Re: Re: X Windows Screen Size Issue

Giving the lspci command yielded the following: "Non-vga unclassified device: Apple Computer Inc. Control Video" with a vendor:device ID of 106b:0003. Thanks for the input. Amos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

X Windows Screen Size Issue

I am running Debian on a PowerMac 8500/120, and because of hardware limitations, have been trying to run the lightest GUI desktop possible. I used "apt-get install xorg icewm" to successfully install those programs. icewm will run on the machine, but I am frustrated by being unable to get

Re: Re: Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0)

Risto, Thanks for the continued support. I continued through the installation to the partitions portions, and all of the partitions were as I thought - sda6 is the hfsplus partition where OS 9 is loaded. I then continued all the way through the installation to the point where I was inst

Re: Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0)

Risto, Thanks much for your response. I followed your directions, but after issuing this command: "mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda6 /mnt1", I received the following text: "mount: Mounting /dev/sda6 on /mnt1 failed: No such device." I also made attempts with "hfs" and "sda5", but received the s

Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0)

I'm new to Linux/Debian, having used Macs at home and Windows at work. I wanted to stretch my computer legs and attempt to learn Linux by installing Debian on a PowerMac 8500/120 with 144 MB RAM and a 2 GB hard drive and running OS 9.0. I started out with the debian-40r6- powerpc-netinst.i