Re: Issues with Debian Lenny on Powerbook G4

2008-04-23 Thread Patrick Bachmann
Hey Amit, On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:25:50 +0200, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, When I installed testing I changed the sources to sid and upgraded them. But I still couldn't get the Xorg issue figured out. The graphics controller I have is: description: VGA comp

Re: browser

2007-09-19 Thread Patrick Bachmann
Hello Albert, On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 10:52:26PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > Right now I'm spending a few hours each day > just waiting for the browser to catch up to me. > This is a horrible waste of time. May I suggest you to take a look at Opera? Just add deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/

Re: netbeans?

2007-02-26 Thread Patrick Bachmann
Hello Charlie, On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:06:06 +0100, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With these sources of information, I successfully installed NetBeans \ on my iBook with Debian. Hope this helps. What kind of performance are you seeing? Is netBeans usable on your h

Re: Flash < v7 compatible?

2006-07-14 Thread Patrick Bachmann
Sven Luther wrote: So on the PPC, when you need to read a flash page, what are the alternatives? There are at least two free flash player. One is swf-player, the other is never, but i never tested it and didn't remember the name. swf-player is not really working for the newer flash stuff, but

Re: Can't run RAR binary

2006-06-24 Thread Patrick Bachmann
Hey Lawrence, Lawrence Li wrote: I was trying to use RAR to unzip an .rar file on Debian / iBook G3. Use unrar. Make sure, you are including non-free packages in your source.conf bash: /usr/local/bin/rar: cannot execute binary file (Same with unrar.) I tried to search for answer and some

Re: mol

2006-04-04 Thread Patrick Bachmann
Caleb Storms wrote: hey, i'm trying to get mol running and i keep finding mixed howto s. I'm running the test distro of debian and am having trouble compiling the modules. Has anyone had any luck with this ? Please point me to a good howto. Thanks Caleb Hey Caleb, this howto [0] d

Re: Kernel Question (Johannes Berg?)

2006-03-02 Thread Patrick Bachmann
On Thursday 02 March 2006 16:49, David Smoot wrote: > Dead link and Google was no help either. Somebody have a working > link? Hey David, it's still in Google's cache. Patrick -- Six pizzas a day keep the doctor away -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Filesystem Snapshot

2006-03-02 Thread Patrick Bachmann
On Monday 27 February 2006 13:46, Sammy wrote: > I'd like to take a snapshot of the filesystem structure (merely > contents, as if listed by an ls command) at one point in time, make > some changes (say install an application) and then compare the > current structure to the snapshot taken. > I trie

Re: Problem installing on PowerMac 8600

2005-02-25 Thread Patrick Bachmann
Hello vinai On Friday 25 February 2005 03:38 pm, vinai wrote: > And I > don't think it's a problem with the floppy drive itself - I put in the > floppies in MacOS 9, and they showed up on the desktop and I was able to > see the kernel file on the disk. Don't be so sure about that. After I install

Re: Problem installing on PowerMac 8600

2005-02-25 Thread Patrick Bachmann
On Thursday 24 February 2005 08:29 pm, Rick_Thomas wrote: > Old floppy drives, especially if infrequently used, get really dusty > inside. This interferes with reading. Thanks, you got a point there. I always thought the other way round, that my own floppy drives didn't do what they were suppose

Re: Problem installing on PowerMac 8600

2005-02-25 Thread Patrick Bachmann
Hello Holger, On Thursday 24 February 2005 11:12 am, Holger Levsen wrote: > > That's how I did it for all floppies. cmp can't find any difference. But > > the images just don't get recognized by the Macintosh to be bootable. > > might be, that you mac drive has some problems reading floppies writt

Re: Problem installing on PowerMac 8600

2005-02-23 Thread Patrick Bachmann
Hello Felipe, On Wednesday 23 February 2005 05:08 pm, Felipe Fonseca wrote: > I managed to install woody on a 8600 using BootX on MacOS 8. Sorry to tell you, but I can't go the BootX way. I don't have a MacOS version which works on that maschine, and I'm not really into filesharing and stuff.

Re: Problem installing on PowerMac 8600

2005-02-23 Thread Patrick Bachmann
Hi Holger, Thanks for your reply. On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:36 pm, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hmmm... this is the woody floppy and it should work, I guess this might by > a floppy media issue -> try another floppy. Well, I went to Staples and got me a new set of floppies that even have a two

Problem installing on PowerMac 8600

2005-02-22 Thread Patrick Bachmann
Hi folks, This OldWorld-maschine doesn't want to boot the floppies, I'm trying to feed it with. There are various floppies I have tried, e.g. the woody and sarge boot floppies and the floppies of the rc2 of the debian installer. The only floppy, that gives me some kind of feedback is the boot-