Re: Debian on PowerMAC G4

gt;problem: > >The Linux kernel boots, loads the ramdisk image and starts the system >installation. The I get the message "Your PowerPC architecture is not >supported yet." Pressing return reboots the machine. Try the test set at <http://www.them.org/~drow/boot-floppies-2/po

Re: xterms: Non Root User's Cant Open a Psuedo Teletype

ne of those and send the output. As a hunch, however, ls -l /dev/ptmx and ls -ld /dev/pts. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: More on Powerbook G3 install

;> broken on them. I'll try to make a newer set soon. > >These still give the "Architecture not supported" message, FYI -- at >least on Lombard Powerbooks. I dunno what other architectures. Try this replacement ramdisk image: <http://web.espy.org/ftp/debian/ramdisk.im

Re: New kernel packages available - PLEASE test!

and yes, they do work. The kernel image works fine on my smurf tower, though I'm unsure if USB is OK, since I don't use that. I used yaboot to boot it. I have a ramdisk.image.gz with these fixes at <http://web.espy.org/ftp/debian/ramdisk.image.gz>. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: booting from openfirmware

supports. Incidentally the `bootargs' file is probably wrong, 'video=keep' isn't something I've ever seen. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: clock troubles under Debian/PowerPC

so it must grok UTC. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: speaking of HFS partitions...

glibc 2.1 based incarnation of Debian/PowerPC. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: Continuing Annoyances...

atsoever to do with compiling the kernel. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: Need your input for keymap configuration

latin1-nodeadkeys.kmap.gz:11: adding map 3 violates explicit keymaps line) Another bad one: Loading /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/gr.kmap.gz findfile(): timeout waiting for undead child(ren) ? -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re:Re: Misc. USB adventures

e.c, it's minor 32, and mouse devices are all on major 10, so: mknod c 10 32 /dev/usbmouse -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: Default kernel for powerpc may change

ed from 2.3 USB support for 2.2 from Paul Mackerras' linux-pmac-stable tree as well as a modified config.pmac). -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: installing Deb on Rev. A iMac?

d be installed today. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: latest screen doesn't work with mklinux

king for ptys in /dev/ptys/ and not finding any (since mk is still 2.0). 2.9.5-3 should not have a problem allocating ptys on any system, since it uses the getpt() function, which properly falls back to BSD-style ptys if UNIX98-style ptys are not available. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)

Re: what about potato boot-floppies for powerpc/apus ?

vered that pmac-fdisk does not support mac partition tables. I will fix this today. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: Debian PowerPC CD?

ll mklinux first and then overwrite with debian, or are the install floppies in a usable state? Debian/powerpc is not gonna support nubus machines (as that machine is) until after potato, I'm afraid. Those machines are presently only supported by the mklinux kernel and we don't have tha

Re: Unable to fsync updated status of 'xxxxxx': Input/output error

At 18:34 -0500 1999-10-26, David Welton wrote: Any idea why I might be getting this error from dpkg when trying to install packages? It seems to be sort of random... I straced it and it is indeed fsync failing. generic 2.3 kernel bug, I thought it was fixed by now. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy

Re: potato boot-floppies for powerpc uploaded

At 12:59 -0700 1999-10-20, Matt Porter wrote: It's a boot-floppies check of /proc/cpuinfo. Looking at the kernel I think your probably claims it is "machine: PowerMac" which is not handled yet in boot-floppies. Yes it is, the strcasecmp(Arch2, "Power") case ha

Re: potato boot-floppies for powerpc uploaded

Boot so you can make real boot floppies for pre-newworld machines. Once I have finished with the iBook support, I'll try to fix quik so we can make bootable CDs that boot both newworld and pre-newworld machines. Unfortunately our root image and kernel together aren't small enough to fit

Re: ...additional note

At 15:14 +0300 1999-10-20, Petter Sundlöf wrote: Pherhaps I should mention these are the old stuff, located in "potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/" Yes, you *really* should have, the old stuff is broken on power macs. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian

Re: potato boot-floppies for powerpc uploaded

s). Give me a couple weeks and I'll know more...I haven't seen many Mac people around here interested in getting boot images working (as evidenced by none contributing to powerpc boot-floppies devel). I think I'm the only pmac person making any boot-floppies contribution at all.

Re: MySQL at Linux/PPC

ce (`fseek', `ftell') and the low-level POSIX interface (`lseek') would lead to problems. This macro was introduced as part of the Large File Support extension (LFS). -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: what about cdrecord ?

max, the value is in decimal bytes. So 32MB (the current default) can be set via echo 33554432 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.

New hwclock.sh for powerpc

;; *) echo "Usage: hwclock.sh {start|stop|reload|show}" >&2 echo " start sets kernel clock from hardware clock" >&2 echo " stop and reload set hardware clock from kernel clock" >&2 echo "

[OT] Re: Open Firmware booting on Blue G3

OS-specific thing that no other OS need be concerned with. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: Apple vs. IBM

. That's not quite correct, the Blue & White PowerMac G3 has one 32-bit/66MHz PCI slot, and 3 64-bit/33MHz PCI slots. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/>

Re: Sound?

ly-behaved program; in particular, it works by twiddling AWACS registers directly. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: Sound?

wn process puts the sound chip in such a state that Linux cannot initialize it. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: gdb don't want my xserver core file ...

080/home/espel/rpm2cpio>, rpm2cpio file.src.rpm | cpio --extract. srpms are a modified cpio archive containing the upstream tarball, zero or more patches, and the .spec file. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: >2.2.7 compile problems

At 15:43 -0500 1999-05-24, Dan Wood wrote: Oh, JSYK, you have to resymlink /usr/include/asm and ./linux if you use the tarball install. /usr/include/{linux,asm} should *not* be symlinks. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: URGENT: warning!

cc patch, this makes __*register_frame_info weak symbols. Debian/sparc has backed this out of their egcs. Jeff Law has suggested on the egcs list that he believes that patch was a bad idea, even going so far as to consider a 1.1.3 release just to back it out. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)

Re: FIPS or presize-like tool

At 22:44 -0300 1999-04-27, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: Is there any partition resizer for Mac PowerPC HFS+ volumes? I have not found a proprietary commercial product that does it, let alone anything that is freely available or free software. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy

Re: Debian PowerPC Status

boot. The standard Linux-USB uusbd code works fine on powerpc now. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: disks-powerpc

bridge, but when I download them directly from the mac it's the same thing. They aren't macbinary, despite the extension. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) http://web.espy.org/> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: installing debian ppc

an HFS floppy and an XCOFF boot image. You can actually, the NetBSD/macppc folks have raw disk images that pmac OF can boot from with "boot fd:0". -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) http://web.espy.org/> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL

Re: installing debian ppc

27; program to convert "aixcoff-rs6000" format to "xcoff-powermac" format). It is a quite simple matter to get binutils to support "xcoff-powermac" for powerpc-*-linux-gnu targets, basically a one-liner patch. %bfd-pmac-xcoff.diff Description: application/app

Re: popen & pclose; How to report platform-specific bugs?

1 for powerpc. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) http://web.espy.org/> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC -- http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/>

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

even most people to be able to. The only list I'd say is required is -private. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) http://web.espy.org/> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC -- http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/>

Re: Still problems with kfloppy

JOR to SCSI_DISK0_MAJOR will work. The second is just a warning, adding -fsigned-char to the CFLAGS will resolve it (e2fsprogs 1.12 has fixed this in a different way). -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) http://web.espy.org/> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAI

Re: Can't boot

At 01:02 +0100 1998-12-12, Cesli wrote: Did you change /etc/rc.boot/0setserial ? Did you add cua devices to /dev ? cua devices are deprecated, and there should be no reason to create them. ttyS devices should be used instead. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) http://web.espy.org

Re: Trying to get base install

e, but it is not very tested yet. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) http://web.espy.org/> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC -- http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/>

Re: xterm failed, 2.1 dependencies

id/main/disks-powerpc/2.0.11.4_1998-10-15/base2_1.tgz or the 5 base floppy images (I dunno how to write raw images to floppy under Mac OS though) on a Debian mirror can be used with it, but there's not a pmac drivers disk yet, so the part of the install where drivers are configured won't w

Re: pcmcia irq allocation

At 13:59 -0400 1998-10-16, Dan Jacobowitz wrote: Offhand, I would recommend asking the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. It's [EMAIL PROTECTED] now. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://web.espy.org/> Debian GNU/Linux user/developer on i386 and powerpc. ma

Re: Want some help? ("Will hack for CDs")

order to build "boot floppies", this is a good thing, as the kernel makefiles make our job easy (it becomes a simple matter of copying a gzipped ext2 filesystem image to where the kernel makefiles want it, and a quick make incantation, and we have a rescue "floppy"). -- Joel Kl

Re: Mac idiot asking for help

, some of the commercial drive formatting utilities can shrink an existing partition (e.g. FWB Hard Disk Toolkit). -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://web.espy.org/> Debian GNU/Linux user/developer on i386 and powerpc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: Apt dies in configure (slang problem).

At 12:46 -0700 1998-09-01, Rob Browning wrote: >Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It doesn't have powerpc support (of all the emacsen, only xemacs20 >> has any powerpc support). I have patches from the linuxppc SRPMs in >> my home directory on master

Re: It's done

dh_installdocs was broken in a recent debhelper release, maybe just trying again will work. >hwtools_0.3-4.deb (arch error) I'm kinda the maintainer of this, so I'll look at it >set6x86_1.5-1.deb Should be "Architecture: i386" -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)

Re: It's done

he machine can boot from, copying to a floppy is but one possibility. [3] APUS would be a fourth I'm assuming, but it doesn't appear to be fully integrated into the vger tree yet -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://web.espy.org/> Debian GNU/Linu

Dependency problems with some X packages.

It seems several packages that should depend on xlib6g, depend on xlib6 instead, but xlib6 doesn't and shouldn't exist on powerpc. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://web.espy.org/> Debian GNU/Linux user/developer on i386 and powerpc. mailto:

Re: powerbook do's/donts?

At 21:39 -0700 1998-08-23, Shaleh wrote: >I may be getting a powerbook this week. Anyone care to comment on which >ones work and which dont. No, it wont be a G3 )-: Only the 2400, 3400, G3 and G3 series are supported. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Status of Debian on the PowerMacs?

erimental patch that will fix this problem. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://web.espy.org/> Debian GNU/Linux user/developer on i386 and powerpc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: Status of Debian on the PowerMacs?

iff against kernel-package 5.04. %kpkg.diff Description: application/applefile kpkg.diff Description: Binary data -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://web.espy.org/> Debian GNU/Linux user/developer on i386 and powerpc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: Apt dies in configure (slang problem).

y on master for emacs 19 and 20. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://web.espy.org/> Debian GNU/Linux user/developer on i386 and powerpc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: Debian make my G3 go!

At 10:17 -0700 1998-08-16, Dan Jacobowitz wrote: >On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 12:22:37AM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: >> Even statically linked ones? > >Oh, is quik statically linked? Referring to the app, not the blocks. Yes, it is. /sbin/quik: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerP

Re: Debian make my G3 go!

At 06:12 -0700 1998-08-16, Joel Klecker wrote: >At 03:17 -0700 1998-08-16, Martin Schulze wrote: >>Joel Klecker wrote: >>> I made /dev/hda7 on tervola bootable using quik 1.3.0, I suggest you try >>> booting from it. The current SCSI root partition remains bootable, so y

Re: Debian make my G3 go!

At 03:17 -0700 1998-08-16, Martin Schulze wrote: >Joel Klecker wrote: >> I made /dev/hda7 on tervola bootable using quik 1.3.0, I suggest you try >> booting from it. The current SCSI root partition remains bootable, so you >> should be able to go back to it if booting from

Re: Debian make my G3 go!

At 12:02 -0700 1998-08-15, Dan Jacobowitz wrote: >On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 10:45:33AM -0700, Craig R. Sadler wrote: >> >> I was able to install the base-powerpc files from the tar file on a G3 333 >> MT and boot using the 2.1.115 kernel from Paul Mackerras. I tried building >> the kernel from kerne

Re: Debian make my G3 go!

At 19:59 -0700 1998-08-15, Dan Jacobowitz wrote: >Which is the problem - even when glibc 1.99 binaries do run without >complaint, they are liable not to do quite what you want them to. Even statically linked ones? -- Joel "Espy" Klecker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/>

Re: Debian make my G3 go!

At 13:00 -0700 1998-08-15, Martin Schulze wrote: >Dan Jacobowitz wrote: >> > Like Alex Romosan I used linuxppc and mounted the partition with debian >> > on it, but I couldn't get quik to work, so I used quik under MacOS. I >>used >> > the swap partion that I normally use for linuxppc. >> >> Qui

Re: List for missing packages

At 04:49 -0700 1998-08-05, Hartmut Koptein wrote: >admin: >-r--r--r-- 1 601 200024326 Feb 18 18:21 fbset_1.0-2.deb I'm working on packaging the fbset 2.0 snapshot, it was designed to work for more than just m68k. >libs: >-r--r--r-- 1 601 200032948 Jan 3 1998 libpcr

glibc 2.0.95 source package

I've made a full source package available at: . This has correct binary-pic, and binary-locales targets, and is fully synced with the glibc 2.0.7t Debian packaging. -- Joel "Espy" Klecker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: slink Tarball Progress

At 10:05 -0700 1998-07-28, Chris Lawrence wrote: >Actually, there's no direct hardware access on m68k at least... all the >setting/getting is done in the kernel layer (because there are umpteen >hardware clocks on m68k: Atari, two varieties on Amiga, Mac...). Right, what I was *trying* to say is t

Re: kernel-package: some enhancements for all archs

At 16:04 -0700 1998-07-26, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >__ > ># SILO can boot gzip'ed kernel; m68k has vmlinuz, just the kernel makefiles ># don't seem to realise it. >#ifneq ($(strip $(architecture)),m68k) >ifeq ($(strip $(filter m68k

Re: slink Tarball Progress

At 17:22 -0700 1998-07-23, Dan Jacobowitz wrote: >[Before you read my response, one comment] >I'm not sure you're taking a great approach here. There's a very well >tested set of scripts in boot-floppies for creating a debian base >tarball. I intended to use those when the last missing binaries a

Re: chown()/lchown() war ...

At 02:08 -0700 1998-07-20, Sven LUTHER wrote: >is dpkg --root=newroot --force-depends -i packages.deb correct ? cd $newroot && dpkg ... (dpkg uses chroot, but it doesn't chdir to where the new root is first) >Also what is the status on ldso.deb ? apart from e2fslib and mount it is >the only vital

Re: Debian PPC install

y KEATING <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andreas Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Geoffrey KEATING <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PowerPC Problem Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.105) > From: Andreas Jaeger <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Linux on a Mac 6300

At 19:54 -0500 1998-04-26, matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote: >I want to install Linux, preferably debian, on a Macintosh 6300cd. It is >powered by an early ppc chip. According to linuxppc.org, I would not be >able to run ppc-linux on it, because of the NuBUS is not supported. I was >wondering if the

Re: Debian PPC install

At 23:03 -0700 1998-04-18, Turbo 'DanB' wrote: >Thanks for the quick reply to all of my initial questions. Now just a >couple more. > >1. If the install disks for Debian-ppc wont be available for a while, is >there a way I can install it now? I really would like to run it, since I >am running it

Re: Debian for PB3400

At 00:54 -0700 1998-04-18, Turbo 'DanB' wrote: >I am new to the list, and from reading some of the archived posts, I gather >that this is a developers list rather than a support list. However, I have >a few questions that I hope can be answered easily. I am also new to >PowerPC (have always used

Re: Uploaded glibc-pre2.1 2.0.92-0.1 (source powerpc all) to master

At 12:07 +0200 1998-04-16, Juan Cespedes wrote: > If it is the one in ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/glibc-2.0.92.tar.gz, >then it is the same as glibc_2.0.92-980326. > I suddenly realized that I may have stepped on an an upload of yours, is that the case? My apologies for doing that, I should have

Re: Uploaded glibc-pre2.1 2.0.92-0.1 (source powerpc all) to master

At 12:21 +0200 1998-04-16, Juan Cespedes wrote: > Where did you get that "new upstream test-release" from? > > If it is the one in ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/glibc-2.0.92.tar.gz, >then it is the same as glibc_2.0.92-980326. Yes, that's the one. > Oh, an BTW: I don't like that epoch

Debian/powerpc status report

Hi, Here's what's going on with Debian/powerpc now. Our current libc is based on glibc 1.99, and is very buggy, I am currently trying to get a glibc 2.1 snapshot working, which is proving to be a very difficult job. Currently, I am building statically linked binaries so I can then build dynamica

Re: Installing PPC port

Regarding "Installing PPC port" of 13:47 -0800 1998-02-02, Brian Bassett wrote: >Our local user's group has had about 70 IBM PPCs donated to the university. > We were wondering how to go about installing Debian/PPC, as there aren't >any install disks. Debian/powerpc is not currently in a reasonabl

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy

Regarding "Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy" of 12:50 AM +0100 1/21/98, Juan Cespedes wrote: >On Fri, Jan 16, 1998 at 03:46:11PM -0800, Joel Klecker wrote: >> >> powerpc, and sparc both use glibc 2.1, but I expect that the others will >> move in that

Installation Questions and Boot Disks?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I'm wondering what's the best way to "assimilate" a non-Debian installed system into a Debian one. I assume that I need to install a base system (either MkLinux or "normal" RedHat) and then get dpkg and dselect installed somehow. Is anyone working on a native D