Re: Booting/ installing Debian on a G3 with Open Firmware 2.4

2006-06-29 Thread Michael Fuckner
Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: I'm sorry, but you are both wrong. Such machines are neither netbootable nor CD-bootable, except for specially mastered non-free CDs which Debian does not provide. I read something about plain iso with no joliet... perhaps I'll try this. You MUST use a floppy, unles

Re: Booting/ installing Debian on a G3 with Open Firmware 2.4

2006-06-29 Thread Rick Thomas
I have a couple of old beige G3's. They will boot from an appropriately setup "miboot" floppy, which is not part of the "normal" debian distribution, due to freeness problems with miboot (which may have been fixed recently?). Such miboot floppies are available but I don't have a suitable

IBM 7026-H50 problems?

2006-06-29 Thread dtutty
Hello, I've been wanting to switch to the PowerPC architecture to keep the excellent reliability I've had from my now 15 year old IBM server (486). The best deal I have found for $750 CDN is a 7026-H50 in an S00 rack. I think I've finished my research and think it will work with Debian. I couldn't

Re: panics on powerbook3400 & misc problems

2006-06-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 15:47 +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > On the topic of boot panics: I just noticed cold booting 2.6.17 (pulled > > > Tuesday) panics somewhere during knfsd or samba startup. The oops does end > > > up in the log so it does not seem fatal > > > > > > 2.6.17-rc5 does boot fin

Re: panics on powerbook3400 & misc problems

2006-06-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 15:47 +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > On the topic of boot panics: I just noticed cold booting 2.6.17 (pulled > > > Tuesday) panics somewhere during knfsd or samba startup. The oops does end > > > up in the log so it does not seem fatal > > > > > > 2.6.17-rc5 does boot fin

Re: panics on powerbook3400 & misc problems

2006-06-29 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > On the topic of boot panics: I just noticed cold booting 2.6.17 (pulled > > Tuesday) panics somewhere during knfsd or samba startup. The oops does end > > up in the log so it does not seem fatal > > > > 2.6.17-rc5 does boot fine under the same circumstances. > > Ouch... looks bad... looks like

Re: panics on powerbook3400 & misc problems

2006-06-29 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/80MB RaM/1.GB (after subtracting OS9) hd > > macsense aerocard (intersil4) pcmcia + bus card install. > > openbox+gnustep(well some of it ...), gtkmm, ... > > I have a 3400 in a drawer, I'll give it a spin asap with recent kernels. On the topic of boot panics: I just noticed

Re: panics on powerbook3400 & misc problems

2006-06-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 13:55 +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/80MB RaM/1.GB (after subtracting OS9) hd > > > macsense aerocard (intersil4) pcmcia + bus card install. > > > openbox+gnustep(well some of it ...), gtkmm, ... > > > > I have a 3400 in a drawer, I'll give it a spin asa

Re: panics on powerbook3400 & misc problems

2006-06-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 22:54 -0700, brian wrote: > well you guys i am enjoying sarge/stable on my pb3400 > still feels like a miracle: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/80MB RaM/1.GB (after subtracting OS9) hd > macsense aerocard (intersil4) pcmcia + bus card install. > openbox+gnustep(well some of it ...), g

Re: new g5 dual core macs

2006-06-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> See http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2006/02/msg00137.html > > It's because of the nVidia display adapter, the system is booting but > there's no display. Note that the installation kernel/initrd for the > etch debian-installer CD now works, but the kernel/initrd that gets > installe

powerbook3400: serial/printer error

2006-06-29 Thread Brian Morris
hi, this sort of an addendum to my earlier posting today. one other problem i had more or less given up on was trying to print through the old fashioned serial port. i set up cups and all that and also on my new world where it worked fine, in both debian and osx. but on the old world i get two e