Re: ISO For Recent Debian Squeeze

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:56:14AM +1000, Eraina and Richard jenkins wrote: > > I have tried to find a recent iso for debian "squeeze" without > success. Debian 5.0.4 works well on this G5 machine, but many of the > programs are quite dated (like a kernel with numbering 2.6.26 !). > Someone sugge

ISO For Recent Debian Squeeze

I have tried to find a recent iso for debian "squeeze" without success. Debian 5.0.4 works well on this G5 machine, but many of the programs are quite dated (like a kernel with numbering 2.6.26 !). Someone suggested I try a weekly build of squeeze ... and if it's stable I would like to give it a

Re: Running a G5 with Ubuntu 10.04 (windfarm issues

On 10/07/10 4:08 PM, Eraina and Richard jenkins wrote: ... Thanks to Jeroen for the suggestion. I reinstalled ubuntu 10.04 and added the line to my /etc/modules. That seems to have done the trick. I shall give it a more through work-out this evening. I would have stayed with Debian ... but

Re: booting gparted live cd

On 10-07-13 08:46 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: Depending on how much RAM you have, you might like to use a live CD (like Ubuntu's) and run gparted from there (without mounting any partition from your hard drive, of course). If you're going use Ubuntu, download the Alternative CD. The Desktop CD

Re: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

Hi. Just a quick status update on this (I'm catching up on e-mail). On 06/28/2010 02:42 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: > We could, perhaps, offer two boot loaders for NewWorld ppc machines in Debian > and phase out yaboot once we know that GRUB2 works fine. (That still leaves > those users of miboot an

Re: booting gparted live cd

Hi, Giuseppe. On 07/13/2010 06:30 PM, Giuseppe Valente wrote: > ../boot: > boot.cat gparted gparted.igz grub help.msg memtest86 > System.map-gparted Apparently, the CD that you have is for a x86 architecture. If that is indeed the case, then it won't boot from a powerpc. Depending on how m

booting gparted live cd

Hi, I'm trying to resize the root partition with the gparted live cd, on my PowerMac G5 already running Debian (partitioned with that same cd in the first place). When I try to boot from the cd I get the following: Stage 1 Boot: c Booting CDROM... LOAD-SIZE is too small load-size=3Db2e adler3

Re: video problem on powerbook g4 in squeeze

Am Dienstag 13 Juli 2010 19:48:49 schrieb Elimar Riesebieter: > video=radeonfb:off > can I tyoe video=radeonfb:off in the loader command line without making it permanently? Just to try it out. Im a little scared changing some bootloader configs greetz drz -- -- gpg fp: 5518 8F74 B2A0 E91

Re: video problem on powerbook g4 in squeeze

* Michel Dänzer [100713 13:14 +0200]: > On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 18:37 +0200, drz wrote: > > Am Montag 12 Juli 2010 17:56:33 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > > > On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 17:27 +0200, drz wrote: > > > > Ive got a problem with videos in debian powerpc (squeeze uptodate) on a > > > > powerbook g4

Re: video problem on powerbook g4 in squeeze

* Eric Abrahamsen [100712 22:25 -0700]: > "brian m. carlson" writes: > > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:46:24AM -0700, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > >> video=radeonfb:off > >> > >> only problem is I don't actually know where to put that... > > > > You'll probably want to put that in the append option

Re: video problem on powerbook g4 in squeeze

On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 18:37 +0200, drz wrote: > Am Montag 12 Juli 2010 17:56:33 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > > On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 17:27 +0200, drz wrote: > > > Ive got a problem with videos in debian powerpc (squeeze uptodate) on a > > > powerbook g4 > > > > > > video card is: > > > VGA compatible