Re: Problem installing debian on G3 beige

-io/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [jrm]$ This is under BootX. Incidentally, I have made little or no effort to run quik. Does it involve any major risk? -- John (MacPhail)

Re: mac-on-linux: any success yet?

th available, then I'll try it. I'm still running 2.2.17pre10ben1, but have no particular reason for not upgrading to a later kernel, if it matters. -- John (MacPhail) .. .. .. .. .. .. References: \ & (Perl, C/C++)

Re: floppy low-level format

e drive was not mounted, as both /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts agree. It would not have made much sense for superformat to have mounted the drive. But somehow, somewhere, it tagged the drive as being `in use'. -- John (MacPhail) .. .. .. .. .. .. References: \ & (Perl, C/C++)

Re: floppy low-level format

with the drive. There is empty input from `fuser /floppy' and `fuser /dev/fd0', and I don't see any suspects from `ls -R /var' or `ps ax'. -- John (MacPhail) .. .. .. .. .. .. References: \ & (Perl, C/C++)

Re: floppy low-level format

with a floppy drive. The floppy had seemed okay, HFS formatted. If it would help anyone, I would be willing to do more tests. But I would appreciate advice on how to get around the ejection problem without rebooting. -- John (MacPhail) .. .. .. .. .. .. References: \ & (Perl, C/C++)

Re: Debian PowerPC CD?

Linux Developers Association. I really only speak for myself, but I sort of expect to find some agreement John -- John MacPhail grad student at U.Waterloo [EMAIL PROTECTED] sneaker net MC5136A ---

Re: xfig segfaults

>After my upgrade yesterday, xfig segfaults. Does anybody have similar >problems? Yes. Under MkLinux, the XFig built from xfig-3.2.2-6.src.rpm segfaults -- I only went as far as confirming that this happens not just on my machine. If you get XFig working, please let me know John --