I have two machines (both of which dual boot into Ubuntu 5.04 and OS X
10.3.9)
- an iBook G3 running Ubuntu 5.04 (all current updates) on a 4G
partition
- an iMac DV G3 running Ubuntu 5.04 (all current updates) on a 5G part
I have a 10G external (pocket) firewire drive which I formatted on the
On Sep 29, 2005, at 3:33 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
Hosed, how so ?
it won't mount on the OS X machine nor does Disk Utils recognize it
when I try to 'repair' it...
what does Disk Utils says specifically ? I mount HFS+
partitions regulary here without problems. However, make sure i
I just tried a little experiment:
- formatted a 300G HD using Disk Utilities in OS X (10.3.9) on a G5 iMac
- 290G=HFS+
- 10G=Unix FS
dragged a foo.tar.gz file to the Unix part
dragged a pdf to the HFS+ part
unmounted the drive
plugged the drive into my iBook which was booted into U
On Sep 27, 2005, at 2:32 AM, kohzak wrote:
Hi
try startx
that worked! thanks!
another problem: when I go to the log out menu I don't get a choice of
rebooting or shutting down -- only logging out
how do I resurrect my regular logout window?
also, when I do reboot I am directed back to cons
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On Sep 26, 2005, at 1:37 PM, Brad Boyer wrote:
The partition map doesn't have separate types for HFS and HFS+.
but what is odd is that gparted (gnome partition editor) *does* seem to
make a distinction between HFS and HFS+ -- so I assume it's looking at
the volume header?
To tell
the diff
On Sep 26, 2005, at 1:37 PM, Brad Boyer wrote:
The partition map doesn't have separate types for HFS and HFS+.
but what is odd is that gparted (gnome partition editor) *does* seem to
make a distinction between HFS and HFS+ -- so I assume it's looking at
the volume header?
To tell
the diff
below is a fdisk report from my son's G3 iMac DV which describes his
4.7G Linux part as a 'NewWorld bootblock'...yet 'gparted' describes the
same part correctly as a 'ext3' fs -- which is what I formatted it as
in the Ubuntu install...
***does anyone else get similar discrepancies between fdis
something interesting to note:
==
- gparted (gnome partition editor) describes my 9G OS X partition as
HFS+
- fdisk describes the same part as a HFS
also:
- fdisk describes my NewWorld boot part as 'NewWorld bootblock'
- gparted describes the same NewWorld bootblock part as a HF
On Sep 26, 2005, at 12:02 PM, Martin Habets wrote:
So what is it? HFS or HFS+? Big difference for Linux cause different
drivers
are used (hfs and I think hfsplus).
Not sure if OS X still recognizes a HFS drive. Maybe the partition
table on
the drive is no longer recognized. Wat do fdisk (in L
no one seemed to have an answer for this one so I am posting it again:
When I booted into Linux with my 300G HFS+ formatted backup drive
hanging off the iMac the drive came up and I could see all the .dmg
backups on it...
but when I rebooted into OS X the HFS drive came up as
unrecognized...WTF
apologies in advance if this is a known issue and has been discussed
here but...
I have had a problem with the CD eject button on my 12' G3 iBook since
upgrading to Ubuntu 5.04 some time ago but haven't had the bandwidth to
fix it
I was not been able to open the CD tray door by pushing the F
- I partitioned my sons G3 iMac into three parts: [OS X (HFS): 50G],
[Ubuntu PPC (ext3): 5G], and [New World part/boot (HFS): 250M]...
- everything installed fine, I was able to dual boot without a problem
and everything was working nicely together...yaboot came up and showed
three devices to
On Mar 19, 2005, at 10:53 AM, MATT RICHARDSON wrote:
The short version is that you can use a Windows ppd.
great! so you can use a WindowsNT ppd on a PPC machine?
The second link
says that a ppd for Win NT is preferable, but other sources just said
Windows in general. Put the file in /usr/share/cu
I'm trying to get my DebianPPC iBook hooked up to a Canon i950 (via a
USB connection; not over a network - yet)
I ran the Gnome CUPS manager and it's looking for a ppd file for the
printer...none are to be found in either the foomatic db or the library
for CUPS
I looked on the canon ftp site and
On Mar 3, 2005, at 6:28 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
... which for simply fixing netatalk is a much easier aprroach than
the "chroot" one I was mentioning before. Michel is right, Kim: For
this
case I'd forget the "chroot" solution ... :)
I can't thank all of you enough for the patient hand holdin
On Mar 2, 2005, at 5:16 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
But that looks like lots of good news for me: It seems the system is
offering you to boot an "old" kernel: Did you try to type something
like "Linux", "old" or "Linux:old", whatever, at the prompt, and then
hitting ? If yes: What happened ..
On Mar 2, 2005, at 3:17 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
If you've got the ubuntu install CD boot from that, then hit 'tab' at
the yaboot prompt. There is an image called rescue (or something very
like that)
there are:
install-powerpc
custom-powerpc
expert-powerpc
custom-expert-powerpc
but none of them have
On Mar 2, 2005, at 12:18 PM, David Pye wrote:
this doesn't work either...I can get to the yaboot prompt but when I
type in 'linux single' or 'single' or other permutations I get a no
such file or directory
Try pressing tab instead, and see what happens.
nope all I get is 'Linux: old'
noth
this doesn't work either...I can get to the yaboot prompt but when I
type in 'linux single' or 'single' or other permutations I get a no
such file or directory
but when I type in /dev or some path its gives me a 'Not a valid ELF
image' which means it is able to see a path to something bootable..
unfortunately when you start the install from the Ubuntu .iso and drop
into the command line it only offers you a small range of commands to
use:
break
cd
chdir
continue
eval
exec
exit
export
false
hash
help
let
local
pwd
read
readonly
return
set
shift
times
trap
true
type
ulimit
umask
unset
wait
I have installed Ubuntu (Warty) on an iBook
set up for dual boot OSX 10.3.x and Warty
everything was fine until I tried to install netatalk via synaptic
packages manager in Ubuntu
after the install it tried to build and config netatalk and in the
middle of this process automatically rebooted the
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