At 11:43 AM -0500 1/17/01, Chad Miller wrote:
Has anyone tried booting on the new Titanium PowerBook? I'm wondering
how funky the hardware is.
I'm considering burning a CD and visiting retailers, if I can find any
with a demo model.
The Titanium PowerBook isn't out yet. The only ones out the
At 12:57 PM +0100 1/17/01, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>However I read some reports on linuxppc-users from people not being
able to boot Linux from MacOS 9.1/BootX anymore. Has anyone else had
trouble/success booting into Linux from 9.1 with BootX, especially
on an OldWorld machine? Thanks,
At 5:02 PM +0100 1/7/01, Michel Dänzer wrote:
Alienated RPMs have worked fine for me so far.
I'll jump into this one, too... I'm a Linux newbie, but I ran alien
on the RPM and it converted to a .deb package just fine. But after
installing it and following the documentation for MOL, I got this
> >I eventually got BootX application to work, but the
> >documentation is woefully short on how to initially boot
> >your system
In order for me to get the lowdown BootX, I have to go outside the
wonderful world of Debian (I mean that, after trying 4 different
Linux distributions, Debian i
Can anyone point me to some place where the pros and cons of these
two ways to get X happening might be found?
I'm currently doing it the XF86 way on my Powerbook G3 (Wallstreet),
but I wonder if I'm missing out on something.
Thanks,
Chris
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The plan was simple. Unfortunately, so was Bullw
Okay, I have X up and running on my PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet). And
I have my choice of a couple of window managers. Many thanks to the
select few who took the time to give me some good suggestions...but
it's still a lot of guesswork. Maybe I should put something together
telling exactly wha
> X >/tmp/x.out Z>&1
^
Should be a '2'.
I'd use 'X 2>&1 | tee /tmp/x.out' though so you also see messages on the
console in case this helps any.
Yup, now I get a long report which may or may not be helpful... I'd
be happy to share it, but I have no net access from the Linux b
I was hoping that someone out there can help me with the next step...
I've finally successfully loaded Debian Potato on my G3 Powerbook
(old world ROMs). By the way, thanks to Will Dukes for the
suggestions on this one. In order to make that work, I had to
install the BootX 1.2.2 that came w
Okay, I'm going to try my question again, in the hopes that someone
on this list has already experienced what I'm going through and can
shed some light... I posted this once before, but the only response
I got was from Dan (Thanks, Dan!) who said that everything seems to
be right...
I'm tryi
At 1:28 AM -0400 9/19/00, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >Different directories? How different, and did they call the CDs
>official? That's not ok. The files should be in
>dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/ somewhere...
Yes, I believe that these are "official" disks. And there is _no_
At 7:16 PM -0400 9/18/00, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 02:49:44PM -0500, Chris Ivanovich wrote:
I checked out the file paths in the docs, and made allowances for the
fact that the LSL CD has different directories than the docs list.
But no matter what I type in this step
Alright, I'm a knucklehead. And I need some basic help...
I've installed and am running Debian Potato on a PC (it's doing the
IP Masquerading and acting as the firewall for my home network), and
I thought that I'd load Potato on my G3 PowerBook, as well.
But then, depression set in. I can't
cds are only bootable on newworld.
Rats. I missed the new world ROMs by a month... I have a 300MHz
Powerbook G3. It's a good machine, too...
Thanks,
Chris
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The plan was simple. Unfortunately, so was Bullwinkle.
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:39:25AM -0700, Sam Powers wrote:
Would it be helpful if there were an app to bypass all the woogery, that
$newbie could drop a disk image on the app and have it written to a
floppy for 'em?
yes VERY helpful, this would probably not be all that hard to write,
you c
"CI" == Chris Ivanovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CI> One glaring question that I have is, where can I get a 3
CI> button serial mouse that I can use with my Mac? I'd rather
CI> have the correct serial connector on the mouse rather than
CI> have
I already have a PC server running Linux at home, so I thought that
I'd make the journey to the dark side complete and make my Mac
PowerBook G3 into a Debian/MacOS machine.
One glaring question that I have is, where can I get a 3 button
serial mouse that I can use with my Mac? I'd rather have
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