Re: Problem: update hell: apt-get gives segmentation fault consistently

2009-02-23 Thread Hans Ekbrand
er-pc specific problem, try posting at debian-user, they have a larger brain pool that might help to solve your problem, Good luck, -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Wifi on a tray loading iMac, is it possible?

2009-02-12 Thread Hans Ekbrand
on. > http://zd1211.wiki.sourceforge.net/ > > The speed will be limited to 11 Mbit/s because of the USB 1.1 > interface on those iMacs. Do you have to manually set the rate, or is the driver smart enough to not try rates above 11 Mbit/s? -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) Q. What is

Re: IBM JS21 Blade and debian-40r6-powerpc-netinst.iso

2009-02-06 Thread Hans Ekbrand
isor console. > H0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 hvc0 > >o /etc/securetty - add this line to the securetty file: > # Run on the PowerPC Hypervisor console > hvc0 [...] > QUESTION - I assume this is some type of bug... Where can this be posted ? debian-b...@lists

Re: RealPlayer audio streams

2009-01-26 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:12:09PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > * Hans Ekbrand [2009-01-22 15:19:14 CET]: > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 02:24:34PM +0100, Bin Zhang wrote: > > > You can use mplayer and mozilla-mplayer (debian packages). You need > > > realmedia codecs.

Re: software CPU throttling on powerpc

2009-01-24 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 07:55:48PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:30:43AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: [...] > > Thanks for giving this info, but using and actually write a kernel > > module is beyond my capabilities (and time available to get the > >

Re: software CPU throttling on powerpc

2009-01-24 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:53:00PM +0100, José JORGE wrote: > A Friday 23 January 2009 20:52:37, Hans Ekbrand escreveu: > > I have an imac G3, which I want to use for a computing intensive task. > > I think this computer has a problem with overheating, because when it > >

Re: software CPU throttling on powerpc

2009-01-24 Thread Hans Ekbrand
. Thanks for giving this info, but using and actually write a kernel module is beyond my capabilities (and time available to get the particular computing task done). > Please forward this message to the list, since i am being censored. Done. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: software CPU throttling on powerpc

2009-01-23 Thread Hans Ekbrand
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software CPU throttling on powerpc

2009-01-23 Thread Hans Ekbrand
, but I haven't found anything like that. Hardware details, if relevant. cpu : 740/750 temperature : 31-33 C (uncalibrated) clock : 333.30MHz revision: 2.2 (pvr 0008 0202) platform: PowerMac model : iMac,1 -- Hans Ekbrand

Re: Problem with lastfm client on debian ppc linux

2009-01-23 Thread Hans Ekbrand
ent nor the website), I just wanted to point out that there is at least one flash client for powerpc: gnash In addition mplayer can play flash videos. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) Q. What is that strange attachment in this mail? A. My digital signature, see www.gnupg.org for info on

Re: RealPlayer audio streams

2009-01-23 Thread Hans Ekbrand
codecs must have been installed by > the installation process from www.debian-multimedia-org. Thanks for reporting back. It's good to know that my recommendation works. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) GPG Fingerprint: 1408 C8D5 1E7D 4C9C C27E 014F 7C2C 872A 7050 614E sign

Re: RealPlayer audio streams

2009-01-22 Thread Hans Ekbrand
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Re: RealPlayer audio streams

2009-01-22 Thread Hans Ekbrand
>> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get install mplayer -- Note that I use Debian version 5.0 Linux sqlserver 2.6.26-1-powerpc #1 Sat Jan 10 14:00:38 CET 2009 ppc GNU/Linux Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) GPG Fingerprint: 1408 C8D5 1E7D 4C9C C27E 014F 7C2C 872A 7050 614E signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RealPlayer audio streams

2009-01-21 Thread Hans Ekbrand
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Re: Suspend to RAM leaves backlight on

2009-01-14 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:30:41AM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:16:12 +0100 > Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:59:27PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2009-01-13 20:20:05 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > >

Re: Suspend to RAM leaves backlight on

2009-01-14 Thread Hans Ekbrand
and perhaps we help each other to narrow down the problem. -- Note that I use Debian version 5.0 Linux sqlserver 2.6.26-1-powerpc #1 Wed Nov 26 15:34:33 CET 2008 ppc GNU/Linux Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) Signature generated by Signify v1.14. For this and more, visi

Re: Suspend to RAM leaves backlight on

2009-01-14 Thread Hans Ekbrand
was better in sleeping. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) Q. What is that strange attachment in this mail? A. My digital signature, see www.gnupg.org for info on how you could use it to ensure that this mail is from me and has not been altered on the way to you. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RS6000 running CUPS.... parport_pc needs to be motivated

2008-11-21 Thread Hans Ekbrand
server operates great otherwise. > > Could someone explain what I'm doing wrong? Doing that manually is sort of wrong since it can be automatically done at boot-time, if you add a line: parport_pc in /etc/modules Kind regards, -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL

Re: Good luck.

2008-06-11 Thread Hans Ekbrand
e should report what one consider as inaproriate behavour from debian admins. Kind regards, -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Boot Floppies PPC Old World Mac

2008-04-17 Thread Hans Ekbrand
pecial depth settings for colors to work in X. The kernel > was probably v. 2.4.18. The other alternative, a 2.2 kernel, wouldn't > allow USB to work. Sarge had 2.6.8 (and some 2.4 which I don't remeber), the kernel versions you mention implies that you installed wo

Re: Boot Floppies PPC Old World Mac

2008-04-16 Thread Hans Ekbrand
k I've ever installed woody from a CD, only directly from the net using the boot floppies. A quick google session returned http://farbror.acc.umu.se/cdimage/archive/images/3.0_r6/powerpc/debian-30r6-powerpc-binary-1.iso -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Boot Floppies PPC Old World Mac

2008-04-16 Thread Hans Ekbrand
this list have more recent experiences of installing (and running) oldworld macs. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: FLOSS VOIP Client Software

2008-01-26 Thread Hans Ekbrand
's enough for rejecting Skype altogether. Go SIP instead. By using open standards, you don't impose any specific software on your communication partners. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Q. What is that strange attachment in this mail? A. My digital

Re: Booting powerbook G3 with Bootx or Quik

2008-01-15 Thread Hans Ekbrand
its initrd instead of the installation kernel + installation initrd. -- Hans Ekbrand signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ppc installation issues...

2007-11-26 Thread Hans Ekbrand
he expertise on those matters is more likely to be found on the debian-boot list (or possibly debian-user, at least for the upgrading-to-unstable-problem). So, I think it is your own best interest to post on those lists instead. Kind regards, -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Debian on a PowerBook 1400cs/133

2007-11-19 Thread Hans Ekbrand
e able to boot from Debian CD:s. (Apple have proprietary stuff on their bootable CD:s) PowerBook 1400 has not new-world firmware. http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/ links to a iso-image for installing sarge, I would start there. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Sven Luther

2007-07-23 Thread Hans Ekbrand
whole banning thing has IMO only had negative impacts. > > I vote for this silly ban to get lifted. I agree wholeheartedly with Simon. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature

debian-powerpc or debian-boot for d-i issues [ was Re: Install 4.0 r0 "Etch" on IBM p5 510 inside LPAR ]

2007-04-20 Thread Hans Ekbrand
if the standard procedures, which Sven mentiones above, were followed. > That was actually all I wanted to say in my previous posting: And > sorry if the words I chose ("Wrong.") weren't as polite as they could > have been ... Pointing O.P to debian-boot and BTS of the d-i (and also the kernel list) as Sven did is not impolite, it's a good advice which enchances chance for O.P. getting help. -- Hans Ekbrand signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Netinstall grief on iMac G5

2007-03-05 Thread Hans Ekbrand
the issue, find out what the driver is needed and file a bug-report that the driver is not included in the initrd. > It also says I can manually pick a driver from the /dev directory. On > looking there, I don't see anything that looks like ATA. (re)post this message on debian-boot if yo

Re: bug#390432 - still no boot 2.6.18 here

2006-10-24 Thread Hans Ekbrand
1,0)" The miboot-floppies of beta3 (2006-08-04) boots to debian-installer sucessfully with a 2.6.16 kernel and initrd (on cramfs). So 2.6.16 can load the initrd on oldworld macs, even though the official debian kernels > 2.6.15 always has failed on my box (performa 5400, with 24 Mb ram).

Re: prematurely deleting kernel packages !?!?!

2006-09-27 Thread Hans Ekbrand
nto the kernel. I have successfully ran a 2.6.18 kernel with the ide disk and ext2 complied into the kernel. Being forced to use custom kernels is of course rather annoying in the long run. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Q. What is that strange attachment in

Re: kernel-image-2.6.16-2 on oldworld (success with a small change in config)

2006-09-11 Thread Hans Ekbrand
ules seems to be included in the initrd, but perhaps that is not enough. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Q. What is that strange attachment in this mail? A. My digital signature, see www.gnupg.org for info on how you could use it to ensure that this mail is f

Re: kernel-image-2.6.16-2 on oldworld (success with a small change in config)

2006-09-11 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 03:32:25PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 03:20:58PM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > Hi! > > Hi, please make sure you CC debian-kernel too on issues like this. Bug #366620 is against linux-image-2.6.16-2-powerpc, my post was a foll

kernel-image-2.6.16-2 on oldworld (success with a small change in config)

2006-09-08 Thread Hans Ekbrand
n (at least the ones with IDE-drives). -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key: 1024D/7050614E Fingerprint: 1408 C8D5 1E7D 4C9C C27E 014F 7C2C 872A 7050 614E Learn about secure email at http://www.gnupg.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: XFree86 running too slow in Performa 6500/300.

2006-09-01 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 03:20:27PM -0700, brian wrote: [...] > he just needs a little RAM > (128 might be good to start), a little patience, > and a good lightweight desktop. > (well a g3 upgrade wouldn't hurt, but it can wait). The OP has already stated that there is no budget for hardware up

Re: XFree86 running too slow in Performa 6500/300.

2006-08-31 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:41:09PM +0200, Michael Flaig wrote: > Hi, > > sad thing :-( > > Have you considered running the apps on a more powerful server? > using xdmcp or probably freenx? > ... as a thin client (probably diskless with netboot) My advice too. 32 MB is not usable with modern app

Re: Where can I find the ramdisk image for sarge for Old World Macs?

2006-08-24 Thread Hans Ekbrand
n't interact at boot time with the bootloader I'm using: quik) -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key: 1024D/7050614E Fingerprint: 1408 C8D5 1E7D 4C9C C27E 014F 7C2C 872A 7050 614E Learn about secure email at http://www.gnupg.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Xorg upgrade breaks keyboard settings on powerbook3,3

2006-06-08 Thread Hans Ekbrand
se it was only the top > row of keys that worked, so there was only a limited subset of > punctuation. Good to know that I might expect this when upgrading to dapper. > I also had to use pc105 and also switch KDE from using the > gb layout to the us layout (it remains gb in the xorg co

Re: boot from ethernet with imac g3

2006-06-02 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 11:39:01AM +0200, Giulio Canevari wrote: > In data 31/05/2006 23:03 Hans Ekbrand ha scritto: > >On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:53:50PM +0200, Giulio Canevari wrote: [This is about an installation on a box with a broken CD, and non working nic-configuration in the

Re: boot from ethernet with imac g3

2006-05-31 Thread Hans Ekbrand
mac, i can cat/head and so on the raw content, but i am unable to mount > it. Actually it has a vfat fs on top. As implied above business flavour mean B:1, and you seem to want B:2. I suspect that will not work. For it to work, use a kernel+initrd from the hd-install flavor of d-i. I'm CC:i

Re: imac g3 installation problem

2006-05-31 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 05:38:22AM -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: > On Tue, 30 May 2006 23:51:10 +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > I haven't used yaboot myself though (I only have oldworld machines), > > and I'm not sure if it does require a repartition to work (whic

Re: imac g3 installation problem

2006-05-30 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:55:27PM +0200, Giulio Canevari wrote: > In data 30/05/2006 01:24 Hans Ekbrand ha scritto: [...] > >My idea of booting from within MacOS is still possible. But not with > >BootX, but with yaboot. For example see: > >http://neugierig.org/cont

Re: imac g3 installation problem

2006-05-29 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 08:42:56AM -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: > On Mon, 29 May 2006 01:33:24 +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 04:34:33PM +0200, Giulio Canevari wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> i have just received as a gift a

Re: imac g3 installation problem

2006-05-28 Thread Hans Ekbrand
er (or even within MacOS before starting d-i, but I don't think MacOS will allow that). -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: sarge release file?

2006-05-23 Thread Hans Ekbrand
t; changed since my last successfull installation (which was pre r2). I can't > exactly remember from what to what I'm afraid, and I'm not sure wheter it > changed index number as well or not. The computer is an iBookG4, if that > matters. Sounds like a well-know problem with

Re: New miboot-enabled d-i daily builds set up

2006-05-15 Thread Hans Ekbrand
my ethernet "de2104x PCI". I tried to load tulip dc21x4x manually but it failed. This was still an interesting test, since I have not been able to boot 2.6.16 on this machine, but that must be a problem with the initrd created by initramfs (or possibly something with the way quik boots)

Re: video card - old world mac question

2006-05-15 Thread Hans Ekbrand
to get working > in a machine that old? Will a Radeon 9200 Mac Edition work? Sven Luther writes that that card should work under linux without problem here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/10/msg00383.html so I guess it should. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EM

Re: Boot failure with kernel 2.6.16 on G3 (Gossamer)

2006-05-08 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 07:54:03PM +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote: > At Mon, 8 May 2006 15:14:36 +0200, > Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > > My performa 5400 doesn't boot 2.6.16 in sid either. 2.6.15 works well > > though. Try 2.6.15. If it works then we might have the

Re: Boot failure with kernel 2.6.16 on G3 (Gossamer)

2006-05-08 Thread Hans Ekbrand
5400 doesn't boot 2.6.16 in sid either. 2.6.15 works well though. Try 2.6.15. If it works then we might have the same problem with 2.6.16. Kind regards, -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Problem with Acard 6280M (OldWorld Mac)

2006-04-19 Thread Hans Ekbrand
disk in /dev/hde2/boot for booting. But how? See the thread, "Debian install on biege G3", in particular my and David Peads posts from Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:15:48 + and onwards. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A. Because it breaks the logica

Re: installing Debian on an oldworld Mac.

2006-04-12 Thread Hans Ekbrand
Sorry if I jump in here, I haven't read the OP, so I don't know what image the mini.iso is. I recall a similar problem that I discussed quite thorough in this thread, which might be informative: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/12/msg00146.html There might very well be a bug in

Re: initrd: upgrade kernel from 2.4 to 2.6

2006-04-03 Thread Hans Ekbrand
(no reboot). > >>> > >>> > >>>So my main question is; does 2.6 kernels w/initrd actually work > >>>with quik? > >>> > > yes, but only until 2.6.12 sarge backport from (thanks to) sven The official debian kernel 2.6.15 wor

Re: Sarge installer for Mac Performa 6400/180 with 16MB RAM?

2006-03-22 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 04:23:07PM +0100, Simon Vallet wrote: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:28:54 +0100 > Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 03:09:18PM +0100, Simon Vallet wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:03:23 +0100 > > >

Re: Boot Mac 5500/225 in Linux

2006-03-22 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:00:41AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 04:16:43PM -0600, kendall14 wrote: > > > I don't know much about linux or mac but I want to install a linux > > operating system to a old mac. The system is a mac 5500/225 wit

Re: Boot Mac 5500/225 in Linux

2006-03-21 Thread Hans Ekbrand
the needed files within MacOS (bootX, vmlinux and initrd.gz from the "netinst" flavour). If you want to install from floppies you will need at least two floppies. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Q. What is that strange attachment in this mail? A. My dig

Re: installing Debian on an oldworld Mac.

2006-03-21 Thread Hans Ekbrand
inux.bin and ramdisk.image.gz ...". > > Are files "vmlinux" and "boot.img.gz" in > /~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/hd-media > equivalent to the files named in the manual? linux.bin => vmlinux ramdisk.image.gz => initrd.gz -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.n

Re: Sarge installer for Mac Performa 6400/180 with 16MB RAM?

2006-03-20 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 03:09:18PM +0100, Simon Vallet wrote: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:03:23 +0100 > Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No need for BootX (and with 16 MB RAM, the HD is probably small too, > > so avoiding BooX seems preferable). My reco

Re: Sarge installer for Mac Performa 6400/180 with 16MB RAM?

2006-03-20 Thread Hans Ekbrand
(and with 16 MB RAM, the HD is probably small too, so avoiding BooX seems preferable). My recommendation is boot floppies from woody and boot the installed system with quik. Thats how I installed on my Performa 5400 with 24 MB RAM. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Install Sarge on an embedded PowerPC

2006-03-20 Thread Hans Ekbrand
ion B. How about just copying all files from a minimal working powerpc installation to a directory and export that rw? (copy the modules needed for your custom kernel, but since you compile the kernel yourself you could compile in all necessary drivers). It's not elegant but it might work. -- H

Re: Quota Support in Kernel

2006-03-14 Thread Hans Ekbrand
t says that quota is only implemented for ext2. That might be out-dated info, or maybe part of your problem. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Q. What is that strange attachment in this mail? A. My digital signature, see www.gnupg.org for info on how you could

Re: Debian MacOldWorld installation

2006-03-10 Thread Hans Ekbrand
y do work on your). Here's where I get miboot images. http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/sid/images/ -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key: 1024D/7050614E Fingerprint: 1408 C8D5 1E7D 4C9C C27E 014F 7C2C 872A 7050 614E Learn about secure email at h

Re: debuging 2.6.15 via serial console

2006-03-03 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 11:34:14AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:49:49 +1100, Ben wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 12:43 +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:10:27AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > > > > [...] > &

debuging 2.6.15 via serial console

2006-03-03 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:49:49 +1100, Ben wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 12:43 +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:10:27AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Try installing with floppies? > > > > Trying my o

Re: Newbie Debian Etch PPC Yaboot Install Problems.

2006-02-23 Thread Hans Ekbrand
oot? How to do that is not self-evident. Try booting the installation CD (or whatever means you started the installation), let it run until the hardware is recognized and then execute a shell from within the installer, mount the partition where you have already installed debian, chroot into

Re: Newbie Debian Etch PPC Yaboot Install Problems.

2006-02-22 Thread Hans Ekbrand
oot into the Debian system for the first time > and how do I resolve the yaboot issue permanently? Sorry I don't know about yaboot. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Q. What is that strange attachment in this mail? A. My digital signature, see www.gnup

Re: G3 imac, networking, 2.6.12 kernel

2006-02-16 Thread Hans Ekbrand
e this particular machine. > I plan on filing a bug against linux-image-2.6.15-1-powerpc, along > with the script below for consideration as part of the postinst > process. Is that the ''correct'' package to post against? Why not linux-image-powerpc, since the prob

Re: quik... quik... quik... [was: Re: [OpenFirmware2.4] Can't boot on cdrom]

2006-02-08 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:52:19PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:10:27AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > >>Try installing with floppies? > >> > >>ht

Re: quik... quik... quik... [was: Re: [OpenFirmware2.4] Can't boot on cdrom]

2006-02-08 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:52:19PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:10:27AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > >>Try installing with floppies? > >> > >>ht

Problem with miboot and 2.6.15 (2.6.14 works OK)

2006-02-08 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:10:27AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: [...] > Try installing with floppies? Trying my own advice :-) on a Performa 5440. > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/sid/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/boot.img 2.6.15 This kernel hangs with ide0: Found Apple Oha

Miboot FREE? [was Re: [OpenFirmware2.4] Can't boot on cdrom ('loader: unrecognized client program format')]

2006-02-08 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:23:54AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:10:27AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: [...] > > If miboot works OK, on that model (on my perfomas the cpu will run at > > 1/10th speed when booted by miboot), I could make you a miboot > >

Re: [OpenFirmware2.4] Can't boot on cdrom ('loader: unrecognized client program format')

2006-02-08 Thread Hans Ekbrand
people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/sid/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/boot.img http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/sid/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/root.img In case quik turns out not to work on those beige G3 (seems it does work on some but not on others), you could use miboot for booting into the install

Re: g3 beige won't boot off of boot floppy

2006-01-24 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:12:36PM -0500, Chris Fisichella wrote: > > On Monday, January 23, 2006, at 06:58 AM, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > >This is also more complicated than necessary. Why not just mount the > >real MacOS partition in the first place and overwrite th

Re: g3 beige won't boot off of boot floppy

2006-01-23 Thread Hans Ekbrand
e, which is mounted in /mnt. > Finally, I exited out of the chroot shell and out of the RAMDisk shell. [...] > This action should dump you back into the Debian installer. You now > need to Abort the installation. When the machine reboots, boot into the > Mac OS. I double clicke

Re: OT: dns zone transfer (was: public key is not available)

2006-01-18 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:30:31PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:53:46PM +0100, Kiko Piris wrote: > > On 18/01/2006 at 22:16 +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > > > pgp.net is not a host, it's a zone. My guess is that your nameserver > &g

Re: OT: dns zone transfer (was: public key is not available)

2006-01-18 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:53:46PM +0100, Kiko Piris wrote: > On 18/01/2006 at 22:16 +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > pgp.net is not a host, it's a zone. My guess is that your nameserver > > is broken, but I'm no DNS guru. > > > > Here are some of the s

Re: public key is not available

2006-01-18 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:40:54PM -0800, Paul J. Lucas wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > > > $ host -l pgp.net | grep www > > > > > > itsy<1># nslookup pgp.net > > > Server: 206.13.31.12 > > > Address:

Re: public key is not available

2006-01-18 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:42:02AM -0800, Paul J. Lucas wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > Well, use the --keyserver option. > > > > $ host -l pgp.net | grep www > > itsy<1># nslookup pgp.net > Server: 206.13.31.12 >

Re: public key is not available

2006-01-18 Thread Hans Ekbrand
-l pgp.net | grep www gives a list of available keyservers. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Q. What is that strange attachment in this mail? A. My digital signature, see www.gnupg.org for info on how you could use it to ensure that this mail is from me and

Re: beige g3 - "FIRST DISK" question

2006-01-16 Thread Hans Ekbrand
I'm confused what would be the "first disk" if not hdd1? What about /dev/hda instead of /dev/hdd? -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Installation on Old World Mac 9500

2006-01-16 Thread Hans Ekbrand
what to do? If the system boots correctly, then you could use debian-installer as a rescue way into the system, and inspect it from inside, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/01/msg00306.html If it really is a kernel (or initrd) problem, then I would suggest that you try a newer ker

Re: Files for BootX

2006-01-16 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:37:33PM -0500, Chris Fisichella wrote: > On Sunday, January 15, 2006, at 05:31 PM, Hans Ekbrand wrote: [...] > >It might not be loaded automatically in the chroot, though. Try > > > ># modprobe hfs > > > >and then > > > &g

Re: Files for BootX

2006-01-15 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 04:09:51PM -0500, Chris Fisichella wrote: > > On Saturday, January 14, 2006, at 06:13 PM, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > > >That sounds nice. I have sent a patch for the problem you (and others) > >have met, but I welcome any enhancements to that p

Re: Files for BootX

2006-01-14 Thread Hans Ekbrand
el and initrd to that partition: # cp /boot/vmlinux* /boot/initrd* /mnt Now, exit the chroot, and the shell. Cancel the debian-installer and reboot to MacOS. Within BootX choose the kernel and initrd you copied. Try boot into "Linux". Good luck -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Strange behavior

2006-01-13 Thread Hans Ekbrand
gt; > >That seems strange to me, what filesystem is it? The only thing I could > >imagine > >is that the filesystem doesn't support the operation - VFAT? > > > > > Don't no what filesystem, it's an USB-Memory stick. So I think it isn't >

Re: quik 7300 Auto of scan range

2006-01-13 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:16:49AM +0100, Mich Lanners wrote: > On 13 Jan, this message from Hans Ekbrand echoed through cyberspace: > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:14:47PM -0200, Fábio Rabelo wrote: > >> > > Well then you might not even have to resolve the display issue, &

Re: quik 7300 Auto of scan range

2006-01-13 Thread Hans Ekbrand
dev /bandit/gc/via-cuda ' write value &W : -&We &W swap - execute ; : P1 4D8 -&We false 548 -&We ; &W FC + ' P1 BLpatch : P2 0C 2 ms ; &W E0 + ' P2 BLpatch device-end -en

Re: quik 7300 Auto of scan range

2006-01-12 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:56:54PM -0200, Fábio Rabelo wrote: > On 1/12/06, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:48:21AM -0200, Fábio Rabelo wrote: > > > On 1/11/06, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On We

Re: quik 7300 Auto of scan range

2006-01-12 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:48:21AM -0200, Fábio Rabelo wrote: > On 1/11/06, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 05:56:32PM -0200, Fábio Rabelo wrote: > > > But after that, in the first boot within Sarge, my monitor just shows a >

Re: quik 7300 Auto of scan range

2006-01-11 Thread Hans Ekbrand
sound that you interpreted as a successful boot), then (still within the chroot) mount the MacOS partition and copy the kernel + initrd to that partition for use with BootX. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key: 1024D/7050614E Fingerprint: 1408 C8D5 1E7D

Re: Files for BootX

2006-01-10 Thread Hans Ekbrand
e kernel and initrd that starts (or is) the debian-installer. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Q. What is that strange attachment in this mail? A. My digital signature, see www.gnupg.org for info on how you could use it to ensure that this mail is from

Re: Files for BootX

2006-01-10 Thread Hans Ekbrand
X the way to go? I would like to have both MacOS9 and Sarge > on the same machine. It seems reasonable and, like I wrote previously, > it seemed to work the best for my setup. Yes. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signature generated by Signify v1.14. For this and more, visit http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [powerpc-floppies] Help Needed : root.img too big (1489688, should be 1474560).

2006-01-09 Thread Hans Ekbrand
rpc-miboot right now. I will test it before sending patches. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Q. What is that strange attachment in this mail? A. My digital signature, see www.gnupg.org for info on how you could use it to ensure that this mail is from me and has n

Re: problems installing debian on Performa 6400

2005-12-19 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:47:07AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 11:24:18PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 11:41:56PM -0800, Tara Athan wrote: > > > I have been using BootX 1.1.3 - this may be (part of ) the difficulty. > > &

Re: problems installing debian on Performa 6400

2005-12-19 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 11:24:18PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 11:41:56PM -0800, Tara Athan wrote: > > I have been using BootX 1.1.3 - this may be (part of ) the difficulty. > > I tried downloading all versions of BootX, including 1.2.2, burned onto > &

Re: problems installing debian on Performa 6400

2005-12-18 Thread Hans Ekbrand
> > These instructions may very well be out-of-date, but they are what is on > the website under /current/ This part of the installation manual was never updated for the sarge release. So, try following the instructions in my earlier post in this thread. Kind regards, -- Hans

Re: problems installing debian on Performa 6400

2005-12-17 Thread Hans Ekbrand
linux device = ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED] partition = 6 root = /dev/hda6 image = /boot/vmlinux initrd = /boot/initrd.img append = "ramdisk_size=8192" label = linux -- -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Successfull! - Debian install on biege G3

2005-12-12 Thread Hans Ekbrand
> Also I only found reference to the 'sda' partitions within target/dev. > Any attempt to mount any device in /dev had trouble, only when I chroot did > I get anywhere... OK. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key: 1024D/7050614E Fingerprint: 1408 C8D5 1E7D 4C9C C27E 014F 7C2C 872A 7050 614E Learn about secure email at http://www.gnupg.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Successfull! - Debian install on biege G3

2005-12-12 Thread Hans Ekbrand
croot it won't work to use /boot/vmlinux-2.6.12-1-powerpc but you would have to use /target/boot/vmlinux-2.6.12-1-powerpc. But would chroot somehow help to get the MacOS partition mounted or not? Is /dev/hda6 specific for the installed system while inside the installer one have to use /de

Re: Debian install on biege G3

2005-12-11 Thread Hans Ekbrand
w do I check if the modules are loaded. If not, how can I > load them? Do I have to use something like ctrl,alt F3,4,5 or 6? # lsmod lists the loaded modules # modprobe hfsplus or # modprobe vfat might load the needed modules.> -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROT

Re: BootX, beige G3 and kernel 2.6

2005-12-08 Thread Hans Ekbrand
h some known good kernel, like the official one in sarge (2.6.8), or the one currently in sid (2.14)? I won't send my patches to the installation manual before we can figure out whats wrong here. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Q. What is that strange atta

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