the CD eject button on my 12' G3 iBook since upgrading to Ubuntu 5.04 some time ago but haven't had the bandwidth to fix it I was not been able to open the CD tray door by pushing the F

Re: Hello and sources.list

2005-09-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:02:45PM +0100, anthony iles wrote: > Hello > > I'm new to Debian for PPC - tho I have run Ubuntu and > other Debian-based distros on knackered PC's. > > I recently brought a new hard drive for my G3 Pismo > 500mhz Powerbook and decided to install Debian to see > if it

Hello and sources.list

2005-09-26 Thread anthony iles
Hello I'm new to Debian for PPC - tho I have run Ubuntu and other Debian-based distros on knackered PC's. I recently brought a new hard drive for my G3 Pismo 500mhz Powerbook and decided to install Debian to see if it would run. I'm sure I'll be posting lots here as there's plenty I have to lea

Re: Bug#322821: libpng12-0: new version breaks pdflatex

2005-09-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 26 septembre 2005 à 15:20 +0200, Frank Küster a écrit : > > After discussing with the submitter, it looks like tetex-bin needs a > > rebuild as well. A binary-only upload on powerpc should do the trick. > > I might out myself as a complete ignorant in terms of libraries, but > this seems

Re: OS X Disk Image backup clobbers yaboot file

2005-09-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
If your yaboot isn't busted but just the OF boot path, try booting with option key down. If yaboot boot partition isn't in a too bad shape, you should have one of the choices there with a penguin that will lead you to yaboot. From there, boot linux. From linux, re-set the boot partition (ybin might