Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

2007-01-01 Thread Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister
Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 01:30 schrieb Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister: > Last output was something like: The exact message was (translated from German back into English): "No boot loader was installed. Either you have determined not to install one, or your architecture does not support boot load

Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

2007-01-01 Thread Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister
Am Donnerstag, 21. Dezember 2006 18:21 schrieb Alex: > I can confirm the suggestion by Sven. The machine boots perfectly but > just not from anything else. Hi there, first of all, I wish everybody a happy new year 2007. OK, I've been able to boot now from a local tftp server as suggested. The s

Re: Installing Debian on a Beige G3 PowerMac (OldWorld)

2007-01-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 1, 2007, at 9:35 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: Bootx is mostly useful if you also want to boot mac os <=9, which is a even more rare usecase nowadays then running these machines at all :) If you only run linux, go with quik. (And for the troubles Rick mentions, have miboot floppies ready

Re: Who is actively porting the Debian architectures?

2007-01-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 11:53:59AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > That is porting. There is little porting work in buildd maintenance; all > you ever do is sign successful logs, interpret failures, and file > appropriate bugs (although many buildd maintainers, myself included, > seem to think the

Re: Installing Debian on a Beige G3 PowerMac (OldWorld)

2007-01-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 30 December 2006 07:33, Rick Thomas wrote: > your machine won't boot til you re-key the options. I find this > prospect enough of a potential PITA that I strongly recommend the > fourth option. > > The fourth and final boot loader option is MacOS-9 with a simple > little extension

Re: Migrating from iMac/powerpc to iMac/intel

2007-01-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 31 December 2006 04:02, Eduardo TrĂ¡pani wrote: > I just wrote to debian-users because I need to move a whole debian box > from a powerpc iMac to an intel pc. The problem is that there seems to > be platform specific files in use and that means that simply > reinstalling packages and

Re: Cannot apply network settings unless I reboot

2007-01-01 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Ciao Giovanni Ridolfi, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > so I restarted the networking service > > # /etc/init.d/networking restart > > and now I can reply to your mail Unfortunately I cannot get my network to work even restarting the networking service: that was the first thing I have tried :) Tha