Administrivia (was Re: 7200 installation - floppy)

2000-04-25 Thread Chad Miller
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 10:01:32PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > But next time, FIX YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS!!! Hi. I ask this here to see if it's necessary to hound the list maintainer: Does anyone have the original message? Was this a bogusly-sent message, or is the "From:" header just wron

Re: 7200 installation - floppy

2000-04-25 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Monday 24 April 2000, at 20 h 54, the keyboard of mailaccount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately if you start at the Debian Web site > http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/docu > and selected either "Debian/PowerPC Installation-Tips" or I know :-( > Would you mind posting the locatio

Re: 7200 installation - floppy

2000-04-25 Thread mailaccount
Unfortunately if you start at the Debian Web site http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/docu and selected either "Debian/PowerPC Installation-Tips" or "Debian/PowerPC Installations-Documentation" you get this encouraging response: "The requested URL /releases/potato/powerpc/install was not found on

Re: 7200 installation - floppy

2000-04-23 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Friday 21 April 2000, at 19 h 42, the keyboard of ELN/basicprinting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > please respond to debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org and > debian-boot@lists.debian.org > so we all can share, thanks. Even better, fix your mail software so we can reply in private if we wish, spe

Re: 7200 installation - floppy

2000-04-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 12:28:55PM -0700, Chris Baker wrote: > Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 07:42:55PM -0400, ELN/basicprinting wrote: > > > > > > A search engine for the lists.debian.org eludes me. > > > > there was no such thing as email lists in 1900

Re: 7200 installation - floppy

2000-04-22 Thread Chris Baker
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 07:42:55PM -0400, ELN/basicprinting wrote: > > > > A search engine for the lists.debian.org eludes me. > > there was no such thing as email lists in 1900 therefore there can be > no results to any searches. ;-) > > (ie the debia

Re: 7200 installation - floppy

2000-04-22 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 12:15:56PM -0400, ELN/basicprinting wrote: > You mean load a MacOS, boot MacOS, have a MacApp steal the built-in video > driver support, and a few other OpenFirmware deficient bits of > information, then bounce boot into linux? > > Been there, Done that > -with a few Lin

Re: 7200 installation - floppy

2000-04-22 Thread ELN/basicprinting
>I don't think that it requires any more instructions than already exist. Get >bootX from BenH at http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh and the ramdisk off of the >ppc install page on the debian site. You will also need the other files listed >(basefile, etc). Install bootX, select the kernel and the

Re: 7200 installation - floppy

2000-04-22 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
So search sourceforge's list archiver - I don't recall the name. On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 08:48:55PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 07:42:55PM -0400, ELN/basicprinting wrote: > > > > A search engine for the lists.debian.org eludes me. > > there was no such thing as email lis

Re: 7200 installation - floppy

2000-04-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 07:42:55PM -0400, ELN/basicprinting wrote: > > A search engine for the lists.debian.org eludes me. there was no such thing as email lists in 1900 therefore there can be no results to any searches. ;-) (ie the debian list search program has been broken ever since y2k happe

Re: 7200 installation - floppy

2000-04-22 Thread Nelson Abramson
ELN/basicprinting wrote: > If somebody would hold my hand, I'll write newbie instructions > for booting an oldworld PowerMac. I don't think that it requires any more instructions than already exist. Get bootX from BenH at http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh and the ramdisk off of the ppc install pag

7200 installation - floppy

2000-04-21 Thread ELN/basicprinting
None of the installation links on the Debian website link for me. ;< A search engine for the lists.debian.org eludes me. I've read about the "PowerPC success!" and a boot-floppy-hfs.img but nobody includes the link in their posts. Pity the newbies without persistance! I have a Macintosh, a mo