Re: A friendly plea for Linux PPC help!

2007-03-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 19, 2007, at 2:41 AM, Anthony Henson wrote: Hey look what I found! http://fare.livejournal.com/93274.html (do a find on quik) It was funny because I've actually got OF booting up quik! and quik is giving me a kernal! PANIC!!! tho! I think I know why, need to get the initrd goin,

Re: A friendly plea for Linux PPC help!

2007-03-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 18, 2007, at 5:06 PM, Anthony Henson wrote: making some progress on my own here, got quik to start booting, but then it gives me default catch, and then claim failed... I don't know how to use this mailing list at all, I am such a newb. I mailed my thing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or what

Re: A friendly plea for Linux PPC help!

2007-03-18 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Anthony, I see you've discovered the powerpc mailing list. That's good. It's the place where all the expertise is concentrated. While I appreciate your frustration, the best thing to do is ask one (or at most two related) simple question(s) per posting. You'll get the best and most

Re: A friendly plea for Linux PPC help!

2007-03-18 Thread rob rob
Err, who the hell is Paul Anderson? I did manage to get quik installed and booting under a running debian installation that booted with bootx, so, take hope, it is possible. However this was done with debian and not ubuntu. You mentioned using quikconfig. Have you changed the /etc/quik.conf file

Re: A friendly plea for Linux PPC help!

2007-03-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 03:46:37PM +, rob rob wrote: > Hello, > > I hate to bud in, but I suggest getting the boot floppies from: > > http://layer-acht.org/d-i-miboot/powerpc/floppy-2.4/ > > These are the old sarge boot floppies, which work. The ones at ~wouter > which are from etch seem to

Re: A friendly plea for Linux PPC help!

2007-03-16 Thread rob rob
Hello, I hate to bud in, but I suggest getting the boot floppies from: http://layer-acht.org/d-i-miboot/powerpc/floppy-2.4/ These are the old sarge boot floppies, which work. The ones at ~wouter which are from etch seem to be in a constant state of disarray. (unless of course someone has fixe

Re: A friendly plea for Linux PPC help!

2007-03-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 15, 2007, at 1:49 AM, Anthony Henson wrote: Hello there! I realize this is poor netiquitte but I keep seeing your posts on the mailing lists, and your set-up seems similar to mine. after about 20 installs of 3 different distros I finally got my old rev. 1 Beige G3 (2.01fOF, Patched n