Re: Flash < v7 compatible?

2006-07-14 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On 7/14/06, Helge Kreutzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [1] Last year I tried to find the prices of an huge german DSL provider but failed. Later (after deciding for an competitor) I saw on an windows box that all price information was "stored" in a flash movie. Well, too bad for the

Re: ibook + USB hard drive = yaboot failure

2006-07-14 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On 7/14/06, brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i think what Mr CS was describing was the partition map. that is usually followed by a bunch of device drivers, then the small 0.8-1.0MB yaboot partition - which often seems to be called the first partition, even though it is hda9 on my disk what did

Flash < v7 compatible?

2006-07-13 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
=\ Is it me or has the use of Windows as a "great" graphics platform now surpassed Apple? I mean I understand that the flash which is available is not as feature rich as that which is available for Windows but is there some way to get a faster development cycle -- maybe shoot for Flash version 8

Re: Installing Debian on a Wallstreet Powerbook

2006-07-13 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On 7/13/06, Chasecreek Systemhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: H, maybe I need to cut the spine off my book and have it converted back to digital form? 7.0 is so old I doubt Novell thought to keep it for historical sake. The copyright page says I can copy it. Here is what my book

Re: Installing Debian on a Wallstreet Powerbook

2006-07-13 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On 7/13/06, Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: make that Cmd-Opt-O-F Im so totally asleep \= You are right of course =) I have looked at all the "loose" CDs I have -- there are boxes I have not yet unpacked but I'm doubting Ill find them any time soon; so in the mean time here is a goo

Re: Installing Debian on a Wallstreet Powerbook

2006-07-12 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On 7/12/06, Ben Racher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: and can get bootX to boot linux, but I need a vmlinux image that will load all the appropriate modules and such, and I can't figure out where Is this really a question of building a kernel to suit your needs? I'm looking for my old SuSE PowerP

Re: ibook + USB hard drive = yaboot failure

2006-07-12 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On 7/12/06, Michael Hrivnak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the advice. For the time, I am travelling all summer and will be without my apple rescue disk for another month or so. Is there another way to "bless" the Apple partition? Yes, I find that a Ubuntu Breezy Badger 5.10 and possib

Re: ibook + USB hard drive = yaboot failure

2006-07-12 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
[Grrr .. sorry for following-up my own post] On 7/12/06, Chasecreek Systemhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2) Some boot managers expect it to be separate and formated as ext2 (as opposed to ext3) -- however these days yaboot can see the boot software even inside / when formated at ext3.

Re: ibook + USB hard drive = yaboot failure

2006-07-12 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On 7/12/06, brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Before you start over... might try typing "man bootstrap" -- it will give some hint on what tbxi refers to. just in case some one or other makes an error, it helps to understand a little bit about what's going on ??? half the reason i am here a

Re: ibook + USB hard drive = yaboot failure

2006-07-10 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On 7/11/06, Michael Hrivnak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Specifically, I issued the command "setenv boot-device ud:2,\\:tbxi" in openfirmware. It seems that I now have to do that every time I want to boot Debian from the USB drive. Even though the variable is persistent, the system just won't bo

Re: can't boot debian etch beta 2 install cd or stable cd on imac g3 revA 233mhz

2006-07-10 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On 7/10/06, Matthew Yee-King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to bring an ancient imac g3 233 back into service but am If the system is Circa 1999 then this is an iffy situation -- not all of those iMacs released during 1999 are compatible. The oldest iMac I have been able to get Debian