login again.
>
> Anybody got a clue?
Not really, but I'd suggest trying with a different (preferably
newly-created) user (even root {shudder}).
I'd also look for any gnome-related log files in /var/log and see if
they provide any clue.
I'd do an "aptitud
Gary Martin wrote:
I am a Linux newbie with a major problem.
I did a minimum install (plus development tools) from
the Woody 3.0r1 CDs, the updated everything using
"dselect" to Sid over my slow internet connection. I
re-booted with the aim of installing X11, but at the
login prompt, the keyboar
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P.S. Never loan your tibook to your wife!(or car)
Why would I want to loan my tibook to my car? :-)
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iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.123.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.123.0
broadcast 192.168.123.255
gateway 192.168.123.1
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
Then run "/etc/init.d/networking restart" and you should be in business.
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y assign each
one with a static IP, in the same subnet, like 192.168.123.3 and
192.168.123.4. Then connect by IP address rather than by name.
Or if you have samba installed on the Debian iBook, you can "smbmount
//win_IP_address/c$ /mntpoint -o username=Win_Administrator" from it.
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xt upgrade, so you may want to run
"dpkg-reconfigure xerver-common" which will present a question that will
set this file.
Of course, if that's not the problem, I'm not sure what the fix is.
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Ian Pushee wrote:
This isn't specificly a ppc-debian issue, but hopefuly someone will
have some insite... I am trying to install the PINE mail/news reader
on my new Dibian system. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a
package for it (thought pine-docs is available). Is there some reason
t
Shawn Powers wrote:
Is there an advantage to changing/upgrading my system from woody to sarge?
I'm sure that's a question that may have different answers from different
people, but are there some upshots that are obvious to anyone?
Only real advantage is newer software (at the expense of stab
Jon Olsen wrote:
hi. I'm a debian newbie in a pretty big way.
I installed potato from CD (the $9.95 price for the potato build
was easier for me to swing than the $21 for woody)
If you want to upgrade to woody and have a decent net connection, edit
/etc/apt/sources to point to an ftp or
Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Son, 2002-11-24 at 21:22, Kent West wrote:
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 06:23:34PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
On Fre, 2002-11-22 at 21:10, William Crowshaw wrote:
Just upgraded to woody (PowerMac 7500 using kernel
2.2.20). Every time -- and I mean every
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 06:23:34PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
On Fre, 2002-11-22 at 21:10, William Crowshaw wrote:
Just upgraded to woody (PowerMac 7500 using kernel
2.2.20). Every time -- and I mean every time -- I
logout of an X session (regardless of which wm I'm
using) a
On Fre, 2002-11-22 at 21:10, William Crowshaw wrote:
Just upgraded to woody (PowerMac 7500 using kernel
2.2.20). Every time -- and I mean every time -- I
logout of an X session (regardless of which wm I'm
using) and am thrown back to gdm, my mouse freezes up.
The keyboard works, but I loose
Tobias Giesen wrote:
Hello,
this is probably not ppc-specific, but anyway:
Since my Debian Mac is on a LAN only, I want to enable all those
insecure things like telnet and remote logins and X-Terminal access.
I already installed rsh-client and rsh-server but the system is still
"actively refu
Dave Turner wrote:
OK, here's the partition table.
1 Apple_partition_map Apple[EMAIL PROTECTED]
2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap [EMAIL PROTECTED] 800K
3 Apple_Driver_ATA* Macintosh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
4 Apple_Driver_ATA* Macintosh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5 Apple_
Dave Turner wrote:
Thanks for the rapid reply to my iMac boot problem.
Armed with the new knowledge that it is yaboot and I have been typing
yahboot I had another go in Open Firmware.
I made very sure I typed "boot hd:2,yaboot" this time, and I waited, and
waited.
Still didn't work.
Tonig
Joss Winn wrote:
Hi,
I've just installed Woody from CD and Mozilla won't start. It just
hangs in the terminal and the mozilla-bin process stays idle.
Anybody else get this?
Galeon is fine.
Thanks very much
Joss
I've seen this on the past four or five new installs (or new users) I've
se
I just recently installed Debian on my B&W G3. Wow. Looks and acts just
like the i386 port. I've very impressed at how similar the two platforms
look.
I've also got an Intel-based box running Debian.
I'm sharing a keyboard and mouse and monitor between the two computers
using a Belkin OmniCub
Clive Menzies wrote:
At 9:07 am -0500 19/7/02, Kent West wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Yep, I'd call it a bug.
I Ctrl-C'd out of the setup and reran "apt-get install
x-window-system" to get back to the start of configuring X, and this
time told it to not manage
Kent West wrote:
I'm doing an install of Sid on a Blue&White G3. After doing the base
install, I then ran "apt-get install x-window-system". After a while I
was presented with the debconf screen to enter the PCI Bus Identifier
for my video card (screen labeled "Con
I'm doing an install of Sid on a Blue&White G3. After doing the base
install, I then ran "apt-get install x-window-system". After a while I
was presented with the debconf screen to enter the PCI Bus Identifier
for my video card (screen labeled "Configuring Xserver-sfree86"). The
default is
Chris Tillman wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 05:08:25PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
Chris Tillman wrote:
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:27:30PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
things relating to where hard drive is>
Interesting things from "devalias":
--
ide0/pci/@d/
Chris Tillman wrote:
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:27:30PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
things relating to where hard drive is>
Interesting things from "devalias":
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ide0/pci/@d/mac-io/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ide1 /pci/@d/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
hd /
Chris Tillman wrote:
Your /target/etc/yaboot.conf should have something like
boot=/dev/hde6
device=ide0:
timeout=50
fgcolor=light-cyan
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
macos=/dev/hde14
macosx=/dev/hde15
image=/vmlinux
label=Linux
read-only
Chris Tillman wrote:
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:02:10PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
Chris Tillman wrote:
So you apparently have one of the dual-ide bus machines, and for some
reason ide0 is your main hard drive rather than hd.
Try creating the yaboot.conf from the earlier message in /target
Kent West wrote:
Chris Tillman wrote:
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:02:10PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
Then ybin complained quite a bit:
/proc filesystem is not mounted; nvram will not be updated
unable to find OpenFirmware path for boot=/dev/hde6
and similar message for other partitions.
Do I
Chris Tillman wrote:
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:02:10PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
Then ybin complained quite a bit:
/proc filesystem is not mounted; nvram will not be updated
unable to find OpenFirmware path for boot=/dev/hde6
and similar message for other partitions.
Do I need to crack the
Chris Tillman wrote:
So you apparently have one of the dual-ide bus machines, and for some
reason ide0 is your main hard drive rather than hd.
Try creating the yaboot.conf from the earlier message in /target/etc/
and give ybin a shot (in the chroot).
>
> Your /target/etc/yaboot.conf should hav
Chris Tillman wrote:
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 04:31:05PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
I've been fighting to get Debian installed on a Blue & White G3 for
several days, and after finally brute-forcing my way through the
OpenFirmware prompt ("boot hd:x,yaboot" didn't work --
Kent West wrote:
However, at the "Make system bootable" stage, yabootconfig fails. So I
popped into the second VT and ran "yabootconfig" manually. It failed
also, reporting that it "Could not determine root partition, aborting".
I looked for /etc/yaboot.conf, an
I've been fighting to get Debian installed on a Blue & White G3 for
several days, and after finally brute-forcing my way through the
OpenFirmware prompt ("boot hd:x,yaboot" didn't work -- had to resort to
"boot ide0/@0:x") have made it through the installation.
However, at the "Make system boo
Chris Tillman wrote:
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:30:15PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
I tried the command "boot" by itself, and got an error referencing
ide0/0:12 :thptpt (or something similar)
so on a lark, I tried
boot ide0/@:7
(without the "yaboot" even)
and
Kent West wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Recap: I haven't been able to start the Debian installation from the
OpenFirmware prompt. I type something like
boot hd:9,yaboot
(where 9 is the MacOS Standard partition that contains the four "boot"
files, including "yaboot"), a
Kent West wrote:
Recap: I haven't been able to start the Debian installation from the
OpenFirmware prompt. I type something like
boot hd:9,yaboot
(where 9 is the MacOS Standard partition that contains the four "boot"
files, including "yaboot"), and I
Kent West wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Chris Tillman wrote:
Try
doing it the way we say in the installation manual instead, that is,
use Drive Setup from the Mac CD to completely re-do your disk from the
ground up
I just used Drive Setup to do a Custom Initialization on the drive. I
created 3
Kent West wrote:
Chris Tillman wrote:
Try
doing it the way we say in the installation manual instead, that is,
use Drive Setup from the Mac CD to completely re-do your disk from the
ground up
I'm a little confused. I assume by "the installation manual", you mean
the manual
Chris Tillman wrote:
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 05:44:17PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
It feels like OpenFirmware just can't open that partition (or any
partition for that matter). Is there some sort of test to isolate the
problem to either the Linux files or to OpenFirmware/th
Josh Huber wrote:
I hope that helps...
Yes, it does. Thanks! It doesn't solve my problem, but it helps me to
understand what's going on.
I just wiped all the partitions (first with Disk Setup, then with pdisk)
except the first 6 or so (the partition map, the Appleboot partition,
the d
Kent West wrote:
New Information:
As an experiment, I used pdisk to delete the 14th partition, named
"MacShared". I then recreated it with the command:
C 14p 14p MacOS Apple_HFS
and wrote the changes to disk. I then rebooted.
When OS 9 finished booting, I saw
Chris Tillman wrote:
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 11:24:43PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
Which debian-imac release are you using, the 2.2 or 3.0? Perhaps there's
been some corruption of the yaboot binary or something.
The installation instructions pointed me to a .sit archive at
Chris Tillman wrote:
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:21:32PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
At OpenFirmware prompt, I'm typing "boot hd:14,yaboot" and getting
"can't OPEN: 14:hd,yaboot ok".
boot hd:14,yaboot
is the right syntax.
Thanks for the clarification
At OpenFirmware prompt, I'm typing "boot hd:14,yaboot" and getting
"can't OPEN: 14:hd,yaboot ok".
I've also tried "boot HD:14,yaboot" and "boot HD:[2-14],yaboot" and
"boot hd:[2-14],yaboot" and "boot hd:" and "boot: HD" and "boot: hd,13"
etc etc etc.
This is on a Blue&White G3, 128MB RAM, 6GB
"C.M. Connelly" wrote:
> One rant that's still on my to-do list is for people who send HTML
> to mailing lists. I hate that. ;-P
>
>CMC
>
> P.S. Good thing I haven't gotten around to adding a filter rule to
> class HTML mail as spam (most of it is), or I would have
> missed you
m socially acceptable
(the rant, not the ranter), but I have to disagree that they do "NO" good.
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nstallation on a PowerMac 4400/200. Perhaps it'll be of assistance (and, perhaps not).
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How I installed Debian GNU/Linux on my PowerMacintosh 4400
Kent West
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Description of System
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Power Macintosh 4400/200 = 603e = "
Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> Kent West wrote:
>
> > Running in PowerPC 750 mode (G3)
> > newworld: elf32_getehdr failed
> > cleaning up...
> > Terminating threads
> > DONE
> >
> > Is the claim of running in G3 mode significant, since I don&#x
Kent West wrote:
>
> When I boot into Debian on my PowerMac 4400/200, the xdm logon
> screen pops up, but when I log in, the system thinks for a few
> seconds, and then returns to the logon screen. It's not a
> password problem, because I can put in a bad password and get t
"C.M. Connelly" wrote:
>
> "KW" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>KW> Thanks! That's a lot of good info. Do you reckon I'd be
>KW> better off going to 2.2.17 now, or is 2.2.16 acceptable
>KW> enough to keep u
"C.M. Connelly" wrote:
>
> "KW" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>KW> Since I had read that 2.2.15 had problems (which is
>KW> what I started with on this Mac), I downloaded the source
>KW> for 2.2.16 (I couldn't fi
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Adrian Rutledge wrote:
>
> and the problem with that is you put it in rom.nw, hence MacOL thinks its
> a NewWorld ROM, which seems to be a flavour of ELF. (manually boot Classic
> MacOS from OF, and it'll say "Loading EL
Chris Baker wrote:
>
> Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I've just managed to get Debian installed on a PowerMac 4400/200.
> > The base install
> > wasn't too hard, but getting X to work was a bear.
> >
> > Finally, I've gotte
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 02:26:35PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> > Now I'm trying to get Mac-on-Linux (MOL) to work. If you're at
> > all familiar with MOL, you know it's very Redhat-centric. So
> > rather than try to work w
r that I can't quite sort out what's happening.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
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yboard, standard
one-button mouse.
Thanks!
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get install libelf", but
it complained that libelf conflicted with libelfg0, and when I
tried to remove libelfg0, it complained that it was being
depended on by various packages, such as make and dpkg. I wasn't
about to hose dpkg by going any further, so I set things back to
the way they should be and decided to ask this list if anyone had
any ideas.
Thanks!
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