[ANN] Yaboot 1.3.12 released

2004-04-17 Thread Ethan Benson
GnuPG, it is highly recommended you verify this signature (detached ascii .sig file) (this message is also signed with the same key (keyid 0x2C447AFC)). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpcGnhD9Y5RN.pgp Description: PGP signature

[YABOOT] Preliminary ofpath with 2.6 kernel support NEEDS TESTING

2004-03-21 Thread Ethan Benson
once I have enough success reports for enough differing machines, very new machines are most important, as they are the ones which old ofpath failed on. Thanks in advance, and thanks to Nick Lopez for granting me local shell access to his machine so I could get this done. -- Ethan Benson http

Re: Trial Boot

2004-03-07 Thread Ethan Benson
followed by ,/bsd which should be the kernel. im not sure how a bsd disklabel inside a normal partition is handled, OF won't have a real path to such a bsd slice in that manner. perhaps bsd makes up thier own fake one or something, i don't know. you can put your own OF path after bsd= and ybin will use that as is. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpD5Iy3RCXkQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Volunteer needed : Re: Would setting the CONFIG_RTC option break the powerpc kernel on your machine ?

2004-01-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:47:44PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > The worse that can happen is the GENERIC_RTC driver not being > initialized because linux believes the RTC driver should be ok. which breaks hwclock, not acceptable. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

Re: Volunteer needed : Re: Would setting the CONFIG_RTC option break the powerpc kernel on your machine ?

2004-01-07 Thread Ethan Benson
- patch > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther > > ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/ -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

Re: Would setting the CONFIG_RTC option break the powerpc kernel on your machine ?

2004-01-07 Thread Ethan Benson
ll powermacs with: hwclock: /dev/rtc: No such device but i could be missing something obvious with your suggestion. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgppCmSaB1aYg.pgp Description: PGP signature

XFS enabled Debian 3.0r2 powerpc installer

2003-12-01 Thread Ethan Benson
files/XFS-debian-README.txt for more information. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp2brQmWV1NI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Yaboot 1.3.11 released

2003-11-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:59:35PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:03:01AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > You don't look at the bogus /proc/scsi stuff for that, do you? > > > > in current ofpath yes, changing this requires significant

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Yaboot 1.3.11 released

2003-11-21 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 12:40:24PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:24:46AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > Yaboot 1.3.11 is now available. > > > > This release adds support for the new PowerMac G5 machines, and the > > aluminum P

[ANNOUNCE] Yaboot 1.3.11 released

2003-11-20 Thread Ethan Benson
(keyid 0x2C447AFC)). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp3PTmHDG1VI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Development help still needed for prom-libc/yaboot2

2003-08-16 Thread Ethan Benson
to test, so if you just want to test something please wait for development releases of yaboot 1.99, for the moment there is nothing you can do. Thanks. (I am not subscribed to debian-powerpc, and replies to this shouldn't go there anyway as its not really on topic). -- Ethan Benson

Re: XFS enabled Debian 3.0r1 powerpc installer

2003-08-08 Thread Ethan Benson
ebian http lacks proper yaboot. this should be a great help to those wanting to install debian without all the hackish bullsh*t thats been required. enjoy. On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:41:16AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > Hi, > > I have built an updated set of XFS enabled Debian boo

XFS enabled Debian 3.0r1 powerpc installer

2003-08-03 Thread Ethan Benson
ebian-README.txt for more information. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpGkpuoCOsqy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Open Firmware gurus?

2003-07-02 Thread Ethan Benson
; > that's your device, right ? > > > > > pwd shows I'm on the > > > pci bus: > > > /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL > > > PROTECTED],0 > > > > and that's the full path... i don't get

Development help needed for prom-libc/yaboot2

2003-06-24 Thread Ethan Benson
yaboot 1.99, for the moment there is nothing you can do. Thanks. (I am not subscribed to debian-powerpc, and replies to this shouldn't go there anyway as its not really on topic). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgppo8HPEYZnG.pgp Description: PGP signature

[ANN] Yaboot 1.3.10 released

2003-02-26 Thread Ethan Benson
is highly recommended you verify this signature (detached ascii .sig file) (this message is also signed with the same key (keyid 0x2C447AFC)). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpcOYXGbffEP.pgp Description: PGP signature

[ANN] Yaboot 1.3.9 released

2003-02-12 Thread Ethan Benson
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[ANN] Yaboot 1.3.8 Released

2002-12-10 Thread Ethan Benson
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[ANN] yaboot 1.3.7 && mailing lists

2002-09-29 Thread Ethan Benson
alaska.net/~erbenson/yaboot/ -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp5DGz6Kfsku.pgp Description: PGP signature

[ANN] yaboot 1.3.7-pre1 PLEASE TEST

2002-09-15 Thread Ethan Benson
available at the usual place: http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/testing/1.3.7-pre/ -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpsbjVoLh1oV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Updated XFS enabled boot-floppies (and oldworld fix)

2002-08-13 Thread Ethan Benson
to stay at > > known snapshots. > > I do, so I'd appreciate if you could make the patch available. I looked > through your files section but couldn't find it. > the exact set of patches i apply to my 2.4.19 kernels is now in my files section (xfs-2.4.19) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpstxKIP6CxX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Updated XFS enabled boot-floppies (and oldworld fix)

2002-08-11 Thread Ethan Benson
xed there a couple weeks later, it reappeared sometimes in the 2.4.19-pre stages in XFS CVS (definitly including -rc2 through final 2.4.19 split patches) its currently fixed in CVS, or i have the standalone patch against 2.4.19+split patches if your like my and prefer to stay at known snapshots

Re: Updated XFS enabled boot-floppies (and oldworld fix)

2002-08-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 12:57:01PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 09:11, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > I have updated my XFS enabled set of boot-floppies to use the final > > 2.4.19 kernel along with a patch to fix a small file corruption bug in >

Updated XFS enabled boot-floppies (and oldworld fix)

2002-08-11 Thread Ethan Benson
stall XFS on an oldworld, but at least the installer will boot, unlike the official debian images. http://penguinppc.org/~eb/files/XFS-debian-README.txt -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpwLH2y7n7VD.pgp Description: PGP signature

XFS enabled Debian 3.0 powerpc installer

2002-07-28 Thread Ethan Benson
ebian-README.txt for more information. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpeIvg64eqJo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: smb filesystem support in benh_2.4.5-pre3

2001-11-16 Thread Ethan Benson
55 > wolf:/# > > It fails and tells me that I don't have kernel support for it. Right > after I compiled it in. cat /proc/filesystems to see if you really compiled it in. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpeNGzMoKkcW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ext3 anyone?

2001-11-14 Thread Ethan Benson
+2weeks ago > > I'll do it soon. wait for 1.3.6, it will work with zimage.initrd, and if the IBM people start cooperating it will support IBM CHRP agian. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpTHgiCKNO3r.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Open Firmware and booting using quik

2001-11-14 Thread Ethan Benson
t; > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpMPMJfeJN8c.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: nano: On Oldworld PowerPC, nano freezes machine when help is being displayed

2001-11-12 Thread Ethan Benson
10 minutes, the slogan was `Reboot Different' -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgphnpjNMVBnS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: installation success using 3.0.16 on iBook Dual USB / HOWTO

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
4/1.3.5 but there could be more. > Erm, right. And if we didn't properly 'shut down' OpenFirmware and it > had something open, that could cause a bad interaction. suppose its possible, that would be the kernel's fault in puke^H^H^Hrom.c though ;-) -- Ethan B

Re: installation success using 3.0.16 on iBook Dual USB / HOWTO

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
see how it could be anything but a linux bug, OpenFirmware does not survive linux booting. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpwBQLcs1tt3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: PPC Port pages: dynamic "supported model list" and poll

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
release... > > also if you are wondering about my html credentials you can go to my > employers web site http://www.not-taxed.com (note: i mostly only did the > pages with the generator name of sloopy...) how about get started on a prototype of what you want to setup, and then we will see. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpqU0KG6ok6l.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Open Firmware - what can I do with it?

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
se them. its possible, but not something you want to do, you will almost certainly end up destroying everything. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpOQD0fb9JFH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: QUIESCE + MacOS still hangs (was Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found)

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
ter. > I tried it either way. I also passed it on the boot: prompt. > Seems to have no effect on what's going on: > > ERASE timeout on NVRAM > DO-QUIESCE finishedbooting... benh had the same thing, you need 2.4. wait for a bit until i can figure out a way to create 2.

Re: nano: On Oldworld PowerPC, nano freezes machine when help is being displayed

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
\/) however newwer machines don't seem to have this as its own button, instead its triggered via command power, but im not sure that works under linux, or if its even low level enough anymore. imacs have it hidden away in a pinhole next to the reboot (aka MacOS) switch. -- Ethan Benso

Re: Installation Success on PowerPC SMP G4 w/ ADC monitor - but whence GLX?

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
needing an 800k boot > partition of the right type before being dropped to pdisk; I'm glad I > read the online instructions first, because just the installer screens > would have baffled me. woody boot-floppies do all of this. and mac-fdisk has command -- b -- for properly cr

Re: Unable to boot Potato from Pismo HD

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
's why the docs are > important, they point you to what might or might not work and different ways > to do things if something doesn't quite pan out. and potato barly supports powerpc by todays standards. unfortunatly were stuck with potato as the stable dist for ano

Re: Open Firmware - what can I do with it?

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
rtition table from > with OF, for example? you can pretty thoroughly destroy many components of your hardware by mucking around OpenFirmware, something i don't recommend. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpo89JIsClGC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: QUIESCE + MacOS still hangs (was Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found)

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
; label=linux2 > > initrd=images-1.44/root.bin > > initrd-size=8192 > > You also want a root argument here. on 2.2 its not necessary, 2.4 seems to need /dev/ram or /dev/ram0 > Also, just on a hunch, could you move the append="video=ofonly" > inside t

Re: installation success using 3.0.16 on iBook Dual USB / HOWTO

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
omma, etcI'll look > into it this week. definitly your kernel was broken. boot-floppies REQUIRE a kernel with CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES=n -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpMnHKPjfWJv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: installation success using 3.0.16 on iBook Dual USB / HOWTO

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
partition tables were free of any driver cruft, only pure linux partitions and an Apple_Bootstrap. when setting it up i intentionally tried writing a few new tables just to see, could never reproduce it again. perhaps all that cruft has something to do with it? though i don't see ho

Re: installation success using 3.0.16 on iBook Dual USB / HOWTO

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 10:26:43AM -0700, Derrik Pates wrote: > On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > 2.*.* kernels are affected. and this always happens AFTER the new > > partition table is already completly synced to disk, once you reboot > > your partition tab

Re: installation success using 3.0.16 on iBook Dual USB / HOWTO

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
ading the partition table you have to find an alternate method of booting, such as CDROM or tftp. it would be nice if someone who knows the kernel internals could look for this bug and fix it. *cough* benh *hint* *cough* -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp0r3OOXV4yl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Unable to boot Potato from Pismo HD

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
Anyway... wrong. potato's make bootable step is BOGUS. it did NOTHING of any use for a newworld system. > I always get one of two types of error. Either "cannot open partition" > or "invalid command" rtfm it explains how to make potato bootable. or better rein

Re: PPC Port pages: dynamic "supported model list" and poll

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
nppc and is getting more picky about not carrying things which are the vendor's responsibility to document. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpcxVEKZKsWf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problem cat'ing in terminal: buffer overflow?

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 10:33:22PM -0800, Laurent de Segur wrote: > Fuck off Ethan. OK? No thank you. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgprq8Sp1N8bM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problem cat'ing in terminal: buffer overflow?

2001-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
your talking about. > > From: Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 19:18:30 -0900 > > To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Problem cat'ing in terminal: buffer overflow? > > Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > >

Re: bootable CD?

2001-11-10 Thread Ethan Benson
there will never be bootable potato CDs again. use woody not potato. and no desktop files don't have anything to do with bootability, they are just cruft. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgparFsk9OVWI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problem cat'ing in terminal: buffer overflow?

2001-11-10 Thread Ethan Benson
ng the output (which is ok in case of non-ascii chars), > but when it's done, the label before the prompt sign and everything typed is > just garbage too. I run 2.4.15 but I've seen this on prior 2.4.x builts. you have obviously never used a unix system before. -- Ethan Benson http://

Re: installation success using 3.0.16 on iBook Dual USB / HOWTO

2001-11-10 Thread Ethan Benson
not used macos since 8.6. perhaps apple is taking a more aggressive approach to destroying unauthorized GNU installations on thier hardware. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgplxgnpvJ6f2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found

2001-11-10 Thread Ethan Benson
ngle user" mode or even > "init=/bin/sh/"? not really. the best you can do is hold down the shift key which disables loading of kludge modules. macos isn't very functional without a large set of kludge modules to reduce stability and create more crashes. -- Ethan

Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found

2001-11-09 Thread Ethan Benson
he debian-cd folks that potato CDs are made with an older version of debian-cd. current cvs is only workable with woody's yaboot. potato r4 CDs are not bootable. i say fuck it, use woody, potato is too old and broken for powerpc. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpLNraAAQigA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: boot - powermac 7300 : in english now... sorry.

2001-11-09 Thread Ethan Benson
work. Good luck, as this is an old > machine and the open firmware is not good enough to support a > reliable quik solution on most machines. I've had better luck > sticking with the bootx solution, but it is not always an option for > some people for a variety of reasons. quik w

Re: new ibook - potato 2.2r4 - image not found

2001-11-09 Thread Ethan Benson
pple_Driver crap belongs to the CruftOS, not OF. blaming OF for those is an insult to OF. > Now, I have a new ibook, but nothing is working on it. And I do nearly > know nothing about powerpc hardware. - So please help. > references to documentation would also be fine. penguinppc.org/proje

Re: powerpc-utils: still in limbo

2001-11-08 Thread Ethan Benson
to > install is just a plain nightmare. well there is not a damn thing we can do about it, util-linux is being stopped from entering woody for some reason. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgplFYaeu8kVT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: trying to boot an Imac into debian....no success

2001-11-06 Thread Ethan Benson
ode of the the bootstrap partition > they mean /boot ? no. rtfm. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpZNuBTmn2bx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: util-linux-locales still unpacked

2001-11-06 Thread Ethan Benson
installed and > util-linux-locales 2.11l-3 gives status install ok unpacked. > > So far Ethan Benson wrote in a follow-up that the fixed version is yet > uploaded and should be available probably on friday last week. the fixed version has been in sid for nearly a week now. > So I w

Re: Compiling kernel on iMac for the first time..

2001-11-05 Thread Ethan Benson
thing like > make config > make menuconfig > make xconfig (not for 2.4.x at the moment) > from within the sources directory. what does this have to do with yaboot.conf -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpoJBW3w53G2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#116780: util-linux: hwclock shouldn't be run

2001-11-05 Thread Ethan Benson
ainboard, but attention G4s have also a button on the mainboard and > Apple warns not to press this button longer than 1 second or you can > damage your mac (think this is the way a G4 enters > firmware-download-mode or something like that) G4s don't have CUDA. in my case i had to

Re: Supported models

2001-11-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 05:33:18AM -0500, Joseph Fannin wrote: > > I could save everyone some trouble by learning to use the reply-all > button, I guess. I don't like reply-to munging at all, but I suppose I've > gotten used to it. no use list-reply not reply-all.

Re: Compiling kernel on iMac for the first time..

2001-11-05 Thread Ethan Benson
r you can load kernels without a config file entry, or even any config file at all. run `help' in yaboot for info on how to do this. (1.3.4 or later). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpw0cipPr81K.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ldconfig error

2001-11-05 Thread Ethan Benson
ldd on these files. > > > ldd -d -r -v /usr/bin/X11/startx > not a dynamic executable > startx is a shell script, and its not the source of your error, startx is running fine, its encountering errors when i tries to excecute /bin/xauth and /bin/xinit which you can clearly see i

Re: Bug#116780: util-linux: hwclock shouldn't be run

2001-11-05 Thread Ethan Benson
changed it again, because on this blue g3 you can remove the battery and pull the plug all you want and nvram settings stay intact indefinitly. i discovered this when i severly screwed up the OF configuration making the machine (very) unbootable. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.ne

Re: missing package on http debian site

2001-11-05 Thread Ethan Benson
hare/perl5/Debian/Defoma/IdCache.pm line 303) thousands of times. > > Doing the reconfigure works fine though. > > 0.6.0 is now in woody, this bug is fixed. unfortunatly upgrading to that version triggers the bug 3 times out of 4. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

Re: Supported models

2001-11-05 Thread Ethan Benson
someone would like to maintain a relativly distro independent hardware list on penguinppc let me know for an account. i don't think the current lists have anyone really doing much maintainence. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp11DzJGeYZ9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: install guide for ppc-mac

2001-11-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 01:03:44PM +0100, sisi wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 10:45:02PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 09:51:49PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > > > > When I found that a few months ago, dan explained that the doubled let

Re: Supported models

2001-11-04 Thread Ethan Benson
tion is what is preferred at this point. the penguinppc hardware page should only talk about the kernel, distribution specific support should be up the vendor to provide. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpUDnyq97rrC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#116780: util-linux: hwclock shouldn't be run

2001-11-04 Thread Ethan Benson
ell i think nvram settings are stored in flash on newworlds, so it doesn't need a battery to maintain, but the RTC still does. apparently apple doesn't care about the clock. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpfYMvllUPxO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: install guide for ppc-mac

2001-11-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 09:51:49PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > When I found that a few months ago, dan explained that the doubled letters > were supposed to come out bold. u, since when could you have bold and other such attributes in plain ascii text? -- Ethan Be

Re: Supported models

2001-11-04 Thread Ethan Benson
nstead, iirc it was something more sensible like `check for the actual part you need, rather then just assuming certain models all have the same hardware configuration'. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpUmj4Eevjpl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: install guide for ppc-mac

2001-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
which Debian does not yet contain support for. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpA6oHZctXrX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: headless G4 Cube with serial console

2001-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
> according to the TAU info in /proc/cpuinfo. > > It's a great server -- small, quiet, and very stylish. very interesting, would you like you write a small mini-howto for penguinppc.org? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpT9zksSgzWZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Supported models

2001-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
to talk to debian-www about that, getting debian pages updated seems to have been a somewhat slow process at the very least, which is one major reason why i don't think we should bother trying to keep such a hardware list there. besides the fact that a distro indepenent one is probably possib

Re: boot-floppies 3.0.16 + kernel 2.4.12-ben0 = success + bugs

2001-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
mem=1536M" you don't need the mem arg. > So where's the other half of my RAM? On a side note, is it really true > that swapfiles can only be 2GB? And does that 'idebus=66' do anything > except satisfy my more compulsive urges? swap files are more limited

Re: woody boot-floppies

2001-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
ourse supposed to be broken. my bet is on 2.4.14 being the last Linus 2.4, but my bets are capped at a nickel. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpFTh3YZBIuh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Need 2.4.9-benh0 snapshot or diff

2001-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
the main tree). do you send them or does paulus? i haven't seen your name in any of linus' changelogs in quite some time, but paul has been getting stuff merged quite regularly (though nothing much since .10). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgphZhzqxjBgp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Supported models

2001-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
;tested' > column). because that comes from boot-floppies, and boot-floppies are updated very rarly. thats from potato boot-floppies even, which are only given absolutly essential bug fixes for the exceedingly rare updates. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpCMgbLsPzAI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Need 2.4.9-benh0 snapshot or diff

2001-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
ppc.org has been running pure Linus since 2.4.8, its currently on 2.4.12 with no problems whatsoever, and its a newworld G4, with oldworld your definitly fine with Linus. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpgzR8yVaWjc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Recent PPC Reiser support & Reiser strategy

2001-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
difference is you need it once a week on reiserfs, thats rather inconvenient. > Cheers (and let me know if $OTHERFS craps out just as badly) its been quite some time now and he has had no problems, niether have i. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpTiorgXiHeU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: woody boot-floppies

2001-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 11:31:40PM -0500, Joseph Fannin wrote: > So I bootable CD for oldworld machines isn't possible, eh? S'funny, I > have one right here. rtfla. it requires proprietary software and expensive distribution licences. unacceptable for debian, period.

Re: woody boot-floppies

2001-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 09:02:32PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > potato has the same kernel if I'm not mistaken. correct, its the exact same source, only difference is woody has one with a few different config options, none remotly relevant to booting. -- Ethan Benson http://www.al

Re: woody boot-floppies

2001-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
nd will read it, the problem is the boot-floppies will be unable to read the drivers.tgz and rescue.bin files which are required to install the kernel and drivers. > I noticed your command said hd:,yaboot -- I think you need a partition > number in there like hd:16,yaboot (well that's wh

Re: woody boot-floppies

2001-11-03 Thread Ethan Benson
book2 to me i can't be sure what the deal is, all i know is a report from benh that he simply could not get debian's 2.2.19 to boot his ibook2 period, and i am pretty sure he hacked around on it for awhile. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp2n1QuU6vOp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: woody boot-floppies

2001-11-02 Thread Ethan Benson
t; copying OF device tree...done > Calling quiesce ... > > DO-QUIESCE finishedbooting... > > and hangs. is this an ibook2 (the ibook that doesn't look like a toilet seat)? benh reported that 2.2 does this on these machines, and 2.2 isn't exactly supported on any of apple&

Re: Need 2.4.9-benh0 snapshot or diff

2001-11-02 Thread Ethan Benson
know what version you are really running, and what date it came from, -benh0 means nothing as it never ever changes, the only useful version number there is for benh trees is the current date (and even time in some cases). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpWDu61ZENUR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Supported models

2001-11-02 Thread Ethan Benson
r G3 has an ugly beige case you won't be able to make it boot, but if it has a funky blue translucent case then' or `if your iBook looks like a toilet seat then its fine, otherwise you may need to replace the boot-floppies kernel.' -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgptlWTjPeSwz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Supported models

2001-11-02 Thread Ethan Benson
se after woody, in 2043. so from that perpective a static text that goes with the static kernel debian's stable boot-floppies release uses might be a good thing. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpxpItsBxGs1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Supported models

2001-11-02 Thread Ethan Benson
t; > + - Power Macintosh 7300, 7600, 8500 > > > > Aren't we including the 7200 in here? > > > > I was hoping somebody would speak up about it - according to the NetBSD > docs, it has a 601 and they don't support it. Maybe that's out of date. a friend

Re: and an insomniac pismo (with 2.4.14-pre5-ben0)

2001-11-02 Thread Ethan Benson
; > I think that's called a bug ;) > > You *did* say it was MockOS, didn't you? yes, which does support sleep far better then linux does. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpRkLyVRiHtt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Next problem on the road to iBook Debian Linux

2001-11-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:46:50PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > Hopefully woody will be released soon... if you consider 2014 `soon' then it will. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpTRmXkJRRjV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: and an insomniac pismo (with 2.4.14-pre5-ben0)

2001-11-01 Thread Ethan Benson
is no big deal. I no they don't, my 540c did not, and it had a mechenism where when the lid is closed it went to sleep, but when it awoke for whatever reason it usually stayed awake and became very hot. so its up to you, convenience and risk of destruction and meltdown, or shutting it down a

Re: and an insomniac pismo (with 2.4.14-pre5-ben0)

2001-11-01 Thread Ethan Benson
ually crashed. this was under MacOS, as this was before my conversion to *nix, besides the fact that the 540c seems is completly immune to all forms of *nix assimilation. my point is that putting a laptop to sleep instead of shutting it down entirely when transporting it is not a good idea IMO a

Re: Problems with 2.2rev3 on a iBook Dual USB

2001-11-01 Thread Ethan Benson
; > Thanks, > Bill > >Bill Vinson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpM0ThaAvB8S.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: util-linux-locales and powerpc-utils installation conflict under woody

2001-11-01 Thread Ethan Benson
> Laurent > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpYcEhMRpvVw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Recent PPC Reiser support & Reiser strategy

2001-10-31 Thread Ethan Benson
Debian reiserfsprogs have the endianness > patches applied. xfsprogs work fine, and ext3 is probably the easiest > anyway. debian reiserfsprogs not only do not have the endianess patches, the source package is set to arch i386 so its never even built for powerpc. -- Ethan Benson

Re: Bug#116780: util-linux: hwclock shouldn't be run

2001-10-31 Thread Ethan Benson
x, macos has the same trouble, apparently its due a firmware bug which apple is busy ignoring. (go search through some macos specific discussion groups). > > The clock program works fine. > > It's still deprecated. If there are problems with the /dev/rtc driver, > they need

Re: Bug#116780: util-linux: hwclock shouldn't be run

2001-10-31 Thread Ethan Benson
ly not hwclock but a firmware bug which also affects MacOS. this bug should be marked wontfix and closed. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpA9mdoHSEca.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Emacs on MacOS

2001-10-31 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:44:01PM +0100, raphaello wrote: > Where can I find a version of Emacs for MacOS 9 ? install a ssh client and ssh to a unix box with emacs installed. or better yet erase MacOS and install Debian. iow i seriously doubt such a thing exists. -- Ethan Benson h

Re: Freezing up on Powerbase 180 - brand new install

2001-10-31 Thread Ethan Benson
> These are obviously very damaging type crashes. Let me know what steps I can > take to narrow down this problem further. I would have to say broken hardware, but then we are talking oldworlds so thats redundant seriously if i had to guess i would say ram, or perhaps your disk is faulty and

Re: upgrade lombard potato to woody

2001-10-30 Thread Ethan Benson
stion from testing to stable is not entirely clear.. since there seems to be no real, enforced freeze packages keep going into woody, woody keeps getting broken and more packages then go into woody and so on. with the current freeze proceedure i expect woody to become stable around 2014. -- Eth

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